THINK ABOUT IT: If you were the devil — I know it’s hard, but try to imagine it — wouldn’t you seek to convince people that you are only a symbol?

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Paul A. writes:

Your comment is obviously true. But perhaps more to the point, if you were an unrepentant sinner, would you not try to convince yourself that the Devil is merely a symbol?

“What a stroke of utterly malevolent genius, to portray opposition to your group’s agenda as a form of psychiatric illness.”

— Andrew Joyce

POSTED at Ebenshades Garden Centers:

“The petunias we know today are a far cry from those that first appeared in 19th century gardens, although they’re all based mainly on two species that were discovered in South America in the mid-1700’s and early 1800’s: White-flowered Petunia axillaris and purple-flowered Petunia violacea. Introduced into Europe in the early 1800’s, these species weren’t spectacular garden flowers–they were lanky and rather small-flowered–but breeders even then, especially in Germany and England, began crossing them in search of larger flowers and more colors. The result was the garden petunia–a group of plants in exciting colors, some with large, sometimes double flowers, others with fringed single flowers. Referred to as Petunia x hybrida, the plants weren’t hybrids as we know the term; they were chance crossings of species. Burpee’s 1888 catalog listed a ‘Black-throated Superbissima‘, which had deeply veined, dark crimson-purple petals and a black throat.  Read More »

Ariana Grande with one of many occult symbols she has posed with — the Monarch butterfly.

FRANK R. writes:

Here is a photo of the dead.  I think you do yourself a great disservice by rushing to call these attacks false flag.

Laura writes:

Thank you for your concern.

I’m sorry, but the photo you mention does not, in my opinion, prove anything. There are no close-ups of the fatally wounded or realistic images of wounds. It is similar — actually less convincing — than this photo of a terror drill last year at the Trafford Center shopping mall in Manchester.

In this age of cell phones — probably 90 percent of the people at the concert had a cellphone with a camera — it stretches belief that no photos of grisly carnage have emerged on the Internet, especially since the people at that concert would not exactly all have been mature, restrained citizens. I covered many crime stories when I was a newspaper reporter — for The Daily Register in Red Bank, N.J. and The Philadelphia Inquirer. I know what a victim of violence looks like.

But there are other reasons to suspect the story of Manchester. A drill of a similar terror attack occurred in Manchester a year before. Firefighters last week were prevented from helping the victims. Ariana Grande is heavily into the occult, which links her to Freemasonry. (There’s lots about this on the Internet.) The interviews with witnesses (such as here and here) were stilted and those who were supposedly witnesses or victims did not display traumatic effects. People have complained that photos of their dead relatives were posted in collages of the supposed victims. As usual, the suspect was killed and ISIS was instantly identified as the culprit. If rushing to judgment is itself wrong then the whole world should not have been orchestrating the fact that it was the work of ISIS, but should have waited for the results of an investigation. The land of Sherlock Holmes seems to reject investigation. How does one so instantly identify a body that has been blown apart? One more tidbit: Here’s a video showing that concertgoers were told over the public address system after the alleged explosion that nothing had happened — not in itself damning, but one more scrap of counter-evidence.

I wrote that I would be very suspicious of the story until realistic photos emerged. I will continue to believe it was either a false flag or the work of a patsy until more evidence to the contrary comes forward. I am open to being wrong.

I urge you to take seriously the papal warnings about Freemasonry, which has been active in England for a long time.

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ROME wept this week upon the retirement of its favorite soccer player, Francesco Totti. Mike King writes:

… Sports — sports — sports! That’s all the typical TV-addicted European or American male seems to be able to get excited about, is it not? With his mind, his passion and his natural warrior spirit thusly diverted towards endless games and inane “round-table” commentaries about the game, Boobus Athleticus is left with neither the time nor the interest to study the dangerous illusions that have been and continue to be pulled over his eyes — illusions that are enslaving him and destroying his own family’s future. Adding insult to injury, the sports press openly mocks Boobus Athleticus by referring to him as a “fan” — short for “fanatic.”

Mamma mia! What a tragic farce. Read More »

THE ORTHOSPHERE features an exclusive interview with Admiral-Commandant Feliks Danielovich Feliksov of the Great Lakes Submarine Detachment of the Russian Atlantic Flotilla. Stranded in a submarine in Lake Ontario for decades, the commander employed his advanced psychological weaponry to infiltrate the minds of both candidates and voters.

