CANCELLED BISHOP STRICKLAND TELLS POLLIES THE TRUTH

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 +Strickland IN 2020, warning Catholics to WAKE UP

IVF: everyone knows someone with a story to tell about IVF. Like the married couple - the wife Fijian/Indian, husband Kiwi as - who after IVF treatment conceived triplets. Two died in utero. In hospital the wife struggled with distress, amplified by what she perceived as racism from nurses. Three years later the couple had IVF again and conceived twins. All three children were subsequently removed by CYFS (now Oranga Tamariki) who wrongly alleged ill-treatment by the mother. Her children were never returned. 

That IVF was funded by taxpayers who are still paying for the children's care and the mother's treatment for mental health issues.

In the US, "America's Bishop" Joseph Strickland - the one Bergoglio cancelled - has spoken out on this scalding hot election issue: Donald Trump, the pro-lifers' great hope of defeating babykiller supremo Joe Biden, endorses IVF, leaving faithful Catholics in something of a quandary. +Strickland, speaking as "one having power" like Christ's, tells politicians the truth about playing God and freezing spare babies. 

 

 At the kitchen table Friday night, dinner dishes still in the sink, the house in darkness because the sun set while I wasn’t paying attention, I watched history unfold on the screen of my computer. Bishop Joseph Strickland addressed the crowd at the CPAC (Conservative Political Action) Ronald Reagan Dinner. 

He’d been invited to speak a month earlier, and now not being encumbered by the duties of a diocesan bishop, he was free to accept. It was always going to be a great speech because Bishop Strickland speaks from a heart and mind immersed in prayer. But circumstances lined up for it to be a historic speech. 

In the recent case LePage v. Mobile Infirmary Clinic, Inc, the Alabama Supreme Court had to decide whether the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applied to “extra-uterine embryos,” those cast-aside embryos that result from in vitro fertilization (IVF). One week ago, the Court ruled that embryos, specifically those conceived by IVF technology, are legally children.  

“Unborn children are ‘children’…without exception based on developmental stage, physical location, or any other ancillary characteristics,” the Court wrote in its majority opinion.

The lone dissenting opinion worried that, “No court, anywhere in the country, has reached the conclusion the main opinion reaches.” Well, someone has to be first.

Our media immediately came out with compassion and outrage features to win sympathy for parents who cannot conceive naturally. I never did find a piece with any sympathy for a tiny human being conceived in a lab outside the act of love, cultivated in a petri dish, and casually stored in a deep freezer. It is the very definition of an abandoned child, a technological orphan. 

Friday morning, likely-Republican-candidate Donald Trump promised to protect access to IVF technology, eroding his strong standing with Catholics. He pledged the firm backing of the Republican party to the “creation of strong, thriving, healthy American families,” as though IVF were a carefree, innocent way to champion family life. Other conservative figures followed suit. 

So, all the ingredients for a high-level dustup were on the table: the CPAC favorite son on record for IVF, and an upcoming keynote address by a bishop well-known for speaking hard truths. I’m guessing there were a few organizers wishing they could somehow cancel the bishop. (It’s been done before.)

The IVF issue has the potential to erode the massive lead Trump has, imperiling the hope we have placed in him to save this nation for our children. He is wrong about IVF, but most of America has no idea why.

Neither would New Zealand. Fewer Kiwis would have an idea than Americans. 

While IVF affects a small minority (about 2 percent of live births in the United States), it could become the hot-butter-knife issue for conservatives. We all know couples who joyfully welcomed a child conceived by technology when nature seemed not to oblige them. Opposition to IVF looks like flat-out meanness, the sort of rigidity we have been condemned for.  And yet…

The CDC has an “IVF Success Estimator” on its website to calculate the odds of a successful live birth by IVF, based on the mother’s age, weight, underlying fertility factors, and pregnancy history. For a 34-year-old female of average weight and height with no underlying pathologies, using her own (fresh, not frozen) egg, the success rate was 50 percent. That’s an ideal case; for someone older, or with a history of ovulatory or uterine disorders, or scar tissue—such as might result from a surgical abortion—the odds are lower. 

It is precisely these odds that require the most appalling aspect of IVF: the creation of multiple embryos so that lab technicians can choose the most robust, leaving 8 to 20 embryos for cold storage. Those embryonic persons who didn’t make the cut have a sad fate unworthy of human life: waiting in a cryogenic limbo. Over a million embryos are stored in the United States, with no clear plan for their lives. Some will become subjects of scientific experimentation. 

