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HILLARY kept her pneumonia diagnosis secret for three days.

School buildings, like this state-of-the-art school in Casper, Wyoming, lack intimacy and beauty

ALAN writes:

Like A. Wood, I was a school resister.  But I was much dumber than him.  I sat through nine years of it as an obedient little lamb.  And then I became a rebel.

In “Boys Hate School” [ Oct. 29, 2015 ], you wrote:  “The modern secular school is an impersonal factory.”

You are too generous.  I suggest that modern secular schools are child-crushing factories.

Schooling has nothing to do with learning.  It has to do with power, babysitting, and hatred of responsibility:  Power over parents and children throughout an artificially-prolonged childhood, and hatred of responsibility by parents who think their children should be somebody else’s responsibility.

It was in the mid-1960s that I came to hate schooling.

In the 1930s, my mother and uncle walked to their parochial school in south St. Louis.   But my uncle was not fond of school.  On some days he persuaded my mother to play hooky with him.  At age 14 he quit school and got a job within walking distance from their home.  It was possible to do that in those years, and it was work that he wanted to do.  Fortunately my grandparents had the supreme good sense not to call him a “dropout”, not to cajole him into going back to school, and not to call in “experts” or “professionals” to “help” him adjust himself to other people’s expectations of what he should be doing.  Instead, they had the profound wisdom to leave him alone.  They knew he was happy and was contributing to the family income.  There were no problems.  He got along just fine. Read More »

MARK VOROBEJ, an associate professor at McMaster University in Canada, taught third- and fourth-year undergraduate philosophy students a course in argumentation theory, in which they evaluated arguments put forth by the author David Lee Griffin against the official account of 9/11. Most of the students were initially unaware of any controversy. Vorobej showed them the movie “9/11 Mysteries” first (if you haven’t seen this movie, I highly recommend it) and they then read Griffin’s book The New Pearl Harbor. The students, whom had all completed at least one course in logic, had many thoughtful responses. By the end, all rejected the official story. See Vorobej’s essay, “Obstacles to Persuasion: Lessons from the Classroom” here.

Litchfield Female Academy Embroidery

CAROLINE, a homeschooling mother, writes:

I’m kind of enjoying what my daughter and I are studying. Our poet is Robert Frost. I came to a new appreciation of his work through your blog. Today we read the following and it brought tears to my eyes (but not my daughter’s of course). I find poems more poignant when read aloud.

The Need of Being Versed in Country Things (from New Hampshire, 1923)

— Robert Frost

The house had gone to bring again
To the midnight sky a sunset glow.
Now the chimney was all of the house that stood,
Like a pistil after the petals go.

The barn opposed across the way,
That would have joined the house in flame
Had it been the will of the wind, was left
To bear forsaken the place’s name.

No more it opened with all one end
For teams that came by the stony road
To drum on the floor with scurrying hoofs
And brush the mow with the summer load.

The birds that came to it through the air
At broken windows flew out and in,
Their murmur more like the sigh we sigh
From too much dwelling on what has been.

Yet for them the lilac renewed its leaf,
And the aged elm, though touched with fire;
And the dry pump flung up an awkward arm;
And the fence post carried a strand of wire.

For them there was really nothing sad.
But though they rejoiced in the nest they kept,
One had to be versed in country things
Not to believe the phoebes wept.

McIlvaine Family, Bobby (far right) with his brother and parents

THE father of Bobby McIlvaine has strong forensic evidence that his 26-year-old son was killed by an tremendous explosion as he was about to enter the lobby of the North Tower on September 11, 2001. His evidence is supported by the literally hundreds of witnesses who heard explosions on that day before the buildings collapsed.

Crag McKee writes at Architects and Engineers for Truth:

That evidence is corroborated by the accounts of many FDNY members, police officers, and workers who reported that explosions went off in the lower parts of the towers before the buildings were leveled — some of them even before the first airplane struck.

In a letter to the Journal of 9/11 Studies, Bob McIlvaine, Bobby’s father, writes about his quest to find out what happened on 9/11:

Sadly, I came to a conclusion best said by Woodrow Wilson and, unfortunately true today. “We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world, no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men.”

From hours and hours of research, I have learned that the truth of 9/11 as well as the truth of who really holds the power in this country and throughout the world, are not in our best interests to know, according to those elite few who choose to control our destiny. Unfortunately, peace and truth are not part of that destiny.

