MAGA’s war within over Internationalist Elon Musks very long range business self-serving —and plan to internationalise Tesla / Space X work force. Elon Musk’s Influence: From Boardrooms to Ballot Boxes | Vantage with Palki Sharma. And Is Elon Betraying MAGA over importing tech workers? Elon Musk isn’t just revolutionising technology — he’s reshaping global politics.… Read More Is Brain-chipper Elon Musk the New Global George Soros?
Updated. 95% of all abortions are procured for elective not emergency reasons. Who needs Roe v. Wade anyway in this day and age? The beat goes on, just not the beating of the baby’s heart which can easily be stopped when decided upon. + ‘Planned Parenthood Direct’ ‘Telehealth’ App to Circumvent Funding Cuts + Why… Read More The Little Pills That Will “Terminate” With Extreme Prejudice. A Global Phenomenon.
Critics have been punished on X. “Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s support for H1B visas triggers full-blown MAGA meltdown over the Christmas holiday – Laura Loomer penalized for opposing Musk on X – and more.” Importing workers at the expense of American workers? Did Elon Musk use Maga for strictly global hegemonic business purposes? [Strong… Read More Musk, Bannon, and the Corporatocracy
The Jewish Prolife Foundation: “Perhaps our Arab brothers are now fulfilling their role as they contend with us, reminding us that our birthright is contingent upon maintaining holiness. Holiness can be restored to Jerusalem in several ways. Israel can become self sufficient and God dependent again by manufacturing her own military hardware and instituting a… Read More Jewish Prolife Foundation: “cease to enable abortion, other lifestyle practices that violate morality”.
The Catholic people as individual souls and peoples, wherever we may be, may adapt and make our own the profession, pledge and spirit found in the salutary Preamble of the 1937 Irish Constitution which once restored* the Holy Trinity to absolute centrality and ultimacy, above all mere politics, for all humankind: “In the Name of… Read More To Which We Pledge Heart, Mind and Soul
“A major area of distress for [Dorothy Day] in the 1970’s was what seemed to her the erosion occurring in the spiritual life of her fellow Catholics, including those in the Catholic Worker movement. More than ever Catholics seemed attentive to social issues she had been raising for forty years, but they were increasingly neglectful… Read More The Real Dorothy Day
While vandalism and arson appear to have been ruled out (at the official level) in the 2019 Notre Dame Cathedral fire, the following reports sketched the context of concerns at the time. Catholic News Agency: “…. According to the most recent figures (as of 2021) from France’s central criminal intelligence unit, 877 attacks on Catholic places of… Read More 2019-2024 Look back: “Why France is losing one religious building every two weeks.”
The coming of the “Son of Perdition, the Man. of Sin” In 1954 the famous Thomist, Josef Pieper wrote: “Once, and as soon as, world dominion in the full sense has become possible, the Antichrist has become possible. To this corresponds the other coordinate fact that the Christian gospel must have reached the totality of… Read More Thomist Josef Pieper on the Pseudo-Order and World Dominion of the AntiChrist.
Better to to appear Quixotic to fools than Egalitarian in the American / French and modern Western sense. St. Thomas Aquinas writes regarding the ideal: “One of the principal things to be considered,” Thomas wrote, “with regard to the good establishment of princes [rulers] is that all should have some part in the government; for in… Read More St. Thomas Aquinas on the Ideal Form of Government
“…the night is far gone, the day is at hand” -Rm. 13 There is no stable law in the New World Order. It is all designed to change, “evolve,” expand and kill off the weak in the name of “Human Rights” (again). All their assurances about safeguards are worthless. They know what they eventually want:… Read More “Assisted” Dying in the UK and Beyond
See also The Drama of Atheist Humanism Ignatius Press Fulton J. Sheen: “The Roots of Democracy and Peace. The word “crisis” in Greek means judgment. A crisis in history is therefore a “verdict of history” upon the way any given civilization has lived and thought, married and unmarried, bought and sold, prayed and cursed. That… Read More Democracy. Philosophies At War. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
First Things Magazine. The last few weeks have offered some encouragement for the pro-life cause. Florida, South Dakota, and Nebraska rejected pro-abortion ballot measures, the first such victories since Dobbs v. Jackson—a watershed moment worth celebrating. Moreover, Kamala Harris’s resounding defeat, after essentially running on abortion, offers considerable hope for pro-life politics. Yet despite this, the… Read More The Most Dangerous Moment For the U.S. Pro-Life Movement
“Look out for the dogs, look out for the evil-workers… for many, of whom I have often told you and tell you now in tears, walk as enemies of the Cross of Christ. Their end is destruction.—Phil. 3: 2, 17-19. The fact is that discussions about biohacking is happening everywhere. Sometimes it is to innocently… Read More Biohacking. Transhumanism Made Flesh.
