What do Virology, the Federal Reserve Board, and the USSR have in common?

They were foisted on us by the same people.

Amici,

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. – Niels Bohr 

 We live in a world of lies and mirrors. This 2022 election is a prime example for that, so was the 2020 election. Massive forces in America, including the institutional Republicans, pretend no cheating occurred. It is odious and insulting. But it is par for the course. We just get lied to continually.

The simultaneous rise of virology, the American National Bank (sketchily named "The Federal Reserve Board" (what is that supposed to be?), and Communism in Russia, were the products of collusion between Big Business combines and governments in the U.S. and Europe. Virology began to enslave us to the idea that we are at the mercy of microbes in a mortally threatening natural environment. The second devalued our money (throughout the 19th century, a dollar retained its worth; after the FRB, it began to shed value), and giving Russia – an incredible natural resource-rich world unto itself – to the Communists removed a major competitor to the Western Trusts and monopolies.

Those three developments were the then Latest and Greatest manifestation of the institutionalized greed that "makes the world go 'round". Today we have their latest iteration in the World Economic Forum and the mainstream science and political parties whose collusion enslaved us with the Covid fraud and that are fast creating a cashless utopia in which we can all be penniless slaves. (Sterile, childless, peons.)

Protestantism started it

How did this start? First of all, with lies. For generations, we've been taught one thing when the reality was something else. One big, enuring lie has been about the Protestant Reformation. We were taught how necessary it was, and how healthy for the Christian Faith, when in fact it was simply a revolt of the rich against the poor. The religious trappings of it, the theological disputes, the ecclesiastical fireworks, served as the smoke and mirrors. It was the beginning of the emergence and dominance of the nation state, of course, and the end of the Church's independence (whether that of surviving Catholic Churches in France and Spain, or the new nationalist Protestant Churches). Theologically, it was the "spiritualizing" of Christianity from being a God-Incarnationally-physically-present-with-us to a sort of Christianized Islam, no Real Presence but instead a holy book we could all argue endlessly over. Yet above all, it was a revolt of the rich against the poor, for the Church was the only "social services" administration going. The Church kept the rich humble and elevated the poor while honoring the middle class with their guilds. No one was cut adrift; it was a holistic society with everyone living in God's Incarnational Presence.

All that was stripped away. Life in post-Reformation Europe became a sort of Darwinian dystopia. The West has always valued individualism more than the East, back to Helen having more value in herself and worth a war over. (The Trojans said, what's your problem? She's just a ho. Get another.) And it is one reason why Christianity matched so well with the Western spirit. But with the Reformation, individualism became absolutely dominant. Martin Luther, a young academic rushed through a one-sided (Nominalist) education could publicly declare his personal opinion on Scripture was more valuable than that of a Church council! That's just nuts, and it is pure narcissism. (It can be no wonder that Narcissism is the fundamental trait of "moderns".)

And this was also the foundation of the world we have today where Big Corporations, especially banking concerns, run governments. On a global scale.

Holy Russia's place in the modern world

Two interesting articles at OnePeterFive, pieces that don't fit with that publication's usual line, discuss Russia's place in Christian history in light of the Fatima Prophecies. The second in the series is titled Christian Russia and the Western “Errors of Russia”, and the third is Russian Errors in Bolshevism, Vatican II and Schism. (Oddly, I can find no title or link to the first entry in the series.)

A note on this magazine: OnePeterFive is now a product of the Peter Kwasniewski, Timothy Flanders (1P5 editor), and Eric Sammons (editor-in-chief of Crisis Magazine) wing of American Traditional Catholicism. That's the group of mainstream, younger leaders who insist Bergoglio is actually pope, but who argue he's a bad one and that the papacy has to have its wings clipped and its power reduced in order to counter Bergoglio. They do not tolerate the argument that Bergoglio is not pope at all. Along with Ann Barnhardt, I think it manifestly obvious Bergoglio is no more pope than the local Lutheran pastor, and their ideas on circumscribing a pope's authority are, shall we say, egregiously wrong-headed.

