reminder

https://twitter.com/Acion_Next/status/1744530719068877266

really grim stuff. Many Rabbis have tried to speak out and have been silenced

On the morning of October 7, 1571, the gallant Genoese Admiral Gianandrea Doria gazed upon the rising sun aboard his flagship, commanding 53 galleys in the torrid waters of Lepanto. He came from a family as noble as any. His ancestor, Simon Doria, was a crusader. A crusader who 400 years prior had lead men east to Acre in the battles against the moors, the same direction in the mediteranean that Gianandrea headed now. On the left horn of the formation, the Venetian Agostino Barbarigo with his fleet. Venice had always been Genoas historic rival, but now they were bound in brotherhood for a greater cause. And at the center, with sixty one galleys, the legendary Don Juan of Austria.

On October 7, 1571, at the entrance of the Gulf of Patras, the largest Western naval battle since the time of classical antiquity began. In but a few bloody hours, the fate of the world was decided, and legends were birthed from that corner of the sea. At dawn, the Catholic fleets looked up to find 270 Ottoman galleys, positioned on the water to form an enormous crescent moon. A symbol so ominous and poetic that a later chronicler would find to absurd to embellish. At the center of the lunar behemoth, the Turkish commander Ali Pasha stood atop his flagship galley, the Sultana. And upon its mast flew an opulent banner from Mecca, adorned in gilt embroidering, upon which a single word had been stitched 28,900 times. “Allah.”

On the other side of the abyss stood Ali’s equal, the gallant Don Juan of Austria, half brother of King Philip II, and bastard son of the former Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. Upon his illustrious breastplate, the insignia of the Golden Fleece, and around his neck, one of the holiest relics in Christendom. A shard of the Cross of Calvary, a splinter of Golgotha, personally given to him by Pope Pius V. And upon his flagship the Real, flew a banner of fine blue Damask, bearing the image of Christ crucified. On the orders of Pope Pius, the ships were stocked by friars from the three great mendicant orders. Jesuits aboard the Spanish ships, Dominican and Franciscans aboard the Genoese, Savoian, and Venetian ships, and Capuchins on the papal ships. That morning, mass was held on the galleys, and the final sermons before the battle testified to a single truth, “no heaven for cowards.” And from Don Juan’s flagship, the trumpets sounded and cried to heaven, as the crusaders erupted into a single acclamation, a united chorus proclaiming a single word, over, and over, “Vittoria!” “Vittoria!” “Vittoria!”

Why do I bring this up? Could you imagine if the Genoese Admiral Gianandrea Doria was given a glimpse into the future that day, after waging that great battle in defense of his home and his cousins homes, a glimpse of an account using his proud cities name, Genoa. and posting nothing but doom and gloom about how native europeans would have to leave their homeland due to a foreign invasion, when not a single battle has been fought?

Get fucked Radio Genoa, doomers are getting the rope Lepanto was a holy war, a spiritual flashpoint. What we have today is not. There has not been a single battle. No losses or victories. This is but a temporary abberattion, a fever dream, a policy failure. They can just as easily be sent back, without any bloodshed. They have no armies, no native european will be forced to emigrate. Nobody even needs to die. Framing it in these apocalyptic terms is retarded. France has just passed some of the most radical immigration laws in years.

The FDR memorial and burial site must be removed. Over a hundred thousand Japanese were unjustly imprisoned by FDR's horrendous executive order, leading to thousands of fatalities. Spain recently removed Francos remains from its public spot, and it is high time the United States did the same to this cruel and racist authoritarian. RT if you agree
#disinterFDR

If you want to make the best spaghetti aglio e olio of your life I will tell you what to do. Instead of making the sauce the traditional way, I recommend taking starting an hour and a half early and making a garlic confit with liberal use of the oil. I would throw in thyme and/or rosemary and also some pepper flakes. Then use that oil to make the sauce with the pasta water, and lightly chop some of the confit garlic into the pasta itself
the key to the sauce is you need the pasta water to be starchy, so try and use the smallest amount of water as you can when boiling it. When you throw the water into the oil you really need to stir the shit out of it and create enough motion so the sauce gets a nice emulsion

sooooo..... what happened to the mysterious stones found under Cleopatras Needle? Because I can find absolutely no reference to them on the internet outside of a handful of 19th century accounts

this is crazy. The Hezbollah guys are whiter then the IDF

https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1715023984276705320

there is definitely an internal war occurring in Mossad right now over wether its in israels best interest to portray themselves as white as possible or as brown as possible

