Irish-language film garners attention...

Friends, a Chairde,

Wow!

Everyone remotely interested in Ireland and things Irish ought to check this article out!

An Irish-language film nominated for an Oscar. Basically, the Oscars per se have always been useless in terms of actually choosing a good film, infamously skipping over famous movies. (Citizen Kane being a notorious example of that.) But they do garner attention for a film! I've not seen it and cannot speak to its quality, except for online previews, such as here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7V-kDz4NWg

It looks lovely and poignant, a family film, indeed. No dicey moden-day quasi-porn madness, at least. So, this is good news. An excerpt from the article:

Competing for best international feature, "An Cailín Ciúin" (The Quiet Girl) last year became the first Irish language film to gross more than 1 million euros ($1.06 million) at the UK and Irish box office. It has remained a fixture in cinemas across English-speaking Ireland.

An Préachán

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.

 

Benedict and the TLM; the Pivot has come

Amici,

The "mild" Vatican II Reformer, Joseph Ratzinger, has now passed on to Judgment, and while we can and should pray for him, we cannot be presumptuous one way another or about that Judgment. Certain types of Protestants, and now no few "Catholics", seem to think one's eternal Salvation is "in the bag", not apparently realizing they're wallowing in the Sin of Presumption. The Anti-Pope Bergoglio has plainly said no one can really live up to God's Commandments anyway, so "chill out." Very Protestant, old Bergi is. Luther and Co. should welcome him, if that is how that his own judgment turns out.

Benedict's Greatest Deed

Focusing historically and theologically, however, on one issue, Benedict XVI has forever garnered a pivotal place in ecclesiastical history because of his "freeing" the Traditional Latin Mass. It was the major achievement of his reign and I have no doubt the cause of his downfall. So to note his passing, I would like to bring up what his Summorum Pontificum of July 2007 effected in the Church, or more precisely, what it began to recognize as the Holy Ghost's actions were already bringing about. For now that Ratzinger has died, a major turning point, a true pivot, has been reached.

Hindsight has to reveal to anyone not blinded by Modernist bias that, despite the Official Church doing what it could to suppress the TLM, the Holy Ghost wanted it back. For despite what the spiritually dead, the spiritually deaf, or simply the spiritually stupid insist upon, the record since 1970 shows God wants the Traditional Latin Mass restored. The Church of 2023 bears little resemblance to what it was before 1963. Bringing it back is the strongest – and certainly most Catholic – movement in the Church today. Whatever Pope Benny's true intent, whether he recognized the whole "Vatican II Shtick" was up (something John Paul II could not do), or whether he actually thought that the old Mass could live side-by-side in a happy, symbiotic relationship with the new, both "enriching" the other in a "mutual enrichment" for a goodly length of time – whatever he thought, Benedict certainly did God's will in freeing, or trying to free, the TLM from the clutches of the Modernist hierarchy.

That Modernist hierarchy was enraged, and they got rid of Pope Ratzinger. Fourteen years after Summorum Pontificum, they promulgated its opposite, Traditionis Custodes (best translated literally as "Jailers of Tradition") on 16 July 2021. And they've since worked to undo Summorum Pontificum in more ways with ever more rulings.

For an important article about what damage the Modernist Anti-Catholics have done to the TLM laity and the clergy, review this article at Rorate. The interviewee makes the interesting point that Bergoglio and Traditionis Custodes haven't laid a glove on the growing SSPX and have a spotty record harassing what had been the "Ecclesia Dei" communities (FSSP, ICKSP). What havoc and devastation it has produced are in the regular diocesan priests who have tried to learn and offer the TLM. A very interesting article.

