"TOBIAS, one of the captive Jews at Ninive, a good and faithful servant of God, when old and blind, remembered that he had lent a sum of money to a relative named Gabelus, living in the city of Rages, in Media, and wished to send his son, the young Tobias, to collect it. But unwilling to send him alone, he bade him go and seek a travelling companion to bring him safely to the place of his destination and back again. Hardly had the youth gone into the streets of Ninive, where he lived, to seek one, when he saw a beautiful young man standing girded as if ready to set out on a journey. This youth, as will be seen, was St. Raphael. Tobias asked him who he was and if he knew the road to Rages. Raphael answered that he was the son of the great Ananias, and knew well the way to Rages, and had made his abode with Gabelus, an inhabitant of that city. Tobias rejoiced and told it to his parents, who called the youth before them, and asked him whether he would conduct their son to Rages and back again for fair wages. Raphael consented, promising to do as they desired. The two youths then set out on their journey. After the first day's march, Tobias rested on the bank of the river Tigris, and when he went to wash his feet in this…

  TOTAL American consumer indebtedness is over $13 trillion -- and growing. Americans are more and more in debt. They are in debt not because they are lazy and unproductive. To the contrary, they are in debt precisely because they are so productive. When a solid company is profitable, it distributes a dividend to its workers. When a modern nation is profitable, it sends its workers to the bank for loans. Oliver Heydorn and Chas Pinwill explain why this is so and what the solution is: a national dividend. If you think this is a fantastic proposition in an age of skyrocketing taxes and mortgages, think again and try to understand the systemic problem. Indebtedness is harming the family, and it is worth considering solutions. "President Nixon ... said that the American people will never believe anything that they haven't seen on television," said Pinwill. "Now television has never told us that money creation has been stolen away from the public. It's never told us that we're profitable and we just don't share the profit. These critical things are not discussed." You can read more about the social credit dividend here. By the way, why do banks push multiculturalism so aggressively? (See Wells Fargo commercial below.) When people see themselves as rootless individuals, they don't care as much about social problems. The issue of indebtedness is one of the common good.

  A BRAVE man today threw pagan idols blessed by "Pope" Francis into the Tiber River, as shown in this video. Used by the indigenous tribes of the Amazon as part of their nature worship, the Pachamama idols, depicting a bare-breasted, pregnant woman, were near the altar of the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina in Rome. Catholics have been observed prostrating themselves before the image in front of "Pope" Francis.   Read more here about the incident, which has been dubbed "Splashamama" and called an episode of "theological racism."  The statue first appeared at a prayer ceremony in the Vatican Gardens on October 4 and has created a social media frenzy. On Saturday, the image was again present at the Via Crucis procession on Saturday, which included the participation of several bishops from the Synod on the Amazon. Following the incident, Paolo Ruffini, the head of Vatican communications, repeated that the image resents “life, fertility, mother earth.” Ruffini said the incident “seems to me to contradict the gesture of dialogue” that the Synod should represent. [Crux]  

SHE’S too young to have been put in the limelight. But still this is a funny meme, thanks to Andy S.

1975: ‘global cooling’
1985: ‘acid rain’
1990: ‘hole in the ozone layer’
2004: ‘global warming’
2012: ‘climate change!
2015: ‘CO2′
2018: ’12 years to avert climate change catastrophe’
2019: ‘NO2’

And it’s all for one purpose: global government. (more…)

JOE A. writes:

Trump employs one of the oldest object-counters used in salesmanship, probably older than written language: Agree. And Forget.

Most people do not want to be “sold” or told what to do. They want to demonstrate personal agency and therefore combat the seller. An easy way to diffuse that nervous emotional energy is simply to agree with whatever the prospect says. Let him get it off his chest. Then promptly “forget” it completely and pick up where you left off in your closing effort.

Few sales prospects will remember and fewer will care. They will instead buy from you as this simple act defuses their ability to object.

