This case received widespread media attention the Czech Republic. I hope little Ashya recovers and lives normal childhood. If his parents did not stand against arrogance and ill-will of bureaucracy, he may have been dead.
Posts by kaik
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11JW child taken out of hospital - now cured of cancer
by Xanthippe injw child cured according to bbc this morning.
if you remember the child's parents took him out of the southampton, uk hospital against the doctors' advice to have proton beam therapy for his brain tumour in prague.
interesting follow-up article..
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Brett King (Jehovah's Witness) Releases Video of why he removed his ill son, Ashya, from a UK hospital
by jwleaks in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14etqn9zpwk .
jw leaks.
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Lets hope, the boy is cured and the cancer would not return. Proton Radiation Therapy is a lifesaver. My friend had one done in Prague couple months ago and had bad prognosis. I will be heading to his wedding in summer. Last four years I lost two my female friends to breast cancer. Horrible disease and I wish there would be a real cure. -
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Brett King (Jehovah's Witness) Releases Video of why he removed his ill son, Ashya, from a UK hospital
by jwleaks in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14etqn9zpwk .
jw leaks.
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kaik
In the Czech media, there was update on the Ashya condition and seems that Proton Beam Therapy worked.
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I'm bemused - Vladimir Putin as a Christian Warrior - Do Russians see him as a fighter for Jesus?
by fulltimestudent ini accidentally came across this youtube video, "why the west fears putin.
" curious, i watched it.
you may find it interesting also.
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kaik
Another funny things on the right wing parties in USA and in Europe who think that Russia is guarantor of Christianity. Orthodox Christianity never reformed, it is backward, reactionary and stuck in thinking of the late Antiquity. It is not compromising nor interested in debate. In medieval times, Russians and Orthodox countries rather surrendered to Mongols that accept help from the West and confront their faith. There was this huge painting where we had under communist time in the text book where Alexander Nevsky surrenders to Mongols in exchange for protection of his Christianity against Catholic Europe. In 1415 Council of Konstanz several times had interest to unify Christianity after Schism in 1054. They even sent Czech missionary, Jerome of Prague to ensure equal treatment of the eastern Churches. Only Kievan patriarch was interested to attend. Numerous popes were interested in negotiation with Greek and Orthodox churches, but all these were never answered. Idealist from the right are as naive as the left was in 1920 who immigrate to Russia only to be shot or sent to gulags. Catholic church went through numerous reforms (Cluny, St. Benedict, St. Bernard, Schism, Lateran councils, and faced pressure from Reformation). Protestant Reformations are chapters on its own.
At any case, Russia has huge Muslim population with extensive birth rate from Caucasus to southern Russia to Central Russia of Tatarstan. More than 150,000 people in Russia died since 1994 when the war and insurgency in the south started. Much more than in Balkan wars and as much as in Syria. War with Ukraine and confrontation with entire West will wear out Russia. And the right wing want to side with totalitarian Russia for their own political ideology as the communist bastards in the past.
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I'm bemused - Vladimir Putin as a Christian Warrior - Do Russians see him as a fighter for Jesus?
by fulltimestudent ini accidentally came across this youtube video, "why the west fears putin.
" curious, i watched it.
you may find it interesting also.
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kaik
FTS, every Russian and Soviet despot with exception of Gorbachev had extensive support of Russian population. They just loved them. This was even unbelievable even for other communist countries. In Central Europe dictators are very rare. A.H. was an exception who fanaticized and deceived his nations. Today's Germans do not feel much about returning into ideology of National Socialism. Russians do, they want recreation of USSR, but even with less national freedom to suppress possible disintegration. France had also its dictatorship under Jacobins. Yet, they do not dream about bringing guillotine and exporting their republicanism as they did during the Wars of I. Coalition.
