Illustration by Carl Friedrich Deiker (1875) Wikipedia

ALAN writes:

Last Sunday I spent six hours at my local park. It was an ideal day: Clear blue sky, warm sunshine, occasional breezes, and the green in the park that seems to increase by the day. People who are hip, cool, and trendy would probably find such an afternoon hopelessly boring. At least I hope they would if it keeps them away from me.

 Throughout the afternoon I walked around a lake several times, pausing now and then to sit on benches at opposite ends of the lake. I sat on “The Duck Lady”‘s bench, placed there in remembrance of a woman who lived near the park and found homes with people who wanted to adopt them for ducks who had not learned how to forage for themselves. I meditated, absorbed the ambient beauty, listened to birdsong, and constructed conversations in imagination with long-dead friends.

On a day in March when I walked through that park, a group of “newborn daffodils were showing off their skills…,” as Nat Cole sang in the 1963 ballad “That Sunday, That Summer”.  And now they are gone. Read More »

A healthy, 21-year-old University of Cincinnati student died within 21 hours of receiving the Johnson and Johnson injection and a 47-year-old father in Mississippi has suffered a stroke and paralysis. Yes, the FDA has “paused” distribution of the Johnson and Johnson injections, but the same government agency has approved the other experimental, gene-therapy shots — with no animal studies or impartial, long-term studies.

A 20-year-old Scottish man, already suffering from muscular dystrophy, died within 12 hours of getting the Pfizer “vaccine.”

Meanwhile, at least 74 fully vaccinated people have reportedly died of COVID. The CDC all but admits the experimental drugs are useless for controlling the alleged virus. The goal: vaccines and lockdowns.

It is clearer every day that the COVID “vaccines” are bioweapons, part of a 14-month-long attack against America and other nations to bring these nations into complete subjugation to globalism. The casualties and deaths mount — and yet the real toll, with mass death and disability, is most likely ahead. Injury and death will be blamed on COVID “variants.”

“DR. Geert Vanden Bossche phD, DVM is a world-renowned vaccine developer, headed projects for Glaxo-Smithkline and Novartis, worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and GAVI, was Head of the Vaccine Development Office for the German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF) and had a vaccine consultancy business from 2012 to 2019. With over 30 years’ experience in the field Dr. Bossche can hardly be described as an ‘anti-vaxxer’, but nevertheless has issued a dire and urgent warning about the serious dangers of creating uncontrollable pandemics due to the way in which the new covid experimental genetic drugs being pushed hard around the world actually work.

“He writes: “Immediate cancellation of all ongoing covid-19 mass vaccination campaigns should now become THE most acute health emergency of international concern. I don’t see how mass vaccination campaigns would not lead to a disastrous aggravation of the covid-19 pandemic. However, no one else seems to realize; instead, vaccinologists, clinicians and scientists are merely focusing on the (positive) short-term results and impact at an individual level. Nobody seems to be looking at the consequences and risk at a human population level (which, according to my understanding, will become manifest quite soon). Why is nobody worried about ‘immune escape’ whereas covid-19 has already escaped people’s innate immunity as reflected by multiple emerging, much more infectious, viral variants (most likely due to the global implementation of infection prevention measures)?”

— Darren Smith, thelightpaper.co.uk

At a Moderna site in Texas adverse reactions are caught on film. You have to wait in your vehicle for at least 15 minutes and honk if you need any medical assistance. This is literally “herding sheep to their own slaughter” Unbelievable and disturbing. pic.twitter.com/XIwTuUdjve

— Anthea (@Anthea06274890) April 14, 2021

https://twitter.com/fatchancemate/status/1381433933078781953?s=20

“CONSPIRACY theorists” have been saying since last year that the ultimate goal of COVID social and medical engineering is an implantable microchip to be used for surveillance.

The Pentagon announced plans for just this type of technology earlier this week on 60 Minutes.

OF ALL the lies produced by the Centers of Disease Control in the last 14 months, none is more brazen than its lie about the COVID vaccines. The government agency and pharmaceutical lobbying arm says it has no evidence of serious vaccine harm so far. “COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. Millions of people in the United States have received COVID-19 vaccines, and these vaccines will undergo the most intensive safety monitoring in U.S. history.”

It makes these astounding claims even though its own database, flawed as it is, shows reports of more than 3,005 deaths as of last week; even though in previous years vaccine programs were suspended after far fewer suspected casualties and though the federal government has just suspended use of one of the vaccines because of health concerns.

