The Multi-Culti Mississauga Art Establishment Implodes

Below is a Facebook post from a (now former) staff, Sharada Eswar, at the Art Gallery of Mississauga (posted in full after the dotted lines). This multicultural, Indian woman, writes this article on her Facebook page.

Who knew!

For more on my views, and the anti-west, anti-Canada, AGM, see my posts here.

The AGM is imploding, and that's a good thing!

I wrote about Eswar here, in a post I titled White Out at the AGM:

Eswar talks about her childhood with her grandmother in India.

More information on Eswar here, a 2019 post at Reclaiming Beauty I titled: White Out at the AGM

"...In her Brampton [Ontario] living room, a Ganesha statue sits on a side table...Now, Eswar is bringing her grandmother's ancient stories, and some contemporary South Asian tales, to life in the GTA [The Greater Toronto Area, which includes Mississauga]."

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Eswar's Facebook post on June 22, 2020:

This is a fairly long post, so thank you for your time.

Until December 2019, I was leading a community engaged arts project at the Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM). A project that I conceived and birthed, and was nurtured lovingly by the racialized and marginalized communities of Mississauga. A project that received funding from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (a grant that I wrote) to the tune of over $420,000. A project that used stories as a common denominator, to bring together the diverse cultural groups and the racialized communities in Mississauga and beyond, engaging with ideas of self-representation to question colonial narratives. A place to share stories, laughs and the heartbreaks associated with them. There were plenty of laughs alright, and heartbreaks a plenty. A project that consumed my very being, every single day for over three years. A project that I had to abandon because the then Treasurer (and I believe, currently the Chair) decided that he had the right to be a bully, an obnoxious and aggressive force that undermined this initiative. An aggression so toxic that to this day, I fear going to Mississauga, lest I see him again.

It began as a pilot project in 2017. It was a runaway success. The community wanted their voices heard, their stories told and I decided to expand the project. In 2018, things began to change. A number of events dramatically transformed the working environment at the AGM. We were told that the Gallery was financially unhealthy and the very existence of the Gallery was at risk. The one silver lining was receiving the Trillium funding for my project. However, things escalated in 2019. I witnessed, along with my colleagues and many members of the arts community, an alarming deficit of clear communication, leadership and respect from the board and the directorship of the AGM. But all of this paled in the face of patriarchy and white supremacy that was rampant in the Board. The then Director was asked to leave and the predominantly white governance Board decided to become an operating board (there was no public announcement about this shift, nor was the membership informed). A Board that had no clue on how the arts world functioned, let alone how community engagement and relationships are built and nurtured. With no Director to act as buffer, the staff were at the mercy of the Board. Staff were constantly micro-managed and belittled. Things came to a head when the last remaining full-time staff’s position was suddenly and mysteriously dissolved. I say suddenly because despite the position being part of the new 5-year strategic plan approved by the Board and the then Chair & Interim ED, it was dissolved soon after.

At first it seemed as if I would be spared but how wrong I was! Within weeks I was subject to aggressive emails demanding why the artists I had contracted for the project were paid so high (mind you this was a funder approved budget and were being paid as per industry standards); why are there no European voices in this project (one of the main objectives of border crossings was to make room for communities and voices that were until now absent); and then some questions that were beyond the scope of my job description and expertise, though I tried to the best of my ability to answer them all. Emails, so aggressive that I began to dread logging into my computer. I was made to feel incompetent, incapable of doing minor tasks correctly and peppered with questions that felt more like inquisitions. Then there was the gaslighting behaviour. On one occasion I was asked about a missing camera that had “supposedly been bought” for the project – in spite of me insisting that there was no camera bought, I was repeatedly interrogated, making me feel like a criminal. Finally, I was told that if the camera couldn’t be traced, it was my job to lodge a complaint with the police for insurance purposes. It reached a point where I began to question my own sanity, my memory, my actions, my thoughts. After much heart wrench and soul searching, I resigned. I left the project and everything that I had worked towards to that point behind.

Until today I have chosen not to make a broader public statement of the toxicity that my colleagues and I walked into every single day. So why am I speaking now? I, like several others, left space for the funders (specifically the City) and the community members to voice their concerns about the organization. But I realize that to remain silent out of respect for our community may be taken as complicity in an erasure of agency, which was in no way my intention.

Two things happened that galvanized me into action -- the first of the two was on June 3, 2020. There was a post from AGM as part of the #BlackOutTuesday in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. I saw the post and laughed. The hypocrisy I thought! A “leadership” that treats its BIPOC staff with utmost disregard and disrespect now expressing solidarity! I was tempted to comment something nasty but desisted. Then there was a post on Twitter that for me was the tipping point. A podcast (a podcast I had produced and hosted) with the Treasurer as guest. I haven’t been able to bring myself to listen to it. It has brought back all the toxicity to the fore, everything I thought I had under control, the fears, the anxiety, the shame, the rage, the guilt at abandoning the community members, who had time and again made themselves vulnerable, trusting me with their stories. The fact that I had to let go of my project, my creation that was second only to my own child, and this bully is still about exuding power!

How the Devil Plays the Game

VDare, about whom I've recently written here, has finally decided to put some Christian, spiritual article on its website, other than as a "War on Christmas" tag (without the Christ and the Christian).