 The odds of a live birth by IVF go down even further when using embryos previously frozen. According to the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, the pregnancy success rate is between 2 and 12 percent per frozen egg. I know of a woman who tried to bring 31 embryos out of storage to full term; only one resulted in a live birth (3 percent success rate). When you freeze a living thing to -196º F, it’s not a simple process to make it like it was before. 

I can’t think of any parents who would sleep at night if they really understood that their children were in a laboratory freezer, with probable future dispatch as medical waste—or dropped on the floor by an incautious lab tech, as in the case that gave rise to the Alabama decision.

When the moment arrived for the keynote speech on Friday, Bishop Strickland emerged onstage with Deal Hudson, a Catholic media figure. Instead of a podium, two chairs had been arranged in a sort of conversation pit. The bishop seemed a bit tentative about the seating arrangement, clutching his sheaf of notes, presumably his prepared speech. Once they were seated, Hudson led off with an open question about progress toward achieving the ideal of one nation under God, and the bishop took off extemporaneously.

A student of the bishop from way back, I recognized his preaching style, the way he tips forward like a drinky bird when he is making an especially essential point, his whole body saying: “listen.” Around three minutes into the event, he unfolded his notes; around five minutes, he began speaking from them. There was apparently nothing Hudson could do to stop him, even if he had wanted to. The bishop had something to say, and once he began to speak from his notes, he rolled like a freight train. Around the 13-minute mark, the bishop got to the IVF issue. At home, we all shouted, “He’s going there!”

Most parents don’t know exactly what IVF entails, never mind politicians. Bishop Strickland called for men and women dedicated to defending human life to educate our leaders, and I imagine he meant Trump most of all. With kindness toward our candidates, he counseled, Many are not well-versed in the controversies of today, but we must be. We must stand strong and instruct these good men and women who are called to lead us, to help them understand the intricacies of what science has done in playing God, and having embryonic children frozen and too easily disposed of. 

IVF is now a scalding-hot issue for conservatives proud to be pro-life. Our front-runners have already made definitive statements about IVF, seeing only that it brings joy to agonized couples. Political support for it is almost surely based in ignorance of the gritty details, but those politicians are on record now. Before the bishop took the stage, I imagine someone somewhere was hoping he would leave it alone. 

But this is Bishop Strickland. He doesn’t speak for a party; he can’t be swayed by expedience. If he was a cupcake, he’d still have a diocese. His courage and persistence don’t fit the classical political arena. What were they thinking when they extended the invitation? 

It’s all good news for us, however. The things that matter most were taken to the front of the room, not shoved in the coat closet with a smiley-face seal. Any reservations I had about mixing a Catholic bishop into a political event evaporated.

This is exactly what we have needed. It’s what’s been missing from most aspects of our public life: the clear expression of truth in the face of the thorniest issues, the issues that may win or lose elections. 

Christ, and Christ only, brings clarity to these heartrending issues that confound us, and the bishop brought Christ. Previous CPAC speakers have certainly mentioned God in their speeches, but Bishop Strickland spoke with a spiritual authority I have never seen matched in any political venue. 

A new standard has been posted, and our leaders must expand their understanding to uphold it. The world of conservative politics has been transformed. Truth entered CPAC by the main door on Friday, in a black cassock and a pectoral cross.

 

Bishop Strickland’s entire talk can be viewed here. Be sure to watch the body language. The portion of Bishop Strickland’s talk specifically addressing IVF can be viewed here.

Note: Couples who experience trouble conceiving have alternatives besides IVF, such as NaPro. It does not involve sin in the collection of sperm, and it is as effective, or more so, than IVF. As with many things, the more “natural” ways are not as seductive as technological solutions, but they are there for those willing to try.

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  Sheryl Collmer

  Sheryl Collmer is an independent consultant for several non-profit organizations. She holds a Master’s in Theological Studies from the University of Dallas, as well as an MBA. From her home in the diocese of Tyler, Texas, she studies homesteading, history, and the currents in the Church.

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 He was teaching them as one having power, and not as the scribes and Pharisees (Mt 7, 29).

