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Editor’s note: under the new pontificate of Pope Leo, we will now publish this monthly reminder of the proven, time-tested method to end heresy and the responsibility of every bishop for this, the “greatest act of charity.”

Back in 2023, all orthodox Catholics of good will heard the news of His Excellency, Bishop Paprocki’s condemnation of heresy in one of the most prominent American journals, First Things. This was ostensibly a condemnation of Cardinal McElroy’s brazen challenge to Catholic moral theology in two pieces (here and here) at America—a connection underlined by Bishop Paprocki’s quoting verbatim from the cardinal’s first article. Nevertheless, His Excellency did say shortly thereafter (on Raymond Arroyo) that he did not want to name names, but had European cardinals also in mind.

Masculine Courage

Faithful Catholics compare today’s bishops with the saintly bishops of old and they find the former woefully lacking in manly courage. They do not seem to act like men of God should – with zeal, filled with faith and charity.

I am willing to hazard that there are many orthodox bishops out there. But it seems to me that most of those orthodox bishops are cowardly. They think of themselves as “vicars of the Roman Pontiff” (a concept that Vatican II condemned in Lumen Gentium 27), and they are afraid to excommunicate and issue the anathema, as did the saintly bishops of old.

Thanks be to God, this crisis has had one silver lining – it is separating the men from the boys in the episcopate. We thank God for Bishop Paprocki, as well as for Archbishop Cordileone who excommunicated the aiders and abetters of child murder and who was supported by over sixteen other bishops, and for Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas, who has been continually willing to act like a man of God – with courage and conviction – despite being unceremoniously sacked by Pope Francis.

Less Words, More Action

But if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the Vatican II crisis it’s this: more talking, statements, and documents do almost nothing to stop the heretic wolves from scattering the flock.

Therefore, I respectfully propose to all bishops the same proposal that the Trad movement has been asking for since 1965: the charitable anathema.

At OnePeterFive we aim to resource and promote the work of our Trad godfathers in the Faith. It was Cardinal Ottaviani who asked all bishops to condemn heresy in 1966, heartily cheered by Archbishop Lefebvre. When Dietrich von Hildebrand met with Paul VI in the summer of 1965 – even before the Council ended – he begged Paul VI for the same thing – the charitable anathema. But the Pontiff thought it “was a bit harsh” and decided against it.[1]

The Case of Notre Dame

One of the worst cases of this fear of taking appropriate action concerned the bishop of South Bend, Indiana, after Notre Dame went into revolt against the Magisterium in the 1960s. The bishop wanted to place the whole university under interdict, but hesitated, waiting for Rome to back him up.

Rome never did, and thousands of American Catholics (and worldwide) were led into heresy by joining in the revolt against Humanae Vitae (and other dogmas of the Faith), led by the heretic wolves at Notre Dame and other so-called “Catholic” institutions.

Indeed, at the judgment day, the bishops of these generations will be judged by Christ, the Good Shepherd, about whether they laid down their life for their sheep, or if they let the heretic wolves destroy the faith of little children, as we have seen happen. For these heretic wolves have torn out altars, held Catholic universities hostage to heresy, and have done nothing less than scourged Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament by their liturgical abuse.

As our contributing editor, Dr. Michael Sirilla shows, St. Thomas himself strongly defended the bishop’s responsibility of excommunicating heretics.[2] This was understood as obligation of charity for the flock.

The sheep cry out, How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me forever? and the Prophet cries out, Woe to you, Shepherds!

The Only Way Forward: the Charitable Anathema

But let me return to my point: more talking and documents will do nothing. Only action – the action of a man of God – will have any effect.

And that action, we assert – with the whole history of the Church – is the charitable anathema.

As Hildebrand said acutely, pointing to the root of the problem decades ago:

The valuing of unity over truth plays a central role in the crisis of the Church; for the Church of Christ—the Holy, Roman, Catholic, Apostolic Church—is based on this fundamental principle: the absolute primacy of divine truth, which is the very primacy of God.[3]

This proven solution has always been the answer in times of heretical depravity. Critics of this solution ultimately value unity above truth. They are scared of schism more than they are of error and falsehood. Hildebrand refutes the critics of the anathema with these words, proclaiming that the anathema is itself an act of charity:

… The anathema excludes the one who professes heresies from the communion of the Church, if he does not retract his errors. But for precisely this reason, it is an act of the greatest charity toward all the faithful, comparable to preventing a dangerous disease from infecting innumerable people. By isolating the bearer of infection, we protect the bodily health of others; by the anathema, we protect their spiritual health[.] …

And more: a rupture of communion with the heretic in no way implies that our obligation of charity toward him ceases. No, the Church prays also for heretics [as we see in the traditional orations of Good Friday]; the true Catholic who knows a heretic personally prays ardently for him and would never cease to impart all kinds of help to him. But he should not have any communion with him. Thus St. John, the great apostle of charity, said: “If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar” (I Jn. 4:20). But he also said: “If any man come to you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into the house[.]” (2 Jn. 1:10).[4]

Therefore we exhort every cleric, theologian, and diocesan official of any kind: examine yourself, and consider speaking to your bishop about this solution. The words that have been spoken by Bishop Paprocki are obviously good, but we ask for less talking and more action.

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Joy Reid warns Americans of MAGA plans: “No income tax, no regulations, earn as much as you want, and leave it to your children with no taxes, that’s the world they want.” That actually sounds like a free society. Unfortunately, it is not a MAGA society, which also includes high tariffs, increased military action at home and abroad, and a doubling down of the drug war.