In the article Is It Time For Americans To Start Talking About The Devil? Matthew Richer does an extensive expose on the Devil, and why we should acknowledge his presence.

But confronting the Devil becomes the final frontier in saving America, not presenting the grace of God. To my knowledge, and I've searched through the extensive articles written for/by/against VDare, there is no article that is exclusive to the praises of God's excellent hand in this American Nation.

Rather, we now have a full expose on the Devil himself.

Wisdom

Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Swan Under the Leaves
Lake Ontario, Port Credit
[Photo By: KPA]

Via The Thinking Housewife:



“CASES” are climbing. That’s because more people are being tested as they go back to work. But there is no significant increase in deaths.

Heather Mac Donald reports at The Spectator:

Since April 24, the daily case count started declining, then began rising again after around June 9. What virtually every fear-mongering story on America’s allegedly precarious situation leaves out, however, is the steadily dropping daily death numbers — from a high of 2,693 on April 21 to 808 on June 24. That April high was driven by New York City and its environs; those New York death numbers have declined, but they have not been replaced by deaths in the rest of the country. This should be good news. Instead, it is no news.

[…]

There are no crises in hospital capacity anywhere in the country. Nursing homes, meat-packing plants, and prisons remain the main sources of new infections. Half the states are seeing cases decline or hold steady. Case counts are affected by more testing; the positive infection rate captured by testing is declining. The current caseload is younger, which is a good thing. The more people who have been infected and who recover, the more herd immunity is created. Meanwhile, daily deaths from heart disease and cancer — about 3,400 a day combined — go ignored in the press.

The situation is likely identical in Canada.

Swan Under the Leaves

Swan Under the Leaves
Lake Ontario, Port Credit
[Photo By: KPA]

The Sandpiper

Spotted Sandpiper
By Lake Ontario,
Port Credit
[Photo By: KPA]

My little bird looks like it might be floating on water. It barely stayed five minutes on the rock, and I was hoping it would move, maybe jump on from the lower ledge to the top. It looked around, and flew off, skimming the water.


John James Audubon (American, 1785–1851)
Spotted sandpiper...View on Bayou Sarah, Louisiana, pl.CCCX , 1827–1838
(Caption at bottom of illustration:
Spotted Sandpiper
Totanus Macularius
1 Adult Male, 2 Adult Female
View on Bayou Sarah, Louisiana)

The Spotted Sandpiper has a wonderfully extensive range, for I have met with it not only in most parts of the United States, but also on the shores of Labrador, where, on the 17th of June, 1833, I found it breeding. On the 29th of July, the young were fully fledged, and scampering over the rocks about us, amid the putrid and drying cod-fish. In that country it breeds later by three months than in Texas.

- Illustration and caption from John J. Audubon’s Birds of America.

Audubon's "In that country" of course refers to Canada, where he studied the birds in the province of Labrador.

He might have saved a long trip "north" by just coming across the New York border to southern Ontario. He'd find the bird mid-June in the more northern Newfoundland and Labrador, but further south, probably by late June, which is when I photographed this bird (June 26th).

It's a delicate and strange little bird, with its extra long pointed beak, and long spindly legs. And a screech/call that is high pitched, not quite shrill, and audible through the wind and waves.

Audubon describes its song:

While flying out in these wide circuits, agitated by superior feelings to those of hunger and necessity, we hear the shores re-echo the shrill and rapid whistle of 'weet, 'weet, 'weet, 'weet, and usually closing the note with something like a warble, as they approach their companions on the strand. The cry then varies to 'peet, 'weet, 'weet, 'weet, beginning high and gradually declining into a somewhat plaintive tone.

- From John J. Audubon’s Birds of America

Video from the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center

I tried to find why this bird was called a sandpiper. Perhaps because it "pipes" through the sand as it looks for food (Insects, crustaceans, other invertebrates. Feeds on wide variety of insects, also earthworms, crabs, crayfish, small mollusks, small fish, sometimes bits of carrion - source Audubon's Guide to Birds of North America)?

The National Geographic has this explanation, more on the sandpiper's cry than its feeding methods:

When airborne [sandpipers] tend to be vocal animals. They sound off with a distinctive three-note, piping-like cry - often represented as “twee-wee-wee.”

Audubon describes the bird bobbing its tail as it sings. I didn't see this, but what I noticed was an endearing bend forward of its longish neck, perhaps as it contemplates flying off.

Below is a map of eastern Canada, showing where Audubon traveled to study the sandpiper.


Highlighted region: Newfoundland and Labrador

The Great Reset

The Great Reset
June 25, 2020
The Thinking Housewife


THE WEBSITE of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is truly a motherlode of information about the vast social and economic changes that are now being “operationalized.”

If you want powerful evidence that this winter’s outbreak of a strong seasonal flu, billed as a catastrophic, world-changing pandemic, was a pretext for implementing a whole new level of global governance — a system planned well in advance — go to the website’s “Covid Action Platform.” I guarantee you, spending a bit of time here will enlighten you. But please bear in mind that the Covid Action Platform was already in place in January. This powerful coalition of private and public leaders based in Davos, Switzerland has obviously been working on this plan for years.

