ALFRED SCHAEFER, in 2013,  had a conversation about the 9/11 attacks with the famous linguistics professor and public intellectual, Noam Chomsky, a person whom Schaefer had greatly admired. Schaefer made this video after their exchange, which caused his complete disillusionment with the cunning, dismissive and evasive Chomsky, who defends the lies of 9/11 despite his years of critiquing mass manipulation by the media. Chomsky is finished. Barring his complete turnabout, he has destroyed his credibility forever.

This is an excellent presentation. As Schaefer makes clear, people who are cognitively and emotionally capable of examining the evidence against the official version of 9/11 with an open mind, and yet refuse to do so, are complicit in the cover-up of these crimes. Posterity will judge them harshly. Even though they may have social acceptance now, future generations will know the truth and will condemn them. They will be the outcasts in the minds of posterity that 9/11 truthers are today.

For those who cannot handle an extended reflection on this topic, here is a five-minute exposé:
 
 

LYDIA SHERMAN writes:

In the simple days, the highlight of a child’s life was the trip to the Grandparent’s house. My husband is a preacher in a church, and is hearing almost daily, reports from grandparents in tears who say their children are too busy taking their children to fairs and amusement parks and vacation locations, to visit the grandparents long enough to form any heart-felt connection. He calls this a national plague, and says it is destroying the country faster than bad politics. When families are strong, individuals cannot be swayed to participate in false ideas.

Detachment, emotionally and physically, is encouraged even in homeschool families, making individuals vulnerable to all kinds of evil.

I too remember the simple home life, where there was not so much time to argue with one another. We were too busy bringing in the wood from the wood pile, or heating the water for washing, and gathering in the food from the garden.

Yet, even those who did not live so rough a lifestyle and who had more leisure and personal comfort at home, could hardly wait to take the children to Grandma’s house. The children looked forward to it more than a trip to Disneyland.

RHONDA Pasek, 50, and her friend, James Acord, 47, are shown passed out in an SUV on a street in East Liverpool, Ohio while Pasek’s four-year-old grandson is in the backseat. Both adults had overdosed on heroin. They were resuscitated and arrested.

Drug overdoses killed a record 3,050 people in Ohio last year, more than one-third of them from fentanyl, a super-potent opiate often mixed with heroin. Source Read More »

FROM an essay by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira:

[W]hen sorrow enters our lives it is a proof of the love God has for us. We should also realize that if sorrow does not enter our lives, we do not have this proof of His love for us. Therefore, we should not complain when sufferings come to us – nervous problems, difficulties in our apostolate, misunderstandings with our friends, problems at home, poor health, business troubles. We should accept these things as normal, as a proof of the love of Divine Providence for us.

When I see a person without maturity, stability, rationality, elevation of spirit, I think: He is lacking suffering. These qualities only come with suffering – much suffering.

If we receive such trials, certainly we should pray for them to end. But to the measure that they remain, we should thank God and Our Lady.

Francesco d’Ubertino Verdi, (1494 – 1557) Mary and Child

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THERESA BYRNE writes at Finer Femininity:

When I grew up our life was very simple. We lived in a one bedroom home with seven children. In our tiny kitchen you could see the dirt ground under the linoleum. We had to pump the septic out all the time and the highlight of our week was hoping to see “Uncle Mark” on Sunday evening.

And yet our fondest memories are of those times. We grew a huge garden out back and it was not unusual to see my dad lying in the sunshine, in-between rows of tomatoes, taking a cat nap.

When autumn came, dressed in her gowns of orange and yellow, we would rake piles of leaves and play long into the evening, only coming in when it was time to say night prayers and go to bed.

We lived our days down by the creek skipping rocks, up in the mulberry tree picking berries and in the back yard, playing on our old, rickety jungle gym.
Snack time consisted of celery and peanut butter, date balls or nuts and raisins. We lived simply and happily..

Now don’t get me wrong, I am grateful for electricity and don’t want to go back to days without air conditioning, but to slow down a bit, relearn to “stop and smell the roses”, I think that would be lovely!

ANN CORCORAN at Refugee Resettlement Watch writes:

Huge companies, many of them multinational corporations, are, according to the International Rescue Committee (America’s wealthiest refugee contracting agency), scooping up refugee workers and training them apparently rather than spending the money to train needy African American or other American citizens.

The International Rescue Committee tells us that ‘do-gooderism’ is secondary to making smart business decisions that they say are driving these companies. (Ha! I bet the IRC’s volunteers think this is all about humanitarian zeal!)

Americans first!

Wouldn’t it be smart to train and hire needy American citizens first especially in cities hard hit by unemployment that leads to hopelessness and crime? Apparently not!

OBAMA has pledged $38 billion to Israel over a ten year period, starting in 2017. It is the largest military aid package in U.S. history.

Meanwhile, about 40,000 American veterans of recent wars are homeless on any given night.

FROM The Great Truths, Daily Meditations by Rev. R. F. Clarke, S. J.:

We are all of us jealous of what belongs to ourselves. We resent it if any one interferes with it, or deprives us of any portion of it. Yet no one owns anything by a title so absolute as that by which God is the Lord and owner of all creatures in the universe. My body and my soul are His; everything I possess is His; every action, every thought belongs to Him. He has given all these in charge to me to use for Him. Do I do so?

