DOES THIS look like a man who was just fired from his job at a major company and nationally shamed for his views on a highly sensitive topic?

It does not look like it to me.

To me, this looks like a calm man posing for a publicity shoot. The American flag — what a nice, ennobling touch — and “TRUTH.” Surely, we can see that this is an anti-establishment, patriotic American whom we can trust. What a nice hat tip to the poor and marginalized for whom the simple word “truth” has become a rallying cry, so great are the lies with which they are surrounded.

James Damore, 28, was until Monday a Harvard-educated software engineer at Google. As everyone now knows, he wrote an internal memo challenging the company’s “diversity” program, specifically challenging the feminist project to make women and men equally successful in the IT tech world. The memo was titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.” Damore said some sensible, politically incorrect things, such as that women are naturally less suited to higher level technology jobs. However, he also used inflammatory language, insultingly saying women are prone to “neuroticism.” It’s one thing to say women are more prone than men to stress and anxiety under pressure. It’s another to say in a work environment where many stressed women work that they are prone to “neuroticism.” This insult discredited his otherwise scientific observations and suggests he was seeking to offend or draw attention.

Damore also contradicted himself:

Feminism has made great progress in freeing women from the female gender role, but men are still very much tied to the male gender role. If we, as a society, allow men to be more “feminine,” then the gender gap will shrink, although probably because men will leave tech and leadership for traditionally “feminine” roles.

The men’s rights bloggers who have elevated Damore to hero status apparently did not notice his plugging of femininity for men.

Calling one’s company an “ideological echo chamber” is no way to keep one’s job. And Damore, who is a chess master, must know that.

But what is even stranger is the speed with which this became a national sensation.

Just last weekend, Damore’s “manifesto” — who gave it that term? — was an internally distributed memo. By Monday, Google President Sundar Pichai was interrupting his vacation to personally deal with the matter, as if he was a head of state facing a national emergency, and Damore was fired.  And since then every single media outlet in the Western world has run articles on it. The New York Times has four or five. The amount of copy that has been expended on this minor story is breathtaking.

It’s the perfect right/left tempest-in-a-teapot that keeps Americans combating each other instead of focused on the people controlling the narrative. Obviously, important issues are at stake in this dispute, but the end result is to direct the conversation into mere combat in an arena in which no debate will upset the social engineering goals.

The sudden explosive force of this story suggests orchestration. Look, these kinds of political disputes occur in the corporate world all the time. Somebody writes a controversial Facebook post and others find out about it.

If Google did not want this story to be publicized widely, it could simply have ignored it. Google wanted this firestorm. There is a cardinal law of public relations: all publicity is good publicity. But I believe it was more than that and represents an effort to control the opposition. You see, the Internet poses serious problems. The alternative media must be controlled.

The first figure that Damore chose to interview him was Stefan Molyneux, the well-funded, rabidly anti-Christian, alt-right psychopath. Molyneux does not represent the best of Internet anti-feminism. He makes anti-feminism look bad, basing it as he does on evolutionary, “survival of the fittest” ideology. Molyneux’s glibness, no matter what he says, is unbearable.

Damore’s photos were taken professionally by Peter Duke, the photographer of two other figures who direct the Alt-Right away from some very important topics and entice Christians to celebrate and follow anti-Christians  — Milo Yiannopolous and Mike Cernovich.

Now, let’s just say, for the sake of argument, that the chess master James Damore is merely an innocent truth warrior and victim. His affiliation with these people in itself means he is not worthy of attention or admiration no matter what truths he utters.

Here’s another staged photo of Damore (see below).

How nice that he had this T-shirt all ready to go for his firing. “Goolag.” Now seriously, would a man who wanted to resume his career in high technology insult his former employer like this if he was not protected in some way?

This looks to me like just another ad in a world so crammed with advertising that people don’t even notice it anymore.

The narrative is heavily controlled in such a way that even the journalists participating in it are not aware. The goal of all this control is to divide and inflame, to get you to stop thinking and to dissolve your capacity for reflection. Then again, such firestorms could not occur in a world where reflection still existed.

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  O sanctissima, O piissima, Dulcis Virgo Maria! Mater amata, Intemerata: Ora, ora pro nobis! Tua guadia Et suspiria Juvent nos, O Maria! In te speramus, Ad te clamamus, Ora, ora pro nobis! O most holy one, O most lowly one, Loving virgin, Mary! Mother of tender love, Queen of the heavens above, Pray for us here below! Virgin ever fair, hear our fervent prayer, Look upon us, Mary! Bring to us your treasure, grace beyond measure; Pray for us here below!

FROM an article by Darius Shahtahmasebi:

Sanctions are always a prelude to war. Though few are aware, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was arguably in response to America’s attempt to cripple Japan’s booming economy through embargos and asset freezes, ending Japan’s commercial relationship with the United States and provoking the desperation that led to their attack.

