Richard, if you don't mind me asking how did you go about petitioning your Bishop? This seems like something we all could do in our different locals to help bring the Peace of Our Lord to bare here in the US at a time when we could so sorely use it. I agree with you, the solution is not political.
Speaking of petitions, this video is incredible. A family in Lithuania who is fighting being extradited back there from the US tells their story..
Thought this was a really good article that helps to explain something that is becoming more and more obvious during the Trump presidency. The Exhaustion of American Liberalism White guilt gave us a mock politics based on the pretense of moral authority. A protester in Portland, Ore., last week. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES By Shelby Steele https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-exhaustion-of-american-liberalism-1488751826 The recent flurry of marches, demonstrations and even riots, along with the Democratic Party’s spiteful reaction to the Trump presidency, exposes what modern liberalism has become: a politics shrouded in pathos. Unlike the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, when protesters wore their Sunday best and carried themselves with heroic dignity, today’s liberal marches are marked by incoherence and downright lunacy—hats designed to evoke sexual organs, poems that scream in anger yet have no point to make, and an hysterical anti-Americanism. All this suggests lostness, the end of something rather than the beginning. What is ending? America, since the ’60s, has lived through what might be called an age of white guilt. We may still be in this age, but the Trump election suggests an exhaustion with the idea of white guilt, and with the drama of culpability, innocence and correctness in which it mires us. White guilt is not actual guilt. Surely most whites are not assailed in the night by feelings of responsibility for America’s historical mistreatment of minorities. Moreover, all the actual guilt in the world would never be enough to support the hegemonic power that the mere pretense of guilt has exercised in American life for the last half-century. White guilt is not angst over injustices suffered by others; it is the terror of being stigmatized with America’s old bigotries—racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia. To be stigmatized as a fellow traveler with any of these bigotries is to be utterly stripped of moral authority and made into a pariah. The terror of this, of having “no name in the street” as the Bible puts it, pressures whites to act guiltily even when they feel no actual guilt. White guilt is a mock guilt, a pretense of real guilt, a shallow etiquette of empathy, pity and regret. It is also the heart and soul of contemporary liberalism. This liberalism is the politics given to us by white guilt, and it shares white guilt’s central corruption. It is not real liberalism, in the classic sense. It is a mock liberalism. Freedom is not its raison d’être; moral authority is. When America became stigmatized in the ’60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else. Subsequently the American left reconstituted itself as the keeper of America’s moral legitimacy. (Conservatism, focused on freedom and wealth, had little moral clout.) From that followed today’s markers of white guilt—political correctness, identity politics, environmental orthodoxy, the diversity cult and so on. This was the circumstance in which innocence of America’s bigotries and dissociation from the American past became a currency of hardcore political power. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation’s past. “I had to vote for Obama,” a rock-ribbed Republican said to me. “I couldn’t tell my grandson that I didn’t vote for the first black president.” For this man liberalism was a moral vaccine that immunized him against stigmatization. For Mr. Obama it was raw political power in the real world, enough to lift him—unknown and untested—into the presidency. But for Mrs. Clinton, liberalism was not enough. The white guilt that lifted Mr. Obama did not carry her into office—even though her opponent was soundly stigmatized as an iconic racist and sexist. Perhaps the Obama presidency was the culmination of the age of white guilt, so that this guiltiness has entered its denouement. There are so many public moments now in which liberalism’s old weapon of stigmatization shoots blanks— Elizabeth Warren in the Senate reading a 30-year-old letter by Coretta Scott King, hoping to stop Jeff Sessions’s appointment as attorney general. There it was with deadly predictability: a white liberal stealing moral authority from a black heroine in order to stigmatize a white male as racist. When Ms. Warren was finally told to sit, there was real mortification behind her glaring eyes. This liberalism evolved within a society shamed by its past. But that shame has weakened now. Our new conservative president rolls his eyes when he is called a racist, and we all—liberal and conservative alike—know that he isn’t one. The jig is up. Bigotry exists, but it is far down on the list of problems that minorities now face. I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It’s harder now for young blacks to find a closed one. This is the reality that made Ms. Warren’s attack on Mr. Sessions so tiresome. And it is what caused so many Democrats at President Trump’s address to Congress to look a little mortified, defiantly proud but dark with doubt. The sight of them was a profound moment in American political history. Today’s liberalism is an anachronism. It has no understanding, really, of what poverty is and how it has to be overcome. It has no grip whatever on what American exceptionalism is and what it means at home and especially abroad. Instead it remains defined by an America of 1965—an America newly opening itself to its sins, an America of genuine goodwill, yet lacking in self-knowledge. This liberalism came into being not as an ideology but as an identity. It offered Americans moral esteem against the specter of American shame. This made for a liberalism devoted to the idea of American shamefulness. Without an ugly America to loathe, there is no automatic esteem to receive. Thus liberalism’s unrelenting current of anti-Americanism. Let’s stipulate that, given our history, this liberalism is understandable. But American liberalism never acknowledged that it was about white esteem rather than minority accomplishment. Four thousand shootings in Chicago last year, and the mayor announces that his will be a sanctuary city. This is moral esteem over reality; the self-congratulation of idealism. Liberalism is exhausted because it has become a corruption. Mr. Steele, a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, is author of “Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country” (Basic Books, 2015). Appeared in the March 6, 2017, print edition.
