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[Silence @sil3ntium_33]

Miserere mei, Deus,
secundum magnam misericordiam tuam;
et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum,
dele iniquitatem meam.

Have mercy upon me, O God,
after thy great goodness;
according to the multitude of thy mercies,
do away mine offences.

https://t.co/okwGOlu5xl

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

Not a single French flag in sight

[Maral Salmassi @MaralSalmassi]

The Islamic Revolution in Europe has begun.

This is France. Today, we see the same scenes in Berlin. Every day, these hordes waving the Arab National Socialist flags of Palestine grow larger.

In Iran, it took roughly two years to go from this stage to complete chaos and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. We saw the same symbolism, the same flags, and heard the exact same slogans.

Brace yourselves.

[Catholic Life @prayandfast2]

"The true Christian is a Warrior, not because he loves the fight, but because he loves the truth."

- St. John Henry Newman

[Deacon Nick Donnelly @ProtecttheFaith]

Look at these women smiling and applauding the murder of babies after birth

They really are degenerate monsters

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

So now it's OK to say that Ukraine bombed Nord Stream, the biggest terrorist attack to European energy infrastructure ever?

[Johannes Hartl @DrJohannesHartl]

Die Muslimbruderschaft unterstützt seit fast 100 Jahren islamischen Terror im Nahen Osten und darüber hinaus. Die Hamas entstammt ihr direkt.

Warum haben die Abgeordneten der #SPD, #Grünen und #Linke im #Europaparlament gegen ihr Verbot gestimmt?

[Mark Lambert @sitsio]

Every generation of Catholics discovers, often painfully, that the men who govern the Church are not always worthy of their office. Perhaps this is why Jesus choose St. Peter?

Belloc's famous observation about the Church's astonishing capacity for mismanagement is funny because it exposes an uncomfortable truth. Given two thousand years of corruption, incompetence, scandal and betrayal, how is the Catholic Church still standing?

Empires have risen and vanished. Institutions far better administered have disappeared. Yet the Church endures, despite the damage inflicted by those entrusted with her care. This is no defence of bad shepherds. Our Lord's warning about millstones was deadly serious. Nor does fidelity demand that we pretend every papal judgement is wise or every bishop beyond criticism. But we make a profound theological mistake when we confuse the failures of the Church's human administration with the integrity of her divine constitution.

The Church does not endure because her leaders are good. She endures because Christ is faithful. He promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against her. He never promised that her bishops would always be impressive.

Criticise what deserves criticism. Defend what must be defended. But never allow disappointment with the men who govern the Church to become an excuse for abandoning communion with her. Christ did not ask us to trust in the perfection of His shepherds. He asked us to remain faithful to His Church.

[𝑵𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆 @Nobleheart]

ＵＮＣＨＡＩＮＥＤ

[Firas Modad @firasmodad]

The growing influence of harlots and devouring mothers is fixable with greater devotion to the Virgin Mary.

Women have been women since Eve. God gave them Mary as a second Eve to emulate. A perfect mother and companion.

She spreads the Good News right after the annunciation when visiting Elizabeth. She glorifies God, not herself. She does everything a mother should do for Jesus. She is a good wife to Joseph despite their celibacy, or perhaps because of it. She accompanies her Son to weddings and takes care of the reputation and image of those who invited her, prompting the first miracle. She does the will of God, as Jesus explains when she tries to get him from between his disciples and companions.

Crucially, she accompanies her Son during His Passion. She is there at the foot of the cross, witnessing, neither passive nor active. That pain, like all her previous pains, she keeps in her heart, rather than unleashing it on the world through rage, narcissism, or insecurity. Then after all this suffering she becomes a mother to Jesus's friends and prays with them constantly.

Even in secular terms, this is a woman who is the antithesis of the devouring mother, the harlot, and even the Karen (good as a Karen can be). She is the ideal woman and all women miss her. We all need her in our lives.

Modernity hounded Our Mother from public life. Bring her back. Get yourself a rosary.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Kingdom of Heaven is one of the biggest psy-op movies ever made to make Christians bad and muslims good.

