‘Spies Who Lie’: N.Y. Post Calls Out 51 Intelligence ‘Experts’ Who Won’t Apologize for Discrediting Hunter Biden Reports

ByAmerican Faith

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The New York Post Editorial Board is calling out dozens of U.S. intelligence community “experts” who all claimed that the paper’s reporting on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop in the few weeks ahead of the 2020 election was “Russian disinformation,” noting that they have yet to apologize for their misleading comments.

Under the headline, “Spies who lie: 51 ‘intelligence’ experts refuse to apologize for discrediting true Hunter Biden story,” the editorial board ripped into them for claiming to be “nonpartisan” but acting in a very partisan manner, favoring the Democratic presidential candidate during the 2020 election.

In addition, the editors blasted the intelligence community officials for stating that The Post’s exclusive reporting on the contents of Biden’s laptop just a few weeks before the election was likely “Russian disinformation” — an ultimately false claim that was echoed by major media outlets.

The editorial begins:

They are the supposed nonpartisan group of top spies looking out for the best interest of the nation.

But the 51 former “intelligence” officials who cast doubt on The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories in a public letter really were just desperate to get Joe Biden elected president. And more than a year later, even after their Deep State sabotage has been shown again and again to be a lie, they refuse to own up to how they undermined an election.

The officials, including CNN pundit and professional fabricator James Clapper — a man who was nearly charged [with] perjury for lying to Congress — signed a letter saying that the laptop “has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

In the letter, the intelligence officials admitted that they did not know for certain whether Russia was involved in planting evidence on the laptop.

“We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement — just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case,” the letter said. (emphasis added)

The Post’s editorial board pointed out that the intelligence officials’ letter was written just five days after the paper’s first story revealing salacious details regarding alleged Biden family corruption. The board also noted that neither Hunter Biden nor then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden denied the accuracy of the details contained in The Post’s reporting, they simply deflected when asked about the reports.

“Didn’t these security experts think that if this was disinformation, the Biden campaign would have yelled to the heavens that the story was false?” the editorial board noted.

“Meanwhile, though the letter was advertised as being signed by people who worked ‘for presidents of both political parties,’ a majority of the officials were Democrats,” the board continued.

“Politico picked up the letter and ran the false headline ‘Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.’ That headline is still online today, even though the letter clearly says they don’t know if it’s Russian disinformation,” the editorial notes further.

“That headline was tweeted out by legions of Democrats, including current White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, as proof that it was all a con. That tweet also is still up despite being proven false,” it continues.

“Thus pure speculation by a group of biased officials became gospel among the media. This was ‘fake news,’ and could be safely ignored.”

The editorial goes on to note Big Tech’s involvement, reminding readers that Twitter banned the paper from being able to post anything further, claiming that the information was “hacked materials” without evidence of the allegation. Facebook also informed The Post that it would censor those reports as well until they could be “fact-checked” by a third party, which never happened.

“Thus, Big Tech, former government officials, and the media conspired together to bury a story,” the editorial continued, adding: “No, not just bury — create a false narrative that flipped the script to make Joe Biden the victim of a conspiracy. In short, they peddled online disinformation to sway an election.”

“Do the officials who tried to flip the 2020 election feel any regret for their actions? The Post reached out to those who signed the letter. Most would not answer the question. A few doubled-down, including [former DNI James] Clapper. No remorse. No shame. And no apologies,” the editorial added.

Reporting from The Conservative Brief.