Our hacking operation went very deep, right down to the level of millions of individual minds.  We were even able to hack the minds of American college humanities professors in the voting booth seconds before pulling the lever.

TODAY is the feast day of one of history’s greatest militants.

Thy country’s sin, the insult, and the shame,
The scaffold’s doom, the faggot and the flame–
All these shall pass and be remembered not;
Fair Charity with kindly tears shall blot
From France’s shield the black corroding stain,
Caught from thy blood, O Lily of Lorraine!

The hero’s heart shall lose its thirst for fame,
And truth be dead, and virtue but a name,
Ere men shall cease to honor thee who gave
To France, to liberty, to truth–
In battle’s bloodiest trenches undismayed,
‘Neath insult meek, in persecution brave.
Thy love, thy life, thy stainless youth,
O Virgin, Patriot, and Martyr Maid!”

     — From St. Joan of Arc: The Life Story of the Maid of Orleans by the Rev. Denis Lynch, S.J.

St. Joan of Arc, pray for us

And where are the bodies?

FROM AN essay by Louis Even (1885-1974), originally published in his book, This Age of Plenty:

The situation can be summed up in this inconceivable way: All the money in circulation came from a bank. Even metal and paper money come into circulation only after it having been released by a bank.

Now, banks put money into circulation only by lending it out at interest. This means that all the money in circulation came from the banks, and must someday be returned to the banks, with the added interest.

Banks remain the owners of the money. We are only leasing it. If some people manage to hang on to their money for a long period of time, or even permanently, others are necessarily incapable of fulfilling their financial commitments.

An increasing number of bankruptcies, for both individuals and companies, mortgages upon mortgages, and continued growth of public debts, are the natural fruits of such a system.

Claiming interest on money as it is created is both illegitimate and absurd, antisocial and anti arithmetic. The monetary defect is therefore a technical defect as well as a social defect.

As the country develops, production-wise and population-wise, more money is needed. But it is impossible to get new money without contracting a debt which collectively cannot be paid.

We are left with two choices: We either stop development or go deeper into debt; we either join the unemployed or we contract unpayable loans. All countries now face this dilemma.

Aristotle, and later Saint Thomas Aquinas, wrote that money does not breed money. But the banker only creates money under condition that it should breed more money. Since neither governments nor individuals create money, no one creates the interest claimed by the banker. Even when legalized, this way of issuing money remains vicious and insulting.

Forfeiting of power and abject poverty

This way of making the country’s money, by forcing governments and individuals into debt, establishes a real dictatorship over governments and individuals alike.

Sovereign Government has become a signatory of debts owed a small group of profiteers. The minister, who represents millions of men, women and children, signs unpayable debts. The banker, who represents a clique interested only in profit and power, manufactures the country’s money.

This is a striking aspect of the forfeiting of power spoken of by the Pope: “Governments have surrendered their noble functions and have become the servants of private interests.”[1]

The Government, instead of ruling the Country, has become a mere tax collector; and its largest expenditure is none other than the payment of interest on the national debt.

A COMMMENTER at Tradition in Action writes:

[Composer Arnold] Schoenberg decided to take the hierarchy and harmony in music and completely trash it by creating a new musical system called atonality. In this system, music has no center of pitch, as it did for hundreds, even thousands of years. He does away with the beauty of traditional tonality and prefers his egalitarian clusters of noise.

This atonality opened the floodgates to all kinds of progressivist movements in music. We see this progressivism starting with Stravinsky, then with Boulez, Stockhausen, Steve Reich, John Cage and, more recently, with Thomas Ades. We have to refrain from calling this “music” – it can only be considered a type of organized noise. Read More »

THIS Irish man was in a bingo hall with his boyfriend when he assaulted a 65-year-old woman because she was reading the numbers slowly. He later claimed he was the victim of homophobia.

The couple was convicted of assault and fined.

“Israeli propaganda agent Rita Katz was quick to inform Western media and intelligence agencies that ‘ISIS accounts’ are ‘celebrating the attack’ in Manchester. This is exactly how Israeli propagandists claimed that Palestinians were celebrating the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. This is how Israeli intelligence interprets attacks like the bombing to advance the Israeli construct known as the War on Terror. Every aspect of the War on Terror comes from Israeli military intelligence.”

