The Sessions Steamroller strikes again: this time in Houston. One of the biggest Opioid trafficking rings in the South-Central states went down in flames on Thursday. This case was remarkable for the effort the FBI put into smashing it because it was a highly secretive enterprise in its operation and a particularly ruthless one in its execution.
Dr. Gazelle Craig and Clinic Manager Shane Faithful of Houston were found guilty of running a criminal enterprise under the guise of a clinic. They operated the now-defunct Gulfton Community Health Center which was essentially nothing but a front for narcotics trafficking.
Craig wrote prescriptions for the Opioids Hydrocodone and Carisporodal; which in combination are said by experts to have no known medical benefit in combination. However, the second drug enhances the strength of the first when used for 'recreational' purposes. She prescribed to nearly 20,000 users over 5 million doses.
As if this wasn't bad enough: Faithful employed what's known in underworld parlance as 'bird-dogs'. These are people who actually went out looking for drug addicts and steering them to Gulfton Clinic. The addicts got a prescription for $300---which was always paid in cash---and the FBI stated that Craig and Faithful would split the profits. The FBI said further that these profits averaged about $1,500 per day.
The Clinic had no surveillance system and employed local thugs as 'security guards'. Cellphones, cameras, etc. were forbidden in the clinic and 'security' would remove anybody who wasn't 'invited.' Sessions didn't say how the operation was eventually infiltrated, but probably involved an agent posing as an addict.
"In this case, tens of thousands of pills flooded our streets because of the defendants' actions." Sessions told the Corporate Media (which of course ignored the story). "We will never know for certain the scale of the damage done."
Just as a side note, this is third multi-million dollar drug ring brought down that was obtaining narcotics through Obamacare. Obama denied that there was any fraud going on in the system. Sessions mentioned that since January 2017, over 3,500 arrests have been made and over $12.5 billion recovered from abuses in Obamacare.
There's another round of Catholic bashing making viral rounds on both the extreme Left and extreme Right. This is based on a fake news story from the leftist Italian journal La Repubblica claiming that Pope Francis denied the existence of Hell.
The back-story to this is that a 93 year-old atheist named Eugenio Scalfari---who is a leading Italian media figure---met with Pope Francis and that the Pope made this denial. Despite their obvious political and spiritual differences, Francis and Scalfari have known each other for years and have been in frequent communications. Here is what the Vatican said in response to Scalfari's claim:
"The Holy Father Francis recently received the founder of the newspaper 'La Repubblica in a private meeting for the Easter holiday, without however giving him any interviews. What is reported by the author in today's article is the result of his reconstruction, in which the literal words of the Pope were not quoted. No quotation of the aforementioned article must be considered attributable to the words of the Holy Father."
This isn't even the first time that Scalfari has faked quotes from Pope Francis. In 2013, he was obliged to issue a retraction of some of the Pope's statements and in 2015 was caught lying and corrected by the Vatican again. Fake news about Pope Francis is about as common in the Leftist media as their lies about President Trump and Vladimir Putin are. In 2014, it had reached such a point that the then-Vatican Press Secretary Father Lombardi issued the following decree:
"If there are no words published by the Holy See Press Office and there are no words officially confirmed, then these reporters and writers must take full responsibility for what they say and write."
We expect fake news and outright lying from the Left. But coming from the fake Right it must be denounced. We've pointed out on several occasions that the Alt-RINO/Red Pill crowd is deeply anti-Catholic. This fake news about Francis spread like wildfire on supposedly Conservative radio, blogs, and news agencies.
The story gained a lot of traction from the outlets of the so-called Media Research Center run by a phony Catholic named Brent Bozell. Bozell himself has been caught in multiple acts of journalistic dishonesty. The very fact that he would quote a Leftist writer who'd been exposed as a fraud before to attack Pope Francis shows that he---like many other Alt-RINOs---are motivated more by their hatred of the Vatican than promoting the Conservative agenda. And that agenda includes Freedom of Religion, by the way.
The bottom-line here is that Francis is not "Lenin's Pope" (a meme coined by Catholic-hater Michael Savage); nor is he an antipope or the Antichrist because of his position on global warming and immigration. The Alt-RINOs and the Red Pills oppose Catholicism for the same reason that the Cultural Marxists do: because Catholics recognize a power higher the State and an ideology higher than the spouting of paid pundits. As Harry Truman said, "Faith is the foundation of our democracy."
The recent decision of a handful of Western countries---including the US and Canada---to expel Russian diplomats has had only a minimal impact in geopolitics, despite the flurry of fake-news surrounding the story. The expulsion did cause considerable indignation in Russia---coinciding with a National Day of Mourning declared by President Putin following a deadly catastrophe in Kemerevo on Sunday.
The Trump Administration expelled 60 diplomats. The whole action, though, was based on the fake-news that Russia assassinated a former spy in Britain. This story has been debunked several times. It's about as credible a story as the allegations alleging Russian involvement in the 2016 Elections.
This has been a serious problem within the Trump Administration. The worst decision that Trump has made was ordering a cruise-missile strike on Syria last Spring---during an official visit with the President of China, no less. That was based on the fake-news that the Syrian Air Force used chemical weapons against civilians. The chemical weapons nonsense was always a fraud. Syria never signed the UN treaty banning chemical weapons; but we never hear that small detail mentioned by the Corporate Media.
We've also exposed several incidents of fake news---or at least news from very dubious sources---about North Korea. The Trump Administration came within a hairs-breadth of war with that country last year.
