The political agenda laid out by Joe Biden’s website is lengthy, comprehensive, detailed, and unprecedented. No such agenda has ever been written down by one of the major politica candidates or parties in American history. It is, in fact, not only socialism but the effective elimination of our already-much-diminished federalist system.

Posted on October 24, 2020 by abyssum
In His Own Words: Joe Biden’s Radical Vision for America

By Thomas Ascik

The Imaginative Conservative

October 23rd, 2020


The political agenda laid out by Joe Biden’s website together with the 2020 Democratic Platform is lengthy, comprehensive, detailed, and unprecedented. No such agenda has ever been written down by one of the major political parties in American history. It is, in fact, not only socialism but the effective elimination of our already-much-diminished federalist system.
Joe Biden recently mocked the accusation that he is a socialist, and in the first presidential debate, he added his authority that he is “the Democratic party.” “I beat the socialist,” referring to Bernie Sanders, Biden has also answered. And Pete Buttigieg has just been deployed to publicly profess that Biden is not a socialist. However, regardless of the historic meaning or academic definition of the word “socialist,”and there have been quaint articles in the media attempting to do so, as if that mattered, socialism, or in common American parlance, complete centralization of American government and society, is, in fact, here.
Biden’s proposals for new taxes and spending by a federal government completely controlled by Democrats are breathtaking enough. But no serious person can doubt that the official socialist wing of the party, launched by Bernie Sanders in his 2016 presidential campaign, and now led by himself, Elizabeth Warren, and Nancy Pelosi, who over the past two years has redefined the role of the Speakership of the House, is now its own independent power base in the party. And add Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to them.
Biden has concentrated his campaigning almost exclusively on personal criticism of Trump, COVID, and health care. Neither he nor the allied media has gone into much detail about other issues. But, just as important or perhaps more important is Biden’s and the Democratic party’s advocacy of what might be called “cultural socialism,” or what Biden and his party call “the soul of the nation.”The political agenda laid out by Biden’s website together with the 2020 Democratic Platform is lengthy, comprehensive, detailed, and unprecedented. No such agenda has ever been written down by one of the major political parties in American history. It is, in fact, not only socialism but the effective elimination of our already-much-diminished federalist system.
This essay points out nine of the political and cultural changes that would put in place by a fully Democratic federal government:
(1) The first is racial reparations. The Democratic Platform meekly mentions the Party’s intention “to study” reparations, and the Biden website does not even use the word. However, there may be only one way to spell the word “reparations,” but there are countless ways to do it. On his website, Biden has a long list of race-based proposals, among which are his intentions to “close the racial wealth gap,” put in place a small-business program that is “specifically designed to aid businesses owned by Black and Brown people,” and “spur more than $50 billion in additional public-private venture capital to Black and Brown entrepreneurs.” In their Platform, the Democrats emphatically stress “two and a half centuries of slavery” that has left “lasting inequities,” and assert that they “will root out structural and systemic racism” by, among other things, “clos[ing] the racial wealth gap,” and will “provide seed capital in order to access the economic security of asset ownership.”
(2) Local residential zoning is a target. Biden says that he will “develop a strategy for inclusionary zoning.” He will re-emphasize and strengthen an Obama housing regulation “that lending practices that have a discriminatory impact can be challenged even if discrimination was not explicit.” He will “examine housing patterns” for “discriminatory effect.” Likewise, in their Platform, the Democrats proclaim that they “will ensure that federal housing programs are better designed to affirmatively further fair housing” by requiring cities and towns “to proactively review housing patterns and remedy local polices that have a discriminatory effect.”
(3) Biden has emphasized that he will turn the Roe v. Wade abortion decision into a federal statute. Calling it a “foundational precedent,” the Platform essentially holds that one of the constitutional bases of our society. What that means is that all state laws that have some kind of restrictions on abortion will have to be nullified, either by private lawsuits by abortion clinics themselves or by Biden’s Justice Department. What is more, any kind of regulation of health, zoning, and building regulation of the clinics as well as licensing of abortionists will be subject to federal scrutiny.
(4) One of Biden’s priorities within the first 100 days of his inauguration will be the enactment of the Equality Act, a revision of all federal statutes that directly or indirectly have to do with sex. Already passed by the House in May 2019, the across-the-board and society-changing nature of that Act is summarized by the Platform, which describes its reach as “at last outlaw[ing] discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in housing, public accommodations, access to credit, education, jury service, and federal programs”—among other areas. The Act would go as far as creating federal civil rights violations and prohibiting discrimination against LBGT persons based on the offending person’s “perception or belief, even if inaccurate” of the LBGT person’s sexuality. Thought crimes, indeed. The Platform says that spreading “gender equality” across the world will be “a key foreign policy priority.”
(5) Biden’s and Harris’ statements that they will not state a position on packing the Supreme Court obviously means that they are not against it and will consider it. After Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation, they are likely to be more explicit. The Democratic Platform says that the Republicans “packed our federal courts with unqualified, partisan judges.” And because of that, the Democratic Party “recognizes the need for structural court reforms.” Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader, has stated his support for court packing. In 1937, Franklin Roosevelt proposed packing the Court with as many as six new justices.
(6) Making Washington D.C. a state and allowing Puerto Rico “self-determination” about statehood or independence are both in the Democratic Platform. Biden has not stated his position. Making both states would provide four more Democratic senators and result in decisive Democratic control of the Senate for the foreseeable future. In the last 21 Congresses, the Republicans have controlled the Senate eleven times and the Democrats ten. D.C. already has a population greater than Vermont and Wyoming. Puerto Rico has a population greater than 18 of the states, which means that it would have four House members. The net political gain for the Democratic party by making D.C. and Puerto Rico states would be four senators, six presidential electoral votes (D.C. already has three, per the 23d Amendment), and five House members.
(7) With regard to education, Biden says that he will put “3 million American to work in new care and education jobs” and make child care part of the “infrastructure” of the country. And to the commitment to make college free and pay off student loans, Biden will add new various “wraparound support services” that subsidize other costs up to and including daily living expenses. With its purpose of “providing a world-class education in every zip code,” the Platform has the same agenda for child care, K-12, and higher education, including “measures to increase accountability for charter schools” and opposing vouchers and standardized tests. And it cannot be doubted that such a comprehensive agenda for American education institutions at all levels, including child care, will come with equally comprehensive regulation. What used to exist as “local control of education” will be over.
(8) Concerning the Second Amendment, the Biden agenda is comprehensive, including “universal background checks” for “all”gun purchases. He would ban “assault” rifles and high-capacity magazines, which would functionally include both automatic and semi-automatic weapons. And he would institute a mandatory “buy back” of, that is, the confiscation of, such guns in private possession. In addition, Biden plans to make gun manufacturers “civilly liable for their products,” that is, allowing lawsuits against manufacturers for every crime—or accidental discharge, or hunting accident, etc.—involving a firearm. No gun manufacturer could continue to do business under such liability conditions. The result would be the shutdown of those manufacturers. The Platform speaks in similar terms.
(9) As for the police—that is, local law enforcement—a Democratic federal government, with its emphasis on “police brutality,” will federalize it. Biden says that he will “reform our criminal justice system” by basing it “on redemption and rehabilitation,” and expand the authority of the federal Department of Justice “to address systemic misconduct” not only “in police departments,” but in “prosecutors’ offices” as well. In the words of the Platform, “we need to overhaul the criminal justice system from top to bottom.” Of course, one of the main results of this will be lawsuits in federal court over allegations of police misconduct.
This essay has attempted to highlight and summarize nine of the cultural goals of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party for a federal government completely controlled by the Democratic party.
There are more still. Again, such an overall and detailed “reform” of the country has never previously been proposed in writing.
Thomas Ascik is Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative and a retired federal prosecutor.