It is extremely depressing to see how modern catholicism has become a debate club for schlubby neurotics to argue over dogmas they dont understand, or a lifestyle grift to dress up and play pretend like a theater kid who decided he was straight. Either that or its hollow appreciation of aesthetics or some kind of political ideology to larp with. Faith should not be a play thing. I dream of something more, a Catholic revival, a spiritual resurgence. A ball of light glowing from the catacombs of catholic history, power reverberating from 12th century mosaics, the living word made as fresh and natural as morning dew. I want a Catholic spirituality that shines in the very countenance of the men who live it. Not a RETVRN to an imagined past, or an Episcopalian NGO. I dream of something beautiful.
In the words of a young Ratzinger:
“The future of the Church can and will issue from those whose roots are deep and who live from the pure fullness of their faith. It will not issue from those who accommodate themselves merely to the passing moment or from those who merely criticize others and assume that they themselves are infallible measuring rods; nor will it issue from those who take the easier road, who sidestep the passion of faith, declaring false and obsolete, tyrannous and legalistic, all that makes demands upon men, that hurts them and compels them to sacrifice themselves. To put this more positively: The future of the Church, once again as always, will be reshaped by saints, by men, that is, whose minds probe deeper than the slogans of the day, who see more than others see, because their lives embrace a wider reality. Unselfishness, which makes men free, is attained only through the patience of small daily acts of self-denial. By this daily passion, which alone reveals to a man in how many ways he is enslaved by his own ego, by this daily passion and by it alone, a man’s eyes are slowly opened. He sees only to the extent that he has lived and suffered. If today we are scarcely able any longer to become aware of God, that is because we find it so easy to evade ourselves, to flee from the depths of our being by means of the narcotic of some pleasure or other. Thus our own interior depths remain closed to us. If it is true that a man can see only with his heart, then how blind we are!

“How does all this affect the problem we are examining? It means that the big talk of those who prophesy a Church without God and without faith is all empty chatter. We have no need of a Church that celebrates the cult of action in political prayers. It is utterly superfluous. Therefore, it will destroy itself. What will remain is the Church of Jesus Christ, the Church that believes in the God who has become man and promises us life beyond death. The kind of priest who is no more than a social worker can be replaced by the psychotherapist and other specialists; but the priest who is no specialist, who does not stand on the [sidelines], watching the game, giving official advice, but in the name of God places himself at the disposal of man, who is beside them in their sorrows, in their joys, in their hope and in their fear, such a priest will certainly be needed in the future.

“Let us go a step farther. From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge — a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit many of the edifices she built in prosperity. As the number of her adherents diminishes, so it will lose many of her social privileges. In contrast to an earlier age, it will be seen much more as a voluntary society, entered only by free decision. As a small society, it will make much bigger demands on the initiative of her individual members. Undoubtedly it will discover new forms of ministry and will ordain to the priesthood approved Christians who pursue some profession. In many smaller congregations or in self-contained social groups, pastoral care will normally be provided in this fashion. Along-side this, the full-time ministry of the priesthood will be indispensable as formerly. But in all of the changes at which one might guess, the Church will find her essence afresh and with full conviction in that which was always at her center: faith in the triune God, in Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man, in the presence of the Spirit until the end of the world. In faith and prayer she will again recognize the sacraments as the worship of God and not as a subject for liturgical scholarship.

“The Church will be a more spiritual Church, not presuming upon a political mandate, flirting as little with the Left as with the Right. It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallization and clarification will cost her much valuable energy. It will make her poor and cause her to become the Church of the meek. The process will be all the more arduous, for sectarian narrow-mindedness as well as pompous self-will will have to be shed. One may predict that all of this will take time. The process will be long and wearisome as was the road from the false progressivism on the eve of the French Revolution — when a bishop might be thought smart if he made fun of dogmas and even insinuated that the existence of God was by no means certain — to the renewal of the nineteenth century. But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualized and simplified Church. Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.

“And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end: not the Church of the political cult, which is dead already, but the Church of faith. It may well no longer be the dominant social power to the extent that she was until recently; but it will enjoy a fresh blossoming and be seen as man’s home, where he will find life and hope beyond death.

Something quite extraordinary has just occurred in the last couple of days which Rome is attempting to keep a tight lid on. A fire broke out in the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo.

The "Madonna and Child with St Anne" was painted by Caravaggio in the beginning of the 17th century. A scandalous, mysterious painting. A painting that has not received the attention it deserves from Art Historians. This is understandable, modern art historians tend to either be stupid and spiritually constipated people, or enigmatic geniuses, and the geniuses get ignored by academia. I am lucky to have made friends with some of these individuals who have reached out to me on twitter, so please understand I am not referring to you if you are reading this. I have spent untold hours looking at this painting. I will now share my thoughts. This will be fairly long thread
Caravaggio was a genius of symbolism, of secrets. So much so that more and more is discovered even in recent years. An example. A detail in Caravaggio's The Supper at Emmaus that was only recently discovered. A window into this troubled genius' subtle mind.
On the table is a fruit basket. It lacks any imperfections except for one, two threads out of place. Look closer. Does that symbol look familiar? If you are Christian then it certainly should. It’s an ichthys. Better known to people today as the Jesus fish, ubiquitous on car bumpers in the US south, it is one of the oldest of all Christian symbols. ἸΧΘΥΣ means fish, but it is also an acronym for Ἰησοῦς Χρῑστός Θεοῦ Υἱός Σωτήρ, Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior. The fish theme had other obvious connections to the gospels. Christs disciples were fishermen, and he promised to make them ‘fishers of men.’ Also, Christs miracle of multiplying the loaves of bread and fish.