“What they had to do is bring the whole world to a standstill so they could inject the global governance,” says Celeste Solum, who has studied the WEF plan. “It will be titrated out a little bit … but we are on the fast track of global governance right now.” The purpose of the plan is “to galvanize the business community” to follow the plan.

Once you get to the website, you’ll find in the center of the Covid Action Platform page a large corona graphic, a sun emitting rays of subtopics from the main topic in the center. Click on any subtopic and you will be taken to another corona sun, with a new set of rays. Click on any one of the subtopics here and you will be taken to another corona sun, with a new set of rays. Click on any subtopic and you will get to another corona sun …. and on and on. There are hundreds of layers to each main topic, so well conceived is the system that is now being implemented. (In order to see the entire plan, you have to create an account.)

You will learn exactly what the “Great Reset” and the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” are. You will learn about a future with drones, genetic engineering, socialized healthcare, digital identities, behavioral modification with positive reinforcement, travel restrictions, vaccines, open borders, curtailed driving, greater surveillance, remote commerce, dramatically changed workplaces and a climate action revolution. You’ll learn about the “Internet of Things” and the “Circular Economy.” You will see “Pope” Francis’s name repeatedly and you will come across buzzwords from U.N. Agenda 21, especially the ominous term, “sustainable development” — that’s sustainable for nature not human beings. You will be told that the elimination of national sovereignty is absolutely necessary.

Global governance is a means to manage issues that cut across national borders – whether it is a pandemic, financial crisis, or geo-economic dispute. Though traditionally centred on diplomacy and international organizations, a wide variety of public and private actors now engage in cross-border governance – and the work itself has expanded beyond treaty-making to include formal and informal monitoring, enforcement, and financing. Effective governance is essential to secure peaceful, healthy, and prosperous societies, particularly now amid the COVID-19 outbreak and widespread nationalist backlash against globalization. [emphasis added]

It’s not that the world planners at the World Economic Forum don’t sympathize with those who find that government control of so many aspects of life chilling. It writes on an “anti-globalism” tab:

Nationalist backlash has made effective global governance more difficult, and more necessary

The widespread resurgence of nationalist and populist politics has raised serious questions about the future viability of global governance. This troubling trend is at least in part a result of backlash against globalization – against both the economic and social dislocations it has created, and those for which it is unfairly blamed. Populist movements generally express scepticism of perceived elites, and profess to having faith in the wisdom of ordinary people. Yet, paradoxically, they also tend to have an authoritarian bent and a belief in a strong leader able to mobilize the masses. Timely examples of successful populist movements include US President Donald Trump’s election campaign, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s consolidation of political authority in Turkey. Such movements typically appeal to those people who are particularly worried about threats to their social status due to the actual or feared loss of a job, or to those troubled by immigration and changing cultural mores; in other words, people who feel especially vulnerable to exactly the kinds of changes unleashed by globalization. [emphasis added]

If you are concerned about the obliteration of your nation, it’s because you are worried about your social status. Not that those who reengineer daily life have concerns about social status.

Religion does not have a particularly bright future but it can be useful, according to the WEF. To the extent that religious institutions further the goals of global government to bring about “equality” and “education,” that’s okay.

There is a growing awareness that religion is a factor to be reckoned with when it comes to tackling environmental challenges, peacebuilding, improving education, and supporting economic growth. But there is still a general lack of knowledge about the practical contributions of religious actors to international development work. This applies to the impact of beliefs and behaviour on development, and to the particular ways in which religion factors into key development sectors. Education-related goals are at the centre of the global development agenda, and tend to deal glancingly with religious dimensions – if at all. Yet, religious institutions play significant roles in national and international education systems and approaches; religiously-affiliated schools fill critical gaps in rural areas and in countries with underdeveloped infrastructure. Christian schools in particular have also been associated with colonization, however, and have often contributed to the marginalizing of Islamic and other minority communities in a way that creates parallel and unequal systems. Islamic schools have meanwhile played an enormous role in providing education globally, but have also become a political flashpoint because they are (often unfairly) perceived both as standing in the way of social progress in terms of gender equality, and as radicalizing influences.

This is an entirely godless universe. The purpose of human life is nothing more than human life. We are living through the “Great Reset.”

The world is at a historic crossroads, as economies everywhere attempt to pull themselves out of a COVID-19-induced hiatus. The damage inflicted has been horrific in terms of lives taken and livelihoods lost.

However, it also presents an opportunity to rebuild in a more inclusive and responsible way. Coronavirus-related lockdowns provided a glimpse of what is possible in terms of limiting pollution, and the pandemic’s human toll illustrated what can happen when healthcare systems and social safety nets are neglected.

Now, it is up to leaders in the private and public sectors to seize the moment and help create a more equitable and sustainable society.

It’s not that everything in this plan for global governance is inherently wicked, mind you. But the positive changes necessarily entail a radical loss of individual freedom, the growth of a vast industry of behavioral manipulation, and an unprecedented concentration of power at the top. And beneath the bromides about technological efficiency and reduced poverty are truly demonic transformations.

Sheger Bread Factory: Food for Ethiopians

The Sheger Bread Factory we inaugurated today and which took 10 months from conception to finalization is symbolic of our path to prosperity. Producing 80,000 pieces of bread per hour, availing it affordable prices will contribute to food security.

