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Friday, March 28, 2025

Observations From the Back Row With News and Views For March 23, 2025.

By Rich Kozlovich 
 
The problem for so many is a lack of focus.  Now that I've been retired for a few years I find that to be more and more true.  As we start out our lives reality forces us to to focus on our careers.  Then as we marry we focus on our marriage.  Then the children come along and we focus on the needs of the nuclear family.  If you're a business owner, we focus on building the business with a focus on retirement.  Then....  all of a sudden.....  you hit that age when the children are gone and on their own, you're retired and you don't have to get up to go to work, you don't have a schedule to lend focus to your day, and the biggest decisions you make are when to go to bed, when to get up, whether to take a nap or not, and this is the big one.   Will I have breakfast at home or out?
 
At that point you're forced to ask, what should I be doing in my life now?  If you're used to doing things, then that requires some personal reflection.  If that's not to your taste, you can just sit and watch TV until you die.  That's the conundrum for Democrats now.  Reflection!
 
One Democrat talking head is just stunned Trump supporters are not turning on him like the Democrats turned on little Chuckie Schumer.  In fact, they just can't grasp how or why Trump supporters love what he's doing.  Why?   The answer is simple.  It's a failure to reflect on reality, which causes an inability to focus on reality.  Instead of worrying about why Trump supporters aren't turning on Trump, their focus should be on asking why their approval ratings are in the toilet, and why America isn't buying the horsepucky from the left and why their media lackeys no longer matter. 
 
But they won't, and in point of fact, they can't.   At least if they wish to remain leftists and Democrats, because everything they promote is being rejected, so if they change by recognizing and accepting reality, then they can't be leftists, or Democrats any longer.    It's like asking a Muslim to reject jihad, which is central to Islam.  If they do that, then they're not Muslims.   Democrats and Muslims get those distinctions.  Conservatives need to get them also. 
 
Let's not delude ourselves, the nation is in the midst of a third revolution. Radical leftists are physically attacking people and destroying property, and the Democrat party thinks that all just fine and dandy.  They're deeply entrenched in policies that are destroying America culturally and economically.  The federal judiciary - for decades - has been attempting to destroy the Constitutional separation of powers and impose a kritocracy (rule by judges) on the nation, and now they're in open rebellion, and finally, America gets that.  
 
What I'm finding to be a bit shocking is the race in Wisconsin for a seat on their Supreme Court on April 1.  It has been considered a shoo in for a far left radical, who has made it clear she would like to control redistricting in order to make sure more Democrats are elected to Congress.  But now, all of a sudden, it seems the conservative candidate actually has a chance, and he's been endorsed by Trump.  If that happens it will be a shock to the left, but I wouldn't bet the house on it. 
Greenpeace in North Dakota and lost to the tune of  "more than $660 million dollars", and Elon Musk is suing Democrat Jamaal Bowman for calling him a ‘Nazi’ on CNN.  There's nothing like a good civil penalty to get peoples head on straight.   
 
Is George Soros behind all this?  Well, it's being reported his money is behind:
 
"Indivisible, a nationwide activist network that has taken over $7.6 million from Soros’ Open Society Foundation since 2017, is helping to lead efforts to push Schumer out of his seat".  
 
If that's true, and I'm sure it is, then how many other groups has he funded, and how many are being funded surreptitiously though the Tides Foundation.   
 
The Tides Center was launched in 1996 as an offshoot of the Tides Foundation. It has incubated numerous social justice, environmental, gun-control, and abortion-rights groups. George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation have all pushed funding through the network.
 
One thing we do know is his money is being used to destroy America, and that's been known for many years.  So, if that's true, and it is, when does someone start a massive RICO investigation about regarding the Dark Money funding all this destructive behavior?  These vile characters are described by Daniel Greenfield as "the absentee owners of the Democrat Party."  Here's more on the funding behind so much destructive activity. 
 
Below are links to articles that have appeared over the last two days dealing with: ActBlue, Autopen, Culture, Democrats, DOGE, Economics, Immigration, Judiciary, Lawfare, Mexico, Middle East, and Religion.
 
Take some time and make your picks.  Enjoy!

