A LONGTIME reader sends an alternative scenario to the tragic life of Shakespeare’s Prince Hamlet. He wonders whether things would have worked out better if Hamlet had had a good therapist. I’m not convinced, but it’s something for you to consider very seriously.
Cast: King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Therapist, Hamlet (dual role with King)
Setting: Therapist’s office, three chairs, table. Therapist seated. Enter King Claudius and Queen Gertrude.
IN THIS interview from October, 2001, Patricia Ondrovic, an emergency medical technician with the New York City Fire Department, describes what she saw after she arrived at the World Trade Center on 9/11. She describes numerous explosions in areas where there were no fires. Cars exploded in front of her. The lobbies of two buildings exploded.
FROM THE comments on this Brother Nathanael video:
“Lucky” Larry Silverstein, a strip club owner and indicted drug smuggler, “felt a compelling urge to own them” and so it was he came to obtain a 99 year lease on the entire world trade center [sic] complex on 24th July, 2001 for just $114 million, despite the WTC complex no longer being economically viable and in need of a cripplingly expensive demolition, being filled with asbestos, but the costs of doing this legally were prohibitive.
“Lucky” Larry admitted on camera that he began planning to build an entirely new World Trade Center 7 (WTC-7) building one year before the 9/11 attacks had occurred.
Despite “Lucky” Larry being a mere leaseholder of the buildings, he was the sole beneficiary of the insurance payouts. He increased the insurance policies, when he signed the lease two months before the attack happened. The insurance was for 3.6 billion dollars, but he found an obscure clause in the insurance policy which enabled him to claim twice, one for each “attack!” Larry Silverstein scored more than $4.5 Billion in insurance money as a result of the destruction of his complex.
“Lucky” Larry usually had breakfast in “Windows on the World” restaurant (107th Floor North Tower) every single morning – except for one – Larry was absent from this routine meeting on the morning of September the 11th. (more…)
ON THIS the 18th anniversary of 9/11, I join with all who remember that sad day, mourn those who died then and in its violent aftermath, and those who call attention to the discrepancies between the scientific evidence and the official story. Good can come from catastrophe. God would not let it happen otherwise. Start by learning more. Download an informative booklet on the science of 9/11 here.
S.K. ORR of Steeple Tea writes: I enjoyed the recent post "One Man's Break From Porn," and the link to E. Michael Jones' related book. I thought I would draw your attention to a novel about this topic, written by a man living in Hungary. The book is The City of Earthly Desire, and it takes place during the political upheaval in Eastern Europe in the late 20th Century. The author, Francis Berger, uses the novel as a scalpel to slice into the horrific world of pornography and the effect it has upon nations and individuals. I have never met Mr. Berger, but I consider him a personal friend as we regularly correspond. If you're interested, he blogs here. I have long believed that this novel deserves a wide audience. It is a brave book; it is not for the squeamish. But I see The City of Earthly Desire as a sort of lighthouse, standing above the treacherous waves and warning those who choose to see its beacon. May the good Lord bless and keep you, and may your guardian angel protect you during these dark times. Please keep up the good work on your blog.
WHENEVER I see a woman working as a highway flagger or as a policewoman or a security guard, I always think a stupid, outdated thought: Can't a man do that? Most of the traditionally male jobs women take are the easier ones. You never see women on the tops of roofs applying shingles or pruning trees 40 feet above the ground or at the tippy top of telephone poles. But even so, I still wonder, Can't a man do that? Recently, I met a female tow truck driver for the first time. She loves her job, of course. I asked her if she didn't have trouble getting 4,000 pounds of metal on a truck. "The machinery does most of the work," she said, and she was right. I watched as she hoisted our car onto her flatbed. I was very impressed. Still I wondered, Can't a man do that? I am reminded of the writer Taylor Caldwell's words about a woman who could never conceivably have been a tow truck driver --- her Aunt Pollie: "Aunt Pollie, clothed exquisitely and smelling delightfully of perfume, would go with her redoubtable Mama to twice-weekly matinees, then come home to prepare fragrant tea and bake luscious scones to be eaten with homemade strawberry jam. Though she had no modern washing-machine and used flat irons and hung out her laundry and had no vacuum cleaner and other "aids," she managed to look serene and…
THE MODERN WORLD hates innocence. It especially hates the innocence and serious limitations of Down Syndrome children, most of whom are now eliminated in the womb because they are seen as having no purpose in a hyper-careerist society. I mean, what’s the point in them living when they can’t go to college?
