Revelation, the Apocalypse as Understood by Catholics

 Amici,

With all that is happening, one can be excused for thinking we are living in the End Times. Many are showing a renewed, or first-time, interested into my favorite book in the entire Bible, The Apocalypse, The Book of Revelation. 

Traditionally, or I mean at least since the Protestant Revolution and more specifically since the first half of the nineteenth century, there have been four schools of thought about the prophecies (everything post chapter 4) in this book.

The Futurist school was originally held by the Church Fathers, and it asserts that everything after chapter 4 is to occur in the future, and the Apocalypse is literally an unveiling of that future. The the Historicist school, however, teaches the propheices have happened progressively, i.e., being fulfilled throughout church history, so while Revelation does predice the future, in a way it is essentially fulfilled throughout church history and not some future tribulation. (The later is a popular notion right now, for obvious reasons.)

Perhaps the simplest school, the Preterist, is a theory teaches that the events have passed already, with the prophencies fulfilled in the first century (i.e., the Destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, the dispersion of the Jews, and so on). N.B. Preterist being a fancy word in English for "past tense".

Finally, the fourth general notion is the Idealist school of thought: that the Apocalypse is about a symbolic fight between good and evil, a sort of allegory, and that the Bbook of Revelation should be taken as a purely symbolic explanation of our personal and collective battles raging on the plains of our souls.

It's the Futurist school that discusses and expect the “Great Tribulation” (of various lengths of time, some say for up to seven years) immediately prior to the Second Coming of Christ. This view in Protestant circles is the classically ‘Dispensational’ school, with sub-schools adhereing to "Pre-Trib" notions and others "Post-Trib". (Then, too, there are the Dispensationalists who are "premillennialists", i.e., they assert there will be a future, literal 1,000-year reign of Jesus Christ on Earth, from Revelation 20:6, involving the "new heavens and the new earth" as in Revelation 21. Catholics and the Orthodox are "amill", and one could go on but it is a "rabbit hole" pretty much!)

Not all futurists accept such views, of course, and it is obviously complicated. For example, some argue for "the Rapture" (developed by the Protestant John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) in the first half of the 1900s,  and the famous seals that are opened are then representative of all history. Also believed by many is that that upon Christ’s return the Davidic kingdom of Israel will be established for a period of 1,000 years – the Millennium – through which Our Lord will govern the world, after which follows the final judgement and the eternal state.

Well, amici, obviously, one could go on and on; many angles and schools of thought have cropped up over the centuries. Catholics have traditionally had various views at various times about the Apocalypse (as noted, for example, about the Church Fathers being Futurists, essentially). It depends on the circumstances. Basically, the underlyingi truth of it all is that the Book of Revelation describes (in some detail) the Heavenly Liturgy. 

"Liturgy" is a Greek word that originally meant a citystate-wide party celebrating some deity. The Panathenaea (Ancient Greek: Παναθήναια, "pan-Athenian festival"), was one such. So the early Christians used that word to refer to the religious worship they engaged in. The Liturgy was festive, a worship involving sacrifice (worship always involves sacrifice, and worship of Yahweh always involved blood sacrifice, except the one time in Genesis, when mysterious priest-king Melchizedek offered bread and wine in Genesis 14:18 – this is obviously what is called a "typology" of the Holy Eucharist), and it was free. (In the citystates, the rich had a lottery and whoever "won" it had to pay for the liturgy!) 

So the Book of Revelation, the Apocalypse (the unveiling) is an unveiling to Christians on Earth of the Heavenly Liturgy. Now, the Liturgy on Earth is considered to be directly related to the Eternal Liturgy in Heaven, its mirror, as it were, with only a veil between them, and the Liturgy is "the control room of Heaven" as one author put it. And the past, present, and future are all decided upon via the events of the Heavenly Liturgy. That's because the Heavenly Liturgy is outside of time, outside of our "space-time continuum". And that is the ultimate solution to all the various schools of thought regarding the Apocalypse.

N.B.

And as a side note, this is why traditionally, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was "done up" in so grand a fashion (and still is in the Orthodox World): because it is a literal participation in the glorious, sumptous, miraculous and incredible Litury of Heaven. Turning the Mass into a Protestant service is antithetical to the entire Catholic idea of "Liturgy". 

So that's the background to see the "prophecies" of the Heaven Liturgy, they're not foreshadowing future events, but they are our past, present, and future as seen from Eternity.

An Préachán

Social engineering: we're being brainwashed

 Amici,

I was listening to Fr. Ripperger online in a presentation about "What Is Fear and Confusion". 

This was produced some months ago and is mainly about the Covid situation, how the Powers-That-Be are manipulating us in order to achieve goals that benefit them (and not us!). And of course, one can see it massively going on now about the Election fraud, with the constant mainstream media refrain that there was no election steal. Just as covid was this super deadly disease that we had to crash the world to survive (and before it, Global Warming, a "narrative" that never got off the ground in the U.S.), and now we must just accept George Soros (or whoever they all are, the high-level Globalists and the Chinese Communist Party: CCP, or whoever) as our rulers.

I've made a few notes via transcribing F.r R's comments that might be helpful to you in breaking the shackles of association that they've brainwashed us with. The following is mostly his but I've mixed in a few thoughts to tie it more closely to the Election Steal.

Definition of fear: Fear the perception of a future evil which cannot be overcome.

1. So it's the emotional response we have at the perception of a future evil that cannot be overcome, i.e., getting Covid, dying, whatever.
2. When evil is actually present, however (rather than worrying about it coming toward us), then we humans develop sadness (in varying forms).

Anxiety

However, important to note: constantly dealing with fear (as defined above) causes anxiety, which is a specific type of sorrow; St. Thomas Aquinas defines anxiety as a form of sorrow resulting from chronic fear.

So, again, please note: this is based on perception of a future evil that cannot be overcome. If one thinks one can overcome it, however, then one is not afraid of it. It might be annoy you or angry you, but one doesn't have to worry about overcoming it. In this case: People stop having fear in relation to the evil.

Anger: Anger is a perception of injury with a desire for vindication. So people who attack you for not wearing a mask or not accepting The-Derelict-who-used-to-be-Joe Biden, such people have the perception that it is YOU who are causing THEM harm by not wearing a mask, or not accepting the election. (I.e., by not accepting the election, it is YOU, not THEM, who are damaging "democracy".)

False Perceptions

Fr. Ripperger says that the Powers-That-Be are constantly creating false perceptions.

• St. Thomas Aquinas: People who have fear have the perception that they're going to suffer some kind of harm, harm to either themselves or someone or something they love.
  
• "Fear arises from love" on the level of emotions. ("Love" here being defined as an emotional attachment to a person, place, or thing.)
• Sometimes it rises to the level of the will, but primarily it's on the level of emotions.

Fr. Ripperger asserts that the worse thing is to offend God, but people aren't thinking of that. God, or Truth, or Justice, such are far from their thoughts. They're thinking about themselves, their health, their bodily protection, etc., their self-preservation. The infamous "Be safe" slogan is built upon the old and shallow, selfish adage, "If you haven't got your health, you haven't go anything." So they are definitely playing on this level of attachment to oneself and one's health.

Another elemental point: The emotions are moved by what's in the imagination.

