I've been reading The March of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman
published in 1984, and it's just as relevant today as it was then.
Why? Because she asks why do leaders make decisions that are so
obviously destructive to their own societies, both secular and
religious, and the history she outlines gives you the answer. Truth be
told, as you read the things that went on in Europe's religious
communities over the centuries you have to wonder how Europe remained
Christian as long as it did.
Rotherham Grooming Gang Inquiry Told Not to Investigate ‘Senior Officers’ - A whistleblower has claimed that an inquiry into
the Rotherham child rape grooming gang scandal intentionally avoided
implicating senior police officers in a report on local failures to
protect young girls in the English town. The left-wing Labour government of Prime Minister Sir
Keir Starmer has claimed that previous local investigations into Muslim
grooming gangs have been sufficient and that a fresh national inquiry
into the widespread child abuse and the politically correct failures to
safeguard primarily young white girls is not needed............
Sex and Islam...and the decline of the WestJanuary 5, 2025 by
Andrea Widburg The grooming/rape gang
scandal enveloping the British government is a microcosm of Islam’s
obsession and the West’s decline.........
Islam isn't a religion, it's a political criminal movement
masquerading as a religion, and it isn't just about sex, it's about
every criminal activity known to man that's not only excused by Islam,
it's encouraged.
When Sultan Mehmed II was trying to conquer
Constantinople things weren't going so well, and he turned that around
by offering his troops everything in the city, all the wealth they could
find, and everyone in the city, including nuns who were raped,
enslaved, and dragged naked through the city. The only thing he would
keep for himself was the city itself.
That turned the
tables. No matter what's written, the foundational principles of Islam
are greed, envy, hate, lust, and violence. That's why they get along
with socialists, shared values.
After Musk Comments on Grooming Gangs, UK PM Warns Against 'Debate Based on Lies'.
Elon
Musk has criticised the UK government’s handling of child grooming
gangs in a series of messages on his social media site X. Prime Minister
Sir Keir Starmer has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to protect
victims of child sexual abuse and warned it won’t tolerate discussions
on the issue that are based on lies. His remarks follow an ongoing exchange
between UK politicians and tech billionaire Elon Musk, who is set to
act as an adviser to the upcoming Trump presidency. Musk has claimed
that Starmer had failed to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was
director of public prosecutions. He also suggested that safeguarding
minister Jess Phillips “deserves to be in prison” after she denied
requests for a public inquiry in Oldham......
Elon Musk Calls for Long-Overdue National Inquiry in UK on Rape Gang Scandal - In a series of posts on X, Elon Musk has been calling attention to a
years-long scandal in Britain that was hushed up for years and is still
receiving insufficient attention from British authorities: the
phenomenon of rape gangs. These gangs have victimized tens of thousands
of British girls, and quite likely many more than that. Yet for decades,
authorities have been slow to altogether inactive in moving against
them, and have occasionally even punished their victims and rewarded the
perpetrators. The reason for this lies in the perpetrators’ identity
and motivating ideology, which few dare to face.
This
is the suicide of cultures that are mired in leftism, and who's fault
is it these immigrant monsters are murdering innocent people in
America? According to the CEO at AllState tells us it's Americans who are at fault, because we're addicted to decisiveness. And his solution is what? He pontificates: We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an addiction to
divisiveness and negativity. Join Allstate working in local communities
all across America to amplify the positive, increase trust and accept
people’s imperfections and differences. Together we win. Wow,
does that sound great? There's a problem with that though. It's
stupid. The positive that needs to be amplified are the traditional
Judaic/Christian values that made America great, and the left has been
fighting that for almost 150 years in America, tooth and nail, and
violently. This divisiveness isn't an addiction, it's self defense
against a philosophy of national suicide.
A recent article by Patricia McCarthy she partially quoted Cicero, but here's the full quote:
"A
nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot
survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,
for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves
amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through
all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the
traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his
victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the
baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a
nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the
pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no
longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Only Cicero never said that.
While I've used this quote in some of my articles, there's no evidence
Cicero ever said that. It originates from a 1965 novel A Pillar of
Iron by Taylor Caldwell, but so what? Does it really matter
who said it? The thoughts are valid nonetheless, and most certainly
apply to what we've been seeing going on in America since the late 19th
century, and when Stalin started sending his spies to America in 1920
ultimately filling the FDR administration with so many agents it became known as the
most infiltrated government in the history of the world.
It's a good
quote that needs to be used more often, with a caveat, because it
defines who's destroying Western Civilization. It's leaders, both
religious and secular. I'll have more on this soon.
We are living through an
astonishing time in our nation’s political history. Somewhat more than
half of Americans see President Trump as a leader of courage, energy,
and commitment with a proven record of promoting peace and strengthening
both the U.S. economy and the southern border against an illegal
invasion, whereas the other half sees only personal evil in Trump and
describes him with adolescent hyperbole, habitually comparing him to
Adolf Hitler. That half is not able to thoughtfully assess Trump’s
policies, or even its own economic or political interests.
Instead,
these people cling to a sense of moral superiority and are obsessed with
the imputed personal sins of a man they despise...... this is not a free-standing mental disorder. Rather, it is a
delusional symptom cluster at the terminal stage of a sixty-year vast,
progressively insane attempt by the left wing, especially the cultural,
educational and political elites, to entrain the American people to
despise their nation, their laws, and themselves in order to break their
self-respect and mentally enslave them to government control. Few
people can stand against the indoctrination and brainwashing that they
have been exposed to all their lives.......[Trump was] the
man who challenged their beliefs..... (Editor's Note: There's much more, and worth reading. RK)
I
thought her use of the word entrain was a mistake but it means to put
aboard a train, and that's what the left has been doing in America for
almost 150 years, and they started by capturing public education. After
reading the article and then the comments I think it worthwhile to
explain leftist/socialism in America didn't start out as an openly
Marxist movement.
Socialism is foundationally atheistic, and
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that didn't fly in America,
so they called themselves "progressives", and the driving force behind
that was religion, what's now called the "progressive gospel", in effect
claiming socialism was the practical application of the Christian
ethic.
They use our own values against us. Now everyone was to be
everyone's bother and were responsible for each other and morally
obligated to ___________fill in the blank, all of which would entail
massive amounts of money confiscated from the American public and spent
as they saw fit in order to expand government control over Americans
lives. Hence their need for the 16th Amendment, income tax, and the
17th Amendment ending how Senators were chosen by the states as de facto
ambassadors to the central government, effectually overturning the 10th
Amendment, the states rights amendment. With passage of the 17th
Amendment, for all practical purposes, states rights ended. And finally
the creation of the FED to take control of the currency out of the hands
of Congress. All done in 1913.
After WWII the
real powers behind this movement didn't need religion any longer and
kicked them to the curb, and then the driving force was psychology. If
you disagreed with what they were promoting, you were not only morally
inadequate, you were insane, which is the same clabber they're promoting
now.
So after almost 150 years of religious and social
corruption condemning western civilization's moral and mental
foundations it's a wonder we're now finally coming out of that miasma,
and truth is coming to the fore.
Truth is the sublime
convergence of history and reality. Everything we're told has a
historical foundation and context, and everything we're told should bear
some resemblance to what we see going on in reality. If it doesn't,
it's wrong, and all that's left to do is develop the intellectual
response to explain why it's wrong. And that's what's finally
happening as a result of the internet and the rise of the alternative media.
Having
the truth exposed is why the Democrat party is in a downward swirl of
failure, academia is being seriously challenged, which will become more
pronounced in the coming years, heretical religious leaders are being
openly questioned and abandoned, Europe's socialist governments are
broke and collapsing, and the Pravda media is and swirling down the
drain.
First, many of the years before the 20th
century were pivotal for the nation, especially the Civil War period and
right after, because they were the foundational formative years
creating a brand new nation that was unmistakably a
grand republican experiment, with all the warts that go along with
that. Not a democracy, a republic. Nothing like
it ever occurred in human history before or since. Not the Roman
Republic, nor Greek Democracy, nor any
other government. American government was created from the bottom up,
by the people, and for the people, so, rightly or wrongly, I'm bypassing
those years and
sticking to everything after the 19th century.