Here's the problem: fake-news served the interests, agendas and objectives of the Obama, Bush, and Clinton Administrations quite admirably. The fake stories about Serbian atrocities; the phony WMD-menace from Iraq; the Arab Spring; the Maidan Uprising in Ukraine: all of these were distractions calculated to distract Americans from problems at home and to advance the vested financial interests of the Deep State abroad.
The Trump Administration has to understand this---that the day and purposes of American military intervention abroad is over. We need to invest in our defense and security. Countries like Serbia, Bosnia, Iraq, and Libya were no threat to the US then; and countries like Yemen, Iran, and North Korea aren't today. The only countries really capable of fighting the US in a head-on war are Russia, China, and possibly India. And all three of these countries would prefer peaceful co-existence and free-trade to war.
In other words, Trump needs to start applying the same skills and out-of-the-box thinking in foreign policy that he's used so successfully in domestic policy. Forget the Pax Americana nonsense pushed by the Clintonistas and the RINOs. We have to look to our own affairs first: and an alliance with the other world powers would facilitate that tremendously.
The latest fashionable trend among the Whacko Left Wing seems to be organizing and participating in stupid 'protest marches'. This trend really started late in Obama's term, but has become an especially useful propaganda tactic for the political and media forces opposed to President Trump---and to freedom generally.
Most recently we saw flash-mobs knocking down statues and bitter harridans and cadres of male feminists walking around with artificial vaginas on their heads (illustrating of course where their brains are). Before that, we saw effete white trust-fund babies rallying for Black Lives Matter and on behalf of illegal immigrants.
The latest act of Leftist mass-insanity was an event ridiculously called March for Our Lives. Of course, the whole event was orchestrated by Left-Wing interest groups but posed as 'millions' of young adults protesting for stricter gun control laws. The catalyst for this event was the Parkland School mass-murder which was committed by a thug with an illegally-owned weapon. The police---whom the Liberals argue should alone have access to guns---in this instance ran away.
Thus we have typical Liberal logic. The Gun Laws that were supposed to stop nutcases like Nicholas Cruz from obtaining a firearm were not enforced: and those government agencies who are supposed to stop such attacks fled the scene. The Liberal solution therefore is that we need even more government oversight.
And the same Left who want to regulate guns also protest every police-involved shooting. They ought simply to confess that they are pro-crime.
Some might argue that, with modern weapons, the 2nd Amendment is obsolete. They argue that civilian militias couldn't impact a modern army. But we've seen this theory disproved in the Middle East in both Syria and Iraq.
Before the rise of ISIS, Syria had fairly lenient gun laws, but guns were taxed and too expensive for the average person to own. In Syria, ISIS took over and massacred entire villages like Zara and Al-Quaryatayn.
In Iraq, one of the positive things brought by American Occupation was a respect for the principles of the 2nd Amendment and the establishment of a 'gun culture.' Civilian militias not only fought ISIS side-by-side with the Iraqi Army, but ISIS took tremendous casualties from civilian snipers within ISIS-occupied cities. ISIS' second-in-command, Omar the Chechen was killed by a sniper as were the head of the secret police, their propaganda chief, their head of suicide-bombing units, as well as several other ISIS officials and military commanders. A few small villages were liberated before the Iraqi Army arrived, by the armed inhabitants.
So why does the Left really hate the 2nd Amendment? It is because they could never impose the kind of regime they desire on America as long as the people can resist them with force. This is not a radical idea at all; but one enshrined by our Founding Fathers. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story stated in 1832 that:
"The right of the citizenry to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a free republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary powers of rulers."
And not only that, but our Founding Fathers revived and modified an earlier British Law, from the reign of King William III in the 1688 Bill of Rights:
"That our subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their defense suitable to their condition and as allowed by law." Which, as Story notes, had become a dead letter in England by his day. Our Founding Fathers understood that disarmament leads to oppression.
But the ignoramuses marching today never hear about the Founding Fathers, Judge Story, or the English Constitution from any of their even more ignorant teachers. The worst school massacre in US history was carried out with dynamite. Evil men are not going to be deterred by laws. Modern Academia thinks that we can stop evil by wishing it out of existence. But the force of evil is only stopped with a superior force. And that's why the media and academia really don't want it stopped at all.
There's an interesting thread at the Ex-Red Pill Subreddit where a fellow tells a poignant story about how his encounter with the Red Pills nearly drove him to suicide.
"I came across the Red Pill and for some reason a lot of what they were saying seemed true." he writes, "There are definitely good things in there like improving yourself, but what really stood out to me was the idea that marriage was a terrible thing and that no woman will ever love you like you want to be loved. That modern-day marriages don't work any more because modern women don't need to rely on men any more and can divorce husbands quite easily and take them for everything they own. This may seem good at the start of a relationship, but all women eventually lose attraction to their husbands."
The writer of this article explained how he was a child of divorce and wanted something better for himself. I don't think that he realized this; but these are exactly the kinds of vulnerable men upon whom the Red Pill Cult preys. He tells of the consequences:
"This struck me in a really bad way. I felt sick to my stomach; I had swallowed TRP and realized that everything that I had wanted in life was a facade and that I no longer saw a purpose in living. I was so f-----g miserable that I seriously thought of ending it all."
Fortunately, this young fellow came across some anti-Red Pill sites and the scales fell from his eyes just in time. But we do have to wonder how many similar stories don't end so happily. With the sky-high rates of male suicide in the US, it can't be doubted that a fair number of them are driven to despair by what they've been taught by the Cult.
Granted, the anti-male zeitgeist of our postmodern dystopia has made relationships much harder to obtain than in the past: but we also have to keep in mind that anti-male doesn't necessarily translate to pro-female. The cultural 'elites' are mostly very psychologically twisted sexual perverts who have a hatred of heterosexuality and complimentarianism in general. While men are being socially prevented from acting according to their nature; women are being pushed into social roles for which they have no capacity. The result is a Culture of Sexual Despair where men are frustrated and women feeling inadequate. Into that void steps the Gay Mafia, telling us that the homosexual lifestyle is superior; and that 'enlightened' people join it.