> No context about the historical background of the period. There is no mention of Constantinople or the Eastern Roman Empire, which was the protagonist; no mention of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who initiated the First Crusade; and no mention of the reasons for the First Crusade, because of the unstoppable massacres of Christian civilians in the Middle East and the Holy Land. The First Crusade was a notable success for Byzantium.
> The movie never mentions why it was called a "crusade." Of course, it was not named that in the beginning. It was called in Greek "Σταυροφορία"(stavroforia, from the words stavros = cross and fero = to carry). When the muslims entered Jerusalem, they stole the remains of the Holy Cross. The Greeks from Constantinople then began a crusade primarily to take back the Cross and the Holy Land. The word stavros (cross, the Holy Cross) became crux in Latin. Thus stavros = crux, and stavrofories = crusades.
> Doesn't show the Islamic imperialism and slaughter of unarmed Christians. Christians who lived under islamic rule were relegated to the status of dhimmi which was inferior to the status of the muslims. Christians and other religious minorities thus faced religious discrimination and persecution because they were banned from proselytising in the lands which were invaded by the Arab muslims on pain of death, they were banned from bearing arms, they were banned from holding certain professions, and they were obligated to dress differently in order to distinguish themselves from Arabs and muslims. Under the Islamic law (sharia), Non-muslims were obligated to pay the jizya and kharaj taxes together with periodic and heavy ransom which was levied upon Christian communities by muslim rulers in order to fund their military campaigns, all of which resulted in their contribution of a significant amount of their income to the Islamic states, leading to the empoverishment of many Christian communities, and these financial and social hardships forced many Christians to convert to Islam. Christians who were unable to pay these taxes were forced to surrender their children to the muslim rulers, who would sell them as slaves to muslim households, where they were forced to convert to Islam. Christians paid this price during all the Caliphates (Rashidun Caliphate, Umayyad Caliphate, Almoravid Caliphate, Abbasid Caliphate).
> Balian was a noble man married to Greek Byzantine Maria Komnene. Again NO MENTION of Constantinople which was the center of the world, no mention of the Greeks, no mention of Eastern Roman Empire.
> Guy de Lusignan and Reynald de Chatillon are portrayed as archetypal fanatical villains although is more complicated and out of context.
> The film largely ignores Eastern Orthodox Christians in the kingdom and reduces complex politics to good vs. bad factions.
> The Battle of Hattin (1187) is shown, but details like army sizes are off (Saladin's force wasn't 200,000 OBVIOUSLY)
> The siege of Jerusalem gets some tactical elements right, but Balian's motivational speeches about shared holy sites and "the people matter more" are anachronistic, medieval leaders didn't speak like 21st-century secular globalists humanists funded by George Soros.
> The Crusader states weren't just "Western colonizers" this is pseudo-history and erases thousand of Greco-Roman history.
> Literally pseudo-history, not based on primary sources. Movie shows Christians as greedy, hypocritical, violent fanatics in a drab and muslims, led by the noble and merciful Saladin, come across as more civilized, tolerant, and justified in reclaiming Jerusalem "back". Literally PSEUDO-history.
> Balian delivers speeches promoting religious tolerance. For example "What is Jerusalem worth?", and the idea that extremists on both sides are the problem, but the weight OF COURSE falls more on Christian "extremism".

Do I really need to explain why Holywood depicts "Bad Christianity" and "Good Islamism" duality?

Disgusting pseudo-history.

One of the biggest psy-op movies ever made to manipulate the common thought of the uneducated masses who never opened a book in their lives.

And it seems it worked perfectly for their political games.

And again, I mentioned it thousands of times. You never see movies about the Byzantine period and the Greeks or what happened to Anatolia, only about early Rome, and then they skip about 1,000 years when the Greeks played an important role up until at least 1100 AD. Constantinople was the CENTER of the world and the richest city in the world. How can you skip that kind of history of literally A THOUSAND YEARS EMPIRE? You never see Hollywood depict what was happening in the Eastern Roman Empire, where the sciences, art, education, and theology literally flourished.