If you ask
people what year in American history was the most seminal in the 20th century you'll
probably get a blank stare, and if they're college students there's no
telling what kind of insanity they'll offer. But some will choose dates
that are meaningful, and most will get it wrong. The correct answer is
1913! Why?
In 1913 the federal government passed the 16th
Amendment, income tax, the 17th Amendment, changing how Senators were
chosen, and they created the FED. Those actions are foundational to all
the crises we're facing right now.
The 16th Amendment created a
system of legal extortion, and abuse by a thuggish out of control IRS,
both of which grew massively over the years, and negatively impacting the nation's economy, and the 17th Amendment
changed how senators were chosen. Senators were supposed to be de
facto ambassadors from the states to the central government representing
the interests of their states, not the people, that was the job of the
House of Representatives, which is why all tax bills must originate in
the House. The founders wanted Senators to be chosen by the state's governments to keep the
central government from getting out of control, and we now see the
consequences of both those Amendments.
“The next president will inherit a Federal Reserve staffed by
economists — and their intellectual helpmates in academia — who still
don’t fully understand what has happened over the past few years, let
alone over the past few decades”...........
Salter goes on to say:
The Fed is a flawed institution at best, and a failed institution at
worst. Sternberg suggests several reforms. While potentially helpful,
none go far enough...........Sternberg laments Fed decision-makers’ “groupthink,” explained
in part by the concentration of authority in the “Washington-based Board
of Governors in thrall to the central bank’s research department.” The
“Fed’s independence from the rest of the government” amplifies its
irresponsibility. .... It “means politicians and voters can’t enforce
accountability.” In other words, it’s a
judge in its own cause. That’s unacceptable for anyone who cares about
the rule of law.
Just like the IRS, out of control, and powers unto themselves.
He
then goes on to make suggestions for reform. How about abolishment?
Also I don't agree with him on this issue of tariffs, and while tariffs
can impact prices, they can also impact how governments act, like
China. And that's a part of the package all these economist refuse to
understand. One more thing. If tariffs are so bad, then why do all
these nations who decry American tariffs have them? I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that.
Then came 1916, and Woodrow Wilson,
America's first fascist President, was re-elected, a President who,
just like Teddy Roosevelt, believed the Constitution was and impediment
to human progress and became America's first fascist President
"revolutionizing the way the federal government works creating the
foundation for the modern administrative state." We'll come back to that also.
The next seminal year was 1928.
Calvin
Coolidge became President after Harding died. He finished Harding's
term and ran for his own in 1924. Coolidge hated being President and
refused to run in 1928 for his second term, and Hoover, who Coolidge thought was an idiot, was elected and whose failures led to FDR,
the Great Depression, and a massive expansion of Wilson's
administrative state FDR called the New Deal, which wasn't new, nor was
it a deal.
Then Kennedy was elected via voter fraud in 1960, a failure as President, but who's assassination led to Johnson's Great Society
programs which has been massively expensive and arguably a failure, all
of which expanded government all the more. This led to the 1968
election of Richard Nixon, who was one of the worst presidents to ever sit behind the Resolute Desk, with his passage of the The National Environmental Policy Act, the creation of the EPA, OSHA, and a host of other abusive and economically suicidal regulations, but worst of all, was his opening China up to world trade,
saving China from Mao's disastrous economy. As a result China has
thrived economically, and western civilization is now funding it's own
demise.
Everything else since then has been nothing more than
variations of those themes, including Obama's election, until 2016 when
Trump was elected, and he set things into motion that's rattled the
entire political culture in America. I'm not deliberately ignoring
Reagan, but he was still facing a loyal opposition, Trump was, and is,
facing a disloyal opposition called the Party of Treason, and 2024 may
become the most seminal year of all in American history, and may be the
end of America as we know it.
Maskirovka was the term used as a Russian doctrine
of military deception. I has evolved as a doctrine to "mask" and
deceive in every political endeavor. Russia may have created it, but
the Chinese have refined and mastered it.
By Rich Kozlovich
For years I've taken the position China's
economy is all smoke and mirrors, and we're seeing that play out now, China's broke, and getting more broke. The Biden administration is as nuts as was the Nixon administration.
How hard is it to grasp that any financial stability accorded to China
is funding our own destruction?
If Trump wins, that
will end.
They've just closed thousands of restaurants in China
as a result of their economic problems. Central planning at it's
worst! A Maoist economic
philosophy that failed when Mao was alive, and will fail with Xi as
China's Maoist emperor. His military isn't like Mao's, it's a bit
semi-independent, is filled with corruption and incompetence, he's afraid of them, so he
doesn't dare cut their budget, and just as it did for the USSR, that
will help bankrupt them.
There's all this talk about how many
more ships China has now, but more ships is no longer the answer.
Drones and laser weaponry are now the answer, that's the wave of the
future, so the more they
spend on their navy the better, the sooner they go broke.
Xi Jinping demands Communists bend international law to China’s will. They've already ignoreddecisions over control of the South China Sea. China's
penchant for bullying South East Asian nations is
backfiring, and after Trump collapses their economy, these coalitions
between Japan, who
wants to improve maritime capabilities of four ASEAN States as a reslut
of China's criminal actions in the South China Sea, which involves
South Korea, and Vietnam, India. Australia, is now committed to
enhancing their naval presence in support of the Philippines against
Chinese incursions.
The President of the
Philippines
has decided transparency over their clashes with China will expose the
criminal behavior of China, and their Coast Guard is "embedding local
and
international media in its patrols. In other cases, the Philippine coast
guard itself has released photographs and videos of Chinese harassment,
including of one notable incident in which a Chinese vessel directed a
military-grade laser beam at a Philippine ship, temporarily blinding the
crew." All of which will put China in an untenable position,
militarily and
economically.
China is demanding, '“Stronger
consular protection” which is Chinese political code for complaining
about foreign governments cracking down on Chinese espionage operations"', and they've even set upsecret China police stations in America, and around the world, monitoring Chinese citizens claiming these "stations" were
set up to provide services for Chinese citizens living abroad. It's
clear these are illegal international spy cells set up to intimidate
these immigrants, and it's worked.
Stealing intellectual property rights especially involving "dual-use technologies such as
quantum computing, big data, semiconductors, 5G, advanced nuclear
technology, aerospace and artificial intelligence. It is developing or
acquiring key technologies through investment in private industries,
talent recruitment programs, academic research benefiting the military,
intelligence gathering and outright theft. Crucially, the fusion
approach enables more civilian entities to undertake classified military
research and development as well as weapons production." Not to mention spying on average Americans via the internet, to attain personal information, and there's a lot more.
Their demographics is a huge underrated problem,
and it's not only
involving age, it involved ethnics. The ethnic Han dominate China, and
the rest of the ethnics in China hate the Han, and both the Han
and the other ethnics believe the government is illegitimate, though
they believe it quietly. Due to their one child mandates, the
abortion of girl children was massive creating a mismatch in the
male/female adult population. That's not the foundation for a happy
society.
The "happiness factor" is ignored by governments because
they don't have a clue what
happiness means. The reason for that is happiness is as difficult to
define as defining "fair". What's fair? Who wrote the Book of Fair?
No one, and it's been my observation that fair is usually defined by
who's ox is being gored. And that's pretty much the same for happiness.
While
China's leaders are growing increasingly aware of the unhappiness
permeating their society, what they're doing to ameliorate the unrest
is not only not been working, it's made it worse. Purges and
stricter laws are exacerbating the problem, and it's making people
acutely aware of the weaknesses in the system and the lack of competence
in the leaders, and the younger generation isn't impressed with slogans
and speeches.
Things that would have worked when their economy was in better shape won't work now, and now Xi and his myrmidons are clueless.
