Of Balloons, Taiwan, Ukraine, JFK's assassination, and World War III (with Hungarian update)

 Friends,

Just a few observations and articles to share.

Ex-CIA/Intel Sam Faddis has two articles below worth reading about the balloons. He's certain there's more to meet the eye than bouncy balls and the Biden Administration's incompetence.

Where Is The Payload?
Sam Faddis

In the world of intelligence, the key is to ask questions. Perhaps the most important of those questions is “Why?” When a Middle Eastern flight school student attending a class in Florida on flying airliners says he does not need to know how to land it pays to ask “Why”?

and
If You Are Sleeping Well At Night You Should Not Be
Sam Faddis 

Faddis goes into detail you simply won't find in the mainstream articles on this. And he makes a thorough case that the US itself has been using balloons to deposit and broadcast special sensors over wide areas since the Vietnam war. He details how they're used and what the Chinese would be up to spreading sensors over the US. This is a lot more information that Congress got from their Defense briefing the other day.

China might be ready to launch its war against Taiwan any day now. This article gives an idea of how absurd America's and NATO's "narrative" about Ukraine. We've thrown away a great deal of our military supplies in Ukraine, and we're delusional about what we can do there. Vietnam-level delusional. It's the kind of thing that even if it is only half true, that's more than enough.

I've recently finished a general history of the Korean War, by English historian Max Hastings. (Highly recommended general history.) What's amazing is how we repeated almost exactly the same idiotic mistakes in Vietnam a decade later. Korea was one thing, but Vietnam, almost the same mistakes, only worse, over again, was jaw-dropping stupid. Just incredibly stupid, (like we were about Pearl Harbor and 9/11, BTW, as Faddis himself points out). Of course, Vietnam was the creation – the way it turned out after Nov 1963 – of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the man who arranged the assassination of Kennedy. I'm currently reading The Man Who Killed Kennedy; the Case Against LBJ, by Roger Stone (in part). The book is thousands of references to various testimony built up over the years, and it is clear Johnson, American Intell, and the Mob was behind murder(s). The Kennedy brothers themselves were arrogant and careless, and Jack was determined above all to deep-six the CIA. The two brothers were about to bring down Johnson himself. Johnson struck first. "LBJ" was probably the worst individual (maybe now Joe Biden, if Biden is really in the pay of the Chinese) to ever be a US president. Needless to note, but it make depressing reading. Kennedy had clearly indicated he wanted out of Vietnam by 1965, saying it was their war and they had to be the ones to fight it; Johnson reversed Kennedy's decisions because he was making large amounts of money via defense contractors, esp those in Texas with whom he was closely connected. (The book details all this misery, murder, and graft and lies.)

Nixon, hardly an archangel, a politician with his own mob connections and dirty laundry, comes out looking like St Francis in comparison to the evil men we've had running the country.

Then, there's this article about WWIII by Frenchman Emmanuel Todd who predicted the fall of the USSR a decade before it collapsed. Not too in-depth in itself but worth reading.

Finally, there's this excellent LifeSiteNews article about Hungary and Orbán's position regarding the Ukraine war. Highly recommended. An "eye-opener", indeed. (No wonder Biden has sent Samantha Power to Hungary to start a "color revolution.")

So, passing these along to anyone who wants to consider them.

St Valentine, and all February saints like St. Brigid, pray for us.

An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

 

War with Russia is (apparently) imminent. "The most reckless foreign policy in our history..."

My friends.

A week ago last Monday, Tucker Carlson, now the most popular cable news host in the U.S., presented a very disturbing commentary about the imminent war – quite possibly a nuclear war – between the U.S. and Russia. 

I've been reading scores of articles, posts, interviews, about the coming civilizational disaster. (Even Bergoglio is sounding the alarm! Imagine that!) But I'll choose this article from Tucker Carlson as one to send around to you. It appears on LifeSiteNews.

Carlson demonstrated that major figures in the U.S. government are hell-bent on war with Russia, and provided a number of clips of Democrat Congressional bigshots talking up such a war. Then Carlson explained the main reason for all this had nothing to do with Ukraine, but everything to do with Democrats seeking revenge for Donald Trump's 2016 election victory. For details, if you are interested, watch Carlson at the LifeSiteNews link, or read the article at the link. For a taste of it:

“This is the most reckless foreign policy in our lifetimes, in American history,” Carlson said. “You are watching a group of decadent, in some cases, senile leaders, casually dismiss the consequences of going to war with the nuclear-armed nation, dismiss the consequences of nuclear war, like it’s not even worth thinking about.  But it is worth thinking about!”

AnP again:

And it isn't just the Democrats. A large portion of Republicans seem as utterly mindless and stupid about this as the Democrats. They are consumed by "Neo-Con" and other imbecilic hubris. A senseless blindness seems to have turned them all into 'bots ('robots). 

