Blackouts in Spain, smoke in Rome
Things are going to slide in all directions
As you may know by now, yesterday a giant power outage affected all of Spain and regions of Portugal and France, and no one knows why. Perhaps by the time this is published they will have come with a decent excuse or an explanation, but so far nothing official has been said.
Russians hackers? Aliens? Climate change?
You might remember that a couple of years ago the recently retired Klaus Schwab talked several times about a “cyberattack" as the “next menace”, so this seems to be the part of the plan. Perhaps just a test for a global blackout soon.
I have no idea what happened, but I have no doubt that this was planned, and that there is more to come.
So be prepared.
Another thing I've noticed is that they are pushing this “AI” thing everywhere, basically forcing it on everyone. First it was all major search engines, then Meta, now Apple. I don't want any “AI” chatbot on my phone or my computer, but you can't even turn the damn thing off.
This might be related to the blackouts — I would wager that eventually they will come up with some story about “AI going rogue” and causing all kinds of chaos. I'm pretty sure this is in the works as we speak, if not now, in the near future.
So, again — be prepared.
(Remember, you read it here first).
But I started writing this days ago, as the funeral of Francis was happening, attended by a multitude of world leaders. After the Mass at San Pietro there was a procession to Santa Maria Maggiore where was laid to rest. Since I imagined there would be tons of people and lots of streets would be blocked, I avoided going downtown. However, from what a friend told me, many people had the same thought and stayed home, and in the end it turns out that, except for the roads where the papal hearse was passing, downtown was actually quieter than usual. (Well, for Roman standards.)
The Conclave has been set for May 7 and I suppose I will still be around here to report if the smoke coming out of the Vatican chimneys is black, white or pink. No, it's not supposed to be a gender reveal, although who knows these days. (In the recent movie “Conclave”, it appears that they elect an hermaphrodite pope).
Whatever happens, it is unlikely that the next Pope will be any good. Out of the 130 Cardinals who will elect the new Pope, 108 were chosen by Francis, so this indicates that the process of “modernization” of the Church will likely continue.
The media, as expected, is cheering for an African or Asian pope (they are obsessed with racial replacement) while other power players are more supportive of someone like this:
In any case, the Catholic Church has bigger problems than the next Pope.
Something happened in 1962. Something called Vatican II, which changed completely the direction of the church, and unless the next Pope completely rejects the decisions of Vatican II, then nothing will really change.
It's not just the changes in the Mass, which I mentioned before and basically mean a “protestantization” of the liturgy. It is the whole idea of transforming the church into something “cool, modern, inclusive”. In other words, adapting it to the “modern world” in the hopes of attracting more young people.
This process failed miserably. Let's look at Quebec, which up to the 1960s was a very traditional Catholic society, with families having lots of children and going to church every week.
Then Vatican II happened, then just after what they call the “Quiet Revolution", where people basically stopped going to church and having children. Today, only 4% of Quebecers go to church once a month, and the fertility rate has dropped to 1.4 or less. Many churches have been converted into gyms, cinemas or even nightclubs.
(By the way, almost the only masses where I see relevant numbers of young men and women are traditional Latin Masses; Novus Ordo rituals are performed usually for an audience of nonagenarians and occasional families with small children).
Accordingly, as traditional rules went down, so went society. Abortion and euthanasia have been long legal in the province, and now the Superior Court in Quebec is forcing all courts to recognize families “with more than two parents”.
Remember, not so long ago everyone assumed that you could only have a mother and a father, as this is indeed the only form that is biologically possible. Then people started talking about “two dads” and “two moms", when obviously at least one of those was not the actual father or mother of the child, and the arrangement usually included shady deals with sperm banks and the womb rental of Filipino women. Now, they are talking of families with "three parents” or even more. In Ontario, already four people can be declared “parents” of one single child. Don't ask me about the mechanics of that.
What is interesting is this. If the modernization of the Church failed so miserably, why do they want to continue with it?
Is it because they are completely clueless and have not realized the ill social effects of such choice?
Or, more likely, is it because they know it failed, but the intention is to completely destroy the church and any form of traditional society, from the inside?
Stay tuned for more news of blackouts, terror, social disintegration and chaos.