The Red Pills---whether or not they'll admit it---play right into that anti-heterosexual narrative. They are no more friendly to men than Feminists are to women. Both sides teach that neither gender needs the other; and in fact that the other gender is expendable. This is the Militant Homosexual agenda in a nutshell. It's no wonder that both the Red Pills and Feminists have 'gays' lurking around in both their leaderships.
Thus Red Pill Cultists like Jack Donovan and his homosexual biker-gang or our suicidal young friend are two logical outcomes of TRP. Just as the large number of young women drawn to Lesbianism and the scandalous rates of female addiction to antidepressants are the logical outcome of Feminism. Men and women are drawn to one another---in fact, need one another---each has qualities the other gender lacks. And vice-versa each gender has deficiencies for which the other compensates.
The writer of the Reddit piece had a happy ending:
"Thank God I took the Blue Pill and came to my senses. It now seems so stupid that I believed in that TRP s--t. I believe that there are some good attraction tips out there, but the majority of it is toxic and ignores all the happy marriages out there. Here's to being a 'Beta.'"
More good---but long overdue---news from the White House. Less than a week after ejecting the RINO Tillerson, the President today fired H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser. He is being replaced with career diplomat and international intelligence specialist. John Bolton.
McMaster was another problem for the Administration. Many suspect that he was the source behind several leaks. Also there is considerable suspicion that McMaster supplied Trump with false evidence against his predecessor, General Flynn. What is not in any doubt is that McMaster supplied Trump with bad intelligence and terrible advice.
And small wonder. McMaster was first and foremost loyal to his ex-boss, Obama. When Obama opened the military to homosexuals, McMaster was put in charge of implementing the policy. He favored all of Obama's foreign policies and tried to extend them into the Trump Administration.
Like his chum, Rainbow Rex Tillerson, McMaster held over numerous Obama-appointed officials. As recently as last Autumn, almost all key NSA positions were led by Obama/Clinton appointees.
The NSA is in desperate need of swamp-draining. Bolton may be the man to do this. While he is hawkish on foreign policy, he is also a traditional Conservative in his attitude towards government administration. He will clean out the nest of DNC vipers that McMaster's pals in the Deep State created.
The mad bomber behind a series of apparently random attacks in the Austin/San Antonio area met his doom last night, thanks to the heroic action of some unidentified police officers. A manhunt involving local, federal police and the Texas Rangers culminated in the issue of a warrant for one Mark Conditt, an unemployed computer technician. Conditt attempted to escape and---at the risk of their own lives---police followed and forced him off the road. Conditt's car exploded: it's unknown at this point whether he detonated a car bomb or a police bullet struck an explosive device.
No matter, the explosion sent the 'Mad Bomber of Austin' to Tartarus; saving taxpayers the expense of a media-circus trial.
The Corporate Media, however, along with the usual vulgar Leftist trolls, are besides themselves with joy to learn that Conditt was a White male apparently from a Conservative Christian background and not a Left-Wing nutcase, as per usual. This is all in spite of the fact that voter-rolls show that Conditt never declared a political party, nor voted in any election. And---the very Liberal Austin Police Chief has stated already that they have a taped confession from Conditt which indicates that political or religious motivations were not behind the attacks. CNN---for whatever their words are worth---did note in passing that the two police officers injured in the final showdown were 'white males'.
The real story here though isn't about Conditt, though the Corporate Media will give him---like they do all other mass-murderers---24/7 attention while ignoring his victims and the efforts of good men in bringing down this menace to society. That notoriety naturally encourages even more psychos to try and top the last attack. The Russians learned this after the Beslan School Massacre in 2004. The Russian Media agreed with the government to prohibit sensationalism of these event. The results have been that such attacks have virtually ceased in Russia while they've increased virtually exponentially here.
Unlike the Russian Media, though, we can't expect American journalists to engage in responsible behavior. What we can do is ignore those jugheads and focus on the efforts of real heroes who did what it took to bring the Mad Bomber's career to a conclusion. Even though our society puts down men as potential rapists and male pigs, it took considerable stones (as we used to call it) to charge a car-bomb. In fact, on Monday we saw a semi-retired painter do the same thing. and the very next day, a police officer stopping another psycho bent on a wholesale massacre. Not a bad week at all for those of us who are needed like a fish needs a bicycle.
Even more fascinating was how these diverse law enforcement agencies tracked Conditt down in the first place. Conditt made two serious blunders that led to his ultimate downfall (not counting his abortive escape attempt). The first took some real investigative skills to uncover. As part of the detonator, Conditt employed a type of battery not manufactured or widely available in the US. A sharp investigator noted that, which led police to find who had purchased these devices online. Conditt's second mistake was using Home Depot and similar stores to buy other materials. Police began monitoring surveillance videos of purchasers of such items. Now, Conditt always wore a disguise---but a suspicious and very alert Home Depot employee followed him outside and got his license number. Conditt was on the list of suspects from the battery-purchases. And that was that.
Good men doing good things and working as a team: maybe if our culture celebrated that instead of holding up the Conditts of the world as typically male, we'd see fewer like him and more like the 'two White males' who brought him down at last.
Russian voters on Sunday resoundingly re-elected Vladimir Putin to his position as President. Putin was opposed both by old-line Communist candidates and Soros-backed Liberal candidates: none of whom even came close to unseating the popular leader. The Election of 2018 was marked by much less violence and controversy than in 2012. This reflects the new attitude of American leaders---who refrained this time from electoral interference.