As this is going on, we have Democrat mobs rioting outside Supreme Court justices' homes and pro-abortion (also known as Moloch worshipers) attacking Catholic (and a few other types of) Churches in an effort to punish and intimidate pro-life Catholics. In general, we have mobs of pro-abortionists (a.k.a. Baby-Killers "R" Us) shrieking much like the demons sometimes do when they are expelled from possessing a person (e.g.: Mark 1:26, 9:26) or a place, as witnesses reported happened at the Pantheon in Rome.

And have any of you asked why Western Europe is committing cultural and population suicide via insane immigration policy, as highlighted here regarding Sweden? It is much like the U.S. open borders with Mexico, actually, when simultaneously we're also blithely going to nuke millions of Caucasian Europeans (not to mention millions of Americans of every color)?

Doesn't this sound/seem utterly diabolic? On every level?

And doesn't this remind you of God blinding Pharaoh so that God could punish him? "I will harden Pharaoh's heart." (Ex. 4:21) And "He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them." (John 12:40, quoting from Isaiah.)

And of course it is a literal, living manifestation of the ancient saying, "Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad." (Wrongly attributed to Euripides.)

My friends, a wise man lives as though each day were his last, but it takes focus, and prayer, to bear such doom as we face. Pray. For if this isn't the maul of Armageddon we're walking into, I would hate to see what is.

An Préachán

The Eloi Really Mean to Eradicate Us Morlocks

Amici,

(N.B. re: the title above: In H.G. Well's 1895 novel, the Morlocks used the Eloi for food; our modern Eloi betters haven't figured this out yet.)

There's an old saying that The Left always goes too far. They always shoot themselves in the foot. Eventually, yes, that's true, but must we wait as long as, say, the citizens of the Soviet Union, to find that out?

As reported here at Newsmax: Tulsi Gabbard gets it: Disinformation Board Makes Biden Administration 'Dictatorship'. Of course, I'm tempted to ask, THIS is your first clue, Tulsi? 

Seriously, this "Disinformation Board" ought to be a bridge too far, or if it isn't, we're living a dystopian nightmare we cannot wake up from. Or it ought to be causing us all to emphatically answer "Yes!" to the question titling this article at American Thinker: Do We Draw the Line at a US Ministry of Truth? (By J.B.Shurk; the article's title is its best feature.) We should have drawn the line with Democrat stolen elections decades ago. We shrugged off their vote-stealing in the big cities and in certain states, but now it has gone on long enough that we might not be able to escape from it. They made it "normal", just as today they are making it "normal" to turn the U.S. into Honduras. This is pure invasion, a national crisis, yet the illegal immigration is becoming "normal".

Another "Tulsi Gabbard" type is Naomi Wolf; see an article on her denouncing this "Disinformation Board" at The Conservative Treehouse. Tucker Carlson and Wolf (and Sundance) stress that there's only information, not "disinformation" or "misinformation" and "malinformation" or whatever they choose to all it today. There's only info, and us: how WE deal with the info is the question, yet it should be totally up to us, no one else. In fact, that's U.S. Constitutional law! But of course Twitter, FaceBook and so on have been happily censoring information for years, and now they think it is their right to do so. We must disabuse them of that. 

Basically, we're too far down the stream to paddle back up. I keep reading depressing news of the RINO Republicans' complete surrender to the Dems (they truly all belong to one party, the UniParty), and even if Trump gets re-elected somehow in 2024 or the Republicans retake Congress later this year, the Republican elites will NOT allow serious changes to occur. (And I don't trust Trump, exactly, seeing how he let them steal the presidency from him; just what is going on there, we need to know. Was he actually that trusting, or incompetent, or...?)

I'm going to be surprised, actually, if the Deep State Dictatorship will even allow us to have mid-term elections this year.

Why am I brooding so darkly about this? Because this has been planned too long, and our political elites are worthless. That's true in the UK (see: Neil Oliver on the utter banality of the UK's political elites), and France (Macron, ugh! Oui, let's elect a eunuch!, and so on). Western World politicians are feeding us only bread and circuses, as Oliver explains, while literally they're about to let us starve planet-wide. And of course Xi in China is starving/driving mad huge swathes of his population. (Americans were such idiots to think making China capitalistic would change it from an inhuman nightmare state. But Shanghai is now a major world metropolis! Yeah, and the Chicoms don't hesitate to turn it into a charnel house.) 

They mean our destruction. They truly do. I've no doubt that's planet-wide poisoning via Covid "vaccines" and 5G is the future Klaus Schwab and his homunculus Yuval Noah Harai, plus that quasi-human pustule Bill Gates (who's saying now that Covid will come back bigger than ever; and how does HE know?) have in store for us. But they need techs to run their dystopia, and a manufacturing base to make it, and if they don't see those engineers as "Morlocks", they don't see them at all. The Morlocks might easily rebel against the elite World Economic Forum "Eloi" (isn't Macron an Eloi? C'mon now! That eunuch is a perfect Eloi!) when the Eloi least expect it. 

