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A Cajun Priest and the Acadian Solution to Soft Priests in a Soft Church

A blast is heard from up the Bayou Teche, from the direction of Leonville, Cecilia, or Breaux Bridge. Then comes the ring of a far-off bell, barely heard through the cattails and wall of cicadas, crickets, and katydids. The tolling rolls down the waterway clear and rhythmic, like the echo of an evening train passing through a rural town.

It is August 15, and the Fête-Dieu du Teche has begun again. And just like the crushing weight of the Louisiana sun, countless Cajuns up and down the Teche will...

US Escalates Its Crawling Aggression on Venezuela as Caracas Prepares Defenses

The United States Navy (USN) and Marine Corps (USMC) keep increasing their military presence in the Southern Caribbean, more specifically in the vicinity of Venezuela’s coast. The last days of August saw a significant uptick in their activity, including American warships in eastbound transit through the Panama Canal. Only a week prior, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt stated that US President Donald Trump was “prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding in...

The Government Did Create a Contagious Virus in a Lab

One area I’ve yet to cover in my numerous “early spread” articles is the question of whether Covid is/was really a “novel” virus.

Today, I’d like to expound on the reasons I believe a novel coronavirus – almost certainly produced in a lab – was “spreading” in the world and was, almost certainly, making people sick months before the experts say was possible.

In today’s article, I briefly address the theory – now increasingly common among growing numbers of “Covid Contrarians” – that viruses don’t...

Exactly How Does One Survive Absurdity

We live in absurd times.  We are surrounded by violence, both real and virtual–the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians, the deaths in Ukraine, the violent movies and video games, the violence on the streets in America’s blue cities–but the presstitutes attach warnings to news reports of much smaller incidences of violence. We are supposed to be horrified by the beating that one individual receives but not by the genocide of the Palestinian people.  American universities have banned protests in sup...

‘Forbidden Facts: Childhood Vaccines & Brain Damage’

In his 1961 Farewell Address, President Eisenhower warned not only about the “undue influence” of the Military-Industrial Complex. He also warned about a new “scientific-technological elite” that could gain unwarranted influence over public policy, potentially guiding the nation based on specialized knowledge rather than democratic principles.

This “scientific-technological elite” could not only gain access to vast federal funding that is not available to solitary scholars and inventors, it coul...

‘It’s Not a Genocide’ Is Not a Defensible Claim in the Year 2025

The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has determined that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. This is the world’s largest association of genocide scholars, with around 500 experts on the subject including many Holocaust scholars. The consensus was reached by an overwhelming supermajority of the experts — 86 percent, to be exact.

Everyone needs to understand that “there is no genocide in Gaza” is not a claim that can be taken seriously in the year 2025. Amnesty Internationa...

Europe Is a Powder Keg

Americans who don’t spend time in Europe might not fully appreciate what a powder keg the Old World has become.  However bad social relations in the United States now are, they are at least an order of magnitude worse on the other side of the Atlantic.  European self-hatred is dissolving traditional cultural bonds.  Mass immigration is compounding age-old rivalries.  Europe is one spark away from exploding.

Europe is a perennial battlefield.  Many of our ancestors, after all, left the old countr...

A Police State Presidency: When ‘Rule of Law’ Becomes ‘Rule by Gunpoint’

“The world will soon understand nothing can stop what is coming.”—President Trump

Donald Trump has always been a master of imagery.

From his red MAGA hats to his choreographed rallies, he understands the language of spectacle. Now he has discovered the perfect propaganda machine: AI-generated images.

AI allows the creation of endless variations of Trump-as-warrior, Trump-as-enforcer, Trump-as-savior. These images spread across social media, replicated, remixed, and shared until they become famil...

Israel and the West Set the Stage for Next Round of Warfare on Iran

Peace-loving people throughout the world breathed a sigh of relief when the Israeli-American war on Iran ended in June after 12 days, with President Trump racing to triumphantly declare US strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program.

While his rhetoric suggested he wanted Israel and the world to view the US bombing as a lasting resolution of accusations that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons, Israel and its Western collaborators are already setting the stage for new aggression against Iran....

Hey, POTUS, Fire The Real Mortgage Fraudsters—The Entire FOMC

Part 1

If the Donald wishes to clear the purportedly hallowed precincts of the Federal Reserve of mortgage fraudsters, the facts of the case tell us he has a much bigger challenge than issuing Fed governor Lisa Cook her walking papers via a White House press release. That’s because her sin of obtaining a 15-year mortgage on an Ann Arbor, Michigan residence at 2.5% on June 18, 2021 and a 30-year mortgage on an Atlanta condo at 3.25% on July 2, 2021, while claiming both as a “primary” residence, w...