And regarding Benedict and his TLM efforts, it is remarkable how the TLM took off in regular parishes. It would not stay "sidelined" in specialist shops wherein the Modernists clearly hoped to exile it. Average, everyday clergy and laity wanted it, do want it today, and no matter how hard Bergoglio and the Modernist unbelievers try now, all the Mass-closing antics are the detritus of impotent fools and knaves, the shouting of a mob about to be dispersed by God's will. We must prepare. Bergoglio will unleash all Hell on the Church now that Joseph Ratzinger is dead, from many directions, and no one can pretend Bergoglio has the best interests of the Church at heart. Yet when the storm has subsided, the TLM will be welcomed by Catholics as the standard of quiet, holy sanity in worship. It will be welcomed as the most Catholic form of worship. That's the significant pivot that will occur to the multitude of "Survivor Catholics". 

It is an incarnation of the Crucifixion: even as the Devil thought he had defeated Christ by casting down the ancient liturgy, even as he thought he had triumphed, it turned out to be the opposite of what he had thought. If crucifying Christ didn't work, crucifying His liturgy won't, either.

Pray, and hope.

  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.

Pope Benedict Passing Away

Amici,

I've been silent for a while, afflicted with the reality we all must live in. I've been wandering with Frodo and Sam among the poisonous ruined landscape before the Gate of Mordor, little squeaking ghosts lost among the ash-heaps of the Dark Lord. Whether the political, economic, or moral situations are irretrievable now or not – and signs of hope do show themselves, even now, even here – the Church's situation itself is dire indeed, as Pope Benedict XVI prepares (or is being prepared by Bergoglio and Co.) to pass away. I agree with Ann Barnhardt here (and as listed at Canon212, along with many other important articles noted there) that once he's gone, the Anti-Church will unleash its fury against what remains of the one, holy Catholic Church.

I won't go into detail, as Ann does such a superlative job of that, but I will say such terror that's about to be unleashed unintentionally carries a bit of good along with it, and more than a bit. We will all finally see what the Progressive, Modernist Church really is. No room for doubt will remain. People will have to choose.

And that is all to the good.

But whither this true pope, Joseph Ratzinger? There's an Irish saying, "An áit a bhfuil do chroí is ann a thabharfas do chosa thú." Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. Where indeed would Pope Benedict's feet taken him since February 2013, had he not been bound and gagged by the Modernists? We don't know. Benedict seems a milder version of the Vatican II Reformers, one who yet began to backtrack and undo some of the devastation caused by "the Spirit of Vatican II", that "animus" that still howls in the empty reaches of Sauron's twisted devastation. Bergoglio is no enigma: he's a Nazgûl; he's hell and death to the Catholic Church. But Ratzinger? Where was his heart, really? He feet were not allowed to tell us.

        AnP

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

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

Can Kari Lake's lawsuit win in Arizona? What it means for American and World elections.

Friends,

If you're interested in elections and government, read Kari Lake's lawsuit she has filed to win the governorship of Arizona. Some say it reads like a "thriller" and of course others dismiss it entirely, as does the Arizona Mirror and Arizona Central.

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Lake makes the case in her own words here (third interview down) with Steve Bannon. 

Plainly, the Arizona Mirror and the Arizona Central above are two partisan news orgs against Lake, and whether their arguments have merit depends on the judge, ultimately. We'll see how the judge rules on the upcoming petitions to throw the lawsuit out. Were the judge to order the suit to trial, however, the trial would begin this coming week. I would guess that if the judge keeps the suit and tries it, Lake might well win. Should she win, the Democrats will appeal it all the way to the Arizona Supreme Court, which I believe leans more Leftist than not.

• Given the state-controlled power in American government, it seems unlikely it will go to trial, or if it did, that Lake would win, because such a turn of events would demand attention focus on just how badly U.S. elections are run. The Deep-state rulers do not want that.
  
• Conversely, if it is dismissed or obviously dispatched with contempt, the people of the country will be both educated and enraged, producing a revolutionary environment. After all, if ballots are suppressed, bullets rule. Polls suggest some 70 percent of Americans already think their elections are rigged. 
  

For anyone wanting a "deep dive" into current election rigging and theft, this article has a lot of detail, and many worthwhile links.

