A war here, a war there, and... who hacked the voting machines?

 A short lecture on what's really going on in the world:

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.....Philippine and other Chinese aggession in Asia starts at 33 minutes...and this one from a couple months ago also discusses the big problems 

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here in the Philippines, Manila is lowering their quarantine level due to fewer cases. January 28 (GMT) Updates 18,638 new cases and 68 new deaths in the Philippines [source] This is good news. 

They are also letting people who are vaxed into the country without staying in quarantine: which ignores that the omicron variants don't pay attention to your vax status. But it might encourage tourists because hey it's nice here: No snow!

and it's not just the USA who are suspicious of voting machines being taken over : there was a report that there had been hacking of the election voting machines: They weren't hacked, they were compromised.... OK....

the electronic voting machines were purchased after the Hello Garci scandal made people worry that there might be boxes of ballots brought out of back rooms to change elections.

This is an old tactic to change elections: which is why seeing all those boxes of ballots being brought in after the watchdogs left had made the Trumpites think that something was suspicious, not to mention that the voting machines could not be checked for fraud, hacking or accuracy for some reason.

Here, stealing elections is traditional: as is paying for votes (the US equivalent is activists collecting ballots from people too lazy to vote, and some think they help them fill them out correctly (/s)).

Oh well: the problem is not so much the suspicion of voting irregularities in the USA: the problem is that it is larger than normal, and Trump, like AlGore and unlike Nixon, decided to make problems about the fraud... 

But the real problem is the destruction of rule of law in the USA: giving light sentences or none at all for peaceful protests that wrecked the small mom and pop stores mainly owned by minorities and immigrants in the inner cities of the US in the name of being anti racists.

So what comes next?

This protest is about how Canada's severe vaccine laws are disrupting the supply chain by marginalizing truckers who are anti vax. 

presumably they will be called far right extremists, and probably like the "yellow vest" protests in France, which have been going on for three years:  they will be ignored in the MSM. 

Just like the March for Life is ignored by the MSM every year, although this year they will give lots of publicity to this tiny group that is suspected of being feds and who disappear into UHauls after the press takes their picture to prove all the other 100 thousand pro lifers are racists. 

actual photo of the protests.

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Speaking of religion, a couple of faithful Catholics who up to now have supported Pope Francis are now wondering if they should join the opposition, since he seems intent on destroying the church from within.

The liturgy was sloppy, the catechesis sloppier; the young people continued to drift away. We waited, and hoped, and prayed for the time when all that clear papal teaching would filter down to the local churches. As indeed it must, we felt sure, because wasn’t the Pope the final authority on what the Council taught, and what the Church teaches? And then came Pope Francis. Slowly at first, and then at a frightening accelerated pace, the Pope undermined our confidence in papal authority. Again and again he threw his support toward liberal views and causes that we had dismissed as misinterpretations of Vatican II. The Pope showed no interest whatsoever in restoring reverence to the Catholic liturgy; in fact he regularly mocked those who did. ...

Sounds familiar. The joke among Catholics is: What is the difference between a terrorist and a liturgist? Answer: You can talk to and maybe change the mind of the terrorist. 

Conspiracy theories is that Francis was chosen by McCarrick and the St Gallen Mafia, and they are pushing the ideas of the Bologna school of theology, that saw Vatican II as a break with the past and that the reformers were the good guys getting rid of all those old fashioned fogies.

These reformers ignored the actual VII documents and instituted their own ideas as being "in the spirit of Vatican II" so they could silence those who objected. 

when I make the sarcastic remark that Cardinal Tagle,who used to be in charge of Manila, is being pushed as the next pope, it is not because he is essentially Chinese (and sucks up to the Pope by supporting the Pope's destruction of Catholicism there) or because he was known for working with the poor, but because he espouses the School of Bologna ideas.

as for the blurbs that he supports the "new evangelization": well, then why did the bishops here shut down the traditional fiestas and essentially make it impossible for us to go to church during the quarantines? I haven't been to church in two years because elders were told not to go inside the church and those allowed inside during mass were limited in number.

the lay catholic groups are still strong, but too many bishops and intellectuals and students in Manila seem more worried about pushing green policies or protesting police shooting criminals (but not criminals shooting civilians) than about corruption in their favorite politicians or that the increase in the price of fertilizer and diesel are going to make the price of rice skyrocket, causing bankruptcy in farmers and hunger among the city poor who won't be able to afford to eat.

As for evangelization: Like Latin America, a lot of Christian Catholics are going to Evangelical and Pentecostal churches now.