In August 1990, the US began a sanctions regime against Saddam Hussein in Iraq. In 1991, the United States invaded Iraq and completely decimated its armed forces, also directly targeting its civilian infrastructure. Following this devastation, the US extended and expanded these economic sanctions on Iraq as further punishment. The U.N. estimated these sanctions led to the deaths of 1.7 million Iraqi civilians, including between 500,000 and 600,000 children. (more…)

  "Kevin MacDonald (evolutionary psychologist and author of 'The Culture of Critique') explains how he came to understand the Jewish Question, and the pivotal role of Jewish ethnic activists in the cultural and demographic revolutions which have reshaped European societies during the 20th and 21st Centuries." Even though MacDonald is an evolutionist (everything has a physical, biological basis), and thus limited in his understanding of history, some of his insights are important.

DOUG MAINWARING writes at Lifesitenews:

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has produced a Twitter ad meant to pay tribute to Gay Pride events now taking place in Amsterdam. The only thing is, the tweet serves to do the exact opposite.

The ad shows three sets of seat belts. The first consists of two “female” ends. The second pairs two “male” ends. The third depicts a male with a female end and is clearly the only seat belt pairing that actually works.

If KLM equipped its aircraft with set number one or number two, its entire fleet would be grounded for safety reasons. And if even one passenger’s seat was outfitted with double male or double female ends, the plane would not even be allowed to pull away from the gate because of the safety hazard presented to that one passenger.

Only the set of “complementary” seat belts protects passengers from harm. The others have no real value. In fact, they invite danger.

One of the best responses to the airline’s tweet came from Rick Canton: “Fly Royal Dutch Airlines, where your only chance of surviving a crash is buckling up the heterosexual way.” (more…)

    GOD tempteth no man (Jas. i. 13); He simply permits man to be tempted. It is the devil who hammers at you when you are tempted. "Our wrestling is against the spirits of wickedness in high places " (Eph. vi. 12). On earth we are surrounded by robbers; many of us are overcome and wounded by them.  The conflict with the spirit of evil is a more critical struggle; it is carried on covertly, and against a more powerful adversary--one who spares no pains and knows no shame; who, when he is repulsed, returns all the more defiantly to the attack. For six thousand years he has tempted mankind; such long practice has made him perfect. He excites within us concupiscence of the flesh, or concupiscence of the eyes, or the pride of life (1 John ii. 16). In this threefold manner he tempted Our Lord. Many temptations come upon a man through no fault of his own (witness Job); some are the result of culpable negligence (witness Eve). The evil enemy as a rule attacks our weak point, our affection for creatures. Like a fowler, he attracts the birds to his net by offering them the food they like best. Physical infirmities give the devil more power over us; everyone knows how apt the sick are to be fretful, impatient and exacting. The devil sets to work craftily. He transforms himself into an angel of light (2 Cor.…

THE GERMAN dissident Ernst Zündel, 78, died last week in his home country.

Mr. Zündel was called a “holocaust denier,” but he did not deny mass suffering of Jews in World War II.

He challenged the official death toll and accounts and for this he experienced “multiple costly criminal trials, two years’ imprisonment in solitary confinement in Canada, five years imprisonment in Germany, the burning of his home and its contents by an arsonist, and his deportation and subsequent banishment from the United States and Canada,” as author Michael Hoffman put it.

A columnist in The Toronto Sun this week continued the vendetta against Zündel by regretting that he did not die in agony.

In 1985, Zündel’s legal team grilled expert witnesses at his trial in Canada, known as “The Great Holocaust Trial.” It was the first time ever in a public Holocaust trial that the defense was allowed to cross-examine experts and survivors. Their testimony, particularly that of a leading historian on the subject, fell apart under intensive scrutiny and shattered their credibility. Michael Hoffman, author of The Great Holocaust Trial, writes:

The most eminent “Holocaust” historian of the 1980s was Dr. Raul Hilberg. During the Great Holocaust Trial he was compelled to admit on the witness stand that there was no scientific evidence of homicidal gassings. “I’m at a loss” were the shocking words this “leading Holocaust scholar” uttered when asked by Christie to cite such evidence.