Are those Mark Taylor predicted tribunals finally on the horizon....for the real criminals who live in the swamp?? AG’s Office Confirms Sessions Appointed Separate “Senior Federal Prosecutor” Outside of DC to Investigate FISA Abuse When asked about a second special counsel to investigate FISA abuse, AG Sessions said he appointed someone outside of DC to investigate the allegations brought forth by the House Judiciary Committee. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...prosecutor-outside-dc-investigate-fisa-abuse/ ========================================= Also Mark Taylor's prediction that some in the enemy MSM would eventually go over to the Trump side??? After tonight's rather surprising news of Trump being invited to talks with NK's despot? “That Is The Reality Here”: CNN Admits Trump Solving North Korea Issue Would Make Him ‘Great President’ (VIDEO) .....Shortly after the announcement, CNN’s Erin Burnett admitted that Trump would go down in history as a “great President” if the talks lead to peace between North Korea and the world. Burnett: “Just an extraordinary thing and of course opening the door to the big question. If President Trump can truly solve this problem, that would be going down as a great President and there’s no way around that. That is the reality here. Infowars editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson noted “Even CNN is admitting Trump solving the North Korean crisis could make his presidency great. The far-left and the “resistance” must be in tears tonight.” http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...north-korea-issue-make-great-president-video/ Amazing!!! But keep up the prayers.
I sure wish Joe was Attorney General of the USA and his wife, Victoria, Assistant AG!: "The Politicization of the FBI"--Joseph E. diGenova Former U.S. Attorney https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-politicization-of-the-fbi/ GOD SAVE ALL HERE
Time to Get Over the Russophobia Thursday - March 8, 2018 at 9:06 pm By Patrick J. Buchanan Unless there is a late surge for Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin, who is running second with 7 percent, Vladimir Putin will be re-elected president of Russia for another six years on March 18. Then we must decide whether to continue on course into a second Cold War, or engage Russia, as every president sought to do in Cold War I. For our present conflict, Vladimir Putin is not alone at fault. His actions have often been reactions to America’s unilateral moves. After the Soviet Union collapsed, we brought all of the Warsaw Pact members and three former republics of the USSR into our military alliance, NATO, to corral Russia. How friendly was that? Putin responded with his military buildup in the Baltic. George W. Bush abrogated the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that Richard Nixon had negotiated, Putin responded with a buildup of the offensive missiles he put on display last week. The U.S. helped to instigate the Maidan Square coup that dumped over the elected pro-Russian government in Ukraine. To prevent the loss of his Sebastopol naval base on the Black Sea, Putin countered by annexing the Crimean Peninsula. After peaceful protests in Syria were put down by Bashar Assad, we sent arms to Syrian rebels to overthrow the Damascus regime. Seeing his last naval base in the Med, Tartus, imperiled, Putin came to Assad’s aid and helped him win the civil war. The Boris Yeltsin years are over. Russia is acting again as a great power. And she sees us as a nation that slapped away her hand, extended in friendship in the 1990s, and then humiliated her by planting NATO on her front porch. Yet, what is also clear is that Putin hoped and believed that, with the election of Trump, Russia might be able to restore respectful if not friendly relations with the United States. Clearly, Putin wanted that, as did Trump. Yet, with the Beltway hysteria over hacking of the DNC and John Podesta emails, and the Russophobia raging in this capital, we appear to be paralyzed when it comes to engaging with Russia. The U.S. political system, said Putin this week, “has been eating itself up.” Is his depiction that wide of the mark? What is the matter with us? Three years after Nikita Khrushchev sent tanks into Budapest to drown the Hungarian revolution in blood, Eisenhower was hosting him on a 10-day visit to the USA. Two years after the Berlin Wall went up, and eight months after Khrushchev installed missiles in Cuba, Kennedy reached out to the Soviet dictator in his widely praised American University speech. Lyndon Johnson met with Russian President Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, just weeks after we almost clashed over Moscow’s threat to intervene in the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. Six months after Leonid Brezhnev sent tank armies to crush the Prague Spring in August 1968, an inaugurated Nixon was seeking detente. In those years, no matter who was in the White House or Kremlin, the U.S. establishment favored engagement with Moscow. It was the right that was skeptical or hostile. Again, what is the matter with this generation? True, Vladimir Putin is an autocrat seeking a fourth term, like FDR. But what Russian leader, save Yeltsin, has not been an autocrat? And Russians today enjoy freedoms of speech, assembly, religion, travel, politics, and the press that the generations before 1989 never knew. China, not Russia, has the more repressive single-party Communist state. Indeed, which of these U.S. allies shows greater tolerance than Putin’s Russia? The Philippines of Rodrigo Duterte, the Egypt of Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the Turkey of President Erdogan, or the Saudi Arabia of Prince Mohammad bin Salman? Russia is nowhere near the strategic or global threat the Soviet Union presented. As Putin conceded this week, with the breakup of the USSR, his nation “lost 23.8 percent of its national territory, 48.5 percent of its population, 41 percent of its gross domestic product and 44.6 percent of its military capacity.” How would Civil War Unionists have reacted if the South had won independence and then, to secure the Confederacy against a new invasion, Dixie entered into an alliance with Great Britain, gave the Royal Navy bases in New Orleans and Charleston, and allowed battalions of British troops to deploy in Virginia? Japan negotiates with Putin’s Russia over the southern Kuril Islands lost at the end of World War II. Bibi Netanyahu has met many times with Putin, though he is an ally of Assad, whom Bibi would like to see ousted, and has a naval and air base not far from Israel’s border. We Americans have far more fish to fry with Russia than Bibi. Strategic arms control. De-escalation in the Baltic, Ukraine and the Black Sea. Ending the war in Syria. North Korea. Space. Afghanistan. The Arctic. The war on terror. Yet all we seem to hear from our elite is endless whining that Putin has not been sanctioned enough for desecrating “our democracy.” Get over it. http://buchanan.org/blog/time-get-russophobia-128867
I know dates are to be avoided. But.. Richard67 just mentioned the date of the Russian election and I made the link between the birthday apparitions of Mirjana which take place on 18th March. Since Carol55 linked 25th March to the Warning. I had a quick search for other dates and connections. Mirjana has always said that the apparition is not about her birthday. Will this election establish the Russian leader of end time events?
Please take a moment to listen to Marion Le Pen. She has become a very pious catholic and is not shying away from comfronting issues such as gender politics or euthanasia. This is a really interesting phenomenon because it is coming from the French youth. France, Catholic France, may be coming back !
Thankyou for posting. If Catholic France's flame begins to burn bright and their youth are waking up then there really is hope and the Great Monarch is not a fantasy at all but a real prophetic possibility.
YES!!! Who Knows?? The Lord has been known to select odd "bedfellows" to Lead the Flock ... especially when you consider the "Leaders" that are "leading" The Church now! ALSO!!! Be careful about "buying-in" to labels and look CLOSELY at who is making/spreading "Labels"! Le Pen is being labeled Extreme Right by the godless, Socialist baby killers on the Extreme Left!! .... just as Trump is ... and I am! .... but I consider myself in Good Company as the Extreme Left considers The Founding Fathers of The USA .. and The Church too I expect ... as Extreme Right! GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
Trump says Rex Tillerson out as Secretary of State, replaced by Mike Pompeo By Alex Pappas | Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/13/trump-says-rex-tillerson-out-as-secretary-state-replaced-by-mike-pompeo.html President Trump on Tuesday ousted Rex Tillerson (left) as secretary of state and said he is replacing him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo (right). President Trump on Tuesday ousted Rex Tillerson as secretary of state and said he is replacing him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. “Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State,” the president tweeted. “He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service!” In a statement released by the White House, Pompeo said: “I am deeply grateful to President Trump for permitting me to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and for this opportunity to serve as secretary of state. His leadership has made America safer and I look forward to representing him and the American people to the rest of the world to further America’s prosperity.” Trump said he is naming Gina Haspel the new director of the CIA. Haspel has served as Pompeo’s deputy and will become the first woman to serve as director. “I am grateful to President Trump for the opportunity, and humbled by his confidence in me, to be nominated to be the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency,” Haspel said in a statement. Fox News' Jennifer Bowman and Serafin Gomez contributed to this report. EDITED TO ADD THE FOLLOWING FROM 1/23/2018: Rex Tillerson: Russia bears responsibility for Syria chemical attacks https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ars-responsibility-for-syria-chemical-attacks A FEW QUOTES FROM THE ARTICLE: “Whoever conducted the attacks, Russia ultimately bears responsibility for the victims in East Ghouta and countless other Syrians targeted with chemical weapons, since Russia became involved in Syria,” Tillerson told reporters. “There is simply no denying that Russia, by shielding its Syrian ally, has breached its commitments to the US as a framework guarantor. At a bare minimum, Russia must stop vetoing, or at the very least abstain, from future security council votes on this issue,” he added. Nikki Haley, the US envoy to the UN, said Russia’s actions had “sent a dangerous message to the world – one that not only said chemical weapons use is acceptable, but also that those who use chemical weapons don’t need to be identified or held accountable”. “Faced by the recent banalisation of the proliferation and use of these odious arms, it is necessary to act,” the French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, told the conference. “On this we will be judged by history.” Andrew Lapsley, an official representing the UK Foreign Office, said it was vital that “a 100-year taboo on the use of chemical weapons was not lost”. Tillerson said that “Russia’s failure to resolve the chemical weapons issue in Syria calls into question its relevance to the resolution of the overall crisis.” PS- Russophobia, lol!
