SHAUNA LINK, the mother of 28-year-old Haley Link Brinkmeyer who died in January two days after receiving the Moderna injection, recently testified in Indiana. "I can't describe the nagging pain I have with the lknowledge that her death, I feel, was in vain. I wake up every day with the same gut pain I had when we were told Haley passed, and the cycle starts all over again. And I'm only one person; there are so many similar stories."  

FROM Simon Shack at September Clues: [I]t should now be obvious to everyone that the invisible virus saga and the invisible global warming saga are, so to speak, intimately intertwined - as well as being the two current MASTER HOAXES used by the Nutwork (i.e. the "Powers-that-should-not-be") in order to fool, hypnotize and control this world's population.  

"CRITICAL RACE THEORY" is an offshoot of "critical theory" developed by the Frankfurt School of Jewish intellectuals such as Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm, to name two of many, who set about the task of deconstructing piece-by-piece Western society in the 20th century from their headquarters in California and New York City. Please avoid the term "critical race theory." It should be called, critical white race theory or simply anti-white theory. It is critical of only one race. This intellectual fad with its mind-bending jargon would be hilariously funny if people didn't actually believe in it and if it weren't actually being taught in schools and spread by major corporations in mandatory brain-washing sessions for employees. As it is, it's not funny at all. There's no question that it is laying the foundation for violence.  

CHARLOTTE ISERBYT expresses regrets for endorsing the new GOP governor of Virginia:

Who is the REAL Glenn Youngkin?

Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s new Governor, is a globalist (internationalist), not at all who Youngkin himself, the parents who are supporting him, and the controlled media have lead Virginians and Americans to believe. (more…)

A FAN begged the performer to stop the concert. From the audio, it sounds as if rap star Travis Scott paused for a moment, asked who wanted him to stop and then continued to perform. (Language warning.) According to another witness, the rapper paused several times, asked concertgoers to help the injured — and then continued to perform.

At least eight people were crushed to death at a Houston concert by Scott last night. The crowd there to enjoy the star’s obscene “music” totaled about 50,000 and when it surged forward toward the stage “scores” were injured. (more…)

[The first two parts of this essay on George Orwell’s 1984 are here and here.]

THOUGHT police, groupthink, thoughtcrime, unperson, memory hole, doublethink and Newspeak — these are words from the book 1984 that have become part of our vocabulary. The novel chillingly depicts psychological warfare through mass propaganda:

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed— if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. ‘Reality control’, they called it: in Newspeak, ‘doublethink’.

Here is the work of a masterful artist, transporting us into a vivid alternate reality, an unforgettably bleak vision of hell on earth.

Orwell, who was born Eric Blair, was a socialist. He was aware of what had happened in Russia. He told the author and producer Sidney Sheldon that the book was about life in Bolshevik regimes:

[Nineteen Eighty-Four] was based chiefly on communism, because that is the dominant form of totalitarianism, but I was trying chiefly to imagine what communism would be like if it were firmly rooted in the English speaking countries, and was no longer a mere extension of the Russian Foreign Office.

For good reason, Orwell despised the uniformity, ugliness and inhumanity of industrial capitalism too and many passages in 1984 are reminiscent of his writings on the working poor in England and France.

The main character Winston Smith is 39. He has grown up in London during a devastating war. He survives but his father, mother and sister were all taken away, never to be seen again. He painfully recalls his family:

The thing that now suddenly struck Winston was that his mother’s death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason. His mother’s memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return, and because somehow, he did not remember how, she had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that was private and unalterable. Such things, he saw, could not happen today. Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows. All this he seemed to see in the large eyes of his mother and his sister, looking up at him through the green water, hundreds of fathoms down and still sinking.

Privacy, love, and friendship — these are the casualties of collectivism and ideological fanaticism.

