Cookie the Bookie Sez It’s Time to Look at the Tote Board! What are the Sites ACTUALLY Doing in May 2011?

Her horse came in!

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It’s time for a peek at how the sites are REALLY doing. As always, I use objective third-party figures. If you want to check the veracity of what follows do access:

http://www.quantcast.com/ocanews.org

http://www.quantcast.com/oca.org

http://www.quantcast.com/frederica.com

http://www.quantcast.com/byztex.blogspot.com

http://www.quantcast.com/ad-orientem.blogspot.com

http://www.quantcast.com/02varvara.wordpress.com

http://www.quantcast.com/aoiusa.org

http://www.quantcast.com/orrologion.blogspot.com

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Firstly, let’s look at the graphs for monthly readership:

Voices from Russia (VFR) 02varvara.wordpress.com

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Orthodox Christians for Accountability (OCA Stokoe) ocanews.org

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Orthodox Church in America (OCA Syosset) oca.org

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Frederica (FMG) frederica.com

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Byzantine Texas (BT) byztex.blogspot.com

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Ad-Orientem (AO) ad-orientem.blogspot.com

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There are no graphs available for AOI (aoiusa.org) (Jacobses’ site) and Orrologion (orrologion.blogspot.com). At one time, AOI did have 2,200 readers a month, but as it has dropped below 2,000 readers a month, it no longer has a graph posted.

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Now, let’s look at the above data in tabular form:

VFR:	25,700
OCA Syosset:	24,600
OCA Stokoe:	16,200
FMG:	10,300
BT:	4,300
OA:	2,600

There is no data available for AOI or Orrologion… they are under 2,000 readers a month.

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This is straightforward in interpretation… it means that I’m on first… full stop.

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Now, let’s look at site frequency… that is, how often do readers log onto a site? If a site has 100,000 hits a month, but only 7 percent from “addicts” (those who log onto a site daily) (VFR), it has a greater reach than a site with 400,000 hits with 97 percent of hits going to its “addicts” (Stokoe’s site). To put it another way, the lower the proportion of addicts you have, the greater the potential for growth, and the greater your reach. Conversely, the higher the proportion of addicts on a site indicates “preaching to the choir”… usually it signifies an inbred and stagnant audience. Here’s the tables:

VFR

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OCA Stokoe

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OCA Syosset

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AO

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There is no information listed for any of the other sites that were named in the monthly readership category… I’m sorry.

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The above is even clearer than the monthly readership figures are. That is to say, my site has a “normal” distribution of readership, whereas the other sites are only reaching a static and morbid set of “addicts”. The figures speak for themselves. That is, people trust my site… they don’t trust oca.org, they don’t Stokoe, they don’t trust “John” of Ad-Orientem, they don’t trust Freddie, Orr, Jacobses, “Josephus Flavius” of Byzantine Texas, or Pat Reardon. I seem to see a massive crisis in American Russian Orthodoxy. The people are “voting with their feet”… not only on the internet, but in real life, as well. Matushka Nina was telling me how young people are flocking to St Nick’s in Olyphant PA, because that parish refuses to go along with the latest inanities from SVS.

There’s something in the wind, but I’ve no idea what it is, exactly. Needless to say, Syosset, SVS, JP, Fester, the Forty Families, the OCA and ROCOR apparats, and Jordanville have no clue, either. American Orthodoxy in its present form is unstable, and it’s prone to a sudden and dangerous collapse, if we don’t do something soon. The idiocy of autocephaly must end… the independent existence of the ROCOR must end… in short, it’s time to go home.

There’s no place like home…

Oh, one last thing, Cookie the Bookie ain’t laying good odds on JP & Co… you know what to do…

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Thursday 12 May 2011

Albany NY

12 May 2011. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words… Russia DIDN’T “Outsource” Its Industry… It’s Why Its Unemployment Rate is Lower than that in the USA… D’oh!

Here’s a machine at the Leningrad Metal Works, in Leningrad Oblast, it makes electrical generation equipment. The US Republican Party urges US business to “outsource” manufacturing to compliant Third World dictatorships… that’s to maximise profits for business, so that the bigwigs can contribute more to the Republican politicos. If Americans are thrown out of work… who cares? It’s an acceptable cost of doing business! Russia doesn’t “outsource”, ergo, its unemployment rate is lower than that of the USA. Quod erat demonstrandum… end of class, kids.

BMD

Former Galician Uniate Chieftain Condemned (sic) the Actions of the Nationalists in Lvov

Cardinal Lubomir Husar, the former head of the Uniates in Galicia, criticised (sic) the organisers of the riots on 9 May in Lvov. He made comments on these developments at a meeting with students of the Dnepropetrovsk Glinka Conservatory. In his talk, he urged them to search for common ground, to build things up, rather than to destroy them, and he emphasised that the tearing off of St George ribbons off veterans’ clothing wasn’t a good thing (“нехорошо”). Husar also added that, for him, personally, the war against fascism did not begin in 1941 as the Great Patriotic War; it began in 1939 as the Second World War. In February, Benedict, the Pope of Rome, accepted Husar’s resignation on health grounds. Svyatoslav Shevchuk became the new Uniate leader.