Founded by Steve Skojec, who has become an agnostic (long story), today OnePeterFive is something of a clone of Crisis Magazine. Yet 1P5 still is very worth perusing because of the range of interesting articles beyond their pet papacy peeve that Flanders sometimes publishes.

Case in point are these two Russian articles by Caterina Lorenzo-Molo, PhD. L-M's basic point is fascinating: that Russia represents that last Christian country, i.e. one not affected by the secularizing acid of Protestantism, the Enlightenment, and the consumer economy, or not until of course the Communists seized it. And of course that's why they were so anxious to seize it. An element of Modernism, Marxism and Modernism remain the greatest Western Christian heresy (Islam being an eastern heresy against the Incarnation). It is Christianity's "kill shot" and Russia was THE perfect target.

The aspect of this most significant to me lies in the second article (Christian Russia and the Western “Errors of Russia”), wherein L-N details how the Communist Revolution was funded by Western corporations and approved by Woodrow Wilson. Plenty of evidence exists for this, and it is one of the most important bits of Western history everyone should know, but that very few seem to (and we who do are treated like cranks). L-N links to the work of historian Antony Sutton, who in his Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (1974) lays out the evidence, some of which L-N reports on in her article. 

History no one wants to know

And this is my point here: American megabusiness interests in precisely the last pre-WWI decades created the modern world and its pathologies. Is it any wonder that "big corporations" unanimously support all the sexual perversion drowning Western culture? There's a reason for that.

In December 1913, just half a year before the war broke out, Congress created the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. It took control of our money. Serving as America's equivalent of the Bank of England – an institution that has ruled England since its creation – was not called "National Bank of America" because throughout U.S. history, the American people rejected such an entity. Such a bank existed for a short while until Andrew Jackson put an end to it in 1833. (Notice how the author describes Jackson; the author is definitely a "beta".)

Its 1913 re-creation represented the collusion of what today we call "the UniParty" in the U.S. politics, the big business elites of both the Democrats and Republicans working together to further their own interests and those of the wealthy. These people are not American politicians, then or now, but globalists, and their economic policies do not protect "main street" but "Wall Street". Today's globalists are direct inheritors of the early 1900s' elites who conquered Russia. (Regarding the Federal Reserve Board, see E. Griffin's (2010): The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, for the depressing story.)

Russian-Japanese War

Speaking of Russia, the Tsarist government was weakened by the Russian-Japanese War (1904-1905). Japan was winning the battles but was utterly bankrupt, so the New York bankers (many of them Jews) got a loan together to keep the Japanese government solvent till a peace advantageous to Japan could be negotiated. These bankers loathed the overtly Christian government of the Tsar and especially its treatment of Russian Jewry.

    N.B. American President Theodore Roosevelt brokered the peace talks, probably in full knowledge of this banking collusion. The Japanese people, however, did not, and they deeply resented Roosevelt and American "meddling" in a war they thought they had won. They felt the Americans had betrayed them. This animus played a role, emotionally at least, in their decision to attack the U.S. in 1941. Had the Russians themselves known about Japan's predicament, they could have held on a bit longer, and Japan would have had to fold, producing a very different subsequent 20th century history.

Virology

Also in this same era, John D. Rockefeller, the oil oligarch and Bill Gates of his day (even to being a eugenicist), was investing heavily into medicine because his scientists discovered they could make many meds from petroleum. The "science" of virology was created by the same big business interests fighting Russia and creating an American national bank.

We have met the enemy, and ...

All this revelation demonstrates the truth of the cartoon character Pogo's famous 1971 comment, "We have met the enemy and he is us." That regarded pollution, but it is actually true about the Western World's spirituality. The Western world is materialistic, hedonistic, and atheistic. Five hundred bloody, depressing years downstream from the Reformation, that's our wretched world we wallow in. We're are the end of a river flowing down through Late Medieval Nominalism and its 16th century progeny Protestantism, the 18th century's destruction of logic (embodied by David Hume and Immanuel Kant, the Wallace and Gromit of philosophy), and on into Marxism and Darwinian materialism, and then broadening out into hedonism and greed enshrined in popular selfish and particularly narcissistic ideologies. Narcissism in probably the dominant character trait of the "modern" world.