So I guess I am saying, our goal is to survive till the Eloi self-destruct. What I mean is not exactly hiding out in the mountains, but surviving the civilizational fight we are in, here and now, keeping our minds free, our bodies free (as possible) from their poisons (hard to do since they've poisoned the world), and so on. The most depressing thing is they turned the Church into an anti-church, and we have clearly separate ourselves from that mockery of the True Church. Tulsi Gabbard, Naomi Wolf, Steve Kirsch, Robert Malone are all people "of the Left" (mostly old-fashioned "liberals" in origin) now fighting.

They've not gone all the way, which involves junking the fraudulent science of virology and bringing "science" up short, jerking their public-funding chain and toppling over their fake "religion" before they turn us all into lab rats (oh, wait, probably too late), but we all need to join the fight. Fighting a hopeless battle, as Lewis and Tolkien used to teach, was the essence of ancient courage. So, "pure survival" means surviving as human beings, and making no compromises with "the government/WEF/WHO" etc. For after all, this dystopia they are creating won't be able to last long; it won't be able to feed itself, reproduce itself, or in general survive the chaos it is unleashing on the world. 

What all this "Great Reset" amounts to is just another lame-brained human effort at re-erecting the Tower of Babel. God wouldn't let it work the first time; He won't let it work this time, either. The real question is, how many must die before we finally sort this out?

So, unless God is done with us, and He's not done yet, we need to show Him, and ourselves, that we are worth keeping around.

The Eloi, though, not so much. 

An Préachán

  

What's really going on in the Ukraine? Competing narratives, for a few more days, at least...

Friends,

The Ukraine-Russian War is a morass of lies and deception and propaganda and most of all, "narrative building". And I'm not referring to the combatants only. Certainly, the U.S. government is so up to its neck in graft, money-laundering, human trafficking, all that, much of it involving the Ukraine, that they – from elected officials to bureaucrats – and their media slaves have every reason to lie about the war.

As bloggers have said, this Russian-Ukrainian war is in large part a segment of a great globalist technocracy jihad against what independent peoples and governments who even half-way support traditional values such as still exist. Vladimir Putin, the former KGB officer, is hardly St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Russia, but at least Putin's "narrative" of support for the Orthodox Church and traditional morality stands as the antithesis of Soros-Schwab-Gates/Big Pharma/BlackRock/Western moral depravity.

Neither I nor anyone pointing this out necessarily approve Putin's invasion, but a "Matrix-builder" like baby-faced Mark Zuckerberg and the Schwab/World Economic Forum Bond-movie wannabees, not to mention global owner BlackRock and its ilk, are far more dangerous to sanity, morality, and human freedom. Proof of that is the Covid hoax. And proof of how far the West has fallen morally is the Covid Hoax. So, this is a war where we have few, in any, good options. That's especially true because Putin has allied himself to China and Iran while the American government hass hopelessly surrendered to equally evil people, mostly in China!  The Biden Administration has shut down U.S. investigations of Chinese espionage. Why? Because they have bought him lock, stock, and barrel? No! Because according to the regime, it is racist! (America has fallen, my friends.)

That said – and it is a mouthful! – I've been saying for some time that we cannot trust the news coming out of the Ukraine, and we cannot (absolutely, truly most sincerely!) trust our Western news services about it. A case in point Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse writes about it here. 

I wrote some time ago that "God is on the side of the Big Battalions", a lesson the American Confederacy learned to its mortal cost. (America would not have won the Revolutionary War without the Royal French fleet, either.) Germany lost to the big battalions in both World Wars, as did the Imperial Japanese. Ireland, historically, perpetually lost to the British because the Brits could field large armies, when necessary, and the Irish simply could not.

Here, in this war, Russia has the big battalions. And Putin is clearly attacking in as mild a fashion as he can yet still maintain it is a serious invasion (colorful nuclear threats notwithstanding.) He neither wants to kill a lot of the Ukrainian part Russian/part Ukrainian but all Slavic population nor, obviously, destroy a country he's about to absorb (the rebuilding cost would be dire).

And yet, hour-by-hour we are inundated with all sorts of news stories how the plucky Ukrainians are fighting off the Russian Bear. Fox News, CNN, the "alphabet broadcast news companies, etc., are all playing the fiddles very loudly. And the Ukrainians play along, today saying they demand immediate entry into the EU. (Why? Why, so they all can flee their hopelessly corrupt government and spread their corruption throughout Europe, of course.) But other voices are speaking out, as well, as in the case of Col. MacGregor in the Sundance article or another writer here linked here at Gateway Pundit. This one is worth reading for the plain common sense of it .

