KARL HAEMERS writes at Taboo Truth: The master-minds at the World Economic Forum are offering to explain to us the current high cost of housing. They give us this simple paragraph: “Renting an apartment in major cities has become highly competitive and expensive, prompting historian Jacob Anbinder to investigate the reasons behind the housing crisis. Anbinder explores the economic and political factors that have made cities like New York, Boston, and San Francisco unaffordable for many Americans. He traces the political evolution of the Democratic Party as a contributing factor to the current housing shortage. Anbinder's research, supported by Cornell University, aims to uncover the interconnection between political liberalism and the housing crisis and will be published as a book.” Read more.  

WITH the death of Jacob Rothschild, a job has opened up and I imagine many people will be applying. Requirements: Willingness to enslave the planet Experience manipulating fake money and world media Tolerance for long meetings in Switzerland Psychological warfare training Compensation: Everyone's money Castles in England Girls Politicians everywhere

 I'M not buying the story of Aaron Bushnell. Too many crisis actors. Too much publicity. The footage of him on fire was not realistic or convincing. Aaron, or whoever, is probably playing video games in a nice hotel somewhere.  

JOEL OSTEEN gave a speech on Feb. 18, a week after the alleged shooting (wink, wink) at his Lakewood Church in Houston. The speech is filled with the sentimental platitudes and emotional trigger words that accompany a staged shooting: "Healing" "Family," "Praying," "Fear," "We Are Stronger Together," etc.  Shooting hoaxes create fear and subservience. Ultimately they are aimed at demonizing and disarming those who own guns. Get 'em cryin' and huggin', Joel. -- Comments -- Terry Morris writes: This is a bit off topic, but I'm pretty sure I've coined a new term - Judeo-Charismanity. It occurred to me after watching several Youtube videos of Charismatic, prosperity gospel loons (Olsteen and his congregants definitely included) make fools of themselves and a laughingstock of Christianity for anyone who watches their circus sideshow acts and doesn't know the difference. It's even worse than that, though; I truly believe that many of these people, leaders and congregants alike, are possessed of demonic spirits. My wife and I used to tune into their broadcasts from time to time back in the mid-90s purely for the entertainment value alone. Back then they seemed rather harmless, but, my have they come a long way since!  

"THE soul drinks of a water unsuited to it, when it seeks pleasure in the objects of sense. The wise man teaches that the soul need not quit itself, nor divert streams from some distant mountain, since it has within itself an everlasting and inexhaustible living fountain." -- Bossuet, (Sermons, Vol. V, p. 161)  

"THE wealth of God is not given to the soul all at once. It is to be increased as a reward for the soul's own efforts, sustained by the supernatural aid of the Almighty. Growth in grace is growth in true greatness. To do and endure after the manner of Jesus, steadily refusing to part with the divine treasure, under the menaces of hardship or the allurements of pleasure, is the active way of promoting this growth." --- Fr. Edward Leen (1885-1944), Why the Cross? (Sheed and Ward, 1938)  

A “racist” black South African speaks the truth.

This is really good.

To quote a commenter, “I honestly like racist black people more than virtue-signaling white saviors.” (more…)

FROM a comment By Pete F. in 2014:

Men are naturally barbaric; left to their own devices, many males are perfectly happy to live in relative squalor. (Those disinclined to believe this are urged to hang out with a young single guy sometime). What prevents this from happening? In the traditional societies of the past, both the father and the mother (as well as other relatives and respected figures in the community) had important roles to play in civilizing boys and turning them into men.

It was the job of a father, an older brother, or perhaps a priest, drill instructor or coach to teach the boy what behavior and conduct was expected of him as a man. The mother’s role was just as vital, but different. Her job was to educate and civilize her son – not only by teaching him how a gentleman conducts himself around a lady, but by providing a comforting home and exposure to the things such as culture, manners, and all of the other habits great and small that comprise civilized behavior. Grace, beauty, decorum, kindness and all of the things that comfort us – these are the things that turn a house into a home, and into a refuge from a sometimes cold world outside that front door. Only a mother or a wife can provide those things. (more…)

"THIS truth that Christ died for us is so hard a truth that scarcely can our intelligence take hold of it. Nay it is a truth that our intelligence could in no way discover. And St. Paul, preaching, makes echo to Habacuc, I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it to you (Acts xiii 14). "So great is God's love for us and His grace towards us, that He does more for us than we can believe or understand." --- St. Thomas Aquinas, Meditations for Each Day in Lent  

