Apple has informed the US state-run Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) that it will remove the app of its media project, Current Time TV, from its Russian online store, the network announced on Saturday. 

The app was removed because it included “content that is illegal in Russia” and did not comply with verification rules, Current Time said on its website, citing a letter from Apple. According to the network, Apple also warned that the app had content produced by an organization that was blacklisted in Russia. 

The network added that the Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) had requested the removal of its products. The regulator itself has not commented on the matter.

RFE/RL, whose headquarters is based in Prague, was created by the US government to spread anti-Soviet and pro-American propaganda during the Cold War and was initially funded by the CIA. It continues to be state-funded and is primarily focused on messages that are critical to the Russian government. RFE/RL and another US state-run new organization, the Voice of America, jointly launched Current Time in 2017 as a separate Russian-language outlet. 

In March 2022, Russia blocked access to RFE/RL, citing “the publication of materials that contain false information”about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Moscow further blacklisted the network and all of its subsidiaries, including Current Time, in February 2024. 

The EU has similarly banned multiple Russian media organizations since 2022, including RT and Sputnik, accusing the outlets of spreading “disinformation.” In September 2024, the US imposed sanctions on RT’s parent company, Rossiya Segodnya, and five of its subsidiaries. 

https://www.rt.com/news/605962-apple-us-media-russian-store/

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Freedom of religion is a fundamental human right, the UN Human Rights Office has stressed in a comment to the Russian newspaper Izvestia following an armed raid on a church in central Ukraine earlier this week.

On Thursday, videos emerged on social media showing dozens of armed men in military-style clothing clashing with believers at St. Michael’s Cathedral, belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), in the city of Cherkasy.

The unidentified raiders reportedly used tear gas, smoke grenades and fired a gas pistol into the crowd. Icons, documents and some $60,000 – raised by the congregation for the needs of the church – were reportedly stolen. At least 12 people were hospitalized as a result of the standoff, according to the UOC. It blamed the attack on “schismatics” from the Kiev-backed Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).

A representative of the UN Human Rights Office told Izvestia on Friday that “while we cannot yet confirm the specific details of these events, we emphasize that freedom of religion is a fundamental human right.” 

“Attacks on civilian believers are prohibited under international human rights and humanitarian norms,”the representative was quoted as saying.

The Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine is currently working to establish additional details on the incident, the official added.

In an earlier comment to TASS, the press service of the UN Human Rights Office called the videos of the church raid in Cherkasy “alarming.” 

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Moscow calls on “the relevant international human rights organizations” to look into the attack. 

“The Kiev regime is doing everything it can to outlaw and disband the canonical church [UOC]. And [Ukrainian leader Vladimir] Zelensky’s Western backers continue to indulge in deepening the religious schism in Ukraine,” Zakharova stressed.

Ukraine has been gripped by religious tensions for years, with two rival entities claiming to be the country’s true Orthodox Church.

The Kiev government supports the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), which was created only in 2018 and which the Russian Orthodox Church considers schismatic. Zelensky has explained the moves against the UOC by citing its alleged links to the Moscow Patriarchate and the need to protect Ukraine’s “spiritual independence” and deprive Russia of an opportunity to “to manipulate the spirituality of our people.” 

The persecution of the UOC intensified after the outbreak of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022. Several of its churches have been seized by force, and criminal cases have been opened against clerics. A law banning the activities of the UOC in Ukraine officially came into force in late September.

https://www.rt.com/russia/605952-un-ukraine-church-raid/

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[H.P. —Howard Phillips] Lovecraft's literary corpus is rooted in cosmicism, which was simultaneously his personal philosophy and the main theme of his fiction. Cosmicism posits that humanity is an insignificant part of the cosmos and could be swept away at any moment. He incorporated fantasy and science fiction elements into his stories, representing the perceived fragility of anthropocentrism. This was tied to his ambivalent views on knowledge. His works were largely set in a fictionalized version of New England. Civilizational decline also plays a major role in his works, as he believed that the West was in decline during his lifetime. Lovecraft's early political views were conservative and traditionalist; additionally, he held a number of racist views for much of his adult life. Following the Great Depression, Lovecraft's political views became more socialist while still remaining elitist and aristocratic.

Throughout his adult life, Lovecraft was never able to support himself from his earnings as an author and editor. He was virtually unknown during his lifetime and was almost exclusively published in pulp magazines before his death. A scholarly revival of Lovecraft's work began in the 1970s, and he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of supernatural horror fiction. Many direct adaptations and spiritual successors followed. Works inspired by Lovecraft, adaptations or original works, began to form the basis of the Cthulhu Mythos, which utilizes Lovecraft's characters, setting, and themes.

