In Very Plain and Simple Words

By Anna Von Reitz

I am on the receiving end of a lot of lies and gossip right now, so you can bet that our team is over target. The gist of this gossip is that I am encouraging people to do things they don’t understand and that I am some dark, sinister character misleading the innocent. 

Let’s get this straight— I am a great-grandmother from Big Lake, Alaska. I was born and raised in Wisconsin where my family has lived since the 1850’s.  I have been a Lutheran all my life and I have no reason in this world to mislead anyone about anything. 

My research and the research of many, many other Americans leads without exception to the following conclusions: 

1. Your identity as an American has been stolen.

2. You have been deliberately misidentified as a United States Citizen (first) also known as a [British]Territorial United States Citizen, as if you were in the U.S. Military or a military dependent or someone who was born in the “Territories or Possessions” —like Guam or Puerto Rico. 

3. Next, you were further misidentified as a Dual Citizen — and saddled with Municipal United States citizenship, too, as if you were a Federal Civil Service Employees or Dependent, too.

4. All this, when you are actually —in all likelihood— not in the military, not a Federal Civil Service member— not a Federal “citizen” or Federal dependent of any kind at all. 

5. So why are you being misidentified as either kind of Federal worker?  Or as someone born in the offshore islands called the “Insular States”?

That requires more disconcerting information. 

6.  It turns out that what we mistakenly call The American Civil War was not a war.  It was a mercenary conflict like Vietnam and it was not fought by our States. 

7. The men who mustered out to fight in the Civil War went as agents of business organizations called States of States, like The State of New York.

8. These organizations, both North and South, were all originally members of the Confederation formed under The Articles of Confederation adopted March 1, 1781.

9. Each State of our original Federation of States doing business as The United States of America created a State of State as a business instrumentality and these States of States then formed their own Confederation doing business as the States of America.

10. I repeat— The Federation = States = The United States of America.

11. The Confederation = States of States = States of America. 

12. At the end of the Civil War, the States were still clicking along, but the Northern States of State were bankrupt and Southern States of States were destroyed. 

13. This vital part of our Government structure disappeared “pending Reconstruction”.

14.  The job of reconstructing the Confederation has never been finished. 

15. And this, strangely enough, is how and why your identity as an American has been stolen and the guarantees owed to you under the Federal Constitution have been evaded. 

16. We have been left in the dark about the situation and unable to correct it.

17. Why? 

That requires still more unsettling information. 

18. At the end of the Civil War there was no official peace treaty, only a cessation of hostilities and surrender of Lee’s Army. 

19. President Johnson declared “Peace” three times in Public, but the Grand Army of the Republic continued to be in control and to occupy the whole country. 

20. We have been under occupation ever since and our whole country has been declared a battlefield. This is internationally recognized worldwide— except in America.

21. The other countries have been told that our government is “in abeyance”— which we have not been told, and which is only partially true. 

22. The States and their Federation remain and we remain— and we have the duty and ability to reconstruct the rest, once we wake up and do it.  

So how does this all tie together with the identity theft? 

23.  The British Territorial United States Government runs the United States Military. 

24. The U.S. Military came in and set up “temporary” Territorial States of States to replace the original American States of States pending the Reconstruction. 

25. These Territorial States of States took over the business functions and providing the services that were supposed to be provided by American States of States. 

26. Most people were clueless about this change.  Prior to the war there was an entity called “The State of New York” and afterward there was “the” State of New York. 

27. By this simple substitution and semantic deceit, our own military under the influence of the British Monarch usurped against our civilian government “of, for, and by” the people of this country. 

28. The motive for this is simple— profit and control. 

29. They began a process of registering American babies as U.S. Citizens and claiming (falsely) that these babies were of unknown origin abandoned on the “battlefield” and surrendered as wards of their Territorial States of States.

30. They formed trusts in the names of all these children and placed liens on their trust assets—the children and the land and their labor and everything these American children would naturally inherit. 

31.  All this was done to fund the military via a system of “hypothecation” of debt.

32. Eventually, the military colluded in 1937, via a secret “Declaration of Interdependence of the Governments in The United States”, to share power with the Municipal Government. 

33. From then on, BOTH the Territorial (Military) Government which is partially under the control of the British Government, and the Municipal United States Government which is under the control of the Roman Curia, have been colluding to profit themselves at the expense of American babies. 

Heinous, yes, and a capital war crime, too, under both The Hague and Geneva Conventions. 

34. Thankfully, many other governments in the world know more about our history than we do. 

And they have been holding the door open for us to wake up and restore our lawful government, reclaim our heritage—- and regain control of our own military and Federal Civil Service Employees who have not only been a problem for us, but for the rest of the world, too. 