it always amazes me how little the actual white American knows about the world at large. "It is not good to live in a gated community, we should let them poor in, they wont just start killing people with knives." That is in fact, how the third world functions. We would have the strictest immigration laws on earth if western leaders were forced to spend some time in Kenya during an election cycle, or a month in a favela in Brazil. Some of you people do not have a clue what is out there.

https://twitter.com/IRLILaw/status/1620493670977011715

Some of these women in the US need to look up the femicide rates in countries south of the border, or how in Mexico a woman risks sexual assault if she is stupid enough to take public transportation, how even the police are not to be trusted in terms of rape. There is not some property inherent to the soil that causes them to do this FYI it is the people. And when we allow the poorest of the global south (the people doing this) unlimited access, we are importing the problem here

Spain. It literally says Spain. That is literally Spanish consumerism I am becoming convinced that the only reason half of you are Catholic is it provides an outlet for your hatred of the anglo and so you can pretend as if you are actually a 16th century spanish aristocrat and not from Sinaloa

Around a year ago in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Rome a kid in his late teens was coming home from the bars when 2 African migrants jumped him. They brought him by force to an atm to withdraw cash. when he couldn't, they beat and sodomized him.

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1702402322758836683

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.

What makes this so interesting is that the region he is referring to is Extremadura region of Spain. Time for an almost unbelievable chapter in history, involving miraculous statues and apparitions. 🧵

https://twitter.com/0xAlaric/status/1702064055895179726

In the Extremadura region of Spain, there is a shrine to a Black Madonna. A statue supposedly carved by Saint Luke the Evangelist, already famous in the 4th century, that was allegedly sent by Pope Gregory the Great to the bishop of Seville in the late 6th century. (this takes even larger significance due to the fact that it was Pope Gregory who launched the mission that would convert the Anglo Saxons to Christianity). In 711 when the Umayyad invaders marched north through Iberia, the statue of the Virgin was taken by priests and buried in a strongbox in a cave near the northern mountains, to keep it from being defiled by the invading forces. The existence of the statue would be lost for hundreds of years.

The entire RICO case against Donald Trump in Georgia can be summed up in two words. Ethnic Resentment. The media has made this extraordinarily clear. Everything from Joy Reid getting her rocks off explaining how it was pay back for the Central Park 5, to almost every journo covering it insisting it is somehow about race. At least they are being honest and not even pretending it is about voter fraud. But lets take a deeper look at things, just how bad it is.


Let us first emphasize that the individuals prosecuting Trump from this county in Georgia are almost entirely black. It would be the equivalent of one of the whitest counties in the US prosecuting the most popular black candidate in the US. First the DAs office

Just got chills. How have I never heard this. Apparently, researchers found pottery at the site of what they think may possibly be sodom and Gomorrah with a glazed side that had trinitite developed on it. Insane. He discusses it at 56 minute on the video im going to link. Going to need more research on this. Listen to entire part on S and G

The other day the ADL made a statement saying “Christ is Lord” is antisemitic. These people are training our FBI agents. Is it any wonder that it comes out that the FBI was trying to label conservative Catholics are possible terrorists? Do you want to be labeled a terrorist for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

North Africa does not get enough credit for producing some of the most interesting music of the last 40 years. A tragedy that francophones now only associate north african musicians with the lowest dredges of French Rap Rachid taha had a voice like no other. There was something primal and guttural to be found in his unique sound.

I try explaining to European friends that the average diasporoid stalking the streets of their city is basically a different species to the majority of individuals in their home country. I remember an italian friend of mine going on vacation to Morocco with low expectations and… https://t.co/ksJMCESR5utwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

https://twitter.com/AvdullahYousef/status/1675131499534753793

It would be like if all the lowest of Chicagoans decided to move to Paris and chimp out every day and night and then the French would think "man what the fuck is wrong with Americans, why do they hate us?" No man you just decided to give to shelter and permanent handouts to the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

"Am I Catholic? Personally, I would say I am more Catholic then the Pope. They have got a beautiful building over there, beautiful, St Peters they call it. Sad to see whats happened. They used to have the best border security, the best. St Pius V, now he knew border security! Of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… "They call me racist over there, cant believe that nonsense. They are the ones trying to get rid of the latino mass. I love latinos folks, the ones that come here legally that is."

Very interesting. A lot of revealing stuff to be found in her thread. Lets take a look.

https://twitter.com/emzanotti/status/1668063459164995584

First of all, strange impression that "800 years ago people never traveled to or lived to see these cathedrals." Pilgrimages were encouraged in the middle ages, and a trip to a large city was not some extraordinarily rare outing. Moreover, go into any small medieval town in Italy… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

It is time to introduce you to one of the strangest individuals on earth. The pianist Kento Masuda. Something sinister is occurring here. And none of it makes sense. 🧵 Masuda appears to be one of the most celebrated pianists alive today by elite organizations and aristocratic societies. And yet, for all his accolades he is not very well known in the public sphere. From a preliminary examination of the guy and his work, it is obvious that he is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…