FROM Stewart Ogilvie:

The so-called “twin towers” were flagship structures in NY Port Authority’s new World Trade Center in which five other smaller ones were constructed. Building 7, which eventually achieved notoriety due to its “photographed” demolition late in the day on 9/11, was roughly half the height of the twin towers. The Port Authority’s 1964 cost estimate for the project was $350 million. By September 1965 it had risen to $525 million. By December 1966 it was $575 million. There was no stopping this highly touted project to construct the world’s tallest buildings despite serious financial reservations. Bid at $750 million, the final construction cost was $1.2 billion. Read More »

FROM the work of Simon Shack at September Clues:

If you have come to terms with the fact that 9/11 was a massive money-making scheme and – of course – a pretext to wage hugely profitable wars, the basic rationale behind this Grand Deception should, hopefully, become clearer. It is essential to consider all the variables which such an audacious false-flag operation would entail and what precautions its plotters must have observed: The Grand Deception plan was undoubtedly meant to be foolproof and, ideally, free of unnecessary elements of risk and opposition. There was simply no rationale for the 9/11 plotters to commit a mass murder of some 3,000, mostly white-collar professionals (brokers, bankers, financial analysts, etc.) whose families would likely have access to first-rate, ‘uptown’ legal assistance. Surely, killing that many people would have been an utterly senseless, self-inflicted aggravation on the part of the perpetrators. Since they could reliably rely on the fully compliant ‘top-brass’ of the mainstream media, they would have used this unique, exclusive asset to its full potential.

Ever since day one, the major hurdle for many people to even start considering 9/11 being an ‘inside job’ has been: “I can’t believe my own government would murder 3000 of their own people”. Once that psychological obstacle is removed, it should become apparent that the whole operation consisted essentially of a covert demolition of a redundant, asbestos-filled building complex. To kill thousands of people in the process never was an envisaged proposition as it would have encountered severe resistance among the insiders involved. The second objective was to blame this destruction on a foreign enemy; an inanely fanciful, outlandish tale involving hijacked airliners used as missiles was concocted, to be supported by digital imagery and special movie effects. How this was done is thoroughly illustrated in my September Clues video analyses. Read More »

GEORGE CARLIN, who died in 2008, was a wildly popular Irish American comedian, author, and actor who emerged as a supposed representative of the Common Man and social critic during the 60s and is still widely quoted and revered today.

Regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of all time, he was dubbed “the dean of counterculture comedians”. He was known for his black comedy and reflections on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and taboo subjects. His “seven dirty words” routine was central to the 1978 United States Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government’s power to censor indecent material on public airwaves. (Wikipedia)

Carlin raged against “greedy, well-fed white people” and ridiculed religion.

Wyatt Stag examines Carlin’s  legacy in this video:

[Carlin] has been heralded as everything from a sage to a prophet, attracting an almost cult-like devotion among his fan-based. These devotees, convinced of the value of Carlin’s many observations and insights, treat his words as words to live by. Carlin, however, was no authentic counter-cultural figure, but a manufactured product of the very system of power he pretended to critique. Over the course of his five-decade career as a comedian, he served as a willing mouthpiece for the subverted cultural establishment, helping to promote the tenets of the death cult that has hijacked Western civilization, all the while masquerading as a rebel …

This video is a brilliant examination of a decadent popular culture and worth watching even if you never heard of Carlin or were interested in him. Carlin despised middle class white America and came close at times to advocating its physical extermination. (Language warning: Clips from Carlin’s routines include expletives.)

To this day, Britain claims to have ‘won’ both of the 20th Century’s world wars, but together they destroyed that nation forever. After ‘victory’ came humiliation. — Tucker Carlson

“OUR Lady’s origin is wrapped in silence, as was her whole life. Thus, her birth speaks to us of humility. The more we desire to grow in God’s eyes, the more we should hide ourselves from the eyes of creatures… we should labor in silence and obscurity.”

— Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene

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FILE this under “Feminism: Suicidal tendencies” or “Feminism: Narcissism.” The Daily Mail reports:

More than 1,400 people have signed up to run through the streets of Memphis at 4 am on Friday – marking a week since Eliza Fletcher was kidnapped and murdered on her morning run, and completing her regular route she was snatched from while jogging.

The women organizers say they want ‘to emphasize that women should be able to safely run any time of day.’

Yes, women should be able to run any time of day, even in unbecoming and immodest clothing. And women should be able to swim without learning to swim. And women should be able to hold venomous snakes without getting bitten. And women should be able to jump from cliffs and fly. Women should be able to do this and that — and well, every thing they want. Unfortunately, the only likely way a woman will be able to run without risk at any time of day is if she runs with a man or if men are exterminated. Men can easily overpower even athletic women.