The events of 9/11, which occurred 15 years ago tomorrow, brought untold tragedy for the families of those killed in New York City, for those who heroically gave their lives in a war they thought was justified, and for the hundreds of thousands of victims of those wars. The case of the government, claiming that the attack was the work of Islamic hijackers, has never been vetted in criminal or civil court. There is massive evidence against it. McIlvaine is right. There cannot be peace in a world governed by such lies and by those who aid the perpetrators of such evil.

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FROM A LETTER TO The Winona Post:

The real enemies of labor are not …. the big corporations. The real enemies of labor and of the American and world economies are the usurious central banks. Those who make money off money do not contribute anything real to our country. They are leeches, plain and simple. Nothing will really change until they are removed. All of the supposed economic indicators are based on how the banks and the speculators are doing, not on how real Americans are doing. We have all fallen for the big lie. Read More »

Mother Theresa at the gravesite of Mahatma Ghandi

MOTHER THERESA was a remarkable woman. She performed heroic deeds of charity and often challenged the materialistic values of the West in interviews and speeches. Through her Missionaries of Charity in India, she fed the poor, nursed the sick and buried the dead by the tens of thousands.

Unfortunately, her works of charity do not mean she was saintly, in the Catholic sense. In fact, Mother Theresa, who died in 1997 and was canonized by “Pope” Francis this week, cannot reasonably be considered a Catholic saint. Mark Michael Zima, author of Mother Theresa: The Case for the Cause,  wrote in 2007:

“Even though Mother Theresa said and did much that was Catholic, she also did say and do much that was not Catholic.”

Zima presented with eloquent clarity the case against her canonization, which was subsequently rejected by the apostates in Rome. (His book, which I highly recommend, is both an examination of Mother Theresa’s sanctity and a critique of the errors of modernism.) Zima wrote:

“Sincerity does not make the saint. Mother Theresa is not a saint based on her subjective sincerity or devotion to her conscience. Instead sainthood is based on the objective truth. Speaking from a holistic viewpoint, her words and deeds conflict with those of the saints, especially when her words and deeds are compared to the words and deeds of the saints of the Church in the Old and New Testament.”

Here are some of the statements Mother Theresa made:

“I do convert. I convert you to be a better Hindu, a better Catholic, Muslim, Jain or Buddhist.”

“Some call him Ishwar, some call him Allah, some simply God. But we all have to acknowledge that it is he who made us for greater things: to love and to be loved.”

“No color, no religion, no nationality should come between us. We are all children of God.”

On the face of it, these statements seem loving and unifying. They are inclusive. But they deny the very existence of objective truth. They promote relativism and a God who deceives. Where there is relativism, there is confusion and ultimately conflict. The globalists love chaos. It empowers them. That’s why I think of her as a New World Order saint, highly attractive to religious modernists as well because her example promotes:

* a fusion of East and West
* a new God
* a one-world religion
* relativism
* mass-produced celebrity holiness
* active virtues over the passive

While Mother Theresa abundantly provided for the physical and emotional needs of the poor whom she served, she did not always give them the light of truth, which is more important than food or medicine or a warm bed. The canonization of Mother Theresa is further evidence that Jorge Bergoglio is not a legitimate pontiff. He does not possess the Catholic faith.

Read more about Mother Theresa:

The “Canonization” of the Apostate Mother Teresa — Another Impossibility for a True Pope (Novus Ordo Watch)

What about the Orthodoxy of Mother Theresa? (Tradition in Action)

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NO PASSENGER JET ever crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on 9/11. There were no bodies and no plausible passenger jet plane wreckage.  Susan McElwain (above) saw a drone-like object fly overhead and crash at the site where a plane was said to have crashed.

Rick King was Assistant Chief of the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department and was one of the first people to arrive at the scene. He said:

“The crater was there, there was a landing gear tire that was on fire, trees were smoldering, small brush fires, the smell of jet fuel, just small pieces of debris scattered everywhere. Nothing really identifiable you know as far as a plane.

“First off, where was the plane? Where were the people? That was my first thought, We did a search through the woods and didn’t find anything or anybody, at first. I heard a plane, I knew it was an airline, a passenger jet. That was the scary thing for me.”

The coroner Wallace Miller reported repeatedly that he saw no bodies and no blood.