We Are Being Played by the Globalists – But the Joke is on Themby charliej373By Charlie JohnstonOur latest podcast is out, this time with “Santa,” a vigilant trucker with the People’s Convoy. It is one of the biggest, best organized protests in American history, even though the thoroughly corrupted and dishonest establishment media is entirely ignoring it. Check it out. “Santa” is a good man and an American hero – precisely what I am talking about when I say this is the hour of the ordinary man. *********I am absolutely delighted that Denver’s Archbishop Samuel Aquila has invited the entire Archdiocese to join him in saying the Surrender Novena from March 17 through March 25. He sent out copies of the Novena to every Parish in the Archdiocese for the faithful. Longtime readers know that this is one of my favorite Novenas. In fact, I often give out prayer cards for the Novena at my talks (alas, I am out right now – but will reload when I am back in Denver for Easter). If you are outside the Archdiocese of Denver, you can get Surrender Novena prayer cards from Full of Grace USA. Full of Grace is owned by a dear friend, Lisa Fixler, who is a long-time supporter of my work. Frankly, I credit her promotion of the Novena for sparking a real revival of it among Catholic circles throughout the country – and more than a few Protestant circles, as well.Though I am on the road while all this is going on, I will pray the Novena in solidarity with my fellow Catholics in Denver – and in CORAC. I ask that all of you join with us in solidarity, as well. If you don’t have access to a prayer card, just use the online link I referenced above. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord!*********Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, I have had the uneasy feeling that we are being herded rather than informed. I don’t like being herded. A few observations and then my “final answer” on what I think is going on…We are all now supposed to agree that Vladimir Putin is among the greatest of history’s evil monsters. But I don’t. Oh, if you are an internal opponent to his rule you are likely to find yourself dead or, at least, imprisoned on flimsy charges. He is certainly a brutal autocrat – like those who have successfully ruled Russia for a millennium. I am not shocked to discover that, in a land where the politics is all bears, tigers and lions, that the ruler is not a lamb. The end of Putin’s rule does not mean we will get a lamb running that difficult land, only a new brutal autocrat. So the question, for me, is whether Putin is so strikingly more brutal than the average run of Russian brutal autocrats that his downfall is likely to bring someone better and more stable.In his dealings with the rest of the world I have found Putin to be patient, restrained and predictable. I think he has had the best grasp of a coherent geopolitical strategy of any national leader on the globe for the past two decades.When he invaded Georgia in 2008, he said it was to stop attacks on Russian soldiers in the separatist regions and to prevent a Georgian “genocide” against the separatists. Sounds like a convenient excuse, except that when his aims were accomplished, he withdrew his troops from Georgia. If he is a megalomaniacally expansionist monster, he clearly had not yet gotten the hang of it. When he took Crimea back in 2014 the Ukrainians did not even resist. Except for the anomaly of the 23 years that Crimea had been governed by Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union it had been governed for over 500 years from Russia. It had no historical connection to Ukraine at all. And it housed Russia’s warm-water port, which is vital to its ability to project naval power…kind of like San Diego is to America. Politically, culturally and militarily it was Russian – which may be why the Ukrainians did not contest its return to Russia. At that time, Russia also offered support to the separatist regions in the Donbass (two regions at the eastern edge of post-Soviet Ukraine). In that case, the Ukrainians did fight to retain the Donbass and unless Russia was willing to send troops, their bid for independence would fail. Russia was NOT willing to send significant amounts of troops, so the bid for independence did fail. But that did not change the fact that the Donbass was almost 70% ethnic Russian and wanted to re-unite with the mother country. So much for self-determination.For 23 years, Putin has consistently complained of NATO surrounding Russia and insisted that offering Ukraine membership in NATO was a red line for him. He has also consistently argued for the repatriation of those territories in Ukraine that have been historically Russian, rather than Ukrainian, that is, a big chunk of the land west of the Dnieper River – but has made clear he will accept the independence of the Donbass. For his trouble, western “diplomats” have effectively told him to mind his own business: that they have decided and he has no voice in the matter.Let’s just look at recent Russian history. The last Communist dictator was Mikael Gorbachev. He was NOT a particularly brutal autocrat and significantly relaxed the government’s rigid control over the individual and the economy. For his troubles, he was victim of a nearly successful attempted coup in August of 1991. Though the actual insurrectionists failed in that attempt, four months later the country Gorbachev presided over was dismantled – and there was no Soviet Union for him to preside over (an event I consider one of the great blessings of the age). Boris Yeltsin rose to rule Russia. He was too busy a drunk to be a proper murderous dictator, so he shopped it out. He gave his nod of approval to a coterie of oligarchs who were free to loot the country and kill opponents with impunity so long as they remained loyal to him. It brought Russia to the brink of catastrophic collapse. In 1999 Putin became acting president when the toll of age and booze caught up with Yeltsin and the pressure of trying to hold together a collapsing society was too much for the old tippler. Putin rapidly brought the oligarchs to heel and put Russian society on a trajectory away from catastrophic collapse. In 2000 he was rewarded by being elected to the presidency in his own right. (Understand that elections in Russia are not the same animal as they are in the United States – excepting, of course, the 2020 election.) He quickly anointed his own crew of oligarchs. They, too, looted the land even though they were substantially more restrained than the oligarchs under Yeltsin that brought the nation near ruin.Some suggest Putin is a great crusader who will restore Christianity. I have read several biographies of Putin including one that is sympathetic and one that is deeply critical. I accept that he is genuinely Christian – in a savage land. But I wonder whether his Christianity is an end in itself or in service to the state. If the latter, that would not shock me, for even in the time of the Czars it was presumed that the Russian Orthodox Church was primarily subordinate to the state – though it was dangerous for a Czar to get too crosswise with the Church. So I am not buying that he is the crusader of restoration. Yet I note with no little shame that when, a few years back, Christians were under massive and murderous persecution in the Middle East, Russia was the only country in the world that mounted large-scale assistance to those persecuted Christians rather than just wringing their hands. I am under no illusions about who Vladimir Putin is, but I think the folks whipping up white-hot hatred of him are. Or maybe they are not: for most of them, white-hot hatred of Putin serves their major agenda. Putin is not the great Christian hope – but he is the biggest impediment to globalist dreams of world subjugation.We are all now supposed to agree that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is the modern-day equivalent of Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln all rolled into one. But I don’t. Certainly I was inspired by his retort to the American offer to whisk him to safety: “I need ammunition, not a ride.” It was evocative of American Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe’s reply to a German demand of surrender at Bastogne: “Nuts!” and to Admiral David Farragut’s cry at the battle of Mobile Bay: “Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead!” But I have a little trouble getting all warm and fuzzy about a guy who has been primarily bankrolled by George Soros (with the ardent support of Bill Gates, to boot).Zelensky was elected president of Ukraine (and remember, Ukrainian elections are not the same animal as pre-2020 elections were in the United States, either), following the brief reign of Petro Poroshenko, an interim head of state after the Maidan Revolution which toppled former President Viktor Yanukovych, who had good relations with Russia. Many believe, with good evidence, that it was actually a coup orchestrated by western powers, including the USA. Strikingly, a telephone call between Asst. Sec. of State Victoria Nuland and the American Ambassador was intercepted which caught them discussing who the US intended to install in the new Ukrainian government – well before the existing one had been toppled. An actual neo-Nazi group was used by conspirators to help topple the government – and later harass the Russian majority in Eastern Ukraine. The biggest legitimate objection to Yanukovych was the corruption he tolerated – and even encouraged.I don’t know if Zelensky actually tried to stop corruption in Ukraine or just shift it to benefit the friends and families of high-ranking officials in the United States. Certainly, the interim president had appointed some genuinely independent prosecutors, but when one of them ventured too close to Burisma (which was paying Hunter Biden $50,000 per month) then-Vice-President Joe Biden very publicly demanded that the prosecutor be fired or the US would revoke a billion dollars in loan guarantees. Other than the two-tiered justice system that has taken hold in America, I have no idea why Biden has not been impeached and jailed. Since then, Ukraine has been both honey pot and money laundering haven for high officials’ families and friends in America.What is certain is that Ukraine is a victim state, as has often happened to a border state trapped between two more powerful rival countries. The last Ukrainian president who tried to build good relations with Russia was toppled – with the help of Barack Obama’s State Dept. The last Ukrainian prosecutor who tried to root out big corruption was fired at the insistence of the very man who currently occupies the Oval Office. Whatever Zelensky’s personal principles, he is in a constant battle for survival whether or not he is at war.We are supposed to continue to believe that, as it was for nearly a century, America is a worthy champion for justice in the world and for self-determination for nations. Shoot, America is no longer either of those things for even the American people. It is all do what the government and establishment media says or be cancelled, fired or jailed. We lack even the aspirational moral heft to be dictating what other countries must or must not do anymore. How can we declare it a moral crime for Russia to invade Ukraine, but not for China to brutally subjugate Hong Kong or to declare the international waters of the South China Sea Chinese territory by building artificial islands there? Why would we absolutely refuse any diplomacy with Russia to preserve the territorial integrity of historic Ukraine while offering self-determination to the Russian majority in the Donbass? Why did we fail to use diplomacy to try to preserve the integrity of Hong Kong as agreed to by treaty? Why have we not cut off China from financial ties when it is actively attempting a genocide against the Uighurs? There may well be pragmatic reasons for some of this, but let us not pretend there is any moral clarity – or even coherence – involved. The foreign policy that says it is not our business how territorially aggressive China is but a vital interest to keep Russia from behaving similarly is of a piece with the American domestic policy that it is okay to loot, burn and maim if you are a leftist protester but a crime of the gravest sort to get out of hand while protesting from the right.The answer would be to use diplomacy to determine actual aims of competing nations and then, if one is intransigent, determine what level of sanctions or force to use to prevent needless tragedies. If that approach had been followed, then sometime in the last 23 years, America and other western powers would have sat down with Russia and Ukraine to seriously discuss self-determination in the Donbass and the consequences of the expansion of NATO. Would Russia have been reasonable? I don’t know. It was never tried. Just over a week ago, Russia offered four conditions that, if met, would lead to its quick withdrawal from Ukraine. It is largely what Putin has been arguing for during all the years in which the west ignored his security concerns. Even now, the West did not give a serious answer but said it was just a justification for the invasion. Okay, if it’s just a bluff, why not call it? That would give clarity to all – and would reassure people like me (who think we are being played) that this is truly only about Russian aggression. The reality is that we have had dismal and deeply incoherent foreign policy since the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. The very best it has been able to rise to in the last 34 years has been to marginal competence. Our foreign affairs desks have largely been manned by smug mediocrities (and that is an insult to mediocrities) who have been less interested in achieving peace and justice among the nations than a neurotic need to prove they are smarter and more powerful than everyone else. It is truly pathetic – and now the chickens of ineptitude are coming home to roost.Meanwhile, Asst. Secretary of State Victoria Nuland confirmed in a Senate hearing that America DOES have over 25 biolabs in Ukraine. Nuland deflected the question of whether any are bio weapons labs, but did note how dangerous it would be for any to fall into Russian hands. A century and a half ago, some farmers would go to the creek to water down the milk they sold to get more volume. This led Henry Thoreau to observe that some circumstantial evidence is compelling, like when you find a trout in the milk. The testimony does not prove America is operating bio weapons labs in Ukraine, but the dancing around the questions sure smells like a trout.At this point I see NO clear good guys in this scenario, but the worst of the obvious bad guys is the United States and western diplomats following its lead. Putin may be acting out of the frustration of having his concerns contemptuously ignored and dismissed for 23 years or he may be an aggressive expansionist tyrant, as the great historian, Victor Davis Hanson suspects. We could know with more certainty if the west would open talks about Putin’s peace proposal, thereby calling his bluff – or negotiating peace with territorial integrity for Ukraine. But America will not. So we cannot know with the certainty most pundits assume what Putin’s ultimate goal is. Yet it would very simple to find out.I have been very slow and methodical in putting this piece together, largely because many thinkers I deeply respect have come to some significantly different conclusions than I have. As you know, I am perfectly happy to take positions that are deeply contrary to conventional thinking, but I am also very careful to try to get it as right as I possibly can, so when thinkers I respect have a dramatically different take than I do, I proceed very deliberately. I will incur the wrath of friends if need be for the sake of candor in a critical situation, but I do not take it lightly – and don’t do it if it is not absolutely necessary. Oddly, many trusted colleagues, in a moment of disagreement on a substantial matter, accuse me of letting my ego get in the way of seeing clearly. Embarrassingly, even though I have been proven right far more often in those situations than wrong, not once has any who made that charge ever apologized to me. Fortunately, I have three friends with whom I have disagreed on significant matters of substance who have NEVER made such a charge. One is my dear friend, Desmond Birch, with whom I have had a few serious areas of substantive disagreement. While vociferous in seeking to prove his case, he has never cast aspersions on my motives or interior integrity. Another is my son whose candid counsel has, on several occasions, spared me error. The final is a federal official, so he will remain nameless lest the people who currently command power were to target him. It is as refreshing as a cool mountain stream to have friends and colleagues with whom you can vigorously disagree without having any questions as to their motives or intent. Another popular trope among some who unexpectedly disagree with me on a matter is to tell me God told them to instruct me. I have so tired of this wearisome banality that I usually tell them that God has my number and will give me a call if it is needful. Actually, God has often spoken to me through other people, but the message always comes cloaked in humility and respect rather than anger and imperial presumption. I listen for His voice in all I encounter. Sorry for the digression, but I wanted you to know how seriously I take it when a matter of great weight and substance is at hand.Italian Abp. Carlo Maria Vigano wrote a comprehensive and profound letter completely contrary to the conventional wisdom on this fight. While I think he got well ahead of his skis in the last half of the letter – where he is interpreting the mountain of data he covered in the first half (making of Zelensky and Ukraine the same sort of one-dimensional parody of evil the globalists have been making of Putin and Russia) the data covered in the first half is compelling and very well-sourced. Ukraine HAS become a haven of corruption for western officials; it HAS persecuted the Russian majority in the Donbass while refusing to recognize its right of self-determination; and it HAS actually incorporated neo-Nazi militias to carry out that persecution. (It was nearly unbelievable to me that a nation with a Jewish president would use such neo-Nazis to carry such things out, which led me to dismiss such charges out of hand. But the evidence is overwhelming.) George Weigel, a Catholic establishmentarian I have much admired, wrote a refutation of Vigano’s letter in First Things. It is a very short piece because Weigel does not bother to refute the facts Vigano marshalled: rather, he just sneered at and smeared Vigano. I would have been deeply shocked were it not for the fact that Weigel has been fumble-fisted on this subject since the invasion began. He clearly is not conversant with some of the most elementary facts involved – but it is way beneath what I have come to expect from him to simply refute an argument with a sneer. I understand that none of us can have immediate expertise in all things. But for heavens sakes, don’t write about a serious subject until you have at least familiarized yourself with the basics.The great Dennis Prager gives solid commentary, except that he insists that the encircling of Russia is not and should not be a legitimate concern for Russia. I think he is very wrong on this point: every country in world history has regarded encirclement by potentially hostile states to be a provocation. I appreciate that Prager continues to make his arguments with logic rather than a sneer.The reaction of both the west and the western commentariat to the invasion of Ukraine has been a cluster of chaos, misinformation, disinformation and propaganda. There has never been a time in my life when the facts in such a situation have been so intentionally garbled as to make informed commentary an incredibly difficult proposition. And yet, by questioning obviously contradictory narratives, one can reach some conclusions, tenuous as they might be. I have come to four firm conclusions, though they are not of the sort that everyone else is focusing on. I will finish with those, but first, the questions I have been grappling with.I largely agree with Kurt Schlichter’s assessment of what America’s obligations in this situation are, though I am bumfuzzled by America and the west’s refusal to even try for a negotiated peace settlement when Russia is so eager to sit down and talk. Last week I noted that Russia had ironically made the same logistical errors in its invasion of Ukraine that Napoleon did in his failed invasion of Russia over 200 years ago. I have come to think I may well have been wrong in that assessment. What if Russia’s invasion was not designed to subjugate the bulk of Ukraine, but to finally force the west to the diplomatic bargaining table? Retired U.S. Colonel Douglas MacGregor has a dramatically different take on what is happening in the war. A botched invasion and a soft invasion designed to trigger negotiations would look much the same – but have very different long-term consequences. There are a whole host of problems ahead for Putin if this is a botched invasion. There are a whole host of problems ahead for Ukraine if this was a gambit to start negotiations – and America and the west has once again spurned them with contempt.Much of the commentary has been a silly triumphalism projecting the commenters’ own wishes and prejudices. I have seen several say that this forever destroys the illusion of the invincibility of the Russian Army. What poppycock! – absolutely ignorant of even recent Russian history.  Russia has a powerful military force and tradition but also a habit of occasionally dramatically underestimating an opponent and getting routed as a result. It did that in Japan in 1905, then with its disastrous entrance into WWI in 1915, then in its failed effort to make Finland into a client state in 1939-40, then in its absurdly botched Operation Mars in WWII, the failed invasion of Afghanistan that began in 1979 and lasted for 10 years before Russian forces slunk back home and, most recently, the First Chechen War in 1994-95 which was a complete defeat. On two occasions, the Russian failures born of absurd hubris have led to catastrophic regime change (the Communist Revolution in 1917 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991). On the others, humiliating defeat has been prelude to Russia getting it right with brutal efficiency. So Russian military failures born of hubris are common (they are like great Minnesota Vikings teams going to a Superbowl) and either trigger the collapse of the existing ruling regime OR massive retaliation. Anyone who believes in a myth of an invincible Russian Army is an uninformed dolt – and anyone who believes that the embarrassing Russian defeats that happen with some regularity signify long-term weakness is dangerously ignorant.Sanctions are an appropriate tool of diplomacy in crisis situations, but I don’t understand why our government chose to go full cancel culture on Russia – canceling writers and composers long dead and hating on random Russians and shutting off Russian access to financial services – just as Canada tried to do with its dissidents. Meantime, America is limp about sanctioning oil from Russia or opening back up our pipelines to give Europeans an alternative. So the actions we do take are geared to force Russia into closer cooperation with China in order to do basic banking while not doing anything to reduce the profitability of Russian oil?! What malicious halfwit came up with this? For crying out loud, we are exempting Russia from sanctions in order to get their help in making Iran a nuclear power. Now Saudi Arabia is not taking America’s calls and is considering accepting the Chinese Yuan in payment for oil. That could be the first step in de-throning the American dollar as the world’s default currency – and if that happens the global economic collapse begins in earnest in the west. It will make Venezuelan poverty look like a Sunday smorgasbord.I think the American chattering classes have not thought this through very well and have taken the wrong aims altogether. But even if the aims they have chosen are the right ones, the means they are using to accomplish them are guaranteed to fail. Our plan is, apparently, to drive Russia deeper into the arms of China (our top geopolitical foe) to get basic financial services; keep Russian oil profitable by treating American energy resources as the new Ivermectin – a safe and effective tool that our drooling class forbids Americans to use; hate on and cancel all things even vaguely Russian without due process or any semblance of law; and refuse to even think about any negotiations for peace. What could possibly go wrong?And now, the conclusions I have drawn from this chaos:The globalists are determined to have war, thinking they can bring down the existing order and be the only ones left standing to restore order and rule. I remember decades ago realizing that all the talk of what started World War I was nonsense. The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand triggered it, but the reason the war started was because many western European nations, Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm foremost among them, were determined to go to war. The Kaiser was determined to be the continental hegemon in Europe and was convinced he had the firepower to pull it off. If the Archduke Ferdinand had died in his bed of old age, there would have been another trigger to set things off because the Kaiser was determined to have war to elevate German supremacy. When all the conventional means of de-escalating this war are spurned by westerners and the sanctions are designed to enhance, rather than reduce, conflict it is hard for me to come to any other conclusion. The globalists want war because they believe the destruction it will bring will cement their power. It is exactly the sort of hubris that led the old Soviet Union and other communist nations to adopt serial five-year economic plans, each of which left the country more impoverished and miserable than the last. The self-appointed masters of the universe are not as smart as they think – but they may be able to spark a global crisis that they can’t control.This is a calculated and sustained assault on the industrious, prosperous, self-reliant and pious middle class, which is the great social impediment to the globalists’ dreams of unchallenged dominance. This began with the overblown Covid crisis two years ago. The big box stores, multi-national corporations, and laptop economic classes were virtually untouched by the insane restrictions. Meanwhile, small businesses and business owners across the world and the world’s churches were shut down with impunity while strip clubs, gambling houses and abortion mills were declared essential services. Our children were groomed to submit to ridiculous orders without question, while many shallow adults thought the science was whatever CNN said it was. Back in the 80s, after well over a decade of study and contemplation of historical societies on the verge of catastrophic collapse, I realized that none of those societies had a healthy, industrious, self-reliant and largely pious middle class. I thought that would be our secret weapon in any coming calamity, that the great middle, in extremis, would ditch the smug fantasies of the entitled classes and assert themselves. Frankly, I suspect some set of someones recently came to the same conclusion I did 40 years ago – and now seeks to destroy that middle class specifically because it is the biggest impediment to their authoritarian dreams. It can create great strife and misery, but it will not ultimately work. Even if they are successful, they cannot remove the living memory in our middle class of what they were and what they want for their children – and when it looks darkest, they will fight valiantly for it.The globalists are trying to create perpetual “emergencies” to justify their seizure of authoritarian emergency powers over the people they are supposed to serve. The most brilliant satire site of our age, the Babylon Bee, captured this dynamic by noting how Vladimir Putin has single-handedly ended the Covid “pandemic.” The Covid panic was running on fumes, not particularly useful anymore to officials who sought to wield draconian “emergency” powers over those they are supposed to serve. Now we have the Ukrainian crisis and the mandatory two minutes of hate against all things Russian every few hours. Shoot, I suspect that restaurants which, a few weeks ago, demanded a vaxx passport for entry will now accept a sticker of a Ukrainian flag. It is not Covid or Russia or whatever that officials want to protect us from: they want to protect themselves from us thinking independently and rejecting their arbitrary rule. It comes just in time as excess deaths among those who took the Covid shot have spiked dramatically in the last year. And this is just the beginning. None of this is about safety or service, but simply about power. Our current ruling elites are glad to see you die if it prolongs their grasp on temporal power, fleeting as it is. Maintaining a perpetual state of emergency is key to holding on to their precious.The birthing pangs of a New World Order have begun – but it will not be the order that globalists expect it to be. The globalists, even those inside the Church, do not believe in God. Rather, they believe that they are the titans; that it is their destiny and right to rule the world and all its serfs with an iron fist. This has been the belief of every tyrant who has ever risen throughout world history – and all of their bones lie a-mouldering in the grave. I believe they will succeed in bringing down the old order throughout the world. In fact, I believe God is using their ravenous malice to tear away the old order and punish us all for our infidelity. But it is God, Himself, and the people who call humbly on Him, who will erect a new world order in His image, with peace, prosperity and true brotherhood. I do not say He will rule directly. In fact I say just the opposite. Rather, a renewed people who call on Him and follow Him instead of their own itching ears will build a society based on justice and truth. All those who insist on spurning Him will pass away like so much chaff in His winnowing fan. The globalists now plot our destruction, but it is their own that they secure. The sequence of the great battle between the Church and the anti-Church, the Gospel and the anti-Gospel is begun. Come Lord Jesus!Maranatha!

