October 31, 2015
ED HUNTER writes:
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation wanted to do a video on the Trump movement. They are a Leftie organization, but they treated us more or less fairly. I am in the video and they tried to trip me up with the usual racist stuff, but I think I deflected it, Auster-style. I refused to toe the PC line, which shocked them. Read More »
October 31, 2015
KEVIN MacDONALD writes about the Jewish reaction to Donald Trump, whose anti-immigration stance some see as reminiscent of Nazi Germany. This is not surprising, as Jews are taught from infancy by their own culture that they are hated.
There has been extraordinary, almost unhinged anxiety among some Jews about Donald Trump’s campaign for the GOP Presidential nomination. It has no solid basis, but unfortunately it does speak to their profound neurosis and alienation from the historic American nation. Read More »
October 30, 2015
Dr. THOMAS A. DROLESKEY writes at Christ or Chaos:
One of the many consequences of the lack of a superabundance of Sanctifying and Actual Graces flowing out into the world involves the false, infantile belief that to criticize someone for anything is to “hate” him.
Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and many of his supporters are quick to denounce any and all criticize of him and his lawless policies as racists who are filled with resentment against a black president (who happens to be half Caucasian as well, of course).
To oppose the chemical and surgical slaughter of the innocent preborn is said to engage in a “war against women.”
Those who oppose the promotion of the sin of Sodom under the cover of civil law and all throughout what passes for popular culture are said to “hate” homosexuals, lesbians, mutants and other practitioners of perverse sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance. “Homophobia” has even been denounced by officials of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. Read More »
October 30, 2015
FEMALE convicts in Italy celebrate Antipope Francis’s message of universal salvation.
Halleluia! Everyone goes to heaven.
October 30, 2015
FROM a 2014 piece by Peter Kwasniewski, Ph.D.:
One day in New Jersey, years ago, I was standing on a train platform waiting to catch a train into New York City. Seeing beautiful and well-dressed young women waiting at the platform, on their way to work, I thought: How many of these women are committing themselves to a life of singlehearted devotion to Mammon, the god of the world, without reaping any of the benefits that would arise from a life dedicated to the true God? They are celibate, after a fashion, but they are not virgins; they make sacrifices day after day, but reap no salvation from them, and bring no immortal souls into the world. They might have sex, but no children; thus, they lose the chief glory and merit of the married woman. Once they have a child, they then frequently hand over the burden of work to someone else, losing the greatest opportunity and privilege of all, that of nurturing and educating their own offspring. We know that there are cases where daycare cannot be avoided and is chosen as a last resort; and yet, could one truly say it is unavoidable in the majority of cases?
So many modern women are a set of absolute contradictions: their lives are consecrated, but to a false god who takes away the blessings of virginal faith; they are lying down with their husbands, but choose barrenness; when they bear children they do not nurse and educate them. In a satire upon their own existence, they are unvirginal celibates, unfruitful wives, unfaithful mothers, and all this by choice.
October 30, 2015
Casa di Bambini in Asmara
KIDIST PAULOS ASRAT, who lives in Canada today, was born in Ethiopia. Her father worked for the government of Emperor Haile Selasie and the family fled to France during the civil war of the 1970s, which was followed by catastrophic famine. Miss Asrat is at work on a memoir of her life, and it is a fascinating story. Her first chapter is online. It begins:
My earliest decisive moment was when I was left behind for the first time for school. I was a little more than two years old, and my father had moved us to the northern province of Ethiopia, which was later to be the ground for bitter civil war, and its eventual secession.
It was part of the government’s program to fill official posts by the Emperor’s Men, so to speak, throughout the country, to quell dissatisfied grumblings of the influential ethnic groups like the Tigray (of the north) who wanted to end the centuries-old stranglehold on Ethiopia by the Amhara. But the Amhara were confident in their quest, and in the correctness of their quest. They were on a mission to make Ethiopians out of all the ethnic groups of the country: Tigray, Eritrea, Gojjam, Somali. To be a nation was to be modern. Read More »
October 30, 2015
SVEN writes:
I was in Fairbanks, Alaska, the state’s second largest city the other day. Back before the Alaska Railroad was built, it was at the end of the earth as boomtown in the Klondike Gold Rush. Travelling there required a dangerous voyage from Seattle to Nome, and then a treacherous journey through the heart of Alaska by a Yukon riverboat.
