MANY readers have written to me over the years to say how much they enjoy the posts of “Alan,” my correspondent from St. Louis who has never lost his love for his home city or his indignation over the decline of the little, wholesome pleasures. 

I wrote to Alan a few weeks after the Covid shutdown began because I hadn’t heard from him and was concerned about his welfare. He wrote back and told me he had no access to the Internet because of the closure of the local library. He referred to the general situation as a “nightmare.”

I hope to hear from him again soon. In the meantime, here is a post by him from March of 2012.

ALAN writes:

The descent of modern culture into decadence can be traced through much of American popular music.

It was common fifty and sixty years ago to hear new songs that reflected virtues like honor, hope, optimism, romance, loyalty, good-natured humor, and the joy to be found in simple pleasures. All of that music incorporated a set of virtues that added up to what Ayn Rand called “a benevolent sense of life.”

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COVID-19 is a mass ritual, conditioning human beings for a radically new future, a surveillance society like nothing the world has ever known. This video is an excellent exploration of the psychological operation and that new society. Watch now because this video will be disappearing.

(One correction: Polio and measles were under control before introduction of vaccines.)

Thanks to Sara.

Abbey of Valmagne

“HE WHO has read the lives of the ancient fathers of the desert without being touched, without feeling profound admiration, and being filled with grave and lofty thoughts; he who, treading under his feet with indifference the ruins of an ancient abbey, has not called up in fancy the shades of the cenobites who lived and died there; he who passes coldly through the corridors and cells of convents half-demolished, and feels no recollections, and not even the curiosity to examine — he may close the annals of history, and may cease to study the beautiful and the sublime. There exist for him no historical phenomena, no beauty, no sublimity; his mind is in darkness, his heart is in the dust.”

— Jaime Luciano Balmes (1810-1848), Protestantism and Catholicity: Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe. Library of Alexandria. (Kindle Edition.)

“A LOYAL READER” writes:

I have enjoyed Peggy Hall’s videos on mask confusion.  She shares the latest Pacific NW wackiness which has unfortunately spread through this country faster than Covid.  Her local health departments “exempting” “LGBTQ, homeless, and people of color” from wearing masks because these groups are “marginalized” is the government’s way of admitting to those who care to listen the true reason for its requiring masks in the first place.  It has NEVER been about anyone’s health.  It is a way of segregating and MARGINALIZING those who are compliant from those who are not.  Evil will always tell you what it is doing.  The fact that the government admitted this is yet another dead canary in the coal mine.

I read a comment on another blog recently with a commenter’s four words in response to all of these unlawful mandates.  I WILL NOT COMPLY.  He also quoted 2 Tim. 1:7, “For God hath not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”  This has been on his heart from day one of the “crisis.”  My sentiments exactly! Read More »

FOUND on Twitter:

“From the Masonic French Revolution to the present day, the revolutionary Left, both Liberal and Marxist, has always been used to empower the kabbalistic globalist oligarchy that is headed by international finance.

“From a purely materialist perspective, “Woke Left” is simply the next logical step in this evolution. the oligarchy no longer needs revolutionaries to depose any national state leader, but to relentlessly disrupt its conquered serfs to prevent counter-revolution.

“This is one of the main reasons they’re currently destroying every foundation upon which a strong nation is built – family, religion, national spirit, culture, hierarchy, health, etc.

“You can’t overthrow an oppressive oligarchy with a nation of these:”
 

AT Winter Watch, a writer who claims to be a black man does a nice job of revealing the divide-and-conquer agenda:

As an African-American male, I am deeply appalled at the divide-and-conquer agenda we’re seeing in film and television. They are putting out films that portray black history as “unfair” and “vengeful” against whites. They are trying to incite blacks like me into aggression vs whites. Propaganda 100%.

If you don’t know by now, the MSM and TPTB (The Powers to Be) are in the final stages of their New World Order. In this phase, they are orchestrating a massive “collapse” of society, in which a “new order” will be offered to the masses as a way to usher in stability and order again.

This collapse has a few main elements to it. [cont.]

“CASES” are climbing. That’s because more people are being tested as they go back to work. But there is no significant increase in deaths.

