September 8, 2019

Words of Our Blessed Mother

“The world is tainted with sin.

Where there should be light, there is darkness.

Where there should be holiness, there is wickedness.

Where there should be truth, there is error.

Men’s souls are tormented for they have a memory of light, of holiness and of truth,

For they have been created in the image of God,

But the fallen tell men, “Those are false memories, for you have always been children of the dark.”

But I am sent that men might remember.

For I was born with no darkness in my soul,

And, therefore, my light is uncorrupted and pure.

Seeing me and hearing my words, man remembers that light he has known,

Though it now burns dim in his soul.

I illuminate the path for him, and the fallen flee,

And the darkness is made light.

The night I was born, the world was brighter

Because I was sent to provide a place for the Light of the World,

For He could not abide in darkness.

Therefore, I was born into light.

The Holy Trinity bathed my bed in light,

And the angels praised God in that light,

And in their praise to God, holy light fell upon me like raindrops.

The world is dark, and men’s souls have forgotten the light,

But I am here among you,

And I testify of the great light that dispels all darkness.

My birth brought light at the dawn of salvation,

For I was the foreshadowing of the light and the love of my Son,

And now in Him is the fullness of light and the fulness of love,

And now is the day of your salvation in Him.

I disperse what my Son gives.

I am the mediator of His gifts.

It is the Son who brings the gifts,

But as God shared in being human with man,

I provided a cradle for this gift by becoming the Mother of God,

And I share this gift of My Son with man.

I was called to be His Mother,

And in this calling,

I also became your Mother.

I am also the Mother of His Church.

You are baptized and united unto the Body of Christ,

And I am the Mother of all members of His Church,

So, therefore, I am the Mother of His Church.  

For in giving birth to my Son, I gave birth to each of you.

I held only my Son in my arms at His birth,

But if you have come unto my Son,

Then where He is are you also,

And, therefore, I hold you, and I am your Mother.

I was there when the Holy Spirit descended at Pentecost,

And I was witness to the birth of His Church,

And I am the spiritual Mother of the Church.

The fallen now attack the Church,

And I cry out to my children to listen to my words,

For my words dispel darkness.

For in my words the path to my Son is illuminated,

And He is the source of all light

My children, return to me and sit at my knee,

And remember the truths you were taught as a child.

Depart not from these truths.  

For a great light has come into the world,

And in this light is all truth,

And the darkness is made light in Him.

Heed my words,

For there is much calamity to come if men continue to walk in the dark.

But look to your Mother.

For I was born into light to prepare a cradle for the Light of the World,

And I will illuminate the path to Him if you will take my hand.”

-S

New York Times Objects To Chaos! September 8, 2021 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on an editorial in today’s New York Times: No newspaper in the country likes protests more than the New York Times. There is a qualifier, though, as made clear in the September 8th edition. Michelle Cottle is a member of the editorial board of the New York Times. “Chaos at the School Board Meeting” is the title of her editorial-page column. She does not like chaos. To be more precise, she does not like the politics of those creating chaos at school board meetings, many of whom object to mask mandates and left-wing exercises in thought control. Cottle opens her diatribe with this screamer, “America’s school board meetings are out of control.” What’s wrong with that? After all, the Times all but cheered Black Lives Matter and Antifa last year when they took to the streets engaging in mayhem. These thugs took part in over 600 riots, resulting in a considerable loss of life and property. Why is “chaos” at school board meetings objectionable, but not the truly “out of control” violence of Black Lives Matter and Antifa? Cottle cites as an example of school board “chaos” the meetings in Loudoun County, Virginia. She says, quite rightly, that critical race theory and a transgender-laden curriculum have “drawn the wrath of parents.” With good reason. Unlike her, these “chaotic” parents object to teachers being forced to accept the racist dogma that defines critical race theory. They also object to teachers being punished for refusing to call a boy a girl, and vice versa  (the school was forced by the courts to reinstate the teacher). Another problem for Cottle are parents who worry about their children being “indoctrinated or otherwise manipulated” by educators. What she says is actually worse than this—the indoctrination is in full swing at our nation’s leading colleges and universities. When Ivy League institutions hold separate graduation ceremonies for multiple demographic groups, all of whom have one perceived grievance or another (e.g., Columbia), and when they force incoming freshmen to sit through presentations on racism that are themselves patently racist (Princeton), they are no longer engaged in education. They are engaged in indoctrination. The good news is that Cottle and her colleagues admit that conservative parents are pushing back against highly politicized school boards. If there is one good thing that the pandemic has wrought, it is a new awareness on the part of previously unsuspecting parents of the extent to which education is being corrupted by left-wing ideologues. What the New York Times fears most is “power to the people.” When the people stand up, the elites are forced to sit down. Contact Michelle Cottle: Michelle.Cottle@nytimes.com

September 7, 2021

A Holy Angel of God

“It was rain,

But a sinister, deadly rain,

As creatures who were not created to die

But who by their choice had sought death,

Fell to earth.

And because they could not die a physical death,

They sought mortal men who could,

For it was death they delighted in,

And destruction.

And their desire was to separate these mortal men from God,

As they themselves had been separated.

But they were thwarted again and again,

For those who died,

Refused to stay dead,

For they had been created with an immortal soul,

And, therefore, even in death,

They vibrated with resurrection,

Placed there by the hands of the very One to whom they had refused to bow.

For even in the darkness of death,

There was something that shone forth from these mortal men,

And it was this that made the fallen tremble.

It was blood – pristine blood –

That had come from a spotless Lamb,

And it was this blood that thwarted the fallen.

For it was this blood

That had the power to change what was dark to light,

And to change the destination of what was marked for hell to heaven.