(Click on "more" to read PM Abiy Facebook post on the Sheger Bread Factory)

Flying Free

Flying Free
Port Credit, Ontario
[Photo By: KPA]

Four Boats

Four Boats
Lake Ontario
[Photo By: KPA]

"Clair de Lune": Claude Debussy

"Clair de Lune": Claude Debussy

I've played Debussy's Arabesque No. 1:



Here's the equally enchanting Arabesque No. 2:

"Abichu The King"

Guarding: PM Abiy (right) with traditional Ethiopian shields
At the Adama Industrial Park

From PM Abiy's Facebook page, with over 160 comments, and two in particular:

- Broke Kiya Abichu the King. [KPA: Of course, this could be part in jest. But "Abichu" is a term of endearment]
- Yoseph Abera Our real leader, our brave Man, Dr Abiy !

Jubilee Peonies

Jubilee Peonies
Photo By: KPA
In the Jubilee Garden, Mississauga

Three Swans

Three Swans: Lake Ontario, Port Credit
Photo By: KPA

Sailboat on Lake Ontario

[Photo By: KPA]

Peonies

Peonies
Photo By: KPA

French Style in Mississauga

This is a screen capture of 1470 Mississauga Road, in Lorne Park, Mississauga, a beautiful combination of pale yellow walls and light blue window shutters. It is shielded by wrought iron gates.

This website (with more photos) describes it as:

French Chateau / Farmhouse, reminiscent of holidays in Bordeaux.

Currently: Off market.

A little of southern France, wine country, transported to the Mississauga valley.

More about Lorne Park, here. A good Wikipedia article, which describes older Mississauga villages, and a generalized history of Mississauga.

From the article:

Even though Lorne Park was absorbed into Mississauga, it remained a distinct neighborhood that retains ties to its pioneer origins.

This building is a new development, but the Lorne Park neighborhood has some of the oldest mansions, and houses, of Mississauga.

More on the historic estates in Lorne Park here and here.

#Green Footprint From Ethiopia

የሪፐብሊካን ጋርድ አባላት ሀገራቸውን በጽናት ስለማገልገላቸው አመሰግናቸዋለሁ። #አረንጓዴ ዐሻራ

Thank you Republican guard members for serving their country with strength. #Green footprint

Thank you to all members of the country's state of the country for serving them. #Ashaaraamagariisa


#greenlegacy

Modern Men

Woods Cathedral, Detroit

War Games installation displaying
"Surrealist, Conceptualist and Minimalist works by 12 artists,
including Anders Ruhwald, Hannah Perry, Simon Denny and Yngve Holden." [source]

I've said for a long time that modern men are doubters. They will acknowledge in some civilizational manner the presence of God, or at least the tradition of God, but waiver around their committment to God.

Here is an article at VDare, where James Kirkpatrick discusses Lawrence Auster's recently published book Our Boarders, Our selves.

Of course, it starts with the requisite "Auster was prickly" introduction. Why bother with that? And, in reality, who isn't prickly, some more so than others?

But the crunch of the article is here:

Auster counters that without a “publicly authoritative moral understanding,” individuals have no way to understand their social role. Nations are unable to define, defend, or preserve themselves. Thus, he makes the startling claim that “the grounding of rights in nothing beyond the whim of the individual leads directly to open borders and multiculturalism.”

And a little later on:

Auster argues that, while there may be conceivable “non-Christian ways of rebuilding a normal sense of peoplehood and racial identity among whites,” it can only really happen through the “rediscovery of the classical and Christian understanding that we Westerners have lost.” He argues that a Western worldview, which he attempts to define, gives us a way to “see reality whole,” placing values into their “natural rank and order” instead of destroying ourselves by trying to make “human values into gods.”

In other words, Auster says that without the underlying morality of God, a cohesive Western worldview is not possible.

But James Kirkpatrick, the author of the VDare article, subtly disclaims this by adding other doubters in the mix:

Of course, others like Oswald Spengler have argued Christianity itself inevitably led to the kind of liberalism Auster decries. Tom Holland’s recent book Dominion makes the same case from a more positive perspective. Auster doesn’t really confront this possibility.

No, because Auster has recognized the inherent difficulties Christians have when following the words of Christ, having critiqued the two major bodies of Christianity, Catholicism and Protestanism, as Kirkpatrick himself writes in his article:

Besides attacking liberal Protestantism, Auster accuses the Roman Catholic Church (to which he nevertheless converted shortly before his death) of adopting “the very heresy of modernism” it had once condemned, putting “man’s well-being” and the “dignity of man” at the center of the Faith. Instead of recognizing man’s basic sinfulness, it celebrates the “cult of man,” symbolized by the post-Vatican II practice of the priest facing the congregation than the altar when he consecrates the host.

I wrote this as one of my many proposals (and still going) from my book project Reclaiming Beauty: Saving Our Western Civilization

Reclaiming Beauty will be the first book on beauty to make a comprehensive, historical, cultural and societal review of beauty. It will describe the moment (or moments) when beauty was not only undermined, but eventually abandoned, as a paradigm of civilized life. Rather than attributing beauty to a Godly goodness, philosophers, writers and artists began to view beauty as their enemy, and as their nemesis. They saw God as a judge who would not let them do as they wished. In order to pursue the image of beauty they desired, they began to look elsewhere. They began to abandon God, and by abandoning God, they began to change their world, filling it with horror and ugliness.