Fr. Ripperger says that one of the signs that we're in a Communist situation is the fact that communists have been known to use brainwashing techniques even over their own citizens. The cogitative power is the one that make asociations, and it's also the one that when it makes a particular assessment as to whether a thing is good or bad, that is what moves the emotions. To manipulate this, the Powers-That-Be:

• Bring a pre-packaged association to the senses, so you automatically think a certain way. In Covid, they show us all these different scenarios – like hospitals being overrun (when they're not; the overrun hopsitals were in Italy, or another example was video images from China showing people collapsing in the streets, something that never happened anywhere else) – they prepackage the association so that people's cogitative power naturally sees them together and people associate them together; i.e.: Covid = overcrowded hospitals, for example.
  
• And they do this over and over and over.
  
• This is how they brainwash people.
  
• Over a period of time, the cogitative power becomes so habituated to these prepackeged associations that every time people see the trigering image or words, they will have an automatic emotional response that the Powers-That-Be desire them to have.
  
• This manipulation is called "conditioning".
  
• And of course they can reverse this so that when people have an automatic association between things (i.e., traditional morality teaching that X is bad, for example), they can teach you to disassociate these over long periods of time to the point where an individual no longer associates X with evil (what the media has been doing for homosexuality, divorce, "intergenerational" attraction and intimacy, etc., so therefore they provide their prepackaged associations over the course of time in order get people's thinking patterns into the specific way the Powers-That-Be want.
  
• This, Fr. Ripperger says, is brainwashing.
• It's what's going on in television, usually via ads to sell you something, and it probably wasn't traditionally intentional, i.e., it was a sales method that worked. But now it is definitely being use for nefarious purposes.
  

N.B. In relation to that last bullet point: Fr. Ripperger points out that training people to associate X with Y is actually one way humans learn. Teaching kids traditional morality, for example, utilized this innate faculty of the human mind. So it is not surprising that the Bad Guys do it in reverse!

Countering all this

If you want to resist all this, first take control – and responsibility – for your mind. (As always, an important idea is to set time each day should be for serious, concentrated prayer and contemplation of God and Religious Truth, to begin with. "The World" is too much with us, late and soon, as a poet said.) Second, regarding this specific case addressed in this essay, do so by addressing the fear. To address the fear, the first thing you have to do is get the images used to create it out of your mind.

1. Eject the pre-packaging you are being inudated with, so that the cogitative power learns to no longer link the associations they give you together.
   
2. Exercise your will and use your REASON to look at it and change the image they're showing you.
   
3. "They're showing me this, but I also know that actually something else happened, so I know they're not giving me the full truth." Two examples:

• "They show me overcrowded hospitals, but I know that occurred in Italy with its klunky National Health service, and it has not occurred in countries with saner medical systems," or...
• "They're telling me to accept Joe Biden but I know he won only because six large urban areas produced ridiculously absurd voting results for him, and only after stopping, then restarting, their vote counts when they knew how many votes they had to conjure up."

N.B. Fr. Ripperger advises that changing your mental images will allow you to emotionally relate to things properly.   

So, bottom line:

Our would-be Herren Volk are specifically trying to engender certain kinds of emotions, and indeed what they done is they've trained people to follow their emotions, the reason being people will then have the specific emotional response the Powers-That-Be desire. So they give us the pre-packed image and then we will have the specific emotional response because 99.9 percent of people make their choices and act thereon based upon their emotions. Knowing this, the the Bad Guys know they can manipulate people.

It's called "social engineering".

We need to repudiate it.

An Préachán

A Contemplation on the Blessed Virgin Mary, Without Whom We'd Have No Christmas

 

Amici,

Merry Christmas to all, of course. Herein is a small Christmas gift, remembering that in every birth, TWO are involved.

    Behold then the joy of the whole universe.
    Let the union of God and man in the Son of the Virgin Mary
    fill us with awe and adoration.
    Let us fear and worship the undivided Trinity
    as we sing the praise of the ever-virgin Mary,
    the holy temple of God,
    and of God himself, her Son and spotless Bridegroom.
    To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

– Cyril of Alexandria (c. 382-444)

From a sermon by St. Thomas of Villanova, bishop
(Sermon on the birth of Mary II,7-9)

Mother of her own Creator!

"What a marvelous woman, to be the mother of her own Creator! What an amazing distinction for a woman, to have a Son in common with God. The Father loves his Son; the Mother rejoices in her Son. The Father tells his Son: from the womb, before the morning star, I begot you; the Mother says to her same Son: From the womb, I, a virgin, brought you into the world.

"She is amazed at her own glory, nor can she herself understand her elevation, for by the very fact of being made mother of the Creator she became with the best right mistress and queen of all creation. Truly, Mary, He that is mighty, has done great things for you; truly because He made you his own mother, all generations of the ages will call you blessed."

From a Friday Morning Prayer Found at: https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/god_whom_earth_and_sea_and_s.htm See this site for sheet music, etc.)

1. ^a The God Whom earth, and sea, and sky,
Adore, and laud, and magnify;
^b Who o'er their threefold fabric reigns,
^c The Virgin's spotless womb contains.

2. ^d The God, Whose will by moon and sun
^e And all things in due course is done,
^f Is borne upon a Maiden's breast,
^g By fullest heavenly grace possess'd.

3. ^h How blest that Mother, in whose shrine
ⁱ The great Artificer Divine,
^k Whose hand contains the earth and sky,
^l Vouchsafed, as in His ark, to lie !

4. ^m Blest, in the message Gabriel brought ;
ⁿ Blest, by the work the Spirit wrought ;
^o From whom the Great Desire of earth
^p Took human flesh and human birth. ^q

5. All honour, laud, and glory be,
O Jesu, Virgin-born, to Thee !
All glory, as is ever meet,
To Father and to Paraclete. Amen.

As it appears in the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary:

For Friday morning prayer.

 

The God Whom earth, and sea, and sky
Adore, and laud, and magnify,
Whose might they own, whose praise they tell,
In Mary’s body deigned to dwell.

O Mother blest! The chosen shrine
Wherein the Architect divine,
Whose hand contains the earth and sky,
Vouchsafed in hidden guise to lie.

Blest in the message Gabriel brought;
Blest in the work the Spirit wrought;
Most blest, to bring to human birth

The long desired of all the earth.

O Lord, the Virgin-born, to Thee
Eternal praise and glory be,
Whom with the Father we adore

And Holy Ghost for ever more.

 

Text: Venantius Fortunatus 530-609

 

Reflection

"While Mary contemplated all she had come to know through reading, listening and observing, she grew faith, increased in merits, and was more illuminated by wisdom and more consumed by the fire of charity. The heavenly mysteries were opened to her, and she was filled with joy; she became fruitful by the Spirit, was being directed toward God, and watched over protectively while on earth.

"So remarkable are the divine graces that they elevate one from the lowest depths to the highest summit, and transform on to a great holiness. How entirely blessed was the mind of the Virgin which, through the indwelling and guidance of the Spirit, was always and in every way open to the power of the Word of God. She was not led by her own senses, nor by her own will; thus she accomplished outwardly through her body what wisdom from within gave to her faith.

"It was fitting for divine Wisdom, which created itself a home in the Church, to use the intervention of the most blessed Mary in guarding the law, purifying the mind, giving an example of humility and providing a spiritual sacrifice.

"Imitate her, O faithful soul. Enter into the deep recesses of your heart so that you may be purified spiritually and cleansed from your sins. God places more value on good will in all we do than on the works themselves.

"Therefore, whether we give ourselves to God in the work of contemplation or whether we serve the needs of our neighbor by good works, we accomplish these things because the love of Christ urges us on. The acceptable offering of the spiritual purification is accomplished not in a man-made temple but in the recesses of the heart where the Lord Jesus freely enters."