It will be interesting to see how Putin's place in geopolitics will unfold during the next six years. With the downfall of both ISIS and the American Deep-State, Putin has indicated that his next term will be more focused on carrying out internal Russian reforms. His anti-corruption campaigns and social reform policies have already lifted Russia from the economic recession of the 1990's. Yet unemployment---and underemployment---remain a serious problem.
Workforce productivity is "a key issue" according to Putin. But he also noted that correcting Russia's infrastructure issues must be a top priority if that is to occur. In this respect, Russia is like the US in that most of its infrastructure dates from the Cold-War Era and is in need of modernization.
Though Putin did not mention Trump's Foreign Policy, it was clearly implied in his acceptance speech that the thawing of US-Russian relations would shift spending away from Defense. "There will be no increase in defense spending; no arms-race." he told his supporters. "We have everything we need in this field, in addition to a major reserve capacity."
In contrast to previous administrations, President Trump has put very little emphasis on Foreign Affairs. Trump's inclinations seem more geared towards international trade than towards cultural imperialism. Putin can step back somewhat from his position as leader of the free world. The challenge of the next six years will be to work with Trump on geopolitical issues. Obama-Era sanctions are still in place; and Trump was unable to pressure Senate RINOs into lifting them. Trump also is challenged in that his foreign policy team in general is strongly anti-Russian.
But Trump and Putin both have a good relationship with China; and it may be that President Xi could negotiate a better rapport between them. A US-Russia-China Alliance would be the best step forward for world peace and prosperity since the end of WW2.
We shall see how matters unfold; but the Russian people's confidence in Putin's leadership is a positive sign.
Manosphere writer Dalrock has penned a new article titled Why Game is a Threat to Our Values, which has received considerable acclaim from members of the Red Pill Cult. To explain briefly, 'Game' is a pseudoscience supposedly offering new 'revelations' about gender relations. Dalrock and other Manosphereans have grafted these notions on to a skeletal framework of religion and posit that they are bringing back some 'original' form of Christianity. In reality, their 'Christianity' is an admixture of Gnosticism and pop-psychology with a good measure of Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and Rand thrown in.
What Dalrock argues in his latest tome is that concepts like chivalry and its concomitant social valuation of women has corrupted society and that Game is destroying these values. "As a Christian," he writes, "the destruction of these values can't happen soon enough." Which of course echoes the same desires as the Cultural Marxists and the Radical Feminists. But it doesn't square with actual Christianity---in which Christ taught respect for females and often protected them from abuse.
Part of the problem for Dalrock and the other cultists is that the see Christianity through the lens of Game---when they should be evaluating Game through the lens of Christianity. Game is their real religion whether or not they choose to admit that fact. Thus Dalrock's article is filled with subjective assertions based on his own faulty conceptions of reality.
As an example, he first asserts that Feminism is dependent upon male chivalry (a male feminist argument); and then says: "But while chivalry is closely related to how we measure the virtue of a man, a man's chivalry is not in itself how we measure a man's virtue. In our society a man proves his virtue by his ability to seduce women."
What society is this guy talking about? Look around and ask how many monuments or holidays we've bestowed on men who were great seducers of women. There are none: absolutely none. Yes, it is true that some of our great men had pronounced sexual magnetism: but we don't honor them for that. Our society values men and celebrates their virtues on the basis of their accomplishments. Granted, Political Correctness may distort some actual accomplishments; but the general principle is the same. The difference is simply that the PC crowd honors the depraved achievements of wicked men.
Dalrock also explains that romantic love is nothing more than sexual desire: which is the same position that Orthodox Marxists hold. "As a society we're obsessed with generating sexual attractiveness in women" he asserts, as though feminine cultivation of physical attractiveness is some recent phenomenon, "We see this ability as the most pure test of goodness in a man. A woman's feelings of sexual attraction are a mystical force, godlike for non-Christians and God's message for Christians." This is not true at all: our society is deeply hostile to heterosexuality---especially where it concerns men. But he continues: "We can't see how incredibly crass this is because we call it romantic love, but romantic love is more deeply intertwined with sexual desire than many are willing to admit."
Under the Khmer Rouge Regime, Dictator Pol Pot held the same attitude and actually instituted official 'mating seasons' for his subjects. Now again, Dalrock is not only spouting Marxism, his assertion is essentially the Gnostic position that there is nothing holy about matrimony and that sexuality is morally indifferent.
Besides that, his assertion this passage also implies that men are never romantically attracted to women. This again stems from his reductionist perspective from Game: that attraction and sexuality is purely physical with no other component attached. In his cult it's commonly taught that Eve---not the Devil---caused Adam's Fall. One can easily see the latent homosexual overtones of building a philosophy around the core idea that females are the downfall of men.
"As I've already noted," he continues on, "Chivalry is what converts Feminist demands into concrete action." No it isn't. Feminist demands are converted into concrete action when political and economic interests see profit in giving into them. "The threat from Game is comes from its assault on the belief that chivalry is sexy and therefore chivalry is virtuous."
Dalrock's thinking is completely screwed up. The latter passage shows again that sex is the motivation for what we call chivalry and nothing could be further from the truth. The reason that civilized peoples practice respect for and protection of women is that women form, collectively, a vital social polarity which men must defend if civilization is to survive. Not understanding this very basic sociological concept is the danger posed both by the Red Pills and by the Feminists.
Even some of the most primitive cultures understand what Dalrock can't seem to grasp. Ancient peoples used to obliterate rival tribes by taking their women as spoils of war. Not only did losing their women cause these tribes to collapse, it strengthened the dominant tribes by bolstering the feminine social polarity.