I had an extra hour, so I stepped into the historic Church of the Immaculate Conception, which sits on the banks of the Chena River in the downtown area. It actually survived the 1927 flood when it floated down the street. In terms of architecture or decoration, it’s not too unusual. I’ve seen countless Lutheran churches in North Dakota that look a lot the same, although most are sadly abandoned, casualties to the automobile and declining church attendance. In a way, churches like these are special precisely because they used to be so unremarkable. Building churches was a form of sacrifice, and everyone pitched in to build the most beautiful church that they could afford.
What’s striking about this church is the effort that went into building it so far from the rest of the world. The stained glass windows would have had to be carefully imported from the states. The boards would have been made of very expensive and carefully milled local boards. Although there are many trees in Fairbanks, they tend to be stunted so it can be difficult to find sawmill quality timber. Any special hardwood items, such as the pews, would have been imported as well. All of the fancy wood work would have been done by local craftsmen.
October 29, 2015
Little Boy Writing a Letter, Norman Rockwell
OUR culture is producing highly motivated girls and boys who are alienated from school and achievement. Boys have always rebelled against the dull routines of school, but the malaise we see today is more intense and pervasive, a product of unprecedented focus on boosting the morale of girls and of a world in which everything traditionally expected of men and women has undergone radical change. Heroism has been demonized. Boys understandably find it all boring. On some unconscious level, they know school is not about reality. Electronic games also consume much of their energy and motivation.
Gallons and gallons of ink have been spilled already on this subject. In his book, Boys Adrift, Leonard Sax, whom I have written about before, does a good job of describing the problem:
The hostility I’m seeing toward school among so many boys—no longer confined to black and Latino boys in low-income neighborhoods, but now including white and Asian boys in affluent suburbs—is also new. If you’re my age, or older, you can remember forty years ago when the Beach Boys had a major hit with their song “Be True to Your School”: “Be true to your school . . . just like you would to your girl.” That song describes a boy who is proud to wear a sweater emblazoned with the school’s initials, a boy who insists that allegiance to one’s school should be on a par with the enthusiasm a boy has for his girlfriend. There is no trace of irony in the song. If you’re my age or older, you remember Sam Cooke singing “Don’t know much about history . . . but maybe by being an A-student, baby / I could win your love for me” in his song “Wonderful World.” It’s hard to imagine any popular male vocalist singing such a line today, except as a joke. Can you imagine Akon or 50 Cent or Snoop Dogg or even Taylor Hicks singing, without irony and in all seriousness, about wanting to earn an A at school to impress a girl? I can’t. Read More »
October 28, 2015
IT ALL seems like good fun. But is it? Dr. Marian T. Horvat wrote in 2004:
Exploiting the skeletons, ghosts, vampires and demons, even in the ludicrous form of costumes and masks, the modern Halloween does more than obliterate the memory of death – it is a kind of invitation for our children to be accustomed to the worst side of Paganism, which is its familiarity with horror and the devil. Read More »
October 28, 2015
A PLANNED PARENTHOOD doctor and a co-worker talk about dissecting aborted fetuses that will be sold for research. This is in the eleventh undercover video by the Center for Medical Progress:
“One of our POC persons is really into organ development,” she explained. “She’ll pull out kidneys, and heart and like heart we frequently see at nine weeks and she always looks for it.”
“Well it’s cute,” the Whole Women’s Health official said, laughing. “It’s cute.” Read More »
October 27, 2015
PATRICK BUCHANAN asks, “Is the pope toying with heresy?”
Interesting question. (Food for thought here.)
This is sort of like asking in 1918 whether Lenin is toying with political radicalism. Wake up, Mr. Buchanan. There is no excuse for you to be asking questions that have already been abundantly answered.
