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COVID and George Floyd consumed the deep state over the past year. But now that mass inoculations are well on their way, it turns its attention again to mass shootings, a favorite means of promoting fear, division, distraction and gun control. It was only a matter of time. They gotta get those guns. They gotta keep you tense and begging for more security. I have not studied the Boulder shooting, but the default position on these events should always be, they are staged until proven otherwise. The smiling actors, ketchup-colored blood, phony wounds, lousy scripts, brazen violations of emergency protocols, the made-for-TV villains found within minutes, the Hollywood celebrities calling for gun control — it’s all so incredibly tedious and predictable. Where once the fakery was shocking, now it’s boring, though none the less treasonous and evil. The people behind this stuff, who actually think they’re good at it, are the lowest of the low, the scum of the earth. They will not, in the end, get away with their lies.

Americans deserve this for having surrendered themselves to an amoral system and mass entertainment. This is a theater with no exits. Or to switch analogies, this is a roller coaster you can’t get off. It prevents people from  focusing on the important issues, such as being systematically ripped off by the government, both political parties and the financial establishment; such as children being spiritually (and now physically) suffocated in schools; such as the billionaires raking in more profits while small businesses close. Buy some popcorn with the stimulus check, sucker, and watch the surround-sound political theater.

Staged mass shootings are the modern equivalent of the gladiator shows in the Roman Colosseum. Watching people get torn apart in front of your very eyes is distracting! It’s perfect entertainment for a world of slaves. But, believe it or not, these are much more evil than the gladiator shows. They are based on lies. Liars can be much more dangerous than murderers.

Oh, the nonsense never ends. From Activist Post:

In case you haven’t noticed, after taking a hiatus during the COVID-19 lockdowns, mass shootings are back in the limelight and the establishment media can’t wait to use them to their advantage. In fact, they have already started.

One of our researchers here at the Free Thought Project, Don Via, Jr. discovered an oddity this week consisting of headlines that were identical in content but written for various states and published by entirely different news outlets. If you Google, “mass shooting surge,” you will be returned results with exactly the same headlines, but for different states.

The headline reads follows: “Mass shootings surge in South Carolina as nation faces record high.” As you continue to scroll down the results, you see this exact same headline for other states like Florida, North Carolina, New York, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Colorado, Louisiana, Arkansas, Illinois, Michigan, and others.

Buckle your seatbelt. They want those guns. (Or maybe they just want you to buy more guns because these things are great for business.) They want to destroy the capacity for rational thought. Most of all, they want you complicit in the lies. They want your soul, sucker.

“SECULARISM is, in its way, a religion to itself, and it is a religion that cannot tolerate infidels or heretics. …. this is by no means an accident, a mere byproduct of the passion and folly to which every human being succumbs from time to time. For secularism is, necessarily and inherently, a deeply irrational and immoral view of the world, and the more thoroughly it is assimilated by its adherents, the more thoroughly do they cut themselves off from the very possibility of rational and moral understanding. Moreover, and for this very reason, its adherents unavoidably find it difficult, indeed almost impossible, to perceive their true condition. The less they know, the less they know it.”

— Edward Feser, The Last Superstition, a Refutation of the New Atheism

SEE clips from the many street protests against the COVID scam this weekend. They took place in cities and towns around the world.

#BREAKING: Anti-Lockdown protests are raging across Europe. Watch as interactions between police & German protestors in Stuttgart & Kassel turn violent.https://t.co/M7lZalNsVN

— Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) March 20, 2021

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A 39-year-old Utah woman with no health problems died suddenly after getting her second Moderna COVID shot.

Interesting is the reaction of her doctor, her father and the state health officer: “So what? Accidents happen. Life is filled with risks.”

This is a conclusion they refuse to draw with an alleged flu that has a recovery rate of over 99 percent, in which case no risks whatsoever are acceptable, not even the risk of standing next to someone who is healthy.

“These vaccines are safe and effective and you know we certainly understand that there have been reports in the media of people who have died after receiving a shot,” Dr. Scott Harris, the state health officer, said.

Translation:

The vaccines are safe and effective, but they are not safe and effective.