 ActBlue
 
Federal Judges Are on the Payroll of China, CCP, Mexican Drug Cartels - I've argued for years that the open border was an intentional plan to destroy America by welcoming in millions of foreign invaders. The goal was to create a welfare state and get them all to vote Democrat, so eventually no Republican could ever be elected again.  I've also argued for years that the Democrat politicians who supported this plan were on the payroll of China, the Chinese Communist Party and the Mexican drug cartels..........And now, word is out the FBI and Congress are about to indict top players at ActBlue........Now we come to Democrat-appointed federal judges. These are the "enforcers" for this dirty Democrat/deep state conspiracy to destroy America with open borders..............

Autopen
 
The Autopen, The Presidency And The Constitution: What To Know - The “autopen” is in vogue. On March 17, President Donald Trump announced in a late-night social media post that he would ignore several pardons issued by his predecessor, President Joe Biden, because they were allegedly signed by autopen............
 
Autopen on autopilot - That a president of the United States was unfit for four years is the biggest scandal in American history. Where is the accountability and reckoning?..........
 
How much did Joe know? - The autopen story and all of the talk about Biden’s cognitive decline raises a question.  How much did President Biden know?  Did he understand just how far to the left he was being pushed?  I am not trying to make excuses for Mr. Biden, but this leftist tilt was not what I thought would happen.  Maybe I’m alone, but I actually did think that President Biden would be more centrist and stay away from extremes.....
 
My Take - While it seems clear to me Biden was clueless about a lot of these signatures, but I  really don't see this going where conservatives wish for it to go.  All Joe has to say is I ordered them to use autopen, and I have no doubt he will do that.  He has to, because if he doesn't he's admitting he really wasn't aware of what was going on, and he really wasn't President,  and that's not who Joe Biden is, and that will pretty much end it.  RK
 
Culture
 
Righteous Attacks Bringing the Left to Heel - Democrat leaders like Senator Chuck Schumer message thinly veiled threats of violence to their (increasingly small) numbers of followers. They are responding in counterproductive ways like torching and defacing Tesla cars and trucks, vehicles most likely owned by Democrats who believe in the climate change fairy tale and want to reduce CO2 emissions. The logical response of Democrat owners is to blame and leave the party that provokes this nonsensical criminal behavior. .......
 
Democrats
 
Not Radical Enough: The Left Devours Its Own as Pro-Palestinian Mob Ambushes Democrat at Town Hall - A growing wave of unhinged, pro-Palestinian activism is turning violent and cannibalistic, as radical leftists now target even their own Democrat allies for failing to embrace enough Jew-hatred, with town halls erupting into chaos, assaults, and outright domestic terrorism.  This is what happens to progressives when they aren’t radical or anti-Semitic enough for the fringe Left. Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) is certainly not conservative. He hates Republicans, and he despises Elon Musk, but he evidently doesn’t hate Israel enough to appease the pro-Palestinian faction of his base at a town hall last week........
 
My Take - When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind, and when your base is the far left, this should have been expected.  The Democrat party has been inciting violence and civil disorder for years, even funding it through the Deep State, and yet, now they're shocked.  Imagine that.  The Democrat party is in a state of collapse. Schadenfreude!
 
A Democratic congressman gets a taste of the Left’s unhinged hate - On Wednesday, he got a taste of the unhinged Jew-hatred on the Left, and it was just one of a number of disturbances that happened at congressional events during the week. At least one of them turned violent.
 
President Trump and unitary power - No, not President Trump’s unitary power.  I’m referring to the left’s belief in its unitary power.  “Our democracy” is not about democracy in the same vein that “our truth” is not about truth.  The left’s interest is about not democracy, but power.  If voting works to their advantage, they support the vote.  When the people denounce their legislative and executive candidates, they fall back on their “activists” in the Judicial Branch.......
 
When silence is permission - In the last two weeks, we have seen numerous acts of violence and vandalism across the country. First came the coordinated attacks on Teslas, Tesla dealerships, and charging stations. The second is the rash of swatting, targeting conservative voices......What we saw from the Democrats was pathetic yet entirely expected. Rather than condemn acts of violence, they actually encouraged them. .....
 