Meanwhile, we keep finding out that what we're told by the MainStream Media is getting "debunked" daily, like the "Ghost of Kiev" fighter pilot. They've lied five years and more about Trump, they'll lie here about this war. Therefore, while people whom I respect are talking up the meme that Russia bit off more than it could chew: i.e., like this version of events. "Putin rolled the dice of war and didn’t beat Ukraine. This, in strategic terms, probably means he lost the campaign." C'mon, it took the crack Wehrmacht six weeks to reach Kiev (or however it is now spelled) and seven more to capture it.

So, I think the "narratives" are falling all over themselves, tangled in their own strands, choking themselves into incomprehensibility, and we have yet to see what's happening. Even when the war is over, we'll be drowned in false "narratives". But because the Ukraine is such a cesspool of U.S. government (Democrats, Biden family, RINOs) corruption, we can't believe what we're hearing. Truly, in this case, seeing is believing.

So, don't trust the news. Trust God, and yourselves, but not much else.

An Préachán

War with Russia, or divide up the country?

 Friends,

The Democrats are going to categorically deny Republican wins this November, in whatever way they have to. This will eventually lead to war, civil war, just as it did when Democrats refused Lincoln's election in 1860. That is, unless Biden gets us into a war with Russia first. Both wars are very possible and war is what Democrats do, historically. The list is long:

1. The War of 1812
   
2. The War with Mexico
3. The U.S. Civil War
   
4. World War I (when they first ran totally roughshod over Americans' civil rights)
   
5. World War II
   
6. The Cold War (not a shooting war, or not much, but still...)
   
7. The Korean War
   
8. Vietnam 
9. (I dunno, does Kosovo during Clinton's years count as a "war"?)

The Republicans* got us into:

• The Spanish-American War
• Iraq 1
• Iraq 2
• Afghanistan

*One might argue that the Republicans only came into existence in the 1850s, but before that, the Whig Party filled the same opposition role, and they were against the Mexican War, etc.

The Spanish-American War was William Randolph Hearst's doing, a mainstream media-created war (mainstream media then was called "yellow journalism") and the other three the miserable Bush family hatched when they ran the U.S., i.e., in other words, "Deep State" wars. Had the pitiful Al Gore been installed in 2000 instead of the second Bush, he would have started a war, too; it's what Democrats do. It's their fall-back position. The Bushes and Obama/Clinton and now Biden, are all "Uniparty" hacks. So essentially, that leaves us with eight Democrat wars versus one Republican war. (The Spanish-American War was called "the splendid little war", BTW.)

This article in The Federalist goes into detail about how the Dems are psyching themselves up to reject any Republican wins this coming November. Many such articles probably are being published. But this paragraph is quite telling:

Once you discard the idea that Republicans are relatives, friends, or neighbors who may disagree with you about politics but who also mean well and instead view them as the moral equivalent of Germans who voted Adolf Hitler into power, talk about defending democracy becomes a life and death struggle. That means defeat can never be accepted and must be averted at all costs, no matter what it takes.

In other words, "demonizing the Other." So, get ready for war. It would be beneficial to just split the country up, wouldn't it? Like cutting off a gangrene infection. We could give the entire Federal Government to the Democrat-controlled new country, along with New England and the urban megaplex of the "Acela Corridor" (Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore and D.C.). Grant all that to the Dems, along with the coastal fringe of the three Pacific states, and of course putrid Chicago (no one wants Chicago or Detroit!). But of course such a "Democrat Communist Republic of America" would be instantly broke, as the only people "making" anything would be the Federal employees, and they are only capable of just making more bureaucracy. They don't make wealth. Basic economics: wealth has to be created by competent manufacturing/farming people; wealth does not consist of goods or money traded or taxed; it consists of goods created, goods that people want.

This putative new country's only other population would be a perpetually grievance-spouting, rioting Lumpenproletariat burning down their own neighborhoods, and snooty cultural elites, a perverted, mostly childless population who – regardless of their actual individual education levels – can't screw in a light bulb. All Leftists are like that: incapable of maintaining our industrial civilization, or even feeding them selves. Do you think Lenin or Trotsky or Mao or Pol Pot could have fixed a house's plumbing or raised a crop, if necessary? But they sure are capable of endless moralizing and the bossing of other people about, staffing a "Deep State" and taxing the rest of us to death. Why can't we get rid of them? They're parasites. Grubs. Larva.

However, the imbecilic Biden and his utterly incompetent foreign policy team are about to stumble us into war with Russa. So, war is coming our way whether we want it or not. Maybe. Keep praying!

Regarding such a Russian war, see this quite interesting article for some unique insight. 

Excerpt:

The current propaganda meme in Washington is that Russia is going to “invade Ukraine” and absorb it. It will not: Ukraine is a decaying, impoverished, de-industrialised, divided, corrupt and decaying mess; Moscow does not want to take responsibility for the package. Moscow is fully aware that while its troops will be welcomed in many parts of Ukraine they will not be in others. Indeed, in Moscow, they must be wishing that Stalin had returned Galicia to Poland rather than giving it to the Ukrainian SSR after the War and stuck Warsaw with the problem. This does not, however, rule out the eventual absorption of most of Novorossiya in ultimo.

