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

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Your Eminences, Your Graces, Your Excellencies, Dear Reverend Fathers, Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends,

Laudetur Jesus Christus!

Please see here an in-depth report that tries to string together the different statements by key Mexican bishops involved in the new rite of Mass that is to be Mayan and indigenous. The elements of this new rite, as it is already being practiced in Chiapas, Mexico, clearly have idolatrous, pagan elements that include the worship of Mother God, and a second altar is being set up inside Catholic churches.

One could say: the pope is suppressing the traditional Mass that has brought forth hundreds of saints over centuries and that is putting God Almighty at its center, while he is actively encouraging a form of worship that includes false gods, that is, demons.

With warm greetings in Christ,

Maike Hickson

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/the-new-mayan-rite-of-mass-encouraged-by-pope-francis-is-replete-with-pagan-idolatry-and-symbolism/

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AMERICA, WAKE UP!!!

Are We the Byzantines?

The Byzantines never awakened

in time to understand what

they had become. Will Americans?

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

March 15, 2023

When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome.

Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its enemies, avoiding military quagmires, and ensuring constant deterrence.

Generations of self-sacrifice ensured ample investment in infrastructure. Each generation inherited and improved on singular aqueducts and cisterns, sewer systems, and the most complex and formidable city fortifications in the world.

Brilliant scientific advancement and engineering gave the empire advantages like swift galleys and flame throwers—an ancient precursor to napalm.

The law reigned supreme for nearly a millennium after the emperor Justinian codified a prior thousand years of Roman jurisprudence.

Yet this millennium-old crown jewel of the ancient world that once was home to 800,000 citizens had only 50,000 inhabitants left when it fell. 

There were only 7,000 defenders on the walls to hold back a huge Turkish army of over 150,000 attackers.

The Islamic winners took over the once magical city of Constantine and renamed it Istanbul. It had been the home of the renowned Santa Sophia, the largest Christian church in the world for over 900 years. Almost immediately, this “Church of the Holy Wisdom” was converted into the then-largest mosque in the Islamic world, with minarets to follow.

So what happened to the once indomitable city fortress and its empire?

Christendom had cannibalized itself. Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy fought endlessly. Westerners often hated each other more than they did their common enemy.

In the final days of Constantinople, almost no help was sent from Western Europe to the besieged city.

250 years earlier, the Western Franks of the Fourth Crusade had detoured from the Holy Land to storm the supposedly allied Christian City of Constantinople. 

Then they ransacked the city and hijacked the Byzantine Empire for a half-century. Constantinople never quite recovered.

The 14th-century Black Plague killed tens of thousands of Byzantines and scared thousands more into moving out of the cramped city. 

But the aging and dying empire battled more than the challenges of internal divisions, or an unforeseen but deadly pandemic and the empire’s disastrous responses to it.

The last generations of Byzantines had inherited a global reputation and standard of living that they no longer earned.

They neglected their former civic values and fought endless battles over obscure religious texts, doctrines, and vocabulary.

They did not expand their anemic army and navy. They did not reunite their scattered Greek-speaking empire. They did not properly maintain their once life-giving walls.

Instead of earning money through their accustomed nonstop trade, they inflated their currency and were forced to melt down the city’s inherited gold and silver fixtures.

The once canny and shrewd Byzantines grew smug and naïve. Childlessness became common. Most now preferred to live outside of what had become a half-empty, often dirty, and poorly maintained city.

Meanwhile, they underestimated the growing power of the Ottomans who systematically pruned away their empire. By the mid-15th century, Islamic armies were ready to exploit fatal Byzantine weaknesses.

Sultan Mehmed II grandly announced the Ottomans were now the real, the only world power. Ascendant Ottoman armies would eventually move on to the very gates of Vienna in an effort to rule all the lands of the ancient Roman empire. 

We should take heed from the last generations of the Byzantines.

Nowhere is it foreordained that America has a birthright to remain the world’s preeminent civilization.