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Il manoscritto fornisce un grimaldello al lettore, una chiave di lettura semplificata, del mondo finanziario e non che sembra essere andato fuori controllo negli ultimi quattro anni in particolare. Questa una storia di cartelli, a livello sovrastatale e sovranazionale, la cui pianificazione centrale ha raggiunto un punto in cui deve essere riformata radicalmente e questa riforma radicale non può avvenire senza una dose di dolore economico che potrebbe mettere a repentaglio la loro autorità. Da qui la risposta al Grande Default attraverso il Grande Reset. Questa la storia di un coyote, che quando non riesce a sfamarsi all'esterno ricorre all'autofagocitazione. Lo stesso accaduto ai membri del G7, dove i sei membri restanti hanno iniziato a fagocitare il settimo: gli Stati Uniti.

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di Lance Roberts

(Versione audio della traduzione disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/la-morte-del-dollaro-e-notevolmente)

La narrazione sulla “morte del dollaro” come valuta di riserva mondiale è praticamente sulla bocca di tutti. Questo accade ogni volta che si deprezza rispetto ad altre valute. Abbiamo già scritto in precedenza delle false affermazioni sulla “morte del dollaro” nel 2023 (si veda qui, qui e qui). Il suo recente calo rispetto ad altre valute rientra ampiamente nella norma storica. In particolare, i cali precedenti erano stati molto più ampi senza l'“allarmismo” degli “esperti di sventura”.

La “morte del dollaro” ricorre spesso nei dibattiti finanziari. Naturalmente questo accade quando aumentano le tensioni geopolitiche, le perturbazioni economiche, o le fluttuazioni del mercato. Certo, ci sono valide preoccupazioni circa il predominio a lungo termine del dollaro, tuttavia l'idea che la sua morte sia imminente, portando a un catastrofico crollo economico, è ampiamente sopravvalutata. Il dollaro rimane la pietra angolare della finanza globale a causa di fattori strutturali, economici e geopolitici che difficilmente cambieranno bruscamente. Di seguito delineo cinque motivi per cui la narrazione sulla morte del dollaro è esagerata.

Cinque motivi per cui la narrazione della morte del dollaro è sopravvalutata 

1. Mancanza di una valuta alternativa valida – Lo status di riserva del dollaro persiste perché non esiste un rivale credibile. L'euro, che detiene il 20% delle riserve globali rispetto al 58% circa del dollaro (FMI, secondo trimestre 2024), è vincolato dalla frammentazione dei mercati obbligazionari e dalla volatilità politica dell'Eurozona. Nonostante il crescente utilizzo (2-3% delle riserve), il renminbi cinese è limitato dai controlli sui capitali e dalla convertibilità limitata, il che lo rende inadatto allo status di riserva globale. Altre valute, come lo yen giapponese (6%) o quelle più piccole come il dollaro canadese o australiano, non hanno la portata economica o la liquidità necessarie per competere con il dollaro. Senza una valuta all'altezza della profondità e della liquidità dei mercati del dollaro e della fiducia globale, la sua scomparsa rimane improbabile nel breve termine.


2. Forza dell'economia statunitense – L'economia statunitense, che rappresenta il 26% del PIL mondiale, consolida il predominio del dollaro. La sua ampia e dinamica economia, sostenuta dallo Stato di diritto e da solidi mercati dei capitali, posiziona il dollaro come un rifugio sicuro, in particolare durante periodi di instabilità mondiale. Mentre i critici sottolineano l'aumento del debito statunitense ($35.000 miliardi, circa il 120% del PIL), lo status di riserva del dollaro consente di indebitarsi a tassi più bassi, sostenendo i deficit senza crisi immediate. Rispetto ad altre economie – la lenta crescita del Giappone, i mercati ristretti della Cina, o la frammentazione dell'Europa – gli Stati Uniti offrono stabilità, rendendo improbabile la scomparsa del dollaro nel futuro prossimo.


3. Effetti di rete e inerzia finanziaria mondiale – Gli effetti di rete perpetuano il predominio del dollaro: il suo utilizzo diffuso ne accresce il valore. Costituisce circa l'88% delle transazioni valutarie globali (dati SWIFT) e circa il 60% della fatturazione internazionale del debito e del commercio. La transizione a un'altra valuta richiederebbe un ampio coordinamento tra banche centrali, stati e mercati, con conseguenti costi e rischi significativi. Le transizioni monetarie storiche, come quella dalla sterlina al dollaro, hanno attraversato decenni e hanno richiesto importanti cambiamenti geopolitici, oggi assenti. Questa inerzia rende la scomparsa del dollaro una prospettiva remota.


4. Portata limitata degli sforzi di de-dollarizzazione – Sebbene Paesi come Cina, Russia e i BRICS sostengano il commercio in valute locali (ad esempio, il renminbi cinese rappresenta il 56% del suo commercio bilaterale), questi sforzi hanno un impatto mondiale limitato. La quota di riserve in dollari è diminuita gradualmente (dal 67% al 58% in due decenni), tuttavia ciò riflette la diversificazione, non la scomparsa del dollaro, spesso in valute alleate come il dollaro canadese o australiano. La Cina detiene circa $2.000 miliardi in asset denominati in dollari, a dimostrazione della sua dipendenza. Le mosse geopolitiche, come il passaggio della Russia all'oro o al renminbi, sono limitate dalla piccola scala dei sistemi non basati sul dollaro (ad esempio, il CIPS cinese rispetto allo SWIFT). Questi sforzi frammentati non riescono a innescare la scomparsa del dollaro.


