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,
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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.

I PREVIOUSLY wrote of a bird who knocked insistently at our front door just when we happened to be talking about him.

We see birds fly by our windows all the time. They live their busy lives parallel to ours. They peck and forage at the ground outside. But they occasionally appear — perhaps this is just projection — to tire of the great outdoors. They want in.

Is it possible that just as we wish we could fly, they wish they could sit in a chair? You know, the grass is always greener …

In fact, a little, chirping wren walked right in our back door a few months ago. After flying through the living room and up the stairs, into the bathroom and around the bed where my husband was peacefully snoring, he clearly had had enough and wanted to leave. The indoors might look intriguing from the other side of the window, but perhaps aren’t that interesting, from an avian perspective. Maybe the same thing would happen if we could soar through the sky. I don’t know, but I would like to try.

Here is the touching story of a cardinal who knocked at someone’s window. Robert Barrow writes:

As we removed the final assortment of clutter, preparing to lock the door for the last time and depart, I walked into the living room where my sister had died with the assistance of Hospice months ago — checking one more time — and my attention was suddenly beckoned to a large window on this breezy fall afternoon.

Sharing his efforts between the branches of a tree on which he perched off and on and the air in which he flapped about, pecking repeatedly at the glass, was a beautiful male cardinal, his reds and blacks amply displayed on his chubby, feathered bird body.

I called out to other family members, and one snapped a few photos (one is displayed here) as the bird seemingly attempted to enter the house, frustrated in its imminent failure.  Never had we witnessed this bird and his obvious desperation to gain entry — or, some would suggest, to deliver a message.

Bird psychology is not fully understood. Perhaps the cardinal wanted to sing a tune to cheer up this sad family.

Here is one for you — and for tender-hearted cardinals everywhere.

“AN elderly Canadian woman was killed by her doctor because she would rather be dead than go through another COVID lockdown. When it looked like she would have to be confined to her room for two weeks, she asked for — and received — the lethal jab due to declining mental health and vitality.”

— Wesley J. Smith, The National Review

 

OUR governments aren’t legitimate anymore. They have proclaimed war on humanity.

AUSTRIAN MP Michael Schnedlitz tested a glass of cola for COVID. The test was positive. I don’t have an English translation of his comments, but you get the idea. Papaya and water have also tested positive, proving something that has been widely known — the PCR test, which is the foundation of the COVID restrictions, is a fraud.

Remember this the next time you hear of the hundreds of thousands who have died of the virus.

IN PENNSYLVANIA, you can’t have dinner in a restaurant.

But you can participate in an orgy —- as long as you follow protocols supplied by Dr. Richard (aka “Rachel”) Levine, the state’s “health” commissar.

It’s amazing what a little hand sanitizer can do.

FROM an outstanding article at the American Institute for Economic Research by Daniel J. Boudreaux:

Tyranny, again, doesn’t happen to us. We, after all, are complying voluntarily with our leaders’ commands, knowing that these are for our own good. If we were suffering the oppression of tyrants, we’d resist. We are, don’t forget, a proud people. We are enlightened, democratic, and free. And so because the vast majority of us are not resisting our leaders’ current rule, this rule cannot possibly be tyrannical. Q.E.D.

Our leaders, in short, aren’t tyrants. They’re public servants who we must trust if we are to be saved.

Or, so all who are tyrannized conclude. Read More »

Two figures in the Vatican Nativity Scene, 2020

THE brutalist, post-modern Nativity scene erected in front of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome this year has created quite a stir. The outcry is the only good thing about it. At least, ugliness still causes pain. This is a scene of such grotesqueries that some are calling it an “anti-nativity.”

The most noticeable thing about this freakish display is that the figures don’t look human. They are monsters, robots, and depersonalized, vacant-eyed matryoshka dolls. It’s a fitting tribute then not to the sublime mysteries of Bethlehem, where human nature was elevated, but to the ugly, dehumanizing effects of totalitarianism, 2020-style.

Judge for yourself. Here’s a video of the unveiling of the scene and  photos, as well as a news round-up. Italian art historian Andrea Cionci wrote in an Italian daily (translation here):

“Forget the sweet face of the Madonna, the tender, luminous incarnation of the Child Jesus, the paternal sweetness of St. Joseph and the devout wonder of the shepherds. For the first time in the middle of Bernini’s colonnade, the Vatican has erected a brutally postmodern work dating back to the sixties.” It includes “a Muslim imam, a Jewish rabbi, an astronaut and even an executioner (as a symbol of protest against the death penalty) but only some of them have been exhibited.” Read More »

The Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi (detail), 16th century; New Cathedral, Salamanca

“O KING, whom our hearts desire, Lord Jesus Christ, come, we beseech thee, cleanse us as a furnace of fire from the dross of our sins, and make us like gold that is pure, and like silver that is without alloy. Inflame our hearts, by thy inspiration, that they seek thee unceasingly: so may our desires long with all ardour after thee,  and pant with all eagerness to be united with thee. Amen.”

— The Mozarabic Breviary, Friday of the second week of Advent, Capitula

“COMMUNISM is both a system of governance designed for micromanaging every aspect of society via massive centralization and police state, and a political scam designed to bamboozle plebs into killing who[m]ever their current elites are and putting the globalist kabbal in power.”

— SP Fan Account

SAMUEL added our order up on an old, battery-operated calculator. He wore a serious, business-like expression, as if to say, “I’m used to these money transactions.” Samuel was only 13. Surely, this must still be new to him.

That was the first time we went to his family’s farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to buy meat, milk, cheese and a few other things. We’ve been there a number of times since Lockdown America began, but yesterday was only the second-time that we were waited on by Samuel. He again pulled the calculator out of a drawer in the battered, metal desk and performed his accounting.

“I’ve seen you before,” he said, now less the businessman and more just a curious, skinny, brown-haired boy in muddy boots and pants. He walked with us out to the gravel parking lot.

“Would you like to see the animals?”

We said we would love to see them. Samuel then began an impromptu tour of his kingdom of fields still green in December and shabby, well-used buildings. Here was a kingdom so far from shuttered businesses, hand sanitizer dispensers, stolen elections and even inventions like the automobile as to seem on another planet.

Samuel is Amish and his father prides himself on not running a large, factory farm. There is no electricity or tractors. The cows are grass-fed and free-roaming. There are also chickens, pigs, rabbits and ducks. Goats, sheep, camel and water buffalo — all adding to the products sold here — are raised nearby. Lush vegetable gardens surround the large farm house in season. We passed a pony named “Glider” in a field and one of the family dogs. We headed to the pig barn.

If you have ever thought pigs do not richly deserve their reputation for being — well, pigs, I advise you to visit a small-scale farm like this. About 15 adult pigs were in a pen outside the barn, wallowing in thick, black mud and grunting loudly. You would think they were in a bed of liquid chocolate, not dirt, so happy and busy did they seem in their brown puddle. Samuel explained that they actually eat the mud. And some were indeed pushing the mud around with their huge snouts and shoveling it into their mouths. So this is what makes bacon taste so good.

I asked him if they ever were aggressive with each other. They sure looked scary and he said, yes, pigs do fight and sometimes kill each other. Ah, so Charlotte’s Webb does not tell the whole story. I never want to meet a pig in a back alley.

We went into the actual pig barn where there were at least 100 more pigs, the full grown ones separated from the small ones. The smell was overwhelming — argument enough, I would think, for the faint of heart to be vegan. I asked Samuel if he got used to the smell, and he just said matter-of-factly and without complaint, “Not really.”

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