SERIOUS physical illness exists out there, but the social manifestation of COVID is overwhelmingly mental.

SB writes:

It was a tiny, old, one-story building with foggy windows that looked closed. The place was near the corner of a nondescript commercial side street on the outskirts of town. I found it while walking with my oldest daughter as we waited on the day before Christmas for her sister to stand outside with a mask in a long line to get (another) ear piercing (viruses only live inside small places with too many people).

The “open” flag hung outside. As I entered the warm shop on a grey winter day, my face shield and glasses also fogged up, and I could not see. I removed them apologetically to wipe them off, finding a gentle older shopkeeper with impeccable English surrounded by foods and crafts from her native Poland. She wore no mask. I explained that it was hard to see, and she, without missing a beat, said it’s been hard for all of us to see. Read More »

The Holy Night (The Nativity), Carlo Maratti; 1650s

I WISH you peace and joy this Christmas day.

May God’s love for our frail human nature give you courage and hope.

“ONE Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

“All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing sea, and out come Mrs. Prothero and the firemen.

“It was on the afternoon of the Christmas Eve, and I was in Mrs. Prothero’s garden, waiting for cats, with her son Jim. It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers.”

— Dylan Thomas, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”

“DURING this Octave before Christmas, monks in medieval monasteries would receive extra treats or gifts each day. At the Saint Benedict Abbey of Fleury (now Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire), the antiphons were recited each day by monks of different rank beginning with the Abbott.

“When the chanting was finished, one monk would offer a gift to each of his fellow monks. Often the gift would be associated with the antiphon of the day.

“The monk assigned to December 19 might have been the gardener so that he could give a gift from the garden in honor of Our Lord the ‘Root of Jesse’ (O Radix Jesse). The Abbott would always give the gifts on the last day of the O Antiphons (December 23), and his gifts were often very generous.

“Medieval expense records show that the foodstuff the Abbott brought to the table on this day of the Expectation were no meager gifts.”

— “The Golden Nights,” Rachel L. Lozowski

IF YOU haven’t listened to this recent speech about COVID by Dr. Igor Shepherd, a KGB defector who was until recently employed by the Wyoming Department of Health, I urge you to listen to it now. Shepherd describes the Communist subversion behind the global pandemic operation, which he says involves active participation by the Neo-Soviets and Chinese. He says the COVID vaccines are bioweapons. “This took a lot of years for them to prepare for this moment today in the United States and global(ly). It’s a global mission to bring global Communism into every corner of this land,” Dr. Shepherd says. “… The planned destruction of the United States right now is going full speed. And vaccines play a major role in this.” The mRNA vaccines are relatively new bioweaponry. Dr. Shepherd has valuable experience that confirms this theory and knows a great deal about the technical details, including information about Pfizer, one of the major producers of the COVID vaccines.

I was concerned that Shepherd might not be legitimate, but Charlotte Iserbyt, who has studied Soviet activity in America for many years, believes he is. That’s a strong recommendation. She points out in a recent interview with Jeff Rense the total lack of coverage of what he has said in the mainstream news. (It’s still odd that this speech has been left uncensored on Youtube. Here’s another link to the video if it is taken down.)

Shepherd’s website Stop the Vaccine has loads of information.

In related news, 32 doctors warn against taking the vaccine.

One hundred medical doctors and scientists have signed a letter stating that Vitamin D deficiency is strongly linked to reported fatalities from COVID: Read More »

THE more people are required to wear masks, the sicker they are.

ALAN writes:

IN 1963 the philosopher Anthony Ludovici wrote:

“I was alone [ in 1918 ] in pointing out that the dominance of women must culminate in an era of ramping anarchy, and I made myself extremely unpopular for so doing.  I saw this dominance increasing long before Parliament granted women the suffrage.   …..That feminine dominion must consequently lead to a general decline in discipline, law and order, should have been recognized by all well-informed leaders of society.  Yet we have seen the era of indiscipline and laisser-aller come about, with all its accompanying symptoms of increasing crime, raging juvenile delinquency and general social anarchy in all classes of the community….

“Over two centuries ago, Montesquieu certainly maintained on historical grounds that….‘Where women set the tone, a nation is lost.’ But who today pays any heed to ancient wisdom?…”

Mr. Ludovici wrote these observations in an essay aptly titled “Feelings Masquerading as Thoughts.”

Half a century later, feminists are working overtime to prove Mr. Ludovici was right and to help advance the Revolution by doing their part to weaken Western Civilization.  Stay tuned because it will get much worse if Harris becomes president. Read More »

EIGHT years ago last week, on December 14, 2012, 26 people, including 20 children, were allegedly shot and killed in a matter of a few minutes at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who despite this alleged display of astonishing marksmanship was so physically inept that he could not, according to his father, tie his own shoes.

An army of citizen journalists has arisen since then to challenge the Sandy Hook event, which many claim was political theater aimed at gun control. There is no hard evidence that anyone died at Sandy Hook and there is a great deal of evidence that no one did.

This video presents some of the most outstanding research and the case against the official story.

The children who allegedly died that day were never taken to the hospital, as is standard emergency procedure (even in cases of lethal gunshot wounds). Their bodies supposedly lay rotting for many hours in the school and no parents were admitted inside. Ambulances and EMT’s also waited outside and never did a thing. Despite this glaring negligence, the parents, many of whom were actors or had been previously affiliated with the government, the Democratic Party and the Council for Foreign Relations, never filed lawsuits and instead became smiling political celebrities visibly basking in interviews on national TV and traveling the country, advocating gun control and new surveillance of the “mentally ill.” A fundraising page was put up on the Internet by the United Way of Connecticut before the event occurred. In the immediate aftermath, laws were rushed through the Connecticut legislature permanently prohibiting access to crime records and before the event, a law prohibiting public access to pediatric autopsies was passed.

