The history of the CDC during covid has been, at best, a checkered one.
Given what we now know about the complete failure of covid vaccines to provide sterilizing immunity, stop infection, or stop spread as well as the fact that such issues were not even tested for in the drug trials that approved them, certain questions would seem overdue in the asking:
Just what was this “Data from the CDC today” that suggested that “Vaccinated people do not carry the virus?”
Was there, in fact, any data at all?
Or was this a completely fabricated claim used to underpin the mass rollout of a product that failed so spectacularly right out of the gates and:
There seems to be an awfully large body of claims made by CDC that appear to have lacked foundation in fact or data. Both Dr Walensky and her predecessor Robert Redfield would seem to have a great deal to answer for here.
This talking point was simply everywhere all at once.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla certainly pushed this narrative. Presumably, the fact that he was allowed to do so (itself quite an exceptional situation) implies the acquiescence of FDA, CDC, and other regulators.
Upon what was this seemingly widespread consensus based?
The matter appears to have never even been studied at the time the claims were made.
Why were the usually strict and fastidious US regulators so sanguine about such unusually aggressive and certain statements?
This is a most unusual situation and such an extraordinary outcome would seem to demand an extraordinary explanation.
Yet none seems forthcoming.
“The mRNA and the spike protein do not last long in the body” constitutes another key early safety claim similarly rooted in opaque or absent evidence or perhaps simply assumed or invented. (before being quietly retracted later).
This claim also proved extravagantly incorrect.
Wherever one looks, it seems one finds that these grand claims of safety and efficacy were underpinned by a paucity or utter absence of supporting evidence.
Even the definitions themselves such as “Any positive for trace covid from a PCR test at a 40 Cycle Threshold is covid” or “No disease outcomes from vaccines are to be counted until 2 weeks after the second (or third) dose” which left a large window (4-6 weeks) during a period of known immune suppression from the jabs uncounted or even, in many cases, attributed to the unvaccinated in a manner that can make placebo look like high efficacy preventative are so unusual and inconsistent with past practice or sound science as to demand the most pointed of questions as to how such practices came to be and who the decision makers who put them in place were.
This series of unfounded claims and distortionary definitions seems both a poor and a deeply dangerous practice for Public Health.
If we are to have any hope of restoring faith in this field, we must ask and answer the pointed questions of “How did this happen?” and “At whose behest?”
Someone made these choices for some reason. Who and why would seem to be the bare minimum of post mortem here.
It is oft opined that a bad map is worse than no map at all and in this, I must wholeheartedly agree. The public health agencies in America have become the most calamitous of cartographers.
If we would seek to have the agents of public health act as something other than a marketing arm and apologist for the revolving door of Pharma with whom they seem to so regularly swap staff and sinecure then it must once more be turned to serve the public. It may do so only if it regains the public trust and such trust, once lost, may only be restored by asking the hard questions and diligently following the answers wherever so they may lead until we may understand what went wrong, hold the malefactors to account, and effect the means to prevent this from happening again.
Please make no mistake, if nothing is done and this is swept beneath some august Congressional rug or societal memory hole, it will happen again. And soon. This is not a choice I would have for America and one I do not believe you should countenance.
When the federal government sent $9,000 to Patty Myers to pay for her husband’s funeral, she got angry. “I didn’t want to take a penny. It felt like hush money, like they were paying me to keep quiet about how my husband died in the hospital.”
In a burst of inspiration, Patty decided to take the government’s money and use it to make a documentary. She found a director through a church friend on Facebook and created Making A Killing, which exposes the covid hospital protocol that she believes killed her husband and thousands of other Americans.
“When I started making this film, I didn’t know about the federal money driving the protocol. I do now,” Patty told me. The federal money was titanic, flooding hospitals with cash that stimulated record-breaking profits. A new report from Open The Books reveals that the 20 largest nonprofit hospitals in America received more than $23 billion in federal aid during the 2018 – 2021 time period, and “their cumulative net assets soared to $324.3 billion in 2021, up from 200.6 billion in 2018.” And, in a wonderful development for the hospitals’ top executives, those lavish taxpayer funds enabled many of them to get paid $10 million or more a year.