The old values held for centuries and they are still the best. And I think that we can safely assume that they will outlive both Feminism and the Red Pill Cult.
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John Horvat of the Return to Fatima blog has written a really good article on the latest Cultural Marxist propaganda tactic: Prayer-Shaming. Horvat has noted a recent trend in the Corporate Media of bringing on pundits and commentators who sneer after tragic incidents that prayer is useless; that community leaders offering prayer are evading responsibility, etc.
It's not a new phenomenon for Liberals to do this; but until recently they rarely spouted such sentiments in public. I recall a Leftist talk-show named Mike Malloy who routinely ridiculed prayer. Malloy got away with it because it was well known that he was a militant atheist. After a natural disaster or mass-murder, Malloy would laugh at survivors who attributed their survival to prayer and Divine Providence. "What about all of the people who died?" he would roar. "Do you think that they didn't pray too?"
As Horvat points out in his article, these people don't understand what prayer is or how it actually functions. But that aside, people like Malloy also don't understand Divine Providence. What may seem an evil to us may not so be in the larger scheme of Divine Will. In the Lord's Prayer, we ask that God's Will be done and that we be delivered from evil. Those whose prayers to live through a disaster weren't granted have presumably gone to Heaven in accordance with the Divine Will.
The conundrum which atheists propose dovetails into the larger question as to why God permits evil to exist or occur at all. The question has no simple answer, but suffice it to say here that all Creation is by metaphysical necessity imperfect vis-a-vis the Creator. Thus sin and evil are inevitable; but by their existence God may try not only our own Faith, but those of others. An evil man like George Soros isn't necessarily 'blessed' with undeserved wealth, power, and long life; and neither are his victims 'cursed' with the poverty and misfortunes that his crimes bring about. These are means by which God is ultimately glorified as Christ taught us in His parable about The Rich Man and Lazarus.
Thus it follows logically that times of affliction are the times when we must draw closer to---not further from---God in prayer. As the Old Testament prophet Habakkuk stated for us:
"And then God replied: 'Write down the revelation and engrave it on the tablets, so that heralds may run and proclaim it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the ultimate end and will not prove false. Though its fulfillment lingers, wait for it; it will certainly come and suddenly when it does. You see that the enemy is arrogant and his desires are perverse, but the just shall live by Faith.'" (Hab. ii:2-4).
As Horvat notes, the real issue with these pundits is that they do not believe in prayer in the first place. "For them, prayer is a kind of therapeutic exercise for weak individuals who cannot face reality," he writes. Reality, to the unbelievers, is that the world is an evil place without any mitigation of the Good, which we must see through Faith. This leads to a point where Horvat says, "When they fail in life as all eventually do, they do not understand the meaning of suffering and become resentful."
And that resentment is really what is behind the Cultural Marxists' hatred for prayer and faith. It's a double-edged psychological sword: they hate the Faithful for finding peace in suffering and envy them at the same time.
Horvat makes the good point also that our political leaders are largely to blame for the prayer-shamers with their pat "our thoughts and prayers are with the victims" rhetoric that they cut-and-paste into every post-tragedy official statement. As Christians, we should deplore that kind of abuse and back our words with deeds as St. James rightfully says. The Corporate Media ignores those actions at the same time they pooh-pooh the power of prayer.
Our answer to prayer-shaming thus should be to respond with even more prayer. The Media is overtly hostile to acts of faith: as they are to everything good.
The last two years haven't been kind to the Alt-RINOs. They've seen one project after another go down in ignominious defeat. And usually these downfalls have been occasioned by their own stupidity.
The Traditionalist Workers Party is an infamous Red Pill group; mostly noted for violent riots on about the same scale as Antifa. It's leadership collectively has a lengthy track-record of ending up in jail. Currently, that is where Matthew Heimbach---its top leader---is. Heimbach was jailed on a Domestic Violence charge after the TWP's #2 man, Matt Parrot, caught him in bed with Parrot's wife.
Heimbach, incidentally, is also married---to the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Parrot.
It sounds like Heimbach was only being an 'Alpha'. After all, the Red Pills are opposed to monogamy and encourage cuckolding other men's wives---creating Alpha Widows, in their parlance. However, Mr. Parrot apparently was unimpressed. He and Heimbach came to blows, and Heimbach threw him to the floor and began choking him. He might have killed him had police not arrived. The sight of the naked Mrs. Parrot in bed watching the nude Heimbach on top of Mr. Parrot must have been quite a sight.
Parrot angrily quit the TWP. Now leaderless, the group appears to have folded. Naturally, the Alpha-Boys are blaming the whole thing on Mrs. Parrot and women in general. One kook posted this insightful comment on Gab:
"It's impossible to build a White Nationalist movement because white women are disloyal whores who will betray their white husband the first chance they get...Just look what happened to the TWP. The leader's white wife betrayed him and now the movement is now basically finished."
Yes---that's another typical Red Pill trait: blaming others. When Heimbach was arrested for Assault and Disorderly Conduct at a 2016 pro-Trump rally, he tried to claim in Court that Trump incited him to violence. He managed to get himself excommunicated from the Orthodox Church for preaching Red Pill doctrines against those of the Church.
And thus was the end of the TWP and its leader, Matthew Heimbach. It seems that every one who takes the Red Pill ends up in disgrace as a result.
The Sessions Steamroller is on the move again; this time on the US-Canadian Pacific Coast. In a surprise move, the details of which are only now becoming public, the FBI took Victor Ramos---CEO of Phantom Secure---into custody in Bellingham, Washington. Today, indictments were opened against Ramos and four of his fugitive confederates. Phantom Secure is (or was) a Canadian company.