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10 Realities of Ukraine

We should not rehash the past but learn from it—

and thereby ensure Vladimir Putin is defeated now

and deterred in the future.

By Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

March 16, 2022

One. Reassuring an enemy what one will not do ensures that the enemy will do just that and more. Unpredictability and occasional enigmatic silence bolster deterrence. But Joe Biden’s predictable reassurance to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will show restraint means Putin likely will not. 

Two. No-fly zones don’t work in a big-power, symmetrical standoff. In a cost-benefit analysis, they are not worth the risk of shooting down the planes of a nuclear power. They usually do little to stop planes outside of such zones shooting missiles into them. Sending long-range, high-altitude anti-aircraft batteries to Ukraine to deny Russian air superiority is a far better way of regaining air parity.

Three. Europe, NATO members, and Germany, in particular, have de facto admitted that their past decades of shutting down nuclear plants, coal mines, and oil and gas fields have left Europe at the mercy of Russia. They are promising to rearm and meet their promised military contributions. By their actions, they are admitting that their critics, the United States, in particular, were right, and they were dangerously wrong in empowering Putin.

Four. China is now pro-Russian. Beijing wants Russian natural resources at a discount. Russia will pay for overpriced access to Chinese finance, commerce, and markets. Yet if Russia loses the Ukraine war, goes broke, and as an international pariah is ostracized, then China will likely cut the smelly Russian albatross from its neck—in fear of new Western financial, cultural, and commercial clout.

Five. Americans are finally digesting just how destructive the humiliating flight from Afghanistan was. The catastrophe signaled to Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran that Western deterrence had died. 

No surprise that Russia sent missiles into a Ukrainian base near the Polish-NATO border. North Korea in January launched more missiles than in any month in its history. Iran sent missiles into Kurdistan. China daily announces it is just a matter of time until it absorbs Taiwan. The tens of billions of dollars of sophisticated weaponry sent to Ukraine by the West are still far less than what the U.S. military handed over to the terrorist Taliban.

Six. The Ukraine war did not cause inflation and record gas prices. Both were already spiking by early February 2022. 

The cause was the Biden Administration’s year-long radical expansion of the money supply at a time of post-COVID, pent-up consumer demand. It foolishly continued de facto zero-interest rates. Its generous COVID subsidies for the unemployed discouraged a return to work while slashing U.S. oil and gas production and pipelines. 

Prior to Putin’s invasion, Joe Biden was quite publicly blaming greedy corporations, oil companies, COVID, and Donald Trump for the inflation he had birthed in 2021. And he was claiming undeniable high prices were only temporary or mostly an obsession of the elite.

Seven. Putin did not invade during the Trump tenure—although he had been more aggressive under previous American leadership with his prior attacks on Georgia, Ukraine, and Crimea. Russia stayed still when oil prices were low, fuel supplies in the West were plentiful, and the United States was confident. When the United States was neither bogged down in optional military interventions nor led by a president predictably accommodating to Russian aggressions, Russia stayed quiet. 

Putin took note of increased NATO and U.S. defense spending. He feared low global oil prices and record American oil and gas production. He was wary after unpredictable American strikes against enemies like ISIS, Abu al-Baghdadi, and the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. 

Eight. It is not “escalation” to send arms to Ukraine. The Russians far more aggressively supplied the North Koreans and North Vietnamese in their wars against America, without spreading the war globally. Pakistan, Syria, and Iran sent deadly weapons—many in turn supplied to them by Russia, North Korea, and China—to kill thousands of Americans during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Nine. Putin may never fully absorb Ukraine as long as it can easily be supplied across its borders by four NATO countries. The United States deadlocked in the Korean War, lost the Vietnam War, was stalled in Iraq, and fled Afghanistan in part because its enemies were easily supplied by nearby border friends on the assumption the United States could not strike such abettors.

Ten. It is not “un-American” to point out that prior American appeasement under the Obama and the Biden Administrations explains not why Putin wished to go into Ukraine, but why he felt he could. It is not “treasonous” to say Ukraine and the United States previously should have stayed out of each other’s domestic affairs and politics—but still do not excuse Putin’s savage aggression. It is not traitorous to admit that Russia for centuries relied on buffer states between Europe—lost when its Warsaw Pact satellite members joined NATO after its defeat in the Cold War. But that reality also does not justify Putin’s savage attack.

We should not rehash the past but learn from it—and thereby ensure Putin is defeated now and deterred in the future.

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Ex-FBI Special Agent: “Do We Get To Debate World War?… Tucker Carlson reminded us… Brink of War… Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa—appear to be standing together against American bullying. What could go wrong, other than a World War?”

March 18, 2022

Everyone who is against a World War III that could involved nuclear weapons should read the former special FBI agent’s analysis of the danger we are all in at this moment with the warmongering RINOs and Joe Biden [Link: https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/do-we-get-to-debate-world-war?s=r] – The Catholic Monitor

 

 – March 13, 2022 

Besides China, Putin Has Another …

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It appears that Ukraine war’s real purpose, besides a possible World War III, may be about China destroying the USA as a Global financial power using the incredibly brainless Team Biden as a pawn for “Russia’s de-dollarization efforts”:

De-Dollarization Efforts in China and Russia – CRS Reports

“Besides China, Putin 
Has Another Potential 
De-dollarization Partner in Asia… India” – The Catholic Monitor [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2022/03/is-ukrainewwiiis-real-agenda-about.html]

– WORLDWAR III IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER IF RUSSIA AND CHINA CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THEIR PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION

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Is Biden spreading WWIII to the Middle East, Br. Alexis Bugnolo vs. Laramie Hirsch on WWIII & China becoming the Dominate Economic Power? – Bishop Rene Gracida [https://abyssum.org/]

– The Real Reason for the War In Iraq? Was a Iraq threat to destroy the US dollar the real reason for the war in Iraq? Is the president of Iran crazy? – The Catholic Monitor July 21, 2007 [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2007_07_15_archive.html]

– No doubt that very same elite will now cite Putin’s criticism of them as reason to assert they have the moral high ground.

Putin is now so roundly vilified, he is turning into some kind of mythical Emmanuel Goldstein figure onto which every crisis and catastrophe can be pinned by the regime.

I think he’s on to something. If he weren’t, why are our rulers lying to us? Why are discordant voices simply shouted down? Is it too late to have, like, an actual discussion of what’s going on, where we’re headed? – Mark Wauck, retired FBI special agent and RealClear Politics as well as American Thinker contributor

Mark Wauck, a retired FBI special agent and RealClear Politics as well as American Thinker contributor, has written an important piece, “Do We Get To Debate World War?.” 

Everyone who is against a World War III that could involved nuclear weapons should read the former special FBI agent’s analysis of the danger we are all in at this moment with the warmongering RINOs and Joe Biden:

Do We Get To Debate World War?Last night Tucker Carlson reminded us how we got here, to the brink of war with Russia. I know it’s been a long trek to this point, but an…[https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/do-we-get-to-debate-world-war?s=r]

Here is a good part of the essay:

I know it’s been a long trek to this point, but an unquestionable turning point was disgraced former AG Bluto Barr’s decision to bury the Baidan Crime Family’s “laptop from hell”, to say nothing about the NYPost’s revelation of the unquestionably authentic revelations of what everyone knew: Zhou Baidan has for years, maybe decades, been at the head of an influence peddling racket that sold the interests of the American people to foreign powers. For money.

It was Bluto Barr’s decision that, because he disliked President Trump, Zhou was a good enough replacement for Trump—despite his clear corruption, susceptibility to blackmail, and decrepit mental condition. And so Bluto kept his mouth shut while the Deep State and its media proxies condemned the NYPost as a purveyor of “Russian disinformation”. He kept his mouth shut while Zhou proclaimed on national television that, in Bluto’s brave new world of Deep State coups, the truth had somehow become “untrue.” And for this betrayal of the country Bluto is receiving the “strange new respect” treatment from the usual MSM suspects, basking in deferential interviews.

All of this, mind you, came as the sequel to four years or more of DC Establishment and MSM fueled lies about Putin and Russia, poisoning the minds of Americans—few of whom were really paying attention. One hysterical hoax after another, one faux impeachment after another, culminating in the suppression of the “laptop from hell” that, as Tucker points out, served as the excuse for instituting the DC Establishment and Deep State’s regime of censorship by Big Tech proxy. That new censorship regime was cemented in place with the Covid hoax, so here we are.

