Political ponerology, developed by Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Łobaczewski, operates on the premise that macrosocial evil is not merely a product of flawed ideologies or economic conditions, but stems from the biological and psychological pathology of specific individuals. The discipline identifies a cyclical historical pattern where periods of prosperity lead to “psychological blindness,” making societies vulnerable to infiltration by individuals with personality disorders.

Larken Rose’s Jones Plantation Film is an important journey to experience, “People will always take the convenient lie over the uncomfortable truth, every time”. It was an enjoyable ride while psychologically and politically, it is significant and timely.

Larken’s training course Candles In The Dark, was a bright spot during the dark days of Covid. The training was for those seeing through the mandates, to enable them to better communicate with friends and relatives who were stunned into submission at that time. The film The Jones Plantation, brought me to deeper reflections. Much good energy and effective action is shared through the resilient drive of Larken Rose, Jeff Berwick, Jason Christoff, Derrick Broze, and many more. They are well informed, very insightful and good sources for perspective.

The Jones Plantation film however, doesn’t bring me to the Jeffersonian conclusion, “No Cardinals, No Kings”. Which is another way of saying “No moral compass, no sage wisdom”, and is adolescent at its core. Very good things, possibly most good things come from our inner adolescent energy but the conclusion to paint your roof blue and build a bunker in Mexico, can’t be right. The observations are right, the insights, the energy and the drive is right and the solutions have some goodness in them, but it can’t be the right conclusion.

The conclusions of the Anarchists/ Libertarians tend towards, “all institutions, all governments, all religions are bad”, while ignoring that a 6-unit condo complex needs an HOA for governance. I have traveled and seen the world enough to see the goodness in most people and the goodness in most religions. It wouldn’t be difficult to look over our recent history the past 2000 years and identify the most flourishing years in the most flourishing cultures. We would find God at the center of these, with governments who supported human flourishing in the arts, architecture, cultural celebrations, education, etc.

The film The Jones Plantation demonstrates well that there is something about political apparatus, power and innocence that draws psychopaths like moths to a lamp or some would say like flies on shit. There is something about the innocence of people. Most people can’t comprehend the psychopath hiding in plain sight. They can go to the movies and enjoy Hannibal Lecter in all his psychopathy. But if you explain to them the uncomfortable truth that Albert Bourla at Pfizer or Anthony Fauci of NIAID or Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel is Hannibal Lecter, they will run for cover and quite possibly try to lock you up. This phenomena is demonstrated brilliantly in the film.

Political ponerology is the study of the origin and dynamics of evil within political systems, drawing from the work of Polish psychiatrist Andrew M. Lobaczewski. It examines how individuals with pathological personality structures—primarily psychopaths, sociopaths, and severe narcissists—rise to positions of power and use ideology, propaganda, and institutional capture to normalize pathological behavior on a societal level.

The core insight is that evil is not merely a moral abstraction or a product of “bad ideas,” but has a psychological and biological substrate. Pathological individuals are drawn to power because their lack of empathy, conscience, and impulse control gives them an advantage in ruthless, zero-sum competition for control. They then systematically eliminate or marginalize healthy, moral individuals from leadership, creating a “pathocracy” or a society governed by the sick.

Outside of Politics, Ponerology would be easy to spot in Corporate America. Catherine Austin Fitts recently shared how psychopaths are able to run the world, “people who have no empathy are really good at organizing for self-benefit. So you have 3 to 5% psychopaths at the top, and then 20 to 25% who are making a lot of money helping them. The other 60 to 70% of the population can’t fathom what’s going on. What the others are doing, what the smaller groups are doing, drives them crazy. And they become neurotic.”

Tucker Carlson had comedian Jimmy Dore on his show recently. Referring to Michael Parenti, Jimmy shared that the matrix or the people in charge or the oligarchs care most about what you think. They want you quibbling with your neighbor, blaming the recent arrival of migrants, worrying about gas prices or WWIII. Anything but naming them and their machinations.

Mind Control is necessary for control. The Planet Mind Control Documentary by Jason Christoff highlights incredibly good work on the topic. In time, when you bump into personal invisible mind-control fences, you begin to see them. Sometimes it’s a line from a movie, sometimes it’s a cultural expression or adage or it could be just a subtle change of the subject but there are many means and mechanisms that the globalists use to prevent people from noticing what they are up to. Mind control further prevents people from taking effective corrective actions. The conclusion from the mind control victim is almost always, ‘Someone else is the adult making the decisions, not me’. This is a form of psychological infancy.

Max Spiers was the first who brought mind control into my awareness. He would say things like ‘Thursday night must-see-TV is jam-packed with programming’. It took time but eventually I noticed that no one will be feeding you free content without your asking, unless there was something in it for them. You are the product, unless you go out and find your own content.

Colin Powell’s February 5, 2003 presentation to the UN Security Council on yellow cake uranium happened during my honeymoon. We concluded that we had to switch off broadcast media in our lives, for good. Instead of yellow cake, Powell’s presentation relied on other disputed intelligence including a British dossier on Iraqi deception that was later revealed to be plagiarized from a graduate student’s essay.

So, is the solution to psychopathy in government to buy property in a third-world country, build a bunker and a garden and get people convinced of “No Cardinals, No Kings” to follow you? Is this the answer? Or perhaps there are learned scholars all over the world who have been naming this issue and fleshing out the antidote for years.

Other References:

• The Jones Plantation Film

• Planet Mind Control Film

• The Most Dangerous Superstition Book

• The Controlled Demolition Of The American Empire Book

• Political ponerology : a science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes Book

• Catherine Austin Fitts on Ponerology

• Books by Michael Parenti

Connect the dots of major events to historical echoes, from an international expat perspective. Deus vult! Viva Cristo Rey! Christ is King! Jesus is a Palestinian.

Bobby Capucci’s Podcasts ‘The Epstein Chronicles’ and ‘The Coverup Chronicles’ continue to be the best sources of moral outrage on the topic. Bobby’s grandfather was imprisoned when Bobby was a child, and his distaste for two-tiered justice prevails to this day.

At the same time, Bobby is able to get humorously sarcastic on the extreme edges of the government’s mishandling of this case: “Tonight, humanity has received their first message from an extra-terrestrial civilization and their demand was not for water, minerals, nuclear codes, livestock, oceans, our DNA or our streaming passwords. Their first demand, they want the Epstein Files. Not redacted, not sanitized, not ‘trust us nothing to see here’ files. They want it all. The names, the logs, the E-Mails, the visitor records, the financial trails, the flight manifests, the video footage, the broken cameras, the missing minutes, the buried memos, the sealed testimony, and the records that disappeared. Their Commander Blip Zork said that they have been observing earth for 40 thousand years, but after reviewing humanity’s handling of this case, the alien delegation has concluded that the human species has reached an unacceptable density of elite bullshit. We decided, all right, that’s enough. Land The Ship.”

In February, NPR’s investigation revealed that the U.S. Department of Justice withheld and removed dozens of pages from its public Epstein database, specifically documents related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. The analysis identified at least 53 missing pages, including FBI interview summaries and notes concerning a woman who alleged Trump abused her when she was a minor around 1983.