CIVIL SERVANTS, MSM, ARDERN: IMPOSTERS ALL

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Ardern the Imposter, Hipkins the Hopeless having a good time at New Zealand's expense  

"Cry My Beloved Country." It's a steal from Alan Paton's 1948 novel of nearly the same title, but truly if one didn't have faith in God and the power of prayer you'd be crying over New Zealand right now.

We rejoiced to see the back of Ardern the traitor who last year had the gall to boast to a crowd of sycophants at Harvard that for her entire 5 years as this country's prime minister she was also an imposter. We knew that. We knew she'd got her PR from the Freemasons. We knew she was a narcissist who cloaked her baby-killing legislation and mandate and lockdown and killer vax in 'kindness' and 'keeping people safe'. But to skite about it ...

She dressed her act up as a syndrome. But while she struts the world stage New Zealand flails about in her leavings of massive debt and 'died suddenlys', with the albatross around our neck of a surfeit of Marxist MSM and civil servants who are barely civil to their bosses and certainly not serving the taxpayers. Ex-Labour cabinet minister (who unlike Hipkins' hopeless harpies knew his onions) Michael Bassett finds their hostility a threat to any policies that PM Christopher Luxon may yet get brave enough to define.  

First, a tweet from November 2023 notifying Ardern's imposture which seemed to escape the notice of our Marxist media - but perhaps they thought that unlike the Extremely Intelligent Harvard Academia, commonsense Kiwis might take her boasting the wrong way: 

The Redbaiter

@TheRedbaiter

Jacinda Ardern admits to having suffered from "Imposter Syndrome" for the whole time she was PM of New Zealand. She made the admission to an audience of fawning students and staff at the Harvard John F Kennedy forum. She suggests to the audience that if they ever find themselves consumed by self doubt they should think of her for inspiration. Frankly, I don't think it was any kind of syndrome. She was right to doubt her competence as Prime Minister. She saw herself as out of her depth because she truly was out of her depth, and in spite of the tales she told the clapping seal Harvard audience about her roaring success in the role, she was in actuality probably the most incompetent PM in NZ's history.

Ardern with her "clapping seal Harvard audience"

Next, from Michael Bassett:

Unless you were present to hear the Prime Minister deliver his State of the Nation speech on 18 February it was difficult to get the full speech. Chris Luxon mailed out only a few bullet points. TV One promised to give viewers a good look at it on the 6pm news that night, but that low-level reporter, Maiki Sherman, introduced her story with a whole lot of irrelevant stuff from the Big Gay Out before providing unrelated snippets of Luxon's speech.

TV One Spews, living up to its well-earned sobriquet with Sherman's propaganda, was being worse than irrelevant. It's as disordered as the sad individuals at Big Gay Out which featured Deputy Prime Minister Nicola Willis and minor minister Chris Bishop in the van, displaying at the very least poor political judgment and an inability to think straight (pun unintended).  

The Herald left reporting the speech to Sam Hurley who interspersed a few of Luxon’s comments with only partially relevant counter arguments from the Leader of the Opposition, while failing to remind readers that the appalling educational and welfare statistics occurred under Chris Hipkins’ government. Make no mistake about it: the Main Stream Media are hard at work trying to undermine the new government.

In the end, I found the full speech. Clearly, it was no oratorical triumph; Chris Luxon has none of the charisma of John Key or the intellect of Helen Clark. But the tone of the speech was correct. Times are tough, and a more rigorous approach to welfare is urgently needed. 

Carmel Sepuloni left behind 70,000 more people on so-called “Jobseeker” unemployment benefits than were there in 2017 when she came to office. Luxon’s statistic that 2,000 young people receiving a youth payment or young parent payment are now expected to spend an average of 24 years of their working lives on a benefit is frightening.  

But as Lindsay Mitchell has pointed out on our site, the situation is much worse. More than one in five of all new babies being born today comes into a household dependent on a benefit.

That's somehow a reminder of a statistic published years ago: one in five New Zealand women had had at least one abortion. Of course the figure would be higher now and somehow, somewhere hidden, there lurks a correlation with babies born on the benefit.

None of those children will grow up in a family that knows anything about self-reliance or working for a living.

Luxon’s speech was short of solutions. In that sense, National seems little better than Labour which, you’ll recall, came to office in 2017 after nine years in Opposition, with so little policy they needed more than 200 committees to advise them on what to do. Luxon points in the right direction, for the most part, but more than eighty days after coming to office he is still shy about specifics.

