TWO people were killed and 12 were injured at a party attended by college students in Texas.

You didn’t hear anything about it? That’s because the media is not very interested. Paul Kersey explains why. I hope the obvious agenda behind much publicity for mass shootings will help you keep future events in perspective.

INSIGHTS from George Neumayr at The American Spectator on the Amazon Synod and the Pachamama idols:

Under a post-Christian pope, the Vatican has lost both its mind and soul and thus has neither the rationality nor the faith to distinguish between good and bad in culture or religion. The relativism implicit in the refusal to make judgments about culture and the willy-nilly blending of religions is like an acid that burns through everything it touches; the Church has shriveled in proportion to its exposure to it. Unwilling to stand for anything, relativists prostrate themselves before everything, including Amazonian paganism.

What is presented to us as “cultural respect” is in fact contempt for culture — the careless condescension of liberals who reduce everything from the Pieta to Pachamama to the same meaningless level. Forbidden to make judgments about Amazonian culture, multiculturalists must treat everything in it as the same, which means they never truly appreciate what’s good in it. Read More »

ROBERT FRIEDMAN’S 2000 book Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America provides extremely important and, though almost 20 years old, timely background to the underworld of organized crime figures currently in the news.

From the book’s introduction:

In North America alone there are now thirty Russian crime syndicates operating in at least seventeen U.S. cities, most notably New York, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Denver. The Russians have already pulled off the largest jewelry heist and insurance Medicare frauds in American history, with a net haul exceeding $1 billion. They have invaded North America’s financial markets, orchestrating complex stock scams, allegedly laundering billions of dollars through the Bank of New York, and coolly infiltrating the business and real estate worlds.”The Russians didn’t come here to enjoy the American dream,” New York state tax agent Roger Berger says glumly. “They came here to steal it.

This book is must reading. I don’t know how else to put it: It will blow your mind.

ALAN writes:

Here are a few things I have seen since the year 2000:

— A jewelry store is selling “braclets.”

— Sign on movie theater building that is closed:  “CLOE.”

— Sign at meeting hall:  “Large crowd excepted.”

— Sign on church:  “Enterance.”

— I can find “RASIN BRAN” cereal on sale at Walgreens.

— A newspaper death notice reports that a woman has “joined the angles.”

— Sign at doctor’s office:  “No controlled drugs are kept on these premesis.”

— A Burger King restaurant is offering “Crossiants.” Read More »

E. MICHAEL JONES in this interview with Henrik Palmgren psychoanalyzes Greta Thunberg, the climate activist who became a star after going through a period of serious psychological turmoil. He speculates that her unhappiness and political activism were caused by her famous mother’s absence from the home.

“Greta’s sitting at home watching her Mommy get famous,” says Jones. “….What we see, I think, is the downside of Swedish feminism which is the children who are at home without Mommy.”

At the age of 11, when she is undergoing sex ed and sexual assault at school, Greta stops eating, which quickly draws her singer mother, Malena Ernman, back home, as described in the mother’s book, Scenes from the Heart. “It’s like Greta is on the train and she pulls the emergency brake, she’s on the train of Swedish social engineering and socialism and she says,’I’m not eating anymore.'”

It’s an interesting theory. Of course, children with mothers at home can develop mental problems too. But Jones makes the case that Greta created chaos to get her mother back. She refuses to eat anything but five gnocchi a day. Climate activism ultimately unites the family and imposes order “on a world that is completely out of control.”

One cannot help but feel compassion for this girl, her plight and the way she is used for a political agenda.  Swedish modern culture and its social gospel are driving its people insane.

Paula White-Cain, left, and Donald Trump

SOMETHING Greater: Finding Triumph Over Trials, is a memoir by Donald Trump’s “spiritual advisor,” Paula White-Cain, who prayed at his inauguration and is gearing up to support him for another round. Here is a little taste:

“The world knows my name, which I share with a thriving ministry that impacts millions worldwide.

“A soaring, powerful voice erupts from my petite frame on the stage. My blond hair is short, cut in a bob with bangs just above the eyebrows. My purple robe is loose and royal; my words are sharp and understandable. There is a rhythm to the sentences I use, a cadence to my words. There is an unexpected fire in my preaching.