When that innocence, however, can be used to make Down Syndrome individuals figures of fun and perversion — well, then, the world applauds and suddenly sees purpose in their otherwise useless lives.
Exploiting the natural love of Down Syndrome adults for music and dance, an arts organization funded by the British government is marketing a theater troupe of adults who perform in drag. The troupe has performed in Europe and Canada, and supposedly a Republican congressman from Michigan is the first to object. He refused to allow them to perform in a venue he owns. The Communist, Jewish ACLU has filed a complaint against him, stating he has violated the actors civil rights. Seriously, how sick can it get?
Over the past year, a small troupe of drag performers with Down syndrome has taken the stage in London, Stockholm, Oslo and Montreal, adopting flashy alter egos and basking in the crowd’s applause. They call themselves Drag Syndrome.(more…)
IN E. MICHAEL JONES’S latest book, a young man describes how he was cured (or so it seems) of all desire to view pornography.
It came to him in a flash. He was being used and exploited. Powerful interests want ordinary people to be preoccupied with sex and weakened by sin. Lust is a tool of political control.
Here is a letter the man wrote to describe his experience:
Dr. Jones,
I am writing anonymously because of the topic. I’d rather not even write this, but the joy of Our Lord demands that I do.
I’m male, good Catholic family. When I was 13, nearly 14, I discovered self-gratification. At the time I pretty much thought I had found my calling in life with self-gratification. I had some idea that the act was shameful, but I had no idea. I had seen some pornography, but I had enough sense to tell that porn – at least – is wrong. Perhaps a year-and-a-half later, my parents probably caught on to my self-gratification, and my dad dropped hints about how it’s a mortal sin. (more…)
A customer at Behrmann’s Tavern in Dutchtown, St. Louis calmly smoked a cigarette while a gunman pointed his weapon at him during an armed robbery last week.
ALAN writes:
One night last week, a thug with a gun robbed customers in Behrmann’s Tavern in south St. Louis. In 2005, a newspaper reporter described the tavern as “a quintessential corner bar across from St. Anthony of Padua Church in the heart of Dutchtown.” Quite right. It has been there since 1933. It was there when my classmates and I crossed that intersection every day during our school years more than half a century ago. In those years, a Catholic supplies store was next to the tavern, followed by a shoe repair shop, a bicycle shop, a Post Office, and a barber shop. Catholic nuns who taught in the school lived across the street.
For 25 years, customers in the tavern were entertained by a woman pianist who played classic old songs like “Paper Doll” and “It Had to Be You.”
The tavern was pictured in a newspaper article in 2002, in which the writer claimed the area “offers a touch of Mayberry,” referring to the town in “The Andy Griffith Show” from the 1960s. As soon as I read the article, I knew the writer was an idiot.
The article quoted owners of small businesses near the tavern as saying they “feel safe” walking in that neighborhood.
That was a fine example of kindergarten “journalism”: Tell readers how people “feel;” don’t tell them the facts; don’t print the crime statistics; don’t print a comparison of crime statistics from that neighborhood from one year to the next and one decade to the next.
The writer quoted one resident as saying, “There’s a lot of architecture here, old buildings with good architecture. It’s like a little Mayberry…”
Are you laughing as hard as I did when I read that line? You should be. Now we know that the fictional town of Mayberry had an extremely low crime rate. Selective quotation by this journalist led readers to think that “a touch of Mayberry” could be seen even in a real-life neighborhood that—unlike Mayberry—had been made “inclusive, diverse, and multicultural” by force of law. That is what he and the people who paid him to write such things wanted their readers to believe. But was it true? Let’s weigh and consider that idea: (more…)
TRUMP’S job is to play the role of the bumbling villain, to give Democrats and leftists something to rage about, to make the Federal Reserve and the banking elites look like the “good guys”, and to lure conservatives into denying reality on the economic crisis until it is too late.