Democrats’ ambivalence about healthy authority in America - One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons shows a psychiatrist hitting his patient on the couch over the head with his shoe, exclaiming, “It may have been right even if your mother said so!”  Democrats, in addition to a massive loss of a sense of humor and common sense, have recently lost sight of the importance of a healthy presence of authority to maintain the fabric of any society...........Mere blind destructive resistance at any cost and to anything Trump tries without offering constructive alternatives is political suicide and homicide — and is getting beyond the symbolic..........
 
America's Toughest Governor, Maine's Janet Mills, Just Folded Like A Cheap Lawn Chair- You remember the story, right? All of the nation's governors were at the White House for a meeting with Donald Trump on February 22nd, and Maine's Janet Mills stole the show, as it were.  Trump, a couple weeks earlier, had signed an executive order to ban biological males from competing in women's sports, and threatened to pull education funding to districts, states, and colleges/universities that did not comply. Enter Governor Mills.............

Politico: The Midterm Elections Ain't Looking Good for Democrats - As if the Democrats’ ignominious defeat in 2024 wasn’t bad enough, they could be headed for even worse in the upcoming midterm elections. A Politico report detailed the level of dissatisfaction Democratic voters are feeling toward their party at the moment. After the election and Senate Democrats capitulating to Republicans during the spending bill battle, it is not too surprising that the proverbial thrill is gone.............

Why domestic terrorism from the left?  Throughout America, we are seeing concentrated, escalating acts of domestic terrorism, from “swatting” of conservative media personalities to the firebombing of Tesla dealerships and street thuggery by activist miscreants (and crazy people) accosting Tesla owners across the country.  I would also add the astroturfing of Republican town halls, and what we’re seeing in the form of judicial activism as forms of terrorism.  But why are we seeing this? We are seeing this because the left have nothing else.  Truly.  What is their current platform?............

Far-Left Radicals Threaten and Shut Down AMAC Event in Oregon - A radical far-left group threatened and shut down a conservative event in King City, Oregon organized by AMAC, with OR State Rep. Ed Diehl, and speakers from United Sovereign Americans, Heritage Action and Turning Point USA. An Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) event was supposed to take place today, Saturday, March 22, 2025.......... These peaceful, God, and America-loving groups were supposed to share in an open setting thoughts and ideas to support sensible legislation, fiscal responsibility, and accountability at all levels of government.............This was too much for the radical left in Oregon. They had to shut this down. To hell with free speech, do what the Nazis did and prevent those not supporting your ideas from ever gathering together and scare them into submission, then label them Nazis...........

GOP Rep. Lawler: Schumer Admitted Dems Sending Protesters to Republican Districts - Representative Mike Lawler (R-NY) said Thursday on CNN’s “Newsnight” that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had said multiple times that the Democratic Party is sending protesters to Republican town halls to be disruptive.  Lawler said, “Let me just make a point as a member that is in a swing district, okay. I have and continue to do in person events, including today, where i was protested by climate activists. okay. they showed up, barged into a private luncheon with the Rockland Business association and screamed and yelled for five minutes and then finally left.”..........

Ezra Klein: CA Learned Nothing from High-Speed Rail Failure, Dems Ignore Failed Governance -  California hasn’t learned anything from its failure on high-speed rail and Democrats are treating their problems with effective governance as “not a real problem.” .... “are driving people out, working-class families out of the states that they govern because the cost of living is too high and the cost of living is too high, in part for regulatory reasons, in part for taxes...... not enough homes, not enough energy, not a government capable of delivering. And they’ve been treating that as not a real problem......

Deep State/FBI/The Purge

 

The FBI flees the FBI - I’ve been writing about the amazingly corrupt and illegal practices of the FBI for years, including recently in The FBI hides evidence of being the FBI, a cautionary tale about FBI agents destroying incriminating evidence of their misdeeds:.......... 
The Department of Education: A perspective from 1979 - Recently, I found something in a box of memorabilia — an Aug. 3, 1979 Michigan Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Michigan. Why do we save old newspapers or magazines?  Why did I save this one?  Maybe it’s because, in 1979, I was back on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, working on a new minor, after graduating in 1973 with a major in English and a minor in psychology in the School of Education..............
 