The result is the totally predictable debacle of not only our economy but of our entire constitutional order, but Bluto is too modest to take credit. He’s busy talking up the virtues of that famous “principled conservative” Jeb! And the MSM isn’t asking him any uncomfortable questions about what he knew, and when. I think we all know the answers. J6 was an “insurrection” but Bluto couldn’t stir himself to act when the country was turned upside down for a year by BLM and Antifa.

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10 Realities of Ukraine

We should not rehash the past but learn from it—

and thereby ensure Vladimir Putin is defeated now

and deterred in the future.

By Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

March 16, 2022

One. Reassuring an enemy what one will not do ensures that the enemy will do just that and more. Unpredictability and occasional enigmatic silence bolster deterrence. But Joe Biden’s predictable reassurance to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he will show restraint means Putin likely will not. 

Two. No-fly zones don’t work in a big-power, symmetrical standoff. In a cost-benefit analysis, they are not worth the risk of shooting down the planes of a nuclear power. They usually do little to stop planes outside of such zones shooting missiles into them. Sending long-range, high-altitude anti-aircraft batteries to Ukraine to deny Russian air superiority is a far better way of regaining air parity.

Three. Europe, NATO members, and Germany, in particular, have de facto admitted that their past decades of shutting down nuclear plants, coal mines, and oil and gas fields have left Europe at the mercy of Russia. They are promising to rearm and meet their promised military contributions. By their actions, they are admitting that their critics, the United States, in particular, were right, and they were dangerously wrong in empowering Putin.

Four. China is now pro-Russian. Beijing wants Russian natural resources at a discount. Russia will pay for overpriced access to Chinese finance, commerce, and markets. Yet if Russia loses the Ukraine war, goes broke, and as an international pariah is ostracized, then China will likely cut the smelly Russian albatross from its neck—in fear of new Western financial, cultural, and commercial clout.

Five. Americans are finally digesting just how destructive the humiliating flight from Afghanistan was. The catastrophe signaled to Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran that Western deterrence had died. 

No surprise that Russia sent missiles into a Ukrainian base near the Polish-NATO border. North Korea in January launched more missiles than in any month in its history. Iran sent missiles into Kurdistan. China daily announces it is just a matter of time until it absorbs Taiwan. The tens of billions of dollars of sophisticated weaponry sent to Ukraine by the West are still far less than what the U.S. military handed over to the terrorist Taliban.

Six. The Ukraine war did not cause inflation and record gas prices. Both were already spiking by early February 2022. 

The cause was the Biden Administration’s year-long radical expansion of the money supply at a time of post-COVID, pent-up consumer demand. It foolishly continued de facto zero-interest rates. Its generous COVID subsidies for the unemployed discouraged a return to work while slashing U.S. oil and gas production and pipelines. 

Prior to Putin’s invasion, Joe Biden was quite publicly blaming greedy corporations, oil companies, COVID, and Donald Trump for the inflation he had birthed in 2021. And he was claiming undeniable high prices were only temporary or mostly an obsession of the elite.

Seven. Putin did not invade during the Trump tenure—although he had been more aggressive under previous American leadership with his prior attacks on Georgia, Ukraine, and Crimea. Russia stayed still when oil prices were low, fuel supplies in the West were plentiful, and the United States was confident. When the United States was neither bogged down in optional military interventions nor led by a president predictably accommodating to Russian aggressions, Russia stayed quiet. 

Putin took note of increased NATO and U.S. defense spending. He feared low global oil prices and record American oil and gas production. He was wary after unpredictable American strikes against enemies like ISIS, Abu al-Baghdadi, and the Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. 

Eight. It is not “escalation” to send arms to Ukraine. The Russians far more aggressively supplied the North Koreans and North Vietnamese in their wars against America, without spreading the war globally. Pakistan, Syria, and Iran sent deadly weapons—many in turn supplied to them by Russia, North Korea, and China—to kill thousands of Americans during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Nine. Putin may never fully absorb Ukraine as long as it can easily be supplied across its borders by four NATO countries. The United States deadlocked in the Korean War, lost the Vietnam War, was stalled in Iraq, and fled Afghanistan in part because its enemies were easily supplied by nearby border friends on the assumption the United States could not strike such abettors.

Ten. It is not “un-American” to point out that prior American appeasement under the Obama and the Biden Administrations explains not why Putin wished to go into Ukraine, but why he felt he could. It is not “treasonous” to say Ukraine and the United States previously should have stayed out of each other’s domestic affairs and politics—but still do not excuse Putin’s savage aggression. It is not traitorous to admit that Russia for centuries relied on buffer states between Europe—lost when its Warsaw Pact satellite members joined NATO after its defeat in the Cold War. But that reality also does not justify Putin’s savage attack.

We should not rehash the past but learn from it—and thereby ensure Putin is defeated now and deterred in the future.

Letter #51, 2022, Thurs, Mar 17: Conclave

Dr. Robert Moynihan via icontactmail4.com	5:07 PM (3 hours ago)

    Letter #51, 2022, Thursday, March 17: Conclave    The pontificate of Pope Francis began nine years ago. He was elected on March 13 and installed on March 19, the Feast of St. Joseph, in 2013. That means that in two days he will have completed nine years as Pope. But already in Rome and elsewhere people are starting to discuss the end of his pontificate and what may come after.    In this context, the veteran Italian Vaticanist Sandro Magister has just published a document which is starting to circulate around the internet. Signed by “Demos” (a Greek word for the common people of an ancient Greek state; it is the first part of the word “democracy” which means the common people rule or hold the power in a state) we do not know who wrote the document, but Magister says that it may have been written by a high-ranking Church official, possibly even one of the Cardinals. Essentially, the document calls on the Cardinals to consider well how to preserve the faith of the Church when they choose the next pope at some point in the next few years.    Church Militant picked up the story and wrote a summary analysis of the document here. Below is the complete text. —RM    P.S. If anyone has the means and inclination, this letter would be greatly helped by your support. To send a small donation click here or on the red button below. Support The Moynihan Letters     A Memorandum on the Next Conclave Is Circulating Among the Cardinals. Here It Is (link)    (sm) Since the beginning of Lent the cardinals who will elect the future pope have been passing this memorandum around. Its author, who goes by the name of Demos, “people” in Greek, is unknown, but shows himself a thorough master of the subject. It cannot be ruled out that he himself is a cardinal.    THE VATICAN TODAY    Commentators of every school, if for different reasons, with the possible exception of Father Spadaro, SJ, agree that this pontificate is a disaster in many or most respects; a catastrophe.    1. The Successor of St. Peter is the rock on which the Church is built, a major source and cause of worldwide unity. Historically (St. Irenaeus), the Pope and the Church of Rome have a unique role in preserving the apostolic tradition, the rule of faith, in ensuring that the Churches continue to teach what Christ and the apostles taught. Previously it was: “Roma locuta. Causa finita est.” Today it is: “Roma loquitur. Confusio augetur.”    (A)   The German synod speaks on homosexuality, women priests, communion for the divorced. The Papacy is silent.    (B)   Cardinal Hollerich rejects the Christian teaching on sexuality. The Papacy is silent. This is doubly significant because the Cardinal is explicitly heretical; he does not use code or hints. If the Cardinal were to continue without Roman correction, this would represent another deeper breakdown of discipline, with few (any?) precedents in history. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith must act and speak.    (C)   The silence is emphasised when contrasted with the active persecution of the Traditionalists and the contemplative convents.    2. The Christo-centricity of teaching is being weakened; Christ is being moved from the centre. Sometimes Rome even seems to be confused about the importance of a strict monotheism, hinting at some wider concept of divinity; not quite pantheism, but like a Hindu panentheism variant.    (A)   Pachamama is idolatrous; perhaps it was not intended as such initially.    (B)   The contemplative nuns are being persecuted and attempts are being made to change the teachings of the charismatics.    (C)   The Christo-centric legacy of St. John Paul II in faith and morals is under systematic attack. Many of the staff of the Roman Institute for the Family have been dismissed; most students have left. The Academy for Life is gravely damaged, e.g., some members recently supported assisted suicide. The Pontifical Academies have members and visiting speakers who support abortion.    3. The lack of respect for the law in the Vatican risks becoming an international scandal. These issues have been crystalized through the present Vatican trial of ten accused of financial malpractices, but the problem is older and wider.    (A)   The Pope has changed the law four times during the trial to help the prosecution.    (B)   Cardinal Becciu has not been treated justly because he was removed from his position and stripped of his cardinalatial dignities without any trial. He did not receive due process. Everyone has a right to due process.    (C)   As the Pope is head of the Vatican state and the source of all legal authority, he has used this power to intervene in legal procedures.    (D)   The Pope sometimes (often) rules by papal decrees (motu proprio) which eliminate the right to appeal of those affected.    (E)   Many staff, often priests, have been summarily dismissed from the Vatican Curia, often without good reason.    (F)   Phone tapping is regularly practised. I am not sure how often it is authorized.    (G)   In the English case against Torzi, the judge criticised the Vatican prosecutors harshly. They are either incompetent and/or were nobbled, prevented from giving the full picture.    (H)   The raid by the Vatican Gendarmeria, led by Dr. Giani in 2017 on the auditor’s (Libero Milone) office on Italian territory was probably illegal and certainly intimidating and violent. It is possible that evidence against Milone was fabricated.    4. (A) The financial situation of the Vatican is grave. For the past ten years (at least), there have nearly always been financial deficits. Before COVID, these deficits ranged around €20 million annually. For the last three years, they have been around €30-35 million annually. The problems predate both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict.    (B)   The Vatican is facing a large deficit in the Pensions Fund. Around 2014 the experts from COSEA estimated the deficit would be around € 800 million in 2030. This was before COVID.    (C)   It is estimated that the Vatican has lost € 217 million on the Sloane Avenue property in London. In the 1980’s, the Vatican was forced to pay out $ 230 million after the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. Through inefficiency and corruption during the past 25-30 years, the Vatican has lost at least another € 100 million, and it probably would be much higher (perhaps 150-200 million).    (D)   Despite the Holy Father’s recent decision, the process of investing has not been centralized (as recommended by COSEA in 2014 and attempted by the Secretariat for the Economy in 2015-16) and remains immune to expert advice. For decades, the Vatican has dealt with disreputable financiers avoided by all respectable bankers in Italy.    (E)   The return on the 5261 Vatican properties remains scandalously low. In 2019, the return (before COVID) was nearly $ 4,500 a year. In 2020, it was € 2,900 per property.    (F)   The changing role of Pope Francis in the financial reforms (incomplete but substantial progress as far as reducing crime is concerned, much less successful, except at IOR, in terms of profitability) is a mystery and an enigma.    Initially the Holy Father strongly backed the reforms. He then prevented the centralization of investments, opposed the reforms and most attempts to unveil corruption, and supported (then) Archbishop Becciu, at the centre of Vatican financial establishment. Then in 2020, the Pope turned on Becciu and eventually ten persons were placed on trial and charged. Over the years, few prosecutions were attempted from AIF reports of infringements.    The external auditors Price Waterhouse and Cooper were dismissed and the Auditor General Libero Milone was forced to resign on trumped up charges in 2017. They were coming too close to the corruption in the Secretariat of State.    5. The political influence of Pope Francis and the Vatican is negligible. Intellectually, Papal writings demonstrate a decline from the standard of St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict. Decisions and policies are often “politically correct”, but there have been grave failures to support human rights in Venezuela, Hong Kong, mainland China, and now in the Russian invasion.    There has been no public support for the loyal Catholics in China who have been intermittently persecuted for their loyally to the Papacy for more than 70 years. No public Vatican support for the Catholic community in Ukraine, especially the Greek Catholics.    These issues should be revisited by the next Pope. The Vatican’s political prestige is now at a low ebb.    6. At a different, lower level, the situation of Tridentine traditionalists (Catholic) should be regularised.    At a further and lower level, the celebration of “individual” and small group Masses in the mornings in St. Peter’s Basilica should be permitted once again. At the moment, this great basilica is like a desert in the early morning.    The COVID crisis has covered up the large decline in the number of pilgrims attending Papal audiences and Masses.    The Holy Father has little support among seminarians and young priests and wide-spread disaffection exists in the Vatican Curia.    The Next Conclave    1. The College of Cardinals has been weakened by eccentric nominations and has not been reconvened after the rejection of Cardinal Kasper’s views in the 2014 consistory. Many Cardinals are unknown to one another, adding a new dimension of unpredictability to the next conclave.    2. After Vatican II, Catholic authorities often underestimated the hostile power of secularization, the world, flesh, and the devil, especially in the Western world and overestimated the influence and strength of the Catholic Church.    We are weaker than 50 years ago and many factors are beyond our control, in the short term at least, e.g. the decline in the number of believers, the frequency of Mass attendance, the demise or extinction of many religious orders.    3. The Pope does not need to be the world’s best evangelist, nor a political force. The successor of Peter, as head of the College of Bishops, also successors of the Apostles, has a foundational role for unity and doctrine. The new pope must understand that the secret of Christian and Catholic vitality comes from fidelity to the teachings of Christ and Catholic practices. It does not come from adapting to the world or from money.    4. The first tasks of the new pope will be to restore normality, restore doctrinal clarity in faith and morals, restore a proper respect for the law and ensure that the first criterion for the nomination of bishops is acceptance of the apostolic tradition. Theological expertise and learning are an advantage, not a hinderance for all bishops and especially archbishops.    These are necessary foundations for living and preaching the Gospel.    5. If the synodal gatherings continue around the world, they will consume much time and money, probably distracting energy from evangelization and service rather than deepening these essential activities.    If the national or continental synods are given doctrinal authority, we will have a new danger to world-wide Church unity, whereby e.g., the German church holds doctrinal views not shared by other Churches and not compatible with the apostolic tradition.    If there was no Roman correction of such heresy, the Church would be reduced to a loose federation of local Churches, holding different views, probably closer to an Anglican or Protestant model, than an Orthodox model.    An early priority for the next pope must be to remove and prevent such a threatening development, by requiring unity in essentials and not permitting unacceptable doctrinal differences. The morality of homosexual activity will be one such flash point.    6.   While the younger clergy and seminarians are almost completely orthodox, sometimes quite conservative, the new Pope will need to be aware of the substantial changes effected on the Church’s leadership since 2013, perhaps especially in South and Central America. There is a new spring in the step of the Protestant liberals in the Catholic Church.    Schism is not likely to occur from the left, who often sit lightly to doctrinal issues. Schism is more likely to come from the right and is always possible when liturgical tensions are inflamed and not dampened.    Unity in the essentials. Diversity in the non-essentials. Charity on all issues.    7. Despite the dangerous decline in the West and the inherent fragility and instability in many places, serious consideration should be given to the feasibility of a visitation on the Jesuit Order. They are in a situation of catastrophic numerical decline from 36,000 members during the Council to less than 16,000 in 2017 (with probably 20-25% above 75 years of age). In some places, there is catastrophic moral decline.    The order is highly centralized, susceptible to reform or damage from the top. The Jesuit charism and contribution have been and are so important to the Church that they should not be allowed to pass away into history undisturbed or become simply an Asian-African community.    8. The disastrous decline in Catholic numbers and Protestant expansion in South America should be addressed. It was scarcely mentioned in the Amazonian Synod.    9. Obviously, a lot of work is needed on the financial reforms in the Vatican, but this should not be the most important criterion in the selection of the next Pope.    The Vatican has no substantial debts but continuing annual deficits will eventually lead to bankruptcy. Obviously, steps will be taken to remedy this, to separate the Vatican from criminal accomplices and balance revenue and expenditure. The Vatican will need to demonstrate competence and integrity to attract substantial donations to help with this problem.    Despite the improved financial procedures and greater clarity, continuing financial pressures represent a major challenge, but they are much less important than the spiritual and doctrinal threats facing the Church, especially in the First World.    Demos    Lent 2022