Thanks to Steve and Fitzpatrick Informer for the links.
[This video makes some good points, but the idea that the Catholic Church and the Jesuits are Masonic is absurd and false since no institution has issued more warnings against Freemasonry than the Catholic Church. More papal encyclicals have been written about Freemasonry than any other single issue, all of them strongly condemning it and warning Catholics that Masons face an eternity of suffering. Catholics are automatically excommunicated from the Church upon becoming Masons. There is Masonic infiltration in the Church, especially in the last 100 years, and that’s not surprising as the Church is Enemy No. 1 for the brotherhood. Also, I disagree that this was a deliberate revelation by Trump. He seems to have revealed that he is a Mason — as if we didn’t know with his constant, obvious Masonic hand signals — in a spontaneous way.] (more…)
I was reading through some of your older posts, when I came across “The Hardships of the Single Life.” This article really hit a chord with me, because I have thought a lot about this subject in the last few years. I’m a victim of my own poor choices. I have never really settled down somewhere, never invested in relationships, and have always lived alone, even in preference to having a roommate or two. Now I live in a smaller town in California and own my own business. This is when the solitary nature of my existence really sunk in.
I live far away from old friends and family, and have no roots in the area in which I live. I have my own business, or rather my own job, as a repairman. So I do my work all day, driving from location to location. It is not uncommon for me to speak to no one during the course of the day except customers. I have no co-workers, and no option to network through them. I have no family near, and no option to network through them. No girlfriend or wife, etc.
After work, I come home and do the paperwork side of the job: write invoices, order materials, work on taxes, insurance, etc. It is quite a load. And, to the point of your article, I have to do everything for the household as well. If the dog or cat gets fed, I have to do it. All the shopping, I have to do. All the cooking, cleaning, and yard work is my responsibility. I have to maintain the cars. If something is going to get done, I have to do it. (more…)
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THE WORLD OF BEAUTY is the world of intermediary hierarchies which are irradiated with the glory that cascades down from the Trinity even into the formless opacity of matter. The beautiful is the world of forms*** between that which is above, being the sphere of God, and that which has no form at all, being mere matter. The modern world shuts out that intermediate order. It recognizes nothing between scientific thinking and mystical possession, and in so doing denies completely the sphere which it is the function of art to reconstitute by giving back to the universe its depths. --- Jean Danielou, Prayer as a Political Problem ***"Form" is used here in the Platonic sense and refers to spiritual essences, or souls.
HELEN KMERA writes at the website of the Clifford Hugh Douglas Institute: Money is a social instrument and medium of exchange that should be managed by society in the public interest. Clifford Hugh Douglas argued that issuing a Dividend to each person sufficient to have a decent living was justified based on the legacy each of us inherits at birth. The Douglas Social Credit argument is that the earth, with its abundant natural resources, and the accrued know-how of technological advancements made since the discovery of the wheel, rightly belongs to each member of society. We have a tremendous legacy that forms the natural foundation of wealth. In a just financial system, money, Financial Credit as it were, would simply reflect this foundation, this Real Credit, as he called it. Governments, as trustees of society, would exercise their authority to create money for the common good and distribute a Dividend, sufficient to afford basic needs, to each citizen. Society can and should reclaim its authority to issue and manage its own money supply without recourse to private banks which currently enjoy a monopoly on creating money. With financial reform, we could monetize Canada’s [and America's] natural wealth and productive capacity and issue a Dividend, a form of [Universal Basic Income], to each person without conditions. There is no reason why society could not directly fund infrastructure, issue loans to business and industry AND fund a Dividend distributed to each citizen. …
NUMEROUS studies have shown that the risk of breast cancer is increased with the use of oral contraceptives and induced abortion. Here’s one by the federal National Cancer Institute.
