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Way back in the run up to the 2016 Presidential Election in the US, your humble blogger spent many hours outlining the corruptness of the Main Stream Media, or what we called the LEGACY MEDIA.

Since that time, Our President has branded them as #fakenews!

At the time, we also spent much time explaining all about NARRATIVES and the VIRTUAL REALITIES that they create and or engineer.

We also explained how the VERY STABLE GENIUS President Donald J. Trump is crushing this market segment and their artificially engineered narratives.

Today your humble blogger re-publishes an EXAMPLE of said corruption of the legacy media. It would be hard to find a better example! It comes via the Conservative Treehouse and the best site for understanding the soft coup d’etat that is taking place in Washington D.C. at present.

Please read the below and meditate on what has transpired.

But that’s not all…

Above is a video of an interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson. In this video, Dr. Peterson explains just why the LEGACY media is DYING! His claim is that the media has become corrupt in order to try and control their monopoly on information dissemination. This monopoly has been broken due to new technology which allows for long format discussions. I will leave here, but please watch the video.

And I say again: It is a MUST WATCH!

These two pieces of information combined will allow you dear reader, to understand this OBJECTIVE REALITY that you are observing around you. Think of the situation with Alex Jones, as a case in point. All in all, this is as good of a glimpse behind the Wizard of Oz’s curtain as you dear reader will ever get!

Further, it gives us a very good glimpse of how Catholics can evangelize… bah proselytize going forward. People like Patrick Coffin are in that space already, but the medium catering to long form discussions can support many, many more personalities. I’m thinking… some young motivated Dominicans, say?

Hint, hint…

I will have more to say on this later, so consider this post as reference material for that discussion.

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The Media Are Hiding Their Knowledge and Duplicity – Buzzfeed, WaPo and New York Times Had Unredacted FISA Application For Over A Year…

Posted on August 12, 2018 by sundance

We shared a discussion thread several months ago about how the media are enmeshed within the story of the DOJ and FBI corruption. However, only recently did we discover the media engagements were not just pervasive, they were/are participatory.

As a consequence the same media cannot reasonably report on any aspect of the story without exposing their own duplicity; their only choice is to double down on lies they helped create and promote.

In preparation for explosive developments soon to reach critical mass CTH strongly urges everyone to think carefully about these recently discovered empirical truths:

#1) The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had the full, unredacted, FISA application on Carter Page since March 17th, 2017.  Think carefully about that. Think about what every member of that committee has said since March 17, 2017.

#2) With the leak of the Top Secret FISA application, by James Wolfe to Ali Watkins, Buzzfeed, The Washington Post and New York Times have had the full, unredacted, FISA application in their possession since March 17th, 2017.  Again, think carefully about that.  Think about all of their reporting since March 17, 2017.

#3) As a direct consequence of #1 and #2 – The media have deliberately, and with specific intent, falsified their reporting and kept the truth hidden which would undermine their false reporting.  Again, think very carefully about the ramifications.

The media’s role in the DOJ/FBI corruption scandal is not only pervasive, it’s participatory.

Michael Isikoff highlighted a point in February when he admitted his reporting was being used by the DOJ and FBI to advance a political objective. Additionally, FBI investigator Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page were shown in their text messages to be leaking stories from the Clinton Investigation, the Trump investigation and the Mueller investigation to journalists at Politico, The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. –SEE HERE–

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was busted by the Inspector General for leaking stories to the media and then lying about it to INSD and IG investigators. FBI Director James Comey admitted to leaking stories to the New York Times, and even hired his friend Andrew Richman (off-the-books), gave him access to FBI and NSA databases, and then leaked information to Richman along with another friend Benjamin Wittes at Lawfare blog.

Lest we forget, the IG report on how the FBI handled the Clinton investigation revealed that dozens of FBI officials were actually taking bribes from the media for information:

IG REPORT – We identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters. Attached to this report as Attachments E and F are two link charts that reflect the volume of communications that we identified between FBI employees and media representatives in April/May and October 2016. We have profound concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized media contacts by FBI personnel that we have uncovered during our review.

 

[…] We do not believe the problem is with the FBI’s policy, which we found to be clear and unambiguous. Rather, we concluded that these leaks highlight the need to change what appears to be a cultural attitude among many in the organization. (link to pdf – page Xii of executive summary)

Madness.

This is an IG fact-based criticism of the institution of the FBI, not simply a few rogue officials within it.

But wait…. Perspective:

More recently it was revealed that Andrew Weissman, Robert Mueller’s #1 special counsel prosecutor, was coordinating investigative efforts with the full support of four AP reporters who were giving Weissman information to use in his court filings and search warrants.

Nuts; simply, well, nuts.

(Source Link – pdf Page #5)

Additionally, Christopher Steele has stated in U.K. court records the person in charge of the Clinton Campaign’s opposition research firm, Glenn Simpson from Fusion GPS, arranged and coordinated for Mr. Steele to talk to several journalists (CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Yahoo News and Mother Jones) while Mr. Steele was also the primary source of information for the FBI investigators (including Strzok and Page):

(Source – page #8)

Make sure you read that full response from Christopher Steele above to see the scope of the media engagements he was conducting.

As more evidence surfaces the relationship between journalists, Fusion-GPS, Chris Steele and the media’s DOJ/FBI sources begins blending together. The FBI was using media reports, which were based on Fusion-GPS pitches, to bolster its investigative documents to the FISA court. It is an intelligence laundry operation:

According to the U.K records, Christopher Steele reports this September 2016 meeting with Isikoff was arranged by Glenn Simpson. According to Michael Isikoff on his February podcast, he met Christopher Steele at a Washington, D.C. hotel in Sept. 2016. They were joined by his “old friend” Glenn Simpson, the founder of opposition research firm Fusion GPS, who Isikoff now defines as a “private investigator.”

So Christopher Steele was meeting with journalists, the journalists were writing articles; the FBI was leaking to media and simultaneously citing those same articles as underlying evidence to support their counterintelligence investigations; and all of this was used to validate the investigative documents the FBI was receiving from Christopher Steele; who, along with the leaking FBI officials, was also the source of the media articles.

FUBAR! This is exponentially bonkers.

This is a circle of information, all coming from Glenn Simpson, Nellie Ohr and Christopher Steele at Fusion GPS, through Bruce Ohr at DOJ into the FBI via Peter Strzok.

Fusion GPS was the opposition research firm being financed by Hillary Clinton, along with FBI officials who were using their own strategic media leaks to authenticate/validate their own investigation.

Think about the scale of the reporting, and reporting on reporting, of anonymous leaks, false leaks, lies from “people with knowledge of the matter”, “government officials involved in the matter”, “people familiar with the matter”, “government sources” etc. all going in one unified and semi-coordinated direction – against the aggregate Trump administration.

Now, it actually gets even more convoluted.

Christopher Steele has sworn under oath that he met with multiple journalists (at least eight organizations) in September, mid-October, and late-October 2016: “at Fusion’s instruction“. (pdf page #7)

Overlay upon that sworn admission with what Glenn Simpson (Fusion-GPS) told the House Intelligence Committee while also under oath about his involvement in sharing information derived from Christopher Steele:

(Testimony – pdf link, page #147)

…”without my knowledge and against my wishes”?

Huh?

FBI Director James Comey admits to leaking his ‘memos’ to the New York Times. FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was busted for leaking and lying about it. FBI #2 Counterintelligence Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Attorney Lisa Page are caught in their text messages leaking to Politico, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

…. AND the FBI is caught, in at least one FISA application, using Yahoo media reports provided by them AND their investigative source Christopher Steele to establish a basis for the FISA “Title I” surveillance; the most intrusive and wide-open search and surveillance authority possible.

The Clinton Campaign is paying Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research against Donald Trump. In addition to Glenn Simpson pushing that opposition research into the media, Fusion GPS, Nellie Ohr and Bruce Ohr are also providing that opposition research –including information from contacts with media– directly to the FBI:

(pdf link – page #4)

… In addition to using the Fusion-GPS opposition research to underpin their counterintelligence investigation, the FBI then turn around and leak the same opposition research information to the media to create secondary support for their counterintelligence investigation.

Tell me again how the media can possibly write about this now?

The problem is not just corruption with the U.S. Justice System, the DOJ and the FBI; the problem is corruption within the media.

We’re talking about thousands of hours of media TV pundits, thousands more columns written, and almost every scintilla of it based on originating intelligence sources -from the larger intelligence system- that are now being exposed as duplicitous and conspiratorial in the scale of their malicious intent.

This larger story-line has traveled in one direction. The narrative has only traveled in one direction. Each thread converging on codependent trails for collective stories all going in one direction. One big engineered narrative endlessly pushed. Think about how far the collective media have traveled with this story over the past eighteen months?

Hell, twenty-something-year-old “journalist” Ali Watkins was so committed to the resistance narrative she was even sleeping with her sources to get any little engineering angle possible.  One of the biggest leaks she was able to secure from SSCI Director of Security James Wolfe, was the full unredacted Carter Page FISA application.

Now, over a period of several exhaustive months, it has become obvious the collective journey, using all that collaborative expended effort, was not only going in the wrong direction – it was going in that direction specifically because the media were intentionally complicit in pushing demonstrably false stories in that direction.

The media have fully invested themselves in eighteen months of narrative distribution in only one direction. Not a single MSM entity has questioned their travel as a result of false leaks or false sources in the totality of time they have covered the DOJ and FBI story.

Nothing within their collective need to will-an-outcome will change the media’s proximity to facts when the truthful story behind the DOJ and FBI corruption is finally exposed. The media are so far away from the place where this story ends, they have no inherent capability to even begin to travel in the opposite direction, toward the truth.

The only way they could align with the truth is to admit that virtually every scintilla of their reportage over the past 18 months was inherently false or manipulated by the “sources” distributing the material for their reporting.

There’s not a single media outlet capable of doing that.

Think about a New York Times, CNN, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, Yahoo News or Washington Post journalist now having to write an article deconstructing a foundation of two-years worth of lies they participated in creating.

Do we really think such a catastrophic level of corrupted journalism could reconstitute into genuine reporting of fact-based information?

EVER?

Impossible.

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FrancisChurch – Dead Men Speaking From the Grave…

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As the long time readers of the Deus ex Machina blog know, its author, i.e. this humble blogger uses a proprietary model to help in analyzing that which is transpiring in the post-conciliar church. (see here) The model is based on the works of two individual: Charles Peirce and William of Ockham.

Charles Peirce represented what is known as the American pragmatist school of philosophy. And it just so happens that the main proponent of this school presently is none other than Dr. Jordan Peterson.

William of Ockham in turn, was a 14th Century Franciscan Friar and would be considered today by another term, i.e. a heretic.

Yet, not all of what William produced, such as the heresy of Nominalism, should be  considered heretical. Here, your humble blogger has in mind such concepts that do not deal directly with theology, such as the ‘subjective theory of value’ (Primary cause for the collapse of centrally planned economies, i.e. Communism) .

So those parts of William’s work that do not cross into the theological, your humble blogger has incorporated into his model. To be more specific, the part of William’s magnum opus that this humble blogger uses is what is known as Ockham’s razor (Occam’s razor).

Anyways, making a long story short, the DeM came across a post that appeares on its radar screen (came through the filter, to be exact) and alarm bells started to go off. In these cases, these sorts of posts usually get republished.