Always give Trump three days before judging anything he says. Better yet wait to see what he does. So far, he has not followed through on any of “cave ins” or flip flops or consortings with the enemy. But he has taken the winds out of many Marxist-Socialist sails in his three years. (more…)

THE communists represent the most concentrated formation of evil in human history. We cannot for a moment accept the official communist and post-communist propaganda that this most powerful negative power ceased to exist and disappeared without a trace in 1989. The communist bloc ruled and still rules 1/4 of this Planet and 1/3 of its population. The Communist International, connected with the KGB, used to operate in all countries of the world. The degree of civilization’s moral decline exactly corresponds with a very real achievement of the Communist International. Their communist system is being built, as they always claimed, “forever and never any different.” Communist states are criminal enterprises. There is nothing easier than to prove that the same is true of the post-communist states. If communism was really defeated and higher moral values came to power, then we need to explain why the communist murderers (who claimed millions of innocent victims) weren’t brought to justice. In reality all these post-communist states, without exception, are covering up colossal crimes. Instead of punishment for the communist criminals, these same criminals remain in their posts. In addition, they privatized everything that belonged to the Communist Party and State for their own benefit. This fraudulent collapse of communism has allowed ongoing communist structures to hoodwink the entire world with images of reputable politicians, businessmen, scientists, artists, students and so on. This is the greatest victory of communism to date. --- Interview with Petr Cibulka,…

TODAY is the second anniversary of my mother’s death. I remember her sadly and also with happiness for her full life. She was an energetic and talented woman, whom I discussed in posts here and here.

No one is more powerful than a mother. I could not believe anything else, given the influence of my own mother. No one is more powerful than a mother because the human soul is immortal while things of this world — works of art, scientific advances, buildings and politics — are not lasting.

Below is one of my mother’s favorite songs, the popular version of Somewhere over the Rainbow by the late Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole, a Hawaiian singer who loved his own people intensely.

I was fortunate to go to Hawaii with my parents, husband and children in 2005.

One day while we were in Kauai, I was walking on the beach with my husband. It was a crowded little rocky beach with many people in the water with its famously unpredictable currents. I looked out into the ocean and saw a familiar figure about 70 feet from the shoreline. I would always recognize my mother’s crawl stroke. I said to my husband, “Is that my mother? She is struggling! She can’t get back in!”

My husband said, “I’m sure she’s fine.”

I said, “No she’s not fine. She’s struggling!”

No one else could possibly have recognized, not even the lifeguard, that she was having difficulty. I knew from having seen her swim many times that she didn’t have the strength to stroke the water that vigorously and for that long.

She was trapped in a rip tide but was so busy frantically stroking that she couldn’t wave for help. I ran to the lifeguard, breathless and shaking. “My mother is in the water and she can’t get back in!” He took far too long but he hopped on one those jet skis they used for rescues and rode up to her. A few minutes longer and I am sure she would have started to sink. She held on somehow and he dumped her right by the beach. She was completely spent.

I had been right. She couldn’t get out of the current.

Just the day before, an elderly man had drowned on a nearby beach. I will always remember the happy day I possibly saved my mother’s life. What could be more special for a child than to give something in return?

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I FEEL so strongly at the end of my life that nothing can happen to us in any circumstances that is not part of God's purpose for us. Therefore, we have nothing to fear, nothing to worry about, except that we should rebel against His purpose, that we should fail to detect it and fail to establish some sort of relationship with Him and His divine will. On that basis, there can be no black despair, no throwing in of our hand. We can watch the institutions and social structures of our time collapse - and I think you who are young are fated to watch them collapse - and we can reckon with what seems like an irresistibly growing power of materialism and materialist societies. But, it will not happen that that is the end of the story. As St. Augustine said - and I love to think of it when he received the news in Carthage that Rome had been sacked: Well, if that's happened, it's a great catastrophe, but we must never forget that the earthly cities that men build they destroy, but there is also the City of God which men didn't build and can't destroy. And he devoted the next seventeen years of his life to working out the relationship between the earthly city and the City of God - the earthly city where we live for a short time, and the City of God…

BILL CLARK DEAN,  also known as “Sir Guy,” blogged for many years at What Women Never Hear.  He was an older man devoted to helping women better understand men in marriage. His wife, Grace, provided crucial input to the site. The successful marriage depends on a knowledge of essential differences between the sexes. When men and women are expected to act, think, and feel the same way, they don’t understand each other and run into serious difficulties, he argued.

Dean — and his wife — understood that sometimes indirectness is the solution to marital problems.

I was sorry to learn only recently of Sir Guy’s death last year. May Bill Dean rest in peace! Fortunately, his blog is still online, thanks to his son; an internet forum is dedicated to his advice; and he also published a book, Where Did All the Good Men Go?