So, these creatures who had already lost heaven

Sought to cause men the loss of heaven, too,

By causing them to forget

What covered them,

And preying upon their free will

Which had been granted by the love of the Lamb.

They told them the lie

That there was no heaven.

And these men who had been saved at such a cost

Refused their salvation,

And unfolded not their umbrellas,

But stood instead unsheltered in the sinister, deadly rain.

For they saw not,

For it was obscured by the fallen,

That this Lamb who had left heaven to be slaughtered on earth,

Had left for them a sacramental umbrella

To protect them from this sinister, deadly rain.

And, therefore, they unfolded not their umbrellas,

And the rain burned through their bodies

And pierced their souls.

And oh, how the fallen gloated,

But they did not rejoice,

For joy is a gift of heaven

And the fallen were creatures of the darkest hell.

So a sinister, deadly rain fell upon the earth

And the men of earth unfolded not their umbrellas,

And burned.”

-S

Nursing baby died with blood clots, inflamed arteries following mother’s Pfizer shot, VAERS report says

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(LifeSiteNews) – A six-week-old breastfeeding baby became inexplicably ill with a high fever after his mother received a COVID-19 vaccine and he died weeks later with blood clots in his “severely inflamed arteries,” according to a vaccine adverse event report filed with the U.S. government.

An unidentified 36-year-old woman from New Mexico said she received a first dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 jab on June 4, 2021 when she was breastfeeding her six-week-old infant son, according to a report filed with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

“On July 17, my baby passed away,” says the report, which first appeared on VAERS August 13, 2021.

Blood clots, inflamed arteries

The baby boy became “very sick with a high fever” on June 21 when he was treated with intravenous antibiotics for two weeks in hospital for what was assumed to be a bacterial infection.

The VAERS report says that hospital tests “never found any specific bacteria,” and called his diagnosis “culture-negative sepsis.” It states that at the end of his two-week hospital stay he tested positive for rhinovirus and was sent home.

At home, the baby developed further symptoms over the following week, including a swollen eyelid, “strange rashes” and vomiting. His mother returned him to the hospital July 15 when he was diagnosed with “atypical Kawasaki disease”

The Mayo Clinic describes Kawasaki disease as a condition primarily affecting children which causes swelling (inflammation) in the walls of medium-sized arteries throughout the body. Coronary arteries, which supply blood to the heart muscle tend to be most affected, but the disease can also affect lymph nodes that swell during an infection as well as the membranes inside the mouth, nose and throat.

Most cases of Kawasaki disease are “usually treatable and most children recover from Kawasaki disease without serious problems,” according to the Mayo Clinic website.

After the baby was returned to hospital on July 15, he “passed away shortly thereafter from clots in his severely inflamed arteries,” states the VAERS report which inaccurately lists the mother’s age, 36 years, for the age of the deceased.

Few other details about the case are provided. His mother reports that he had been born three weeks early when she developed appendicitis.

In the report to the vaccine adverse event system, she questioned the role of the vaccine in her baby’s death. “I am curious if the spike protein could have gone through the breast milk and caused an inflammatory response in my child. They say Kawasaki disease presents very similarly to the Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in children that they are seeing in post Covid infections,” she said.

“However, if they know that antibodies go through the breastmilk as a good thing, then why wouldn’t the spike protein also go through the breastmilk and potentially cause problems.”

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Spike protein in breastmilk?

In May, Canadian vaccine researcher and viral immunologist Byram Bridle, of the University of Guelph, Ontario, warned listeners of a podcast that nursing babies whose mothers had been vaccinated were at risk of getting COVID spike proteins from her breast milk.

Bridle cited a Pfizer “biodistribution study” of the lipid nanoparticle carrier in its vaccine which showed that the ingredients did not stay near the injection site in the arm muscle as intended, but unexpectedly dispersed to organs throughout the body.

If in a real-life scenario, these lipoproteins would release mRNA which would cause cells wherever they were taken up to produce spike proteins. Spike proteins themselves have been identified as the pathogenic agents of disease in COVID-19.

Bridle also cited a recent study which detected SARS-CoV-2 protein in the blood plasma of 11 of 13 young healthcare workers that had received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, including three with detectable levels of spike protein. A “subunit” protein called S1, part of the spike protein, was also detected.

Bridle said that “any proteins in the blood will get concentrated in breast milk,” and “we have found evidence of suckling infants experiencing bleeding disorders in the gastrointestinal tract” in VAERS.