Courage Begets CourageMore With Melissa Mackenzie NewsletterPublisher, The American SpectatorWant to be heard? Email MackenzieM@Spectator.org.Where are the elites putting their treasure?What’s the old adage? Follow the money. Unless the money is running around with its hair on fire. Currently, that is what the money is doing.We know that with low interest rates, big companies like Blackrock have bought up real estate. We also know that normies are fleeing blue states which drives up home prices.Owning homes is a great investment when the money is nearly free and the future of the stock market is in doubt. The market has been bouncing around trying to get a grip on what’s happening in the world. There are a couple obvious issues:Inflation.Retreat from globalism.War.Covid.Inflation is the mother of all problems – for everyone but the government. It crushes the poor and middle class. It’s great, though, for the government because it’s a passive tax on everyone.Thomas Sowell has an eloquent piece on inflationand what it does to the poor. Keep in mind that the inflation rate is closer to 16% overall and that housing inflation, that affects poor people the most is near 30%. Sowell says:Despite all the political rhetoric today about how nobody’s taxes will be raised except for “the rich,” inflation transfers a percentage of everybody’s wealth to a government that expands the money supply. Moreover, inflation takes the same percentage from the poorest person in the country as it does from the richest.That’s not all. Income taxes only transfer money from your current income to the government, but it does not touch whatever money you may have saved over the years. With inflation, the government takes the same cut out of both.It is bad enough when the poorest have to turn over the same share of their assets to the government as the richest do, but it is grotesque when the government puts a bigger bite on the poorest. This can happen because the rich can more easily convert their assets from money into things such as real estate, gold or other assets whose value rises with inflation. But a welfare mother is unlikely to be able to buy real estate or gold. She can put a few dollars aside in a jar somewhere. But wherever she may hide it, inflation can steal value from it without having to lay a hand on it.And that’s what the United States government is doing to the American people.Stock market investors are flailing about looking for relief. Where can they go to get returns? They’re doing what Sowell describes. Gold has taken off. Palladium is off-the-charts high.Thanks to war and stupidity (COVID policies that interrupted the supply chain and now with astronomical gas prices) expect food scarcity. Take a look at wheat and other foodstuff futures.What happens when the U.S. dollar ceases to become the world standard? Think it’s impossible? Some do. Remember what I said about our elites continual failure of imagination? So far, it’s destroyed our world standing, lead to war in Ukraine, and left Afghanistan in ruins. As the economy grinds to a halt, expect the so-called experts to be surprised yet again.How have countries escaped from the current kind of economic woe? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count. That’s right, war.The American people are not interested in going to war, but war might be interested in us. Watching Ukraine fall is one thing. It’s an utter debacle borne of weakness and lack of foresight.What if Putin keeps on going and presses onward toward Poland? Foreign policy folks think that idea impossible.I don’t know about you, but I am sick to death about being told that the obvious thing is impossible.As the wealthy seek a place to make money and find their search coming up empty, war will become a more appealing possibility.What’s a young American man’s life when the government has gotten itself into an impossible economic situation and the elites can’t find a way to fatten their stock portfolios?Not to mention, seeing Poland get squeezed by Russia and Europe again? That’s unacceptable.If things feel fragile, it’s because they are fragile. Worry when the elites don’t know where to put their treasure. It makes them trigger happy.SUBSCRIBESupport TAS not Uncle Sam!LOST FAITH:Do you trust your government?A 25-year long relatively happy marriage can be undone by a betrayal. Finding out that one’s beloved carried on for years behind one’s back? Recovering from that is nigh to impossible. It sometimes happens, but that little naggy thought in the back the head? That never quite goes away.In any relationship, everything depends on trust.The United States government has a long history of betraying trust. Sneaking out of Saigon. Bumbling out of Afghanistan and leaving allies behind. Abandoning Ukraine to Russia after promising them support when they got rid of nuclear bombs.Taiwan, the Kurds, South Korea, Poland, Japan, and most of Europe is reevaluating their situation after seeing Joe Biden’s gross irresponsibility and careless disregard. He’s cozying up to Iran, for heaven’s sake.But that’s betraying other countries. What happens when the American people feel betrayed by their leader? We’re finding out and it’s not pretty.How many stories have been reported as true only to be proven false? How many press conferences given by the State Department where the reporters grill the spokespeople and the American citizen watching the dissembling just rolls his eyes?Jen Psaki has gotten into the propaganda scene and made a laughable video about how gas prices are Putin’s fault. Her arrogance and hauteur were something to behold. What does a government public relations official know of oil and gas prices? What do the TikTokers, operating on a platform run by Chinese intelligence, know about inflation and gas prices?Then there’s Kamala’s embarrassing speeches in Poland and even, pretend classrooms. All the media training in the world can’t fix stupid.The only reason we’re hearing from Kamala is because Joe Biden is such a physical and mental mess that he can’t travel to Europe to give the big, impressive speech. The State of the Union was barely watched, but those who tuned in got to see the President short out a couple times. It was like the neurons glitched.No one trusts Biden’s administration. In fact, unless you’re a NeverTrumper dead-ender, the Biden people make you actively uncomfortable. Part of the issue: what’s described as a conspiracy theory turns out quickly to be true. For example, there are biolabs in Ukraine that the United States government has worked at and monitored. They’re Level III labs (like in Wuhan) doing research that is sensitive and legal and fine, just ask the government, but it would be a disaster if the Russians got control of them. What?Speaking of Russia. Our leaders wonder what Putin wants. Well, he told everyone, very clearly, in July, 2021, but the so-called experts didn’t listen. And Putin, may have miscalculated the will of the Ukrainian people, but he’s still winning.Some will say,”Yeah, but it’s because America isn’t helping Ukraine.” Wars require trust. Do you, No-Fly Zone Guy, trust Joe Biden to deftly handle this situation? How about the flabby generals who oversaw the Afghanistan withdrawal? How about the woke leadership of our military who is spending more time on gender than they are on war tactics?Do you trust them? Military guys I know believe that the leadership of the U.S. military is so pathetic that they should be fired all the way down to the officer level. Rebuild and stop the nonsense. Trust. It, like a country, like any relationship, takes years to build and moments to lose. And so, not only do America’s enemies see an opening, Americans, themselves, don’t see a way to trust their own leadership to do what needs to be done.Interestingly, rich people are a-okay with sending Americans to war. The people actually doing the fighting? They’re not to thrilled about it. And anyway, the foreign legions going to Ukraine to fight? They’re being slaughtered. Maybe.It’s impossible to know who to trust.More from TASA note: The American Spectator has a plethora of foreign policy talent amongst their writers. You’ll notice that there are pieces explaining history, strategy, the political ramifications, etc. Rather than being committed to one point of view, you’ll see many. That’s good. This is a conversation and Americans need to reassess and decide what they want America to be going forward. . Why the Democrats are Screwed Even If They Make a Course CorrectionRussia’s Ethnic Cleansing of CrimeaYes, Putin Could Go Nuclear I have been talking over the last couple weeks about America’s leaders suffering from a lack of imagination. They wrongly project theircommitment to appease onto the leaders around the world. They are so provincial, they cannot see the world from their adversary’s point of view. This is dangerous. Democrats don’t even know themselves, or more broadly, the will of the American people. The sort of delusion and self-lying obscures their vision of the rest of the world. It makes Democrats very, very dangerous because winning actions don’t come from bad information or philosophy. What’s Really Happening in Ukraine? I’m not sure about this assessment, but it’s worth reading.Iran Deal Part II: Biden’s Next DisasterCHAOSGod is not the author of confusion. When you see confusion around the world or from our leaders, know that the spirit dwelling there isn’t from above. And we are a world and a country filled to the brim with chaos.And yet. Get to the everyday level, going to church, meeting with friends, going to the store, buying your expensive gas, Americans are still their cheerful selves, going about their business, doing their jobs.The COVID hysteria overtook friends, family, and neighbors and still has many in its unholy grasp. And I wonder, how does a faith borne of Jesus fit in with it? I don’t think it does. I John 4:18 is instructive here, “Perfect love casts out fear. There is no fear in love.” Love is intertwined with sacrifice and freedom. It’s the reason for the season, after all. Jesus Christ died so we could live. Just as Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, so too does Jesus lead us out of this sinful world and into the promised land.Because we have that promise, we know that there is a better place. It gives us hope and something to fight for and look toward.Ukrainian people are dying for love of country and freedom. They’d rather trade their comfort than live on their knees. Foreign fighters rush toward Ukraine, so moved are they at the thought of fighting for freedom.The Russian people, too, fight for their freedom. I know, that sounds insane. But they view their destiny through the eyes of the world and do not want Russia to be on its knees before a worldwide hegemony. They are willing to die first.We in the West are quite soft and secular. Many have forgotten the blood that was spilt so that they could indulge themselves in sundry ways. Men flouncing around and dressing up as dogs would be an indulgence only a decadent and empty culture could encourage and want.The solution is love. Not the soft love of “love is love” nonsense which means nothing and excuses selfishness, but the real love of putting others before oneself – of leaving behind the shackles of sin and pursuing goodness and faithfulness and kindness and self-control and forgiveness. Peace comes from this kind of love. From John 15:13:“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”No matter what’s happen around in the world, walk with purpose, going forward on that narrow path. It is illuminated by the Word and it is the path that is filled with love, and yes, sacrifice. We fight walking it and cause ourselves sorrow and then get back to the narrow way. It’s ironic, that down this path there is love and duty and discipline and commitment and in it, we find freedom. We are free to be our best self, our higher self.Freedom!

