"WITHOUT patience nothing can be conceived by the mind, nothing can be understood, nothing can be taught. For all things look to patience. Neither faith nor hope; neither justice nor humility; neither chastity nor honesty; nor concord; nor charity; nor any act of virtue; nor even the elements of nature; are able to hold together, or keep their consistency, without the nerve, restraint, and discipline of patience. Patience is always mature: it is humble, prudent, cautious, provident, and contented under every necessity that arises. Tranquil in the day of clouds and amidst the tempests of provocation, it allows nothing to disturb the serenity of the soul. The patient man knows of neither alteration nor regret. Who can say that he ever suffers loss? Whatever he has to endure, you will find him as complete at the end of his sufferings as though he had suffered nothing. How can we calculate the results of his patience? When he seems to have undergone defeat, we find he has got the victory." --- St. Zeno, De Patientia, c. I.  

NGOs are smuggling immigrants into Europe on an industrial scale: 1. Migrant smugglers load up boats from Tripoli, Libya, deliberately using faulty boats with limited fuel 2. Faulty boats breaks down in Libyan water or nearby 3. NGOs stationed nearby pick them up and bring them to Italy NGOs serve as a pull factor of illegal immigration and often even operate in collusion with human smugglers. These organizations should be banned and criminalized. (Source: Arminius News)    

NOT meaning to promote Mark Dice, but this is well done.  

HAVE you wondered why major retailers have taken a hands-off approach to shoplifting in recent years and why some municipalities have done the same? This is strange and it doesn’t seem to make sense. California even has a proposed bill to prohibit store employees from confronting shoplifters.

And,

In the past 10 years, nearly half of all states have boosted their thresholds for retail felony theft. Thirty-eight states now don’t consider shoplifting a felony unless $1,000 or more of merchandise gets stolen. A 2020 National Retail Federation report on organized retail crime found that two-thirds of retailers in states that had raised their felony shoplifting minimums reported growing retail theft. (Source/2019) (more…)

"[S]T. John Climachus observed that 'to the spiritual man patience is more essential than food,' and justly so; for food strengthens the body, and preserves it from weakness, but patience fortifies the soul, and without it no virtue can be firm and solid. But as we are bound to take more care of the soul than of the body, it is evident that we ought to be more solicitous for patience than for food. For, in the words of St. Peter Damian, 'the man whose patience breaks down may have other virtues, but he will never have their strength and solidity. Patience is concerned in all that we have to resist, in all that we have to deny ourselves, in all that we have to endure, in all that we have to adhere to, and in all that we have to do. This includes all human acts that bear the character of duty or devotedness, whether those acts be purely interior, or come forth into the exterior life and conduct. For wherever patience fails, the act is weak and the work imperfect. "This comprehensive view of the work of patience in man is enlarged upon by that profound thinker Tertullian in the following terms: 'Patience protects the whole will of God in man and enters into all His commandments. It fortifies faith, governs peace, helps charity, prepares humility, conducts to penance, leads to confession, rules the flesh, preserves the spirit,…

 OBESITY is part of the dramatic cultural decline that has overtaken Ireland with the loss of its Catholic heritage. The country is on its way to becoming the fattest in Europe.  

 I HOPE this recording of the ever-popular second movement of Antonin Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, also known as the New World Symphony, fills you with affection for your country today. The symphony was composed in 1893 while Dvořák was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America and was first performed in New York City. The Czech composer "wrote that he would not have composed his American pieces as he had if he had not seen America. It has been said that Dvořák was inspired by the 'wide open spaces' of America, such as prairies he may have seen on his trip to Iowa in the summer of 1893. Notices about several performances of the symphony include the phrase 'wide open spaces' about what inspired the symphony and/or about the feelings it conveys to listeners." (Source) The piece evokes so much that is beautiful about America -- things best said in sound.  

