“THE dispersion of the Jews has rendered them a cosmopolitan people. They are the only cosmopolitan people, and in this capacity must act, and are acting, as a solvent of national and racial differences.

“The great Ideal of Judaism is not that Jews shall be allowed to flock together one day in some hole-and-corner fashion, for, if not tribal, at any rate separatist objects; but that the whole world shall be imbued with Jewish teachings.

“That in a Universal Brotherhood of Nations, a great Judaism, in fact, all the separate races and religions shall disappear. The new Constitution of the Jewish Board of Deputies marks an epoch in the history of that important institution.

“The real importance of the new Constitution is that it provides a machinery for enabling the Jews of England to work together when the occasion requires, that in short it organizes the Jews of the whole Empire, and renders their aggregate force available in cases of emergency.” [bold added]

— Jewish World, February 9 and 16, 1883 (more…)

“THE entire population of the United States could be turned into narcotic addicts if the same freedom was given the illicit narcotic ring as is now given the Yiddish popular song manufacturers. But in such a condition it would be stupid to attack the addicts; common sense would urge the exposure of the panderers.

“A dreadful narcotizing of moral modesty and the application of powerful aphrodisiacs have been involved in the present craze for popular songs — a stimulated craze. The victims are everywhere. But ministers, educators, reformers, parents, and public-spirited citizens are beginning to see the futility of scolding the young people thus diseased. Common sense dictates a cleaning out of the source of disease. The source is in the Yiddish group of song manufacturers who control the whole output and who are responsible for the whole matter from poetry to profits.

“Next to the moral indictment against the so-called ‘popular’ song is the indictment that it is not popular. Everybody hears it, perhaps the majority sings it; it makes its way from coast to coast; it is flung into the people’s minds at every movie and from every stage; it is advertised in flaring posters; phonograph records shriek it forth day and night, dance orchestras seem enamored with it, player pianos roll it out by the yard. And by sheer dint of repetition and suggestion the song catches on — as a burr thistle catches on; until it is displaced by another. There is no spontaneous popularity.

“It is a mere mechanical drumming on the minds of the public. There is often not a single atom of sentiment or spiritual appeal in the whole loudly trumpeted ‘success’: men and women, boys and girls have simply taken to humming words and tunes which they cannot escape, night or day. The deadly anxiety of ‘keeping up with the times’ drives the army of piano-owners to the music stores to see what is ‘going’ now, and of course it is the Yiddish moron music that is going, and so another home and eventually another neighborhood is inoculated.

“But there is no popularity. Take any moron music addict you know and ask him what was the ‘popular’ song three weeks ago and he will not be able to tell…”

— Henry Ford, The Dearborn Independent (1922)

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"THIS truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. By dividing voters by the political party system we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance." --- A. K. Chesterton, The Menace of the Money Power: An Analysis of World Government by Finance (1946)  

EVERY day of the week in America, people are sadly killed in violent crimes. These ordinary deaths usually receive no intense media coverage lasting for days on end. The public is not pummeled with the details, almost as if they were being systematically traumatized themselves. There are no instantaneous public expressions of grief by politicians or community-wide, televised candlelit vigils. There are no immediate calls on national television for legislative action and new security measures. These crimes often involve reckless or inexpert use of guns. There are no socially awkward and clumsy teenagers displaying the sort of Rambo-style marksmanship even highly-trained and fit members of the military would find difficult to replicate. As I learned in the years when I was a newspaper reporter covering violent crime, family members and witnesses are devastated. They sometimes cry uncontrollably. They can barely speak or talk coherently. They experience intense shock, particularly if they have witnessed violence and bloodshed. They cannot put into words their trauma or fear in the very first moments after a violent crime, let alone smile repeatedly, as the famous Robbie Parker did at a nationally publicized press conference after his daughter was allegedly gunned down in a quiet, suburban school, just before the president interrupted his schedule and flew in for photo ops. Always ask yourself when a big story emerges with lots of accompanying political hoopla, "Does anyone benefit?" and "Is my instinctive compassion being manipulated?" Guns…