This is serious. Labour’s incompetent ministers became so reliant on their officials that the bureaucracy eventually came to feel that it owned the policies that emerged after 2017. And right now, those same people are being asked to reverse or unscramble their own work. 

A fight back is underway. Already there have been at least two serious leaks from bureaucrats to journalists designed to embarrass the new Government: one a cabinet paper warning ministers about the political dangers in relation to their approach to Treaty issues, the other about financing build-to-rent housing.

 Several friends of mine who interface with departments working on the development of new policies tell me they have encountered what they sense are deliberate efforts by Wellington bureaucrats to ensure they won’t deliver what ministers have instructed. Wellington, as we all know, is now in the hands of the Greens, many of them harbouring ideology that would have survived comfortably in Bolshevik Russia.

Moreover, there are nearly 16,000 surplus civil servants who were casually popped on the public payroll by Jacinda Ardern and Chris Hipkins. A major exercise in patch protection is now underway by those whose jobs are threatened. Every RNZ news broadcast seems to contain a union threat about collapsing services if civil service jobs are pruned. But taxpayers were promised a reduction in staff numbers. And budgetary restraint in the current economic climate is fundamental.

Worse for the government, in the absence of Luxon’s clear indication of nuts and bolts solutions to the problems he outlined in his speech, ministers are dependent on the advice of many of the very people most hostile to their policies. I cannot recall a time when any government’s plans have been so threatened. Certainly, the basic public service ethos of employees needing to deliver the policies the public voted for is being challenged.

The Minister for the Public Service, Nicola Willis, ironically, is the very minister who under her other hat as Minister of Finance, has the most direct interest in the implementation of the new government’s policies. 

It’s certainly time for a new State Services head, and it might be time for a full-scale inquiry into the bureaucracy so that civil servants are told in no uncertain terms of the responsibilities that accompany the rather lavish salaries they enjoy.

And any inquiry should include TVOne and RNZ that have been over-indulging the political whims of their employees ever since last October.

 https://www.michaelbassett.co.nz/columns.php?id=358&yh=2024&yl=2023

 

Stained glass of Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (Feb 27) in church of Brioux-sur-Boutonne 

St Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, please pray for us

'CALAMARI' IN KIWI CORPSES, PATIENTS

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Clots emerge in post-surgical drain (NZDSOS)

My brother Karl du Fresne, making his last post (we hope not!) on the subject of objective reporters - missing in inaction in today's journalism - says of people who go to social media looking for the truth, "Good luck with that".

But capture of mainstream media by socialist (not to say Marxist) academia influencers, by what passes for training of would-be journos, now means - as du Fresne tells us - that it's not even fact, let alone truth, that's found in the Fourth Estate these days. Especially when the Fourth Estate is paid by a government which may change its colour, but its identity not so much. 

Especially when the facts involve a so-called vaccine devised by what du Fresne calls "malevolent players in the shadowy online demimonde" in the interests of global depopulation, and its devastating, intended success. But a fuss is being kicked up now over the weird 'calamari' turning up in the corpses of vax victims and it's the oft-maligned social media (including New Zealand's Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) who are on to it. 

Trouble is, it's too weird for many people to contemplate. But God contemplates it - and He contemplates the perpetrators of this evil. "Thou art not a God that loveth wickedness. Thou hatest all that do evil, Thou wilt destroy all who speak falsehood. The man of blood and deceit the Lord abhorreth." (Ps 3).

Dr John Campbell, embalmer John O'Looney, 'calamari' 

Dr. John Campbell, a prominent educator in medical matters with a Doctorate in Nursing, recently conducted an interview with embalmer John O’Looney, who boasts extensive experience in embalming and dealing with the deceased.

RAIR Foundation previously interviewed O’Looney in October 2021 after he blew the whistle on the alarming discovery of “calamari”-like rubbery blood clots within individuals’ bodies shortly following the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.

It is noteworthy that this phenomenon persists, as cases of “sudden deaths” among young and otherwise healthy individuals continue to reveal massive and unnatural blood clots within the body’s arterial system.

