lewrockwell--2020-12-25--The New Domestic Christendom

The New Domestic Christendom

Adapted from Crucial Christianity : An Ethos Theology for the 3rd Millennium “ It is now upon you alone that the churches of Christ lean , from you alone that they await safety , from you , the avenger of crimes , guide of those who err , consoler of the afflicted , upholder of good.
” So said Alcuin of York of Charlemagne , who on Christmas Day 800 A.D. was crowned the King of Christendom by Pope Leo III .
On this 1220th Christmas Day after the coronation of Charlemagne and the inauguration of Christendom I , any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vanquished and definitely replaced by Satanic States and a universal anti-Christic dystopia .
Thus the erstwhile Christian nations no longer have the meaning they once did , for they have apostatized , are devoid of God , and are thus illegitimate .
Nostalgic ethnic sentiments and cultural romantic reenactments do not change the fact that Western countries—and most especially those that formed the bulwark of Christendom I such as France , Italy , Spain , Ireland , and even the late-coming America—have not merely reverted to heathenism but are essentially and virulently anti-Christic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in fact are based upon , the very rejection of the Christian heart of Western civilization , and thus are rendered virulently hostile to Christ and his people .
In short , these nations and these cultures , unlike the natural law based pagans of old , are utterly irredeemable , having as their very essence an anti-Christic dynamics .
This means that the third millennium is a time where Christian patriotism can no longer be properly equated with nationalism but rather only with true piety , or love and honor of God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ righteous patriotism then derives solely from the inseparable love of , and wholehearted allegiance to , faith and family .
The Miracle Morning : T ... Elrod , Hal Best Price : $ 6.70 Buy New $ 13.25 Due to the new hostile sociopolitical realities , the third millennium is a time as well of new beginnings ; it is a time of the clan and the small-faith community of families ; and it a time when a new Christendom will be built ( to the extent that it is built ) solely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If any new Christian sociopolitical entities , even new countries , are to arise , they must arise anew and outside and beyond the demarcations of the past ; outside and transcendent of the current sociopolitical powers-that-be ; they must arise outside and in contradistinction to the world , the flesh , and the devil .
This dawn of the third millennium requires the advent of a new Christian culture comprised of individual pastoral , that is grassroots , shoots that have made their way up among the ruins of an anti-Christic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in this the third Christian age , that the lay faithful are called to grow up and out of the childhood of ages past .
These faithful , these so-called “ commoners ” and “ citizens , ” are called to rise up fully mature , no longer holding onto props of the world , no longer dependent or subservient to powers and principalities , but only holding onto , dependent upon , and subservient to the Holy Cross .
The third millennium is truly the age of the laity .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is the age of the family and the imago Dei individual ( the image of God as free rational-volitional beings ) that comprises that family .
And it is the age of the family and imago Dei individual because that family is being destroyed and the individual enslaved as never before ; for in God ’ s economy “ where sin abounds grace abounds more ” ( RM 5:20 ) , the truth and good arising in direct contradiction to the prevalent falsehood and evil .
1,220 years after the Coronation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whole salvation of the Church of Christ , ” that is , any possibility of a new Christendom , once again resides with the laity .
But this new Christendom entails not the restoring of the ancient Western monarchies ( as many traditionalists whimsically espouse ) , but with reinforcing the only timelessly God-ordain monarchy , that of the family .
A new Christendom entails not the divine rights of elite kings and royal families , but rather the divine rights of the common man and the nuclear family .
And these divine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ absolute , for they derive from the faithful ’ s absolute right to do their duty to God , that is , their duty to abide by both natural and divine law , and indeed divine inspiration .
But make no mistake , those that so abide by natural and divine law are outlaws to the Satanic State ; a State that as such must be militantly engaged for “ the whole salvation of the Church of Christ , ” and most specifically and urgently for the salvation of the domestic church that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the anti-Christic third millennium requires that Christian piety and devotion no longer be squandered on a supposed but baseless duty to king , flag , or country .
No longer should a romanticizing of a country ’ s past Christian heritage evoke allegiance to that country ’ s anti-Christic present .
And no longer can a Christian justify a particular nationalism against a larger internationalism , for internationalism is but nationalism writ large .
Rather , in the third-millennium , Christian piety , patriotism , loyalty , and devotion must be given to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and so can truly love ; and it is the Faith made tangible in the family , and the community of families , that one can truly know and love .
It is neither countries , nor royal lineages , nor constitutions that God has immutably ordained , but rather it is the Holy Faith in grace and the sacrosanct family in both nature and grace that is God-ordained .
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A Christian ’ s allegiance should be both familial and universal , not national and political .
For familial allegiance is grass-rooted , as charity begins in the home ; and universal allegiance justly transcends nations , as all men are created in God ’ s holy image ( and indeed all men have families as well ) .
But when a people ’ s allegiance is national and political the flower of their own nation ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exterminated , while the families of opposing politics or nations are likewise afflicted .
Yes , Aristotle was wrong .
Aristotle ’ s polis model and political philosophy imbued the State with a sacred , albeit pagan , nature , and held it to be the only perfect society .
In the erstwhile Christian era , this theory was subsequently “ baptized ” by adding the Church , even in her accidental and improper bureaucratic and political power , as the only other “ perfect society.
” This modified/baptized Greco-Roman model entails the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ having a united God-ordained authority over the people ( indeed the clergy was considered aristocracy ) .
The family was said to lack self-sufficiency and so was held to be an imperfect society .
As such the individuals which make up the imperfect family were tasked to depend upon and thus subservient unto the “ perfect ” conglomerate of State and Church .
This widely adopted sociopolitical model is an example ( another being an acquired virtue-based morality ) of “ Saint ” Aristotle ’ s undue influence .
The error of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conceptualization is personified in Aristotle ’ s consummate hero , Socrates .
For , though Socrates taught in theory that the heeding of truth is the greatest good , he lacked the courage to assert his right to do his duty to God and truth .
Rather , Socrates commits the grave and cowardly sin of suicide because he could not bear the thought of being exiled from the totalitarian body politic .
Such cowardliness can be attributed in part to the perverse belief in pagan Greece ( as well as Rome ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not so in Judaic or Christian culture ; or at least not so until the Jews , murmuring against God ’ s will , sought to have a king like the pagans did ( see Book of Samuel , 7th Century B.C . )
; or at least not so until the Popes , amidst the intrigues and alliances of the Church hierarchy with princes , sought to proclaim themselves kings ( see Pope Boniface VIII ’ s Unam Sanctam , November 18th , 1302 ) .
But in truth , there are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ below , for matter is necessarily limiting and thus imperfect in this fallen world .
So contrary to pagan theory , lack of self-sufficiency does not belie the superiority of the family , for all here below is insufficient , including the State , Corporation , or bureaucratic elements of the Church ( be she ever so perfect dogmatically and mystically ) .
In fact , the family ’ s very insufficiency is why all other sociopolitical entities exist : they exist to fulfill the family ’ s needs .
Hence , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that is the reason for being and end of sociopolitics : that is , the family is the superior society for which all other sociopolitical societies are ordered .
As such , it is the community of families , writ small or large , that is the most proper and indeed most relatively perfect sociopolitical entity .
Providentially enough , it is the family ’ s nemesis of technology—a technology that can intrude itself upon the intimacy and in-the-moment interpersonal/familial interaction—that is also the family ’ s boon .
For technology allows a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only possible for families of large estates .
With multiplying technology ( from tractors , to sewing machines , to computers ) , as well as instant accessibility , communication , and commerce ( from online shopping , to online business , to online homeschooling and libraries ) the family has the additional means to do for itself without ever leaving the comforts and cloister of the home .
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But even with a technologically enhanced home economy , the family in the third millennium remains hapless , without that which only a woman can provide : the sweet maternal love that is the very nectar and sine qua non of human and familial flourishing .
So too , for men this new self-sufficiency makes possible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ distance themselves from the State and its status quo large corporations ( which are just as satanic as their governmental partners in crime . )
These men , freed from servitude to Leviathan , are better able to remand all their efforts directly to the well-being of their families , wives , children , and homes ; indeed yhey are better able to recognize and thus repel the evils perpetrated against their families by that very Leviathan .
From home-grown produce , home-schooling , and cottage industries to Christian corporations , neighborhood militias @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the extended community of families can in this technologically enhanced third millennium achieve a degree of self-sufficiency , independence , and perfection that was never before possible .
But again , this will only be actualized if responsibility is assumed by fathers as the God-ordained leaders of natural and Christian society ; it will only come to fruition if mothers are enthroned as the God-ordained center and heart of natural and Christian existence ; and it will only thrive if individual Christians uncompromisingly exert their absolute right to dutifully heed their God-ordained @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The principles of Christian sociopolitics are based themselves upon the even more basic and overriding principles of imago Dei individualism , which derives from both the Imago Dei and Christian Crucial Vocations and specifically from the conscience informed by natural and divine laws .
In fact , the principles of Christian sociopolitics , patriarchal or otherwise , are properly ordered to ( in addition to the familial ) the facilitation of imago Dei individualism and the rightly informed conscience .
These key imago Dei principles of responsibilities and rights , of duties @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the moral principle of subsidiarity .
Subsidiarity holds that all matters of governing ought to be handled by the most basic and least centralized competent authority .
The principle of subsidiarity is an immutable moral principle since it derives directly from the natural fact that the human person is made in the image of God .
Man being made in the image of God means he is a creature who is rational and volitional , and thus is radically free and responsible .
This rationality , volition , freedom , and responsibility is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is intrinsic to the doctrine of the creation of man and his redemption .
Being made in the image of God , it is the individual who is the essential moral actor , it is the individual who chooses good or evil , it is the individual who is ultimately responsible , and it is the individual who , by his own choice , is saved or damned .
Thus , the principle of subsidiarity , as well as the principle of a conscience informed by natural and divine laws , are of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anthropology .
Made of Steel ( Made of ... Smoak , Ivy Best Price : $ 12.44 Buy New $ 12.99 Authentic subsidiarity must derive from the authority of God himself , that is it is neither of the egoistic whims of the individual , nor any chauvinisms of family or ethnicity , not any in-group power-curves , and definitely not from the supposed largess of the State .
Inexactly , individualism is often used to claim rights as per the dignity of the human person , but the only right the human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to God , and the dignity of the human person is in his being in God ’ s image .
Authentic individualism and its ensuing subsidiarity must be based on the understanding that human authority and rights derive from God , not the individual separate from him .
So too , then , the family is not an end in itself but the primary and most effective means for facilitating true imago Dei individualism .
For it is the family that is foundational , and most intimate and responsive to the unique person @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human development .
The New Age of a Familial , Grassroots Christendom Rights do not derive from the State , but rather the State ’ s rights , its very validity , derives solely from its facilitation of an authentic imago Dei individualism and the good of the family .
But in the third millennium , and at any time that despots have reign , to champion subsidiarity , imago Dei individualism , and the sacrosanct family will be violently opposed by the State .
It remains then up to the family ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patriarchal family , and most righteously the Christian patriarchal family ) to militantly champion imago Dei individuality and hence the majestic authority of God himself .
If the Holy Faith is to thrive in the third millennium , no longer can Christians be dependent on or subservient to the powers-that-be ; no longer can they allow themselves to be the pawns of princes , presidents , principalities , or political powers .
If there is to be any semblance of a new Christendom in the third millennium , no longer can the Holy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; no longer can the Faith be equated primarily with the papacy , prelature , or parish .
Rather , in this third millennium , the Holy Faith must find both its dynamic leadership , primary identification , and impactive dynamics in the Christian family .
This will entail creating nothing less than a grassroots Christian order that is a separate and self-sufficient power structure unto itself , with values , laws , and governance that transcends , and truly countermands , that of the perverse popular culture and the Satanic State .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ authority because it is in the family especially that the drama of the individual delicately unfolds , and it is in the family that true love , understanding , interpersonal communion , and hence human formation , superlatively take place .
The family in its primary God-given authority is the very last bastion against the enslavement of the imago Dei individual by a technologically enhanced , and hence tyrannically crazed , total State .
But be certain that the bringing about of a new Christendom can inexorably take place if done one soul @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a radical , courageous , and celebratory living out of the Faith and domestic life is achievable for one and all , now and immediately ; the anti-Christic powers-that-be be damned .
So to all people of good-will be of good Christmas cheer and New Year vigor , for from the darkest hour arises the brightest hope !
The Best of Dr. G.C .
Dilsaver

