RUSTY M. writes:

I don’t understand how this federal money creation scheme works. I thought that the banks created credit (money) based on the federal government’s promises to repay via tax collections. That wouldn’t be “money from thin air,” so there must be some other razzmatazz going on that that phrase refers to.

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NOW that the Pentagon has approved women in all combat roles, it is only fair that women be required to register with the Selective Service and and be drafted in the event of war. Army Secretary John McHugh acknowledged as much this fall. According to the New York Post, on Oct. 24th:

McHugh, speaking at an Army conference this week in Washington, DC, said draft registration — while just one element of US military operations — “will be one of those things that will have to be considered.”

“If we find ourselves as a military at large where men and women have equal opportunity, as I happen to believe they should, serving in combat positions at least on a formal basis … then ultimately the question of extending the selective service requirements to women as well will have to at least be discussed,” McHugh said.

There is no reasonable argument for excluding women. The privileges of military service should come with the duties. Extension of the draft must be approved by Congress. Start preparing your daughters for military service. Let them play with plastic soldiers instead of dolls. Read More »

HENRY McCULLOCH writes:

This is the logical conclusion of the drive already well under way when Ford (which means Nixon, really) forcibly coeducated the service academies in 1976, lying already about maintaining standards as Carter does today, but it’s none the less insane for that.

If I were a Russian or Chicom Marshal – or a bloody-minded jihadi – I should be having a hearty belly-laugh at this Yankee folly… But I’m an American vet, so I remember better days and tell myself that what can’t last, won’t.

From The New York Times:

In a historic transformation of the American military, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said on Thursday that the Pentagon will open all combat jobs to women.

“There will be no exceptions,” Mr. Carter said at a news conference. Read More »

THERE were 11 mass shootings under Ronald Reagan, 12 under George H.W. Bush, 23 under Bill Clinton, 20 under George W. Bush and — whoaa! — 162 (so far!) under Mr. Obama.

As Redsilverj puts it, “That’s bullcrap!”  You’re being hosed, folks.

Oh, and by the way, where is that oh-so-gutsy and independent Mr. Trump on these transparent frauds? Huh? Hear a word from him about these acts of criminal treason? Silence speaks volumes.

You’re being hosed, folks, regardless of whether the latest shooting in San Bernardino is real or not. You’re being taken to the cleaners left and right. And they’re laughing at you. When liars get away with lies, they lie more and more.

BECOME a resister. Reject the false and meretricious celebration of Christmas. It’s just an elaborate con. Observe Advent, not the exhausting, soulless, secular shopping fest. Light your candles every evening and walk through that sublime, evergreen forest of expectation. Recall your sins with sorrow and ask God to illuminate your heart and mind with hope and true love for the divine infant Child.

Do you ever wonder why Christmas decorations look so intensely tawdry after Christmas? It’s because they remind us of missed opportunities. They speak the truth. The dazzle was a con. Let the stars and the moon and an evergreen tree growing nearby be your Christmas decorations. If you don’t have the spirit of Christmas within, what difference does it make how many sprigs of fake holly you own or how enchanted your children are on Christmas morning? We’re all dummies when it comes to Advent, having lived in a culture that marginalizes this phase of the year.

It’s true, there are moments of euphoria in the hectic “holiday season.” But there are moments of euphoria in a dose of heroin too. That euphoria has a price: anxiety, stress, financial insolvency and distraction from the essence of Christmas.

Thomas Droleskey explains the true meaning of Advent, and how to observe the season, at Christ or Chaos:

The principal of a fully traditional Catholic school some years ago now explained some basic Catholic teachings about Advent in a letter sent home parents to explain why the school would not be participating in a tree lighting ceremony in a nearby park:

This letter is to inform you that the students will not be participating in the annual tree-lighting ceremony.

The ceremony, scheduled for December 1st, is to be secular in tone, featuring such songs as “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” and “Frosty the Snowman,” so as to be politically correct by modern standards. We, as faithful Catholics, do not condone the premature celebration of the feast of Christmas itself, nor do we approve of the purely secular “holiday” celebrations which the world in general promotes as a “Christ-less” alternative to Christmas. Therefore, we cannot participate in the planned festivities on Stepney Green. Read More »

FROM The Free Thought Project:

What makes this noteworthy is that this is not the first time that emergency drills for the exact scenario unfolding were taking place at virtually the same moment the actual terrorist attacks began.

Paris-area emergency personnel and ambulance crews were taking part in a simulated emergency exercise on the very same day the Paris terrorist attacks took place.

During the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., North American Aerospace Defense Command’s (NORAD) was in the midst of a training exercise called Vigilant Guardian, which “coincidentally” simulated planes being hijacked by terrorists.