The interview is available on YouTube, where the language used is cautious due to the increasing consequences of speaking candidly about various topics. Nonetheless, the discussion primarily revolves around the effects of mRNA injections, which remain a significant concern. Despite the slowdown in mRNA vaccine administration, reports indicate that the occurrence of sudden deaths and massive blood clots, which emerged in mid-2021, persists. https://youtu.be/wwdRfbPrGIY

https://rairfoundation.com/unveiling-terrifying-reality-embalmer-john-olooney-exposes-alarming/

 

Image provided by NZDSOS 

 

In the attached video, Dr. John Campbell speaks with Major Tom Haviland, United States Air Force, who is a data scientist and an engineer mathematician. He and Dr. Campbell have a conversation here about mystery blood clots that embalmers have found in corpses over the past three years. Because of these strange clots, the embalming process in the corpses can take 2 1/2 hours where it usually only took 1 to 1 1/2 hours prior to the arrival of the COVID jabs in 2021.

Basically, the circular system of corpses is significantly clogged. The embalmers have stated their belief that these clots formed before the person died, not after death. Even more perplexing is that the clots found by embalmers can be in the 6 to 10-inch long range. In rare cases, embalmers have found clots that extended as long as two feet within a corpse.

The video, which goes in depth into the topic, is 49 minutes long.https://youtu.be/4rAoqhTUU0g

https://www.bonanzavalleyvoice.com/story/2024/02/08/news/mystery-clotting-in-a-post-covid-jab-world-video/2195.html

 

Clots emerge from post-surgical drain (NZDSOS)

 

NZDSOS has been aware of the white rubbery clots being removed by embalmers from some dead vaccinated people since about mid 2021.

Embalmers around the world have been reporting this brand new phenomenon, and we interviewed a funeral director here in NZ in late 2022. 

Medsafe will have been aware of these rubbery clots. We have posted and written on them often enough. But perhaps, like the temporary magnetism in some vaccinated, and the self assembling microtech – supported by a considerable scientific literature – these topics seem too outlandish for many people to contemplate. 

Now, mainstream medical journalist Dr John Campbell is profiling these findings, which he explains represents an entirely new disease process never seen before, nor discussed in medical literature. However research is being published on the spike protein’s prion-like ability to form amyloid protein polymers, or condensates.

He discusses the failed attempts of a UK funeral director to report his and others’ findings, to both the Chief Coroner of the UK and his local coroner. This person is a highly experienced and credible professional who has been speaking out about the excessive number of vaccinated predominantly young people who have died suddenly, as well as the unprecedented and strange structures being fished out of blood vessels during the embalming process.

US embalmer Richard Hirschman was the subject of last year’s documentary Died Suddenly. He has been attempting to raise awareness of these frequent rubbery clots and is joined now by US Air Force Major Tom Haviland, here with Dr Campbell again, in exposing the seismic reality of the effect these injections are having. Please watch the videos above, but here is bit of terminology.  

A normal blood clot (thrombus) is a collection of red blood cells, platelets and clotting factors which usually forms when a vessel has been damaged, or when blood is exposed to the air.  It is one of the first steps towards healing.  It is usually dark red or purple in colour and has a jelly-like consistency and will break apart easily when handled.

The new rubbery clots are not the same. They are a brand new disease entity.  They appear more like ‘casts’ or internal molds of the blood vessels, both arteries and veins.  They are white and rubbery, stretchy and sticky.  They appear to be fibrous and constructed of many different proteins, none innate to the body. They are becoming known as calamari ‘in the trade’.

Another term gaining momentum is gel/plastic, as coined by NZDSOS member David Nixon who is doing very important work at his microscopy substack. In this article he covers some foundational work by the much missed pathologist Dr Arne Burkhardt.

We have seen these bizarre structures, taken from recently deceased Kiwis, and now a living patient has come forward with indisputable evidence of these rubbery white structures being discharged through a surgical wound drain site. 

The significance of this actually is earth shaking, as it provides a final jigsaw piece for the exact mechanisms that can prove these modified RNA injections were always going to be very dangerous in the human body. The underlying chemistry is being teased out and the ‘smoking gun’ will be evident soon for all to see. 

Until then, when will this dangerous jab be stopped? We call on people to send this article and links to everyone they know. Just as so many deaths are unexplained, so is the absolute refusal of all governments and regulators to act. If this doesn’t alarm people, what will?

We will be handing a letter to parliament at 1pm on 29th February listing our many concerns, including these fibrous structures, any one of which ought to have triggered a regulatory recall.

Rubbery Clots Found in Blood Vessels | NZ Doctors Speaking Out With Science (nzdsos.com)

 

La Transfiguration
Pierre-Paul Rubens

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