12 May 2011

Interfax-Religion

http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=40713

Editor’s Note:

This is mealy-mouthed and bootless. Husar supports the Uniate extremists… there’s no getting around that fact. For years, everyone has known that Husar is a paid agent of the USA (if not of the CIA… he still holds an American passport, I’m told), he listens well to “His Master’s Voice”. He didn’t come down hard on the Svoboda punks, and he never shall, for they were doing the bidding of Foggy Bottom and certain curial factions in Rome (ordinary RCs are unaware of this… leave them out of this… hell, ordinary Uniates don’t know what’s done in their name, either).

Our response should be simple… we should break off all relations with Uniates until they issue compensation for the churches they stole from us after ’91 and for the clergy (such as Fr Mikhail Shuvar) that they brutalised. They should also disown Svoboda and issue a clear and ringing condemnation of Galician nationalism. That’s not going to happen. What does that tell us about Vassa Larina, SVS, Vadim Gan, and all the other supporters of “dialogue” with these enemies of the Church? Not much good, I’m afraid…

As a Greek acquaintance said, many moons ago, “The Franks talk out of both sides of their mouths”. At times, ordinary Catholics get the butt end of an Orthodox person’s frustration, and they wonder why. It’s because of your leadership’s chosen policy towards us… and I apologise to you personally if any Orthodox used harsh language towards you. THAT wasn’t called for, not at all, for you aren’t responsible for the policy of your faith. On this earthly plane, we’re called to friendship… we can visit one another, bear each other’s sorrows, and share each other’s joys. However, “unity” shall never be… and that’s that. We’ll NEVER be “Orthodox in Union with Rome”… and as long as the Uniates say that, it’ll poison relations with regular RCs (to speak frankly and clearly).

As I always say, “Send us letters of friendship, only”…

BMD

Justice Denied: Demjanjuk Convicted by Kangaroo Court in Nazi Camp Deaths

I can just hear the bailiffs talking amongst themselves… “Poor old sod… wonder who he pissed off to be here”. “I dunno… but I do know this… keep it to yourself, or they’ll come down on you like a ton of bricks”. “You got that right… there ain’t no freedom of speech any more… ya gotta watch what ya say”. They’re Bavarians after all… a grounded and sensible lot…

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Read this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110512/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_demjanjuk

Note this:

Demjanjuk was charged with 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder, one for each person who died during the time he was accused of being a guard at the Sobibor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. There was no evidence he committed a specific crime. The prosecution was based on the theory that if Demjanjuk was at the camp, he was a participant in the killing… the first time such a legal argument has been made in German courts.

And this:

The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s chief Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, called the conviction “a very important victory for justice”.

Mr Zuroff, you are chock fulla shit! This was nothing but vengeance against an old man who suffered wrongful imprisonment in the past due to a crank verdict passed down by a “bloody assizes” in Israel, due to the sick hatred of an unrepresentative set of twisted people. I’m no anti-Semite… anyone who reads this site knows that. Hell, I’ve stood tall when people made even slightly anti-Semitic remarks. I say that all that this crook decision is going to do is to increase ill will against Jews. I’ve always stood against the Holocaust deniers in the past, I do so now, and I’ll do so again in future, if necessary.

However, I believe in good sense and the truth. This was nothing but a sick desire to attack old people in their last years before they die. I say, let John Demjanjuk go home; let him die amongst his people. He’s suffered enough. He was nothing but a perimeter guard, if he was that. He made no decisions, he gave no orders, and he was legally responsible for the death of no one. This was cheap and tawdry grandstanding of the worst sort. Escapades such as this one keep me out of the classical “Left”… all too many of them support nastiness of this sort. I hate loudmouthed “liberals” as much as I hate posturing “conservatives”. Both elevate their notional “ideology” over people… the latter in favour of their love of filthy lucre, the former in favour of their pretensions of intellectual pride. Both pander to the worst tendencies in us… we should avoid both.

True Justice would recognise that John Demjanjuk was nothing but the lowliest spear-dragger, if he were even that. NO ONE died because of his decisions… NO ONE suffered imprisonment because of his actions… NO ONE was even brutalised by him. Mr Zuroff’s sick hatred is clear to all grounded decent people… just as I hate Neo-Nazis, just as I hate racists, just as I hate religious phonies; I hate “justice seekers” just as passionately. John Demjanjuk did some dumb things in his life… being a loudmouth Ukie nationalist was one of ‘em… but he did nothing to merit one minute of imprisonment.

Let John Demjanjuk go home to die amongst his people and end this farcical charade. Shit such as this keeps anti-Semitism alive and green… thankfully, most Jewish people know this, so, don’t blame them! Blame the loudmouths… say it loud n’ proud! There’s real justice in this case, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center isn’t standing for it. Give the Demjanjuk family some peace… if you have any humanity.

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Thursday 12 May 2011

Albany NY