When nations practice true Christianity, they are not at war with God, and will not let the horrors of ugliness fill their world, as I write later in the article, by

...putting “man’s well-being” and the “dignity of man” at the center of the Faith. [Auster]

Without God, there is no dignity, and the "dignity of man" crumbles into dust, sooner or later. Man's well-being becomes the be-all of existence. And what does this mean? Gourmet dinners? Vacations to Paris? Extra large popcorn at the movies? Churches converted into museums?

Here is a post I wrote in Larry Auster's VFR, commenting on a discussion on beauty and ugliness:

There is something holy about beauty. We react to it in a reverential manner. We attribute it, at our best, to God. We realize when we see someone beautiful, it is not necessarily what the person did, but some preferred state he is in. A truly beautiful person, or thing, is a little frightening, a little other-worldly. Beautiful works of art are also hard to achieve. It takes time, training, skill, talent and some mysterious spirit to create a beautiful work of art. Not any ordinary person can create something beautiful. An ugly painting is immediately recognized for its slovenly quality. Also artists can create beautifully ugly pieces, but the beauty is a channel to alleviate the ugly story, incident, or place. That is why people have such a hard time with beautifully made horror films, for example. A beautifully made horror film is like the work of the devil (i.e. it is evil), as though the devil is using the tools of beauty to lure us into his world.

African™

Courtesy of The Real History Channel.

Zoma Museum

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy visits ZOMA last year. This multi-faceted centre, with its emphasis on "harmony with nature" fits the PM's aganda and continued efforts with his #greenlegacy:

#GreenLegacy is beyond aesthetics. The air we breath. The wood we use. Water availability for agricultural activities through catchments. Storehouses for carbon. Maintaining biodiversity. Guaranteeing food security. Enhancing eco-tourism. Preventing soil erosion. Controlling floods. All these are intrinsically linked with trees and forests. Let’s all roll out the green carpet for #Ethiopia by planting our print. [Source]

PM Abiy Ahmed also visited Zoma Museum, expressing his amazement at the effort made to transform a garbage accumulation site to a place of respite. He shared his hope that all Ethiopians would overcome challenges like Zoma founders & work to change their country. #PMOEthiopia pic.twitter.com/uDfnU9k6gm

— Office of the Prime Minister - Ethiopia (@PMEthiopia) May 12, 2019

The Zoma Museum in Addis Ababa describes its institution thus:

Zoma Museum, formerly known as Zoma Contemporary Art Center (ZCAC) is an environmentally conscious art center located in Addis Ababa. The concept was developed by Meskerem Assegued (cultural anthropologist and curator). It is constructed and co-directed by both Meskerem and Elias Sime (artist).

Here is more background on ZOMA (from the organization's web page):

* The concept of ZCAC was first introduced to the public in 2002 during Giziawi #1, an art happening organized by Meskerem with artists from Ethiopia, USA, Italy, Kenya, and France on Meskel Square, one of the largest public venues in Addis Ababa.

* The focus of ZCAC multidisciplinary contemporary art [is] international exchange between artists, and the conception and implementation of sustainable, innovative, and environmentally conscious art projects.

* With its residency programs designed around different themes (architecture, landscape design, art, documentary film, and education), ZCAC provides Ethiopian and international artists the opportunity to live in harmony with nature, develop new forms of artistic expression, experiment with new techniques and materials, and to find alternative, artistic, and creative solutions to current environmental problems.

* Another important component of ZCAC’s activities is the establishment of an ongoing educational program with international partner institutions. Since 2002, the center has been regularly hosting educational events, such as workshops at the School of Fine Arts with renowned artists such as David Hammons from New York and Ernesto Novelo from Mexico. With the support of Alliance éthio-française and the British Council, ZCAC has also collaborated with the International Association of Art Critics.

*In 2009 the New York Times Magazine wrote" Its organic, circular structure, intricately carved walls and woven roof appear
like a voluptuous dream, a swirl of ancient techniques and ecstatic imagination."

I will be writing more about ZOMA, its unique architecture, and the programs and projects it hosts.

Yellow Flowers

Yellow Flowers
Lake Ontario (Port Credit)
[Photo By: KPA]

I believe they are Leopard's Bane.

Modern Men

Woods Cathedral, Detroit

War Games installation displaying
"Surrealist, Conceptualist and Minimalist works by 12 artists,
including Anders Ruhwald, Hannah Perry, Simon Denny and Yngve Holden." [source]

I've said for a long time that modern men are doubters. They will acknowledge in some civilizational manner the presence of God, or at least the tradition of God, but waiver around their committment to God.

Here is an article at VDare, where James Kirkpatrick discusses Lawrence Auster's recently published book Our Boarders, Our selves.

Of course, it starts with the requisite "Auster was prickly" introduction. Why bother with that? And, in reality, who isn't prickly, some more so than others?

But the crunch of the article is here:

Auster counters that without a “publicly authoritative moral understanding,” individuals have no way to understand their social role. Nations are unable to define, defend, or preserve themselves. Thus, he makes the startling claim that “the grounding of rights in nothing beyond the whim of the individual leads directly to open borders and multiculturalism.”