For some reason, they don't show/teach you how the Greeks played an important part in shaping the history of that period; they won’t show you the real reasons the Crusades started, that was the response to non-stop aggression from muslims who were enslaving Christian from Europe, Anatolia, Africa and Middle East. Also, they won’t show you how Anatolia was Islamized, what happened to Greece during the Ottoman period, or how North Africa was Arabized and Islamized.

Interesting, isn’t it? Food for thought. You should be more awake of what's happening.

[Maral Salmassi @MaralSalmassi]

Dieselbe Partei, die uns unentwegt über Rassismus, Menschenrechte und die Rechte sexueller Minderheiten belehrt, verklärt einen sadistischen homophoben Massenmörder und Tierquäler zum Helden.

Guevara ließ in Guanahacabibes ein Arbeitslager errichten, in dem Menschen für Verstöße gegen die „revolutionäre Moral“ bestraft wurden. Unter Castro entstanden später die UMAP-Zwangsarbeitslager. Dort landeten schwule Männer, Zeugen Jehovas, Angehörige afrokubanischer Religionen und andere, die nicht ins sozialistische Menschenbild passten. Homosexualität galt als bourgeoise Dekadenz. Zwangsarbeit sollte aus den Gefangenen brauchbare Revolutionäre machen. Menschen wurden misshandelt und gefoltert; unzählige starben auch durch Suizide.

Auch Guevaras frühe Tagebücher dürften bei den autoritären Antirassisten eigentlich für Empörung sorgen: Darin beschrieb er Schwarze als faul und stellte ihnen die angebliche Arbeitsamkeit und Sparsamkeit der Europäer gegenüber.

Und dann sind da die Hinrichtungen in La Cabaña, für die Guevara verantwortlich war. Die Opfer verschwinden hinter dem romantischen Bild des Revolutionärs mit Barrett.

Warum glauben ausgerechnet diese moralischen Krüppel etwas Besseres zu sein als Neonazis oder Islamisten?

[Zarathustra @zarathustra5150]

Lee Kuan Yew experienced the perils of ethnic diversity firsthand when it tore his own country, Malaysia, in two.

40 years later, he distilled the lesson into one sentence: “In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion”.

[MartinC2Janssen @zauberberg188]

Diese Unsicherheit allein ist hinreichend, den Rahmenvertrag 🇨🇭 — 🇪🇺 in allen Bereichen abzulehnen.

[Javier Milei @JMilei]

LA ESTAFA DE LAS BANDERAS NOBLES.

El socialismo tiene un mecanismo perverso que repite sistemáticamente en toda América Latina: SE APROPIA DE CAUSAS NOBLES PARA JUSTIFICAR CURROS INDEFENDIBLES.

Primero elige una causa moralmente atendible. Los discapacitados, los jubilados, la universidad pública. Después, en nombre de esa causa, exige cada vez más gasto público, crea estructuras burocráticas gigantescas y administra cajas multimillonarias sin controles ni transparencia.

¿Y qué pasa cuando alguien llega y se anima a preguntar dónde está la plata? ¿Cuando alguien pretende auditar esas cajas?

APARECE EL CHANTAJE MORAL.

No muestran los números. No rinden cuentas. No explican nada. Te acusan de estar en contra de los discapacitados, de los jubilados o de la educación.

Porque el objetivo no es discutir cómo ayudar a quienes mas lo necesitan. EL OBJETIVO ES QUE NADIE SE ATREVA A CUESTIONAR SU NEGOCIO.

Y cuando finalmente se abren las cajas, aparece lo de siempre: intermediarios, estructuras militantes, privilegios y curros financiados con el dinero de los pagadores de impuestos.

USAN A LOS POBRES COMO ESCUDO MORAL PARA DEFENDER LOS PRIVILEGIOS DE LA CASTA.

Lo vimos en la Argentina y lo vemos en cada país donde el socialismo logró echar sus garras.

Siempre el mismo mecanismo. Siempre el mismo chantaje. Siempre los mismos beneficiarios. Y siempre las mismas víctimas: los que verdaderamente necesitan ayuda y los argentinos de bien que pagan la fiesta.

NO DEFIENDEN DERECHOS. DEFIENDEN CAJAS.