Heather Mac Donald reports at The Spectator:

Since April 24, the daily case count started declining, then began rising again after around June 9. What virtually every fear-mongering story on America’s allegedly precarious situation leaves out, however, is the steadily dropping daily death numbers — from a high of 2,693 on April 21 to 808 on June 24. That April high was driven by New York City and its environs; those New York death numbers have declined, but they have not been replaced by deaths in the rest of the country. This should be good news. Instead, it is no news.

[…]

There are no crises in hospital capacity anywhere in the country. Nursing homes, meat-packing plants, and prisons remain the main sources of new infections. Half the states are seeing cases decline or hold steady. Case counts are affected by more testing; the positive infection rate captured by testing is declining. The current caseload is younger, which is a good thing. The more people who have been infected and who recover, the more herd immunity is created. Meanwhile, daily deaths from heart disease and cancer — about 3,400 a day combined — go ignored in the press.

FROM an article by Gary D. Barnett:

The idea of killing off large segments of the population is nothing new, as eugenics has been a desire of the elite since ancient Greece and Rome, but the actual term eugenics was not first used until 1883 by Sir Francis Galton. As time passed and human progress accelerated during the early 20^th century, the popular term eugenics lost its previous popularity among the herd, and was relegated to secret meetings of the eugenicists of the time. Although the elite’s desire to control life and death did not diminish, the manner in which it was discussed was forced to change. Today, population control is a euphemism for eugenics, and is a term that can be manipulated to promote ideas not readily accepted by the masses. Evil and deceitful people have changed little, but the ways in which they promote their ideas have become much more sophisticated. Real agendas are mostly hidden and certainly more sinister than imagined.

George Bernard Shaw thought that many people would have to be put out of existence because it wastes other people’s time (and money) to look after them. Isn’t that the feeling today by the ruling class concerning the old and weak during this fraudulent pandemic created for the purpose of gaining total control over all populations? Has not this practice of eliminating certain segments of the population been firmly in place since the beginning of this fake coronavirus scam? Which parts of the American populace have been targeted for death since the inception of this false crisis? It has been the old and infirmed, the poor, the weak of mind, and minorities, especially in the inner cities like New York.

In my opinion, nursing homes and long-term care facilities have become the hotbed of murder by the state, and many forced to be in those types of institutions have been purposely targeted for extermination, albeit under the guise of protecting them by forcible isolation, which led to little or no medical care. Depending on state or country, once a single symptom or two of so-called Covid-19 was said to exist in one patient, the entire establishment was considered infected. Because of this mandate, few, if any, would be allowed admittance to hospitals for general care, and none for Covid. This was in essence a death sentence for any that were sick from any ailment in these care homes.  In these circumstances, the death rates at nursing homes and senior centers have escalated dramatically, and with any planned second phase, even a higher level of orchestrated death in these types of places will occur. This is a travesty.

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THE C-virus likes parties, but not protests.

It seems to have strong political feelings.

Jules Breton: The Feast of Saint John; 1875

THE tradition of communal bonfires on June 24 in honor of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist has never been widely observed in this country. It’s a shame, partly because bonfires are so much fun but mostly because of the effects of these fires on the soul. They uplifted and cheered. They spoke of happiness and the light that unites human beings.

The custom has its earliest origins in pagan celebrations of the summer solstice. Skeptics will say “Aha!” when they find that a Christian feast has its roots in pagan culture. Holidays are just made up, they say, and change with human whim. But it is fitting that celebrations would evolve to reflect greater human knowledge. God has revealed Himself gradually, not all at once.

Christ said that John the Baptist was a “a burning and a shining light” (Jn 5:35) and hence the custom of bonfires in honor of his birth by the barren Elizabeth and the blind Zachary was born. Tradition in Action has background on the custom:

The fires were traditionally lit at the moment that the sun set, except for in the far Northern countries where the sun would not set on this night. St. John’s fires were lit all over Christendom from Russia to South America on every mountaintop, hilltop, valley, seashore and fiord. In cities, old furniture would supply the fuel for fires that lit every street. How glorious is this tribute to the Saint outside of whom no greater born of woman exists.

