and I don't know how to interpret the news: it reminds me of when I was in Africa how the news (mainly BBC) was spun to see Jimmy Carter as crazy and flip floppy with bad judgment, then spun to see Ronald Reagan as a warmonger cowboy trying to start World War III.
Carter, of course, was trying to spread human rights all over the world,,.he managed to get Russia to let their Jewish citizens out to come to the US or Israel, and overthrew the Shah of Iran, whose human rights abuses were ignored by the MSM since he was an ally but those of us with Iranian friends knew better... too bad that the Shah had jailed or killed or exiled most of those who could have formed a decent government, which left the theocrats in charge, who then evolved into a theocratic tyranny a la Cromwell's puritan government, or the French Revolution with the tyranny of the religion of logic.
In the same way, those who openly fought communism in the war on ideas were ignored: not just Reagan ("Mister Gorbechev, tear down this wall", "evil Empire"), but Solzhenitsyn saying live not by lies, and JP2 (whose fight against communism when he was a bishop in Poland is usually left out of the history books), telling them God exists and human have dignity.
The real miracle is that communism fell without massive civil wars: and if you don't think religion had a part in this you have been reading the wrong books.
The miniseries Chernobyl posits that this caused the downfall of the Soviet Union: but unless you watched carefully, you would not realize this is true, not because of the lives lost or ecological disaster, but because it exposed the lies of the government, who bullied those trying to do the right thing.
Too many in charge were unable to see the truth because it went against the false narrative of the glorious revolution.
it was the heroism of the ordinary "despicables" (scientists, military, firemen, miners, not party apparatchiks) whose lives depended on reality instead of propaganda who saw the problem.... and most of them still had common decency and commitment to do the duties of their daily lives who saved the world.
Right now there is a crisis in both the USA and in the Catholic church.
In the USA, the lies of the MSM and the party line that sees ordinary folks as despicables are not going to help. Socialism is a good idea, but where do you get the money? Tax Bill Gates?
Or maybe clean up the banking system and corruption? Ah that last part would help: But since most of the establishment politicians got rich somehow while working for the gov't, one suspects they don't want to look too hard into this.
As for Trumpieboy; he is a pragmatist with ADHD and multitasks, and is as honest as any other businessman, which doesn't say much. But his opposition is so over the top one has to wonder who is the puppet master orchestrating this?
For example, the latest kerfuffle is a father and daughter who drowned trying to get into the US. A powerful photo, but when literally hundreds of bodies are found every year by the border control, mostly in the desert, one does get a bit cynical.
The reason for illegal migrants bringing their children is because President Obama, with the best intentions, changed the law to let those with children be released to be resettled until their asylum papers were reviewed. Of course, what happened is this left them free to disappear ... something that upsets a lot of working class Americans of all ethnicities, who have to compete with them for jobs and housing. (some of this opposition is inspired by racism, but it is mainly people who "lost" in the race for globalism, and now sees newcomers who broke the law getting goodies and preference).
But the bad side effect of Obama's compassion is that it also encouraged people to bring one of their kids with them, putting the kids in danger.
I am old enough to remember when a lot of Haitians were coming to American on rickety boats, and quite a few drowned. President Clinton decided they could be sent back, and 50 000 were sent to Guantanamo until this could be done...
but the end result of Clinton's decision was fewer refugees and therefor fewer deaths from the dangerous trip.
Someone tell the hysterical press that sending refugees to Fort Sill (where Geronimo was held) is not the same as sending them to a concentration camp: I am old enough to remember when thousands of Vietnamese boat people were sent to the army base at Fort Indiantown gap for the same reason:
The refugees first went to relocation processing centers in Guam, the Philippines, Thailand, Wake Island and Hawaii before being flown to the four resettlement centers in the United States at Camp Pendleton in California, Fort Chafee in Arkansas, Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and Fort Indiantown Gap. Refugees were matched with sponsors who agreed to provide food, clothing and shelter until the refugee could become self-sufficient. Sponsors also helped the Vietnamese find jobs and get their children registered in school.Am I missing something, or is it easier for the MSM to push hysteria and propaganda than to discuss these things pragmatically, with a little insight?
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Finally, I mentioned the problem of the Catholic church: not the abuse, which is serious and being covered up with pious flowery words, but the up and coming "Amazon" meeting which is openly planning to push thru a plan by fiat to allow older married men to become priests (ok with me if done properly), but that this part of the agenda is actually a way to distract the traditional Catholics into arguing about it, while the Germans and NWO types push the real agenda:
It would change church dogma to accommodate the latest fad: Eco-theology. (or the UN Rio theology). To quote Ureta:
In the closing speech of Rio 92 in Rio de Janeiro, the then-UN Secretary General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared that “for the ancients, the Nile was a god that was worshiped, as was the Rhine, an infinite source of European myths, or the Amazon rainforest, mother of all forests. Everywhere, nature was the home of gods. They gave the forest, the desert, the mountain, a personality that imposed adoration and respect. The Earth had a soul. Finding it, resurrecting it: this is the essence [of the Intergovernmental Conference] in Rio.” (A / CONF.151 / 26, vol. IV, p. 76).
And this neo-pagan UN agenda is now proposed by a Synodal Assembly of the Catholic Church!Edward Pentin has a long and scholarly analysis here that has Ureta's objections and similar analysis from other scholars about the proposed document.
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