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ENTERS DONALD TRUMP AS ONE OF A MYTHICAL HEROES (Eldritch Beings) FROM LOVECRAFT'S COSMIC TALES:

Why Donald Trump is a mystical figure of historic proportions

The significance of the former and potential future US president is not in the man himself, but in the archetype he embodies

By Constantin von Hoffmeister, a political and cultural commentator from Germany, author of the book ‘Esoteric Trumpism’, and editor-in-chief of Arktos Publishing

For his supporters, Donald Trump is a bulwark of traditionalism and a champion of ‘America First’. For his detractors, he is a disruptive, deceitful agent of chaos. But a more philosophical approach frames him as a key figure in an eldritch struggle with deep-seated forces of decay.

Esoteric Trumpism is a profound, almost mystical interpretation of Donald Trump’s political journey, situating him not merely within the framework of contemporary politics but as a figure of cosmic and world-historical significance. This interpretation posits that Trump’s rise and continued influence reflect deeper metaphysical catalysts at play in the twilight of Western civilization, as predicted by the historiographer Oswald Spengler in the 1920s and 1930s.

According to Spengler’s cyclical theory of history, every great culture passes through stages of growth, flowering, and decline, ultimately transforming into a civilization. A civilization, in Spengler’s view, is the final, ossified stage of a culture – marked by materialism, a dystopian government apparatus, and stagnation – where the original creative spirit has faded. In this phase, democratic institutions begin to decay, leading to the rise of autocratic leaders, or Caesars, who assert their will as the last defenders of the civilization’s final flickers of vitality. Trump, in this narrative, appears as a Caesar of the West, struggling against the forces of chaos and entropy that threaten to engulf the remnants of the culture’s achievements. 

The Swamp, in the context of Esoteric Trumpism, eclipses its conventional political metaphor as a term for entrenched, secretive, and subversive agencies. Instead, it takes on a life of its own, representing a primordial, chthonic entity whose tentacles have reached into the heart of American power. This is no mere political quagmire – it is an ancient force, predating the Republic itself, fueled by what can only be described as eldritch energies. Trump’s wrestle against this dark presence is painted in Lovecraftian tones, where the stakes are not just electoral victories or policy changes but the very soul of the nation. His presidency becomes a metaphysical battle, with Trump cast as a modern hero who, like Spengler’s envisioned Caesars, refuses to capitulate to the rot that envelops his civilization. Each executive order, every political maneuver, is understood as an audacious attempt to dismantle this machinery of the Great Old Ones that has operated unseen for centuries. Trump’s defiance is portrayed as a courageous, almost tragic stand against the inevitable. He fights not for personal gain but to stave off the encroaching darkness that looms over the West.

According to the ontological philosopher Martin Heidegger, Dasein (literally “being-there”) refers to the distinctive mode of existence that characterizes human beings, defined by their capacity for self-awareness and their ability to recognize and engage with their own potentialities. Unlike other beings, humans are conscious of their own existence within a temporal and historical context, aware of both their limitations and their possibilities for action. Dasein is not merely being present in the world; it involves an active process of comprehending and deciphering one’s place in it, constantly shaping and being shaped by one’s surroundings. In this sense, Dasein is not at all individual, but completely intertwined with its historical and communal context, a being-in-the-world that is fundamentally shaped by its place within the continuum of history. Trump’s populism, when viewed through this lens, can be seen as an awakening of the collective Dasein of the American people. His rhetoric of reclaiming national identity and sovereignty is hence an invocation to realize an authentic existence, where individuals are no longer lost in the impersonal tyrannies of globalism and bureaucracy. Its appeal to the “forgotten men and women” taps into an existential angst, reconnecting individuals with their communal and historical nucleus, urging them to rise from the alienation of modern life and reassert their Being in the political arena.

Heidegger speaks of Dasein as fundamentally concerned with its own temporality, aware of its eventual finitude, and driven by the need to authentically project itself into the future. Trump’s populism mirrors this structure of Dasein, where his call to “Make America Great Again” serves as a temporal bridge between a nostalgic past and a projected future that seeks to recover a lost essence. In the Heideggerian sense, Trump’s movement can be seen as a collective realization of the “thrownness” of the American people into an inauthentic globalist existence. His populist message offers a way to reclaim historical destiny, to step out of the “they-self” of anonymous, alienated existence, and into a more authentic mode of being.

Trump also reflects the vision of the idealist philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, whose concept of the World Spirit represents the unfolding of universal reason through the historical process, where the self-consciousness of freedom manifests across different nations and epochs. The dialectical feature of the World Spirit reveals that nothing is permanent, for everything is in constant flux, striving toward higher realization. As Hegel affirms, “What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational,” and Trump’s populism can be interpreted as an essential moment, a reassertion of America’s intrinsic spirit against the impositions of technocratic modernity. Trumpist populism reflects the nation’s effort to preserve its unique manifestation of the World Spirit, reinforcing patriotism as both a grounding force and a guiding principle in the ever-evolving historical process. Thus, Trump completed the system of German idealism.

