10am Mass this morning in the beautiful church of St. Peter’s in Munich. I’m going to add a few comments in a thread here on the artistic aesthetic of elements of the traditional Latin Mass that are, as here, also continued in some ‘Novus Ordo’ or ‘New Mass’ (post Vatican II, which for the record, I fully accept and which is the Mass I most regularly attend).

Earlier this evening, I attended the Mass for the Feast of The Holy Souls, at The Brompton Oratory, London. The liturgical music was Fauré’s Requiem, with choir & orchestra. I wanted to share this to show how this music fits into its original full setting of a Latin Mass. This thread will be excerpts.
2. These excerpts are sequential as they are heard during the Mass.

Justice Baker mentions the very extensive powers of Ireland's new Electoral Commission not found in many other European countries. Mentions that it will have power to remove or demand correction of things it believes to be untrue. Says they will have to become philosophers of sorts. Much to the Justice's credit, she clearly states that this is going to be a hard task. I would respectfully suggest that it's probably an impossible one. International precedent from jurisdictions much better resourced than Ireland, do not give ground for optimism.

‘Lawfare’ (de facto weaponisation of legal tools to achieve strategic objectives) is something that gets mentioned in the context of CCP global tactics for extending their reach & undermining Western interests. I thought it might be helpful to give a more detailed overview of it One very effective weapon in Chinese multi-
jurisdiction lawfare is the filing of the same suit,
with multiple judges/courts at the same time to
seek an injunction. They then notify service to a
lawyer in their pay that ‘represents' the defendant but doesn't notify the defendant.

The degree to which the CCP’s agents are operating in Europe freely (even brazenly), unhindered, seemingly undetected and certainly unconcerned is something Europe as a whole (EU & non EU) need to sort out as a matter of serious urgency. The naïveté has to end. It is a very real and highly active national security threat across Europe, even greater and certainly a lot more strategic and vastly better resourced than then active threat from the Kremlin.

Interesting and unusual but mayhem at Zurich Airport, massive line for testing before departure , hugely understaffed (so they obviously didn’t anticipate this). Every type of self important person trying to cut lines. All very much un-Swiss. Lots of people won’t be flying. Now the airlines trying to get in on the act to bump people up the queue, ahead of people who have registered online and got here with enough time for a timely test etc. This is all going to get very unpleasant.

10 years in the slammer for this low life scum, I hope he serves every hour of it. He deserved to get more.
m.independent.ie/irish-news/gar… This is when the cretin, now convicted, got caught, brilliant work by all involved.
dailymail.co.uk/video/news/vid…

Below development is very positive. I'm going to make a further observation re financing in a thread here.
'The Biden administration plans to allow a sweeping Trump-era rule aimed at combating Chinese technology threats to take effect next month' wsj.com/articles/u-s-t… via @WSJ The next, urgent issue to be addressed is how the CCP/Huawei is leveraging Western financial institutions to further fund CCP/Huawei 5G networks. In short, the CCP's entities fund the high risk dollars & then back fill from Western institutions *after* Huawei is locked in.

Some of the early mobile spectrum licence terms are ending soon. The economies of multiple countries would be well served to make sure vested mobile carrier interests do not try to pull a multibillion smash and grab by having low cost licence renewals or zero competition for them This spectrum coming up to the end of its licence term needs to be reallocated on a transparent competitive basis. Same as what happens when a twenty year lease is up on a building etc.

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Something to say about Western businesses lobbying their own governments to go easy on the CCP because those businesses have or are seeking risk exposure in Communist China. The China opportunity isn’t something that every entrepreneur missed & that giant corporate boardrooms spotted because of their edgy ahead of the curve vision. No, the China opportunity is something we all saw. I decided very early it was not worth betting on, I’ll tell you why.

I’ve little doubt Irish State TV @rte thought about what was the most offensive thing they could do in a ‘comedy’ context to offend Christians & get a rise out of them. ‘Joke’ (really badly) about God being a rapist is what they came up with. Just stop paying the TV licence.

https://twitter.com/ArchbishopEamon/status/1345055042932510721

I’m not going to demand an RTE apology, even if they made one they wouldn’t be sorry. There is only one way for those of us that have had it with RTE to send a message, it’s not by email or a letter. The one effective thing we can do is not pay for RTE. Don’t pay the TV licence.