35 . So—this is how the tail has been wagging the dog, this is how these huge debts have been piled up, this is how Americans have been misidentified “accidentally on purpose” as US citizens, this is how we have been defrauded, this is how our public servants have evaded the Constitutions, this is how we have been denied our Constitutional Guarantees, it is the key to all the corruption of our Federal Government and the key to the mistreatment that so many Americans have suffered. 

We have to declare and claim our proper political status, assemble our States, and finish the “Reconstruction” to solve this problem and restore our lawful government.

So now you know, and like me, you can’t “unknow”. 

This has all been documented and proven beyond reasonable doubt by numerous researchers, as well as vast amounts of supporting details have come to light in support of this brief report. 

Indeed, many elements of the abuses that have occurred here have a very long history on Earth and the attendant evils are part of  pre-Christian civilizations that depended on slavery as their source of wealth. 

Our identity has been stolen and our credit both as individuals and as a nation has been abused. 

We have been enslaved here in the Land of the Free by our own employees and International Trustees acting in Gross Breach of Trust. 

We’ve been kept dumbed down about our own history so that we could not take appropriate corrective action—- but that ignorance has come to an end. 

Now this is not Happy News and many people don’t like hearing it. I don’t blame them. But it is what it is and ranting at me for bringing it forward will not change it. Only facing up to the facts and taking action will fix this situation so I suggest that everyone hunker down and get on with the job that needs to be done. 

My next post will detail what we are doing in answer to this circumstance in similarly stripped down form.  

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How Insane is Insane?

By Anna Von Reitz

How Insane is Insane?

Similar to the assumption that many people have when presented with two bad choices, that is, that they must choose the Lesser Evil, instead of rejecting both bad choices with extreme prejudice -- there is a similar Logic Gap in which people struggle to define different degrees of insanity.

It really doesn't matter if we are dealing with Freddie Krueger or Jason Voorhees or Jack the Ripper. 

It's just a matter of taste between the rabid mentality of hate-filled Communists, contempt-filled Fascists, or cynical monsters who sell arms to both sides of every issue and profit themselves -- like Hillary Rodham Digby Churchill Clinton, the new Chancellor at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Perhaps we had better now check our own sanity, because a fair number of people in New York voted for this creature to act as their Senator, and still more Americans voted for her to be their President.

Why did the facts and associations never surface until now? 

Where was the American Press Corps?  Where was the CIA?  The DOJ?  The State Department?  DIA?  Homeland Security?  DHS?  FBI?  New York State Police?  NYCPD?  Heck, where was the Republican Party? Didn't anyone, ever, check this woman out? 

It appears that nobody was doing any kind of Due Diligence at all.  We had Hillary, code name "Mom" to the IRA,  brokering arms deals through the US State Department. 

Now, that's insane. 

That is completely crackers.

And the fact that she got away with it, even after Benghazi, is even worse, because it implies that not only is she certifiable, but so are all the rest of us. 

Some people here actually voted for her for President. 

Think about it.  What does this imply about our National Security?  The quality of our Intelligence Services?  And the nature of our Media Sources?

One is tempted to say ---  Fourth Estate, what?  And start a newspaper called "Banana Republic News" to replace the New York Times.

One is also tempted to ask ---what's she going to teach in Belfast? 

Racketeering?  Smuggling?  Electioneering? Arms Trading?  Embezzlement of Public Funds?  How to Hire a Hit Man?  Finding Your Perfect Mate?  Sidestepping Accountability 101?  Impersonating an American?  Advanced Shameless Guile? 

God help the people of England and Ireland, they are importing our criminals in a Weird Reprise of Project Paperclip, and entrusting them with educating a new generation.

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Think. See.

By Anna Von Reitz

By now, we've all heard the appalling and "official" evaluations coming out of China as confirmed by Western military and Special Ops programs. 

The Nipah Virus unleashed in China has laboratory mortality rate of 45-75%, but, for unknown reasons, is only killing about 15% of victims in real life. This is still an incredible number of lives lost, approximating the entire population of the United States being wiped out. 

Imagine everyone you know, together with their hopes and dreams, their skills, their love affairs, their quirks, their sense of humor, their pet peeves--- think of them all dying over the period of a few months.  Think of what it would be like in terms of disruption to families and work routines and even just dealing with all the dead, but still infected, bodies?   No way to even give them a decent traditional burial.

Yes, of course, China will be "devastated", and hardly anyone will be left untouched.  Their export markets will be interrupted and their factories shut down for months, at a minimum.  Their export facilities and packaging systems will have to be super-sanitized to insure that the deadly virus is not being exported along with widgets, and everyone concerned will have to be satisfied that its safe to trade with China again.  

But as bad as this is, it was meant to be far worse. The Perpetrators bragged that they foresaw a 45-75% mortality rate.  They meant to take out at least a billion people in China alone-- an act of genocide on an unprecedented scale.