Alas, as Patty discovered, all that sweet federal money came with a catch: it incentivized specific medical treatments for Covid that happened to be deadly. If the hospital admitted you with a Covid diagnosis – great, they got paid more! If they “treated” you with remdesivir, a drug well-documented as lethal – fantastic, they got a 20% bonus on the whole bill! If the hospital tortured you with mechanical ventilation that caused secondary bacterial pneumonia – hooray, they got an even bigger payout! And if the hospital really lucked out and you died of Covid (even if not directly of Covid) – the cash bonanza was absolutely awesome.
“The hospital billed over $500,000 for Tony’s treatment and they couldn’t even find someone to give him water,” Patty said. I notice that Patty can’t talk too long about Tony without breaking into sobs. “He was my best friend. He was my partner. We did everything together.”
And what they did together was not only difficult, it was inspirational. After they learned their son had autism, Patty and Tony teamed up to create two nonprofits to help kids with special needs in the Orlando area. Patty is now Executive Director of Pathways for Life Academy, a private middle and high school that she and Tony founded, which prepares special needs kids for independence in life and learning. And she’s also the director of Building Pathways, which offers classes and summer camps to teach these kids practical skills.
“Tony called me from the hospital and said that we volunteer to advocate for people with disabilities all the time. And here I am in this hospital, trying to advocate for myself and nobody will listen. I’ve called the news media, the governor, anyone I can think of; nobody will respond.”
Tragically, Tony was locked into the Hospital Death Protocol, moving in predictable phases from remdesivir to ventilation, all while being isolated from his family, and refused water, ice, or food. Patty tells his story in Making a Killing in a poignantly straightforward manner, noting that the medical staff randomly stopped his breathing treatments.
Patty did manage an unusual triumph: she talked the staff into giving Tony ivermectin, which dramatically improved his condition. But her triumph was temporary: the staff then refused to keep giving it, telling her that it was not FDA-approved. Tony Myers died on September 9, 2021, almost four weeks after he entered Orlando Health Hospital. He was 55 years old.
Making A Killing also features Dayna Stevens, who tells of the brutal death of her mother. Rebecca Stevens read the Epoch Times, so she was informed enough to refuse both remdesivir and ventilation. But that didn’t save her. Her normal medications were withheld, and she was given remdesivir without her knowledge.
“The disdain they showed for my mother once they knew she was unvaccinated was unbelievable,” Dayna told me. “They mocked and ridiculed her. Nurses told her that patients who were unvaccinated shouldn’t be allowed to get oxygen. It’s almost like they normalized cruelty. They wouldn’t release her to me, so I called the cops.”
All Dayna’s efforts failed. She watched as medical staff at Advent Health Hospital in Altamonte Springs, Florida took away her mother’s oxygen and sedated her to death. Rebecca Stevens was 59, a grandmother of five.
The intense suffering of Patty and Dayna permeates the screen, leaving viewers bewildered. When did America transform into a place where patients have no rights and life is pathetically cheap? How did hospitals metastasize from houses of healing into chambers of horrors? Where did “Do No Harm” go?
Nobody knows how many people died due to the lethal hospital protocols. I’ve heard estimates ranging from hundreds of thousands to over a million. Senator Ron Johnson appears in Making a Killing to condemn the “rigid top-down protocols” that caused this catastrophe. “Patients lost all their freedom when they went in the hospital,” he said.
And Robert Hall, a State Senator from Texas, told Patty, “Hospitals refused early treatments, and they treated patients wrong and too late. And they got huge financial incentives for a long hospital stay.”
The media has managed to muffle the voices of the bereaved, stifling their stories and ignoring the killing. For now, anguished family members have been confined to telling their stories to activist organizations like American Frontline Nurses, FormerFedsGroup Freedom Foundation, and Protocol Kills. But their voices may finally break through, now that they’ve entered the legal arena…
It was 2019 when Beth Rempe, then a nurse at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., first noticed the change.
Doctors were wearing pins sporting the transgender flag. Nurses were asking children, most with no history of gender dysphoria, for their preferred pronouns, which were entered into an electronic record system and documented on white boards outside their rooms. More patients were on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, especially young girls. And the top-ranked hospital was telling staff that people could change gender based on their “mood,” according to slides from a mandatory training reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
The training, which was offered as recently as January, included a primer on “zi/hir” pronouns and used a “gender unicorn” to illustrate the “spectrum” of “other gender(s).”
By 2022, Rempe said, Children’s National was requiring staffers to use a patient’s preferred pronouns, no questions asked, even as European medical authorities were backing away from that practice, warning that on-demand gender affirmation could entrench dysphoria rather than reduce it, particularly in children. Worried the policy did more harm than good, Rempe asked for an exemption, which the hospital denied. She quit in early 2022.
