ANXIETY is different from ordinary care and concern about tasks that need our attention. Anxiety is fixation, an obsessed determination to overcome difficulties quickly and a rehearsing of the bad possibilities in our minds. At root, it is an excessive desire to be free of the evils and hardships of the world and a lack of confidence in Providence. Anxiety is inner turbulence that wrecks lives.

The reflection of the moon cannot be seen on the surface of stormy waters. The good cannot be seen on the surface of an anxious soul. God dwells in calm.

St. Francis de Sales was a scientist of anxiety and other spiritual afflictions. Here briefly are some insights from his Introduction to the Devout Life:

We must treat of our affairs with diligence, but without eagerness or solicitude.

That care and diligence wherewith we ought to attend to our affairs must never be confounded with anxiety and solicitude. The angels are careful of our salvation, and procure it with diligence, yet they are never agitated either by anxiety or solicitude; for care and diligence naturally result from their charity, whereas solicitude and anxiety are utterly incompatible with their felicity; because the former may be accompanied by a calm and tranquil state of mind, whereas the latter never can. (more…)

THE LIONIZING of the recently deceased "Pope" Benedict XVI continues apace. Conservatives indulge the fantasy that the erudite Joseph Ratzinger, who was under suspicion of heresy by the Holy Office under Pope Pius XII, was the ideological antithesis of the blabby, openly Marxist Frank Bergoglio, whose apostasy is difficult to ignore. Ratzinger was supposedly striving to preserve tradition, rather than engaging in his own classy form of demolition. The two, in fact, constituted a synthesis. The aim of the One World Religion has always been to appear non-exclusive, including even "rigid" traditionalists under its umbrella. "It is never advisable to die as the former head of a false religion," writes Dr. Thomas Droleskey of Benedict in a three-part series that examines Ratzinger, the shameless, "cultured" revolutionary: Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI was a “cultured” heretic as opposed to the vulgar heretic from Argentina, Jorge Mario Bergoglio ... Ratzinger/Benedict used pseudo-intellectualism to obfuscate what is clear and to make it appear as though almost everything about the Holy Faith was subject to skepticism, doubt, and re-examination. He used subtlety and a cloud of murky linguistics to deny Our Lord’s Bodily Resurrection from the dead and his deliberate use of imprecise terminology cast doubt upon Our Lord’s Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament and even the existence of Purgatory. Ratzinger employed "subtlety and a cloud of murky linguistics" where his partner in crime employs scattershot insults and reckless blasphemies.  

THE ABSURDITY of the National Debt, by Hastings Russell, the 12th Duke of Bedford, was written in 1947. Nothing has changed in terms of public understanding of national indebtedness either here or in England since then; things have only gotten worse.

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The National Debt started in 1694, when the Government of the day unwisely arranged that a private syndicate, which later became known as the “Bank of England,” should lend it £1,200,000 in gold, at 8% interest. With even greater stupidity, they then allowed the syndicate to issue bank notes to the value of £1,200,000 which it was able to lend into circulation, charging interest. Thus, although the Bank of England was not put to any expense beyond the cost of the paper and printing, it was allowed to draw interest on two lots of money—its own gold and the new notes to the value of the gold! Later, the Bank of England managed to obtain still more gold which they also lent to the Government at interest, and, whenever they did so, they increased their issue of virtually costless paper money until they were getting interest on £16 millions in gold and £16 millions in paper notes. If the Government had done the obviously sensible thing and, instead of borrowing, had decided to issue its own paper money, it could likewise have done so at the mere cost of paper and printing; there would have been no need for interest to be paid to anybody; and the taxpayer would not have been burdened to provide interest.

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“…. the power of people of all classes to buy and enjoy the goods and services which either were produced or could have been produced, was diminished by the vastly increased taxation. Rich people had to pay far more in super-tax. Poor people had to pay more in “indirect taxation.” (Indirect taxation means Customs and Excise dues on imported goods, which add to the price of the latter and increase the amount of money which purchasers, including the poor have to pay in order to obtain them.) (more…)

 THE COVID vaccine narrative in the mainstream media is flipping. Don't be fooled. These revelations, while true, are planned and coordinated. See also: "Dr. Aseem Malhotra on the BBC: Hero or Controlled Opposition?"  

