LYDIA Sherman writes: Did you see pictures of that disgraceful sit-in Congress had for gun control? What a bunch of college kids. They draw huge salaries and retirements, for this? Laura writes: I bet there are at least three armed guards in that room. These evil hypocrites should start by disarming themselves and the president. Lead by example. Obama's bodyguards should not carry guns. Nor should the guards on Capitol Hill. Nor should the guards for presidential candidates or celebrities. If guns are the problem, start at the top. Why is it that they can have armed protection, but the people can't? And why do they want gun control if the homicide rate is down? The new narrative is that “mass shootings,” defined by the FBI as 3 or more people killed in one incident, are at epidemic levels and thus require society to increase restrictions on gun ownership as a means of saving lives and lowering the U.S. homicide rate. However, this narrative flies in the face of reality as the homicide rate in the U.S. is actually at a 51-year low, according to FBI data. The homicide rate in the U.S. for 2014, the most recent year available, was 4.5 per 100,000. The 2014 total is part of a long downward trend and is the lowest homicide rate recorded since 1963 when the rate was 4.6 per 100,000. The last time the homicide rate in the U.S. was lower than it is now…

BREXIT HAS WON, and David Cameron has announced his resignation. Good riddance. The British people have had a say, contrary to my pessimistic forecast, with 52 percent of those participating in the referendum voting to leave the European Union.

This will almost certainly trigger similar referenda in other European countries, and Marine Le Pen in France is already calling for one. Expect Italexit and Portexit too.

The southern tier of Europe, especially Greece, has suffered terribly under the heel of the EU tyranny.  Italy, Spain and Portugal have been treated like the step-children of an overbearing EU dictatorship. The bullies in Brussels have bribed and blackmailed, bullied and browbeat those vulnerable countries into obsequious submission.  Time and again, the autocratic agents of the NWO have foisted economic regimens and financial regimes on nations which did not want them and could not afford them.  The realities of such disaster capitalism were always the same – extreme financial hardship and economic contraction.

The Europe Summer is here and the people will be heard like never before.  Whereas Greece is the real Achilles’ heel, Italy has the size and heft to take down the whole European Union project, once and for all. The Italians, in particular, have the will to do just that.  Spain, too, has the wherewithal and motivation to support Italy in its quest to reclaim its national sovereignty.  Likewise, there are those Central and Eastern European countries that are also aching to take back their power, especially to maintain their territorial integrity which has been seriously compromised. (State of the Nation)

Is this a new day for Britain? Mike King writes:

It’s complicated!

Different players have different motives for wanting to weaken the European Union. Pro-Brexit libtards want London to be even more communist than Brussels. Pro-Brexit neo-cons work for Bibi Satanyahu. Pro-Brexit patriots just want their country back.

Here are some reactions from world leaders:

EUROPEAN COUNCIL PRESIDENT DONALD TUSK

“We are determined to keep our unity as 27 … I will propose that we start a period of wider reflection on the future of our union.”

GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER FRANK-WALTER STEINMEIER:

“The news from Britain is really sobering. It looks like a sad day for Europe and Britain.”

FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER JEAN-MARC AYRAULT (more…)

THE European Union was designed to eradicate every separate culture and nation in Europe to concentrate power in the hands of the few, all under the illusion of democracy and open trade. It is a fascist superstate approaching open totalitarianism more and more every day. Will Britain be permitted to leave it? Highly unlikely. But one thing is clear: many Britons desperately want to leave it. The British are enslaved by the EU leviathan.

From State of the Nation on the Brexit referendum today:

There are two extremely courageous Brits who have taken on the whole bloody British System who ought to be pointed out … and highly commended.  UKIP’s Nigel Farage was the real fire-starter.  Quite fortuitously, he was a former commodities broker in London who knows firsthand how the marketplace really works.  The commodities market is perhaps the most manipulated in the world because of how easily it can be used as a weapon of mass destruction.  Certainly, Farage saw the underbelly of the commodity trading beast at its very worst.  This education prepared him to speak, as no one else in the world, about the ills and excesses of the nakedly totalitarian nature of the NWO’s march toward globalization. (more…)

LILY writes:

I have something wonderful to tell you.

Back in August of 2014, you received an email from a ‘George W.’ about finding a wife, and you posted it on your blog.  He asked you about your thoughts on his predicament and what he could do to improve his marriageable chances.  Though he was a financially stable, thoughtful, and intelligent young man, he felt that he was a loser because he had wasted his chances to find a good, traditionally-minded woman by his age.  His shyness towards women made it difficult for him to approach them with confidence which only fed into his severe self doubt and low sense of self worth (I believe he called himself a parasite on society for failing to fulfill his duty to procreate, provide, and protect as a man should).  His post was heart-wrenching for me to read.

I remember feeling similar about myself, in that I failed to achieve the sort of domestic bliss my parents and particularly my mother had for nearly a decade by my age.  The modern world makes it difficult for us sensitive, traditional types. I feared that I would grow into an old maid who lives with her widowed father, partly for economical reasons and partly for companionship.  (more…)

FROM the AP: Berlin police say they've raided 10 residences in the German capital in a crackdown against far-right hate speech on social media. Police spokesman Michael Gassen said Wednesday the morning raids involved nine suspects who used Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to spread hate. He says authorities want to emphasize "the Internet is not a law-free zone" and that if illegal speech is posted "it won't be without consequences." The suspects, identified as men between 22 and 58, are alleged to have posted anti-migrant messages, anti-Semitic messages and songs with banned lyrics, among other things. They face possible fines if found guilty. The investigation is ongoing, and police are now evaluating evidence seized in the raids, including computers, cellphones as well as drugs, knives and other weapons.