5. Resilienza a fronte di sfide politiche – I critici sostengono che le politiche statunitensi, come dazi, sanzioni, o azioni della Federal Reserve, indeboliscono la fiducia nel dollaro. Ad esempio, i dazi di Trump nel 2025 hanno causato un calo del dollaro di circa il 9%, alimentando i timori di una sua possibile morte. Tuttavia tali fluttuazioni sono cicliche, non strutturali, con il dollaro ancora robusto rispetto al suo picco del 2011-2022 (in rialzo di circa il 40% rispetto a un paniere di valute). Le sanzioni, come quelle alla Russia nel 2022, non hanno ridotto significativamente le riserve mondiali in dollari, poiché la maggior parte di esse è detenuta da alleati degli Stati Uniti che hanno aderito alle sanzioni. Le linee di swap e il supporto di liquidità della Federal Reserve rafforzano ulteriormente il ruolo del dollaro durante le crisi.

Come si può notare, il dollaro domina la composizione delle transazioni monetarie mondiali.

Tuttavia c'è un motivo per cui il recente calo del dollaro potrebbe essere prossimo alla fine.

Perché il dollaro potrebbe riprendersi con forza

Non è la prima volta che la “morte del dollaro” fa notizia. Nel 2022 le narrazioni sulla “de-dollarizzazione” hanno gonfiato le tesi ribassiste, con tutti che affermavano che la morte del dollaro fosse imminente. Ciononostante quella “frenesia di sventura” ha segnato il minimo del dollaro prima di un robusto rally. Potremmo prepararci per un altro simile per due motivi.

In primo luogo, dal punto di vista tecnico, la vendita del dollaro è diventata piuttosto estrema. Utilizzando i dati settimanali, esso è ora ipervenduto su base del momentum, come lo era all'inizio del 2021 e alla fine del 2018. Queste precedenti condizioni di ipervenduto lo prepararono a un forte rally in controtendenza.

Inoltre tutti, dal “lustrascarpe” al venditore ambulante, stanno vendendo allo scoperto il dollaro. Secondo il sondaggio dei gestori di fondi di BofA, la posizione short contro il dollaro è al livello più alto degli ultimi 20 anni. Pertanto qualsiasi inversione di tendenza del dollaro potrebbe essere sostanziale se questi “short” fossero costretti a invertire le loro posizioni.

La domanda è: cosa deve cambiare per un'inversione di tendenza del dollaro? Questo ci porta alla seconda ragione per cui potrebbe riprendersi: i tagli dei tassi della BCE.

In quanto valuta di riserva, le nazioni straniere detengono riserve in dollari per facilitare gli scambi commerciali. Se è troppo debole, o troppo forte, rispetto a un'altra valuta, può avere un impatto negativo sull'economia di quella nazione. Pertanto quando il dollaro si allontana troppo da un'altra valuta, quel Paese può intervenire per stabilizzare la propria di valuta. Tale intervento si ottiene aumentando, o diminuendo, le riserve in dollari. Può farlo acquistando, o vendendo, titoli del Tesoro statunitensi, oro, o altri asset denominati in dollari. Nella maggior parte dei casi si tratta di titoli del Tesoro statunitensi, o di oro.

La BCE ha tagliato i tassi in modo aggressivo, otto volte nell'ultimo ciclo, mentre la Federal Reserve statunitense ha mantenuto la sua politica monetaria pressoché invariata. Il risultato è una divergenza che si sta sviluppando tra i rendimenti dei titoli del Tesoro statunitensi e, ad esempio, quelli tedeschi.

Ci sono tre motivi principali per cui è fondamentale che gli investitori comprendano questo aspetto.

1. Rendimenti più elevati attraggono afflussi di capitali – Storicamente l'aumento dei rendimenti dei titoli del Tesoro statunitensi ha attratto investimenti esteri grazie ai rendimenti più elevati rispetto alle obbligazioni di altre principali economie. Ad esempio, i rendimenti dei decennali americani sono saliti dal 3,65% a settembre 2024 al 4,8% all'inizio del 2025; i rendimenti obbligazionari europei (ad esempio, i decennali tedeschi) sono rimasti bassi a causa dell'allentamento monetario della BCE. Questo differenziale di rendimento incentiva gli investitori esteri, comprese le banche centrali e gli investitori istituzionali, ad acquistare titoli del Tesoro americani. Tale acquisto aumenta la domanda di dollari e ne sostiene l'apprezzamento.


2. I titoli del Tesoro come riserva privilegiata rispetto alle riserve monetarie – Come accennato in precedenza, i titoli del Tesoro statunitensi costituiscono la spina dorsale delle riserve monetarie mondiali. Rendimenti più elevati offrono ai gestori delle riserve rendimenti migliori senza sacrificare la sicurezza, a differenza di asset più rischiosi come azioni o obbligazioni dei mercati emergenti. Ad esempio, la domanda estera di titoli del Tesoro americani è rimasta stabile nonostante i tagli dei tassi della BCE. Questa domanda sostiene il dollaro, poiché le banche centrali devono acquistarlo per acquistare poi titoli del Tesoro americani, rafforzandone lo status di valuta di riserva.