Tens of millions of dollars in government funds and donations have gone to the families of the alleged victims, the police and emergency responders, and the Newtown school district.

No story has been more brazenly censored on the Internet and elsewhere than this. That censorship will never deter those who are outraged, determined and armed with facts.

This story terrorized the nation and made millions of children afraid they might be shot at school. It will not go away.

If democracy exists in America, it exists in the grassroots, independent media that battles the commercialized juggernaut of fake news and the political forces engaging in open deception and psychological warfare. Still, for most Americans, the possibility that this massacre was staged and no one died is far more disturbing than the possibility that 20 children were murdered. Much more has been uncovered that casts serious doubts on the alleged events at Sandy Hook, but this video provides some key basics.

 
I Believe in Father Christmas (Song by Gregory Lake)

They said there’ll be snow at Christmas
They said there’ll be peace on earth
But instead it just kept on raining
A veil of tears for the virgin birth
I remember one Christmas morning
A winter’s light and a distant choir
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas tree smell
And their eyes full of tinsel and fire

They sold me a dream of Christmas
They sold me a silent night
And they told me a fairy story
‘Till I believed in the Israelite
And I believed in father Christmas
And I looked to the sky with excited eyes
‘Till I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn
And I saw him and through his disguise

I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish, pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there’ll be snow at Christmas
They said there’ll be peace on earth
Hallelujah, Noel be it heaven or hell
The Christmas we get we deserve

FROM Kit Knightly At OffGuardian:

The World Health Organization released a guidance memo on December 14th, warning that high cycle thresholds on PCR tests will result in false positives.

While this information is accurate, it has also been available for months, so we must ask: why are they reporting it now? Is it to make it appear the vaccine works?

The “gold standard” Sars-Cov-2 tests are based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR). PCR works by taking nucleotides – tiny fragments of DNA or RNA – and replicating them until they become something large enough to identify. The replication is done in cycles, with each cycle doubling the amount of genetic material. The number of cycles it takes to produce something identifiable is known as the “cycle threshold” or “CT value”. The higher the CT value, the less likely you are to be detecting anything significant. Read More »

A JOYFUL carol from 16th-century Spain.
 

Former Philippines President Benigno Aquino III attends the launch of the dengue vaccine in 2016. Credit: Malacañang Photo Bureau

“A GOOD example of a rushed vaccine was the dengue vaccine experiment — which actually increased the risks of dengue fever. Dengue fever is a common disease in more than 120 countries and, like coronavirus, has been the target for a vaccine for many years. The development and licensure of Dengvaxia® vaccine by Sanofi spanned more than twenty years and cost more than 1.5 billion US dollars. But the development of the vaccine turned out to be difficult. Dengue vaccine antibodies often made the infection worse — called “disease enhancement in vaccine-speak — especially in infants and children. When the vaccine was administered to thousands of children in the Philippines, at least six hundred died. The Philippine government has permanently banned the vaccine from the country.”

— Thomas Cowan and Sally Fallon Morell, The Contagion Myth: Why Viruses (including “Coronavirus) Are Not the Cause of Disease; pp. 133-34. Skyhorse Publishing, 2020.

Dengvaxia® was approved by the FDA for use in the United States in May, 2019.

I SAW this comment after a recording of this beautiful carol:

I grew up in California, pretty much an atheist. I lived in England for two years, and while singing in a choir in Sussex I had a kind of spiritual awakening while contemplating a chord progression of Bach from the Christmas Oratorio. I love Christmas in England.

And another commenter wrote back:

God is calling us all upward to dignity and rightness in Him.We feel this in music, we suspect it in darkness, but when we really see Him in the light and love that He is, we see how mistaken we have been. As it is written, the sun is always shining, but it is us who allow sin to cause a tiny moon to eclipse the enormous star. God be praised. God above all with Jesus Christ His only begotten son, who lives and reigns in the Holy Spirit. One God forever and ever, Amen.

Once in Royal David’s City

Once in royal David’s city,
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother laid her baby
In a manger for His bed:
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little child. Read More »

GOV. Tom Wolfe and his henchman, Health Secretary Dr. Richard Levine (aka “Rachel”), have apparently pushed their luck. Forcing many businesses to shut down just days before Christmas, when they were already crippled by months of closure, is not being accepted with the same passivity as their previous unconstitutional actions.

Dr. Richard Levine

Dozens of restaurants and gyms, more joining every day, are defying their latest orders to close down to all indoor business. A Facebook group Pennsylvania Opening Businesses/Defying Governor’s Orders has 50,000 members. As Natalie Wilhelm, owner of Jean Louis Bistro in Lebanon, wrote:

We shut down the first time but we simply cannot shut down a second time due to the huge hit it’s taken on our restaurant and staff who need to provide for their families as well. So happy to see so many others standing up and fighting back as well.

Wolf’s orders came months after a federal court declared his previous restrictions unconstitutional. Judge William Stickman IV’s decision is currently being appealed, but it was emphatic in its denunciation of the government’s actions. Stickman wrote:

[G]ood intentions toward a laudable end are not alone enough to uphold governmental action against a constitutional challenge. Indeed, the greatest threats to our system of constitutional liberties may arise when the ends are laudable, and the intent is good—especially in a time of emergency. In an emergency, even a vigilant public may let down its guard over its constitutional liberties only to find that liberties, once relinquished, are hard to recoup and that restrictions—while expedient in the face of an emergency situation—may persist long after immediate danger has passed.

Restaurant lives matter.