Phantom Secure was selling a type of 'smart-phone' with sophisticated encryption software. The phones with Phantom software automatically disconnected from GPS, Internet, 'the Cloud' and re-routed through offshore phone-banks. It also had some type of locking mechanism by which the phone records couldn't be accessed by third parties. This type of software isn't illegal; but some quick-thinking by FBI Special Agent Nicholas Cheviron during a recent drug raid led him to suspect that more was afoot here than basic privacy concerns.
With our new and more efficient Justice Department, Sessions took Cheviron's suspicions seriously and set up a joint sting-operation with Canadian and Australian authorities. Ramos got caught red-handed working with criminal gangs like the Sinaloa Cartel, Hell's Angels, and to the Cuban and Venezuelan Governments (nota bene).
Ramos actually met with undercover agents posing as drug traffickers on several occasions; in one case offering one agent---who claimed to represent a recently arrested drug kingpin---an even more sophisticated app to better evade law enforcement. In one instance, he told undercover Canadian Mounties that "we made this phone specifically for drug trafficking too."
Ramos and his cohorts were charged with Racketeering, Conspiracy to Distribute Narcotics, and Aiding and Abetting Narcotic Traffickers. All five of these jokers are subject to a life sentence if convicted. Phantom Secure was broken up by the Canadians, The FBI estimates that there are 20,000 such phones worldwide: all of which are useless now because the software is no longer supported.
This is the first time that the FBI has targeted a communications company (successfully) for knowingly providing criminal enterprises with technology to carry out their crimes. It's an interesting case from that standpoint. There's always been some suspicion that some companies market toward the Underworld. This is the first attempt actually to prove it. When Special Agent Cheviron noticed that drug-gangs were using this technology, he looked into it further. Most of us would have been inclined to assume it was a widely-used app because it's privacy features were so good. Cheviron deserves a round of applause for thinking outside of the box and bringing about the downfall of a major facilitator behind our narcotic epidemic.
The President today initiated a long-overdue shake-up in the State Department---starting with the ouster of do-nothing Swamp-RINO Rex Tillerson.
President Trump has run his Administration much like a CEO, appointing department heads who are getting the job done. Sessions, Zinke, Carson, Perdue, DeVos, and others have been doing an outstanding job of swamp-draining, cleaning up corruption, and making Government work efficiently again. Not so at the State Department. Rainbow Rex hasn't bothered even replacing Obama-Era diplomatic staff until Trump intervened. Tillerson even rejected a joint Justice Department and Congressional memo to defund Soros-backed recipients of State Department grants. Our withdrawals from corrupt UN committees and obligations were completely the work of President Trump: Tillerson contributed nothing.
Tillerson never retracted even one of Obama's policies unless Trump himself overruled him. He continued Obama's policy of brinkmanship with China and North Korea, and failed intervention in Syria and Yemen. Trump actually met with some of these leaders and came away with record trade-deals instead of war.
The President has suggested CIA Director Mike Pompeo as a replacement. Pompeo has several good qualities recommending him. He's a more solid Conservative than Tillerson and was formerly connected to the Tea Party Republicans. Pompeo is a Constitutionalist and will bring about much-needed reform within the State Department proper. We can probably expect him to terminate Deep State-Era programs and give the department a thorough house-cleaning.
On geopolitical issues, Pompeo is a little more shaky. He is anti-Russian, his Middle East positions uninformed, and he is hawkish on domestic espionage and transparency. Most of these however are not positions that he is able to act upon unilaterally. Trump overall seems to be redirecting American Foreign Policy toward free-trade as opposed to militarism; thus the State Department will have to, by necessity, move further away from Clinton/Kerry Era aggressiveness.
At any rate, Trump deserves our applause for having the courage to admit that he made a mistake in appointing Tillerson and correcting that mistake. The Corporate Media spins these kinds of personnel changes as symptomatic of weakness within the Administration but nothing could be further from the truth. It's a sign that the Administration is quite vibrant and strong: and willing to push aside the political dead-weight when necessary. And Tillerson was about as dead-weight as it gets.
There is an interesting discussion going on at Adrienne's blog over what is causing Leftists to embrace such obviously insane policy positions. Michael Savage, a talk-radio provocateur, coined an expression a few years ago that "liberalism is a mental disorder."
More accurately, we would suggest here that Leftist positions and behaviors are symptomatic of underlying psychological pathology. This is especially true among members of the Corporate Media. Everything from looking up to Satanist Sally Quinn as a role model to their repeated public tantrums and dissemination of the most ridiculous conspiracy theories, Media personnel are pretty clearly a mentally-unbalanced lot.
At the top levels of the Far Left: the Clintons, Podesta Brothers, and George Soros, for example; power and profit are the motivating factors. They've got good rackets going, fueled by payoffs from special interests and a compliant Media which aids and abets their criminal behaviors. But what about the rank-and-file Leftists?
We've asked the same question in a more lighthearted vein when discussing Trump Derangement Syndrome. The day after Trump was elected, an Ohio man immolated himself in a children's playground using Trump Campaign paraphernalia as fuel. The most recent manifestation is the Mayor of Oakland who's made herself effectively a human shield defending MS-13 thugs from arrest and deportation. In between those times, numerous Leftists have wound up in jails, psych-wards, the unemployment line, hospitals, or even dead because they lost it in public and became a danger to themselves and others.
So we argue that it's too broad a statement to claim that Liberalism is a mental disorder. Some are Leftists---especially younger people---who've been politically and socially educated by the degenerate Media and the public schools. They haven't had enough life experience to see through the tissue of deception veiling their mind's eye. Some Liberals are so because they (rightfully) fear the political power of the Alt-RINOs without realizing that those clods are a tiny---but loud---minority whose power is exaggerated by the MSM.