Adapted from Crucial Christianity: An Ethos Theology for the 3rd Millennium
The Christmas Coronation of Charlemagne 800 A.D.
“It is now upon you alone that the churches of Christ lean, from you alone that they await safety, from you, the avenger of crimes, guide of those who err, consoler of the afflicted, upholder of good.” So said Alcuin of York of Charlemagne, who on Christmas Day 800 A.D. was crowned the King of Christendom by Pope Leo III.
On this 1220th Christmas Day after the coronation of Charlemagne and the inauguration of Christendom I, any semblance of that Christendom has been thoroughly vanquished and definitely replaced by Satanic States and a universal anti-Christic dystopia. Thus the erstwhile Christian nations no longer have the meaning they once did, for they have apostatized, are devoid of God, and are thus illegitimate. Nostalgic ethnic sentiments and cultural romantic reenactments do not change the fact that Western countries—and most especially those that formed the bulwark of Christendom I such as France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, and even the late-coming America—have not merely reverted to heathenism but are essentially and virulently anti-Christic. For these cultures have betrayed, in fact are based upon, the very rejection of the Christian heart of Western civilization, and thus are rendered virulently hostile to Christ and his people. In short, these nations and these cultures, unlike the natural law based pagans of old, are utterly irredeemable, having as their very essence an anti-Christic dynamics. This means that the third millennium is a time where Christian patriotism can no longer be properly equated with nationalism but rather only with true piety, or love and honor of God and parents. That is, a righteous patriotism then derives solely from the inseparable love of, and wholehearted allegiance to, faith and family. The Miracle Morning: T... Elrod, Hal Best Price: $5.88 Buy New $11.33 (as of 12:47 UTC - Details)
Due to the new hostile sociopolitical realities, the third millennium is a time as well of new beginnings; it is a time of the clan and the small-faith community of families; and it a time when a new Christendom will be built (to the extent that it is built) solely on Christ an those clans and families. If any new Christian sociopolitical entities, even new countries, are to arise, they must arise anew and outside and beyond the demarcations of the past; outside and transcendent of the current sociopolitical powers-that-be; they must arise outside and in contradistinction to the world, the flesh, and the devil. This dawn of the third millennium requires the advent of a new Christian culture comprised of individual pastoral, that is grassroots, shoots that have made their way up among the ruins of an anti-Christic, dystopic world.
It is now, in this the third Christian age, that the lay faithful are called to grow up and out of the childhood of ages past. These faithful, these so-called “commoners” and “citizens,” are called to rise up fully mature, no longer holding onto props of the world, no longer dependent or subservient to powers and principalities, but only holding onto, dependent upon, and subservient to the Holy Cross. The third millennium is truly the age of the laity. It is the age of the laity because it is the age of the family and the imago Dei individual (the image of God as free rational-volitional beings) that comprises that family. And it is the age of the family and imago Dei individual because that family is being destroyed and the individual enslaved as never before; for in God’s economy “where sin abounds grace abounds more” (RM 5:20), the truth and good arising in direct contradiction to the prevalent falsehood and evil.
1,220 years after the Coronation of Charlemagne on Christmas day, “the whole salvation of the Church of Christ,” that is, any possibility of a new Christendom, once again resides with the laity. But this new Christendom entails not the restoring of the ancient Western monarchies (as many traditionalists whimsically espouse), but with reinforcing the only timelessly God-ordain monarchy, that of the family. A new Christendom entails not the divine rights of elite kings and royal families, but rather the divine rights of the common man and the nuclear family. And these divine rights of the common lay faithful are absolute, for they derive from the faithful’s absolute right to do their duty to God, that is, their duty to abide by both natural and divine law, and indeed divine inspiration. But make no mistake, those that so abide by natural and divine law are outlaws to the Satanic State; a State that as such must be militantly engaged for “the whole salvation of the Church of Christ,” and most specifically and urgently for the salvation of the domestic church that is the family.
Patriotic Piety Contra Nationalism
The toxicity of the anti-Christic third millennium requires that Christian piety and devotion no longer be squandered on a supposed but baseless duty to king, flag, or country. No longer should a romanticizing of a country’s past Christian heritage evoke allegiance to that country’s anti-Christic present. And no longer can a Christian justify a particular nationalism against a larger internationalism, for internationalism is but nationalism writ large. Rather, in the third-millennium, Christian piety, patriotism, loyalty, and devotion must be given to that which a person can truly know and so can truly love; and it is the Faith made tangible in the family, and the community of families, that one can truly know and love. It is neither countries, nor royal lineages, nor constitutions that God has immutably ordained, but rather it is the Holy Faith in grace and the sacrosanct family in both nature and grace that is God-ordained. The Miracle Monk, Nathan Best Price: $2.89 Buy New $14.93 (as of 08:59 UTC - Details)
Christian’s must not give their hearts to a State. Again, they are called to be patriots only in so far as they are called to be pious. A Christian’s allegiance should be both familial and universal, not national and political. For familial allegiance is grass-rooted, as charity begins in the home; and universal allegiance justly transcends nations, as all men are created in God’s holy image (and indeed all men have families as well). But when a people’s allegiance is national and political the flower of their own nation’s familial foundation is inexorably conscripted and exterminated, while the families of opposing politics or nations are likewise afflicted.
Yes, Aristotle was wrong. Aristotle’s polis model and political philosophy imbued the State with a sacred, albeit pagan, nature, and held it to be the only perfect society. In the erstwhile Christian era, this theory was subsequently “baptized” by adding the Church, even in her accidental and improper bureaucratic and political power, as the only other “perfect society.” This modified/baptized Greco-Roman model entails the State and the bureaucratic magisterial Church as having a united God-ordained authority over the people (indeed the clergy was considered aristocracy). The family was said to lack self-sufficiency and so was held to be an imperfect society. As such the individuals which make up the imperfect family were tasked to depend upon and thus subservient unto the “perfect” conglomerate of State and Church.
This widely adopted sociopolitical model is an example (another being an acquired virtue-based morality) of “Saint” Aristotle’s undue influence. The error of the Greco-Roman, and subsequently Christianized, sociopolitical conceptualization is personified in Aristotle’s consummate hero, Socrates. For, though Socrates taught in theory that the heeding of truth is the greatest good, he lacked the courage to assert his right to do his duty to God and truth. Rather, Socrates commits the grave and cowardly sin of suicide because he could not bear the thought of being exiled from the totalitarian body politic. Such cowardliness can be attributed in part to the perverse belief in pagan Greece (as well as Rome) that the State was divine. But not so in Judaic or Christian culture; or at least not so until the Jews, murmuring against God’s will, sought to have a king like the pagans did (see Book of Samuel, 7th Century B.C.); or at least not so until the Popes, amidst the intrigues and alliances of the Church hierarchy with princes, sought to proclaim themselves kings (see Pope Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam, November 18th, 1302).