An ascendant China seems eerily similar to the Ottomans. Beijing believes that the United States is decadent, undeserving of its affluence, living beyond its means on the fumes of the past—and very soon vulnerable enough to challenge openly.

Left and Right seem to hate each other more than they do their common enemies.

Like the Byzantines, Americans gave up defending their own borders, and simply shrugged as millions overran them as they pleased.

Our once iconic downtowns, like end-stage Constantinople before the fall, are now dirty, half-deserted, dangerous, and dysfunctional.

America prints rather than makes money, as its banks totter near bankruptcy.

Americans similarly believe they are invincible without ensuring in reality that they are. Our military is more worried about being woke than deadly.

Like Byzantines, Americans have become snarky iconoclasts, more eager to tear down art and sculpture that they no longer have the talent to create. 

Current woke dogma, obscure word fights, and sanctimonious cancel culture are as antithetical to the past generations of World War II as the last generation of Constantinople was to the former great eras of the emperors Constantine, Justinian, Heraclius, and Leo.

The Byzantines never woke up in time to understand what they had become.

So far neither have Americans.



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MESSAGE

of

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America

to the

Founding Congress

of the International Movement of Russophiles (MIR)

Moscow, March 14, 2023

Dear Friends, it gives me great joy to be able to address a brief message to you on the occasion of the establishment of the International Movement of Russophiles. The Manifesto of this association begins with a word that seems to have disappeared from Western vocabulary: friendship. In this case, it is friendship for the Russian people, shared by so many people throughout the world, and the friendship of the Russian people towards other peoples, in that spirit of brotherhood which finds its foundation in recognizing ourselves as children of the one Eternal Father and as brothers and sisters in Our Lord Jesus Christ. 

When the Western Roman Empire lost its political role under the pressure of the barbarian invasions, the baton passed to Constantinople. And when the Eastern Roman Empire also fell with the conquest of Byzantium by Mahomet II, it was Moscow that saved its religious and political legacy, with its Saints and Holy Kings. The present crisis shows us the collapse of a corrupt West, in which there is no Pope Leo the Great to save its fate, but which still has a destiny, if it can recover its providential mission and recognizes what unites it to the mission of Russia.

Recent events have shown us that the materialist atheism that devastated the Russian Empire and the world since 1917 – as the Most Blessed Virgin Mary announced at Fatima – has today joined liberalism in the globalist ideology which underlies the delirious project of the New World Order. An infernal project, as President Vladimir Vladimirovič Putin rightly pointed out in a recent speech, in which hatred for Christian civilization wants to create a society of slaves subservient to the Davos elite. A dystopian society, without past and without future, without faith and without ideals, without culture and without art, without fathers and mothers, without family and spirituality, without teachers and spiritual guides, without either respect for the elderly or hopes for our children. We cannot be surprised that, after de-Christianizing the Western world, this elite considers Russia an enemy to be overthrown. The Russian Federation undeniably stands as the last bastion of civilization against barbarism, and gathers around it all those nations that do not intend to submit to the colonization of NATO, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and that heap of foundations that have as their purpose the indoctrination of the masses, the manipulation of information, the creation of “colored springs” to destabilize governments legitimately elected and sow chaos, wars and misery as instrumentum regni. The recent pandemic farce – conducted with criminal methods that I have not hesitated to denounce since the beginning of 2020 – has been followed by new emergencies – including the Ukrainian crisis – deliberately provoked with the aim of destroying the social and economic fabric of nations, decimating the world population, concentrating control in the hands of an oligarchy that no one has elected and that has perpetrated a real world coup d’état, for which sooner or later it will be called to answer before the world. 

