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After a half-hour ride from the Serena Hotel, our driver stopped shy of the Nairobi airport.

“Everybody out!”, he insisted.

Perplexed at this odd order, we exchanged glances.

“Are we there?”, we wondered.

“No. You must walk thru security”, he said while pointing toward a roadside structure. “I’ll meet you on the other side.”

“Do we bring our bags?”

“No. Bring nothing.”

Confused, we walked off… realizing we’d left our passports and valuables with a total stranger on a Nairobi bus. I kept an eye on it as we entered the small building beside the road.

I’d retained my wallet and phone, which I placed on the conveyor as I walked thru the detector. As it did for everyone who preceded or followed me, the screener beeped incessantly… like a fire alarm in an active volcano. With nary a glance, the indifferent “guard” waved us thru.

Re-boarding the bus, we rode further… into a collection of cars resembling cattle crammed in a crowded chute.

Having ridden as far as we could, it was time to walk. We dragged our luggage around the lot, about half a mile toward the entrance to the airport.

At the door, we endured another checkpoint. Passports were examined. Shoes and belts had to come off. All possessions and bags went into a bin. Having entered the concourse, we checked our luggage, and proceeded toward the plane.

Around a corner, we scanned our boarding passes to clear a turnstile. After we did, we joined another line… which carried us thru security again!

Same drill: passports out, belts removed, shoes off, bags conveyed, pockets emptied, questions asked. Having passed thru, repacked our bags, and gotten re-dressed, we approached the last leg of this endless gauntlet.

At the gate, we were forced again to present passports and brandish boarding passes. Receiving clearance, we finally made our way on the plane. I half expected the stewardess to check ID before I could take my seat.

Twenty-three hours later… after a five-hour layover in Paris… we landed in Atlanta.

Sipping Sludge

We’ve spent several weeks assiduously avoiding the news. I was hoping that tendency would harden into a habit.

But… like a recovering alcoholic hopping off the wagon…. when we hit the tarmac I grabbed my phone, popped the cork, and started sipping the sludge we’ve managed to miss.

Like a mild hangover, we nursed remnants of the fading tiff between Trump and Musk. I couldn’t get too worked up about the fight. It seemed irrelevant, like something designed to throw us off the scent.

We were gone only two weeks, and almost missed the entire kerfuffle. By the time we read about it, even the antagonists didn’t seem to care.

This reminded me that we’re manipulated to consume “news” that’s a deliberate distraction. Whenever such silly stories dominate headlines, it’s wise to wonder what important topics aren’t being discussed.

Within a few days, we had some answers. The largest landed in the Middle East.

Enormous Albatross

So much for “no new wars”. Since Trump took office, conflicts have continued in the Ukraine, resumed in Yemen, persisted in Gaza, and (now) started in Iran.

Each atrocity is conducted with American weaponry, funding, assistance, and consent. None were approved by Congress, and all would immediately stop if U.S. support ceased.

Yesterday, financiers, munitions makers, and other warmongers got their wish… when the state of Israel attacked Iran. In the White House, Israel’s puppet says the United States will “defend itself and Israel, if Iran retaliates.”

Last night, Iran did… as any country would after being attacked. Tehran lobbed missiles into Tel Aviv, affirming the Mideast theater of the Third World War.

The first act opened more than a decade ago, across the Bosporus. How long till it bridges the Atlantic, and opens on Broadway? Or in Boston… or Boise… or Birmingham?

And for what? Some intractable skirmishes six thousand miles away?

The U.S. has no responsibility to defend Israel or the Ukraine, and would have no reason to “defend itself” if only its reckless government minded its own business.

America’s “greatest ally” is an enormous albatross. It does nothing to enhance our prosperity or security. To the contrary, it compromises both, by cultivating endless enemies we don’t need.

Its prime minister is a war criminal. Its government corrupts our congressmen, interferes in elections, foments ruinous wars it expects Americans to fund, spies on its benefactors, and exposes them to deadly attacks (including from itself).

Right to Exist

We often hear of Israel’s “right to exist”. But no government, including Israel’s, has a “right” to exist… and no foreign regime has a claim on American lives and loot to ensure it does.

Did the Syrian government not have a “right to exist?” How about Libya? Afghanistan? Iraq? The Carthaginians? The Confederacy?

What about Iran?

If not, why not?

But even if Israel had such a “right”, why is it Americans’ job to preserve it? How does the existence of a small Mid-eastern country benefit residents of Mid-western states?

If Israel went away, what difference would it make to the average Oregonian, Arkansan, or Michigander? Aside from fewer wars ending the lives of their sons and extinguishing the value of their dollars, would they even notice?

American money and military should only defend American borders and citizens. It’s astounding this even needs to be said.

Propagandists like Douglas Murray insist that American survival is contingent on Israeli existence. As Murray put it regarding Islamists: “One of the reasons they go for Israel is they realize that if you take this out, you cut the tree at the root.”

This is self-evidently preposterous. If anything, the dependency works the other way. Obviously. Contemporary Israel isn’t the Israel of the Bible. It sprouted from European Zionists planting themselves into Palestinian soil.

The United States existed for almost two centuries before modern Israel was proclaimed. Europe has survived even longer. Despite the deficiency, they did just fine.

Especially Imbecilic

War with Iran is manifestly moronic. Unlike Syria, Libya, Kuwait, or Iraq, Iran isn’t some artificial construct carved in European boardrooms. Persia is a large country with an ancient pedigree. And a proud one.

Stupid as American involvement would be at any time, it’s especially imbecilic now. The United States is a deeply divided union, overrun by unassimilable aliens, cultural conflict, and more than $100T in unfunded liabilities. Unlike in 1917 or 1941, there’s no support for a stupid war.

To the contrary.

Donald Trump inherited a mess (partly from himself). But, as in the Ukraine, he now owns this disaster. He came to office with as much political capital as any president in recent memory. And he’s squandering all of it.

He could’ve and should’ve requested Congress (where his worthless party has a slim majority) rescind all funding to Israel and the Ukraine. Let those countries commit suicide on their own dime.

But the president hasn’t done it because he doesn’t want to. He’s no different than his predecessors he pretends to loathe.

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Jesus condemned and mocked both the Sadducees and the Pharisees, for they were man-made cults of hypocrisy and abuse. Today’s Sadducees are the progressives, a la Mike Lewis and in general Bergoglioism. Today’s Pharisees are the traditionalists, a la, Kennedy Hall and Peter Kwasniewski, as well as the so-called conservatives, a la, Eric Sammons. These represent the superficially opposing but deeply similar counterfeits of authentic magisterial Catholicism whose trademark is ideological idiocy: lgbtq advocacy and hell is not eternal, on the one hand, and men are superior than women and the Novus ordo is evil, on the other. The evil spirit in both is one of disobedience, pride, and elitist supremacy.

Catholic traditionalism is now (perhaps it had a more redeeming purpose in the past) nothing but the sociological and online emergence of an elite inner circle cult, a self-justifying arbitrary fake aristocracy. Its purpose is nothing other than the completely unjustified assertion of and complacence in spiritual superiority. It’s the product of neurotic, scrupulous, narcissistic, insecure souls—fueled by pride—and it is nothing else than neo-Phariseeism. Jesus harshly condemned it when He was on Earth, and He does so today from Heaven. Listen up Kennedy Hall and Tim Gordon, Peter Kwasniewski, and other trad losers. I am not judging or condemning anyone personally here, except the cult leaders who know better and are self-serving asses.

There is just the magisterium, pre and post 1965, just the Church, just the dogmatic teachings, and just the approved liturgies. Preferences are permitted among what is optional, so preferring the TLM does not make one a trad cultist, and preferring the Novus Ordo does not make one a bergoglion heretic. But rejecting the magisterium after 1962, and refusing to be in communion with those who don’t, like, say, Theo Howard and the SSPX, and rejecting the magisterium before 1962 and refusing to be in communion with those who don’t, like say, Mike Lewis, does make one a heretic and schismatic and thus outside the Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation.