But in truth, there are no perfect material societies or institutions here below, for matter is necessarily limiting and thus imperfect in this fallen world. So contrary to pagan theory, lack of self-sufficiency does not belie the superiority of the family, for all here below is insufficient, including the State, Corporation, or bureaucratic elements of the Church (be she ever so perfect dogmatically and mystically). In fact, the family’s very insufficiency is why all other sociopolitical entities exist: they exist to fulfill the family’s needs. Hence, it is the family and not the State that is the reason for being and end of sociopolitics: that is, the family is the superior society for which all other sociopolitical societies are ordered. As such, it is the community of families, writ small or large, that is the most proper and indeed most relatively perfect sociopolitical entity.
Divine Rights & Sacred Duties
Providentially enough, it is the family’s nemesis of technology—a technology that can intrude itself upon the intimacy and in-the-moment interpersonal/familial interaction—that is also the family’s boon. For technology allows a familial self-sufficiency that was in the past only possible for families of large estates. With multiplying technology (from tractors, to sewing machines, to computers), as well as instant accessibility, communication, and commerce (from online shopping, to online business, to online homeschooling and libraries) the family has the additional means to do for itself without ever leaving the comforts and cloister of the home. The First Phone Call f... Albom, Mitch Best Price: $1.18 Buy New $5.40 (as of 10:02 UTC - Details)
This new familial technological self-sufficiency only emphasizes all the more the priceless value of a woman’s exclusive dedication to the family and home, dedication that requires doctoral level competencies to manage the complexities of contemporary home economics (complex multitasking is characteristically a feminine aptitude). But even with a technologically enhanced home economy, the family in the third millennium remains hapless, without that which only a woman can provide: the sweet maternal love that is the very nectar and sine qua non of human and familial flourishing. So too, for men this new self-sufficiency makes possible an entrepreneurship that allows them to rightly distance themselves from the State and its status quo large corporations (which are just as satanic as their governmental partners in crime.) These men, freed from servitude to Leviathan, are better able to remand all their efforts directly to the well-being of their families, wives, children, and homes; indeed yhey are better able to recognize and thus repel the evils perpetrated against their families by that very Leviathan.
From home-grown produce, home-schooling, and cottage industries to Christian corporations, neighborhood militias, and patriarchal governing, the family and the extended community of families can in this technologically enhanced third millennium achieve a degree of self-sufficiency, independence, and perfection that was never before possible. But again, this will only be actualized if responsibility is assumed by fathers as the God-ordained leaders of natural and Christian society; it will only come to fruition if mothers are enthroned as the God-ordained center and heart of natural and Christian existence; and it will only thrive if individual Christians uncompromisingly exert their absolute right to dutifully heed their God-ordained conscience informed by natural and revealed truths.
Sacred Subsidiarity
The principles of Christian sociopolitics are based themselves upon the even more basic and overriding principles of imago Dei individualism, which derives from both the Imago Dei and Christian Crucial Vocations and specifically from the conscience informed by natural and divine laws. In fact, the principles of Christian sociopolitics, patriarchal or otherwise, are properly ordered to (in addition to the familial) the facilitation of imago Dei individualism and the rightly informed conscience. These key imago Dei principles of responsibilities and rights, of duties and authority, are themselves related to the moral principle of subsidiarity.
Subsidiarity holds that all matters of governing ought to be handled by the most basic and least centralized competent authority. The principle of subsidiarity is an immutable moral principle since it derives directly from the natural fact that the human person is made in the image of God. Man being made in the image of God means he is a creature who is rational and volitional, and thus is radically free and responsible. This rationality, volition, freedom, and responsibility is the essence of human personhood, and is intrinsic to the doctrine of the creation of man and his redemption. Being made in the image of God, it is the individual who is the essential moral actor, it is the individual who chooses good or evil, it is the individual who is ultimately responsible, and it is the individual who, by his own choice, is saved or damned. Thus, the principle of subsidiarity, as well as the principle of a conscience informed by natural and divine laws, are of the most foundational principles of an adequate anthropology. Made of Steel (Made of... Smoak, Ivy Best Price: $2.20 Buy New $9.99 (as of 10:02 UTC - Details)
Authentic subsidiarity must derive from the authority of God himself, that is it is neither of the egoistic whims of the individual, nor any chauvinisms of family or ethnicity, not any in-group power-curves, and definitely not from the supposed largess of the State. Inexactly, individualism is often used to claim rights as per the dignity of the human person, but the only right the human person has is to do his duty to God, and the dignity of the human person is in his being in God’s image. Authentic individualism and its ensuing subsidiarity must be based on the understanding that human authority and rights derive from God, not the individual separate from him. So too, then, the family is not an end in itself but the primary and most effective means for facilitating true imago Dei individualism. For it is the family that is foundational, and most intimate and responsive to the unique person as he goes through the stages of human development.
The New Age of a Familial, Grassroots Christendom
Rights do not derive from the State, but rather the State’s rights, its very validity, derives solely from its facilitation of an authentic imago Dei individualism and the good of the family. But in the third millennium, and at any time that despots have reign, to champion subsidiarity, imago Dei individualism, and the sacrosanct family will be violently opposed by the State. It remains then up to the family (and most effectively, the sociopolitically structured patriarchal family, and most righteously the Christian patriarchal family) to militantly champion imago Dei individuality and hence the majestic authority of God himself.
If the Holy Faith is to thrive in the third millennium, no longer can Christians be dependent on or subservient to the powers-that-be; no longer can they allow themselves to be the pawns of princes, presidents, principalities, or political powers. If there is to be any semblance of a new Christendom in the third millennium, no longer can the Holy Faith have its locus in ecclesial entities; no longer can the Faith be equated primarily with the papacy, prelature, or parish. Rather, in this third millennium, the Holy Faith must find both its dynamic leadership, primary identification, and impactive dynamics in the Christian family. This will entail creating nothing less than a grassroots Christian order that is a separate and self-sufficient power structure unto itself, with values, laws, and governance that transcends, and truly countermands, that of the perverse popular culture and the Satanic State.
The family is sacrosanct in its subsidiary authority because it is in the family especially that the drama of the individual delicately unfolds, and it is in the family that true love, understanding, interpersonal communion, and hence human formation, superlatively take place. The family in its primary God-given authority is the very last bastion against the enslavement of the imago Dei individual by a technologically enhanced, and hence tyrannically crazed, total State. But be certain that the bringing about of a new Christendom can inexorably take place if done one soul and one family at time. Thus a radical, courageous, and celebratory living out of the Faith and domestic life is achievable for one and all, now and immediately; the anti-Christic powers-that-be be damned. So to all people of good-will be of good Christmas cheer and New Year vigor, for from the darkest hour arises the brightest hope!
The Best of Dr. G.C. Dilsaver