Given the above, your humble blogger has republished the post below for your information and edification and likewise FOR THE RECORD:

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ADULT EYES ONLY: Richard Sipe’s Letter to Faggot Archbishop Robert McElroy – FOR AGGRESSIVE COPYING AND DISTRIBUTION

This MUST be distributed as aggressively as possible.  Warning: this contains descriptions of sexual abuse that are absolutely stomach-churning.  Adults should read every word and realize what satanic monsters we are dealing with.  Homosexuality isn’t a benign variant on human sexuality.  They aren’t “just like us, but with one little twist.”  Homosexuality, BY DEFINITION, is an evil, demonic, criminal psycho-spiritual pathology.  Someone should make a three hour long video describing in detail what exactly that pathology is.…

The odious faggot McElroy is on the super-fast track up the ladder of the Antichurch, and he was considered to be “anointed” to a huge American Archdiocese and being made a Cardinal.  Oh, he is also the sickening sodomite James Martin’s number one fan.

Speaking of James Martin, that faggot needs to be taken down, like yesterday.  This #CatholicMeToo thing need not be limited to prelates, and in fact, must not be limited.  These priest predators, prowling throughout the world, seeking the ruin of souls and sodomy with hot young Twinks, exactly like the priest predator James Martin, need to be taken down every bit as much as the Donnas and the Blanches.

Here is the source link to the PDF on Sipe’s website.

Here is the text reprinted in full.  I deem this letter that important

In your charity, please say a prayer for the repose of the soul of Richard Sipe, or better yet, have a Requiem Mass said for him.  He died 72 hours ago, on the 8th of August.  The Barnhardt Requiem Mass next week will thus include Mr. Sipe.

