By Thomas Merton. ONE of the most disturbing facts that came out in the Eichmann trial was that a psychiatrist examined him and pronounced him perfectly sane. I do not doubt it at all, and that is precisely why I find it disturbing. If all the Nazis had been psychotics, as some of their leaders… Read More A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann
“The entire world exists only in order to be televised,” Steven Shaviro writes in “Connected: what it means to live in the network society“. “Today, we are inclined to see nearly everything in terms of connections and networks. The network is the computer, we like to say. We think that intelligence is a distributed, networked… Read More Regulating the Connections Regulating Us
On March 21, 1960, at approximately 2 PM, Ricardo Klement got off the bus in the San Fernando section of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In his hands was a bouquet of flowers. He was greeted at the door of 16 Garibaldi Street by his wife and children who appeared dressed for a special occasion. Little did… Read More Authority After Adolf Eichmann
…. but few Are Critical For Your Family’s very Survival. If you only hear one lecture in 2025-26… Perhaps the greatest dialectical political warfare tactician in human history is the monstrous figure of Mao Zedong, Communist dictator of China until his death in 1976. His tactics and cultural revolution are a testament to the fearsome and… Read More Many lectures are helpful…
Someone once said “the best lies are wrapped around a core of truth“. In our ubiquitous media environment today, where Smartphones and video presentations of every kind are the only game in town, Christians and all persons of good will, are warned that we must be discerning and vigilant like never before. Ours is a… Read More The Best Lies
Steve Bannon to the NYTs Ross Douthat: on the seriousness of Technofeudalism Technofeudalism refers to a new economic system dominated by Big Tech, where data replaces traditional capital as the primary resource of power and profit. Proponents argue that modern capitalists no longer prioritize reinvesting in productivity or innovation. Instead, they create monopolistic platforms that extract… Read More Pardon the Language and Write This Down
Many hope Donald Trump has brought new hope and that he can avoid both anarchy and tyranny. When John Adams wrote, “A republic is a government of laws, not arbitrary rule” he very likely could not even conceive of the constantly evolving laws we know too well today, laws that evolve substantially, essentially, from one… Read More In the West today, there has been no stable law.
From the early 1970s to the early 1990s, Jimmy Page of Led Zeplin owned Boleskine House (See below) the former residence of occultist Aleister Crowley.[150][151] below. Sections of Page’s fantasy sequence in the film The Song Remains the Same were filmed at night on the mountainside directly behind Boleskine House.—Wikipedia Heart performs Stairway to Heaven at the Kennedy Center Honors for Led… Read More Composers of a New Stairway
by Matt Taibbi. “Et voila! New York City’s mayoral race has been won by Zohran Mamdani, no Bernie Sanders-style imitator but the real thing — son of a famed socialist scholar and Marvel superhero to every Jacobin-reading, keffiyeh-wearing student activist huddled in Judean People’s Front-type confabs, between bell hooks readings and visits to Mom and… Read More Socialism Wins Its American Normandy
A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley. JULIA MÉTRAUX, Mother Jones. “Elon Musk’s calls for a so-called “efficient” US government—including wanting to end the already endangered right to work from home, a disability accommodation for many—are less surprising when you view him as a techno-eugenicist. The eugenicists of the early 20th… Read More Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech
“It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life.” — Thomas a Kempis Tolkien mourned the decline of the Shire* i.e., …the real shire of his youth which he ever remembered and sought to salvage to the extent that he could. The Shire: the simplicity and beauty… Read More Tolkien’s Battle for the Shire. And for Us All.
Note: Mary Daly died in January 2010. It is good to be tolerant, even of incoherent things, we are told today. The devil himself ought to be given a seat at the table. So the courts have ruled. But that can’t stop us from noticing that Mary Daly represents the meltdown of the dissident transgressive… Read More Mary Daly: The Witch of Boston College
Fetaltissue.org. 2021. | “Fetal tissue vaccines are the everyday means by which pro-lifers unawares develop some complicity in an industry they oppose. Our aim is to accessibly summarise the relevant facts regarding fetal tissue vaccines — which are obscured behind a veil of academia and technical jargon, concealing from the public legitimate moral & ethical… Read More Fetal Tissue Vaccines: 12 Faulty Assumptions
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..