THE organized riots in France are justified by the history of French colonization of Algeria. Rarely mentioned is the motivation for French involvement. The 19th-century military raid on Algiers was intended, in part, to stop the Barbary slave trade, which had enslaved so many Europeans from the 1500's to mid-1800s that population density along some parts of the coasts of Europe declined dramatically. The Regency of Algiers was one of the main bases of the Barbary pirates and Barbary Slave Traders who attacked Christian ships and coastal settlements in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic. Like the rest of the Barbary Coast, the Regency of Algiers lived from the trade of slaves or goods captured from Europe, America and sub-Saharan Africa. The European powers bombarded Algiers on different occasions in retaliation and the United States provoked the Barbary Wars in order to put an end to Algerian privateering against Christian shipping.[18] The conquest of Algeria began in the last days of the Bourbon Restoration by Charles X of France. It aimed to put a definite end to Barbary privateering and increase the king's popularity among the French people, particularly in Paris, where many veterans of the Napoleonic Wars lived. Algerian slave trade and piracy immediately ceased after the French conquered Algiers. (Source) Slavery in the American colonies was a piece of cake compared to slavery under the Ottomans. Boys and women were used as sex slaves and many slaves were worked to death. Robert Davis estimates that slave traders from Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli enslaved 1 million to 1.25 million Europeans in North Africa, from…

JEAN-FRANCOIS Gariépy reviews the situation in France. You can also view the video clip here, starting at minute 43:00.  

MALE PAINTERS have given us countless paintings of women in summer.

They have depicted women in gardens, women on the beach, women on cliffs, women sitting under trees in silent forests. They have painted women reading books on garden benches, women lying in hammocks, women sunbathing, women with parasols, women in canoes and women swimming in the sea. They have painted moody women and entrancing women and innocent women and indolent women.

The subject of women in summer is a natural one. For the tranquility and beauty of summer moments correspond to the feminine at its best.

Men (and female artists too) have lavishly portrayed the contemplative side of women in summer paintings. Pagan artists of Greece and Rome produced female nudes, often exquisite. But they could not capture what later artists did with the fully clothed woman in a summer landscape. The soul took precedence over the sensual, without eclipsing it. (All of these paintings, by the way, would be absurd with women in pants. The dress is the ceremonial expression of the contemplative side of women. Pants are for doing, and also obliterate the inspiring, mysterious differentiation of the sexes.)

Contemplative men may become great philosophers, contemplative women rarely achieve fame in the world or the heights of intellect. Their mental activity is not any less important or essential. That’s what these paintings suggest. The world needs this stillness. There would be no philosophers without it.

Life demands activity, constant work and accomplishment from men, often cruelly. What is it worth, how can it go on, how can civilization go on, without the calm created by pools of feminine reverie? Its nothingness is indeed something.

But these are indeed aristocratic thoughts in a proletarian, Soviet-style age.

Feminists like to say men historically excluded women from the world of art. Nonsense. Women are art. In their being, not their accomplishments, these ideal women complement the glories of summer. The great sacrifices involved in producing these works (feminists speak of art as if it is power when in fact it is usually lonely abnegation and grueling work) attest to how much men are driven not just by outward beauty, although definitely that, but by this mysterious inner dimension.

[Thanks to It’s About Time for these images, which are a tiny sample of the paintings of women in summer landscapes.]

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"JUST as it is with those who break the laws, when punishment overtakes them: they throw the blame upon those who frame the laws , but not upon themselves. In like manner do those men, filled with a satanic spirit, bring innumerable accusations against our Creator, who has both given to us the spirit of life, and established a law adapted for all; and they will not admit that the judgment of God is just." --- St. Irenaeus, d. 202  

THERE is no changing the realities of race. Anyone who says it is un-Christian to consider these realities suffers from excessive idealism and possible hubris. God made us body and soul. We cannot spiritualize our physical nature, including traits inherited from our ancestors, away. A race is an extended family. Race is more than just skin color. It involves psychology, temperament, and deeply ingrained spiritual instincts. To recognize racial realities is not to “hate” those of other races anymore than to prefer one’s family is to hate other families nor is it necessarily to embark on some equally unrealistic campaign for racial purity or total racial determinism.

Along those lines, here is a good summary from Thuletide of race in American politics, as gleaned from the 2022 presidential election:

People of First World origin (Whites and Asians) hold, per capita, more resources than people of Third World origin (Hispanics and Africans).

