SEVENTY-FOUR people were shot, 12 fatally, in Chicago over the weekend of August 3. These shootings have not prompted intense coverage and a non-stop campaign for gun control in the media as did the alleged school shootings at Parkland and Sandy Hook. Why? It cannot be that black lives categorically don't matter, in the political sense. Remember Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown? They were single black victims and their deaths were the focus of apocalyptic coverage. If you cannot explain this relative silence, dear reader, you should not be following the news at all (which is a good idea anyway).

MARKY Mark writes:

Your post about the drug war resonated with me, as I was a front line participant in the drug war during the 1980s. I used to serve in the U.S. Navy, and we did a couple of drug patrols when I was based on the East Coast.

During one patrol, we were in too close to shore, and the water was too shallow for us to use SONAR; I was a SONAR operator when I served. Since we couldn’t use SONAR, we stood watches in the RADAR room. Though I didn’t work up there long enough to become an expert, I learned a few things as we helped the RADAR guys track possible drug smugglers. (more…)

IN THE VIDEO LECTURE below, national security analyst Joseph D. Douglas explains the thesis in his book Red Cocaine: The Drugging of America and the West. The book can be read in its entirety here. He contends that drug trafficking has been deliberately employed to demoralize Western society. From his prefatory warning to the 1999 edition:

This book has been known to generate strong emotional responses. Red Cocaine is a case study of evil: of the governments and people responsible for flooding the United States with drugs; of American public officials who have suppressed intelligence and looked the other way to favour ‘special interests’ and also to advance secret political agendas.

The information presented in Red Cocaine explains why the so-called war on drugs in the United States has been so ineffective. It challenges the erroneous belief that the drug problem is ‘home-grown’, the result of America’s otherwise unexplained ‘thirst’ for drugs. This erroneous belief, carefully nurtured by politicians and drug traffickers, stands between America and the waging of an effective war on drugs for a very simple reason: a nation simply cannot wage war on its own people. This belief that Americans themselves are the cause is used by public officials to justify their poor results – and doing nothing about the nefarious activities of governments, politicians, intelligence services and the banks. Red Cocaine was written to explode this belief, to expose the real forces behind the illegal drug trade, and to reveal the political protection that enables drug trafficking to survive and grow.

(H/t Fitzpatrick Informer)

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MOLLIE TIBBETTS, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, disappeared on July 18th while jogging on a country road. Her body was found in a field yesterday and the worst fears have been realized. An undocumented immigrant from Mexico has been charged with murdering her. Tibbetts sadly is now a poster girl for the dangers of excessive immigration.

“As Iowans, we are heartbroken, and we are angry,” Gov. Kim Reynolds wrote on Twitter.

“We are angry that a broken immigration system allowed a predator like this to live in our community, and we will do all we can to bring justice to Mollie’s killer.” (more…)

FROM the unpublished writings of the late Lawrence Auster:

Before multiculturalism, [non-traditional theater] casting had been practiced in a modest and unobtrusive way for decades. The first Shakespeare play I ever saw on stage was a production of Macbeth at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association in Elizabeth, New Jersey, around 1960. Playing the part of Macduff was a Negro actor with a wonderful deep voice, whose thrilling delivery of the play’s climactic speech,

Despair thy charm,
And let the angel whom thou still has served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb
untimely RIPPED

made a great impression on me. The actor’s race, while certainly introducing an exotic element into the play, was not disruptive in the slightest. I have had the same experience at other performances of classic stage plays by Shakespeare, Shaw and Wilde that have featured black actors playing the parts of Englishmen.

[However,] in matters of cultural identity, numbers are of key importance. Just as a small number of minorities can fit into a society without altering its basic identity, one or two nonwhite actors can fit into a classic Western play without changing the play’s essential character and spirit. (more…)

  A QUEBEC woman challenges Justin Trudeau -- and is threatened with arrest.

JAMES FETZER reports on Wordpress's deletion of several blogs, including Fellowship of the Minds, that challenged the official version of the alleged Sandy Hook massacre. This action by Wordpress is an implicit admission that at least some of what these blogs were reporting is true.

PROTESTANTS have disagreed about many things, but they have joined together in deriding voluntary celibacy and the unmarried state. Dr. Marian Horvat writes: By closing the convents and insisting that every woman should marry, Protestantism also stripped the high respect and honor the Catholic Church had always given to virgins. Some of this Protestant spirit certainly seeped into the American culture, from the Colonial Period to our times. Following the English Protestant tradition, the lay celibate – women in particular – became an object of scorn. Single women, even Catholics who voluntarily chose to remain celibate to dedicate themselves more fully to acts of charity, family duties  and prayer, have been labeled "spinsters" or frustrated "old maids." An example of this negative image of unmarried women: the unpopped kernels in a pot of popcorn are called "old maids," worthless kernels that fail to reach their full and proper end. This is an abhorrent position, opposed to the doctrine of the Catholic Church and denigrating to the women who choose to be celibate. I believe many women with vocations to the lay celibate life choose to marry just to avoid these offensive labels.

  "SOMETIMES we doubt; often enough we have failed to be faithful to grace; and so we think ourselves unworthy to receive God’s help. But that is precisely why God has given us our heavenly Mother, to whom He turned over the whole order of His mercy, as though He wished to protect us from His justice. A way has been pointed out to us; and so long as we walk therein we can always obtain God’s grace. Never must we say that henceforth grace is beyond our reach. Even if we have serious sins on our conscience, we can rise again. All we need is to turn to the Immaculata. So, let the sinner who has fallen come to her in full confidence. Don’t concentrate your thoughts only on yourself. Saint Paul said: I can do all things in Him Who strengthens me, and in the same way we can say, 'I can do all things, thanks to her who gives me strength.'" ---- Fr. Maximilian Kolbe

MUHAMMAD ALI speaks the unthinkable. (more…)

HERE IS a compelling Twitter thread on the disturbing QAnon phenomenon. (more…)

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DEAR READER: I have been away from blogging due to my son’s wedding this past weekend — a very happy occasion. I am slowly getting back in action. Here’s just a little something for you. (more…)

  WOMAN'S WORK --- Fay Inchfawn Always one more meal to get; one more train which must be met; one more hopeless sock to mend; one more invalid to tend; one more salve for one more knee, one more visitor to tea; one more future bruised and scarred; one more drop of spikenard; one more problem, one more doubt; one more mood to be smoothed out; one more smile and one more kiss-- Ah, but ministry like this will outlast the radiant sun. Woman's work is never done. (Posted in honor of my mother, who died last year. Her birthday is today.)

ALAN writes:

By the year 2003, an old friend and I had reached an age where we looked backward more than forward.  We spent many hours riding through south St. Louis neighborhoods to see what remained from the streets, parks, schools, churches, theaters, buildings, and houses that he recalled from his boyhood and that I recalled from mine.

A letter I found by chance in a St. Louis newspaper from 1999 fitted perfectly into that frame of mind.  It was written by a widow named Ann McGauly, who was looking back to her childhood in the 1920s in the 800 block of South Second Street, a short distance from downtown.

While reading her letter, I felt a certain kinship with that woman and a desire to visit that area.  So my friend and I went there one day in July 2003.  It looked very different from how she remembered it.  She remembered a boarding house, two grocery stores, a corner saloon, a stable for horses, people who worked in the huge buildings of a woodenware company, and the freight trains that ran on the street where she and her two sisters and their parents lived. (more…)