“They had, you know, cars running them off the road, flashing headlights into their home and phone calls and people showing up at their door,” Reiter recalled.

“I had one father on the phone frustrated. He said, ‘You guys talked to my daughter and me into cooperating, and we did, and nothing’s happened to Epstein, and we are getting harassed, and my daughter is failing in school.’

“And he said, ‘If you find Epstein dead, you won’t have to look far because it’s going to be me.’ And I said, ‘Calm down, calm down. We still have a lot of hope about this.’” Julie K. Brown

Key findings from the analysis indicate that serial number discrepancies (Bates stamps) proved the existence of unseen documents, including records of four FBI interviews with the accuser when only one had been made public. The missing files also pertained to a key witness in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial whose testimony mentioned Trump. In response to these revelations, both House Democrats and Republicans launched investigations into the DOJ’s handling of the records, with Democrats alleging an illegal withholding of evidence. [Brave AI]

This blackmail apparatus has taken decades to construct and fine tune. It is clearly working perfectly. When facts get released and names get named, the blackmail is no longer effective. The engineers of the apparatus will do anything to keep it intact, protecting themselves in the process.

If the sources of the funding of the Epstein Operation, likely including Les Wexner, Bill Gates, Larry Fink, Howard Schultz and Larry Ellison get seriously threatened with freezing their sources of funds, we will quickly see indictments. Until then, we will witness no end of shiny-object maneuvers.

The Trump administration employed political deflection, public dismissal, and internal pressure to divert attention from the Epstein files controversy. President Trump explicitly framed the issue as a “Democrat distraction” intended to undermine his administration’s victories, while simultaneously attacking his own supporters and MAGA influencers who demanded transparency. [Brave AI]

Elisa Batista, campaign director at the advocacy group UltraViolet Action, said in a statement in February that we are in solidarity with the courageous survivors showing up in defiance of Trump’s attempts to change the conversation at the State of the Union.

The Epstein Story isn’t about Trump. It’s about a sophisticated global network of blackmail, a human Ponzi scheme, money laundering, trading state secrets, political control and very likely arms dealing. The current Trump Administration through their obfuscation, denials and cover-ups however, has made themselves all about Epstein. They will be remembered and deservedly so, as “The Epstein Administration”.

Other References:

• Exclusive: The Palm Beach cop who Jeffrey Epstein couldn’t stop By Julie K. Brown

• The Epstein Files and the Limits of Conspiracy Theory (Mattias Desmet)

• Podcast: The Epstein Files, the UFO Narrative, and the Politics of Distraction (5/26/26)

• Podcast: Mega Edition: The United States Government And The Self Inflicted Epstein Problem (5/22/26)

• After the release of the Epstein files, why have there been so few arrests? (NPR)

• Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump

• DOJ Under Fire for Withholding Epstein Files Related to Alleged Trump Child Sex Assault

Connect the dots of major events to historical echoes, from an international expat perspective. Deus vult! Viva Cristo Rey! Christ is King! Jesus is a Palestinian.

Take but degree away, untune that string,

And, hark, what discord follows! …

Strength should be lord of imbecility,

And the rude son should strike his father dead:

Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,

Between whose endless jar justice resides,

Should lose their names, and so should justice too.

Then every thing includes itself in power,

Power into will, will into appetite;

And appetite, an universal wolf,

So doubly seconded with will and power,

Must make perforce an universal prey,

And last eat up himself. Great Agamemnon,

This chaos, when degree is suffocate,

Follows the choking.

And this neglection of degree it is.

Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida Act 1, Scene 3

President Thomas Jefferson’s “No Cardinals, No Kings” ethic built America and this ethic could take the bottom out of America. It’s a rebellious adolescent battle cry, that only works until the rebel eats itself up.

Every adolescent goes through a phase of cocky bravado until they realize that wisdom is essential for existence. If you cut yourself off from the lessons of history and great leaders and the lessons of theology and great holy men, you are left shadow-boxing your own bravado with nothing to stand on.

Partly because of geography and partly because of the rebellious beginnings, America became its own Turtle Island cut off from world culture & history. Combine this with fighting the indigenous people, confronting the wilderness and forging the frontier, and we have to admire the grizzled cowboy of the Wild West. But when it comes to diplomacy and statesmanship, America could use more sage wisdom and less Dirty Harry, at this time.

American Culture needs a Jewish lobotomy. Christians believe in abundance while Jews believe in scarcity. Christians believe in moral restraint while Jews believe in Only Fans and Epstein Island. “In God We Trust” on the back of the dollar bill means one thing to Christians and quite another to Jews. Christians believe The Truth Will Set You Free (John 8:32) while Jews believe that Truth Is The Opinion Of The Powerful. Christians believe in God’s Law while Jews believe in rhetoric. Christians believe in work ethic while Jews believe in Usury. Christians believe that honesty is the best policy while Jews, not so much.

Once Christians remember that The Church is not a control mechanism but rather our best historical record and understanding of God’s Law reflected back to us through scripture, doctrine, sacraments, saints and martyrs, we will begin to embrace the wisdom that we have been bestowed. Morality is also known as Practical Reason.

We have to agree that there is such a thing as absolute reality and likewise, a history of absolute reality. Those who try to deny reality typically have a conscience to reckon with. In the same way that a bank robbery actually happened, let’s not try to deny reality. It is here to teach us. Let’s agree that we can learn from it, and work together to do so.

We are living through a momentous turning point in world history. Faith, sincere speech, ingenuity, morality and work-ethic can pull us through. This is the beginning of the end of The American-Israel Empire which began at the end of the Second World War. We have every opportunity for a relatively peaceful transition to a multi-polar world: ‘Mankind will blossom in its manifold manifestations, namely the distinct civilizations and the ethnoses that breathe their souls into them’; ‘Where individuals are integrated in the social whole based on the insoluble bond of kinship and common tradition. It will be a time of high adventure, boundless curiosity and the rediscovery of what it truly means to be different and therefore able to think of unique solutions in lieu of standardized ones’, Inshallah.

Other References:

• Catholic Talking Heads Throw Carrie Under the Bus, By Dr. E. Michael Jones

• The Truth About Trump and Catholics, Patrick Coffin and Carrie Boller.

• Logos Rising, The History of Ultimate Reality by E Michael Jones.

• Walking with a Bible and a Gun: The Rise, Fall and Return of American Identity by E Michael Jones.

• America’s new civic religion is Israelism, Christianity without the New Testament, and it’s the most unforgiving faith of all. Tucker Carlson.

• The Theory Of A Multipolar World by Aleksandr Dugin.

• America is a Christian Nation! Charlie Kirk.

Connect the dots of major events to historical echoes, from an international expat perspective. Deus vult! Viva Cristo Rey! Christ is King! Jesus is a Palestinian.

“And, lo! by Christ his cross I vow,

Which here is figured on my breast,

I will revenge it on his brow,

And break my lance upon his chest:”

And speaking thus whereas he stood,

The dragon issued from the wood.

The lady, that did first espy

The dreadful dragon coming so,

Unto St. George aloud did cry,

And willed him away to go;

“Here comes that cursed fiend,” quoth she,

“That soon will make an end of me.”