One VAERS report describes a five-month-old breastfed infant whose mother received a second dose of Pfizer’s vaccine in March. The following day, the baby developed a rash and became “inconsolable,” refused to nurse, and developed a fever. The report says the baby was hospitalized with a diagnosis of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, a rare blood disorder in which blood clots form in small blood vessels throughout the body. The baby died.— Article continues below Petition —PETITION: No to mandatory vaccination for the coronavirus 1066684 have signed the petition.Let’s get to 1100000!Add your signature:  Show Petition Text  Country…USACanadaAaland IslandsAfghanistanAlbaniaAlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntarcticaAntigua and BarbudaArgentinaArmeniaArubaAustraliaAustriaAzerbaijanBahamasBahrainBangladeshBarbadosBelarusBelgiumBelizeBeninBermudaBhutanBoliviaBosnia and HerzegovinaBotswanaBouvet IslandBrazilBritish Indian Ocean TerritoryBrunei DarussalamBulgariaBurkina FasoBurundiCambodiaCameroonCape VerdeCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChadChileChinaChristmas IslandCocos (Keeling) IslandsColombiaComorosCongoCook IslandsCosta RicaCote D’IvoireCroatiaCubaCuracaoCyprusCzech RepublicDemocratic Republic of the CongoDenmarkDjiboutiDominicaDominican RepublicEcuadorEgyptEl SalvadorEquatorial GuineaEritreaEstoniaEthiopiaFalkland IslandsFaroe IslandsFijiFinlandFranceFrench GuianaFrench PolynesiaFrench Southern TerritoriesGabonGambiaGeorgiaGermanyGhanaGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGrenadaGuadeloupeGuamGuatemalaGuernseyGuineaGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiHeard and McDonald IslandsHondurasHong KongHungaryIcelandIndiaIndonesiaIranIraqIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJamaicaJapanJerseyJordanKazakhstanKenyaKiribatiKuwaitKyrgyzstanLao People’s Democratic RepublicLatviaLebanonLesothoLiberiaLibyaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMacauMacedoniaMadagascarMalawiMalaysiaMaldivesMaliMaltaMarshall IslandsMartiniqueMauritaniaMauritiusMayotteMexicoMicronesiaMoldovaMonacoMongoliaMontenegroMontserratMoroccoMozambiqueMyanmarNamibiaNauruNepalNetherlandsNetherlands AntillesNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNicaraguaNigerNigeriaNiueNorfolk IslandNorth KoreaNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayOmanPakistanPalauPalestinePanamaPapua New GuineaParaguayPeruPhilippinesPitcairnPolandPortugalPuerto RicoQatarRepublic of KosovoReunionRomaniaRussiaRwandaSaint BarthelemySaint HelenaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Pierre and MiquelonSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSao Tome and PrincipeSaudi ArabiaSenegalSerbiaSeychellesSierra LeoneSingaporeSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSolomon IslandsSomaliaSouth AfricaSouth Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSouth KoreaSouth SudanSpainSri LankaSudanSurinameSvalbard and Jan Mayen IslandsSwazilandSwedenSwitzerlandSyriaTaiwanTajikistanTanzaniaThailandTimor-LesteTogoTokelauTongaTrinidad and TobagoTunisiaTurkeyTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUgandaUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited States Minor Outlying IslandsUruguayUzbekistanVanuatuVatican CityVenezuelaVietnamVirgin Islands (British)Virgin Islands (U.S.)Wallis and Futuna IslandsWestern SaharaYemenZambiaZimbabwe Not Collected Keep me updated via email on this petition and related issues.  Sign this Petition

Seizures, rashes, fevers

Another VAERS report describes a 25-year-old woman who received a first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine on May 2, 2021. The following day, both the woman, who was hospitalized for five days, and her six-week-old breastfeeding baby, were diagnosed with viral meningitis.

A report to VAERS from Pennsylvania describes a three-month-old infant who suddenly developed seizures seven hours after nursing from its vaccinated mother.

Some reports describe babies developing diarrhea or vomiting after nursing from their vaccinated mothers. Some describe babies becoming feverish; one North Carolina mother was so alarmed by her nursing 17 month-old’s four-day fever after she received her shot, that she took the baby for a COVID test (which was negative.)

One VAERS report describes a nursing baby in Tennessee who developed alopecia areata – an autoimmune condition that causes hair to fall out – eight days after her mother was vaccinated. “No other causes have been identified,” the report states.

Another report describes a 17-month-old baby girl who developed hives following each occasion that her mother was vaccinated on April 14 and on May 5, 2021. The baby was taken to an emergency room on April 23 and given medications which she took daily to prevent hives. About five days before her mother received the second dose of Pfizer’s shot, the baby’s hives subsided. Then, they reappeared the following morning after the mother took the second dose. The baby saw a dermatologist for hives that were from “her face to just past her knees” and were worst under her arms, on her chest and back.

A number of reports describe mothers’ milk drying up suddenly after vaccination. One VAERS report describes a woman who developed an itchy face and throat and sore joints after her injection and pumped her milk to discard it and noticed it had an unusual blueish hue.

When contacted, a CDC media representative asked LifeSiteNews to e-mail questions about any investigation into the deceased baby and other reports of breastfeeding adverse events following COVID vaccination. The agency did not respond to the email before publication.

Fauci tells mothers it’s a ‘good idea’ to continue breastfeeding after a COVID jab

White House medical adviser and COVID public health chief, Anthony Fauci has advised pregnant and breastfeeding women to take experimental COVID-19 shots. In an interviewwith whattoexpect.com – a pregnancy advice website – published on August 30, Fauci was asked if women should continue breastfeeding after getting a COVID shot.  “[I]t is not only safe, but it’s a good idea…you should know that you’re doing something positive to protect the baby” Fauci replied.

A study published in April in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology reported that vaccinated mothers’ breast milk contains manufactured antibodies to the spike protein of SARS-COV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, which some believe may protect the nursing baby from the virus.

There are no long-term studies of any COVID vaccine in nursing infants.

Fatality among newborns from COVID is vanishingly rare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the current best estimate of the infection fatality rate for all children under 18 years of age is 0.00002 or 0.002%. It is far more likely for children to die of influenza than COVID-19.

Nursing infants increasing exposed to COVID jabs via their mother

It is now increasingly common for nursing babies to be exposed to experimental COVID-19 shots via their mothers. The UK Yellow Card vaccine adverse event reporting system has recorded nearly 3,000 “exposure during breastfeeding” and 120 reports of “exposure via breastmilk” events. No details of why these exposures were reported are provided in the government reports.

U.S. VAERS reports do not establish a causal relationship between the vaccine and the event described and can be filed by any doctor, pharmacist, healthcare worker, or citizen who has experienced or witnessed an adverse event. It is illegal to fabricate a VAERS report.

A 2009 Harvard-Pilgrim Healthcare  study found that the VAERS’ passive reporting system captured only one percent of the true adverse events that should have been reported to the system.

The Taliban Is Holding Hostage Six Planes To Rescue Americans Left Behind By Biden 

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Six planes on a mission to rescue more than a hundred Americans wanting to leave Afghanistan were grounded by the Taliban as negotiations continued with the State Department Monday.

