Fathausen Confabs with the Blunder… Look at the Image Posted…. Impressive, Huh?

Read this:

http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/1387502.html

Wow… Fathausen had tea n’ cookies with the Blunder and discussed… NOTHING… much ado about NOTHING. Get a load of the image posted (yes, Virginia, that’s the size of the actual image in the post)… it couldn’t be more low-res if they tried. If this doesn’t tell you that the reporting of Fathausen’s junket is crank, nothing will. I get the distinct impression that JP is going to the woodshed soon. I thought that my opinion of Fathausen and his enablers couldn’t get any lower… I was wrong… he’s plumbing new depths.

Keep the jug handy… it’s not over yet. Cheers to all of ya.

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Monday 17 January 2011

Albany NY

Editor’s Postscript:

Do you see what I see in the image? Actually, do you not see what I don’t see in it? That is, the Blunder didn’t take part in the photo op… this is quite out of character for this publicity hound… he’s an ambitious little weasel and never misses an opportunity to make himself look good. Hmm… a “Lenin’s Tomb” moment for all of us “old Russia hands”… the Blunder didn’t want to be photographed with Fathausen… that’s RICH! It’s NEVER boring in Orthodoxy!

BMD

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Let’s See Where the Heavy Traffic Is… Who ARE the HEAVY HITTERS?

Read this:

http://www.oca.org/news/2380

They’re serious… they truly are serious. Note well that Slacker Matusiak is still in charge. Firstly, these folks aren’t fulltimers. The OCA lacks the funds, full stop. I’ll bet ya that they’re all FOPs (Friends of Paffhausen). Well, the OCA site is “well-trafficked”… let’s look at some objective figures for “people” (not “visits”, not “page-views”, not “cookies”). This is the best way of determining “readership”… Andrei Psaryov was boasting that he had 21,000 “readers”, when all that he had was 21,000 “visits”… quite a different creature (he has a monthly readership of less than 2,000 per Quantcast figures).

Paffhausen, Tosi, Matusiak, et al are NEVER going to give you objective third-party figures… do you remember Tosi’s bleat, “The records simply don’t exist?” (I still ask the question, “Would he say that to a judge… or would the records ‘magically’ reappear?”) I do daresay that I don’t find such a person trustworthy, and I don’t think that you do, either. Have no fear; I’ll give you the graphs, so that you can toss the figures against the wall, so that you can see how they splash, and so that you can rake through it all to come to a reasonable conclusion.

These figures cover the last 12-month period. They cover this website, the OCA official site (oca.org), Stokoe’s site (ocanews.org), and the ROCOR official website. Here goes nothing…

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A. Monthly Readership

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B. Weekly Readership

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C. Daily Readership

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In terms of monthly readership, it breaks down as follows (I’m told that the estimates are totals, so the figures are fungible and compatible):

1. Voices from Russia: 21,400
2. OCA: 18,800
3. Stokoe: 14,200
4. ROCOR: 12,400

This is the total monthly readership, we can call this figure “100”… weekly and daily figures aren’t cumulative. Here’s the weekly readership:

1. Voices from Russia: 7,200 (33.6)
2. Stokoe: 7,200 (50.7)
3. OCA: 6,600 (35.1)
4. ROCOR: 3,700 (29.8)

The lower the percentage figure is, the less preaching to the choir is going on, so, if we go by percentage, the ranks change:

1. Stokoe: 50.7
2. OCA: 35.1
3. Voices from Russia: 33.6
4. ROCOR: 29.8

Look at the LOW ROCOR number… it means that it’s the site with the most potential for growth. The overly high Stokoe figure means that its audience is probably static and inbred. NOT good news for them.

Now, let’s go to the daily figures… there are two percentages, one as compared to the monthly sum, and the other compared to the weekly total.

1. Stokoe: 6,600 (45.8/91.7)
2. OCA: 5,100 (27.1/77.3)
3. Voices from Russia: 1,100 (5.1/15.3)
4. ROCOR: 779 (6.3/21.1)

Again, let’s rank by percentage, first by day compared to month:

1. Stokoe: 45.8
2. OCA: 27.1
3. ROCOR: 6.3
4. Voices from Russia: 5.1

The lower the number, the higher the growth potential. Stokoe is stuck in the mud… the OCA is sucking wind… both the ROCOR site and mine have good potential for growth.

Now, let’s compare daily runs with the weekly total:

1. Stokoe: 91.7
2. OCA: 77.3
3. ROCOR: 21.1
4. Voices from Russia: 15.3

These only nail down the previous trends even more tightly. Stokoe’s weekly and daily figures are nearly at identity… that’s BAD. The OCA figures, aren’t much better… both these sites are sclerotic and reaching only a restricted coterie. My site is designedly eclectic… but, who would’ve thunk it, the ROCOR site is drawing just as well.