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"A SOUL TO whom God makes known its defects is much more burdensome to itself than its neighbor ever could be to it, because the latter, however near to us, is not always with us; at any rate is not within us, whereas we carry ourselves about with us, and cannot leave ourselves for a single moment, nor completely cease to behold ourselves, to feel ourselves, and to carry about with us everywhere our imperfections, and our faults. But see wherein the infinite goodness of our God shines forth; for the sorrow and shame that our faults cause us are their own remedy, provided that this shame never turns into defiance, and that the sorrow is inspired by the love of God, and not by self−love. Sorrow born of self−love is full of vexation and bitterness; far from healing the wounds of our soul, it only serves to poison them. On the other hand, sorrow produced by the love of God is calm and full of resignation; while detecting the fault it delights in the humiliation which follows, and from this it results that much merit is gained, and thus even from losses we make, profit. Cease then from tormenting yourself on account of your defects and of the imperfection of your works. Offer to God the sorrow they occasion you, and allow His divine Providence to make good these slight infidelities by many little crosses and sufferings of all…

  "IF THE UNEASY American Woman were really fulfilling her economic functions today, she would never allow a short pound of butter, a yard of adulterated woolen goods, to come into her home. She would never buy a ready-made garment which did not bear the label of the Consumer's League. She would recognize that she is a guardian of quality, honesty, and humanity in industry. "A persistent misconception of the nature and the possibilities of this practical side of the Business of Being a Woman runs through all present-day discussions of the changes in household economy. The woman no longer has a chance to pay her way, we are told, because it is really cheaper to buy bread than to bake it, to buy jam than to put it up. Of course, this is a part of the vicious notion that a woman only makes an economic return by the manual labor she does. The Uneasy Woman takes up the point and complains that she has nothing to do. But this release from certain kinds of labor once necessary, merely puts upon her the obligation to apply the ingenuity and imagination necessary to make her business meet the changes of an ever changing world. Because the conditions under which a household must be run now are not what they were fifty years ago is no proof that the woman no longer has here an important field of labor. There is…

"CATHOLIC doctrine tells us that the primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas, however sincere they may be, nor in the theoretical or practical indifference towards the errors and vices in which we see our brethren plunged." -- Pope St. Pius X  

FROM Racism, Guilt, Self Hatred, And Self Deceit by Gedaliah Braun, PhD (2007):

I am an American who from 1976 to 1988 taught philosophy at universities in Nigeria, Kenya and Papua New Guinea, since which time I have lived in South Africa … With very few exceptions, blacks in Africa regard it as an obvious, commonplace fact, needing no argument, and provoking no ‘offense’ whatsoever, that the white man is superior to the black man. ‘Blaming’ this inferiority on whites or colonialism (‘externalism’), therefore, is obviously a nonstarter.

This claim about black attitudes is based on conversations with hundreds of blacks in Africa and Papua New Guinea. That indigenous blacks so matter-of-factly believe this does not make it true; but it does establish that for them, the question of racial differences is not a ‘sensitive’ issue. Where does this idea come from – that racial difference is a despicable idea, so disgraceful that the mere suggestion of it can end careers? I believe it comes from whites rather than blacks, which is why, in black Africa, where there are few whites and remarkably little Western ideological influence, the idea that all races are the same and that it is morally bad to say otherwise is almost unknown. (more…)

“THERE is nothing so absurd,’ quipped the ancient Roman philosopher-statesman Cicero, ‘that it can’t be said by a philosopher.’ Unfortunately, philosophers’ absurdities aren’t limited to classroom sophistry and eccentric speculations. They make their way into print and are thereby released upon the public. They can be, and have been, as dangerous and harmful as deadly diseases. And as with deadly diseases, people can pick up deadly ideas without even noticing. These ideas float, largely undetected, in the intellectual air we breathe.

