New Patriarch of Russian Orthodox Church: KGB Agent "Mikhailov"

ALSO SEE: Patriarch Kirill: Leader of Orthodox Church and Tobacco Imports

The Russian Orthodox Church today announced the election of its new Patriarch, Metropolitan Kirill, to replace Patriarch Alexy II who passed away in December. Kirill is a known KGB/FSB agent code named "Mikhailov". Patriarch Alexy likewise was a long-time agent of Russia's intelligence services code named "Drozdov" (blackbird):

KGB material in the Estonian archives leaves no doubt about the patriarch’s connections with the KGB. It even gives a specific date for his recruitment: February 28, 1958. He received the code name "Drozdov." The Estonian document, signed by a Colonel I. P. Karpov, head of the KGB in the republic, states: "During the period of collaboration with the organs of the KGB ‘Drozdov’ positively recommended himself. During secret rendezvous he was punctilious, energetic and convivial. He is well-orientated in theoretical questions of theology and the international situation. He has a willing attitude to the fulfillment of our tasks and has already provided materials deserving attention." [Michael Bourdeaux, The Complex Face of Orthodoxy]

I have been trying to warn the world for the past 17+ years that Russia got rid of Communism not to convert to a Western-style capitalist democracy but rather to transform Russia into a KGB-run Orthodox theofascist state as warned about by Alexander Yanov in his 1987 book, The Russian Challenge and the Year 2000. (NOTE: An important discussion I had with Jeff Nyquist on this topic is podcast on his web site. Direct interview links: PART 1 | PART 2)

Here are some key excerpts from Yanov's book:

Russia's Mission

The Russian Idea proceeded....from the belief that the contemporary world was suffering from a global spiritual crisis 'carrying humankind headlong toward catastrophe' (in the words of a present day prophet). It pointed to the inability of the secularized, materialistic and cosmopolitan West to come to grips with this crisis, whose historical source lay in the secular Enlightenment: in the West's rejection of religion as the spiritual basis of politics and in its inability to realize that not the individual but the nation is the foundation of the world order conceived by God; that 'humankind is quantified by nations'.

The Russian Idea pointed to the providential role of Orthodoxy, as uniquely capable of pulling back the world from the brink of the abyss, and to Russia as the instrument of this great mission. While the Russian Idea rejected the 'government's interference in the moral life of the people' (the police state), it also denounced the 'people's interference in state power' (democracy). To both of these it opposed the 'principle of AUTHORITARIAN power'. The state, it taught, must be unlimited because 'only under unlimited monarchial power can the people separate the government from themselves and free themselves to concentrate on moral-social life, on the drive for spiritual freedom'.

The Russian idea did not acknowledge the central postulate of Western political thought concerning the separation of powers (as the institutional embodiment of the neutralization of vice by vice). Instead, it advocated the principle of separation of functions between temporal and spiritual powers: the state guards the country against external foes and the Orthodox church settles the nation's internal conflicts....It cherished the ideal of the nation cum family, requiring neither parliaments, political parties, nor separation of powers. Like the family, the nation would have no need of legal guarnatees or institutional limitations on state's power and its focus should not be the rights, but rather the obligations of its members. The nation's conflicts, according to the Russian Idea, must be reconciled by spiritual, rather than constitutional, authority.

The ideal of the nation as family presupposed the need for salvation from the sinful influences of the 'street' (the West) and, consequently, from a spiritual rebirth and a moral revolution. In the course of this Russia would return 'home' to its pure rural roots, to the tsarist Rus'...

(Excerpt from Yanov's The Russian Challenge, pp.24-25)

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"Today the Soviet system can no longer seriously strive toward the spectre of Communism - but at the same time it cannot yet abandon the grandeur of its tasks, for otherwise it would have to answer for fruitless sacrifices which are truly innumerable. But in what then can the Soviet system find its justification? Only in the consciousness that it was unconsciously in the past, as it is now quite consciously, God's instrument for constructing a new Christian world. It has no other justification, and this is . . . a genuine and great justification. By adopting it, our state will discover in itself a truly inexhaustable source of Truth, spiritual energy and strength, which has never before existed in history . . . The old pagan world has now finally outlived its era . . . In order not to perish with it we must build a new civilization - but is Western society, whose foundations have been destroyed, really capable of this? Only the Soviet sytem, having adopted Russian Orthodoxy . . . is capable of beginning THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD." (Passage written by Russian nationalist G.M. Shimanov quoted in Yanov's The Russian Challenge, p.236)

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"If we presume the coming transformation of the Communist Party into the Russian Orthodox Party of the Soviet Union, we would obtain truly the ideal state, one which would fulfill the historical destiny of the Russian people. It is a question of the Orthodoxization of the entire world." (Gennadii Shimanov)