St. George then looking round about,

The fiery dragon soon espy’d,

And like a knight of courage stout,

Against him did most furiously ride;

And with such blows he did him greet,

He fell beneath his horse’s feet.

For with his lance that was so strong,

As he came gaping in his face,

In at his mouth he thrust along;

For he could pierce no other place:

And thus within the lady’s view

This mighty dragon straight he slew.

The Birth of St. George

I was lucky recently to spend nearly a week with a brother of mine to explore and enjoy Boston, catch up and even play some hockey together. Including two recent visits with his significant other, this makes five quality visits between us since the Spring of 2024.

His struggle with a massive government infrastructure company has been ongoing for more than twenty years. It has to do with a long-term contract agreement that has been very drawn out and antagonistic, to say the least. He asked me at one point, “What do you think is the bigger picture with this personal professional struggle that I’ve been wrestling with for so long?”

My first response was along the lines of, “You need to lean on God”. “I don’t mean give up, just surrender the details to Him”. “We are not meant to pray for material things, but we can always pray for His strength to guide us towards His Will Be Done”. “Maybe try Church or Prayer”, I said. My further perspective is below.

I believe it is a personal wake up call. “COVID” was a wake up call for many, but like most people each morning, many hit the “snooze” button and are still trying to sleep it off.

COVID woke people up who were paying attention.  It confronted people who only believe in materialism, with the fact that at that level you can be deceived and even mocked all day long.  

Many people either pursued their vices and became depressed or like my case, realized that they needed to return to God and their Faith.

Reptilians never take a day off.   That’s funny but it’s also a funny ad for a ‘conspiracy’ podcast.  Reptilians only believe in the material, so they have organized themselves to be very good at manipulation.  Put another way, if someone only believes in manipulation and the material, they are reptilian in spirit.

Because of their weakness and self-affirming belief system, reptilians have no ability for creativity unless you count manipulation as creative. They can only destroy, copy or interfere.  That’s it.

The only way to rise above materialism in my experience, is to rise above it.  Creation all comes from God like having and raising children, comedy, art, new ventures, architecture, and ingenuity. New ideas and fresh approaches will come from Him.

The movie and film series “The Matrix”, tried to bring this out.  Truly accepting the wake up call, the ‘red pill’ in the movie, tends to be inconvenient and uncomfortable at first.  Just like actually waking up, you tend to be grumpy and irritable when you start to see things more clearly.

When you are able to start leaning on your higher power and listening to your intuition or your soul, you make better decisions and live a much richer life, spiritually at first.

You realize that we’re actually on a soul journey, not a material one.  Although of course, money and comforts are nice and important but they don’t fill your cup, as the Christians say (Psalm 23:5).

“Logos Rising” by E Michael Jones, really saved my mindset in 2020, when I needed it.  His first chapter of that book brought me right back to God.

We don’t realize until we must it seems, that Catholicism brings everything we need.  Catholic is the big tent that not only offers belonging and shared values but actually has a knowledge-base and rich history, when you lean into it.  Not every priest or church is strong but the big tent of Catholicism is strong and rich.

The reptilians have secret societies and secret handshakes and all levels of nonsense, but they know that deep down they are weak and pathetic next to truth & light.

Connect the dots of major events to historical echoes, from an international expat perspective. Deus vult! Viva Cristo Rey! Christ is King! Jesus is a Palestinian.

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.

By William Ernest Henley

Tamara Lich’s story from the heart of the 2022 Canadian Freedom Convoy, is an important reminder of the change in spirits brought about by a small group of highly motivated and highly visible champions of free speech, free expression and hope for the future.

For me personally, the truckers meant a lot. They were a large group of Canadian kindred spirits. I was a mandate refugee at that time and was holed up on a monthly rate at a motel in Northwest Montana, not so far from the border. These ballsy truckers raised our hopes by taking the matter into their own hands for a united demonstration of solidarity and the Canadian people supported them coast to coast with such gusto, along with many hard working Americans south of the border.

Tamara in her book reminds us how ridiculous the government mandates and compliance got, to push the truckers over the edge for their families and businesses. Tamara refers to herself as an adopted indigenous grandmother of a handful. She has Oil & Gas and Logistics experience from Alberta. Her grandmother and grandfather were Cree, and she was raised by an Irish and Norwegian couple who adopted her at Age 2 in Saskatoon.

Tamara and her husband both lost their jobs due to the shut downs, and relocated to help with her daughter & fiancé on their farm. Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Theresa Tam went at that time from declaring no need for masking to September 2021, saying ‘You should wear masks having sex but limit face-to-face contact and possibly use barriers like walls that allow for sexual contact’. By Christmas 2021, there were snitch-lines set up so neighbors could call in to report if their neighbors had four cars in the driveway for a possible social violation!

By the start of 2022 Canada’s Health Minister, Jean-Yves Duclos was signaling that soon, the right to even say no to a vaccine would no longer be an option. Duclos eventually admitted that people “will never be fully vaccinated against COVID” and that Canadians would need to “keep our vaccinations up to date” by being dosed at least every nine months.

Brigette Belton is a trucker from Wallaceburg Ontario and was the first trucker who refused an order high up in her cab, to put on a mask at the Canadian Border November 16, 2021. Eventually that night, they let her go with a warning which she proceeded to vent on her TikTok channel.

A few provinces away, Chris Barber in Saskatchewan had a growing TikTok audience (BigRed1975) for his venting since through his trucking, he was able to live and experience how certain states had already started to relax requirements while Canada was continuing to raise them. Chris quickly became the voice of truckers across Canada who felt betrayed by politicians who once celebrated them as heroes. A past protest connection gave Chris’ number to Tamara and told her to call him. By the time Tamara hung up the phone with Chris, she was ready to make the convoy happen. And the rest is history. The Freedom Convoy was born.

The first trucks left the West Coast on January 23, 2022 by January 29, the convoy was an incredible 100 kilometers long! The support was the sign that none of us had lost our hope. People came to cry with the truckers, to pray with them. Some Canadians drove for four hours to be there. And they would stand for hours to see the truckers. It was minus-20 to minus-30 degrees on the Prairies and in Ontario. Canadians were showing that they had not been beaten. The closer they got to Ottawa, the more people came out to cheer. By the time they reached Ottawa, they were approaching $10 Million funds raised.

They ended up inspiring convoys in dozens of countries: USA; across Europe; in South America; in Australia and New Zealand. There were people who, unlike a lot of Canadians, understood the real evils of government tyranny, because of what communists and dictatorships had done to their countries. Families from Eastern Europe, especially Poland and Ukraine, and even from Iran and South America, were usually the most emotionally affected by the protest.

In Ottawa, there were barbecues and sing-a-longs, there was dancing and hockey games. How horrifying. There was a hot tub and a jumbo-tron. The truckers had set up a bouncy castle for children.

The police tried to ban jerrycans for the truckers, but in the cold the truckers couldn’t survive without them. So what did the truckers do? Everyone started carrying jerrycans for fuel. Some had water, some were just empty but no one could tell who was carrying fuel and who wasn’t. They had a jerrycan fashion show on stage one night!