Zündel went to jail for his public writings and broadcasts anyway. He was banned from this country for life earlier this year, and was unable to be reunited with his wife here. According to Hoffman,

His lifelong campaign to counter anti-German hatred and Talmudic bigotry has been transformed through the alchemy of media falsification into itself an act of hate, and it is at this omega point that Ernst’s persona has been frozen by the Establishment. “He was a hater!” That’s all we’re supposed to know, or need to know, about his life and work. (more…)

  "WE UNDERSTAND absolutely nothing about modern civilization if we do not admit at first that it is a universal conspiracy against all interior life." -- George Bernanos    

  BRADEN N. PLYLER writes at The Counter Revolution: American capitalism is as intrinsically evil as communism. This isn't a controversial or centrist position to take. Capitalism and communism are not a dichotomy, as there are a plethora of other systems to choose from. While in the West communism is viewed as a force of evil, and capitalism its opposite, they have more in common than one would think. Both are two sides of the same coin - materialism. Any idea which supposes material ownership is above morality (or in a case where morality is exclusively based on rules pertaining to materialism) is a system in which God and people do not matter. While communism is a system which usually erodes and fails after a certain amount of time, secularist capitalism is a slow and agonizing death. Morality should never be a "free market", and truly, luxury or greed should never be what dictates economic policy. One virtue of capitalism is that compared to communism, private property is allowed. Truly, private property is the basis of the need for the state and healthy to man. Where it fails to uphold private property is that wealth concentrates very quickly as agrarianism tends to give way to urbanization. Land and wealth concentrates among a certain elite, who usually end up bribing or paying off government officials, which usually gives rise to socialist-like policies. Even worse, mass capitalism of all aspects of society would be…

JANE S. writes:

Okay, just for the sake of argument, let’s assume that Karen Rinaldi is right: marriage and motherhood are drudgery. She implies that a career is fulfilling and liberating. But she does not give a jot of supporting evidence.

Presumably, an established author like Rinaldi works from home, or maybe rents an office space. She is an elite who enjoys more autonomy and creativity than the majority of women in the workforce. I don’t know who if anyone cramps her style, unless it’s her publisher.

She should spend some time in the high-tech work environment, where you are under constant surveillance, where you are required to wear a badge that tracks your every move, where digital timekeepers monitor everything you do down to the microsecond, including your bathroom breaks.

We can then see time how long it takes before she’s had enough. It won’t be long. Then she can explain how spending eight hours a day suffocating in a cubicle is so much better than staying at home changing diapers.

Today’s typical work setting is not only more oppressive and soul-crushing than Rinaldi imagines, in her fictitious female empowerment world. Workplace bullying is rampant. It is said to be four times more prevalent than harassment based on illegal discrimination.

And, according to the Workplace Bullying Institute, “Woman bullies famously target other women in 80% of cases.” A supervisor is not only much harder to please than a husband, the supervisor who makes your life hell is more likely to be a woman. I can personally vouch for that. (more…)

THERE’S no such thing as transgenderism in classical ballet.

As the brilliant E. Michael Jones says in this interview about his new book, “How Meyer Lansky took over the Cincinnati Ballet and what Four Ballerinas did about it,” ballet is about male/female relationships. Feminism and the entire social engineering project to confuse sexual differences are contrary to the romantic ideals of ballet, which glorify male and female and their efforts to understand and complement each other.

Modern dance is entirely different. It turns dancers into “sex robots” and is essentially about failed relationships.

“Every year we have to suffer through a new version of the sex robot dance at the Cincinnati ballet,” says Jones, whose son is a ballet dancer for the Cincinnati company. “… Everybody got sick of it.”

Four ballerinas rebelled against the sex robot dance and its political agenda. They realized that every time they did modern dance, they were “silent propagandists for failed relationships,” Jones says.

Learn more about Jones’s book — and what the mobster Meyer Lansky has to do with all this — in the interview with Judith Sharpe. It will be available free at In the Spirit of Chartres for another week. The final ten minutes of the interview are especially important. (more…)

THIS is a funny cartoon (found here) that makes the same point I made in recent entries (here and here). Tattoos are projections of pretend strength. Judging from appearances, individuals who suffer from weakness and uncertainty are more likely to get tattoos. Many people today are wimps inside. Their childhoods have been chaotic and often sad and confusing. Their minds have been reduced to mush by pseudo-education and popular culture. They have no courage or inner strength. Their bodies are mush too. Many look like walking marshmallows. The tattoo is a symbol of toughness, formerly favored by military men and outlaws. Just last week, I met a government clerk who had a huge tattoo across her chest that was visible under her blouse at work. She was otherwise sallow and unhealthy looking. The cast of her complexion was that of someone who had spent a long period of time in a prison cell. Despite her best efforts to appear tough, she projected an overwhelming impression of softness, or squishiness, and defeat, not confidence. Many Americans today lack any sense of the glorious heritage of their own spiritual natures and that the body is literally a temple of an immortal soul created in an individual act of creation by God himself. We were created out of nothing and are only held in existence every moment of the day by the will of God. Tattoos are rank ingratitude. Most people in the modern world are insane…