Some women have been stung by criticism of Fletcher’s reckless behavior. Read More »

THE BODY of 34-year-old, Memphis kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher was found in the tall grass near a vacant building not far from her home on Monday afternoon. Police have charged 38-year-old, convicted kidnapper Cleotha Abston with murder and kidnapping. The teacher, a mother of two small children, disappeared during an early morning jog last Friday. The cause of her death has not been released but according to police Abston overwhelmed her as she ran and dragged her into his vehicle.

This is not the first time Abston violently abducted someone.

“Cleotha Abston was sentenced to 24 years in prison in 2001 in the abduction of Kemper Durand, a well-known Memphis lawyer, as well as a charge of aggravated robbery, court records show. The formal charge in the abduction case was “especially aggravated kidnapping.” He was released in November 2020.”

Cleotha Abston

In that incident, “Durand was walking to his car around 2 a.m. on May 25, 2000, after attending a par ty on Beale Street when a lone gunman walked up behind him, took his wallet, and forced him into the trunk. The abductor, Cleotha Abston, drove around and picked up friends then, after about two hours, escorted Durand into a Mapco station to withdraw money from an ATM. A uniformed Memphis Housing Authority officer entered, Durand yelled that he had been kidnapped, and the kidnappers ran away.” (Source)

Abston was apparently a ticking time bomb, according to an article linked below by The Daily Mail: Read More »

“THE Holy Ghost is your abiding constant Companion and Friend Who knows how to joy when you joy, to sorrow when you sorrow, to understand every phase and motion of your body and soul. Constant Companion. Constant Friend. Omnipotent In-Dweller. Awake as you go forth to fight the most romantic battle in existence for the vindication of Christ! Walk hand in hand with your Captain and your Leader, the Holy Ghost.”

— The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin

[Reposted from March 8, 2015]

ALAN writes:

When interviewed by UPI reporter Vernon Scott in 1981, actress Joan Fontaine said: 

“During the golden years, movies were filled with actresses and actors playing ladies and gentlemen.  Well, there is no elegance left on the screen and there never was any in television.  Come to think of it, there’s little elegance left in our culture or society…”

She was right.  It is of course much worse today.  Elegance?  Who could find a trace of elegance today in movie theaters that look like rooms in a warehouse?  In the dreck, drivel, and depravity that Americans now accept as entertainment?  In profanity in place of dialogue?  In moviegoers who think they have a right to inflict their beeps and tweets and cell phone rings on everyone around them?  In movie patrons who prove themselves as ill-mannered and vulgar-tongued as the fourth-rate actors and actresses they have been taught to admire in the absence of such elegance?  Where are today’s equivalent of Irene Dunne, Greer Garson, Loretta Young, Claudette Colbert, Ginger Rogers, Deborah Kerr?  Of Walter Pidgeon, Fredric March, Ronald Colman, James Stewart, Fred Astaire, Randolph Scott? Read More »

“Catholic doctrine tells us that the primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas, however sincere they may be, nor in the theoretical or practical indifference towards the errors and vices in which we see our brethren plunged…”

— Pope St. Pius X

(H/T @TempusFugit4016)

FROM a comment by Fitzgerald posted here in 2012:

There is a quiet groaning across society from women who feel they must work to be valuable. The having-it-all lie in particular has them trapped. Women are highly susceptible to peer pressure and the feminist overlords have been able to perpetuate a web of lies that has trapped a large majority of women into wage slavery and abandonment of their families, with a resulting quiet desperation and longing for a loss most can’t quite place entirely. It is the loss of the freedom to focus on their families, churches and communities as in days of old. The “freedom” to be a wage slave is not freedom. Dare we also bring up the sexual revolution? Both sexes have adopted lies en masse, believing that sexual freedom and the resulting “necessity” for contraception and abortion equals political and individual freedom. It is of course enslaving psychologically, and often physically damaging. Furthermore, a large majority of males and females now consider it their duty to push their daughters into sports, degrees, career trajectories at all costs without a second thought.

One of the grandest lies of all that the feminist movement has pushed forward is that there are large number of highly fulfilling jobs. Most men see through this quickly. Very few jobs are highly rewarding, creative endeavors, and even those largely comprise a form of intellectual share cropping work on the company land, so to speak. True, modern information businesses have generated a few more interesting jobs, but most of those in all fields come with crushing responsibilities and demands for near complete focus and commitment, with decades of continuous education and self-driven evolution. Few women are willing to make the ongoing, demanding commitments save for pursuit of the degree initially, only to then seek for some kind of balance once they have checked the “career” box off their checklist. Women workers are typically planning for their next break or vacation while most men are driven to excel or at least seek success and respect for fulfillment. I believe the recent posting on the law profession and the cultivation of female underlings as favored pseudofamilial daughters very aptly describes this now entrenched phenomenon. Read More »

“IN any conflict where the human masses are at stake, whatever the hazards of the great physical shocks, it is always the strongest idea, the most just, which prevails. The life of peoples, like the life of men, is affirmative: a code of negations will never be able to subjugate it, especially the code that wants to force man to believe that he has no soul and no other status but that of an animal. Physical violence may exert its fury, but a strong idea will be ever stronger. And the strong idea will always be the idea of Love, essentially creative.”