DOGE

 

Marlow on Alan Jackson Now: DOGE Is Actually Accomplishing What Dems Said They Wanted To Do -  On Friday’s “Alan Jackson Now,” “Alex Marlow Show” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow stated that DOGE is just doing things some on the left acknowledge they should have done and others have given lip service to doing.  Marlow said that some on the left acknowledge “they blew it, they should have done a DOGE when Biden was in and when Obama was in” but that this view hasn’t broken into the mainstream.....

The Sky Will Not Fall and America Won’t Grind to a Halt Because Some Federal Employees Are Losing Their Jobs Due to DOGE - Fear is a strong motivator—especially when it’s given a political megaphone. And Democrat officials, public employee unions, and their minions in the media have no qualms about trying to terrify the public with ridiculous claims in an attempt to counter President Donald Trump’s swamp-cleansing initiatives through the work of the Department of Government Efficiency. Just look at the recent hysteria from Capitol Hill. Last month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., likened the dismissal of federal employees to “a bank robber trying to fire the cops and turn off the alarm just before he strolls into the lobby.”............

Economics

Understanding Tariffs -Eventually, President Trump’s tariffs may help the (re)establishment of a domestic industry production and the creation of jobs unless it involves the type of jobs typically done robotically..
 
19 Reasons Why the Federal Reserve Is at the Heart of Our Economic Problems - Most Americans have absolutely no idea how we got into the mess that we are in today.  The reason why the U.S. government is 36 trillion dollars in debt and our society as a whole is 102 trillion dollars in debt is because the system is performing exactly as it was designed.  We have a system that was literally designed to create colossal amounts of debt.  But if you ask most Americans about this, they cannot tell you what the Federal Reserve is or why it is at the heart of our economic problems...............The truth is that the Federal Reserve is a privately-owned banking cartel that has been given a perpetual monopoly over our monetary system by the U.S. Congress.  This privately-owned central bank has been destroying the value of the U.S. dollar for decades, it has run our economy into the ground, and it has driven the U.S. government to the brink of bankruptcy.  The Federal Reserve operates in great secrecy  and it acts as if it is not accountable to the American people.  Yet the decisions that the Federal Reserve makes have a dramatic impact on the lives of every single American citizen.............

Immigration

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Mahmoud Khalil: The Lawfare Circus Delayed, but the Show Must Go OnCharlton Allen Memo to law enforcement: Do your job, and let the activist lawyers rage on MSNBC while you enforce the law............

Gang Violence in Sweden Is a Crisis Decades in the Making, Experts Say - Magnus Lindgren, a former police chief general secretary of the Safer Sweden Foundation, said there were 15,000 ’very dangerous criminals’ in Sweden.  On March 12, sanctions were imposed on Rawa Majid, a Swedish gangster known as The Kurdish Fox, by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).  Majid, 38, who was born in Iran, is the leader of the so-called Foxtrot Network, one of the most powerful organized crime gangs in Sweden...........Why have criminals like The Kurdish Fox thrived in Sweden, and why has violent crime, including bombings and shootings, gone up so much in recent years?............“Criminal policy has long been characterized by ideals of humanism, which originate from the 1970s, with the view that it is society’s fault if crime is committed, not the individual’s,” it stated.  “As a consequence, treatment has come before punishment and non-custodial sanctions before imprisonment.”..........

Trump Administration Revoking Legal Status of over 500K Biden-Era Migrants - The Trump administration is revoking the legal status of more than 500,000 migrants who entered the United States through a Biden administration parole program. CBS News reported that 532,000 migrants from countries such as Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, who entered the country through a program called CHNV, will have their “work permits and deportation protections” terminated in April. Per CBS News:.....

Martha’s Vineyard invasion forgotten - Recently, U.S. District judge James Boasberg banged his gavel and directed the Trump administration to stop deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members without a hearing. Boasberg wanted those planes turned around in mid-flight and returned to the United States. This reaction of this federal judge surprised me, because the invasion of Martha’s Vineyard in 2022 was resolved quickly, quietly, and then relegated to the dustbin of history. Entitled, affluent, residents of Martha’s Vineyard narrowly avoided a disaster of epic proportions in 2022. Apparently, 50 (that’s f-i-f-t-y) illegal aliens were FedExed by Governor Ron DeSantis to the enclave of the rich and famous. These immigrants wanted a better life in America, learned that Martha’s Vineyard was a sanctuary city, and believed their proud signage:..............