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THE 64,000 DOLLAR QUESTION: WHAT IS MITT ROMNEY SMOKING, SHOOTING OR INGESTING THAT ACCOUNTS FOR SUCH IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Posted on October 24, 2020 by abyssum

Mitt Romney Did Not Vote Trump in 2020 (REPORT)

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(RepublicanNews.org) – Failed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney once again upholds his presumed status as “Republican in Name Only,” betraying President Donald Trump for the umpteenth time since being overlooked for the position of Secretary of State.

Romney’s first significant betrayal came with his vote to convict the president during his February 2020 Senate impeachment trial, making him the only Republican to side with Democrats. His latest stunt came Wednesday, Oct. 21, in the form of his office advising multiple news outlets that the Utah Senator didn’t vote for Trump in the 2020 election.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1318988796239765504&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublicannews.org%2Fmitt-romney-did-not-vote-trump-in-2020-report%2F&theme=light&widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&width=550px

Romney has a long-standing history of criticizing President Trump, taking potshots against him on various issues, most recently for his debate performances and his position on the transfer of power post-election. He also bundled Trump with Democrats blaming them collectively for creating a political environment “unbecoming of any free nation.”

With less than two weeks left until the national elections, one would hope for a unified GOP. Sadly, Romney continues to insist on marching to his own beat in defiance of Trump administration goals.

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I VOTED YESTERDAY, SINTON HAS DRIVE UP VOTING WHERE A VOTING OFFICIAL BRINGS A PORTABLE VOTING MACHINE AND YOU SIT IN YOU CAR AND CAST YOUR BALLOT. INFINITELY BETTER THAN STANDING IN LINE IN NOVEMBER AND INFINITELY BETTER THAN THE GROWING SCANDAL OF BALLOTS BY MAIL.

Posted on October 24, 2020 by abyssum
I VOTED FOR…..

by: Marvin Covault, Lt Gen US Army retired.