And it’s not just outright magisterial rejection that makes one a schismatic and a cultist. It’s also suspicion of the magisterium and its official judgments and decisions. One will only accept it if it meets with one’s approval. This is not religious submission of intellect and will. And then there is the magisterium that both trads and progressives invent in their sick minds and sub cultures. It’s a sin to go to the Novus ordo. It’s a sin not to have four or more children. It’s a sin to treat your wife as an equal instead as an inferior human being. It’s a sin for a mother to ever work for money and contribute to the household. It’s a sin to say the Divine Mercy chaplet. Ad nauseum and infernum. For the Bergoglions, it’s a sin to condemn sodomy.

While your typical mainstream Novus Ordo parish liturgy and culture evinces irreverence, emasculating music, and no sense of the supernatural, feeling less like a ritual sacrifice than a celebration of the community, with hardly any talk of sin (unless it be wokish ones) and the possibility of damnation, and with the “presider” acting like a gay clown and entertainer; your typical TLM-only parish is gloomy, guilt ridden, scrupulous, Calvinist, misogynistic, inner circle, cultish, 4 plus children or be ashamed, reactionary, fear-based, coercive, schismatic, uncharitable, snobby, joyless, judgy, dour, and sad. Priests are impersonal, neurotic, and arrogant, superior to you and needing to be treated that way, with confessions that are abusive, and homilies that are either shaming and guilt-inducing, or just scapegoating cheers for the in-crowd.

Of course, there are parishes, priests, and lay people, both NO and TLM, that evince none of these ideological toxins, but they are the exception. Catholic discourse and subcultures, both “left” and “right”, are becoming more and more ideological. A typical “Trad” now means a neurotic and prideful ideological Pharisee who thinks having 4 or more children (which he makes sure to tell everyone every other day) and treating his wife like a a child-slave makes him superior and gives him a ticket to heaven, and who despises the Novus Ordo and thereby commits the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. But the anti-trad discourse and subcultures are just as rotten, making a worldly and godless woke mockery of the Faith. Where are the normal Catholics?

Here’s a prime example of trad ideology: fertility Calvinism. Trophy wives is evil. But trophy # of children is much worse. Nothing wrong with having many children, if it is a decision made with full, non-manipulating consent of wife and husband, and based upon Prudence. It’s not ok if the ideology behind the decision is “God demands that we have as many children as we can and as fast as possible!!” That’s neurotic and fanatical Pharisee trad ideology. Or even worse if the motivation is to be part of the “cool club.” Or fertility Calvinism: “Look, we have 4+ children! (4 in the magic number). We are part of the elect!”

Do you think you are a better Catholic because you have more children? Do you look down on, say, a family of “only” 5 and think—“mid” Catholic? Do you cite the number in your bio as if it were a resume builder? Do you mention it at least once a day so people know you’re a real Catholic? Always the last line on the bio—“John Supercatholic is the father of 8.” Why do we need to know this? Why not just “John is a father and husband”? Father of three? Not so much. That’s shameful in these circles. Best not to mention it. Chesterton Academies, which are authentically classical and robustly Catholic and thus doing great work for God and neighbor, are, nevertheless, notorious for having staff bios that always culminate in the 4+ number of children brag. If it’s less than that, and they mention the number, it’s only because the couple is very young. It’s as if you can’t work there unless you have four or more children, or are a young couple aiming for the magic 4+.

Any excuse to announce their # of children on X: “Man, tough flu this season, All SIX of my children got it.” Not “All of my children got it”—never that. You’ll notice that Catholics in these circles or who aspire to be in them with “only” three children hardly ever announce their # because of shame, it’s just mid. It shows that you’re secular and don’t really love children for their own sake and use NFP and don’t trust in Providence or whatever.