He told author David McCall: “I got to the actual crash site and could not believe what I saw. … Usually you see much debris, wreckage, and much noise and commotion. This crash was different. There was no wreckage, no bodies, and no noise. … It appeared as though there were no passengers or crew on this plane.” (David McCall, From Tragedy to Triumph, 2002, pp. 86-87) Source

The story of United Flight 93 proved that tens of millions of people could be fooled very easily, especially when they are traumatized and a lie is broadcast over and over again, with no contradiction or doubt. There was no plane wreckage. And yet people believed.

Much has been made of the abundant evidence that the Twin Towers came down in controlled demolitions. The Shanksville deception is even more obvious.

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The Birth of the Virgin, Girolamo del Pacchia

If we celebrate the birthdays of the great ones of this earth, how ought we to rejoice in that of the Virgin Mary, presenting to God the best homage of our praises and thanksgiving for the great mercies He has shown in her, and imploring her mediation with her Son in our behalf! Christ will not reject the supplications of His mother, whom He was pleased to obey whilst on earth. Her love, care, and tenderness for Him, the title and qualities which she bears, the charity and graces with which she is adorned, and the crown of glory with which she is honored, must incline Him readily to receive her recommendations and petitions.

 — The Roman Breviary

Clothed in the sun, I see thee stand,
The moon beneath thy feet;
The stars above thy sacred head
A radiant coronet.

Dear Mother, pray for us that He
Who came through thee of yore,
May come to dwell within our hearts,
And never quit us more.

FIFTEEN YEARS after 9/11 and the onset of the “War on Terror” hoax, the American sheeple continue to allow themselves to be detained, pawed and marched through cancer machines at airports. It’s a power and money-making trip by the Kosher Nostra with the aid of the obstinately cultivated stupidity of people who seem addicted to humiliation. Brother Nathanael tells it like it is.

DR. THOMAS DROLESKEY at Christ or Chaos writes about the case of two-year-old Israel Stinson, who was forcibly removed last week from life support at a Los Angeles hospital:

The medical body-snatching ghouls who walk around in white coats are very well trained to use emotional appeals such as “death with dignity,” “quality of life,” “compassionate care,” “prolonging life” and, among so many others, “giving the gift of life.” They have become so skilled at the use of these emotional appeals that they express shock and become indignant when anyone actually dares to question their supposedly infallible “diagnoses” or challenges them with documentation that “brain death” is a manufactured money-making myth.

The problems are far worse than that, however.

In addition to the countless numbers of human beings who are declared “brain dead” in hospitals within the United States of America and elsewhere around the world, more countless numbers of human beings are being dispatched in hospices, institutions that use a combination of drugs, including morphine and potassium chloride, to kill a supposed terminally ill human being in a precisely timed manner by stopping the heart on a gradual basis, usually over a course of two to three days. It is no accident that many merchants of death in hospices can tell loved ones precisely how many days one admitted to their “care” will live before they die. Hospices have become a big part of the American death industry that most people call the “medical profession,” and insurance companies, whose lobbyists line the coffers of political candidates of both organized crime families of naturalism at all levels of government (state, local, federal), are more than eager to see those who are “draining” their resources to receive supposedly “compassionate” “end of life care.” [emphasis added]

I AM proud to say that I am married to a man who hated school.

From his very first day at St. Michael’s Catholic School in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he was one of 74 in his class, A. Wood hated it. He went to first grade without any of the preliminaries. No day care. No nursery school. No kindergarten. None of the cinder-block experiences that kill the spirit of defiance before first grade. He spent the first six years of his life un-institutionalized. He was “Tony” to his four siblings, parents and other relatives in his working class neighborhood.

Here is his description of his first day of school:

That first morning that I checked into my minimum-security prison, I walked to school with my three brothers. We were in the company of my mother, for the only time in my memory.

Only “publicans” went to kindergarten. Catholic school kids were not subject to blackboard tyranny until first grade. We had no introduction to school or its alleged benefits, such as learning the alphabet and the Arabic number system. The only thing I had in the way of preparation was a vinyl pencil box given to me by a deaf-and-dumb neighbor. As a testament to neighborhood insensitivity, we knew her only as “Deafy.”

My first surprise was learning that my name was “Anthony.” I saw it in print, written in magic marker on a cardboard strip and sealed in cellophane.

I was in a room with 71 other first graders whom I had never seen in my life. The room smelled of disinfectant and rotting bananas. I proceeded to talk to the girl sitting next to me.