lewrockwell--2020-12-25--Are ‘Never Trumpers’ the Future of the GOP?

Denouncing the $ 900 billion COVID-19 relief bill as a parsimonious “ disgrace ” and hinting at an Alamo-style finish on Jan. 6 , when Congress votes to declare Joe Biden the next president , Donald Trump is not going to go quietly .
The anti-Trumpers and “ Never Trumpers ” celebrating at Christmas 2020 , in this “ dark winter ” of Joe Biden ’ s depiction , are assuring each other that Trumpism and Trump are dead and gone for good in four weeks .
The future of the GOP , they suggest , belongs to the Republicans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last five years of his candidacy and presidency .
As for those cowards and collaborators who stood by Trump and refused to repudiate him , they will , in turn , be repudiated by history and the American electorate alike .
The wish , here , is very much the father to the thought .
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For those of us of a certain age , a comparable situation arose at Christmas 1964 .
Barry Goldwater had just been crushed in a 44-state landslide , winning the votes of only 27 million Americans .
The senator had carried only five states of the Deep South and his home state of Arizona .
The establishment saw in the crushing of Goldwater the defeat and rout of the “ extremist ” movement that had produced him .
“ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the title of a widely hailed post-election book by two Ripon Society Republicans .
The establishment consensus was that Govs .
Nelson Rockefeller of New York , William Scranton of Pennsylvania and George Romney of Michigan were the future of the party , if it was to have a future .
Richard Nixon , who had stood by Goldwater when the party ’ s liberal elite abandoned him , would lead the GOP to recapture 47 House seats in 1966 , take the presidency in 1968 , and run up a 49 state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ period of GOP presidential ascendancy , with Nixon , Reagan and Bush I winning five of six elections from 1968 to 1988 , until the first baby boomer president , Bill Clinton , arrived on the scene .
Christmas at the Resta ... Kelley , Pamela M. Best Price : $ 12.33 Buy New $ 11.55 And while there are differences between now and then , there are many similarities .
Do the anti-Trumpers or “ Never Trumpers ” represent the future of the GOP ?
If so , where is the postwar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ turned his back on Goldwater was ever nominated for president or vice president following Goldwater ’ s defeat .
When President Gerald Ford put Rockefeller on his ticket after taking over from President Nixon , the Kansas City convention of 1976 demanded Rockefeller ’ s removal as the price of party unity .
Rockefeller was sacrificed , as the right had demanded .
Four years after Ford ’ s defeat , Mr. Conservative himself , Ronald Reagan , Goldwater ’ s most effective surrogate in 1964 , was nominated and won successive landslides @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and forces point to the probability that Trumpism has a major role in the party ’ s future .
Where Presidents Truman , Nixon , and George W. Bush left office with approval ratings in the 20s , Trump ’ s approval rating is still in the 40s , where it has been for the duration of his presidency .
Second , the issues that propelled Trump to the nomination and the Oval Office still resonate with the American people .
Among them are mass migration , insecure borders and dependency upon foreign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ life .
New Morning Mercies : A ... Tripp , Paul David Best Price : $ 1.99 Buy New $ 9.98 Moreover , there is shrinking support for a foreign policy that has us tied down militarily in Europe , East Asia and the Middle East , to fight if need be , in the defense of scores of nations , few of which have a direct bearing on the national security of the United States .
Another issue Trump elevated and exploited that is more acute now than in 2016 , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ deep state ” and the political , cultural and academic establishments that have alienated the 74 million who voted for Trump .
And if the past is prologue , the Republican Party will make a major comeback in 2022 .
Consider .
Two years after his smashing victory over Goldwater , LBJ and his party lost 47 House seats .
Ronald Reagan , after his landslide in 1980 , lost 26 House seats in 1982 .
After routing Bush I in 1992 , Bill Clinton lost 54 House seats and the Senate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Barack Obama lost both the House and Senate in 2014 .
Is it likely Joe Biden will be celebrating his 80th birthday after making history by leading his party to control of Congress in 2022 ?
For Republicans , the nomination of 2024 is a prize to be sought .
However , if one has spent the last four years trashing Trump , it may be as out of reach as it was for Rocky .
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Denouncing the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill as a parsimonious “disgrace” and hinting at an Alamo-style finish on Jan. 6, when Congress votes to declare Joe Biden the next president, Donald Trump is not going to go quietly.
The anti-Trumpers and “Never Trumpers” celebrating at Christmas 2020, in this “dark winter” of Joe Biden’s depiction, are assuring each other that Trumpism and Trump are dead and gone for good in four weeks.
The future of the GOP, they suggest, belongs to the Republicans who resisted and renounced Trump through the last five years of his candidacy and presidency.
As for those cowards and collaborators who stood by Trump and refused to repudiate him, they will, in turn, be repudiated by history and the American electorate alike.
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For if the past is any guide, not only are the reports of the death of Trumpism premature, the probability is that Trumpism has put down roots in our national politics that are not soon, if ever, going to be pulled up.
For those of us of a certain age, a comparable situation arose at Christmas 1964. Barry Goldwater had just been crushed in a 44-state landslide, winning the votes of only 27 million Americans. The senator had carried only five states of the Deep South and his home state of Arizona.
The establishment saw in the crushing of Goldwater the defeat and rout of the “extremist” movement that had produced him. “The Party That Lost Its Head” was the title of a widely hailed post-election book by two Ripon Society Republicans.
The establishment consensus was that Govs. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, William Scranton of Pennsylvania and George Romney of Michigan were the future of the party, if it was to have a future.
What followed?
Richard Nixon, who had stood by Goldwater when the party’s liberal elite abandoned him, would lead the GOP to recapture 47 House seats in 1966, take the presidency in 1968, and run up a 49 state landslide in 1972.
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And while there are differences between now and then, there are many similarities.
Do the anti-Trumpers or “Never Trumpers” represent the future of the GOP? If so, where is the postwar precedent for this? No Republican who turned his back on Goldwater was ever nominated for president or vice president following Goldwater’s defeat.
When President Gerald Ford put Rockefeller on his ticket after taking over from President Nixon, the Kansas City convention of 1976 demanded Rockefeller’s removal as the price of party unity.
Rockefeller was sacrificed, as the right had demanded.
Four years after Ford’s defeat, Mr. Conservative himself, Ronald Reagan, Goldwater’s most effective surrogate in 1964, was nominated and won successive landslides in 1980 and 1984.
Other factors and forces point to the probability that Trumpism has a major role in the party’s future.
Where Presidents Truman, Nixon, and George W. Bush left office with approval ratings in the 20s, Trump’s approval rating is still in the 40s, where it has been for the duration of his presidency.
Second, the issues that propelled Trump to the nomination and the Oval Office still resonate with the American people.
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Moreover, there is shrinking support for a foreign policy that has us tied down militarily in Europe, East Asia and the Middle East, to fight if need be, in the defense of scores of nations, few of which have a direct bearing on the national security of the United States.
Another issue Trump elevated and exploited that is more acute now than in 2016, is a distrust of the media, the “deep state” and the political, cultural and academic establishments that have alienated the 74 million who voted for Trump.
And if the past is prologue, the Republican Party will make a major comeback in 2022.
Consider. Two years after his smashing victory over Goldwater, LBJ and his party lost 47 House seats. Ronald Reagan, after his landslide in 1980, lost 26 House seats in 1982. After routing Bush I in 1992, Bill Clinton lost 54 House seats and the Senate. Two years after winning the presidency, Barack Obama lost both the House and Senate in 2014.
Is it likely Joe Biden will be celebrating his 80th birthday after making history by leading his party to control of Congress in 2022?
For Republicans, the nomination of 2024 is a prize to be sought.
However, if one has spent the last four years trashing Trump, it may be as out of reach as it was for Rocky.
The Best of Patrick J. Buchanan


lewrockwell--2020-12-25--What Time Is It in Lockdown?

What Time Is It in Lockdown?