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A.W.Richard Sipe
2825 Ridgegate Row /La Jolla /CA 92037
July 28,2016
Bishop McElroy:
I received your note postmarked July 19.
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It was clear to me during our last meeting in your office, although cordial,
that you had no interest in any further personal contact. It was only after
that I sent you a letter copied to my contacts in DC and Rome.
The new Nuncio, Archbishop Pierre, told my colleague he is interested in
the care of and reaction to victims of clergy assault: and I am assured that
the Papal Commission for the Prevention of Abuse is also dedicated to this
aspect of the crisis.
I will as I was asked, put my observations in the form of a report. Your
office made it clear that you have no time in your schedule either now or “in
the foreseeable future” to have the meeting that they suggested.
Bishop, I have been at the study and research of the problem of clergy
abuse since 1960. In 1986 I wrote to Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk,
president of the USCCB at the time, with my preliminary conclusions. His
response was negligible, although he passed the substance onto the
USCCB office who gave my figures to a NEWSWEEK reporter.
In 1990 before my study A Secret World; Sexuality and the Search for
Celibacy was published I agreed to meet with the entire staff at their DC
offices.
Institutional resistance is understandable, if surprising to me. So much of
my work has been validated and in many quarters now taken for granted.
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The number of priests and bishops having sex with minors was not the
primary or central focus of the study. But my calculation of 6% (six percent)
clergy abusers as a base line has held up very well. [ the most recent
validation is between 6 ½ and 9% in the U.S. Some dioceses have
registered 23%. Some religious houses have recorded 25%.]
Sexual violation within the RC clergy is systemic. I say that on the basis of
observation and scientific conclusion. And I say that with empathy and
concern.
Now that aspect of the sexual crisis is well known around the world. The
crisis behind the scandal will be the next phase of reality with which to
come to terms: Namely: the broad range and frequency of sexual behaviors
registered in the clerical system. “At any one time no more than 50% of
priests are practicing celibacy.”
That was the hypothesis and thrust of A Secret World (1990) and repeated
in Celibacy in Crisis (2003)
In May 1993 at the Vatican International Conference on Celibacy in Rome
Cardinal Jose Sanchez then Chairman of the Dicastery on Clergy fielded
questions about my study and conclusions and a similar sociological
statistical report by Fr. Victor Kotze of South Africa. Father Kotze concluded
that in any three-year period only 45% of priests were practicing celibacy.
When asked directly by reporter Mark Dowd, and a reporter recording for
the BBC TV what the Cardinal thought of those studies he said, “I have no
reason to doubt the accuracy of those figures”.
II
During the first National Survivors Conference in Chicago, October 1992, I
addressed the group with these words: “The crisis we are facing today—
sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy—is the tip of an iceberg. And if
we follow it to its foundations it will lead to the highest corridors of the
Vatican.”
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Sooner or later it will become broadly obvious that there is a systemic
connection between the sexual activity by, among and between clerics in
positions of authority and control, and the abuse of children.
When men in authority—cardinals, bishops, rectors, abbots, confessors,
professors—are having or have had an unacknowledged-secret-active-sexlife
under the guise of celibacy an atmosphere of tolerance of behaviors
within the system is made operative.
Many of the sexual patterns are set up during seminary years or in early
years after ordination when sexual experimentation is initiated or sustained.
The 2009 Vatican Report (in English) on American seminaries invented a
new term—transitional homosexuality. I believe this is due to the
awareness of the frequent activity in the homosocial structure of seminary
and religious life.
I was on the staff of three major seminaries, one Pontifical, from 1967 to
1984. I served as a consultant for seminaries from 1966 to 1996. That gave
me a broad contact with several other seminaries, their Rectors and staffs.
I was aware, from information shared by their partners, that a number of
rectors (at least three) and also some staff members, were having periodic
sex with students.
At one seminary fully one-fourth of the professors had ongoing sexual
contacts with men or women in more or less consensual arrangements.
It is credibly established that thirty percent (30%) of U.S. bishops have a
homosexual orientation. This is not a condemnation nor an allegation of
malfeasance. The list of homosexual Popes and saints is long and
illustrious. [This is obviously false.  Homosexuality, even the inclination, is diametrically opposed to sanctity in every sense. -AB]
A serious conflict arises when bishops who have had or are having sexually
active lives with men or women defend their behavior with denial, cover up,
and public pronouncements against those same behaviors in others.
Their own behavior threatens scandal of exposure when they try to curtail
or discipline other clerics about their behavior even when it is criminal as in
the case with rape and abuse of minors, rape, or power plays against the
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vulnerable. (Archbishops Harry Flynn, Eugene Marino, Robert Sanchez,
Manuel Moreno, Francis Green, etc.)
III
I will record instances that demonstrate the systemic dynamic that forms
and fosters sexual violations among the clerical culture. All of this
information is culled from records (civil or church). In addition, I have 50
years’ participation or contact with the clerical culture of the RCC.
I have reviewed several hundred thousands of pages of records of clerical
sexual activity and been involved as a consultant or expert witness in 250
civil legal actions against clergy offenders.
None of the following information is secret. It is reviewed here in an effort to
demonstrate how the sexual system works in the clerical culture.
Archbishop John Neinstedt (1947—) I reviewed the 138-page report of
the Ramsay County MN Attorney’s report on the sexual activity of
Neinstedt.
I have interviewed priests from the Detroit Archdiocese who had personal
contact there with Neinstedt and had first-hand knowledge of his presence
at gay bars. The affidavits in the report speak for themselves.
Bishop Thomas Lyons (1923-88) priest of Baltimore and auxiliary bishop
of Washington, D.C. I have personally interviewed adult men who claim that
they were sexually abused by Lyons when he was a priest in Baltimore and
a monsignor and pastor in D.C.
One of the reporters was on probation for abusing minor members of his
own family. He claimed that Lyons abused him from the time he was seven
to seventeen years old. Also Lyons himself said that this happened to him
(by a priest) when he was growing up and that “it was natural.”
One important element in this behavior is the three generational pattern of
sexual abuse of minors involved: Priest abuser of child who becomes a
priest and child abuser. Behavior is justified as natural. This is a pattern
seen often and termed the genealogy of clerical sexual abuse.
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Bishop Raymond J. Boland (1932-2014) was a priest and pastor also in
Washington, D.C. until 1988 when he was appointed bishop of Birmingham
AL, and subsequently, in1993 bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
I was involved for several years in advocating for several victims that
Boland violated when he was a pastor. The accounts of the victims are
among the most horrendous from the point of view that exemplifies how
deeply sex even with minors is integrated within the clerical culture.
Cardinal James Hickey and bishop William Lori fought with particular fury
the allegations that ended in the suspension of several priests and a
financial settlement with some victims.
The victim quoted here from his report to the Archdiocese refused the
settlement offered by the Archdiocese. The whole process from 1994 to
2004 spanned the reigns of Hickey, Mc Carrick and Wuerl.
Fr. Frank Swift (+1974) and Fr. Aldo PetrinI (+late 1980s) were named as
abusers.
Msgr. Paul Lavin was named as an abuser of several minor victims and
was finally removed from the ministry by Cardinal McCarrick in 2002.
These D.C. priests formed a coterie of sexually active clerics from the
seminary to connections with officials in Vatican offices.
Some of the victims were assaulted together. Two victims refused financial
settlements. Others were constricted by confidentiality clauses.
This tangle of clerical sexual abusers demonstrates the operation that
infests the systemic operation of sexual activity from top to bottom.
Many more facts about this group are on record.
Following are quotes from the reports in files submitted to the offices of the
D.C. Archbishops and their lawyers:
A 10-year-old boy at Mount Calvary Catholic Church in Forestville, MD in
1967 was sodomized by Fr. Raymond J. Boland and then deacon Paul
Levin.
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The boy asked Boland why they were doing this and he responded, “God
makes special boys and girls for pleasure, and you are certainly one of
them.” When he saw the erect penises of his abusers he was told, “See
what you have done”.
They said they were going to make him a “big boy” and show him how
much God loved him. And breathlessly told him that it was, “the ultimate
sign of love when a man ‘came’ with a special boy; that gave him, “the seed
of life”.
Lavin said, “when I was 12-years-old that I would be taken on retreats were
spiritual bonding between older men and younger boys took place.”
They assured him the pain would go away, gave warnings to keep secret
and delivered threats of dire consequences if he told anyone. (He did tell
his mother who slapped him and told him never to talk that way about a
priest or nun.)
He made a first suicide attempt with aspirin.
Three weeks after the assault by Boland this boy contacted a priest in his
home parish—Fr. Perkinson. (who was ultimately a patient at St. Luke’s
Institute Suitland, MD.)
When he told the priest his name Fr. Perkinson said, “Oh, you’re the
special little boy Fr. Boland told me about.” He said he had been in the
military and “sex between two guys was normal”.
The priest then proceeded to expose his penis and forced it into the boy’s
mouth. “He told me to lick it like a popsicle and swallow the precious gift he
was going to give me.” He added later how special a boy I was and
encouraged me to swallow the semen that was “the seed of Christ and the
source of all life-—and a sin” to refuse. “God loves you and so do I.”
[This victim spent several years in the major seminary where he
experienced and recorded the sexual connections between seminary,
parish priests, chancery and Rome. The string of abusers was reported to
Cardinal Hickey. Some were retired or left the area.]
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While this assault was in progress the pastor opened the door, simply
looked and closed it. (this behavior by other priests is reported in other
instances—e.g. Gaboury, litigated in Fall River, MA; in a case litigated in
D.C. the pastor seeing the boy bound and being sodomized simply said,
“you will have to repair that wall”. (The victim had punched a hole in the
wall while bound and thrashing around.)
Boland’s victim made a second suicidal attempt and was treated in a
hospital.
This is by no means the most horrendous of the records I have reviewed,
but its elements of seduction, assault, sexualizing spirituality, and selfjustification
under a “celibate” mantle and cover up are paradigmatic of a
system of behaviors in the Catholic clerical culture.
The record of one priest abuser relates how he anointed the foreheads of
his boy victims with his semen.
Another priest who was having sex with a13-yer-old of girl touched her
genitals with what he said was a consecrated host to show her “how much
God loves you”.
The credibility of the documents is unquestionable and recorded in church
and legal documents. The reporter in Boland’s case is a respected
professor.
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been reported by numerous
seminarians and priests of sexual advances and activity. A settlement with
one priest was effected by Stephen Rubino, Esq.
In that record the operation of McCarrick in sexual activity with three priests
is described. Correspondence from “Uncle Ted” as he asked to be called, is
included. One of the principals is now a lawyer who left the priesthood, two
men remain in the priesthood, but refuse to speak publicly despite the fact
that the settlement document is open. One priest was told by the chancery
office, “if you speak with the press we will crush you”.
Priests or seminarians who speak up about a sexually active superior are
threatened with the loss of everything—employment, status, etc. Those
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who report are greeted with disbelief or even derision if they know but were
not personally involved. If they were a partner in the sexual activity and
“come out” they become a pariah and labeled a traitor.
I have interviewed twelve seminarians and priests who attest to
propositions, harassment, or sex with McCarrick, who has stated, “I do not
like to sleep alone”.
One priest incardinated in McCarrick’s Archdiocese of Newark was taken to
bed for sex and was told, “this is how priests do it in the U.S.”. None so far
has found the ability to speak openly at the risk of reputation and
retaliation.
The system protects its impenetrability with intimidation, secrecy and
threat. Clergy and laity are complicit.
Abbot John Eidenschink, O.S.B. (1914-2004) I knew John Eidenschink
from the time I was a student in Prep school (1946) until the time of his
death. He served me as a theology professor, confessor for six years,
superior, and traveling companion in Europe (summer 1956), and principal
speaker at my first mass in 1959. I served with him as an assistant master
of ceremonies.
It was only in 1970 that monks and former monks came forward to tell me
about how Fr. John, under the guise of offering instructions how to make
them more comfortable with their body, and that during spiritual guidance,
had them stretch out nude on his bed while he touched them; he
penetrated some.
At least two of these men sought legal advice and received substantial
financial settlements from the abbey. At least five men reported this
behavior. Others who remained in the monastery did not publicize their
encounters.
I have heard this manner and mode of relationship described in other
religious houses and seminaries.
Like many other members of dioceses and religious communities I was
blind to these and other sexual activities among the group. This is not an
excuse. Lack of vigilance, adequate sexual education and simple ignorance
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contributed to the blindness instilled by institutional absorption and
dependency.
On record maintained by a former victim of the system recorded sixty
members of the St. John’s community who were sexual violators and 260
“known victims”. (Patrick Marker [Behindthepinecurtin.com])
John Eidenschink was a prominent and productive member of the
community. He influenced every segment of this large institution. His
sexual conditioning was formed and fostered in the two years of his
novitiate under the tutelage of Fr. Basil Stegmann, O.S.B. who repeatedly
took novice John on his lap while instructing him.
John was an orphan and lived with relatives near the campus of the abbey.
His sexual identity and his remarkable talents were conditioned and
fostered by the total institution. The homosocial structure of the abbey and
schools influenced his adjustment.
The homoerotic component in Roman Catholic theology and in the social
construct of training and in the power associations fosters sexual
expression as “natural” in ordinary male relationships. This is in direct
contradiction to the official teaching that homosexuality is “unnatural” and
“intrinsically disordered”.
I observed similar constructs in Vatican contacts with confreres when I was
a student in Rome. I could only register facts that I could not put together at
the time.
Students with some ambition would make contact with secretaries of
various Vatican officials, usually a Monsignore. This could assure them an
invitation to “tea” or some reception. Those who made the cut had social
access to a certain group of minor officials with prospects of wider and
more exalted contacts. (The book I Millinari written by 5 Vatican officials
also records variations on this pattern.)
Sexual liaisons become common for men conditioned to homosexually in
the system when women become available for social contact usually after
ordination. The Vatican term “transitional homosexuality” (2009) I
believe is based on the observation that a portion of priests pass through a
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phase of sexual bonding with men (or even boys) before setting into
heterosexual behaviors.
Bishop Robert H. Brom: I have talked with the man who made allegations
of misconduct against Brom and with whom he made a $120,000
settlement. The history is well recorded by several responsible reporters.
(http://www.awrsipe.com/brom/bishop_brom.htm)
Significant here is the operation of the National Conference of Bishops who
in their 2002 Dallas Charter made provision for “zero tolerance” of clergy
abusing minors but neglected to address violations by bishops. Instead
they appointed Brom, when allegations were known, to make “Fraternal
Correction” to other bishops accused.
This type of operation is typical of the pattern of cover up from the top of
the institution. (Reflected in the destruction of documents by the Papal
Nuncio in the Neinstedt case. Cf. Documentation provided by the Ramsey
County District Attorney)
Cardinal Roger Mahony. I have served as an expert witness in a sufficient
number of abuse cases in the LA Archdiocese to conclude it is not
outlandish to ask if Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles is a criminal for
“knowingly endangering the children he was supposed to defend.”
There is ample evidence already in the public forum that Mahony has
known of priests who abused minors, reassigned them and allowed them to
minister only to abuse other minors. He has not informed parishioners or
even parish staffs, that the priests he was assigning had a record of abuse.
Mahony who has a Masters in Social Work did not report known priest
abusers to social services even though he was obligated to do so by civil
law and by reason of the profession’s Code of Ethics. All of this vast
evidence is recorded in countless depositions on record from litigations1 of
abuse cases and from Mahony’s own testimony under oath.2
1 Depositions by Bishop Curry and Judge Byrne are illustrative of how priests were assigned and the
oversight board operated.
2 Mahony depositions, January 25, 2010; November 23, 2004; also Cf. Mahony trial testimony Fresno,
CA March 17, 2009.
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I received reports from two men about Mahony’s sexual life and orientation;
one a former (St. John, Camarillo) seminarian who was dying of HIV
related complications; the other a long time LA church employee. The men
were credible reporters unwilling to go public or draw on corroboration.
I have served as an expert on a number of cases of confirmed sexual
abuse by priests of the LA Archdiocese from 2002 onward. Several are
remarkable: (i.e. the case of Lopez y Lopez and the controversy between
Mahony and the Cardinal of Mexico City. One of the principals in the latter
had to be lying.)
Judge Jim Byrne touted by the cardinal as a poster boy for the integrity of
the sexual abuse review board said in deposition that in all the years he
served on the Board he “never thought” of helping the victims.
Lawyer, Larry Drivon, who has litigated many California cases of clergy
abuse stated that there was sufficient evidence to charge Mahony with
perjury after letters he signed when he was bishop of Stockton, were
produced in his 2004 deposition and showed—black on white—that he had
clear knowledge of events that he denied under oath in deposition and on
the witness stand in the 1998 trial of Fr. Oliver O’Grady.3
I attended the Nov. 2004 deposition of Mahony and know the history of the
O’Grady trial. I saw Mahony’s signed letters. As a layperson I witnessed the
cardinal lying. His lawyer claimed, as did the cardinal that “he forgot.” (in 2
depositions and on the witness stand)
Three Los Angeles Grand Juries have been impaneled over nine years to
determine the real picture of abusing priests in the Archdiocese of Los
Angeles. Their problem is not the lack of evidence, but the monumental
legal impediments and roadblocks the cardinal has sponsored to obstruct
the investigation and the release of documents needed to pinpoint facts of
the cardinal’s knowledge and involvement in complicity and obstruction.
California law does not allow Grand Jury reports to be made public unless
indictments result.
3 Don Lattin. December 11, 2004. The San Francisco Chronicle.
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Mahony claimed that communications between him and his priests have a
special privilege, not unlike that of confessional secrets. His claim was
included as the central argument advanced by his attorneys for refusing to
disclose files ordered by the courts. His arguments were rejected by the
appeal court, the California Supreme Court. Not deterred he had his
lawyers even try to have the case reversed by the United States Supreme
Court. The highest court in the land could not swallow his theory. His
obstructionism seems unbounded.
He claimed that he was a member of the therapeutic team treating priest
abusers and therefore documents involving him enjoyed a privilege of
medical confidentiality. In actuality he was never a member of any
therapeutic teams for several reasons not the least of which is the fact that
he is not qualified.
It has not yet been revealed how many millions the cardinal spent in
pursuing facetious claims. He has employed for his defense not merely
several lawyers but several law firms as well as Sitrick and Company, a
public relation firm used by Enron, the Tobacco industry and the Keating
Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980’s. Fortune magazine called the
company’s founder “one of the most accomplished practitioners of the
dark arts of public relations. The Financial Times called him, “The spin
doctor’s spin doctor.” Should any Catholic entity much less an
archdiocese take any pride in resorting to the services of such an
organization? Truth and transparency seem secondary if important at all.
These and myriad other stories are to be told from documents and records.
These records show Mahony’s, and other bishops pattern and practice that
reflect institutional defenses of its ministers’ sexual behaviors.
I will not belabor the more than 250 abuse cases of clergy abuse I have
served on as an expert witness or consultant.
I served the Attorney General of Massachusetts in the formation of their
Grand Jury investigation of clergy abuse in that State (2002). And I was an
expert witness to the first of three Grand Juries empaneled in Philadelphia
and I reviewed 135 clergy abuse files then. Since that time I have been
able to follow the working and operation of the Archdiocesan offices’
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dealing with victims of clergy abuse. That is a paradigm of the malfunction
of the American church in response to clergy.
You are well aware that your diocese has settled with many victims (144 in
2007 alone).
I have tried to help the Church understand and heal the wounds of sexual
abuse by clergy. My services have not been welcomed.
My appeal to you has been for pastoral attention to victims of abuse and
the long term consequences of that violation. This includes the effects of
suicidal attempts.
Only a bishop can minister to these wounds.
Enclosed you will find a list of bishops who have been found wanting in
their duties to the people of God.
Respectfully
A.W.Richard Sipe
August 30, 2016
(Hand Delivered)

FrancisSocialTeaching Takes A Hit – Maduro Wasn’t Doing REAL Socialism…

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More bad news for Francis and the part of the FrancisMagisterium that is comprised of the FrancisSocialDoctrine.

And as if the ex-FrancisCardinal McCarrick scandal, the still Cardinal and still Vice-Pope Maradiaga scandal and the Chilean bishop’s scandal weren’t enough, now we get news that the Francis social and economic doctrine is being flushed down the sh*tt*r by none other than the FrancisDictator of the FrancisRepublic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.

No mas, says Maduro!

Which leaves Francis, the socialist of Rome with one explanation: The “god of surprises” has told Francis that what Maduro was really doing in Venezuela was not REAL SOCIALISM.

Below, Zero Hedge has the scoop! (see here)

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Venezuela’s Maduro Admits Socialist Model Has Failed

 

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro admitted that his socialist economic model has “failed” amid food and medicine shortages as well as a failing infrastructure highlighted by Tuesday’s power failure to 80% of Caracas. 

Compounding matters is the IMF’s Weimar-topping hyperinflation forecast of 1,000,000% by year end, and a GDP set to plummet 18% this year, as the government continues to simply print money to in hopes of filling the void of what was once the country’s economy.