Their internal market is crashing, so what do they do? They pour money into Africa, to the "promised" tune of
$50.6 billion in Chinese loans, aid programs, and corporate investments
for Africa over the next three year", money they don't have and may not
be able to deliver on. They further promised to "open China's tightly controlled markets to 33 African
nations and said China will bring at least 30 “green energy” projects to
Africa, ostensibly creating a million jobs. Chinese infrastructure
projects have a long history of reserving their best jobs for imported Chinese managers and
professionals", and that's not going to set well with these African
leaders, and the fact is Africa is an unstable mess, and that's not going to change. Africa is a bad investment
It's been stated China's loans to poor nations are
a debt trap to force them to bend to China's will, and that is an
absolutely accurate description. But this is a double edged sword. The
problem for China is what happens, if or when, these nations default?
What can they do about it? Not much, and then they'll be stuck with
unrecoverable debt, to the tune of billions and billions of dollars they
can't afford to lose.
China's has been consistently dropping prices on it's export products because they're in desperate need of
international buyers, and let's get this right. If they're not able to
sell to America, they're doomed. All this "deflation", and in China's
case it's called "extended deflation", causes "real estate slumps,
stock market downturns, loss of investor confidence, weaker exports,
less consumer demand, and China is already suffering from excess supply
and insufficient demand, causing serious financial
strain.........Reversing the trend becomes more difficult the longer it
lasts. "
It's not going to reverse, China's economy is heading
into the toilet, even if Trump isn't elected, and if anyone has any
doubts, take a look at what they did to Hong Kong. That's China, you
may wish to review My China Commentaries.
Now,
having said that, does anyone besides me see that same kind of pattern
of "real estate collapse, stock market downturns, loss of investor
confidence, loss of consumer demand, and massive financial strain"
playing out in America?
This is a video everyone needs to watch, and make no mistake, America, we have a problem!
A
maelstrom in the real world is a destructive whirlpool that draws
everything into it. Societal maelstroms are also real. They are
destructive whirlpools of confusion and violence, and that's where
western civilization is heading.
Daniel Greenfield is one of the
best writers in America today, and he graciously allows me to publish
any article he posts on his Sultan Knish Blog, to which I recommend everyone subscribe, it's free.
Today I posted this piece, An Iron Curtain is Descending On Us, where he outlines and defines what's actually happening before our very eyes saying:
Over
the last five years, American, British, Canadian and Brazilian
governments unleashed unprecedented waves of repression against
political opponents using martial law, military occupations of major
cities, government censorship of the internet, nationwide manhunts,
televised raids and extended detentions without trial. Most of those
arrested were guilty of political speech and protests generally far less
violent than leftist riots by regime supporters.
He goes on to outline events where left wing and/or Muslim
rioters are treated with kid gloves and those who are exercising their
legitimate rights to protest are terrorized, criminalized, and crushed
under the heal of treasonous regimes "to save democracy".
If
there ever was a more concise, clearer article defining what's
befalling western civilization published before this, I've not seen it.
Here's the link to the original, pass it along.
This is an article that needs the broadest distribution possible. The
world's western culture and nations are at war with Islam, and
themselves. Western Europe is lost, and it's not coming back. Eastern
Europe may survive for a while, but with the collapse of the EU in the
very near future, that will be hard to see, however that may trigger a
convergence of Eastern Europe and Russia as the solution for them to
just survive against Europe's Islamic invasion.
According to historians who write about historical cycles we're now at
the end of one of those cycles, and all end cycles are violent, and
economically disastrous.
We're heading into the maelstrom, and spewing out all the this "Islamophobia" horsepucky that's being spread around by so many in the west is nothing more than a weapon to silence Europeans and compel them to accept a cultural
invasion that threatens the very fabric of their societies". This is the kind of insanity that's driving us into the maelstrom of cultural disaster.
Western
Europe is lost, and it's not coming back. Eastern Europe may survive,
but with EU's collapse on the near horizon, that may not be possible,
and who knows, it may even trigger a convergence between Eastern Europe
and Russia in order to just survive against all the jihad insanity, as
even Russia at some point is going to have problems with their Muslim population.
France stands at the precipice, as Islam’s 14-century war against
Christianity now threatens to unravel the very foundations of Western
civilization—through force, deception, and demographic conquest, the
final battle for Europe’s soul is at hand. Islam’s war against Christianity is not a new phenomenon. It is a war that has spanned 14 centuries—a
relentless campaign driven by religious conquest with the end goal of
subjugating Christians and all non-Muslims under sharia (Islamic law).
The world, mainly Europe—and France in particular—has yet to truly grasp
the magnitude of this war despite its own history of defending itself
against Islam, as exemplified by Charles Martel. For centuries, Muslims
have employed force, deceit, and cunning strategies to impose their
will. The West, blinded by political correctness and moral relativism,
refuses to see this war for what it is: an existential threat to the
very fabric of its civilization.
Muslim violence is a plague in France, and for that matter, anywhere Muslims are dominant,
violence follows like Sancho Panza followed Don Quixote, a mad man.
Leftist insanity has flooded Europe with Muslim fanatics and even the
German police are now.... finally.... publicly saying because of this
Muslim invasion, Germany is not longer safe! In Switzerland a Green Party leader
who just happens to be Muslim passes her time by taking target
practice shooting at a large picture of Mary and Baby Jesus. She was so
proud of her accuracy, she posted photos of it on Instagram.
Now Germany is deporting Afghans, and they're "considering" deporting migrants to Rwanda, but that's not anywhere near a strong enough a response to save Germany. One school in Belgium has made Arabic mandatory. Two Moroccan migrants
raped a young man and made him scream, "Long Live Morocco." I wonder
if he had to say it in Arabic? There's a mixed bag on what's to happen
to these two pieces of trash, but make no mistake, any punishment, if
any, will be light.
When did they lose
their sanity? Muslims don't want to integrate, and these foolish people
are supporting that mentality, which is suicidal for Europe. Multicultural Europe
is a disaster, worse than the Titanic, and the "leaders" of these
western nations have been deliberately, and insanely, driving Europe
into the iceberg.
In America an army of '30,000+ Muslims' march through the streets of "Dearborn, Michigan, led by a radical
Imam, reveals the unchecked spread of Sharia, the alarming alliance
between local authorities and radical elements, and the growing threat
of Islamic supremacism, all under the guise of a so-called ‘peace’ rally
on American soil." This isn't any kind of religious celebration,
nor it is about peace, it's a threat, and it's a deliberate threat to
America, and their concept of peace is everyone bows down to Allah.....
or else!
We're facing a suicidal whirlpool of destruction, and the leaders of these ships of state are deliberately being steered directly into the maelstrom. We really do need to get that.
If that's true, and it is, how did these illegal aliens get these weapons?
One thing is clear, the argument by Second Amendment
supporters that when guns are prohibited only criminals will have guns
is blatantly true. That has been obvious for so long it shouldn't have
to be repeated, but the left still trumpets gun control, which for them
ultimately means banning guns. That is a foundational tenet of leftist
ideology. Why?
Because the "self-appointed morally superior left is behind the tyrannies of
multiculturalism", and leftists hate America, and Americans!
Overturning
the Second Amendment puts honest citizens at the mercy of the state.
Then obedience follows, and soon there's tyranny with all the power
being held by a smaller and smaller number of people in a very short
time.
People who can no longer be voted out of office, just like Maduro in Venezuela. And none dare call it treason any longer! The ‘party of freedom’ has an odd view of what freedom means, and the Pravda media supports them.
She goes on to ask:
Is
Aurora, Colorado home to our first official “no-go” zone? ......The
video was shot in the building where Cindy and Edward Romero
lived until Wednesday. FOX31 caught up with them as they loaded up their
stuff and moved out. ‘It’s been a nightmare and I can’t wait to get
out of here,’ former resident Cindy Romero said......The Romeros say the
trouble started when a large number of migrants began moving in.
How did this happen?