“Good afternoon candidate. You’re here to interview for the editor position of Trad Magazine. I have some questions for you. I’ll ask the most important one first: How many children do you have?”

“Gee, only three. But I’m a good Catholic and I know my stuff and I’m published and….”

“Well you’re 40 years old and you should at least have four children by now—three is just not gonna cut it. We have competition you know. The editor of John Paul II the Heretic has 10 children and he’s only 30. Now that’s a Catholic. Next!”

Seldom discussed, however, is the utter depravity of many of these big Catholic families, with neglected and abused children, many of whom act out later in life and lose the faith, or become neurotic cultists, and tortured, mentally ill mothers. But the externals look holy! The children become aware that they are valued more as trophies or resume builders or as tokens of a neurotic Calvinist compulsion to insist that one is of the elect or better than “those Catholics.” Devastating. No one deserves hell more than those who use our Holy Religion to serve their will to power.

And you can’t challenge anyone on this. They just hate you for exposing it, or they think you’re just jealous because you’re not in the fertility elite. It is precisely the Phariseeism that enraged Our Lord. And it leads to hell. In short, anyone constantly tells you in person or in print the number of children he has (if four or more, of course) is an obnoxious and insecure and holier-than-thou Trad ideologue neo-Pharisee. “Look, I’m a real Catholic, a member of the fertility elite.” No, you’re a bizarre Catholic Calvinist replacing fertility with worldly prosperity. Good for you for having a large family, if that’s indeed what God wanted for you and your wife. But knowing many dysfunctional large Catholic families with abused wives and neglected, thoroughly neurotic children, perhaps some NFP was in God’s plan. “But no, NFP is Vatican II! And I wouldn’t get to be in the elite 4+ children club!”

Erudite (and not so erudite) ideologues use their redoubtable rhetorical skills and high IQs to manipulate the audience into thinking just as they do, not to help us realize the truth for ourselves. This is propaganda. Catholicism is turning into an ideology. It’s not an ideology, of course, but the Saving Truth, but these toxic personal and online subcultures cloak and counterfeit Catholic Reality. Where are the authentically Catholic communities?

I would just like to be Catholic. Where are my people? Where is my home?

This article was originally published on Children Beware of Idols.

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The last American military parade that I saw was the inauguration of President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 – not counting my days in the US Army.  It was a hell of a show. What impressed me the most was the giant M65 203mm Atomic Cannon that was wheeled up Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue.

I was also deeply impressed by Gen. Eisenhower. There was no huff or puff with him, no wildly inflated claims, no bluster, no efforts to lay the groundwork for a military-run regime. None of what the Soviets used to call ‘Bonapartism.’  Just a real soldier who served America proud and became our finest president of modern times. I still like Ike.

But I also detest militarism and fake patriotic warmongering.  Every spring I walk the blood-soaked battlefields of World War I in France and am sick at heart by the botchery and stupidity of the first great modern war.  Having been a GI and covered 14 wars and conflicts as a news correspondent, I hate all form of militarism, flag-waving and patriotic oratory.

Except one!  France’s Bastille Day Parade on 14 July.  Much as I’m an ardent anti-militarist, few things thrill or move me as much as seeing France’s massed soldiers and fire-fighters marching down the lovely Champs Elysée, and the thunder of hooves of the armored cavalry of the Republican Guard. What a magnificent spectacle. It reminds me of what another great president, Thomas Jefferson, said: `every man has two homelands. His own, and France!.’  Who has a beating heart that cannot be moved by the mighty strains of La Marseillaise, France’s national anthem, which was originally called ‘the War Song of the Army of the Rhine.’

Bastille Day marked the beginning of democracy and human rights for the world.  The French Revolution also brought the Terror and Napoleonic Wars, but it was still an epochal moment in mankind’s history.  Without great amounts of financial and military aid from France, the United States might not have gained its independence. Today, it might still be ruled by the same bunch of nincompoops in London who have brought Great Britain so low.  Ironically, France’s gross overspending on supporting the American Revolution led directly to its own revolution of 1789 that overturned its monarchy.