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise. Galatians 3:28-29 Not a few on the political far Right, alas, seem… Read More Not Ethnicity or Race, Not Blood and Soil…
11.26.24. Jerusalem. Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a cease-fire deal, President Joe Biden announced Tuesday. The agreement, which passed in a 10-1 vote in Israel’s cabinet, is set to take effect Wednesday at 4 a.m. local time, pausing the year-long conflict in southern Lebanon and northern Israel that has escalated in recent weeks. Still,… Read More Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a cease-fire deal.
Updated. Brussels (Reuters) – A top NATO military official on Monday urged businesses to be prepared for a wartime scenario and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly, in order to be less vulnerable to blackmail from countries such as Russia and China. “If we can make sure that all crucial services and goods can… Read More NATO tells business leaders to prepare for ‘wartime scenario’
Did “Hamas actually want Israel to invade Gaza? Is there a danger that this tragic situation will strengthen the hand of the ultra-nationalist Israeli right? How should the international community respond to the war between Israel and Hamas?Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart last year were joined by Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari to address all… Read More Can Israel Ever Live Peacefully With Gazans Again?
Dawn McCarty writes regarding our broken immigration system, “The immigration laws on the books are designed to fail. That is their purpose. Making it virtually impossible for most workers to be admitted legally, in the face of both a tremendous need for their labor in this country and the difficulty or impossibility of their getting… Read More Are Corporate Entities Deliberately Creating an Underclass of Low-Paid Workers?
Updated Nov. 24. President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use a powerful American long-range weapon for limited strikes inside Russia in response to North Korea’s deployment of thousands of troops to aid Moscow’s war effort, according to two senior U.S. officials. The move precedes by two months the return to the White House of… Read More Biden approves Ukraine’s use of long-range U.S. weapons inside Russia
Lewis: “Christian teachers wish to recall Christian people to domesticity—and I, for one, believe that people must be recalled to it. The first necessity is to stop telling lies about home life and to substitute realistic teaching. Perhaps the fundamental principles would be something like this. 1. Since the Fall no organization or way of… Read More C.S. Lewis on ‘Brutal’ Truths About Family
Assisted suicide is in the news and on lawmakers’ agendas. Supporters call it “aid in dying” and claim it is just another option for ending intolerable pain as part of end-of-life care. But assisted suicide is radically different from end-of-life care and the practice of palliative care, the healing art of relieving pain and other… Read More Killing the Pain, Not the Patient: Palliative Care vs. Assisted Suicide
Updated. Washington Post / NYT. “If confirmed, Kennedy “would be the most pro-abortion Republican appointed secretary of HHS in modern history….” former Trump Vice President Mike Pence said Friday. “Kennedy sent mixed signals on his abortion beliefs during his White House run. He suggested in May that he supported no government restrictions on abortion but later walked it… Read More Mike Pence Says RFK Jr. Would Be “Most Pro-abortion HHS Secretary in History”
Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts are senior fellows at the Hoover Institution and among the most prestigious and popular historians in the world. This is the first time they have appeared together in a public forum. Among the topics they cover in this wide-ranging discussion: the recent controversy regarding Winston Churchill’s role… Read More What the 1619 Project and Tucker Carlson Have in Common: Pseudo-history
Historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on “How the New Deal Coalition Fell Apart” in the DNC Chicago riot of 1968. After a moment of goofy kidding around mimicking the “Yippies,” Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland tell the most dramatic story of this seminal event which many of us saw on our TVs, horrifying our… Read More The Riot That Tore the Democratic Party Apart: Chicago 1968.
“Dickens must have known it would have worked on the consciences of the Parliamentarians too, as it did!” At least for a time. “By advocating that population should be controlled voluntarily through birth control, abstinence, or delayed marriage – or involuntarily, and through the scourges “of war, famine, and disease,” [Thomas] Malthus was derided by his peers… Read More Scrooge and Thomas Malthus
September 2024. “We officially record our dissent regarding the “Pact of the Future”, and invite all the nations of the free world to join us, not only in dissenting this pact but also for creating a new agenda for this noble institution (The UN). The agenda of FREEDOM From this day forward Argentina will be… Read More Argentine President Declared Globalism “Collectivism With Malthusian Blinders” Over
Updated. “Yesterday was a bad day for those who endorse “America first” in our foreign policy. With reported Trump appointments of neocons Elise Stefanik (UN Ambassador), Mike Waltz (National Security Advisor), and…Marco Rubio (Secretary of State). Many who hoped that Trump 2.0 would be different than Trump 1.0 are feeling dejected and betrayed. Is there… Read More Ron Paul: Glad It’s Not A Communist, But Are the NeoCons Back?