This gives ya the REAL DEAL on the websites. Both Stokoe’s site and oca.org are busted-down nags only fit for the glue factory. Wanna know where to put your money? Cookie the Bookie sez, “Vara to win, and the Russkies to place… the other two? Save ya money”. In short, GIGO from Matusiak, yet again. “When will they ever learn?” I think that my horse ate their flowers… that’s where they went!

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Monday 17 January 2011

Albany NY

17 January 2011. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words… Here’s Where the Church Stood on “Commie Zombies”… It’s Position Hasn’t Changed One Little Bit!

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Has the Church changed its position that the government must act to curb the excesses of the private sector since the time of Iakovos Koukouzis? No, it hasn’t… not one little bit, one jot, one tittle, or one iota.

Ponder that as you see some “Orthodox” support neoliberalism and laissez faire non-regulation. Just as it was right for Archbishop Iakovos Koukouzis to march alongside Martin Luther King, just as it was right for Russian Orthodox priests to bless striking coal miners, it’s still right to come out in support of the victimised… we’re not supposed to be cheerleaders for the victimisers!

Be careful about the word “freedom”… it’s used by some in an Orwellian manner… look how the neoliberals used it in Citizens United! Observe who supported that noisome little decree… then, draw your own conclusions…

BMD

Fr Vsevolod Chaplin Encouraged Russian Society to Live by both God’s and Man’s Law, so that the Law of the Jungle Wouldn’t Take Over

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“If we took no revenge, if we shouted no slogans, if we all came together as a society… that would be the best tribute we could give to the memory of Yegor Sviridov…”

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, the head of the MP Synodal Department for Church and Society, encouraged Russian society to live by both God’s and man’s law, so that the law of the jungle wouldn’t take over. “The life of Yegor Sviridov (a backer of FK Spartak who was killed in an interethnic altercation) was cut short because of bigotry… the life of a young man who could have done great things for his Motherland. Nevertheless, he left this world, not of his own will, but through the agency of those who seek superiority in society using vain and loutish means, through violence and murder. We shouldn’t mourn or fall into despair. If we took no revenge, if we shouted no slogans, if we all came together as a society… that should be our prayer… it would be the best tribute we could give to the memory of the Servant of God Yegor”, Fr Vsevolod said in his remarks to the believers gathered for the 40th-day Pannikhida of Yegor Sviridov on Saturday night at the Church of St Nicholas of the Three Hills in Moscow.

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Fr Vsevolod urged everyone to pray for the slain, as well as to pray and work so that “we never have such an incident again in our country; that our town won’t tolerate such an incident”, we should offer up prayers so that the Lord grants peace to Russia. “We know how dangerous it is to divide people on ethnic grounds, it could destroy Russia, and it could take away our future. Yet, we know exactly how dangerous injustice is, when crime remains unpunished, when people who don’t know shame or conscience try to break our will, to deprive our people of their independence, spirituality, and freedom. We should help each other, stick together, and pray for Russia and work for its future, to do everything to live by both God’s and man’s law, so that the law of the jungle wouldn’t take over, for these laws act always and everywhere”. In conclusion, Fr Vsevolod said, “If we work together in the cause of creating a strong, level-headed, revitalised, and united Russia… that would be the best tribute we could give to the memory of Yegor Sviridov”.

About seventy people attended the Pannikhida, including Yegor’s friends, leaders of FK Spartak fan associations, and representatives of public organisations. Around a hundred cops watched outside the church, closing off streets leading to the church. Cops used metal detectors to conduct a thorough inspection of all comers. Outside the church, passers-by saw several police buses and an ambulance

15 January 2011

Interfax-Religion

http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=39085

Editor’s Note:

You hear much unfounded rubbish from the SVS crowd (especially a bigoted Parisian sort named Alvian Smirensky) and konvertsy in general about how the Church in Russia abets and coddles “Orthodox skinheads”. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Church stands foursquare against bigotry and ethnic violence. In fact, the opposite is true. Most konvertsy support the loud bigots and Mammon-worshippers gathered in the Tea Party (JP preferred to meet with the First Profit of the Mormons rather than stand next to a bishop of the confessor UOC/MP… birds of a feather, no?). You can have Fr Vsevolod Chaplin or you can have Fr John Whiteford. You can stand with Fr Vsevolod and stand for justice for all… or you can stand with Fr John and stand for justice for the rich only (that’s what his links to Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin mean). I say there’s no choice… give me Fr Vsevolod straight up, and no mixer… as for John Whiteford… for shame, you don’t have the right to associate the Church with the “conservative” hate media and drag Her in the mud!

BMD