“Anthony,” and this was the first time anyone had addressed me as such, “We don’t talk in here.” So pronounced Sister Joseph Beatrice of the Sisters of St. Joseph. The nuns wore shoe-length black woolen habits adorned with a starched, circular bib; a sash, and a crucifix and rosary with wooden beads the size of jellybeans. Their severe, starched headpieces appeared hammered into their foreheads. They were attached to the habit with stiff ear-flaps that they said gave them super-hearing.

Since I was enjoined from talking, I began to move from side to side in my desk chair.

“Anthony,” said Sister Joseph Beatrice, “We don’t move in here.” I’m thinking, okay, so what do we do in here. Read More »

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY, the famous anti-feminist, died yesterday at the age of 92.

Schlafly was a staunch anti-Communist and brilliant organizer, best known for creating a strong grass roots movement against the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1970s. The amendment officially died in 1982 after many people realized that it would eliminate privileges for women, such as the privilege of not being drafted into the military. The Equal Rights Amendment has basically been enacted anyway by the courts and the federal government. However, women are still not required to register for the draft.

Schlafly was the bright, cheerful face of the invisible women who opposed feminism. She was also active in many other political causes from her conservative foundation, initially Stop ERA and later the Eagle Forum, and had an especial interest in foreign policy. She bears the distinction of being called “hateful” by the Talmudic establishment. Alan Wolfe wrote of her in The New Republic in 2005:

Let it be said of Phyllis Schlafly that every idea she had was scatter-brained, dangerous, and hateful. The more influential she became, the worse off America became.

A woman who wrote 20 books; earned a masters degree from Radcliffe in nine months; later got a law degree and led a major national campaign against a Constitutional amendment was “scatter-brained?” A woman who opposed foreign wars that were not in America’s interests was “dangerous?” Wolfe typifies the hatred born against American patriots like Schlafly. He gave not a single example in his hit piece of a “hateful” comment by Schlafly, who refused to kowtow to “minorities” but never expressed hatred toward anyone and, greatly to her credit, opposed the war in Iraq. Her opponents were the vicious ones. Betty Friedan famously suggested she be burned at the stake and a feminist once threw a pie at her, injuring her eye. Read More »

AN Indian couple faked photos showing that they had climbed Mount Everest. The New York Times reports:

“We were committed that we would not give birth to a child until we climb Mount Everest,” Mr. [Dinesh] Rathod told reporters at the briefing.

“With pride now, we want to become parents,” his wife added.

Indian police officials said that the couple had not been seen lately and that they had not reported to their jobs in Maharashtra, where a separate investigation is underway.

I WAS away in the mountains for a few days, taking a much-needed break from cultural disaster, so I am very behind on the news. I know summer is officially over, but you may be interested in how a modern-day globalist vacations. Diana West has a post on the second home of Peter Sutherland, UN Special Representative for Migration and a vocal supporter of open borders in Europe.

Cold, grandiose, disturbing; It looks like a cartoonist’s vision of a Global Super-Villain’s Hideaway, which, of course, it is.

As an alumnus of Goldman Sachs, the LSE, a founding director general of the WTO, GATT, a member of the Trilateral Commission, a regular at Bilderburger, etc., etc., Sutherland has built a resume that is such a cliched roster of secretive multi-national elite sinecures that one might almost start thinking he was part of some worldwide conspiracy to destroy the West.

Only that would be a “conspiracy theory.”

Still, what better place to conspire than in this remote and award-winning mausoleum of his?

It is safe to assume Mr. Sutherland does not vacation with dozens of refugees in this monstrosity. The practical effects of the migrant invasion are for the small people in their home towns and cities.

RICHARD GAGE, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, was interviewed on C-Span in August, 2014. The interview, which was reportedly prompted by many hundreds of listeners requesting it, is a fantastic introduction for newcomers to 9/11 truth. It is the only time the mainstream media have given serious time to Gage’s organization. The fact that the media have not covered the story of the 9/11 truth movement and its principle arguments is positive proof of a cover-up. For even if the movement was in error, it is a good story — and wherever journalists ignore good stories, there is a cover-up.

The fact that building codes have never been revised after 9/11 is also proof that no civil authorities seriously believe that World Trade Center 7 collapsed from small fires.

Here is an encounter in 2009 between Gage and a questioning tourist outside the White House.

Gage does not consider the question of who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks. His organization is merely concerned with the physical evidence that the official story is not true.