In many places, these fires would be lit in a chain starting at one mountaintop or coast; then, the same flame was carried to other fires throughout a region.

In Catalonia, all of the village fires are lit from a fire started on the mountain of Canigó. From this fire lit in the evening, other torches are lighted and carried throughout the region, but first to Barcelona where the flame carrier is received with all due pomp by the city officials. After the ceremony, its flame is used to light various torches that are given to representatives of each district to light all the fires in the city.

Before the French Revolution, every man, woman and child – be he the King himself or the lowliest peasant – supplied some sort of fuel for the fire, even if it were only a tiny twig.

In some places, a burning wheel was rolled along the streets to represent the movement of the sun. In others fireworks were set off. If we cannot have these happy events ourselves now, we can try to restore them in our own lives or look back with gladness at customs that filled the human heart and imagination with hope and the beauty of summer, knowing that they represent a beneficent God who looks out for us still. We can honor the saint who lives eternally and was “a burning and shining light” to all.

THE FLOWER
—  by George Herbert

How fresh, oh Lord, how sweet and clean
Are thy returns! even as the flowers in spring;
To which, besides their own demean,
The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring.
Grief melts away
Like snow in May,
As if there were no such cold thing.

Who would have thought my shriveled heart
Could have recovered greenness? It was gone
Quite underground; as flowers depart
To see their mother-root, when they have blown,
Where they together
All the hard weather,
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THE WEBSITE of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is truly a motherlode of information about the vast social and economic changes that are now being “operationalized.”

If you want powerful evidence that this winter’s outbreak of a strong seasonal flu, billed as a catastrophic, world-changing pandemic, was a pretext for implementing a whole new level of global governance — a system planned well in advance — go to the website’s “Covid Action Platform.” I guarantee you, spending a bit of time here will enlighten you. But please bear in mind that the Covid Action Platform was already in place in January. This powerful coalition of private and public leaders based in Davos, Switzerland has obviously been working on this plan for years.

“What they had to do is bring the whole world to a standstill so they could inject the global governance,” says Celeste Solum, who has studied the WEF plan. “It will be titrated out a little bit … but we are on the fast track of global governance right now.” The purpose of the plan is “to galvanize the business community” to follow the plan.

Once you get to the website, you’ll find in the center of the Covid Action Platform page a large corona graphic, a sun emitting rays of subtopics from the main topic in the center. Click on any subtopic and you will be taken to another corona sun, with a new set of rays. Click on any one of the subtopics here and you will be taken to another corona sun, with a new set of rays. Click on any subtopic and you will get to another corona sun …. and on and on. There are hundreds of layers to each main topic, so well conceived is the system that is now being implemented. (In order to see the entire plan, you have to create an account.)

You will learn exactly what the “Great Reset” and the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” are. You will learn about a future with drones, genetic engineering, socialized healthcare, digital identities, behavioral modification with positive reinforcement, travel restrictions, vaccines, open borders, curtailed driving, greater surveillance, remote commerce, dramatically changed workplaces and a climate action revolution. You’ll learn about the “Internet of Things” and the “Circular Economy.” You will see “Pope” Francis’s name repeatedly and you will come across buzzwords from U.N. Agenda 21, especially the ominous term, “sustainable development” — that’s sustainable for nature not human beings. You will be told that the elimination of national sovereignty is absolutely necessary.

Global governance is a means to manage issues that cut across national borders – whether it is a pandemic, financial crisis, or geo-economic dispute. Though traditionally centred on diplomacy and international organizations, a wide variety of public and private actors now engage in cross-border governance – and the work itself has expanded beyond treaty-making to include formal and informal monitoring, enforcement, and financing. Effective governance is essential to secure peaceful, healthy, and prosperous societies, particularly now amid the COVID-19 outbreak and widespread nationalist backlash against globalization. [emphasis added]

It’s not that the world planners at the World Economic Forum don’t sympathize with those who find that government control of so many aspects of life chilling. It writes on an “anti-globalism” tab: Read More »

JOHANNA writes:

I feel like I should have some T-shirts made saying, “Wearing a mask is dangerous to your health” on the front and “I take responsibility for anything I might catch from you” on the back. Read More »