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. (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.

THE trailer for the soon-to-be released movie, "Denial," which purports to portray those who are questioning the widespread understanding of the events of the "Holocaust," contains factual inaccuracies, according to Hadding Scott. See more by Michael Hoffman at Revisionist Review blog.

THE New York Times's reports on a recently dismissed professor from China who allegedly shot the dean of the Mount Sinai Medical School who had terminated his employment and another man on Monday. Neither victim sustained serious injuries. From the article: In informing his colleagues of his termination, Mount Sinai/MSSM stated that Dr. Chao had been ‘fired for data fraud’.

EVER wonder who coined the Orwellian term “sexual orientation?” Or who first referred to “gender” instead of “sex?”

The man behind these innovations is John Money, a Johns Hopkins psychologist and “sexologist,” who also was largely responsible for the first sex change operations in this country.

Mr. Money, who died in 2006, started the Johns Hopkins Sexual Identity Clinic and had a full academic and clinical career. But in any normal society, Mr. Money would have been an outcast and would have spent time in jail for his part in the mutilation and sexual abuse of a young boy and the sexual abuse of his brother.

The modern-day transgender movement began in child abuse.

Max Roscoe wrote a full account of the case of David Reimer in Return of the Kings last year. When Reimer was injured as a baby in a botched circumcision, Money convinced his parents to have further surgery; treat the boy with synthetic hormones and raise him as a girl. It was a living experiment on Money’s thesis that sex is a social construct. He also later conducted “therapy” on David, which involved exposing him to pornography and having him and his brother play-act sexual intercourse.

Both David Reimer and his brother killed themselves as adults.

Mr. Money was affiliated with Johns Hopkins up until his death. When he died, he was honored with this highly respectful obituary in The New York Times. The University of Minnesota hosts a John Money lecture series in “pediatric sexology.” And now there are literally thousands of David Reimers. Most have not had surgery, but they are encouraged to deny their biology by their own parents, thanks to perverts like Mr. Money. Many will be scarred for life.

The modern-day transgender movement began in child abuse and it continues in child abuse. But then few societies have been so committed to destroying the innocence of children as ours.

So now when you hear or read the terms “sexual orientation” or “gender,” you can put them into historical context. (more…)

THE Northern Lights, also known as 'Aurora borealis' in the northern hemisphere and 'Aurora australis' in the southern, are the fallout from solar magnetic storms. They appear as pulsating curtains of light in the night sky. This magnificent show can appear as far south as Virginia in the Northeastern United States. It actually acts somewhat like neon lights. Electrons collide with the earth's magnetic field; the collision excites atoms and molecules and they give off light as they return to lower energy states. The Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds (above) has brilliantly captured the lights in his composition Northern Lights. The choral work includes a Latvian folksong, for which I do not have the translation, and the text by two Arctic explorers Charles Francis Hall (1821-1871) and Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930). You can listen to this spectacular soundscape which captures a man coming up from below deck on a ship at sea -- "Come above, Hall, at once! The world is on fire!" -- and being confronted with the brilliant pulsing sky here. Northern Lights Cik naksnīnas pret ziemeli Redzēj' kāvus karojam; Karo kāvi pie debesu, Vedīs karus mūs' zemē. It was night, and I had gone on deck several times. Iceberg was silent; I too was silent. It was true dark and cold. At nine o'clock I was below in my cabin, When the captain hailed me with the words: "Come above, Hall, at once! The world is on fire!" I knew his meaning, and, quick as thought, I…

SEE analysis by James Tracy at Memory Hole Blog.

VOX DAY writes at his site:

Anyone who is using the term “Judeo-Christian” is referencing, consciously or not, left-wing anti-Christian agitprop. There are no historical “Judeo-Christian” values; to the extent there is overlap they are Christian values. (more…)

CAROLINE writes: There is so much to say about the emasculation of our world. I don’t know where to begin. I often think of Marx and the Communists (and indeed the left) and the goal of creating the “new man.” I think this is where we are. As I look around me and see all these tattooed young women, with no air of mystery about them, especially in how they dress, it seems so sad that perhaps they’ll never know the true joy of being a woman, as in being a mother and a wife and being loyal to one man, and knowing their position as women and (sometimes) reveling in it. Of persevering in a marriage because it’s the right thing to do, because marriage is bigger than the two of you. Of waiting for marriage to experience the mysteries of conjugal love. Of raising children and not feeling like they have to have a job or be powerful, great, strong, macho etc. Of finding joy in housekeeping and being satisfied.

THE SECRET of existence — a golden rule that will never fail no matter what  — is to remain always, in some essential part of one’s being, a child.

Not a child physically or intellectually, of course. But in the supernatural order, in our souls, we should always be children. Children are immature, willful, stubborn, emotionally unstable and unknowledgeable. But they are trusting. They are highly conscious of the benevolence that lies behind all things. A child knows he is loved and he loves in return with his undivided heart. He has momentary fears, sometimes they are severe, but he does not suffer from existential anxiety or dread. He is not plagued with worry. It is often when adults don’t understand the complete trust and love of the child that they mistreat him. The child has confidence that he is protected even when he lives in miserable surroundings or has irresponsible parents.

And so it is with us — or should always be with us.