Novus Ordo Watch
October 27, 2015
Our indebtedness is like a diet of cheap pizza. It slowly immiserates.
WHEN reading about our $60 trillion national debt or the escalating figures for consumer indebtedness, what is your first reaction? Do you think, “We’ve got to stop spending!” or “Our government is giving our future away to welfare deadbeats and bureaucrats?”
If these are your very first thoughts, let me respectfully suggest that you don’t understand our monetary system.
When you see those mounting figures for indebtedness, the first thing you should think is:
“We are the victims of a colossal swindle. Something is wrong, not with us, and not with welfare recipients, but with the system.”
Indeed over-indebtedness is inherent to our financial system. We can never collectively emerge from what is in effect debt slavery, from cycles of boom and bust, and from the centralized power of high finance which controls public opinion, politics, government and business, we can never emerge from these burdens without significant monetary reform and a new philosophy on the nature of economic life.
But first we have to come to grips with the problem. And there is a major problem. Yes, we deplore Communism and Socialism. But Capitalism as it exists is ruinous too. That’s not because a market economy is bad. That’s not because profit, investment or private ownership are bad. That’s not because Capitalism makes some people rich. These things are good. The problem is two-fold: a monopoly of credit in private, profit-making hands and the inability in the modern economy, which benefits from centuries of labor-saving innovation, for income from labor and savings to match the costs of production. These defects in the system are causing misery in a world that actually can produce enough goods and services to give people, all people, the basic necessities and free them from crushing fear for the future.
Our financial system is out of touch with reality. Our usurious monetary system is strangling family life, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Someday people will, let’s hope, look back on this era as they now look back on the pagan slavery of Ancient Rome. They will wonder how people ever could have put up with such widespread financial oppression, with its attendant social conflict, and how they were ever fooled into thinking they benefited from what the writer E. Michael Jones calls “state-sponsored usury.”
Let me offer some background from a few critics who have stated the problems. I’ll return to the subject in future posts with more from those who have studied these issues and suggest solutions you don’t hear about from our politicians or the mainstream media.
First, most people don’t understand how money is created and circulated. Though Congress is vested by the Constitution with the power to create money, it is actually created by private banks who then loan it out at interest: Read More »
October 27, 2015
HERE’S a very good polemic against feminism by Paul Joseph Watson, who offers many reasons why many men don’t want to marry. One quibble: He says the mother at home should be equally respected as the careerist mother. But society cannot equally value two contradictory ideas. If it thinks the mother is the heart of the home then it does not want her to be absent unless absolutely necessary. (Warning: Mildly vulgar language. Why must so many intelligent commentators resort to ugly, four-letter words?) Read More »
October 26, 2015
THE New York state Senate blocked a transgender rights bill from passage eight times, yet Gov. Andrew Cuomo implemented the proposed regulations by executive action last week. Individuals can be fined up to $100,000 for discriminating against a cross-dresser, which means if someone does not want an attention-seeking, steroid-crazy female impersonator working in his small business or interacting with his children, he can be financially destroyed.
October 26, 2015
WHAT really happened before Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was elected to the papacy on October 26, 1958? This video explores the mystery of the white smoke.
October 26, 2015
Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea
THERE was one bright spot to the anti-family Synod in Rome, which ended this weekend as it started, with cowardly and ambiguous accommodation to the spirit of feminism and the Sexual Revolution. That bright spot was the speech of a Romanian doctor, Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea, who grew up under Communism. Dr. Cernea did not get all hung up on a psychotherapeutic guilt trip. She did not speak a single line of feminist boilerplate. She did not blather on about false mercy. She obviously knows totalitarianism when she sees it. The Sexual Revolution is a form of political exploitation, she said. Any accommodation to it is an accommodation with tyranny.
Material poverty and consumerism are not the primary cause of the family crisis.
The primary cause of the sexual and cultural revolution is ideological.
[…]
There is continuity from Lenin’s sex revolution, through Gramsci and the Frankfurt school, to the current-day gay-rights and gender ideology.
Here is her entire presentation: Read More »