– Saint Lawrence Justinian, bishop (Lorenzo Giustiniani, 1 July 1381 to 8 January 1456)

Merry Christmas to all, and a New Year far better than the last! Whatever the future holds, we must prayerfully hold onto the "Boundless Now" the Faith opens for us.

An Préachán

Various Covid news pieces, and a history of Influenza

 Amici,

This article has some Covid news, but let me remind everyone that in science, i.e. Western Empirical Science, nothing is "settled" – it's all a question of probabilities. You can't "prove" a scientific hypothesis that way you can prove a mathematical theorem or a metaphysical syllogism, but you can disprove a scientific hypothesis. Or at least, this is how "science" is supposed to work. Just keep that in mind as you read on.

First: Imortant Covid News

Keep up your Vitamin D intake. A famous heart surgeon and diet doctor, Dr. Steven Gundry, recommends you keep your Vitamin D level over "a hundred" and that this level is not toxic (as some doctors allege).

Secondly, a new study involving literally 10 million people indicates that individuals who do not exhibit the Covid illness cannot spread it. https://www.aier.org/article/asymptomatic-spread-revisited/ This is probably one of the most important articles about Covid that you-ALL should read. It's from the American Institute of Economic Research, and reports on a study involving 10,000,000 Chinese. Yes, TEN MILLION Chinese.

No MSM (mainstream media) outlet is covering it, of course, as it goes against the overriding "narrative" about Covid, but is shows the asymptomatic spread of Covid is a myth. Doesn't happen. At all. (That latter fact is astounding, but that is what the study indicates in extremely high probability, so remember the point I made in the opening.)

• This is significant for remember, the reason we have lock-downs and mask wearing is because of the virus supposedly being spread from asymptomatic people (individuals who do not show the disease's symptoms).
  
• The UK has just cancelled Christmas and locked down on Level 4 the Home Counties, etc., in an absolute panic over a new Covid strain, etc., regardless of this AIER study, or any other. And now apparently Europe is prohibiting travel from Britain.
  
• This is sheer, unmitigated panic about an illness we know for certain 99.4 percent who get it will survive, that when it kills it does so in specific age groups with prior conditions, and it bodes ill for any future contagion – civilization cannot survive being "locked down" every decade or so as these plagues come and go.

• N.B. Please consider how this new study supplements the famous (infamous?) Danish mask study; or consider Senator Rand Paul's comments here that 80 percent of people who get Covid say they wore the mask all the time.
• The UK Daily Mail asks the obvious question:
  If face masks really stop Covid, then why are so many of us still catching it? 
• And now a new study from Florida blows the doors off the whole mask-mandate business entirely.

Government mandates

But the various governments are "full speed ahead" on forcing everyone to wear masks, and of course also to be vaccinated, for better or worse. Even though it is widely reported that government big shots themselves flout their own rules, as Dr. Birx herself got "busted" over. 

Think about that, especially with this Children's Health Defense study in mind.

Excerpt:

This study adds to a growing list of published peer-reviewed papers that compare the health of vaccinated children to the health of unvaccinated children. These studies suggest we have long underestimated the scope of vaccine harms, and that the epidemic of chronic illness in children is hardly a mystery.

Now, I've never been an "anti-vaxer" but we are taking a stupendous amounts of vaccines these days. A practice called "multiple vaccinations" is occurring with kids as we pour vaccines into them, and now with Covid, government entities are saying we'll have to take multiple Covid vaccinations! Can all these vaccinations be good? Some people definitely do not think so.  

Yet so great is the pressure to be "vaxed", and so increasingly obvious is the backlash as this study immediately above indicates – coupled with the fact that we don't know all that much about the human body's wonderous ability to self-heal itself, its incredible immune system (given by God or evolved over millions of years, as you wish), one can certainly make a case for a "time out" and some review, some audit, some rethinking, before we rush off of a mass hysterial cliff.

That, and remember: the only way to truly "stay safe" is to get entirely off Earth and take up a birth on the mighty Axiom.

Some Reflections

and the History of Influenza

It always seemed insane to me to "lock down" healthy populations to keep them from being infected by a virus that, like the Common Cold, is "out there" now and just everywhere. And add to that fact that the yearly flu, which kills about the same number of people as Covid supposedly does, has "disappeared off the radar" this flu season. Has that actually happened, or are people with flu being diagnosed as having Covid? On top of ALL of that, statistics continue to show we have no greater national death rate in the U.S. this past year than we usually have. This has to be repeated: the U.S. at least is showing no enlarged mortality rate for 2020 than it has shown for previous years. (And that is so despite the high level of Covid-related deaths in New York, etc.) So, as many ask, where's the pandemic? Just what the heck is going on?

And this is just the latest in a long line of such research that I've come across some who insist things are not what they seem about infectious diseases. Dr. Thomas S. Cowen, author of Human Heart, Cosmic Heart: A Doctor’s Quest to Understand, Treat, and Prevent Cardiovascular Disease, is a case in point. Cowen is interviewed here.

Now a Pharmacist of 43 years (30 of them running his own pharmacy) says we "are being played" by the governments about Covid. Here's the article, to save you from the pop-ups:

Pharmacist Of 43 Years, Harvey Staub: CDC Says COVID More Deadly Than Flu – “I Believe We’re Being Played” – Here’s Why

Tim Brown / December 20, 2020

So, a man who has been a pharmacist for 43 years and owned a pharmacy for 30 years says there is “something very strange going on with this Covid thing.” He points out that while we are well into the flu season, he hasn’t dispensed any generic Tamiflu at all, and a friend of his who is with a national wholesaler with 75 accounts hasn’t sold any to any pharmacies.  Yeah, I’d say that is very strange.  He also stated he believes we’re being played and why.
                                                                                               
The pharmacist goes by Harvey Staub on Twitter.  Here’s the tweet thread he presented earlier this week.
                                
1) Covid 19. There’s something very strange going on with this Covid thing. I’ve been a Pharmacist for 43 years, 30 years as an owner. It’s December 12, 2020, well into the “flu season”

2) I have not dispensed any Tamiflu this season whatsoever. Tamiflu generic is the most prescribed medication for the flu, once you’re diagnosed having the flu. Extremely effective. I asked my friend Mike, who works as a salesman for a major national wholesaler.

3)…how much tamiflu and generic has he sold to Pharmacies this season. He hasn’t sold any. He has 75 accounts of independent pharmacies across the United States.

   https://twitter.com/HarveyStaub1/status/1337946574740197383

4) Conclusion: By now, it’s well known that Covid tests give false positives. How many of these false positives are actually “the flu”? How many are just “the common cold”? Why does the CDC report daily case numbers & deaths for Covid and not for the flu? …

5) CDC says Covid is more deadly than the flu. Well, if you’re potentially taking a large number of flu cases and bundling them into the Covid numbers, then yes, the perception is that it’s more deadly. …

   https://twitter.com/HarveyStaub1/status/1337949006056579072

6) I believe we’re being played. Yes, Covid is real, it can be deadly. We now have drug regimens to treat Covid effectively, one being Dr. Zev Zelenko’s @zev_dr regimen, among others. I believe the Covid numbers are being skewed upward, on purpose…

   https://twitter.com/HarveyStaub1/status/1337950625036955653

7)…to continue instilling fear and panic into people, for governments to continue with lockdowns, for more small businesses to be put out, for more people to kill themselves, or others; for more & more social upheaval. Why? Total population control through fear. …

  https://twitter.com/HarveyStaub1/status/1337951739274813442

8) If we are so obedient to wear masks, obedient to stand here, don’t stand there, obedient to get the Covid vaccine, obedient to carry proof you’ve gotten the vaccine; otherwise, you won’t be able to fly; then it will be buses, trains, taxis, Uber’s, Target, Walmart, grocery stores…

   https://twitter.com/HarveyStaub1/status/1337953481743798277

9)….everything. Just like that. You’re giving up your freedoms to a virus that has a 99.4 % survival rate, according to the CDC. And the vaccine? Like I’ve told my customers all these years; don’t be the first on your block to try anything new. …

10) They really don’t know what they’ll find out in 6 months, a year, 5 years & longer, that can be attributed to the vaccine. It’s way past time for people to take their heads out of their ass & start thinking for themselves. / Done

Others seemed to confirmed the tweets in their area.