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"My feelings tell me that someday a Slavic Orthodox tsar shall take the socialist movement in hand and, with the blessing of the Church, set up a socialist form of life in place of the bourgeois one. And this Socialism will be a new and severe threefold form of slavery: to the communes, to the Church and to the Tsar." (Famous prediction of Konstantin Leont'ev)

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Other quotes of interest from Mikhail Gorbachev:

"Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples." - Mikhail Gorbachev's 'Memoirs', 1996

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"The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx." - Mikhail Gorbachev, USA Today, October 28th, 1996

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The 'Great Transformation' based upon the diabolical 'Russian Idea' is well underway and yet the world is somehow oblivious to the rise of the Antichrist...

From outward appearances it would seem that the old Soviet Union has returned. A thing crucified, dead and buried has been resurrected. Four weeks after Vladimir Putin’s re-election, a procession led by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church arrived at the Church of Christ the Redeemer in Moscow. In keeping with ancient tradition the doors of the church were shut, symbolizing the sealed cave where Christ’s body was placed following crucifixion. “After midnight,” noted Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, “the Orthodox faithful taking part in the procession await the opening of the church doors. The patriarch stands on the steps at their head and is the first to enter the empty temple where the Resurrection of Christ has already occurred.” In due course the Patriarch offered up a prayer, the doors of the Church of Christ the Redeemer were opened and out stepped President Vladimir Putin. If any Christians were present for this ceremony they offered no protest to this blatant sacrilege. The woman who reported this event for the benefit of Western readers has since been assassinated. The KGB defector who was investigating the circumstances of her death has been poisoned (i.e., Litvinenko). [SOURCE]

Also see: Holy War - Russia

Are We In A Fifth Wave Down?

The DJIA is testing the key 8000 mark on the downside at this point. It might form a short-term bottom or fail right here and break below the November lows.



According to the Elliott Wave count, it is fairly clear that an intermediate-scale wave-(3) low was reached on November 21st and a wave-(4) correction then ensued. Whether or not that corrective phase was completed with a bounce up to Dow 9000 remains to be see, but a break below the november 21st low would confirm that an intermediate-scale fifth wave is underway that could carry the Dow to 7000 or maybe lower.



Once this five-wave pattern is complete, a very substantial, multi-month Elliott Wave Primary-degree wave two correction should get underway that will be bullish for stocks and mass mood.

Of course, one should note that wars tend to erupt toward the end of downward Elliott Wave patterns such as now unfolding.

An ObamaNation

America is an ObamaNation now.

It is truly surreal.

Everyone has been busy patting themselves on the back for electing the first African-American president, Barack Hussein Obama, when the truth is that he is the first ARAB-American president.



But what does the truth matter when the American people are busy feeling good about themselves. (Although I firmly believe that the American motto, "E Pluribus Unum" ('from many, one'), is God's will for this world.)

I wish I could share in the liberal, MSM-driven giddiness over the reign of 'The One', but I have a sense that a very tragic mistake in collective judgment is playing out.



Just consider how Obama has started out his presidency.

Within hours of becoming president, Obama filed for a suspension of the Guantanamo Bay war crime trials of terrorist leaders like Khalid Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11. His first phone call to an international leader went to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a Holocaust-denier and accomplice in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli atheletes. His first television interview was with an Arabic satellite TV network, al-Arabiya. On his first night as president, Barack Obama became the first president in U.S. history to skip the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball honoring medal of honor recipients. (In 2005, this was the first inaugural ball attended by then President Bush and his wife.) Finally, because of a minor slip in the recitation of the presidential oath of office at his inauguration, Barack Obama again took the oath of office reciting it correctly, except this time he didn't have his hand on a Bible.

My suspicion is that Barack Obama constituted some sort of leftist 'Manchurian candidate' (wittingly or not) that, now in power, is opening the way for Moscow's final pursuit of 'convergence' with the West on the Kremlin's terms, a threat Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn has long warned about.