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 THE MONTH of November is dedicated to the holy souls in Purgatory. Prayers and daily reflections can be found here and here. "The first source or cause of a desire to be delivered from any state in life is, when that state is connected with great embarrassment and afflictions. Hence it is that the sick long so eagerly for the presence of the physician and for the medicine that will cure them; in like manner the starving long for bread and nourishment; the thirsty, for water; the poor, for the sentence of the judge, that will declare them heirs to riches, and save them from destitution. So also does the wayfarer upon the billows of the stormy ocean sigh for the port, yearn to reach the place where a happy future awaits him; and so does the prisoner in his dreary cell anxiously expect the hour of his delivery. How great, therefore, must not be the desire of the poor souls to be ransomed from Purgatory." --- Fr. Francis Xavier Weninger, 1876  

"THE Church today has the same desire as the Apostle thus expressed to the first Christians. The truth concerning the dead not only proves admirably the union between God’s justice and his goodness; it also inspires a charitable pity which the hardest heart cannot resist, and at the same time offers to the mourners the sweetest consolation. If faith teaches us the existence of a purgatory, where our loved ones may be detained by unexpiated sin, it is also of faith that we are able to assist them; and theology assures us that their more or less speedy deliverance lies in our power." --- Dom Prosper Gueranger, The Liturgical Year  

 TODAY is All Saints' Day. We praise and glorify our friends in heaven: "Question:" From your blissful thrones of glory Look on us, O ye elect; Tell us what repays your combat, Tell us what we may expect? "Answer:" Our delights no one can utter, Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard; Nor can mortals feel the pleasure, That for us God hath reserved. On praying to saints: "The saints are friends of God. They are like the angels in heaven. We honor them, not as we honor God, but on account of the relation they bear to God. They are creatures of God, the work of His hands. When we honor them, we honor God; as when we praise a beautiful painting, we praise the artist. We do not believe that the saints can help us of themselves, but we ask them to “pray for us.” We believe that everything comes to us “through Our Lord Jesus Christ.” With these words all our prayers end. It is useful, salutary, and reasonable to pray to the saints and ask them to pray for us. No doubt all will admit the reasonableness of this practice if the saints can hear and help us." Source  

[Part One of this essay can be found here.]

IN George Orwell’s famous novel 1984, the main character Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth, a colossal bureaucracy that disseminates lies. Smith is a bureaucrat playing a small part in the enormous task of editing and censoring published material in Oceania, one of three super-states, supposedly at war with each other but really working together, that comprise the globe. Oceania is ruled by the all-seeing dictator Big Brother.

Materials offensive to the Party are permanently deleted by Winston and his coworkers by being literally tossed down the “Memory Hole,” fed by a system of pneumatic tubes in the Ministry headquarters.

Winston first meets the main female character of the book in the hallways of the Ministry:

He did not know her name, but he knew that she worked in the Fiction Department. Presumably—since he had sometimes seen her with oily hands and carrying a spanner—she had some mechanical job on one of the novel-writing machines. She was a bold-looking girl, of about twenty-seven, with thick hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements. A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times round the waist of her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips. Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

Julia has noticed Winston and in time she surreptitiously passes him a note and requests a meeting. (more…)

He sat back. A sense of complete helplessness had descended upon him. To begin with, he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984. It must be round about that date, since he was fairly sure that his age was thirty-nine, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945; but it was never possible nowadays to pin down any date within a year or two. For whom, it suddenly occurred to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn. His mind hovered for a moment round the doubtful date on the page, and then fetched up with a bump against the Newspeak word DOUBLETHINK. For the first time the magnitude of what he had undertaken came home to him. How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him: or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless. ---  George Orwell, 1984. GEORGE ORWELL'S world-famous book 1984 has probably been quoted more often in the last two years than ever before -- and this bleak examination of life in a Communist-style, global dictatorship as experienced by one man is justifiably considered prophetic. Are we living in the incipient stages of a real life version of Orwell's 1984? Terms such as "alone together, "asymptomatic transmission," "anti-vaxxer," …