Christians always need to be on guard against political infiltrators within their own ranks. This especially true in a pluralistic society like ours where the threat of internal corruption is ever-present. We've spoken here frequently of the Red Pill menace and others posing as representative of the Right; but Left-Wing infiltration is also occurring. The Radical Left has access to deep financial resources and money can buy influence---even the Church.
Last week in Modesto, California, The World Meeting of Popular Movements gathered religious leaders from the Pacific Coast to affirm their solidarity in the so-called 'Resistance' against President Trump and democracy in general. The meeting was sponsored by a Soros-funded front called PICO and organized by the notorious Cardinal Maradiaga; an unsavory character whom we've encountered before.
The Conference featured four bishops and two cardinals. Bishop McElroy of San Diego had this to say concerning President Trump's policies:
"Well now must all become disruptors. We must disrupt those who would seek to send troops into our streets to deport the undocumented, to rip mothers and fathers from their families. We must disrupt those who portray refugees as enemies rather than as our brothers and sisters in terrible need. We must disrupt those who train us to see Moslem men and women as forces of fear rather than as children of God. We must disrupt those who seek to rob us of our medical care, especially from the poor. We must disrupt those who would take food stamps and even nutrition assistance from the mouths of children," None of which, incidentally, Trump is actually doing, or even proposing to do. But fomenting anti-Trump hysteria was the goal here, not telling the truth.
If all of the Bishop's rhetoric sounds like a script written by Soros himself, it should. As Catholic News Agency reported, PICO raked in $650,000 from Soros, according to leaked documents. And further that,
"The same cache of documents indicated that the Soros network funds abortion advocates in Ireland as part of a strategic model to overturn abortion laws in Catholic countries...according to the documents, the Soros foundations also gave $450,000 to the group 'Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good', crediting the group with changing Catholic voters positions on abortion. E-mails to and from DNC Chair John Podesta, published on WikiLeaks claimed that CACG was a group founded with the intention of creating a 'Catholic Spring' against US bishops."
The hypocritical Bishop McElroy went on to praise California for its $15/hr. minimum wage and to call for higher taxes on the 'rich' and more State control over the economy. "As people of faith, as disciples of Christ, as children of Abraham, as followers of the Prophet Mohammed; as people of all faiths and of no faith, we cannot merely be disruptors---we have to be rebuilders." he said.
The Catholic laity needs to be made aware of Soros' double-dealings and pressure their local Dioceses to disengage from any of these Soros-funded fronts. Further, consult our previous article and support Congress' attempts to investigate Soros and have him nationally disbarred as an undesirable alien. Soros, Maradiaga, Podesta, McElroy and their whole cabal of bandits need to be exposed and denounced because they mean the Church no good. Their stated goal is to overthrow traditional Christianity, whatever pretenses to the contrary they might adopt.
The moment many of us have hoped for has arrived. The US Congress has begun a formal inquest into the activities of international criminal mastermind George Soros. And better still, the focus of the inquest is liable to catch a few DNC apparatchiks in the dragnet.
The scandal leading to this investigation broke loose in the tiny, but historically significant and geopolitically important country of Macedonia. Macedonia won its independence during the collapse of the former Yugoslavia and historically is the home of Alexander the Great and Aristotle, two giants of Western Civilization.
Macedonia lies across most of the northern border with Greece. A few years ago, Greece was threatening to leave NATO and the EU. Riots began breaking out in Macedonia---in very similar fashion to the Euromaidan Coup in Ukraine-- in 2015. It led to a huge political crisis and the Macedonian authorities, who are pro-Western, suspected Soros and Obama at the bottom of the unrest. Their investigations have proven correct; and Macedonian politician and former president Nicola Gruevski presented his evidence to US officials.
"If it were not for George Soros with all the millions he pours into Macedonia, the entire network of NGOs, media, politicians; the process {of restoring order} would not be that difficult. The economy would be stronger and we would have new jobs." Gruevski told the press. And he is not exaggerating: China has a pending contract to invest heavily in Macedonian infrastructure as part of its New Silk Road project---held up because of the unrest. Macedonia is vitally positioned to connect the overland rail transportation system from Greece to Asia. Gruevski is currently leading a move in the Macedonian Congress to have Soros banned as an Undesirable Alien and his Macedonian assets frozen.