“This true self is valuable and unchangeable. I have authentic wisdom to share with others.”

There’s no doubt this woman has real talent and that she went through difficult experiences in life. Shallow, materialistic, narcissistic and charismatic, Preacher Paula is the perfect spiritual match for Donald Trump.

Some people have too little confidence in God. And some people have far too much.

Tobias with the Angel Raphael, Pietro Perugino; 1500-05

“TOBIAS, one of the captive Jews at Ninive, a good and faithful servant of God, when old and blind, remembered that he had lent a sum of money to a relative named Gabelus, living in the city of Rages, in Media, and wished to send his son, the young Tobias, to collect it. But unwilling to send him alone, he bade him go and seek a travelling companion to bring him safely to the place of his destination and back again. Hardly had the youth gone into the streets of Ninive, where he lived, to seek one, when he saw a beautiful young man standing girded as if ready to set out on a journey. This youth, as will be seen, was St. Raphael. Tobias asked him who he was and if he knew the road to Rages. Raphael answered that he was the son of the great Ananias, and knew well the way to Rages, and had made his abode with Gabelus, an inhabitant of that city. Tobias rejoiced and told it to his parents, who called the youth before them, and asked him whether he would conduct their son to Rages and back again for fair wages. Raphael consented, promising to do as they desired.

The two youths then set out on their journey. After the first day’s march, Tobias rested on the bank of the river Tigris, and when he went to wash his feet in this river, an immense fish came suddenly up to devour him. When he called to his companion for help, Raphael told him to seize the fish courageously and draw him to land. Tobias did so ; after which Raphael told him to open the fish, take out the entrails, and keep the heart, liver and gall, as useful medicines. They continued their journey, and took lodgings in the house of Raguel, who was of the same tribe as Tobias and who had an only daughter, named Sara, whom Raphael advised Tobias to take to wife. Tobias feared to do this, as he had heard that Sara had already been given in marriage to seven husbands, all of whom had been killed by the devil. Raphael, however, said: “Hear me, and I will tell thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail. It is they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God from their heart and mind.”

Tobias exactly followed the directions of his holy companion, and remained unharmed.”

Today is the Feast Day of St. Raphael the Archangel. Read more about Tobias and the Archangel here. Prayers to St. Raphael, that great intercessor for healing of body and soul, can be found here and here.

Tobias and the Angel, Verocchio; 1470-1480

TOTAL American consumer indebtedness is over $13 trillion — and growing. Americans are more and more in debt.

They are in debt not because they are lazy and unproductive. To the contrary, they are in debt precisely because they are so productive. When a solid company is profitable, it distributes a dividend to its workers. When a modern nation is profitable, it sends its workers to the bank for loans.

Oliver Heydorn and Chas Pinwill explain why this is so and what the solution is: a national dividend. If you think this is a fantastic proposition in an age of skyrocketing taxes and mortgages, think again and try to understand the systemic problem. Indebtedness is harming the family, and it is worth considering solutions.

“President Nixon … said that the American people will never believe anything that they haven’t seen on television,” said Pinwill. “Now television has never told us that money creation has been stolen away from the public. It’s never told us that we’re profitable and we just don’t share the profit. These critical things are not discussed.”

You can read more about the social credit dividend here.

By the way, why do banks push multiculturalism so aggressively? (See Wells Fargo commercial below.) When people see themselves as rootless individuals, they don’t care as much about social problems. The issue of indebtedness is one of the common good.

A BRAVE man today threw pagan idols blessed by “Pope” Francis into the Tiber River, as shown in this video. Used by the indigenous tribes of the Amazon as part of their nature worship, the Pachamama idols, depicting a bare-breasted, pregnant woman, were near the altar of the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina in Rome. Catholics have been observed prostrating themselves before the image in front of “Pope” Francis.

Read more here about the incident, which has been dubbed “Splashamama” and called an episode of “theological racism.” 