The theorists of this coup have names and faces, starting with George Soros, Klaus Schwab, and Bill Gates. Those who today declare that Russia is an enemy consider Europeans, Americans, Australians and Canadians as enemies and treat them as such, persecuting and impoverishing them. But while World Economic Forum emissaries in Western governments can legislate against the good of their own citizens and hold world leaders in the palm of their hands, regime change that has been successful in other nations has stopped at Russia’s borders. On the other hand, the electoral fraud of 2020 in the United States of America was also indispensable to prevent the confirmation of President Donald Trump, just as in 2013 the deep state and the deep church managed to get Pope Benedict XVI to resign and to elect a person pleasing to the New World Order, the Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio. 

Your commitment must certainly promote Russia’s friendly relations with all peoples, according to that principle of multipolarity which, in a wise long-term political vision, is the best way to combat globalist monopolarity. But this friendship, these relations of concord and mutual cooperation, cannot disregard the denunciation of the coup d’état perpetrated against humanity by dangerous subversives whose declared purpose is the establishment of an infernal tyranny, in which hatred of God as well as hatred of man created in His image, illness, death, ignorance, poverty, violence, selfishness, and corruption reign supreme. It is the kingdom of the Antichrist. This Leviathan must be identified and combated, with an action that involves all free peoples, first of all by rejecting the programmatic points of the Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset with shared initiatives. We need an Anti-Globalist Alliance that returns to citizens the power that has been taken from them, and to nations the sovereignty eroded and ceded to the Davos lobby. The Russian Federation will play a decisive role in this effort, as will the message that the International Movement of Russophiles will bring to the peoples of the West, which needs to return to being proud of its Faith and proud of the civilization to which Saints Cyril and Methodius also contributed.

We are fighting an epochal battle: we shall remain under the mantle of the Most Blessed Virgin, the glorious Nikopèia, together with the Archangel St. Michael. The victory belongs to Christ, and to those who choose to align themselves under the holy banner of the Cross. 

+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop 

Democrats and the Left absolutely loathe this freedom because it has the potential to undermine their corrupt narrative. 

Jaws hit the floor after Jen Psaki made this shocking remark

Freedom of the press is one of America’s most fundamental and cherished rights. 

Democrats and the Left absolutely loathe this freedom because it has the potential to undermine their corrupt narrative. 

But jaws hit the floor after Jen Psaki made this shocking remark.

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The American Left is only willing to tolerate one viewpoint

Although Democrats like to pretend they are the Party of tolerance, there is nothing tolerant about them. 

This is especially true when it comes to tolerating differing viewpoints, which is a fundamental aspect of any functioning democracy. 

Last Saturday, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki put her intolerance on full display when talking about conservative leaning news outlets on SXSW. 

“FOX News still has an enormous viewership,” Psaki said. “I don’t know if that’s going to change. Their business model is not getting Democrats on their air and I understand and completely relate to Democrats saying we should ban it, we shouldn’t appear on it.”

She added that “there are a lot of propagandists in the briefing room, not just certain people from FOX. There is OAN, Newsmax. There are people who don’t even belong to news organizations. There are people who are representing foreign governments who go to the State Department briefing and the Defense Department briefing. So, you’d have to ban about a third of the briefing room.”

The desire to ban Fox News and other conservative news organizations from the briefing room is a prime example of the Left’s intolerance towards anyone who does not bow down to their radical agenda. 

Even though news organizations like CNN and MSNBC lie through their teeth on a daily basis, the Left does not seem to care. 

Banning Fox News has nothing to do with stopping the spread of so-called “misinformation.”

Instead, it has everything to do with limiting the First Amendment and stopping anyone who gets in their way. 

The Left’s assault on the First Amendment has sowed deep-rooted divisions in America, with many Americans rightfully worried about what freedom the Left will try to assault next. 

Americans must be prepared to stand up for their Constitutional rights

 Not only do leftists like Jen Psaki hate the concept of the freedom of the press, but they loathe the entire United States Constitution. 

Over the last couple of years, the Biden administration has been plagued by scandals regarding the First Amendment. 

Time and time again, it appears as if the Biden administration schemed to silence Americans in their effort to gain political power. 

Americans rightfully do not trust their government, especially when it comes to free speech issues. 