Why have permanent foreigners? - Among the left’s outrage about the arrest for possible deportation of Mahmoud Khalil — the Columbia University rabble-rouser who distributed propaganda on behalf of a foreign terrorist organization, Hamas — is that the former student is a legal permanent resident.  “He has a green card!” they exclaim whenever legal permanent residents are deported.  Take for example the “Milwaukee mom,” here since practically birth who was sent back to Laos...after being released from prison for interstate trafficking of marijuana.......... And once one crosses that border, neither a visa nor a green card immunizes him from account for things like spreading propaganda for foreign terrorist organizations like Hamas.  Or supporting foreign terrorist organizations like Hezb’allah by “just happening” to have attended a terrorist’s funeral while back in the old country. .........

Judiciary

Hegseth CRUSHES Crazed Biden Judge in Response to Her Order Forcing Pentagon to Allow Transgender Troops - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth absolutely crushed a federal judge in response to her order forcing the Pentagon to allow transgender troops. In January President Trump signed the “Restoring America’s Fighting Force” executive order and the “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” executive orders, which direct every element of the U.S. military to “operate free from any preference based on race or sex” and root out gender insanity and made up pronoun usage, respectively. Earlier this week, Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee from Uruguay, issued a temporary nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s transgender military ban................. 

My Take - Another foreign born federal judge?  Right along with term limits, and a failure to define jurisdictional authority of the federal judiciary, that's another Constitutional error Founding Fathers that needs to be fixed. RK

Obama-Appointed Judge’s Anti-DOGE Ruling Is So “Weirdly Written” That It Could Lead to the Shutdown of Social Security - A federal judge on Thursday barred DOGE from accessing social security systems.  US District Judge Ellen Hollander, an Obama appointee, said DOGE’s workers are on a “fishing expedition.” “The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion. It has launched a search for the proverbial needle in the haystack, without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack,” Judge Hollander wrote. Far-left organizations like AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Teachers and other plaintiffs sued the Social Security Administration, Elon Musk, DOGE and other Trump advisors...............

DOJ Wants Judge Removed From Case Challenging Trump’s Executive Order - The Department of Justice filed a motion on March 21 requesting District of Columbia District Judge Beryl Howell disqualify herself from Perkins Coie LLP’s case challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order against it due to her publicly declared disdain for the president and her connection with essential aspects of the case...

The center of infection - Not much is remarked yet on the federal judges trying to legislate from the bench in denying Donald Trump’s executive orders and immigration policies is how a number of them all live within walking (or at least biking) distance of each other. James Boasberg, who tried to order the Trump administration to bring back planes of violent illegal alien gang members being flown to El Salvador’s prisons, lives in “Chevy Chase, D.C.,” the posh D.C. neighborhood bordering the town of Chevy Chase, Maryland, where Boasberg’s Yale Law classmate Justice Brett Kavanaugh resides.............

Welcome to the Krytocracy - We may think we live in a democracy, which comes from the Greek words “demos” (people) and “kratos” (rule). But with one federal district judge after another attempting to stop President Donald Trump from carrying out his policies, it’s starting to look more like a “krytocracy,” or rule by judges. Look at the litigation tracker from the organization Lawfare and you’d think it was from Trump’s first 100 months, not first 100 days. Here’s a small sample of what his administration is being challenged on: deporting criminal or terrorist-supporting aliens; freezing federal funding to avoid fraud and waste; giving federal employees a voluntary early severance package; DOGE (too many times to go into); making senior civil servants more accountable to the president; and dismantling federal agencies that no longer serve the national interest.........

Lawfare

Alarming Situation: Elon Musk Says He’s Suing Democrat Jamaal Bowman for Calling Him a ‘Nazi’ on CNN - Elon Musk has had enough. He announced on X Friday that he was suing Jamaal Bowman for calling him a ‘Nazi’ and a ‘thief’ on CNN. Bowman is the former Democrat congressman who infamously pulled a fire alarm to delay a vote......Democrats have turned up their violent rhetoric and lying about Musk. It’s created a political atmosphere so toxic that domestic terrorists are now targeting Tesla dealerships, vehicles, and charging stations by vandalizing and torching them. Commenters make the connection.......