 October 23, 2020


I voted early in case I got into a quarantine situation. My presidential preference was not based on personality. I voted because there are multiple issues before us that will define the future of our republic which is hanging in the balance.
I voted for the economy: I’m in favor of lower taxes, not higher. I’m for less poverty; over 4 million Americans lifted out of poverty, 2018-2019. I like higher wages (median household income increased by $4,400 in 2019; up 9.7% in the last 3 years). I prefer less food stamps (food stamp recipients are down 8.5 million from the Obama/Biden high). I’m in favor of opportunity; historically high employment for women, Hispanics and Black Americans. Income gains for minorities topped all income groups in 2019.
Unsecure borders are a national security issue. I voted against open borders for tens of million illegals.
I voted to continue not being held hostage by the need for foreign oil; fracking has provided perhaps the single most significant issue with respect to US foreign policy development. For decades all Middle East policy has been driven by our need for imported oil. Our export of natural gas to Europe is providing freedom from Russian gas dependance.  More available oil and gas at lower prices is putting enormous economic pressure on some of our adversaries, namely Iran and Russia. 
For decades NATO countries have not paid their share. Now they are paying. The democrats call that bullying. I voted for someone who will stand up for America’s interests and American taxpayers.
I voted against Canada and Mexico taking our jobs and markets under punitive NAFTA provisions. NAFTA has been replaced.
Four previous presidents stood by and watched China steal our technology and move towards world domination. I voted for standing up to the Chicoms.
Our embassy in Israel should have moved decades ago. I voted for Mr. what-the-hell-are-we-waiting-for.
I voted for a rare occurrence in our history, someone who has kept his campaign promises.
We had become a regulation-nation, stifling progress and innovation. I voted to continue the massive deregulation clean-up and economic growth.
I voted against appeasement towards our adversaries. It didn’t work 2009-2017 and it won’t work 2021-2025. 
I voted against retrofitting every structure in the country to meet some pie-in-the-sky green environmental goal.
I voted for the geo-political paradigm shift orchestrated this year from the White House in the Middle East that will align countries against Iran’s long-range plan for Middle East hegemony; AKA a “Middle East NATO.” 
I voted against a plan to compel workers to join a union and pay union dues, thereby voting for right-to-work laws administered at the State level. 
For decades we have been drowning in the Washington swamp. I voted to continue draining the muck. 
I’m sick of violence and looting in democrat-run cities. I voted for someone who will do something about it.
Abandoning, degrading and defunding our police is nonsense and unamerican. I voted to stand with those in blue who put their butts on the line every day for all of us.
In Fiscal Year 2019, ICE officers arrested and removed more than 267,00 criminal aliens. I voted for someone who knows how important ICE is rather than those who will abolish it.
Charter schools are making a positive difference in education in general and particularly in low-income communities. I voted for someone who believes this is positive, necessary and must be expanded, not someone who will abolish charter schools in order to appease the teachers’ unions. 
The dem’s big, all-knowing, all-controlling government is a non-starter. I voted for states-rights and the wisdom of our founding fathers.
The First and Second Amendments to the Constitution are under attack. I voted to, “…. support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic…”
Most of us know socialism is a failed system. I voted against those who just don’t get it.
I voted for someone who I know will not send a, supposed-to-have-been secret plane load of cash to Iran so the world’s number one state-sponsor of terrorism can use it to kill innocent women and children around the world. 
I voted for someone who is wise enough to put America and Americans first and still be the most benevolent nation in the world’s history.
I voted for someone who is not afraid to call out the United Nations for their daily display of stupidity and ineptitude.
I voted against protected havens for our criminals, AKA democrat sanctuary cities and states.
I recognize that many women want, “the right to choose”. Until someone can explain to me the difference between very late third-term abortions and premeditated murder, I vote against it.
I voted against taxpayer funded Medicare and food stamps for illegal aliens. 
No one hates war more than military leaders. I voted for a Commander in Chief who clearly knows how to exert economic pressure to inhibit rogue-nation activities rather than using a knee-jerk military strike. But at the same time someone who can surgically use the military without hesitation when called for. ISIS califate leaders, remember us?
Military strength is a powerful deterrent. I voted for someone who understands that. Carter decimated the military. Clinton completely hollowed out the forces. Obama departed with one, yes just one, fully combat-ready Army brigade and 50% of the fighter aircraft could not get off the ground. Anyone see a pattern here? 
In the past we have looked at our presidents’ ability to adroitly meld diplomacy and military strength. I voted for a president who has expanded that thinking to include international economic pressure with powerful positive results for America and the world.  I voted for someone who understands that when the weak and downtrodden need a helping hand, the United States will act. Russia invaded Ukraine; Obama sent blankets. This administration sent the latest tank-killer weapons. 
For decades no president made a move against a North Korean regime bent on putting a nuclear warhead on the pointy end of an intercontinental missile. That is, until the NK foreign minister announced to the world that, “A nuclear strike on a US city is inevitable.” My commander-in-chief was all over the short, fat guy and has kept up unrelenting pressure. North Korean nuclear testing stopped. 
The amazing wisdom of our founding fathers foresaw the distinct possibility that future presidential elections could be driven by a few population centers, like Philadelphia, New York and Boston in their day.  Creation of the Electoral College was brilliant. Without the Electoral College in the 2016 election where Trump carried 85% of the counties in America, the election would have been won by the Clinton plurality in just five counties on the east and West coasts. I voted for someone who understands the wisdom of the Electoral College concept. 
There are two solutions to getting Black Americans out of poverty and low-income, crime-ridden neighborhoods. Good jobs and a good education. I voted for both.
I voted for someone who believes promises-made equals promises-kept. I didn’t vote for a politician, I voted for a results-driven pragmatist.
I voted for someone I can trust to defend and promote America first.
I voted for Donald Trump because he understands and promotes all of the above while I have zero confidence that either Biden or Harris has the intent or capability to pursue any of these issues that define the future of our great Republic. 

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WORDS OF WISDOM FROM FATHER George W. RUTLER

Posted on October 24, 2020 by abyssum
Fr. Rutler’s Weekly Column

October 25, 2020
In one survey of grammarians, two words deemed to be among the most beautiful sounding in the English language were Agape and Philadelphia. The problem is that these actually are Greek.


There also are many aphorisms in the English language that have become so familiar that one may not realize that their sources are in antiquity. Take for instance “Who will watch the watchers?”—which originally was a phrase of the Roman poet Juvenal (b. 55 AD). He also coined the expression “a sound mind in a sound body,” and in college we were not allowed to forget its Latinity, for it was written on a wall of the gymnasium: “Mens sana in corpore sano.”


   Juvenal had a talent for lapidary expressions, and I suppose his most common one is “bread and circuses” from his Satire X. Precisely because he was satirical, he was not popular among the more thin-skinned Romans. Juvenal was of the senatorial caste, and much of a snob, for he disdained what some of our contemporary politicians have called “a basket of deplorables.”