This is exactly why accountability is so important within the federal government.

Without accountability, the public will lose confidence in the people who claim to represent them. 

In the coming days and weeks, House Republicans have plans to hold more hearings about the Left’s assault on the First Amendment and reveal key aspects of their dubious agenda. 

Patriot Political will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.

China Brokers Historic Deal

Between Saudi Arabia And Iran –

What That Means For U.S. Interests

By: Chet Nagle

AND Magazine

March 14, 2023

(Emphasis added)

·      By issuing a Joint Trilateral Statement by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the People’s Republic of China, the Saudi Foreign Ministry is telling us that normalizing Arab-Israel relations has been canceled and Iran has a green light to develop deliverable nuclear weapons.

·      Rapprochement between the Middle East superpowers, Iran and Saudi Arabia, will adversely affect events in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, though it may moderate the war in Yemen.

·      In the ongoing existential struggle between the United States and China, the Saudi-Iran deal will increase China’s influence on energy assets in the Middle East, on current regional conflicts, and therefore the correlation of forces. 

Among other things he mentioned in support of the Lower Energy Costs Act bill (HR1), House Speaker McCarthy told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on Thursday that “We should make China dependent on our natural gas.” The day after that, China cemented its relationship with Iran and Saudi Arabia by brokering their astounding agreement to restore diplomatic relations. Besides insuring access to all the oil and natural gas that China could possibly use, the restored entente between Iran and Saudi Arabia has profound implications for the United States, Israel, and peace in the Middle East.

Not the least of these implications is the impending death of the Abraham Accords, Trump-era agreements based on the belief of Christians, Jews, and Moslems that Abraham was a common patriarch. Signatories to what amounts to a peace pact with Israel now include the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan (with some reservations still being negotiated.) It was widely hoped that American allies like Oman and Saudi Arabia would join the normalization process and ultimately bring peace to the Middle East. 

The normalization of relations with Iran and the Biden administration’s foreign policy put an end to those happy prospects. The only positive result of Saudi Arabia restoring relations with Iran is that Tehran may decide to reduce its support of the Houthi rebellion in Yemen. However, the control of Lebanon by Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, will continue to grow as will the reconstruction of Iraq as an Iranian ally.

Syria is on Iran’s agenda too. The day before the Saudi-Iran deal was announced the Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, was in Damascus reassuring Bashar al-Assad of the Arab world’s outreach to internationally isolated Syria. He undoubtedly also discussed Turkey’s desire for resumed economic relations with Saudi Arabia, a lever that his new Saudi partners can pull in exchange for Turkey ending support of the Syrian rebels. Chinese interests are in the wings of these conflicts, but after brokering the Saudi-Iran deal whatever they are, they will not be ignored

How did the Biden administration manage to so quickly destroy the pillar of American prestige in the Middle East, a pillar founded on American lives and treasure lost in conflicts from Iraq to Afghanistan? What are the missteps in the last two years that lead to China’s invitation to broker the Saudi-Iran Deal — instead of the United States?

First, we know that Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi Crown Prince and de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, is a keen observer of American affairs. He also understands that ever since his great-grandfather King Abdulaziz met President Roosevelt on the U.S. Navy cruiser USS Quincy on the Great Bitter Lake on 14 February 1945, Saudi Arabia has been a staunch ally of the United States in exchange for American protection.

What changed the Prince’s mind? 

ü Did he notice the continuing penetration by China into American capital markets, siphoning off billions of dollars? 

ü Has he read reports of industrial espionage and bribery that have made China a preeminent technological superpower? 

ü Does he know about Hunter Biden’s laptop that shows Chinese bribery of the highest level of the United States government itself? 

ü Has he noticed the trillions of debt that have devalued the dollar, the currency in which oil is traded? 

ü Does he understand the debilitating effect of woke policies on American defense capabilities? 

Surely he has seen videos of civil unrest in American cities. And, like the rest of the Middle East, he saw the chaotic abandoning of Afghanistan and billions of dollars of military equipment after General Milley assured the world that the Afghan government was secure for at least two years.