An Préachan again:

The same article has a history of influenza posted by a Commentator. I had no knowledge of all this (highlights are mine):

History of Influenza “Influenza delle stelle”

Finally, just keep in mind a little history of influenza in the first place. Arthur Firstenberg’s “The Invisible Rainbow” recounts quite a bit of history concerning electricity, radio waves and radiation effects upon the human body. One man wrote, based on Firstenberg’s book, how this narrative of explanation of viruses and flu has evolved.

The word “influenza” originated in Italy. The first record of this strange and inexplicable illness occurred around the year 1580. As the phenomenon recurred, acute observers recognised that it tended to ‘pop up’ simultaneously in multiple locations, sometimes on multiple continents. In an effort to explain this cognitively dissonant fact, Italian ‘scientists’ examined sun-spot records and noticed that outbreaks always seemed to coincide with peaks of sun-spot activity.

They understood that when the sun’s surface (or CORONA) was most active, there were mass-ejections from the sun that manifested as spectacular displays of the Aurora Borealis in northern climes and that there were also magnetic effects (or magnetic ‘waves’) from the sun that struck the earth with uncommon intensity at these times.

Thus the word “INFLUENZA became the name of this illness. “Influenza” being short for “Influenza delle stelle” …  INFLUENCE OF THE STARS.

So, by the early 1600s European scientists had worked out that the cause of the illness now known as ‘influenza’ was the effect of unusual magnetic waves impacting the human body.

This “flu” narrative was accepted throughout the 1700s and 1800s. There were multiple references to the illnesses brought on by the proliferation of telegraph communications and the installation of AC power grids in US cities. Some of the reported effects were very serious for the persons involved, listlessness, loss of energy, depression, headaches and much more*.

The ‘electric/magnetic’ causation narrative continued as a model for explaining ‘flu’ symptoms right up until about 1920 and the global catastrophe of 1918/19 that was ‘The Spanish Flu’.

THE SPANISH FLU

Again, this illness spread so fast that scientists could not explain the rate of contagion by human-to-human transfer of particles but it was the SECOND WAVE of Spanish Flu that killed tens of millions of people right across the world.

The US Surgeon General ordered a series of investigations into the nature of this disastrous contagion. One such series of experiments were conducted using 100 healthy volunteers from the US Navy by bringing them into close, controlled contact with patients suffering from the illness. A number of tests were repeatedly performed. Blood was extracted from the sick and injected into the volunteers. Patients spat into trays and the uninfected drank their sputum. Patients sneezed and coughed while volunteers, nose-to-nose, inhaled the droplets ejected as deeply as they could.

Doctors found, to the amazement of many, that NONE OF THE VOLUNTEERS GOT SICK.

This ‘Influenza’ COULD NOT BE TRANSFERRED FROM ONE PERSON TO ANOTHER.

IT WAS NOT CONTAGIOUS.

Many scientists and thinkers of the day, such as Rudolf Steiner, declared that the apparent “contagion” was the result of simultaneous exposure to the new RADIO WAVES (electro-magnetic frequencies) that were being broadcast for the first time across almost the entire world.

Given that 50 million died, ELECTRICITY AS POTENTIAL CAUSE OF DEATH was not an idea that our finance rulers could allow the public at large to believe. This awareness was excluded from the public domain and the false ‘virus’ narrative was invented to explain ‘the flu’.

If the public had been allowed to think that electrical installations and the radiation thereof might KILL them, then the entire 20th Century couldn’t have happened. All plans for development, industrialisation and corporate profits involved electricity. The establishment needed another story.

They got it. The ‘virus’ narrative exactly mirrors the ‘new EMF’ narrative of causation of influenza.

A virus keeps mutating. Our bodies adjust to the old virus/emf frequency and we are then OK until a new mutation/new frequency comes along.
I’m firmly we are being played, but that it’s been going on for quite some time (Revelation 18:23).

An Préachan again:

That story about the scientists trying to find out how the "Spanish flu" spread and how it didn't spreak I've heard before. Dr. Thomas Cowen quoted it in an interview I saw recently. Dr. Gundry referenced a study with two boxes of mice, one infected with Covid (I assume in was injected into them) and the other without. The boxes were separated by the material in a standard hospital mask. Dr. Gundry says that is evidence of the masks working, but then again, it is just as possible that the studies quoted above are true, that individuals cannot get Covid from those not showing symptoms (we don't know if the infected mice exhibited symptom, BTW).

As per my opening note about the nature of science, only years of repeated and varied experiments can increase probabilities about what is the actual truth of all this, years, and absolute, brutal honesty. We have anything but that today, as evidenced by the Global Warming fraud. This is not good for science, or us.

Time and audit are what we need.

An Préachan

Christmas comes, but the Darkness Descends: TLM Mass readings today are significant

Amici,

It struck me today as the Holy Offering how today's Mass Readings, for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, are so relevant to us today:

GRADUAL 

Psalms 144: 18, 21

Prope est Dóminus ómnibus invocántibus eum: ómnibus qui ínvocant eum in veritáte. Laudem Dómini loquétur os meum: et benedícat omnis caro nomen sanctum ejus. 

The Lord is nigh unto all them that callupon Him: to all that call upon Him in truth. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless His Holy Name.

COLLECT

Excíta, quǽsumus, Dómine, poténtiam tuam, et veni: et magnanobis virtúte succúrre; et per auxílium grátiæ tuæ, quod nostra peccáta præpédiunt, indulgéntia tuæ propitiatiónis accéleret: Qui vivis et regnas, cum Deo Patre in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.

O Lord, we beseech Thee, stir up Thy power, and come, and with great might succor us: that by the help of Thy grace that which is hindered by our sins may be hastened by Thy merciful forgiveness. Who lives and reigns with God the Father in the unityof the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. 

And as we wait for President Trump to do something, and all the myriad denizens of the "Deep State", the Epistle is amazingly relevant.

4:1 Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.

2 Here now it is required among the dispensers, that a man be found faithful.

3 But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you, or by man's day; but neither do I judge my own self.

4 For I am not conscious to myself of any thing, yet am I not hereby justified; but he that judgeth me, is the Lord.

5 Therefore judge not before the time; until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall every man have praise from God.

Indeed, He will.

An Préachán

U.S. Crisis: Ongoing Russia Cyber Attack on Federal Government, Agencies, National Labs, Now Revealed

Amici, a Chairde,

Well, it turns out our U.S. national security apparatus, the various Intelligence and investigative elements of the federal government, should have spent more time doing, you know, national security and less time trying to remove Donald Trump from the Presidency.