The evacuation effort was a part of a mission chartered by Mercury One, the charity founded by conservative media personality and TheBlaze founder Glenn Beck.

Newsweek confirmed the details through an NGO working on the evacuation.

According to the report, at least 1,000 people were waiting to board the planes at an airport in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

“The planes are currently empty and its passengers are still waiting in their safe houses for clearance for takeoff from the Taliban,” said one NGO official to Newsweek. “I have more than 1,000 people on the master manifest that want to fly, of which 123 are Americans and the rest are Special Immigration Visas.”https://lockerdome.com/lad/14227381762077798?pubid=ld-1562-9626&pubo=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicanupdate.com&rid=&width=730

Earlier on Sunday, the State Department sent an email to members of Congress to alert them about the negotiations with the Taliban. The email reportedly said that the planes had permission to land in Doha, Qatar, but only after the Taliban allowed them to leave.

“The Taliban is basically holding them hostage to get more out of the Americans,” said a congressional source to CBS News.

Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas said Sunday on Fox News that the Taliban had the Americans in a hostage situation.

“In fact we have six airplanes at Mazar-i-Sharif airport, six airplanes, with American citizens on them as I speak, also with these interpreters, and the Taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now,” McCaul said. “State has cleared these flights, and the Taliban will not let them leave the airport.”

A spokesperson told Newsweek they were not able to confirm whether Americans were waiting to board the planes to escape.

“We do not have personnel on the ground, we do not have air assets in the country, we do not control the airspace — whether over Afghanistan or elsewhere in the region,” the unidentified official said.

Glenn Beck had raised more than $22 million from donors and his radio audience to fund the mission to rescue Christians, Americans, and Afghan allies from the Taliban-controlled nation.

Here’s more about the effort to rescue Americans from Afghanistan:

Author: CARLOS GARCIA

Source: The Blaze: The Taliban is holding hostage six planes chartered by Glenn Beck charity to rescue Americans left behind by Biden admin