[M]ore than $380 million worth of Shelter and Services Program (SSP)
grants will go to local and state governments, as well as NGOs, ‘that
are providing critical support such as food, shelter, clothing, acute
medical care, and transportation’ to migrants ‘recently released from
DHS custody and awaiting their immigration court proceedings.’
This spending comes after Biden-Harris funneled $780 million just last year, and just
through two channels (SSP and the Emergency Food and Shelter Program).
How much spending is going on elsewhere? (Hint: It’s in the hundreds of
billions.) Remember what Representative Jodey Arrington revealed earlier
this year? From a Budget Committee press release:
‘The greatest national security threat to the American people is
posed by these open borders. The social cost has consistently been well
in front of the American people. But I don’t think we’ve talked enough
about the financial burden to taxpayers and the fiscal impact.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has done a
great job. Studies suggest this [illegal migrant] cost is upwards of
$400 billion, but their cost estimate is $150 billion. The lion’s share
of that cost is borne by state and local governments. State and local
governments can't borrow or print money like the federal government, so
they have to balance their budgets by either absorbing this cost through
raising taxes or they have to cut services to their citizens.’
It's bad enough these illegal aliens are here in the first place, but
they're not only eating up our resources, they're turning the nation
into mini criminal states within the states and the federal government
is funding it.
All
of which was entirely predictable, and we really need to get this. The
Constitution wasn't meant to be a suicide pact, and the founding
fathers never dreamed there would be a political party dedicated to the
destruction of the nation.
Now we find out this is part of an international criminal gang
that Venezuela's Maduro created. This was in point of fact a military
takeover of these apartments, so the question that needs to be asked and
answered is where are the SWAT Teams, or the Colorado National Guard?
Apparently no one has called for them and the Mayor says he loves all
these illegals. I guess this is what "Tim Walz might just consider this
“neighborly” behavior."
Update: 9/2/24:CO Mayor Asks for Eviction of Venezuelan Migrant Gang, Gov. Polis Dismisses Problem
- Aurora, Colorado, officials are asking the courts to let them evict
Venezuelan migrant gangs from apartment buildings, even as Democrat Gov.
Jared Polis keeps dismissing video reports of gang takeovers. Only two
days ago, Polis and his spokespeople were telling Americans to
ignore their lying eyes concerning video of armed migrant gangs taking
over apartment buildings and forcing citizens to turn their rent money
over to the gang.
Illegal
Alien Gang Takeover of Apartment Buildings in Aurora Is Just a Small
Taste of the Chaos to Be Unleashed Against Americans - Most Americans have no idea what’s coming when the invasion forces that
have already penetrated and occupied America are given the “purge”
activation order to exterminate and replace American citizens. The gang
takeover of the apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado is just a tiny
taste of things to come. Note carefully that nobody in Colorado law
enforcement is lifting a finger to stop the gang invasion takeover. That
have given the gangs total legal immunity, just like Big Pharma and
vaccines....
Will Colorado fall under the spell of ranked choice voting?- Ranked choice voting is a bald-faced scam, and that is putting it politely. .............In Colorado — aka California East in some circles — ranked choice voting
is just another tactic to enshrine Democrat oligarchic rule. Will
Colorado voters take yet another blue pill without asking what’s in it?...........
This is why the Constitution has a Second
Amendment providing for and allowing citizens to organize and defend
their communities as militias, but that requires a massive change in
leadership at every level, otherwise it's called insurrection.
They set up campfires wherever they want. They set wildfires to
attract border agents to pick them up and transport them to their
destinations of choice. They burn down border vehicles because they
don't like the Border Patrol. It's shocking what they will do whenever
they want something, given the danger of the fire risk and just how big
and catastrophic these fires can get once they get out of control. Sound
like the kind of people who might rape and murder, too, once they go
through catch-and-release?
And nobody in the Biden administration, let alone his border czar,
are doing a thing about the border, not on the sea-side, where illegals
ride in through the surf and run through the beachgoers' picnics and
beach ball parties, as we have seen, and not on the badlands side where
illegals set wildfires intentionally and apparently all of them get away
with it.
In San Diego's back county, illegals attempt to hijack two school buses loaded with children - ......highlights just how dangerous Joe Biden's open borders are, what with
wildfires started, attempted bus hijackings, beach invasions, rapes,
robberies, kidnappings and murders, apartment takeovers (described today
by AT Deputy Editor Olivia Murray here) and nobody held accountable for it......Nothing is being done, nothing at all, other than border czar Kamala
Harris putting out ads claiming to be "tough" on the border. She
actually in charge, though, and now this bottom has dropped out --
school kids unable to go to school by her vaunted yellow school buses
because illegals come first. Any comment from her on this outrageous development? Any media curiosity? Of course not
A
nation's leaders are supposed to be the shepherds protecting the flock
from the wolves. These monsters are not only turning the wolves loose
on the flock, they're protecting them, in effect the Democrat party is
in reality no longer a political party, it's a criminal organization.
Since Kamala and the criminal organization she wants to be the head
of is responsible for all this, why would we
think they're going to fix it in the future?
If that's true, and it is, how did these illegal aliens get these weapons?
One thing is clear, the argument by Second Amendment
supporters that when guns are prohibited only criminals will have guns
is blatantly true. That has been obvious for so long it shouldn't have
to be repeated, but the left still trumpets gun control, which for them
ultimately means banning guns. That is a foundational tenet of leftist
ideology. Why?
Because the "self-appointed morally superior left is behind the tyrannies of
multiculturalism", and leftists hate America, and Americans!
Overturning
the Second Amendment puts honest citizens at the mercy of the state.
Then obedience follows, and soon there's tyranny with all the power
being held by a smaller and smaller number of people in a very short
time.
People who can no longer be voted out of office, just like Maduro in Venezuela. And none dare call it treason any longer! The ‘party of freedom’ has an odd view of what freedom means, and the Pravda media supports them.
She goes on to ask:
Is
Aurora, Colorado home to our first official “no-go” zone? ......The
video was shot in the building where Cindy and Edward Romero
lived until Wednesday. FOX31 caught up with them as they loaded up their
stuff and moved out. ‘It’s been a nightmare and I can’t wait to get
out of here,’ former resident Cindy Romero said......The Romeros say the
trouble started when a large number of migrants began moving in.
How did this happen?
[M]ore than $380 million worth of Shelter and Services Program (SSP)
grants will go to local and state governments, as well as NGOs, ‘that
are providing critical support such as food, shelter, clothing, acute
medical care, and transportation’ to migrants ‘recently released from
DHS custody and awaiting their immigration court proceedings.’
This spending comes after Biden-Harris funneled $780 million just last year, and just
through two channels (SSP and the Emergency Food and Shelter Program).
How much spending is going on elsewhere? (Hint: It’s in the hundreds of
billions.) Remember what Representative Jodey Arrington revealed earlier
this year? From a Budget Committee press release:
‘The greatest national security threat to the American people is
posed by these open borders. The social cost has consistently been well
in front of the American people. But I don’t think we’ve talked enough
about the financial burden to taxpayers and the fiscal impact.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has done a
great job. Studies suggest this [illegal migrant] cost is upwards of
$400 billion, but their cost estimate is $150 billion. The lion’s share
of that cost is borne by state and local governments. State and local
governments can't borrow or print money like the federal government, so
they have to balance their budgets by either absorbing this cost through
raising taxes or they have to cut services to their citizens.’
It's bad enough these illegal aliens are here in the first place, but
they're not only eating up our resources, they're turning the nation
into mini criminal states within the states and the federal government
is funding it.
"We
live in a bipolar world. Normal people want these thugs arrested and
deported. Democrats want to make sure they’re registered to vote. It’s
nuts."
All of which was entirely predictable, and we
really need to get this. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a suicide
pact, and the founding fathers never dreamed there would be a political
party dedicated to the destruction of the nation.