So what does this have to do with American law? Well, the Macedonians also discovered that funding for Soros' crimes in their country was being provided by the Obama Administration: i.e., with US tax dollars. And Soros' activities, too, were being coordinated by the US Embassy in Macedonia.
Utah Senator Mike Lee, who opened the Congressional Inquiry, said that there is ample evidence of Obama Administration duplicity in Macedonia and called the ambassador to answer questions. So far, the Embassy has been stonewalling; but records have emerged showing that USAID gave Soros' Open Society Foundation $5 million between 2012-2015 for the ostensible purpose of "empowering Macedonian citizens to hold government accountable."
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks stated on Sunday: "The challenge that we have seen is that the US mission has made some questionable funding to organizations associated with George Soros which are really antithetical to many things in which America believes. And we've tried to get support from the State Department and USAID to try and get to the bottom of why this funding is being used against the interests of both Macedonia and the United States."
USAID was established in 1961 by President Kennedy during the height of the Cold War. Its purpose was to fund humanitarian and technological projects in underdeveloped countries friendly to the West. Kennedy's reasoning behind this was sound: USAID was meant to counter Communist movements among the poor in these countries. Since then, though it has become a vehicle for spreading Cultural Marxism and spearheading foreign financial interests among Wall Street Elites. The whole 'US interest' in Macedonia was nothing more to put pressure on Greece to remain in the European Union: and Greece owes considerable debt to Wall Street-funded banks. And Soros is invested in those banks himself.
Here are the Congressmen who've signed on to the Inquest. Support them and encourage them to put a stop to Soros' crime wave:
Sen. Mark Lee (R-Utah); Reps. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), Louie Gomert (R-Tex.), Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.), Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.), Chris Smith (R-N.J.), and Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.).
Blogger Insanity Bytes had a good article yesterday exposing further hypocrisy from the Red Pill Cult. Dalrock, one of the ringleaders of that movement, wrote yet another article attempting to discredit traditionalist Conservatism and Christianity. The focus of his anger this time was a piece in the National Review encouraging men to consider marriage.
The Red Pills' version of 'Christian Marriage' is one wherein the wife is essentially the husband's chattel. They consider women inferior to men and advocate that wives must tolerate abuse and other unchristian behaviors from their husbands. Most of them believe that the wife must worship her husband as an earthly god; though they often don't come out and say so directly. Their typical motif is to hide behind Conservative and Christian trappings while preaching doctrines opposed to both.
The Red Pills' Male-Supremacist philosophy finds a natural ally in White Supremacy and Neo-Naziism. True Conservatives and Christians have nothing to do with any of these ideologies. President Trump, for example, yesterday condemned Anti-Semitism as un-American. For those who missed his remarks due to Corporate Media blackouts, the story can be read here.
Many believe that the Red Pill Cult is merely an echo chamber and isn't effecting churches at large. Not so. A Red Pill blog called Goodbye America had an article today with a photograph of an 'offensive' icon in a Michigan Catholic Church. The article was titled Jesus Cucking Christ; the term cuck or cuckservative being the Red Pill neologism for Traditionalists. It's a term they throw around to disparage Conservative Christians, much like whackos on the Far Left throw around terms like 'Christofascism'.
Here's the statute that has the Red Pills so outraged:
"There's a psychological undercurrent subtly conveyed by this artwork," the Red Pill warily explains, "You'll notice that the chocolate imp is sitting in (presumably) Jesus' lap, while White children gather around Jesus almost like they are His Apostles. Everyone stares lovingly and attentively at the Black baby. The message is that the African orphan is a charity case through which empathobesic White Christcucks may demonstrate their virtue. It's Captain Save-a-Fro as Church policy, and you will only ever see this sort of thing in all-White churches."