Here where I dwell in the northern hemisphere , the winter solstice has just occurred .
The darkest day of the year in a dark year .
A few days ago was also the Grand Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius , which is interesting to those who like the musical Hair and believe their fates lie in the stars and not in themselves .
Shakespeare ’ s Cassius had it right : such astrological determinism is for underlings .
I will take fate by the throat ; it will never bend me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ always wanted people to believe their lives are fated , that they live in a prison and there is no escape .
It is the key to successful slavery .
Many institutionalized religions have promoted such a belief , contradicting their founders ’ messages of freedom .
So have secular ideologies .
There is nothing you can do , so rollover with Beethoven ; it ’ s hopeless .
“ Do what you ’ re told , ” as the great wise leader Anthony Fauci has said .
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Didn ’ t Dostoevsky ’ s Grand Inquisitor say to Jesus in his cell in the gloomy vaulted prison : We will show them that they are weak , that they are only pitiful children , but that childlike happiness is the sweetest of all .
They will become timid and look to us and huddle close to us in fear , as chicks to the hen .
They will marvel at us and will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be proud at us being so powerful and clever , that we have been able to subdue such a turbulent flock of thousands of millions .
They will do as they are told and reject the freedom Jesus brought , “ for nothing has been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom , ” drones the Inquisitor .
They will do as they are told .
And the prisoner was silent .
As the year comes to an end and another begins , the contemplation of time , its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days to come , the new year , resolutions , and how to “ keep safe ” occupy many minds as governments across the world continue to impose lockdowns on their people that are creating suffering on a vast , unimaginable scale .
“ Every ruling minority , ” wrote the late great John Berger , “ needs to numb and , if possible , to kill the time-sense of those whom it exploits .
This is the authoritarian secret of all methods of imprisonment.
” There is time for you and time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authoritarians .
We set the clocks to slow or fast .
You follow .
Alternating rhythm to keep you guessing .
When things are kind of slow , we ’ ll give you 5G speed as we reset your future to the online life .
Everything will be so fast that you won ’ t know whether you are coming or going or just running in place .
The C. S. Lewis Signat ... Lewis , C. S. Best Price : $ 53.15 Buy New $ 39.49 Slow is for prisoners around the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the world leader in incarceration , there are more than 2 million people caged in such hell holes .
Doing time .
Very slow time .
For those on the outside , a year ago , permanent busyness and speed were the norm .
Everyone was so frantic and rushing in the madding crowd of a consumer and cell phone frenzy , driven by an unseen nanosecond digital dictator .
Now the lockdown has brought a taste of boredom , slow time , and anxious waiting for the day the authoritarians will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has arrived and the children can fling the doors open and run out to play .
But they will have to learn the new rules of the game .
Same game , but Built Back Better .
Better for the bosses .
Forget that criminal born in a manger .
Getting there is a long and hard journey .
We are in lockdown .
Just do as you are told .
Or imagine that child as a grown man in a prison cell in Seville 15 centuries later .
Or in Bethlehem today @ @ @ @ @ @ @ territory is inexorably disappeared by the Israeli government and Palestinians ’ places to dwell on this earth grow smaller and smaller as their houses are bulldozed and land stolen .
Image the fates of all those locked down shut-in abandoned ones , those who are doing time to the slow ticking of the clocks .
Or those who have no time to escape the supersonic hum of drone-launched missiles .
Those whose time is up because the authorities deem it so .
Those who just won ’ t do what they are told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of time to imagine .
Thomas Merton , the inspirational anti-war Trappist monk , in “ The Time of the End Is the Time of No Room ” in Raids on the Unspeakable , said this about that child in a manger , soon to be radical anti-war criminal executed by the state : The End of the Affair ... Greene , Graham Best Price : $ 1.98 Buy New $ 9.95 Into this world , this demented inn , in which there is absolutely no room for him at all , Christ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not be at home in it , because he is out of place in it , and yet he must be in it , his place is with those others for whom there is no room .
His place is with those who do not belong , who are rejected by power because they are regarded as weak , those who are discredited , who are denied the status of persons , tortured , exterminated .
With those for whom there is no room , Christ is present in this world .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there seems to be nothing but the world at its worst .
Their numbers are growing by the day .
Pundits are fond of saying that time is all we have .
This is untrue .
We don ’ t have time ; time has us .
We are born into it and in a techno-clock world those clocks start ticking and we turn with the seasons until our turning stops and our time is up .
It comes with being born , being mortal .
Human .
We don ’ t need @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t want authoritarians controlling our experience of this greatest of mysteries .
If you listen closely , you can hear waves of empty words tumbling through the world , whistling windy words saying nothing .
Whining words , nodding heads , vacuous sayings .
Media saturated fatuous words .
About “ time ” more clichés have been coined and more quotable quotes recorded than nearly any other word .
Quotes about what no one knows .
Time stands still , time flies , time is up , time is on your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is long , who knows where the time goes , time out , time starts , stop the clocks , start the clocks , we ’ re running out of time , clock in , clock out , time served , serving time , lacking time , losing time , having time , gaining time , the end of time .
Yet everyone knows what time is even though they can ’ t tell you .
It comes with the territory of existing .
Like silence , like love , like peace , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invert to suit their evil designs .
Twisted people twisting words .
It is no different now .
The yearning still gnaws .
Hidden Christmas : The ... Keller , Timothy Best Price : $ 7.93 Buy New $ 10.08 The night dark , utterly silent , Sky stretched endlessly back Into an infinity beyond reach .
And the fears , the tears Are they any different ?
It is no different now .
Joy sometimes , hope too , divisions Seemingly unbridgeable , vast chasms Opening between those closest .
Little changes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ oblivion behind us .
It is no different now .
Plus ça change , Plus c ’ est la même chose .
Always the same .
Yet a word is heard dimly Laboring out of the deafening black Silence , almost but not inaudible .
And the angel says , “ Go out , ” And the angel said , “ Go out , ” Always the angel , always the voice Bearing us up along the way ( If you do not turn to the inner light , Where will you turn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Journey far through strange country , Follow the light you barely see But which is the light of your life .
Follow it across the desert of your heart Where wild beasts seek to devour you .
There is no time , there is no time To hesitate .
Now is the star ’ s hour , Now you are called on a fool ’ s journey Into a pig ’ s pen and a child ’ s strange And glorious presence.
” Thus speaks the angel Again and again , no matter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ changes .
It is no different now .
Now as always is the star ’ s hour .
Now as then a star is born to men To lead us on .
A light that darkness Can not overcome , despite us .
Love is not a sometimes thing , Though we abuse it like the earth .
It is all we have to hold us up , And it always will .
The Best of Edward Curtin

