Saturday 31 December 2022

KIDS' PHONE USE: A HORROR STORY

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 For those without faith in God this story is terrifying. It's not a cheery start to the new year, no. And that's not even counting the gong we gave to 'dear Dr Bloomfield'.

But we've all seen women walking in the street with their babies in pushchairs - facing into the traffic so their little brains can be 'stimulated' by horrible sights instead of soothed by the sight of the face they love most in all the world - with that face stuck in a phone behind them.

So the stats on children's use (misuse) of screens are not so surprising but it doesn't do to dwell too long on the future of a society addicted to and addled by phones. Dystopia is where we're headed, without any help from Ardern and Sir Vaxley. We need God's help, big time. You better believe it.


The smartphone’s relatively recent advent and swift domination have been as unprecedented as it is all-pervasive. How society has become so widely reliant upon smartphones in a few years should give considerable pause for thought. Of particular concern is how children have become attached, devoted and even addicted to their phones, with devastating consequences.

Children and Phones: The Data

Children have become singularly reliant upon smartphones in a little over a decade. According to a 2020 Pew Research study, 67% of children under 11 were either exposed to or used a smartphone—as far as their parents were aware.

The figure for earlier years was even more alarming. A total of 62% of children under four were believed to be exposed to smartphone usage, while nearly half (49%) of children under the age of 2 fell into the same category.

Because the COVID-19-related lockdowns saw a huge uptick in computer and smartphone usage,

Of course it did. That's what the lockdowns were all about: inflicting harm on society. Self-harm, you could call the computer/smartphone thing.    

... the Pew Research Center followed up (in 2022, presumably) with the same parents surveyed in 2020. It found that children’s usage of smartphones and other digital devices had predictably increased, with 71% of those under 11 exposed to or using a smartphone in 2021. In addition, 81% of parents said their children under 11 used a tablet.

Spending Time Online

Nor are young children merely using a parent’s device. Pew Research found that “37% of parents of a child age 9 to 11 say their child has their own smartphone, compared with 13% of those with a child 5 to 8, 5% of those with a child 3 to 4 and 3% of those with a child who is two or younger.

Eternal and Natural Law: The Foundation of Morals and Law

Even more striking is the amount of time young children spend on these electronic devices. Other studies present different results, with the most shocking being a 2019 report from the National Institutes of Health that found children aged only 12 months were averaging 53 minutes of screen time a day.

With such heavy usage in the early years, researchers found the trend continues into pre-teen and later years. In 2020, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry released a report that “revealed that children between 8 and 12 in the U.S. spent between 4 and 6 hours per day watching screens.”

Common Sense Media echoed this statistic in 2019 by finding eight to twelve-year-olds spent an average of nearly 5 hours on screens per day.

This number jumps up alarmingly as the age increases. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that teens spend up to 9 hours daily on the screen. Common Sense Media suggested that teens average nearly seven and a half hours per day—not including any time on the screen for school-related purposes.

Phone Usage Destroying Children’s Health 


having fun with their friends in the fresh air



With instant access to the online world, a smartphone offers almost endless sources of distraction and supposed amusement. Thus, children no longer have to engage with friends or use their imagination to create games to occupy their time. They lose themselves in a virtual world of digital fiction via their phones.

They must also find their everyday world terribly boring by comparison. It's small wonder they turn to drugs to enliven the drab reality of day-to-day routine and surroundings. And how infuriating it must be when Mum or Dad insists that they return to that reality (vide the tot in the pic above)! 

This change of habits is responsible for the marked drop in the number of teenagers who read a physical book regularly. In Common Sense’s 2019 survey, 15% of teenagers said they never read books, while 17% said they read only once a month.

A reader of this blog has a framed photo on her wall capturing the moment she gave her 12 year-old grandson his first phone, and his look of sheer bliss. His grandmother seems quite carried away with excitement too (we've seen the pic). That 12 year-old she says, was always reading. Not now.  He only reads his phone. The moral of the story is, don't give your grandchildren phones.  