Russia does not have strong economy, it is shell of former USSR. It does not have alliance nor ally. Because China voiced support to it, it does not equal alliance. Czechoslovakia had widespread support from antisoviet socialist countries in 1968 like China, Yugoslavia, and Albania (it withdrew from Warsaw Pact on protest), they were not its ally, nor there was whatsoever military treaty nor support. They complained with the invasion, but that was the most they did. Russia has nothing in the term of economy to influence the world at this time. Its GDP is equal level of Italy. Its exports in much smaller than Netherlands. It is 3rd world country with nukes. China would not sacrifice itself on behalf of Russia to piss USA. Money is where it matters, and Russia is running out of them. They would be lucky if their currency does not totally collapse and they would not resort to barter and rations.
Russia will kick around, and if not stopped, they will occupy everyone who does not have nukes. As we used to say under communists, that Russia border with anyone who she feels like to. However, due uncritical admiration of everything Russian, they can count on widespread support in the West and elsewhere who see it as some kind of good and holy country meaning the best. When I traveled during the Cold War in the West, I had hard time to explain that we did not like communism, nor want Russians to be there, nor anyone had interest to be a part of Russia. Many Westerners did not understand it. You are more than welcome to live there. I would rather be homeless man in NYC or Montreal than living in country controlled by Russia. Hundreds of thousands of Czechoslovaks, Hungarians, and Poles who run from Soviet/Russian control would agree with me on that.
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I'm bemused - Vladimir Putin as a Christian Warrior - Do Russians see him as a fighter for Jesus?
by fulltimestudent ini accidentally came across this youtube video, "why the west fears putin.
" curious, i watched it.
you may find it interesting also.
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kaik
DJS, Russia resembles much of the interwar Nazi Germany by destabilizing their neighboring countries. FTS and many other Russian apologists think that it is OK, because everyone has done that. Two wrongs never make it right.
Russia was always a country with dictator. The population will consider him something like holy father, or Vatushka, who blesses their country (while they live in misery). And they worship him and they will die for him. Putin is destroying Russia, but they do not care. They love him and adore him. And orthodox Christianity supports this status position. Freedom, individualism, personal responsibility for own well being, and democracy never came from society which is derived from it. Actually, they oppose any freedom and democracy due losing control over the population. There is no single country in the world with Orthodox Christianity that has prosperous economy or stable political system. I think I have been every of them from Greece through Balkans and Russia to regions along the Black Sea: Greece is leaching EU. Bulgaria and Romania are 3rd world countries. Ukraine and Russia are engaged in warfare. Serbs were in constant war with their neighbors and still posses threat to Balkan instability. Where are Slovenia (Catholic), Estonia (Protestant), Czech (Agnostic) and all these Orthodox countries now? They were under the same political system, yet only one group is prospering and improving their living standard without the need to occupy and invade others.
Russians are driven by messianic complex (which BTW is known since mid 19th century and well documented by numerous people studying Russian subject). No Slavic nation likes Russia, because there is always threat of enslavement. In August 1848 one the most prominent Slavic writer in Austrian Empire, Karel Havlíček Borovský, wrote after his visit of Russia: "Russia can be the foremost country in the world, if free and ruled by laws. However, it is not, and thus must be treated for us, free Slavs in the [Austrian] monarchy, as the most utter enemy."
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I'm bemused - Vladimir Putin as a Christian Warrior - Do Russians see him as a fighter for Jesus?
by fulltimestudent ini accidentally came across this youtube video, "why the west fears putin.
" curious, i watched it.
you may find it interesting also.