Meanwhile, the vermin responsible will seek to benefit themselves by having the patent to the only two drugs known to kill the virus.

This is far from the first time that we have observed their use of the Hegelian Dialectic to benefit themselves --- create a problem, and then profit by providing the solution. 

It is not the first time we have seen this shocking, diabolical, mean-spirited, cynical, criminal process in action, but it should be the last time, if we have the sense of rabbits.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has the whole spectrum of the process sewn up --- the patent on the virus and the drugs to combat it.  We can safely assume that they are involved at the very root of this problem, and we have the means of stripping the patents from them.

There are many evil men who sit in our corporate board rooms and think that they are immune from the Public Law, safe and insulated from any retaliation, ever, at all. 

That's what they think.

So, think some more yourselves.

When was this unleashed?  A few days after Trump and China inked a new independent Trade Deal that didn't allow the rats to profit and manipulate things, and which didn't require the Chinese Government to kickback its exchange rate profits to the Rothschild Central Banks.

Trump and the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex had no reason to undermine this happy resolution to mutual problems.  China had even less reason to do anything to obstruct a full-steam ahead trade relationship with the United States of America. 

When the dust settles, you will see that the guilty parties are, once again, rogue elements in the CIA working with rogue elements in the British M16, funded by the Usual Suspects including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and all operating under the conveniently named, "Umbrella Corporation" ---- aka, the business arm of The Trust.

 And they do have reason to obstruct the new United States of America - China Trade Deal, because it undermines their hegemony and control of trade policies and currency markets. So they are taking their revenge and obstructing the Trade Deal at the same time they are promoting their business interests and venting their insane population control agenda. 

Now, look at the "Umbrella Corporation" logo.  It looks like you are looking down on the top of an open red and white alternating-sectioned umbrella, but what else does it look like?  The equal-armed Maltese Cross.  And the equal-armed Maltese Cross, also known as the "World Cross" is the emblem of what?  The reptilian Dragoons, the old military caste, the Aryans (Orions) that "from Heaven to Earth came".  It is not Christian. It far pre-dates Christianity.

And yes, it does represent what we call an "umbrella" corporation, a single corporation that controls many other corporations, also known as a Holding Company Corporation, too.  Over 700 of the world's largest corporations have all been linked together by a single interlocking trust directorate, all operating under the more-or-less concerted direction of the Roman Curia.

By evoking the concept of an umbrella they trick you into seeing their logo as the top of an umbrella, instead of shifting gears just a tiny bit, and seeing the logo for what it is--- an open representation of the Maltese Cross and the co-opting Death Cult pagan religion that has secretively sheltered in the Roman Catholic Church for centuries.

Take a good look and you will see the Maltese Cross, not the top of an umbrella.

My Proof in the Pudding Policy

By Anna Von Reitz

When you become a Seeker After Truth, whether it is the truth about your Great-Grandfather's romantic affairs, or the truth about land titles, or your government, or the nature of the Universe (which isn't a 'Uni" anything), you have to leave behind the familiar territory of your Public School Education and make up your mind to adopt your own standards and ways and means of discernment --- most objectively, because so much of what you have been taught is self-interested bunk promulgated by commercial corporations acting "as" your government.

Like you and everyone else engaged in this Get to the Bottom of It Endeavor, I had to decide early on what "proof" meant to me. So I decided that if something proves out in logic and fact, I will believe it and act upon it until a better explanation or systemic answer appears.

This is not unlike any scientific exploration -- we observe, we research, we theorize. Our theories are the best explanation that fits the facts we've established and just like scientific theories, they stand until disproven or replaced by a better or more detailed approximation of The Truth.

For example, nobody now living was actually present when Abraham Lincoln bankrupted the Northern Confederation of States and issued the first Executive Order as Commander-in-Chief. We can't know what was on his mind or within his grasp of intention going forward. We don't know what personal instructions he gave Ulysses S. Grant.

There are no first-hand Witnesses left.

So here we are, a century and a half later, armed with a lot of musty records and facts we've been able to directly discern or establish from the Public Records (always admitting that we may have missed something on the way) doing our best to reconstruct an accurate vision of the past leading directly to our present situation.

It remains Axiomatic that if you believe that you can't do something, you can't do it. Period. First of all, the question will never be put to the test, because you will already believe that action is futile. "I can't....." is the guarantee of the Status Quo or worse, so the First Hobble of progress and truth comes at the level of believing you can't do something.

The Second Hobble comes at the level of thinking that it isn't your job to do anything --- this also guarantees inaction and stagnation. "I leave that to the politicians." is the death-knell of self-government. Never forget that you ARE the government and there is nothing in American History suggesting that you are excused from duty or accountability simply because you handed someone a proxy to vote in a foreign corporation's shareholder election.

We recently released a One Pager chart of the actual American Government juxtaposed with the Federal "United States" Government.