God is moreover a God infinite in knowledge and in power. His all-seeing eye overlooks nothing, forgets nothing, passes nothing by. No one shall escape who takes anything from Him, and does not give Him His due. God will not forget the ill use that men make of His gifts, though they themselves soon forget it. Have I not therefore cause to tremble when I think how often I have behaved as if I were my own master, independent of God? Read More »

A MUST-SEE video (though not for the faint of heart). Read More »

MAKE-UP companies advertise products that are “cruelty-free” to animals while at the same time encouraging women to look cruel.

Kidist Paulos Asrat contemplates one make-up company’s pitch.

THE Brookings Institute says Europeans who are upset about the influx of immigrants are suffering from a neurotic fear of change. Matthew Groh and Tara Vishwanath write:

We find that neophobia—the fear of anything new and unfamiliar—is one of the root causes of anti-immigration opinion. Since immigrants are both foreign and unfamiliar, neophobes are often lumped together with xenophobes as people who fear immigrants. The difference is that neophobes overcome their fear through acquaintance, whereas xenophobes hold their fears constant. Read More »

FRANZ HÖRMANN, professor of accounting at the University of Economics in Vienna, explains what is wrong with our monetary system.

Money should be in the service of production and families; production and families should not be in the service of money.

THERE is reason to suspect that the person who emerged from Chelsea Clinton’s apartment on Sunday after Hillary Clinton’s collapse at a 9/11 memorial was not Hillary Clinton. The contrast was so noticeable that even the mainstream media has covered the story. The double was thinner than Hillary and was conspicuously not surrounded by body guards, as if a full view of her as healthy and not debilitated was desired. It is unlikely that she could have recovered this quickly (within 90 minutes), if she did indeed collapse. If this was a double, it had to have been arranged well in advance.

[Update: It couldn’t be a Hillary impersonator. The voice in this video is definitely that of Hillary.] Read More »

DONALD TRUMP is the first presidential candidate who has spoken of the possibility of a rigged election. The website Election Night Gatekeepers looks at the vote-counting process, and it ain’t pretty:

This is what happens on the November election night across the USA since at least as far back as 1988:

Four Three Mysterious Mega-Companies “count” the vote on the November Election Night.

One of the traits of these “Election Count” gatekeepers is that they periodically change names, and/or buy each other, but the players and background forces remain essentially the same. These surface changes of ownership and change of names seems designed to give the impression that the gatekeepers are diverse as opposed to comprising a monolithic force, and perhaps to try and keep ahead of the investigations and criminal indictments that should have come long ago. Read More »

Baghdad, 2003

ON a week that marks the 15th-anniversary of 9/11, it’s incumbent on Americans to recall the death and destruction the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 ultimately brought to the mostly Muslim country of Iraq. The second Iraq war began in March, 2003. The author David Swanson wrote in 2013:

At 10 years since the launch of Operation Iraqi Liberation (to use the original name with the appropriate acronym, OIL) and over 22 years since Operation Desert Storm, there is little evidence that any significant number of people in the United States have a realistic idea of what our government has done to the people of Iraq, or of how these actions compare to other horrors of world history. A majority of Americans believe the war since 2003 has hurt the United States but benefitted Iraq. A plurality of Americans believe, not only that Iraqis should be grateful, but that Iraqis are in fact grateful. Read More »

THE FIRST Anti-Vatican II song, Vatican 2! What the Heck Are You?, has been released by True Restoration, and it’s a winner! It’s a catchy tune, sung and performed by the outstanding Damo, and I know you’ll like it. “Oh, Vatican Two! You are the Great Apostasy!… Oh, Vatican Two! It’s easy to tell, You’re not from heaven, You are straight from Hell!” Sing it after the latest Bergoglian bombs have been detonated. Listen here or here.

Oh Vatican Two! Influenced by Bugnini, instead of wine and bread you’re using beer and linguini
You’ve stolen our churches, cathedrals, and our name, our monasteries and convents which soon we will reclaim.

Oh Vatican Two! Where did you come from? If you did not exist I would not have to sing this song!
Religious Liberty, and Existentialism, the Dignity of Man, and False Ecumenism.

Oh Vatican Two! Your days are numbered. Your cupboard is bare just like Mother Hubbard.
The truth never changes this is not to be debated
We look forward to the day when you will be annihilated!

O Glorious Prince of the Heavenly Host, St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.

FROM the satirical publication, The Onion:

In an effort to strengthen their relationship and foster interfaith dialogue, Pope Francis reportedly welcomed the winged Mayan snake god Kukulkan to the Vatican this week as part of a month-long deity exchange program. “We are excited to have the War Serpent staying here with us for the next four weeks, during which time he’ll be exposed to the rituals and customs of the Catholic Church, so that when he returns home he can share the experience with his adherents in Chichén Itzá and the surrounding Yucután communities,” said Vatican spokesperson Greg Burke, noting that the pontiff had taken Kukulkan out for pizza on the first night of the exchange before showing him around some of Rome’s most famous landmarks.