On February 17, 2022 Tamara Lich read out The Freedom Convoy Manifesto on a Facebook-Live Broadcast. Chris Barber and Tamara Lich were arrested soon afterwards, her last free words being “Hold The Line”. Tamara’s arrest and incarceration included varying forms of humiliation ritual. She was released on strict bail conditions after her first 19 days and arrested and jailed again on what appeared to be a politically motivated bail violation accusation that was over-turned after 29 more days. In the end, Tamara spent 49 days in prison and wasn’t convicted of a crime. Apparently, when it comes to a Métis grandmother with no criminal record of any kind, peacefully protesting at the nation’s capital to uphold the Charter of freedoms, the presumption of innocence doesn’t apply.

The Truckers expressed what we all needed expressed. They broke the fever of the pandemic restrictions. Omicron and Monkeypox were planned, have no doubt. After the Convoys, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Quebec all began announcing the lifting of mandates. Ontario, BC and Manitoba also began announcing lifting restrictions. The Truckers showed us that political Liberal vs Conservative is meaningless when it comes down to Right vs Wrong.

Tamara’s Mischief Trial dragged on from September 5, 2023 and lasted 45 days. On April 3, 2025, she was convicted of mischief (along with Chris Barber) but acquitted on other charges like intimidation. Sentencing was set for April 16, 2025. Sentencing occurred on August 12, 2025, where she received a conditional discharge with 6 months less a day of house arrest (served at home, not in jail) and probation. Tamara and Chris are currently under house arrest until January 2027. They are locked down for fighting lock-downs!

There were two other trucker blockades inspired by the Ottawa Convoy. One was at The Ambassador Bridge, a significant international suspension bridge connecting Detroit with Windsor, Canada, spanning the Detroit River. The second, the Coutts border blockade occurred from February 2 to February 14, 2022, at the Coutts, Alberta–Sweetgrass, Montana crossing.

Around 50-100 protesters, including truckers, blocked traffic at Coutts with semis and RVs, halting trade. They flew Canadian flags and carried signs decrying tyranny. On February 13, RCMP executed a raid using helicopters, battering rams, and gas grenades. They arrested 13 people initially. Most arrestees were released quickly; four faced serious charges. Tony Olienick was the last trucker political prisoner to be released January 27, 2026, after serving four years behind bars.

Autonomous Truck(er)s

Notes from Humans who are still On The Road, missives launched from the intersection of trucking, automation, academia, with an eye towards restoring lost agency.

February 17, 2022 The Trucker Manifesto Tamara read out on a Facebook Live Broadcast:

Open letter to our premiers, and to our elected and appointed officials. End the mandates; end the vaccine passports. This is why we are here.

We began our Freedom Convoy with a clear destination: Restoring freedom for our families, our neighbours, and our country. We arrived in Ottawa 20 days ago, taking a stand for our future.

We have given hope and power to freedom-loving Canadians and beyond. People from around the world are now standing with us and want their freedoms back.

Today, February 17th, 2022, we continue to inspire millions of Canadians to resolutely demand the return of their freedoms. We have furthermore become the model - the beacon of hope - for citizens across the globe.

The government-imposed restrictions in the effort against the COVID-19 pandemic, which rescinded many of our liberties for our “protection,” have been worse than useless. For instance: families have become separated; children, who require intimacy and play for their educational and social development, are suffering the consequences of inhumane isolation; small businesses, especially the service industry, can no longer survive with limited capacities; mental health issues such as drug addiction, alcohol dependency, and suicide have increased several fold.

The list of harms is too many to document here, and others will emerge with time. All we can do now is heal the damage that you have done.

The concept of “freedom” here is not only an idea; we have materially felt its loss. Otherwise, we would not be in the streets. Many of us now having nothing to lose. This is our line in the sand. This is where we hold the line.

Once we arrived in Ottawa, we experienced a truly Canadian gathering. The Sikh communities shared food with everyone. Dance parties were set up. Concerts with sea shanties were held. Children drew thank-you cards for truckers and handed roses to police officers in between playing street hockey, drinking hot chocolate, and jumping in bouncy castles.

We have heard Canadians far and wide. Here we communicate what has been conveyed to us.

The message is clear: End the mandates, end the vaccine passports. This is why we are here. We are calling on all governments in Canada to restore the rights and freedoms of Canadians and set concrete limits so governments can’t easily abuse our rights and infringe on our freedoms again. The message is as follows:

1. We call upon our governments to restore the rights and freedoms of all Canadians:

2. End federal, provincial and municipal vaccine passports.

3. End masking requirements.

4. End all state-of-emergency declarations pertaining to our peaceful protests.

5. Provide financial protection for the small businesses harmed by COVID restrictions.

6. Respect freedom of choice without discrimination.

Furthermore, Canadians want assurance that our government will not repeat the same mistakes again. We propose the following steps be taken to ensure this.

1. Supreme Court of Canada Review of Government Actions
   We need to know whether our rights under the Charter mean anything. We call upon the federal government to initiate a Constitutional Reference Question to the Supreme Court of Canada about the constitutional validity of the COVID laws and restrictions.

2. Public Inquiry of Government’s Response to COVID
   As a matter of national importance, Canadians call upon the federal government to appoint a fully independent and impartial public inquiry on the government’s handling of COVID responses.
   We need to know what went wrong - what caused government to so easily trample our rights and freedoms and cause so much harm to our people and our nation.
   For the inquiry to be effective, the following conditions must be considered:
   a. The inquiry members are to be selected by an all-party parliamentary process;
   b. It must contain a thorough examination of the science, internal communications, policy responses, and the consequences;
   c. It must be commenced by March 20, 2022; and
   d. It must be made public, in the interests of transparency.
   The Freedom Convoy has achieved so much already. In fact, we have revived the Canadian identity and our culture, which openly accepts every person with love.

We all have a choice. Please join with us and Canadians who seek freedom. This can be part of your legacy. We are uniting Canadians across the country and will accept your support, even if you’ve previously been reluctant. This is not about the past - this is about the future. You, too, can be on the right side of history. End the mandates. End the vaccine passports.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom Convoy 2022.

Other References:

• Tamara Lich’s story from the heart of the Canadian Freedom Convoy in 2022

• The Tamara Project is a focused effort to bring Tamara Lich back into public life as an active voice engaging Canadians across the country.

• PODCAST: House Arrest w/Chris & Tamara & guests discuss life after the Longest Mischief Trial of all Time, house arrest, misinformation and much more. Thursdays at 6:00 pm MDT.

• Autonomous Truck(er)s: Subscribe to have writing on the trucking industry, as well as interviews with awesome and interesting people from all around the world, delivered directly into your inbox.

Connect the dots of major events to historical echoes, from an international expat perspective. Deus vult! Viva Cristo Rey! Christ is King! Jesus is a Palestinian.