The most important observations to be gleaned from the standpoint of urgent action items are: (1) we have to correct and declare our own political status as Americans, otherwise, we are presumed to be some species of Federal Employee or Federal Dependent--- and they have no right or ability to determine the course of our lives or our government for us; (2) we have to populate and assemble our sovereign State Assemblies and act as State Citizens (foregoing all other political attachments and allegiances) in order to

restore the American Government and the Federal Government to full function.

The Big Take Home is that our country has been functioning on two-cylinders and under undue foreign influence and usurpation for going on two centuries.

Startling as this may be, the facts are the facts and the missing pieces are the missing pieces.

Our State Courts and our State Assemblies have been sidelined and impaired and politicized, usurped upon by foreign "states of states" in the business of delivering governmental services, private corporate tribunals and "independent legislatures" that aren't subdivisions of any actual government.

The moment that a State, a County, or a Municipality incorporates, it ceases to be part of our actual government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It becomes part of a foreign government operated by persons, for persons.

This is clearly demonstrated by The Clearfield Doctrine, Federal Title 22, and even the IRS. You can go to the Vendor Offices of any State of State or County of __________ corporation and talk to their Contracting Officer, and ask politely for their EIN (Employer Identification Number) and a copy of their Tax Determination Letter from the IRS. The Tax Determination Letter will show that they are a non-profit organization, but not a subdivision of government.

We published the EINs for all the States in the Appendix of our book, "You Know Something is Wrong When....An American Affidavit of Probable Cause". You can request a copy of their Tax Determination Letter directly from the IRS, too, using a Form 4506-A.

What it comes down to is that we have a lot of Americans acting as employees of foreign "Federal" commercial corporations, subjecting us to the foreign in-house "laws" known as statutes, codes, and regulations of those foreign corporations, and misunderstanding both their role and ours.

What it also comes down to is that a vital part of our actual Government is "Missing in Action" and has been "missing" since the Civil War, still awaiting "Reconstruction".

This is our responsibility and nobody can do it for us.

If we want our country run right, we have to do it ourselves. And we have to delve deep into our actual history to know and to act in the right political capacity and to wield the power of our actual unincorporated American Government.

Finally, what it comes down to is that foreign business organizations are in control of what are meant to be American States of States. Foreign agencies and subcontractors have been hired by these usurping British and Papist organizations --- all serving to benefit these foreign governments at the expense of Americans and American resources.

We have every right and reason to take the necessary, lawful, and peaceful actions guaranteed to us by the original Constitutions of our States of the Union to settle these issues to our satisfaction without question or interference from anyone on Earth. So that is what we are doing.

The sovereign States have the absolute right to take a nap for 160 years, and they can wake up and haul rump just as well.

Go To:  www.theamericanstatesassembly.net

This past month we have been instrumental in identifying and catching international criminals, stopping the fires and floods in Australia, securing international banking reforms, mounting relief efforts for China, researching vital Public Records in other countries that shed light on our own history, nixed two self-interested attempts to overcome our national sovereignty, notified the President and Government of the Philippines of our paramount interest in American gold and other assets held in trust for the actual States and People of this country, exposed the "New Green Deal" as another Faustian Fraud Scheme, laid the foundations for a new mercantile banking system, pushed aside ignorant claims that James Clinton Belcher lacks "standing" to issue and hold the international business charters for both The United States and The United States of America by revealing his true name and lineage, rallied the remaining sane elements of the Ancient Ruling Houses to mount opposition to the Rats in Parliament and the EU, exposed the connection between US Radicals and the IRA, obtained the resignation of the IMF Director, requested the return of the FBI and Secret Service to active duty at the "US" Treasury Department to investigate and prosecute high-level money laundering, securities violations, and bank fraud against the American People and many, many others worldwide---- and finally, my favorite: at least three State Assemblies that I know of, served Notice on their respective State of State Congressional Delegations.

The American People are waking up and on a roll.

And it's not going to be business-as-usual in DC ever again.

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Death Cult

By Anna Von Reitz

If this is not already apparent, what we are dealing with and have been dealing with for the better part of modern history is a Death Cult, complete with cannibals, vampires, and necrophiliacs. 

The Nazi Swastika runs backward from the Sanskrit symbol for Life in the same way EVIL mirrors LIVE. 

And they try to excuse this as a necessary service to humanity, a culling of the herd.  According to people like Prince Philip, We should all go along with their agenda and their dark and petty ideas, and just stand around and let them kill more than half of the human race.  

I feel compelled to point this out because so many people continue to be confused about who these persons are and what they believe in.  They believe in death and elitism and blackmail and black magic and not much else. 

If they kill off their Priority Creditors, they think that relieves them of debt. They don’t know that blood creates debt and they are awash in it. 