Could all of these blunders convince the Crown Prince that the United States was no longer the regional “strong horse” that his great-grandfather relied upon?

Finally, Saudi Arabia has promised that “if Iran gets nuclear weapons, then Saudi Arabia will get nuclear weapons.” It was generally assumed that the Saudis could and would obtain them from Pakistan. Does the new deal with Iran mean that Riyadh will get them from Iran itself? What is certain is that with the support of China and Saudi Arabia the Iran nuclear program, only weeks away from building a nuclear warhead, will proceed uninhibited.

Labeled “The Great Satan” and the “Little Satan,” the United States and Israel should be alarmed by the tripartite Saudi-Iran deal. Israel is very alarmed.

The Biden White House, not so much.

Are We the Byzantines?

The Byzantines never awakened

in time to understand what

they had become. Will Americans?

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

March 15, 2023

When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome.

Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its enemies, avoiding military quagmires, and ensuring constant deterrence.

Generations of self-sacrifice ensured ample investment in infrastructure. Each generation inherited and improved on singular aqueducts and cisterns, sewer systems, and the most complex and formidable city fortifications in the world.

Brilliant scientific advancement and engineering gave the empire advantages like swift galleys and flame throwers—an ancient precursor to napalm.

The law reigned supreme for nearly a millennium after the emperor Justinian codified a prior thousand years of Roman jurisprudence.

Yet this millennium-old crown jewel of the ancient world that once was home to 800,000 citizens had only 50,000 inhabitants left when it fell. 

There were only 7,000 defenders on the walls to hold back a huge Turkish army of over 150,000 attackers.

The Islamic winners took over the once magical city of Constantine and renamed it Istanbul. It had been the home of the renowned Santa Sophia, the largest Christian church in the world for over 900 years. Almost immediately, this “Church of the Holy Wisdom” was converted into the then-largest mosque in the Islamic world, with minarets to follow.

So what happened to the once indomitable city fortress and its empire?

Christendom had cannibalized itself. Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy fought endlessly. Westerners often hated each other more than they did their common enemy.

In the final days of Constantinople, almost no help was sent from Western Europe to the besieged city.

250 years earlier, the Western Franks of the Fourth Crusade had detoured from the Holy Land to storm the supposedly allied Christian City of Constantinople. 

Then they ransacked the city and hijacked the Byzantine Empire for a half-century. Constantinople never quite recovered.

The 14th-century Black Plague killed tens of thousands of Byzantines and scared thousands more into moving out of the cramped city. 

But the aging and dying empire battled more than the challenges of internal divisions, or an unforeseen but deadly pandemic and the empire’s disastrous responses to it.

The last generations of Byzantines had inherited a global reputation and standard of living that they no longer earned.

They neglected their former civic values and fought endless battles over obscure religious texts, doctrines, and vocabulary.

They did not expand their anemic army and navy. They did not reunite their scattered Greek-speaking empire. They did not properly maintain their once life-giving walls.

Instead of earning money through their accustomed nonstop trade, they inflated their currency and were forced to melt down the city’s inherited gold and silver fixtures.

The once canny and shrewd Byzantines grew smug and naïve. Childlessness became common. Most now preferred to live outside of what had become a half-empty, often dirty, and poorly maintained city.

Meanwhile, they underestimated the growing power of the Ottomans who systematically pruned away their empire. By the mid-15th century, Islamic armies were ready to exploit fatal Byzantine weaknesses.

Sultan Mehmed II grandly announced the Ottomans were now the real, the only world power. Ascendant Ottoman armies would eventually move on to the very gates of Vienna in an effort to rule all the lands of the ancient Roman empire. 

We should take heed from the last generations of the Byzantines.

Nowhere is it foreordained that America has a birthright to remain the world’s preeminent civilization.