And a little later on:

Auster argues that, while there may be conceivable “non-Christian ways of rebuilding a normal sense of peoplehood and racial identity among whites,” it can only really happen through the “rediscovery of the classical and Christian understanding that we Westerners have lost.” He argues that a Western worldview, which he attempts to define, gives us a way to “see reality whole,” placing values into their “natural rank and order” instead of destroying ourselves by trying to make “human values into gods.”

In other words, Auster says that without the underlying morality of God, a cohesive Western worldview is not possible.

But James Kirkpatrick, the author of the VDare article, subtly disclaims this by adding other doubters in the mix:

Of course, others like Oswald Spengler have argued Christianity itself inevitably led to the kind of liberalism Auster decries. Tom Holland’s recent book Dominion makes the same case from a more positive perspective. Auster doesn’t really confront this possibility.

No, because Auster has recognized the inherent difficulties Christians have when following the words of Christ, having critiqued the two major bodies of Christianity, Catholicism and Protestanism, as Kirkpatrick himself writes in his article:

Besides attacking liberal Protestantism, Auster accuses the Roman Catholic Church (to which he nevertheless converted shortly before his death) of adopting “the very heresy of modernism” it had once condemned, putting “man’s well-being” and the “dignity of man” at the center of the Faith. Instead of recognizing man’s basic sinfulness, it celebrates the “cult of man,” symbolized by the post-Vatican II practice of the priest facing the congregation than the altar when he consecrates the host.

I wrote this as one of my many proposals (and still going) from my book project Reclaiming Beauty: Saving Our Western Civilization

Reclaiming Beauty will be the first book on beauty to make a comprehensive, historical, cultural and societal review of beauty. It will describe the moment (or moments) when beauty was not only undermined, but eventually abandoned, as a paradigm of civilized life. Rather than attributing beauty to a Godly goodness, philosophers, writers and artists began to view beauty as their enemy, and as their nemesis. They saw God as a judge who would not let them do as they wished. In order to pursue the image of beauty they desired, they began to look elsewhere. They began to abandon God, and by abandoning God, they began to change their world, filling it with horror and ugliness.

When nations practice true Christianity, they are not at war with God, and will not let the horrors of ugliness fill their world, as I write later in the article, by

...putting “man’s well-being” and the “dignity of man” at the center of the Faith. [Auster]

Without God, there is no dignity, and the "dignity of man" crumbles into dust, sooner or later. Man's well-being becomes the be-all of existence. And what does this mean? Gourmet dinners? Vacations to Paris? Extra large popcorn at the movies? Churches converted into museums?

Here is a post I wrote in Larry Auster's VFR, commenting on a discussion on beauty and ugliness:

There is something holy about beauty. We react to it in a reverential manner. We attribute it, at our best, to God. We realize when we see someone beautiful, it is not necessarily what the person did, but some preferred state he is in. A truly beautiful person, or thing, is a little frightening, a little other-worldly. Beautiful works of art are also hard to achieve. It takes time, training, skill, talent and some mysterious spirit to create a beautiful work of art. Not any ordinary person can create something beautiful. An ugly painting is immediately recognized for its slovenly quality. Also artists can create beautifully ugly pieces, but the beauty is a channel to alleviate the ugly story, incident, or place. That is why people have such a hard time with beautifully made horror films, for example. A beautifully made horror film is like the work of the devil (i.e. it is evil), as though the devil is using the tools of beauty to lure us into his world.

Image: Screen shot from The Thinking Housewife's Live in Fear video

Laura Wood, at the Thinking Housewife, provided a link and some commentary on her post: WHO article: Asymptomatic Transmission Rare:

“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, who leads the WHO’s diseases and zoonosis unit, during a press briefing in Geneva, where WHO is headquartered.

Writes Laura:

The belief that healthy people are extremely dangerous and the practice of social isolation are already ingrained in 75 percent of the population. The facts are beside the point now!

Read her whole post, plus the links she references to.

Ethiopia's Children

Photo from PM Abiy Facebook page
One tree sapling at at time

PM Abiy instructs Million by planting one tree sapling at a time, to re-forest Ethiopia, and to secure the rain that grows the wheat for the daily bread for his future.

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PM Abiby, of the historic, and biblical, country of Ethiopia, released recent photos of his newly adopted son, Million.

Million is a relatively common Amhara name, but it doesn't make it any less poetic.

Ethiopia has been the centre of international adoption for many years, with rural, impoverished women giving over their infant children to beckoning western women who cannot have children of their own (age, anyone?). Of course, there is also the "third world saviors" syndrome, as was the case for the most famous Ethiopian orphan adoptee, Anjelina Jolie, who found a vulnerable mother to give up her infant daughter.

Million's adoptive mother, PM Ahmed's wife Zinash, saw him in a local orphanage in Addis Ababa, held him in her arms, and immediately started adoption papers. He, PM husband, accepted her decision.

It was as much a political move as a personal, familial one. Let Ethiopia's children stay in their own country. Let them grow up to be Ethiopians.

Swan Grace

Swan Grace
Photo By: KPA

This beautiful swan, which has the full command of the shoreline, swims out further into the lake and back again. Its other companions were not visible (I have seen them in the nearby Port Credit Harbour Marina area), save for one, which swims farther out into the sea, and back again.