QUE SE ABRAN TODAS LAS CUENTAS. QUE SE PUBLIQUE CADA CONTRATO. QUE CADA RESPONSABLE RINDA CUENTAS HASTA DEL ÚLTIMO PESO. LOS ARGENTINOS MERECEN SABER EN QUÉ SE GASTA SU DINERO.

VLLC!

[Emil Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil]

Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment timeline, split into major civilizations: West/European vs. East Asian vs. Indian vs. Islamic vs. Rest.

[Markus Lysser @MLLW58]

𝗪𝗼 𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱?

Die ETH-Professorin Annalisa Manera bringt das zentrale Problem der Schweizer Stromstrategie auf den Punkt:

«𝗝𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗮 𝘀𝗮𝗴𝘁: 𝗕𝗲𝗶 𝗞𝗻𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗶𝘁 𝗸𝗮𝘂𝗳𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝘂𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗺 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱. 𝗔𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗷𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝗴𝘁, 𝘄𝗼 𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱?»

Manera ist überzeugt, dass es ohne Kernenergie nicht gehen wird, wenn der Strom knapp wird. 𝗘𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝗵𝗻𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗵𝗮̈𝗹𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝗯𝗮𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝘂̈𝗿 «𝘂𝗻𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗺 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘁».

Nach einem Szenario der Axpo wären bis 2050 unter anderem 𝗺𝗲𝗵𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝟭’𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻, 𝘂̈𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟳𝟬 𝗮𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻, 𝗺𝗲𝗵𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝟲𝟰 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝟯𝟱𝟬 𝘇𝘂𝘀𝗮̈𝘁𝘇𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝘂𝗳 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗳𝗹𝗮̈𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗻𝗼̈𝘁𝗶𝗴 (!). Manera bezweifelt, dass sich ein solcher Ausbau angesichts der Widerstände in der Schweiz tatsächlich verwirklichen lässt.

Dabei stützt auch der Bundesrat einen wesentlichen Teil ihrer Argumentation: Sein Bericht vom 13. Mai 2026 kommt zum Schluss, dass Gösgen und Leibstadt technisch 𝗯𝗶𝘀 𝘇𝘂 𝟴𝟬 𝗝𝗮𝗵𝗿𝗲 betrieben werden könnten. Die dafür notwendigen Nachrüstungen wären in den meisten untersuchten Fällen wirtschaftlich. Der Weiterbetrieb würde die Importabhängigkeit im Winter reduzieren und die 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗴𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗲𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗻.

Auch neue Kernkraftwerke könnten laut Bundesrat die Winterversorgung stärken, falls der Ausbau anderer emissionsarmer Energiequellen nicht rasch genug vorankommt.

Manera fordert deshalb zu Recht:

𝗪𝗶𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗵𝗿 𝗙𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻.

Es geht nicht darum, ob man Kernenergie sympathisch findet. Es geht darum, wer im Winter zuverlässig Strom liefert, wenn Solaranlagen wenig produzieren und ganz Europa gleichzeitig Strom benötigt.

𝗟𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗴, 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝘂 𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗴𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀𝘁.

Quellen:

NZZ, «Wir brauchen mehr Fakten!», 9. Oktober 2026
https://t.co/GaIZTPzwUe

Bundesrat, Bericht zum Langzeitbetrieb der Kernkraftwerke, 13. Mai 2026
https://t.co/rKAS4efK9s

#Schweiz #Kernenergie #Versorgungssicherheit #Winterstrom #Energiepolitik #Technologieoffenheit

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

I remember it was the instinct of many on the left to throw these girls under the bus, while those of us who defended them were considered terribly gauche.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

On the death penalty as on the topic of war, Elizabeth Anscombe spoke with a nuance and wisdom of which most people seem stubbornly incapable. Here are some passages from her essay “The Dignity of the Human Being” (from Human Life, Action, and Ethics, at pp. 68, 69-70). As she argues, on the one hand, considered just in itself, the death penalty is not only not contrary to human dignity but in fact affirms human dignity. But on the other hand, the degrading way the death penalty is often applied is contrary to human dignity (as illustrated by the appalling case in Tennessee this week). Morally serious thinking about this matter requires taking into account all of the considerations she raises.

[Dominikus J. Kraschl OFM @JKraschl]

Wenn politische Ideologie blind macht...