Courage Begets CourageMore With Melissa Mackenzie NewsletterPublisher, The American SpectatorWant to be heard? Email MackenzieM@Spectator.org.Where are the elites putting their treasure?What’s the old adage? Follow the money. Unless the money is running around with its hair on fire. Currently, that is what the money is doing.We know that with low interest rates, big companies like Blackrock have bought up real estate. We also know that normies are fleeing blue states which drives up home prices.Owning homes is a great investment when the money is nearly free and the future of the stock market is in doubt. The market has been bouncing around trying to get a grip on what’s happening in the world. There are a couple obvious issues:Inflation.Retreat from globalism.War.Covid.Inflation is the mother of all problems – for everyone but the government. It crushes the poor and middle class. It’s great, though, for the government because it’s a passive tax on everyone.Thomas Sowell has an eloquent piece on inflationand what it does to the poor. Keep in mind that the inflation rate is closer to 16% overall and that housing inflation, that affects poor people the most is near 30%. Sowell says:Despite all the political rhetoric today about how nobody’s taxes will be raised except for “the rich,” inflation transfers a percentage of everybody’s wealth to a government that expands the money supply. Moreover, inflation takes the same percentage from the poorest person in the country as it does from the richest.That’s not all. Income taxes only transfer money from your current income to the government, but it does not touch whatever money you may have saved over the years. With inflation, the government takes the same cut out of both.It is bad enough when the poorest have to turn over the same share of their assets to the government as the richest do, but it is grotesque when the government puts a bigger bite on the poorest. This can happen because the rich can more easily convert their assets from money into things such as real estate, gold or other assets whose value rises with inflation. But a welfare mother is unlikely to be able to buy real estate or gold. She can put a few dollars aside in a jar somewhere. But wherever she may hide it, inflation can steal value from it without having to lay a hand on it.And that’s what the United States government is doing to the American people.Stock market investors are flailing about looking for relief. Where can they go to get returns? They’re doing what Sowell describes. Gold has taken off. Palladium is off-the-charts high.Thanks to war and stupidity (COVID policies that interrupted the supply chain and now with astronomical gas prices) expect food scarcity. Take a look at wheat and other foodstuff futures.What happens when the U.S. dollar ceases to become the world standard? Think it’s impossible? Some do. Remember what I said about our elites continual failure of imagination? So far, it’s destroyed our world standing, lead to war in Ukraine, and left Afghanistan in ruins. As the economy grinds to a halt, expect the so-called experts to be surprised yet again.How have countries escaped from the current kind of economic woe? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count. That’s right, war.The American people are not interested in going to war, but war might be interested in us. Watching Ukraine fall is one thing. It’s an utter debacle borne of weakness and lack of foresight.What if Putin keeps on going and presses onward toward Poland? Foreign policy folks think that idea impossible.I don’t know about you, but I am sick to death about being told that the obvious thing is impossible.As the wealthy seek a place to make money and find their search coming up empty, war will become a more appealing possibility.What’s a young American man’s life when the government has gotten itself into an impossible economic situation and the elites can’t find a way to fatten their stock portfolios?Not to mention, seeing Poland get squeezed by Russia and Europe again? That’s unacceptable.If things feel fragile, it’s because they are fragile. Worry when the elites don’t know where to put their treasure. It makes them trigger happy.SUBSCRIBESupport TAS not Uncle Sam!LOST FAITH:Do you trust your government?A 25-year long relatively happy marriage can be undone by a betrayal. Finding out that one’s beloved carried on for years behind one’s back? Recovering from that is nigh to impossible. It sometimes happens, but that little naggy thought in the back the head? That never quite goes away.In any relationship, everything depends on trust.The United States government has a long history of betraying trust. Sneaking out of Saigon. Bumbling out of Afghanistan and leaving allies behind. Abandoning Ukraine to Russia after promising them support when they got rid of nuclear bombs.Taiwan, the Kurds, South Korea, Poland, Japan, and most of Europe is reevaluating their situation after seeing Joe Biden’s gross irresponsibility and careless disregard. He’s cozying up to Iran, for heaven’s sake.But that’s betraying other countries. What happens when the American people feel betrayed by their leader? We’re finding out and it’s not pretty.How many stories have been reported as true only to be proven false? How many press conferences given by the State Department where the reporters grill the spokespeople and the American citizen watching the dissembling just rolls his eyes?Jen Psaki has gotten into the propaganda scene and made a laughable video about how gas prices are Putin’s fault. Her arrogance and hauteur were something to behold. What does a government public relations official know of oil and gas prices? What do the TikTokers, operating on a platform run by Chinese intelligence, know about inflation and gas prices?Then there’s Kamala’s embarrassing speeches in Poland and even, pretend classrooms. All the media training in the world can’t fix stupid.The only reason we’re hearing from Kamala is because Joe Biden is such a physical and mental mess that he can’t travel to Europe to give the big, impressive speech. The State of the Union was barely watched, but those who tuned in got to see the President short out a couple times. It was like the neurons glitched.No one trusts Biden’s administration. In fact, unless you’re a NeverTrumper dead-ender, the Biden people make you actively uncomfortable. Part of the issue: what’s described as a conspiracy theory turns out quickly to be true. For example, there are biolabs in Ukraine that the United States government has worked at and monitored. They’re Level III labs (like in Wuhan) doing research that is sensitive and legal and fine, just ask the government, but it would be a disaster if the Russians got control of them. What?Speaking of Russia. Our leaders wonder what Putin wants. Well, he told everyone, very clearly, in July, 2021, but the so-called experts didn’t listen. And Putin, may have miscalculated the will of the Ukrainian people, but he’s still winning.Some will say,”Yeah, but it’s because America isn’t helping Ukraine.” Wars require trust. Do you, No-Fly Zone Guy, trust Joe Biden to deftly handle this situation? How about the flabby generals who oversaw the Afghanistan withdrawal? How about the woke leadership of our military who is spending more time on gender than they are on war tactics?Do you trust them? Military guys I know believe that the leadership of the U.S. military is so pathetic that they should be fired all the way down to the officer level. Rebuild and stop the nonsense. Trust. It, like a country, like any relationship, takes years to build and moments to lose. And so, not only do America’s enemies see an opening, Americans, themselves, don’t see a way to trust their own leadership to do what needs to be done.Interestingly, rich people are a-okay with sending Americans to war. The people actually doing the fighting? They’re not to thrilled about it. And anyway, the foreign legions going to Ukraine to fight? They’re being slaughtered. Maybe.It’s impossible to know who to trust.More from TASA note: The American Spectator has a plethora of foreign policy talent amongst their writers. You’ll notice that there are pieces explaining history, strategy, the political ramifications, etc. Rather than being committed to one point of view, you’ll see many. That’s good. This is a conversation and Americans need to reassess and decide what they want America to be going forward. . Why the Democrats are Screwed Even If They Make a Course CorrectionRussia’s Ethnic Cleansing of CrimeaYes, Putin Could Go Nuclear I have been talking over the last couple weeks about America’s leaders suffering from a lack of imagination. They wrongly project theircommitment to appease onto the leaders around the world. They are so provincial, they cannot see the world from their adversary’s point of view. This is dangerous. Democrats don’t even know themselves, or more broadly, the will of the American people. The sort of delusion and self-lying obscures their vision of the rest of the world. It makes Democrats very, very dangerous because winning actions don’t come from bad information or philosophy. What’s Really Happening in Ukraine? I’m not sure about this assessment, but it’s worth reading.Iran Deal Part II: Biden’s Next DisasterCHAOSGod is not the author of confusion. When you see confusion around the world or from our leaders, know that the spirit dwelling there isn’t from above. And we are a world and a country filled to the brim with chaos.And yet. Get to the everyday level, going to church, meeting with friends, going to the store, buying your expensive gas, Americans are still their cheerful selves, going about their business, doing their jobs.The COVID hysteria overtook friends, family, and neighbors and still has many in its unholy grasp. And I wonder, how does a faith borne of Jesus fit in with it? I don’t think it does. I John 4:18 is instructive here, “Perfect love casts out fear. There is no fear in love.” Love is intertwined with sacrifice and freedom. It’s the reason for the season, after all. Jesus Christ died so we could live. Just as Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, so too does Jesus lead us out of this sinful world and into the promised land.Because we have that promise, we know that there is a better place. It gives us hope and something to fight for and look toward.Ukrainian people are dying for love of country and freedom. They’d rather trade their comfort than live on their knees. Foreign fighters rush toward Ukraine, so moved are they at the thought of fighting for freedom.The Russian people, too, fight for their freedom. I know, that sounds insane. But they view their destiny through the eyes of the world and do not want Russia to be on its knees before a worldwide hegemony. They are willing to die first.We in the West are quite soft and secular. Many have forgotten the blood that was spilt so that they could indulge themselves in sundry ways. Men flouncing around and dressing up as dogs would be an indulgence only a decadent and empty culture could encourage and want.The solution is love. Not the soft love of “love is love” nonsense which means nothing and excuses selfishness, but the real love of putting others before oneself – of leaving behind the shackles of sin and pursuing goodness and faithfulness and kindness and self-control and forgiveness. Peace comes from this kind of love. From John 15:13:“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”No matter what’s happen around in the world, walk with purpose, going forward on that narrow path. It is illuminated by the Word and it is the path that is filled with love, and yes, sacrifice. We fight walking it and cause ourselves sorrow and then get back to the narrow way. It’s ironic, that down this path there is love and duty and discipline and commitment and in it, we find freedom. We are free to be our best self, our higher self.Freedom!

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Where are the Voices for Peace against Nuclear War?: Why are “Br. Bugnolo, along with the vast majority of… Catholic Traditionalists support[ing] the Godless Alliance… in agreement for WAR, WAR, WAR!”? 

March 15, 2022

Putin is dangerous to the Ukrainians, but do you know who is more dangerous?  Michael Matt of Remnant TVpoints out that the globalist communists from the West who are stoking this war are much more dangerous to Ukrainians than anyone in Russia.  The New Western Communists who control CNN demand that you fight for the Ukrainians. But these globalists care about the Ukrainians as much as they cared about George Floyd or grandma catching COVID:  Not. at. all.  It’s a ruse for thermonuclear war to reduce the global population—their constant eugenic-based goal in everything they do.