And against this culture, even the image of a "Holy Russia" is intolerable. Caterina Lorenzo-Molo writes in the third article:

    In addition, Pope Benedict XVI’s opening to Russia, his favorable opinion of Putin, and closeness with Patriarchs Hilarion and Kirill, alerted the US and according to some documents from Wikileaks, prompted them to stir up an internal revolt within the Church.[20] Indeed all things Russia always seems to alert and heighten sensitivities from the powers and principalities.

The sad thing is, my friends, after two stolen national elections now, and the one in Brazil, and the evil fiasco in Ukraine, we can easily believe such things to be true, to have happened, and to be ordering out lives against our wills today.

Maybe the coming mass death will get their attention. Or those who survive. 

   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.

Elegy to a Republic on the Fourth of July, 2022

Everyone,

Happy Fourth, my American friends, and friends of America.

Something to celebrate: the Dobbs Decision

This July 4th, for the first time in almost 50 years, we're free of the national abortion tyranny we've lived under for so long. "Free at last" as Martin Luther King said. Most of the 65 million babies murdered were girl babies, and Black. Over the pass half century, the Democrats, formerly the 'Catholic Party' and the "blue-collar working man's party" became the party of death, America's own version of Mexico's Santa Muerte. The Republicans have quite a few pro-abortion adherents even now, but those were mostly the "country-club Republican" types like the Bush family. The strong majority of Republicans, especially the MAGA Republicans, are Pro-Life.

Meanwhile, this victory for Life has enraged the Democrats and their Leftist hangers-on. They are vowing full oaths to Satan to overturn Dobbs, one way or the other. I wouldn't be surprised if they pulled a jinn (genie) out of Hell to get something like that done, but that would in turn inflame all Pro-Lifers. Really, the Left's reaction to Dobbs had clearly shown their diabolical nature, and that's all to the good. But it is not so good this took nearly fifty years! Or that so many people are so soulless as to insist on murdering babies.

This is our world, alas.

It's a sad day for the Republic that we have so many such fiends, but then a republic without God, as the USA is officially, and was since the establishment of the 1787 Constitution, is bound to, well, go to Hell – sooner or later.

There was a group of Protestant intellectuals back in the latter 19th century called the National Reform Association, and they wanted to rewrite the Constitution in order to put God into it, and in a big way.

1. They saw the Civil War as divine punishment for America's "original sin", as the coming Biden War with Russia might be punishment for abortion.
   
2. They predicted the moral and spiritual decline of the country.
   
3. They predicted godless secularists would rely on the Constitution to impose godlessness. (Wow, were they prophets, or what?)
   
4. They proposed a Christian Amendment that Congress quickly rejected (never got out of committee).
   
5. They recognized the First Amendment as a barrier between Church and State, which it is: it exists to prevent organized religion from interfering the American government, especially chattel slavery as the Catholic Church had regulated it in, say, Brazil. (The first thing Jefferson did when he bought Louisiana was remove what rights the slaves had had under the French and Spanish!) 
   
6. They showed the Founders were not orthodox Protestant Christians, and more besides. This "NRA" were a Quixotic group, and after their Congressional failure, they faded quickly away.
   

Here's how the National Reform Association would have rewritten the Constitution's Preamble:

We the People of the United States, [humbly acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, his (sic) revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government,] and in order to form a more perfect union...".

I like it. For myself, I might have had it a bit more general: "We the People of the United States, recognizing the will and order of the Lord God in all life and all human endeavor, and founding our government on the will of the free people of these states in conformity with moral commandments God has revealed to the nations over the millennia, and in order to form a more perfect union...".