September 7, 2021___________________________________________________ > Victor Davis Hanson                      __________________________________________________Biden and the Left-wing Standard of Attacking Presidents In just a few months Joe Biden has wrought a series of disasters that will invoke outrage that dwarfs the concocted anger directed at Donald Trump.By Victor Davis HansonAmerican GreatnessSeptember 5, 2021 As Joe Biden entered office in January 2021, there still roared a left-wing revolution, a woke madness spreading through popular culture and Congress, much of which he indirectly has aided and abetted. It has redefined not just politics but the rules of the presidency. And the eventual casualty of these radical shifts in protocols and customs will be—Joe Biden. Take impeachment, which heretofore had been rare and has still never led to a Senate conviction. Prior to Trump, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were the only presidents to have been impeached (Richard Nixon resigned to avoid it), and both were acquitted in the Senate.  Yet leftist congressional representatives introduced articles of impeachment the very first week Trump was in office, on the absurd allegation of profiting from his office (the presidency cost the Trump corporations hundreds of millions). The House later went on to impeach him twice, without writs of “treason” and “bribery” or even “high crimes and misdemeanors” as set out by the Constitution. Instead, Trump was, first, successfully impeached for supposedly abusing his power and obstructing Congress. I don’t think the average American has ever been pulled over by the police for the high crime “of obstructing Congress” (historically a presidential pastime) or has been charged with “abuse of power” (said of every president from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama).  Trump’s second impeachment was even flimsier. He was accused of “incitement of insurrection” concerning disturbances on January 6 that supposedly led to the violent death of Officer Brian Sicknick, the fatal shooting of an unarmed Ashli Babbitt, and the entire fable of an “armed insurrection.” Post-impeachment, we would learn that Sicknick died of natural causes. Strangely, for months no information about the shooter of Ashli Babbitt or the inquiry into that fatal act was ever fully released to the public. No one was charged with armed insurrection, largely because none of the buffoonish rioters were found either to have carried or used a firearm that day or were exposed as master plotters with plans to destroy the U.S. government. They may well have been guilty of felonies, but armed insurrectionary conspiracy was not one of them. No matter, the precedent had been set that serial impeachments now will be normative when a president in his first term loses party control of the House. Charges may not follow constitutional definitions. There will be no need to appoint a special counsel, to build a case on evidence, or to hold a formal hearing where witnesses present testimonies and are subject to cross-examination. There will be no expectation that the Senate will even come close to convicting an impeached president.  Impeachment is simply now a political gambit to embarrass a party or a president before a reelection. Biden and future presidents as private citizens could be hounded after exiting office with a Senate impeachment trial. Joe Biden by such new standards would then be in jeopardy should the Democrats lose the House in 2022, on the precedent that the Republicans could bring up anything they wished—unwillingness to enforce existing federal immigration law, deliberately misleading the American public on the growing catastrophe in Afghanistan, leveraging a foreign leader to lie with threats of withholding U.S. airpower to enhance his own political agenda, or empowerment of and collusion with his son Hunter Biden in past efforts to massage foreign governments for cash on the expectation of future advantageous U.S. government treatment. These may be flimsy charges for traditional impeachment; they are certainly not under the new Democratic model. When Donald Trump’s confidential phone calls with foreign leaders were leaked to the press it was celebrated by the media and the Left as a sort of blood sport. Now are we to think the same of the embarrassing leaked phone call between Biden and the Afghan president?  Donald Trump was impeached over a phone call with the Ukrainian president for supposedly pressuring Ukraine, by the threat of holding up foreign aid, to investigate the Biden family syndicate’s shenanigans. So, what are we to make then of Biden’s demand that the Afghan president lie to the world so that his fragile government did not appear in jeopardy, even if, Biden acknowledged, it, of course, was—with the added insinuation that Biden’s commitment to support the Afghan government with U.S. military power was predicated on his compliance with parroting such lies? We saw from 2017 to 2021 the precedent that both active and retired top Pentagon brass would either leak derogatory assessments of the commander-in-chief to the press, or overtly declare him to be morally unfit to hold office—all in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. What then is the country to do, amid the Afghanistan catastrophe, when lots of retired generals are now going public with calls for their president’s key military and civilian office holders to resign for culpability for a series of foreign policy disasters? Is it a good thing for our generals and admirals to become editorialists and critics of an elected president’s administration or ill-conceived, both, neither—or sometimes, depending on who is president?  In the Trump years, the Left institutionalized the new idea that threatening to invoke the 25th Amendment was a casual affair, a strategy appropriate to harming or removing a president. So, the acting heads of the FBI and Justice Department apparently discussed plots to wear eavesdropping equipment to entrap Trump in recorded conversations that might reveal his alleged dementia. An Ivy League psychiatrist was called to Congress to swear that the president was non compos mentis and in need of a forced intervention. The media demanded proof of Trump’s sanity to the point he took—and aced—the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.  Joe Biden is obviously suffering from some sort of organic illness that has reduced his mental faculties to the point he is often dazed. When he is rarely able to craft complete sentences, he says things that are incoherent, offensive, and occasionally racist. He seems to have no knowledge of current events, and so reassures trapped Americans in Kabul that they can simply go to the besieged airport, show their passports, and waltz on in.  Under the new protocols, are we to expect high Justice Department officials to record stealthily Biden’s private conversations, to subpoena an appropriate ivy league psychiatrist, or to ask the president to take a simple cognitive assessment test? Under Joe Biden, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, sought to ingratiate himself to the woke movement, to his woke Secretary of Defense, and to Joe Biden by assuring Congress he would get to the root of “white rage” and in general recommend to his troops the relevant woke texts such as those of Professor Ibram X. Kendi. Milley produced no evidence that there were lots of insurrectionary white supremacists in the military. He cared little in his virtue signaling that “white” male soldiers had died in Iraq and Afghanistan at twice their numbers in the general population — a cardinal sin under woke disparate impact and proportional representation canons. Again, fine. But given the sometimes-violent nature of Black Lives Matter, and its apparently proud Marxist origins, is it now equally OK for some future chairman to testify that he will go through the ranks to understand black rage as his Pentagon roots out would-be BLM extremists? These hypocrisies are endless, given the pernicious precedents that so casually have now been embraced for cheap political advantage.  Will the next Speaker of the House ritually tear up Biden’s State of the Union address, as he hands the text to him on national television?  Will the Congress appoint a special counsel, allot him 22 months and $40 million to scour the Biden team to find the causes, origins, and those culpable of the greatest foreign policy debacle since the last days of Vietnam—with occasional side trips along the tortured family money trail and indifference to the IRS of Hunter Biden’s international grifting?  Will retired Trump-era CIA and high-ranking intelligence officials go on cable television to wink and nod about their privileged security clearance information to accuse Biden of treasonous behavior? Will they tweet that he and his policies are like those of the German death camps, or stamp him as Mussolini or Hitler-like?  And will some “brave” disillusioned Democratic “loyalist” be canonized in the media as he falsely reassures the nation, as “Anonymous II,” that he is both high-ranking and representative of a large, dissident, and grassroots resistance to Biden within his own administration and party? Will the New York Times print his warning that an army of idealists is ready and willing to resist any Biden presidential order that it finds distasteful? Is that the political culture that Biden should now operate under?  Did the NATO allies find Trump’s brashness—which resulted in a considerable increase in alliance military funding and readiness—as bad as Biden’s soothing words that betrayed our European partners and have all but ruined the alliance? Was all this hypocrisy predicated on the idea that the Left will never lose power, or that its atrocious behavior was defensible for the moment given the accident of Donald Trump? Or do Democrats really believe there must be one standard for leftist moralists and another for their supposed inferiors, on their blinkered assumption that there would never be a Democratic president as controversial and disliked by the Right as Donald Trump was by the Left? The truth is that in just a few months Joe Biden has wrought a series of disasters that will invoke outrage that dwarfs the concocted anger directed at Donald Trump. And it may be vented through the very protocols that the Left invented for its own short-term advantage.

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Graveyard of Narratives

Angelo Codevilla

Afghanistan, et al., for the record

Disaster in Kabul having elicited a mass of nearly indistinguishable pile-on commentary by uninformed persons, it may be useful for me, who am all too deeply familiar with U.S. intelligence in general, and who have been involved with the U.S. government’s activities in Afghanistan and regarding terrorism since 1979, to write this memorandum as a record to distinguish between the several “narratives” on the subject, and what we know to be factually true. 

Between 1979 and 1985, when I took the lead on Afghan matters for the Senate Intelligence Committee, the CIA had no sources in Afghanistan, and had assigned all of one-and-a-half full-time persons at its station in Islamabad to Afghan matters. None had direct contact with Afghans. When I took two CIA officers to meet with the Mujahedeen, along with a staff delegation, they were the first to have any contact. But the Agency’s ignorance of the place did not prevent it from being a major player in U.S. policy. That did not change until, after 2001, the CIA flooded the place with its usual “official cover” parroters of “narratives.” 

Who was Osama bin Laden? Did we arm him? What importance did he achieve, and how? During the Soviet occupation, bin Laden was merely a rich man’s son whose money and Islamic passion led some 200 men to join the fight. He called the group al Qaeda, “the base.” They never fought any significant action. Nor did they ever get weapons from the U.S./Saudi program administered by Pakistan. The Pakistanis were partial to the Pashtun groups they controlled and from which the Taliban emerged. The U.S., including Congress, made sure that the Tajiks and Uzbeks got at least some arms, especially Ahmed Shah Massoud and Sibjatullah Mojadedi. The latter briefly became president. 