The shocking news is we have a national emergency brought on by Russian hacking of pretty much ALL U.S. government agencies, as well as major corporations in the Defense-Industrial complex (and also Dominion Voting Systems) something that began at least seven months ago and perhaps after the 2018 election. It is a national crisis of the first order. They are so far in they can turn off the U.S. powergrid, for example. It mirrors that they did to Ukraine on December 23, 2015.

As Morgan Wright, former senior State Department advisor cyber security expert, told Lou Dobbs the above, and also the following:

"The military calls it IPB, Intelligence preparation of the battlefield."
...
"Russia now has the entire playbook if they want to take down the U.S. energy grid.
...

"A (cyber) campaign going on at least nine months if not longer, penetrating some of the most sensitive areas of our government; they snuck in right underneath our nose ... it's like finding a burglar in your home that has been living in your house for nine months. This is beyond tragic and we don't even know the extent of the damage and it will take weeks, months, maybe up over a year before we truly realize how bad the damage is from this attack."

This is Pearl Harbor 2.0 and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was utterly clueless about it all. They're saying they can't control, stop, or "fix" the mess. The CISA's former head, Christopher Krebs, was fired by Trump a few weeks ago for incompentence, and the firing was well-justified. (The President should fire the CIA's Gina Haspel, and the FBI Christopher Wray, immediately – if not just have them shot.) Krebs just testified before the Senator Ron Johnson's Senate committee hearing about the election and said it was the most cyber secure election in history – WHEN THE AMADÁN HAD NO CLUE RUSSA WAS HACKING THE GOVERNMENT TO PIECES! AND DOMINION VOTING WAS A CLIENT OF THE COMPANY SOLAR WINDS by which the Russians were able to do all the hacking!!!!

Utterly clueless!!! As Lou Dobbs asks, "What are we paying them for?"

As investigative reporter Lee Smith told Dobbs:

"This began in many ways four years ago. I've been saying this for several years now that people like John Brennan, James Comey, Andrew McCabe compromised U.S. national security. They made a laughing stock out of this country when they attacked and ran an operation against the president of the United States, and the fact that as of yet, no one has paid a price. It's not as if our adversaries, the Chinese and the Russians and the Iranians did not read the American press, and (it's not as if) they don't understand what's going on. That's what's made us vulnerable. It's the U.S. national security establishment that has made us vulnerable to these unprecidented attacks."
...
"Remember what happened in July 2016 according to documents declassified by DNI John Ratcliffe. John Brennan briefed Barack Obama in July 2016 and that Russians were aware of Hillary Clinton's plan to vilify Trump as a Russian agent. And again, the Russians were aware of that, the Russians were aware that the FBI played along. The Russians were also aware that John Brennan used that as the basis for his Intelligence Community Assessment. For at least four years, foreign adversaries have known that our national security establishment, our intelligence services, are not serious. It's not a 'deep state'. It's a clown show. And that's what our adversaries are taking advantage of right now."    

My friends, we're facing disaster on multiple levels. The election is probably a part of this because Solar Winds, the corporation through which the Russians "got in" also had as a client none other than Dominion Voting Systems.

And all this at Christmas.

An Préachán

I'm seeing Eloi everywhere...

The Eloi

The Eloi were a fictional people in H.G. Wells fable, "The Time Machine". A childlike humanoid race descendant from us, and apparently the white collar "us", during the day the Eloi loitered about in crumbling cities; at night, however, they were hunted by the Morlocks, a gorilla like race also descended from us, the factory worker  segments of "us". The Morlocks lived underground and maintained vast machines; but just as the Eloi no longer knew how to read books in the deteriorating libraries, the Morlocks apparently no longer knew what they maintained the machines for.

I'm seeing Eloi everywhere

For me, seeing everyone wandering about wearing Covid masks reminds me of the Eloi, It should be patently obvious to any rational human being that since whenever or wherever mask wearing as been mandated over the past six months, Covid infections supposedly rise ever higher. Therefore, logically, masks don't work. Or for me, the fact that all previous-to-Covid studies showed masks don't work for viruses, but then suddenly, after Covid, studies are produced that do say that, indicate an obvious fraud. (Now the long-awaited Danish study show's masks done't work, but then, we already knew that! (See also: "More New Research Shows Only Those With Symptoms Spread COVID-19. Masks School Closings & Lockdowns Couldn't Have Been More Pointless.")

For me, hearing or reading someone say to me, "Stay safe," is infuriating beyond measure. Am I an Eloi? A child in an adult body, one unable to read, to think? Or are they the Eloi? And just who are the Morlocks?

• Yet THAT's exactly what Socialism/Communism/Progressivism (it changes its name periodically to mislead, literally, people) is intent on doing: creating Eloi.
  
• The infamous Frankfurt School of Marxists in the 1920s figured out that emasculating men was central to making Eloi – indeed, eunuchizing them, and correspondingly making women ever more masuline...
• ... all done through fostering an over-the-top sexual hedonism (not fully coming online in Europe or N. America till the 1960s, of course, because WWII got in the way, and then the necessary rebuilding).

An Anti-Eloi Reflection  

Finally, a note on true freedom, which was not a political notion, originally. The idea of political freedom derives from it, and the latter thus depends and relies on an understanding of true freedom, political freedom's antecedent. If you don't get the original idea, you won't apprehend the derivative idea. Here it is: "Freedom" was traditionally understood as the innate-to-human-beings (and Angels) free choice ability to choose God – as opposed to choosing not serving God. This is of course a religious teaching, but it was founded in the revelation that God created Man in His own image.

This may be hard to understand after 250 years of John Locke and 150 of Karl Marx, but the following explains it:

• An internal combustion engine designed to run on gasoline is "free" as long as it runs on gasoline: that is what it was designed to do and it fulfills its nature in doing so. That's its freedom. It is true to its nature, and successful. Conversely, it is not "free" if someone loads kerosene into its tank, or whiskey, or crankcase oil or aviation fuel. It can't run on those, and is not successful.
  
• But of course the gasoline engine is not free to choose to run on gasoline (or "free" not too). Something with an active will has to chose the gasoline. We, however, by our nature, have such wills, and are free to choose to run as we were designed to, or to choose otherwise.
• Yet here's the kicker: choosing otherwise is not freedom, because when we do that, we're not running as intended, and we cannot be "free".
  

So, made in God's image...

And what does God do? For one thing, He creates. He makes. Angels may make too, for all we know (angels dallying about in natural history would explain giraffes and ostriches!), but humans are supposed to make things. And it just so happens that in economics, "wealth" is created things from naturally occurring material, especially created things people want. Money is not wealth in itself (unless made of precious materials), but it is a means of exchanging wealth. A form of shorthand for barter and trade. So our very own proto-Eloi: Obama with his $50 million, or Bill and Hillary Clinton with their $250+ million, or the Biden family, with their $200 million, do not and have not created wealth; they merely live large on their paper, well, electronic, money, as long as it can buy things they want (rich lifestyles). Perhaps they invest to some degree in businesses that do make things, in classic Capitalistic fashion, but I would bet they'd rather "invest" only in politics, and most of what they do involves foreign nationals paying them to gain U.S. access, and both sides gaining ever more control and power.