 Mexico
 
Bone Dry Border Dispute Leaves Farmers High And Dry - The Trump administration has lambasted Mexico for its failure to adhere to a water treaty established in 1944, according to Republican Senator Ted Cruz from Texas. Cruz has been insisting that Mexico fulfill its water supply obligations, but it was the Trump administration that finally took action to protect the rights of farmers near the Rio Grande. Frankly, it’s about time. Mexico has consistently reneged on its water responsibilities for decades. The 1944 Water Treaty, officially known as the Treaty Regarding the Use of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and the Rio Grande, was signed between the United States and Mexico on February 3, 1944. The treaty aimed to allocate the waters of these rivers between the two countries, ensuring that both nations had reliable access to essential water resources needed for agriculture, industry, and urban development........
 
Middle East
 
Iranian Regime’s Nuclear Crisis and Diplomatic Tensions: Negotiation or Confrontation? -The Iranian regime’s nuclear program has once again become the focal point of international tensions. According to a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran has produced 275 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60%. This level of enrichment brings Iran dangerously close to the 90% threshold necessary for developing a nuclear weapon.............
 
Iraq’s Debt to America: It’s Time to Collect - It’s time for President Trump to stop playing nice. Iraq, a country we’ve invested trillions in over the past two decades, owes us. The reconstruction, the security operations, and the countless lives lost—all funded by American taxpayers. Yet, while we’ve spent this immense sum on their recovery, Iraq continues to sit on one of the world’s largest oil reserves. It’s time to call in the debt. 
 
Religion 
 
About Those 100 'Faith Leaders' Who Support Reckless Government Spending - We’re seeing a society become unhinged…again. Trump has quite a way with the radical Left. They absolutely hate him and DOGE, and they hourly lose it. Now they’re burning Teslas (so much for climate care), raging in hotel lobbies and on college campuses to defend Hamas supporters, and cursing up a storm at rallies.   It's not just paid activists and politicians jumping into the resistance ring; it’s leftist “faith leaders” too. Recently, nearly 100 “progressive” religious folks signed a letter demanding an unbiblical “Return to Jesus.” The Lenten letter demanded that hundreds of millions of wasted taxpayer dollars continue to flow to (leftist) NGOs. ..........100 “faith leaders” are the religious collaborators who are manipulating the public as they demand that we all bow to the State. .............Nearly every one of the signers is radically pro-abortion: Jim Wallis (Sojourners), Shane Claiborne (Red Letter Christians), Bishop Claude Alexander (Evangelicals for Harris), Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson (Children’s Defense Fund), Dr. Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker (AME Church) and so many more...........

Getting Back to Serving Humanity - When the Brahmins of Boston and Concord declared Christianity unfit for human consumption, well over a century ago in New England, they remade mankind into creatures of innate goodness and light, believing that — as Ben Franklin had put it — people could live anywhere there is freedom...........The progress of myopic globalists to “make the world better” is revealed in today’s pathologic mess the world is in.....The core of faithful Christians is not small, it is true, but they have yet to face down liberals, progressives, and pastors who seek enlightenment in their crania instead of in the One who gave them their brains and faculties. Such astounding waste of human energy and show of arrogance has led too many to forget that Judeo-Christianity made possible a civilization with no equal in benefit to humanity...............
 
 

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Who Really Are the Destroyers of Western Civilization

Muslims, Rape, Crime, and Western Civilization 

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:
 
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.
  • In the UK And The US, Racial Subgroups Refuse To Address The Criminals Among Them Vince Coyner Their silence would seem to give both communities a pass, but eventually, they’ll discover that providing cover for rapists and killers backfires on them...........
  • 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 West January 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.

Monday, December 19, 2022

Losing Our Culture

December 18, 2022 By Jim Hollingsworth   Losing Our Culture

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 Mayflower left 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. 