I was struck by the graceful bend of its neck.

Antisemitism and the Victimhood of Looting Thugs

Above is a screen shot of Peter Brimelow on June 3 at the Berkley Springs Castle, while being interviewed by RamzPaul (what serious adult has a "nickname" RamzPaul - there's a whole "joke" behind it I'm sure, and I'm not interested).

Sir Brimelow, master of the Berkeley Springs Castle, comes looking like one of the (imaginary) hired hands.


Berkley Castle Grounds photograph, courtesy of estately.com

Which begs the question: How does one manage a huge property, in four-season West Virginia (Winter snow, Fall leaves, Spring rains, and Summer growths)?

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In my last post on the series of posts I've don on the VDare non-reporting on the devastation that the fake COVID has done on the US economy, I wrote on VDare author's Sailer's June 4 post: Cristalnacht in the Fairfax District:

It begs the question: Was the VDare group, realizing that eventually the fake virus would unleash societal upheavals, cleverly deducing that it would become a racial blowup, where blacks would feel even more "oppressed," while whites, even the poor whites, appear to be doing that (little) much better?

I wrote, on Sailer's comment in that article: "The Fairfax neighborhood in West Hollywood, CA is known both for its elderly Jewish population":

As always, the VDare group has some wrong end of the stick. And it usually involves blacks. And a subservient, under-the-radar acknowledgment of Jewish "victimhood." Who exactly finances VDare's big enterprises - e.g.: Their Castle on the Virginia Hills? And who has the deepest, and strongest, vested interest in destroying Christianity?

Sailer is not letting off his Jewish-link, i.e. antisemtic, theory, as an update on his June 4 post.

In his latest article on June 5 at VDare: More on Cristalnacht in West Hollywood, Sailer quotes from Jerusalem Post's June 3 article, Jewish business owners describe vandalism, looting of businesses in LA.

In that article, Jewish business owners describe the vandalism and looting of businesses in LA:

Rosenfeld described the scene late Saturday night with people driving down the Fairfax district streets screaming, “effing Jews,” at them.

Notice that this is the generic "people." Were they whites, Hispanics, blacks? How many? A whole Dionysian mob?

Is it the "antifa" which is effing the Jews?

Well, here is some information:

Israeli-born philanthropist and activist Adam Milstein...said: “The rioters are antifa and Black Lives Matter and they are inherently antisemitic.”

Why anti-semitic? Because they ransacked some stores? No, because:

"...synagogues got tagged and Jewish businesses were looted with [signs saying] ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘Kill the Jews,’ [which] is not a coincidence. The rioters are antifa and Black Lives Matter and they are inherently antisemitic.”

So who at VDare really cares about the fate of blacks, those hundreds of thousands of blacks, who are at at the same mercy, (and even worse), as are whites, of the vicious hands of these hired gun thugs who are rampaging through America's cities?

But Jews are leftists, and "activists," in one form or another, and explains Jonathan Friedman:

....who owns Syd’s Pharmacy, also in the Fairfax area, he’s unclear if he was targeted because he is Jewish or if it’s because looters were after narcotics – all of which were taken from his store.

“It’s frustrating,” he added. “We had no part in this. They had no reason to involve us. I understand the [protesters’] cause. They’re actually right. Someone was murdered and they’re right, but I don’t see where myself and other businesses, that were suffering with corona, have the extra $3,000 to cover the deductible for their insurance, fit into this whole thing.”

Syd "understands" these thug looters, who are victims, don't you know. There can be some excuse for antisemites.

Accelerate the Revolution

The image above comes from Steve Sailer's article on VDare: Cristalnacht in the Fairfax District.

Sailer writes:

The Fairfax neighborhood in West Hollywood, CA is known both for its elderly Jewish population of 1940s refugees and its luxury stores selling conspicuous consumption items that rappers crave, like Cristal champagne.

So the smashing of windows and looting of high end shops on Fairfax and Melrose boulevards could be dubbed Cristalnacht, especially because a small number of the terrorized residents can likely still remember the Kristallnacht of 82 years ago.

Sailer just got on piece of information (fact) wrong:

‘It has come to my attention that the managing director of Cristal, Frédéric Rouzaud, views the “hip-hop” culture as “unwelcome attention”’, said Jay-Z. ‘I view his comments as racist and will no longer support any of his products through any of my various brands, including the 40/40 Club, nor in my personal life.’ [Source: Decanter, June 16 2006]

That was fourteen years ago!

Who knows why Jay-Z chose Cristal? He's into bling bling, has a lot of money to throw around, and his wife Beyonce thinks she's the Queen Bee, who also glitzes her wardrobe with shiny stones. So Cristal might just be a name thing (and a "religion?").


Beyonce crystalled out in her Witchcraft video: Formation

There's a deeper connection, actually, which Sailer might have got to had he not used his race-tinted cool shades. Or, he never meant to report on this.

Both Beyonce and Jay-Z use their "black power" image to project a "neo-black power" occult movement. In fact, all their videos and languages are filled with double meanings, the double, the hidden, being their Illuminati messaging. Their occult stand.

J and Queen B are deeply embroiled in the occult, devil worship.