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kaik
FTS, Russia never was prosperous country, it was always mess. Read what travelers wrote about it in the 18th, 19th, and 20th century. I was there. I know how this country look. I drove to Moscow from Central Europe and back. I was at the Black Sea region. It is backward country and not amount of nuclear weapons they possess would change that. Even back than under communism was officially published that living standard in Russia was on per level of South American country. All Slavs are better off than Russia. Czechs, Poles, Slovenes, and Slovaks have much higher living standard. Your FTS fascination that China and Russia would control the world and master of West and USA belongs to fairy tales. Back 50 years ago Russians used to claim that will surpass USA. Today they will be happy if their economy and worthless ruble would not collapse and they wont be back to rations as I had seen back then. USA/UK/EU can destroy Russian currency by ending their convertibility at NY, London, and Frankfurt. -
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I'm bemused - Vladimir Putin as a Christian Warrior - Do Russians see him as a fighter for Jesus?
by fulltimestudent ini accidentally came across this youtube video, "why the west fears putin.
" curious, i watched it.
you may find it interesting also.
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kaik
Miles, if you be more educated, you would know that USSR in 1968 occupied Czechoslovakia. We had half million of troops there in the streets, uninvited and unwelcome. For another 20 years, we had Russians all over. I walked every day on my way to school by buildings in downtown of Prague burned by Soviets. My stepdad brother was killed by these troops. Whatever funny feeling you have about it, is irrelevant to me, but still it makes you utterly disgusting existence. -
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I'm bemused - Vladimir Putin as a Christian Warrior - Do Russians see him as a fighter for Jesus?
by fulltimestudent ini accidentally came across this youtube video, "why the west fears putin.
" curious, i watched it.
you may find it interesting also.
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kaik
Miles, I bet you would like Hitler in 1939. There were millions of people who admired him outside Germany and they staged rallies for his support even in New York City. You are disgusting.
Edmond, I wanted to unlike your comment. You and millions others of Russian admirers believe that Putin and Russian has the right to invade its neighbors because in the past they were invaded or because other countries do that. I remember when we disagreed with occupation of our state by Soviet troops in 1968 onward, the same apologists used the phrase that Moscow had the same rights to do so to us because USA invaded Vietnam and they beat blacks there. Russian in WWI started own aggression against Austria Hungary by shelling Galicia without even declaration of war. Austria was an aggressor against Serbs and Vienna started the conflict, but it was Russia who escalated internationally by invading the neighbor, which caused Germany to enter the conflict. USSR with Hitler carved Poland, and occupied three other countries and took territory from two others (Finland and Romania). Due its war with Finland it was the ONLY country that was ever kicked from League of Nation. For another two years UK bear the war ALONE against Germany while USSR supplied oil, minerals, and know-how with Nazi Germany. And person like you have without shame to say that Russia has the right to invade the others!
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I'm bemused - Vladimir Putin as a Christian Warrior - Do Russians see him as a fighter for Jesus?
by fulltimestudent ini accidentally came across this youtube video, "why the west fears putin.
" curious, i watched it.
you may find it interesting also.
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kaik
DJS, Putin will ruin Russia and with it everyone around it. Russia is reactionary country with desire to control its neighbors and would engage in the worst form of aggression against them because these states want to choose their own destiny. Every Slavic nation have bad experience with them and dislike them. Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, and now Ukraine. They experienced Russian aggression and forceful subjection to their rule or ideology. Russia today is much alike like Nazi Germany using its minority abroad, engaging hostile warfare (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova) and its driven by messianic complex to subject everyone around by force because she thinks that it is the best for the best interest to them. Czech writer Kundera compared Russia to drunken woman waving an axe and demands to be loved, and if the love is not returned she wield it.
Much of the progress in Russia was driven by two things there by influx of capital due oil and gas, and cheaper credit. This will evaporate and Russian economy will disintegrate. They may experience their own version of territorial disintegration like USSR. For what? For couple Slavic cities and villages in Dombas? For backward Orthodox religion fighting other Orthodox countries? In country which has own problem with Islam from Dagestan and Kalmyk to Tatarstan? Russian will not win confrontation with the West. They just don't have economy for it. Much stronger USSR collapsed. Russia is just half of Eastern block, country without allies. And it is illusion for Rusophils to think China will side with Russia against USA and West. China will exploit it for own benefit.