And on Biden's foreign policy team:

Unfortunately the Blinkens, Sullivans, Farkas’, Nulands and others who seem to be driving USA policy don’t understand any of this. They remain convinced that the US is a mighty power, that Russia is feeble and fading, that Putin’s position is shaky, that sanctions are biting, that Russia’s economy is weak and so on. And that they understand modern warfare. Everything in the past twenty years contradicts their view but they hold to it nonetheless.

Take, for example, Wendy Sherman who was the principal American negotiator in Geneva this month. Look at her biography on Wikipedia. Social worker, money raiser for Democratic Party candidates, political campaign manager, Fanny Mae, Clinton appointee to the State Department, negotiator with Iran and North Korea. Is there anything in that record to indicate any knowledge or understanding of Russia or modern war? (Or skill at negotiations for that matter?) And yet she’s the one on point. Jake Sullivan: lawyer, debate preparer, political advisor, ditto.

As Biden might say, c'mon man!

See this article here for a more "mainstream" consideration: 

So much for our "happy new year", huh?

AnP

Who is running the Government, and National Guard stay extended to May in D.C.

Amici,

The Department of Defense announced on Tuesday Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin approved the Capitol Police’s request to extend the National Guard’s deployment through May 23.

One wonders why (as Gollum would says, "Yessss, we wonderssss....").

Zhou Xiden will probably be gone by then, May 23rd – he’s obviously non compos mentis now (can't remember his Defense Secretary's name). And in his speech last night, he was completely removed from "the situation on the ground" regarding Covid. Pundits and commentators are having a field day. Most of America has long passed by what Biden seems to think is going on regarding Covid restrictions. But he clearly only knows (to the extent he knows anything)

• Meanwhile, "Camel-toes" "Heels-up" Harris keeps doing his various jobs. Harris is deeply unpopular, even with the Democrats (recall her utter failure in the Democrat primaries, and toward the bottom of the list of her own state, CA). Everyone who cares to look will see just how foul the “New Order/Great Reset” is shaping up by May 23rd, as well.

• And also by May 23rd the flood waters of the Covid hoax will have retreated to a large extent, and they’ll reveal stunning economic and social and psychological devastation. Just stunning.
  
• By that time, food and fuel prices will be insane, more so than now. They've already shot up over a dollar and more since "Beijing Zhou" was inaugurated, and as internationally right now there's a glut on the market, there's no market reason for this. The government "powers-that-be" are apparently milking it to raise revenue (in part, at least).
• “Civil Unrest” will be spreading by then, as the weather improves. It'll be a "long hot summer" of brutal street violence.
  

So, just a few of the reasons, perhaps, why the U.S. Capitol will resemble the Kremlin for some time. (Ever notice how Socialism-Communism is all the same? The elites rule the masses, the elites in Kremlins and the masses in "block apartment "panel housing"?) Really, of course, the above means the N.G. will be “extended” indefinitely.

Who is running the "gum'it"?

One thing to keep in mind about the Husk Biden (sort of the ontological opposite of the Hulk, isn't he?) and "Heels-Up", is that they're obviously being run. They're being managed. The general opinion I garner from the blogs is it is Obama (and his puppet master, Valerie Jarret) who are running the show. Another possibility: the Deep State Security Apparat is running the show, the CIA-FBI cabal. They bent over backwards to "elect" this zombie, that's for sure.

Eric Metaxas and John Zmirak were discussing this the day before yesterday, and below is a rough transcription of the first part of it.

John Zmirak
"The Deep State seems to have wanted Joe Biden. It seems to me, a plausible theory, a plausible theory that those guys at the Deep State wanted a kind of shadow president, a non compos mentios president and a vice president without (electoral or popular) support, are the ones making the decisions. They're being run, they're being managed.
Eric Metaxas
This is wildly unconstitutional. Wilson did this, when his wife was running the country. If we elect a leader -- it is fundamentally wrong as it gets -- we choose a leader, and it is supposed to be Joe Biden, and he's not actually running the country, we have a scandal. This is an unmanageable scandal. It's earthshaking.
Zmirak
To be fair, Joe Biden wasn't there during the campaign. He had a call of leave before 11 am every day. Joe Biden wasn't there during the campaign. ... It's a civic scandal that Americans would just sleep-walk into electing someone whom they wouldn't elect to drive a school bus in the morning.

Pelosi and Congress want to take the nuclear codes away from him. The president should be compos mentis so he can control the nuclear codes. The president should not be removed frivolously. ... We're in a kind of weird interregnum. And again, we don't know the people who are actually making the decisions. ... With Kamala Harris, there'd be no veneer of moderation, no pretense. There's probably a factional fight going on in the White House. Better a melting-down Disney automonitron dead-president puppet who is less destructive than this hard-leftist radical, vindictive Harris, an incredibly unpopular prosecutor who tried to put Pro-Life journalists in prison for doing their job, which was reporting on Planned Parenthood. This is an astonishing set of circumstances.

They complained that Donald Trump was unprofessional, that Donald Trump was a threat to the Republic, and they gave us THIS on a silver platter.
...
It's staggering to me. HR 1. The Democrats are trying to codify in federal law all of the abuses that occurred in the 2020 election. They're trying to make them permanent, so that they'll win every election from now on. It is the one-party state. It is the Stacey Abrams empowerment act of 2021. It really is the end of the Republic. If HR1 passes, if we can't stop it in the Senate, if they get rid of the Filibuster, you and I can pack up our tents and never talk politics again. We will live in Venezuela, where the elections are rigged indefinitely. You and I, we can embrace the Benedict option and go into our bunker. We're serfs under the Tsar. (17:07)

Ron again:

I also note the House of Reps has just passed yet another gun-control law, this one involve more extensive background checks. Zmirak spoke of that, as well.

In I believe 2014, 1,500 Terrorists attacking Mosul overcame 60,000 Iraqi government soldiers and raped the popuation, raping the women and children, killing the men, selling women as slaves in a computerized database. 2.5 million people. Why? Because the Iraqi government had disarmed the people. They had imposed gun control. And gun control does one thing: it allows government or criminals or terrorists (sometimes indistinguishable) to terrorize the population.

Death by Government by R.J. Rummel 170 million civilans were murdered by their governments. What they had in common: they had been disarmed by their governments. So when the Democrats or the bishops say (as Bergoglio has been saying lately) that guns have to be given up, they are making you has helpless as the people of Mosul were in the face of the Issis terrorists. 

And Zmirak brought up the absolutely enraging story about Jake Gardner. Everyone should remember Jake Gardner.

Remember Jake Gardner, Iraqi War Vet; Ann Coulter wrote Innocent Until Proven Trump Supporter

His life didn't matter.
Jake Gardner killed protester while defending his bar during BLM riots.
D.A. & police find shooting was in self-defense.
Under pressure, D.A. appoints black prosecutor to indict Gardner.
Gardner's GoFundMe page taken down.
Gardner commits suicide.

Another report on Jake Gardner story, Omaha Nebraska. An excerpt:

The shooting was reviewed by a grand jury after Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine initially declined to file charges, believing that Gardner had acted in self-defense after reviewing video and witness statements. Kleine later requested the review after his decision was criticized to ensure people kept faith in the justice system.

Surveillance video seemed to show words exchanged between Gardner, his father and protesters before Gardner, flashing a gun, backed away. Gardner was shoved to the ground by two people before he fired two shots, sending people scrambling. Scurlock then jumped on Gardner's back and was shot by Gardner.

Everyone needs to remember Jake Gardner. It can happen to anyone. Look at this outrageous story:

Retired 30-Yr Navy Chaplain Volunteered To Speak With FBI About Protest At Capitol On Jan 6th… What Happened Next Is Terrifying

We no longer live in a free country.

An Préachán

Biden Admin vs Second Amendment: What's Going On

A Chairde,

This is an excellent article, my friends. One everybody interested remotely in liberty needs to read. The situation in the U.S. is dire. We're in the midst of the strongest, best-laid planned Communist revolution ever planned, one done in sync with Globalist interests, in order to create a "Great Reset" in which the various factions, Western Communists, Chinese Communists, and Euro-Elite Globalists, will fight each other over the spoils. If we let them win.

Since thee were able to steal the election before our eyes (often in "real time" as Trump's numbers began to decrease and Biden's increase), one might think it is impossible to counter what they have already achieved, let alone are achieving. But of course, it is possible. Difficult, yes. The article below addresses the Second Amendment situation in depth, and a lot more.

The author is "is a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, former CIA paramilitary operations officer, and a veteran of multiple armed conflicts, revolutions, and contingency operations."

An excerpt from the summation:

The Crux

The Biden regime is not a sustainable political entity. It cannot continue to exist in its present state because it will collapse under the weight of its own spectacle. As a result, it needs a catalyst to move its increasingly unpopular agenda forward. The catalyst they are trying to create is a defined internal enemy. A bogeyman they can use to justify tyrannical “emergency” actions, which mask the truth of the regime’s activities and enable it to eliminate any credible political opposition.

Since the national security apparatus is the primary regime backer within the permanent bureaucracy, you can expect it to use the provocation-reaction-counteraction template that is the favorite of organizations like the FBI. They provoke and harass the target until it punches back—at which point the target is labeled a threat and a counteraction is justified.

Traditional Americans need to recognize this tactic because they are the antagonist in this regime’s Greek tragedy. If the regime’s enforcers can get traditional Americans to look like they are about to commit violence, then they can justify the passage of the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act and can implement draconian gun control policies. Once they’ve attained the legal authorities to neuter their political opposition, they can move to further isolate them under the guise of national security.