Having failed to pull their planned genocide in America with their FEMA Camps, they simply decided to murder other Creditors instead— the Chinese. And they used the excuse that they were angry about Trump’s new trade deal, but they would have done it anyway.  Why? 

Because they believe in and create and revel in death, death, and more death for everyone and everything that isn’t part of their gang.  They think that once they have killed everyone else off and they have their “perfect” pure race, everything will be so peaceful and nice and homogeneous.  Everyone will look the same way, believe the same things, eat the same diet, live in the same color of skin and so on. 

They want to fight until there is nobody who is “different” left to fight. 

This nauseating tribalism has been the hallmark of their thinking for untold generations and still, there are people dumb and desperate enough to “belong” and to be “special” and “elite” that they always have new recruits to carry on. 

For those who have not heard the news, Hillary Clinton has accepted a position as Administrator of Queen’s University in Ireland, and is obviously not claiming to be a Territorial United States Citizen any longer, in an effort to avoid extradition. 

So there she will sit cutting deals and running guns for the IRA and teaching new generations of Saul Alinsky style radicals all sorts of perverted and diabolical thinking strategies designed to excuse gross criminality and avoid accountability for it all. 

When rats begin to bail, it’s a good sign that the cats have been let loose, and we may expect to see more high level fiends absenting their normal roles and hunting grounds, seeking new environs. No doubt this lead-the-stampede response from Hillary was echoed this week by the sudden departure of the IMF Director, too. 

The IMF has been “the” US Treasury since 1946.  There hasn’t been an American Treasury in this country since 1924.  Everything has been off-shored.  All the dirty work.  All the “mischief” as Justice Harlan put it during the Insular Tariff Cases, has occurred offshore and overseas, including the IMF Administration.  

So, now look around and see if you can spot any other Death Cult members skipping town? 

Keep your eyes on Slick Willy— will Hubby be joining her?  Jimmy Carter, moving to Spain to take the waters? Is Obummer going home to Kenya at last?  Stay tuned. The Exodus has just begun and it will be interesting to see all the places they scatter to, like so many weed seeds. 

Still, I can’t but feel sorry for Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, which has enough problems of its own without importing our runaway felons, too. 

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Breaking! Trump Calls For Investigation Of Coronavirus' Origin

https://banned.video/watch?id=5e3f36df89f7d5001e6306eb

China Confirms 15% Death Rate As Virus Explodes World Wide!

Updates on the spread of Coronavirus through China and Mike Pompeo makes public announcement that State Governors have been doing business with Communist China

https://banned.video/watch?id=5e405823bee9bd0016cf5ac1

Can anyone counter this with real evidence? 

What can we do to help ourselves survive this?

Septuagesima Sunday

Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's
The Church's Year

Why is this Sunday called "Septuagesima"?

Because in accordance with the words of the First Council of Orleans, some pious Christian congregations in the earliest ages of the Church, especially the clergy, began to fast seventy days before Easter, on this Sunday, which was therefore called Septuagesima" - the seventieth day. The same is the case with the Sundays following, which are called Sexagesima, Quinquagesima , Quadragesima, because some Christians commenced to fast sixty days, others fifty, others forty days before Easter, until finally, to make it properly uniform, Popes Gregory and Gelasius arranged that all Christians should fast forty days before Easter, commencing with Ash-Wednesday.

Why, from this day until Easter, does the Church omit in her service all joyful canticles, alleluia’s, and the Gloria in excelsis etc?

Gradually to prepare the minds of the faithful for the serious time of penance and sorrow; to remind the sinner of the grievousness of his errors, and to exhort him to penance. So the priest appears at the altar in violet, the color of penance, and the front of the altar is covered with a violet curtain. To arouse our sorrow for our sins, and show the need of repentance, the Church in the name of all mankind at the Introit cries with David: The groans of death surrounded me, the sorrows of hell encompassed me: and in my affliction I called upon the Lord, and he heard my voice from his holy temple. (Ps. XVII, 5-7.) I will love thee, O Lord, my strength; the Lord is my firmament, and my refuge, and my deliverer. (Fs. XVII. 2-3.) Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.           

COLLECT O Lord, we beseech Thee graciously hear the prayers of Thy people; that we who are justly afflicted for our sins may, for the glory of Thy name, mercifully be delivered. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end, Amen.

EPISTLE (I. Cor. IX. 24-27., to X. 1-5.) Brethren, know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that you may obtain. And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible one. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty; I so fight, not as one beating the air; but I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection; lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea: and all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ); but with the most of them God was not well pleased.