“The production models we’ve tried so far have failed and the responsibility is ours, mine and yours,” Maduro told his ruling PSUV party congress. “Enough with the whining… we need to produce with or without (outside) aggression, with or without blockades, we need to make Venezuela an economic power.“

“No more whining, I want solutions comrades!”

No word on whether he took a bite of an empanada during his speech while his country starves on the “Maduro diet” – a phrase coined after Venezuela’s notorious food shortages gave rise to mass starvation across the country. Not even the donkeys are safe. 

Meanwhile: 

Venezuela’s socialist government has nationalized a wide swath of industries across the country over the past several years, such as steel and cement plants, food processing, distribution and more. In order to try and control inflation, the country has fixed prices on various goods while imposing tight regulations surrounding foreign exchange. 

“I estimate it will take about two years to reach a high level of stability and see the first symptoms of new and economic prosperity, without for one second affecting social security and protection,” added the president.

Maduro plans to increase oil production to “six million barrels a day by 2025 or before,” amid a crash in output from a high of 3.2 million barrels a day in 2008 to just 1.5 million this year, a 30-year low. Venezuela’s crude oil sales comprise approximately 96% of the country’s revenue. 

The economic crisis has hit so hard that the public transport system has almost ground to a halt, with the government and local councils offering free rides in unsafe and uncomfortable pick-up trucks — branded “kennels” by users — after many bus service providers couldn’t afford to keep their vehicles on the road.

Maduro, who blames Venezuela’s woes on an “economic war” waged by the United States, called on PSUV supporters to help kick-start production and resist US “aggression.” –France24

Washington, meanwhile, has imposed financial sanctions against Maduro’s government, along with state-owned oil company PDVSA.  

Meanwhile, Venezuela’s industrial sector is operating at just 30% capacity, as illustrated by the farming sector, which now provides just a quarter of national consumption, after providing 75% just a few years ago according to the National Farmers Federation. 

This should all make for some interesting debate questions during the next US elections, as Democratic Socialists have become the “new face” of the left. Just don’t ask any questions about economics or logistics…

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So today we do a RECONCILIATION post of sorts.

Below is the now infamous Rod Dreher post that appeared on the American Conservative, pertaining to “Uncle Ted” and causing quite a stir these days. (see here)

What your humble blogger would like to do though, is to draw your attention to the wider issue underpinning the PROCESS that Mr Dreher has laid out in his post. That PROCESS, as the EMPIRICAL and ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE would suggest, at the end of the day has to do with POWER.

As in post-Modernist’s POWER. (see here)

Specifically, it has to do with CONTROL.

The PROCESS of GAINING and MAINTAINING CONTROL has at its base: BLACKMAIL.

Therefore, this same PROCESS playing itself out with Uncle Ted, is simultaneously playing itself out in other sub-sets of the Visibilium Omnium, namely the James Gunn situation.

NOTA BENE: There are some quite disgusting scenes in the above video! 

So for your information, your humble blogger has embedded a video from an interview that Alex Jones did with Mike Cernovich that discusses just this.

Aside, Mike Cernovich is the person who directed everybody’s attention to the troubling Gunn publications. But I digress…

Notice the similarities between Hollywood and the US post-conciliar church?

And finally, the high level issues here also appear to have to do with what is commonly called the #fakenews media. It is these legacy media interests who are losing their hold on the information flow, are resorting to really disgusting MECHANISMS to MAINTAIN their CONTROL over… well… what people know and what people are allowed to think.

And what is coming out is not pretty.

The most disturbing part is that it now appears that there is intrinsically disordered behavior, coming out all over the place.

Aside, note the discussion at about the 34:00 minute mark and the discussion about post-Modernism and the assault on the family. Should sound familiar to you dear and loyal reader.

This is what we are up against folks!

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What Did The Cardinals Know?

By Rod Dreher • July 23, 2018, 12:23 AM

The Washington Post writes about its retired hometown cardinal, Uncle Teddy McCarrick.

Once a globe-trotting representative of the Catholic Church worldwide and one of the architects of the church’s policy on sexual abuse, McCarrick’s precipitous fall over the past month has shocked Catholics, especially in Washington, where he was a popular archbishop from 2001 to 2006.

McCarrick’s future now rests with Pope Francis, who as pontiff oversees the cardinals. Many church-watchers think this is a make-or-break moment for Francis because of McCarrick’s stature and the fact that Catholic clerical sex-abuse crises are exploding in Chile and Honduras.

It is, or ought to be. McCarrick has long been said to be close to Francis. As I wrote the other day, McCarrick’s longtime friend and protege, Bishop Kevin Farrell, was made a cardinal by Francis and made head of the Vatican’s office in charge of family policy for the worldwide church. Farrell has endorsed Father James Martin’s book advocating affirmation of LGBTs in the Catholic Church, and is overseeing next month’s world family meeting in Dublin, where Father Martin will give a keynote speech.

However innocent he may be of wrongdoing — and nobody has accused him of anything wrong — Cardinal Farrell cannot escape the shadow cast by the black McCarrick cloud. Here is Cardinal Farrell’s coat of arms:

Catholic bishops traditionally have a coat of arms designed for themselves. According to the Catholic Scouting site in Dallas, which posted this when Farrell was moved from an auxiliary role in the Archdiocese of Washington to run the Diocese of Dallas, here’s the explanation of the symbolism of Farrell’s coat of arms (the jargon here is terminology specific to heraldry):

 The lion rampant honors Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop emeritus of Washington, and the Irish sept of O’Farrell. In the upper portion of the shield, gold (yellow) and the lion (red) are derived from the Arms of Cardinal McCarrick, whom Bishop Farrell assisted as Auxiliary Bishop of Washington. [Emphasis mine — RD].

What did Cardinal Farrell know about Cardinal McCarrick’s past? Was he as shocked as everybody else to learn all this about his mentor and patron? I can’t see how Cardinal Farrell, given his closeness to McCarrick and his key role directing the family policy office for the Vatican, can avoid addressing these questions directly.

And what about Cardinal Tobin? As I wrote the other day, McCarrick’s influence with Francis is believed to have been behind the swift rise of Archbishop Joseph Tobin on Indianapolis, who was created a cardinal by Francis, then moved to Newark, McCarrick’s old see. Veteran Catholic journalist Rocco Palmo, who is not a partisan, wrote after Tobin’s move to Newark:

As reported at the top, multiple signs point to Newark’s fourth archbishop [McCarrick] as the lead architect behind the choice of his second successor. Having maintained an enduring devotion for and among the Jersey church since his transfer to the capital in 2000, McCarrick – who Francis is said to revere as “a hero” of his – made a direct appeal over recent weeks for Tobin to be named to Newark, according to two sources familiar with the cardinal’s thinking.

In the Post story, a church spokeswoman said:

Friedlander said the current Newark archbishop, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, “has expressed his intention to discuss this tragedy with the leadership of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in order to articulate standards that will assure high standards of respect by bishops, priests and deacons for all adults. We can confirm that the highest level of the Holy See is investigating a number of points raised in the ongoing questioning.”

You know what Cardinal Tobin is not saying? What, if anything, he knew about McCarrick before he took over in Newark. He surely knew about the 2004 and 2007 settlements made within his archdiocese. Why is Cardinal Tobin not demanding to seek justice for all those who have been abused by McCarrick? It’s repulsive that all he can talk about is jabbering with other bishops about “articulat[ing] standards that will assure high standards,” yadda yadda. Given the horror of what McCarrick did, this kind of bureaucratic rot is intolerable.

This came into my e-mail box tonight from a reader:

I am so repulsed by this entire situation.  I have known about this for well over 20 years.  Many years ago I had an acquaintance (the friend of a now-deceased friend) who was a seminarian at Seton Hall in the mid-late 90s.  By the time I knew him, he had already left the seminary and moved on to other opportunities.  But he was so deeply disturbed by the things that he had witnessed in seminary that he discussed them fairly openly.  While I believed he was telling the truth, I didn’t know what I could do with such information.  He felt the same way.  He knew all about “Uncle Teddy’s Funhouse”, the shared beds, the trips to the shore house, the unwanted touching, inappropriate comments, etc.  He himself had been invited to the shore house on a couple of occasions, although he didn’t actually sleep with McCarrick.  He told me that it was well known among the seminarians, and that you knew there was a reason you were even invited to the house.  Even so, none of them felt that he could refuse the invitation.

This young man told me stories both in person and in emails.  Unfortunately, the emails were sent to an old account of mine which has been deleted, and to which I no longer have access.  I haven’t spoken to the former seminarian since our mutual friend died some 18 years ago.

Even so, his words have stuck with me, and there have been many times when I’ve wondered if I should have spoken out.  I always opted not to because I had no proof and my acquaintance hadn’t been willing to speak on record.  But that’s just it–if someone like me has known about these abuses for 20 years, there have to be MANY people (both laity and in positions of authority) who have also known.

Readers, I heard that same kind of story many times about Cardinal McCarrick back in 2002, when I was working in New York and writing about it. People knew. One of my sources telling these stories was New Jersey priest Father Boniface Ramsey, whom I couldn’t persuade at the time to go public. He did go public in an interview with The New York Times a couple of weeks ago, and he also spoke to the Post for its story:

In March 2015,  Ramsey said he ran into McCarrick at the funeral of Cardinal Edward Egan of New York City and became upset that the cardinal was still out and about, he said. He wrote a letter a few months later to Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, one of Francis’s key advisers on preventing clerical abuse, saying the issue was about “a form of sexual abuse/harassment/intimidation or maybe simply high-jinks as practiced by Theodore Cardinal McCarrick with his seminarians and perhaps other young men” when ­McCarrick was in New Jersey.

Within a few days, Ramsey received a note back from the ­Rev. Robert Kickham, O’Malley’s secretary. O’Malley, Kickham clarified, as president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of ­Minors, is responsible for “evaluating child protection policies and procedures . . . and to offer recommendations to improve” those policies. Commission members don’t review individual cases that fall under local authorities, he wrote. “Please know of our appreciation for your care and concern for the good of the Church and the people of God.”

Ramsey provided copies of his letter to O’Malley and Kickham’s response to The Post. O’Malley and his spokesman declined to comment.

Unbelievable! Father Ramsey took the risk of telling a Cardinal — not just a cardinal, but the cardinal who is one of Pope Francis’s inner circle of advisers, and the chief cardinal in charge of protecting minors from sexual abuse — that Cardinal McCarrick is a rampant sexual abuser of seminarians and priests. And what is Cardinal O’Malley’s response? To say it’s not his responsibility.

These bureaucrats, I swear. Father Ramsey took a big risk to try to handle this within the Church, but the best he could get from Cardinal O’Malley is the clerical version of, “Sorry, that’s not my table.”

No wonder Father Ramsey got fed up with these red-hatted men, covering up for each other, and contacted the Times. God bless him.

Three cardinals — Farrell, Tobin, and O’Malley — have some explaining to do.

UPDATE: I took out a paragraph in the original post. It was a little too raw. I swear, nothing gets to me like this stuff. These men — these cardinals, these bishops — are supposed to be fathers, not butt-covering bureaucrats who care only about seeming to be something than actually being it. And the lives and fates, and the faith, of ordinary people — children, their families, seminarians, priests — get chewed up in the gears of the system. From today’s Washington Post story, these words from James, whose abuse at McCarrick’s hands started when he was 11 years old:

“What he did to me was he ruined my entire life. I couldn’t break the hold. I couldn’t live up to my ability — to stay employed, married, have children. I lost all those opportunities because of him,” James said. Breaking into tears, he said, “I try to be a really good kid every day.”