Mgr. Louis Gaston de Ségur writes, “The good God does everything in His time. His wisdom united itself to His mercy in giving to the Church the divine treasure of the Heart of Jesus for the time when it was going to have the greatest need of it. The Savior said so Himself, first to… Read More The Sacred Heart in a Time of Tribulations
Updated. “Justice Amy Coney Barrett broke ranks with the conservative majority on the Supreme Court Friday, leveraging strong words against her colleagues for their interpretation of Fischer v. United States. After the court ruled 6–3 that the Justice Department overstepped in charging hundreds of January 6 rioters with obstruction, the Trump-appointed conservative judge used her dissenting… Read More Amy Barrett rips Supreme Courts January 6 obstruction case.
There is very little surprise anymore. When children’s minds and souls are being warped beyond belief, when high and low clergymen are falling like flies, when churches themselves in consequence become a laughing stock, when half of all marriages in the West fail, when sex trafficking on the Internet is another ubiquitous reality, when the… Read More The Ubiquity of Pornography..
In the past 20 years, a disturbing number of Southern Baptists with formal church roles have engaged in sexual misconduct, a new investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News reveals. They were pastors. Deacons. Youth pastors. They left behind more than 700 victims….the stories of those victims, the depths of the crimes and… Read More 20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse. And Damian Thompson on Justin Welby.
“O Lord, You are my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? You are the protector of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be confident. One… Read More Whom Shall I Fear? Expect the Lord.
“We, the Ordinary People of the Streets“. The words express the core of Madeleine Delbrel’s vision: These are the people who have an ordinary job, an ordinary household, or an ordinary celibacy. People with ordinary sicknesses, and ordinary times of grieving. People with an ordinary house, and ordinary clothes. These are the people of ordinary… Read More We the Ordinary
By Mike Kerrigan WSJ / MSN. Shortly after passing through airport security, I realized my shoes were in desperate need of a shine. I stopped at Executive Shine in Charlotte, N.C., and took a seat in the regal bank of elevated chairs. An employee approached and, after confirming I was good on time, got to… Read More A Blessing for the Sole.
by Thomas W. Carroll.First Things.11 . 5 . 24 / An alarming number of children from Catholic families lose their faith during elementary and secondary school. By age thirteen, 50 percent fall away from the Church; by eighteen, it’s 86 percent. This exodus is not unique to Catholics—other Christian communities struggle with similar problems. But… Read More Reclaiming Our Catholic Schools
11.8.24 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced legislation this week to ban social media for children under 16. The proposed law, set to be introduced in Parliament in the coming weeks, would require platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X, to bar access to children and teenage users. There are no exceptions for parental consent. If approved,… Read More Australia’s Social Media Ban for Children Under 16
Analysis / Opinion by Brendan O’Neill of Spiked Online. O’Neil has defended Catholics as well against instances of unfair hate-inspired “news” and black legend-like propaganda. He is author of the new book After the Pogrom.
Col. Douglas McGregor: The world has changed since Trump’s last term. It remains to be seen whether it is even possible for him to achieve his major foreign policy goals, specifically in the Mideast and vis a vis Ukraine and China. “In 2020, president Donald Trump proposed [McGregor] as the U.S. ambassador to Germany, but the U.S. Senate blocked the… Read More Trump in a Changed World
President-Elect Donald Trump vowed in March 2023 to form a “truth and reconciliation commission” as part of a comprehensive plan to dismantle the “Deep State.” The President-Elect has also promised to revoke the Biden administration’s “cruel policies” regarding gender-reassignment surgeries. These policies, he said, include giving kids puberty blockers and surgically mutilating their bodies. Trump labeled such… Read More Trump Vows to Dismantle Deep State
At the height of the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine under Joseph Stalin, starving people roamed the countryside, desperate for something, anything to eat. In the village of Stavyshche, a young peasant boy watched as the wanderers dug into empty gardens with their bare hands. Many were so emaciated, he recalled, that their bodies began to swell… Read More Why Did Communism Kill So Many of its Own People?
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