Now isn't that statement the very sort of Politically-Correct drivel that one would expect on any Far Left Cultural Marxist blog? (Minus the racial slurs, of course). But the Red Pills have fully embraced this kind of Identity Politics.
A commenter at Goodbye America who writes under the name of Sigma 7, submitted this photo, from a church where he was ostensibly attending a funeral but took time to be offended at statues of Christ preaching to children. He's a frequent commenter on Manosphere sites like Dalrock, and had this to add:
"The ceremony for my father was simply awful. The priest was weak but all my female family loved it because it was touching. They had some lady playing s----y keyboard and singing with all the awe, reverence, and wonder of a month-old loaf of bread. All doughy and moldy. My dad's corpse had more 'T' in it a week after he died than that priest. I understand why men are no longer interested in church. I see why those vibrants/muzzies are so welcome. Dalrock is correct, the church is poison."
We highlighted the last sentence, because therein lies the point. These are the kinds of attitudes people are coming away with after immersion in Red Pill Philosophy.
This is why pastors, priests, and other Christian leaders need to address the Red Pill Cult more aggressively. It's actually more dangerous to Christianity than Cultural Marxism. With the exception of the 'Rainbow Church' types, the Far Left is typically unashamedly anti-Christian. The Red Pills counterfeit Christianity by appealing to vulnerable men with their False Doctrines disguised as traditionalist thought.
For the second time in the last six months, the American Psychiatric Association has spoken out against Trump Derangement Syndrome among its membership. The APA issued a general warning today to its members to desist from feeding the Corporate Media trolls with fake diagnoses of President Trump's sanity.
Section 7.3 of the APA Code of Ethics specifically forbids mental health professionals from offering a diagnostic opinion on public figures whom they have not examined personally or without the public figure's consent. The rule was instituted in 1964 after a candidate successfully sued the APA for libel (hint to Trump legal team).
The legal issues aside, the provision in the Ethical Code is a sensible one. The same gullible Corporate Media who denounced speculations from qualified physicians as to Hilary's Clinton's medical during the Campaign eagerly began pouncing upon the guesswork of psychologists concerning Trump. This led to another APA disclaimer in August. Without proper diagnosis, including an in-person interview and evaluation, these speculations really only amount to opinions. But when one puts a professional certification to that opinion, it carries more weight among the general public than coming from a non-professional.
Professor Peter Kinderman, the head of the APA's British counterpart, told Sputnik News that political positions are not fit subjects for psychological speculation in any event.
"Attempting to use a diagnostic approach to understand and confront President Trump is wrong on many levels." Kinderman said. "I am skeptical of the validity of such psychiatric diagnosis per se, and I especially condemn arms-length celebrity pseudo-diagnosis."
Kinderman is correct: in traditionalist academics, national political policy more properly belongs to the scientific domains of Sociology and Law. It should be taken for granted that a current political leadership---especially in a democracy---is the sum total of a nation's social trends and legal history.
Nonetheless, however, Trump Derangement Syndrome is such a powerful affliction that many American psychologists are ignoring their own leadership; heedless of the damage they may do their own professions and careers. We've seen this phenomenon in action ever since Trump won the Republican nomination. Prominent public figures have lost their positions for making threats against Trump, or going berserk in public venues. Media figures have had on-air breakdowns; pillars of Academia have been caught in acts of political violence; athletes sabotaging their own teams with political statements; the list goes on.
Among American psychologists, a group calling itself Citizen Therapists Against Trumpism has been fomenting a campaign among their peers--- in defiance of the APA rules---to spread allegations that Trump is mentally ill. They've even gotten up a petition among themselves to have Congress declare Trump mentally unfit for office.
Granted, some of this may be nothing more than a publicity stunt. The Smart Boys in the psychiatric profession have no doubt noticed too that Trump Derangement Syndrome seems prevalent among Liberals with deep pockets, and so these worthies are using the Media for free advertising in hopes of attracting wealthy Liberals traumatized over the Election. But we're equally confident that many others are genuine Fanatics, suffering from the Syndrome themselves.
The APA would be well-advised under the circumstances to begin an investigation of those professionals engaging in this bizarre behavior. In the interests of science, they should also investigate the Trump Derangement Syndrome phenomenon as well. But if what many of us suspect is the case---that there's a correlation between TDS and over-prescription of psychiatric drugs---the APA would probably prefer to let sleeping dogs lie on the latter issue.
We've made a few new changes here at this site, which we hope will better serve our readers. Among things we've done is added a few new feeds to new sites and plan to upgrade our Links section with access to more useful information. Some of these changes have come about because of the change in political administrations in the US which have made us alter our former approach.
One we've added is called MAGA Ireland which aims to bring the political paradigm shift in America to the Emerald Isle, and post-BREXIT. It's a new blog, but deserves your support.
Today, we added a feed to the Blogroll directly from the White House Press Room. We'll see how well it works as a feed, (otherwise we'll move the site to Links). The purpose in adding this site is to allow readers direct access to the Trump Administration's activities. We've found since January 20th that much of what President Trump actually does or says is either completely by the Corporate Media altogether or presented in distorted form.
Under the Obama Administration, the Corporate Media worked hand-in-glove with the White House, so basically the MSM and DNC positions were identical. We tried to counter that here by relying heavily on foreign news sites. The problem with the foreign press relative to American news is that the foreign press gets its news feeds from the US. The foreign press may do more fact-checking and have more objective editorials; but they have limitations. The kind of widespread Corporate Media blackouts effect the foreign press like it does American audiences: they simply not cover a story because they are unaware of it.
Linking directly into the Trump Press Room will hopefully help readers to circumvent MSM blackouts and fake-news. We cannot rely on the Corporate Media to report any positive initiatives coming out of this Administration; so by necessity we must get our information directly from them. As the White House Press Room is obviously a government-controlled information source, we do offer the same caveat that we do with similar foreign news outlets: trust but verify.
As for our foreign news links, we will keep them going and intend to add more in the near future. A new addition this month has been a link to India Today. Our blog has an interest in geopolitics among other things; and probably has a more global perspective than typical Conservative writings. However, we believe that if the US is to be a global power, Conservatism needs to take a more geopolitical approach. This is especially true in international trade and suppressing Jihadism and fighting international crime. The Pax Americana approach of the last three decades has failed; emergent superpowers like Russia, China---and to a lesser extent India and Iran---have proven that bilateralism is a more effective approach.
To that end, we are hoping to add news feeds from Israel, Pakistan, and South Africa within the coming month. And of course we'll add domestic 'alternative' sites as good ones come to our attention as well.
It's always interesting---and in many ways reassuring---that as we travel through our film archives each Friday to realize that our contemporary social issues are not unique to our times. We are not alone in the great scheme of human history. We often find in these representations of popular American culture of the past parallels to our own situations.
Our recommendation for this weekend's viewing is the story of a group of 'lost boys' who find redemption in a cause greater than themselves. The film is a very underrated Western from 1972 titled A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die. The heroes are played by James Coburn and Bud Spencer.
The story is set during another politically-divided time: specifically the US Civil War. Colonel Pembroke (played by James Coburn) a Union officer has built an impregnable fortress in the American Southwest. At the beginning of the film we learn that Pembroke surrendered the fort to the Confederate Major Ward and is court-martialed. Pembroke escapes from prison with his friend Eli Samson (played by Bud Spencer). Captured, he offers a plan to recapture the fort and clear his name; along with five other soldiers sentenced to death on the gallows and Samson.
The men form an uneasy alliance from a variety of motives as the plan to take out the fort unfolds. We learn that Major Ward and the Confederates are planning to carve out a personal territory of their own once the Union has collapsed. And we learn the reason why Pembroke surrendered the fort.
