May 8, 2025: Habemus Papam! We have a Pope! A 69 year-old American Pope. The first Pope from both North America and the United States. Chicago born.
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- Augustinian Order
- Registered Republican
- Opposes female deacons
- Wears traditional garments
- Openly critical of Western decline
His father, Louis Marius Prevost was a US Navy veteran of World War II and school administrator.
Previous Pope Leo was Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci from 1878–1903.
April 20, 1884: Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry.
Pope Leo XIII, stood firm against the tide of socialism. In 1891, he wrote Rerum Novarum, one of the Church’s clearest defenses of family, faith, and free society. He stood up for the truth and warned of the misery that follows collectivist ideology.
In the 2024 film, Cabrini, Pope Leo XIII is depicted by Giancarlo Giannini in several scenes offering his support to Mother Cabrini for her mission in the United States in 1889 and thereafter.
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His follower account has suddenly risen. Good, bad, somewhere in between? Who knows. time will tell.
On WORLD DONKEY DAY - May 8, 2025
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May 8, 1920: Saul Bass, graphic designer of corporate logos and film titles, is born in NYC.
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During his 40-year career, Bass worked for some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin Scorsese. Among his best known title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of a skyscraper in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Pakistan issues statement:
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Statement on Baseless Indian Allegations
Europe of values... Good Terrorist | Bad Terrorist
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Amazing how on can go from mass murderer with $10 mil bounty to a ruler of Syria. The political elite that claims legitimacy based on values is committing suicide. Liberal democracy is defended these days by arresting the opposition, cancelling election results, criminalising speech, and allying with terrorist leaders. World's worst villians are now the good guys?
The Qatari propaganda machine, Al-Jazeera, fired the Palestinian journalist Mouna Hawwa because she criticized the Julani regime on X. Qatari's play all sides. American, Israeli, Hamas, etc.
Xi Jinping wrote an article in Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta ahead of his 4-day trip to Russia (he does this whenever he visits a country).
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Chinese Xi Jinping: “Lessons of the Past for the Future”
Xi also naturally has some words on the China-Russia relationship which he characterizes a force preserving the world from hegemony: "China and Russia are significant powers that make a constructive contribution to maintaining global strategic stability and improving global governance. The world needs justice, not hegemony."
He precises that "China-Russia relations [...] are not directed against third parties" but that they are a "strategic link in promoting the multipolarity of the world and forming a community with a common future for mankind."
He also warns that China-Russia relations aren't "subject to [the] influence [of third parties]", probably a reference to talks of American attempts to effect a so-called "reverse Kissinger."
China is positioning itself as the defender of the post-WWII international order against "hegemonic" forces, casting the United States as the revisionist power. And the U.S. is increasingly obliging, validating China's arguments.
It's a very Daoist "wu-wei" (effortless action) approach: rather than directly confronting American power, China is harnessing the present momentum and redirecting it, achieving goals through alignment with existing forces rather than through direct opposition. What emerges is an incremental transformation: China doesn't need to overthrow the international order when it can simply outlast American commitment to it.
"If you wanted to live a nice, quiet, peaceful life, you picked the wrong time to get born."
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https://x.com/WesAndersonfc/status/1860092964766105759
Poor Randy...
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It's that hour... "from the Kingdom of Nye"
- Augustinian Order
- Registered Republican
- Opposes female deacons
- Wears traditional garments
- Openly critical of Western decline
His father, Louis Marius Prevost was a US Navy veteran of World War II and school administrator.
Previous Pope Leo was Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci from 1878–1903.
April 20, 1884: Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry.
Pope Leo XIII, stood firm against the tide of socialism. In 1891, he wrote Rerum Novarum, one of the Church’s clearest defenses of family, faith, and free society. He stood up for the truth and warned of the misery that follows collectivist ideology.
In the 2024 film, Cabrini, Pope Leo XIII is depicted by Giancarlo Giannini in several scenes offering his support to Mother Cabrini for her mission in the United States in 1889 and thereafter.
His follower account has suddenly risen. Good, bad, somewhere in between? Who knows. time will tell.
On WORLD DONKEY DAY - May 8, 2025
May 8, 1920: Saul Bass, graphic designer of corporate logos and film titles, is born in NYC.
During his 40-year career, Bass worked for some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin Scorsese. Among his best known title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of a skyscraper in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Pakistan issues statement:
Statement on Baseless Indian Allegations
Europe of values... Good Terrorist | Bad Terrorist
Amazing how on can go from mass murderer with $10 mil bounty to a ruler of Syria. The political elite that claims legitimacy based on values is committing suicide. Liberal democracy is defended these days by arresting the opposition, cancelling election results, criminalising speech, and allying with terrorist leaders. World's worst villians are now the good guys?
The Qatari propaganda machine, Al-Jazeera, fired the Palestinian journalist Mouna Hawwa because she criticized the Julani regime on X. Qatari's play all sides. American, Israeli, Hamas, etc.
Xi Jinping wrote an article in Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta ahead of his 4-day trip to Russia (he does this whenever he visits a country).
Chinese Xi Jinping: “Lessons of the Past for the Future”
Xi also naturally has some words on the China-Russia relationship which he characterizes a force preserving the world from hegemony: "China and Russia are significant powers that make a constructive contribution to maintaining global strategic stability and improving global governance. The world needs justice, not hegemony."
He precises that "China-Russia relations [...] are not directed against third parties" but that they are a "strategic link in promoting the multipolarity of the world and forming a community with a common future for mankind."
He also warns that China-Russia relations aren't "subject to [the] influence [of third parties]", probably a reference to talks of American attempts to effect a so-called "reverse Kissinger."
China is positioning itself as the defender of the post-WWII international order against "hegemonic" forces, casting the United States as the revisionist power. And the U.S. is increasingly obliging, validating China's arguments.
It's a very Daoist "wu-wei" (effortless action) approach: rather than directly confronting American power, China is harnessing the present momentum and redirecting it, achieving goals through alignment with existing forces rather than through direct opposition. What emerges is an incremental transformation: China doesn't need to overthrow the international order when it can simply outlast American commitment to it.
"If you wanted to live a nice, quiet, peaceful life, you picked the wrong time to get born."
https://x.com/WesAndersonfc/status/1860092964766105759
Poor Randy...
It's that hour... "from the Kingdom of Nye"
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell