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Death Cult Sacrifices Could Soon Be Coming to Your Neighborhood

September 4, 2011
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Death Cult Sacrifices Could Soon Be Coming to Your Neighborhood

Because of a virtually uncontrolled southern border (thank you, Washington), a bizarre, inchoate collection of rituals — including human sacrifice — might soon be generating headline news where you happen to live (and it would have to be local news — mainstream national media shy away from reporting negatively on the current administration’s “immigration” policies): . . . the cult itself is not an actual religion so it’s unclear who actually belongs to it. The veneration of Santa Muerte is a magical tradition that has little in the way of moral or philosophical instruction. Instead it simply transmits a series of rites designed to appease a being devotees think is an ancient goddess of death who once demanded people be killed in horrible ways to appease her. And while not all of the cultists commit crimes, a significant number of them come from the ranks of violent gangs, the virulently racist and anti-Semitic Reconquista movement, and impressionable dabblers in the occult seeking thrills. While not the organized threat of militant Islam, Santa Muerte’s spread into our major cities among those who are part of the unseen underground is still a potential danger we need to recognize. — Rob

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Pedophiles Push for Acceptance — With a Little Help from Their Friends in Academia and Government

September 3, 2011
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Pedophiles Push for Acceptance — With a Little Help from Their Friends in Academia and Government

On Townhall.com, Matt Barber registers his reactions to a recent conference: On Wednesday, Aug. 17, I – along with the venerable child advocate Dr. Judith Reisman – attended a conference hosted by the pedophile group B4U-ACT. Around 50 individuals were in attendance, including a number of admitted pedophiles (or “minor-attracted persons” as they euphemistically prefer), a few self-described “gay activists” and several supportive mental-health professionals. World renowned “sexologist” Dr. Fred Berlin of Johns Hopkins University gave the keynote address, saying: “I want to completely support the goal of B4U-ACT.” The aim of these groups is what Barber terms “sexual anarchy” (although they probably wouldn’t characterize it as such): Make no mistake: Children are the target of what I call the “sexual anarchy movement.” Whether it’s the movement’s pedophile wing that seeks to literally rape children, or its radical pro-abortion, homosexualist and feminist wings, which seek to rape the minds of children, the larger sexual anarchy movement has a shared goal: Attack, corrupt and destroy God’s design for human sexuality. Children are just collateral damage. Sexual anarchists know that to own the future, they must own the minds of our children. Hence, groups like B4U-ACT, GLSEN (The Gay Lesbian Straight

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Scaring Us to Death — Literally

August 29, 2011
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Scaring Us to Death — Literally

Dr. Kesten C. Green and Tom Harris note how past scares about such things as mercury levels in fish, EMF powerline emissions, and DDT in the environment correlate closely with the alarmism ginned up over “manmade global warming” (AGW): . . . vivid, alarming forecasts, even those based on weak foundations, are persuasive. For a while at least. Unlike “global warming,” however, these scares truly are anthropogenic in origin: In modern times, when we are safer than we have ever been, some activists have become rich and famous by exploiting our ready acceptance of alarming scenarios: “So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.” This statement about global warming by climatologist Professor Stephen Schneider (now deceased) serves as a warning to us all that we should always be ready to ask hard questions of alarmists. The victims of these baseless alarms should not only “ask hard questions” but also make an effort to interrogate these “activists’” bank accounts. Time not only heals all wounds, but it also tends to wound all heels: When people learn more about an issue, the persuasion formula that initially worked so

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The Ups and Downs of Left and Right

August 26, 2011
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The Ups and Downs of Left and Right

In a 1956 article addressed to libertarians (but from which others might benefit), Leonard E. Read briefly sketched the origins — and subsequent inversions — of the political terms “Left” and “Right”: There was a time when “Left” and “Right” were appropriate and not inaccurate designations of ideological differences. : “The first Leftists were a group of newly elected representatives to the National Constituent Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789. They were labeled ‘Leftists’ merely because they happened to sit on the left side in the French Assembly. “The legislators who sat on the right side were referred to as the Party of the Right, or Rightists. The Rightists or ‘reactionaries’ stood for a highly centralized national government, special laws and privileges for unions and various other groups and classes, government economic monopolies in various necessities of life, and a continuation of government controls over prices, production, and distribution.” The leftists were, for all practical purposes, ideologically similar to those of us who call ourselves “libertarians.” The rightists were ideological opposites: statists, interventionists, in short, authoritarians. “Left” and “Right” in France, during 1789–90, had a semantic handiness and a high degree of accuracy. But

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Is History’s View of Teddy Roosevelt All Wrong?