Brazenly contradictory assertions such as this by people so deeply acclimated to deceptive salesmanship that they don’t even see themselves as liars have brought the entire world to its knees. Any state health officer who hasn’t quit or lost his job by now is a common criminal. COVID is a quasi-religious, pseudo-scientific cult founded on faith, not reason. It is especially suited to the materialistic mindset of Western society, where anyone who is successful at his professional job must be trustworthy. This mentality has created a swindler’s paradise. We are surrounded by “lying wonders” of biblical proportions. Read More »

Cornelius Jansenius (1585–1638) was the Dutch Catholic bishop of Ypres in Flanders and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism.

FROM the remarkable letters of the late William Strojie, who wrote during the 1970s and ’80s about the Revolution in the Catholic Church:

The Jansenist takes a dim view of God’s mercy; he expects that only a few will be saved, but feels quite certain that he will be one of those few (of the remnant or elect) who have earned the right to Heaven, mainly by his spiritual works.  This is what makes him frantic when Mass and Sacraments are no longer regularly available.  It is what makes him chase after those charlatans and cash operators who promise to provide a substitute church for him in our time. And he takes with him many good Catholics who are simply confused.  There are many degrees of that state of mind, soul and temperament, a kind of pietism, which I here call Jansenism.  It is, as most writers agree, a thing difficult to pin down, which I am not trying to do precisely.  My main purpose in all this is to alert some, who might read this paper, that it is possible to appear very Catholic without being quite so really.

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In the U.S., six or more traditionalist organizations are definitely Jansenistic.  They are impressively Catholic in the appearance of their chapels, as are their priests in the performance of the Mass; and generally in the publications it is difficult for Catholics unread in these matters to see where they deviate from the Catholic balance or center.  Read More »

“THERE has never been and never can be or will be a general Christian religion professed by men who all accept some central important doctrines, while agreeing to differ about others.  There has always been, from the beginning, and always will be, the Church, and sundry heresies either doomed to decay, or like Mohammedism, to grow into a separate religion.  Of a common Christianity there has never been and never can be a definition, for it has never existed.”

— Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

“THE name of liberty … seems condemned to be ill understood in all its applications. In the religious, moral, social, and political order, it is enveloped in such obscurity, that we can perceive the many efforts which have been made to darken and misrepresent it. Cicero gives an admirable definition of liberty when he says, that it consists in being the slave of law. In the same way it may be said, that the liberty of the intellect consists in being the slave of truth; and the liberty of the will in being the slave of virtue; if you change this, you destroy liberty. If you take away the law, you admit force; if you take away the truth, you admit error; if you take away virtue, you admit vice. If you venture to exempt the world from the external law, from that law which embraces man and society, which extends to all orders, which is the divine wisdom applied to reasonable creatures; if you venture to seek for an imaginary liberty out of that immense circle, you destroy all; there remains in society nothing but the empire of brute force, and in man that of the passions; with tyranny, and consequently slavery.

— Jaime Luciano Balmes, Protestantism and Catholicity: Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe (Library of Alexandria. Kindle Edition; Location 6071)

ALAN writes:

A year ago I could not have dreamed I would write what follows, but here it is.

Part of the fallout from the COVID Scare and the Totalitarian Lockdown are friendships destroyed and civil relations ended among family members.

One of my former friends and I have not spoken since last summer and I doubt we shall ever do so again, because he is a green light in response to virtually all official claims made about both and I am a red light.

But the following is about a different friend. Read More »

BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS, people were arrested if they walked into banks wearing face masks.

In the bad new days, they’re arrested if they walk into banks without face masks.

Here’s some commentary on the woman in Galveston who was tackled by a police officer and suffered a broken foot because she would not wear a face mask while trying to make a withdrawal at a Bank of America branch.

The woman was polite, posed no threat to anyone and could have been taken aside and served. Instead, she was treated like a dangerous, gun-wielding criminal — another case of Covid Cruelty.

                                Christ Carrying the Cross, Martin Schongauer (1475-1480)

FROM St. Thomas Aquinas’s Meditations for Lent:

Christ assumed human nature in order to restore fallen humanity. He had therefore to suffer and to do, according to human nature, the things which could serve as a remedy against the sin of the fall.

Man’s sin consists in this that he so cleaves to bodily goods that he neglects what is good spiritually. It was therefore necessary for the Son of God to show this in the humanity He had taken, through all He did and suffered, so that men should repute temporal things, whether good or evil, as nothing, for otherwise, hindered by an exaggerated affection for them, they would be less devoted to spiritual things. Read More »

AN amazing development:

Prosecutors in Italy have launched a manslaughter investigation after a music teacher there died hours after getting the controversial AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

Sandro Tognatti, 57, got jabbed in his hometown of Biella on Saturday afternoon and went to bed that night with a high fever, his wife, Simona Riussi, told Italian media.