But for those Leftists who should know better, some deeper mental problem seems to be a driving factor. Mass-communications have made it possible for people teetering on the brink of mental collapse to build support-networks with others just as far gone as they are. Then they project their collective neuroses onto society-at-large or onto some political, religious, or ethnic group.
Thus, to answer Adrienne's question: there's no single answer. Radicalism always attracts the morally degenerate, the ignorant, the fearful, and the loonies. They make up the backbone of the postmodern so-called 'Progressives' just as earlier generations of them turned to Jacobinism, Marxism, Bolshevism, Naziism, etc. They typically aren't too dangerous until they achieve positions of actual power. Our job in a Democracy is to prevent that from happening---and exposing them for what they are is the best safeguard.
Like other cults, the Red Pills and their Alt-RINO camp-followers are fond of creating neologisms and nonsense-phrases to bandy among themselves to appear intelligent. We're all familiar with this trick: stage magicians will utter cryptic, meaningless phrases as part of the illusion that they create. In primitive cultures, shamans and witch-doctors do much the same thing.
Vox Day has coined a new term to add the glossary of Red Pill Ebonics: corception. Vox explained that there is no term in the English Language which favorably describes his dishonesty in rhetoric, hence the need for a new word.
Corception is defined by him thus: "a word to express the concept of something that is technically false but rhetorically true that tends to guide one to the truth." The truth, of course, meaning how Vox subjectively defines it. After all, it has to be a subjective truth (i.e. an opinion); otherwise the term 'technically false' could not logically apply.
There actually are words in English describing this already. The more general term is sophistry; but the most accurate one would political correctness.
Political Correctness was originally a term coined by Bolshevik commander, Vladimir Lenin. Lenin held that if words or actions promoted the 'truth' of Communism; then it was inherently a good act. Western Leftist whackos in Academia revived the phrase during the 1990's to justify their ideological purges in our public schools and universities.
Corception essentially means the same practice to a different end. Vox and other Red Pills are known for spreading falsehoods that they know to be untrue; but since it serves the greater glory of their cult, it isn't lying, according to them.
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor"---The 9th Commandment.
It's impossible for any proposition in an argument to be factually false and rhetorically true. Not only does this notion violate the 9th Commandment; it violates the laws of Formal Logic handed down to us from the time of the Greeks. And it even violates Common Sense. How could a falsehood in one's mind be transformed into a truth by one's mouth? This is why all forms of 'political correctness' are inherently unscriptural, unethical, illogical, and just plain stupid.
Vox has the arrogance to write that, "I'm aware that many, if not most of you will fail to appreciate this kind of thought-exercise." This is the Cultist coming out of him. He's basically telling his credulous followers that if they fail to understand what he's talking about, they should simply defer to his superior Alpha Mind.
This episode is again yet another example of the 'Alt-Right' are nothing but doppelgangers of the Radical Left. Right down even to their abuse of the English Language.
Two suspects are sitting in Texas jails tonight after being netted in a four-month campaign of harassment and intimidation committed against survivors, family, and church officials following last November's Sutherland Springs Massacre. Readers might recall that a madman with illegally-owned weapons murdered 26 people during a worship service before being (permanently) stopped by a neighbor with a hunting rifle.
Some people, however, believed the story to be hoax; although what plausible false-flag could center on a Christian-killing thug who ended up shot by an armed citizen before the police arrived is anybody's guess. Robert Ussery, the ringleader of the harassment campaign was arrested on Tuesday; along with his consort, Jodi Mann.
It should come as no surprise to anyone who's followed these stories to learn that Ussery had "an extensive criminal record" according to Texas authorities. He was arrested most recently after a violent altercation at a White Lives Matter rally. Previous charges include Assault, Domestic Violence, and Weapons violations.
Ussury had been harassing victims of Sutherland Springs both online and in person. There was little police could do until he crossed the legal boundary of making in-person threats on Sunday to Pastor Frank Pomeroy. According to witnesses, Ussery threatened to "hang you {Rev. Pomeroy} from the highest tree and p--- on your corpse." The Pomeroys had apparently gotten some kind of restraining order because police arrested Ussery and Mann for criminal trespass and resisting arrest. Ussery also faces drug charges after illegal Marijuana was found on both his person and in his system.
Pastor Pomeroy's 14 year-old daughter was among those killed during the massacre.
"He keeps insisting that my daughter never existed and making demands that I produce her birth certificate." the pastor told KTSA-San Antonio. "He keeps trying to bait us into doing something stupid."
The San Antonio Express-News stated that Ussery runs a website called Side Thorn which claims that over 30 mass-murders and terrorist incidents nationwide were staged by the Government. Jodi Mann, aged 56, is known on the Internet as The Conspiracy Granny.
Mrs. Pomeroy told the British newspaper The Guardian that Ussery accuses church-members on regular basis of participating in the alleged cover-up; variously claiming that the children either never existed or are in hiding.
What a couple of kooks.
But this goes back to what Pope Francis said about weaponizing the tongue. Idiots like Ussery are triggered by other crackpots who incite them over the Internet, talk-radio, and elsewhere. People like Ussery end up in jail while the people who encouraged them get paid interviews and seven-figure media deals. And it's not just on the Extreme Right---although they're the ones upon whom the Media focuses. We've seen plenty of Left-Wing violence instigated by the likes of Keith Olbermann, Stephen Colbert, and Bernie Sanders.