This was in
point of fact a military takeover of these apartments, so the question
that needs to be asked and answered is where are the SWAT Teams, or the
Colorado National Guard? Apparently no one has called for them and the
Mayor says he loves all these illegals. I guess this is what "Tim Walz
might just consider this “neighborly” behavior."
This
is why the Constitution has a Second Amendment providing for and
allowing citizens to organize and defend their communities as militias,
but that requires a massive change in leadership at every level,
otherwise it's called insurrection.
They set up campfires wherever they want. They set wildfires to
attract border agents to pick them up and transport them to their
destinations of choice. They burn down border vehicles because they
don't like the Border Patrol. It's shocking what they will do whenever
they want something, given the danger of the fire risk and just how big
and catastrophic these fires can get once they get out of control. Sound
like the kind of people who might rape and murder, too, once they go
through catch-and-release?
And nobody in the Biden administration, let alone his border czar,
are doing a thing about the border, not on the sea-side, where illegals
ride in through the surf and run through the beachgoers' picnics and
beach ball parties, as we have seen, and not on the badlands side where
illegals set wildfires intentionally and apparently all of them get away
with it.
In San Diego's back county, illegals attempt to hijack two school buses loaded with children - ......highlights just how dangerous Joe Biden's open borders are, what with
wildfires started, attempted bus hijackings, beach invasions, rapes,
robberies, kidnappings and murders, apartment takeovers (described today
by AT Deputy Editor Olivia Murray here) and nobody held accountable for it......Nothing is being done, nothing at all, other than border czar Kamala
Harris putting out ads claiming to be "tough" on the border. She
actually in charge, though, and now this bottom has dropped out --
school kids unable to go to school by her vaunted yellow school buses
because illegals come first. Any comment from her on this outrageous development? Any media curiosity? Of course not
A
nation's leaders are supposed to be the shepherds protecting the flock
from the wolves. These monsters are not only turning the wolves loose
on the flock, they're protecting them, in effect the Democrat party is
in reality no longer a political party, it's a criminal organization.
Since Kamala and the criminal organization she wants to be the head
of is responsible for all this, why would we
think they're going to fix it in the future?
As I watch the world's event unfolding I
can't help but recognize most of what's wrong is as a direct result of
bad leadership. In the Russian sphere of influence it's an abject mess,
and Joe Biden is responsible for that entirely. Putin would have never
attacked Ukraine if Trump was President, and for a number of reasons,
one of them being Joe Biden's abandonment of America's energy
independence. That made Russian energy supply far more valuable
generating more sales and funded his invasion of Ukraine.
But the small countries all around Russia are fighting also.
The Middle East has exploded, and again it's Joe Biden's fault. His
abandonment of Trump's very successful Abraham Accords and his weakness
as a leader, and he's sent the most radical Islamic nations, including
Iran and Afghanistan billions and billions of dollars, which have been
used to fund their terrorist activity, including Gaza's attack on
Israel. Not to mention he's dumb as dirt and surrounded by far left
lunatics who are creating policy for Ole Joe. Some might even call them
....weird!
Now the Democrats have kicked out
Joe because he's clearly demented. One day he was sharp as a tack, and
the next day he was so neurologically damaged they demanded he end his
run for President, and he resents it.
But he fixed them. He
chose Kamala Harris as his replacement by endorsing her for the job. An
absolute nitwit who before this was considered an absolute twit by
everyone. The next day she was the personification of domestic and
foreign policy genius. Remarkable how the left and their myrmidons in
the media can shift gears, along with Hollywood. It's hard to believe
they could get dumber than dirt, but they managed it nicely. That's the
one thing leftists excel at.
Now Kamala is on a fairness kick. Now Kamala Harris' is on a fairness
kick. Kamala's understanding of economics is even worse that Joe
Bidens. Equity isn't equality, it's a formula for poverty, and a Kamala
presidency would be very prohibitively expensive to everyone.
Sure, inflation has caused everything to cost more, but she's clueless
as to the cause of inflation, government spending and borrowing, taxes,
regulations, and crime. All the DEI insanity is killing America, Harley Davidson goes woke, and might go broke as a result.
Price controls is historically a failure, as Silvio Canto observes, Price controls an oldie, but no goodie, and it's a stupid idea. But, until now, no one claimed Kamala had a brain in her head
Her
view is it's not fair how much stores charge their customers, so she's
going to tell them how much they can charge, how much houses can be sold
for, how much drug companies can charge, and more, all because it's
"not fair". Except, there's no "book of fair". What's fair? Who
decides?
Actually everyone decides! Because everyone has their own
definition of what's fair, and in so many cases I've found what's
deemed to be fair depends on whose ox is being gored.
Fair can't be codified without being "unfair" to someone. Fair has no
universal definition unless it's so broad it has no meaning. Fair has
no modalities or parameters. That means fair has no real logical
foundation. Fair often times ends up being nothing more than an
emotion reaction!
However, I don't like the government deciding that issue. The
government is even less qualified to decide whether anything is fair or
not than the rest of us. I don't like minimum wage laws. I don't like
people who've never had a job, never started a business, never had to
write payroll checks, never borrowed money to keep the business afloat,
never had their house on the line, and never went without a payday in
order to pay their employees telling me or anyone else "what's fair".
The market place fixes that - and admittedly - at times in unpleasant
ways, but market place fixes eventually end up working, and they don't require another expensive and
incompetent layer of bureaucracy leaching capital from the system. And make no mistake, that's not fair.
A
crucible is a vessel heated to extreme temperatures in order to refine
substances, and America is now that vessel, and it's all because of
seriously flawed leadership with goals that are antithetical to American
values. The question is what will be the end refinement? That remains
to be seen.
If it walks like a communist, and if it talks like a communist, it's a communist.
America was founded by
religious Christians who believed the Bible and followed it in their
daily lives. We have gradually reached the point where Christianity has
no place in public discourse.
American culture is gradually being
destroyed by left-wing socialist ideas and a foreign invasion that is
working against everything that we hold dear.
America was founded by folk who were persecuted because of their religion. They founded the Plymouth Colony. The Mayflowerleft England on September 6 and arrived in America on November 9 — 66 days.
To provide a guide for their government, they wrote The Mayflower Compact, the first legal document in the United States. The document, signed by 41, left little question as to why they came.
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names
are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King
James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God,
and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and
Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of
Virginia ...
The Declaration of Independence (1776) made it clear that our rights come from God alone............LTo Read More...
My Take -
The left has not only infested and corrupted all the secular
institutions of western civilization, they've infiltrated and infected
the foundation of western civilization. The "Christian" churches.
A Michigan Church Defends its Religious LibertyT.R. ClancyWithout any protections for religious
liberty, the new interpretation of Michigan’s civil-rights law means
faith-based organizations are faced with discrimination charges for
everything under the sun. More
There
are a number of things I don't deal with in P&D, and those are
sports, entertainment and theocratic arguments unless they have some
social significance. Not that I don't have views on all of that, it's
just that's not what P&D is about. Theological arguments are
unending, and in the end, believers believe what believers believe and I
would have wasted a lot of time going nowhere, although dealing with
leftists is much the same as it's clearly a neo-pagan secular religion
to leftists. We're now calling it the Church of Wokeness, and the Church
of the Warming Globe, is one of the sects of that "church" of atheism.
At any rate, P&D deals with social issues and religion
comes up if it impacts those issues such as abortion, global warming,
socialism, capitalism, environmentalism, etc. And now, that's become an
issue hasn't it?
Judaic/Christian ethics and principles are the
very foundation of western civilization, but it reached it's pinnacle
of influence in America, and the reason why is because America was
founded on the concept of the separation of church and state, ergo,
America never had all the religious wars Europe did. The only
religious wars in America were intellectual ones. A lot of egos may
have gotten bruised in those battles, but no armies marched over the
land.