“If we take a good, hard, sober look at the awful effects of such deadly ideas we can come to only one conclusion: there are books that really have screwed up the world, books that we would have been better off without.

“This should not come as a shock, except to those who don’t believe that ideas have consequences. Thomas Carlyle, the eminent Scottish essayist and sometime philosopher, was once scolded at a dinner party for endlessly chattering about books: ‘Ideas, Mr. Carlyle, ideas, nothing but ideas!’ To which he replied, ‘There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.’ Carlyle was right. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote a book that inspired the ruthlessness of the French Revolution (and even more destructive things after that).

‘Common sense and a little logic tell us that if ideas have consequences, then it follows that bad ideas have bad consequences. And even more obvious, if bad ideas are written down in books, they are far more durable, infecting generation after generation and increasing the world’s wretchedness.’

— Benjamin Wiker, Ten Books that Screwed Up the World, and Five Others that Didn’t Help

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"GOD seems to have set women apart to pay the debt of sin. Men saints have a wider sphere of action and one that attracts attention. They travel all over the world, found or reform Religious Orders, convert the heathen, exercise their ministry in the pulpit by their eloquence. Woman has a more passive role to fulfill: she has not the sacerdotal character and may pass her life in silent suffering on a bed of sickness. The temperament of a woman is more affectionate and devoted, as well as less selfish than a man's. She is likewise more impressionable and susceptible of emotion. Our Lord Himself met with a readier welcome from women; they excel in little and refined attentions, little acts of thoughtful charity such indeed as a man, unless he is a St. Francis of Assisi, overlooks." --- Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907)  

"EVERYTHING reminds us of the cross. We ourselves are made in the form of a cross. Balm and sweetness exhale from the cross. The unction, which overflows from the cross, inundates our souls, in proportion as we unite ourselves with it, holding it tightly against our hearts. The cross contains more wisdom than any book; all who do not know this book are ignorant, however many other books they may have studied. Those only are truly wise who love and consult this book, who study it deeply. Bitter as this book is, they are never happier than when they can immerse themselves in its bitterness. The more they frequent this school, the more they desire to remain there, never do their studies weary them." --- St. John Vianney  

"Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggle increases." ---- St. Rose of Lima  

"WHAT if a man is poor? Even so he is rich. Look at His riches with eyes of faith only. For you look only at an empty purse; not at a conscience filled with God. Outwardly he has nothing, but within he has charity. How much can one give from charity and not exhaust it!" -- St. Augustine  

STAGE a fake war in Gaza. Garner billions in U.S. aid. Cause protests and political division in the West. Send millions of Muslim refugees from "war-torn" Palestine to Europe. Conquer your greatest enemy. Redevelop Gaza into a resort area. Checkmate! According to Fakenukes Phil, that's the current agenda in the Middle East and it's succeeding. I can't endorse all Phil's theories, but this one sounds right.  

"DIFFERENCE of race or condition or sex is indeed taken away by the unity of faith, but it remains embedded in our mortal interactions, and in the journey of this life the apostles teach that it is to be respected, and they even proposed living in accord with the racial differences between Jews and Greeks as a wholesome rule." [bold added] --- St. Augustine, Epistle to the Galatians (3:28-29)  

"MANY examples can be cited which show that absolutely nothing would remain intact in human society if we should determine to believe only what we can grasp by perception." --- St. Augustine, The Advantage of Believing  

IN 1967, Carleton Putnam, businessman, Princeton graduate and author, wrote:

Let a man be told incessantly that everything he and his forefathers had achieved was largely a matter of chance; that the poverty and backward condition of other individuals and races was also largely a question of luck — in fact perhaps even the fault of himself and his forefathers; that his standards of morals, fiscal responsibility and personal integrity were no better than anyone else’s; that his civilization was mostly happenstance and really nothing much to be proud of; that since all humanity were innately equal, all actual differences must be due to the other man’s misfortune and his own four-leaf clovers — let a man hear these things often enough and his values were bound to change. (more…)