We are loved and protected. Benevolence surrounds us — and if we are not conscious of it, something is terribly wrong with us. Everything that happens expresses the will of God in some way. He wants the best for us in his fatherly protectiveness. But we cannot know him as a true Father unless we are true children. We can turn everything to good if we trust in his love and fatherliness.

Even when we are in our busy prime years, with important affairs and responsibilities, and even when we are old, this beautiful truth holds — we are children all the same.

Yoga instructors say we should empty ourselves. But nothingness cannot love us. Nothingness cannot satisfy us. Nothingness is nothing. The child knows there is something. He is never seduced by blankness. His heart is too full for blankness. He cannot attain that aridness.

Instead we should seek to fill ourselves.

We should fill ourselves with the simplicity and littleness of the child and through it obtain the elevating grace of God our Father. The more important and successful a person is, the more he needs to strive against the currents of his own complexity and bigness. That’s why important and successful people are so often shallow. They think they are self-sufficient. They have forgotten they are little — or they are too absorbed in the world to orient their littleness toward God. The child is little, weak and he owns almost nothing. It is really quite amazing when you think about it. If the child is not loved — and usually he is loved intensely — he cannot survive at all because he has so little to himself, is entirely incapable and is so little.

He has his simplicity — to which God in his simplicity responds. The child’s littleness and weakness ensure that he is loved. His vulnerability and poverty touch the hearts of those who love him with such profound and moving pangs of sympathy and tenderness. It is the same with us in our relations with God. He is even more approachable than the most loving human father. He is moved by our awareness of our littleness.

St. Therese of Lisieux was a great master of this doctrine of spiritual childhood and believed it was her destiny to spread this truth. She taught that we should emulate the littleness of the child in our relations with God. We advance spiritually the more we uncover our littleness in our suffering and faults:

I have many weaknesses, but I am never astonished because of them. I am not always as prompt as I should like to be in rising above the insignificant things of this world. For example I might be inclined to worry about some silly thing I have said or done. I then recollect myself and say, ‘Alas, I am still at the point from which I started.’ But I say this with great peace and without sadness. It is truly sweet to feel weak and little.

(Novissima Verba, St. Therese of Lisieux, quoted in The Complete Spiritual Doctrine of St. Therese of Lisieux, by Rev. Francois Jamart, O.C.D.; Society of St. Paul, 1961)

It is truly sweet to be a child.

Always and everywhere, in a secret and essential part of our being. (more…)

  AFTER spending 25 years in prison for a murder and rape which he contended for years he did not commit, Anthony Wright (previously convicted as a juvenile of hitting a police officer with a piece of lumber that broke his nose, jaw and teeth) was freed this week. He was acquitted in a new trial based on DNA evidence. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Wright had this to say in a press conference: "Who am I to hold a grudge against somebody? I don't do that, man. I worship a merciful God. And I believe in him, and all the chips will fall where they may. We're here today because of that."

PETER BRIMELOW responds to Hillary Clinton’s speech attacking Trump supporters and the “alt-right” movement. Overall Brimelow does a good job of responding.

Hillary’s speech was standard, boiler-plate shaming of white Americans from a woman who is constantly inciting nonwhites to consider, and feel pride in, their collective, racial interests. The European people are on the verge of becoming a minority in America as a result of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and only they are considered hateful for fighting to preserve their heritage and culture. Most major urban newspapers in America have black columnists who openly discuss their racial identity and interests. They are never accused of hatefulness.

As Brimelow says, the problem isn’t that whites are hateful, it’s that they are hated.

Those who consider race to be the highest, or most important, factor of life are wrong. But so are those who claim race is nothing — an idea usually only advanced when it comes to whites. (more…)

BRANDON MARTINEZ writes at Non-Aligned Media: Does Western big media slant its coverage to favor the whims of their respective governments? Absolutely. Should we be skeptical and cautious about certain claims and narratives being fostered? Certainly. But so does Russian media like RT for its side, yet the Russian outlets are universally hailed by the same “alt-media” sheeple as trusted news sources despite their obvious function as mouthpieces for the Kremlin. A true non-aligned journalist or even opinion writer would acknowledge the inevitabilities that arise during wars of significant magnitude where both sides commit excesses, abuses and crimes, both sides do “propaganda” and both sides lie about their enemies. This “team choosing” cheerleader hobbyism of the alt-media has shown that it is by and large effectively no better than the mainstream sources they criticize. On top of that, much of the alt-media has shown that they are not non-interventionists or against militarism, but only selectively so when it is the “wrong”  powers engaged in the action.

FEW CANDIDATES have been catapulted to a presidential nomination so exclusively on one issue as Donald Trump, who is running because he promised the American people that he would stop illegal immigration and indicated that he would send violators of the law home. Millions of people, at the risk of being slandered as bigots and Nazis, supported him as a result. They supported him not because in most cases they were categorically against immigration, but because they were against excessive, ruinous immigration.

Now, however, Trump has made statements reversing his stand.

In a public appearance on television last night, the Republican candidate did not “soften” his stand, as some are contending. He reversed it.

Trump said he would offer illegal immigrants a “path to legalization.” Another term for that is amnesty, however much Trump may deny the term. Ann Coulter, call your publisher immediately. You have a lot of explaining to do.

NPR reports: (more…)

HERE'S a little background, courtesy of The Anti-New York Times, on the recent expulsion of the MacArthur Foundation from Russia.