The Political Philosophy of Jacques Maritain

No other modern day Christian philosopher is more traditional and consistent with time-honored values than Jacques Maritain.  The embodiment of the philosophical convention of Thomas Aquinas, this twentieth century Catholic revitalizes the intellectual foundations upon which all Western Civilization is based and fosters as a culture. His relevancy has grown with every passing year.  The absurdity in the political insanity of our age is a direct result of an abandonment in the primacy of the meaning in life.  The diktat that stems from the secular society is meant to eradicate Christianity from public existence. 

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Greed is Good, but Derivatives are Better

The mysteries of complexity for exotic financial instruments disguise the pure simplicity of their shared origin; namely, gambling games where the house always wins. Who exactly is the casino host? Is it the exchange, the brokerage firm or the government regulators? What about the credit rating agencies, the insurance bookie companies like AIG or the too big to fail banksters? Surely, the Federal Reserve, foreign central banks or the infamous Bank of International Settlements, must be the bottom line keeper of the cage.  

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NOVO ORDO SECLORUM - NeoCon Hell on Earth

The 20th Century was the most destructive era in history. Deaths from all the wars and the genocides estimated at 160 million may seem small if the planet descends into the approaching holocaust. Globalization is the catchword of the ruling class. Sovereign nations are obsolete to the corporatists. Militarization for suppressing conflicts is the mission, since warfare among nations are passé. The old alliances based upon ethnic composition or ideology has vanished. Only dissenters against the New World Order pose a threat to the Novo Ordo Seclorum. 

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Nelson Mandela the Myth and the Reality

Seldom does a cultural test so clearly delineate the rational from the imbeciles. The interminable eulogizing of Nelson Mandel is an unambiguous sign of the lack in historic perspective and understanding that passes for public consensus. The mass media would have you believe that Mandela is a hero, when the evidence and particulars tell a very different story. Let no fact get in the way of making a New World Order icon. Simply put, the elites created Communism as a step towards imposing a universal authoritarian dictatorship.

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Paris is Burning

In the 1966 movie, Is Paris Burning, the villains are Nazi's.  The French resistance at the end of the German occupation of Paris, are the brave opposition.  And the General von Choltitz is the moral exception, acting as a hero by defying Hitler's order to destroy the "City of Light".  Contrast this with the 1990 flick, Paris is Burning, which portrays the existence of the horror that is endemic in the gay lifestyle, which finds no redeeming characters.  "Men who want to be women explain how they've been injured by intolerance, many having been cut off from their families after enduring an unhappy childhood", has little to do with epic historic struggles.

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Ron Paul vs. the Federal Reserve

The Patriot-Liberty movement has railed against the Federal Reserve for decades. Inexorably attached to the abolishment of the private banking monopoly, the entire political career of Ron Paul is an inspiration for any citizen who values liberty and defends the U.S. Constitution. The Federal Reserve is the Enemy of America. The central cause for the financial collapse of the country rests upon the fractional reserve debt created money racket, which relegates the taxpayer to chattel slave status. You know this is true, and the politicians fear that at some breaking point you will rise up and force a return to honest money.

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The Nasty Little Secret of Immigration

The migration crisis is ground zero for the real war from foreigners. Successive administrations have surrendered the borders to the madness of internal toxic turmoil. The notion of congenial assimilation, denies the reality of incompatible fusion. The taboo culture abhors honesty. Polite political society won’t tolerate telling the truth. The only speech  allowed must parrot the indivisibility of amalgamation. This flood of unwelcome immigrates is not fabricating tempered steel. What is being forged is pig iron. That smelting process produces a pool of brittle fractures. What remains is fast becoming a compost pile of rubbish.

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Excess

The most notable consensus that has emerged from the aftermath of the war on terror, is the willingness to throw money at a problem that has never been defined with precision. This attitude may not be shared with all the public, but the professional class of politicians and bureaucrats are walking in lock step to the beat of the same drummer.

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Atheism to Secular Humanism and Objectivism

At first thought, the different philosophical positions of Emma Goldman and Ayn Rand seem to be well defined. Notwithstanding, the contrast between a propensity towards anarchism with an advocacy for laissez-faire capitalism, both Russian born "Khazar Jewish" theorists and activists shared a rejection of a theist metaphysics. When Emma Goldman states: (speaking from a Detroit pulpit in 1898, quoted from Annie Laurie Gaylor, Women Without Superstition, p. 382), "I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made", her mindset distinctly sets her apart from the main body of Western Civilization thought.

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Is the Economy Viable?

In this global mess known as the interdependent world economy, one thing is certain – fantasy trumps substance.  How else to explain what goes on daily in the financial markets, in the corporate board rooms or on the streets where you live.  Prosperity is an illusion.  Wealth is not the same as an efficient model of affluence creation.  Practical economic commerce by definition requires sensible business transactions, meaningful production endeavors and consistent stability in financial marketplace exchanges.  There is never a guarantee of success or profit.  Notwithstanding, to establish an engine of economic generation, the core principles of trade must be employed.  Savvy observers of the marketplace recognize that the fundamentals of business are virtually absent in the transactions that pass for international trade.  Even worse, domestic commercial activity suffers from an occupational hazard that pays no compensation.  That peril is the lack of viability.

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Davos Elites Enjoys the Global Depression

When Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum started the yearly pilgrimage to the inner sanctums of the Swiss Gnomes, he could hardly conceive that the ritual would turn into a celebrity bash of the super rich. The Davos venue is appropriate. Only rarified air is suitable for the global Mattoids. Billed as an assembly of business moguls, it really is more of an audition of well-heeled speculators vying for inclusion into the real power elites who make or break governments, economies and political destinies.

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What It Means To Be A Reactionary

The popular depiction for the word Reactionary gives the definition - an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism.  A more in-depth amplification is once again found in Wikipedia.  “Reactionary (or reactionist) is a political epithet typically applied to extreme ideological conservatism, especially that which wishes to return to a real or imagined old order of things, and which is willing to use coercive means to do so. The term is primarily used as a term of opprobrium (groups rarely identify themselves as reactionary), meant to assert the idea that the opposition is based in merely reflexive politics rather than responsive and informed views. More specifically, the term "reactionary" is frequently used to refer to those who want to reverse (or prevent) some form of claimed "progressive" change. (An equivalent term would be "regressivism." The term reaction is sometimes used as a general term for the program or philosophy of designated reactionaries.)

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