This is yet another example, though, of why Christians and Conservatives need to call out screwballs who are giving the entire political Right a bad name. There's no room in our movement for rioters, stalkers, promoters of political violence, racists, male supremacists, etc. The Left needs force and fraud to uphold its ideals: we do not. To extremists, might makes right; but to us right makes might.
Blogger Insanity Bytes had an article yesterday critiquing a post written by Rev. Toby Sumpter. Sumpter is a Protestant minister in Idaho who has some affiliation with the Rev. Doug Wilson; a fellow who's crossed our radar-screens a few times before. To say that this particular church is embedded in controversy would be an understatement. However, we're not especially well-versed in these internal political machinations among the various Protestant sects. What concerns us is when they preach doctrines adverse or harmful to Christendom as a whole.
Sumpter's post is a sick attempt at parodying Domestic Violence victims; a poorly-written satire purporting to be written by the Corinthian Church to St. Paul the Apostle. Domestic Violence and related crimes seem to be an especially recurring issue among the leaders and followers of this particular church. Whether some or all of the allegations made against them are true or not; we cannot at this point say. But given their writings on these and other issues incline us to believe at the very least that Wilson and Sumpter are a pair of shady characters and it wouldn't be amiss for Christians to keep a close eye upon them.
A section of Sumpter's parody reads as follows: "The first rule of abuse prevention is that you must always side with anyone who claims to be a victim over against anybody accused of abuse. Trained and professional abuse counselors don't need outmoded methods of investigation, witnesses, and due process."
Idaho State Law actually differs with this. Title 18-918 of Idaho Statutes defines Domestic Violence as:
1. Felonious Battery: "Any household member who in committing a Battery as defined in Section 18-903 of the Idaho Code, inflicting traumatic injury is guilty of a felony."
2. Misdemeanor Assault: "A household member who commits an Assault as defined in Section 18-901 of the Idaho Code against another household member not resulting in traumatic injury is guilty of a misdemeanor. "
3. Misdemeanor Battery: "A household member who commits a Battery as defined in Section-903 of the Idaho Code is guilty of a misdemeanor."
The website FindLaw states that Idaho Law covers "physical injury, sexual abuse, forced imprisonment or threat thereof" as Domestic Violence. It seems that these are hardly matters of one person's word against the other.
Sumpter then says: "The second rule of abuse prevention is that you must never say or write anything that would give the alleged victim that their situation is tolerable." He then goes on to compare St.Paul's instructions to slaves as somehow binding on abused family members! Essentially, he is arguing tangentially that slavery is not only morally correct; but that wives and children are the chattel of husbands and fathers.
We have to understand two things here. One is that, contextually, human slavery was universally practiced in St.Paul's time. His instructions to Christian slaves was no more an endorsement of that institution than Christ calling His first disciples from among fishermen means that God prefers ex-sailors for ministerial duties.
The second thing is that there is no parallel between marriage and slavery whatsoever in the New Testament. Roman women actually enjoyed a (relatively) high standard of social and civil rights; much higher than, say, women in the neighboring Parthian Empire did. The Christian Fathers are all very clear that Christian women---married or not---are sisters in Christ. They stressed this point so much that early enemies of the Church falsely accused Christian teachers of promoting incest.
But this absurdity is not only held by Sumpter, but by many in the Red Pill Cult: Dalrock, Artisanal Toad, and Rollo Tomassi being among its most prominent promoters. They hold---or at least strongly imply---that the State has no moral authority in domestic abuse issues. This idea not only finds no support from Christian Doctrine but has never been a legal tenet of Western Civilization for millennia. Since we mentioned the Romans: although fathers and husbands had more legal authority over women than we do; even they were subject to Roman Law. Today's Islamic States are much the same way; a man's jurisdiction over his women is not unlimited but subject to Sharia Courts. And those Courts give more protections to women than our Media gives them credit for.
Sumpter is very clearly out of his depth as a pastor; and the Moscow, Idaho area seems to be having some real spiritual problems. Maybe we can persuade Pope Francis to send some Christian missionaries there, because it they could really use them.
Today from John Horvat of America Needs Fatima, we learn of a new business enterprise coming out of Canada. The same effete and degenerated culture that's given the world Justin Trudeau and South Park has introduced a new ice-cream chain called Sweet Jesus.
The letter 't' is inverted as an upside-down Crucifix and the 's' letter in Jesus' name is written in Gothic runes---like the Nazi SS symbol.
The perverts running this company have concocted advertising slogans like "soft serve and beverage for sinners" and some of their desserts are called Pimped-Out Cones and Sweet Baby Jesus. Really brilliant stuff, guys.
Sweet Jesus is part of a conglomerate owned by the aptly-named Monarch & Misfits Company. They describe themselves as a "handful of rule-breakers rewriting the restaurant game."
This collection of losers have even posted a disclaimer on their website claiming that their products are not intended to offend anybody's religion. Which is about as credible as the Red Pill blogs' disclaimers that they oppose violence. Horvat did mentioned that the company did however change its name in Dubai, so as not to alienate Moslems.
Actually, looking at both the prices and the hideous-looking concoctions they serve, most people would boycott this joint regardless of one's religious beliefs. Seriously, just look at some of this garbage:
I feel nauseous just looking at these pictures. They don't look like delicious ice-cream at all. Ben & Jerry might have been a pair of flaming Liberals too; but at least they made high-quality ice cream. This stuff looks like something that marketing directors threw together without consulting any actual chefs.
And, I strongly suspect that this the whole angle behind Sweet Jesus. A place for people who care about such things to 'be seen'. One of the Kardashians ate there and recommended it. It's the perfect place for those who consider the Kardashians a public role-model.
Anybody interested in signing a petition protesting this chain's choice of names can find it here.