His post “Make Marriage Work” is a good introduction to his work: (more…)

CHUCK BALDWIN, an insider of the ‘Religious Right’ for years, denounces it in his latest column:

The first tarnish on the armor of my mentors in the Religious Right came in 1996, when they overwhelmingly embraced the candidacy of Bob Dole over Pat Buchanan. I was old enough at that point to start standing on my own two feet, and I took that fight to the bitter end. That story, if told in full, is one for the history books—and it forever changed me.

When G.W. Bush came along in 2000, I was skeptical but willing to give him a chance. It didn’t take long. After only a few months of Bush’s unconstitutional conduct—and especially his pathetic penchant for warmongering—I began taking him to task over my radio talk show and in my syndicated column. My brethren in the Religious Right excoriated me. But by then, I had learned my lesson from ’96, and I was man enough to take the heat—which I did for eight long years.

Needless to say, the closeness I had shared with Jerry [Falwell] began to unravel as I refused to complacently go along with my brethren when they compromised principle after principle to stay on Bush’s smiley side. But I grew a tough hide and a strong constitution during those years. I now know that those years were only prep school for the Trump years.

Yes, I saw all of this coming for a long time. But I honestly could never have guessed how bad it would get, because no one (at least not me) could foresee the arrival of Donald Trump. I foolishly thought that G.W. Bush was the worst it would be. And by worst, I’m not talking about Bush; I’m talking about the fawning actions and attitudes of the Religious Right toward Bush.

The power elite that control both political parties have completely mastered the Hegelian Dialectic. They have advanced architectural and engineering degrees in the designing and building of the phony left-right paradigm. They are professional propagandists and experts in political manipulation. Tokyo Rose and Joseph Goebbels were rank amateurs compared to these monsters. And Donald Trump is their greatest achievement. He is the Frankenstein who the Religious Right believes is Cinderella. (more…)

KIDIST PAULOS ASRAT writes:

So the infamous, leftist Nobel Peace Prize goes to Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia! The “committee” chose him over that creepy girl (she’s actually not a “girl,” but a sixteen year old young woman). I believe this win is historic and significant. I am very excited about it.

Abiy is a maverick, an intelligent and thoughtful one. He brokered peace with the Eritrean leader, which got him the prize. Eritreans are intensely independent, and fiercely Christian (it is through them that northern region and its Axumite emperors that the Amhara of Ethiopia inherited the Christian tradition). Eritrea never recovered after the Eritrea-Ethiopia split in 1991. I lived in Asmara, its capital city, when I was a young girl.

Here is Abiy with the Eritrean leader, Isias (Isaiah) Afwerki. Abiy is the shorter man on the left.

As a memorial and a sign of reverence to Ethiopia’s historical legacy, Abiy has created a “Unity Park” in Addis Ababa in the palatial residence of Emperor Menelik, a predecessor to Haile Selassie.

“Unity” is actually a mistranslation. In Amharic andinet means togetherness, being together. The park is rather a place where the “different” cultures of Ethiopia, the different ethnic groups, can be together in the peace that Abiy envisions. Each culture/ethnicity joins together in this whole, without merging into one “union” or losing its particularities. This park, I believe, was the final factor to his Nobel win. “Unity Park symbolizes our ability to come together for a common goal and cross the finish line,” Abiy’s office announced.

The main hall of the palace, the museum hall, has a really good wax rendition of Haile Selassie on a throne. This again, with Abiy’s astute mind, suggests this “united Ethiopia” is under the helm of strong leaders.

About a year ago, he had installed a statue of Haile Selassie at Addis Ababa’s African Union headquarters. He is not idolizing these emperors, but upholding their names and reputations.

Abiy puts Ethiopia at the head of the “union” of Africa. He brokered peace in Sudan recently, and met with affable Sudanese and other African leaders at the inauguration of the statue. These leaders like him, and treat him perhaps as a younger brother (Abiy is only 47 years old). (more…)

    AN article by the late Solange Hertz, posted online today at Tumblar House, re-examines the life of the controversial explorer, who has been the target of endless defamation in recent years. An excerpt: Curiously enough, the vicious denigration of his character which had served to deprive him of his just rewards in his lifetime, did not die with him, but only gathered momentum after his death. Spawning ever-new calumnies, it grew simultaneously with the revolt against Christendom. Justin Winsor, a biographer representative of the Protestant establishment, summed up at the turn of the last century the heinous opinion of Columbus now prevalent even among educated Catholics. Quoted by Frederick Saunders in The Story of the Discovery of the New World by Columbus, he says: We have seen a pitiable man meet a pitiable death. Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world’s record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument! Its discoverer might have been its father; he proved to be its despoiler. He might have given its young days such a benignity as the world likes to associate with a maker; he left it a legacy of devastation and crime. He might have been an unselfish promoter of geographical science; he proved a rabid seeker for gold and a viceroyalty. He might have…