The Free Thought Project has heard from a source on the ground, that the target inside the Inland Regional Center [in San Bernardino, California] was a gathering of government officials. This was confirmed by KTLA and Marybeth Feild, president and CEO of the Inland Regional Center, told the Associated Press that “the incident is in the conference area” at the center rented by an outside group, which she couldn’t identify.

FROM CNN:

President Barack Obama reiterated his call for more gun control reforms to make mass shootings in the U.S. “rare as opposed to normal” in the wake of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.

Speaking to CBS News moments after news broke of the shooting, Obama called for “common sense gun safety laws” and urged lawmakers to pass a law to prevent individuals on the “No Fly List” who are barred from boarding commercial flights from legally purchasing firearms.

“We don’t yet know what the motives of the shooters are but what we do know is that there are steps we can take to make Americans safer,” Obama said in the interview. “We should never think that this is just something that just happens in the ordinary course of events because it doesn’t happen with the same frequency in other countries.”

Obama said the pattern of U.S. mass shootings “has no parallel anywhere else in the world.”

Emergency personnel responded late Wednesday morning to reports of a shooting that killed or injured as more than 20 people, according to law enforcement. Read More »

THE HAPPY SURVIVOR is a standard fixture of the shooting psy-ops which are now coming so fast and furious it’s hard to keep up. The Happy Survivor is the tear-less, dry-eyed, smiling relative or friend who has totally assimilated a violent death of a loved one within days or even hours and talks about immediate forgiveness, raves about the dead person’s fantastic love of life, and stresses the importance of moving on. He may even, as in the case of one Sandy Hook mother, load up on some Sharpie pens and scribble happy messages on a coffin. Ah, the joy of the life cut down! In short, the Happy Survivor is not to be believed. Whoever the producer is, he is repeating himself. Two recent examples of the Happy Survivor are Zoe Alexander, the sister of Nick Alexander, who allegedly died at the Bataclan Theater in Paris (hilarious interview footage with mildly profane analysis by RedSilverj above) and Davey Blackburn, the photogenic Indiana “Christian pastor” whose wife, Amanda, was allegedly gunned down by two black assailants on Nov. 10 in Indianapolis.

A few words about the Blackburn case: The coroner became involved before Mrs. Blackburn was dead. Coroners are never called until there is a dead body. Sorry, but that’s just standard protocol. It’s downright rude when a coroner gets involved too soon. That is just one tip off in this case. Here’s another: Davey Blackburn, who exudes intense self-love in all of the dozens of photos he supplied to the press, basically announced his wife’s death before she was taken off life support. One day after his wife was shot in their home and before she was dead, he not only supplied lots of stagey photos to news stations, but released a long, sentimental statement, obviously not written in the heat of grief, in which he spoke of her in the past tense. He started requesting donations with this professional-looking fundraising page the same day — again, before she had died and one day after she had been shot. 

Here is an  interview with Blackburn, speaking about forgiveness after the arrest of the assailants. He appears to be trying hard to suppress a grin. And here, three-quarters of the way down the page, is an interview with two friends of the Blackburns, who are not suppressing grins at all. They are smiling one day after their friend has been allegedly shot in the head. They talked about the need to move on while their friend was still on life support. By the way, notice the absence of images of the 2,000 people who allegedly attended Amanda’s incredibly creepy rock funeral.

I haven’t gotten yet to the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood event, starring the raging, wild-eyed, white Christian bigot and arch-enemy of humanity on a shooting spree among the self-less, heroic, and federally-funded baby killers. But I think it is still playing on TV screens near you and there must be a few Happy Survivors.

What is the purpose of the Happy Survivor? The goal is to desensitize. Death sentimentalized is not death at all. The goal is to wring your heart out until there is nothing left of it. The goal is to rob you of your humanity so that when your neighbor is thrown in jail or mysteriously disappears or your son is blown to pieces in a distant land, you will smile and move on.

DR. PRESTON JAMES at Veteran’s Today writes about the globalist crime syndicate that now controls all the reigns of power in America, makes money for itself through a form of institutionalized black magic and brings the hot polloi daily doses of soul-destroying filth and distraction.

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“POPE” FRANCIS’S latest interview, given on the plane home from Africa, where he wound up his junket by praying at a mosque, is so incoherent and offensive it suggests brain damage or the effects of hallucinogenic substances. (Highlights of interview with commentary here; full text here.) But this isn’t dementia. It’s Jorge, and the inevitable incoherence of a man who takes his New World Order religion seriously.

This is like having serial nightmares. It’s not only the underhanded insults this blasphemous clown constantly throws at Catholics, or his heresies and leftist jargon, but the fact that so many Catholics masochistically consider this impostor to be a true pope. The alternative is the recognition that we have a vacancy in the papacy. So what? The papacy itself remains untouched. It will live on and on as long as this world survives. When God gave us the papacy he gave us a rock, for heaven’s sake, not a sledgehammer. Read More »

IT’S ONE thing to realize in the abstract that the Vatican II Church, found at your local parish, is not the Catholic Church. It’s another thing to put that realization into practice. In this episode from the Restoration Radio network brought to you by Novus Ordo Watch, Father Michael Oswalt discusses making the leap out of the “Novus Ordo Church.”