James is 60 years old. He’s still trying to be a good little boy — the boy he was before Father Theodore McCarrick stole his innocence.

UPDATE.2: Reader Augustinus writes:

Farrell, Tobin, and one more big one. Cupich. McCarrick is a main reason Cupich is in Chicago. The last three American cardinals all owe something to the patronage or intervention of McCarrick.

Reader Fiestamom:

Compare Cardinal Tobin’s milquetoast comment about McCarrick to his comments in June about illegal immigration.

“The latest developments are consistent with the sort of cardiosclerosis that has begun in our country, and it concerns across-the-board life issues,” said Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, who from the floor raised the idea of a bishop delegation to the border “as a sign of our pastoral concern and protest against this hardening of the American heart.”

And here’s O’Malley’s statement about the border:(there was a bishop’ s meeting in June)
Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley, though not attending the conference, issued a statement saying that “the moral challenge of immigration is mounting for the United States.”

“On too many occasions our government has taken a posture and established policy which is in principle and in practice hostile to children and families who are fleeing violence, gangs, and poverty,” he said, adding “The United States is now openly before the world using children as pawns to enforce a hostile immigration policy. This strategy is morally unacceptable and denies the clear danger weighing upon those seeking our assistance.”

O’Malley celebrated Mass on the Mexican border in 2014 with other bishops, and had this to say. “This is not just a political or economic problem,’’ O’Malley said Tuesday. ‘‘This is a moral problem.’’

If only O’Malley thought child rape was a moral problem worth making a statement about!

I reworded Cardinal Tobin’s initial statement using the current “tragedy”.**

The Way Forward – What Is, That It Is…

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I hope all my dear and loyal readers are enjoying the summer season. It is simply spectacular here where this humble blogger produces this humble effort aimed at chronicling the “Restoration of all things in Christ”.

When this humble effort was launched, on that fateful day in November of 2014, the motivation behind the Deus ex Machina blog was a series of observations that were transpiring at the time, observations that supported a RECOGNIZABLE  PHENOMENON that the Catholic Church was moving in the direction of a full RESTORATION of all things in Christ.

At that time, this RESTORATION PHENOMENON was not visible to the untrained eye, yet your humble blogger not only noticed it, he identified it and put this information out into the public domain.

For these initial efforts, scorn can your humble blogger’s way, yet the persistence paid off. If one is to go back to those early posts and compare them to the current state of the knowledge that the mainstream Catholic blogging holds, the difference is quite large.

And if the distance traveled by the Catholic bloggers is large, the parallel distance traveled by the mainstream Catholic press is astronomical. Think Phil Lawler, Ed Pentin, Ed Peters, not to mention the guests and host appearing on the entire EWTN television network.

And naturally, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, the prelates such as Cards. Burke, Sarah, Muller and Brandmuller, bishops such as Schneider, Fellay and the entire Polish and Kazakhstan Episcopates, and numerous clergy such as Frs. Z and Blake, need a shout out here as well.

Regardless of one’s subjective and at time OBJECTIVE “point of view” about what these religious and laymen “should be doing”, it can be said that they are trying to navigate the perilous seas of the Francis bishopric of Rome, defending the Barque from crashing onto the rocks of apostasy and even material and formal heresy, while not allowing it to disintegrate into a collection of shipwrecked driftwood.

So given that which is written above, your humble blogger, after much reflection and meditation has decided to leave the day to day chronicling the RESTORATION to the current group of bloggers and writers and will “leap forward” to begin the task of chronicling the potential road forward, that lays ahead for the post-Francis post-conciliar church, which subsists in and on the Holy Roman Catholic Church.

As this humble blogger sees it, a return to the Traditional Catholic Faith presently lies through that part of our Faith that is known through “natural light of human reason from the things that are made”. 

The EVIDENCE for this assertion is overwhelming and has been touched upon in our post titled The Power Of ONE WORD!The offending piece of EVIDENCE is here:

Since the above blog post was published in October of 2017, a couple of new PHENOMENA have arisen. One is what is now being called the PHENOMENON OF THE CHRISTIAN ATHEIST and the other is being termed as the INTELLECTUAL DARK WEB.

For those readers who have been following this humble effort for a while now, you will recall that this humble blogger identified the INTRINSIC CATHOLICISM of Dr. Jordan Peterson about 18 months ago and began referencing his work in my posts quite regularly.

Nota bene: I have embedded a quite long video to bring my readers up to date about the latest developments from within the Peterson PHENOMENON. The first 10 to 15 minutes are a must, if you dear reader are time constrained. But I digress…

In a post titled To “Magic Think”, Or Not To “Magic Think” – Cardinal Burke Finally Identifies The PROBLEM!, a video was presented where the both Dr. Peterson and his guest claim that a sizable group of former atheists are listening to there broadcast is because these former atheists, while not sure about Christianity, realize that without Christianity, all that is left is NIHILISM. So these new crypto-Christians are tuning in, turning on dropping back into the churches and other places of worship.

This above mentioned PHENOMENON is also spreading, and it is spreading quite rapidly. From what appears to be the case, the modern age Tele-Atheists, individuals which I will not name, are feeling the pressure on there listener-ship and viewership (decreasing), so they are engaging the Christian side of what has become known as the INTELLECTUAL DARK WEB. A few weeks ago, one of these debates, was held in Vancouver Canada and drew a sold out auditorium of 2500 people on two consecutive nights. This and every other sold out venue in which Dr. Peterson has lectured over these past 6 months, is a testament for the hunger for not only MEANING on the part of vast swaths of Western society, but also for the extension to the TRANSCENDENTAL.

Folks, this is YUGE!

So back to this humble blogger…

What this blogger has decided to do is to focus on that part of the these discussion that are taking place in the secular… bah, NATURAL realm and tie it back to the SUPERNATURAL. 

A good indication of the Deus ex Machina blog going forward will look much like the last two post, namely:

There’s The Poor, And Then There’s The FrancisPoor…

and

Francis, The Depopulation Huckster Of Rome Whiffs Again…

If there is one major thread that ties these two posts together, it is that the advancement of science and the scientific method (Thomistic -by lineage) in particular, has debunked the long-held Marxist notions of the post-Modernist JUNK SCIENCE and the underlying tenets for what is know as the Francis “magisterium”.

So going forward, the effect that is hoped for, is that the Faithful clerics and laymen will catch on to what is happening in the secular sub-sets of the Visibilium Omnium of the LEX ARMATICUS, and begin the long march to reorienting the post-conciliar church’s “theology” back to being based on a solid philosophy, a philosophy in which that which is REAL is defined as: what is, that it is.

There’s The Poor, And Then There’s The FrancisPoor…

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Today we continue with our Nick Taleb theme originally set out in our post titled It’s Happening Folks – Trump Revolution Spreading To Italy…, with a specific focus on MONO-CULTURES and one of Francis’ favorite bugaboos (an object of fear or alarm), namely POVERTY.

Now as we all know, POVERTY is a serious matter. Yet, over the last 50 or so years, especially since the advent of Western countries whose economic order became more free market based, the ABSOLUTE and RELATIVE levels of POVERTY has been decreasing dramatically.

Happy days! (As the English might say.)

Well, not really…

One problem that arises has to do with “situations” where the reason for a “given entity’s”… such as FrancisChurch or the UNITED NATIONS, or even an entire IDEOLOGY’S existence (with associated very lucrative business models and university chairs) are based on the existence of POVERTY.

So what’s a Marxist or a liberation theologian to do?

Well, you “adjust” the statistics.

Below, we have a re-posting of a Mises Institute post via the Zero Hedge website (see here) pertaining to… you guessed it: POVERTY. I have emboldened the relevant text.

The CONTEXT in which your humble blogger would like to draw your attention to, is the MONOCULTURE aspect of this presented information that exists in GLOBALIST organizations like the UN and FrancisChurch.

A “monoculture” by definition is simply a culture that is the same in many different places. What makes a “monoculture” in areas outside biology in essence a contradiction, is that culture by definition is a geographical and spacial phenomenon. A simple definition of “culture” is the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time.

So what we are seeing in the Talebian linguistic construction is the usage of a biological term in a sociological setting, that is inherently contradictory. And as we know from our numerous discussions of HIDDEN AGENDAS, when we run into a literary construction that appears to violate the Law of (Non-)Contradiction, we know that there is something that isn’t being told to us.

So moving on to Nick Taleb’s explanation, he lays out how to identify one of these FAKE MONOCULTURES and it is as follows:

A MONOCULTURE’S narrative is fallacious when: 

1) it is logically incompatible with other narratives also held true by the same agents,

2) if it leads to the statistical clustering of causes that should be random, or, to the least, uncorrelated

In the case of Francis, we see a violation of both these conditions with respect to his “teaching” on POVERTY.

In the first case, we observe from the information presented in the post below, that the levels of POVERTY, both ABSOLUTE and RELATIVE are decreasing, as per Dr. Peterson’s video (17:00 minute mark). Yet Francis, the Social Worker of Rome would like you to think that this is not the case, and POVERTY is still a life and death issue.

Actually, Francis would like you to think that POVERTY is such a major issue, that he can be justified for reordering the mission of the post-conciliar church to the eradication of poverty, from the Catholic Church’s Salvation of Souls.

With respect to the second condition, we see a statistical clustering of causes that should be random, such as POVERTY, the promotion of INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED sexual behavior and giving HOLY COMMUNION to serial adulterers and heretics, heathens and everyone else, yet all are woven into one seamless garment inside the pathological Francis “magisterium”.

So concluding, we see that Francis and his WAR on POVERTY is nothing more than a SCAM explained by Nick Taleb and easily subsists in his definition of what he calls  an Inconsistency within a IDEOLOGICAL Monoculture.

And that MONOCULTURE also goes by other names: ECONOMIC and/or CULTURAL MARXISM.

Have a nice weekend and please take the time to watch and savor the above embedded video as you are reading the below….

The UN’s Absurd Measure Of US Poverty

Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,

The United Nations is at it again with yet another report on how bad poverty is in the United States – and how things would improve greatly if the US raised taxes. This time, the UN denunciation of the US has raised the ire of US ambassador Nikki Haley who has called the report “patently ridiculous.”

Specifically, Haley was responding to a June 18 report by UN bureaucrat Philip Alston. Alston concluded that poverty rates in the US are among the worst in North America or Europe.

How did Alston come to this conclusion?

Well, first of all, it’s important to note that he didn’t collect any new information.

The report comes at the end of a two-week visit to the United States conducted back in December of 2017. At the time, Alston released a similar preliminary report.

The new report to the UN Human Rights Council is just an update of the old report.

Moreover, Alston could have easily authored the report had he just stayed home. The report is based simply on existing data already collected and published by agencies such as the US Census Bureau and the OECD. Amy undergraduate could have written a similar report using data he found online.

One example of this method is found in Alston’s reporting on poverty.

According to the report:

About 20 per cent of children live in relative income poverty [in the United States], compared to the OECD average of 13 per cent.

Here, Alston has essentially cut and pasted text from an existing OECD report. There’s nothing wrong with this, per se, except for the fact that Alston has implied he has recently completed a thorough survey of poverty in the United States — even though he clearly hasn’t.