Capitalism per se is the free-market economic system that allows for large amounts to money to be invested in invention and manufacturing: the market aspect of it is an efficient way of making of things people want. Both invention and manufacturing employs large numbers of people who find their divinely mandating creation longings thereby satisfied. But notice how Democrats and Establishment Republicans keep sending manufacturing jobs to China. They've also allowed the Chinese to steal American technological inventions. If one wanted to utterly destroy and impoverish a nation, one would do EXACTLY what they've done: i.e., remove the wealth-making engines of invention and manufacturing from that nation. 

They are, in short, intent on turn us all into Eloi!

Interesting, isn't it?

Donald Trump reversed those policies, and so he's hated by the Democrat bigshots and Establishment Republicans. (I mean, they loathe him to an insane level!)

Interesting, isn't it?

And now they've spent billions of their hoarded non-wealth creating money to eject Trump from the White House.

Interesting, isn't it?

An Préachán

Reflections on the Importance of the Blessed Virgin Mary by St. Anselm

Amici, 

We need a prayerful distraction from our crazy political maelstrom. Or better than a distraction, a contemplation of the power of our religion in the absolue miracle of the Incarnation, and what it means for our shallow, shattered world.

The following is from the Little Office of Mary, Monday Morning Prayers.

From a sermon by Saint Anselm, bishop (1033/4–1109)

Blessed Lady, sky and stars, earth an rivers, day and night – everything that is subject to the power or use of man – rejoice that through you they are in some sense restored to their lost beauty and are endowed with inexpressible new grace. All creatures were dead, as it were, useless for human beings or for the praise of God, who made them. The world, contrary to its true destiny, was corrupted and tainted by the acts of human beings who served idols. Now all creation has been restored to life and rejoices that it is controlled and given splendor by those who believe in God.

The universe rejoices with new and indefinable loveliness. Not only does it feel the unseen presence of God Himself, its Creator, it sees him openly working and making it holy. These great blessings spring from the blessed fruit of Mary’s womb.

Through the fullness of the grace that was given you, dead things rejoice in their freedom and those in heaven are glad to be made new. Through the Son who was the glorious fruit of your virgin womb, just souls who died before his life-giving death rejoice as they are freed from captivity, and the angels are glad at the restoration of their shattered domain.

Lady, full and overflowing with grace, all creation received new life from your abundance. Virgin, blessed above all creatures, through your blessing all creation is blessed, not only creation from its Creator, but the Creator Himself has been blessed by creation.

To Mary God gave his only-begotten Son, whom he loved as himself. Through Mary God made himself a Son, not different but the same, by nature Son of God and Son of Mary. The whole universe was created by God, and God was born of Mary. God created all things and Mary gave birth to God. The God who made all things gave himself form through Mary, and thus he made his own creation. He who could create all things from nothing would not remake his ruined creation without Mary.

God, then, is the Father of the created world and Mary the mother of the re-created world. God is the Father by whom all things were given life, and Mary the mother through whom all things were given new life. For God begot the Son, through whom all things were made, and Mary gave birth to him as the Savior of the world. Without God’s Son, nothing could exist; without Mary’s son, nothing could be redeemed.

Truly the Lord is with you, to whom the Lord granted that all nature should owe as much to you as to himself.

U.S. Election developments coming fast and furious as of December 15

 Amici,

Well, Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senate majority leader, is saying "The electoral college has spoken and Biden is the president-elect." Interesting. And what happens over the next week or two should clear and outright voter fraud be proven in widely separated states that used Dominion? Say Michigan and Arizona? What happens then, Mitch?

Consider the fast-developing news: the news is in – or should I say the news is out – about the Dominion voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan. RedState has an excellently organized article on it here, and the group that did the audit, ASOG, here at RedState. 

You can read another article on it here at PJMedia, one trying to be "balanced" in the traditional media reporting. It gives the Democrats' side of it, with all their disputing the "result" of ASOG's independent audit, and their "No, no, you don't understand what really happened here!" talk. (As you can see from the RedState article, ASOG has a lot of experienced personnel involved with it, however. Our friend Jody should be on their team.:) I note that this piece's author, who goes to great lengths to be "neutral" and newsworthy, does include this: "If this next part is true, and all the adjudication logs went missing, someone should explain why."

ALL of them? "Someone" doesn't just need to explain why, "someone" needs hanged. Look, this stinks to the highest Heaven. What kind of mirthless, corrupt joke has the U.S. become?

Here's another article from American Thinker, more Right-sided than the pjmedia one. It has some "interesting nuggets", indeed.

Bottom Line

Across the country, the Democrats have done everything in their power short of firing on Fort Sumter (and they might try that yet) to prevent thorough audits, reviews, and all investigations of the voting on November 3rd (and into the night of the 3rd-morning of the 4th). If they had nothing to hide, why so brutally secretive? Why do they insist on treating queries as insanity and attempts to investigate as illegal? 'Cause they're guilty as all Hell, of course,

We're on the point of civil war. A number of states – the swing states under contention – had Republican electors show up yesterday to vote in their state capitols, except in Michigan, where the loathsome Michigan governor, Heil Witmer, had police keep them out. Should a Biden Administration get in and begin what they've been talking about doing, whew, it'll be brutal. (And who benefits from that? China, of course.)

Congressmen are rising up to formally contest the election, however: Mo Brooks from Alabama in the House is the first, and two other Congressmen openly support him; now Ron Johnson in the Senate says he's willing to consider it, as is the ever ready Rand Paul (they need one Senator and one Congressman for a true contestation, and Johnson is from the swing state Wisconsin). There were, what, some 170 Republican Congressmen signing on to Texas's failed effort at the Supreme Court, so Brooks will be getting more and more support as more and more evidence of corruption vomits itself forth. (N.B. Some Democrats are talking about ejecting all Repubs who signed onto the Texas effort from the House! It does sound crazy, but after all we've seen over the past four years....)

And THE DAY for Trump to receive his report from the DNI draws ever nearer this week. Interesting, very interesting (as those of you old enough to remember Arty Johnson on Laugh-in saying that phrase) that Bill Barr has chosen to suddenly resign, isn't it?

As Kevin McCullough says of the Executive Order "...Which the president has, by privilege of his Executive Order, the authority to declare – basically – martial law, in light of foreign interference in an election. If (the DNI, John Ratcliffe's evidence) stays consistent with what Sidney Powell says shes uncovering – and she says she uncovering not an inch's worth, but a mile's worth of evidence nearly every day...", well listen to McCullough here: starting at 11:33 minutes in.

It certainly seems like it is time for Trump to "go full Lincoln" and declare Martial Law, round up the voting machines – or what's left of them, most have been wiped now – and so on. Otherwise, ever more evidence will keep erupting over the next year from this volcano of an election and it will bury what's left of this res publica as deep as Vesuvius buried Pompeii.

At that AmericanThinker article, this Comment, I thought, sums up what people will be feeling like under a Potempkin Biden Admin:

Debirch2h

This election is one of the most disgusting, discouraging, and despicable events that I have ever seen in my life. If nothing is done about the obvious fraud it will be even worse.

Joe Biden is a senile mobster boss who is a rapist, a racist, who fondles little girls, insists on swimming naked in front of female secret service agents assigned to protect him, and has done nothing in 47 years of supposed government service but enrich his family. He was clearly fraudulently elected and will be an illegitimate president. He will never be my president.

It pains me to no end that our commanding heights in economic, social, cultural, educational, informational and political arenas have all been usurpted by crooks, grifters, liers, con men, evil men and useful idiots.

I deeply regret allowing this to happen so that my grandchildren will have to live under a totalitarian system or fight in a horrific civil war. I'm sure the totalitarians in China and Russia must be estatic.