The statue first appeared at a prayer ceremony in the Vatican Gardens on October 4 and has created a social media frenzy. On Saturday, the image was again present at the Via Crucis procession on Saturday, which included the participation of several bishops from the Synod on the Amazon.

Following the incident, Paolo Ruffini, the head of Vatican communications, repeated that the image resents “life, fertility, mother earth.”

Ruffini said the incident “seems to me to contradict the gesture of dialogue” that the Synod should represent. [Crux]

SHE’S too young to have been put in the limelight. But still this is a funny meme, thanks to Andy S.

1975: ‘global cooling’
1985: ‘acid rain’
1990: ‘hole in the ozone layer’
2004: ‘global warming’
2012: ‘climate change!
2015: ‘CO2′
2018: ’12 years to avert climate change catastrophe’
2019: ‘NO2’

And it’s all for one purpose: global government. Read More »

JOE A. writes:

Trump employs one of the oldest object-counters used in salesmanship, probably older than written language: Agree. And Forget.

Most people do not want to be “sold” or told what to do. They want to demonstrate personal agency and therefore combat the seller. An easy way to diffuse that nervous emotional energy is simply to agree with whatever the prospect says. Let him get it off his chest. Then promptly “forget” it completely and pick up where you left off in your closing effort.

Few sales prospects will remember and fewer will care. They will instead buy from you as this simple act defuses their ability to object.

Always give Trump three days before judging anything he says. Better yet wait to see what he does. So far, he has not followed through on any of “cave ins” or flip flops or consortings with the enemy. But he has taken the winds out of many Marxist-Socialist sails in his three years. Read More »

THE communists represent the most concentrated formation of evil in human history. We cannot for a moment accept the official communist and post-communist propaganda that this most powerful negative power ceased to exist and disappeared without a trace in 1989. The communist bloc ruled and still rules 1/4 of this Planet and 1/3 of its population.

The Communist International, connected with the KGB, used to operate in all countries of the world. The degree of civilization’s moral decline exactly corresponds with a very real achievement of the Communist International. Their communist system is being built, as they always claimed, “forever and never any different.” Communist states are criminal enterprises. There is nothing easier than to prove that the same is true of the post-communist states. If communism was really defeated and higher moral values came to power, then we need to explain why the communist murderers (who claimed millions of innocent victims) weren’t brought to justice. In reality all these post-communist states, without exception, are covering up colossal crimes. Instead of punishment for the communist criminals, these same criminals remain in their posts. In addition, they privatized everything that belonged to the Communist Party and State for their own benefit. This fraudulent collapse of communism has allowed ongoing communist structures to hoodwink the entire world with images of reputable politicians, businessmen, scientists, artists, students and so on. This is the greatest victory of communism to date.

— Interview with Petr Cibulka, Czech nationalist, 2004

TODAY is the second anniversary of my mother’s death. I remember her sadly and also with happiness for her full life. She was an energetic and talented woman, whom I discussed in posts here and here.

No one is more powerful than a mother. I could not believe anything else, given the influence of my own mother. No one is more powerful than a mother because the human soul is immortal while things of this world — works of art, scientific advances, buildings and politics — are not lasting.

Below is one of my mother’s favorite songs, the popular version of Somewhere over the Rainbow by the late Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole, a Hawaiian singer who loved his own people intensely.

I was fortunate to go to Hawaii with my parents, husband and children in 2005.

One day while we were in Kauai, I was walking on the beach with my husband. It was a crowded little rocky beach with many people in the water with its famously unpredictable currents. I looked out into the ocean and saw a familiar figure about 70 feet from the shoreline. I would always recognize my mother’s crawl stroke. I said to my husband, “Is that my mother? She is struggling! She can’t get back in!”

My husband said, “I’m sure she’s fine.”

I said, “No she’s not fine. She’s struggling!”

No one else could possibly have recognized, not even the lifeguard, that she was having difficulty. I knew from having seen her swim many times that she didn’t have the strength to stroke the water that vigorously and for that long.