This November 2017 report from the OECD reads:

[C]hild relative income poverty rates are very high – around 20% of children in the U.S. live in relative income poverty, compared to just over 13%, on average across OECD countries.

The report also includes this graph:

But there’s a problem here with Alston’s use of the data. The OECD report refers to “relative income poverty,” which isn’t what most people think it is. Most people would think a poverty rate should measure incomes against the cost of maintaining a certain basic living standard. But this “relative” poverty measure isn’t that sort of measure. It’s just a measure of how many people in a country make 50% or more of that country’s median income level.

So, if you have country with a very low median income, and a very low standard of living, it’s possible to have very low poverty rates — so long as most people make more than fifty percent of that country’s lousy median income level.

This allows the OECD to claim — as it does in the graph — that the US has higher poverty rates than Mexico.

In order to understand this more fully, let’s look at the OECD’s own measure of disposable median income for each of its member countries (2015 data) in Graph A:

These numbers include both ordinary wage income and also cash assistance from welfare programs. It is also adjusted for local purchasing power and rendered in international dollars.

Now, note in the footnote of the OECD graph above that you’re poor — regardless of where you are — if you make 50 percent of the local median income. So, 50 percent of the median income in Greece (with a median income of $13,000) or 50 percent of the median income in Norway (with a median income of $39,000) are both simply “poverty.”

But let’s look at just how huge these differences can be.  If we look at incomes at the 50 percent level for each country, we get in Graph B:

If you’re going to be poor by this measure, you’ll have a higher income in the US than in many other places. For example, the poor in the US at the median poverty level have incomes 34 percent higher than the median poor in Italy. When comparing the US and Spain, the US comes in at 40 percent higher.

Put yet another way, if you make $15,000 in the US, you’re poor. But if you make $15,000 in France, Germany, the UK, or Italy, you’re not poor. Why? Because the overall median incomes in those non-US countries are lower.

Basically, by this measure, poverty has little to do with what resources you have at your disposal. It’s more or a measure of how much you’re making compared to how much other people are making. It’s a measure of income inequality, not poverty. 

The problem with making comparisons this ways can also be illustrated by looking at the US poverty-level income compared to the median income from other countries. For example, the US poverty-level income is so high it’s at 70 percent of the median income in Spain and 67 percent of the median income in Italy in Graph C:

If you have a median poverty-level income in the United States, your income is 95 percent the size of the median income of all households in Portugal. Stated broadly, we might say that poor households in the US have pretty much the same income as the overall population in Portugal. Or, one might say the median poverty income level in the US is nearly two-thirds as high as the overall median income of everybody in the United Kingdom.

Clearly, if a poor household in the US has an income 40 percent higher than a poor household in Spain — then these two types of “poverty” are not the same.

Measuring Poverty by Actual Standards of Living

A more honest way to measure poverty would be to look at actual indicators of the standard of living. This would include household amenities, living space, labor-saving appliances, entertainment, and so on.

For example, living space in the US, even among the poor, is measurably more plentiful than elsewhere. As noted by Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation:

Housing space can also be measured by the number of square feet per person. The Residential Energy Consumption survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy shows that Americans have an average of 721 square feet of living space per person. Poor Americans have 439 square feet. Reasonably comparable international square-footage data are provided by the Housing Indicator Program of the United Nations Center for Human Settlements, which surveyed Housing conditions in major cities in 54 different nations. This survey showed the United States to have, by far, the most spacious Housing units, with 50 percent to 100 percent more square footage per capita than city dwellers in other industrialized nations.

America’s poor compare favorably with the general population of other nations in square footage of living space. The average poor American has more square footage of living space than does the average person living in London, Paris, Vienna, and Munich. Poor Americans have nearly three times the living space of average urban citizens in middle-income countries such as Mexico and Turkey. Poor American households have seven times more Housing space per person than the general urban population of very-low-income countries such as India and China.

As Rector notes, “There is a vast gap between poverty as understood by the American public and poverty as currently measured by the government.” This is due to a wide variety of reasons. One reason is that income surveys don’t count non-cash poverty relief programs. This means programs like Medicaid and food stamps aren’t included in the incomes of low-income households in America. That makes those incomes looked significantly lower than they are. 

Poverty measures also can’t take into account heads of household who have low incomes, but also don’t have a mortgage because they’re paid off their houses already. This is not an insignificant factor in measuring poverty among the elderly. 

All of this is important because in Alston’s report to the UN, he relies on US government data using the traditional poverty-rate measures. He then combines these with the OECD’s “relative” poverty measures to conclude that poverty is “shockingly” widespread in the United States. 

A closer look at the data, though, suggests things are more complicated. 

None of this is to say that poverty doesn’t exist anywhere. Of course is exists, and issues like homelessness and true poverty are real for some people. Sweeping claims like those by Alston tell us very little, however, about the real state of poverty in the US. 

A Special Message To The Globalists From A Very Stable Genius: “The Gig Is Up”…

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Oh my!

Oh my!

Oh my!

Things are happening fast.

Today your humble blogger transitions to the POLITICAL sub-set of the Visibilium Omnium.

But with a linguistic twist…

For my long term and loyal readers, you will recall that this humble blogger has been railing against the post-Modernist’s tactic of changing the meaning of “WORDS” themselves. And if they can’t change the meaning of the WORDS, they resort to using euphemisms. Here is a good case in point…

Yet, over the last 24 hours, the WORD POLICE has been out and about. It must have been since major global players are beginning to use WORDS in the CONTEXT of their OBJECTIVE MEANING AND COMMON USAGE.

First example comes by way of the above embedded video. In this video, one can hear the VERY STABLE GENIUS using the term “UNCONTROLLED MIGRATION”. Now President Trump used the term “uncontrolled migration” in terms of a national security issue.

Your humble blogger on the other hand, used this term in the series of post pertaining to the financial problems that the FrancisChurch USA is having, and have turned to HUMAN TRAFFICKING to help out their balance sheet. In January of 2017 we published this post here: Schema For The Upcoming FrancisChurch USA Liquidation. (Updated)

So if using “uncontrolled migration” in “respectable circles” can be considered as a “faux pas”, using the term HUMAN TRAFFICKING to describe what is happening in the Mediterranean at present, is the leftist equivalent of mortal sin.  And yet, this:

And finally this:

Told you things are moving fast…

Concluding, below is a post from another Deus ex Machina favorite, Curt Doolittle. On his blog (see here), you will find this very precise and orderly explanation of what is behind the Trump Doctrine. It provides CONTEXT to the video of the post-G7 press conference presented in the video above.

As to the coverage of the Trump G7 and now the North Korea disarmament negotiations, I suggest you dear reader keep up on the PROCESS over at the Conservative Treehouse blog. They are literally the best…

Please read and pass along to any individuals who happen to still not get it!

*****

Trump’s Grand Strategy – For Ordinary People

”Is there a strategic reason Trump has alienated our traditional trading partners (Europe, Canada, Mexico) while simultaneously saying Russia should be allowed back into the G7 making it the G8?”—-

OF COURSE.

In Trump’s Own Words:

“We’re like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing,” Trump said. “And that ends.”

“The European Union is brutal to the United States and they know it,” Trump said, adding that other leaders acknowledge as much in private.

“It’s like the gig is up,” he said. “They can’t believe they got away with it.”

He said the size of the U.S. economy means other nations can’t win a trade war. “We win that war a thousand times out of a thousand.”

EXPLANATION

Keep in mind that all democratic countries have voters to appeal to so they must at least make a visible attempt at resisting changes that would eliminate trade, economic, and military privileges. So these public disputes are necessary for the service of voters even if european politicians understand that ‘the gig is up’.

1) We spent decades and vast amounts of money helping Europe recover from their civil war. But they kept on parasitically extracting from us. We have absurd trade deficits while American workers suffer from it. But when we started this battle we had a much greater share of the world income and its economy.

2) We spent a long time and vast amounts of money preventing the suicidal ideology that was communism, then socialism, and currently postmodernism, and now, in addition, Islamism. And slowly the world learned. And those that didn’t still suffer (Venezuela), and those that changed prosper (china). But when we started this battle we had a much greater share of the world income and its economy.

3) Europe virtue signals against us all the time, but when there are problems no one but Italy can supply even two planes, and when there is military action only the UK can contribute whatsoever. So we spend 4% of our (massive) GDP and they spend 1% (the same as Switzerland), and play games with us (especially France – who has always been our enemy ). Russia is a paper tiger on all but narrow paths into Moscow, and her declining nuclear inventory is all that makes her other than a third world country – she has the same sized economy as Texas and Italy.

4) Americans are sold virtue signals while the middle class has been hollowed out and the manufacturing has been hollowed out. Originally we hollowed out manufacturing in order to prevent the democratic party and unions working together to implement socialism here in the states and drag us down the same path as other socialist countries. Now we are struggling to return the money, workload, technology, and capital investment to the country.

6) Trump’s tax reform was the most important first step. His trade policy the second, And the forcible redistribution of world military costs to europeans the third. And as a consequence, the end of european virtue signaling that encourages Americas, the American academy, and the American bureaucracy, to follow the suicidal route that european countries have, but which now must abandon their postwar experiments and pay their own way independent of American subsidies.

7) The reason this is important is that we are very shortly going to go through a catastrophic demographic and economic shock that will mean the only competitive advantage between nations is the demographic distribution of the people. In other words, *every point of IQ* is the only difference in competitive ability. And this is the current threat to America, because we have already lost one point in the past twenty years, and almost the second. When five points makes the difference between wealth and relative stagnation, we cannot afford to lose demographically (immigration) or in overpopulation, or in export of wage-level jobs.

TRUMP, RUSSIA, AND THE RESTORATION OF THE BALANCE OF POWERS

8) By including Russia he adds the only country with any military capacity to the discourse, and adds an other voice against one-world-government. Putin, The Slavic Countries, Italy, and now Russia, are trying to contain the french-german social democratic suicide of Europe so that it does not spread.

9) By weakening, conspiring against the people of, and invading Ukraine, Russia threw away her potential to restore the economic and population structure of the soviet union, which was necessary for Russia to remain a world power. The clock ticks. And it takes 350M to 500M people in a block to finance a world power status.

10) The sanctions do their work, and as of this year Putin has redirected expenditures from the military to the economy – which is what is necessary for Russia to unite with german against the anglos, and allow the Intermarium (West Slavics: Poland, Ukraine, Slovikia, Romania…) to evolve into a balance of powers between anglo, latin, germanic, west slavic, and east slavic (Russian ) lands – restoring ‘the States of Europe’ again. And thereby Restoring Western Civilization.

11) By forcing Europe to rearm, and eliminating ‘parasitism’ upon the United States, Trump is ending the redistribution of American wealth to post-war European states necessary for their restoration, and ending subsidy to developing nations that were a risk of ‘going communist’.

Trump is ending the Marxist, Bolshevik, Trotskyist, Democratic Socialist Globalist program, which sought to create a single world government (and a communist one) out of the united nations, and instead is restoring Europe, and the international balance of powers that has been successful throughout modern history.

12) As any strategist will tell you, you never state your strategy. You merely pursue all options by which to bring it about. Simple people plan. Sophisticated people negotiate and seize every available opportunity.

Trump knows exactly what he is doing.

And all he has to do to achieve it is *demand fair deals*.

That alone will restore the balance of powers.  And end the conflict of civilizations.