To call ‘Priceless’ a romantic comedy would be selling it short. It’s much more than this and much deeper than this. Jacques Lacan summarized the essence of the romantic relationship as an exchange of shortcomings, rather than a gift of abundance. Love as a gift of emptiness: Love, according to Lacan, is not giving what one has, but offering what one does not have — that is to say one’s own lack, one’s fault, one’s absence. This is called the gift of lack. This gesture is not an act of generosity towards a complete being, but a recognition of the impossibility of fulfilling the other, and of oneself. Love is then born in this link between two gaps, in the moment when two beings recognize their mutual insufficiency. This is what makes it tragically beautiful: and it is precisely this impossibility that makes it alive. It is this fragile bond, between two gaps, that makes love. That’s all.

Jean the bartender started to pick up dog-walking at his high-end resort as his side-hustle during the days. He was dismayed how his clientele had humanized their pets to a ludicrous level: “Was he fulfilled?” one asked, “He’s very introverted”, she says.

Not surprisingly, he couldn’t keep his eyes open at his bar that slow night. He falls asleep in his bartender tuxedo with a cognac in one hand and a cigar in the other, gifted from a departing guest. Enter Irène played brilliantly by Audrey Tautou of Amélie (2001) fame. And the comedy and romance ensues.

It’s Irène’s birthday and her very wealthy ‘John’ for the weekend passed out. “Pas vrai, Jacques”, she says. She was just looking for a drink and maybe a laugh and some company for her festive night. Upon stumbling onto Jean with his tuxedo and cigar, she presumes that he’s a potential future client not the dog-walking bartender. It takes Jean a moment but he quickly decides to play along to see where this could lead. Of course, it leads straight to hilarity with deeper undertones.

Jean quickly spends all of his savings for any moments with Irène, culminating in a memorable scene where he is penniless with the exception of one final Euro. He asks Irène, “How much does one euro buy me?”. To which she responds, “Ten seconds”. Jean promptly agrees, “Deal”.

In a comical turn of events, they find themselves staying at the same resort in Nice and Irène notices herself falling for Jean’s wit and charm, as broke as he is. They both recognize they are being drawn together but like the opening poem, they acknowledge that they have nothing to offer one another: “C’est offrir une main vide”, it’s offering an empty hand.

Irène begs Jean to help her land her next John, to which he responds “Tell me what you need me to do, and I’ll do it”. At this point, their attachment becomes overwhelming. They can no longer deny that they are meant to be together and they decide to start over with their one remaining Euro.

It’s subtle, clever and comical. It’s under-stated with stunning surroundings. It reminds us that there was a time and place not so long ago, where love stories were all that we had. Charm & wit, character & faith and love brings them together in the end. It’s a beautiful story and a fantastic laugh and ride. Priceless.

Connect the dots of major events to historical echoes, from an international expat perspective. Deus vult! Viva Cristo Rey! Christ is King! Jesus is a Palestinian.

The 2024 USA election was a resounding victory for common sense. There was a sweeping mandate toward transparency, the constitution, responsibility, values, ethics, custom, character and tradition. The Senate confirmation hearings for the Trump Cabinet seemed to present a capable and willing assembly of MAGA compatriots ready to follow through on their mission & mandate. What happened? They have become drunken sailors at the helm of a global pirate ship.

No one agrees what it means to be Conservative versus Liberal anymore. Luckily, we all still have access to the line between good and evil through our hearts. We also can discern between truth and falsehood quite easily. It doesn’t need to be more complicated than this. There is wrong vs right and there is truth vs falsehood and that’s it. Politically, everything else seems to be distraction.

• Ukraine - wrong.

• Gaza - wrong.

• Epstein Rape Island - wrong.

• Venezuela - wrong.

• Digital ID - wrong.

• CBDC’s - wrong.

• MRNA Injections - wrong.

• Weaponized Migration - wrong.

• Hate Speech Laws - wrong.

• Israeli-Trained USA Police Forces - wrong.

We have film villains like the wicked genius Hannibal Lecter, yet most people still find it difficult to imagine that there are bankers, pharma execs and politicians that are more evil and more wicked than Jodie Foster’s nemesis in The Silence Of The Lambs. Likewise we all remember Kathy Bates’ character Annie Wilkes from Misery, yet we can’t fathom Hilary Clinton or Oprah Winfrey’s frequent trips to Epstein’s Rape Island.

Most of us can’t comprehend what Epstein was into because films, books and songs don’t get written about this material: It is too heinous. Most of us would go through our lives never considering this level of debauchery because who wants to. Now, here it is in our faces and we have to understand it, because these are our daughters and sons they are talking about and victimizing.

We are meant to believe that it’s a coincidence that Epstein ran a sophisticated blackmail operation without ‘johns’, and most of our public officials seem to be on a leash or a gag on the topic. America resoundingly agrees on one thing and that’s morality. Public officials don’t get away with abusing other people’s daughters. That just doesn’t happen in America and the truth and facts are emerging.

As Nathan wrote above, ‘This moment hints at a fragility in the god complex: the narcissist’s reign persists only until innocence, uncorrupted, names the nakedness beneath the lie’.

Connect the dots of major events to historical echoes, from an international expat perspective. Deus vult! Viva Cristo Rey! Christ is King! Jesus is a Palestinian.

It may be difficult to imagine but Netflix’s comedy film “Look Who’s Back”, is absolutely worth a laugh. Who could make a time-travel adventure of Hitler in modern-day Germany, and make it funny? Somehow, they did it. Why it works, presents a conundrum.

The film opens with an actual etiquette coach, helping Hitler adjust to modern social norms in Germany. Hitler is understanding that the full Sieg Heil has gone out of fashion but inquiring of his coach, “Is it too much to ask for people at least to raise their forearm properly when greeting?”

Nick Fuentes recently appeared on Piers Morgan’s show ‘Uncensored’. Ironically, Piers didn’t believe that Nick deserved the platform so Nick was actually censored from ‘Uncensored’ up until last week. Nick admitted on Piers’ show that he actually thought that ‘Hitler was cool’. In his debrief the next day on his show with his loyal Groypers, Nick wondered out loud why he thought Hitler was cool. He couldn’t put his finger on it at first, but concluded that what impresses him is the full-throttle nature of Hitler’s Germany. Hitler led what Germany could be, if they banded together and revved it up to the max.

Which brings us to the comic relief of the film. Since 1945, Germany has been decimated by Psychological Warfare. They’ve lost all touch with their greatness. To the extent that ‘Man has as many masters as he has vices’, Germany has been emasculated severely. The contrast of Hitler as he was, emerging in Germany as it is today is so stark that it presents pure comic gold.

Patrick Coffin at Coffin Media this week in his Coffin Report presented a list of his Top 4 Feds in alternative media: 1. Tim Pool; 2. Shawn Ryan; 3. Alex Jones; 4. Nick Fuentes. Nick doesn’t belong on this list. Nick has an important voice today, and most people can’t understand why. He is deliberately provocative combined with gaming the algorithms at times, but the voice he brings is breaking the silence for Gen Z on the Holocaust religion they were spoon-fed growing up. Nick’s Catholicism is real and he’s quick to remind Christians that our Savior and Crucifixion was 2000 years ago, not Auschwitz 1945. He is intelligent, rejects Holocaustianity and calls for America to be Christian again and more Catholic.

