Three shot at funeral for anti-violence advocate

Yesterday afternoon, in the Roseland neighbourhood on the south side of Lori Lightfoot's Chicago, a funeral service was being held at the Universal Community Missionary Baptist Church. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, three of the mourners, who had posed for a photo outside the church, were wounded when someone inside a grey sedan drove by and opened fire.

A 20-year-old man was shot in the abdomen, a 37-year-old man was shot in the thigh and a 25-year-old man was shot in the back. According to the cops, all three were transported to local hospitals "in good condition". 

Kareem House, who witnessed the shooting, told the newspaper the funeral was that of his cousin, Mike Nash, an anti-violence activist who had died of a heart attack. There's a lesson there somewhere. Maybe there should be yet another law, this one prohibiting the discharge of firearms at or in the vicinity of funerals. Of course that would ban the traditional Jamaican salute, but it would mean Mr Nash's death wouldn't have been in vain. Right?

Note from Ed.: There are at least two ways to interpret the graphic. Take your pick.

VIDEO: Father Roman explains the importance of Christian tradition

Jorge Bergoglio, the man who calls himself "Pope Francis", accuses us traditional Catholics of being rigid, of clinging to dogma which is no longer fashionable or relevant to modern times. We cannot pretend that the world has stood still since Vatican II, or that Holy Mother Church can turn back the hands of time, but we cannot cast into the dustbin of history the two millennia of Christian tradition. 

In this homily, given by Father Roman Galadza, the pastor of Saint Elias Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, in Brampton ON, Father Roman points out that Catholic Tradition predates the New Testament. It is through the teachings of Our Lord, handed down orally by the Fathers of the Church, that our Christian Faith was given shape and substance. To turn our backs on Tradition is to turn our backs on the Faith.

   

Click here to see the entire Divine Liturgy offered on 17 July 2022. You can visit the Saint Elias Church website by clicking here.

The peaceful protest the liberals don't want you to know about

Ed. here. It's been hot here. Walt has been sleeping it off asleep in the shade of the old apple tree, and I hesitated to rouse him from his torpor, but this space must be filled, so I locked him in the shed until he produced... this....

I am a country boy at heart. I grew up in a farming community, and after decades of wandering am now settled in a region which still has many working farms. The mayor of the city and county of Fort Mudge seems determined to see all the farmland paved over, but hey, that's progress... right?! I don't know where they think our food will come from, but I do know I'm not the first to say that.

I have great sympathy, then, for the 1000s of Dutch farmers who for the last couple of weeks have been mounting a peacful protest -- really, not being sarcastic -- at the plans of the oh-so-green Dutch government to fight the climate change "crisis" by reducing the country's agricultural output by a third. This will mean slaughtering large numbers of dairy cattle, since, besides milk, they produce enormous quantities of methane, nitrous oxide, ammonia and other greenhouse gases.

So,  inspired perhaps by this spring's Freedom Convoy in Canada, the good boers of Holland are clogging up the roads and highways with their tractors, and occasionally dumping the contents of their manure spreaders in front of public buildings.

"How dairy you!" Geddit? Right back at ya, Greta Thunberg, the patron saint of eco-alarmism, whose apocalyptic rantings and warped ideology have caused the Netherlands parliament to adopt a Green New Deal even more destructive and insane than those being inflicted on North Americans by Crazy Joe and Blackie McBlackface.

You probably haven't heard or read much about the Dutch farmers' protests, because the lickspittle media doesn't like to give any publicity to any pushback agsinst the ideologies of the liberal elites. I'm talking about the kind of sentiment encapsulated in a recent statement by Just In Trudeau's acolyte, Chrystia Freeland, that the spike in gas prices is good because it makes us focus on the need to switch to electric vehicles!

In "These farmers are fighting for us all", posted on Spiked Online yesterday, Brendan O'Neill wrote that although the Dutch farmers' protest had received some coverage outside of the Netherlands, the reports are running "below the fold" (as editors say), because "This is a people’s revolt against eco-tyranny, against the modern elite’s determination to slash 'harmful' emissions with little regard for the consequences such action will have for working people and poor people. 