The Bigger Picture – Sensory Data Doesn’t Lie…

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And just when you think that all that needs to be said about the recent Italian election (4th of March 2018) and the subsequent government that was accepted by the Italian President with consent from the German Chancellor (Thursday, 30th of May) that was installed on the back of the March election, was said, this appears: (see original here)

Here is an extract from this post so that you dear reader can get a feeling for the prevailing “mood on the ground”: (emphasis from Zero Hedge) ‘

“A feud has broken out between liberal billionaire activist and fervent Clinton supporter, George Soros, and Italy’s anti-immigrant League party, which on Friday formed a populist movement in coalition with the 5-Star party, and whose leader Matteo Salvini stepped into his new job as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior on Friday, pledging to deport hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.”

Salvini’s League and the 5-Star Movement struck a deal Thursday on a coalition government which will work towards “putting Italians first” (and potentially making life for Europe a living hell with the ongoing threat of Quitaly, which according to JPMorgan may be Rome’s best outcome), ending five days of market volatility and political chaos.

In response, George Soros flipped out, openly suggesting that Salvini might be financed by Vladimir Putin, saying he is “very worried about Russia’s influence on Europe in general and on the new Italian government.”

 “I do not know if Salvini was funded by Moscow, but the public has a right to know” said Soros.

So what we have here is one FOREIGN NATIONAL, one George Soros, (who FUNDS political movements through a network of partially funded NGO’s, the other funding comes from government sources) making a claim that another FOREIGN NATIONAL, one Vladimir Putin is FUNDING political movements in a country where neither are citizens, nor are they residents.

Anything wrong with this picture?

Concluding this short extract, we get a comment from The League’s economics policy chief, stating (translated):

“Soros worried by the Italian government? Then it means that we are going in the right direction… We understand that those who have speculated for years on the skin of immigrants, financing NGOs and smugglers to invade Italy. 

“The wind has changed for [Soros] and for all those who have profited from the deaths of hundreds of people.“

Yes indeed!

Yet the winds have changed for not only the [bracketed] Soros, but also for the unmentioned FRANCIS.

The reference is to these above identified two people, by the author of the above tweet Signor Claudio Borghi, who identifies them as “those who profited from the deaths of hundreds of people”, by funding and giving support to the human trafficking operations.

Finally those responsible for the Mohammedan invasion are now rightly being blamed for the deaths of those desperate people who Soros and Francis have enticed with cold hard cash, to undertake the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean Sea in order to reach the welfare states that are modern day Europe.

Moving on, one more interesting aspect of the above text needs to be mentioned here. This aspect can be seen as case of a move of the OVERTON WINDOW, or those topics that constitute the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse. Here is that screen grab: (see original here)

What is SIGNIFICANT in the above post is that JP Morgan, one of the last three remaining Wall Street Investment Banks (Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley being the other two survivors) is making it ‘acceptable in public discourse’ to suggest that the best option that Italy has to resolve its economic problems, brought about by adopting the common currency known as the Euro is to LEAVE THE EURO.

Or as we call it on the pages of this humble blog: ITALEAVE.

Folks, it would have been unheard of for a major financial services entity to make these kind of statements just two short years ago.

And now, Anno Domini 2018 JP Morgan is putting this “secular heresy” in its research notes to its clients.

Boy, how times are changing…

Staying in the ECONOMIC sub-set of the Visibilium Omnium, we get this bit of information from Italy’s neighbor, Spain. As you dear and loyal readers know, the “conservative” government of Mariano Rajoy fell on Friday and was replaced by a hodge-podge minority of internationalist leftists, outright Marxists and nationalist secessionists from the Catalonia and Basque regions. (see here)

In this post, we find out the following:

Mariano Rajoy is gone from Spain’s political scene.  And good riddance.  Live by the sword die by the ballot box.  Catalan and Basque separatists took their revenge on Rajoy’s brutal crackdown on last year’s Catalan independence movement by voting with the Socialists and Podemos to oust Rajoy from power.

The political situation in Spain has been complicated for nearly two years now as Rajoy governed with a very weak, cartel-style coalition.  It was cobbled together under duress and pressure from the European Union to not allow anti-austerity party, Podemos to take power and prevent Catalan independence.

That was Friday.  Today the new government in Catalonia was sworn in and it looks to be just as set on seceding from Spain as the last one was.  The difference now is that EU-firster, Rajoy, is no longer in power.

The leader of the Socialist party, Pedro Sanchez, has vowed to discuss Catalonia’s situation “government to government” which is a radical change from Rajoy’s refusal to even countenance a dialog with former Catalan leader Carles Puidgemont, who is in Germany out on bond after being arrested by German authorities at Rajoy’s request.

Now, Spain’s political future is up in the air and at a time when hard-core populists in Italy are determined to either tear down its relationship with the EU or force it to reform bodily.

Matteo Salvini is preparing to oust thousands of refugees.  Italian politicians are calling for Germany to leave the euro, going on the offensive against German rule over the rest of Europe.  And now, Spain’s Socialists are trying to put together a weak, minority government which thumbs its nose at Podemos after using its support to get rid of Rajoy and take power.

Sanchez is trying to go it alone with support of around 20% of Spanish voters in putting together a cabinet.  He’s doing this to keep Brussels from lashing out at involving Podemos in the mix who will push to undo fiscal austerity policies demanded by the Troika — EU, ECB and IMF.

But, it’s also obvious he’s willing to repay the separatists for their support.  And in this way keep everyone honest.  Brussels can’t push him too hard because he’ll simply allow the Catalans to go forth with their independence drive again this fall while also throwing domestic opponents a bone by loosening austerity policies.

For a Catholic, this is very sad news.

What is the case in the ancient Catholic Kingdom of Spain is that it was the Catholic Faith that kept the country together. It was the glue that bound these distinct “special interest” groups from tearing the country up before, during and after the Spanish Civil War.

But the “spirit of the new springtime” came along and after 50 year of eradicating Catholicism from the Spanish national psyche, what we are left with is a hodge-podge of special interest groups with non-reconcilable IDEOLOGIES, banding together to tear apart the corpse of this one powerful Kingdom, a Catholic Kingdom that once provided the Only Means Of Salvation to the peoples of an entire Continent.

And speaking of Kingdoms and countries breaking up, we finish off with this post containing subject matter closer to home. (see original here)

I will let you dear readers go into the post and read it for yourselves. But the one passage that should resonate with that which is happening in places like Italy, Spain, the wider Euroland and the Vatican State is the following: (emphasis added)

Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can’t serve in if you’re not a member. If you haven’t been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If you aren’t in the club. And Trump isn’t in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren’t in the club with him.

Now we’re seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down.

A fitting posthumous commentary on the OBJECTIVE REALITY of that which we are observing with our senses?

Sensory data doesn’t lie…

I will leave off here for today…

Reputation Is One Thing, While Cold Hard Cash Is Quite Another…

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I hope all my loyal and dear readers had a lovely Feast of Corpus Christi!

Today we will wind up our Italy coverage with a re-publication of a Roberto de Mattei piece that appeared at the flagship portal for Catholicism, namely Rorate Caeli. (see here – with added emphasis)

What is of note in this post is the information that President Mattarella, a nominal  “catholic” politician did not “express any “non possumus”  when it was about promulgating two subversive laws on morality: the Civil Unions, promulgated on May 20^th  2016, under the Renzi government, and the DAT (Anticipated Dispositions of Treatment), approved on December 20^th 2017, under the Gentiloni government”. 

Yet when it came to accepting a government that contained a Euro REALIST like Signor Savona, he broke his Constitutional mandate, allowing external, foreign political actors to have effectively a VETO POWER over who is allowed to serve in a duly elected government of Italy and who is not.

Or to put it another way, it is acceptable to create fictitious “marriages” and kill young and old alike, depending on the “political mood” of the day, but to threaten an artificial, virtual “currency” like the Euro, it definitely a NON-NEGOTIABLE.

Non possumus ain’t what it used to be in this novel FrancisReality, I reckon…

But before we move onto the de Mattei post, a few words are needed about Italy, the Vatican and the Euro and why the above is so.

Everyone in Italy knows that the EURO experiment, much like the “spirit of the new springtime of VII” experiment is an EPIC FAILURE. They see it in the churches on Sundays and in the purchasing power of their paychecks at the grocery stores.

Yet the Euro and the “new springtime” do have a common feature that makes them acceptable to the common Italian, a common feature that feeds on human fallen nature and folly and makes them both acceptable to the general population.

With respect to the “new springtime”, it feeds on the human weakness arising from the 6th Commandment and to a lesser degree the 9th. It is this human weakness, exhibited in most of modern Western Society that allows for a sizable part of the population of Italy to turn a blind eye to the Catholic Catechism and the Universal Magisterium, to their own detriment.

The EURO in turn, also feeds on a human weakness, though this one based on the 7th Commandment and partly the 10th. What is the case is that when the Italians decided to ditch the Italian Lira for the EURO, they acted in their ECONOMIC best self-interest.

Just as the Greeks did… and the Spaniards… and just as the Portuguese did… and just as the French did,etc. But I digress…

What the Italians did was to get rid of a currency (Italian Lira) that was unstable and highly susceptible to regular devaluations. The EURO in turn was based on a monetary policy of the Northern European states, i.e. the Germans. and their penchant for COMPETENT management of public finances.

What the above currency swap did was that it allowed the Italians to MAGICALLY and overnight (31st of December 1998 to 1 January 1999) change their erratic Lira into a stable Euro currency. It also caused the Italian interest rates (10 year) to MAGICALLY decrease from 12% to 3% in the matter of a couple of weeks. Anybody who has re-financed a house loan can appreciate this “stroke of good fate”.

What also needs to be known here is that the Italians have the highest savings rate of any nation in Euroland, which gave every saver (like homeowner) an additional incentive to go over into the new Euro currency and is driving the current “hopium” that the Italians will somehow MAGICALLY avoid having to give it up.

On the debt financing side, most of the Italian debt is comprised of variable rate loans. Therefore, if the Lira is reintroduced, those loans will need to be readjusted from the 2.00% level at the time of this writing, to a level of somewhere north of 7.5%.

OUCH!

Therefore, when Mr. Mattarella justifies his rejection of Signor Savona on the basis of “protecting the interests of Italians”, what he is in fact playing on is the fear that those who still have savings and loans in Euros, will be huge losers if Italy would leave the common currency.

And it is this fear that still has the polls showing that most Italians want to stay in the Euro, (see here) while knowing that Euro currency needs to be ditched (as per de Mattei) if their economy can come out of its current moribund state.

Aside, in inflation adjusted terms, the Italian economy is worse off today than it was on that fateful day of Jan 1, 1999 while the Italian government debt has more than doubled.

So when Dr. de Mattei writes: “And yet the majority of Italians are unhappy about the Euro, and this dissatisfaction is much more noteworthy, inasmuch as, at the time of the Treaty of Maastricht, (1992) and the introduction of the single currency (1998), Italy was one of the most pro-European countries on the continent”, he is reflecting the true opinions of the Italian population, the opinions that don’t make it into the #fakepolls.

As for the ruling “c”atholic elites, they know that “the Euro is something more than a currency: it is the symbol of a utopia, for which he (Mattarella)  is prepared to risk his reputation and credibility, which is precisely what is  happening now.”

So reputation is one thing, while cold hard cash is quite another!

