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“I Hacked America’s Election”

May 31, 2017

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.

 

St. Joan of Arc

May 30, 2017

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

 

Nominee for 2017 Crisis Actor Award

May 30, 2017

 

And where are the bodies?

 

‘The Monetary Defect’

May 30, 2017

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.

 

“Classical Music” as Noise

May 30, 2017

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 »

 

Equality in Love

May 30, 2017

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.

 

“The War on Terror” — At a Theater Near You

May 24, 2017

“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:

(Source for image)

 

The Beauty of Reparation

May 24, 2017

 

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 »

 

Drag Queens at the Library

May 24, 2017

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 »

 

Pray to the Devil, Pray

May 23, 2017

 

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

 

Terror, Titillation and Tears

May 23, 2017

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 »

 

Don in Arabia

May 23, 2017

 

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 »

 

The Paintings of Homer Watson

May 19, 2017

 

On the Grand River at Doon, 1880

KIDIST PAULOS ASRAT, a native of Ethiopia who lives in Canada, reflects upon an exhibit on the Canadian landscape artist Homer Watson. She considers the exhibit’s political agenda. She writes:

Homer Watson was born in 1855 in Doon, Ontario (now Kitchener). He started to paint as a young child encouraged by his father and his aunt. He never received any formal art training, but acquired his skill and artistic sense through various artist mentors he sought as he developed his talent.

Watson was called “the Canadian Constable,” and “the man who first saw Canada as Canada, rather than as dreamy blurred pastiches of European painting.” While he holds this noble acclamation, he has nonetheless been overshadowed by the more forceful Group of Seven artists.

The AGM’s exhibition showed us Watson’s southern Canadian landscapes, amidst its farms and homesteads, as civilized and vibrant, and as separate from America. He is the first nationalist Canadian painter, earlier even than the much touted Group of Seven painters. Read More »

 

A Mother Who Says No

May 19, 2017

 

TO A REBELLIOUS DAUGHTER
—       Fay Inchfawn

You call authority “a grievous thing.”
With careless hands you snap the
leading string,
And, for a frolic (so it seems to you),
Put off the old love, and put on the new.

For “What does Mother know of love?”
you say.
“Did her soul ever thrill?
Did little tendernesses ever creep
Into her dreams, and over-ride her will?
Did her eyes shine, or her heart ever leap
As my heart leaps to-day?
I, who am young; who long to try my
wings!

How should she understand,
She, with her calm cool hand?
She never felt such yearnings? And,
beside,
It’s clear I can’t be tied
For ever to my mother’s apron strings.” Read More »

 

Catholic or Communist?

May 18, 2017

THE NEW ORDER sect, or Novus Ordo, has stripped Catholic worship and art of transcendence. A good example is the new logo for World Youth Day, the mass pep rally and globalist youth adventure that will be held in Panama in 2017. Is the logo a snake devouring a cross or a religious version of the hammer and sickle? Is it Communist or corporate?

Whatever, it’s not inspiring. It’s not beautiful. It’s not divine. It’s not Catholic.

Read More »

 

When Girls Beat Up Girls

May 18, 2017

FEMINISTS rarely decry violence against women in the inner city, including assaults by women against other women. That just doesn’t count.

Heather Mac Donald reflects upon this hypocrisy.

 

The Face of Female Privilege

May 18, 2017

SAGE M. writes:

More than the headline or the preposterous musings of the judge, this article about an aspiring surgeon who stabbed her boyfriend is noteworthy to me for the photograph of the young woman. Her face is fat with conceit, smirking with the knowing cynicism of the modern female careerist. License and constant ego-stroking have made a monster of her.

 

Common Sense and the Rainbow Flag

May 18, 2017

AN 85-year-old elderly woman in Carlisle, Massachusetts wrote a letter to a local newspaper about the rainbow flag outside a Unitarian Church:

To the Editor:

One of the saddest vistas I know is that of the beautiful rainbow flying as a flag to welcome and encourage the extremely dangerous behavior of homosexuality. Each time I go through the center of my town of Carlisle, I see such a flag and my heart cries out—why, Why?

Indeed, why is this flag being used to speak well of homosexuality and encourage the behavior? Where is the caring for people who for one reason or another have gotten into this behavior? And homosexuality is a behavior; no one is born homosexual. Read More »