THE Age of Central Banking is the age of state-sponsored usury. Central banking is the foundation of our debt-based monetary system. It concentrates power in the hands of the few, leads to centralization throughout the economy, and depends on widespread, cultivated ignorance.

You live in the Age of Central Banking, which means that you are to some degree a slave to debt. Even if your personal accounts are in good shape and you owe little or no money, you are still chained to debt through taxation, inflation and the larger economic cycles. We are so engulfed by this system, it’s hard for us to see that it is not a work of nature, nor the inevitable byproduct of “free enterprise.” It is the Capitalist version of tyranny and the root of the immigration crisis, our declining birthrate and our perpetual wars. It cannot last because it is inhuman, but how long it will last is up perhaps to the enlightened few.

Thomas Aquinas said that man cannot be virtuous without the sufficient means to ensure his material welfare. Modern society cannot be virtuous as long as the existing monetary system persists. There was a reason the Church banned usury. It destroys whole societies and leads to moral meltdown.

There are a number of good books that explain the issue in simple, clear language, accessible to those who are not economists, such as me. I am referring to books that can be read in a few days or even hours, and that give a clear overview without getting bogged down in excessive detail.

They include The Banking Swindle by Kerry Bolton, The Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth about our Monetary System and How we Can Break Free by Ellen Brown, A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind by Stephen Mitford Goodson, Bancarotta: An Allegory about Central Banking by M.S. King and  The Tyranny of the Federal Reserve, another good primer on the subject by an obscure, self-published author, Brian O’Brien. Read More »

TIM COOK, the “I’m-proud-to-be-gay” CEO of Apple, had a private audience with “Pope” Francis and slipped him a check.

Norma McCorvey, left, in 1989, with her attorney, Gloria Allred.

NORMA McCORVEY was the real name of “Jane Roe,” the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, in which the Supreme Court ruled abortion a constitutional right.

Ms. McCorvey later changed her mind and became an opponent of the cause she championed.

Ms. McCorvey, who did not have an abortion but rather gave her child up for adoption as her case wound toward the Supreme Court, did not pinpoint a specific date when she changed her mind about abortion but suggested to ABC News that she had been troubled one day when she noticed some empty swings in a Dallas playground.

“They were swinging back and forth but they were all empty and I just totally lost it,” she said. “And I thought, Oh my God, the playgrounds are empty because there’s no children, because they’ve all been aborted.”

Her pro-abortion attorney, Gloria Allred, brutally dismissed her change of heart as a “career choice.”

The 43rd annual March for Life took place today in Washington, D.C, despite the oncoming storm. Abortion is a great evil and terrible crime, not liberation. That will never change. The abortion-rights movement is anti-woman (and anti-man) to the core.

ALAN writes:

Thank you for the richly-detailed and evocative memories of snow in Chester in the 1950s.  At certain points they intersect with my own memories of snow in St. Louis in those same years.  These memories are from three residential neighborhoods in south St. Louis, whose tone, texture, and character in those years now live only in memory.

My mother saw beauty in heavy snowfalls and would go outdoors to take color slides or snapshots.  In the same month when your husband found such delight in the 13-inch snowfall in Chester, a less-impressive but still beautiful snowfall occurred in St. Louis.  On Feb. 1, 1958, my mother took six color slides of untouched snow scenes in Tower Grove Park, one of them showing her eight-year-old son concealed in winter jacket, gloves, boots, cap, and earmuffs in front of snow-laden evergreen trees.

Slides two winters later show my classmate Jeff and me standing in our snow-covered back yard, people sledding down a hill in Forest Park, and a three-foot tall snow rabbit in someone’s front yard. Read More »

AMERICAN corporations have betrayed the American workforce again and again, but rarely has their preference for cheap foreign labor been as explicit as it is with the Chobani Yogurt CEO’s urging of refugee resettlement. Ann Corcoran writes at American Resistance 2016:

One of my major objectives for American Resistance 2016! is to tell you who is working to change America by changing the people.  Know the enemy!

One of those is Hamdi Ulukaya founder of Chobani Yogurt who will be going to Davos to the World Economic Forum this week to encourage more businesses to hire refugees (that is, to encourage more resettlement of refugees to America).

BTW, if he wants to spend his millions helping mostly Muslim refugees where they are, that is wonderful and commendable, but lobbying for more to be admitted to the US should be opposed at every turn.

The New Bonnet, Francis William Edmonds, 1858

FROM The Tyranny of the Federal Reserve by Brian O’Brien (Amazon, 2015):

Many people are under the misconception that the rich are the enemy of the poor. This is not the case. The rich need the poor. The rich want servants. The poor, by and large, will bow down to the rich for scraps thrown to them.

