Thomas_More
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Meanwhile, British army taking part in scenario imagining “defending” Estonia in 2030.
Side by side with a general blasé attitude toward the imminent use of the world’s nuclear arsenals goes, in the UK and Europe, the idea that war with Russia could be “fought” – as though we were in the 1940s. Were Estonia under attack, millions of Europeans across the continent will already be incinerated before you can say the four syllables in “Estonia”!
Birds who sew, using spider webs.
Huxley’s The Devils of Loudun focuses on a milestone in the emergence of the centralised state. Loudun’s priest found himself in the midst of it, and sealed his fate by opposing the demolition of the town’s fortifications. The rest was an excuse to get rid of him as an embarrassing obstacle to “progress.”
The chapter “Red Flag at Bordeaux” in H.N. Brailsford’s “The Levellers & the English Revolution” provides a précis of the Fronde.
https://tass.com/politics/2133403
Tass: Lithuanian calls on NATO to strike Kaliningrad.
https://tass.com/politics/2132889
Ukraine to launch drones from Latvia, claims.
Counter-claim:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/19/russias-spy-agency-claims-ukraine-plans-to-launch-drone-attacks-from-latvia-a92787Head-on conflict between Russia and NATO is on way, claim:
To return to the main topic and my post on the Fronde. In both France and in England we see capitalist developments creating the centralised state (I won’t use the term ‘nation’ state) before the bourgeoisie has broken free and seized political power for itself. The monarch in both France and in England holds the monopoly in trade. In France he holds in subjection both nobility and bourgeoisie. The Fronde is reaction, opposing state centralisation. In England there is no feudal nobility left; only the bourgeoisie, split between those whose interests lie with the king and those who strive to be free of him.
But by the time of Gregory the Great all these usages and rites were already an old tradition in Christianity.
Surely incense and candles were already used in Jewish worship anyway, and hence used by Christians from the start, not a ploy to win converts.
The idea that all these things, which Christianity evolved with, were later “brought in” by “a corrupt papacy” is a protestant notion. Protestants require there be an “original Christianity” that agrees with their fantasies. There never was. All these ritual forms we associate with Roman Catholicism were in place long before the bishops of Rome became independent. The much older Churches of the East all use them.
I believe the Roman emperor held the title of Pontifex Maximus in his role as High Priest of the Empire.