UNEMPLOYED coal miners, dead eagles, wind utopianism and more on Obama’s diabolical energy policy by Mike King at The Anti-New York Times.

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ACCORDING to Ian Greenhalgh at Veteran's Today, Bernard Kenny, the man said to have come to the aid of Jo Cox, the British MP allegedly murdered last week, has been dead for three years. This claim needs to be studied further. But could it explain why Ms. Cox appears to be laughing at us?  

A READER writes:

I have a question I have always wondered about concerning people who claim mass shootings are fake. How are those “dead” victims explained? Funerals were made. I assume dead bodies were viewed (unless you are assuming every single one was a closed casket).

People who knew those “victims” — faces of all the victims have been shown all over news stations — will never see them again. (more…)

WE CANNOT know ourselves until we know God. This was one of the insights of Juliana of Norwich, also known as Julian, a fourteenth-century recluse and mystic who was probably a Benedictine nun who lived in Norwich, England. She wrote: This is the cause why we are not at rest in heart and soul; that here we seek rest in things that are so little there is no rest in them, and we do not know our God who is all mighty, all wise and all good. For he is true rest. No soul can have true rest until it finds created things are empty. When the soul gives up all for love, so that it can have him that is all, then it finds true rest. For he is endless and has made us for his own self only, and has restored us by his blessed Passion, and keeps us in his blessed love. And he does all this through his goodness. God of your goodness give me yourself, for you are enough for me. [From Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich, Vol. 1; Template Publishers, Springfield Illinois; 1980. Trans. The Julian Shrine]  

THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU writes at The Orthosphere:

A press-release from the Office of the President at Upstate Consolation University contains an announcement that beginning in the fall semester, a new graduate program, the first of its kind in North America, will offer a master’s degree in Studies Studies.  In the announcement, UCU President Chloe Alexandra Brainepanne expresses her enthusiasm for the new Studies Studies program, funds for which became available when the Academic Senate passed a measure eliminating all literature courses in the English Department, which will henceforth dedicate itself entirely to Freshman Remedial Writing and Advanced Internet Media Appreciation.  Several former English faculty members will transfer to Studies Studies, while the rest have been furloughed.

The designated chair of Studies Studies, Spelvina Malarkey-Delgado, told reporters that, “Studies Studies is the type of vibrant and transgressive program that modern university humanities divisions have long been clamoring for,” adding that, “Studies Studies is where the cutting edge of studies is currently at.”  (more…)

THIS reporter is still awaiting publication of photos of the bloody scene that attended the murder of Jo Cox, the British Labour MP who was against exiting the EU and is said to have been slain by a right-wing extremist whom friends and relatives adamantly claim was non-political and non-violent despite his mental problems. Not that I wish to post graphic photos, but merely to verify what occurred. So far, the only images available have been of these heart-rending high heels. Many people were said to have witnessed the crime and should have been able to record the scene on their phones. Others would have rushed to the scene, surely with their phones. Usually, the police are willing to give a peak at graphic crime scene photos. But we only have photos such as this one of a policeman, dressed to the nines, as if the bubonic plague had just struck, investigating the un-bloody sidewalk and the high heels. Why was this photo released and not others? The land of Sherlock Holmes is not what it once was.  

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FROM The Tampa Bay Times:

In the days after the nightclub attack, news gatherers across the country who requested documents about the shooter and the police response, and have been told many of those records -— even those created years before the killings — are confidential because they are part of an official investigation.

Pat Gleason, special counsel for open government in the Florida Attorney General’s Office, said the documents are a public record.

“Can an agency withhold information simply because another agency asked them to?” she asked. “The answer to that is no.” (more…)

FROM a speech made this week by Donald Trump:

The attack on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was the worst terrorist strike on our soil since September 11th, and the worst mass shooting in our country’s history.

So many people dead, so many people gravely injured, so much carnage, such a disgrace.

The horror is beyond description. (more…)

ON Tuesday, the Senate approved a bill that would require women to register for the Selective Service, making them eligible for mandatory conscription. Here we have another major issue that the American people will never get a chance to vote on directly.

Oops, but wait a minute. Many voters expressed their views on this issue when the Equal Rights Amendment was rejected in the 1970s, largely because they believed it would lead to the female draft. (Interestingly, some also opposed the ERA because they believed it would lead to the end of single sex bathrooms. How ridiculous!)

The entire fight against the Equal Rights Amendment may be nullified. (more…)

PUT on your thinking caps if you wade into reports about the murder of Jo Cox, the British Labour MP who was shot and stabbed on the street by a man who shouted “Britain First.”

Both sides suspended campaigning on whether Britain should leave the European Union after a lawmaker was attacked in her district.

Jo Cox, a member of the opposition Labour Party, was hospitalized in a critical condition, with the Press Association reporting she had been shot twice Thursday in West Yorkshire, northern England. Local police said they had arrested a 52-year-old man in the area. It was unclear if the incident was related to the June 23 referendum. [Bloomberg.com] (more…)