As I wrote before, I do not consider Putin to be a good man.  But why do the people who hate Christ also seem to hate Russia equally right now?  It might have something to do with the culture war.  As Putin builds up Orthodox cathedrals, Biden’s administration lines up with a Soros-placed Zelenskyy of whom Archbishop Viganò recently wrote: “Zelenskyy’s performances in drag are perfectly consistent with the LGBTQ ideology that is considered by its European sponsors as an indispensable requirement of the ‘reform’ agenda that every country ought to embrace, along with gender equality, abortion and the green economy.”

Communism’s first moral-goal is to whittle away at a country’s sexual morality by destroying all traditional values. But then, it eventually shuts down any sexual license, as we see in North Korea today.  But never has communism (until now) had the global presence of people like Klaus Schwab and George Soros to help it behind the scenes.

Archbishop Viganò then adds:  “No wonder Zelenskyy, a member of the World Economic Forum (here), was able to benefit from the support of Schwab and his allies to come to power and ensure that the Great Reset would also be carried out in Ukraine… “In 2013, after the government of President Viktor Yanukovych decided to suspend the association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union and to forge closer economic relations with Russia, a series of protest demonstrations known as Euromaidan began, which lasted several months and culminated in the revolution that overthrew Yanukovych and led to the installation of a new government. It was an operation sponsored by George Soros, as he candidly told CNN: ‘I have had a foundation in Ukraine since before it became independent of Russia; this foundation has always been in business and has played a decisive role in today’s events.’ (here, here and here.)” – Fr. David Nix [https://padreperegrino.org/2022/03/roles/]

The following important discussion in the CM comment section includes a friend of The Catholic Monitor,Aqua, the great blog Dad29 and others discussing the possible World War III situation, and why there is a need for peace against nuclear war in this dangerous moment: 

lily said…

I totally agree with you. I always follow Bro. Alexis but noticed that his live coverage from Ukraine was very one sided and all anti Russia…so I stopped reading and opening fromrome.info
You are the first one to directly say so and now I don’t feel alone. Most Catholic bloggers are with on the same page about the biolabs in UKraine but you are the only one who said it that Bro. Alexis Bugnolo is wrong. Please post any rebuttal, clarification or response from him. Thank you.

1:11 PM

Aqua said…

And not only that … Putin, almost alone on the planet stands against the godless OWG “great reset”.

Br. Bugnolo has been railing for quite some time against the restrictions, impositions and tyrannical controls placed upon individuals at the granular level in order to merely survive in this new globalist world. All of those political, business and financier (such as Gates, Soros, Schwab, Rothschilds etc) figures who are using fear and emergency powers to overthrow our existing system are funded through the Ukrainian money laundering criminal state. They are all joined in support of one another on this war. And coincidence of all coincidences … there is a vast DOD funded bio-weapons lab/factory network along the Russian border doing who knows what. But we know by now the pandemic is the method to their madness, so it is reasonable to assume there is a connection, until proven otherwise – especially since they are willing to risk Armageddon to save what is theirs in this God forsaken land (not an invective, but a descriptive).

In sum: why is Br. Bugnolo supporting the forces overthrowing our system of constitutional nation states in favor of *literal* Nazi tyranny (as defined by government/corporate union backed by military power directed inward instead of outward)? Putin is entertaining alliances with nations against the OWG system and their tyrannical lockdowns (China, India). Meanwhile Br. Bugnolo, along with the vast majority of political conservatives and Catholic traditionalists support the godless alliance against the one force (Russia) determined to stop them.

The necessary position seems so obvious to me. It simply boggles my mind the alliance of conservatives who have allied with the sodomite pervert Zelinski and his criminal Nazi infested government against Putin’s Russia which, by certain quantifiable measures is not only primarily Russian Orthodox but deeply and fervently so … AND AGAINST THE LOCKDOWN RESET TYRANNY! What gives?

2:21 PM

Aqua said…

Saw this on Conservative Treehouse, posted by its author, “Sundance”:

“(Fox News Correspondent Steve) Harrigan notes that Russian victory in Ukraine is a foregone conclusion – Ukraine will be flattened if needed. However, that outcome comes at a serious cost …

Harrigan is correct, however, he missed the biggest tell-tale sign of all. Where are the peacekeepers? Where are the diplomatic voices, the ranks of the prudent and pragmatic political voices who focus on stopping the death? Where are those voices? Where is the faith-based voice asking for leaders to stop, breathe, meet and seek a solution without further war?

Those voices are silent because the western motive is to create a long-term insurgent war in Ukraine. The geopolitical system views this as an existential battle against Russia. Both sides in this conflict view this as a zero-sum contest. The NATO alliance doesn’t view Volodymyr as a hero, he’s a tool”.

If Zelenskyy were to walk toward a negotiated ceasefire, the bullet that kills him would come from the rear. That’s how corrupt this conflict is”.

– end quote –

I have never seen such anonymity around a conflict that could spiral out of control with our historical primary nuclear foe – right, left, front, center, atheist, Catholic (both sodo-liberals and “Trads”) … all are in agreement for WAR, WAR, WAR! Over Ukraine. For Deep State control over our lives and possible future pandemic lockdowns.  

Honest Question: what is it about Ukraine that inspires such devotion across the ideological and religious spectrum? Why is everyone willing to risk blood and treasure (other people’s … not their own of course) and possibly even life on earth if it goes sideways in a nuclear way? Why? What is it so important we must risk everything for this corrupt, money laundering nation infested with Nazis (the real kind, not the “neo” kind)? Anyone?

4:16 PM

Aqua said…

anonymity = unanimity.

4:17 PM

Dad29 said…

Bannon interviewed Stephen Hatfill (Ph.D.) on the bio-labs in Ukraine. Hatfill is a very knowledgeable bioweapons scientist, having worked at Ft. Detrick for most of his career.  He also has high-level security clearances due to his work and he specifically referred to them in the conversation w/Bannon. You will remember him because he was slandered in the anthrax scare. He collected a large judgment and retired.

Anyhow, Hatfill flat out told Bannon that those labs are run-of-the-mill bio-testing labs which are used to identify local disease outbreaks and counteract them. Hatfill insisted that there are hundreds of them all around the world, many in the USA.

Bannon didn’t like hearing that. It’s possible that Hatfill is mis-informed–but before we set all our hair on fire, it might be worth a pause.

4:22 PM

Aqua said…

Dad29: “but before we set all our hair on fire, it might be worth a pause”.

The people whose hair are on fire are those demanding we go to war to save Ukraine.  

We went to war in Iraq, 6,000 miles away, largely because Intel, similar to the current variant Stephen Hatfill, *assured us* … Colin Powell even held up “the vial” to the assembled UN as he laid out his proofs for attack. Intel was wrong. Oh well. We blew up the country and overthrew a government and installed another anyway. The experts are frequently not just wrong, but *conflicted*.

My position on Ukraine/Russia has always been neutrality. Stay out of it. Not our business. Let them fight. If that is how this goes – great! Lotta people trying to get us into war, right now however. I assume you’re not one of them.

4:55 PM

lily said…

To Aqua – Thank you for your thoughtful replies. There are blogs/writers that I follow that have helped me understand this current conflict in a much more nuanced and balanced way. Three are very Traditional Catholics and they too support the same view as you have and I am in agreement with. If you have your own blog, please send me the link at bdyanc1@gmail.com
Thank you very much. Ad Jesum per Mariam
lily

5:22 PM

Aqua said…

Dad29: This conflict can easily spiral out of control. It already is, to a certain extent, as evidenced by this and so many other examples.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/14/whoops-narrative-shifting-ex-british-special-forces-reported-among-victims-of-russia-strike-against-military-training-facility-in-ukraine/#more-229943

Russia is a nuclear power, perhaps not our greatest military foe, but no doubt the most well equipped with nuclear. And they view this fight as existential for a number of valid reasons, imo. There is various channels of military aid, assistance, weapons, personnel flowing in to this conflict and they become, reasonably according to the laws of war, valid military targets. We keep getting drawn in, further and further. Our responses are being constrained a certain way and our ability to adjust is becoming constricted by events spiraling out of control – which happens in actual wars with worthy opponents.

You referred to “hair on fire”. I completely agree. We have to stop this. It seems to be carrying forward with a force all of its own – largely because the voice for conflict is so unanimous across all ideological and religious spectrums. Where are the voices for peace, calm, neutrality?

5:54 PM

Aqua said…

lily: I really appreciate your comments. I have never had the time (or inclination) to blog myself. Therefore I really appreciate those who do. I comment, but the real work is done by those who blog, day after day. Kudos – Fred Martinez (etc)! I am recently retired – early due to Covid restrictions I could not agree to. Perhaps, I will find time now I didn’t have before.  

“A force all of its own” – you said.

That is exactly what worries me. Reading about the great wars of the past, it seems that is a common theme of those who were there and remember. An unstoppable force compelled willing and unwilling alike into the cauldron of fire. I sense it. This could be big, unless calmer, more reasonable, less corrupt and more competent heads prevail.

6:00 PM

Anonymous said…

Many private revelations that have been right so far indicate that this war will spread to the rest of the world.

I know that the NWO cult rules western powers. My question is if Russia is genuinely against them or is controlled opposition.

They deleted Putin from the list of WEF members. They also deleted cyber polygon from the WEF. I find it likely they will blame Russian hackers when they crash the internet. The new internet will be tied to a digital ID, without which you cannot buy or sell CBDC digital money.

I’m not sure if Russia is the baddies. Right now I suppose they all are. [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2022/03/aqua-on-wwiii-br-bugnolo-is-wrong-on.html]

Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia. 

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.

Francis Notes:

– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:

“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html

– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html 

 –  LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:

The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”

–  On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:

“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”

– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:

“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.

Election Notes: 

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html

– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1

– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020: 
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1

What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”: 
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1] 

Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.SHARE

On Death & Dying & Terri Schiavo

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By Timothy P. Collins | July/August 2005

Timothy P. Collins, M.D., is Board Certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, and a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists. He, his wife, and four children live in Chesapeake, Virginia.

I was performing an autopsy when Terri Schiavo died.

I am a pathologist. Not a forensic pathologist, so I don’t get involved legal cases. I’m just a general pathologist working in a hospital laboratory, signing out cases, interpreting lab data and, occasionally, doing what are known as “medical” (as opposed to forensic) autopsies. In this case the patient — we’ll call him Mr. Goodpasture — was an elderly gentleman who had suffered from kidney disease and severe emphysema for many years. He had been admitted to my hospital about a month previously with severe worsening of his kidneys to the point where they shut down completely and he went on dialysis. In addition, his emphysema — which already required supplemental oxygen — got worse; he stopped being able to breathe on his own, and he had to be intubated and put on a ventilator. Mr. Goodpasture spent a month in the intensive care unit, on a ventilator, getting dialysis as well as a host of other aggressive high-tech therapies in the hopes that he would regain some kidney function, and regain enough lung function to be taken off the ventilator and breathe on his own. Throughout this time he was obtunded and unresponsive. After a month of very aggressive therapy it became clear that Mr. Goodpasture was not going to improve, ever get off the vent, or even regain consciousness, and his children requested that his ventilator be turned off. His physicians concurred. The vent was disconnected and he was put on “blow by” oxygen only. He died shortly thereafter. His immediate cause of death was respiratory failure due to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, exacerbated by end-stage renal failure. His manner of death was natural.