Let's start with:
Religion and America by Alan Joseph Bauer
Dec 18, 2022 - Separation of church and state was a revolutionary
concept but it was predicated on moral training in the home. One
of the great acts of the founding fathers was to separate church and
state. The new United States was to have no formal state church as was
common in European countries. Each man and woman, each family would lead
its own religious life without the coercion of the state. This was an
extraordinary change in relations between rulers and the ruled. The
lack of a formal religious institution of the government did not mean
that the United States was meant to be an irreligious country. Quite to
the contrary. The founding documents invoke G-d and also make it clear
that a citizen’s rights come from G-d and that the government has no
power to abrogate them. Freedom of religious expression, freedom of
speech, and freedom of assembly guaranteed the free practice of all
religions without state interference. Religion was everywhere in the
United States. All US currency includes a reference to G-d, as does the
pledge of allegiance, and virtually every important meeting or event
begins with an invocation of His name.
But that's changed. The
left has for 125 years been working to destroy the very idea there even
is a God, and it's working, and worse yet, the leaders of the main
stream religious are succumbing to it all.
"When certain Christian leaders, such as the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, or the Southern Baptist Convention president, J.D. Greear,
speak, nobody listens. Why? Because they sacrificed Christendom, and
the glorious civilization it produced, upon the altar of wokeness a long
time ago. When the pope speaks, people still listen."
But when
the Pope embraces leftist clabber everyone notices, and a lot of people
are upset, most of them Catholics. Below are articles I've been saving
for over three years dealing with the leftist corruption of religion in
America and around the world, starting with this paragraph.
The woke pope is throwing the Catholic Church into civil war. Speaking of Francis, the woke pope has
jumped the shark and is throwing the Catholic Church into civil war. In
his bid to become chaplain of the New World Order, Francis has alienated
powerful members of the hierarchy, including the former head of the
Holy Office. Out of nowhere, Archbishop Charles Chaput blasted any priest who
would dare give communion to Joe Biden – a “Catholic” who, according to
Chaput, is not in communion with the Catholic Church. With Cardinal Zen in prison, Bishop Schneider in Bannon’s war room,
and Cardinal Muller on EWTN, the Vatican is getting nervous. You won’t
believe what the Vatican Secretary of State said, in fact, the other
night to the top brass at EWTN! The civil war is on, friends. Which side are you on?
Priest Stands by Viral Homily Against Abortion, Transgenderism Despite His Bishop Siding with Cancel Mob - A priest in Ireland has stood by a homily he
delivered attacking abortion and Transgenderism despite ever-increasing
attempts by leftists to cancel him. Catholic Priest Fr. Seán Sheehy delivered a number of
sermons last weekend attacking government and societal pushes towards
transgenderism, abortion and homosexuality in Ireland, which he
described as being sinful..........
Pope Francis and the Left’s March to the Papacy For a Church that was always regarded as “unchangeable,” the impossible has happened. Thom Nickels25 comments - There seems little doubt that the Roman Catholic Church in 2022 is on a
mission to destroy itself. For a Church that was always regarded as
“unchangeable,” the impossible happened. The Second Vatican Council,
thought to bring a new Pentecost to the
Church, did the opposite. It emptied convents, seminaries and
monasteries. It changed the liturgy in a radical way so as to make the
Mass unrecognizable from what it had been for centuries............
Francis’ war on tradition picked up steam over the years and went on to
include an all-out-war on traditionalist Catholic religious communities
with the final goal, as some critics have noted, of the complete
abolition of the Latin Mass by 2023 or 2024. But Francis’ leftwing political orthodoxy and hatred of tradition has
not only cast him as a kind of dictator pope, it has shown him to be
ruthless and disrespectful in his purge of the work and feelings of his
predecessor............
Francis is the first radical green
pope, the first open borders pope, the first “I don’t want to convert
you” pope. Francis, in other words, is the end result of “The Left’s
Long March to the Papacy."......To Read More......
The Next Pope Should at Least be Catholic September 6, 2022 By Christopher Skeet - Pope Francis doesn’t
like America. Pope Francis doesn’t like capitalism. It is unclear
whether Pope Francis even likes Catholicism. Whatever the case may be,
he seems to be doing everything he can to dissuade Catholics from
remaining in the Church, and to keep prospective Catholics from
joining.
When certain Christian leaders, such as the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, or the Southern Baptist Convention president, J.D. Greear,
speak, nobody listens. Why? Because they sacrificed Christendom, and
the glorious civilization it produced, upon the altar of wokeness a long
time ago. When the pope speaks, people still listen. But that’s
rapidly changing, and for the same reason.
A few of Pope Francis’ more memorable pronouncements are worth noting:............Pope Francis is also noteworthy for what he doesn’t
say. Take, for instance, when in 2015 he visited Cuba and gallivanted
around with Raul Castro, a man whose legacy includes murdering and
imprisoning Christians. Not once did Pope Francis offer
any criticism whatsoever of the bloody communist regime, nor utter a
single word of solidarity with its victims. And for the spontaneous protests of the Cuban people in 2021 and 2022, and the resulting brutal government crackdown? Not a peep. ..................
Pope
Francis has a rigid, inflexible worldview, born of the putrid
liberation theology upon which he was weaned in Peronist Argentina.
This worldview holds that capitalism is evil, and the United States is
its most sinful devotee. His knowledge of basic economics and
rudimentary history is beyond embarrassing, as is his inability to see
critics and dissidents as anything but crude strawmen in a
Marxist-Manichean cosmic drama. For a man who likes to quip
that “facts are more important than ideas,” he is remarkably illogical
in his approach to humanity and its inherent problems. ...........To Read More...
Pope apologizes for 'evil committed by so many Christians' -Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic
Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous
residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples
into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and
marginalized generations. “I am deeply sorry,” Francis said to applause from school survivors
and Indigenous community members gathered at a former residential school
south of Edmonton, Alberta. He called the school policy a “disastrous
error” that was incompatible with the Gospel and said further
investigation and healing is needed..............
Pelosi, the Pope, and Pachamama - Francis says sin is serious, but acts as though it’s trivial.21 comments - Suppose your local district attorney complains loudly about the rise of
violent crime in your city, yet consistently allows violent criminals
to go free on low bail—even those with a long history of repeated
crimes. Is he a lying hypocrite? Or is he deeply confused—unable to
see the blatant contradiction between his words and his deeds? Either
way, most people would conclude that he is unfit for office. He
is as much a danger to the community as the criminals he returns to the
streets.
The Catholic Church is currently ruled by just such a person. Pope
Francis has said one thing and done the opposite on so many occasions
that it’s fair to conclude that this is his habitual mode of behavior.
One can also conclude that –like the DA who sends mixed signals—he is
unfit for the office he holds. Whether or not Francis himself is a
deeply confused person, he has managed to sow enormous confusion among
Catholics as to what they should believe and how they should behave.........To Read More...
Woke Pope Welcomes Pelosi to the Vatican – Just 2 Weeks After She Passed Most Radical Pro-Abortion Bill in History - Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. - Pope Francis granted a private audience
in the Vatican to U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Saturday, just two weeks after the House passage of the most radical
pro-abortion legislation ever introduced. Passing the Women’s Health Protection Act is a “very exciting day,” said Pelosi, a Catholic, on September 23. “We’ve long been supporters of Roe v. Wade.
We haven’t been able to codify it because we never had a Democratic
pro‑choice Majority with a Democratic President, and now we do, and now
we do.” “Every woman, everywhere has a constitutional right to basic
reproductive health, yet for years that has been questioned by some,”
she added. “And so, you know about the Texas law and the rest of that.”........To Read More....
Globalist Pope Francis: Suppressing the Heritage of the Catholic Church - Thu Jul 29, 2021 Thom Nickels19 comments - The radical handwriting was on the wall the moment Jorge Mario
Bergoglio, the Cardinal-Archbishop of Buenos Aires, was elected to the
papacy in 2013. At his first address to the crowds in St. Peter’s Square as Francis
I, he had refused to wear the papal mozzetta. This seemingly
insignificant break with tradition was the first red flag signaling that
the new Bishop of Rome was a modernist. The second red flag occurred
during Francis’ inaugural Mass. At that Mass, Francis’ vestments were
noticeably plain. Not just plain, but ostentatiously plain. His white
miter, decorated with a simple red cross, matched the miter he wore when
officiating at puppet and Tango Masses in Argentina. Kneeling among
Armenian rite bishops in their bejeweled tall miters during a prayer
service before the crypt of St. Peter, Francis seemed to be making a
show of his preference for “simplicity.”