There was also this yesterday as well https://www.nbcnews.com/business/bu...blocks-broadcom-takeover-bid-qualcomm-n856021 Trump blocks Broadcom takeover bid for Qualcomm BY ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump blocked Singapore chipmaker Broadcom from pursuing a hostile takeover of U.S. rival Qualcomm, ruling the proposed combination would imperil national security. The decision, announced late Monday, abruptly ends Broadcom's four-month, $117 billion bid to buy Qualcomm — a deal that would have been the largest ever completed in the technology industry. In a statement, Broadcom said it "strongly disagrees" that the acquisition raises any national-security concerns. Qualcomm did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump's order gives Broadcom few options other than to drop its bid, said Macquarie Securities analyst Srinivas Pajjuri. Related: Computer chipmaker asks government to block all U.S. iPhone sales advertisement Broadcom faced challenges almost from the start of its quest. Qualcomm quickly spurned its unsolicited suitor and continued to resist even after Broadcom raised its original offer from $103 billion. Broadcom's Singapore connections complicated matters, even though the company maintained its physical headquarters in Silicon Valley and virtually all of its shareholders are in the U.S. The Trump administration nevertheless balked at the prospect of a prominent U.S. chipmaker being owned by a foreign company, particularly at a time countries around the world are gearing up to build ultra-fast "5G" mobile networks that could tip the balance of power in technology. Although its name isn't widely known outside the technology industry, Qualcomm is one of the world's leading makers of the processors that power many smartphones and other mobile devices. Qualcomm also owns patents on key pieces of mobile technology that Apple and other manufacturers rely upon in their products. Qualcomm is fending off allegations in complaints filed by Apple and government regulators around the world that it has abused the power of its mobile patents to throttle competition and charge excessive royalties for its technology. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan had seized on Qualcomm's legal headaches in his attempt to persuade the U.S. government to keep the deal alive. "Qualcomm faces a number of challenges that hamper its role in developing 5G," Tan wrote in a letter sent to U.S. Congress last week. Unlike Qualcomm, Tan said, Broadcom financed its innovation through "lawful practices." Trump decided to squelch Broadcom's bid on the recommendation of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which reviews foreign purchases of U.S. entities. The decision didn't come as a surprise. Earlier this month, the committee branded the proposed deal a potential security risk that could hobble the U.S.'s ability to make the smooth and quick transition to 5G. In an attempt to ease those worries, Broadcom last week pledged to make the U.S. a leader in the race to build 5G networks, saying it would create a $1.5 billion fund to support the effort if took control of Qualcomm. Broadcom also tried to curry favor by moving its legal headquarters from Singapore to the U.S within the next few weeks. advertisement Singapore became Broadcom's legal home two years ago after it was sold to Avago, a company that once was part of Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett-Packard. Broadcom's company's physical headquarters is already in San Jose, California — about 450 miles from Qualcomm's headquarters in San Diego. Trump hosted Broadcom's Tan in the White House last year when the executive announced the proposed move. Now that Broadcom has been shoved aside, Qualcomm will be under pressure to prevent its stock price from sinking while trying to complete its own proposed takeover — a proposed $43 billion purchase of NXP Semiconductors. "Now it's on (Qualcomm's) management to deliver on what they promised," Pajjuri said.
After your edit I can not emphasize enough my enthusiasm for Tillerson's demise. One more swamp creature cabalist bites the dust.
