JEN PSAKI, press secretary in the Biden administration, is part of an historic first — all of the people on the White House press team this year are women. They include “6 Moms of young kids.”

Psaki, 42, has two children, ages 5 and 2 — or as she calls them on her Twitter account “humans.” (Is it “bigoted” to call children “children?” Hmm, I guess it does kind of imply they’re helpless.)

Most reporters from major news outlets are political activists and propagandists, not journalists in the traditional sense, so Psaki’s job should be less difficult than that of her predecessor, Kayleigh McEnany, who was smart, combative and looked like a contestant in a Trump beauty pageant. The fact that Psaki takes every opportunity to imply that the previous administration was filled with liars and idiots should make her much more popular among the activists and propagandists.

Despite their differences in politics and style, these two women strike me as similar. Highly intelligent, quick, clever, physically attractive, brusque, extremely competitive. Years of grueling workaholism and compulsive rule-following lie just below the surface. You can hear it in the choice of words, peppered with catchphrases, and you can see it in the eyes.

Psaki, shortly after she began her new job, said she wants to show she isn’t a “pushover.” A man would never say he wants to prove he is not a “pushover.” If he said that he would only prove he is a pushover. But a woman in power exaggerates her toughness.

Serving as the immediate mouthpiece of the president (or, in this case, non-president) is a position of importance and authority. That there are women doing this must mean women are much are more powerful than they were in the age when they never got beyond First Lady, right?

The truth is, figures like Psaki and McEnany show that women have become far less influential. Their power has been diluted and drained. (more…)

 [NOTE: Here is the video.] AFTER viewing this entertaining and perceptive video by American Sovereign (warning: fake blood and minor vulgarity), I am prepared to make a decision regarding the acting performances at the Capitol Hill shooting in January. I can't give these crisis actors anything more than a C minus --- and that's generous. Their performances were atrocious (but they were made under stressful circumstances.) A reader who sent the video writes: Just finished watching this video that breaks down the Babbitt "shooting" and presents a clear case that it was staged. It's well edited, comprehensive, and not too long. I thought you'd appreciate it and potentially want to share it with your audience. I was on the fence before about the authenticity of the shooting (I knew protestors were allowed inside but I thought everything that happened after that was authentic) but now I am more convinced that the shooting was a planned event from the start as well. It really reminds me of the Boston marathon bomb hoax in that all of the actors involved were only doing things for the camera; when you follow each individual you see how their actions don't make sense in reality. This website does an exceptional job analyzing the officially released Boston Marathon images to prove the entire event was staged. It's a super long series but worth it! Hope this was helpful and interesting! I've been reading your site…

SEE seven pages of anecdotal accounts from Facebook of severe reactions to COVID injections here.  

FROM The New York Times: McKinsey & Company, the consultant to blue-chip corporations and governments around the world, has agreed to pay $573 million to settle investigations into its role in helping “turbocharge” opioid sales, a rare instance of it being held publicly accountable for its work with clients. The firm has reached the agreement with attorneys general in 47 states, the District of Columbia and five territories, according to a court filing in Massachusetts on Thursday. The settlement comes after lawsuits unearthed a trove of documents showing how McKinsey worked to drive sales of Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin painkiller amid an opioid crisis in the United States that has contributed to the deaths of more than 450,000 people over the past two decades. McKinsey’s extensive work with Purdue included advising it to focus on selling lucrative high-dose pills, the records show, even after the drugmaker pleaded guilty in 2007 to federal criminal charges that it had misled doctors and regulators about OxyContin’s risks. The firm also told Purdue that it could “band together” with other opioid makers to head off “strict treatment” by the Food and Drug Administration.  

“IN response to being named on the Diocese of Scranton’s Credibly Accused Individuals List, Monsignor Joseph P. Kelly released the following statement, which is printed in its entirety:

“Bishop Bambera has decided that I have been ‘credibly accused’ of the sexual abuse of minors, and
has removed me from ministry.

“It is true that some priests of the Diocese did abuse minors, which is both a sin and a crime. I am not one of them.

“I deny the allegations that I abused anyone, and I especially deny that I abused any of the children under my care while I was Director of St. Michael’s School for Boys. (more…)

FROM What Makes you Really Ill (I offer this as food for thought not medical advice): The vast majority of people around the world believe that the healthcare system promoted by the agencies responsible for public health, especially the WHO, is firmly based on ‘sound science’. This system, known as ‘modern medicine’, is perceived to represent an ‘elite’ branch of science, which suggests that any other approach to healthcare and healing must be pseudoscience or quackery. This elitist attitude is inculcated into medical students during their training, as experienced by Dr Carolyn Dean, who explains in her book entitled Death by Modern Medicine that, “In fact, we were told many times that if we didn’t learn it in medical school it must be quackery.” In his book entitled Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Dr Robert Mendelsohn MD indicates that belief in medical ‘authority’ is misplaced. He expands on his discussion of the problems with ‘modern medicine’ by reference to similarities between beliefs, religion and ‘modern medicine’. He describes the medical establishment as ‘the church of modern medicine’ and justifies this description with the statement that, “Modern medicine can’t survive without our faith, because modern medicine is neither an art nor a science; it’s a religion…Just ask ‘why’ enough times and sooner or later you’ll reach the chasm of faith.” Read more.  

   CANDLEMAS --- John Henry Newman (1859) The angel-lights of Christmas morn, Which shot across the sky, Away they pass at Candlemas, They sparkle and they die. Comfort of earth is brief at best, Although it be divine; Like funeral lights for Christmas gone, Old Simeon's tapers shine. And then for eight long weeks and more, We wait in twilight grey, Till the High Candle sheds a beam On Holy Saturday. We wait along the penance-tide Of solemn fast and prayer, Whilst song is hushed, and lights grow dim In the sin-laden air. And while the sword in Mary's soul Is driven home, we hide In our own hearts, and count the wounds Of passion and of pride. And still, though Candlemas be spent, And alleluias o'er, Mary is music in our need, And Jesus light in store.    

KATHERINE writes:

I agree completely, that COVID is a kind of religion with just about everybody I know. It’s the only way that I can explain the way most people here accept the Corona narrative so docilely and unquestioningly.  When I share some information, like what is in your post, I inevitably get this reaction: “I haven’t seen that on the news.”  Well, of course not!!!  How can it be, when the vast majority of Americans have computers and/or smart phones, that they watch ONLY the corporate media.  They don’t seem to do any independent research.  I tell people about The Thinking Housewife, Paul Craig Roberts, Ron Paul, but no one bothers taking my suggestion and reading those websites. (more…)

  PROTESTORS in L.A. try to alert those arriving for COVID injections that the "vaccine" is an experimental drug.  

"SO true is it that nothing can make a salutary impression on a heart which is obstinately bent on fixing all its happiness in the things of this present life; and though it is forced, each day, to own that they are vain, yet each day it returns to them, vainly but determinedly loving them. "The heart, on the contrary, that puts its trust in God, and mans itself to energy by the thought of the divine assistance being abundantly given to him that asks it, will not flag or faint in the race, and will win the heavenly prize. God’s eye is unceasingly on all them that toil and suffer." --- Dom Prosper Guéranger, Septuagesima Sunday