The damaging effects of smartphone and screen usage go far beyond a drop in book reading. Researchers are finding that increased screen time stimulates stress while decreasing the body’s ability to produce melatonin, which is needed for good sleep.

Long screen usage is also linked to emotional and behavioral problems in children. The time spent away from real human interactions and the un-rewarding stimulation of the on-screen activities undermines the formation the child needs to progress through life.

We've probably all realised that by now. But maybe too late. 

A 2017 article in Child Development magazine warned that “[w]ith respect to health implications of digital (wireless) technologies, it is of importance that neurological diseases, physiological addiction, cognition, sleep, and behavioral problems are considered in addition to cancer.”

Child Magazine noted how children become accustomed to regular smartphone usage by watching adults become increasingly addicted to them. They also develop bad habits when parents give them screens for entertainment. The study’s authors highlighted this usage’s little reported and potentially catastrophic health impacts. Pointing to a 2008 report submitted to the World Health Organization (WHO), the authors noted that children using phones regularly faced “disruption of memory, decline of attention, diminishing learning and cognitive abilities, increased irritability, sleep problems, increase in sensitivity to the stress, and increased epileptic readiness.”

The 2008 report warned that possible, more remote risks to these children later in life included brain tumors, nerve tumors (even before age 30), Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and early dementia symptoms. The report warned of damage to the brain’s nervous system when phone users hit their fifties.

Phones Undermining Traditional Society

With such warnings made in 2008 before the advent of the iPhone, the outlook for today’s children—spending up to a third of every day on the screen—is not particularly hopeful.

Nor are such warnings clearly found. Indeed, many articles warn of increased screen time and advise parents about how to limit their children’s usage. However, the more impactful data—like that contained in the 2008 report referenced above—is carefully avoided.

The ubiquitous use of all things digital adds to the children’s confusion. Everywhere, people are on their phones, whether messaging while walking distractedly through the streets, religiously photographing their sandwiches before eating them, using a phone to guide them to the next tourist point, or employing them to pay for parking since many meters no longer allow in-person payments.

Indeed, children’s use of smartphones is part of a vicious circle revolutionizing society. With so much screen time, children are being trained to accept a digital life where human interaction is replaced by pixels. They are being formed to see nothing abnormal in spending more time watching meaningless video content on social media than spending time performing actual tasks or enjoying physical events.

The digital revolution is also forcing people to use some form of digital technology. This trend is visible across the board: whether with self-service machines in stores, the use of digital password codes when trying to access banking services, or even being only able to purchase certain goods online.

The COVID era made matters worse by accustoming both young and old to move even more of their daily lives onto the screen. For families, “virtual” reunions replaced previous, happy family gatherings. For Catholics, “virtual” Mass replaced in-person church attendance. Children saw their classrooms become an online collection of blurry heads on a screen. Office workers experienced even more of life from behind a screen than they had previously thought possible.

Throughout all this, the radical advance of a digital society is being directed chiefly at children. While only a few years ago, only teenagers seemed addicted to their phones, this attachment can be found in those under 13 or even under the age of 7.

Children are being sacrificed on the altar of so-called societal progress in an increasingly digital age. The high priests of this sacrifice are not only the tech companies, who gladly collect hundreds of billions of dollars in profits every year but also the unwitting parents who sadly prefer to expose their children to the harms of the Internet. Instead of committing to a more traditional family life, they allow the invasion of smartphones and tablets into the home.

The attachment to technology must be curbed swiftly and firmly to protect America’s children from greater harm.

The world's people. New Zealand's people. 

How Children’s Use of Smartphones Represents a RevolutionDestroying Society (tfp.org)

AND as a coda - ever so slightly off-topic but this also is evidence of harm done to children: 




Happy New Year, friends! And we say that sincerely. He who has God has everything.

  


Thursday 29 December 2022

'DIVISIVE' INDIVIDUALS A WORRY FOR BISHOPS

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When the Katechon (Restrainer) has gone, all hell will break loose




‘Isolationist’, ‘divisive’, ‘disrespectful’,  ‘aggressive’, ‘exclusively superior’. 