As the Soviets were leaving in 1989, the Afghan authorities expelled bin Laden, and other “Afghan Arabs” they did not control, mostly back to Saudi Arabia, where they had zero influence. Come Saddam’s brief 1991 invasion of Saudi territory, bin Laden made himself ridiculous by asking the king to use his little band to drive back the Iraqi army. The ensuing rebuff, coupled with the stationing of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, turned bin Laden into a critic, then an enemy of the regime, which quickly expelled him to Sudan. During the early nineties he searched for international relevance and support, developed hate for the U.S. along with the Saudi regime, and became a bother for the Sudanese. 

In 1996, three things happened. Bin Laden issued a fatwa (for which he had no authority) against principally the Americans, ostensibly for occupying the Kingdom, but mostly stressing the injustice that America had done to Saddam in 1990 and 1991. At the same time, he got lots of money, apparently from Saddam. He also took into al Qaeda an existing group of professional Baluchi warriors who previously had served under Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who had already gained notoriety for a failed plot to explode airliners over the Pacific. Note well that, prior to taking on this group, al Qaeda had not accomplished any of the things for which it became notorious thereafter. Finally, the Sudanese expelled bin Laden and his men. They traveled back to Afghanistan, on a Russian airplane. 

In Afghanistan, al Qaeda were guests of the Taliban faction that, by then, had taken over the Pashtun/Pakistani franchise. Whatever bin Laden’s interests may have been, the Taliban had only one: their war against the Tajiks/Uzbeks. They employed al Qaeda for that purpose, but apparently not the small Khalid group. 

On September 12, 2001, CIA director George Tenet delivered a summary judgment: Bin Laden and al Qaeda had “done” 9/11, “game, set, and match.” But this statement, basis as it has been for two decades of ‘war on terror,” is factually empty. What we surely do not know about who did what to make 9/11 happen is more than what we know. Nearly all of what most believe consists of a mixture of the U.S. government’s competing narratives, unverified. 

We don’t even know the identities of most of the hijackers. We do know that they were not who their passports say they were, because the passports turned out to have been stolen. Who were the men who carried them? Mohammed Atta ran the operation. But who recruited the hijackers? On what basis? Apparently, Khalid Sheik Mohammed had a lot to do with the whole thing. What was his relationship with Atta? He has confessed to a lot—almost none of which is verifiable. We don’t know where he got the money. Though what was left over from the operation was ostentatiously returned to an open al Qaeda account, its provenance is hidden beyond our sleuths’ capacity to discover. What bin Laden had to do with 9/11, or what he might have known about it, is purely a matter of speculation. Though never averse to boasting, he never claimed credit for the attack. The Taliban? The most serious imputation against them was that they refused to turn over bin Laden. 

And what roles did anyone in the Saudi and Iraqi governments play? This was the great subject of bloody bureaucratic controversy within the U.S. government, as each of its several parts tried to protect its foreign favorites from the American people’s ire. The intelligence agencies, given the utter poverty of their sources—the majority of which came from the intelligence services of these very governments—had little to contribute but their own narratives. They also placed what little they knew about these bureaucratically sensitive matters behind high security shields, where it remains to this day. 

And so the official U.S. narrative came to be that 9/11 was the work of rogue religious extremists, made possible by active support from the Taliban. Foreign regimes had nothing to do with it, except the Taliban, just by virtue of tolerating extremism. Never mind that Khalid Sheik and his associates were professional hired guns, who had lived the opposite of religious lives, and that the Taliban were and remain based primarily on ethnicity and support from Pakistan.  

In November 2001, the U.S. government waged war on the Taliban. After three weeks of embarrassingly stupid bombing, it lent air assistance to the Tajiks/Uzbeks, who quickly defeated the Pashtun. These eagerly turned over to the winners every al Qaeda associate they could find. Much was made at the time that bin Laden was not among them. Had he been found, U.S. government spokesmen would have been asked if they believed that his capture or death had solved America’s problem with terrorism; the ensuing discussion would have been interesting. 

As it was, George Tenet’s (and President Bush’s) idiotic premise got another two decades’ lease on life. The U.S. government went on to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq. To accomplish what, precisely? Each set of rationales was stupider than the others. “We’ve got to fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here.” Meaning that “the terrorists” had agreed to fight the U.S. Army, Marines, and Air Force instead of coming to feast on helpless American civilians in Wisconsin. “If we give them democracy, they will turn peaceful.” But the U.S. government did everything in its power to prevent the local factions’ actual will from manifesting reciprocal hate. 

The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq never stopped local factions from pushing their agendas by war. The U.S. government merely put Americans in the line of fire between them. What did the U.S. think that it was doing? Because the official narratives did not actually shape what the government was doing, they are not to be taken seriously. 

What did the U.S. government actually do in Afghanistan and Iraq?  Only the things it really cares to or knows how to do—namely, richly to hire its favorite people to try reshaping mankind in their own image. Since WWII, whether in the name of anti-communism, anti-terrorism, democracy, or humanitarianism, it’s always the same: dismiss the substance of local quarrels; recast the local scene in terms of American elites’ concerns; find locals who agree, and form “coalition governments” that, supposedly, represent the people’s aspirations, regardless of what these might be; send in the American experts on everything from education to women’s rights, with their recipes and their billions of dollars; and treat as terrorists any locals who disagree strongly.  