Here where I dwell in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice has just occurred. The darkest day of the year in a dark year. A few days ago was also the Grand Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, which is interesting to those who like the musical Hair and believe their fates lie in the stars and not in themselves. Shakespeare’s Cassius had it right: such astrological determinism is for underlings.
Free people agree with Beethoven:
I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
Oppressors have always wanted people to believe their lives are fated, that they live in a prison and there is no escape. It is the key to successful slavery. Many institutionalized religions have promoted such a belief, contradicting their founders’ messages of freedom. So have secular ideologies. There is nothing you can do, so rollover with Beethoven; it’s hopeless. “Do what you’re told,” as the great wise leader Anthony Fauci has said. The Clause in Christma... Bloome, Rachael Best Price: $1.39 Buy New $11.99 (as of 10:02 UTC - Details)
But a much wiser Kris Kristofferson sang:
Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.
Didn’t Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor say to Jesus in his cell in the gloomy vaulted prison:
We will show them that they are weak, that they are only pitiful children, but that childlike happiness is the sweetest of all. They will become timid and look to us and huddle close to us in fear, as chicks to the hen. They will marvel at us and will be awe-stricken before us, and will be proud at us being so powerful and clever, that we have been able to subdue such a turbulent flock of thousands of millions.
They will do as they are told and reject the freedom Jesus brought, “for nothing has been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom,” drones the Inquisitor. They will do as they are told. And the prisoner was silent.
As the year comes to an end and another begins, the contemplation of time, its passing, the days gone by and days to come, the new year, resolutions, and how to “keep safe” occupy many minds as governments across the world continue to impose lockdowns on their people that are creating suffering on a vast, unimaginable scale.
“Every ruling minority,” wrote the late great John Berger, “needs to numb and, if possible, to kill the time-sense of those whom it exploits. This is the authoritarian secret of all methods of imprisonment.”
There is time for you and time for me is the mantra of all authoritarians. We set the clocks to slow or fast. You follow. Alternating rhythm to keep you guessing. When things are kind of slow, we’ll give you 5G speed as we reset your future to the online life. Everything will be so fast that you won’t know whether you are coming or going or just running in place. The C. S. Lewis Signat... Lewis, C. S. Best Price: $53.15 Buy New $39.49 (as of 05:00 UTC - Details)
Slow is for prisoners around the world. Here in the United States, the world leader in incarceration, there are more than 2 million people caged in such hell holes. Doing time. Very slow time.
For those on the outside, a year ago, permanent busyness and speed were the norm. Everyone was so frantic and rushing in the madding crowd of a consumer and cell phone frenzy, driven by an unseen nanosecond digital dictator. Now the lockdown has brought a taste of boredom, slow time, and anxious waiting for the day the authoritarians will give the word that the new normal has arrived and the children can fling the doors open and run out to play. But they will have to learn the new rules of the game. Same game, but Built Back Better. Better for the bosses.
Forget that criminal born in a manger. Getting there is a long and hard journey. We are in lockdown. Just do as you are told.
Or imagine that child as a grown man in a prison cell in Seville 15 centuries later.
Or in Bethlehem today, in the West Bank as Palestinian territory is inexorably disappeared by the Israeli government and Palestinians’ places to dwell on this earth grow smaller and smaller as their houses are bulldozed and land stolen.
Image the fates of all those locked down shut-in abandoned ones, those who are doing time to the slow ticking of the clocks. Or those who have no time to escape the supersonic hum of drone-launched missiles. Those whose time is up because the authorities deem it so. Those who just won’t do what they are told.
In lockdown, there is plenty of time to imagine.
Thomas Merton, the inspirational anti-war Trappist monk, in “The Time of the End Is the Time of No Room” in Raids on the Unspeakable, said this about that child in a manger, soon to be radical anti-war criminal executed by the state: The End of the Affair ... Greene, Graham Best Price: $2.00 Buy New $4.99 (as of 09:47 UTC - Details)
Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it, because he is out of place in it, and yet he must be in it, his place is with those others for whom there is no room. His place is with those who do not belong, who are rejected by power because they are regarded as weak, those who are discredited, who are denied the status of persons, tortured, exterminated. With those for whom there is no room, Christ is present in this world. He is mysteriously present in those for whom there seems to be nothing but the world at its worst.
Their numbers are growing by the day.
Pundits are fond of saying that time is all we have. This is untrue. We don’t have time; time has us. We are born into it and in a techno-clock world those clocks start ticking and we turn with the seasons until our turning stops and our time is up. It comes with being born, being mortal. Human. We don’t need astrology to tell us this. We don’t want authoritarians controlling our experience of this greatest of mysteries.
If you listen closely, you can hear waves of empty words tumbling through the world, whistling windy words saying nothing. Whining words, nodding heads, vacuous sayings. Media saturated fatuous words. About “time” more clichés have been coined and more quotable quotes recorded than nearly any other word. Quotes about what no one knows.
Time stands still, time flies, time is up, time is on your side, time is short, time is long, who knows where the time goes, time out, time starts, stop the clocks, start the clocks, we’re running out of time, clock in, clock out, time served, serving time, lacking time, losing time, having time, gaining time, the end of time.
Yet everyone knows what time is even though they can’t tell you. It comes with the territory of existing. Like silence, like love, like peace, like truth – simple gifts that authoritarians invert to suit their evil designs. Twisted people twisting words.
And yet:
It is no different now.
The yearning still gnaws. Hidden Christmas: The ... Keller, Timothy Best Price: $1.15 Buy New $5.90 (as of 10:02 UTC - Details)
The night dark, utterly silent,
Sky stretched endlessly back
Into an infinity beyond reach.
And the fears, the tears
Are they any different?
It is no different now.
Joy sometimes, hope too, divisions
Seemingly unbridgeable, vast chasms
Opening between those closest.
Little changes, though two thousand years
Dissolve into oblivion behind us.
It is no different now.
Plus ça change,
Plus c’est la même chose.
Always the same.
Yet a word is heard dimly
Laboring out of the deafening black
Silence, almost but not inaudible.
And the angel says, “Go out,”
And the angel said, “Go out,”
Always the angel, always the voice
Bearing us up along the way
(If you do not turn to the inner light,
Where will you turn?), always calling:
“Journey far through strange country,
Follow the light you barely see
But which is the light of your life.
Follow it across the desert of your heart
Where wild beasts seek to devour you.
There is no time, there is no time
To hesitate. Now is the star’s hour,
Now you are called on a fool’s journey
Into a pig’s pen and a child’s strange
And glorious presence.” Thus speaks the angel
Again and again, no matter how dark
The darkest day, nothing changes.
It is no different now.
Now as always is the star’s hour.
Now as then a star is born to men
To lead us on. A light that darkness
Cannot overcome, despite us.
Love is not a sometimes thing,
Though we abuse it like the earth.
It is all we have to hold us up,
And it always will.
A star is always born.
The Best of Edward Curtin


lewrockwell--2020-12-25--Vicious Criminal Neil Ferguson Playing Key Role in New Lockdowns

Let me boil this down for you .
Claiming a new “ mutant strain ” of SARS-CoV-2 is 70 % more deadly than the original , computer modelers in the UK have advised Prime Minister , Boris Johnson , to lock down the country at a much stricter level .
The computer model was concocted at the Imperial College of London .
The accompanying text actually admits it ’ s too early to tell whether the mutant strain is a major threat .
Nevertheless , Boris Johnson has issued the new vast lockdown order .
[ 1 ] [ 2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ need for the lockdown ?
None other than Neil Ferguson , the disgraced and failed computer modeler .
[ 3 ] [ 4 ] He didn ’ t author the new model/study at the Imperial College , but he ’ s now the face of the “ science.
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This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Johnson and Donald Trump to declare states of emergency , and abandon plans to keep their national economies open .
Then Ferguson violated his own lockdown recommendations by carrying on an affair with his mistress , who lived in her separate home with her husband .
And now he ’ s back , on television , warning citizens about the new “ mutant strain ” of the virus and the need for a higher level of lockdown .
Other scientists are outraged at the latest computer model ; they are demanding to see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They ’ re saying they don ’ t even understand what “ 70 % more deadly than the original strain ” means .
How much more economic devastation can the people of the UK take ?
Here is my original piece on Neil Ferguson , written as his prior computer model was being trashed—but followed by political leaders in the US , UK , France , and Germany .
Buckle up : Neil Ferguson : the ghost in the machine [ 5 ] Why do governments salute when he predicts a pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countries ?
Does anyone care about his past ?
Why does he still have a prestigious job ?
Who is he connected to ?
by Jon Rappoport The King ’ s Decre ... Hughes , Jodie Best Price : $ 12.98 Buy New $ 12.84 Neil Ferguson , through his institute at London ’ s Imperial College , can call the shots on a major percentage of the global population .
He ’ s Mr .
Genius , when it comes to projecting computer models of epidemics .
According to the Business Insider @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Ferguson ’ s team warned Boris Johnson that the quest for ‘ herd immunity ’ [ letting people live their lives out in the open in the UK ] could cost 510,000 lives , prompting an abrupt U-turn [ massive national lockdown in the UK ] …His simulations have been influential in other countries as well , cited by authorities in the US , Germany , and France.
” Not only cited , not only influential , but swallowed whole .
Business insider continues : “ On March 23 , the UK @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a suppression strategy , and the country made preparations for weeks of lockdown .
Ferguson ’ s study was responsible.
” Same BI article : “ Dr Deborah Birx , coronavirus response coordinator to the Trump administration , told journalists at a March 16 press briefing that the Imperial paper [ Ferguson ’ s computer projection ] prompted the CDC ’ s new advice to work from home and avoid gatherings of 10 or more.
” Ferguson , instigator of LOCKDOWN .
Stripping away of basic liberties .
Economic devastation .
So @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s track record , spelled out in the BI piece : “ Ferguson co-founded the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis , based at Imperial , in 2008 .
It is the leading body advising national governments on pathogen outbreaks.
” “ It gets tens of millions of dollars in annual funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , and works with the UK National Health Service , the US Centres for Disease Prevention and Control ( CDC ) , and is tasked with supplying the World Health Organization with ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ .
” Getting the picture ?
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The vaccine Gates wants .
Ferguson supplies a frightening computer projection of COVID deaths—to the CDC and WHO .
Ferguson thus communicates a rationale for the Gates vaccine plan .
National governments surrender to WHO and CDC .
LOCKDOWNS .
Business Insider : “ Michael Thrusfield , a professor of veterinary epidemiology at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had ‘ déjà vu ’ after reading the [ Ferguson ] Imperial paper [ on COVID ] , saying Ferguson was responsible for excessive animal culling during the 2001 Foot and Mouth [ mad cow ] outbreak.
” “ Ferguson warned the government that 150,000 people could die .
Six million animals were slaughtered as a precaution , costing the country billions in farming revenue .
In the end , 200 people died.
” “ Similarly , he [ Ferguson ] was accused of creating panic by overestimating the potential death toll during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ estimated 200 million could die .
The real number was in the low hundreds.
” HELLO ?
“ In 2009 , one of Ferguson ’ s models predicted 65,000 people could die from the Swine Flu outbreak in the UK — the final figure was below 500.
” So you have to ask yourself , why would anyone believe what Ferguson has been predicting in this COVID hustle ?
Are his fellow experts that stupid ?
Are presidents and prime ministers that stupid ?
And the answer is : This is a monumental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stupid ; some are caught up in the op and are afraid to say the emperor has no clothes ; some are aware of what is going on , and they want to destroy national economies and lead us into , yes , a new world order .
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As the recipient of tens of millions of dollars a year from the Gates Foundation , Ferguson isn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : COVID is nothing to worry about , let people live their lives and we ’ ll be all right .
The chance of that happening is on a par with researchers admitting they never properly identified a new virus as the cause of illness in 2019 , in Wuhan .
[ 7 ] In order to justify injecting every man , woman , and child in the world with heavy metals , synthetic genes that alter genetic makeup , a host of germs , and who knows what else , Gates needs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NECESSITATES SHUTTING DOWN AND IMPRISONING THE PLANET , ACHIEVING A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE .
He ’ s got the story , all dressed up in a computer model , composed by a man with a past record of abject and devastating failures .
Neil Ferguson is the ghost in the machine .
The machine is the World Health Organization and the CDC .
The man behind the ghost is Bill Gates .
The Best of Jon Rappoport

