Abstract: “We investigate why the USA, unlike Canada and Western European countries, has a sustained exceedingly large mortality in the “COVID-era” occurring from March 2020 to present (October 2021). All-cause mortality by time is the most reliable data for detecting true catastrophic events causing death, and for gauging the population-level impact of any surge in deaths from any cause. The behaviour of the USA all-cause mortality by time (week, year), by age group, by sex, and by state is contrary to pandemic behaviour caused by a new respiratory disease virus for which there is no prior natural immunity in the population. Read More »

“WHAT well-trained child but is anxious to seize every opportunity to testify his love and respect for his mother, in order to gladden her heart thereby?—What mother so worthy of love, so kind and gracious to us as Mary ? — Dost thou desire to testify thy filial love to her? This month presents thee with an opportunity of so doing; dedicate it to her, daily practice some devotion, some good works in her honour; be faithful in observing these meditations, lend a willing ear to thy Mother’s voice, and to the holy inspirations which from time to time may fall to thy share. Then only, wilt thou deserve to be called a child of Mary, if thou keepest the commandments of her Son, and leadest a life worthy of such a Mother.”

— The Very Rev. Father Beckx, Month of Mary, (Burns and Oates, 1884)

AS Anthony Migchels explains in this 2014 interview, a large percentage of the prices you pay contain the cost of debt and fifty percent of taxation is actually interest passed onto the taxpayer. You are a slave to usury (interest charged on debt). This is true even if you have no credit card debt, no mortgage and no other outstanding personal debts.

“We lose at least 40 percent of our income to usury even if we are not in debt,” says Migchels.

The American Revolution was fought to achieve financial sovereignty, which was surrendered by the American government in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve.

As an aside to what Migchels says: Government and political life are theater to distract the masses from the facts of their enslavement.  Getting Americans to battle each other over emotionally-charged issues and terrorizing them with psychological operations such as 9/11, mass shootings and COVID are essential to maintaining this ongoing tyranny and to ripping them off every single moment of the day. COVID was a wealth consolidation operation, a heist on an inconceivable scale causing stress, illness, medical abuse, death and poverty. The chattel slavery experienced by Africans in America was far better than this; it was less brutal. The bankster elite wants more than our money and labor. It wants our souls. Then Americans can never possess the collective independence and fortitude to escape its clutches.

Migchels makes some interesting observations about libertarianism, which is not an answer to a usury-based economy.

S. WRITES:

I really loved your story of old ladies. My mother was one of them, and an avid gardener and plant aficionado in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She took many gardening classes at Longwood Gardens, where she volunteered regularly, and could rattle off the Latin names for beloved plants.

I was an agnostic during and after my college years (and you certainly know what college does to the young searching mind, turning it away from all things that point to God).

It was not until I purchased a home and started a garden of my own that I came to re-discover the notion of God. With my husband, I converted (with my own labor) a half acre plain lawn into dense areas of flowers, shrubs, trees, and vegetables, including a pond with a fountain. I found myself wondering how a tiny seed could turn into a beautiful, strong plant. I marveled at God’s diverse creation after hours each week in the garden. It was a visceral discovery of the life force in all of nature. No coincidence either that many of the plants in my garden came from my mother’s gardens. Read More »

[I went today to the herb sale mentioned in this 2018 post. Sadly, it was canceled for two years in a row due to the Big C.]

OLD LADIES, like so much else, are a thing of the past.

Yes, old women still exist in large numbers — and more are on the production line. But old ladies are a dying subcategory. An old lady doesn’t belong in the modern world. There are many reasons for this. For one, she has a lousy resumé. She reached her maturity before the hey day of women’s liberation. She has lived in relative chastity and has mostly flourished in her domestic sphere. She dresses modestly and with femininity. She wouldn’t be caught in a T-shirt, tight jeans or designer eyewear; it would never even occur to her to wear these things. She has never had plastic surgery, typically does not dye her hair or wear make-up. An old lady is not aggressive or sexy or avant-garde. Her reticence has no place in this dog-eat-dog, materialistic, feminist universe. That’s why you see less and less of her.

In my experience, two places continue to be reliable for sightings of this nearly extinct species: book sales and plant sales. Their labor at these events is essential and unremunerated, a fact which points to another significant quality of old ladies: they possess more time and leisure than the current pace of things allows. In that sense, they are true aristocrats.

Old ladies belong with books the way fishermen belong with the ocean. Books are often wise and they take patience and time to catalogue and label for sales. Old ladies often possess an alternately passionate and tender affection for plants, an affection cultivated over many years. They naturally belong at plant sales too.

An old lady who is an herb lady is a special being. Erudite and earthy, she radiates the wisdom that comes from close contact with some of nature’s supreme gifts: the fragrant herbs of the field, cultivated for thousands of years and famous for so many culinary and medicinal uses. An herb lady has often read the earth itself. She has a sensitivity to beauty (a useless, unmarketable sensitivity to beauty is a characteristic of all old ladies.) She will work for hours to sustain the delicate and evanescent scents and colors of plants, although truthfully most herbs are easy to grow. Read More »

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FRANCIS dispenses more of his manipulative mercy to the LGBTQXYZ+@#$ crowd.

Contrary to appearances, this guy is not a nice man. What he says is the very opposite of kindness. It’s cruelty disguised as sentimental charity.

Warning:  While Novus Ordo Watch is scandalously wrong in supporting the renegade traditionalist movement, it has many good articles about the heresies of the Vatican II Church.

BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS here on the symbiotic relationship between fetus and mother:

When pregnant, the cells of the baby migrate into the mothers bloodstream and then circle back into the baby, it’s called ‘fetal-maternal microchimerism.’⁠

For 41 weeks, the cells circulate and merge backwards and forwards, and after the baby is born, many of these cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving a permanent imprint in the mothers tissues, bones, brain, and skin, and often stay there for decades.

ALAN writes:

The worst day in my life occurred twenty years ago. It was the day my mother died.

She grew up in the 1920s-‘30s. Only rarely did she talk about those years. She remembered the very hot summers of the 1930s and how few toys children had to play with then. She had fond memories of being taken to visit an aunt and uncle at their home in the small coal-mining town of Pocahontas, Illinois, in the 1920s, when “Aunt Rosie” would select an unlucky chicken to be made into Sunday dinner. She also recalled leaving high school in order to get a job to help support the household.

But I believe the hardness of those years helped to determine her character. Pettiness, meanness, neglect — she never knew what those things were because there was no trace of them in her character.

She carried with her throughout her life a perfectly-calibrated measure of proportion and perspective and the interior restraint that prevented her from doing anything to excess. Moderation and self-discipline were built into her character. She never aimed too high. She never sought or expected something for nothing. Read More »

I ONCE had a friend many years ago who was raising her daughter alone. She had made terrible mistakes in life. But my friend, whom I met at work, had brought her daughter into the world, was working hard to support her without much help from others and despite being surrounded by bad influences.

She always spoke so affectionately of her daughter and with such concern for her welfare. When they were together she showed her great tenderness and affection.

Her daughter was about 11 to 13 years old when I knew them and her life was obviously lonely. She had no siblings, no father at home and her mother worked at nights. Different babysitters came to be with her in those hours.

Despite all the difficulties, there seemed to be a strong bond with her mother, who worked so hard, and the daughter seemed cheerful and happy.

I guess that is why I was shocked years later when I learned she had moved thousands of miles away as an adult and was estranged from her mother because of resentment over her past. How could this be? Read More »

I HEARD an alarming thud on the front door. I quickly went and looked through the glass.

Laying on the walkway on the other side was a mourning dove, his beautiful, multi-colored plumage splayed around him on the ground like a majestic cloak. His chest was heaving. These were the final moments of his life.

Perched darkly on a branch above was a sinister-looking black crow, larger than I have ever seen before, making me wonder whether it was something else (a raven perhaps?).

“Murderer!” I yelled.

He cawed back at me. A thug, and nothing more.

From the way he adjusted his wings, it was obvious he had just landed after a chase. He had been chasing the dove, causing him to crash into the door. The dove breathed his last a few minutes later. The crow remained on the branch. I’m sure he wanted to rip apart his victim. I picked the dove gently up and lay him in a box.

Human beings do much for birds with bird feeders and bird baths. We try to do our part. But we don’t do a thing really to prevent bird-on-bird crime, which is shockingly common.

I once saw a hawk tear a blue jay to shreds in our backyard. There was nothing I could do. It happened so fast and within minutes there were only a few feathers left. Read More »

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Madonna and Child, Luca Signorelli

“THE Immaculate Mother of God is the model for every mother; her motherhood is the ideal, the basis, the heart, and the goal of all creaturely motherhood. Here in a surprising new way the nature of woman proves once again to be the expression and image of God on earth. The polarity and complementariness of man and woman, which in the interdependence of their different and often opposite characteristics reflects the all-encompassing Oneness of God, appears here in the special relation of mother and child. This is probably the most intimate relationship that there can ever be between human beings.

“In this sense Mary’s Divine Maternity is the most perfect creaturely image and manifestation of the most intimate relation between Father and Son within the Most Holy Trinity. In Mary this is at the same time a spiritual and a bodily reality: bodily, since she is the physical mother of God, and Christ is flesh of her flesh, blood of her blood; spiritually, since she conceived Him “first in her heart and then in her body” (prius in mente quam in corpore). Thus in her own motherhood she becomes the prototype and ideal of all bodily and spiritual motherhood. If God Himself defines the most intimate possible relationship between Himself and a creature as the relation between mother and child, then we can say that all earthly motherhood finds its deepest meaning in connection with the Divine Maternity.

— Fr. Karl Stehlin, The Nature, Dignity, and Mission of Woman, Angelus Press. Kindle Edition

THIS POST from 2011 perhaps offers some food for thought as we see “the endless, feminist hypocrisy” at work this week, after the strange, “leaked” announcement that the Supreme Court may invalidate Roe vs. Wade. The same people who two months ago were bashing bodily autonomy and supporting the destruction of livelihoods for those who refuse to comply are now shrilly demanding the most extreme and radical bodily autonomy — so extreme it involves the elimination of  another person. Feminism feeds on the most blatant contradictions.

Feminism is rooted in a hatred of true womanhood and motherhood. It is promoted with a blazing passion and a feverish hysteria. So many personal lives have been wrecked by this ideology, so many homes destroyed that many people, both women and men, bear an existential wound. They lash out in pain and think the cure is more feminism.

Here is the post:

Writing in the Daily Mail, Amanda Platell berates Britain’s female yobs for binge drinking and whorish clothes. She says, with a straight face, that all this is a betrayal of feminism. Platell writes:

It’s bad enough that so many young women up and down this country dress as though they’re about to do a shift in the local pole-dancing club when they’re out and about on a Saturday night.

Far worse is that, after a century of fighting for women’s rights, they express their equality with men by standing up to go to the lavatory in the street.

How else does she expect the woman of average or below average ability to express her equality, by becoming prime minister?

The professional feminist plunders society and then chastises the lower classes for the resulting chaos in the streets. Read More »