As Covid and the longer-running "Climate Change" frauds show, the "Powers-that-Be" in the world – those who control most governments – have a plan to reduce us to serfs, or more likely genetically impoverished slaves. (A good portion of humanity suffering as slaves is the traditional human scheme, actually. The World Economic Forum, etc., are just depriving us of our 300-plus years of Western Classical Liberal birthright for the older paradigm.) As part of that, they cannot allow Kari Lake or Donald Trump or Jair Bolsonaro or even Viktor Orbán to last. (See the excellent essay Hungary, the Only Country in the West.) They must suppress these leaders, and because Lake was so popular and such a prime, superior campaigner, they had to go "over the top" or "jump the shark" in Arizona, ridiculously messing up their election rigging so badly that the whole world will see it. The Arizona election is that significant.

Hence, my friends, the stakes. Allowing the Democrats to steal the 2020 election put a Chinese Communist Party operative in control of the U.S. (Biden's probably mostly just a figurehead, of course, but still a "gopher" for Xi): Read Sam Faddis interview here. We simply must stop this insanity if we want a future other than perpetual servitude. (That is, those of us who are not eliminated already via the "vaccines".)

  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.

A St. Anselm Reflection on this Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Amici,

We Catholics often can in no wise even begin to explain the importance of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the great theological sense of things. Tonight, one of my children asked me about this Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I explained to her that Mary was conceived without sin, alone of all the people ever born. The child asked why, and I said she needed to be without Original Sin because Jesus had to be born without original sin, and as He received His human nature from His Mother, she couldn't have been born with Original Sin.

My child understood that. "That makes sense," she said. Indeed, it does.

But Mary is a full partner with her Son in Redemption, not just the means of his Incarnation into the human race. St. Anselm (died 1109) wrote the following, which I found in the Monday morning reading of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It gives the reader a very strong idea of her essential role and why she is sometimes called "Co-Redemptrix" (something Bergoglio repudiated a good while ago, the ogre). I've sent it around before, in other contexts, but it is appropriate here, too.

As St. Anselm writes, "He who could create all things from nothing would not remake his ruined creation without 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.

A blessed feast to all of you!

An Préachán

Incredible: Sister Lucia of Fatima replaced in the 1960s

 Friends,

I thought myself pretty well informed about all things Catholic, but I had never heard that Sister Lucia dos Santos of Fatima fame, the only one of the three seer children to survive into adulthood, was replaced by a double in the 1960s. This has been proven via facial recognition experts and the corresponding new technology. See Sister Lucy Truth for excessive detail that proves this. In an episode of his John Henry Weston Show at LifesiteNews, you can access John Henry's interview with Dr Peter Chojnowski, who runs the website. Handwriting analysis demonstrates it as well. Linguistic experts affirm that the "New Lucy" had a Portuguese accent not arising from the region of Fatima.

The new Lucia first appeared publicly at Fatima with that Wretch of Wretches, Pope Paul VI, on the Fatima anniversary in 1967, and from then on, towed the party line, i.e. the Vatican II (Spirit of) party line. No more "Men are in imminent danger" but a mushy "Glad the window to the world was opened by good Pope John." No more the Jews must convert or that Russia must become Catholic, only that everyone should be free to practice whatever religion they want.

Sound Incredible?

Of course they'd "deep-six" the original and replace her. Her message was NOT what the Modernist-controlled Church wanted broadcast. The original Lucia was a thorn in the sides of popes Pius XI and XII because they would not consecrate Russia as The Blessed Mother had asked in 1929. JPII's halfway attempt in March 1984 was not what was asked for, nor Bergoglio's more recent knock-off. Apparently the "New Lucy" said that JP2's version was sufficient. But now that we knew the "New Lucy" was a fraud, all bets are off.

And of course the "New Lucy" lied like a rug regarding the Fatima Secret, which was to be opened and read publicly in 1960 (notice that date) whether she herself was alive or not. The "Original Lucy" was adamant about that.

The long and the short of it is clear: we're going to get gobsmacked spiritually and physically good and hard because the Modernists who controlled the Church by the early 1960s didn't believe any aspect of the Fatima story.