The poor will quickly trade in a life of want and need to serve the rich. The poor are easily manipulated by politicians who promise handouts, and by radicals who preach class hatred and cloud the minds of the poor with unattainable international utopias. Usually, these radical communists, anarchists and socialists have big money backers who guide these movements not to attack the rich, but to attack the middle class and the sovereignty of nations.

The poor are in a state of want. They are needy by definition. They are prone to bootlick those who offer them scraps, and they easily fall into a state of dependency.

The true enemy of the rich is not the poor but the middle class— the hated bourgeoisie for which both international finance capitalists and international communists have so much contempt. If you own your own home, have strong family support, have savings, perhaps run your own business, or have some source of income other than wages paid by an employer, or you work in a career field where demand for your labor is high and you earn high wages, then you are your own person. You can earn a decent living without bootlicking.

If you are an American citizen and middle class, you are a powerful force to be reckoned with. Although you are not rich, you have rights and assets and you have something to lose. You have numbers and the ability to organize and raise funds to pursue your interests.

The rich have more assets than you but they lack your numbers. You can organize against the rich to pursue your own interests and put your considerable collective assets to work to defeat the rich who are smaller in number. You have voting power.

Currently, our richest Americans have global interests, which are in direct conflict to the interests of the American middle class and the American nation at large. While small in number, the rich are winning in their aims and the middle class is losing. The rich are organized and their goal is clear in their minds— at least in the minds of the richest few who are pulling the strings. These few are in firm control of the media, the government, the banks and the monetary system. Read More »

EVERY JANUARY, hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters converge on the Mall in Washington, D.C., often in the bitter cold, to protest legalized abortion, and the media virtually ignores it. The 42nd March for Life takes place tomorrow.

DON VINCENZO writes:

On December 3, in a statement that did not surprise many, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that women would now serve in any and all phases of the combat arms. He said (in part): “There will be no exceptions. They’ll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars and lead infantry soldiers into combat. They’ll be able to serve as Army Rangers, Green Berets, Navy Seals, Marine Corps infantry, Air Force parajumpers and everything else that was previously open only to men.” Welcome to the surreal world of the Obama Administration, and that of Ashton Carter. Read More »

A DEBT-BASED economy causes pervasive social breakdown.

The State Bank of the Russian Empire in Moscow. This building now houses the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION took place at a time of remarkable financial stability and progress in the Russian Empire. Russia was the only major power in the world not indebted to central bankers concentrated around the famous Rothschild banks. The Russian government printed the nation’s money, regulated the money supply (unlike the monetary system in America today) and issued low interest loans through commercial banks.

Festival in a Siberian village, c. 1900

In his book, “A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind,” (Black House Publishing, 2014) Stephen Mitford Goodson describes the state of Russia before the Bolshevik uprising:

On June 12, 1860 The State Bank of the Russian Empire was founded with the aim of boosting trade turnovers and the strengthening of the monetary system. Up to 1894 it was an auxiliary institution under the direct control of the Ministry of Finance. In that year it was transformed into being the banker of the bankers and operated as an instrument of government’s policy. It minted and printed the nation’s coins and notes, regulated the money supply and through commercial banks provided industry and commerce with low interest rate loans. Its vast gold reserves, the largest in the world, exceeded the bank note issue by more than 100%, except for the year 1906. By 1914 it had become one of the most influential lending institutions in Europe.

Not unexpectedly Russia had the smallest national debt in the world. The following table reflects the number of rubles of debt per inhabitant.

[From table: France: 288.0; Great Britain: 169.8; Germany 135.6; Russia, 58.7]

By 1914 83% of the interest and amortization of the national debt, of which less than 2% was held abroad, was funded by the profits of the Russian State Railways. In 1916 the total length of the main lines was 100,817 verst or kilometers. Russian commercial and canal tonnage of 11,130,000 in 1910 exceeded British merchant tonnage of 10,750,000. Read More »

David Oyelowo, ‘Selma’ Actor, Says Academy Fails to Reflect Diversity (New York Times)

BLACK ACTORS are threatening to boycott the Academy Awards because all of the actors nominated are white. Mike King hits another home run on this issue at The Anti-New York Times:

The entitlement crowd is at it again — pissing and whining about the “lack of diversity” (too many White people) among nominees for degenerate Hollywood’s Academy Awards. Waaaa! Waaaa! Waaaa! Poor babies — overlooked and under-appreciated with nothing to console them but their multi-million dollar contracts, gaudy mansions, swimming pools, vacation homes, private jets, Italian sports cars, yachts, diamonds, cocaine, servants, chauffeurs, botox and undeserved fame.