3. Apprezzamento del dollaro guidato dai differenziali di rendimento – La divergenza nella politica monetaria, la posizione più accomodante della BCE rispetto a quella della FED, ha ampliato il divario dei tassi di interesse, favorendo il dollaro. I rendimenti statunitensi più elevati, in particolare sui decennali (4,4-4,8% all'inizio del 2025), contrastano con i rendimenti europei più bassi, che potrebbero stimolare flussi di capitali verso gli Stati Uniti. La domanda per i rendimenti è in linea con i modelli storici in cui i tassi statunitensi più elevati sostengono il DXY, come si è visto durante il periodo post-elettorale del 2016, quando l'ottimismo fiscale ha spinto i rendimenti e il dollaro al rialzo. Nonostante la volatilità legata ai dazi, il recente apprezzamento del dollaro suggerisce che i differenziali di rendimento siano un supporto chiave.

Il punto cruciale è che questa sarebbe una situazione interessante per stati, fondi comuni di investimento e investitori esteri. Poiché gli afflussi esteri vengono inizialmente utilizzati per catturare rendimenti obbligazionari più elevati, gli investitori beneficiano anche di un duplice vantaggio: guadagni monetari e prezzi obbligazionari più elevati (rendimenti più bassi).

Tuttavia la narrazione della morte del dollaro persiste a causa delle recenti tendenze di disaccoppiamento. I rendimenti sono aumentati con l'indebolimento del dollaro all'inizio del 2025, trainato dalle preoccupazioni fiscali e dall'incertezza sui dazi. Queste recenti preoccupazioni passeranno, ma il ruolo del dollaro come valuta di riserva per il commercio mondiale no.

Affrontare la narrativa della morte del dollaro e le implicazioni economiche

La narrazione della fine del dollaro nasce spesso da preoccupazioni sul debito statunitense, l'inflazione, i dazi, o l'uso geopolitico del dollaro come arma (ad esempio, sanzioni). Questi rischi esistono, ma l'impatto a breve termine viene sopravvalutato. La perdita dello status di riserva potrebbe aumentare i costi di indebitamento degli Stati Uniti, alimentare l'inflazione attraverso importazioni più costose e ridurre l'influenza geopolitica. Tuttavia la portata dell'economia statunitense, la sua forza militare e la sua stabilità istituzionale rendono improbabile la fine del dollaro senza un evento sismico mondiale (ad esempio, la perdita di una guerra importante come quella della Repubblica di Weimar). Nonostante un graduale declino, il dollaro probabilmente rimarrebbe una valuta leader insieme ad altre e non scomparirebbe del tutto.

Questa narrazione viene spesso amplificata su piattaforme e organi di stampa che fanno affidamento su “tesi ribassiste” per ottenere clic e visualizzazioni. Sebbene alcuni post esagerino la “morte del dollaro” per promuovere alternative come l'oro o le crittovalute, queste tesi sono spesso fuorvianti. Economisti come Barry Eichengreen e James Lord di Morgan Stanley sostengono che la morte del dollaro sia “notevolmente esagerata”, citando il suo ruolo radicato e l'assenza di alternative valide, come discusso in precedenza. Certo, l'economia statunitense potrebbe affrontare le sfide di un dollaro più debole, ma un crollo devastante è improbabile grazie alla sua adattabilità e all'integrazione finanziaria globale.

In particolare, come discusso nell'articolo Le narrazioni cambiano, i mercati no, è essenziale guardare oltre le narrazioni per evitare i pregiudizi emotivi che influenzano i risultati dei nostri investimenti. Vale a dire:

Il bisogno di una narrazione è profondamente radicato nella nostra psicologia. Come creature che cercano schemi, bramiamo coerenza e prevedibilità. Il caos scatena l'ansia. Ci sembra pericoloso, incontrollabile e inquietante. Negli investimenti questa ansia è amplificata dall'impatto diretto sulla nostra ricchezza e sulla nostra sicurezza finanziaria. Ritroviamo una parvenza di controllo aggrappandoci alle narrazioni, per quanto tenue. Esse ci dicono perché le cose stanno accadendo e cosa potrebbe succedere dopo, il che placa la nostra naturale paura dell'incertezza.

Gli esseri umani sono programmati per dare priorità alle informazioni negative rispetto a quelle ottimistiche. Da una prospettiva evolutiva, questo pregiudizio è stato essenziale. I nostri antenati hanno imparato a riconoscere le minacce (come i predatori) per sopravvivere.

Questo istinto, noto come “bias della negatività”, influenza il modo in cui elaboriamo le informazioni, comprese le notizie finanziarie e le narrazioni di mercato. Ecco perché  podcast e articoli con un orientamento “ribassista” generano il maggior numero di clic e visualizzazioni.

• La paura è un fattore motivante più forte dell'avidità: mentre la speranza di fare soldi spinge gli investitori, la paura di perderli è più potente.

• Le previsioni ribassiste sembrano più “razionali”: il pessimismo spesso trasmette maggiore sicurezza e prudenza. In periodi di volatilità dei mercati, una previsione ribassista può sembrare più analitica e responsabile.

• I media amplificano i titoli negativi: le testate giornalistiche sanno che la paura vende. Titoli sensazionalistici come “MERCATI IN TURBOLENZA” o “CRASH IN ARRIVO?” generano clic e coinvolgimento.

• Comportamento di gregge e camere di risonanza: gli investitori si affidano a opinioni ribassiste per ottenere conferme quando i mercati sono instabili. Se altri sono cauti o timorosi, questo  rafforza l'idea che una recessione sia imminente. Questo vale anche se i fondamentali sottostanti rimangono solidi. I social media e le notizie finanziarie creano camere di risonanza che amplificano questi timori.