COVID deaths far exceed those of any other vaccine in recent years. Yes, more people are getting the shots which would make the numbers climb, nevertheless the raw numbers, which are under-estimates, are serious. “[T]o put this into perspective, these 3,005 deaths now exceed the total number of deaths following ALL vaccinations from August of 2007, through the end of November, 2020, just before the experimental COVID shots started.” (Source)

The database, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, normally includes a small percentage, possibly as little as one percent, of the actual adverse reactions to a vaccine.  Given the rate of under-reporting, as many as 70,000 to 100,00 Americans may have unexpectedly died after receiving the COVID shots; many more have suffered injury. (See this summary report from Miles Mathis on the death and injuries so far. He lists, among other things, the vaccines that have been suspended with far less injury.)

The Johnson and Johnson vaccine was “paused” this week because it is believed to have caused blood clots in healthy recipients. Six women in this country have suffered serious blood-clotting disorder from this “vaccine” authorized by the government. The New York Times reports:

The reaction prompted an intense debate among public health experts about whether guarding against such a rare disorder was worth the cost. Scores of vaccine appointments were canceled this week, and some public health officials feared that by fueling vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theorists, the pause could prompt fewer Americans to get vaccinated — and expose them to far more risk.

“Public health expert” is now just a euphemism for government-subsidized murderer.

Brian Shilhavey writes:

And blood clots are not the most common injuries being recorded following COVID experimental injections where the patient dies. Only two or three people have died in the U.S. from blood clots following the J&J injections.

Deaths by heart attack (cardiac arrest), for example, is much more prevalent, with 188 recorded deaths so far following COVID injections (source), including 7 heart attack fatalities following J&J shots. A total of 54 deaths have been recorded so far following J&J shots through April 1, 2021, with only 1 of those attributed to blood clots.

But these blood clot “clusters” are reportedly so rare among the general population, especially in the kind of clusters seen following J&J injections, that almost everything else has been ruled out, leaving the “vaccines” as the most likely cause.

Don’t expect the FDA to permanently stop the J&J injections, however. They are going to revise the guidelines given to healthcare people giving the J&J shots, so they know how to better treat these blood clots when they see them.

The long-term effects of all these new gene-therapy vaccines are unknown and there is good reason to believe they will prime people to over-react to cold viruses.

This technology has been tried on animals, and in the animal studies done, all the animals died, not immediately from the injection, but months later, from other immune disorders, sepsis and/or cardiac failure.  There has never been a long-term successful animal study using this technology.  No experimental coronavirus vaccine has succeeded in animal studies. (Source)

This 2018 report by the European Union lays out a roadmap for vaccine passports. The passport idea was clearly not a result of the “pandemic,” the “pandemic” was the result of the passport idea. COVID stands for “Certificate of Vaccination ID.”

JOHN Fury, Irish boxing cornerman and former professional boxer who is the father of boxer Tyson Fury, gives his assessment of COVID World.

(Credit: @Muhareb1)

Anonymous portrait of Michel de Montaigne, 1590

[F]OR amongst all my acquaintance, I see no people so soon sick, and so long before they are well, as those who take much physic; their very health is altered and corrupted by their frequent prescriptions. Physicians are not content to deal only with the sick, but they will moreover corrupt health itself, for fear men should at any time escape their authority. Do they not, from a continual and perfect health, draw the argument of some great sickness to ensue? I have been sick often enough, and have always found my sicknesses easy enough to be supported (though I have made trial of almost all sorts), and as short as those of any other, without their help, or without swallowing their ill-tasting doses.” [bold added]

— From the essays of Michel de Montaigne, 1533- 1592

HELENA writes from Ontario:

We are in a new lockdown here. Although the mall is closed, the food court has most of its stores open for take out. And so I decided to try the Greek stall.

I went there without my mask, and put it on as I was ready to order.

The young man who was working behind the counter wore a simple gold cross. I ordered a dinner, and as he was preparing the take-out box, I said how nice it was that he was wearing a cross. Then I asked him if he will celebrate Easter next month in May.

Yes, he answered. That cheered him up.

Then I asked him if he was ready to take the vaccine.

“I don’t know about that!” he said. Read More »

MIDWIN CHARLES, a 47-year-old CNN legal analyst, bragged of receiving her first dose of the Pfizer COVID shot on March 1. Charles, who had asthma, would have been due for her second dose around March 22.

She stopped posting to her busy Twitter account on March 24th, and was dead by April 6th. Her family did not reveal cause of death in a public statement. The mainstream media has entirely ignored the possibility that she died from the shots.