Prepare yourselves as best you can.

   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.

Ace Forecaster Bastardi: “Something We Used to See In 1970s”, Warns Of “Spectacular Cold”

 Friends,

"Friends don't let friends freeze."

Important news regarding weather:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/28/ace-forecaster-bastardi-something-we-used-to-see-in-1970s-warns-of-spectacular-cold/

Well, it looks like what goes around comes around, which we all knew, didn't we? The Global Warming shtick was no more "science" than the 1970s' Global Cooling "narrative". But now we're in trouble because governments have been wrecking the economy over "Global Warming" (a.k.a. Climate Change) and wrecking the infrastructure for dealing with severe weather. Now the best independent weather forecasters, such as Joe Bastardi, are predicting a return to 1970s' style winter weather for this year, and the resulting catastrophe that will inflict on us all.

The Wattsupwiththat site is the best for climate/weather and one ought to consult it often. This article I linked to above is a "must-read". And review the Comments; Wattsupwiththat has the best comments of any online site.

An Préachán

Psalm 83:15

So pursue them with Your tempest

And terrify them with Your storm.

"Died Suddenly" documentary: a soul-wrenching revelation of what's happening

Amici,

Well, I've watched the "Died Suddenly" documentary, and will here's my report. If you haven't watched it, find it on Rumble:

A promo (four mins):

https://rumble.com/v1qjp2y-died-suddenly-new-covid-19-documentary-from-stew-peters.html

The full video (little over an hour):

https://rumble.com/v1wcesu-died-suddenly-full-documentary-not-suitable-for-children.html

Review

Preliminary observation: the production values are excellent and the pacing and plotting first-rate. A very professional product, indeed. It has to be. The tale it bears is horrific, so it must be as  professional as possible. And it challenges the usual Covid "vaccine" narrative to a death match, so it has to be good.

First of all, however, a basic problem. Will you dare watch it? It is grim. And anyway, everything said and done, I suppose most people don't want to know what's happening with the Covid "vaccines" any more than the vote stealing or the depth of this culture's sexual perversions. I'm referring to the generic carnal depravity of this culture, but also the Jeffrey Epstein-revelations that our cultural elites are blackmailed via such sex traps, and also the Chinese Communist blackmail of the Biden crime family. China is in revolution right now, incredibly, but the American government is silent. See Sam Faddis here. 

In terms of Covid, most folks would rather not admit they've been lied to. It seems "inconceivable" (as Vizzini used to say) that the Covid vaccines are an intentional death product ultimately designed to "cull the herd" of the Earth's human population. But it is true. See this Lifesite article on Global Transhumanism. Secondly, they just do not want their worldview, the frame through which they see the world in, to be utterly trashed. Finally, governments and media worked so hard to terrify the world's population over Covid that many people no longer have the emotional strength to bear any more bad news. True insanity beckons for many down that road, and they sense it. That's one reason the Chinese have had enough. Much more Covid madness, and they'll all go mad. So they take to the streets in desperation. 

The truth...

Yet the truth is the truth. "Died Suddenly" will tell everyone who sees it how they themselves have been betrayed and, quite possibly, murdered. A tad rather unsettling, that. One's tea and biscuits will never taste the same again when you fully comprehend your government elites want you dead. For myself, steeped as I am in Irish history, I am not surprised. And were I able to, I'd force everyone to watch this documentary whether they would or not. The evidence was there, after all, was it not? – about Covid early on and then the rushed-through "vaccines" – that something was amiss. The entire Covid "spiel" was out of kilter from the get-go. Things "felt" dodgy in the extreme. Or they did for those who wanted to consider it. And that wretch Bill Gates and others like that jackass real-life Bond-villian Blofeld, Klaus Schwab, were too involved for any good to come of Covid. What else could come from such evil, stupid men but evil? Particularly stupid evil. Yet despite all that, most people turned a blind eye, or two. I myself would want to know if I might be falling over dead at any time (which of course one can do with or without Covid vaccines in their blood, depending on one's health and family history). But then I fear God and have a lively sense of Hell. So, well, that's just me.