She was trapped in a rip tide but was so busy frantically stroking that she couldn’t wave for help. I ran to the lifeguard, breathless and shaking. “My mother is in the water and she can’t get back in!” He took far too long but he hopped on one those jet skis they used for rescues and rode up to her. A few minutes longer and I am sure she would have started to sink. She held on somehow and he dumped her right by the beach. She was completely spent.

I had been right. She couldn’t get out of the current.

Just the day before, an elderly man had drowned on a nearby beach. I will always remember the happy day I possibly saved my mother’s life. What could be more special for a child than to give something in return?

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I FEEL so strongly at the end of my life that nothing can happen to us in any circumstances that is not part of God’s purpose for us. Therefore, we have nothing to fear, nothing to worry about, except that we should rebel against His purpose, that we should fail to detect it and fail to establish some sort of relationship with Him and His divine will. On that basis, there can be no black despair, no throwing in of our hand. We can watch the institutions and social structures of our time collapse – and I think you who are young are fated to watch them collapse – and we can reckon with what seems like an irresistibly growing power of materialism and materialist societies. But, it will not happen that that is the end of the story. As St. Augustine said – and I love to think of it when he received the news in Carthage that Rome had been sacked: Well, if that’s happened, it’s a great catastrophe, but we must never forget that the earthly cities that men build they destroy, but there is also the City of God which men didn’t build and can’t destroy. And he devoted the next seventeen years of his life to working out the relationship between the earthly city and the City of God – the earthly city where we live for a short time, and the City of God whose citizens we are for all eternity.

— Malcolm Muggeridge, “The Great Liberal Death Wish”

BILL CLARK DEAN,  also known as “Sir Guy,” blogged for many years at What Women Never Hear.  He was an older man devoted to helping women better understand men in marriage. His wife, Grace, provided crucial input to the site. The successful marriage depends on a knowledge of essential differences between the sexes. When men and women are expected to act, think, and feel the same way, they don’t understand each other and run into serious difficulties, he argued.

Dean — and his wife — understood that sometimes indirectness is the solution to marital problems.

I was sorry to learn only recently of Sir Guy’s death last year. May Bill Dean rest in peace! Fortunately, his blog is still online, thanks to his son; an internet forum is dedicated to his advice; and he also published a book, Where Did All the Good Men Go?

His post “Make Marriage Work” is a good introduction to his work: Read More »

CHUCK BALDWIN, an insider of the ‘Religious Right’ for years, denounces it in his latest column:

The first tarnish on the armor of my mentors in the Religious Right came in 1996, when they overwhelmingly embraced the candidacy of Bob Dole over Pat Buchanan. I was old enough at that point to start standing on my own two feet, and I took that fight to the bitter end. That story, if told in full, is one for the history books—and it forever changed me.

When G.W. Bush came along in 2000, I was skeptical but willing to give him a chance. It didn’t take long. After only a few months of Bush’s unconstitutional conduct—and especially his pathetic penchant for warmongering—I began taking him to task over my radio talk show and in my syndicated column. My brethren in the Religious Right excoriated me. But by then, I had learned my lesson from ’96, and I was man enough to take the heat—which I did for eight long years.

Needless to say, the closeness I had shared with Jerry [Falwell] began to unravel as I refused to complacently go along with my brethren when they compromised principle after principle to stay on Bush’s smiley side. But I grew a tough hide and a strong constitution during those years. I now know that those years were only prep school for the Trump years.

Yes, I saw all of this coming for a long time. But I honestly could never have guessed how bad it would get, because no one (at least not me) could foresee the arrival of Donald Trump. I foolishly thought that G.W. Bush was the worst it would be. And by worst, I’m not talking about Bush; I’m talking about the fawning actions and attitudes of the Religious Right toward Bush.

The power elite that control both political parties have completely mastered the Hegelian Dialectic. They have advanced architectural and engineering degrees in the designing and building of the phony left-right paradigm. They are professional propagandists and experts in political manipulation. Tokyo Rose and Joseph Goebbels were rank amateurs compared to these monsters. And Donald Trump is their greatest achievement. He is the Frankenstein who the Religious Right believes is Cinderella. Read More »

Abiy Ahmed, prime minster of Ethiopia

KIDIST PAULOS ASRAT writes:

So the infamous, leftist Nobel Peace Prize goes to Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia! The “committee” chose him over that creepy girl (she’s actually not a “girl,” but a sixteen year old young woman). I believe this win is historic and significant. I am very excited about it.