Law, morality, cannot be decided on public opinion, which is changeable and excitable. But of course any such addition would have limited the powers of the ambitious bandits who ran the country during the famous "Gilded Age" of Robber Barons! A first-class ticket on the Titanic in 1912 would cost $50,000 in today's money. Only Robber Barons and their progeny could have afforded that! Had such a wording been proposed back in 1787, it would also have certainly limited the ambitions of the Southern slave owners, too, and anyone wanting to move West and displace the Indians, as we today are being displaced by unchecked immigration.

• Curiously enough, a Confederate named James Henley Thornwell had earlier proposed something similar to the Confederate Constitution. Yet true Democrat that he was, he also defended slavery as the bulwark of Christendom! (Those Democrats. Once they get an idea, they keep with it! They just change the nomenclature a bit; i.e. "slaves" to "sharecroppers" to "asphalt plantations".) 

The animating idea behind the National Reform Association is what the Catholic Church calls the 'social kingship' of Christ, i.e., as one author put it, "...The great Christian corollary of Greek wisdom concerning the State as a moral totality oriented to the eternal destiny of man as an ensouled being." That notion served as a foundation for medieval governments and for the quite different "Divine Right of Kings" of the 17th and 18th centuries. A bastardized atheistic form of it exists in Communism. The basic idea is that government (city state, medieval republic, modern parliamentary) has a moral duty to encourage and instill morality in the demos, the people. If the morality is traditional Christian morality, peachy. If it is Marxist atheistic man-as-economic-animal morality, then that's the Gulag Archipelago. But government by definition itself must be moral and encourage morality. After all, ethics, morality, the human free-will ability to chose right or wrong is central to humanity and one of things that separate us from the animals. We can't just chuck it. The U.S. Constitution chucked it. (Or more precisely, it assumed it as a given, but provided NOTHING in the way toward defending or reinforcing it, or even recognizing its existence.)

By that I mean, the political theory contra to a God-centered state was the "Enlightenment Liberalism" of John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, etc. It denied all that state-and-morality stuff that went back to Hammurabi and postulated a governing system ignoring – via totally privatizing – both religion and morality. That's what the U.S. was built on, but it had not been what the Colonies had been built on. The colonies would not have been planted and survived had they been built on that. It's an empty suit of an idea. General Sherman (of whom someday I'm composing an alternative history when he uses his Army he led through Georgia to seize Washington and make himself an American Caesar) famously summed up "popular government" when he said, "Vox populi, vox humbug" (i.e., the modern 'B.S.')

Chesterton had wisely observed about the modern world that it was living off its Catholic capital laid up over a millennium. The early U.S. was living off its Anglican Church/Calvinist public morality capital. But that bank is empty. Hence, Founder John Adams, without a touch of irony, famously said that "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." (John Adams to the Massachusetts's Militia 11 October 1798) Yeah, Johnny boy, but what about when American leaders were no longer moral or religious people?

Well, today, we are governed (and controlled by media and entertainment and academic industries) of utterly immoral – and I mean utterly – reprobate, depraved, technically insane – total perverted slime bastards. What could go wrong?

• Covid, for one thing. Two years of national lockdowns. Forced vaccinations of an experimental therapy and/or not properly tested drug protocols. Democrat governors (like New York's Cuomo) sending sick individuals to convalesce within Old Folks homes, which killed off the elderly like DDT killed off song birds.
• Crazy carnal madness, for another. It is as though some deranged psychotic and puerile sex-on-the-brain teenager is living out his darkest fantasies across the nation. Because sex is addictive, like drugs, one just can't stay at a low level, (in drugs, like using pot upon occasion), but one has to get ever worse and worse, go ever further for a "fix". Honestly, who can live in such a nation? You can't raise kids in it. An example: how can anyone bear to live in much of San Francisco? I myself once saw a sea of bums in Bolivar Square, urinated and defecating en masse around the proud equestrian statue of hero. And that was years ago! Sex without restraint leads to carnal congress on the sidewalks and in the gutters, and fecal matter covering the streets.
  