“I was concerned that I would eventually have to administer puberty blockers and hormones, not just use the pronouns,” Rempe told the Free Beacon. “I kept finding myself in situations I wasn’t comfortable with ethically.”
Since her departure, Rempe has struggled to make sense of what happened to the hospital where she spent 16 years of her professional life. Was there a common thread behind the transgender flag pins, the pronouns, the puberty blockers, and the trainings and policies that enforced the new culture?
As it turns out, there is an outside force pushing hospitals in this direction.
The Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index became a flashpoint last month when commentators posited that the scorecard was behind Bud Light’s decision to air an advertisement featuring the transgender TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney. Well, it has a sibling.
Meet the Healthcare Equality Index, the Human Rights Campaign’s scorecard for hospitals that purports to measure the “equity and inclusion of their LGBTQ+ patients.” The index, which uses a 100 point scale, is funded by Pfizer and PhRMA, the trade association that lobbies on behalf of large pharmaceutical companies. And, Rempe noticed, it awards points for all of the policies Children’s National implemented.
To earn a perfect score, hospitals must display LGBT symbols, solicit and use patients’ preferred pronouns, and conduct trainings on LGBT issues approved by the Human Rights Campaign, according to the scoring criteria. They must also provide the same treatments for gender dysphoria that they provide for other medical conditions—meaning a hospital that uses puberty blockers to treat precocious puberty cannot withhold the drugs from children who say they’re transgender. And though the index does not mention medical conscience exemptions explicitly, it does penalize hospitals for allowing “discriminatory treatment that is in conflict with their non-discrimination policy.”
Over 2,200 health systems, including dozens of children’s hospitals, have been rated by the index. In 2022, Children’s National earned a perfect score.
The Human Rights Campaign is a private entity, and its ratings carry no official weight. But as countries around the world pump the brakes on pediatric transition, critics say that the index—bankrolled by the very companies that produce and profit off puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones—is encouraging the sort of no-guardrails approach that has made U.S. gender medicine an international outlier. The scorecard has helped powerful lobbyists seed their ideology across American hospitals, becoming de facto regulators of health care.
A spokesperson for PhRMA, Brian Newell, downplayed its role in the index, saying the trade association was “not involved in the development” of the scoring criteria. “Our work with the [Human Rights Campaign] has primarily focused on issues impacting patient access and affordability, including for those with HIV,” Newell said.
Pfizer did not respond to a request for comment.
The most coercive part of the index is its “Responsible Citizenship” deduction. Hospitals can lose as many as 25 points for any behavior the Human Rights Campaign deems “discriminatory,” an expansive category that includes statements made by hospital doctors and policies that restrict access to gender medicine, including puberty blockers.
Last year, for example, the Human Rights Campaign deducted points from two Texas hospitals, UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Health in Dallas, because they stopped using puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria but continued to use them to treat precocious puberty—the blockers’ original purpose.
That “amounts to discrimination against transgender youth,” the Human Rights Campaign argued in a press release…
In the summer of 2020, the Smithsonian Institution created a chart meant to condemn what it calls “whiteness,” and it listed a number of characteristics it claimed were essential to “white culture.” Among the so-called characteristics it described in pejorative terms was delaying gratification, or saving for the future, what Austrian economists would call low time preference.
The chart, which was withdrawn after widespread protest, sought to identify the characteristics needed to build not only an economy but civilization itself with a racist culture. Thus, the kind of lifestyle and values that might culminate in someone having high credit scores and saving up for a significant down payment for a house were something not to be emulated or praised, but rather to be called out and declared shameful.
Although the chart no longer is found on the Smithsonian website, the mentality that created it lives on in the policies of the Biden administration. To show its commitment to equity—equal outcomes—the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) implemented a new policy on May 1, 2023, that punishes homebuyers with high credit scores who can put down at least 15–20 percent on a mortgage by making them pay higher interest rates and extra fees. Declares a Wall Street Journaleditorial:
According to calculations by Evercore ISI, buyers with strong credit scores between 720 and 739 who make 15%–20% down payments will see their rates increase by 0.750%. Borrowers who put down 20%–25% will see rates increase by 0.500%.