Keep in mind that agents provocateurs and government informants are now a part of the political landscape. The regime wants to restrict or eliminate constitutional rights it deems problematic, including the Second Amendment. Don’t make it easy for them by following their agents provocateurs. Those who continuously espouse violence are poseurs and provocateurs. Government informants are paid to lie for their handlers. Treat both of them like any other undesirable character and walk away.

Remember the old Russian proverb: “Three men sit down to talk about revolution. Two are police informants, and the third is a fool.”

Traditional Americans can win this battle, but they need to be smart about it. They should understand the tactics that the regime will use and not fall into the trap that is being laid. We, traditional Americans, can do this by using a layered defense-in-depth that capitalizes on nonviolent political action.

An Préachán

Trying to Explain Why the $15/hour Wage Mandate Is Bad Economic and Social Policy

 Amici,

I have a Left aquaintance who writes me often and I sometimes try (and of course fail) to make her understand why Leftist policies don't work. The following is an example. "E" sent me a Leftist article on how evil Walmart is for opposing the proposed $15/hour minimum wage. I wrote:

Long sigh, long eye-role.

Well, E, on the one hand I have no brief to defend the Waltons, as they made their money both selling cheap Chinese junk (nicknacks, not boats:) and thereby putting Mom-Pop stores out of business all across the U.S. A nation without small shop keepers is easily dominated by authoritarians. The Kaiser disparaged the English by calling them a nation of small shop keepers. Unbeknownst to that fool, it was, in fact, a compliment.

However, only people who have NO economic sense promote a $15/hour wage, as it would put tens of thousands OUT of work because their employers simply can't afford it. (This is already happened wherever it has been employed.) Wage levels are driven by market forces, not imperial fiat.

It's an insane idea by ideologues who do not understand economics, the labor market, or anything practicable. Bernie Sanders never worked an honest day labor in his life, and was in all aspects an actual bum until he got into politics. Then he sold out to Obama and then he caved to whoever is running the Biden facade. He's a putz. Anyway, the idea is classic Marxist Academic Idealism that has never worked in "the real world".

I don't expect you to comprehend this, as one has to know economics. If employers are forced to pay more for basic labor, they'll fire the basic labor. If the employers try to pass on the artificial pay raise to their customers, their customers won't by their products, thus putting the employers out of business. Government ordering of artificial wages also helps to create inflation, where one's dollar (or Euro or whatever) is worth less than it was before.

HOWEVER, even YOU can see the validity of the following question: where is the sense of bringing in 100s of 1000s of Meso-American peasants into the U.S. who don't even have an 8th-grade education in their own countries (and no English) when artificially jacking up low-income wages via a $15/hour wage mandate? They're mostly unemployable to begin with, at least in a first-world high-tech nation, but to the extent they are possibly employable, Biden handlers seem to want to put Americas OUT of employment because the U.S. people who would lose jobs to these invaders are precisely themselves Black and Latino.

That's why Trump got more Black and Latino votes than anyone in history.

But I assume you just can't comprehend any of this.

An P

They'll rule us as the Spartans ruled the Helots...

 Amici,

As noted in my earlier posting, I had written to my Congressman (Steve Stivers) and Senator (Rob Portman) about supporting a careful count in the Senate and challenging electoral votes. As of now, today, both have actually written me back in a polite "boilerplate" responses about although we're all disappointed, we have to accept the vote and move on, etc.; i.e. Senator Portman's office wrote:

The presidential election was contentious and hard fought. Roughly half of America was bound to be disappointed with the outcome. My hope is that all of us, as Americans, regardless of who we supported in the campaign, will be willing to accept the result because a thorough process was followed and the final vote count was clear.

As I wrote the other day, this highlighted bit is a lie. I've been lied to by my senatorial representative. Outright. In my face (not "to my face, ahem, because it was an email). That, or Portman is an utter idiot. The only "thorough" process was the theft! And the final vote was ANYTHING but clear! Portman is, alas, either a fool or a tool. He must be primaried. (I'll try a polite response when I'm not so angry. Always be polite with this people, especially in these post Reichstag Fire days.)

Yet at least his office did write me back. However, they also included this paragraph:

I also want to commend and congratulate Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, the county boards of elections, and the more than 50,000 Ohio poll workers for conducting a safe, secure, and transparent election in Ohio. It was not easy in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and I am grateful for their efforts.

This is important, actually. Praising Ohio's handling of the vote. Florida handled it well, too, as did a number of states. We have to work on this, promoting it within Ohio (I saw a headline where they just purged some 97,775 inactive voters from the rolls) and BE VERY CAREFUL because the Democrats will be trying to force national election laws through that turn the whole nation into Philadelphia.

