Europe faces death by decadence
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Unherd ^
| 4/10/24 | Malcom Kyeyune
The past week of Swedish politics has been a mysterious case of a dog that should have barked, but then simply didn’t. In
a barely covered press release, the Riksbanken — Sweden’s central bank — announced that it had lost some 44 billion kr (£3.2 billion), and needed that much money from the state in order to return to the minimal level of capitalisation stipulated by the law. For a small country such as Sweden, this is a very large sum: it represents fully half of what the state spent on defence during the 2023 fiscal year. The reasons for...
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The Decadence of Identity Politics - Gender studies comes to policing.
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City Journal ^
| 5 Feb, 2024 | Heather Mac Donald
Among anti-cop legislators, “defund the police” may have lost some currency, but “demoralize the police” is doing just fine. On
January 30, the New York City Council passed the How Many Stops Act, over the veto of Mayor Eric Adams. The law requires New York police officers to fill out a form nearly every time they interact with a civilian. If, for example, an officer asks a potential bystander to a shooting if he had witnessed that shooting, the officer will have to complete a form listing the bystander’s race, sex, and age. Are there other potential witnesses in the...
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Col. Douglas Macgregor Slams the “Ideology of Perpetual War,” Criticizes American Moral Decadence
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thechicagothinker ^
| June 5 | Mitchell Robson
Last month, U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor spoke to the Serbian American Voters Alliance at the New Gračanica Monastery in Third Lake, Illinois. I attended the event on behalf of the Thinker and heard Macgregor discuss his experiences in the U.S. Army, America’s fiscal and cultural decay, and his analysis of the
Russo-Ukrainian War. Macgregor was heavily involved in the 1990–91 Gulf War and in the conflict between Albanian separatists and Yugolasavia over Kosovo. Under former President Donald Trump, Macgregor served as the senior advisor to the acting secretary of defense. America’s Fading Moral Compass Discussing American national leadership, Macgregor...
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[Catholic Caucus] Decade of Decadence
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The Remnant Newspaper ^
| March 22, 2023 | Fr. Celatus
[Catholic Caucus] Decade of DecadenceA pastor friend recently launched a postcard campaign to attract more people to his small parish. The
photo featured 100 plus smiling faces from his congregation, with a caption that read, “Come Join Us!” On close examination, I noticed a rather comical looking face, which appeared many times in the photo. The pastor had photoshopped 10 faces a dozen times to give the appearance of a larger congregation. The Vatican may want to consider doing some similar photoshopping when it comes to Jorge Bergoglio. The number of those attending weekly papal general audiences or standing in...
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[Louisiana Department of Health], New Orleans Health Department, CDC host Southern Decadence Health Hub
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Louisiana Department of Health ^
| August 30, 2022
The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) and the New Orleans Health Department (NOHD) are partnering this weekend with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to host the Southern Decadence Health Hub, which will provide free monkeypox and COVID-19 vaccinations and other health services. The
Health Hub will be located at the main North Rampart Street entrance of Louis Armstrong Park (801 N. Rampart St.), conveniently located near the French Quarter where many Southern Decadence events and activities will occur. The site will operate between the hours of 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. beginning on Thursday, September 1,...
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[New Orleans] Free outdoor concert during Southern Decadence called off because of monkeypox fears
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Nola.com ^
| August 17, 2022 | Keith Spera
The producer of the Bourbon Street Extravaganza, one of Southern Decadence’s signature events, has canceled the free outdoor concert over concerns about the monkeypox virus. Thousands
of revelers were expected to gather Sept. 3 at the corner of Bourbon and St. Ann streets outside the gay bar Napoleon’s Itch to hear dance music diva Jeanie Tracy and other singers. This was to have been the Bourbon Street Extravaganza’s celebratory return after two years of cancellations prompted by the COVID pandemic.
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[Catholic Caucus] Transvestites: For the Vatican Decadence Is “Revolution and Hope”
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Gloria TV ^
| August 11, 2022 | Gloria TV
[Catholic Caucus] Transvestites: For the Vatican Decadence Is “Revolution and Hope”Francis has met the fourth bunch of transvestites on August 10.The Vatican’s party newspaper OsservatoreRomano.va (propagandist: Giampaolo Mattei) enthusiastically labelled this most recent proof of the Vatican’s decadence as “revolution and hope.”Francis' accomplices were Sister Geneviève Jeanningros, Torvaianica Father Andrea Conocchia, and
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski.The transvestites are homosexual prostitutes who spread Aids, monkey pocks, other sicknesses, and eternal condemnation.This was the fourth time after April 27, June 22, and August 3 that Bergoglio promoted homosex prostitution.Tearfully, OsservatoreRomano.va portrays the prostitutes with expressions like “great suffering” and “fragility” and fantasies that...