The new pope very quickly won the world’s admiration when it was
reported that he paid his own hotel bill after the conclusion of the
papal conclave. Non-Catholics who never noticed a pope before were now
paying strict attention. Many saw Francis’ emphasis on simplicity as a
saintly attribute, especially when he chose not to live in the papal
palace but in the Vatican apartments. He was very quickly dubbed the
“People’s Pope.”...........To Read More.....
BOMBSHELL:
Vatican Whistleblower Archbishop Viganò Tells Bannon Why Trump’s
Leadership Key to Defeated Deep State, Deep Church & Pope Francis’
Alliance with Red China - January 6, 2021 Neil W. McCabe - The former papal nuncio to the United States, now a retired archbishop, told Stephen K. Bannon that if Joseph R. Biden Jr.,
becomes the president Jan. 20, it is one more step in the linkage of
the so-called Deep State, the Deep Church and the ultimate primacy of
the Chinese Communist Party. “It would be an irreparable disaster if Joe
Biden, who is heavily
suspected of being complicit with the Chinese dictatorship, would be
designated as President of the United States,” said Archbishop Carlo
Maria Viganò, who from 2011 to 2016 served at the Holy See’s ambassador
to the Washington, a role that also made him the principal liaison
between the American bishops and the pope and the Vatican bureaucracy.
The archbishop said he was troubled by the power of the mainstream
media to overwhelm legitimate questions about the 2020 presidential
election. The rest of the world is watching to see if America and its
democratic system will hold up, he said. “If it allows the idea to
spread among the masses that the electoral choice of the citizens – the
first expression of democracy – can be manipulated and thwarted, it will
be complicit in the fraud, and will certainly deserve the execration of
the entire world, which looks to America as a nation which has fought
for and ........To Read More.....
Vatican think-tank becomes hotbed for pro-abortionists October 25, 2022 By Monica Showalter - Back in 1994, Pope John Paul II created the Pontifical Academy for Life for the defense and promotion of life at all its stages, in a "consistent life ethic." According to Wikipedia, the academy is a think-tank of sorts, "an academic honorary society established by or under the direction of the Holy See." The
Vatican has a bunch of these, on various academic topics, some very
cool ones, such as art. Most have been around for centuries, but this
one is a new one, founded by John Paul II, in response to a perceived
need to defend human life, which is under attack in the West........So
it doesn't sound very good to hear that this John Paul II–founded
academy is now becoming a hotbed of pro-abortion academics, such as are
found in any run-of-the-mill university institution in the Western
world............To Read More....
Mother Earth Pregnant Mothers - Pope Francis abandons the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion. - by Joseph Hippolito4 Comments - A
high-ranking Vatican official stunned Catholics during a recent
television interview by inadvertently confirming the Catholic Church’s
retreat from one of its fundamental moral positions — a retreat
FrontPage Magazine explored more than a year ago. The official in question said
on Italy’s national network Aug. 26 that the church had no interest in
opposing that nation’s law allowing abortion. Enacted in 1978, Law 194
legalizes abortions in the first trimester and permits them afterward
only if the mother’s life is in danger or if the fetus displays “serious
abnormalities or malformations,” the law states. That official even had the audacity to say that Law 194 represented
“a pillar of our social life.” When pressed whether the church would
view the law as up for debate, the official replied, “No, absolutely
not.”........
Pope Francis: Not Fair to Call China ‘Undemocratic’
- Pope Francis has rejected the label
“undemocratic” to describe China’s communist regime, insisting that the
issue is too complex to allow for such characterizations.“I cannot get
on board with calling China undemocratic; I won’t do that because it’s
such a complex country,” the pontiff told
journalists during his return trip from Kazakhstan to Rome Thursday.
“Sure, there are things that seem undemocratic to us, that is true.”
“Labeling is difficult and I’m not ready to do that, since they are
impressions, so instead I try to support the path of dialogue,” he
declared. “Understanding China takes a century, and we do not live for a
century,” the pope said. “The Chinese mentality is a rich mentality, and
when it gets a little sick, it loses its richness; it is capable of
making mistakes.” “In order to understand we have chosen the path of
dialogue, open to dialogue,” he added..............
Vatican Chief Praises Italy’s Law Legalizing Abortion as a ‘Pillar of Society’ - Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. - The president of the Pontifical
Academy for Life called Italy’s notorious Law 194 legalizing abortion “a
pillar of society” this weekend, insisting that no one is looking to
overturn it. Interviewed by Italian state television Rai Tre, Archbishop Vincenzo
Paglia lauded the 1978 law allowing abortion in Italy, a move that
critics called
a new “ground zero of morality.”............At this point, Giorgia
Rombolà , the host of the program, summed up
the archbishop’s words, saying, “So, the Law 194 is not up for debate,”
to which he replied, “No, absolutely not.”................“We do not
understand how a law that suppresses defenseless and innocent human
lives can be a ‘pillar’ of society,” Coghe added. “It is as if the
president of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League declared itself in favor
of the holocaust,” wrote Tommaso Scandroglio, in a piece for La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana..........To Read More...
My Take - Someone here has a screw loose, if the Pope really believed that why hasn't Pelosi been excommunicated?
Nancy Pelosi Receives Holy Communion at Papal Mass in Vatican -
Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
attended Mass in the Vatican presided over by Pope Francis Wednesday,
and received Holy Communion not from the pope himself but from another
priest assisting at the Mass. It was unclear whether the priest knew who Mrs. Pelosi was or that she has been banned
from receiving Communion in her home archdiocese of San Francisco for
her aggressive promotion of abortion, which the Catholic Church
considers to be murder. At a reception Tuesday evening at the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See,
Pelosi said she was visiting Rome in a private capacity as part of a
family vacation. In 2021, Pelosi praised Pope Francis’ “immense moral clarity,” but
carefully avoided any mention of abortion, which Francis has described
as “murder” and a “scourge,” likening it to hiring a paid assassin to take out a child. A “just society recognizes the primacy of the right to life from conception to natural death,” he has asserted. In January
2015, Pelosi said that she knew “more about having babies than the
pope,” insisting that a woman has “the right” to an abortion..................More.....
Geopolitics And An Asian Pope July 30, 2021 By Francis P. Sempa - Communism’s greatest
enemy has traditionally been organized religion, especially the Roman
Catholic Church. The beginnings of the Soviet empire’s unraveling can be
traced to 6:15 pm on October 16, 1978, when Poland’s Cardinal Karol
Wojtyla was elected Pope and took the name John Paul II.
Upon hearing of Wojtyla’s election,
Soviet KGB chief Yuri Andropov called a subordinate in Warsaw and asked:
“How could you possibly allow the election of a citizen of a socialist
country as pope?” Andropov ordered the KGB’s First Chief Directorate to
assess this development’s consequences. The KGB report warned about
Poland’s potential destabilization and the end of the Warsaw Pact. The
Soviet Central Committee conducted its own assessment and concluded that
the new pope would work for religious freedom in Poland and throughout
Eastern Europe.
George Weigel, John Paul II’s best biographer,
noted that the election of a Slavic Pope who was “capable of addressing
the restive peoples of the external and internal Soviet empires in their
own languages, was a nightmare beyond the worst dreams of the masters
of the Kremlin.” “The new Pope,” Weigel continued, “posed a serious
threat, not simply to the Warsaw Pact, but to the Soviet Union itself.”........... To Read More.....