La cosa più importante per gli investitori è che il mercato assorbe tutte le narrazioni negative dei media nel lungo termine. La recente raffica di narrazioni su debiti, deficit, dazi e “morte del dollaro” alimenta il vostro pregiudizio negativo. Tuttavia allargando lo sguardo, gli investitori che si sono tenuti lontani dai mercati finanziari per “evitare la perdita” di potenziali esiti negativi hanno pagato un caro prezzo in termini di riduzione della ricchezza finanziaria.

In altre parole, c'è sempre una “ragione” per non investire. Tuttavia la narrativa attuale cambierà, ma il mercato no.

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Got nothing against eye candy, but it is a bit inconsistent with the TPUSA Erika, I should say. She could be illustrating “I Like My Women a Little on the Trashy Side.”  

But as they say, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” except that it’s on a YouTube video.

 

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BREAKING: Tyler Robinson CONFIRMED To Be In A CIA Advanced Program For College Students- The Center For Anticipatory Intelligence- As His Defense Considers Waiving The Preliminary Hearing

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Chun Pan wrote:

I have been following the progress of the “Global Sumud Flotilla” with intensity. 

The Global Sumud Flotilla is a flotilla of 47 ships sailing to Gaza with humanitarian supplies.  It is within 3-4 days of reaching Gaza.

The confrontation with the Israeli military is imminent.  However, the flotilla is currently protected by warships from Spain and Italy.  Hopefully, these two naval warships will increase the likelihood of success of this mission.

I am truly amazed by the courage of the over 600 humanitarians on these vessels.

To follow the progress of this mission, please go to their website at:

https://globalsumudflotilla.org/

 

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The news has been filled with reports of assassinations, attempted assassinations, and shootings targeted against law enforcement. The spate of political violence has seriously eroded America’s legitimacy as a moral and decent state. How did we get here?

U.S. state violence on the world stage may help explain the rise of political violence here at home.

The idea of political assassination gained traction with the U.S. intelligence services during World War II, which was viewed (somewhat understandably) as an existential struggle that justified any act, however illegal, that was necessary for the cause.

During the Cold War, that mindset continued, but the illegal killing was hidden because it was inconsistent with the shining-city-on-the-hill propaganda. Certain intelligence agencies secretly supported a number of high-profile political assassinations, such as the 1961 killing of Prime Minister Patrice Lamumba of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the 1963 killing of President Diem of South Vietnam, not to mention a number of attempts to kill Fidel Castro of Cuba. These killings were presented as organic local forces rising up against “corrupt” leaders. Then and now, any leader who was disobedient to the U.S. regime was by definition “corrupt.”

Because of embarrassing press reports of the CIA and FBI’s illegal operations in and out of the United States, the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities was formed in 1975 to investigate the abuses of power and direct harm to U.S. citizens. It was conveniently called the Church Committee after the chairman, Frank Church of Idaho.

The nation was shocked by what was revealed, including operations such as MKULTRA, a mind control experiment on unwitting U.S. citizens who were subjected to destabilizing drug exposure and other abuse. It is believed that much of the really appalling MKULTRA information was hidden and destroyed. Americans also learned about COINTELPRO (acronym for Counter Intelligence Program), a series of  FBI operations aimed to disrupt and harm American anti-war and civil rights groups. The committee also uncovered operations performing illegal assassinations.

For two years, the Church Committee uncovered many disgusting abuses and recommended oversight and controls to end them. But it was not long before the oversight and controls faded.

In 1986, the Iran–Contra scandal exploded and exposed the Reagan administration, which had funneled arms through Israel to our “enemy” Iran to provide funds for anti-communist guerrilla  operations in Central America. It was a huge scandal, and there were indications that it was also a money laundering operation to support other illegal behavior by intel agencies. These embarrassing revelations caused the agencies to be more careful.

The first Gulf War led to the U.S. stationing troops in Saudi Arabia. This was a long term goal of the ZioCons and a provocation to many Muslims in the region.

Then came the big enchilada: The September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington birthed the Global War on Terror.

The previous existential threat of the Cold War had fizzled out with the collapse of the Soviet Union. This new existential threat provided the excuse to invade and wreck a number of nations the ZioCons had had in their sights for decades. Who could argue against fighting terrorists?

Since the GWOT was deemed existential, the George W. Bush administration saw fit to torture and kill suspected terrorists without any due process. Not wanting to be accused of sympathy for terrorists, many politicians and media figures held their tongues or even actively supported the White House. As a result, the U.S. regime’s policy morphed from secretly murdering people to bragging about the number of suspected terrorists killed.

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How do you find your way home when you’re lost and far away? Where do you start? In wilderness survival training, it’s “head downhill.” That will bring you to water, and water will bring you to civilization.

Let’s look at the last two weeks:

1. Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
2. Bombing alleged fentanyl boats heading to the US.
3. Copycat (from Kirk’s assassin, bullet writing) shootings at ICE.
4. Acetaminophen (in some 500 brands, most prominently Tylenol) links to autism.
5. National Guard deployed to cities for crime control.
6. National reading studies: half of Americans are functionally illiterate.
7. AI partners induce psychosis and suicide.
8. Illinois honors student sues a public high school for her illiteracy.
9. RFK, Jr. fires and reorganizes the ACIP board.
10. Florida stops ALL vaccine mandates.