Nick is also young and inexperienced. His experience has been tainted by being a Gen-Z growing up in Chicago, witnessing the effects of weaponized migration and racial violence. He knows the charm and richness of ethnic neighborhoods and also can see how culturally rich communities can be sabotaged deliberately. Nick’s comments on race can be reckless and irresponsible. His Catholic church would teach that language, religion, values, custom and tradition are meaningful, while skin color is meaningless. Birds of a feather do tend to stick together. Mixing cultures brings challenges the Church would say, but it’s not sinful.

The film concludes with a deeper contemplation. On some level, do we all long for a real dictator to bring out the best in us and our country? The goal of Communism and Socialism is total despair as explained in the 2017 documentary, “Europa: The Last Battle”. The Communists targeted your family structure, your cultural heritage and connection, your patriotism, and your faith & religion until all sense of identity could be destroyed. Private ownership, private property, and privacy, all destroyed. Some countries are approaching despair now. Perhaps, the good guys lost in 1945.

Nick Fuentes comes along promoting Christian Nationalism, and everyone freaks out. Hasn’t Christian Nationalism proven itself time and again, over the past five hundred years? Put traditional Christian family values at the center of a proud country and cohesive community, and the sky is the limit.

Other References:

• Dr. E. Michael Jones and Nick Fuentes discuss various topics on the America First Podcast. May 24, 2019.

• E Michael Jones: The Truth About The Revolution. October 2, 2020.

• Film: Look Who’s Back (2015)

• Film: Europa: The Last Battle (2017)

• Film: Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told (2013)

• PIERS MORGAN DESTROYED??? LIBERAL BOOMER DESTROYED BY GENERATIONAL RUN | America First Ep. 1610

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You politely ring the doorbell or knock on the front door and believe that you’re starting a conversation with a grown-up. It looks and feels like an adult conversation in every way. What you don’t realize is, the person you’re speaking with is rigging up the paint-can booby trap in that very moment. That’s how terrified they are of a two-way dialogue, time to “Duck!”. The difficult truth is that the person you are attempting to have a conversation with, associates truth and authenticity with pain.

On one hand, you have a person pursuing sincere and authentic dialogue and looking forward to further understanding, while on the other you have Kevin played by Macaulay Culkin who can think of nothing else but getting himself out of this exchange by releasing the next trap.

In this case, Kevin lives in a beautiful house in the suburbs to protect himself. The house represents every wall he’s built up in his life to run away from genuine interaction. If he’s an expert in his field, he can professionally interact with a handful of experts for the rest of his professional life. If he has his own practice, his interactions will be exclusively among his support staff.

We all begin this way. Our developmental stage: Fight, flight or freeze is entirely normal. Our experience is meant to foster into an inquiring mind and in early adulthood we hope, a mind very open to alternative viewpoints.

A man’s home is his castle, this is true. Our families constitute our safe zone for us all to recharge and reinvigorate so we can face the world anew again the next day. So what causes us to turn our castles and offices into fortresses, where we can’t be challenged?

We thought safe spaces and micro-aggressions were taking things too far a decade ago, while today we have a state-sponsored Overton window being enforced country-wide. South Carolina is leading a 15-state coalition against free speech on campuses! Columbia University is seeing the same crack down on free speech as innocent college students are being arrested, detained and in some cases deported.

The ‘Home Alone’ people who are tolerating this must believe, “What I think that I know now, is all I ever need to know”. Tragically in their lives, they haven’t had the learned experience: To think it through, you need to talk it through. Hence the First Amendment comes first.

Too many young people today choose doom-scrolling over casual interaction. They’re not reading books either. This isn’t accidental. These young people are being conditioned this way, since it’s much easier to get them to herd into mainstream narratives if they can’t think or talk through anything important. Berkeley in the Sixties is a documentary film that thoroughly highlights what happens when they can.

Ironically, the New Age largely believes in Christ Consciousness but they don’t believe in working at it. Ayahuasca retreats in the Amazon Jungle don’t count. Christ Consciousness is a product of living your truth, speaking your truth and evolving your understanding of your truth through dialogue, experience and knowledge. It is the very essence of Thy Will Be Done.

When St John asserts that 'The Logos Became Flesh', he is — the cosmic Mediator between God and the world, who is the personification of God's Truth and Wisdom. This is what St John is referring to, when he asserts that Christ was Logos Incarnate.

The Christian practice is, "how we pray is how we live is how we believe" or in Latin "lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi." Emphasizing the interconnectedness of worship, belief, and daily life: "The law of prayer is the law of belief is the law of living."

So how do we get past this ‘Home Alone’ dynamic of running away from sincere speech? As Nathan above explains, by reasoning within ourselves, we can begin to confront our own reactivity. We can make a gradual transformation from, ‘This is me under attack’, to ‘This is a moment that I can navigate’. Eventually, we can revel in the experience of navigating dialogue. The payoff is worth it. It takes consistent inner work. The pain was inevitable, but its hold on us doesn’t have to be. Logos is rising.

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The Danny Casolaro story is a gripping tale. Cheri Seymour shared the first fifteen chapters of her book “The Last Circle”, on a server at Cornell University in the earliest days of the public Internet in 1996. She wanted to protect the material and herself, since investigators kept getting “suicided”. Danny was killed in 1991. The Casolaro’s were a large Catholic family and Catholics don’t believe in suicide or embalming, just for the record.

Cheri was a reporter for a small newspaper in a remote community on the doorstep of Yosemite Valley and became part of numerous attempts to expose the malevolent dynamics of the Octopus malignancy. Her book develops the story into early 2010.

It was the Netflix Four-Part Series, “American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders”, that drew me in. I had to re-watch the series until the gist of the story arc was understood, and figured that would be that.

The next thing I knew, my current book “One Nation Under Blackmail” by Whitney Webb, had a full chapter dedicated to 'A Broken Promis’: A reference to the broken software deal that brought Danny into the story. I found myself fixated on this story line and when Cheri’s book came into my purview, I had to pursue a deeper understanding.

Cheri has a knack for weaving complex narratives and detailed evidence into a compelling and readable tale. She took painstaking steps to put the pieces together as coherently as possible, and never backed down from an obstacle through more than twenty years of dedicated discovery.

Cheri won the trust of many of the key players, and began serving an important role putting the narrative together, like Danny before her. Cheri became a critical node in the network for her readers and law enforcement agencies alike.

In a recent Tucker Carlson interview, Tucker mused aloud “What a powerful force it must be”, regarding Epstein being murdered in a holding cell in a high security prison. I don’t believe this is the case, although I don’t blame the uninitiated for being stunned into wonder at times like these.

What we begin to see when we look closer at some of these dastardly crimes and networks, tends to be bumbling buffoons more willing to pursue treachery and betrayal towards loved ones, close friends, and their country. Promis Software caught the attention of the Octopus for being an elegant and futuristic, powerful, yet relatively simplistic relational database that could be exploited. The culprits refused to give credit where credit was due in Promis’ chief architect Bill Hamilton, and this is the snag that began to expose it all.