An ascendant China seems eerily similar to the Ottomans. Beijing believes that the United States is decadent, undeserving of its affluence, living beyond its means on the fumes of the past—and very soon vulnerable enough to challenge openly.

Left and Right seem to hate each other more than they do their common enemies.

Like the Byzantines, Americans gave up defending their own borders, and simply shrugged as millions overran them as they pleased.

Our once iconic downtowns, like end-stage Constantinople before the fall, are now dirty, half-deserted, dangerous, and dysfunctional.

America prints rather than makes money, as its banks totter near bankruptcy.

Americans similarly believe they are invincible without ensuring in reality that they are. Our military is more worried about being woke than deadly.

Like Byzantines, Americans have become snarky iconoclasts, more eager to tear down art and sculpture that they no longer have the talent to create. 

Current woke dogma, obscure word fights, and sanctimonious cancel culture are as antithetical to the past generations of World War II as the last generation of Constantinople was to the former great eras of the emperors Constantine, Justinian, Heraclius, and Leo.

The Byzantines never woke up in time to understand what they had become.

So far neither have Americans.

    On the other hand, the electoral fraud of 2020 in the United States of America was also indispensable to prevent the confirmation of President Donald Trump, just as in 2013 the deep state and the deep church managed to get Pope Benedict XVI to resign and to elect a person pleasing to the New World Order, the Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

MESSAGE

of

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

Former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States of America

to the

Founding Congress

of the International Movement of Russophiles (MIR)

Moscow, March 14, 2023

    Dear Friends, 

    It gives me great joy to be able to address a brief message to you on the occasion of the establishment of the International Movement of Russophiles. 

    The Manifesto of this association begins with a word that seems to have disappeared from Western vocabulary: friendship. 

    In this case, it is friendship for the Russian people, shared by so many people throughout the world, and the friendship of the Russian people towards other peoples, in that spirit of brotherhood which finds its foundation in recognizing ourselves as children of the one Eternal Father and as brothers and sisters in Our Lord Jesus Christ.

    When the Western Roman Empire lost its political role under the pressure of the barbarian invasions, the baton passed to Constantinople. 

    And when the Eastern Roman Empire also fell with the conquest of Byzantium by Mahomet II, it was Moscow that saved its religious and political legacy, with its Saints and Holy Kings. 

    The present crisis shows us the collapse of a corrupt West, in which there is no Pope Leo the Great to save its fate, but which still has a destiny, if it can recover its providential mission and recognizes what unites it to the mission of Russia.

    Recent events have shown us that the materialist atheism that devastated the Russian Empire and the world since 1917 — as the Most Blessed Virgin Mary announced at Fatima — has today joined liberalism in the globalist ideology which underlies the delirious project of the New World Order. 

    An infernal project, as President Vladimir Vladimirovič Putin rightly pointed out in a recent speech, in which hatred for Christian civilization wants to create a society of slaves subservient to the Davos elite. 

    A dystopian society, without past and without future, without faith and without ideals, without culture and without art, without fathers and mothers, without family and spirituality, without teachers and spiritual guides, without either respect for the elderly or hopes for our children. 

    We cannot be surprised that, after de-Christianizing the Western world, this elite considers Russia an enemy to be overthrown. 

    The Russian Federation undeniably stands as the last bastion of civilization against barbarism, and gathers around it all those nations that do not intend to submit to the colonization of NATO, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and that heap of foundations that have as their purpose the indoctrination of the masses, the manipulation of information, the creation of “colored springs” to destabilize governments legitimately elected and sow chaos, wars and misery as instrumentum regni. 

    The recent pandemic farce — conducted with criminal methods that I have not hesitated to denounce since the beginning of 2020 — has been followed by new emergencies — including the Ukrainian crisis — deliberately provoked with the aim of destroying the social and economic fabric of nations, decimating the world population, concentrating control in the hands of an oligarchy that no one has elected and that has perpetrated a real world coup d’état, for which sooner or later it will be called to answer before the world.