The Catholic Church does not teach now, and has never taught, that every heroic and extraordinary measure must be taken to preserve life for as long as humanly possible. Pope John Paul II did not teach that in his March 2004 address, “On Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State.” The Catechism does not teach it; in paragraph 2278, the Catechism states, “Discontinuing medical procedures that are burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or disproportionate to the expected outcome can be legitimate…. One does not will to cause death; one’s ability to impede it is merely accepted.” In 1981 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith promulgated its Declaration on Euthanasia, which reaffirmed the traditional Church teaching distinguishing between “ordinary” and “extraordinary” means of prolonging life. This can at times be a difficult distinction, and evaluating different treatments with different risks, hazards, pains, costs, and so forth, can be a fairly technical task, requiring the help of physicians.

In lethal illnesses, the crucial thing to consider is the treatment’s burdensomeness and its potential usefulness. While distinguishing between ordinary and extraordinary means of prolonging life — laying out how families and physicians can make correct moral choices as to whether this or that treatment is futile — the Declarationreaffirms the magisterial teaching that absolutely proscribes the intentional killing of an innocent human being: It is never right to kill a patient, or to allow him to die by withholding legitimate medical care, even because of the alleged poor quality of his life. Pope Pius XII, in a 1957 address to a congress of anesthesiologists, said, “normally one is held to use only ordinary means [to prolong life]…, means that do not involve any grave burden for oneself or another [the Pope is here assuming that the patient himself is the one deciding on a treatment]. A stricter obligation would be too burdensome for most men…. Life, health, all temporal activities are in fact subordinated to spiritual ends.” The Pope is addressing the issues of the burdensomeness of a treatment. What he is doing is giving the faithful Catholic at the end of his life the permission to say, We’ve done enough. Now I will go to stand in Judgment. This scenario is not suicide; the patient does not desire death. He is accepting the inability to further impede death.

These situations arise in every hospital, every day. I have been involved with them many times as a physician in my former activities as a Family Practitioner, trying to guide a patient or a family through the profoundly difficult maze of what is, and what is not, futile, in a given situation. I have also been called, twice, to be the one to make the decision regarding termination of medical therapy on my own immediate family members. And, in this situation, lawyers and judges and politicians have no place whatsoever, assuming right intentions on the part of patient, family, and physicians. It is an intensely private matter.

All of the preceding discussion applies to the case of Mr. Goodpasture. Though I was not part of the decision, in my opinion, the family and physicians made the correct choice. Further treatment was futile. Attempting to maintain him on the vent and dialysis was futile and excessively burdensome. There existed no reasonable ability to further impede death. He was comatose. Turning off the vent allowed him to die peacefully and fairly rapidly. I have no moral concerns regarding Mr. Goodpasture. Conversely, virtually none of the preceding discussion applies to the Terri Schiavo case. She was not near death, or even acutely ill. Indeed, the fact that it took two weeks to starve and dehydrate her to death testifies to her underlying “good protoplasm.” She was not, and apparently never had been, on “life support” as our corrupt media and our corrupt pollsters continually bleated. She required no mechanical assistance to breathe. She apparently was able to swallow (she swallowed her secretions; she did not drool) and so it seems quite possible that she could have been fed. However, apparently she never had a formal feeding evaluation. The fact that she was fed through a gastrostomy tube means nothing: There are patients who have had radical surgeries for cancers of the mouth and neck, who can no longer eat normally. They have G-tubes discreetly tucked under their shirts, easy to get at to pour the Ensure down. None of us in the public domain knows what Mrs. Schiavo’s true level of consciousness was, though there is more than enough evidence available for even the casual observer to seriously question whether she was in a “persistent vegetative state.” But here’s the main point: Even if she really was in one of the several related neurologic conditions where the individual is deprived of consciousness or cognitive ability, that doesn’t justify starving her to death.

It is true that there are a handful of Catholic priest/theologians who have argued that starving a patient in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) to death can be considered morally licit because PVS is excessively burdensome. PVS patients can live for a long time if fed. Some of these theologians may have even been trotted out and put on the telly during the Schiavo fiasco to give the “Catholic viewpoint.” However, the position isn’t valid, and has been well refuted. The Pope, as mentioned earlier, devoted an entire address to the topic in 2004. In his address he objects to the term vegetative: “A man, even if seriously ill or disabled in the exercise of his highest functions, is and always will be a man, and he will never become a ‘vegetable’ or an ‘animal.’” John Paul continues, “The sick person in the vegetative state, awaiting recovery or a natural end, still has the right to basic health care (nutrition, hydration, cleanliness, warmth, etc.), and to the prevention of complications related to his confinement to bed. He also has the right to appropriate rehabilitative care and to be monitored for clinical signs of eventual recovery.” His Holiness then goes on to point out that food and water, even when provided by artificial means are a natural means of preserving life, not a medical act. They come under the heading of “minimal care.” John Paul concludes the section with the following observation: “The evaluation of probabilities, founded on waning hopes for recovery when the vegetative state is prolonged beyond a year, cannot ethically justify the cessation of minimal care for the patient, including nutrition and hydration. Death by starvation or dehydration is, in fact, the only possible outcome as a result of their withdrawal. In this sense it ends up becoming, if done knowingly and willingly, true and proper euthanasia by omission.” Terri Schiavo’s cause of death was starvation and dehydration. Her manner of death was euthanasia. If I were to euthanize my cat the way Mrs. Schiavo was euthanized, PETA would try to have me put in jail.

The Pope and Catholic teaching do not deny that medical treatment can become futile. The entire Magisterium does say that one can never withhold basic necessities of life to someone who is not dying, who is capable of assimilating the nourishment, and who requires nothing beyond such basic sustenance and care. Further, the Magisterium absolutely prohibits euthanasia, as well as suicide.

When I wrote this, the day after Mrs. Schiavo’s death, John Paul II was in extremis, succumbing to heart failure and sepsis as complications of his longstanding and progressively worsening medical problems. Though there were physicians at his bedside, the Pope did not go back to the hospital. Instead, he died in his own bed, having fought the good fight, and run the race, but also realizing his time on earth had come to an end. Like Mr. Goodpasture, like John Paul II, there will come a time for each and every one of us when trying to further impede death is futile. But what we cannot do, what we must never do, is kill ourselves or those who are dependent on us for their care.

THE CATHOLIC MONITOR

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Is Biden spreading WWIII to the Middle East, Br. Alexis Bugnolo vs. Laramie Hirsch on WWIII & China becoming the Dominate Economic Power?

March 14, 2022

The Countdown to an Israeli War With Iran Has BegunBlue State Blues: How Biden Has Forced Israel to Attack Iran

Today, the Geller Report says “How Biden Has Forced Israel to Attack Iran”:

“You think things are bad in Ukraine? Well, you ain’t seen nothin yet. The Biden Administration is about to sign off on a nuke deal with Iran, that has been brokered by Russia and China. A deal that will guarantee war in the Middle East, because Israel will never allow Iran to go nuclear. And when Israel finally bombs Iran’s nuclear facilities, the Biden Administration and the Democrats will attempt to turn Israel into a pariah state.” [https://gellerreport.com/2022/03/how-biden-has-forced-israel-to-attack-iran.html/] 

Next, here are Catholic pundits Br. Alexis Bugnolo’s and Laramie Hirsch’s opposing takes on what is happening in the Ukraine war which may be World War III:

Br. Alexis Bugnolo‘s take:

The Globalists have shown themselves to be experts in the diabolic use of psychological techniques to conquer and enslave minds. We saw how effectively they did that with the unsubstantiated claims of a Pandemic, of the existence of a new pathogen, SarsCov19, and of the effectiveness of a lethal toxic experimental gene altering serum, called the Covid Vaccines.

Most bought these lies and remain incapable of even accepting liberation of the minds from their dearest and closest familly, friends and colleagues.

The same is happening with the war in the Ukraine.

Russia has clearly violated international law by attacking a sovereign state. She has clearly violated just war principles in attacking a state

1. that wanted to join a self-protection alliance and align itself with other European Countries,
2. which posed and poses no imminent threat to the territorial integrity of Russia,
3. which never issued any threats against Russia or her allies,
4. which was not engaged in an act of war against Russia or its allies,
5. in which the people want to protect and maintain their own sovereignty and independence

But in the last 12 years, Russian state sponsored propaganda has painted an image of Putin as a Saint — even though he has assassinated and murdered dozens of journalists, military officers and dissidents who disagreed with him.

And thus, following the massive disillusionment many have with their globalist controlled governments, outside of Russia, it was only natural that they would be prone to run to some sort of image of security, that they could grasp to.

But instead of turning to God, they turned to Putin. Just as in the USA, instead of turning to God, they turned to Trump. [https://www.fromrome.info/2022/03/11/the-globalists-wanted-the-invasion-of-ukraine-so-as-to-divide-humanity-into-camps-which-hate-one-another/]

Laramie Hirsch’s take:

Russia does not conduct war like the GAE does. We just send in our air power and bomb the crap out of everyone, innocent and guilty alike. This is not how Russia does it. In fact, they appear to follow a lot of Sun Tzu’s tactics and strategy.

Russia did its best to stay out of the cities. This was intentional. Russia does not want to get bogged down. After all, there’s all sorts of traps and human-shield PR situations prepared by the Zelensky/Kolomoisky regime. The West has won the propaganda war. They are great liars, considering (((who’s))) running the West these days. Russia understands that trying to expand an empire is a trap. The United States is learning this lesson as we speak. We will pay dearly for trying to be the world’s policeman.

But the Russians are intentionally doing their best to give the Ukrainians every opportunity to flee, to surrender, to throw down their weapons. They were intentionally slow to create their “cauldron” formations around the enemy, and they were intentionally slow to surround the major cities. They wanted to give a chance for anyone to escape who wanted out of there.

Furthermore, Russia wants to foster humanitarian corridors. Why? Because this will allow citizens to escape any danger—BUT ALSO, it gives potential deserters in the enemy army a chance to throw down their weapons, change into civilian clothes, and then escape through that humanitarian corridor with all of the other non-combatants. The Zelensky/Kolomoisky regime wants as much of a maximum body count as possible so that they can demonize Russia as much as possible. For this reason, the Zelensky/Kolomoisky regime is trying to drag its feet in fostering these humanitarian corridors.

Russia is not using its best soldiers in this attack against the Zelensky/Kolomoisky regime. Nor have they unleashed their best equipment. They’re using their pawns and secondary soldiers for this. Putin is saving his best for the eventual confrontation with NATO that will likely transpire soon.

This is how things are, as far as I understand them. Perhaps the United States has won the propaganda war. But the GAE has lost both the economic war as well as the actual war. They just don’t realize it yet. They will soon, when all of Washington’s enemies start taking bites out of us. This is what happens when a successfully-elected, popular president is replaced in broad daylight with a demented old man the likes of Rome’s Libius Severus. (I believe the powers of Heaven directed us to this puppet figure at least twice, now, within the last six months. Read HERE and HERE.) [https://forge-and-anvil.com/2022/03/14/whats-russia-doing/]

Finally, The Catholic Monitor is starting to suspect this war may to some extent be about China becoming the dominate economic power in the world:

Besides China, Putin Has Another …

cfr.org

It appears that Ukraine war’s real purpose, besides a possible World War III, may be about China destroying the USA as a Global financial power using the incredibly brainless Team Biden as a pawn for “Russia’s de-dollarization efforts”:

De-Dollarization Efforts in China and Russia – CRS Reports

Besides China, Putin 
Has Another Potential 
De-dollarization Partner in Asia… India:

“Russia’s de-dollarization efforts mean that China and India can help Russia skirt sanctions by jointly building an alternative global financial system, but they risk facing severe consequences on their own financial entities.” [https://www.cfr.org/blog/besides-china-putin-has-another-potential-de-dollarization-partner-asia]

Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia. 

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.

Francis Notes:

– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:

“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html

– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html 

 –  LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:

The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”

–  On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:

“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”

– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:

“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.

Election Notes: 

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html

– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1

– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020: 
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1

What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”: 
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1] 

Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.