The NEWS from 29.January.02

What Is Going On in Moscow?

When President Vladimir Putin was elected successor to Boris Jelzin, Europe breathed a sigh of relief. It finally looked like the Russian bear would become predictable – economically, politically and not least of all, militarily. The wild period of transition from the Soviet Union to a democratic Russia was closed and the new master in the Kremlin appeared to be a guarantor on the way to Russian democracy and a reliable cooperation with Europe. That blood was still flowing in Chechnya and that there were still reports of atrocities by Russian soldiers against the populace, was noted with a frown and it was hoped that the new friend in Moscow could be convinced to deal peacefully with the Chechen people, whom he curtly classified as “terrorists.”

The relationship between Bush & Co. and President Putin became virtually ecstatic after the 11th of September, as he joined in the anti-terror choir. Had he not already shown in Chechnya how one should deal with terrorists? His critics fell silent and secretly asked themselves whether he was not right, after all. Everything was suddenly possible – even Bush’s termination of the ABM contract, the most important agreement concerning the reduction of atomic missiles, without Putin getting mad about it. Months before, Washington’s unilateral actions had threatened to become a bone of contention and to burden the West-East springtime with a period of frost.

But the man whom the Europeans, especially the Germans, would so gladly take into their hearts, causes more and more irritation. One of these is his treatment of freedom of the press. For some days now, Russia no longer has a television that is independent of the State. TW-6 was the last one that was still left. Officials turned off its electricity on the night of Jan. 22, 2002 during a talk show. The next day only more sports shows, advertisements and Swan Lake could be viewed. The official word was that the station had gone bankrupt and this was why, based on a court ruling, press minister Lessin had ordered the closing of the station, up to 75% of which belongs to Boris Beresowskij, one of the so-called oligarchs of the Jelzin era, who has fled into exile. Another who belongs to this caste of those who got rich and mighty quick, has also fled abroad, businessman Vladimir Gussinskij. He, too, had his own television station, which fell victim to the State: It was called NTW and was swallowed up by the half-government owned gas company, Gazprom, and since then reports only Kremlin-friendly news. Some months before NTW was brought into line, the state also nationalized the first television station, “Russian Public Television,” (ORT), in which Beresowskij was also a shareholder.

Concerning all this, the Kremlin innocently assured that it merely had to do with economic developments. But insiders report just the opposite. They do not believe that economic factors played a role in closing down TW-6, because the state television stations ORT and RTR are far more deeply in debt than TW-6, for instance, was. The main shareholder Beresowskij thinks the whole thing is a political act of revenge or a preventive measure. For the station is said to have prepared a film about the background of the nighttime explosion in two Moscow apartment blocks in September 1999, in which 250 people died. Suspicion fell on Chechen terrorists. In the television film prepared by Beresowskij’s station, the Russian secret service, FSB, was suspected of being involved in the explosions, which were decisive for the Russians in supporting the war against Chechnya, which the Minister President of that time and presidential candidate Putin had ignited anew. People were convinced that one must massively act against the “Chechen terrorism,” which was now destroying Moscow.

Now the Russians will no longer be made uncertain by television reports critical of the Kremlin. So that they do not suddenly start reading critical books out of boredom, the youth organization “We Walk Together” is now tending to the people’s reading material. Recently an action was announced in which books by “damaging authors” should be exchanged for those of a “useful” author – in 30 places in the city, as a Frankfurt newspaper reported. This youth movement supposedly has 40,000 members and according to the newspaper report became noticed “for the first time in May of last year,” when it transported more than 11,000 young people from various Russian cities to the Red Square, where, wearing T-shirts with a portrait of the president and chanting “Putin” and “Russia,” they celebrated the first anniversary of the Russian head of state’s inauguration. They had also already demonstrated against the ex-oligarch Gussinskij who is hated by the Kremlin. Putin’s life history has recently become one of the useful books they are propagating. In exchange, Karl Marx was put on the Index.

Is the new Russia already moving backward – in the direction of person-cults and state conformity, which in the long run will become incompatible with democratic relations? The friends of Russia and Putin will deeply regret this.

The Spinach Pig

Genetic engineers really do not want to spare us anything. Recently we had to report about the pig-man, who develops via organ transplants, and now we are facing the spinach-pig. A professor of the Japanese Kinki University in Osaka reported that for the first time it had been possible to implant a vegetable gene in the genetic material of a mammal. The spinach gene used here is supposed to ensure healthy pork in the future. It will change the pigs’ metabolism and influence the production of fatty acids. The meat from the spinach-pig is supposed to contain more unsaturated fatty acids than the meat of natural pigs. This change is said to be significant for a healthy nourishment of mankind.

According to the Japanese professor, it is not yet known whether the meat of the spinach-pig is really healthier for humans. However, it is hoped that corresponding safety tests will relieve people’s anxiety about genetically engineered meat.

Here one can only say: To your health! Materialism celebrates a new triumph. Because only the one who does not see plants and animals as living beings, but as pure matter, can come to the thought that one could mix the two like two chemical substances. But everything that lives is animate, each cell and each organ. And everything that is animate has its own program – plants, animals and human beings, programs and energy fields that cannot be mixed with impunity. Hopefully, no one will dream up the idea of also preparing the spinach-pig for organ transplants, and thus boast of creating a man-spinach-pig.

“Be Still, and Know: God Dwells in You”

This sentence was the main thread that went throughout an unusual speech, which was first given in 1996 and could be heard again on Jan. 27th in a repetition of the original recording. It was not a sermon in a church. It was not even the speech of a human being. The person who spoke the words, a woman, was expressively described as not being the author, but the instrument, through whom the speaker spoke. He said of himself: I Am the Christ of God, who again speaks through the mouth of a prophet.

He spoke for a whole hour and spanned a great bow from Jesus of Nazareth to the present time. As Jesus of Nazareth said farewell to His disciples and apostles, they asked Him whether and when He would come again. And the answer was: I come soon. But until I come, as He essentially said, many woes will still shake mankind. To this the Christ of God, who speaks to mankind today through the mouth of a prophet, added: It will be similar as in the time of Noah. This time the arc will be an area of the Earth, an isle, so to speak, that constantly grows. He encouraged the people and again announced his coming. The Earth will cleanse itself and raise its vibration. The Christ-light will rise in the East and spread over the Earth and those who follow Him will recognize it – those who follow Him, by, with His help, discarding all their all-too-human aspects, clearing up their sins and becoming peaceable with each other and toward the nature kingdoms.

The event of this Christ revelation can be expressed in human words only very inadequately. A woman named Gabriele became a human sounding board for the spiritual world – with a voice that, sometimes softly and sometimes mightily, transforms into human words the respective contents of the inner impulses of light, like a finely tuned stringed instrument, which repeats a melody that originated in the divine world.

The one who opened his heart felt within the power of Christ, the Inner Physician and Healer, who speaks to mankind in the revelation series The Divine Prophetic Healing and tells them how they can purify their soul and also become healthy, physically. In this revelation, the Spirit of the Christ of God led His listeners into a healing meditation, in which pictures from their past came up, so that they could recognize their sinful aspects, repent of them and clear them up. Each one who opens himself for the Christ-power feels how it raises him, purifies his soul and helps him to put new order in his life, to become peaceable, happier and when possible, healthier.

For many who took part in the event the words of Christ will long resound: “Be still, and know: God dwells in you.”

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