So, as a result of the above, the lawless, illegal "installed" Biden Regime moves to get us in a war with Russia though the Europeans are scared to death of this and are trying to backtrack as is Germany's chancellor. A war with Russia is simply jaw-dropping insane. And then there's the manufactured famine that is coming. Hundreds of millions might die, and why? Because of Global Warming! Something that's a fraud and proven to be a fraud over and over and over.

Look, the majority of Congress and all of the Biden Regime need to be immediately arrested and locked up for even thinking of instigating a war with Russia. They should be locked up for sending billions to Ukraine in a war we have no national interest in. They should be locked up for stealing the 2020 election, in any case, and for ceaselessly breaking the law since. But of course the modern U.S. government is made up of greedy corruptokrats who want total control of the Ukraine in order to rape its natural and human resources (and develop weapons labs far from Congressional oversight), and they're aiming for "regime change" in Russia to do the same to that nation. Our elites grow as wealthy as Midas on such tax-payer largess. The Biden Family is worth today hundreds of millions, with Joe himself officially worth about $10 million (that's officially). The Chinese have been paying them top dollars to be traitors for decades. (The Clintons garnered Chinese money, as well.)

Had I known I could have gotten into Congress, snoozed through 40 years of Congressional hearings, and ended up a multi-multimillionaire....! The Obamas have a fortune of some $70 million, with potentially over $200-300 million considering various contracts and offers. And Barack Obama never had a real job – or even a real education! As for the absolute Kleptocat Clintons, I'll leave it to your imaginations how wealthy those dirtbags are. And the same could be said of all these political hacks, mental cretins, and Hell fodder of the formally corrupt politicians who "run" the American government by "running the nation itself into the ground".

On top of all that, the U.S. is trying to impose its sexual "dismorality" on the world. It's as though Sodom had a foreign policy. We've been offering foreign aid tied to homosexual, tranny, and sex-change education and Satan himself only knows what else, trying to impose this cretinous, imbecilic adolescent carnal dementia on the U.S. military. Gee, this has NOT gone over well in Latin America and other more traditional-minded nations. (We all need to learn to say, "I'm not part of your sexual dementia cult! Leave me alone!")

And let's not forget the Biden Regime's open borders. Partly it is pure population replacement, an insidious evil. But really it is about re-establishing slavery. See Sam Faddis' detailed report from April on what is really going on. Like I wrote above: Democrats! They've never abandoned either racism or slavery. On social media, they even get away with using the "N-word" about Clarence Thomas. 

So, friends, this Fourth of July, we should be thankful for the Dobb's decision, yes, yet here we are on the verge of world war raged by Kleptocrats for WEF NeoNazi eugenicists and BigPharma/BigBusiness Global would-be dictators, while "Sodomizing" our own people as we get ready to replace them completely. I thought I held citizenship in the U.S., not Sodom or Guatemala. More fool I.

             An Préachán

Happy New Year? Some Dismal Thoughts

Amici,

As the year 2019 ends, I'm tempted to try to find good things to reflect upon, but can't. Bad things seem to be multiplying insanely.

Three basic problems in the world exist, and there seems to be no way to effectively deal with them.

First: Communism, et al.

Second: Scientism

Third: Catholicism

First, Communism or the truly "Red Socialism" (as opposed to, say, the very-Capitalist-yet-Welfare-States of Scandinavia) is a religion that many, many "intellectuals" in the Western World adhere to, and also that has many followers among the ignorant classes in a host of countries. It survived the collapse of the Soviet Union, it survives in Communist China, thrives throughout Latin America, while in the West, it has morphed into "Watermelon Communism" – Green on the inside and Red on the inside.

Communism is a lot like the Jehovah's Witnesses. Think about it. JWism is a publishing house that cons many ignorant people around the world into "selling" JW's products (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society publications). The big shots of the "religion" get rich on the backs of its followers. Now, all religions, from Catholicism to Mormonism, want their adherents to contribute money, but JW's laity is its worker ants. In the same manner, Communist higher-ups live "the good life" by manipulating its masses in the same vein. 

