Archive for August, 2016
Militant Monday | Purpose and Truth
August 29th, 2016 by Vigilo
This week’s Militant Monday is a 21 minute audio clip, recorded in the 1960’s, by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. It should play automatically from this page. The following is a summary of this Monday’s topic, Purpose and Truth. Read the rest of this entry »
Is the Deep State’s Future in Doubt?
August 17th, 2016 by Vigilo
The Deep State. It can be described as “the state within the state.” Those who are politically literate can see it well in the United States kleptocracy. It’s the shadow government that runs behind the scenes.
The revolving door between government and mega corporations could be mentioned. There have been hundreds of cases where federal workers in the Obama administration get jobs within Google, and vice versa. We see Monsanto trade players with the very people who ‘enforce’ laws upon it.
The pay to play scheme’s could be mentioned as well. Recently, links have been shown between the Clinton Foundation and the United States Department of State.
While it ensures that the things previously mentioned are maintained, the Deep State is bigger and deeper than that, and it isn’t even confined to any one nations borders. However, as the Deep State feeds off of the very class of people it strangles…..it does so at the risk of overreaching. This brings us to Charles Hugh Smith’s “The Deep State’s Catch-22.”
What is the Deep State’s Future? Is it’s grip entrenched forever, or will it collapse along with the system it leeched?
The Deep State’s Catch-22 written by Charles Hugh Smith
What happens if the Deep State pursues the usual pathological path of increasing repression? The system it feeds on decays and collapses.
The Deep State in virtually every major nation-state is facing a form of Catch-22: the Deep State needs the nation-state to feed on and support its power, and the nation-state requires stability above all else to survive the vagaries of history.Catch-22 (from the 1961 novel set in World War II Catch-22) has several shades of meaning (bureaucratic absurdity, for example), but at heart it is a self-referential paradox: you must be insane to be excused from flying your mission, but requesting to be excused by reason of insanity proves you’re sane.

Militant Monday | Divine Invasion
August 15th, 2016 by Vigilo
This week’s Militant Monday is a 23 minute audio clip, recorded in the 1960’s, by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. It should play automatically from this page. The following is a summary of this Monday’s topic, Divine Invasion.
Previously, we heard how we should lay our heart and mind open to the saving experiences which come from without. These experiences can completely change our character….so now we come to Divine Invasion. Read the rest of this entry »
Militant Monday | Conscience
August 8th, 2016 by Vigilo
This week’s Militant Monday is a 24 minute audio clip, recorded in the 1960’s, by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. It should play automatically from this page. The following is a summary of this Monday’s topic, Conscience.
Conscience is that which makes you feel good after, and when wrong, that which makes you feel bad after. We know where we are, and where we ought to be. We know the ideal, and the actual reality. Yet, man will cover up his conscience by turning to untrue ideologies, pills, alcoholism, atheism, vices, hyper-criticism, etc. Read the rest of this entry »
Militant Monday | Philosophy of Life
August 1st, 2016 by Vigilo
This week’s Militant Monday is a 24 minute audio clip, recorded in the 1960’s, by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. It should play automatically from this page. The following is a summary of this Monday’s topic, the Philosophy of Life.
“Good morning, God” ..or.. “Good God…Morning” Which do we say when we wake up?
A normal person already works towards a goal or purpose in life. However, some people get caught up in the ‘absurdity of life’. An abnormal person will actually look for escape mechanisms and excuses…anything…to avoid finding the meaning of life. Read the rest of this entry »