The winners are borrowers with weak credit scores—that is, riskier borrowers. Under current FHFA policy, a borrower with a weak credit score below 620, who is borrowing more than 95% of the value of their home, pays 3.750%. Under Ms. Thompson’s new plan, those borrowers will see their fees decrease by 1.750%.
Not surprisingly, commentators like James Bovard have rightly attacked this policy as one that imposes perverse incentives, turning the rewards for creditworthiness upside down. Bovard writes:
Starting May 1, The Post exposed last week, a Biden administration decree will require adjusting mortgage calculations to penalize homebuyers with a FICO credit score of 680 and above—almost two-thirds of the population.
This levy will be used to reduce costs for people with low credit scores—i.e., risky borrowers more likely to default on mortgages.
However, this is not merely another version of the Law of Unintended Consequences, in which well-meaning government officials implement a policy without looking at the so-called bigger picture. The consequences here are intended. The Biden administration officials know full well the implications of this new policy and is sending the message that the notion of creditworthiness itself is implicitly racist.
As Newsweek points out, the racial gaps in home ownership and credit scores are significant:
Only about 25 percent of homebuyers with Federal Housing Administration loans are people of color, according to the White House. Black and Hispanic people, on average, have fewer savings to use as a down payment on a home and tend to have lower credit scores, according to David Stevens, former CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and a former FHA commissioner during the Obama administration. The current policy is being rolled out by the FHFA.
He told Newsweek that this can be attributed to factors like distrust in the banking system or being a first-generation American. He added that low credit scores can be a significant barrier to homeownership.
But in order for the FHFA to close the gap by bringing down LLPAs [loan-level price adjustments] for those borrowers, the agency will compensate for the reduction in borrowing fees by raising the LLPAs of borrowers with higher credit scores, who tend to be white.
The average credit score in white communities was 727 in 2021, compared with 667 in Hispanic communities and 627 in Black communities, according to data analyzed by FinMasters, a personal finance blog.
Not surprisingly, the Biden administration blames the homeownership gap on racism, so its proclivity is to punish the people who saved their income and engaged in forward-looking behavior, something the Smithsonian condemned as a product of “whiteness.” However, as Bovard points out, black homeownership rates relative to white rates are lower today than they were more than fifty years ago: “Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Sandra Thompson testified to Congress last year that the racial homeownership gap ‘is higher today than when the Fair Housing Act [of 1968] was passed.’”
That is hardly insignificant. In 1968, the United States was just beginning to shed Jim Crow laws, and prospective black homeowners had far fewer financing opportunities than they do today. Furthermore, homebuyers were expected to put at least 20 percent down, with only some exceptions, so one might consider lending policies at that time to have been far less friendly to black borrowers than they are today.
Furthermore, the Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama administrations had policies explicitly aimed at increasing homeownership among blacks and other minority groups. Bush claimed his administration had put a record number of black Americans in their own homes by helping to provide down payments and lowering interest rates, among other policies.
Andrew Cuomo, the Clinton administration’s housing and urban development secretary, declared that the homeowning gap between blacks and whites was due to discrimination and ordered mortgage lenders to lower lending barriers for black households. Cuomo wrote:
The American Dream of homeownership is not reserved for whites. We will not tolerate a continued homeownership gap as wide as the Grand Canyon that divides Americans into two societies, separate and unequal. Eliminating housing and lending discrimination is vital to making the opportunity for homeownership a reality for all Americans.
Of course, the Bush administration’s all-out push to increase black and Hispanic homeownership rates had its own unhappy ending: the 2008 financial meltdown. All the Bush administration’s efforts to increase minority home ownership blew up as home prices plunged and many homeowners defaulted on their mortgages and lost their homes. Writes Bovard: “Thanks to the housing crash, the median net worth for Hispanic households declined by 66 percent between 2005 and 2009 and the median net worth of black households declined by 53 percent.”
Moreover, in a 2004 article in Barron’s, Bovard warned that the Bush housing policies were going to have an unhappy ending:
One of the proudest elements of President Bush’s “compassionate conservative” agenda has been government financial support to home buyers for down payments. Bush is determined to end the bias against people who want to buy a home but don’t have any money. But he is exposing taxpayers to tens of billions of dollars of possible losses, luring thousands of moderate-income families into bankruptcy, and risking the destruction of entire neighborhoods.
Bovard’s words were prophetic. But at least Bush didn’t blame borrowers with high credit scores and large down payments for the racial housing gaps.