FROM "How Donald Trump Threw Peace and Prosperity Under an AIPAC Bus" by Phil Butler: Shortly after 11:00 AM, Wednesday August 2, 2017 US President Donald Trump declared full scale economic war on Russia. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is joined by millions of us who’ve now lost all hope of peace and reconciliation in the world. Cold War II is on. Dmitry Medvedev attacked Trump’s decision to sign the bill in the same way most of us analysts will, chastising the US President after his clear bow to a US Congress unified in its hysteria against Vladimir Putin’s Russia. But the Russian Prime Minister did not delve into just “why” Trump is praying to the altar of neo-conservatism today. Trump feigned disagreement with sections of the law his team said are “unconstitutional”, but the force behind these sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea is hidden. Let me enlighten you on what is really taking place in Washington. Two days ago, a close colleague of mine was on the line from Greenwich, Connecticut to discuss my upcoming book when the conversation turned to these new Russia sanctions. My colleague related a story from Capital Hill and an insider who explained the vote on the sanctions law. The gist of this insider’s revelation was that the overwhelming “yes vote” in Congress indicated one powerful player behind the curtain – America’s pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. When I heard AIPAC stood behind, my mind…

FROM a sermon on The Transfiguration of Jesus by Fr. Francis Xavier Weninger, 1876:

THE garments which clothe our soul, are the good works which we practise, according to our station in life. If each one of these were performed with the purest intention, and were free from every stain of imperfection, what an adornment they would prove to be, how they would embellish the soul, and what a gain they would be for heaven! Unfortunately this is seldom the case. There are few of our works whose brightness is untarnished by sin.

We will consider today, particularly, the stains which deface our daily works, and meditate upon the best means of avoiding and guarding against them. Mary, thou who, according to Holy Writ, standest robed in garments of gold, before the throne of the Most High, thou, purest of the pure, in thought and deed, grant that we, taught and guided by thee, may gain strength to free ourselves from every stain of imperfection and sin! I speak in the most holy name of Jesus, to the greater glory of God.

St. John, speaking in the Apocalypse of the saints in heaven, says: “They were clothed in white robes.” These white garments and these shining, precious material of which they are made, says he, are righteousness and good works. This material is made up principally of our daily works. For, in order to become holy it is not necessary to perform great and astonishing outward deeds. The Almighty has not chosen or called every one for such a career; hence every one has not received the divine grace which it requires. As to those great works of which we read in the lives of the saints, they were not the means of making them what they were; it was, rather, the perfection with which they performed their daily duties which made them so rich in merit.

A friend of St. Francis de Sales used to say of this saint, that he did nothing unusual, and yet all that he did seemed unusual, on account of the perfect manner in which it was performed. And what are the stains which cling to our daily works and deface them, and often even totally destroy them, by robbing them of all merit for the life to come? They are these:

First, the stain of indolence, arising from a want of energy to rise early, and always at the same time, in order to say our morning prayers and to implore God to protect and bless us during the day. All who are indolent in rising, who begin the day slothfully and without devout, earnest prayer, stain thus early in the morning the robes of their soul. (more…)

AS IF women weren’t demoralized enough when it comes to sacrificing ambition for motherhood and home, New York Times writer Karen Rinaldi comes up with a new twist on the Don’t-Waste-Your-Life-At-Home argument.

She says motherhood is essentially selfish.

Rinaldi, the author of The End of Men, writes:

ALEX KAFRI “was given to believe” that his father’s family had been entirely wiped out in German gas chambers during World War II, Haaretz reports.

But Kafri recently learned after his father’s death that in fact he had many relatives on his father’s side. A huge reunion took place in London last week. This is a happy story, folks.

May there be many more of these happy reunions.

This story is as happy as the admission by Polish and Jewish authorities that after years of reporting that four million Jews were killed at Auschwitz, no more than 1.1 to 1.5 million inmates of various religions died there. The whole world should rejoice that millions did not perish there! (more…)

ALAN writes: George Orwell wrote: “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” But naked brutality would be needed only to tyrannize people who can recognize evil and summon the will to oppose it. In the years when Orwell wrote, many people could do both. Today, most Americans can do neither. In place of naked brutality, I see a somewhat different vision of the future: It stares at us wherever we look—in public places, on public transit, in newspapers, in magazines, on television, on the Internet, in commerce, in advertising, in retail stores. It is the image of a young feminized woman having “fun” and wearing a perpetual, vapid, adolescent-witted smile: Multiculti mush and poison dished out by the Feminoid Sisterhood fronting for Nanny Government. Equally bad are the endless announcements on public transit instructing passengers to “use the sidewalks and crosswalks for safety”, recited in computer-generated recordings designed to mimic a woman’s voice. Imagine a "partnership" of Feminoids and Nanny Government instructing us for our own good. I need a good laugh: Tell me that Washington, Jefferson, and the other early Americans would have listened to such announcements and said, “O Thank you, benevolent Nanny Government, for giving us those instructions. We are so dumb that we would have walked directly into a stampede of horses were it not for those instructions provided by such a sweetheart government.”