In 1984 a Russian defector named Anatoliy Golitsyn wrote of the period following the collapse of communism. He warned of a renewed attack on the West, engineered by KGB strategists. He said that this attack had an economic dimension. In his 1984 book, New Lies for Old, he wrote: “’Liberalization’ in Eastern Europe on the scale suggested could have a social and political impact on the United States itself, especially if it coincided with a severe economic depression. The communist strategists are on the lookout for such an opportunity.” According to Golitsyn, the communist bloc tracks Western economic developments. They watch for developing weaknesses. “The communist bloc will not repeat its error of failing to exploit a slump as it did in 1929-32.” The smartest political observers know that a financial slump resurrects Marxism and its critique of economic freedom. [SOURCE]

Obama's background with the radical Left is a collosal red flag that the American people chose to ignore at their own peril. (Also see: The Obama Files)



Indeed, recent comments by Henry Kissinger about the key role President Obama can play in forging a 'New World Order' suggest Golitsyn's 'Final Phase' may very well be the plan now unfolding. Kissinger should know, since he is likely a Kremlin mole code named "Bor":

What do we know now about Henry Kissinger? One of the men who helped cure my ignorance was the late Frank Capell. Frank was Chief Investigator for the Sheriff of Westchester County, New York. At his home in Zarephath, New Jersey, Frank had files on Nazis, Communists and other subversives sufficiently voluminous to give pause to CIA. I often called him with questions about who was whose, and Frank always took the time to tell me.

One of Frank’s books was about Henry Kissinger, Soviet Agent. At the end of World War II, US Army Sergeant (later Captain) Henry Kissinger was stationed in Oberammergau, in Germany, at the Military Intelligence School, where he was an interrogator and instructor. A Soviet spy ring called ODRA was active there, and recruited Kissinger, who used the code name "Bor." That’s right, Henry Kissinger started his career as a member of a Soviet spy ring, whose purpose was to infiltrate US military intelligence.

Is he still a Soviet agent? Soviet intelligence, like Cosa Nostra, is something you can’t quit. Years later, Kissinger was a top US government official, to whom the Communists provided an escort when he visited the Soviet Union, an escort routinely composed of military intelligence officers. When they got together in private, they no doubt had much to discuss.

The man who discovered all this used the name "Michael Goleniewski," and was a top intelligence official in Communist Poland, whose rank corresponded to general. "Goleniewski" decided to work secretly for the West and fingered many spies, including the Soviet Colonel who masqueraded as Gordon Lonsdale, and who ran a network that included Henry Houghton, Ethel Gee and the Krogers, Peter and Helen, in England. Houghton led to John Vassal, of British Naval Intelligence and the KGB. Remember George Blake, who was high up in MI-6 in London? Blake was also a Soviet spy and Goleniewski exposed him. Later, Goleniewski escaped with his family to the West and told everything to CIA.

He discovered Kissinger’s name on a list of ODRA agents in 1954, when a courier, a Greek-Russian woman, was murdered and considerable money disappeared along with some documents. Goleniewski’s information was impeccably accurate. In fact, a subcommittee of the US Senate conducted hearings on the subject at which John Norpel, Jr., testified. Norpel had been an official at State Department security and the FBI (when that agency was still run by Americans). The subcommittee’s chief counsel asked Norpel: "Do you know of any information ever furnished to the U.S. government by Goleniewski which turned out to be untrue or inaccurate?"

Norpel replied: "I do not. No, sir." Norpel added that Goleniewski’s revelations had been checked out and proved true "in every case." Elsewhere, the people he had named were arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned, but not in the United States. Goleniewski told CIA about Kissinger in 1961-62, when no one had ever heard of him. By 1973, Henry the K had become world infamous, so Goleniewski warned CIA again. Again, Kissinger’s Soviet record was ignored. [SOURCE]

Time will tell...

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The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” - Revelation 17:4-5

I'm afraid that's what America has become, folks, and the consequences are catastrophic:

And he said to me, “The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. “And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire. “For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled. “The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.” - Revelation 17: 15-18

After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illumined with his glory. And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. “For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.”

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. “Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her. “To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I SIT as A QUEEN AND I AM NOT A WIDOW, and will never see mourning.’ “For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong. - Revelation 18: 1-8

Only now in one day can a great power like the U.S. be destroyed by fire and plagues via the WMDs of 'the beast', i.e., Russia and associated foes, which God has apparently empowered to punish us for our sins. Those who wish to do God's bidding are called upon to 'come out of her' so that we don't 'participate in her sins and receive of her plagues'.

Maybe it's time to evacuate America?

Dow 8000 & ????

Today was a historic day.

For one, Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States, the first Arab-American president in history. He truly symbolizes the change Americans can achieve at the current juncture. But is it for the better?

Wall Street welcomed the new President with a 'Black Tuesday' of sorts.

The DJIA fell 332 points closing below the psychologically important 8000 mark:



Financial stocks were decimated with the key financial sector composite breaking below its November lows:



The primary 'historical shock' developing in the wake of a reversal from Dow 9000 and a break below Dow 8000 is a new, far graver chapter in the ongoing collapse of the global financial system. Specifically the solvency of the United Kingdom has come into doubt (MORE) due to the massive bank bailout costs being incurred by the British government. Credit default swaps are indicating a one-in-ten chance the UK will default on its debt. A same fate likely awaits America as indicated today by economist Noriel Roubini's warning that U.S. bank losses are likely to top more than $2.5 trillion.