Let me boil this down for you. Claiming a new “mutant strain” of SARS-CoV-2 is 70% more deadly than the original, computer modelers in the UK have advised Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to lock down the country at a much stricter level.
The computer model was concocted at the Imperial College of London. The accompanying text actually admits it’s too early to tell whether the mutant strain is a major threat.
Nevertheless, Boris Johnson has issued the new vast lockdown order. [1] [2]
Who is on television promoting the need for the lockdown? None other than Neil Ferguson, the disgraced and failed computer modeler. [3] [4]
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Ferguson’s prior model predicted 500,000 COVID deaths in the UK and 2 million in the US would occur by last summer. This absurd and criminal estimate directly influenced Boris Johnson and Donald Trump to declare states of emergency, and abandon plans to keep their national economies open.
Then Ferguson violated his own lockdown recommendations by carrying on an affair with his mistress, who lived in her separate home with her husband.
And now he’s back, on television, warning citizens about the new “mutant strain” of the virus and the need for a higher level of lockdown.
Other scientists are outraged at the latest computer model; they are demanding to see the actual evidence of the increased threat. They’re saying they don’t even understand what “70% more deadly than the original strain” means.
How much more economic devastation can the people of the UK take?
Here is my original piece on Neil Ferguson, written as his prior computer model was being trashed—but followed by political leaders in the US, UK, France, and Germany. Buckle up:
Neil Ferguson: the ghost in the machine [5]
Why do governments salute when he predicts a pandemic and tells them to lock down their countries?
Does anyone care about his past?
Why does he still have a prestigious job?
Who is he connected to?
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Neil Ferguson, through his institute at London’s Imperial College, can call the shots on a major percentage of the global population.
He’s Mr. Genius, when it comes to projecting computer models of epidemics.
Fellow experts puff up his reputation.
According to the Business Insider (4/25) [6], “Ferguson’s team warned Boris Johnson that the quest for ‘herd immunity’ [letting people live their lives out in the open in the UK] could cost 510,000 lives, prompting an abrupt U-turn [massive national lockdown in the UK]…His simulations have been influential in other countries as well, cited by authorities in the US, Germany, and France.”
Not only cited, not only influential, but swallowed whole.
Business insider continues: “On March 23, the UK scrapped ‘herd immunity’ in favor of a suppression strategy, and the country made preparations for weeks of lockdown. Ferguson’s study was responsible.”
There’s more. A lot more.
Same BI article: “Dr Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator to the Trump administration, told journalists at a March 16 press briefing that the Imperial paper [Ferguson’s computer projection] prompted the CDC’s new advice to work from home and avoid gatherings of 10 or more.”
Ferguson, instigator of LOCKDOWN. Stripping away of basic liberties. Economic devastation.
So let’s look at Ferguson’s track record, spelled out in the BI piece:
“Ferguson co-founded the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, based at Imperial, in 2008. It is the leading body advising national governments on pathogen outbreaks.”
“It gets tens of millions of dollars in annual funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and works with the UK National Health Service, the US Centres for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), and is tasked with supplying the World Health Organization with ‘rapid analysis of urgent infectious disease problems’.”
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Gates money goes to Ferguson.
Ferguson predicts dire threat from COVID, necessitating lockdowns—thus preparing people to accept a vaccine. The vaccine Gates wants.
Ferguson supplies a frightening computer projection of COVID deaths—to the CDC and WHO. Ferguson thus communicates a rationale for the Gates vaccine plan.
National governments surrender to WHO and CDC. LOCKDOWNS.
Business Insider: “Michael Thrusfield, a professor of veterinary epidemiology at Edinburgh University, told the paper he had ‘déjà vu’ after reading the [Ferguson] Imperial paper [on COVID], saying Ferguson was responsible for excessive animal culling during the 2001 Foot and Mouth [mad cow] outbreak.”
“Ferguson warned the government that 150,000 people could die. Six million animals were slaughtered as a precaution, costing the country billions in farming revenue. In the end, 200 people died.”
“Similarly, he [Ferguson] was accused of creating panic by overestimating the potential death toll during the 2005 Bird Flu outbreak. Ferguson estimated 200 million could die. The real number was in the low hundreds.” HELLO?
“In 2009, one of Ferguson’s models predicted 65,000 people could die from the Swine Flu outbreak in the UK — the final figure was below 500.”
So you have to ask yourself, why would anyone believe what Ferguson has been predicting in this COVID hustle?
Are his fellow experts that stupid?
Are presidents and prime ministers that stupid?
And the answer is: This is a monumental covert op; some people are that stupid; some are caught up in the op and are afraid to say the emperor has no clothes; some are aware of what is going on, and they want to destroy national economies and lead us into, yes, a new world order. God Gave Us You Laura J. Bryant Best Price: $1.27 Buy New $5.19 (as of 10:02 UTC - Details)
Gates knows he has his man: Ferguson. As the recipient of tens of millions of dollars a year from the Gates Foundation, Ferguson isn’t about to issue a model that states: COVID is nothing to worry about, let people live their lives and we’ll be all right. The chance of that happening is on a par with researchers admitting they never properly identified a new virus as the cause of illness in 2019, in Wuhan. [7]
In order to justify injecting every man, woman, and child in the world with heavy metals, synthetic genes that alter genetic makeup, a host of germs, and who knows what else, Gates needs A STORY ABOUT A DEADLY VIRUS THAT NECESSITATES SHUTTING DOWN AND IMPRISONING THE PLANET, ACHIEVING A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE.
He’s got the story, all dressed up in a computer model, composed by a man with a past record of abject and devastating failures.
Neil Ferguson is the ghost in the machine. The machine is the World Health Organization and the CDC. The man behind the ghost is Bill Gates.
SOURCES:
[1] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13524419/new-covid-strain-london-cases-double/
[2] https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/flawed-data-model-from-imperial-college-blame-for-latest-uk-lockdown/
[3] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9074765/Professor-Lockdown-Neil-Ferguson-warns-Tier-Four-needed-Easter.html
[4] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9073767/Professor-Neil-Ferguson-key-role-Boris-Johnsons-dramatic-U-turn-Christmas.html
[5] https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/04/30/the-british-corona-middle-man/
[6] https://www.businessinsider.com/neil-ferguson-transformed-uk-covid-response-oxford-challenge-imperial-model-2020-4
[7] https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/04/29/covid-two-vital-experiments-have-never-been-done/
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
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lewrockwell--2020-12-25--Abp. Viganò: We’re Witnessing ‘General Rehearsal for the Establishment of the Kingdom of the Antichr