I irritated conservative friends a few days ago by disagreeing with Trump’s bombing of alleged fentanyl boats. What happens when the government decides compost-grown tomatoes are dangerous? Bombing compost piles? A government that can keep me from ingesting fentanyl and methamphetamine can keep me from ingesting raw milk or homemade charcuterie.

As I head downhill in this societal wilderness, I find commonalities in our lostness. More than 80 percent of first-time illicit drug use occurs in public schools. We’re paying $16,000 per student per year and getting a 50 percent functional illiteracy rate. And now we have pregnant women jiving on TikTok binging on Tylenol, and my taxes are supposed to pay for the consequences of that irresponsible behavior? And I’m supposed to pay for the dysfunction of failing public schools? And AI-induced psychosis? And assassins inspired by “gestapo” and “Nazi” and “Fascists” spewed from the mouths of Godless pagans?

How do we find our way home? I suggest it starts by changing our governmental obligations from care to responsibility. How do you develop responsible people? You do it by making them bear the consequences of their decisions. You don’t exercise discernment muscles by making decisions for them or promising to pick up the pieces for bad-decision collateral damage.

My heart breaks for dysfunction, but as terrible as it is, we can’t find our way home if we keep wandering without a plan. So here’s a plan.

1. Eliminate all government funding for education, from kindergarten to college; no college grants; that drops 80 percent of first-time drug use. Colleges have to fund themselves.
2. Eliminate all government health advice; let folks find their own path. Yes, eliminate the Dept. of Health and Human Services; let us find our own way, thank you very much.
3. Eliminate all government involvement in health care; folks can decide what they want and shop, learn, and share their own findings. Wouldn’t it be neat if TikTok shared various positives and negatives about competing therapies? Think how informed we’d become.
4. Legalize all drugs; if you mess up your life with drugs, you can suffer the consequences. No government agency will help you pick up the pieces. No Medicare; no Medicaid; no doctor licensing; it’s all privatized on the free market; no government manipulation, corruption, fraud, and extortion, no prescription licenses.
5. Eliminate the IRS and go to a 10 percent flat tax. If 10 percent is good enough for God’s tithe, it should be good enough for society.
6. Cut the federal government by 90 percent; pay off the debt; bring back sound money backed by gold; no more government borrowing, period. Like a business, the government must live within its means.
7. Eliminate prisons and institute Singapore’s caning punishment; fast and cheap.
8. Shut down every foreign military base; bring our boys and girls home.
9. Food Emancipation Proclamation–let neighbors transact food commerce without asking the government’s permission.
10. Eliminate zoning laws so folks can generate income from their properties without bribing government officials.
11. Eliminate all government grants, loans, aid, etc. Foreign and domestic, from agriculture to ammunition.
12. Extend voting privileges ONLY to folks who pay more to the governnment (taxes) than they receive in benefits; these are the true stakeholders of a culture and the only ones truly invested in its overall functionality.

This is not a comprehensive list, but you get the overall drift. What we need is MARA–Make Americans RESPONSIBLE Again. How do we do that? We make ourselves live with the consequences of our decisions. That’s the way home. America was great when the government was smaller. The bigger the government, the smaller we as a people become.

What I see instead are rabbit trails of little tweaks here and there, but the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the sick get sicker and the have-nots proliferate because nobody ever told them it’s up to them. Sometimes the best hand up is a swift kick in reality’s seat of the pants. No free lunch. Make your own destiny. I’m glad to help you, but pick up your feet if I’m carrying you. God don’t make no junk, so quit acting like you’re junk. And government, quit incentivizing junk behavior and junk decisions.

What do you consider the first “downhill way home” path?

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President Trump has said on several occasions that he supports the death penalty for drug dealers. His recent actions show that the death penalty he seeks is not the result of an arrest, prosecution, trial, conviction, and sentencing. He prefers the death penalty by extrajudicial murder.

Back in 2018, Trump said during a phone call with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte: “I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem. Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I just wanted to call and tell you that.”

This is the Rodrigo Duterte who was just charged by the International Criminal Court (ICC) with “violent acts including murder to be committed against alleged criminals, including alleged drug dealers and users.” He is now being held at an ICC detention facility in the Netherlands.

On September 2, Trump ordered the U.S. military to conduct “a kinetic strike” against “terrorists” in “international waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States.” Eleven “terrorists” were killed, but “no U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike.” Trump declared: “Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. BEWARE!”

On September 15, Trump announced that the U.S. military destroyed a second boat in international waters “trafficking illicit narcotics.” A third lethal strike was carried out on another boat on September 19.

Regardless of how one feels about whether marijuana or other drugs should be legal for medical or recreational use, Trump’s actions are simply extrajudicial murder. There was no search, seizure, arrest, indictment, arraignment, prosecution, trial, conviction, or sentencing. There is no proof of what exactly was on the boat. Neither the boat nor its occupants posed any threat to the United States. The boat was in international waters and nowhere near American territory. Violating drug laws is not a death-penalty offense. Nevertheless, Trump took it upon himself to be judge, jury, and executioner.

Oh, but Trump didn’t kill anyone. Correct. He just ordered his personal attack force of the U.S. military to kill for him. But drug smuggling is a criminal offense, not an act of war that requires a response by the U.S. military.

If Trump can order the execution of people in international waters who are not even violating U.S. drug laws, then what is to stop him from ordering the execution of people in the United States who are actually violating U.S. drug laws?

Conservatives—including many conservative Christians—generally support Trump’s extrajudicial murder because they have the simplistic mindset of drugs: bad, military: good.