An Préachán again:

For those who don't know about the unique significance of Antrim County, I took the time to transcribe McCullough explaining to Eric Metaxas its importance; McCullough and Metaxas had this conversation yesterday BEFORE the Antrim evidence was publicly issued. (The link is the same as above, and the highlights my own):

Kevin McCullough starting at 8:43:

One last thing, and it's very important. Last week on Sunday, you had a Republican judge in Michigan say to the Giuliani team and to the Democratic side, that a third-party audit in Antrim county could go forward. Why is that important? Antrim county is where the 6,000 votes went from the Trump column to the Biden column. It was nearly a full 33 percent of the county that got switched in that, and we discovered it through hand-signature audit of the county.
And (Antrim County) was the first place where we first heard the word, Dominion Voting. It was in that county, it was in that flip, in that switch; at the time, the Secretary of State in that state said that it was a clerical error, that a clerk made the mistake, and then they shut off all discussion of it. Well, a judge said, "It's okay, you guys can go in and do a forensic examination of 22 voting machines there in Antrim." That was concluded last Sunday, a week ago. We were told we'd get results last Tuesday; as of Friday we were still waiting those results and the attorney general of the state of Michigan had intervened, had gone to the court and said, "Please side with us that they may not disclose the results of those audits."
Now, why is that important. Well, the lead attorney for the independent audit says that they saw conclusive proof that it wasn't a clerical error, that there was a computer connected to the tabulation system and that it was actually provable through the forensic audit that a computer switched the votes, and it was only through the hand recount comparing signatures -- they went to a full signature recount -- they were able to establish what had really been the will of the voters in that county.    
It was because of Antrim County that we discovered 47 more counties in Michigan that use Dominion, we discovered 30 more states that use Dominion across the country, and in all six challenged states, Dominion is at play.

And I see reports that the same sort of thing that happened to the vote in Antrim County happened in Clark county, Nevada (home of Las Vegas).

 

Big news from Arizona, too. Subpeonas have been issued to seize all Dominion voting systems in Maricopa county (home of Phoenix and the fourth most populous county in nation), the Arizona Senate judiciary committee head Eddie Farnsworth has issued the subpeona and will hold a comprehensive forensic scientific audit and investigation (not a hand count but computer/software investigation) on the Maricoma County machines. Phoenix is 60% of the vote in Arizona! They expect to find similar voting fraud to Antrim County.

That's going to be a true earthquake, an earthquake right now. For if the evidence mirrors Antrim County, then "Katy bar the door". McConnell will be eating his words.

We are on a knife's edge, my friends. And little Antrim County, deep in "Trump Country", is ironically -- or maybe fittingly -- the spark to set off the conflagration.

An Préachán

PS Today Texas' presidential electors met and after their vote for Trump/Pence, they held a second vote. What was it for? To condemn the Supreme Court for dissing them! Wow!

PPS Lin Wood reports that NOT ONE of the mainstream media's major organs reported the Antrim County revelations. Incredible.

PPPS What I like most about all this is that it is the everyday Americans who are making this happen. All the Big Shots, the Mitch McConnells and Joe Bidens, all of that crowd, can't stop THE PEOPLE. Or so I pray. Let's keep praying.

Finally time for President Trump's Executive Order 13848?

 Amici,

It's time for Executive Order 13848. After all, General Flynn says it needs to be done: 

See also Sidney Powell discuss the need for the E.O. to be implemented here. 

If they have that level of evidence, then they must act. Full force.

Or if the President doesn't act, maybe it's time for these guys:

There's another reason it's time for E.O. 13848, however: because we're drowing in legal "red tape" that stands the U.S. Constitution on its head.

The Supreme Court's raison d'être

Just consider the juridicial world we live in: the U.S. Supreme Court has over the last 200 years – since Chief Justice John Marshall (a true Revolutionary War combat hero, mind you) – has slowly but surely made itself the final arbitrator of all things Constitutional and legal in the U.S. And I mean, all things constitutional, legal, moral, ethical, even religious and biological. Yet its original raison d'être was to solve problems arising between the first two branches of the U.S. federal government, i.e. the national legislature (Congress) and the executive (President); the second of was equal importance: solving issues between the states. But Marshall (chief justice from 1805 to 1835) set the Court on the path to being a final arbiter in all things remotely invoving either the federal government or the states. 

That broader role has grown while it's actual purpose has withered. Thus, the Court dismissed the Texas lawsuit (six other states were signed in on that, with eleven others filing amicus curae briefs). The Supremes dismissed the suit for "lack of standing", a way of saying, "None of your business." 

• N.B. One reason for the Supreme Court's ever increasing power is Congress has abdicated its basic function: writing laws. It passes laws created by special interests and lobbyists (like Obamacare, a law about which no one in Congress even knew what was in it; as Pelosi said, they had to pass it to find out what was in it!). 
• Ever try to read a modern law passed by Congress? Utter gobbledygook. Of course they need multiple levels of interpreters. 
• These laws let the federal bureaucracy "manage" us all, and that in turn generates lawsuits wherein the judges rule on whether what the bureaucrats did is "constitutional" – when the whole system has become utterly unconstitutional, immoral, and even irrational.

More of the same, really

But even before the rise of the "Deep State", the Supreme Court declared Blacks to be truly sub-human, as Chief Justice Roger B. Taney did in the infamous Dred Scott decision back in 1856 (along with a number of other incredible nonsense, too involved to go into here, but note that the actual Constiution said nothing about the nature of Africans) and the Supremes could 50 years ago find a right to abortion carte blanc, up to and including birth, or again lately rule that two men (or two women – so why not two women and one man or two men and one woman, or more?) can marry, and on and on. But yet somehow they can't hear the case of one state suing another because the latter is run by thugs and Communists who have flagrantly and fraudulently elected a mentally challenged Potemkin candidate who is a facade for foreign interests? Texas has no standing to argue that it has been harmed in that? So much for the Supremes' raison d'être.

• Let's try a thought experiment. Suppose the Texas legislature and governor were so outraged at the Supreme Court's blow off, their "dodge" as Kayley McEnany said of it, that they vote to declare war on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Would that be worthy of the Supreme Court's attention?

The Supreme Court decision gobsmacked me (as the Irish say: that's an unexpected punch in the kisser). I was like a cartoon character with my mouth hanging open. Not because of the legalities of it, mind you: whether Texas had standing to sue, as whether it could show real harm done to it (of course, by dismissing the case, they didn't get the chance to argue it before the Court and the nation). I think we all know, as with the cases I mentioned above, that should the Court want to find a reason to involve itself, it will indeed find one, no matter how facetious the reason might be.

What's really going on

For your consideration:

• The Judiciary, state and local, isn't about "justice" but about managing Public Opinion.

• Honestly, what is "the Law" but a series of social rules decided upon by the people, their elected representatives (or in this case, representatives appointed by "the powers that be") the main purpose of which is to manage social tensions so society doesn't blow apart.
• N.B. Well, in the slave-creating Leftist Ideology, Law is a tool to manipulate people to achieve the results desired by the "Dictatorate of the Proletariate". (In Sharia Law, the law is a tool to achieve the results desired by the "Dictatorate of the Umma".)
  
• Otherwise, be very certain of this: those who run the Law (judges, lawyers, courts) would like to maintain the fiction that they are truly neutral and engaged in a truly noble endeavor, something higher than mere societal management.
  