Abp. Viganò: We’re Witnessing ‘General Rehearsal for the Establishment of the Kingdom of the Antichrist’

‘ In my opinion , ’ Viganò writes , ‘ what we are witnessing represents the general rehearsal for the establishment of the kingdom of the Antichrist , which will be preceded by the preaching of the False Prophet , the Precursor of the one who will carry out the final persecution against the Church before Our Lord ’ s definitive and crushing victory .
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò , in a new interview with LifeSite , comments on LifeSite ’ s report that since the first coronavirus lockdown in March , Pope Francis is not anymore using the papal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for his public Masses , an altar which is situated on top of St. Peter ’ s tomb .
Instead , the Pope is using another altar at the basilica .
For Viganò , this papal act is symbolic in light of the fact that Pope Francis himself ordered during the closing Mass of the October 2019 Amazon Synod that a bowl of plants dedicated to the false goddess Pachamama be placed on that very papal altar at St. Peter ’ s .
Not long after that act , the Pope also decided @ @ @ @ @ @ @ title “ Vicar of Christ ” in the 2020 Vatican Yearbook .
The Italian prelate here finds strong words about the recent developments at St. Peter ’ s and the Vatican .
You Are Never Alone : T ... Lucado , Max Best Price : $ 13.30 Buy New $ 15.99 “ In my opinion , ” Viganò writes , “ what we are witnessing represents the general rehearsal for the establishment of the kingdom of the Antichrist , which will be preceded by the preaching of the False Prophet , the Precursor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the final persecution against the Church before Our Lord ’ s definitive and crushing victory.
” The Italian prelate compares the placing of a Pachamama bowl on the altar with the enthronement of the “ Goddess Reason ” at Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral during the Terror of the French Revolution in 1793 .
However , he explains , this time , the profanation of an altar came from within , committed by the highest levels of the hierarchy .
“ The Bergoglian church is giving itself an increasingly more disconcerting image , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is accompanied by the explicit affirmation of an intrinsically anti-Catholic and antichristic ideology , in which the idolatrous cult of pagan divinities – that is , of demons – is no longer hidden , who are propititated with sacrilegious acts and profanations of holy things.
” He goes on to say that this “ presence of an idol of ‘ mother earth ’ is a direct offense against God and the Most Holy Virgin ” and “ a tangible sign that explains in a certain sense Bergoglio ’ s many irreverent utterances with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Italian archbishop sees a link to the warnings of Our Lady of Salette from the 19th century .
For him it is not surprising “ that those who want to demolish the Church of Christ and the Roman Papacy do so from the highest Throne , according to the prophecy of Our Lady at La Salette : ‘ Rome will lose the Faith and will become the seat of the Antichrist .
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‘In my opinion,’ Viganò writes, ‘what we are witnessing represents the general rehearsal for the establishment of the kingdom of the Antichrist, which will be preceded by the preaching of the False Prophet, the Precursor of the one who will carry out the final persecution against the Church before Our Lord’s definitive and crushing victory.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, in a new interview with LifeSite, comments on LifeSite’s report that since the first coronavirus lockdown in March, Pope Francis is not anymore using the papal altar in St. Peter’s Basilica for his public Masses, an altar which is situated on top of St. Peter’s tomb. Instead, the Pope is using another altar at the basilica. For Viganò, this papal act is symbolic in light of the fact that Pope Francis himself ordered during the closing Mass of the October 2019 Amazon Synod that a bowl of plants dedicated to the false goddess Pachamama be placed on that very papal altar at St. Peter’s. Not long after that act, the Pope also decided that he would no longer use the title “Vicar of Christ” in the 2020 Vatican Yearbook.
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“In my opinion,” Viganò writes, “what we are witnessing represents the general rehearsal for the establishment of the kingdom of the Antichrist, which will be preceded by the preaching of the False Prophet, the Precursor of the one who will carry out the final persecution against the Church before Our Lord’s definitive and crushing victory.”
The Italian prelate compares the placing of a Pachamama bowl on the altar with the enthronement of the “Goddess Reason” at Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral during the Terror of the French Revolution in 1793. However, he explains, this time, the profanation of an altar came from within, committed by the highest levels of the hierarchy. “The Bergoglian church is giving itself an increasingly more disconcerting image, in which the negation of Catholic truths is accompanied by the explicit affirmation of an intrinsically anti-Catholic and antichristic ideology, in which the idolatrous cult of pagan divinities – that is, of demons – is no longer hidden, who are propititated with sacrilegious acts and profanations of holy things.”
He goes on to say that this “presence of an idol of ‘mother earth’ is a direct offense against God and the Most Holy Virgin” and “a tangible sign that explains in a certain sense Bergoglio’s many irreverent utterances with regard to the Blessed Mother.”
Here, the Italian archbishop sees a link to the warnings of Our Lady of Salette from the 19th century. For him it is not surprising “that those who want to demolish the Church of Christ and the Roman Papacy do so from the highest Throne, according to the prophecy of Our Lady at La Salette: ‘Rome will lose the Faith and will become the seat of the Antichrist.’”
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lewrockwell--2020-12-25--A Parade of Republican Losers and Traitors Advances

Watching the parade of traitors head for the cliff these last few weeks has really been something .
The procession began with Fox News leading the way , followed by the usual RINOs ( Romney and Sasse ) .
Bringing up the rear were all but two members of our highest court and those who at one time seemed to like us ( Barr and McConnell ) but who now chant , “ Let ’ s move on.
” We thought those marching had our backs , but not only did they not have our backs , BUT they displayed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there .
Born Survivors : Three ... Holden , Wendy Best Price : $ 3.49 Buy New $ 13.50 One has to wonder why there is so little fight in our elected officials over what is clearly a fraudulent election .
Any sane leader would assess the mountain of evidence of election tampering before proclaiming that the election Is over .
Any sane leader would be greatly disturbed by the irregularities and at least allow the President and his legal team make their case .
Instead , our so-called leaders are closing their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ears .
Just to add insult to injury , it is likely the same scenario of phony mail-in ballots and other election shenanigans will plague Georgia ’ s special election for Senate control .
I suppose that after the two Democrats claim victory there , the same Republican turncoats will remain true to form and declare the election “ unfortunate ” but fair .
The inaction and laissez-faire attitude by this sorry cabal will result in us having to suffer through years of idiocy and incompetence .
The torture of having to listen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two-minute speech pales in comparison to what that two-minute speech will most likely convey .
The sheer agony of having to witness America ’ s brick-by-brick dismantling over a soundtrack of woke lecturing will be the fault of the many pawns who were elected to protect and defend our Constitution .
Eighty-four million ( and likely more ) of us are watching the destruction of our country in real time .
There is a good chance we will look back on the weeks between the November election and the inauguration of an illegitimate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ march toward socialism , a parade led by those on our own side .

Watching the parade of traitors head for the cliff these last few weeks has really been something. The procession began with Fox News leading the way, followed by the usual RINOs (Romney and Sasse). Bringing up the rear were all but two members of our highest court and those who at one time seemed to like us (Barr and McConnell) but who now chant, “Let’s move on.” We thought those marching had our backs, but not only did they not have our backs, BUT they displayed their contempt for us by stabbing us there.
Born Survivors: Three ... Holden, Wendy Best Price: $1.50 Buy New $9.25 (as of 10:02 UTC - Details) One has to wonder why there is so little fight in our elected officials over what is clearly a fraudulent election. Any sane leader would assess the mountain of evidence of election tampering before proclaiming that the election Is over. Any sane leader would be greatly disturbed by the irregularities and at least allow the President and his legal team make their case. Instead, our so-called leaders are closing their eyes and sticking their fingers in their ears. Just to add insult to injury, it is likely the same scenario of phony mail-in ballots and other election shenanigans will plague Georgia’s special election for Senate control. I suppose that after the two Democrats claim victory there, the same Republican turncoats will remain true to form and declare the election “unfortunate” but fair. The inaction and laissez-faire attitude by this sorry cabal will result in us having to suffer through years of idiocy and incompetence. The torture of having to listen to Biden stumble his way through a two-minute speech pales in comparison to what that two-minute speech will most likely convey. The sheer agony of having to witness America’s brick-by-brick dismantling over a soundtrack of woke lecturing will be the fault of the many pawns who were elected to protect and defend our Constitution.
Eighty-four million (and likely more) of us are watching the destruction of our country in real time. There is a good chance we will look back on the weeks between the November election and the inauguration of an illegitimate leader as the period that commenced the march toward socialism, a parade led by those on our own side.
Originally published on American Thinker.