That, according to the Latin Mass Society (LMSNZ) in a letter to members, is what New Zealand's Bishops think of "certain individuals" who have "a tendency towards a "TLM (Latin Mass) only" mentality which is causing separation from the wider Catholic community." 

And the LMSNZ itself weighs in, citing "an extreme, loud few" ...  who at least partly caused the Holy Father to think he should place the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) provision under stricter regulation".  

It's even been suggested elsewhere that these 'certain individuals' were the cause of  Cardinal John Dew's cancellation of the thriving TLM community of St Columba's Ashhurst. 

Surely not. Any good Catholic expects that a prince of the Church will be guided in such punitive action by the Holy Spirit for the edification of the Body of Christ, not by annoyance or petulance.  

And any Catholic would expect the LMSNZ to be exercised - as they rightly are - about preservation of the TLM, famously described by Father Faber as "the most beautiful thing this side of heaven", which 'the Holy Father' has attempted, by his Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes', to wipe off the face of the earth. 

But the Latin Mass Society believes that restoration of the Latin Mass in New Zealand depends on staying on the right side of the Bishops, who - although not obliged by canon law to do so - have opted to go along with 'the Holy Father' and his ambitions of cancelling the Mass which for two millenia united Catholics throughout the world in holy worship of their God. 

First, that begs a question: how can the liturgy which the Church in her wisdom judged to be holy and reverent for two thousand years suddenly, with Vatican II's invention of the 'New Mass' (Novus Ordo), become so bad that the Vetus Ordo (Old Mass) has to be stamped out? The truth is that the Latin Mass cannot be stamped out, because as its ascendancy in establishing and preserving Christendom throughout the centuries proved, the Old Mass is the supreme expression of the Sacrifice of Calvary, of God's love for mankind and the teaching of the Apostles. 

Second, if 'the Holy Father' really was caused by 'people with a 'TLM- only mentality' (who are they?) to think he should place the TLM 'under stricter regulation', then that would go to show, would it not, what a threat the TLM constitutes to 'the Holy Father' and his plans for cancelling the entire Catholic Church in favour of a new world church - headed of course, by his Holy self. 

For 20 centuries the TLM was the Church's bulwark against the seas of heresy. But now that 'the Holy Father' has partly succeeded in that bulwark's demolition, we are edified by such egregious enormities as his Synod's Document for the Continental Stage (DCS) which expresses its desire for the Church to recognise polygamous marriages. 

Third, if the NZ Bishops' feelings really are hurt by the 'attitude of exclusive superiority' displayed by 'certain individuals', then the bishops are in need of our compassion and prayer, not our subservience and false obedience to an immoral diktat from a bad 'pope'. They need our compassion and prayer also for other considerations, such as these documents issued by the NZCBC during 2022: 

  •  'Ministers of Consolation and Hope' which effectively sanctions full priestly support for     the serious sin of euthanasia (with almost no exceptions)
  • 'Aroha and Inclusiveness in Catholic Schools' which effectively sanctions teaching the homosexual agenda and sodomy in Catholic schools.
  • 'NZCBC National Synthesis in response to the Synod on Synodality' – which hints very strongly at acceptance of female and married priests, polygamous marriages, a radical gay agenda etc.

It's what Dr Peter Kwasniewski calls "the beaten wife syndrome": if lay people carry on the way we have, rolling over and taking whatever a modernist hierarchy dishes out in the way of apostasy, heresies and irreverence, then the Church in New Zealand can only expect more of the same, and indeed is guaranteed to get it, per kind favour of 'the Holy Father's' 'Sinod on Sindodality' next year. 