"... IT is necessary to counteract US Atlanticist geopolitics at all levels and in all regions of the world, trying to weaken, demoralize, deceive and, ultimately, defeat the enemy as much as possible. It is especially important to bring geopolitical turmoil into the US domestic reality by encouraging all kinds of separatism, various ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements of extremist, racist and sectarian groups that destabilize internal political processes in the USA. At the same time, it makes sense to support isolationist tendencies in US politics, the theses of those (often right-wing Republican) circles that believe that the US should confine itself to its domestic problems." ---    Alexander Dugin, Foundations of Geopolitics (1997):Pg. 358 How many of the top figures in "the alt-right" are taking part in Russian psychological operations in this country? For instance, six of the popular figures at Charlottesville had ties to Russia. See Hijacking Reality: The Mind Wars of 2015-2022. "Information Operations is defined as the integrated employment of: electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception and security operations. Psychological operations uses information to influence peoples’ emotions, motives, objective reasoning and behavior favorable to the people carrying out the operation. "In social media information operations campaigns, one simply cannot rely on organic growth to promote (dis)information. You need intelligence assets, such as digital influencers to push the desired narrative. They can be dumb and pretty while reading from a…

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"I CANNOT believe I am dying a horrible agonizing death for trying to do the right thing by society. I cannot believe even more that after a lifetime of knowing me, just about everyone who used to love & value me have abandoned me to my fate over the politicization of the reason." -- Mike O'Mara  

"MOST Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right." -- Joseph Sobran More here.

“CANADIAN doctors have been dying unexpectedly and in unprecedented numbers–now upwards of 100–since the rollout of the Covid-19 “vaccines” December 2020. Dr. William Makis, MD and cancer researcher, along with his team have been tracking and reporting the alarming number of sudden deaths in young doctors. His pleas to the Canadian Medical Association to investigate any correlation with the experimental mRNA injections have been ignored and publicly deemed misinformation. (more…)

"WE know, each one of us, that our lives are bound up with the lives of others in a most wonderful way, and that the actual result and outcome of all is, in each case, linked by a thousand ties with the lives of those across whom we have come in our path through this world. So that it may be said that God has arranged each single life of all His millions of children, not for itself alone, but with endless and countless relations and influences produced on others or received from others, and all this is an exercise of His wisdom most beautiful, most perfect, and most worthy of study and thankfulness. And the history of the whole race is the history of each single soul combined and connected with that of all other souls. Here is a marvel and a wonder far surpassing anything that can be found in the material universe, because souls are free, and the elements are not free. All this is to be revealed to us at the Last Day, hence we may truly say that we are in a certain sense to judge, not only one another, as we shall do when the whole of the secrets of each single heart are made manifest to all; not only angels, for, as St. Paul says, we shall then know not merely the whole history of men like ourselves, but that also of the…

"IMPATIENCE is one of the most foolish of all faults. It gains nothing for us; it does not relieve our sufferings, but aggravates them. No one enjoys any peace as long as he is yielding to feelings of impatience; he is discontented, miserable, uneasy. He finds intolerable what he could bear well enough if only he would make the necessary effort, and gulp down the rising irritation or suppress the angry words. He is always in a fever, and is a nuisance to himself and to all around him. Do not I know this by experience? If not, I must thank God for giving me so happy a disposition. "Impatience is also one of the most ridiculous of all faults. There is something laughable and contemptible in the fuming of the impatient man over some trifle, in his rage because he cannot overcome some difficulty or have his own way as he desires. An impatient man always makes a bad impression. If I could see myself as others see me when I give way to impatience, I should be thoroughly ashamed and very careful not to make myself so foolish again." --- from Patience, Meditations for a Month, by Richard F. Clarke, S.J.,  

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JEFF GREEN describes the final weeks of his 98-year-old grandfather's life: He practically begged me to call the ambulance. I knew what this would mean. He would now be subjected to dangerous medical treatments that would very likely damage or kill him. When the EMTs arrived, they picked him up and he stood up with their help. One of the EMTs said, “If his hip is broken, I would be very surprised.” He turned out to be partially right. In the ER, he was initially asked if he had been vaccinated for 'COVID', tetanus, and so forth. I told them no. In fact, he had not been vaccinated in nearly 25+ years or so. The nurse informed me of the dangers of tetanus complications from surgery, but I continued to reaffirm to her that he did not need any vaccines. He had to be transferred to the ER in a larger hospital out of town, about 25 miles away. They did not do such procedures here locally. Once we arrived there, one of the head doctors there described to us that he would need surgery. I asked, "Is surgery absolutely necessary for him?" She described to me that he would need a rod placed into his femur. After the initial x-rays of the leg, I found out that he merely had a hairline fracture, not a complete break, which I had suspected all along. The surgeon came into the room. He…

FROM Thuletide on Telegram: Friendship in the 1990s vs friendship today: More "connected" than ever before, but more alone. Two major factors are to blame for this: Left-Wing politics and modern technology. Every single agenda pushed by the Left (multiracialism, anti-family, anti-religion, anti-traditional culture) fragments society, destroys cohesion, increases isolation, decreases trust, and so on. It's basically a recipe for making people lonely and miserable. In addition to this, the psychotic behavior of modern Leftists (snitching on their friends and family, ruining lives for the tiniest of thought crimes) has created a culture of distrust, similar to the USSR. The technological aspect is straightforward: We've all sat in a restaurant and noticed tables full of people silently staring down at their mobile phones. Social media provides simulated friendship, the internet provides endless escapism, more people are working remotely, etc., etc.  

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