But his point was well taken at least in the sense that the majority of the populace could be controlled by being offered things, like government subsidies and sports, in exchange for the freedom they had enjoyed in republican Rome before Augustus created the imperial “deep swamp” that eventually led to the moral decay of their civilization.


   In our days of high political fever, one need not embellish the cultural parallels. A natural philosophical school of Stoics disdained vulgar seductions by the imperium, but they were of little threat, and when they became political obstacles, they could be eliminated the way Nero compelled Seneca to kill himself shortly before his elder brother Gallio did the same. It is not irrelevant to the story that Gallio was the proconsul of Achaia, and the just judge who dismissed the case against Saint Paul (Acts 18:12-17). It was the emergence of the strange new cult worshiping a “Christos,” whom his followers said had risen from the dead in the backwater of Judea, that began to threaten the Roman “deep state.”


   Political discourse today has degenerated into riots because what is at stake is not a mere matter of government, but a crisis of humanity itself. There is a portion of the people that, as Juvenal satirized, “anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses,” but behind their superficial choice of living are sinister forces as from a swamp that would subvert by anarchy all that the Christian mind knows to be true.


   About one-fifth of the citizens in the United States are Catholic, and how they vote will determine how many of them really are faithful to the “Christos” who asked, “For what does it profit a man, if he shall gain he whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Matthew 16:26)


 Faithfully yours in Christ,

Father George W. Rutler
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SCOTUS watchers have been warning us that the weak link in the judiciary that Democrats would exploit is Chief Justice John Roberts, and it now appears that, while not accurate in every detail, they were right about how Democrats would try to use Leftist judges to change election laws to erode ballot security and that Chief Justice Roberts is indeed the weak link

Posted on October 24, 2020 by abyssum

Chief Justice Roberts Lights The Fuse On Election Chaos

In our article Unconventional Warfare – The Democrat Plan To Oust Trump, we explained the

timeline, steps and phase lines Democrats and their Far Left allies would use in an extra-constitutional effort to drive President Trump from office.

One of the key steps was for the courts to step-in and arbitrarily overturn existing election laws to enable Democrats to count votes until they win, especially in battleground states controlled by Democrats, such as Pennsylvania:

“Democrats will go to court to overturn state statutory deadlines for submitting mail-in ballots, such as Florida’s “must arrive by Election Day” rule. Instead, Far Left Democrat judges will substitute their own arbitrary and capricious “standards” of what constitutes a legally cast ballot.”

We also implied the weak link in the judiciary that Democrats would exploit is Chief Justice John Roberts, and it now appears that, while not accurate in every detail, we were right about how Democrats would try to use Leftist judges to change election laws to erode ballot security and that Chief Justice Roberts is indeed the weak link.

In the just-decided case of Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar, Roberts sided with the three activist Democrats on the Supreme Court to allow Pennsylvania’s Democrats to count ballots received up to three days after Election Day – even though Pennsylvania law allows only ballots received on or before Election Day to be counted.

The extension was created by the Democrat-controlled Pennsylvania Supreme Court which essentially re-wrote Pennsylvania election law at the behest of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.

The Associated Press reported that, in its Sept. 17 ruling, the divided state Supreme Court said ballots must be postmarked by the time polls close and be received by county election boards at 5 p.m. on Nov. 6, three days after the Nov. 3 election.

It also said that ballots lacking a clear postmark could be counted unless there was evidence that they were mailed after the polls closed.

What Roberts has done is make postmarks the new “hanging chads” of contested elections, while giving potential election manipulators a clear roadmap of how to go about getting their fraudulent ballots counted.

This a sure recipe for election chaos, if not a spark to ignite what amounts to a civil war.

And Pennsylvania isn’t the only place where this is an issue, there’s a similar Wisconsin case pending and the Democrat-controlled Virginia Board of Elections is also in the process of re-writing Virginia election law to accept Absentee Ballots that are returned after Election Day with a missing or illegible postmark.

As we explained many times in the past, Election Day chaos is part of the Democrat Party’s political strategy. See It’s Not A Protest, It’s Not A Riot, It’s A Revolution (Part 4) and The Democrats’ Chaos Strategy Almost Worked In Florida for examples.

The goal of this chaos strategy is to bring the conduct and results of the 2020 election inside the “margin of chaos,” where means other than counting legally cast votes, attributable to legal voters, will determine the outcome.

Crucial to this strategy is to fundamentally change the way American elections are conducted by eliminating in-person, ID checked voting and substituting unverifiable mail ballots, or online voting.

As we explained in our article “The Democrats’ Goal Is Election Chaos,” the 2018 post-Election Day chaos in Florida, Georgia and elsewhere was not due to incompetence. It was part of a larger, long term plan that has been executed by Democrats to use chaos to move as many elections as possible into what our friend election lawyer J. Christian Adams calls “the margin of litigation.”

Once inside the margin of litigation, election laws and the rules and deadlines with which honest Republican candidates complied pre-election, are thrown out the window by activist Leftist judges and highly partisan Democrat supervisors of elections to the advantage of Democratic candidates and committees who knew in advance that ballots that were illegal on their face would have a good chance of being counted – as they were in the 2020 New York Congressional District 12 Democrat primary election.

Conservatives must come to grips with the reality that for the new radical progressive Democratic Party politics is warfare, and the only rule in war is to win, and that Chief Justice John Roberts is at best a weak link in our defense of constitutional liberty.

–georgerasley

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HERE IS FURTHER CORROBORATION OF WHAT ABYSSUM HAS PUBLISHED FROM THE MOMENT OF THE TRIAL OF Cardinal Pell IN AUSTRALIA

Posted on October 23, 2020 by abyssum

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The Deep Church: From the Borgias to Becciu

MICHAEL WARREN DAVIS

The Australian government is now beginning to confirm what most of us have suspected for years. In a display of ruthlessness and corruption that would thrill the Borgias, Vatican bureaucrats wired a small fortune to unknown parties in Australia to initiate the fraudulent sex-abuse charges against George Cardinal Pell.

According to local media reports, officials in Rome sent AU$2 million to Australian agents to “secure evidence against Cardinal Pell.” The transfer was discovered by Austrac, the nation’s financial watchdog, and is being investigated by the Australian Federal Police and the Victorian Police.ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW

Of course, the prime suspect is Giovanni Cardinal Becciu. In 2011, Cardinal Becciu was appointed as the papal chief of staff. In 2014, Francis created a new financial oversight body, the Secretariat for the Economy, and appointed Cardinal Pell as its prefect. Vatican insiders began reporting clashes between Pell and Becciu almost from day one.

In 2017, an anonymous “victim” accused Cardinal Pell of having sexually assaulted him and a friend when they were both minors. Pell returned to Australia to face charges, which led to a lengthy legal battle, including a long bout in prison. His Eminence wasn’t totally exonerated until this past April.

Meanwhile—and thanks largely to Pell’s digging—rumors of Becciu’s corruption began to circulate. Only this year, Becciu was tied to a shady Vatican investment in high-end London real estate. He was also accused of funneling Church funds into a Sardinia-based nonprofit run by his own brother. In 2018, he was moved to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW

Late last month, Francis stripped Becciu of all his cardinatial privileges, including the right to be tried only by pope himself. Francis then appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the corruption charges. It was widely understood that the Pontiff would allow Becciu to be charged by a Vatican civil tribunal like a common curia bureaucrat—which, at this point, is all he is.

Having been publicly disgraced and abandoned by his allies, Becciu is not going gentle into that goodnight. He’s now threatening to sue the media for suggesting that he would try to sabotage Pell. Cardinal Becciu, you see, is an honorable man.

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The CINO (cardinal in name only) belongs to an old and powerful clique of corrupt, self-serving Italians in the Roman curia. For centuries, they’ve formed a kind of Deep Church equivalent to America’s own Deep State. Popes, like presidents, may come and go, but these entrenched bureaucrats keep the institution humming from one administration to the next. In that sense, they’re necessary. But the Deep Church, like the Deep State, feels entitled to run the show as they see fit. They’re the “experts”! Why should they subject themselves to scrutiny from these Johnny-come-latelies?

Like the Deep State, the Deep Church isn’t averse to the occasional kickback—a just reward, they would say, for their dutiful service. And they’ll use any means at their disposal to eliminate any threat to their power and privilege.

My sources in Rome and Australia have suggested that the Becciu clique have ties to the Italian Mafia, who acted as the Cardinal’s middle-men. Others claim that he’s a Freemason—as are most of the Victoria’s law enforcement, who arrested Cardinal Pell. The Victorian Police, these sources claim, are a bastion of Australia’s old (Protestant) colonial establishment. So far, these are only rumors.ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW

There’s no doubt, however, that Becciu’s clique act much like a cartel or secret society. Their primary interest lies in expanding their own wealth and influence. From the very beginning, Cardinal Pell posed the greatest single threat to their “enterprise” in generations. He was only able to scratch the surface of their corruption before he was brought up on charges of molesting two of his choir boys back in the Nineties.

Those charges were obviously fabricated—and yet, not one, but two courts found Pell guilty before the Australian High Court finally overturned their rulings. That in itself suggests serious misconduct on the part of Australia’s legal system. The fact that the Victorian Police are leading the investigation into this mysterious $2 million transfer is, to say the very least, disappointing. Then again, those of us who long for authentic reform in the Holy See are used to being disappointed.

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But the fall of Cardinal Becciu is a real cause for hope. As Francis’s chief-of-staff, Becciu was the second most powerful man in Rome after the Pope himself. If he can be brought low, none of these crooks will sleep easily.

Next in line is Pietro Cardinal Parolin, the Secretary of State for the Holy See. Parolin is widely viewed as one of the top three contenders to succeed Pope Francis. His fanboys in the Catholic press cast him as a solid “institutional” candidate: a steady and experienced hand who would stabilize the Vatican after the tumults of Francis’s papacy. In reality, he’s just a gangster like Becciu and Borgia.

Around this time last year, Vatican police raided the Secretariat of State’s offices for evidence of financial misconduct. Five senior officials were immediately forced to resign. Cardinal Parolin wasn’t among them, but the noose is tightening.

These latest scandals may take Parolin out of the running. Then again, they may not. Curial officials are notorious for brazenly defending their own. That’s why Donald Cardinal Wuerl, the disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, D.C., still sits on the Congregation for Bishops. It’s why they invited Theodore McCarrick to negotiate a concordat with the Chinese Communist Party after he had been ordered to retire from public life by Pope Benedict XVI.

That concordat with China is Cardinal Parolin’s pet project. Ratified in 2018, the agreement has led to increased persecution of Chinese Catholics. More and more bishops are joining the Communist-backed “Patriotic Catholic Association.” And yet, on October 22, the Vatican officially announced that the deal had been renewed for another two years. That news has baffled some Vatican-watchers, though I’m not sure why. It’s only natural that the Becciu clique and the Chicoms should be the best of friends. They’re two peas in a pod.

If Parolin does succeed Francis, no doubt these investigations will come to an abrupt end. He may throw Becciu under the bus; otherwise, the cartel will quickly re-consolidate power. We can only hope that most of the cardinal-electors will realize what a grave threat these gangsters pose to the life and health of the Church. There’s a great deal more work to be done but, now that Cardinal Pell walks free, perhaps the tide has turned at last.

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INSIDE THE VATICAN

Posted on October 23, 2020 by abyssum

BY DR. ROBERT MOYNIHAN

   “And it is exactly this, in my opinion, that Bergoglio’s ‘magic circle’ [Note: the words ‘magic circle’ are used in Rome to describe the small group of the Pope’s closest advisors; among others, this group includes several influential “progressive” Jesuits] wants to achieve: to reach the paradoxical situation in which the one who is recognized as Pope is at the same time in a state of schism with the Church he governs, while those who are declared by him to be schismatic for disobedience will find themselves expelled from the Church because of the fact that they are Catholic.” —Archbishop Viganò, in his latest essay, published this morning, October 23, in Italy, reflecting on the divisive matter of the Pope’s comments on “civil unions,” reported worldwide on Wednesday. Viganò acknowledges that some questions have arisen about when the Pope spoke those words, what he really meant, whether the press has “distorted” his meaning — and this in fact seems likely! (more on this in a future Letter) — but he still insists that the Pope’s remarks are part of a studied plan. What is that plan? To arouse the indignation of traditional, orthodox Catholics to the point where a group of them denounce, or act in some way, against the Pope, providing the Pope with a pretext for excommunicating them from the Church. In Viganò’s mind, the ‘magic circle’ would like to gain total control of the Church by ejecting those very Catholics whose deepest motivation is (with much courage in the present social and political context) to preserve and defend orthodox Catholic doctrine — including by appealing to the Pope himself to lend his authority to precisely that preservation effort… as is the acknowledged central task of every Pope: to turn from any ambiguity or confusion regarding doctrine (the truths of the faith) and to confirm his brothers in that true faith, handed down by Christ himself to the Apostles, and preserved through every danger for 2,000 years===========    VIGANÒ: THE POPE AND THE GAY LOBBY IN THE VATICAN, INTENTIONAL AMBIGUITY    October 23, 2020    This morning Italian Vaticanist Marco Tosatti published on his website, called Stilum Curiae, a new essay by Archbishop Viganò. Tosatti writes: “Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò sent us this article that appeared today in La Verità. It seems to us very clear, lucid and dramatically true. Enjoy reading it.”***    Special note to readers: Archbishop Viganò has been living “in hiding” since the end of August 2018 — so, for more than two years now. Last year, he told me where he was, and I went to “find” him (that was a few months before government lockdowns and travel restrictions).     The result: Finding Viganò, a new book out on November 13 from the St. Benedict Press of TAN books, known widely for the integrity of their Catholic faith (they specialize in reprinting out-of-print Catholic classics otherwise hard to find). Finding Viganò is my effort to present Viganò the man, in all his humanity, but also in his great courage and humility.     In a time of much corruption, sexual and financial abuse, and doctrinal confusion, Viganò has taken his stand. I have sought to set Viganò’s decision in context.     I urge all readers to consider ordering Finding Viganò.     I am now writing a second volume which will bring the story forward from the man himself to his mission over the past year, right up to the present. To pre-order Finding Viganò, click here.     Also, any donation in support of this work is of course appreciated (link).     Like so many other writers, bloggers, researchers, editors who feel called to this work, I am feel proud to be called to be “a writer” — a person who makes a living by words, by writing.     I have been assisted by many good friends, often fellow pilgrims in this world, who judge the work worth supporting. (This explains why Inside the Vatican still exists, while many similar publications have failed.)    I work outside the structures of the world’s major media corporations. These corporations enjoying literally billions of dollars to help them communicate their perspective and thought, often entirely “post-Christian,” to minds and hearts throughout the world.     I send these letters, and, since 1993, I have published Inside the Vatican (with the precious help of a small group of collaborators: Giuseppe Sabatelli, Grzegorz Galazka, Micaela Biferali, Giuseppe Rusconi, June Hager, Christina Deardurff, Lucy Gordan, Christina Badde, David Hilt, Hugh Pimentel, Dennis Musk, Ann Brown, Dr. Jan Bentz, Deborah Tomlinson, and so many others over the years).     I face the same problems of limited resources that all “independent” (i.e., “non-mainstream”) writers and editors face. And the virus has abruptly ended this year all of our pilgrimage and travel activities, with grave consequences for our work. A profound impact on us, as on so many others.    So, any support would be gratefully received, and will help us to continue this work, and I will attempt to reply to all donors personally. Thanks in advance.—RM    [End special note to readers.]***    Viganò’s Latest Essay on “The Plan”    By Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò    (Written on October 22, 2020, but published today, October 23)    Yesterday, on the occasion of the Rome Film Festival, the director Evgeny Afineevsky presented a documentary called Francesco, which proposes several interviews done with Jorge Mario Bergoglio over the course of the last few years of his pontificate. Among other disconcerting statements, there are several about the legitimization of homosexual civil unions: “What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they [homosexuals] are legally covered. I stood up for that.”    I think that both the simple faithful as well as bishops and priests feel betrayed by what Bergoglio has affirmed.     It is not necessary to be theologians to understand that the approval of civil unions is in clear contradiction of the Magisterial documents of the Church, including recent ones. Such approval also constitutes a very grave “assist” to the LGBTQ ideology which today is being imposed on the global level.    In the coming days the Italian Parliament will be discussing the approval of the so-called Zan law [against so-called “homophobia”] proposed by the Democratic Party (PD). In the name of protecting homosexuals and trans-sexuals, it will be considered a crime to affirm that the natural family is the building block of human society, and those who affirm that sodomy is a sin that cries out to God for vengeance will be punished. Bergoglio’s words have already been received by the gay lobby worldwide as an authoritative support for their claims.    Carefully reading Bergoglio’s statements, someone has already observed that it does not include an approval of homosexual marriage, but only a gesture of welcome – perhaps poorly formulated – towards those who ask the secular state for juridical protection. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has already unequivocally clarified that in no case may a Catholic approve of civil unions, because they constitute a legitimization of public concubinage and are only a step towards the legal recognition of so-called homosexual marriages. So much so that in Italy today it is even possible for people of the same sex to “marry” each other, after having been assured for years – even by self-styled Catholic politicians – that [civil unions] would in no way question marriage as it is defined in the Italian Constitution.    After all, experience teaches us that when Bergoglio says something, he does it with a very precise purpose: to make others interpret his words in the broadest possible sense. The front pages of newspapers all over the world are announcing today: “The Pope Approves Gay Marriage” – even if technically this is not what he said. But this was exactly the result that he and the Vatican gay lobby wanted. Then the Vatican Press Office will perhaps say that what Bergoglio said was misunderstood, that this was an old interview, and that the Church reaffirms its condemnation of homosexuality as intrinsically disordered. But the damage has been done, and even any steps backwards from the scandal that has been stirred up will ultimately be a step forward in the direction of mainstream thought and what is politically correct. Let us not forget the nefarious results of his famous utterance in 2013 – “Who am I to judge?” – which earned him a place on the cover of The Advocate along with the title “Man of the Year.”    