The Biden administration, on the other hand, has expanded the definition of “intersectionality” to include the claim that whites (along with non-whites who have high credit scores) are to blame for minorities’ low credit scores and shakier finances. The Biden administration’s policies continue what Bovard called “wrecking ball benevolence.” Former federal Judge Janice Rogers Brown concurred, writing: “Whether the road was paved with good intentions or greased by greed and indifference, affordable housing turned out to be the path to perdition for the U.S. mortgage market.”
Economically, none of this makes sense, but one must understand that the Biden administration is not looking to promote working markets in housing. Instead, it is claiming that the only cause of the gap in homeownership between blacks and whites is white racism and that the government must engage in extraordinary means to eliminate this gap, even if this requires turning economic logic upside down.
One does not have to be a seer or have a doctorate in economics to know that this latest iteration of federal housing policy will end in failure just like all the other housing initiatives for minorities. But don’t blame the Law of Unintended Consequences. This new policy is deliberate, and when it fails (as it surely will), look for Biden or whoever else is in the White House to call for even more drastic measures.
William L. Anderson is a professor emeritus of economics at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland. He currently works as an editor for the Mises Institute.
Full crosspost from Chris Munier, with permission. It is brilliant. Check out his blog, Catholics Aren’t Zombies: HERE
In economics, we don’t officially reach the dismal reality of a recession or depression until the country loses GDP beyond at least two consecutive quarters. This has been deemed an economic law by our stupendous academic experts, who measure how we make, exchange, and consume stuff with some rather foolish metrics. Make of their econometrics what you will, some of these data guide the worldly decisions ordinary citizens make managing their personal or household microeconomics.
A prudent man, of course, wouldn’t wait several months (the required duration to confirm recessionary status) to recognize a problem and make adjustments. With financial “blood in the streets,” who waits four quarters (an entire year) to acknowledge the stock market tanked, their job is gone, and bankers are tossing themselves off skyscrapers?
God gave us a brain, as Fr. Altman says, and expects us to use it. Therefore, we must monitor important matters and make assessments of phenomena around us. We lack the luxury of saying “let us wait and see if the economists call this a depression, then we’ll purchase gold and tighten our spending.”
No, we must evaluate reality with our God-given faculties and form judgments based on available evidence. This is even more significant of anything involving spiritual survival, avoiding scandal, and withstanding our particular Judgment.
Preserve Your Sanity by Acknowledging Bergoglio’s Antipapacy
Just as you cannot sit on your hands waiting for economists to confirm a recession, able-minded Catholics can’t await some spectacular verdict from the College of Cardinals. Just as the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, so too can the scourge of a horrible antipope outlive your ability to avoid despair.
That’s the entire purpose of the antipope discussion – to prepare yourself (and those around you) for the prolonged and epic scandal we’re enduring. The longer you force yourself to suffer the cognitive dissonance of believing Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the pope, the greater your chance of apostatizing.
It was terrible enough when former Catholics abandoned the Church, following creeps like Luther and Calvin, because of crooked clergymen (like the Bourjas). How much more opportunity for scandal would come from a pagan-worshiping, communist, pedo-protecting, non-believer masquerading as the pope? Therefore, you must recognize this problem, tell others about it, scream from the rooftops, and not go along with what inevitably happens next . . .
Changing the words of consecration at Mass.
Deaconesses (fake ordained).
Trans-Jennered Clergy.
More shutdowns whenever the medical tyrants release another pandemonium “pandemic.”
Having to receive Holy Communion in the hand (no alternatives) while wearing those awful, suffocating face panties.
Cooperation with the Davos crowd on horrible secular measures like CBDC.
More evil teachings like Amoris Laetitia and the licitness of legalized euthanasia.
Ever more examples of “ecumenism” with wretched Muslims, backwards and brutal indigenous folks, the Eastern Heterodox, and others. The “Abrahamic Family House” and Anglican liturgy in the Vatican are only a taste of coming attractions.
Do these scenarios fill you with uncontrollable rage, anxiety, and even a nagging doubt over the legitimacy of the Catholic Church?
They shouldn’t, however, provided you keep your wits about you and distinguish the anti-church from the REAL Catholic Church it temporarily eclipses. Again, there’s no cardinal or arch-expert who should do this for you.