"To the formers of elite consensus opinion, for whom environmentalism is tantamount to a religion, the sight of pesky little people rebelling against green diktats is too much to bear. So they either demonize these dissenters, as is happening in the Netherlands, or they ignore them in the hope they will go away, as is happening outside the Netherlands."

The slogan pictured, translated, reads: Out farmers, our future. Walt sez, three cheers and a tiger for the good boers of the Netherlands. Honk honk!

Sikh terrorists: live by the kirpan, die by the kirpan

Thanks to Emperor Trudeau I (father of Blackie McBlackface), Canada is full of Sikhs. There are large communities in the suburbs of Toronto and Vancouver, particularly near the airports, where large numbers of them work as porters, bag monkeys, and (note) security guards.

The Sikhs are fighters, mostly members of the Jatt caste of peasant-warriors. As symbols of their faith, Sikh men wear turbans and special underpants. They sport full beards and carrry (usually not openly) a curved dagger or knife called a kirpan that symbolizes their readiness to fight for their land -- aka the Punjab -- and their Sikh religion.

Ever since the British quit India, militant Sikhs have been fighting (word carefully chosen), from bases in such places, for an "independent Khalistan".

If you were a Sikh extremist and wanted to do something dramatic to advance the cause of "free Khalistan", a simple yet terrifyingly effective thing to do would be to blow up a plane -- preferably an Air India -- full of non-Sikhs. And a Canadian airport where 1000s of your countrymen are employed, like YYZ or YVR, would be the ideal place in which to load the device.

That's what the RCMP, FBI, Interpol and other law enforcement agencies figure happened in June of 1985, when  Air India Flight 182, a B747 operating on the Montreal–London–Delhi–Mumbai route, disintegrated in mid-air over the Atlantic, en route from Montreal to London, as a result of the explosion from a bomb planted by Canadian Sikh militants.

A shower of pieces of the airliner and its contents fell into the sea southwest of Ireland. The human contents -- everyone on board -- included 268 Canadian immigrants, 27 British citizens and 24 Indian citizens. The bombing remains the deadliest aviation "incident" in the history of Air India and the deadliest ever carried out on Canadian soil. 

Investigators found the attack was a part of a larger transnational terrorist plot and had included two attempted plane bombings. The first bomb was meant to explode aboard Air India Flight 301 which was scheduled to take off from Narita (Japan) International Airport, Japan but exploded before it was loaded onto the plane. The second bomb was the one which brought down Air India Flight 182. Both the plot and the bombs, which had been hidden inside luggage, originated in Canada.

After a lengthy and not very competent investigation -- complicated by the unwillingness of anyone to talk, even in Punjabi -- a handful of members of various Sikh organizations were arrested and tried. The only person convicted, however, was Inderjit Singh Reyat, a dual British-Canadian national and a member of the International Sikh Youth Federation. In 2003 (!), he pled guilty to manslaughter, admitting that he had made the bombs. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Among those who were acquitted (in March 2005) were a Surrey BC businessman, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, both members of Babbar Khalsa, an organization whose goal is the creation of an independent Sikh state, Khalistan. (All Sikhs are Singhs, but not all Singhs are Sikhs!)

The Mounties said the two were part of a conspiracy of a group of Sikh militants who placed suitcase bombs on two connecting flights leaving Vancouver airport. The deadly bags were tagged for Air India flights heading in opposite directions, with the results described above. Who took the bags to the airport, or tagged them, or loaded them, was never established. Registering the acquittals on charges of murder and conspiracy, a BC Supreme Court judge told the Singhs that he didn't believe they didn't do it, but that the Crown had failed to prove its case. That's all.

The families of the victims of Air India 182 finally saw justice done, as Ripudaman Singh Malik, now aged 75, was shot to death as he sat inside his car outside his office in Surrey, at about 0930 yesterday. An investigation is under way, but is unlikely to result in any charges. The problem this time is too many suspects, too many people with good reason to want Mr Malik dead.

Retired RCMP deputy commissioner Gary Bass, who was in charge of the terrorism investigation into the Air India bombing, told the Notional Pest he knew Ripudaman Singh Malik had many enemies."I'm not privy to the ongoing investigations on Malik right now, but I can say that from years when I was that he was involved in a number of activities that might bring him into conflict with other people."