Besides, I've been researching all things Covid since it first started making news, and one aspect of that arcane and eldritch lore are "doomsayers" predicting dire mortality rates – first from what has been collectively called "Covid" and then from the other side, those challenging the Covid "vaccines". Different sets of doomsayers, mind you. Covid's mortality we all know (we should know this by now) was grotesquely inflated: apparently no flu deaths occurred during Covid's reign! The various mandated treatments killed the people (Remdesivir, anyone?). However, it seems indeed that the vaccines are killing people, a lot of people, and this documentary goes into detail about that regarding blood clotting. (See at bottom for vaccine-derived cancer.) Also quite shocking are the two U.S. Army doctors who go into detail about how monstrously the vaccines are affecting the military. One says the U.S. won't be able to field an army in a few years.

I think the "Died Suddenly" documentary lays thorough stress on the evidence and makes a strong case. Scratch that. It makes a compelling case. I want everyone to realize it, and it will horrify you – not just merely the extent of the crime that has come about in order to drastically reduce world population, but viscerally, as well: the documentary has plenty of "blood and guts" with the opening of corpses and the pulling out of long, slug-like blood clots make it gory, and you might be one of those who can't tolerate that, but I suspect this realism is absolutely necessary. ("Seeing is believing", right?)

It is necessary to drive the point relentlessly home: it has to be. Most mainstream medical people (not all, by any means) and certainly most media people, won't touch this Covid vaccine mortality issue, despite the growing evidence. Government health agencies lie relentlessly. (I know that is "inconceivable" to some, but it is true.) Therefore, essentially, the story is sourced from Morticians. They, the humblest of the ranks of "medical professionals", the clean-up crew, are the ones drawing attention to what is happening. And they are certainly the "salt of the earth" types in this film.

So, I encourage every reader to watch the documentary. You may not like it; it may give you nightmares. But that is our world now. And remember, it is but a subset of the overall human "Great Reset" the bad guys are planning. (See Transhumanist Lifesite link above.)

N.B. A doctor, an MD, tried to refute the evidence in "Died Suddenly", and Steve Kirsch (interviewed in the docu) jumped into the ring here and showed the MD he didn't know what he was talking about. An excellent take down.

Also, now a distinguished British medico has opening defied "the narrative" by whistleblowing on all the cancer that the vaccines generate. See this RAIR article. This cancer-causing aspect of the vaccines are not touched upon in the documentary.

    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.

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.

Sovereignty. The election was stolen. What was stolen is our Sovereignty.

Beannachtaí Dé, everyone, (and we need God's blessings, now and ever!)

Bad news, the past few days. As John Zmirak so appropriately says, America is a kidnap victim. We are Patty Hearst. We are being beaten, robbed, and raped. And we're being robbed of our sovereignty, our right to rule ourselves.

I hate being right, but the election was stolen, brazenly. Of course, a great many commentators and people blogging have warned that it would be stolen. Biden admitted as much in his smug confidence in recent days. Before the 2020 election, he also smugly boasted they'd win easily. He knew.

So, we were right. We should have expected it because in Pennsylvania and Arizona, nothing was done to correct the voting irregularities of 2020. Because, according to the Powers-That-Be, there was nothing wrong with that election.

For details of the steal, myriads of proofs exist, and Emerald Robinson has a compendium of events here. Check out Robinson's article for its many charts and grafts showing sudden Democrat ballot dumps in various places. It is preposterous. Brazen. In-your-face, but they did it anyway.

• RINOs
• And they could not have done it without the help of the RINOs, the right-wing of the UniParty, who did the best they could to sink MAGA Republican candidates and are now howling for Trump's blood.
  
• The RINOs want DeSantis for president, of course, because they control him in terms of their big-money donations. Trump, they cannot control. DeSantis (or anyone else), however, will not get elected nationally without the help of the MAGA Republicans.
• As the RINOs loathe the MAGA, and vice-versa, we cannot expect anything but disaster going forward.
  