St. Thomas makes it very clear that we are under immediate and exceptionless obedience to no one but God; all His human representatives must follow divine and natural law and reverence ecclesiastical law and custom.. https://onepeterfive.com/pro-tlm-strategies-traditionis-custodes/

Thirdly, many Latin Massgoers also attend their local parish Novus Ordo and are even found 'on the roster' (for 'profane' ministries like cleaning, not 'sacred' as in eucharistic, which because they are properly catechised they know are reserved to the ordained). So the Bishops would seem to be somewhat lacking in charity towards their own - towards many in 'the wider Catholic community', including as that does a good number of Latin Massgoers. It makes one wonder just in whom that 'TLM only mentality' exists.  

Bishop Emeritus Peter Cullinane of Palmerston North Diocese knows very well, through personal witness to the fact at his 'catechesis' sessions for the St Columba's community, how involved many Latin Massgoers are - because no TLM is within driving distance, in their NO communities. A reader of this blog has helpfully pointed out, for the Bishops' consideration, the fact that Latin weekday Massgoers are assisting at Novus Ordo liturgies more often than N O people who tend strongly to be Sundays-only.  

+Cullinane's 'catecheses' were painful, both to the catechised and quite obviously to the Bishop, who heard a few truths of the Catholic Faith which seemed to come as a surprise to him.. And these sessions at St Columba's were simply an exercise in window-dressing:. +Cullinane was and is Cardinal Dew's man on the spot during this prolonged wait for an episcopal appointment to the PN Diocese and it would seem likely it was +Cullinane, whom the LMSNZ implied in their letter to be impatient to wind down the TLM all over the country, who sealed Palmerston North's fate, if not that of the whole Wellington Archdiocese, as the Land of Mordor. . 

The Bishops may remember that in 2021 it was they themselves who caused liturgical separation of Latin Massgoers (who are almost all unvaccinated) from "the wider Catholic community" who'd been guided by their shepherds into the line-up for an experimental gene serum manufactured with the unsolicited assistance of murdered babies which reaped vast, immoral earnings for Bill Gates, Big Pharma and in particular the booming trade in fetal tissue. 


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By order of the Bishops unvaxxed Latin Massgoers were herded away, in a kind of religious apartheid, from the goody two-shoes majority. One reader of this blog, apparently the only unvaxxed person in the parish, was relegated to solitary confinement in a separate chapel away from the rest of the congregation. 

The Bishops may inflict this sort of treatment (some would call it persecution) on Latin Massgoers to their hearts' content, including even their cancellation of the Mass of Ages - "the most beautiful thing this side of heaven" which is our sustenance, our passionate desire, our holy grail. And for that cancellation they cannot entirely blame 'the Holy Father', as they have the right as bishops to invoke Canon 87, to dispense from particular or universal disciplinary laws - even those issued by the supreme authority of the Church. 

The Bishops may do this. They may make their people suffer by refusing them the Divine food which is theirs by right. They have that power. But their people have the power of prayer, and may rejoice at such cruel treatment, knowing that Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Mt 5:10).

We are dealing here with mysterium iniquitatis - the mystery of evil, which makes no sense to those who love God. We must combat this evil with daily prayer for the cleansing of the Church, and fasting, and if necessary by combat (hand-to-hand even) with Bishops and Cardinals, even the 'pope' himself if the glory of God and the good of Holy Church demand it. It's not fun and we will make enemies while we're at it, but by God's grace we will love those enemies who bring us closer to Christ. 

Our Divine Master denounced evil whenever He met it - and perhaps it was the epithets He hurled at the Scribes and Pharisees which inspired the NZ Bishops' denunciations of their critics. But in the divide-and-conquer tactic of setting the Latin Mass Society at odds with Latin Massgoers - and in their polity generally - the Bishops are clearly taking their cue from 'the Holy Father'. 


Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the Latin Mass

The true Holy Father, Pope Benedict XIV, will soon be freed from this mortal coil. He needs our prayer in his passage into eternity and we need to pray not just for his soul but even more intensely for the Church, once he has gone. 

Because another reader of this blog suggests that the Papacy is the Great Restrainer (Katechon) of 2 Thessalonians 2 and that at his departure "all hell will break loose". 