  "ST. EDWARD [c. 1003-1006] was a saint in the midst of a court, and in a degenerate age. Such an example must convince us, that for any to impute their want of a Christian spirit and virtue to the circumstances of their state or situation, is a false and foolish pretence: a proof of which is, that if these were changed, they would still remain the same persons. The fault lies altogether in their own sloth and passions. One who is truly in earnest, makes dangers and difficulties a motive of greater vigilance, application, and fervour, and even converts them into the means of his greater sanctification. Temperance and mortification may be practised, the spirit of true devotion acquired, and all virtues exercised by the divine grace, even in an heroic degree, where a desire and resolution does not fall short. From obstacles and contradictions themselves the greatest advantages may be reaped: by them patience, meekness, humility, and charity are perfected, and the soul is continually awaked, and quickened, into a lively sense of her duty to God." --- "St. Edward, King and Confessor," Lives of the Saints, Volume X, Alban Butler (1866)  

  "A GOOD Christian mother feels her love for her child, whom she holds in her arms, more than her love for God, whom she does not see; yet if she is truly Christian, she loves the Lord with an efficacious love of esteem more than her child. For this reason, theologians distinguish commonly between appreciative love (love of esteem) and intensive love, which is generally greater for loved ones whom we see than for those who are at a distance. But, with the progress of charity, the love of esteem for God becomes more intense and is known as zeal; in heaven its impetuosity will exceed that of all our strongest affections. "Such is the nature of the virtue of charity; it is the principle of a love of God that is like the flowing of our hearts toward Him who draws us and vivifies us. Thus we ultimately find a great gratification in Him, desiring that He may reign more and more profoundly in our souls and the souls of others. For this love of God, knowledge is not necessary; to know our heavenly Father through faith suffices." ---- Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., The Three Ages of the Interior Life, Volume Two (Tan Books, 1948), p. 190

   LEARN more about the Social Credit solution to the debt-based economy here. Believe it or nor, debt slavery is not necessary. Nor are high taxes, endless war, ever-expanding government, the centralized economy, full employment and the pervasive lack of leisure we see today.  

UNHARVESTED --- Robert Frost A scent of ripeness from over a wall. And come to leave the routine road And look for what had made me stall, There sure enough was an apple tree That had eased itself of its summer load, And of all but its trivial foliage free, Now breathed as light as a lady's fan. For there had been an apple fall As complete as the apple had given man. The ground was one circle of solid red. May something go always unharvested! May much stay out of our stated plan, Apples or something forgotten and left, So smelling their sweetness would be no theft.  

FROM a video by Mark Collet:

“A frank discussion on the disproportionate role played by Jews in the porn industry. Whilst not all Jews are involved in encouraging and supporting pornography [in] the West, leading Jewish authors on the subject admit that Jews have played a disproportionate role in the industry and their motivation is not simply financial. Whilst in the West we are seeing an increasing amount of sexualised material pushed upon society, in Israel family values take centre stage and by law internet pornography is blocked by internet service providers.”

The video provides interesting quotes from Jewish authors. (more…)

  FROM Mementoes of the English martyrs and Confessors for Every Day in the Year, by Henry Sebastian Bowden (1836-1919): PAST AND PRESENT ---- William Blundell, 1600 THE time hath been we had one faith, And strode aright one ancient path; The time is now that each man may See new Religions coin'd each day. Sweet Jesu, with thy mother mild. Sweet Virgin mother, with thy child, Angels and Saints of each degree, Redress our country's misery. The time hath been priests did accord In exposition of God's word; The time is now, like shipman's hose, It's turn'd by each fond preacher's glose. The time hath been that sheep obeyed Their pastors, doing as they said; The time is now that sheep will preach, And th' ancient pastors seem to teach. The time hath been the prelate's door Was seldom shut against the poor; The time is now, so wives go fine, They take not thought the beggar kine. The time hath been men did believe God's sacraments his grace did give; The time is now men say they are Uncertain signs and tokens bare.