Tangible Benefits of NOT Awaiting the Cardinals’ Verdict on Antipope Bergoglio
It Heals Melancholy – I hear of folks, even faithful clergy, who admit to struggling with temptations to despair over controversies with the hierarchy. I’ve found that these temptations, anxiety, and, frankly downright dread, almost entirely vanish upon discovering the truth. It’s as if, as Our Lord says, the truth will make you free, including freedom from scruples, confusion, excessive sadness, and malaise. It’s difficult enough trying to overcome how our habitual sins dull our intellects. We need not compound the problem by allowing the poison ivy of the anti-church to choke our fragile psyche even further. Say “no” to Bergo, and “yes” to better mental constitution.
Red Pill (Sans Red Pill Rage) – It’s much more pleasant to learn things that don’t fill you with immoderate anger. Instead, once you see the truth about the antipapacy, it can alleviate most of the rage and confusion. You no longer have to “resent God” (God forbid) for saddling us with a chaotic, mixed-messaging, corrupt, sodomite hierarchy. All you have to do is not follow the commands of thugs like Bergoglio et al. With things the way they are now, we should look for reasons to contradict the homo hierarchy. This isn’t sinful disobedience, but holy obedience to the real Church. It also helps you cast aside lots of pent-up frustration.
You Don’t Have to Believe “Francis” Consecrated Russia to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart – This one’s especially relevant given the way things have gone the past 14 months since the Bergo “constipation.” Imagine if his faux consecration (March 25th, 2022) was actually legitimate amid all the worsening world turmoil. We’d have to assume that Our Lady’s Triumph was like a time-release capsule set to heal the world of communism . . . over the span of 100,000 years (slow healing, indeed). A darker interpretation would be that we got the entire Fatima message wrong since the consecration yielded fruitless results (or worse). Thankfully, sober minds can comprehend the illegitimacy of the antipapacy and conclude that his efforts were little more than geopolitical subterfuge. You and I, as anti-bergoglians, don’t have to bother with such nonsense or let it affect our faith. Furthermore, the consecration has yet to occur, which we should continue to pray will happen soon (after we pray for a new pope following Benedict’s death).
I could continue with other advantages, but you can see that it’s a tremendous psychological boon not to waste time reconciling the anti-church with Our Lord’s Church.
“But, I Don’t Have the Authority to Decide Bergoglio Is An Antipope!!!”
No, you don’t have the ecclesiastical authority to do anything about it. There’s a difference between a) acknowledging an ontological or epistemological truth, versus, b) having the means to reform horrible circumstances. I encourage you to do the former, whereas the latter is mostly unavailable to us Church plebes.
As it stands, for lay folks like you and I, there is no direct way to abolish Bergoglio’s wicked regime. We can, of course, influence a change indirectly through prayer, petition, fasting, and other penances.
We can also inform others of this problem, thus multiplying the size of our team, which will cultivate faster results. Failing that, we can at least establish a proper frame of reference by viewing the anti-church for what it is (evil, gay, communist, atheist, etc.). There is no “disobedience” involved with acknowledging the corrupt and unlawful machinations that led to the Bergoglio regime.
So, Don’t Wait for Economists or Cardinals to Hold Your Hand
Chapter 16 of the Gospel, according to St. Matthew, shows us much of what we need to know about the Church. Catholics must understand this section “inside and out” for various essential reasons.
“You know then how to discern the face of the sky: and can you not know the signs of the times.” (Matthew 16:3)
This verse might remind us of how we detect obvious problems around us, but can’t arrive at logical conclusions. Must one wait until ALL of his friends are unemployed to conclude there’s an economic depression? Likewise, does the antipope have to burn bibles and stomp on crucifixes for us to realize he might not be the pope?
“And Jesus came into the quarters of Caesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is?But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets.Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:13-15)
We know that St. Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, responds by saying that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. By cooperating with grace, which is given to all of us in diverse increments, Catholics can discern important truths. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be such a voluminous body of literature dedicated to “discerning the spirits.”
Moreover, you don’t have to be a cleric, prophet, or exceptionally smart to accomplish this, either. Notice how St. Peter doesn’t have to scurry off to consult the Pharisees to realize this glorious truth. It’s given to him, by God the Father, because he was a man of good will (i.e., obedient to the divine will). St. Peter and his fellow apostles (unlike Judas Iscariot and the other Capharnaum traitors) properly discerned God’s will and arrived at the truth.
Never forget that this blessed gift was granted to “all men of good will,” that we would experience peace, emanating from the eternal logos, Himself. So, always align yourself with truth, which is the Word, who became flesh to dwell among us, and resist the treacherous antipope and other Vatican bullies.