— Adrien Arcand, Is Christianity Bankrupt? (Based on two talks in Montreal in 1954)

As your president, I will fight for democracy with every fiber of my being, and I’m asking every American to join me.

— Joe Biden, September 1, 2022

““IS there today in this world a word more widely used, either on this side or the other of the “Iron Curtain”? The word is never defined because no definition can be proved by the reality of concrete facts. However, we venerate this word the most, respect it the most, and offer up the most incense to it. It is the first and last word, the alpha and the omega which encompasses all, which contains all within it. If you live, if you breathe, if you can eat, work, sing, dream, sometimes be happy, if the steam engine works, if electricity serves its purpose, if the microscope enlarges objects, if we have theaters and hospitals, if the sun shines and the wheat grows, if the rivers flow and the wind blows, if you can even believe in something and raise up temples, there is only one explanation for it all: DEMOCRACY! Eliminate democracy, it’s the end of the world, oblivion. Listen to our liberals, our socialists and our communists shout out the word, gargle it with hysterical tremolos, see them roll their ecstatic eyes when they declaim it, their mouths pasty, foaming, and you will understand the importance given to this idol, this fetish of modern times that liberalism makes us adore in place of God whom it has dethroned among men by denying His public rights over men. This idolatry, the most stupid of all since it is based on nothing at all, explains why political partisanship exerts more authority than a religious cult over the ignorant masses and, consequently, that the subject is more prized than things of the Spirit. Here again, we cannot fault the poor multitudes, obedient sheep who have followed the shepherds and who instinctively have begun to desert them in the face of danger. But the leaders, the shepherds who betrayed their mission to lead the flock to green pastures and peaceful fields, cannot be acquitted of launching them onto dangerous precipices and into torrents, exposed to the worst weather and the risk of wild beasts.”

— Adrien Arcand, The Universal Republic (Adrien Arcand Books, 2018 English translation)

“THE advent of a Universal Republic, desired by all the worst elements of disorder and awaited by them with confidence, is an idea already ripe for realization. From this Republic, founded on the principles of the absolute equality of men and community of goods, will be banished all national distinctions; the authority of the father over his children will not be recognized, nor that of God over human society. If these ideas are put into practice, an unprecedented reign of terror will inevitably follow. Already, even in our day, a vast portion of Europe is passing through this sad experience and we see that it is sought to extend this state of things to other regions”.

— Pope Benedict XV, “Bonum Sane,” 1920

“BEHOLD I stand at the door and knock; if any man shall hear My voice, and open to Me the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me; and to him that shall overcome, I will give to sit with Me in My throne.”

— [Rev. 3:20]

St. Rose of Lima, facial reconstruction

“ANOTHER and more attractive class of the animal creation … played a great part in St. Rose’s life — namely, birds. Their song had a peculiar fascination for her; and they are said often to have sent her into a rapture, so strongly did they fill her with the thought of God’s goodness. She would often call upon them, as well as the insects, to join her in singing His praises. Concerning this point, and apropos of her intercourse with nature generally, such a charming description is given in De Bussierre’s ‘Life’ of the holy maid in her mother’s garden, that we cannot do better than conclude this chapter by giving it word for word:

“‘When, at sunrise, she crossed the garden to get to her hermitage, she would call upon all Nature to glorify the Maker of all things with her. Then might the trees be seen bowing over her path, shaking off the dewdrops, and rustling their leaves so as to send forth harmonious sounds. Then would the flowers sway gracefully on their stalks, half opening their petals to give out their sweetest fragrance, and so in their own way celebrate the praises of God. And with this the birds began to sing their songs, and came to perch on Rose’s hands and shoulders, the insects greeted her with their joyful hum —all things, in short, with life or motion joined in concert with the early praises that she offered to her Lord. She had reconquered the sovereignty of man over creation that belonged to our first father before his fall.

“‘A girl-friend, taken by Rose one day across the garden with her at dawn . . . was witness of this extraordinary sight, and of what was to her still more astonishing, the quiet way in which her companion took it. The Saint saw her bewilderment, but simply said, ‘Do you think, Sister, that anyone can honour the Maker of the world enough? And ought not we to praise and serve Him indeed, when we see all green and flowering things give Him thanks after this fashion ?'”

   — From The Flower of the New World, Being a Short History of the Life of St. Rose of Lima by F.M. Capes (R & T Washbourne, 1899)