EXPLANATION Having exhorted us to penance in the Introit of the Mass, the Church desires to indicate to us, by reading this epistle, the effort we should make to reach the kingdom of heaven by the narrow path (Matt. VII. 13.) of penance and mortification. This St. Paul illustrates by three different examples. By the example of those who in a race run to one point, or in a prize-fight practice and prepare themselves for the victor's reward by the strongest exercise, and by the strictest abstinence from everything that might weaken the physical powers. If to win a laurel-crown that passes away, these will subject themselves to the severest trials and deprivations, how much more should we, for the sake of the heavenly crown of eternal happiness, abstain from those improper desires, by which the soul is weakened, and practice those holy virtues, such as prayer, love of God and our neighbor, patience, to which the crown is promised! Next, by his own example, bringing himself before them as one running a race, and fighting for an eternal crown, but not as one running blindly not knowing whither, or fighting as one who strikes not his antagonist, but the air; on the contrary, with his eyes firmly fixed on the eternal crown, certain to be his who lives by the precepts of the gospel, who chastises his spirit and his body as a valiant champion, with a strong hand, that is, by severest mortification, by fasting and prayer. If St. Paul, notwithstanding the extraordinary graces which he received, thought it necessary to chastise his body that he might not be cast away, how does the sinner expect to be saved, living an effeminate and luxurious life without penance and mortification? St. Paul's third example is that of the Jews who all perished on their journey to the Promised Land, even though God had granted them so many graces; He shielded them from their enemies by a cloud which served as a light to them at night, and a cooling shade by day; He divided the waters of the sea, thus preparing for them a dry passage; He caused manna to fall from heaven to be their food, and water to gush from the rock for their drink. These temporal benefits which God bestowed upon the Jews in the wilderness had a spiritual meaning; the cloud and the sea was a figure of baptism which enlightens the soul, tames the concupiscence of the flesh, and purifies from sin; the manna was a type of the most holy Sacrament of the Altar, the soul's true bread from heaven; the water from the rock, the blood flowing from Christ's wound in the side; and yet with all these temporal benefits which God bestowed upon them, and with all the spiritual graces they were to receive by faith from the coming Redeemer, of the six hundred thousand men who left Egypt only two, Joshua and Caleb, entered the Promised Land. Why? Because they were fickle, murmured so, often against God, and desired the pleasures of the flesh. How much, then, have we need to fear lest we be excluded from the true, happy land, Heaven, if we do not continuously struggle for it, by penance and mortification!

ASPIRATION Assist me, O Jesus, with Thy grace that, following St. Paul's example, I may be anxious, by the constant pious practice of virtue and prayer, to arrive at perfection and to enter heaven.

G0SPEL (Matt. XX. 1-6.) At that time, Jesus spoke to his disciples this parable: The kingdom of heaven is like to a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. And having agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour, he saw others Standing in the market place idle, and he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just. And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner. But about the eleventh hour, he went out, and found others standing; and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard. And when evening was come, the Lord of the vineyard saith to his steward: Call the laborers, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first. When therefore they were come that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny, But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more; and they also received every man a penny. And receiving it, they murmured against the master of the house, saying: These last have worked but one hour, and thou hart made them equal to us that have borne the burden of the day and the heats. But he answering said to one of them: Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst thou not agree with me for a penny? Take what is thine, and go thy way; I will also give to this last even as to thee. Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good? So shall the last be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.

In this parable, what is to be understood by the householder, the vineyard, laborers, and the penny?

The householder represents God, who in different ages of the world, in the days of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and finally, in the days of Christ and the apostles, has sought to call men as workmen into His vineyard, the true Church, that they might labor there industriously, and receive the penny of eternal glory.

How and when does God call people?

By inward inspiration, by preachers, confessors, spiritual books, and conversations, etc., in flourishing youth and in advanced age, which periods of life may be understood by the different hours of the day.

What is meant by working in the vineyard?

It means laboring, fighting, suffering for God and His honor, for our own and the salvation of others. As in a vineyard we spade, dig, root out weeds, cut off all that is useless and noxious, manure, plant, and bind up, so in the spiritual vineyard of our soul we must, by frequent meditation on death and hell, by examination of conscience dig up the evil inclinations by their roots, and by true repentance eradicate the weeds of vice, and by mortification, especially by prayer and fasting cut away concupiscence; by the recollection of our sins we must humble ourselves, and amend our life; in place of the bad habits we must plant the opposite virtues and bind our unsteady will to the trellis of the fear of God and of His judgment, that we may continue firm.

How is a vice or bad habit to be rooted up?

A great hatred of sin must be aroused; a fervent desire of destroying sin must be produced in our hearts; the grace of God must be implored without which nothing can be accomplished. It is useful also to read some spiritual book which speaks against the vice. The Sacraments of Penance and of holy Communion should often be received, and some saint who in life had committed the same sin, and afterwards by the grace of God conquered it, should be honored, as Mary Magdalen and St. Augustine who each had the habit of impurity, but with the help of God resisted and destroyed it in themselves; there should be fasting, alms-deeds, or other good works, performed for the same object, and it is of great importance, even necessary, that the conscience should be carefully examined in this regard.