Next Topic?
In a future post, I may do a juxtaposition of how our current crop of Cardinals speak versus the wisdom of the heroic, saintly cardinals of centuries past. What an ecclesiastical canyon we find between the dumpster fire theology of Blase Cupich and the glorious teachings of Cardinal Sts. Robert Bellarmine, Peter Damian, and Bonaventure. Stay tuned for some real contrasting colors.
Until then, God bless, never wear face panties, stop watching politics, detach from the world, go to adoration, pray 15 decades of the Rosary, and don’t be a zombie!
This open border disaster is not a “Johnny-come-lately” story. It is a plan that was created many decades ago by leftist radicals intent on destroying America.
I should know: I was there. I am a witness.
I am a blue-collar S.O.B. (son of a butcher) from the wrong side of the tracks: a poor, majority-black town on the Bronx borderline. I attended almost all-black middle school and high school in Mount Vernon, New York. After I graduated valedictorian, I was accepted at prestigious Ivy League Columbia University.
What I found there shocked me to the core.
Columbia University was filled with spoiled-brat “lucky sperm club” privileged white kids who were obsessed with hatred for America. These radical nutjobs bragged about being communists and Marxists. They bragged about their hatred of white people (even though they were white themselves). They bragged about hating rich people (even though they were from rich families themselves).
This was one gigantic guilt trip. My classmates hated themselves, their country, their parents, their wealth and most of all, their whiteness.
They talked all day long about their plans to bring America down; destroy the economy; bankrupt white businessmen; and create “equality and fairness” by turning America into a socialist/Marxist/communist country.
It’s important to note that one of my classmates at Columbia was Barack Obama.
My classmate Barack Obama and I graduated on the same day in spring of 1983. This very month is the 40th anniversary of our Columbia graduation.
These Columbia University radicals (and traitors) had a plan named Cloward-Piven. It was named after two Columbia University professors: the husband-and-wife team of Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.
The plan was actually simple: get everyone possible in America on welfare, food stamps and a hundred other government welfare programs. Get so many on the government dole that the economy is overwhelmed, destroyed and collapses under the weight of the exploding national debt.
Basically, America goes bankrupt.
At this point, Americans would be in so much pain and so frightened that they would beg government to save them. And that is how they would “fundamentally change America forever.” Remember those words? They came out of the mouth of Barack Obama. He learned those words and this plan at Columbia.
Because of the collapse of the economy and society, Cloward and Piven believed America would be ready for socialism: bailouts, a permanent welfare state and a monthly universal-income check.
The goal? Equality, equity, social justice. Recognize those words? Everyone would be in the same boat — dependent on Big Brother for survival.
Look around. It’s all happening right now.
Except Cloward-Piven has been updated. It’s now 100% about the border. If you can’t get everyone in America on welfare to explode the debt, overwhelm the economy and collapse the country, open the border and invite the whole world in.
The world is filled with such terrible, miserable poverty that Americans can’t even imagine it. The poor in America are rich compared to the rest of the world. And that is why the whole world is coming. They know the border is open. The whole of Africa is coming. The whole Middle East is coming. China is sending millions of military-age males. Haiti is coming. Latin America is coming. Prisons are being emptied. An invasion of America is underway.
If you were poor… if you were starving… if you had nothing… if you were a criminal… if you were sick… if you were pregnant… if you had 10 kids… if you were a child with no future… wouldn’t you come to America?
Trust me; everyone is coming.
They all know the border is open. They know they get free money, and all kinds of welfare checks, cellphones, plane tickets wherever they want to go, free legal help, free school and free medical. Wouldn’t you come?
What if a hundred million come? What if a half-billion come? What if a billion come? There is nothing stopping them.
They will tip us into mass poverty, crisis, anarchy and a crime wave you can’t even imagine. They will bring disease. The schools and healthcare systems will collapse. The national debt will explode, the budget will be overwhelmed and the economy will collapse.
This is Cloward-Piven updated for 2023.
It all happened because Democrats (i.e., socialists, Marxists and communists) rigged and stole a presidential election. Then they banned even the mention of rigged and stolen elections — with the full cooperation of mainstream media and social media.
For the next two years they opened the border to let millions in. Now they’ve managed to end Title 42 for the final explosion that ends America and American exceptionalism forever.
Trust me, a brain-dead zombie puppet with diapers and dementia is not the brains behind this brilliant plan.