My Congressman, Steve Stivers, wrote me back via email as well. He wrote:

On January 6 and 7 , members of the House and Senate had gathered to count the electoral college votes, and some of my colleagues raised objections to certain states elections process and therefore the legitimacy of their electoral votes. I swore an oath to uphold our Constitution, not a President or a party, and that means I could not support efforts to overstep the parameters set by the 12th Amendment. I did not vote to object to any of the states' elector slates as I do not believe it is within Congress's authority to overturn results that have been independently certified by the states.

There may have been irregularities in the 2020 election. However, Republican and Democratic officials across the country - including President Trump's own Attorney General, William Barr - have certified that irregularities did not occur on a scale that would affect the outcome of the presidential election. It is damaging that so many have been unable to accept that fact, and as we saw, dangerous to our most American democratic innovation - the peaceful transition of power. Clearly, work needs to be done to assure everyone that our electoral process is secure and transparent, and that alterations to our elections system adhere to each state's laws and regulations.

Classic boilerplate. I'm beyond angry. We're supposed to accept his because of BILL BARR? " It is damaging that so many have been unable to accept the fact that...dangerous to our most American democratic innovation – the peaceful transition of power?

I call God Himself as my witness! WHAT was peaceful about the endless BLM and Antifa riots ALL SUMMER and into the Autumn? What was righteous about Baby-face "Suckerberg" spending millions upon millions setting up ballot drop boxes throughout Democrat-control areas? What was peaceful about thugs keeping Republican observers out of vote-counting rooms? What was legal about starting up vote counting the next day (against the laws as written by legislatures), very early in the a.m. and pulling boxes of ballots out from under tables (as recorded on video) and trucked in from other states (as per sworn affidavits)? 

It's all so hopeless...

It was the next sentence, however, that floored me. These people are either utter tools or fools:

"I have no doubt that the 117th Congress will conduct hearings and possibly consider legislation regarding the integrity of our elections."

What in the name of all Hell from Satan himself down to the smallest imp would cause ANYONE to think the Pelosi-Schumer controlled Congress will do ANYTHING righteous about elections? If I could have spontaneously combusted, I would have.

A War of Position

As I wrote the last time, what we're facing is a "war of position" (as opposed to a "war of movement"). We have to fight in trenches, inch by inch. It is a grueling kind of fight. World War I come again. But that's what we've gotten ourselves into because the Communists have been fighting a "war of position" for over 70 years as they've moved through the institutions. It's grim. But there it is.

I highly recommend listening to an Eric Mextaxas (at Rumble.com, finally) interview with John Zmirak. If I could transcribe large portions, I would. Zmirak points out that we are being turned into Hindu-style Untouchables. Working-class people appreciated Trump because although he imself is a billionaire, he identified with and supported the American Middle Class. 

Here's an excerpt:

(Zmirak at 27:50) That score cuts across political lines. The REAL cultural divide in America is not ideological; it's a caste system. Some of us are...when Hillary Clinton used the word "Deplorables", what she really meant was Untouchables. The elites in America have formed a kind of Hindu-style caste system where there are some people who are of polite society, and they have certain ways and certain beliefs that don't even need to be discussed. "We don't even need to talk about that" (in a voice indicating elites). That can't talk about it because they have an incoherent world view where on the one hand they accept Darwinian competition and evolution and Natural Selection, as the only source of life on this planet. But on the other hand, they also want to parrot the rhetoric of the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, which is entirely founded on Christianity. 

So they have an utterly incoherent worldview that makes much less sense than Hinduism. Much less sense. Hinduism is rocket science compared to what the people of Dalton School or Yale now believe. But what is important is that they're status markers. "Oh, you're the kind of person who orders from Abercrombie and Fitch, and who goes to elite prep schools, and who lives in one of ten zip codes in America, where you don't even need a gun. We're all for gun control because live in safe neighborhoods. Doesn't everybody?" 

The Left, AND elements of the Right, the Never Trump Right, the Neo-Cons in their time: these people ALL agree on who the right sort of person is. And who the wrong sort of person is. People who followed Donald Trump were like rebellious Untouchables, or Dalits, the Oppressed People of India, as they call themselves. Traditionally they could get only the most disgusting jobs: collecting corpses, dealing with animal wastes, always cleaning out public toilets. THAT is what they have in mind for us. And in order to put a veneer of morality over this and pretend that it is anything other than one tribe ruling another – the way the Spartan ruled their Helots – they use racism, they invoke racism. But they don't point to real racism. They don't point to real bigotry. The point to a Marxist definition racism, whereby any person who is white who benefits in any way about a thing that happens, even it it wasn't intended to be racially discriminatory. But Blacks and Asians and Muslims can murder people, but it's not racism because they're not in the dominant group. That is a Marxist definition of racism, which is unfortunately our Supreme Court wrote into law when the used the term "Disparate Impact" Any policy that has a disparate impact on people in different races,is judged to be racist, regardless of what the intent was. (30:51)

The entire interview is excellent.

An Préachán