Skull from Jay Z's "On to the next one" video

Of course, the atheist VDare (and that includes Sailer and Brimelow), who "celebrate" Christmas as a one-up on the religion of the multi-culti and blaspheme against the true celebration of Christ's birth, find nothing wrong with (or at least, nothing to report about) different religious stands. No-where, in any of their reports, do they discuss the Christian implications of immigration (including all those Catholic Mexicans who cross that border). Christianity simply becomes a celebratory prop to distinguish, and elevate, the white Brimelow from those brown Catholics, along with all those other religions. So even Satanism counts as a religion to stand on, and perhaps even better than the others, since it builds towards the destruction of Christianity and the Gotterdammerung, a fresh clean slate for the white West.

As always, the VDare group has some wrong end of the stick. And it usually involves blacks. And a subservient, under-the-radar acknowledgment of Jewish "victimhood." Who exactly finances VDare's big enterprises - e.g.: Their Castle on the Virginia Hills? And who has the deepest, and strongest, vested interest in destroying Christianity?

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I wrote yesterday (June 4) in my post America-Destroying Entities

There is no attempt by VDare et al., and Faith Goldy, who has regular video posts on Vdare, to delve into the underlying causes of black thuggery. E.g., who exactly is it that funds the "movement?" How do other blacks, and especially the poorest (pregnant women living alone!), fare under the fear of this black underworld of crime and murder, which also viciously attacks them?

But, I had some speculations in previous posts. This time regarding the VDare group's silence on the COVID "crisis" which resulted with the real crisis from the economic shutdowns of whole countries:

But, I discovered that what I wrote earlier still holds: that VDare has no interest in the societal and economic upheaval that this fake pandemic is causing the world[Reclaiming Beauty, May 14, 2020].

What is disconcerting is that VDare has not posted a single coherent piece on the spectacular "lockdown" (a prison term, by the way) on Americans and Canadians, and actually the whole world, on a fake pandemic for a virus that has killed less than the flu virus (and viruses), which originated from an outdoor market in China[Reclaiming Beauty, April 28, 2020].

It begs the question: Was the VDare group, realizing that eventually the fake virus would unleash societal upheavals, cleverly deducing that it would become a racial blowup, where blacks would feel even more "oppressed," while whites, even the poor whites, appear to be doing that (little) much better?

I continue in my May 14 post:

The discussion between Derbyshire and Brimelow [during one of Brimelow's regular interviews with writers and journalists] centered around black crimes on whites, which is the repetitive, mantra-like, redundant postings through which VDare has made its trademark, over the couple of decades it has existed.

I have to speculate whether it is something that they wish for, some kind of racial war, to start the machinations of a global Gotterdammerung, to start their America on a clean, white slate.

Ordinary whites appear to have a complicit head start in the COVID recovery, which the media talking heads, fronted by blacks and whites, tell us. Thus ALL whites appear to prevent blacks from getting their daily bread. And this "narrative" is followed by whites and blacks alike. But the violence of black thugs has nothing to do with their daily bread, COVID or no COVID. And it has nothing to do with "their" race.

Thus, this manipulated "pandemic" became the starting point for the race war that race instigators from all corners and political stripes, and especially the elite leaders, are content to see happening.

It will simply accelerate the revolution toward:

Black subjugation and wipe out

or

White subjugation and wipe out

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It is a war.

Two Swans

Two Swans
Lake Ontario, Port Credit
[Photo By: KPA]

America-Destroying Entities

More posts and analyses at The Thinking Housewife on the "riots." The most recent are here and here.

And perhaps the most revelatory are here and here.

Once again, it is revealing that the "America" websites and bloggers like VDare ("We inform the fight to keep America American") and the Canadian Faith Goldy ("For Christ the King & Country") do not address the issue of the sabotaged blacks, whose criminal members are the front men for larger America-destroying entities.

VDare continues with its vicious "portraits" of black thugs, which ordinary blacks do not support in any manner, and who are in fact, as this black woman points out, its primary victims (pregnant women - think about that).

There is no attempt by VDare et al., and Faith Goldy, who has regular video posts on Vdare, to delve into the underlying causes of black thuggery. E.g., who exactly is it that funds the "movement?" How do other blacks, and especially the poorest (pregnant women living alone!), fare under the fear of this black underworld of crime and murder?



Nestride Yumga, Miss Cameroon America, 2016
The immigrant nurse who dared voice the truth

Lakeside Blossoms

Lakeside Blossoms: Port Credit, ON
[Photo By: KPA]

"We Will Make Addis Ababa a Flower that Flourishes, Like Her Name"

In my previous post, I posted the Facebook dancing fountains of PM Abiy's Addis Ababa Riverside Project.

The "translation" on this Abiy's Facebook page Amharic note:

አዲስ አበባን እንደ ስሟ የምታፈራ አበባ እናደርጋታለን::

is...

We will make Addis Ababa a flower that fears Addis Ababa like its name.

This is slightly wrong!

The actual translation is:

We will make Addis Ababa a flower that flourishes, like her name.

I suppose in some ways it is good to fear Addis Ababa, to prevent enemies and ill-wishers from getting on her streets.

And, Abiy's philosophy of peace, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Peace, and his persistent strategies to ward off war with malcontent ethnic groups, makes his wish ring true:

We will make Addis Ababa a flower that flourishes, like her name.