With western civilization now approaching its death throes, we here at The Anti-New York Times couldn’t possibly care less about this year’s “best picture” or “best actor”. But there is a broader philosophical dynamic and subversive movement at work here that merits an angry rebuttal from Mike and the Mad Cat.

Regular readers do not need to be told who controls Hollywood (cough cough — cough cough — and still more cough cough). What we have here is yet another textbook example of the usual suspects committing a wrong, or rather, a perceived and invented “wrong”, and then leaving the big bad White Man holding the bag of blame. Brilliant! Evil as all hell, but brilliant. Read More »

IN THIS 20-minute video, Fr. Anthony Cekada explains how traditionalists who recognize the Vatican II “popes” as legitimate, while also criticizing and rejecting their teachings, destroy the reverence and submission due the papacy.

Once again, Fr. Cekada demolishes the opposition. He rips apart the hypocritical position of not just leading figures in the traditionalist “R & R” camp, but all those who mindlessly adhere to superstitions and slander against sedevacantists without ever giving two minutes of serious study to the issue.

A brief glossary for readers who are new to this subject: Read More »

NEWSWEEK reports on the latest act of vandalism of a Christian church in Israel, which has a history of hundreds of such acts:

Israeli authorities are investigating an anti-Christian vandalism attack on Jerusalem’s Dormition Abbey on Sunday.

Potentially several perpetrators, suspected because of the messages’ different handwriting, left a series of scrawls in felt-tip pen on the building. The messages included statements such as: “May his name be obliterated,” “Death to the heathen Christians the enemies of Israel,” and “The revenge of the people of Israel is yet to come.”

The abbey said that there were 10 different Hebrew messages on the walls “seemingly written by different hands.”  Read More »

THE NEW OBSERVER reports:

Genuine war refugees fleeing the conflict in the Ukraine have been denied asylum in Germany in 95 percent of cases (and will, from now on, all be refused that status)—while Angela Merkel’s government admits hundreds of thousands of “war refugees” from all over the nonwhite Middle East without question.

The blatant double standard in favoring nonwhite “war refugees” over whites definitively reveals that the real purpose of Merkel’s policy is not to “help asylum seekers,” but to replace Europeans as quickly as possible.

According to the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper, of the more than 7,000 Ukrainians who applied for asylum in 2014 and 2015, only 5 percent have been granted that status, and all the rest will be sent back to the Ukraine—even though there has been a full-scale war there since April 2014.

The Frankfurter Rundschau said that many of the refugees come directly from the Donbass region war zone, where their houses and livelihoods have been destroyed—identical to the claims made by the “Syrians” currently pouring into Germany.

Jan van Eyck; Detail from The Fountain of Life

FROM My Catholic Faith: A Manual of Religion by Louis LaRavoire Morrow (1949), here are some proofs of the soul’s immortality, briefly stated:

How can we prove that the soul of man is immortal? — We can prove that the soul of man is immortal, because man’s acts of intelligence are spiritual; therefore, his soul must be a spiritual being, not dependent on matter, and hence not subject to decay or death.

If even matter cannot totally disappear, however small the particle, how can the soul of man, of a far higher order, be thought to suffer extinction? Read More »

ONCE AGAIN, Pretend-Pope Francis rakes Catholics over the coals. Yesterday, he said those who won’t accept his revolutionary novelties and theology of surprises lead lives that are “patched, mended, meaningless.” He threw in more insults:

“Christians who obstinately maintain ‘it’s always been done this way,’ this is the path, this is the street—they sin: the sin of divination. It’s as if they went about by guessing: ‘What has been said and what doesn’t change is what’s important; what I hear—from myself and my closed heart—more than the Word of the Lord.’ Obstinacy is also the sin of idolatry: the Christian who is obstinate sins! The sin of idolatry. ‘And what is the way, Father?’ Open the heart to the Holy Spirit, discern what is the will of God.”

Fortunately we have true popes to correct him. In 1902, to cite one small example provided at the link above, Pope Leo XIII said Read More »

ALAN writes:

Two years ago, I cited a judgment by the American novelist Jean Stafford about the weakening of the family as a cause of moral and cultural decay.  [A Literary Divorcée on Family, August 19, 2014]

What follows is another judgment on that same matter.

From 1931 to 1959, the Dean of Women at Washington University in St. Louis was a woman named Adele Starbird. For many years, she also wrote a regular column in a St. Louis newspaper.  In 1972 my father read, clipped, and saved one of her columns.  Rereading it a few days ago, I saw in that essay the same value that he saw in it and that I believe will also be evident to you and your readers.  Here is the substance of that column: Read More »