Of the many reasons why this formula has always produced rejection, one is enough to explain the rest. The U.S. formula is purely administrative and even mercenary. It is without soul, wholly abstracting from traditions and affections, never mind from religion and systems of justice. Over the globe, through millennia, people have come together on a bewildering variety of bases. Seldom has mere administration served that purpose, even if competent, especially if by foreigners, and especially if in contradiction to customs. 

Afghanistan is a geographic-historic expression for a variety of tribes, each with a way of life peculiar to itself. Islam notwithstanding, Afghanistan has never had a common ethical system. Same goes for Iraq, and most places. Some of these ways strike us as bellicose, others as disgusting. Justice meted out in accordance with these tribal codes repels us. However, it appeals to persons brought up in these tribes just as undeniably as lack of an explicable locally attractive ethical system repels them. 

In Afghanistan as elsewhere, the U.S. government has hired a lot of people and spread around a lot of money to service the even more expensive services of well-connected Americans. But that money has not bought allegiance to any ethically or politically binding enterprise because it has not offered any—any more than it did in Vietnam, in the Middle East, or in Africa. Or in America itself for that matter. 

Perhaps the only useful result of the Afghan enterprise’s clamorous collapse, at a time when so much else that our ruling class is doing also collapses of its own weight, is the widespread recognition that we are not seeing the results of discrete choices about foreign policy. We are experiencing the inexorable working out of the logic by which a whole class lives, moves, and has its being. 

Angelo Codevilla is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and professor emeritus of International Relations at Boston University.

This RINO swamp creature is in hiding after Tucker Carlson said these two words

September 7, 2021

Tucker Carlson is not somebody politicians want on their bad side.

He can destroy entire careers in minutes.

And this RINO swamp creature is in hiding after Tucker Carlson said these two words. 

If there is one name that sends a shiver down the spines of corrupt politicians in Washington, D.C. it’s Tucker Carlson. 

While most of the major media figures are more than willing to cover for the misbehavior of corrupt politicians, often in exchange for favors or access, Carlson will call out anybody who deserves it. 

And he did just that with “Republican” Senator Lindsey Graham.

Graham will do or say pretty much anything that will help him personally. 

He was the most vocal anti-Trump Republican before he tried to reinvent himself as the most vocal pro-Trump supporter in the Senate, and now he is trying to walk all that back. 

And now he is trying to capitalize politically off the Afghanistan debacle.

But as Tucker Carlson points out, Graham is directly responsible for the failures in Afghanistan. 

“The main reason Americans were so shocked by the fall of Kabul last week is that for years, people in Washington have been lying to them about it and telling them everything in Afghanistan is just fine,” Carlson began his point. “It’s improving, forever improving. Our sacrifice is well worth it. Our strategy is successful. Just keep sending us money and young soldiers, we will make the world safe for America.”

That’s when he moved on to hit Graham directly, stating, “For decades that’s what they’ve told us. One of the main mouthpieces for these lies has been Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. Graham identifies as a Republican, but his views in real life are indistinguishable from say Tony Blinken’s or Mark Milley’s.”

“Graham’s real constituents are in permanent Washington, not in South Carolina,” he concluded. 

Carlson went on to play three clips of Graham that prove his responsibility for the situation in Afghanistan. 

The most damning one came from 13 years ago, where Graham heaped praise at Barack Obama for increasing troop presence in Afghanistan.

“When it comes to Afghanistan, I am completely supportive of [Obama’s] decision to send 35,000 troops into Afghanistan. They are needed,” Graham said. “I would like every American to know that not only are the troops needed, unfortunately, casualties are likely to increase, but we have a game plan in Afghanistan that I think justifies the expenditures of blood and treasure that’s about to come.”

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‘Afghan terror’ at US-Mexico border

by Miranda Devine

Joe Biden’s Afghanistan debacle shows us how much damage one president can do. But why would it stop there?

The lack of contrition from the president or anyone in his administration leads to the alarming conclusion that they haven’t learned a thing. If you fail to show humility in the face of your own mistakes, it means you are destined to repeat them. And unfortunately for the rest of us, we are along for the ride.

At least with the self-inflicted disaster in Afghanistan, even the left-wing media have held the administration to account. The criticism is an unfamiliar feeling for Biden and the pampered likes of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jake Sullivan and White House press secretary Jen Psaki, as you can see from their shell-shocked faces.

No doubt normal programming will resume soon, once the last US military plane leaves the Kabul airport and a Taliban-ordered media blackout descends. The administration’s unforced errors will again be explained away by silver-tongued scribes and its gaslighting accepted as gospel truth.

But there is another humanitarian crisis that had been unfolding quietly right on our doorstep for months before Biden’s foolhardy decision to close Bagram Air Base — the unchecked flow of illegal migrants over the southern border.

It is no stretch of the imagination to see the national security threat of Afghan terrorists newly freed from prison by the Taliban making their way to Mexico and slipping past overworked border agents.

They would just be following in the path of others named on the terror watch list, such as the two Yemeni men caught crossing into California in recent months. Even as Psaki tries to reassure Americans that every person flown out of the chaos in Kabul will be carefully vetted before setting foot in the US, what’s the point of having a functioning front door when your back door is wide open?

Who will do the vetting, anyway? The overloaded Department of Homeland Security as it is can’t keep up with the influx over the southern border.

“Vetting” is just kabuki theater. You may as well fly the Afghans straight to the southern border from Kabul and save on red tape.

The good news is that the Supreme Court this week reinstated the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy and even suggested the Biden administration had violated federal law by rescinding it.

If enforced, the policy would require aspiring migrants to stay in Mexico pending a court hearing of their asylum case. Homeland Security says it will comply with the order, but it has vowed to keep fighting it. Why? How does it serve American citizens to keep the surge over the southern border going? It is not even compassionate since it lures vulnerable people — and children — into the arms of criminal people smugglers.