In analyses of all 897 breast cancer cases (subtypes combined), the multivariate-adjusted odds ratios for examined risk factors were consistent with the effects observed in prior studies of younger women (Table 1). Specifically, older age, family history of breast cancer, earlier menarche age, induced abortion, and OC [oral contraceptive] use were associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. Risk was decreased in relation to greater number of births and younger age at first birth. OC use ≥1 year was associated with a modest increased risk of breast cancer, and among OC users only, earlier age at first use further elevated the risk.
Nature turns against anti-nature. But you won’t hear this from the feminist establishment. Slavery used to be physical. Now it’s all mental. This is one example of the legion lies of those who claim to work for the interests of women while working against them.
Abortion and contraceptives are fake health created by fake feminists. Feminism is the greatest form of oppression women have ever faced in all of human history. It shackles the body and the soul. (more…)
ELIZABETH A. LOZOWSKI reviews the 2018 movie Jurrassic World: Fallen Kingdom: The film delves deeper into the Revolution than its obsession with feminism and animal rights: It borders on the diabolical by encouraging affection for monsters. There has been a tendency in recent years to present monsters as normal creatures, making them seem misunderstood by men and friendly toward them: e.g.How to Train Your Dragon, Maleficent, Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla, to name a few films. It is a perversion of the sense of good and evil that destroys the moral conscience of children and adults alike. It trains the mind to love what is evil and to hate what is good and beautiful. Jurassic World does this in a sentimental and strange way. The viewer is coached to sympathize with the dinosaurs, even the most vicious ones. The characters on screen weep when a dinosaur is hurt or injured, but shed no tears when a human is killed by a dinosaur.
CHARLESPINWILL, of Australia, explains in this essay, “The Denigration of the National Dividend,” how modern economies can be liberated from the vicious cycle of indebtedness:
By 1919, just 100 years ago now, C. H. Douglas, an Anglo-Scottish engineer, discovered the interesting fact that all modern economies generate a deficiency of purchasing power to buy all of the consumer production in the marketplace.
He did this by observing the accounts of an aircraft factory at Farnborough (England) during World War I, and crunching the numbers of another 100 companies. We will spare you the technicalities.
He concluded that as consumer incomes were insufficient to buy the consumer products offered, that this would best be rectified by declaring the surplus to be a profit and distributing new money to consumers in the form of a National Dividend to buy it.
In 1923, Douglas was invited to dinner by New York’s top bankers; American financier, Bernard Baruch was among them. Douglas thought he would have to argue technical details and was prepared for this. The bankers took him by surprise, telling him that they completely accepted his diagnosis, and all they wished to know was what he intended to do about it. Douglas responded that the solution was to distribute a National Dividend to all to overcome the deficiency of income; that is, to distribute the national profit equitably. The bankers made it clear that they were not interested in a National Dividend issued by society.[1]
They had other plans.The bankers’ plan was simply to expand public indebtedness which would be owed to themselves. This would fund the deficiency of consumer purchasing power which did not allow for existing incomes to buy all consumer goods available. The profit of society was considered theirs; after all they were in charge of fiat money creation. (more…)
THE great writers in defence of those principles of liberty, natural right, justice, and equity, which form the basis of true Americanism, were in the middle ages, not laymen, but churchmen and monks; men who were stanch [sic] papists, and in every contest took the side of Peter against Caesar. We do not recollect a single layman of literary renown, from Dante down to the seventeenth century, whose influence was not exerted in favor of Caesarism, that is to say, the despotism of the state. Not one of them seems to have had any knowledge of liberty in our American sense; and however loudly they may talk about it, it is always either the freedom of the nation from foreign bondage, or the emancipation of the temporal from its natural subjection to the spiritual. They are always either simply patriots or Caesarists, virtually political atheists, adopting the maxim of the Roman jurist,Quod placuit principi, legis habet vigorem. They were formed under the influence of the courts of princes, not in the schools of the church. There may have been in the cultivated lay society some talk of the privileges or liberties of classes, estates, or corporations, but none as far as we have been able to discover, except by monks and ecclesiastics, of the rights of men as simply men, much, if any, prior to our own American struggle or national independence. You will not find those rights recognized anywhere in pagan antiquity. (more…)