“...the rush to seal a deal with Beijing comes as no surprise. Just a week before news from the investment talks broke, her cabinet approved a draft law that—against the tide in Europe—could open the door for Huawei to play a role in Germany’s 5G network.” #5G

https://twitter.com/noahbarkin/status/1344554652344479749

The United States needs to step back & look very carefully at the position of Deutsche Telekom in American 5G. It’s on the cusp of becoming the largest carrier in the US. Deutsche Telekom is the parent co. of T-Mobile, & the strongest advocate for Huawei #5G in Germany & Europe.

1. I am very satisfied with the apology received from RTE before the High Court today, together with the substantial financial settlement reached. 2. It's regrettable that I had to initiate these defamation proceedings arising from RTE’s Prime Time broadcast on 27th Nov 08 in order to vindicate my reputation & had to prosecute the claim to this stage before reaching settlement.

Just watched a hilarious @CNN report claiming that the White House wants to "fast track a contract for Rivada without a competitive process" (a lie). and that it would be "the biggest hand off of economic power to a single entity in history"🤣. Who owns @CNN? That's right, AT&T. I was wondering when AT&T would roll out @CNN to spin their spin and it didn't take long. It's amazing. You hear the guy say "without a competitive process" with a straight face. I see that they were given this exact quote in writing:

With news today of Sweden’s ban on #Huawei #5G, we are updating the status map we’ve kept going for over two years.

Sweden goes full ban blue. For those that might be wondering why the UK is still shown as red, the ban is not yet in place in the UK as the telecom bill hasn’t yet been presented to parliament, needs to go through second reading, committee stage, 3rd reading, Lords, then to Royal Assent.

I've long warned that #Huawei #5G was the tip of the spear of the China's Communist Party's strategy to extend its global power & reach. Nice of their propaganda sheet to make it official:

https://twitter.com/declanganley/status/1264933244606300160

"Kicking out Huawei equipment from British networks will considerably increase the financial burdens for service providers, delay 5G rollout in the country, hurt relations with China, darken the UK's post-Brexit economic prospects, and erode confidence in...

Something that needs to be said regarding China and who got what wrong etc. What I’ll call ‘the Kissinger school’ on the PRC had a point, which was engagement would bring openness, a middle class would end the CPC tyranny etc. I can’t fault them for trying & it was worth a shot. I never subscribed to it because my experiences formed me to know that Communism in any form, is unredeemable badness. It elevates and rewards the worst traits in humanity. Genuinely good people do not make it up the ranks in remotely sufficient numbers, & that’s being generous.

1. A new development over the last 24 hours in Communist China.

Regarding shipments of PPE, they have now further restricted what gets to leave, ostensibly to prevent substandard PPE leaving. In recent days I’ve tweeted about how scarcity of freight space was being manipulated. 2. The new restrictions placed yesterday require special certification from the manufacturer, in short, new traceability rules. That link the products right to the machine & production line. Effectively this means only PPE manufactured in China can now be exported.

Just so everyone knows. You are going to see a cross section of European Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers thank Communist China for ‘helping’ (selling us stuff). Ireland’s Taoiseach has just issued such a statement. I don’t know at all if this was the case for the Taoiseach’s statement, but I do know that in at least some other cases they were a condition of being able to buy and airfreight PPE from Communist China.

Gritted teeth.

@thorstenbenner @maccadoo8 @smh The key part of the answer is, change the destructive way governments allocate radio spectrum, which is both the most costly & essential building block of any wireless network. When they’re getting that so wrong, it warps everything else. Do that & the game changes dramatically. @thorstenbenner @maccadoo8 @smh Assuming they stop the thing that’s done such immense damage to the West’s ability to lead/dominate in wireless networking & dump the one off spectrum auctions, they should also allow for merging of some existing carriers. There’s a lot of debt out there that needs cleaning up.

U.S. Attorney General Barr's comments are interesting. I'm going to do a thread on them here. First of all, and to be up front, I'm a fan of Barr, so wanted to be up front about that. On the need to ensure Nokia, Ericsson (& I'd add Samsung) have big viable markets, he's spot on.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1225733442136088580

However, one of the fastest ways to kill Nokia 7 Ericsson would be for any govt to ‘Nationalise’ them by taking controlling stakes. It'd end up further compounding the series of mistakes on the wireless industry that Western govts have made since the 3G licence auctions started.