With all such, it is that underlying "religious fervor" keeps 'em all going. (Just because Communism doesn't believe in a god, except the god of self, so what? Buddhism has no god, either.) And Communism/Red Socialism will bring down the West and reduce us all to poverty, not to mention serfdom. This is because Communism's "long march" through Western institutions – very much including all-things family related (study up on the Frankfurt School of Communism), they seem to have won. They rule Western Entertainment, Academia, a good portion of the political class and significant elements of the underclasses. And they work hand-in-condom with all the deviants to force sexual deviancy on the rest of us – the goal of that is to bring down the family. Here's a good article on how the Chinese are doing this: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/12/coming_backfire_chinas_family_separations_in_xinjiang_a_recipe_for_islamic_radicalism.html It has some info on how Communism has always wanted to re-order human family life (as in put it out of existence).

And notice how all of the above squeezes the Middle Classes, the people who actually work for a living, and who are benefiting from President Trump's Mainstreet-Not-Wall Street Nationalism-focused Conservatism. Here's an interesting and insightful article by Salena Zito, a "shoe-leather" journalist who takes the time to spend time getting to know people in Rust-Belt towns like Ashtabula, Ohio.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/the-great-revolt-enters-a-new-phase-how-the-populist-uprising-of-2016-will-reverberate-in-2020/

She's excellent. Zito, a Catholic, is probably an old-line Democrat herself, and you'll see how many "knee-jerk" pro-Trump people don't trust her if you read the Comments, but then many of them do understand where she's coming from. She's a great read. And she predicted Trump would win in 2016. She was right.

As part of Communism's break up of society, we have all the "racist" talk and Social Justice Warrior crap. These two articles below discuss the outrageous attacks on Jews in New York City, and the reasons for the Leftists who run NYC's response -- well, NON-responses. The articles are valuable "eye openers".

https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/29/we-can-no-longer-ignore-the-attacks-on-jews-in-new-york/

and

https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/29/identity-politics-enables-anti-semitic-violence-enough/

And that is in the "financial capital of the world", New York City. As the author of the second piece writes:

And Jews are dying because of it—namely, because identity politics demand that violence against Jews be ignored in favor of “protecting” other minority groups. This type of selectivity actually worsens racial relations rather than improving them.
The left has spent the last three years marketing itself as having seized the moral high ground on tackling Jew-hatred, which may explain why their recent anger towards Trump’s Executive Order a few weeks ago, designed exclusively to combat antisemitism on college campuses, was particularly virulent. The mask has slipped, and for the left, battling antisemitism has become a means towards eviscerating the right, rather than a noble end in and of itself. I am curious how much more Jewish blood will need to be spilled before ending violence becomes an end inherently worth pursuing.

(Highlights are my own.)

Now Communism has in common with the Vatican II Church the foundational idea that people, humanity, is basically good, so all we need to do for joy and happiness is remove the Oppressor, whether nasty Capitalists or "Pharisee" "Rigorists" in the Church. However, on the larger world scene, war (all sorts of conflict) seems to be an ever-growing threat. (And it just goes to show that "humanity is basically good" is not true, not remotely.) So if the Commies in the West "shut down" the West's ability to defend itself and global commerce, etc., via local takeovers or civil wars, then we're all going to soon be living in a post-holocaust-like "Dystopia", wherein life will truly be, as old Thomas Hobbes wrote, "Solitary and poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

Scientism: But I'm almost more concerned with the blindness of "our betters" when it come to Scientism, defined as "best or only objective means by which society should determine normative and epistemological values." (As Wikipedia puts it.) You can readily see the basic Scientism fallacy in economics, with so many academics apparently being economic determinists, thinking because people have feet, as Chesterton once wrote, they only walk around on them to find shoes for them. All such ideas fuel "Globalism", of course, which has both great good and also great harm, depending. Trade between nations whose first concern and focus is protecting their own citizens is fine; trade wherein national sovereignty is surrendered is not. Another aspect of Scientism in economic issues is the conceit that someone trained in a grad school, earning an MBA, is smarter in business savvy than a guy who worked his way up in a company from the mailroom. That's been the cause of a massive amount of business failure and disasters in the last 40 years.