She called an ambulance the next morning but the clarinetist could not be saved, she said.

Prosecutors in the northern Italian region of Piedmont opened the probe into his death later that day, according to the Italian wire service Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA).

They also seized nearly 400,000 shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine from the same batch.

The Centers for Disease Control have received reports of almost 1,400 people (1,394 to be exact) who died shortly after getting Covid vaccines in this country. That’s according to the Vaccine Adverse Event database. The number is likely much higher; the system for reporting is weak and entirely voluntary. And yet no prosecutor has, as far as we know, investigated any of these deaths.

Any other drug would have been pulled from use by now, especially one that has  not received full authorization by the Food and Drug Administration. (The swine flu vaccine was pulled after less than 100 people came down with neurological paralysis.) Not only have these drugs not been pulled, but the president himself has threatened those who won’t submit to them.

Wow, you have to be a real conspiracy denier not to see something amiss with this.

“OUR souls are the temple of God, created and sanctified by God to the end that he might dwell there. He would have nothing to be in them which is unworthy of their destination. This is the Season for self-examination; and if we have found that any passions are profaning the sanctuary of our souls, let us dismiss them; let us beseech our Lord to drive them out by the scourge of his justice, for we, perhaps, might be too lenient with these sacrilegious intruders. The day of pardon is close at hand; let us make ourselves worthy to receive it.”

— Dom Prosper Guéranger, Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent; The Liturgical Year 

S.B. writes:

Did you watch the president’s speech last night? (If you can call him president, I mean.) It was a total push for ALL Americans to be vaccinated.  A total psy-op, like it’s your duty to get this injection, and if you want things to go back to normal, you will do it for the sake of your fellow Americans. “I need you” to be on board with this, etc…. I can see where this is going: scapegoating of the “vaccine deniers.”  We will be pushed out of society.

My cousin in Washington state got vaccinated, age 65, supposedly so he could travel again and see his grandchildren.  Hospitalized this week, and organs shut down, he is now in hospice. and not expected to live long … Others I know have gotten it, but not experienced the same severe reaction. Read More »

ALAN writes:

More than thirty years ago I worked in an antiquarian bookshop in St. Louis. By no means was it a “respectable” job. But by no means was I a respectable person. Since 1966, I had been an outlier, a dissident, a misfit who wanted no part of the speed and frenzy of modern life.

The bookshop occupied an old building five stories high. There were thousands of books on all floors, but only the first two floors were open to customers. There were hundreds of old magazines, bound journals, phonograph records, sheet music, postcards, comic books, and ephemera.

At one time the building was a Drug House. Or so it said in advertisements for the pharmacists who worked there. In later years, it was occupied by shoe companies and costumers.

The building next door had once been the Loew’s State Theater, a movie palace with carpeted staircases.  In its early years, a parrot and a macaw greeted visitors as they walked into the lobby.  It was aglow with moviegoers and excitement on the night in 1944 when the motion picture “Meet Me in St. Louis” was shown there for the first time anywhere.

The bookshop was the oldest and largest in St. Louis, dating from the 1930s.  An acquaintance once said to me, “I’ve heard good things and bad things about that place.” I said to him:  Both are true.  Read More »

AT the Gare du Nord in Paris on March 4, 2021.
 

THE OTHER DAY I went for a walk in the late-winter sunshine on a day mellow with melting snow and almost invisibly budding trees, in a neighborhood of old, Victorian houses beautifully and expensively maintained.

On a side street, I saw a little girl of about three years old.

She was walking with her mother and baby brother. The young mother looked me full in the face and smiled. I think she was so serene and happy to be out with her two children on a nice day that she forgot she was supposed to be worried and anxious when another person approached.

One could not help but be deeply uplifted by the sight of her.

Her baby was quiet in his carrier and her adorable daughter, with an absurd, wobbly puffball on her hat and fuzzy mittens, was still so new to walking that she was clearly proud of it. Her beaming smile and knowing side glance said, “And you thought I could only be carried!” Her little boots clomped on the sidewalk with each step.

They stopped at a child-sized basketball net in a driveway. A man of about 40 years old came out of the house to pick up the trash cans on the curb.

“Hey, Darby!” he shouted to the little girl. “How are you doing with your slam-dunks?” Read More »