People of Third World origin stand to gain resources (territory, jobs, welfare, etc.) from Leftist social and economic policies (pro-mass migration, affirmative action, etc.). Therefore, ethnocentric Third Worlders are more likely to support Left-Wing politics, even if they are often socially conservative.

[As Thuletide shows elsewhere, Asians are also much more likely to support left-wing policies.]

People of First World origin stand to lose resources from Leftist policies. Therefore, ethnocentric First Worlders are more likely to support Right-Wing politics.

This is simply a case of offensive and defensive politics: The Left-Wing represents migrants and people who aim to take resources from the native population. The Right-Wing represents the native population aiming to defend their resources (and the intelligent migrants who also stand to lose resources from Leftism). (more…)

"[BIOLOGIST LOUIS] Agassiz wrote: ‘Let any one who doubts the evil of this mixture of races, and is inclined from mistaken philanthropy to break down all barriers between them, come to Brazil. He cannot deny the deterioration consequent upon the amalgamation of races, more widespread here than in any country in the world, and which is rapidly effacing the best qualities of the white man, the negro, and the Indian, leaving a mongrel, nondescript type, deficient in physical and mental energy.’ "The mongrel’s political ascendancy produces precisely the results which might have been expected. These unhappy beings, every cell of whose bodies is a battle-ground of jarring heredities, express their souls in acts of hectic violence and aimless instability. The normal state of tropical America is anarchy, restrained only by domestic tyrants or foreign masters. Garcia-Calderon exactly describes its psychology when he writes: 'Precocious, sensual, impressionable, the Americans of these vast territories devote their energies to local politics. Industry, commerce, and agriculture are in a state of decay, and the unruly imagination of the Creole expends itself in constitutions, programmes, and lyrical discourses; in these regions anarchy is sovereign mistress.' The tropical republics display, indeed, a tendency toward “‘atomic disintegration. ... Given to dreaming, they are led by presidents suffering from neurosis. "The stock feature of the mongrel tropics is, of course, the 'revolution.' These senseless and perennial outbursts are often ridiculed in the United States as comic opera, but…

ATTENDEES at a "Pride" fest surround a street preacher and bark like dogs. It's all about love.

ENJOY a touching recollection of Irish bonfires for St. John's Eve, the day before the Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist on June 24th. Hymn: Antra deserti Thou, in thy childhood, to the desert caverns Fleddest for refuge from the cities' turmoil, Where the world's slander might not dim thy luster, Lonely abiding. Camel's hair raiment clothed thy saintly members; Leathern the girdle which thy loins encircled; Locusts and honey, with the fountain-water, Daily sustained thee. Oft in past ages, seers with hearts expectant Sang the far-distant advent of the Daystar; Thine was the glory, as the world's Redeemer First to proclaim him. Far as the wide world reacheth, born of woman, Holier was there none than John the Baptist; Meetly in water laving him who cleanseth Man from pollution. Praise to the Father, to the Sole-begotten, And to the Spirit, equal power possessing, One God whose glory, through the lapse of ages, Ever resoundeth. Amen.

FROM Fitzpatrick Informer: "IN Is Alex Jones externalizing the hierarchy?, I discussed how Alex Jones serves as cathartic relief for those resisting the New World Order and how he helps to get the masses comfortable with the NWO, thereby diffusing their opposition to it, making for a smoother transition to the one-world government. "To expand on that, I will break down some of the more technical methods Jones uses to psychologically traumatize his audience into accepting the New World Order, including his use of subliminal messages and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), which is basically the manipulation of communication to provoke at the subconcious level (here is a good video example of how powerful NLP can be). NLP is most prominently used by salesman and mind programmers. "The most obvious and ubiquitous programming Jones uses is the power of suggestion. You can set your watch by it. As of the writing of this article, Jones did it today on his show. He does it every single show. And that suggestion is the seemingly snide imitation of the elite. If you are listener, you know what I am talking about. It’s when Jones raises his voice and assumes the personality of one of the “elite” and then goes on to mock us victims of the NWO. He does not do this merely to entertain you. It is subtle suggestion and mockery of the victim—you, the listener. It’s a sort of psychodrama. What results from this process is the instilling…