Acts of violence against prominent political/business figures usually call forth expressions of sympathy from others of that ilk, but there has been radio silence from Jugmeat Singh, the leader of Canada's "New" Democratic Party whose "free Khalistan" sentiments are well known. Also expected to not attend the funeral is Emperor Trudeau II (pictured), or any of the numerous Sikh Members of Parliament, none of whom can be reached for comment.

Further reading: "Sikhs in Canada - from 'boat people' to slave-keepers", WWW 25/5/14.

Memo to the ruling elites: "It's the economy, stupid!"

The liberal elites seem to be getting nervous, trying to figure out what they can do to avert the imminent reception. Adam Pankratz, a lecturer at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, wrote an excellent statement of the blindingly obvious, for Canada's National Post. Here are two key paragraph of "Economic reality is about to bulldoze the progressive agenda". Thanks to Agent 6 for  the link. 

For years now, governments across the western world have found reasons to turn towards tribal politics. Be it relentless condemnation of western history as uniquely evil, genuflection to those who shut down railroads and tear down statues or prostration before the idol of identity politics, it has been a one-way capitulation to any grievance Twitter could muster. Reality is about to force a change from identity driven wedges and fanciful green economic policy dreams back to serious matters like money and jobs. The inflation tidal wave, coupled with a slowing economy is making our citizens poorer. A backlash against Canadian Liberals and American Democrats, along with governing elites in Europe is coming and will be a first-class example of "it's the economy, stupid," in action.... 

Morgan Stanley recently warned oil could reach $380 a barrel if the worse case scenario of Russian crude coming off the market were to occur. This would be cataclysmic for all economies and participants therein, but, as always, the worst pain will be reserved for those who can least afford it. This is the great irony of current policy in Canada, Europe and America: by refusing to look reality in the eye, politicians are going to seriously harm those they purport to help while also sinking their own progressive agendas.

The "governing elites in Europe" must certainly include Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, about whom I wrote yesterday. The next sound you hear will be that of  his government falling. Lifetime pct .978.

Italian coalition government collapses; a "new Mussolini" waits...

Italian governments tend to have very short lives. Since the end of WWII there have been hundreds... literally. They come and go like mushrooms after a spring rain. The latest, a coalition led by Prime Minister Mario Draghi, teeters on the brink this evening, with Sig. Draghi saying he wants to resign to make way for a new government, only for Italian President Sergio Mattarella to reject his resignation and ask him to think up some way to hold together a parliamentary majority.

The trambusto ridicolo came about when senators from the once populist but now left-leaning Five Star Movement boycotted a confidence motion linked to a bill that contained a provision for a new garbage  incinerator to serve Rome, which they oppose on environmental grounds. Sig. Draghi had made clear he would interpret a walkout as a vote against his "unity government". 

The FSM walked out anyway, so the PM tendered his resignation, saying that the trust underpinning the government had come undone, and that the conditions for a functional government "no longer exist"... as if they ever did, in the Italian republic.

Theoretically Sig. Draghi could stay on at the head of a new government without the Five Stars. However, having been chosen by the Pesident in February 2021 to lead a unity coalition, the PM has indicated that he wants no part of that scheme. "There is no government without the Five Stars," he said, adding that he wouldn’t lead a coalition with an alternate makeup. 

If Sig. Draghi succeeds in quitting, Italy be forced into yet another election, which European "progressives" and the controlled media already clutching their pearls in fear of a resurgent right. In the spring of 2018,  as Italy prepared for its first general election in five years, the most-feared party was Matteo Salvini's far-right League. See "Italian top court OKs Fascist salute as right-wing coalition heads for election victory", WWW 24/2/18. 

Things didn't quite turn out as Walt predicted (lifetime pct. 978), as the conservative/populist vote was divided among Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, the League and the new kids on the right-hand side of the block, Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy).

Things are different today. Brothers of Italy, the descendant of a party formed in 1946 by the lingering supporters of Benito Mussolini, has steadily moved from the political fringes to being neck-and-neck with the League. Recent opinion polls put the FdI in a statistical tie -- 21% each -- for most popular party, with the centre-left Democratic Party, led by Giuseppe Brandoni. [Ed., please check that.]