    The theorists of this coup have names and faces, starting with George Soros, Klaus Schwab, and Bill Gates. 

    Those who today declare that Russia is an enemy consider Europeans, Americans, Australians and Canadians as enemies and treat them as such, persecuting and impoverishing them. 

    But while World Economic Forum emissaries in Western governments can legislate against the good of their own citizens and hold world leaders in the palm of their hands, regime change that has been successful in other nations has stopped at Russia’s borders. 

    On the other hand, the electoral fraud of 2020 in the United States of America was also indispensable to prevent the confirmation of President Donald Trump, just as in 2013 the deep state and the deep church managed to get Pope Benedict XVI to resign and to elect a person pleasing to the New World Order, the Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

    Your commitment must certainly promote Russia’s friendly relations with all peoples, according to that principle of multipolarity which, in a wise long-term political vision, is the best way to combat globalist monopolarity. 

    But this friendship, these relations of concord and mutual cooperation, cannot disregard the denunciation of the coup d’état perpetrated against humanity by dangerous subversives whose declared purpose is the establishment of an infernal tyranny, in which hatred of God as well as hatred of man created in His image, illness, death, ignorance, poverty, violence, selfishness, and corruption reign supreme. 

    It is the kingdom of the Antichrist. 

    This Leviathan must be identified and combated, with an action that involves all free peoples, first of all by rejecting the programmatic points of the Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset with shared initiatives. 

    We need an Anti-Globalist Alliance that returns to citizens the power that has been taken from them, and to nations the sovereignty eroded and ceded to the Davos lobby. 

    The Russian Federation will play a decisive role in this effort, as will the message that the International Movement of Russophiles will bring to the peoples of the West, which needs to return to being proud of its Faith and proud of the civilization to which Saints Cyril and Methodius also contributed.

    We are fighting an epochal battle: we shall remain under the mantle of the Most Blessed Virgin, the glorious Nikopèia, together with the Archangel St. Michael. 

    The victory belongs to Christ, and to those who choose to align themselves under the holy banner of the Cross.

    + Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

14 March 2023

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Calls Out Stanford Law Dean

 Mark Stevens

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March 15, 2023

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Stanford Law School was hardly a Bastian of free speech recently. Students shouted down the speech of Judge Kyle Duncan, a Trump appointee to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. They called him a racist and yelled out profanities.

What’s worse is that the administrator on the scene — Associate Dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion Tirien Steinbach — did not try to get things under control. She made the situation worse.

Instead of trying to restore order, Steinbach lectured Duncan about how “uncomfortable” he made her and the students because some of his decisions allegedly “[deny] the humanity of people.

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Duncan had to be ushered out by federal marshals in the interest of keeping him safe.

It seems like “woke” students know that they can shut people down and not face any consequences on today’s campuses.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is calling on Stanford to hold the students who were involved accountable for their actions.

“It was deeply disturbing to watch the viral video that captured Stanford Law students harassing and insulting Judge Kyle Duncan, a sitting federal circuit judge, who had been invited by the school’s Federalist Society chapter to speak at a school-sanctioned event,” Cruz said in a letter to the administration of the law school.

Cruz also wrote in the letter, “This disgraceful behavior is antithetical to the principles of free speech and open discourse that are essential to the mission of any credible academic institution, let alone a top-tier law school. Such behavior also clearly violates Stanford Law School’s Campus Disruption Policy. As such, Stanford Law School is well within its rights to discipline these students for their behavior, and indeed, I strongly urge the school to do so. Indeed, failing to identify and discipline the students responsible for this reprehensible conduct will only encourage such behavior in the future.”

And the senator called for action against the dean as well, he said she “thrust herself into the limelight during the allotted time of the event, stole the microphone for over six minutes, and proceeded to chastise and condescend to Judge Duncan with the aid of her own pre-prepared remarks. Given her demonstrated contempt for the federal bench, guests of the school, and your own institution’s policies, I recommend that she is promptly dismissed from her position.”