The network that Danny Casolaro coined ‘The Octopus’, was very likely the beginnings of today’s “Deep State”. It referred to a secret syndicate with tangled tentacles reaching into some of the most powerful organizations in the world. “Octopus” fits this shadowy "international cabal" of covert operatives.

Michael Riconosciuto was a scientific boy genius and teenage friend of another boy genius in Paul Morasca. Danny referred to Paul as, “The LInk”. Michael can be heard saying in one of the Netflix Trailers, “Paul figured it out first”. Paul at age thirty, was found hog-tied and asphyxiated in his San Francisco apartment in 1982. Riconosciuto stated that Morasca had access codes for offshore accounts containing millions of dollars in drug money.

While Michael’s genius was scientific in Physics, Chemistry, telecom networks and computer software. Paul’s genius was global finance and moving money internationally. So what exactly did Paul ‘figure out’, as Michael put it? We can only speculate that he saw into some combination of organized crime, spying, money laundering, trading in all forms of contraband and skimming off the top, all powered by Promis.

Name the international crime and there are hooks demonstrating Promis Software and the Octopus fingerprints. From Iran Contra, to the October Surprise Iranian Hostage Crisis, to Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance series on the CIA’s role in the crack cocaine epidemic, to backdoors and trapdoors into every major government spy network in the world including the RCMP.

“Former Attorney General under President Richard Nixon, Richardson believed that the Inslaw case had far-reaching implications, stating that the conspiracy surrounding it was more sinister than anything revealed in the Watergate scandal”, wrote Martin Cid.

‘Rachel Begley was 13 years old when her father, Ralph Bolger and his friends were murdered. She never gave up hope that the killers would be prosecuted, and consistently prodded local jurisdictions over a span of years to get the case re-opened. The executions took place on June 29, 1981 while the men relaxed on the back patio of a rented home in Rancho Mirage, California. They were scheduled to meet Steve Rios on July 1st. Steve was an attorney in San Juan Capistrano, willing to initiate an investigation into the Cabazon tribal affairs’ according to Wired Magazine, and the sovereign legal air cover that their jurisdiction provided.

Detective John Powers at Riverside Sheriff’s department was assigned to the cold-case file of Rachel’s father, in 2007. The killer might be free, but in a way, his freedom offers a perverse validation: "You're going to find out real soon," Begley says, "that the world isn't what you think it is."

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The INSLAW Octopus: Software piracy, conspiracy, cover-up, stonewalling, covert action: Just another decade at the Department of Justice.

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In watching the RFK JR’s Senate consideration deliberation as well as Kash Patel’s for FBI Director, I was stunned by such an astounding contrast between the Senators paying attention like Rand Paul (R-KY) or Ron Johnson (R-WI) who are current and in-tune with the populace versus those like Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who are blatantly puppets on a corrupt string.

In 2002, with all the palaver around Iraq War 2.0 and WMD’s etc., I swore myself off of Broadcast TV of any kind. In the recent five years, I’ve had to be much more discerning and vigilant about the sources of media allowed into my perspective.

So, it’s very difficult to imagine that there are people who still attempt to discern reality from the dying legacy corporate broadcast media, at all. Let alone, tolerate the balderdash coming out of some of the sock puppets in the Senate.

My mind is now toggling between ‘having it all’ optimism and hope for humanity largely through the Podcast Streams I’ve chosen to consume, and ‘throwing it all away’ total hopeless depression that there are elected paid U.S. Representatives still very obviously corrupted against their own constituents. And yet, it is very plain to see across all of the major Senate Confirmation Hearings.

So, what is it that creates the false identity syndrome? Life generates wounding quite naturally, not to mention well known and well understood severe abuse, which can often be ritualistic & systematic. We unknowingly create negative identities as a protection mechanism in moments of emotional stress, often when we are very young. These negative identities contain negative thoughts and emotions (energy) that Wetiko also known as Demons, feed upon. Dissociative Identity Disorder is a well understood phenomenon.

The solution is to dis-create the negative identities.

We have to see how our false identities operate through our own consciousness, and this takes away their seeming independence, autonomy, and power over us while at the same time empowering ourselves. When we are “under the influence” of our activated unconscious, we will unknowingly recreate our very inner landscape via the medium of the outside world.

Our natural state is happy, calm, honest, and flowing. Often trauma therapies require you to re-live the traumatic event. While talk therapy makes things worse because you feed your dis-empowering stories with your energy as you focus on your problems.

There modalities and methods like the MACE Energy Method that help remind you that your true self is much bigger and stronger than any wounding that you’ve suffered along the way. Imagine the power of healing survivors like Veterans of Foreign Wars or Adult Children of Alcoholic Families or Epstein Island, and you’ll begin to sense unbridled optimism.

Seeing it for what it is, brings the first step. We have to snap out of our denial and acknowledge the situation. We can become conscious of and ‘step into our intrinsic creative power and agency, or suffer the consequences’.

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Trump’s Senate Confirmation Hearings are bringing more than a breath of fresh air. They’re bringing a spotlight onto the contrast in real-time, between the stodgy old government-guard and the new-media who do their own research: Redpillers. It’s like a mainstream, broadcast Redpill Expo at scale.

The Capitol was originally intended to be more like an Executor of an Estate. Someone who understands the assets and liabilities, and can mediate between constituents to ensure fairness and the future is being served. In recent years, it started to feel much more like a Marie Antoinette ‘Let them eat cake’ elitist scenario where whoever gets away with the most abuses, wins.

What a difference a year makes. One year ago we held possibly the first Redpill Expo, with many more happening all over the country since. We underestimated many aspects but managed a blockbuster speaker line-up, agenda, and a VIP Montana Weekend experience. This week, we lost our Most Reverend Bishop R N Williamson to his eternal just reward. Three weeks ago another one of our Guest Speakers Marco Van Huigenbos, was sentenced to 4 months in Jail as a Canadian political prisoner just over the border in Lethbridge Alberta for his leadership in negotiating at Coutts Alberta during the 2022 trucker blockade against the Ottawa draconian mandates.

This time, Trump isn’t bothering to ask for compliance—he’s making their compliance irrelevant. The civil service class thought they could outlast any administration. Yesterday, Trump shattered that illusion. Now, loyalty to the bureaucracy means nothing—loyalty to the President is what matters. Baptism of Fire on Substack.

I’m a Canadian. In 1996, I started working on projects for US clients in San Diego. In 1999, I began working full time in California and never stopped working for American Companies or Managers from then onwards. For better or for worse my overseas experience since 2005, has me culturally somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. On my travels, I often find myself relating best to the Indians or Filipinos. All this by way of saying that the Americans don't understand Canada or the Canadians but more and more, I'm having the same challenge.

Hearings like the Trump nominations, are opening important conversations between complete strangers. Psychologically, the world is moving too quickly towards atomization, ‘15-minute cities’ in our heads. Trump could become the Uniter that George W promised to be. As long as we continue with the ethic of respect & dignity for each other, and win-win through dialogue and truthful speech at the negotiating table. This could actually be Trump’s greatest strength: Getting the right people at the table, having the right conversations with the right motives. He did write, “The Art of The Deal” after all. To this end, he's going to need to re-think his Zionist-attached loyalties.

“The only thing that will matter if I’m confirmed as director of the FBI is a de-weaponized, depoliticized system of law enforcement, completely devoted to rigorous obedience of the Constitution and single standard of justice,” Patel told the committee.

The panel got sidetracked on remixed songs, the definition of the word “we,” and a mock bingo card, and it seemed to split along party lines as some Democrats vowed to oppose Patel’s confirmation even before the hearing began. The Daily Signal.

Many cultures believe, “Truth is the Opinion of the Powerful”. Christians believe, “Only The Truth Will Set Us Free” (John 14:6). Everything culturally-subversive like gender pronouns and Only-Fans is “The Spirit of Barabbas”, while “Love God Above All Else, and Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself” (Mark 12:30-31), is The Spirit of Christ. We need to re-incarcerate the Spirit of Barabbas and continue to unleash the Spirit of Christ. Bring on the sunlight! Our kids deserve better. Amen.

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South Bend was an unplanned stop, just after Thanksgiving. I pulled over to grab a coffee and check e-mail, and decided to reach out to a former professor. “Plan to stay in town, and come over & let’s catch-up”, he welcomed. Being my first time to Indiana, I didn’t know what to expect. I was aware of some of the Notre Dame folklore and good reputation. It was the birthplace of Thomism in America at one point, until it was strangled in its cradle.

“In his book, ‘Is Notre Dame Still Catholic?’ E. Michael Jones offers a searing, unforgettable indictment of one Catholic university in America that tragically lost its way.” Reviews.

On my first evening, it was getting too late and I was getting too tired to make it to 5:00 pm mass at The Basilica so fittingly, I enjoyed a traditional Irish Pub downtown. I was preparing to hit the interstate on day 2, and figured that I should at least drive the campus. I was immediately struck by the Gold Dome but despite my best efforts, I couldn’t get anywhere near it to park. I decided a driving tour was all that it was going to be, and started again to head for the Freeway.

One more wrong-turn, and all of a sudden I was headed straight for the golden rotunda! Sure enough, the road took me to the Bookstore Parking, which was open for a two-hour stop. “Am I having a religious experience right now”, was all I could think. Sure enough, I nearly wept as I approached by footpath. The layout and architecture was absolutely stunning. I have visited the Vatican and the sensation was in the same league, minus Michelangelo.

Next to the Campus Coffee shop where they send your Uber-Eats via Mars Rover, is a Visitor Center which seemed like the right place to start. Just next to the giant images on the wall of former President Father Hesburgh dancing in the park with free-love hippy-chicks, is a giant image of two buxom co-eds opening their Residence Window as if to say, “Let’s Party”. I was starting to think, “Something is off here”.

“I know” I thought, “I’ll grab some souvenirs for my kids at the Alumni Center”. “The souvenirs are all at the Bookstore”, the Alumni Reception scolded me sternly. “OK, where are the books?”, is all I could wonder. Well silly me, the Bookstore doesn’t have any books. Only souvenir coffee-table glossy hard-cover photo-books of football and Father Hesburgh, largely. “This place is all about the Football and the Money now”, I concluded.

After a mild Campus self-tour, I decided that I should at least visit The Basilica and practice Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, Lex Vivendi. The Basilica was just as astounding as the Campus. So there I was practicing Lex Orandi and a long way away, I can see a priest in all his regalia on the altar. “Wait. Was he just checking me out, like those guys at the Truck-Stop?! Couldn’t be.” You could say that my visit was an incredible contrast of awe and reverence for the past and tradition, with some form of full-body dry-heave gag-reflex for the present.

I realized that I had to read Dr E Michael Jones’ book, “Is Notre Dame Still Catholic?”. It is an intensely experienced, intellectual outrage at the sell-out that Notre Dame has become. “In the fall of 1980, E. Michael Jones was an assistant professor of American Literature at Notre Dame’s sister college St. Mary’s. After receiving his Ph.D. from Temple University in 1979, Jones had moved his wife and two children to South Bend, Indiana to begin what he thought was going to be a career in academic life. But God had other plans.”

He was unceremoniously fired from St Mary’s for being Pro Life! He had no idea what hit him, but he understands the evolution now and has elucidated brilliantly in this book. Notre Dame was a microcosm of what has happened to America, and so goes the world. As James Likoudis puts it: "…Moral filth and corruption…total sexualization of American culture, intended to bring about the extinction of the Church and the classical-state based on the moral law.”

Their departure began by Notre Dame claiming that they were pursuing Academic Freedom over Catholic heritage & doctrine, and they ended up losing their way in all respects. “Beginning with a survey of the theology department and ending with an article on why the Chairman of the Liturgy Department was found shot to death in the basement of his home surrounded by S&M paraphernalia, this series of articles describes the trajectory at mid-point that Father Hesburgh began when he stole Notre Dame from the Catholic Church in 1967.”

It’s funny to look back now after my ‘school of experience’: School Uniforms have their place. At our high school, the last Friday of the month was a non-uniform day. Those days were fun. It was like a party in the hallways, of sorts. You get used to seeing blouses and kilts, and those days the hair was down, literally. But there was nothing academic about it, that’s for sure. On our football Friday game-days, we went to chapel at 7:30 am and wore our ties to class. We prayed in the huddle and we prayed together at half-time. It was a holy experience that I wish for our youth today to have.

At one point in early 1985, Ann Landers finds ‘an expert Catholic’ to set her reader straight. It happened to be Rev. Edward A. Malloy, associate provost of the University of Notre Dame, who informs ‘Ms Guilty’ that, “…in recent years, moral theologians have challenged the Catholic position on masturbation and now it’s seen as a relatively common form of sexual release.” Father Malloy refused to clarify his comments with the press, and in a subsequent Ann Landers column, issued a retraction of sorts: “Sexual behavior should neither be trivialized, nor rendered as the sole determinant of one’s standing for God.” Ann Landers could hardly restrain herself; “Your letter leaves no doubt about where you stand,” she concluded ironically.

During the Clinton Administration, “The Vatican was clearly nervous about a meeting between the pope and President Clinton in St Louis. They wanted to downplay the meeting and reduce the chance that it could be seen as a papal blessing on someone who has gone out of his way to undermine the moral order. There was even talk of a Vatican ‘confessional encounter’. An insider suggested that President Clinton asked the pope to hear his confession, but the pope refused claiming that he wouldn’t have time. He was only going to be in the country for two days”.

To the extent that the Moral Law is written on the human heart, The Church should be just a formalization and clarification of how to navigate within our Natural Moral Order. People with trouble with their conscience, are going to have trouble with The Church. Full stop. In this sense, The Church is just mirroring back to us, how best to live our lives. And, how do we do without our Moral Compass? I guess we’re finding out: Lost.

If RFK JR is perfectly suited to be America’s Czar of MAHA (Make America Healthy Again), Professor E Michael Jones is well-suited for the overhaul of public education. He could be our Czar of Making America Educated Again, and put the ‘Higher’ back into Higher Learning. Empty stomachs aren’t the issue of the day. The issue is empty minds and barren souls: Mind-Body-Soul; Logos-Pathos-Ethos.

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