Giorgia Meloni, a member of the Chamber of Deputies and former minister in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth cabinet, is said to have a good chance of being Italy's next prime minister. She has fast become a a celebrity, with videos about her on Facebook (click here to see "Giorgia Meloni a 'Cartabianca' 22/2/22"), and YouTube, and a best-selling autobiography out last year. 

Guido Crosetto, a co-founder of FdI, says voters feel they can trust Ms Meloni because she has: "consistency, reliability, thoroughness. She does not speak by slogans or based on polls.... We [the FdI party] do well in the polls because our party remains consistent with its ideas."

Giorgia Meloni was just 15 when she became involved in the youth organisation of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), founded after World War II by neo-fascists and veterans of Mussolini's Italian Social Republic.

The popularity of Fratelli d'Italia comes amid a broader shift to the right in Italian politics in recent times. See "Told ya! Anti-immigrant backlash pushes Italy sharply right", WWW 5/3/18. 

The League, once the leading party of the right, is now down to 15% in the polls, with FdI picking up a lot of the League's votes, and even making inroads in northeastern Italy, a League bastion since the 1990s. Businesspeople in northern Italy say they like Meloni's anti-tax, anti-bureaucracy style. "There is too much red tape, whether imposed by Rome or Venice [the regional capital]," said a businessman in Vicenza. "Maybe Meloni has realised that."

FdI is unabashedly rightist. Its literature contains slogans such as "Italy and Italians first" and aims to protect Italian identity from Islamization, while calling for the largest family and birth support plan in Italy's history. Convincing moderate voters to switch to a party with radical roots is "not an easy bet", said one analyst, adding,"Meloni is trying, though."

The controlled media in Europe (and now America), cowering in fear, have dubbed Ms Meloni "the new Mussolini". It has been said of the "old" Mussolini that at least he made the trains run on time. If Ms Meloni can make the planes depart and arrive on time, she should be a shoo-in. Walt wishes her buona fortuna!

"New year, new me!" - Annual gender change OKd for German trannies

Ever wonder what it would feel like to have your gender changed? Not physically, necessarily, just legally, just for fun, to see what it would be like... you know... before undergoing the "procedures".

 

For instance, if you were a man sentenced to hard time in the crowbar Hilton, you  could become a woman and do your time in a more comfortable P4W (prison for women). Or you could flash your new ID card when challenged for lurking in the ladies' restroom.

In Germany, boys (and girls), it's possible. With the stroke of a pen -- hocus pocus mucus pucus! -- you can have your gender reassigned, legally. And you can do it once a year, if you feel like it. At least that's the proposal (according to LifeSite News) of the German Minister of Justice, Marco Buschmann, and Family Minister Lisa Paus. (They are memberes of the left-wing FDP and the far-left Green Party, respectively. Surprised?)

The new "self-determination act" proposed by the new coalition government of which the two libtards are a part, would replace a 1980 law dealing with transsexuality. Herr Buschmann and Frau/Fraulein (?) Paus called the old law, which stipulated that those wishing to legally change gender would have to produce psychological assessments to determine, among other things, how long they had wished to change genders, "degrading." 

The new law would permit people to change their gender on paper once a year. If they wake up one morning (New Year's Day?) feeling like being a new person, all they have to do is go to the local registry office and have their first name and gender amended. And get this! Anyone who “deadnames” them -- call them by their old given names -- will be fined!

The law will apply to anyone 14 or older. Any minor wishing to "transition" against his/her parents' wishes can take them to family court, which will determine the way forward based on what the cout thinks is "the well-being of the child." Given the premise that transgenderism is a Good Thing, the outcome of a court challenge is pretty much guaranteed to be politically correct. Parents who disagree with the new fashion could find themselves designated a danger to their own children, with the all-powerful state -- this is Germany, remember -- stepping in to make sure that Hans can become Hannah or vice versa.

Minister Paus called the introduction of the new legislation "a good day from freedom and diversity. Minister Buschmann emphasized that the proposed law "keeps the promise of equal freedom and equal dignity of all people." Neither of them said anything about the risk of susceptible young people choosing to transition based on a peer contagion. Or about morality or sanity.