Young supposedly privileged women are being taught in school to retool their own desires. They are told they need to be instructed by “experts” on how to be socialized, whereas most often young men learn to socialize themselves, on route to innovating and building the world. Retooled privileged Women seem to aspire to and do best… Read More The Corporatization of Women
“A government that can censor its critics has license for every atrocity” “What most alarms me isn’t how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs, or runs it candidates. What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control, and the weaponization of the federal agencies. When a U.S. President colludes with or outright… Read More RFK Jr. On Kamala Harris, Warns of “Totalitarianism”
Who didn’t see this coming? And it’s not lowering the legal age for sacramental marriage they’re planning. “Children over the age of 14 have the right to develop sexual relationships and choose to have a sexual relationship’ with adults”. And proposed as a human “right,” parental authority here is radically undermined. “On 9 August, despite the pride… Read More The paedophile party advances at the UN, thanks to the EU and USA
… and Our time. Mark Groubert. “Whittaker Chambers is best known today as the veteran Soviet spy who became, in William F. Buckley Jr.’s words, “the most important American defector from Communism” when he testified against members of his underground Communist cell in the 1930s. Yet Chambers did more than reject Communism: He revealed a key… Read More The Whittaker Chamber – Alger Hiss Case
Updated.: ‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up,’ he said or indicated many times’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration. / NYT June 2019: “The truth is,” Mr. Biden had boasted … in a speech on the Senate floor, “every major crime bill since 1976 that’s come out of this Congress, every minor crime bill, has… Read More Glenn Greenwald: Is Joe Biden a “Good and Decent Man”?
And soon everyone in the medical professions —and way beyond— will be required to sign on to the ideology which in truth takes direct aim at the heart of Creation, the family, law, education and human identity itself. Christine Niles reports, “Dr. John Money: pedophile founder of gender ideology. Dr. John Money coined the phrases… Read More Our Medical Schools Are Being Transformed
Du Bois: “Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was… Read More W.E.B. Du Bois and Khrushchev on Stalin
The Real Mao and China. Steven W. Mosher knows Maoism well. “As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, “Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic pretensions.” This is certainly true of the leaders of… Read More An Interview on Mao’s Evil. Steven W. Mosher.
NYT: Reviving a Mao-era surveillance campaign, the authorities are tracking residents, schoolchildren and businesses to forestall any potential unrest. “The wall in the police station was covered in sheets of paper, one for every building in the sprawling Beijing apartment complex. Each sheet was further broken down by unit, with names, phone numbers and other… Read More China Recipe for Total Control: Army of Eyes and Ears
What good is “progress” in the wrong direction Chesterton asked. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates… The Jetsons fantasy. After Oppenheimer? Really? But, the Progressives retort, it’s only crazy reactionaries who oppose Penicillin —or Planned Parenthood (as if these were morally equivalent) who oppose Progress. No specious rationalization can justify R&D technology for… Read More Localism — or what?
Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War Independent, UK. 1995 For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art – including the works… Read More Independent, UK: Modern art was Government ‘weapon’.
Only Christians know what this “rabbit hole” really is, and how deep it goes. The biblical view of history alone (which the writers of The Matrix could only incompletely sense in some aspects), tells what is happening in its revelations about both good and evil —and where history is headed. WSJ: “The 1999 sci-fi classic… Read More WSJ: “25 Years Later, We’re All Trapped in ‘The Matrix’”
And Frankenstein. “…Jesus is approached with the offer of a worldwide TV network, and “The Dead Sea Videotapes,” in which archaeologists centuries hence discover a cache of tapes, films, and other evidence of our contemporary society, and reach shocking conclusions. “Future historians,” says Muggeridge, “will surely see us as having created in the media a… Read More Malcolm Muggeridge on The Fourth Temptation
Solange Strong Hertz. Quis ut Deus? Who is like God? The very name of St. Michael, Commander-in-Chief of the Church Militant, is a question. So capital a query immediately suggests another which must have preceded it: Who thinks he can be like God? Answers to both are given in Scripture, for God would not have… Read More The Primacy of Lucifer
Updated. Fox News: “Pentagon denies secret UFO retrieval program after whistleblower bombshell“. In any case, whatever it all turns out to be, whether altogether mundane or something else, we know that one day Christians can expect “wicked deceptions” to descend upon the earth, originating from “principalities and powers … the rulers of the world of… Read More Rumors of “Aliens”. Deep State(s) Psy-Ops? ‘Signs and Lying Wonders’?