“Realizing the Novus Ordo sect is not the Catholic Church requires an end to attending the Novus Ordo. There will be many obstacles, including human respect and love of comfort but continue to make acts of faith, acts of love toward God. God will help you with His grace to continue to build virtue and strength to carry the cross and follow His will as a Catholic.

Father also discusses how leaving affects the duties of those who are married or single and how to seek the true Sacraments.”

Almost everyone who makes this leap does so from the Novus Ordo Church. Therefore the change is no more an attack on the people who remain behind than it is an act of self-criticism. At first, “it seems as though you’re trying to step across the Grand Canyon,” Father Oswalt says, but unexpected graces flow from the change.  It’s a difficult transition but “we’re not meant to be comfortable.” On the bright side, Father Oswalt says in a previous episode, never before have traditional Catholic materials been so available to those who do not have a Mass or parish nearby. Faith comes before the sacraments. Faith is the basis of the sacraments. It is the rock on which we stand, and there are many things one can do to maintain one’s faith when the true sacraments are not readily available. Many Catholics, such as those in England after the Reformation, have been forced to make do without the Mass.

“Conditor Alme Siderum” (“Creator of the Stars of Night”) is an Anonymous chant from the 7th century used at Vespers during Advent. This recording is by the Christendom College Choir and Schola Gregorian.

Francesco Bassano the Younger (1563-1570) December

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S. writes from India:

I have a confession to make. I am a closet Christian. I know, I know, it doesn’t count. But the day is not far when like our dear Mr. Auster I shall join the good ol’ Church. I resisted Christianity for 30 years, starting from when I first participated in the compulsory mass at our old convent. My parents were understandably incensed that their ‘Hindu’ child was forced to cross herself twice a day and pray to a ‘God’ they knew not, but they could do nothing. It was either be a part-time Catholic or find another school. Our intolerant convent gave us no choice. Read More »

ATILA Sinke Guimarães writes:

Although I am a defender of the incomparable role of the woman in the home, when it comes to public affairs she fails. She fails because her nature destined her for the particular good, not for the common good; for intuition, not for logic; to pardon, not to apply justice; to be receptive and not to take the initiative, in brief, to obey and not to command.

The Revolution forced woman into public life. This produced multiple disasters: Children were orphaned of maternal affection and became psychologically unbalanced; women became masculine and men feminine, and the public sphere was inundated with inordinate sentimentality.

JOHN C. Wright describes the Middle Ages:

Maturity in a soul means the reason, the appetites and the passions act in harmony, and the more harmony is achieved, the more the maturity. It is the child who cannot control his appetites and passions, and lets a fierce mood or sudden disappointment throw him into childish rage or erupt into childish tears. Maturity in a community means that the spiritual and temporal powers are balanced, the elite and the commoners agree with mutual recrimination or mutual hatred, that the cities and the country cooperate, men and women are settled into roles fit for human life, and so on.

In the modern day, the elite hates the commons and seeks forever to destroy and enslave them, in the name, ironically enough, of freeing them. The elite and intellectuals in the Middle Ages were clerks in the Church, not vicious and deceptive pundits, newspapermen, and empty headed actors burning with a zeal to subvert and suborn middle class values, and destroy their hated enemies, the Bourgeoisie. Read More »

MORE here. (I post these videos for their commentary on the use of crisis actors. This does not mean that I believe no one died at the Bataclan or that I endorse everything the poster says about other events.)

DONALD Trump, who as a New York City real estate developer must know that burning skyscrapers do not collapse to the ground in free fall from fire, offers some counterspin on 9/11, saying thousands of Muslims were seen on the streets of Jersey City celebrating as the World Trade Center Towers fell. No images of such celebrations were recorded and circulated at the time. There were definitely people seen celebrating in Jersey City: five Israelis who were later arrested in a van that tested positive for explosive. According to Christopher Bollyn:

The first indication that the attack on the World Trade Center was an elaborate “false flag” operation came with the arrest of the five men on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. These men, described as “Middle Eastern” in the first media reports, were later identified as Israelis.  A false flag operation is a crime which is designed and carried out so that another party or nation is blamed.

That the five jubilant Middle Eastern men, who had photographed themselves smiling and celebrating with the burning World Trade Center in the background, were indeed Israelis (namely Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari, and Yaron Schmuel) and that two of them were known to U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies as agents of Israeli intelligence, was ignored by the mass media.

The men had been observed taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background.  Sivan Kurzberg told the police that the men had been driving in their van in the immediate vicinity of the towers that morning.  He was photographed flicking a lighter with the burning towers behind him. Read More »