August 26, 2011
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Is History’s View of Teddy Roosevelt All Wrong?

(This is in response to a comment from S. T. Karnick.) Jim Powell decided to reassess Teddy Roosevelt‘s historical reputation in an article in The Freeman Online. Past presidents and potential future ones like TR a lot: Theodore Roosevelt has been known as “the Good Roosevelt,” “the Republican Roosevelt,” and “the conservative Roosevelt,” as distinguished from his fifth cousin Franklin, who’s credited with ushering in modern American big government. Yet promoters of big government have long recognized TR as one of their own. Biographer Frank Freidel wrote that “While at Groton first fell under the spell of his remote cousin Theodore Roosevelt. . . . Theodore Roosevelt believed in using to the utmost the constitutional power of the president. . . . This strong use of government was for the most part appealing to Franklin.” During the Great Depression, FDR promoted “a program emphasizing national planning in the tradition of Theodore Roosevelt.” Freidel noted that “in words reminiscent of Theodore Roosevelt, FDR declared ‘the duty rests upon the Government to restrict incomes by very high taxes.’” Historian Eric F. Goldman said that Lyndon Johnson, who simultaneously launched huge domestic entitlement spending programs and escalated the undeclared Vietnam

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Cultural Marxism — Is It Here to Stay?

August 26, 2011
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Cultural Marxism — Is It Here to Stay?

If it does, you can blame … J. R. R. Tolkien? . . . one of the things that I talk about is what I like to call “West Coast White nationalism” because West Coast White nationalism, a lot of the people that I know on the West Coast who think in terms of a racially defined new order of society, you take one look at them and you think that they’re hippies or you think that they’re liberals. Their lifestyles and their attitudes embrace a lot of things like Eastern spirituality, and drinking fruit juice, and wearing sandals, and granola, and vegetarianism, and organic food and organic farming, all these sort of things that you think are kind of hippie things. If you look at the roots of a lot of the West Coast hippie culture and also the hippie culture in Europe for that matter, a lot of it goes back to Tolkien. What doesn’t come from the New Left, let’s say the Frankfurt School and things like that, a lot of it comes from Tolkien which is pretty much directly connected with European Traditionalism. — Greg Johnson According to this view, ’60s hippies took Tolkien’s “message of

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“Homofascists” Make Sure Social Media Are Unsafe

August 25, 2011
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“Homofascists” Make Sure Social Media Are Unsafe

Erik Rush has discovered just how unsafe: Several pages on Facebook run by these homofascist operatives have compiled information on specific individuals. Their principals not only post scathing screeds about said “homophobes,” but they have gone as far as to contact their friends, family members, employers and clients. They have disseminated information about these “offenders” on those pages, for the express purpose of making the lives of these people as unpleasant as possible. Some have even lost their jobs as a result of employer retaliation by bosses who are “sympathetic to the cause.” It will probably not surprise that these militant homosexuals have a decidedly anti-Christian bent and that the majority of their targets are those of that faith. “Christer” is the salacious invective used on one page, usually with an even more insulting descriptor preceding. The Culture War, often regarded as a myth, is still being waged, with increasing numbers of “casualties” among those who hold to traditional views about sexuality: Relative to persecution and free speech, of course, liberals are consummate hypocrites, so a definite double standard exists relative to their tolerance of others’ beliefs versus their expectation for tolerance of their own. I have witnessed countless instances

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The “Blessings” of Technocracy

August 25, 2011
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The “Blessings” of Technocracy

I’m all for free enterprise and true capitalism, as every right-thinking person should be. The trouble is the social and economic predicament in which we Americans presently find ourselves is both the product of and the continuing vehicle for the preservation of an anti-capitalistic regime which over the past century has gradually gained such a stranglehold on the governmental, economic, and social system as to pose a permanent impediment to free enterprise and an active threat to individual autonomy. The irony is that the regime was, is, and will remain comprised of entities that were once built upon free enterprise and true capitalism. It goes under various names — “corporatism” and “the welfare-warfare state” are two popular terms — but its patrimony is unmistakable, being the lineal descendant of the Progressivist programs of the early 20th century, with all of Progressivism’s technocratic zeal intact and active. It would probably surprise some people in government — those who, for instance, propose labyrinthine laws without reading them or fabricating non-existent, “shovel-ready” jobs — to be characterized as “technocrats” (the term sounds so unfeeling, doesn’t it?), but exponents of technocracy they are. The bitter, rotting fruits of Progressivism now litter the ground around

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Is Western Culture Going Insane?