Bergoglio has declared: “Homosexuals have a right to be a part of the family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it.”     All the baptized are children of God: this is what the Gospel teaches. But these children may be either good or evil, and if they break God’s Commandments, the fact that they are His children will not prevent them from being punished, just as an Italian who steals does not avoid going to prison solely because of the fact that he is a citizen of the nation where he commits the crime. The Mercy of God does not prescind from Justice, and if we think of how in order to redeem us the Lord shed His Blood on the Cross, we cannot but strive for holiness, conforming our behavior to His will. Our Lord has said: “You are my friends, if you do what I command you” (Jn 15:14).    If familial or social exclusion results from provocative behaviors or from ideological claims that cannot be shared – I am thinking of Gay Pride – this is only the result of an attitude of challenge, and thus such exclusion has its origin in those who use that attitude to hurt their neighbor. If instead that discrimination results only from being a person who behaves like everyone else with respect for others and without any imposition of one’s own lifestyle, it should be rightly condemned.    We know very well that what the homosexualist lobby wants to obtain is not the integration of normal and honest people but rather the imposition of seriously sinful, socially destabilizing models of life that have always been exploited to demolish the family and society. It is no coincidence that the promotion of the homosexual agenda is part of the globalist project, in conjunction with the destruction of the natural family.    One of the most ardent supporters of the LGBTQ agenda and of the indiscriminate welcoming of homosexuals in the Church, the Jesuit James Martin, has been made a Consultor in the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See. As soon as the news came out about Bergoglio’s statements, Martin stormed social media with tweets, expressing his uncontainable satisfaction with this action which, in contrast, scandalized the majority of the faithful.    Along with father Martin, there are cardinals, bishops, monsignors, priests, and other clerics who belong to the so-called “lavender mafia.” Some of these have been investigated and condemned for very grave crimes, almost always linked to homosexual environments. How can we think that a clique of homosexuals in the command post does not have every interest in pushing Bergoglio to defend a vice that they share and practice?    In fact, I would say that it is part of Bergoglio’s intended behavior that he plays with equivocation and provocation – such as when he said, “God is not Catholic,” or when he leaves it to others to finish a discourse which he initiates. We have seen this with Amoris Laetitia: although he did not clearly contradict Catholic doctrine on the impossibility of the divorced and remarried accessing the Sacraments, he allowed other bishops to do so, later approving their statements and stubbornly remaining silent in response to the Dubia [“doubts”] of the four Cardinals.     It may be asked: why would the Pope act in this way, especially when his predecessors were always very clear on moral matters?     I do not know what Bergoglio has in mind: I limit myself to making sense of his actions and words.     And I think I can affirm that what emerges is an attitude that is deliberately two-faced and Jesuitical.     Behind all of his utterances there is the effort to arouse the reaction of the healthy part of the Church, provoking it with heretical statements, with disconcerting gestures, with documents that contradict the Magisterium. And at the same time, his statements please his supporters, above all non-Catholics and those who are Catholic in name only.    By dint of provoking, he hopes that some bishop will grow tired of daily feeling afflicted by his doctrine and morals; he hopes that a group of cardinals will formally accuse him of heresy and call for his deposition. And by doing so, Bergoglio would have the pretext of accusing these prelates of being “enemies of the Pope,” of placing themselves outside the Church, of wanting a schism. Obviously, it is not those who want to remain faithful to the Magisterium who separate themselves from the Church: this would be absurd.    In a certain way, Bergoglio’s behavior is of the same matrix as that of the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte: both of them, in hindsight, were desired in their roles by the same élite, who are numerically a minority but are powerful and organized, with the purpose of demolishing the institution that they represent; both of them abuse their own power against the law; both of them accuse those who denounce their abuses of being the enemy of the institution, when in reality the denouncers are defending the institution from their destructive intent. Finally, both of them are distinguished by a bleak mediocrity.    If canonically it is unthinkable to excommunicate a Catholic for the mere fact that he wishes to remain so, politically and strategically this abuse would allow Bergoglio to expel his adversaries from the Church, consolidating his own power. And I repeat: we are not talking about a legitimate operation, but of an abuse that, despite being an abuse, no one would be able to prevent, since “the First See is judged by none” – prima Sedes a nemine judicatur.     And since the deposition of a heretical Pope is a canonically unresolved question on which there is no unanimous consent of canonists, anyone who would accuse Bergoglio of heresy would be going down a dead end and would obtain a result only with great difficulty.    And it is exactly this, in my opinion, that Bergoglio’s “magic circle” wants to achieve: to reach the paradoxical situation in which the one who is recognized as Pope is at the same time in a state of schism with the Church he governs, while those who are declared by him to be schismatic for disobedience will find themselves expelled from the Church because of the fact that they are Catholic.    Bergoglio’s action is above all directed outside the Church.     The encyclical Fratelli Tutti is an ideological manifesto in which there is nothing Catholic and nothing for Catholics – it is the umpteenth embrassons-nous [“let’s embrace”] of the Masonic matrix, in which universal brotherhood is obtained not, as the Gospel teaches, in recognizing the common fatherhood of God through belonging to the one Church, but rather by the flattening of all religions into a lowest common denominator that is expressed in solidarity, respect for the environment, and pacifism.    With this way of acting, Bergoglio is a candidate for “pontiff” of a new religion, with new commandments, new morals, and new liturgies.     He distances himself from the Catholic religion and from Christ, and consequently from the Hierarchy and the faithful, disavowing them and leaving them at the mercy of the globalist dictatorship. Those who do not adapt to this new code will therefore be ostracized by society and by this new “church” as a foreign body.    On October 20 in Rome, Pope Francis prayed for peace along with representatives of the world religions: the motto of that ecumenical ceremony was “No one is saved alone.”     But that prayer was addressed indiscriminately to both the True God as well as to the false gods of the pagans, making it clear that the ecumenism propagated by Bergoglio has as its goal the exclusion of Our Lord from human society, because Jesus Christ is considered “divisive,” “a stumbling stone.”     This modern man thinks that he can obtain peace by leaving aside the One who said of Himself: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me” (Jn 14:6). It is painful to note that this apostasy of formerly Christian nations is accompanied by Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who ought to be the Vicar of Christ, not his enemy.    Three days ago, the press announced that the Pope will not celebrate Midnight Mass on Christmas.     I will limit myself to one observation: a few days ago, in the midst of the full-fledged “Covid emergency,” it was possible to celebrate an ecumenical rite in the presence of the faithful and the civil authorities, all wearing masks. And yet, on the contrary, someone has decided that it would be imprudent to celebrate the Birth of the Savior on the Holy Night of Christmas in the far vaster space of the Vatican Basilica.    If this decision is confirmed, we will know that Jorge Mario Bergoglio prefers to celebrate himself by supporting the mainstream thought and syncretistic ideology of the New World Order, rather than kneeling at the foot of the manger where the King of Kings is placed.    + Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop    22 October 2020    Official translation
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DO NOT MISS THE 7:00 PM EDT LIVE PRESS CONFERENCE BY Hunter Biden BUSINESS ASSOCIATE LT. Tony Bobulinski