In another aspect of Scientism, one the reasons the Catholic Church crashed and burned, was post-WWII its bishops went to psychologists and psychiatrists for all their answers, instead of to the Church Fathers and theologians of the past. It is, in fact, a mirror image of Scientism and MBAs. But I suppose today, Scientism is a problem first and foremost via Global Warming, of course. On the one hand, GW is is being successfully used as a tool by the "Watermelons" and their Luddite collaborationists, but also far, far too many average, everyday folks are taken in by it.

For example, it is easy to find article like this: https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions that shows how consistently wrong all such prognostications have been. You'd think people would "step back from the brink" and "chill out". In any event, this article linked to above is interesting because it opens with an excerpted report from 1967 that predicted "Dire Famine by 1975", followed by a hosts of newspaper articles reporting a new Ice Age descending upon us. Of course, these all eventually peter out and are replaced by dire Global Warming predictions of 20-so-years-ago. All these have hyper-dire warnings from that time about what the world would be like today have turned out bogus as well, of course. Reading the invaluable Wattsupwiththat blog https://wattsupwiththat.com/ is endlessly fascinating for anyone remotely interested in science, and how complicated and not clearly understood planetary earth science issues can be manipulated.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/12/11/greenland-ice-losses-rising-faster-than-expected/

For example, read this article above then the Comment section wherein a lot of questions and objections are raised, sensible ones – extremely so. For example, "spangled drongo's" news about the latest Australian Bureau of Met sea levels for a stilling pond adjacent to the broadest piece of ocean in the world. The latest mean sea level at Ft Denison tide gauge is 6 inches LOWER than the first reading taken in 1914. Wattsupwiththat is full of such astute and informative commentary.

In general, the GW alarmism kind of reminds me of all the dire lamentations that the election of Donald Trump would destroy stock markets, such as Paul Krugman used to squeal about: https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/26/paul-krugman-said-markets-would-never-recover-from-trump-the-dow-is-up-10000-points-since-2016/

Krugman was completely wrong. Utterly! (Is he fired yet? Don't hold your breath.) Yet the mainstream media would never remind you of that. (A major part of our problem today is the mainstream media is inhabited by Leftists as strongly as Academia and Entertainment.)

But in terms of science, right now the Global Warming (renamed "Climate Change") "narrative" seems to be still in control. Here's an article lamenting how the European "Green Plans" would bankrupt Europe. First, Holly Sheer on the staggering costs of Europe's Green Deal:

https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/27/why-the-eus-pricey-green-deal-will-hurt-workers-and-the-elderly-while-helping-nobody/

An excerpt:

Additionally, current green or renewable energy sources still come with environmental costs. They’re expensive — often exorbitantly so, with each of the 28 member countries needing some €575 billion every year to cover these costs of implementing green energy — and still have negative impacts on wildlife, habitats, and workers involved in sourcing the parts. Even implementing these energy sources doesn’t guarantee ridding emissions problems.

If the EU has all this money to throw around, perhaps it’s time to examine North Atlantic Treaty Organization spending and funding, and why the USA is responsible for “69% of overall defense spending by NATO member states.” If the EU has money to spend, it’s time to make its expenditures on its own defense more proportionate, instead of continuing to allow U.S. taxpayers to fund their security while they use their own tax revenue for unproven fantasies like the Green Deal.