And anyway, in general, you know the voting has been rigged when just about every poll, Leftist, Middle, or Right, show tremendous public dissatisfaction with government yet these unhappy legions of voters unaccountably vote the people responsible for their misery back into power. You also know something is up when in states like Florida and Ohio, states possessing sensible, same-day voting systems, Republicans win big, very big, actually, in both those states; yet Democrat states having "election seasons" rather than "election days" take days to count and candidates whom all polling shows enjoy large leads (again, general Left-leaning pollsters to pollsters with platinum track records, like Trafalgar) see their leads evaporate. Even professional gamblers predicted a "Red Wave". So, what happened?

Bottom Line: Ballots, not Votes

This is no longer about voting. It is no longer about candidates being likable, intelligent, or arguing for smart policy proposals. Biden doesn't even know who he is half the time, and now this literal idiot elected senator in Pennsylvania is quasi brain-dead (his wife will replace him). That state elected a Democrat state legislator who died back in October. What a hell-hole. (Sam Faddis describes what happened in Pennsylvania here, and it involves RINOs.)

No. It isn't about all that stuff, which is so passé. It is about ballots. Ballots, ballots, who has the ballots? Sundance at the Conservative Treehouse has an excellent column on this here. This is a highly important article for one to read if one wishes to grasp what's going on here.

My long-held thesis

My long-held thesis is that an individual or group (like a political party) that intentionally accepts or "believes" or embraces such obvious contradictions like abortion or Covid or climate change, go crazy. They become demented. They are cursed, as the Belbury bigshots were cursed in C.S. Lewis' novel, That Hideous Strength. They were turned into vicious subhumans by the Curse of Babel.

This is like with abortion, and Covid, and Climate Change. Advocates for these abominations do not want you to look at facts, either of biology, embryology, the unscience that is virology (and it is a joke), and climatology. They lie to you, right into your face. Abortion is the best example. "That's just a clump of cells, not a baby." Utter Stercus tauri. Where is Sterculius when you need him? (BTW, Every pro-life republican governor who signed an abortion ban won re-election.

My thesis is that in trying to act as though you believe something so obviously not true, your moral and intellectual underpinnings begin to fray. Sooner or later you become a moral homunculus. Over the years, I've known individuals who seemed to lose their identity because they became abortion supporters. One guy wanted to advance in the Democrat Party and over time went from a regular guy to a nasty piece of work. "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?" (St. Mark 8:3)

Sovereignty, who has the Sovereignty?

Another elemental, fundamental truth that needs to be intellectually apprehended is that the Authoritarians, whether Communists or Nazis or "Watermelon" Fascists, is that they do not care for your sovereignty. If you don't get this, you will NOT know what's going on.

Sovereignty is the ideal about where the right to govern lies. In Ancient Egypt, it lay with Pharaoh, who was a god. In China, for millennia, it lay with "Heaven", which bestowed it on a ruler who was ruthless enough to seize it and keep it. The same was true in Islam, from its inception. In Ancient Greece, it lay solely with the citizens of a city-state. Most of the people who made up Classical Athens' population were slaves; only the citizens had the power to vote and partake of rule. In the Roman Republic, it lay both with the Senate and the popular house, the plebs, who over time had gained rights, so the Roman Republic resembled the American one (because the Americans modeled theirs after Rome).

Then Christianity came along. In Ancient Judaism, sovereignty lay solely with God, yet they wanted a king, so God gave them one, but told them they wouldn't like this transfer of sovereignty from God to the state. When Rome converted to Christianity, the already sovereign Roman state became sovereign directly because God made it so. The "divine" pagan emperor became a divinely appointed ruler. But in the West, with no empire surviving, sovereignty still rested with God, and it was administered by the Church. The Church made and unmade kings. The Church also recognized guilds of tradesmen and manufacturers. These "lower classes" always had more political clout in the West than in the East. Parliaments had their nobles, yes, but also their "Commons", not individuals but communities.