If Charles’s death, the announcement of which may have been purposely delayed, was a result of the injections, it did not result from an act of nature, but from willful and reckless human actions. She was not entirely without blame if her own death was caused by her willing participation in a medical experiment. As one doctor has put it, “taking the COVID injection is an act of extreme and reckless self-destruction.”

But this is more than possible self injury. The shots are administered by medical practitioners. Each and every death or injury from the COVID “vaccines” (they are not really vaccines) — and there have been many thousands of deaths around the world — is a crime, not an accident. The vaccinated are not facing imminent death from the disease at the time of injection and in most cases are healthy. The disease itself, if in fact it exists as a distinct disease rather than as a group of conditions, has a very high survival rate.

The first rule of ethical medical practice is Do no harm.  Read More »

[Photograph from Vintage St. Louis and Route 66, Facebook]

ALAN writes:

I have written thousands of words about what is wrong in the city of St. Louis.  Here is a photograph that shows what was once right about it.

Taken on Easter Sunday, 1947, it shows hundreds of people streaming out of the New Cathedral, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, on Lindell Boulevard in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis.  In 1963, my classmate Carol and I were part of a choir in this Cathedral.

Observe the clean landscape. Observe that these people are grown-ups, not perpetual adolescents. Observe their countenance. Observe the men in suits and ties and serious hats, and the women in dresses and attractive coats and hats. Observe no tee-shirts, blue jeans, or ball caps.

Observe passengers boarding a red Public Service Company bus in the years when bus drivers were courteous enough to make change if requested.

The people in this photograph are not a “diverse” crowd. All of them are white. This is a snapshot of what Christian Civilization once was.

In 2012, 23-year-old Megan Boken was sitting in her car in broad daylight within walking distance of this Cathedral when she was shot and killed by two black thugs. It was a “robbery gone wrong.” Read More »

ALISON Chabloz, a small-time British singer and comedienne, was recently sentenced to jail for criticizing “a vulnerable community.”

Chabloz has been harassed for years for songs that allegedly “incite hatred.”

Somehow she keeps going. Here are some of her recent musical productions.

FROM Mike King at The Anti-New York Times:

One of the time-tested favorite tricks of the promoters of Fake News & Fake Science has always been to prop up “religious fundamentalists” as a Straw Man that can be easily knocked down. The bewildered normie witnessing such a “debate” invariably comes away persuaded by the high-sounding jargon of the fake scientists over the dogmatic religious ranting of someone who is able to say no more than: “Because my Bible says so.”

— Think, “Inherit the Wind.“

We can easily spot this clever tactic in this propaganda piece about the “White Evangelical Christians” who are resisting vaccinations — as if there aren’t people of other races, other religions or no religion at all expressing skepticism over Stupid-19 and/or having second thoughts about the vaccines which have already killed or sickened a number of people! Read More »

Part One of this essay can be found here.

ALAN writes:

On many days I worked on upper floors where I would comb through hundreds of boxes of books in perfect disarray, many of which had not been opened in years. I was excavating for books or periodicals or ephemera that I knew would sell or that I would set aside for myself or for customers whom we knew were looking for certain subjects or authors. As a booklover, I enjoyed the work. It was clean work except for the dust. Occasionally I opened a box and found a spider or two dwelling within. But I tried not to disturb them because they didn’t make all that much noise. Some customers were not that courteous. I remember one woman who climbed a ladder to reach books on a high shelf and then purposely dropped them on to the floor. We objected to that. She was one of a kind.

At the end of many workdays I would come downstairs by way of the ancient freight elevator at the back of the building and then walk down a two-tiered carpeted staircase leading to the ground floor. The proprietor and one or two employees (there were never more than two or three) would be standing there, getting ready to close the shop in late afternoon, and I would say to no one in particular, “Is everybody happy?” Read More »

San Augustine, Texas. Children having an Easter egg hunt on the school grounds on the last day of school before Easter vacation in 1943 (Library of Congress)

IN 877, Alfred the Great ordered all his subjects in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom to abstain from servile labor during the week after Easter. In the seventh century, Kings Receswind and Wamba in Spain issued similar decrees, but this was not uncommon; for more than a thousand years, church and secular leaders commanded Easter joy and celebration for the entire week after Easter Day, a week which was typically filled with festivities, dramatic reenactments of the Resurrection and solemn liturgies. The faithful were considered newly sanctified and thus in need of strength against new assaults by the devil and his legions, who are steaming mad when people make spiritual progress and hatch new plans to ensnare the unwary.