The border has become a magnet for opportunists all over the world, and the flow will never end without tough resolve and competence that we don’t see in the Oval Office. Why wouldn’t you try your luck if you come from one of the broken-down countries whose nationals are swelling the ranks of South Americans at the border?

Remain in Mexico was effective, but only as one element of a suite of border protection measures put in place by the Trump administration that had slowed border crossings to a trickle.

Building the border wall was another element, and yet on Day One of his presidency, Biden canceled all construction projects. Senate Republicans have estimated the cost of stopping construction at $2 billion — more than it would have cost to complete the wall.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration has talked about sending the funny money it has “saved” as cash payments to residents of Northern Triangle Central American countries to, ahem, address the “root causes” of migration, Kamala Harris’ fanciful mission.

Great idea. Now more people will be able to afford to pay the cartels to smuggle them over the border.

It’s hard to know how Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas can sleep at night. He knows what’s going on, as you can hear in leaked audiotape obtained by Fox News of his comments to Border Patrol agents this month. The border crisis is “unsustainable,” he said. “We’re going to lose … We can’t continue like this. Our people in the field can’t continue and our system isn’t built for it.” Cheery chap. Why he doesn’t resign in protest is a mystery. He has been given an impossible job, since the first act of Biden’s presidency was to dismantle Trump-era border protection.

While the administration makes a show of extending border restrictions with Canada, it blithely keeps the southern border open. While it whips up COVID panic with vaccine mandates and mask mandates on little kids, it turns a blind eye to the superspreader event spreading across the country from Mexico.

It bases its cynical media management around the gaslighter variation of an old philosophical question: “If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears the sound, did it ever exist?”

If there is a crisis at the southern border and most of the media ignores it, is it happening at all?

No news is good news from the Biden perspective. Only ice cream reports ­allowed.

War started in the 7th Century and lasted through the 17th Century. Many will contend it never stopped; the Facts below are Historically correct.

That is why many of us Choke when we hear someone say we will defeat or contain these Islamic Terrorists in a few Years, or even “30 Years” as has been stated by Leon Panetta.

If the latest batch of Murders, Beheadings, and Killing of Innocent Christians has at all shocked you, it is time for you to read this Compilation of Historical Facts about the Intense Hatred that Muslims have for ANY and ALL who are “NOT” Muslims!

WE ARE THE STUPID

In 732 A.D., the Muslim Army, which was moving on Paris, was Defeated and turned back at Tours, France, by Charles Martell.

In 1571 A.D, the Muslim Army/Navy was defeated by the Italians and Austrians as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Attack Southern Europe in the Battle of Lepanto.

In 1683 A.D, the Turkish Muslim Army, Attacking Eastern Europe, was finally Defeated in the Battle of Vienna by German and Polish Christian Armies.

This Nonsense has been going on for 1,400 years! The SAD thing is that more than half of all Politicians do not even know any of this.

If these Battles had not been Won, we would most likely be speaking Arabic,  and Christianity could be Non-existent. Judaism certainly would NOT exist!

Reality check: A lot of Americans have become so Insulated from Reality that they Imagine America can Suffer defeat without any Inconvenience to themselves.

Think back: The following events are true historical facts. It has been many years since 1968, but History keeps repeating itself.

1. In 1968, Robert Kennedy was Shot and Killed by a Muslim Male.

2. In 1972, at the Munich Olympics, Israeli Athletes were Kidnapped and Massacred by Muslim Males.

3. In 1972, a Pan Am 747 was Hijacked and eventually Diverted to Cairo where a Fuse was lit on Final Approach. Shortly after Landing, it was Blown up by Muslim Males.

4. In 1973, a Pan Am 707 was Destroyed in Rome with 33 People Killed, when it was Attacked with Grenades by Muslim Males.

5. In 1979, the United States Embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim Males.

6. During the 1980’s, a number of Americans were Kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim Males.

7. In 1983, the United States Marine Barracks in Beirut was Blown up by Muslim Males.

8. In 1985, the Cruise Ship Achille-Lauro was Hijacked, and a 70-year-old American Passenger was Murdered and thrown Overboard in his Wheelchair by Muslim Males.

9. In 1985, TWA Flight 847 was Hijacked at Athens, and a United States Navy Diver, who was trying to Rescue Passengers – was murdered by Muslim Males.

10. In 1988, an Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim Males.

11. In 1993, the World Trade Center was Bombed for the First Time by Muslim Males.

12. In 1998, the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were Bombed by Muslim Males.

13. On 09/11/01, FOUR Airliners were Hijacked. Two of the Planes were used as Missiles to take down the World Trade Centers. One Plane Crashed into the United States Pentagon,
and the other Plane was Diverted and Crashed by the Passengers. Thousands of People were Killed by Muslim Males.

14. In 2002, the United States fought a War in Afghanistan against Muslim Males.

15. In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was Kidnapped and Beheaded by you guessed it – a Muslim Male. (Plus two other American Journalists who had just recently been Beheaded.)

16. In 2013, the Boston Marathon Bombing resulted in Four Innocent People, including a Child, being Killed and 264 other People injured by Muslim Males.

NO, I really do not see a pattern here to Justify Profiling. Do YOU? So, to ensure we Americans never Offend Anyone – particularly Fanatics intent on Killing US – Airport Security Screeners will NO longer be allowed to Profile certain People.

So, ask yourself: “Just how Stupid are we?!?!” Have Americans completely lost their Minds or just their “Power of Reason?” the writer of the Award Winning story “Forrest Gump” so aptly put it, “Stupid is as Stupid does.”

You now have the Opportunity to send this on to other Email Contacts. Please do that! Or you can just sit back, keep complaining and do nothing.

As Barack Obama said in his book: “Nothing sounds as Beautiful as the Muslim Evening Prayers from the Tower.”