Have a nice weekend…

PS The “conservative” Mariano Rajoy government in Spain fell today. It is replaced by a hodge-podge coalition of internationalist socialists/Marxists and regional nationalists. Again, post-Modernism is only about POWER.

PPS Deutsche Bank (stock price), the official Deus ex Machina barameter for the demise of the Euro zone, closed below €10 per share yesterday. First time this has happened since early Dec 2016 and as we outlined in our post: As Goes Deutsche Bank, So Goes FrancisChurch… w/Update.

PPPS Zero Hedge, as only they can, sums the situation in the Virtual FrancisReality that is Euroland: (see here)

*****

De Mattei: Italy is changing, but Mattarella is unaware of it

Roberto de Mattei

Corrispondenza Romana

May 30, 2018

On Sunday May 27^th,  Professor Giuseppe Conte, appointed by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella to form a government, arrived at the “Palazzo del Quirinale” to present the list of his ministers, fruit of an intense work of collaboration between the political representatives of the two main parties in Parliament: “Movimento Cinque Stelle” and “La Lega”. 

The two parties had arrived at a point of agreement in the decision to entrust one of the most important ministries of the new government, that of the Finance Minister, to Professor Paolo Savona. Savona’s name, beyond the actual person, represented a political project: the idea of negotiating the relations between Italy and the European Union in a fairer manner – not that of exiting from the Euro.

The refusal of Prof. Savona’s nomination by the President of the Republic, which resulted in the rejection of the proposal by the government, is not the negation of a person, whose competence the Head of State himself is well aware of, but it is the veto of a political choice. The non licet of Mattarella, in this sense, oversteps, the powers that the Italian Constitution allows the President of the Republic.  And yet the majority of Italians are unhappy about the Euro, and this dissatisfaction is much more noteworthy, inasmuch as, at the time of the Treaty of Maastricht, (1992) and the introduction of the single currency (1998), Italy was one of the most pro-European countries on the continent.

On the eve of Maastricht, the Lepanto Cultural Center, cautioned against this Neo-Europeanism, but it was a lone voice.* Today the majority of Italians admit that the consequences of this Treaty have been catastrophic.

Why does Sergio Mattarella think the European Union untouchable?  For the reason that fundamentally his political ideal is that of a Socialist Europe, with no political and cultural borders. For him the Euro is something more than a currency: it is the symbol of a utopia, for which he is prepared to risk his reputation and credibility, which is precisely what is  happening now.  This is explained by Mattarella’s origins, which go back to the Christian Democratic Left, also called “The Catholic-Communists”.

He was a disciple of Aldo Moro, at the time of the historical compromise with the Communist Party; he was supporter of Romano Prodi in 1994;  he was Vice-Prime Minster in the post-Communist government of Massimo d’Alema (1998-1999); he was a Deputy, as a leftist Catholic, in the lists of La Margherita (2001-2006) and of the Ulivo (2006-2008);  he became President of the Republic in 2015, as a candidate by the PD (Democratic Party) of Matteo Renzi.

“I am not a notary” Mattarella said when claiming his power to defend the Euro-zone.  However, the President of the Republic did not express any “non possumus”  when it was about promulgating two subversive laws on morality: the Civil Unions, promulgated on May 20^th  2016, under the Renzi government, and the DAT (Anticipated Dispositions of Treatment), approved on December 20^th 2017, under the Gentiloni government. In this case Mattarella, the Catholic, did not raise his voice, did not make polemical declarations, but limited himself to the role of a notary in the progressive dissolution of our civilized society. His proclaimed moral integrity did not stop him from signing and making these ignoble laws his own, just like his Christian Democratic predecessors had done with the laws on divorce and abortion.

Some days ago the March For Life took place with great success. It saw many thousands of young people and families from all over Italy taking a stand. Just like Emma Bonino, even  President Mattarella  is unaware that Italy is changing and that the defense of the family and innocent human life corresponds with that of national sovereignty.

The family and the State. Pius XII affirmed, are the two pillars of society, which were conceived and willed by God.   Men will not be able to destroy these two pillars of the natural order, not even if they occupy the highest offices of the Church and State.

A Post-Modern Tale Of Two Failed States…

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So by far the biggest story today is that which is happening in Italy.  Even bigger than Roseanne! But I digress…

So it’s Italy week, going into the Feast of Corpus Christi (Corpus Domini for my Italian readers). We continue our coverage of the “government forming” PROCESS.

Drilling down into why Italy is so SIGNIFICANT, I don’t need to tell anyone that if the GLOBALISTS got Francis, the bishop of Rome and Head of State of a foreign country (Vatican State) involved and had him make a phone call to the sitting Italian President in order to subvert the will of the Italian electorate, this SIGNALLING EFFECT speaks for itself.

Tracing the external pressures, we know that Frau Merkel, the Head of another foreign State also made a call to Signor Mattarella, which led to the latter blocking the formation of a government whose representatives had an overwhelming majority of the votes.

Post-Modernism at it’s best!

And just to place the post-Modernist cherry on top of the GLOBALIST’S Italian cake, we had this INCIDENT:

So what we are witnessing is nothing short of a concerted takeover of a “SOVEREIGN” country, the Republic of Italy in this case.

The invading forces are made up of an internal subversive element and an external force. The battlefield is the financial markets, and the Italian debt market to be more specific.

The end game of the invading forces is to make Italy a colony of the NEW WORLD ORDER. The Germans in this case, with their control of the European Central Bank, as per Oettinger statement, appear to be the “proxy army” through which this invasion of Italy is taking place.

And Francis, the bishop of Rome and his FrancisChurch are providing a large part of the psychological operations (in the guise of “spiritual” cover for the Italian el Presidente) for this overt coup d’etat.

So this is how the battlefield is arranged as of this writing…

Below is a post from the Zero Hedge website that explains the larger picture in the ECONOMIC (Monetary Policy) sub-set of the Visibilium Omnium. (see here)

What’s more interesting though, is that the author, Raul Ilarge Meijer presents some UNIVERSAL observations about not only the state of the Republic of Italy, but also applicable to the situation of the Vatican City State and the Holy See. These observations your humble blogger will (comment) on, and include in the below text.

 

Welcome To The Hotel Europa…

Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,

On Friday, in This is the End of the Euro, I said: The euro has become a cage, a prison for the poorer brethren. The finance minister proposed by 5-Star/Lega and refused by Italian president Mattarella, Paolo Savona, has called the euro a German cage. (Strikingly similar to the “spirit of the new springtime” cage?)

There are now stories spreading that the coalition, Savona first of all, were secretly planning an exit from the euro. A series of slides Savona prepared in 2015 on how to exit the euro is used as evidence of that secret plan. But the slides are not secret. Yes, he has said that it’s good to have a plan to leave ‘if necessary’. (Yes, it is good to have a plan for the Restoration of all things in Christ) But that’s not the same as secretly planning such a move.

Every country (…and the Holy Roman Catholic Church) should have such a plan, and you would hope they do. (Yes, indeed) A government that doesn’t is being very irresponsible. But it’s true, this is how both the EU and the euro (… and the “new springtime”) have been designed: not just as a prison, but as a prison without any doors or windows. No way to get out. And that will prove to be its fatal flaw. (3rd Principle -The Schmidberger Principle: Every abnormal situation inherently tends toward normalization. This is due to the nature of the matter.)

It has more such flaws, for sure. The inequality of its members, which allows for the richer to feed on the poorer, is a big one. The US founders were smart enough to provide for transfer payments from rich to poorer, the EU founders couldn’t be bothered with that lesson. They must have studied it, though, and rejected it.

Credit were credit’s due: Yanis Varoufakis said it best when he compared the EU to the Eagles’ Hotel California. A few lines:  

Mirrors on the ceiling
The pink champagne on ice
And she said “We are all just prisoners here, of our own device”
And in the master’s chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives
But they just can’t kill the beast

Last thing I remember
I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
“Relax,” said the night man
“We are programmed to receive
You can check-out any time you like
But you can never leave!”

The EU was set up as some kind of eternal prison, a concept most familiar to us in the way Christian churches depict Hell (Post-conciliar church likewise), or the ancient Greek mythological story of Prometheus, who, as punishment for providing man with fire, was condemned by Zeus to being tied to a rock, with an eagle feeding on his liver every day, for eternity.(… or having to sit through the “liturgy of the word”)

Rule number 1 for any organization: there must always be an escape, a way out. (YES) If there isn’t, that’s what will break the whole thing in the end. Think Leonard Cohen’s “There a crack in everything; that’s where the light comes in.” Every system must always be designed with inbuilt redundancy. (VII definitely has that!)

Paolo Savona (Cardinal Burke) understands that, and he said there must be a way to leave the euro. For Brussels and Rome, that means he’s not acceptable as a finance minister (Curial Head), no matter his competence, experience or credentials. It reeks of desperation on the ‘establishment’ side more than anything. (YEP!)

And now the entire financial world is in panic and turmoil. It’s ironic to see people decrying the sudden weakness in Italian “sovereign debt” at the same time they see pointed out, as if that were still necessary, that Italy is no longer a sovereign country. Think maybe there’s a clue to be found somewhere in there?

Italian bonds (vocations) are falling so fast traders get vertigo. At what point will Mario Draghi (Francis) be held accountable for the enormous losses this causes on the ECB’s (Church’s) books?

But fear not: the elites simply blame the whole thing on the people elected in Italy. (Promethian neo-Pelagians one and all.) Yes, that means they blame democracy. For daring to provide an election result that threatens their powers. And no, there is no other way to define what is happening than as a coup. (Just like in the Catholic Church)

Italy will soon have all the characteristics of an emerging market (Protestant sect). Which is a market from which no one can emerge in an emergency (no salvific functionality), according to one Don Cowe. I read that the six largest Italian banks together have €143 billion in Italian debt securities on their balance sheet. Systemic banks in the rest of Europe, mainly France, Spain and Germany, have €137 billion of Italian debt on their balance sheet. God only knows how much Mario Draghi holds:

That is one scary chart. And no, that is not the fault of 5-Star/Lega. (Tradition)  It’s the fault of the European Union founders (Ionian/Pauline papal line), and of its present ‘leadership’. What 5-Star/Lega (SSPX, Ecclesia Dei, etc.) have done is expose the stark-naked emperor. And the little boy who called out that sovereign (Bugnini) didn’t undress him; he went out without any clothes on, all by himself.

Varoufakis (Archbishop Lefebvre) called out the naked emperor Brussels in 2015 (1968). Paolo Savona did so multiple times as well. The emperor’s reaction? Shut up the little boy (Cardinal Burke), now get dressed. But the lesson contained in The Naked Emperor story is that there will always be another little boy (Cardinal Sarah) to call him out. Shutting up the boy doesn’t solve the problem.

Greece and Italy are where western civilization was born. (The Holy Roman Catholic Church is the transmission mechanism for Western Culture) It appears wonderfully fitting to picture the EU at present as the German (Pagan) eagle picking at the southern European (post-conciliar) Prometheus’s liver for eternity. All the more so because Prometheus in Greek mythology was the champion of man: he first made man from clay, stood against the gods in favor of mankind, stole fire to provide it to man, and got punished for eternity for it.

The EU and euro (and post-conciliar church and the FrancisChurch which subsists on it) cannot survive in their present state. But those who benefit most from both are also the ones who can stop either, from undergoing desperately needed changes. That’s Hotel Europa.