• But we no longer have Sacred Law in the West, a law derived from God, or even the philosophical contemplation of natural realities (Natural Law).
  
• For every lawyer or judge who really wants to arrive at a just decision, to serve the people rather than manage them, there exist multiple lawyers and judges who manipulate the law for whatever axe they have to grind. We're drowning the Republic in such right now.
  

Look at it this way: Alf kills Beta, shoots him down like a dog. Alf is hauled before the court. Yet here is the question: Is Alf being judged because he broke one of God's laws? Nope, he isn't. God no longer has any interaction in the U.S. government, according to the Warren Court (and even the Constitution itself, to be honest). Not in today's world. In the past, pre-1776, when the Law was God's Law, Alf would indeed so judged. But now the Law is decided by public opinion. It "floats" like an untethered interest rate. So as long as public opinion frowns of murder, Alf can be judged. If the court let's Alf off "on a technicality" in such a public opinion environment -- what happens? Society becomes a tad more unstable than it was before because what people expect is not being fulfilled. But no one expects God to be outraged. Still less, to intervene.

1. Yet what happens when abortion eats away at public opinion? Young human life is worthless. What then?
   
2. And euthanasia eats away from the other end of life?
   
3. And the idea that one has to be a fully functioning person to have any rights? (Remember Terri Schiavo, died back in 2005? Actually, she was starved to death back in 2005.)
   
4. Or even now, today, when it is patently obvious Republicans have fewer rights than Democrats, or when Blacks (only those who think correctly, mind you) have more rights than whites? This, too, is patently obvious.

See what happens? Public opinion changes. It wanders about like the blind leading the blind. Without a Sacred Law from God as a roadmap, we're just lost. And lost, then we muddle about and just make up law to suit ourselves. In the 19th century, the phrase "Vox populi, vox Dei" meant public opinion is the voice of God. General Sherman, who would have made a great dictator, BTW, said contempuously, "Vox populi, vox humbug". (The latter word meaning what is expressed by today's male bovine guano.)

We've known since FDR's administration that Leftists of various sorts were "pushing the envelope" in taking over our lives. Slowly, the Supreme Court of the 1930s -- which had initially resisted FDR -- came around to rubber -stamping whatever he wanted. The pressure on the 1930s Supremes was intense. Roosevelt tried to pack the court, if you remember. Things went downhill from there with the infamous Warren Court in the 1950s, taking all mention of God out of the public sphere and finally imposing abortion -- and more -- upon us.

• I think the turning point was the assinasstion of Jack Kennedy. I now believe Lyndon Johnson had it done, for the various reasons in the following book by political gadfly Roger Stone: The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ. So blatant a charade the Warren Commission was that the bad guys have just gone from strength to strength ever since, deposing Nixon, trying to depose Reagan and Trump, and conspicuously and flagrantly stealing the election from Trump.

So, after getting over my shock at the Supreme Court's reckless stupidity of not letting the contending parties argue their case in court, for all to see and as our adversarial system of justice demands, I immediately thought: this is the 21st century's Dred Scott decision, just as Roe v. Wade was the 20th's. Why? Because a shooting war resulted from the first Dred Scott decision, and an unending social civil war from the second. What will result from the third?

1. Are the justices on the Court not in effect saying that the publica of the Res publica no longer has any standing to try to legally right wrongs in the Res? ("Republic" comes from the Latin "A thing of interest to the people" i.e., res publica.)
   
2. As I understand it, "standing" has a lot to do various considerations. But such legal niceties aside, all law in a "sovereignty of the people" state is based on pubic opinion, what public opinion will bear.
   
3. It is not like in Ancient Israel where the law was from God, and sacred, sacrosant, and immutable. Today, law is like cash money: it only has value if the people give it value.
   
4. Otherwise, the law, like the money, is worthless. If the people do not give it value, after all, it's not worth the paper it is printed on.

• But the Supremes seem to be utterly uncaring about all that. Two of the other three political branches are nearly at open war, states are running grotesquely fraudulent elections and instead of being a referee, their "original jurisdiction" and the ultimate reason they exist, the Supremes "duck and run".

A comment from an author at American Thinker is brilliant: The Court has opened the gates to secession themselves by their refusal to grant Texas and its 18 allied states so much as a chance to plead their case. The refusal to hear sends the message that anything goes in the states.

Truly, if anything goes, what's to stop secession? (Though the article is about what Allen West meant when he mentioned secession the other day, not the secession of Texas per se. That one state could very well secede, of course; it's economy is bigger than Russia's! And I remember reading somewhere that one part of the deal to bring it into the Union was that it could secede if it wanted to; after all, it was an independent republic for 10 years. It's the only state with the right to fly its flag just as high as Old Glory.) Or one state declaring war on another. Remember, law is about perception of what the people will tolerate at any given time in history.

1. This morning I was thinking it seemed like two neighbors having a dispute about a line fence. Neighbor Alf says Neighbor Beta built the line fence on Alf's property, thereby taking property that didn't belong to Beta and forcing Alf to pay for the fence maintenance.
   
2. So Alf goes to court and the Judge says Alf has no standing to sue Beta, because of legal X, Y, and Z shop talk.
   
3. Therefore, Alf's choices are either to "embrace the suck" as Jody says, or simply shoot Beta and uproot the fence.

Now a host of commentators, including the President's legal team, are writing that there's a number of other cases under consideration, and we should focus on those. For example:

https://eu.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/12/antrim-county-judge-release-election-results-dominion/6520916002/ and

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/update-wisconsin-supreme-court-shows-deep-divisions-as-it-hears-trump-lawsuit/, for two examples.

But while that is true and one of those might actually "work", I'm not sanguine. The judiciary, both state and federal, seems to be scared to death of this election and what its theft will do to the country; either scared to death or two ideologically divided. Remember what this article said that I sent around a while ago? 

The relevant excerpt:

Success in the law is based on using magic words.  It really is.  If you don’t use them, the court has no obligation to fix your pleadings.  But if you know the spell, and you know how to cast it on paper, miracles can happen.  Revolutionary arguments surface even when long standing practices appear to have firm judicial support.

We haven't got time for using the right magic words. Time is too short, the situation too desperate, the stakes too high, for such games. (And alas, the President's legal team didn't have this author on their staff.)

In any event, for an in-depth review of how legally complicated this all is at this stage of Trump's legal challenges, check out Shipwreckedcrew's long article at RedState. 

Political Thuggery

Many commentators are saying the Supremes – whatever the actual quality of their legal reasoning as to whether Texas really does have "standing" to sue Pennsylvania – are "taking a powder" politically, running away from a tough one. True leaders have to stand up to problems and address them, not "pass the buck." (Others say they're simply "bought" by the Deep State, or as Dick Morris suggests, they've been warned by "the-powers-that-be that they'll be "packed" if they don't surrender.)

• But again, it seems like this was a massively important political issue to actually have presented in court and the litigants given a hearing. The modern judiciary is more like a steam valve, letting society shed overloading steam, than any actual attempt at "justice". So slamming the door in their faces means, once again, either surrendering or fighting. It builds up the pressure till the boiler explodes.

So, to sum up, forget the courts. Invoke Executive Order 13848.

Executive Order 13848

If President Trump doesn't invoke his Executive Order, declare a national emergency, and arrest a host of these creeps, we've lost the country because even if one or two courts "worked" (as one single judge in PA tried to do before the state Supreme Court smacked her down), still, it most likely won't be enough.

Executive Order 13848
 

Otherwise, again, it's time for these guys...

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