Due to a medical emergency that has happened to me over the last two days, I will not be posting for the near future. My apologies to my fellow contributors on the Review, as well as you our readers.
Please pray for me, and God richly bless you and yours.
Hanve a Happy and Safe 2005.
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We will post again on Sunday the 26th.
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This article was written by Robert Waldrop, connected with the Oklahoma branch of the Catholic Worker Movement (which - unfortunately - has been split between orthodox Catholic and neo-Modernist camps). Waldrop also writes for the online magazine Better Times Info.
A challenge was put out to him on whether poor and middle income folks could be able to feed themselves on a "food stamp budget" for a week. Waldrop met the challenge with flying colors. Go here to find out how he and his family did it....and you can too.
This long essay is from strategic analysist and economic/political newsletter editor Joel M. Skousen. His newsletter World Affairs Brief is detailed and accurate. His manner comes off as sober and realistic, his gathering of facts and discernment of trends admirable.
Skousen sees the next decade as critical in the fight for freedom. His analysis sees three players on the world scene - Russia, Red China and the Globalist West - vying for either domination or guidance of overall events. Whoever wins, it seems economic and political liberty will not.
He also looked deeply into the US Presidential election, as well as the first Bush term, and sees a continuation of Clinton-era policies.
Skousen is not a Distributist. Not enough people in the world are. Perhaps one day, if he ever finds out about what Belloc, Chesterton and their legitimate successors left us, he may join our side. But his is the most frank and earnest observation of global events I have read so far.
They must not be dismissed lightly.
And we Distributists should...no, MUST act accordingly.
There is a world to help God set free from the ideologies of Marx, Lenin, Mao, Hitler and Adam Smith. Let us both pray and work harder than we have in the past to set it free.
After watching a report from NBC News in the US, I checked the website of the Vermont Alliance of Independent Country Stores (VAICS). This is a group that is joining forces to protect themselves against the steady encroachment of "convenience marts", whose chain-store structure and practices is undercutting too many of these family-owned businesses.
Although the state has been enslaved to Scandanavia-style socialism for many years, Vermont has been in the forefront of protecting and promoting many things we Distributists would approve of.
We at the DR encourage you to contact the Alliance and voice your support for their efforts. If they can be reproduced elsewhere, then implement the same where you live to fight the chain stores and their allies in big government.
This report of December 1st, written by Toby Westerman, is from the monthly intelligence newsletter International News Analysis.
Mr. Westerman's report on Moscow's links with China, Cuba, India, Brazil and others only confirms what we've said at the Review from a while back. That is, Putin, Hu Jintao, Castro and the rest are positioning themselves to set up a rival New World Order to the ones both Wsahington and Brussels are setting up.
Distributism opposes Communism and it's pretentions for a "world dictatorship of the proletariat", as much as it opposes socialism, fascism and capitalism. We don't want Russia and China to conquer the US, anymore than we want the US to conquer them. We want all nations to become Godly, pro-family and Distributist, living in peace with each other in Christ the King.
This report, from the Italian news website AsiaNews, is based on a leaked document from the Chinese Communist Party. The document was originally put on the website of the Canadian Protestant group The Voice of the Martyrs.
The dictatorship of the Party, now under the leadership of Hu Jintao, is frightened by the increasing number of youth and Party cadre becoming devout Catholics, Protestants, Muslims or members of the Falun Gong cult. So a paper was written by the Party's Department of Propaganda which outlined an eight-step program to further marinate China in Marxist atheism.
But the Party is fighting a war it will never win. As Chesterton said long ago:
"If there were no God, there would be no Atheists."
And even among the Communists in China, Mao Zedong is still reverenced as the "Great Helmsman", along with Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. They are the substitutes for God Alimightly among them. As Chesterton wrote in Lunacy and Letters:
"Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred."
Humanity is religious by nature. Communism is always attempting to change that nature for the worse. In the end, the Chinese Communists will fail, as have their counterparts in Russia, Cuba and Eastern Europe. Nonetheless, let us pray for the poor souls persecuted in China, that God may one day free that sad land from the tyranny of Marxist atheism.
This report is from the pro-leftist BBC News website, by their Tokyo correspondent Jonathan Head.
The land of the Rising Sun has one of the world's lowest birth rates, and this has the government scared. Like Russia, America, and too many nations in Europe, Japan is dealing with the effects of the Sexual Revolution. Non-marital sex, contraception, abortion and an aging population is putting strain on their social net. Combined with workplace discrimination, a economy in a decade-plus recession, and bad government policies do not give Japanese women incentive to bring new souls into the world.
Much of the blame is also on, according to Head's article, "social attitudes". Husbands are still expected to spend much of their day away from the wives in the office. Women are still expected to "stay home and breed", according to a former government official.
Japan has a long way to go to cure this malady that will, if left unchecked, shrink the nation's population by 20% by mid-century. A good dose of Chesterton and Belloc's insights, massive economic, cultural and religious change, and a strengthening of love between husbands and wives are the key to the nation's survival.
And the other countries infected by similar evils should do likewise.
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