We say that this is an underrated film because it is a much deeper, thinking-man's than critics seem to realize. The storyline of condemned men on a suicide mission is nothing novel; but the character development and the sense of redemption for a greater purpose, is. In the aftermath of the 1860 Election, there was a literal rebellion against the government. The Confederacy was composed of an Oligarchy which kept half of the South in slavery and the other half in poverty and economic dependence. They were the Cultural Elites of their day: defenders of an unsustainable status quo that had paralyzed the country for decades---simply to uphold their power and privilege. Ironically too the Confederate leaders were all Democrats. They had been using their positions to undermine the government for years previous to Lincoln.
And like the Conservatives of recent years, the generation just prior to the Civil War had grown complacent. We see this in Pembroke's character when we learn the reason for his surrender of the fort: he put a personal issue above his duty to the country. Ward's treachery brought Pembroke back to reality. He realized that the injustice he suffered would be multiplied to infinity if the Union collapsed and men like Ward were to take over. His mistake was a human mistake, but a costly one.
In this aspect, A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die is not simply a revenge-themed Western nor is it a matter of a disgraced soldier reclaiming his honor. Pembroke's goal is to wipe out the wrong he did to society at large by undoing his mistake at whatever cost. This is why he selected other condemned men---most of whom seem to realize this as the story progresses. There is some foreshadowing of this when he debates with a religious zealot over the verse "Vengeance is Mine, sayeth the Lord."
The idea of redemption through atonement is one that is lost on the enemies of Freedom, but it is a vital one for understanding the character of the men who made America great, like Colonel Pembroke. The godless Left and the Neo-Pagan Right both agree that mankind is flawed---but neither believe that Man is redeemable. That perspective is the basis of their Authoritarianism; logically if there is no redemption or possibility of atonement, Mankind can only be controlled and never given freedom of choice.
There is definitely more substance to this film than what's on the surface. It tells us a lot about human nature, both for good and evil. A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die is available on Youtube as of this writing; and also on DVD. Besides its considerable action and entertainment value, it certainly gives pause for reflection.
The Chinese Media reported today that they had concluded a nearly three-month investigation of two factories which produce Ivanka Trump's line of designer women's shoes. Their press roundly denounced US Corporate Media outlets for promulgating fake news and stated as well that these same outlets committed crimes on Chinese soil.
The investigation apparently began in late December after the Moonie Cult-affiliated The Daily Beast published a series of articles and photos claiming inhumane working conditions existed in the two factories. This story, of course, coincided with the Far Left's boycott of Ivanka Shoes. However, the Xi Administration in China has been cracking down on sweatshops during the last few years and takes such accusations quite seriously.
The full Chinese report can be read here for those interested. There are several points in the article worth highlighting however. For example, this statement by one of the factory executives:
"These reports have deliberately distorted our image as a manufacturer, so some workers involved in that reporting and image shooting have been fired."
Those who understand the dynamics of doing business in China recognize that this executive is implying that the employees were probably bribed to lie the Corporate Media. This is further suggested by his statement that:
"Employees at the factory stated that foreign reporters trespassed on factory grounds late in the evening and took some photos in a darkened workers' dormitory."
This is such typical behavior for the American Media these days that there's no reason to doubt China's claims here. Faking news to attack President Trump or his family is standard operating procedure among the press today. What's sad about this incident is that many of us would like to see greater Freedom of the Press in China; but activities like these will likely only deepen the Party's distrust of an independent press.
The other factory involved in the investigation also produces women's shoes for companies like Gucci. They displayed to the investigators that most of their system is mechanized and produces 1300 pairs of shoes per day on each production line.
Chinese Government officials concluded by warning the factories and their employees to be on guard against duplicity by the US Media; stating that our media was interested only in smearing Trump and by extension hurting Chinese business.
So once again, the American Left have made fools of themselves in front of the world. And the chumps in our Media Establishment have been again humiliated by a foreign State-controlled news source. This is twice now in one month that China has slapped down Ameroboob Anarchists attempting to use China's factories as a foil to attack Trump.
And it's also further indicative of the depths to which the American Corporate Media will stoop in its fanatical obsession to undermine Trump. They've demonstrated here that they have no regard for sabotaging even our 1st Amendment's image abroad in the pursuit of defeating democracy.