Trump’s actions are excused by the vast majority of conservatives because he labeled the people murdered by the U.S. military as “narco-terrorists.” But the war on drugs is just as bogus as the war on terrorism. They are both reasons why Americans increasingly live in a national security, police state instead of a free society. The real narco-terrorists are the military personnel who murder for Trump.

This is yet another reason why Americans—and especially American Christians—should not join the military. If you join the military, there is no guarantee that you won’t be ordered to murder for Donald Trump. Just like there was no guarantee that you wouldn’t have been ordered to murder for George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden.

If you join the military, you will be expected to unconditionally follow orders and to help carry out a reckless, belligerent, and interventionist U.S. foreign policy. You will not be defending the country, the Constitution, or American freedoms. You will be part of the president’s personal attack force and a pawn in the hands of Uncle Sam.

Yet, criticism of the military is seen by most Americans as criticism of America itself, as Jeffrey Polet, director of the Ford Leadership Forum at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation recently said:

In contemporary America, one complains about the size and status of the military to one’s own peril. We are constantly asked to defer to the militarization of our daily lives, from flyovers at ball games to military salutes at public concerts to allowing military personnel to board planes before us—throughout even our daily lives, we are slowly bent at the knee. We now find ourselves in a world where to criticize the military is to criticize America itself, and thus it goes with empires.

I couldn’t have said it any better myself.

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“If you catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants, and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen. However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other. The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. This is exactly what’s happening in society today. The real question we need to be asking ourselves is who’s shaking the jar… and why?”

The above observation by Shera Starr cannot be improved upon.

And yet, the answer to the question is fairly simple.

But let’s first take a look at this anomaly. It’s natural to identify with some individuals more than others. That tendency occurred before Homo sapiens came into being. In addition, the tendency for animals to group into families or packs also predates humans.

We tend to want to be around those who behave the way we do and have the same perceptions as we do. That only makes sense. We wish to surround ourselves with those who are unlikely to surprise and possibly even endanger us by behaving in a fashion that we would not ourselves choose.

This is the basis of trust – an essential in group or herd mentality. And being a part of a group or herd brings to us increased safety.

So, what then, of those who are not within our group or herd? How do we relate to them?

Well, any nature programme that covers animals gathered around a water hole can provide that answer.

We see a small group of wild pigs drinking alongside a group of wildebeests. Neither species is predatory, so they learn to recognise that, even though one group is made up of savannah-living grazers and the other are forest-living foragers, they can easily co-exist, which will increase the ability of both species to use the water hole at the same time.

We might also see a group of hyenas using the water hole, but we notice that the prey animals all seek to keep a distance between themselves and the predatory hyenas. Everyone understands that they are all at the water hole for the same reason and it makes sense to share, even if, in another situation, they are natural enemies.

In fact, in most of nature, we see that species adapt to a condition of mutual tolerance in order to be able to coexist.

No surprise, then, that Homo sapiens got on the mutual tolerance bandwagon in its formative stages and, for the most part, has remained that way.

But it is also true that predators develop dual habits. They may exercise tolerance at the water hole, but at some point, they mean to make a meal of their water hole neighbours.

And when doing so, many species create associations with others of their kind to hunt.

This, too, is true of humans. Most of humanity seeks to live in a spirit of cooperation with others.

In the countryside, people erect walls and fences to establish boundaries, then find it expedient to respect such divisions in order to live in peace. Even in cities, people who live cheek by jowl in the same building respect each other’s privacy for the most part. Even if they do not become friends, they either remain polite or ignore each other.

Although there are always exceptions, for the most part, mankind behaves in a manner that is based upon “getting along.” He might argue with others, but for the most part, he understands that cooperation generally should be the objective, as it’s in his best interests.

But why, then, are we seeing in so many of the countries of the First World, a rapidly increasing polarity amongst people. Ms. Starr is exactly correct. Those who would be most inclined toward mutual tolerance have, in recent years, become so polarised that they cannot so much as get together with their own families for the holidays without getting into heated arguments.

Why are people of today so solidly in one of two camps?

Can this be blamed on the rise of the internet? Well, no, the internet has become the source of a plethora of opinions and perceptions. And more than closing people off to polarised “A” and “B” choices, the internet has served to broaden public discourse.

Of course, most people express distrust for the media, particularly those networks that purportedly deal in “news.” What passes for news today is far from objective information that the viewer can then assess at his leisure.

On one network, we view unceasing diatribes against one political party. Then we turn the channel and view unceasing diatribes against the opposing party.

In turning on the News, we arrive at Indoctrination Central.

But if we really pay attention objectively, we discover that the same programmes are dictating to us that it is either our humanitarian duty to vax, or that vaxxing will enslave us to globalists who will inject us with microchips.

They are also our source for the opposing beliefs that warfare is essential to protect us against those who seek to destroy us, or that it will be the wars themselves that will destroy us.

In fact, all of Ms. Starr’s concerns find their source in the media. When we ask the question, “Who is shaking the jar… and why?” we find that those who control the media are at the source of the polarisation of people, especially in the First World.

As to the “Why?” the answer is so simple that it’s often overlooked. Like the ants, the more a people can be made to fight each other, the easier it is to subjugate them.

And since the effort to polarise people has become so massive, we can only conclude that the ultimate objective will be to implement a far greater level of subjugation, in an abnormally short period of time.

Liberal vs. Conservative. Black vs. white. Man vs. woman. Divide and conquer.