This week will see a newly minted military extravaganza in Washington whose real purpose is to glorify a president who avoided military service in Vietnam due to a questionable foot problem.  As a veteran, this fake triumphal parade leaves me feeling unwell.  Militarized politics – just what recent past presidents have avoided.

I had been accepted to do a PhD at Britain’s Cambridge University that would have kept me out of military service.  But in an admittedly Quixotic act, I enlisted in the Regular Army to serve in the infantry in Vietnam.  Fate kept me in the US, teaching senior officers strategy and tactics. But I had at least done my duty as a citizen. In retrospect, Vietnam was a lousy, unjust imperial war, but I had served my country which had given a new life to both my parents.

I limped through Army basic and advanced infantry training with a broken bone in my left foot.  Unlike our current commander in chief.

I wish the government would spend the estimated $45 million ear-marked for this ego fest on wounded veterans.

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Ban-Fuff-Fuff, a beautiful place. People, get ready (to see them). Four million visitors a year.

Photography as a physical sport.

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WLT Report

The lecture:

The Manipulators’ Playbook – Gigi Foster

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David Scot Knecht wrote:

Dear Lew,

Did the Constitution fail? That depends. Of course it did, if its stated purpose was the actual purpose. But what if the actual purpose was not do secure liberty for the hapless subjects of the state, but to reduce it? Of course if you are trying to get a Constitution ratified, you dare not say that out loud. So that notion never appeared in The Federalist Papers!

Pardon the cynicism, but the Constitution obviously had political utility to its generation of politicians. It rewarded many with the political briar patch they sought.

Thanks for the good you have sown. May many generations reap.

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Pluto9999 wrote:

Hi Lew

Why should we be surprised when a gunman takes his idea of justice into his own hands and guns down Minnesota lawmakers ?  Is that not the M.O. of Trump and all presidents before him when they decide justice dictates invading and/or bombing Grenada, Panama, Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia ad nauseum ?  No Kings ! indeed.  But where were these people when Biden was in charge of the carnage ?  

May that you keep doing what you’re doing, and Happy Father’s Day ! 

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Writes Linda P.:

Dear Lew,

I watched the video posted by Charles Burris on the blog about potential causes of transgenderism. Although Mark Dice mentioned in the video several oft-referenced potential causes, there is one that nobody wants to discuss. It strikes at the heart of the sexual revolution and the feminist movement, the biggest endocrine distruptor of all: birth control. 

From the day a female baby is born, she carries inside of her half of the genetic make-up of all of her potential children. Whatever she puts into her body, or experiences throughout her life can have a potential effect on her future babies. A woman pregnant with a baby girl also carries her potential grandchildren inside her baby, so there is even a generational effect in what a woman consumes for her grandchildren.

Most men are unaware of the fact that birth control is the pharmaceutical of choice for many female problems. It is given out without any worry for teenage acne and just about any menstrual cycle issue a girl experiences. It is ubiquitous, even aside from its use as birth control. Do any of us know what this kind of hormonal tinkering on women is doing to generation after generation of children? No, and nobody wants to look. But I have a strong suspicion that we can already see the answer all around us.

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I will not be watching Trump’s military parade tonight. I have seen it before–in the USSR and North Korea.

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Tim McGraw wrote:

We Are Being Amused and Abused to Death: Jim Quinn

“I find myself ruminating about whether there is anything myself or any other average Joe can do to make a difference in this world, controlled by psychopaths, satanists, egomaniacal billionaires, corrupt evil politicians, a cabal of greedy financiers, neocon warmongering globalists, and the propaganda entertainment complex. When a complex entity becomes too large, it becomes inefficient, bureaucratic, corrupt, and uncontrollable.”

Jim Quinn

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Maybe that first sentence by Jim Quinn explains this graph of world birth rates

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