Abiy is a maverick, an intelligent and thoughtful one. He brokered peace with the Eritrean leader, which got him the prize. Eritreans are intensely independent, and fiercely Christian (it is through them that northern region and its Axumite emperors that the Amhara of Ethiopia inherited the Christian tradition). Eritrea never recovered after the Eritrea-Ethiopia split in 1991. I lived in Asmara, its capital city, when I was a young girl.

Here is Abiy with the Eritrean leader, Isias (Isaiah) Afwerki. Abiy is the shorter man on the left.

As a memorial and a sign of reverence to Ethiopia’s historical legacy, Abiy has created a “Unity Park” in Addis Ababa in the palatial residence of Emperor Menelik, a predecessor to Haile Selassie.

“Unity” is actually a mistranslation. In Amharic andinet means togetherness, being together. The park is rather a place where the “different” cultures of Ethiopia, the different ethnic groups, can be together in the peace that Abiy envisions. Each culture/ethnicity joins together in this whole, without merging into one “union” or losing its particularities. This park, I believe, was the final factor to his Nobel win. “Unity Park symbolizes our ability to come together for a common goal and cross the finish line,” Abiy’s office announced.

The main hall of the palace, the museum hall, has a really good wax rendition of Haile Selassie on a throne. This again, with Abiy’s astute mind, suggests this “united Ethiopia” is under the helm of strong leaders.

About a year ago, he had installed a statue of Haile Selassie at Addis Ababa’s African Union headquarters. He is not idolizing these emperors, but upholding their names and reputations.

Abiy puts Ethiopia at the head of the “union” of Africa. He brokered peace in Sudan recently, and met with affable Sudanese and other African leaders at the inauguration of the statue. These leaders like him, and treat him perhaps as a younger brother (Abiy is only 47 years old). Read More »

AN article by the late Solange Hertz, posted online today at Tumblar House, re-examines the life of the controversial explorer, who has been the target of endless defamation in recent years. An excerpt:

Curiously enough, the vicious denigration of his character which had served to deprive him of his just rewards in his lifetime, did not die with him, but only gathered momentum after his death. Spawning ever-new calumnies, it grew simultaneously with the revolt against Christendom. Justin Winsor, a biographer representative of the Protestant establishment, summed up at the turn of the last century the heinous opinion of Columbus now prevalent even among educated Catholics. Quoted by Frederick Saunders in The Story of the Discovery of the New World by Columbus, he says:

We have seen a pitiable man meet a pitiable death. Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world’s record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument! Its discoverer might have been its father; he proved to be its despoiler. He might have given its young days such a benignity as the world likes to associate with a maker; he left it a legacy of devastation and crime.

He might have been an unselfish promoter of geographical science; he proved a rabid seeker for gold and a viceroyalty. He might have won converts for the fold of Christ by the kindness of his spirit; he gained the execrations of the good angels. He might, like Las Casas, have rebuked the fiendishness of his contemporaries; he set them an example of perverted unbelief. The triumph of Barcelona led down to the ignominy of Valladolid, with every step in the degradation palpable and resultant.

Such an indictment is a tissue of lies, of a piece with the barrage of calumny let loose by the prospect of Columbus’ canonization, whose foremost promoter was none other than Pope Pius IX, who as a young priest serving the Apostolic Delegate in Chile was the first of Christ’s Vicars to set foot in the New World. He was so convinced of Columbus’ divine mission that he made it one of the first duties of his pontificate to order an official biography compiled from the wealth of Catholic source material to offset the current secularized caricatures then circulating. His choice for this task fell on Comte Antoine Roselly de Lorgues, a Frenchman of Italian ancestry who had already made a beginning in 1844 with La Croix dans les Deux Mondes.

[cont.]

Happy Columbus Day!