“LUCIFER is not the rival, he is the slave of the Most High. (The same must be said of his sectarians.) The evil he inspires or introduces into the soul and the world, he cannot do without the permission of the Lord. And the Lord only allows it in order to punish the wicked or to justify the righteous by the burning iron of tribulation. In this way, even evil is transformed into good under the omnipotent command of God Who has no equal, either in power, grandeur or prodigy; the One Who is He Who is, and who has drawn all that is, apart from Himself, from the abyss of nothingness.” --- Juan Donoso Cortes (1809-1853)  

 SINCE of all the evils that we can possibly incur, either here or hereafter, there is none comparable to the evil we bring upon ourselves by mortal sin; so, if all men upon earth, and all the devils in hell should conspire together, with a general license form God, to do all the mischief, and to inflict upon us all the torments they could invent, they would never do us half so much hurt as we do ourselves by one mortal sin. Because all that they can do, as long as we do not consent to sin, cannot hurt the soul; whereas we ourselves, by consenting to any one mortal sin, bring upon our own souls a dreadful death, both for time and eternity. Good God! never suffer us to be so wretchedly blind, as to become thus the wilful murderers of our own souls.  -- Richard Challoner, 1807

FROM How to Root Out Hidden Faults by Fr. James F. McElhone:

Pride of sensitiveness is brought about by self-love being wounded. The sensitive person is quickly hurt. In fact, it may be said, he prepares himself to be wounded. Ordinarily he imagines things, he misjudges, he misinterprets, he exaggerates, he is suspicious and distrustful. His memory is prone to cling to what has happened to him in an adverse way; he remembers who and what have hurt him. He is ready to see a slight and to feel it. He plans revenge. He fights mental battles of what he will say and how he will act. He is unforgiving, carrying ill-feeling for short or long periods of time and in the same mood refusing to speak or speaking coldly to the one who is the object of his bitterness. (more…)

"IT IS clear that the Gospel is the gradual revelation of the Cross as the key to the riddle of existence. The Cross, not stoically submitted to as an instrument of torture, but bravely accepted as an instrument of healing, destroys the obstacles that lie between man and his happiness. Salvation, in its finality, consists in the destruction of these obstacles. To be happy is to see God." -- Fr. Edward Leen, "Why the Cross?"  

ALAN writes:

The city of St. Louis is now run by a loose coalition of “Progressives”, Communists, Feminists, thieves, and shysters.  Under their leadership, downtown St. Louis now looks as Bolshevik Russia must have looked in the 1920s-‘30s, replete with abandonment, degradation, vandalism, lawlessness, and splendid examples of the calculated ugliness called Communist “art”.

It’s been a short path from yesterday to today.

In mid-afternoon on July 11, 1932, several thousand unemployed men and women gathered outside City Hall in downtown St. Louis “to demand relief measures of some sort”. Doubtless many in the crowd were ordinary men and women who were lured into the event by typical Communist agitprop methods.  A few well-trained agitators incited the crowd to move forward and attempt to rush into City Hall against 50 policemen who were there to stop them.

The resulting confrontation included tear gas bombs thrown into the mob by police, shots fired into the air in an attempt to disperse the mob, bricks and clubs thrown at officers by some people in the mob, glass doors and windows broken, theft from a vendor across the street, some people injured and some arrested. A World War I-vintage hand grenade was thrown at police, but it did not explode.

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MASSACHUSSETTS taxpayers are fitting the bill for thousands of illegal immigrants to live in shelters, hotels and motels. Those without kitchen facilities receive catered meals worth $64 a day. The state's Right to Shelter law requires it to provide families with refrigeration and basic cooking facilities. But some of the accommodations do not have those appliances leaving the state to contract out for food and delivery. Spinelli Ravioli Manufacturing Company in East Boston, a full-service drop-off catering company with 30 years' experience in the industry was awarded a $10 million-dollar six-month no-bid contract to provide and deliver meals. State officials say they must spend more than $800 million to respond to the "crisis." It is an entirely manufactured crisis -- and these costs are just the tip of the iceberg of the immense costs in the years ahead. The solution to this "crisis" is mass deportation, not ravioli.