Fortunately, there was no Israeli strike on Iran before Bush left office. However, the possibility of war in the next phase of the Grand Supercycle collapse is significant. With the regime change in Washington, the U.S. is now more vulnerable than usual as the new leadership seeks to gain its bearings.

Both former Secretary of State Colin Powell and now Vice President Joe Biden had warned before Barack Obama was elected that there would be some sort of international crisis to 'test the mettle' of the new President once he took office:



Some think this is because a crisis is going to be generated by TPTB, but more likely some sort of intelligence was telegraphed to the U.S. that indicated what was coming down the pike. The question is why?

While the Middle East always remains a potential flashpoint that could cause an international crisis, one might also pay close attention to North Korea where there are signs of a power struggle and increasingly hostile war rhetoric towards the South from the world's last hardline Communist state.

Dow 9000 & ?????

The DJIA climbed back to the 9000 mark in recent days and sharply reversed course today:



As overviewed in my September Stock Market Crash Alert, there is a tendency for signficant reversals in mass mood that involve 'historical shocks' when the Dow reverses from psychologically significant thousand marks.

Will this pattern repeat here?

If so, there are three points of obvious concern right now that could lead to a dramatic upset of collective expectations:

1. The Economy: This already has proven to be the source of a 'shock' with news today that unemployment will rise above 9% and the federal deficit will rise to at least $1.2 trillion in 2009. Also, a stark profit warning was issued by Intel today. All in all, with a reversal from Dow 9000 has come news that signals the economy is slumping far harder and faster than had been thought by most up to now.

2. The Middle East: Israel's invasion of Gaza is still underway and could easily ignite into a full-scale Arab-Israeli War if Hezbollah, Syria and/or Iran decide to get involved. Again, if there's a chemical SCUD missile attack on Israel, then global nuclear war will follow as I foresaw in my apocalyptic vision 18 years ago this February.

3. Russia & The Ukraine: Russia is stirring an international crisis over natural gas supplies.

Purportedly because the Ukraine owes Russia late fees and won't agree to a rise in natural gas prices, with the new year Gazprom, the Russian natural gas monopoly, cutoff gas supplies to the Ukraine. The Ukraine, in turn, started siphoning gas from the Russian pipelines that run through their country. Russia has since completely cutoff the natural gas flowing through pipelines crossing the Ukraine and has thereby triggered gas shortages throughout Europe into the coldest part of the winter. The EU has demanded the gas supply be returned immediately.

What's clear is that this crisis is but the newest misleading Kremlin concoction. Russia still underhandedly controls the Ukraine, regardless of the false opposition seemingly in power there, so whatever crisis there is between the states is by design. (Viktor Yushchenko is apparently devoted enough to his FSB/KGB handlers that he was willing to drink Dioxin to cement the idea that he's pro-Western. Note that Dioxin would be an absurd choice for a poisoning assassination since it is not lethal regardless of the popular hysteria over the substance's toxicity.) It's possible that Russia is planning to stage some sort of military action against the Ukraine and this purported gas squabble is going to be used as a pretext. Such a move would likely lead to a NATO-Russia military cofrontation which would feed into any Arab-Israeli War and add up to the global nuclear war Moscow has long been planning.

If Israel invades...

If Israel invades the Gaza Strip, which appears very likely in the immediate future, then world history might take a terrible turn for the worst (note that the DJIA just hit the 9000 mark). There's a reason the Russians just evacuated the Palestinian territory, and this likely has to do with insider knowledge of what is about to unfold since it is the outcome of Moscow's machinations.

I have spent most of the last 20 years trying to warn the world about the self-devised suicide man has been fashioning for himself, but, alas, no one has been interested.

For the record, let me reiterate that the 'vision' I had back in February of 1991 was of a chemical SCUD missile attack on Haifa, Israel. There's some risk the Hamas will respond to any Gazan invsion by launching chemically-tipped Kassam rockets on Israel and/or Hezbollah might strike at the Jewish State with similar weaponry from Southern Lebanon. These are NOT the types of missiles that were hitting Haifa in the mysterious special report I foresaw.

For chemical SCUD missiles to strike Israel, the most likely source of the attack would be Syria. Indeed, if Syria unleashed a SCUD missile barrage on the Jewish State, the first major target to get hit would be Haifa since the city lies north of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and is thus closer to Syrian launch sites.