Religion is in Trouble in America

 

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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 Nickels 25 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 Francis: 'In the Name of God, I Ask the Great Extractive Industries…to Stop Poisoning Food and People’ - By CNSNews.com Staff | July 25, 2022 -  Pope Francis has already released his statement to mark the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation,” an annual event which he created in 2015 and which is marked on September 1 of each year. “In the first place, it is our sister, mother earth, who cries out,” says Francis.“Prey to our consumerist excesses, she weeps and implores us to put an end to our abuses and to her destruction,” he says. “Then too, there are all those different creatures who cry out,” says the pope. “At the mercy of a ‘tyrannical anthropocentrism,’ completely at odds with Christ’s centrality in the work of creation, countless species are dying out and their hymns of praise silenced............ 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.............. 
 
Pope Francis Begs Forgiveness for ‘Evil’ Committed Against Indigenous Canadians - Pope Francis held his first meeting with the indigenous peoples of Canada on Monday, in which he repeatedly apologized for the sins and evil committed by Christians against the native population. Reiterating the nature of his visit as “a penitential pilgrimage,” the pontiff said he traveled to Canada “to tell you in person of my sorrow, to implore God’s forgiveness, healing and reconciliation, to express my closeness and to pray with you and for you.”  Referring back to meetings with representatives of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit in the Vatican earlier this year, Francis said he feels a “deep sense of pain and remorse” when thinking back on “the tragic situations that so many of you, your families and your communities have known; of what you shared with me about the suffering you endured in the residential schools.”.........
 
Pelosi, the Pope, and PachamamaFrancis 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.
 
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 Nickels 19 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..... 
 
 
Mother Earth Pregnant Mothers - Pope Francis abandons the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion. - by 4 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...
  
Pelosi Names ‘Catholics for Choice’ as Group That Joined in ‘Mobilization’ for Legalized Abortion
By CNSNews.com Staff | July 18, 2022 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) delivered a statement on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Friday in which she noted that “Catholics for Choice” had joined in what Pelosi called the “mobilization” behind bills taken up by the U.S. House of Representatives to legalize abortion nationwide. “Today, the House will pass landmark bills: our Women's Health Protection Act to make the essential protections of Roe the law of the land,” said Pelosi. ..............Pelosi Names ‘Catholics for Choice’ as Group That Joined in ‘Mobilization’ for Legalized Abortion  

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 VaticanThomas 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.....

More Economic Illiteracy from Pope Francis - February 7, 2020 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty Back in 2013, I talked to the BBC about Pope Francis and his bizarre hostility to free enterprise. 

Trump-Bashing Pope Francis Refuses to Bash Putin for Ukraine War 

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!

Heretics Leave a Moral Foundation of Quicksand On January 5, 2020 Andrew Harrod posted the article, "The Episcopal Church's Fruits of Heresy" saying: “This church has about 30 more years before it is dead,” stated one young man at a 2016 forum at the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) in Alexandria, Virginia, as quoted in the recent book The Seduction of the Episcopal Church.  Therein Anglican author David Virtue, a longtime critical observer of worldwide Anglicanism, reviews the Episcopal Church’s decades-long fall from grace in an exposé of Christian folly in accommodating a secularized, sexualized modernity. He goes on to say:.............

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 FeetFauci’s Covid-19 fear mongering has managed to shut down all houses of worship By ——--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 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. 

Correcting Pope Francis…Again - October 5, 2020 by Dan Mitchell -  While I generally don’t think recycling is economically sensible, I am going to reuse this 2013 BBC interview because it’s time (again) to criticize the economic illiteracy of Pope Francis..........

Vatican: The Shadow Islamic State -  By 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 prelatesAl 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.........
  
Pope Francis effectively admits it: He really, really hates Americans - September 5, 2019 By Monica Showalter - Sounding more and more like a politician and less and less like a pope, Pope Francis threw out this one for his American critics who view him as just a bit too political. According to Fox News:......  
 
Pope Francis Rejects Prosperity for Developing Nations - September 11, 2019 by Dan Mitchell
I first opined about Pope Francis in 2013, when I told a BBC audience why the Pope was wrong on economic policy.  The following year, I expanded on that point, explaining that statist policies are bad for the poor. And I revisited the issue again last year.  I’m not the only one making these arguments. In a column for Reason, Stephanie Slade explained why Pope Francis is deeply misguided.......... 
 
U.S. Cardinal: Document for Upcoming Vatican Synod 'Is an Apostasy' -  By Michael W. Chapman | August 14, 2019 -  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?”