Then post the Reformation, wherein kings decided what religion would be allowed, sovereignty shifted more to the kings, and finally the Divine Right of Kings became the rule. It was first promoted by the Protestant James I of England, but more fully embodied in the Catholic Louis XIV. Yet the Bourbons made such a mess of Europe that this theory was overthrown and replaced with two very different, and eternally contending views. 

1. One, sovereignty was seen to lie with the people, in general. Englishman John Locke did the most to promote this, and the U.S.A. is in essence his child, his creation. 
2. The other, sovereignty lay with those who had the guts and willpower to seize it, whether the French Revolutionary Directory, or Napoleon, or whoever.

N.B. Over time, the Left came to control this idea of sovereignty. Basically, their ideology became sovereign. We live to bring their utopias to birth. We live to labor for the state in order to fulfill the ideology. We live to keep those who rule the state in luxury. We have no rights except what the state decrees. But of course, no one of the ruling class really believes the ideology (workers' paradise or National Socialist breeding farm or stone-age "green" utopia).

2020 & 2022

Today, in the U.S., the issue really is who has the sovereignty. If it is the people, then votes count. The people employ the state and can dismiss it. But we are not seeing that, are we? Not at all, not in the slightest. These elections of 2022 and 2020 show that the people cannot dismiss the state. The state, the Deep State, impersonates God. It manufactures fraudulent ballots, and then counts them. Voting is meaningless. Those who have seized power are the ones who count.

Please, everyone, understand this. It is our reality.

Can we defeat it? Maybe. I'll be highly interested to see if Kari Lake wins Arizona. She'll be a major weapon against our enemies. But as of this writing, that election is in Limbo.

 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.

 

Election Day, the Steal Is On, and the U.S. National Anthem sung by Brazilian singer

Hi Everyone,

Election Day is upon the U.S.A. And it is a blood-moon election day, at that.

First things first: I've linked to a great rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner, sung by Brazilian Dan Vasc in a sort of heavy-metal version. Senhor Vasc just belts it out; no nuance, no artsy-fartsy rendition, this. And Vasc belts it out like he means every last syllable. It's what Francis Scott Key must have actually felt seeing "Old Glory" waving through the smokes and bombardment targeting it from His Majesty's ships. Come to think of it, I don't easily remember hearing any man sing the anthem. That can't be quite right, but whatever, it is a notorious difficult piece to sing, and singers try to do their "musical" best, but Vasc just roars it out. The way he does it bestows on it its inherent bellicose meaning. Pride. Guts. Defiance. This is a war song. We need to hear it like this on this election day. (And just every once in a while, too.)

Second, of course, it is election day and as they day progresses, numerous people are reporting the steal is on. In highly contested districts, voting machines are malfuncting en masse, and chaos reigns. (An Orthodox Hasidic district in New York City seems to not have hired enough poll workers and incredible lines are forming. They all vote Republican.)

Emerald Robinson reports on the larger steal here. This article at American Thinker gives a good history of the recent election thefts, and a review of what happened in 2020. An excerpt:

So-called “bellwether counties,” counties that typically predict the winner, sided with Trump 18 out of 19 times. Before 2020, these 19 counties voted for the eventual winner of the Presidential election every time from 1980 until 2020.

This article discusses the "Red-Mirage" phenomenon. The article explains:

As early Election Day results come in on Tuesday, it will likely appear that Republican candidates vying for any number of the federal or statewide races appear to be leading their Democratic opponents, even by large margins.

Their leads will dwindle, or crumble completely, after perceived “dumps” of votes are recorded by state election officials who count mail-in and absentee ballots in the days — or even weeks — following Election Day.