Who are standing idle in the market place?

In the market-place, that is the world, they are standing idle who, however much business they attend to, do not work for God and for their own salvation; for the only necessary employment is the service of God and the working out of our salvation. There are three ways of being idle: doing nothing whatever; doing evil; doing other things than the duties of our position in life and its office require, or if this work is done without a good intention, or not from the love of God. This threefold idleness deprives us of our salvation, as the servant loses his wages if he works not at all, or not according to the will of his master. We are all servants of God, and none of us can say with the laborers in the Vineyard that no man has employed us; for God, when He created us, hired us at great wages, and we must serve Him always as He cares for us at all times; and if, in the gospel, the householder reproaches the workmen, whom no man had hired, for their idleness, what will God one day say to those Christians whom He has placed to work in His Vineyard, the Church, if they have remained idle?

Why do the last comers receive as much as those who worked all day ?

Because God rewards not the time or length of the work, but the industry and diligence with which it has been performed. It may indeed happen, that many a one who has served God but for a short time, excels in merits another who has lived long but has not labored as diligently. (Wisd. IV. 8-13.)

What is signified by the murmers of the first workmen when the wages were paid?

As the Jews were the first who were called by God, Christ intended to show that the Gentiles, who were called last, should one day receive the heavenly reward, and that the Jews have no reason to murmur because God acted not unjustly in fulfilling His promises "to them, and at the same time calling others to the eternal reward. In heaven envy, malevolence and murmuring will find no place. On the contrary, the saints who have long served God wonder at His goodness in converting sinners and those who have served Him but a short time, for these also there will be the same penny, that is, the vision, the enjoyment, and possession of God and His kingdom. Only in the heavenly glory there will be a difference because the divine lips have assured us that each one shall be rewarded according to his works. The murmurs of the workmen and the answer of the householder serve to teach us, that we should not murmur against the merciful proceedings of God towards our neighbor, nor envy him; for envy and jealousy are abominable, devilish vices, hated by God. By the envy of the, devil, death came into the world. (Wisd. II. 24.) The envious therefore, imitate Lucifer, but they hurt only themselves, because they are consumed by their envy. "Envy," says St. Basil "is an institution of the serpent, an invention of the devils, an obstacle to piety, a road to hell, the depriver of the heavenly kingdom.”

What is meant by: The first. shall be last, and the last shall be first?

This again is properly to be understood of the Jews; for they were the first called, but will be the last in order, as in time, because they responded not to Christ's invitation, received not His doctrine, and will enter the Church only at the end of the world; while, on the contrary, the Gentiles who where not called until after the Jews, will be the first in number as in merit, because the greater part responded and are still responding to the call. Christ, indeed, called all the Jews, but few of them answered, therefore few were chosen. Would that this might not. also come true with regard to Christians whom God has also called, and whom He wishes to save. (I. Tim. II. 4.) Alas! very few live in accordance with their vocation of working in the vineyard of the Lord, and, consequently, do not receive the penny of eternal bliss.

PRAYER O most benign God, who, out of pure grace, without any merit of ours, hast called us, Thy unworthy servants, to the true faith, into the vineyard of the holy Catholic Church, and dost require us to work in it for the sanctification of our souls, grant, we beseech Thee, that we may never be idle but be found always faithful workmen, and that that which in past years we have failed to do, we may make up for in future by greater zeal and persevering industry, and, the work being done, may receive the promised reward in heaven, through Jesus Christ, Thy Son our, Lord. Amen.

An End to Paul Ehrlich -- The Battle of Memes

By Anna Von Reitz

What is a meme?  It is a popular idea or belief expressed as a phrase or very simple idea, passed around from hand to hand and mouth to mouth like the Common Cold.

Some advertising slogans become memes, like the immortal "Where's the beef?" ad the escaped the realm of fast food burger joint competitions and made the Big Leagues in national politics.  

More commonly, memes take on the form of popular Old Wives' Tales, Urban Myths, and Superstitions --- some of which can be, and are, used for political and propaganda purposes.  

   

Who is Paul Ehrlich?  Answer: a Stanford University Professor with bad math skills. 

What is Paul Ehrlich famous for?  Writing a book called, "The Population Bomb" back in the late 1960's, in which he used flawed mathematical models to prove -- ahem! --- that we were headed for an inescapable planetary crisis due to overpopulation of the planet, and predicting that if we didn't reduce ourselves to voluntary celibacy, hair shirts, and eating wheat grass and dirt, all would be lost by the 1980's.  

Let me check my watch.... 2020....still here.  

Nonetheless, these pernicious ideas and false claims remain and have not only attained the status of an Urban Myth, but have offered the planetary elites a ploy that they wish to parley into a brand new and ever-more oppressive regulatory and taxation system: The New Green Deal, complete with "Carbon Taxes", and presumably a little Personal Smart Meter designed to tax you for every breath you take and every fart you dare pass.   