Posted on October 22, 2020 by abyssum

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Biden Business Associate Tony Bobulinski Holds a Press Conference – 7:00pm EDT Livestream…

Posted on October 22, 2020 by sundance

In a wild turn of events Hunter Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski is expected to hold a hold a press conference in advance of tonight’s debate in Nashville, TN. Anticipated at approximately 7:00pm EDT – Link Below
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PRESIDENT TRUMP POSTED ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER THE FULLL VIDEO OF THE INSULTING INTERVIEW HE WAS SUBJECTED TO BY CBS’S LESLIE STAHL

Posted on October 22, 2020 by abyssum

Donald Trump Posts Video of Contentious 60 Minutes Interview on Facebook

1,253https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FDonaldTrump%2Fvideos%2F350524406214941%2F&show_text=0&width=560CHARLIE SPIERING22 Oct 20202,0221:47

President Donald Trump on Thursday posted the full video of an interview with 60 Minutes host Lesley Stahl after cutting the contentious exchange short.

Trump posted the video to Facebook and shared it on his Twitter account.

“Look at the bias, hatred and rudeness on behalf of 60 Minutes and CBS,” he wrote.

The video shows Stahl at the beginning of the interview asking Trump if he is prepared to answer “tough questions.”

Stahl pressed the president on the coronavirus, spending most of her time asking him on why he did not wear a mask or order his supporters to wear masks at his rallies.

She also repeatedly challenged him on the question of health care, asking him for exact details how he planned to protect pre-existing conditions for health care if Obamacare was overturned.

Stahl also protested when Trump referred to the Hunter Biden scandal and the evidence that former President Barack Obama’s administration spied on his campaign.

“There’s no real evidence of that,” she repeated. “No. … Sir, this is 60 Minutes, we can’t put on things that we can’t verify.”

Stahl added, “All these things have been investigated and discredited.”

“It’s incredible the way you can try and say this and sit there and look me in the eye and say it,” Trump said.

At 36 minutes in, Stahl appeared almost apologetic.

“I did not want to have this kind of interview,” she said.

“Of course you did,” Trump replied.

When a producer interrupted to prepare for a walk and talk camera shot with Vice President Mike Pence, Trump refused.

“I think you’ve had enough,” he said, ending the interview.

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