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In the Ukraine conflict, Putin is defending no Christian values: To cast one's support to Putin based on a dislike of George Soros or Joe Biden and all the decadence they have foisted on the West is a big mistake
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American Thinker ^
| 07/19/2022 | Mike Konrad
Around the world, one would be amazed how much of this came through the bureaucrats and the courts, not the will of the people. The
same is true of the current transgender idiocy. The reason I point this out is that many on the right have given up hope for the West. They see what is going on in the West and are rooting for Russia against Ukraine. They have falsely interpreted that war as a contest between Globohomo (global homogenization/global homosexuality) and a traditional Christian nation, which is Russia. Wrong! For such a Christian nation, Russia still has the...
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Silicon Valley braces for tech pullback after a decade of decadence
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SF Gate ^
| June 11, 2022 | By Gerrit De Vynck and Rachel Lerman , The Washington Post
After a decade of exuberance, Silicon Valley start-ups, venture capitalists and established tech companies alike are cutting investment and firing workers, prompting some in the tech world to openly predict a U.S. recession is on the way. Facebook
and Amazon have slowed their frantic hiring paces, while highflying newer companies including scooter company Bird and email client Superhuman have laid off workers. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk recently told employees he has a "super bad feeling" about the economy, and venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners warned in a blog post that "the boom times of the last decade are...
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Saint Peter’s Square: Decadence Is Sprouting
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Gloria TV ^
| October 14, 2021 | Gloria TV
Saint Peter’s Square: Decadence Is SproutingFrancis’ Wednesday's audience was very brief, few greetings, very few people in the audience hall, Specola (InfoVatican.com, October 13) reports.Many chairs were removed, and still, the hall wasn’t full. Despite
warm days in Rome, the audiences don’t take place in Saint Peter’s square where the absence of people would be too evident.The consequence:The noble paving stones of St Peter's Square are filling up with weeds as a "living image of decadence" (article image) - writes Specola.
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Baalism's Past Suicidal Nature Worship, Sexual Decadence and the Green New Deal!
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IFB ^
| 9/30/21 | Mark Musser
In light of the radical Left's New Green Deal). Much of ancient Israel’s plight, well documented throughout the Old Testament, was its insatiable thirst for pagan nature worship. This
of course was in direct violation of the first two commandments of the Mosaic Law which commanded Israel not to worship any other false god or idol (Exodus 20:3-4). The reason why Israel was forbidden to worship other gods, the natural created order, and idols, was given in Genesis. Genesis 1 presents to the reader an ultimate Creator who made the universe out of nothing through His omnipotent spoken word, and...
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Biden’s Age of Climate Decadence
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Wall Street Journal ^
| January 26, 2021 | Holman W. Jenkins
With Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s famous quip in 1980, it mattered whether he said Republicans had become “the” or “a” party of ideas. “The”
might imply that the mantle of ideas regularly shifts between parties, but history offers little support for this view. Long periods of mental stagnation seem to define both parties. No ideas are present in the climate spasms of the Biden administration, just a doubled helping of patronage handouts to established interest groups. Ideas briefly flourished in the early 2000s, when the debate was between a carbon tax and an inferior carbon tax, known as cap and...
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Sliding toward pedophilia: How the sexual revolution progresses; Changes towards decadence always come in small increments
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Christian Post ^
| 10/03/2020 | By John Stonestreet and Maria Baer
Each chapter of the sexual revolution has featured an updated version of the same myth: “Don’t worry, the kids will be fine.” Sex
with anyone anywhere? The kids will be fine. Separate marriage from procreation? The kids will be fine. No-fault divorce? The kids will be fine. Graphic sex education in schools beginning in kindergarten? The kids will be fine. Same-sex marriages eliminating either a mom or a dad from the picture? The kids will be fine. They weren’t.Growing up in families without married parents, their well-being sacrificed for the sake of adult happiness, the kids have been the primary...