Trump, roundly loathed and hated in certain circles in "Europe", has pulled the U.S. out of this GW nonsense and if re-elected (and if you read the article at Lifesite below, you'll see Obama himself intentionally hamstrung the agreements years ago, in 2009) – and what with China, the world's biggest polluter and most polluted country – only talking big about even beginning to clean up its act 'round about 2030, maybe the tide will swing against the Global Warming hoax. But I'm not betting on it. As this article

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/elephant-in-the-room-latest-un-climate-conference-was-a-joke

says, in its final paragraph, perhaps the most cogent and succinct explanation of "it all" I've ever read:

The Left has gone Green because it solves what has always been the fatal flaw in socialism; the inability to produce growth and improve people's lives. Now that the Greens have proclaimed growth to be bad and affluence to be evil, socialism is the perfect model for managing mass poverty in an "equitable" manner. Environmentalism will be pushed regardless of the state of scientific knowledge because socialism requires it. Capitalism will be condemned because it corrupts people with a destructive desire for more. And China and other rising nations will be ready to pick up the pieces if any "big country" in the West falls for this suicidal ideology. With its strong domestic growth program, its globe-spanning Belt and Road Initiative, and its daring space exploration agenda, "socialism with Chinese characteristics" is a very different beast. Its attitude is full speed ahead. Can we afford to do any less?

(Highlights are, of course, my own.)

The whole article is good; I recommend it. The author is William R. Hawkins, "...a consultant specializing in international economic and national security issues. He is a former economics professor who has served on the staff of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee."

So, it is all about about being on the road to a real-time version of Orwell's 1984. Now I've come around to thinking that only a major, civilizational-level war will finally kill off Global Warming. A war would both give people something else to think about and end the ability of our "Betters" to control us on an International level, because a war would trash out the whole shebang. We'll see.

Catholicism:

We certainly cannot expect guidance from the Mainstream Church, as this article shows: https://wdtprs.com/2019/12/amazonian-and-pachamama-skubala-in-annual-vatican-christmas-concert-video/

An excerpt:

Marco Tosatti caught it and it is on Twitter (below). An indigenous woman from the Amazon region got up in front of the camera, had them all cross their arms over their chests (they did it) and explained about Mother Earth and vibrating.  More Pachamama crap.  On Youtube, 1:44:25 in original language. How ridiculous is this becoming? If she had told them all to strip naked and hug each other, the prelates in the front row would probably have been the first to comply.

I guess there's three categories of stupid, in ascending stupidity: Stupid, Staggeringly Stupid, and then Catholic Church Hierarchy Stupid.

There's so much going on in terms of the wretched Bergoglio that I can't remotely keep track. “Combat hatred, small-mindedness and prejudice. Do not be content with making superficial proposals or abstract synthesis: accept instead the challenge of the overflowing restlessness...” is a sample of his latest drivel.

Check out the Canon212 website for more such news: https://canon212.com/ Or OnePeterFive is a good site, too. https://onepeterfive.com/

Suffice it for me to write here that the Church, acting like a focus-group tested NGO and currying favors with all the latest breathless idiocy and deviancy, is not the way Christianity is either lived or preached, and that as an old Lutheran professor of history at OSU once told Msgr Frank Lane, "We need you guys to be Catholics!" So it is that if Catholicism goes the way of the Presbyterian Church USA (to give just one of a plethora of examples; indeed, the mainline Catholic Church is becoming more Episcopalian USA than the Episcopalian USA Church is!): Protestantism has no grounding, and there's IS no Christianity except the "Ghetto Churches" of the fissiparous and separatist xenophobic Orthodoxies, or the (truly) mindless emotional chaos of the Pentecostals, many of whom "speak in tongues" praising Satan. (A well-known and researched phenomenon, actually.)

All of these three maladies are tied together, of course. Just one example: Communism infiltrated its strongest critic, the Catholic Church, back in the 1930s, as detailed by the famous Bella Dodd, who was converted by the Holy Ghost working through Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who's cause for Beatification, you may have heard, has been "sidelined" (translated: trashed).

And so it goes. 2020. What will it bring? I've come to believe we're in Third Secret of Fatima territory right now, and nothing that happens will surprise me. It may well kill me, but surprise me -- nope, not a whit.

Happy New Year

An Préachan