So whether you are simply math-challenged and unobservant, or whether you are nasty and cynical and looking for a new scam to milk, the overpopulation hysteria continues long after it should have been pronounced dead and buried, together with collateral theories of the same ilk that continue to cause problems.  

This recent round of "semi-plausible scientific bunk" all began with Paul Ehrlich and his thoroughly discredited "population bomb" hysteria back in the 1970's.  

This parallels another thoroughly discredited theory --- I speak of the now (suddenly) "accepted" Green House Gas Theory, which appeared on the scene 196 years ago, was discredited even back then as nonsense flying in the face of The Second Law of Thermodynamics--- and should have remained in the scrap heap of scientific speculations that didn't pan out ---- EXCEPT that certain parties revived it for political, not scientific, reasons. 

I speak here of the Democratic Party, which made funding of "scientific" research subject to political pandering and objectives, and made University budgets the playground of "allied interests" ---- defense contractors, Big Pharma, the AMA, and so on.  

Does everyone reading this realize that carbon dioxide makes up exactly 1/300th of one percent of the atmosphere?  

Can you repeat that fact after me, ad nauseum, so that even a pre-schooler can recite the Opposing Meme ---? 

Carbon dioxide accounts for 1/300th of one percent of the atmosphere.  

It can't possibly cause "global warming" and human-caused increases in the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide can't do anything, either.  

So all this hysteria and all these proposed "carbon taxes" are just more Shinola that is being manipulated by certain elitists who are hoping to set up yet another long run for themselves as Masters of the Masses and Lords of the Manor, and all based on "popular" Bunk. 

Population bomb  -- bunk.  

Greenhouse Gas Theory --- bunk since 1824, no less. 

Carbon Taxes -- grossly self-interested bunk. 

Fact: Enzymes and poisons are the only things that are effective Change Agents at concentrations of one three-hundredth of one percent per volume of anything.  

So unless carbon dioxide is an enzyme...... 

Which brings me to my final point.  Poisonous ideas and beliefs often cause more damage and misery far in excess of anything actual and factual in this world.   

Fear, prejudice, falsehoods, greed, self-interest, and outright lies "pre-cause" the damage that is played out in real time, and false beliefs lead to wrong actions nearly a hundred percent of the time. 

Faced with the enormity of the biologic and environmental catastrophe that the Vatican's policy of supporting Chemtrail spraying programs has wrought in California, Alaska, and Australia, stumbling Apologists have told me, "We had no idea!  We were told by reputable scientists....." 

"Reputable scientists" who were working for manufacturing industries anxious to get rid of their wastes at a premium price, "reputable scientists" who were covertly working for violent political factions, "reputable scientists" who were threatened with loss of tenure or funding, or sopped with promises of same.  

The days when we could regard science as a Second Religion and scientists as trustworthy priests, are long since gone.  The Democratic Party and the Military-Industrial Complex have done their work of corruption both inside and outside the realm of the Vatican Expense Accounts.  

It's high time we all woke up and elbowed our less educated neighbors in the ribs and clued them in --- hey, this is just a con job.  

This overpopulation hysteria and human-caused climate change bunk isn't true.

It's being used as an excuse to tax you for the "crime" of being alive and making a living.  It's another form of "income tax" designed to tax your life, your time on earth, and your labor.  Carbon taxes are just another bid to enslave you and an excuse to rule the world, being offered by the same old charlatans who are responsible for the present Mess.  

Period. 

It's time to shove it all back down the throats of the Democratic Party Hacks, the Archbishops and Cardinals, the Committee of Rome, Michael Bloomberg, the Bilderbergers, the Council on Foreign Relations, various ill-informed Scandinavian teenagers, the United Nations, Paul Ehrlich, Prince Philip, the Holy See, the Federal Reserve Bank Board of Governors, and all the Closet Nazis worldwide. 

I want to see them weeping green goo and staring at each other in horror and saying things like, "My Lucifer, I don't believe it.... the horses are talking and the sheep are waking up! Demons preserve us!"   I want to notice their conspicuous absence from public forums and podiums and news cycles.  I want them caught-out, shamed, recognized as the self-interested liars that they are.  I want to see them all scattering like cockroaches before a very bright light ---- and off the academic gravy train, too.   

Can you picture all the thick-carpet people in the world wide-eyed, deflated, and in a huff?  All the outrageous lies that have driven the Mainstream Media for years now, nailed to the barn door with only six words?  

You, too, can do your part in the Battle of Memes. Spread the actual scientific truth and let it fly and land upon darkened, fearful minds, like so many embers and sparks of an engrossing fire: 

"One three-hundredth of one percent."

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