Most truly moral people are shocked at the thought that leaders of a nation could engage in unnecessary wars, kill many hundreds of thousands of people, very likely millions (1) in the process, and still sleep at night and smile on the golf course for the cameras. Leroy Fletcher Prouty (January 24, 1917 – June… Read More Malthusian Wars. Fletcher Prouty.
No fear of God. + Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn’t Need us. + Aldous Huxley on Emerging Scientific Dictatorship . Note: Back in the 1980s a nun told me she believed homosexuals were God’s gift to humankind in an age of overpopulation.
Vice President Harris Stumps for Planned Parenthood. Tyler Arnold CNA: “During a speech to kick off her “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour, Vice President Kamala Harris called on Congress to expand and legalize abortion nationwide by codifying the rules that existed in the Roe v. Wade era. Under the now-defunct Roe v. Wade decision, most state restrictions on abortion… Read More It’s All They Have. A Culture of Death.
BNN: “The 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is set to commence on January 15, 2024, in Davos, Switzerland, under the banner of ‘Rebuilding Trust’. This pivotal event aims to delve deep into the potential of burgeoning technologies, their influence on global decision-making, and the forging of worldwide partnerships. The Forum’s Participants and Agenda… Read More Rising: “WEF Promises ‘New Order,'” Restricting Speech.
“Intersectionality is a Woke standard, but what is it? Where does it come from? The history of the concept isn’t that hard to trace, and where it leads us is back to some of the worst regimes in history. Kim Crenshaw tends to be credited with Intersectionality, but she got it from the radicals in… Read More Maoism With American Characteristics
Pinned 2.15.23 —Auctorem Fidei, August 28, 1794, is a papal document issued by Pius VI in condemnation of the Gallican and Jansenist acts and tendencies of the Synod of Pistoia (1786). In the introductory text the Pope exposes the “art of deception,” just as Pius X did again at the dawn of the twentieth century… Read More When Popes Exposed and Denounced Doctrinal Ambiguity, the “Art of Deception.”
… or of Scientistic Transhumanism? Eva Vlaardingerbroek and millions of young people around the world are waking up to the threats of scientism, what Vlaardingerbroek rightly calls the “poisoned chalice of history”. Note: Living in New Time. Christians believe history is going somewhere. If man (m/w) is not allowed to flourish as the Image of… Read More Man as Image of God?
NEW YORK (AP) — Those attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may notice an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police surveillance drone. The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend,… Read More Glimpsing the Future. NY police drones to monitor backyard parties, spurring privacy concerns.
Note: The State today is massively involved in every aspect of American capitalist society, even to the point of total surveillance of citizens and outrageous mandatory thought-direction. Does this fact make the old paradigms (Capitalism / Socialism) obsolete? Few seem to think so. So as Francis Schaefer once asked, how should we then live? These… Read More Catholic Economics Round Table
BBC: “Did big tech know I was gay before I did? … I was watching a lot of Netflix and I was getting more and more recommendations for series with lesbian storylines, or bi characters. These were TV series that my friends – people of a similar age, with a similar background, and similar streaming… Read More Is Big Tech & Media Coming Out About Shaping Our Perceptions?
For his honest reporting on the Stalinist show trials Malcolm Muggeridge lost his job and was blacklisted for a time. The following is from 1979. (Drawing by a former Gulag prisoner) “The Great Liberal Death Wish” is a subject that I’ve given a lot of thought to and have written about, and it would be… Read More The Great Liberal Death Wish. Malcolm Muggeridge.
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