— Christopher Bollyn, May 23, 2017

Keep this on hand for next time:

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Angel of the Annunciation (detail), Sano di Pietro; 1430-1440

WHAT IS the most serious problem in the world?

Is it poverty? Is it income inequality? Is it unhappiness? Is it sickness? Is it bad weather? Is it mass immigration? Is it cultural decline?

It is none of these things, except to the extent that they are caused by a deeper and more elemental phenomenon. The most serious problem in the world is sin.

Sin is an injustice against God. Every sin — my sin or your sin or the next person’s — tips the scales of justice. To use another analogy, sin is a tear in the cord that connects man with God. The tear must be stitched together or man is cut off from the source of his being. The damage must be repaired in this life or the next. Sin wouldn’t matter if we were not immortal. The concept is rejected by materialists. But it does matter in this life too, as God can at anytime demand restitution.

Though sin is an old-fashioned word, the thing itself will never be old-fashioned. It is not possible for a person to sin without believing he is doing something good. This desire for something good does not change the objective reality. The moral order is like the physical order. It is created and unchangeable. “It is because of his creatureliness that man is capable of sinning,” said Josef Pieper. We cannot destroy our innate tendency toward sin anymore than we can destroy the molecular structure of the universe. We cannot make sin good.

Ratio culpae consistit in voluntaria aversione a Deo, St. Thomas Aquinas said. “The essence of guilt consists in voluntarily turning away from God.”

Since sin is a turning away from God, the injury can be satisfied by a turning toward God.

It is one of the sacred mysteries of the Catholic Church that one can satisfy the injustice done not just by one’s own sins, but by the sins of others. This is the concept of “reparation.” In the encyclical Miserentissimus Redemptor Pope Pius XI explained:

“The creature’s love should be given in return for the love of the Creator, another thing follows from this at once, namely that to the same uncreated Love, if so be it has been neglected by forgetfulness or violated by offense, some sort of compensation must be rendered for the injury, and this debt is commonly called by the name of reparation”.

We can pay our own debts and help pay the debts of others.

Reparation is the most beautiful of all mysteries. It is so right. It is so generous. It is so attuned to human nature. It is a masterpiece. Read More »

KAREN writes:

Every sane person in America needs to run for their local library board of directors immediately. This can’t really be happening. Read More »

TRUMP observes non-separation of Synagogue and State at the Wailing Wall.

ARIANA GRANDE is the perfect star of a false flag event. The Manchester “terror bombing,” which allegedly killed 22 people, occurred at one of her concerts. Miss Grande seems to be a victim of child abuse, having been turned into a sexpot at an early age, and is an alleged occultist (indecent imagery). “Terror” is all the more effective when combined with titillation — and lots of schmaltz. Can you tell me why “ISIS” never bombs the politicians it hates?

If anyone can find a convincing photo of a dead body at this alleged “terror” event, I will consider the possibility that it was real. Gruesome images should be readily available in this age of phone cameras. Sorry, but a blood-spattered handbag is just not sufficient. Mass carnage is messier than this.

Nor are photos of people with those foil blankets that are standard at such events. Read More »

Trump signing single largest arms deal in U.S. history

DANIEL MAcADAMS writes at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity:

President Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia was perhaps one of the most bizarre spectacles of our time. Just months ago he accused the Saudi government of being behind the 9/11 attack on the US, yet over the weekend he stood on Saudi soil and discussed the virtues of religious diversity (something illegal in Saudi Arabia). Was it all about ” the art of the deal” — inking a hugely lucrative (for some) mega weapons deal? Or was it about calling for war on Iran and Syria (and maybe Russia)?

It was both. Saudi Arabia, which exports hatred of the West through its funding of madrassas, is Israel’s main ally in the region. Justin Raimondo writes:

Has there been a more disgusting spectacle during the four months of this presidency than the sight of Donald Trump slobbering all over the barbarous Saudi monarch and his murderous family of petty princelings? It’s enough to make any normal American retch, especially when one remembers what Trump said about them during the election:

“Saudi Arabia and many of the countries that gave vast amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation want women as slaves and to kill gays. Hillary must return all money from such countries!”

And then there was this tweet: Read More »