Americans, despite all their material wealth, have never lived the sort of collective festivity, leisure and sacred ritual that was common during those times.

Easter week — well, it’s back to normal. A tree expert I had called a couple of weeks ago showed up at our house early yesterday morning to look at a dead limb we needed to be removed. “I’m sorry, I couldn’t make it last week,” he said. “I was sick from the vaccine.”

He was ready for a full week of work. Americans used to at least take Monday off and some schools once had even the full week after Easter off. The most important event in human history, honored to this day in every nation of the world, does not warrant much fun anymore.

Of course, this year, even Easter Day celebrations were ruined.

The Virus Taliban and their fundamentalist adherents continued to enforce the new state religion of germaphobia. They puritanically eradicated signs of social pleasure. A holiday of festive gatherings is an especial target for their decrees. They can’t stand it when people have fun!! I wouldn’t be at all surprised if masked Virus Clerics started to patrol the streets with whips, disbanding pick-up whiffle ball games and small groups of profane leisure-seekers.

Defy these fanatics and their “invisible enemy” whenever and wherever you can.

Laugh at their floating microbes. Laugh at their superstitions. Laugh at their morbid statistics. Become a criminal if you must, but please have fun. At the very least, enjoy being an infidel, you wicked, wicked sinner.

By the way, Alfred the Great ordered the non-essential workers of his day to take off the week before Easter too so they could engage in the last penitential exercises of Lent (for real sins, not phony sins). Ordinary workers were viewed by Christian kings as human beings of incomprehensible spiritual value, not robots. In Christian societies, workers had, if you count Sundays, well over a hundred mandatory days off. Leisure is good for the soul. The devil wants nothing more than societies of Calvinistic workaholics, too busy and tired to lift their spirits to higher things. He truly hates a good time.

Since you live in a post-Christian world, you have to do the second best thing and that is, cultivate a festive outlook in your own life.

ACCORDING to the World Economic Forum, there has been a “regression” in women’s progress due to the “pandemic” (i.e., the pandemic of Corona Dictatorship). One of the terrible results, it says, is that women are spending more time with their children and doing more housework. Can you imagine?

Women have been disproportionately affected, the report shows, as lockdowns shuttered sectors including hospitality, in which they are more often employed, and they took on more unpaid work, like childcare and homeschooling.

This opened up a new frontier for equality that policy-makers can help address as part of the global recovery plan, says Klaus Schwab, the Forum’s Founder and Executive Chairman.

“Leaders have a remarkable opportunity to build more resilient and gender-equal economies by creating more equitable care systems, and by encouraging women to transition into new roles based on their potential,” he says. “Gender parity can become embedded into the future of work.”

“A frontier for equality…” That’s a beautiful euphemism for organized theft. It’s amazing that so few women see through this pandering. Aren’t they sick of the lies by now? Apparently not.

If the WEF has its way, which it will, many women in the long run, as the family wage for men becomes more and more a thing of the past under global “equality,” will be spending less time with their children and under more financial pressure.

The control freaks in Davos want women as their busy worker bees, paying off the debt burden of its slave nations, and that’s exactly why it demonizes unpaid domestic labor. (Notice how it’s okay to work for a multinational corporation from home, but it’s not okay to work for your own family.) Global feminism is the organized, glamorized transfer of wealth from the many to the few. “Equality” eases the pain. It’s all manipulative rhetoric. Feminism causes inequality.

Here’s a little dose of 19th-century wisdom I offer in response to this stale bigotry against domestic labor. It’s from Cardinal Henry Manning’s book The Four Great Evils of the Day:

“[W]e now are hearing of the rights of women ; and if there can be a sign of a society inverted, and of the moral order of the world reversed, it is the putting of woman out of her proper sphere the domestic life where she is sovereign, and the putting her in that sphere where she ought never to set her foot the public life of nations. To put man and woman upon an equality is not to elevate woman, but to degrade her. I trust that the womanhood of England to say nothing of the Christian conscience which yet remains will resist, by a stern moral refusal, the immodesty which would thrust women from their private life of dignity and supremacy into the public conflicts of men. This, again, is a part of the lawlessness of these days, and shows a decline of the finer instincts of womanhood, and a loss of that decisive Christian conscience which can distinguish not only between what is right and wrong, but between what is dignified and what is undignified both for women and for men. This clamour about women’s rights may be taken as one of the most subtle and most certain marks of a lawlessness of mind which is now invading society.”

Alexander Adriaenssen, Still-Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase; c. 1650

I HOPE this glorious day fills you with happiness and peace of soul.