All those Republican votes are mirages, you see. The bad guys need time to find out how big the Republicans won, then gin up the votes to beat them. Simple. And this is only one way that they cheat. That's the way the game is played. However, my friends, shame me once, shame on you, shame me twice... and now we know for certain how they do this, so we must stop it. Brazil knows the score. They must. We have to stop this vote corruption or Brazil will end up a province of China and we'll end up like John Zmirak so aptly describes:

I’m trying to manage my expectations of the upcoming midterm elections. If you asked me what I think the most likely outcome tomorrow, I’d say the following:

• The Democrats win in every race, 99% to 1%.
• Military vehicles fill the streets of the capitals of red states.
• Fox News gets another “facelift” as it did on Election Night 2020. Tucker Carlson disappears into some CIA “black site,” and gets replaced without explanation by a sneering Chris Wallace.
• The Fox news anchor blondes give way to stodgy men in brown paramilitary uniforms, who report the results in Romanian.

But call me a sunny optimist. Because if the Democrats were to reveal their final intentions that obviously, the average American might do something wild and rebellious, before it’s too late.

AnP again. They might, John. They might.

Thugocracy

The Biden Department of Justice has announced it is sending around teams of "agents" to "monitor" the voting in key cities and counties. As commentators have said, were that to happen in other countries, the U.S. would rule those elections fraudulent. Interference from the hated central government! But it is happening here. The central government is "enforcing" its will.

An excerpt:

In a press release published one day before the midterms, the DOJ said it plans to send its attorneys to 64 jurisdictions in 24 states to monitor polling locations “for compliance with the federal voting rights laws.”

In explanation, they're still pretending modern America is no different than the Segregationist South of the 1950s, and Blacks need federal agents paratrooped in to enforce their "civil rights". What about the civil rights of those who find their votes discarded, or that they've already voted!

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis won't allow it. Good for him. I see another state's attorney general is protesting this, as others are beginning to.

The Democrats have sunk themselves in their effort to sink us.

The Bottom Line is that the Democrats have demonized the Republicans so thoroughly that they, the Democrats, cannot allow any Republicans to be elected. Their "logic" comes to zero sum. The Democrats have not run on their accomplishments because the American people – except for the Left – loathe the inflation, the high fuel costs, the endless race-baiting, the child genital mutilation, an all the rest of it. Lee Zeldin, running for governor of New York, says he's heard it a million times "If you are not elected, we're leaving!" Democrat-controlled states are losing millions of people. Well, the 2/3s of the whole country that works and maintains the rest cannot "leave". There's nowhere else to go to.

But here are the Democrats going scorched earth – just like they did in the 1860 election. (Old habits die hard.) They cannot allow "Nazis" and "Fascists" to "take over America", quite forgetting that they are psychologically projecting: it is they who are combining corporations to the state in one big group (goose)stepping conglomeration. For example, the Democrats are 100 percent into child sex mutilation and sterilization, and in the entire country, there's not a large corporation that opposes this "Transgender" abomination. In fact, bar Elon Musk buying Twitter, the billionaire tech people and their social platforms are all for child sex mutilation and sterilization. And abortion! The Democrats thought – they really did – that the country worshiped Moloch so thoroughly that Democrats would sweep the election on that one issue alone.

That factoid, by itself, shows how delusional they are. The following must be written: They are no longer our fellow countrymen. They're something else, an American zombie knock-off of the authoritarian-style of political thought that produced the Nazis and Communists, and first took over a nation during the French Revolution. You could say they demonize because they don't believe in demons. Their godlessness provides them with no restrictions to their passions, and the same was true of the Nazis, the Communists, and the radical French revolutionaries.

We, for our part, don't need to demonize them in turn. They need conversion to the Faith that built Western Civilization, though right now that Faith now needs to reconvert itself. Most of all, however, we need to understand them. Get our minds around (technically, philosophically to "apprehend") them so that we can finally agree we must treat them as mentally ill, or possessed, and never – never – let them near power again. 

They simply don't believe sovereignty rests with the people, or God, or Natural Law. For all intents and purposes, sovereignty for them rests in their goofy ideas, or in their passions: "I feel like a girl, though I am a boy; therefore, cut it all off!" kind of passion. That's insane, but it encapsulates all their doctrine, and their prophets, as well.

  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.