Are They Catholics, or Are They Heretics? By Rich Kozlovich - On May 14, 2021 Dr. Susan Berry",
in short it seems to me Pelosi is declaring she's now the supreme
arbiter of Church ethic, morals and doctrine. Berrym went on to say: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said during
her press briefing Thursday she can use her “own judgment” regarding the
decision to receive Holy Communion, in light of the controversy over
the fact that she supports legalized abortion and legislation to help
more women obtain abortions...........His solution? He
wants dialogue between these abortion supporting politicians and the
Bishops and others. Really? What's that mean? Does it mean the Bishops
will confront them and demand they recognize the graveness of the sin
and repent? Not likely, so his solution means nothing, resolves nothing
and upholds heresy!
Vatican Papal Academy Sells Out the Virgin Mary for Muhammad February 24, 2021By Raymond Ibrahim............. The
same folks to bring you "Abrahamism"—the idea that Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam are intricately connected—have narrowed their
sights on promoting Mary, the mother of Christ, as "a Jewish, Christian
and Muslim woman," in the words of Catholic priest Fr. Gian Matteo of the Pontifical International
Marian Academy. In a ten-week webinar series titled "Mary, a model for
faith and life for Christianity and Islam," the academy will seek to
present Mary as a bridge between the two religions.......
Behold The Vatican’s New Messiah And All Bow Down At His Clay Feet -
Fauci’s Covid-19 fear mongering has managed to shut down all houses of worship By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--April 29, 2021 - Hype
notwithstanding, the Lockdown world is not waiting breathlessly for the
debut of the New Messiah on May 6, 2021, only the most unlikely of
places—the Vatican—through its Pontifical Council for Culture, the Cura
Foundation, the Science and Faith Foundation (TTOQ) and Stem For Life
(SFLF)—is. With little to no fanfare, the Vatican is giving Dr. Anthony Fauci
its keynote speaking spot at an event touted as “Exploring the Mind,
Body & Soul.” “How Innovation and Novel Delivery Systems Improve
Human Health.
Francis: The Apostate Pope -By IQ al-Rassooli, Scholar & Terrorism Analyst February 8th, 2021 - He was elected on the 13th of March 2013 as Pope Francis, the
Catholic Church’s head and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Jorge Mario Bergoglio,
born in Argentina, was the first Jesuit Pope (Society of Jesus), the
first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the
first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III (731 AD)...........
Archbishop Jan Lenga: Pope Francis is 'Usurper and Heretic,' 'Leading the World Astray' - Michael W. Chapman | February 28, 2020 - Catholic Archbishop Jan Lenga, the former head of the Diocese of
Karaganda, Khazakhstan and now retired in Poland, was ordered to stop
delivering sermons and speaking with the media because of his frequent
statements that Pope Francis is a "heretic" spreading "untruths and
sins" and "leading the world astray." Archbishop Lenga has rejected the order to be silent,
issued this month by Polish Bishop Wieslaw Mering, because no one in
the Polish church apparently has the authority to silence him, reported Crux.com.
Lenga belongs to a religious order, the Congregation of Marians of the
Immaculate Conception, and is living as a guest of the order in Lichen,
Poland. He reportedly is only subject to an order from the Pope.
“Christ gave me authority through the church to proclaim the truth, and
I’ll do so as long as I live,” said Lenga, 69, as reported by Crux.com.
“I won’t yield to degradation by those whose own statements and actions
are entangled with heresy and sectarianism." ...........
Arbp. Vigano: Pope Francis is Teaching 'Blatant Heresy ... a Terrible Blasphemy' - By Michael W. Chapman | April 23, 2020 - In reference to a document signed by Muslim Imam Ahmad Al-Tayyeb and
Pope Francis that says the "diversity of religions" in the world is
"willed by God," Archbishop Carlo Vigano, the former Vatican ambassador
to the United States, said this idea is a "blatant heresy" and a
"terrible blasphemy." That specific teaching in the document has also
been denounced by Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American, Bishop Athanasius
Schneider of Kazakhstan, and numerous Christian scholars.........
How a controversial letter from Pope Francis shaped climate politics and the Biden 2020 campaign- Nicholas Rowan May 20, 2020 - “We have a good one now,” Vice President Joe Biden laughed as he read
aloud a leaked draft of Pope Francis’s landmark encyclical on climate
change. It was June 2015, and Biden was addressing a White
House-sponsored forum on clean energy investment, his first public
appearance since his son Beau’s death from cancer in May. The vice
president was in good spirits. Just the day before, numerous media
outlets had obtained an early copy of Pope Francis’s book-length letter
on the environment. For Biden, the contents were encouraging: Francis
framed climate change similarly to the way the Obama administration did —
as both a moral and economic issue.
Vatican: The Shadow Islamic State -
By IQ al-Rassooli, Scholar and Terrorism Analyst October 21st, 2019 - In today’s 21st century, the Catholic leaders starting with Pope Francis
are again siding with Muslims against the welfare of all Christians.
This most certainly sounds outrageous BUT let me ask the readers the
following questions to prove my point:
Why is pope Francis so much ‘in love’ with Islam that he declared in Paragraph 252 of EG [Evangelii gaudium]: “The
sacred writings of Islam have retained some Christian teachings; Jesus
and Mary receive profound veneration and it is admirable to see how
Muslims both young and old, men and women, make time for daily prayer
and faithfully take part in religious services.”
Really? Which Christian teachings? The Muslim ones that DENY the
divinity of BOTH Jesus and Mary? Has pope Francis even bothered to read
Muhammad’s Quran? Has anyone else among the hundreds of thousands of
his prelates? Al Tauba 9:29“Fight [qatiloo]
those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day nor hold that forbidden
which hath been forbidden by Allah and His apostle [Muhammad] nor
acknowledge the religion of truth [ISLAM] (even if they are) of the
People of the Book [Christians & Jews] until they pay the Jizya
[onerous penalty for not being a Muslim] with willing submission and feel themselves humiliated”..........
U.S. Priest to Pope: 'I am Wearied From Being Scorned and Demonized by You' -
By Michael W. Chapman
| September 16, 2019 - In response to Pope Francis's criticism of
"rigid priests" -- priests
who steadfastly uphold all of the Church's teachings, especially on
sexual morality and the family -- Monsignor Charles Pope, the pastor of a
church in Washington, D.C., said he was not "feeling the love" from the
Pope and is "wearied from being scorned and demonized by you." Pope
Francis has criticized what he calls "rigid priests," or clerics
who are "rigid" in their ministry, fairly frequently since he was
elected Pope in March 2013. In an October 2016 homily, Pope Francis said
that rigid people are "sick"
and adhere too strongly to the letter of the law. He often associates
rigidity with orthodox Catholics who adhere to the traditions of the
Church, its ancient devotions and prayers, the Latin Mass, and a strong
love for the Virgin Mary.........
U.S. Cardinal: Document for Upcoming Vatican Synod 'Is an Apostasy' -
By Michael W. Chapman | August 14, 2019
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In an Aug. 13 interview, Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American who serves
on the Vatican's highest court, said that the working document for the
upcoming Pan-Amazon synod is an "apostasy," and "cannot become the
teaching of the Church."......Cardinal Burke was interviewed on The Patrick Coffin Show,
via skype, where he answered many questions about the crisis in the
Cathoic Church. He also spoke about the working document for the
synod................Obviously, there takes place here on the part of
the Synod of Bishops an aggressive intrusion into the purely worldly
affairs of the state and society of Brazil." "One asks oneself: what do ecology, economy, and politics have to do
with the mandate and mission of the Church?”
By Rich Kozlovich
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Only Cicero never said that. While I've used this quote in some of my articles, there's no evidence Cicero ever said that. It originates from a 1965 novel A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell, but so what? Does it really matter who said it? The thoughts are valid nonetheless, and most certainly apply to what we've been seeing going on in America since the late 19th century, and when Stalin started sending his spies to America in 1920 ultimately filling the FDR administration with so many agents it became known as the most infiltrated government in the history of the world.It's a good quote that needs to be used more often, with a caveat, because it defines who's destroying Western Civilization. It's leaders, both religious and secular. I'll have more on this soon.