August 20, 2011
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Is Western Culture Going Insane?

David Solway thinks that the West is exhibiting “he symptoms of an imperium in its dotage”: The greatest civilization the world has ever known has lost confidence in itself, infected by a plague of self-doubt and self-recrimination. Having lost its bearings, it is no longer willing or able to think clearly, to make difficult choices, to defend its patrimony and resist demographic subversion, to accept the need for sacrifice, to value the radiant catalogue of its triumphs and achievements in art, science, technology, medicine, and statecraft, and, with its declining birthrate, even to reproduce itself. This is total madness. Solway fingers the usual suspects: The gradual but unrelenting insinuation of socialist and neo-Marxist doctrine into the liberal West, after it has been reliably shown to falter or collapse wherever it has been implemented, is still another index of severe mental disconnect and maladjustment to reality. Command economies are proven to be inefficient, and the welfare state, predicated on the punitive taxation of a shrinking and increasingly insolvent productive base to subsidize ever-inflating entitlement programs, has been properly described as a gigantic Ponzi scheme. Redistributionist and womb-to-tomb security states, as Margaret Thatcher famously said, will eventually run out of other people’s

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“Hitler’s Bible”

August 20, 2011
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“Hitler’s Bible”

On the CMI website, Russell Grigg tries to set the record straight: Elimination of the Jews in Nazi Germany was not confined to the Holocaust. It also took the form of rewriting the New Testament to ‘dejudaize’ it, i.e., to remove references to Judaism and to recast Jesus as an Aryan, generating what has been called the ‘Nazi Bible’. This has been the subject of some sensational and substantially erroneous claims, including that the project was Hitler’s brainchild. In 1930s Germany, the ‘German Christians’ (Deutsche Christen) movement arose. These were theologically liberal Protestant churches and theologians who were enthusiastically pro-Nazi, calling Hitler the ‘Führer Jesus’ and ‘God’s agent in our day’. Politically ambitious and anti-Semitic, they wanted a faith without anything Jewish in the Bible, and without converted Jews in the Church. Their ultimate membership of 600,000 constituted about 30 percent of German Protestants. In opposition to this, the so-called ‘Confessing Church’ (Bekennende Kirche) movement arose, ultimately attracting some 20 percent of Protestant pastors. It included notable opponents of Hitler such as Karl Barth, Martin Niemöller, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. However, some of its members were inclined to take other liberties with the plain meaning of the biblical text, and some

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Wheels Within Wheels: Not One-World Government but “The One-World Company”

August 20, 2011
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Wheels Within Wheels: Not One-World Government but “The One-World Company”

“Everybody wants to rule the world.” So goes the song. But could there be super-powerful, ultra-rich groups that aspire not to exercise political rule but aim for a more limited economic control of the planet? Instead of money being a means and power the final goal, it could be the other way around. Ellen Brown discusses this unusual notion in the context of the recent S & P credit downgrade: Daniel Estulin, noted expert on the Bilderbergers, describes that secretive globalist group as “a medium of bringing together financial institutions which are the world’s most powerful and most predatory financial interests.” Writing in June 2011, he said: Bilderberg isn’t a secret society. . . . It’s a meeting of people who represent a certain ideology. . . . Not OWG or NWO as too many people mistakenly believe. Rather, the ideology is of a ONE WORLD COMPANY LIMITED. It seems the Bilderbergers are less interested in governing the world than in owning the world. The “world company” was a term first used at a Bilderberger meeting in Canada in 1968 by George Ball, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs and a managing director

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Are You Number Six — or Number One?

August 20, 2011
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Are You Number Six — or Number One?

Ed Driscoll triggers some nostalgia for Baby Boomers with a posting on the PJ Lifestyle weblog: Seen in the context of the typical American TV fare of the mid-1960s . . . Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner had to have seemed especially surreal and challenging to American viewers, particularly given the year it aired, as 1968 was anything but “the Summer of Love.” The story goes that McGoohan had gotten bored with playing John Drake, his Danger Man/Secret Agent character, and wanted to try something a bit more challenging. He proposed the story idea to Sir Lew Grade of ITC (who produced everything from Captain Scarlet and UFO to The Muppet Show in the 1960s through the late 1970s, usually with an eye towards the American market). According to the all-knowing, occasionally accurate Wikipedia, it was inspired by George Markstein, The Prisoner’s script editor, who would later write Cold War-themed novels and movies, and who had based his notion out from the legends of World War II. As surreal as the show’s setting seemed to be, it might have been rooted in reality. While most of us have tended until now to regard McGoohan’s series as an expression of Left-wing paranoia,

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