In such a socio-political climate, the challenge will be to keep your wits about you. As the jar is shaken on a daily basis, it will be vital to recognise that those who control the media are creating a war between the pigs and the wildebeests. This is something that is not desired by either species, but as Hermann Goering stated, “Why, of course the people don’t want war.” They must be goaded into it if those who are pulling the stings are to achieve greater subjugation.

In the coming years, this trend can be expected to become far worse than at present. The challenge will be to escape the jar if you can. Find a location where the state of warfare is less pronounced, or if this is not possible, seek a location within the jar that’s away from the fray.

Those who fall for the bait – who buy into rabidly supporting one political party or another, or who allow themselves to be angered at an entire race, or who are conned into hatred of an entire gender – will prove to be the greatest casualties of subjugation.

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In “Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment” Raoul Berger argues that the Fourteenth Amendment is treated by activist judges as a platform for “social and political revolution.” In theory, the role of the courts is to interpret the Constitution not to amend it. Nevertheless, by treating the Fourteenth Amendment as a “vague and elastic” tool designed to forge a brave world of racial equality, progressive judges have conferred revolutionary powers on themselves.

Progressive courts, while purporting merely to enforce the equal protection of the law, have reasoned that in order to give effect to equality it is necessary to “incorporate” the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment. This then allows the Bill of Rights to be litigated in anti-discrimination cases brought by civil rights activists against state governments. For example, the incorporation doctrine was relied on in the recent federal court ruling that schools named after Confederate generals violate the First Amendment free speech rights of black students by constituting a form of “compelled speech”.

David Gordon has also pointed out that the incorporation doctrine is not found in the Constitution itself, but has been crafted by activist judges as a way of centralizing federal power in a manner that is inimical to individual liberty. As Gordon observes,

Critics of incorporation such as Raoul Berger have persuasively argued that the doctrine has scant basis; additionally, it strikes at the states as independent sources of authority to the federal government. Is it not likely that more is lost to individual liberty by the increased subordination of the states to federal courts than is gained by decisions that on occasion strike down bad state laws?

Berger notes that the Fourteenth Amendment began life as political measure in the tumult of the Reconstruction Era but soon grew in such leaps and bounds that it is now “probably the largest source of the [Supreme] Court’s business and furnishes the chief fulcrum for its control of controversial policies.” This is a far cry from the original intention of the amendment. It was originally “intended only to protect the freedmen from southern Black Codes that threatened to return them to slavery” by ensuring that freedmen would have “the right to contract, to own property, and to have access to the courts.”

It is certainly true that these basic liberties, which are protected at federal level by the Fifth Amendment due process clause, struck many observers in 1865 as essential to give effect to the abolition of slavery. As an originalist, Justice Clarence Thomas has emphasized this aspect of the amendment, but he argues that it has extended over time far beyond its original purpose. In Medina v. Planned Parenthood, he commented on the misuse of the procedural provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (the Ku Klux Klan Act) which were intended to enable freedmen to protect their constitutional rights from violation by states in order to ensure that the equal protection clause could be meaningfully enforced. Justice Thomas outlined the legislative history of this law in Medina, further observing that

The 1871 Act was designed “to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment … in response to an ongoing pattern of violence and intimidation” against former slaves … [to provide] a means by which private plaintiffs could obtain redress from state and local officials for certain constitutional violations.

This is a classic example of laws being enacted to resolve an emergency, which subsequently continue in force long after the emergency is over, being put to various new uses that were never originally contemplated. When the Ku Klux Klan Act was passed to deal with the violence of the Reconstruction Era, it created emergency powers that would not usually be accepted by citizens. For example, it gave the President power to suspend habeas corpus. These emergency powers were temporary, and it was never contemplated that this law would leave behind in its wake a permanent new source of ever expanding power to be wielded by the federal courts over state legislatures. Yet, as Berger shows, “for the better part of a century the Supreme Court had been handing down decisions interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment improperly, willfully ignoring or willfully distorting the history of its enactment.”

In his foreword to the second edition of the book, Forrest McDonald observes that although Berger’s interpretation was predictably contested when it was first published in 1977, those who favor the centralization of constitutional authority soon decided that it does not matter anyway even if the courts have willfully distorted constitutional history. As they see it, it has all been distorted for a good cause – in the service of creating a better world. Progressives see that as a salutary effort on the part of the activist courts. They regard all this power-mongering by federal judges as indeed exemplary, as they believe federal oversight of state authorities is to be welcomed – in their view, credentialled federal judges fresh out of the Marxist law schools are far more trustworthy than the unreconstructed state legislators that the voters of the South might elect. It is an example of a pattern of progressive strategy which is becoming all too familiar – they begin by denying that they have subverted the law, but, when their protestations fail, they soon begin arguing that the subverted law is actually good. It’s not happening, but if it’s happening that’s very good! McDonald explains:

From the outset, the law reviews teemed with attacks on Government by Judiciary, some of them cautious and considered, many slipshod and semihysterical … So thoroughly did Berger rout his critics that, after a decade or so, they virtually stopped trying. Instead, advocates of judicial activism began to assert that neither the words of the Constitution nor the intentions of the framers are any longer relevant.

As McDonald argues, Berger’s analysis, first published in 1977, has stood the test of time in showing that the Supreme Court uses the Fourteenth Amendment as a method of “continuing revision of the Constitution under the guise of interpretation.” In doing so, the courts stray far from their constitutional role and take upon themselves the mantle of social and political revolutionaries.

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