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Baalism's Suicidal Nature Worship and Sexual Decadence (Earth Day)
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IFB ^
| 4/22/20 | Mark Musser
(In light of the radical Left's Earth Day and New Green Deal). Much of ancient Israel’s plight, well documented throughout the Old Testament, was its insatiable thirst for pagan nature worship. This
of course was in direct violation of the first two commandments of the Mosaic Law which commanded Israel not to worship any other false god or idol (Exodus 20:3-4). The reason why Israel was forbidden to worship other gods, the natural created order, and idols, was given in Genesis. Genesis 1 presents to the reader an ultimate Creator who made the universe out of nothing through His omnipotent...
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Creative Stagnation Reflects Western Decadence
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New York Times ^
| Feb. 7, 2020 | Ross Douthat
Everyone knows that we live in a time of constant acceleration, of vertiginous change, of transformation or looming disaster everywhere you look. Partisans
are girding for civil war, robots are coming for our jobs, and the news feels like a multicar pileup every time you fire up Twitter. Our pessimists see crises everywhere; our optimists insist that we’re just anxious because the world is changing faster than our primitive ape-brains can process.
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America’s Late-stage Decadence
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International Man ^
| july, 2019 | Doug Casey
It’s bizarre—perverse, really—that the people doing the most whining about cultural appropriation by Americans don’t actually have worthwhile cultures themselves. The
fact of the matter is that the only culture in the history of the world that amounts to anything is that of Western civilization. The West has given all of humanity concepts like freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of the press, free markets, individualism, science, and rationality. In addition, the West has created almost all of the world’s great music, literature, architecture, and philosophy That’s absolutely true of Africa. Africans should be eternally grateful to the West...
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The Decadence Of Godfried Danneels
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The American Conservative ^
| March 20, 2019 | Rod Dreher
The Decadence Of Godfried Danneels The shaded material on the right is a clip from Kerk en Leven (Church and Life), in August of 1984. Kerk
en Leven is the weekly magazine of the Catholic Church in Flanders. This, via DeepL, is the translation of the first paragraph of the shaded copy: A few years ago, an ecumenical working group on paedophilia was established in Flanders. This working group, made up of Catholics and Protestants, aims to make the Churches aware of the phenomenon of paedophilia, to pass on information and to remove prejudices. The working group also wants to...
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Poland is beset by Russian revanchism, Western decadence, and dangers from within
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Washington Examiner ^
| Sep 2018 | Stephen White
Poland is striving, in a stumbling and halting way, to maintain its identity, an identity that is both European and inextricably Catholic. To do that, it must avoid the twin pitfalls of Russian revanchism and Western cultural decadence. The
Russian occupation of Crimea and continued fighting in Ukraine are taken with deadly seriousness in Warsaw. Polish distrust of Russia, now and in the past, explain Poland’s eagerness to strengthen military ties with the United States. This also explains Poland’s frustration with the European Union’s dependence on Russian energy, a frustration President Trump shares. Tugging at Poland from the West is...
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Raymond Arroyo Lays into Met Gala: ‘Garrish, Narcissistic Parade of Decadence’
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LifeSite News ^
| 5/15/18 | Claire Chretien
May 15, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – EWTN anchor Raymond Arroyo excoriated the “decadent spectacle” of the Met Gala last week, calling it “borderline sacrilege” and “garrish,” narcissistic,” and “campy.” In
a scorching commentary on The World Over, the close associate of Mother Angelica slammed the Vatican for seemingly giving its “imprimatur” to the event, saying the Church needs to do some “soul-searching” about whether it’s engaging the culture or just giving in to it. “All I can say is the Church should have placed greater conditions and limits on the loan” of sacred vestments to the Met, he said. “The Metropolitan...
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The Purpose of Decadence and the Pleasures of Coercion
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JHK Blog ^
| 03 February 2017 | James Howard Kunstler
I guess you’ve noticed by now that the center didn’t hold. Instead
of a secure platform for political premises like tradition, precedent, rationality, and cultural norms, you see a fiery maw of sheer emotion between the camps of the so-called Left and the so-called Right. I say so-called because the campus Left and the Trump Right have escaped the categorical corrals they formerly occupied. And they may have left their customary official parties stranded and dying too. It may be fatuous to say whether that is a good or bad thing; it just is, for the moment. They are two...
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