From the Second Letter of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Chapter Two

. [6] And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. [7] For the mystery of iniquity already worketh; only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way. 

[8] And then that wicked one shall be revealed whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of His mouth; and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming, him, [9] whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, [10] 

And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:

[11] That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity.

[14] Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle.





 St Paul, please pray for Pope Benedict XVI and the Church


Tuesday 27 December 2022

ARDERN BRINGS NZ DISGRACE VIA V*X


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If only New Zealand could remainder Ardern. Right now.



Jacinda Ardern brings New Zealand to international attention again, this time inadvertently and for the worst of reasons: the death and injury toll incurred by the potentially deadly v*ccine she forced on us whether we wanted it or not.

LifeSite News advertises the new COVID documentary from SilentNoMore New Zealand which tells the stories of New Zealanders now living with constant pain following the j*b they accepted because they felt they had no alternative.

New Zealand is finally waking up from wicked stepmother Ardern's spell, from her brainwashing via paid functionaries in the mainstream media, finding our Kiwi voice for fairness and freedom, and crying out for justice. 

The video shows a memorial gathering in the Civic Square in Wellington, New Zealand where those who have died or been severely injured from the j*b were honoured in a ceremony.

 An organization called SilentNoMore New Zealand has released a documentary showing numerous v*ccine-injured New Zealanders who took the COVID j*b in order to function in the highly restrictive environment of their country.

Memorial Day shows how the lives of ordinary residents of the island country have been turned upside down by long-term injuries from a COVID j*b or by the loss of loved ones to the experimental inoculation.


Not just New Zealanders - ABC producer Dax Tajera dies in UK

One of the vaccine victims is a 23-year-old woman named Casey Hodgkinson. She has been confined to a wheelchair since taking just one shot, due to the neurological issues that ensued afterwards. She can be seen twitching and shaking in her chair as she has lost control over some of her motor functions.

Casey was not the only vaccine victim who demonstrated those characteristics.

Rob Martin is also confined to a wheelchair following a j*b-induced stroke and heart attack. He told the crowd that the parliamentarians who made the j*bs mandatory need to “be held accountable.” Martin told the filmmakers that he took the j*b because he needed to keep his job as a middle-class wage earner.

WATCH: New Zealand police take baby away from parents over vaccinated blood transfusion dispute

READ: New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern compares ‘misinformation’ to a ‘weapon of war’ in UN speech

The film pointed out the flipflopping of Kiwi Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern. She could be seen in numerous newscasts stating that she would not make the j*b mandatory in order to work,  but she reneged on her statements and made her nation one of the most vaccine-restricted in the world.

In other words Ardern lied. Again.  

Also profiled in the film is the story of a young man named Rory Nairn who died from severe myocarditis after his first shot.

“I tried to tell Rory about myocarditis,” Mr. Nairn said.

Although the v*ccine-injured in New Zealand were largely ignored when the memorial took place in March 2022, one Member of Parliament, Chris Penk, agreed to take a petition with over 10 thousand signatures asking for acknowledgement of the dark side of COVID jabs. New COVID documentary tells the stories of New Zealanders injured by the vaccine - LifeSite (lifesitenews.com)

Er - there's no "light side" to an experimental gene serum manufactured with the involuntary assistance of  murdered babies co-opted by the fetal tissue trade for big profits. 


National’s Chris Penk receiving petition from Casey's mother Anna Hodgkinson

From Silent no More NZ founder Anna Hodgkinson:

This peaceful event is interrupted by a large police presence, low flying helicopters and police photographers snapping images of the sick and suffering, some in wheelchairs, for “intelligence gathering purposes".

 

A man at the Silent No More event at Civic Square confronts a police photographer (photo Stuff).

 This is a story of a simple want for acknowledgement from government, media and medical fraternity of the injury and death caused by a newly invented pharmaceutical.