Trump’s economic nationalism and policies aimed at restoring American autarky – through tariffs, immigration controls, and the reduction of global dependencies – are emblematic of a dying civilization’s last effort to preserve itself. Spengler wrote that as civilizations enter their final stages, the state becomes primarily an economic object, with the competition for resources and sovereignty taking precedence over other concerns. Trump’s trade wars with China and his efforts to revive American industry are therefore not merely political strategies but the actions of a Caesar seeking to preserve his people’s material and cultural autonomy in the face of an encroaching global order. These actions reflect the Spenglerian picture of a civilization striving to maintain its vitality, even as it approaches its unstoppable downfall.

In Esoteric Trumpism, Trump is viewed not as an aberration but as a predetermined figure, a product of the historical moment. His strongman tendencies and his rejection of the liberal democratic norms of the post-war era are seen as necessary responses to the crumbling structures of Western governance. Esoteric Trumpism casts these traits not as flaws but as virtues in a leader confronting the end of a civilization. Like the Caesars of Rome, Trump’s rise is framed as the emergence of a new form of leadership suited to the challenges of a decomposing world.

Trump’s confrontations with the globalist agenda, particularly in the realms of environmentalism and economic policy, further reflect Spenglerian themes. Spengler was harshly critical of modern technocratic society, warning of its dehumanizing effects. Trump’s rejection of climate change initiatives and his embrace of industrial growth can be seen as a reassertion of the Faustian spirit – a refusal to surrender to the passive, nihilistic tendencies that arise in late-stage civilizations. His emphasis on economic nationalism and energy independence reflects a desire to maintain control over nature and resources, in line with the Faustian quest for power that Spengler saw as characteristic of Western civilization.

Esoteric Trumpism positions the Trump phenomenon as a crucial, albeit controversial, defense against the cultural and political putrefaction that has beset the West. Trump’s role goes beyond mere policy decisions and enters the domain of iconic leadership – a figurehead fighting against the hydra of dissolution that has been eroding Western civilization for decades. His rejection of “wokeism” and the extreme liberal agenda – which manifest in cultural policies advocating unchecked multiculturalism, radical gender ideologies, and the suppression of traditional values – exemplifies this broader conflict. Trump’s pushback against these ideologies – such as his opposition to Critical Race Theory in education and federal training programs, and his defense of free speech against social media censorship – signals a refusal to allow the “progressive” agenda to dissolve the cultural foundations of the West. The culture wars he has participated in are not mere skirmishes but symbolize a larger clash between the malevolent entities seeking to dismantle the core identity of Western civilization and the guardians, like Trump, who aim to preserve it.

In rejecting the narratives of the left, Trump represents a larger resistance to what many on the intellectual right view as an extreme liberal agenda that seeks to destabilize the traditional order. His first administration’s policies – such as reinstating a ban on transgender individuals in the military, denouncing left-wing violence in cities like Portland, and challenging the dominance of leftist academic thought – are framed as necessary acts to protect the West from succumbing to cultural and moral relativism. Trump as president is thus seen as an essential chapter in the grand historical struggle to save the West from itself. His legacy will not be defined by his electoral victories or defeats but by his role as the bulwark against the internal degeneration that, if left unchecked, would result in the end of Western civilization as we know it.

Trump’s significance lies not in the man but in the archetype he embodies. The rise of such Caesarian leaders does not promise material success; their triumph is symbolic, not in policies but in their rebellion against a senile and rabid world order. Trumpism, even as Trump’s personal influence fades, will persist as a movement that channels the existential fears of a civilization in freefall, longing for a return to integrity and self-expression. The power of the archetype lies in its resonance with a people alienated by the deep state – Trump articulates their despair, even as his achievements remain modest. His role is to act as the last expression of Western vitality, not to reverse the downward spiral but to embody the final brave spirit of a people grasping for survival in a world disintegrating into frenzied insanity. Spengler leaves no room for optimism about the material success of such figures, yet the archetype persists, drawing its strength from the same impulses that herald the end of the West’s historical cycle.

https://www.rt.com/news/605850-trump-republican-us-president/

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TRUMP MIGHT NOT WIN THE PRESIDENCY, SO IT COULD BE WAR ON BEHALF OF THE MORONIONS (THE RULERS OF THE DEEP STATE) — WW3.... BUT WHO KNOWS WHO IS DECEIVING WHOM?....