This is the Cloward-Piven plan that I learned at Columbia. And the man carrying it all out to perfection is the real president of the United States: Barack Obama. He is back for his third term to finish the job he started — to “fundamentally change America forever.”
And I would not be surprised if the next phase of the plan is to replace corrupt, mentally failing President Joe Biden with Michelle Obama in 2024. That would be Obama’s fourth term.
And the official end of America.
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You will need to read that a few times to identify the multiple psychoses at play, none of them good, and some of them dangerous. She’s moved beyond, “Science, dammit!” and now she semi-admitts the shots are poison, and professes her love for poison. Or something. No, love of poison out of love for the world, see? Either way, she wants you to know that it’s obviously the anti-poison people who are pure evil.
From the combox:
An interesting tweet, related to this topic of those who chose well, those who didn’t:
Dr. Natalia @SolNataMD
“I will never regret the vaccine. Even if it turns out I injected actual poison and have only days to live. My heart and is was in the right place. I got vaccinated out of love, while antivaxxers did everything out of hate. If I have to die because of my love for the world, then so be it. But I will never regret or apologize for it.”
– end tweet –
Here is an interesting window into the mind of a slice of our medical profession – those so called doctors who were more in line with (literally) the Nazi practitioners who carried out the will of the fascist regime upon the unwanted, the unneeded and (most importantly) the unwilling. She told herself from the beginning – she was a practitioner of science; that all she did was in the name of cold, rational science (like the Nazi).
But now, she stands exposed, not as a scientist, but as a tool, a tool of the regime. And she is struggling with the problem of … how did you say it previously in a post here? … *cognitive dissonance …
What to do? She is faced with the realization that her professional life has been reduced to channeling innocent people, including herself, to a vast vat of KoolAid which she now realizes is poison, and people will die, have died, are dying – including. she now realizes, herself.
And so to treat her cognitive dissonance she leaves her science rationalizations behind, since they are obvious lies, and – like the cult member she is – tells herself and those she sent to the vat of KoolAid that it was all for love.
Amazing! It is a Jim Jones death cult writ large on a national scale.
Mind you, I am not advocating going $200K-$300K into debt for a useless degree. Fueled by government-mandated forever-loans, which can’t be dismissed even if you file for bankruptcy, higher education has become a racket surpassed only by the healthcare system. Over the past 30 years, these unsecured loans have fed an annual cycle of tuition increases that boggles the mind – so much so, the schools literally don’t know what to do with the money.
Back in the day, you needed a four-year degree to even be considered for certain jobs on the corporate ladder. Increasingly, this is no longer the case. Supervisor, Manager, and Director-level roles are now routinely held by non-degreed folks who have the proper work experience required, well into six-figure salary range.
This is to say nothing of the huge demand for skilled trades, and the secure future of those who pursue them. Welders, glaziers, plumbers, electricians, etc. Nearly six-figures a year, perhaps higher, with only ~$10K investment in training, and you will never be unemployed.
But anyway, here is the list. It is sorted alpha by state, then alpha by school. So scroll down to the state first, then find the school you want.
An interesting tweet, related to this topic of those who chose well, those who didn’t:
Dr. Natalia
@SolNataMD
“I will never regret the vaccine. Even if it turns out I injected actual poison and have only days to live. My heart and is was in the right place. I got vaccinated out of love, while antivaxxers did everything out of hate. If I have to die because of my love for the world, then so be it. But I will never
regret or apologize for it.”
– end tweet –
Here is an interesting window into the mind of a slice of our medical profession – those so called doctors who were more in line with (literally) the Nazi practitioners who carried out the will of the fascist regime upon the unwanted, the unneeded and (most importantly) the unwilling. She told herself from the beginning – she was a practitioner of science; that all she did was in the name of cold, rational science (like the Nazi).
But now, she stands exposed, not as a scientist, but as a tool, a tool of the regime. And she is struggling with the problem of … how did you say it previously in a post here? … *cognitive dissonance …
What to do? She is faced with the realization that her professional life has been reduced to channeling innocent people, including herself, to a vast vat of KoolAid which she now realizes is poison, and people will die, have died, are dying – including. she now realizes, herself.
And so to treat her cognitive dissonance she leaves her science rationalizations behind, since they are obvious lies, and – like the cult member she is – tells herself and those she sent to the vat of KoolAid that it was all for love.
Amazing! It is a Jim Jones death cult writ large on a national scale.