The documentary follows the stories of Casey Hodgkinson, Rob Martin and Sarah Carter, along with the first ever interview with Brett and Chris Nairn, parents of Rory Nairn, who lost his life to myocarditis in November 2021. His death was confirmed by the coroner as caused by the newly invented pharmaceutical, which had been mandated and forced onto the New Zealand public, through their work places and their everyday lives.

Last Christmas, people were intentionally divided and separated from their families at the encouragement of the New Zealand Government and its media propaganda machine. People were influenced to exclude family and friends who did not agree to take this newly invented pharmaceutical. Many injured have suffered the double insult of their friends and families turning their backs, and with doctors either not knowing what to do, or ignoring with fear of retribution from peers and medical boards, or just not caring at all.
The fourth ‘official’ death from myocarditis caused by the newly invented pharmaceutical was reported in NZ on December 14 without any details of the victim’s age or sex. Why? Injured New Zealanders ask for simple public acknowledgment without ‘gaslighting,’ along with medical acknowledgement and support.
65,148 New Zealanders (have now) sustained an injury from this pharmaceutical (note: Medsafe report #46 excludes the other brand of pharmaceutical used which shows 319 AEFI Reports *report #45). The two products combined have officially now caused four deaths (with others still under investigation) and a total of 65,148 reports, of which 3,709 are rated serious.
As the Nairn family spend their Christmas without their son Rory, Brett Nairn expresses comfort from Rory’s story being told.: ”I feel like there's purpose in this, as tragic and terrible as it is. Rory hasn't died in vain, that's why we want to tell people what's happened. That's why we want to share.”
To Jacinda Ardern, all those in Parliament and the mainstream media this Christmas, the final word from Casey Hodgkinson: "You say 'be kind.’ Where is that kindness? We trusted you, you used that and it really hurts. We are just people dealing with so many horrible things and you put so much more hurt on us and maybe you don't understand or maybe that's just ignorance, but it's time to try to understand and be compassionate and 'be kind’.“
“I would like to dedicate this documentary to my late mother Judy who sadly passed on December 8 2022. She was my rock and was extremely proud of everything I’ve done to support the injured and lost loved ones" - Anna Hodgkinson
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The Holy Innocents are few in comparison to the genocide by j*b and abortion of our day. But even if there had been only one, we recognize the greatest treasure God put on the earth—a human person, destined for eternity, and graced by Jesus’ death and resurrection.



The Massacre of the Innocents
Angelo Visconti


Holy Innocents, on your feast day please pray for those who have died and been injured by j*b in New Zealand








 

 

Friday 23 December 2022

AH - DIDN'T MAORI INVENT SWIMMING?

 


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Cam Slater

"Apparently, too many Maori are drowning," says controversial blogger Cam Slater. "And it’s all the fault of colonialism."

 "If only we could approach water safety the Maori way it could solve this problem. Well, that’s what the woke Wombles at Water Safety NZ have decided:"


With summer here, families and tourists will flock to New Zealand’s beaches, rivers and lakes to paddle, swim, surf, fish, boat and kayak. But despite our love of the water, New Zealanders have a terrible record of drowning deaths.

 


 

Last summer was the worst year for drownings in a decade. Our 10-year average beach and coastal drowning rate is 44% per capita higher than Australia’s.

According to Water Safety NZ chief executive Daniel Gerrard, “drowning is the leading cause of recreational death and the third-highest cause of accidental death”.

New Zealand research suggests Western approaches to water safety have not worked for Maori. Water safety educators and advocates are now working to strengthen the connection Maori have with water through whakapapa (genealogy), matauranga (knowledge) and tikanga (custom).
Stuff

"What a load of arrant nonsense. These people are full-flushing idiots milking the teat of Maori wonderfulness for some extra cash."

Ah - why not just teach Maori kids to swim? And might drowning Maori be calling for help in Te Reo, and the Pakeha lifeguards don't understand?

 


The Temptation of St Anthony Abbot
Annibale Carraci



"The days are coming when men will go mad; and, when they meet a man who has kept his senses, they will rise up against him, saying, “You are mad, because you are not like us” - St Anthony, Abbot.