In Remembrance of Oliveira Salazar

Señor de la mesura a quien no ciega
el aplauso mundano del gentío.



ANTÓNIO DE OLIVEIRA SALAZAR
1970 - July, 27 - 2010

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Blaquier

Dr. Plinio Correa de Oliveira, the founder of the TFP, had a name for capitalists with communist sympathies. He called them "Sapos".

Herethe interview published by "La Nacion"

Power

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

Sunday's Meditation

Men become like unto that by which they are intoxicated.
-- Gautama Buddha

Why seek to know the world, if knowing it means being possessed by it.

Kali Yuga

"Qué día triste. Qué dolor leer estampada en el título del diario la noticia irreversible de la confusión canonizada y de la mentira hecha ley.
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No protestemos por "el mundo", ni nos contagiemos de sus métodos propagandísticos para ganar la pulseada. Reconozcamos nuestras omisiones y nuestras incoherencias, pidamos perdón y convirtámonos al Evangelio, que sin éxito, sin brillo y sin fuerza humana (esto enseña la sabiduría de la cruz) cambia el corazón de las personas."

What a sad day! What a pain to read the headlines of the newspapers this morning with all the confusion and lies about the gay "marriage" - since last night the law of the land.

We should not complain about "the world" or follow its ways in order to win a match. We should recognize our mistakes and our own weaknesses, ask for forgiveness and convert to the way of the Gospel which without success, shine or human effort (this is the wisdom of the Cross) has changed the human heart.


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"It is the attitude of a man who can choose the hardest road, fight even when he knows that the battle is materially lost and live up to the words of the ancient saga, ‘Loyalty is stronger than fire!’ Through him the traditional idea is asserted, that it is the sense of honor or of shame – not halfway measures drawn from small minded moralities – that creates a substantial, existential difference among beings, almost as great as between one race and another race. … If anything positive can be accomplished today or tomorrow, it will not come from the clever tricks of agitators and politicians, but from the natural prestige of men both of yesterday but also, and even more, from the new generation, whose recognition of how much they can accomplish validates what they believe."

Julius Evola, Orientamenti

From the unforgettable Hugo Wast

Hugo Wast, The Amazing Father Brochero, the Apostolic Model for Catholic Ministry.

"Hay que decir la verdad. Brochero fue exclusivamente un apóstol, un ardiente evangelizador de los pobres, que hubiera mandado al diablo sus instrumentos de apostolado, sus caminos, sus ferrocarriles, sus escuelas, y hasta la célebre mula malacara en que anduvo miles de leguas por abruptas serranías y desiertos impresionantes, en cuanto hubiera advertido que eso no servía a su único propósito: ganar almas para Dios."

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El buen combate

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of the trial and in the exaltation after the combat

Father Pio of Pietrelcina.

Argentina's Crony Capitalism

As if were personal property, President Kirchner gave Argentina's public companies and utilities to his friends.

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The Trial of Jesus

Professor J.H.H. Weiler, a renowned scholar (NYU School of Law, is lucky to have him!!), taught last semester a seminar at NYU "The Trial of Jesus His reflexions of the seminar were published in "First Things" (June-July 2010 issue)and were delivered at the Erasmus Lecture on March 7, 2010 at Hunter College (see
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Bellow some interesting observations of Professor Weiler:

For the last four years, I have been conducting, at New York University's School of Law, a seminar on the trial of Jesus. The Wall Street Journal inveighed against it as educational inanity: if not exactly corrupting the youth, then at least leading them astray and squandering their tuition dollars. Happily, the seminar has been oversubscribed since inception. Christians and Jews enroll in roughly their proportions at the law school, with the seminar split more or less evenly among the religiously committed, those committed to being nonreligious, and the generally uncommitted. For Jewish students, with few exceptions, the seminar marks the first time they have actually read the gospels; their knowledge of the trial's narrative derives from hearsay and Hollywood. They are surprised to discover how much of our general cultural idiom derives from the New Testament, and they are surprised, too--and somewhat troubled, in complex ways--by their unmediated encounter with the highly sympathetic Jesus narrative, just as they are shocked by the fierce anti-Jewishness of John. The newness of that encounter makes it hard for them to comprehend the equanimity with which the others in the seminar relate to it. They feel discomforted by the underlying cultural "you did it" sentiment.

For Catholic students, the seminar often marks the first time they have read the gospels systematically. They are mostly uninterested in the normative issues of who is responsible for the judicial death of Jesus, and they are genuinely surprised at how it dominates the rich trial literature. Nostra Aetate seems to have sunk in.

Protestants typically arrive with real command of the text, but they, in their turn, are surprised by the critical tradition that is so pervasive in scholarly analysis of the trial. Something like the mirror image of their Jewish classmates, they tend to hold a clear view of Jewish responsibility for the death of Jesus, although they feel guilty for holding that view.

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Bellow Professor Weiler'd defense of the Crucifix before the European Court of Human Rights


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Sodomonio

Con prevención les pregunto
Que ustedes no se me ofendan
¿Este pueblo amodorrado
Merece que lo defiendan?
-- Leonardo Castellani, S.J

With caution let me ask the following question
meaning no ofense to anyone
Why do iddle people
deserve to be defended?
-- Leonardo Castellani, S.J

Even if God doesn't exist, and Christianity of whatever sort is a sham, we're still faced with the question of how to live with sexual responsibility and integrity in a commercialized, consumerist, individualized culture that believes in no authority but the desiring individual will.

---Damon Linker

El hediondo guiso de la confusión es el manjar de los igualitaristas. En nombre de la igualdad, estamos a punto de equiparar ¡por ley! lo natural con lo antinatural, lo sano con lo insano, lo verdadero con lo falso.

Hace exactamente 75 años, un porteño de mirada aguda. Enrique Santos Discépolo, escribió el tango "Cambalache", que tiene en sí todo el sentido común necesario para que dejemos de vivir "revolcaos en un merengue y en un mismo lodo todos manoseaos"...
Lo interesante es que Discépolo plantea la confusión justamente con el léxico de la "igualdad"...

"Todo es igual"... La coherencia del igualitarismo es irreprochable: desparecen, con el "escalafón", todas las jerarquías, y con los "aplazaos", todos los juicios de valor, de modo que "nada es mejor"... Sólo queda una verdad ("¡es lo mismo!"), traducida a la voluntad en un inmenso bostezo metafísico: "¡Da lo mismo!". Pero ocurre con nuestra naturaleza, nacida para vivir en el orden y la armonía de lo diverso, lo mismo que con las pobrecitas plantas de Varsailles: esta confusión nos hace violencia:
¡Qué falta de respeto, qué atropello a la razón!


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"In a civilization where equality is the standard, where differences are not linked, where promiscuity is rampant, where the ancient idea of "being true to oneself" means nothing anymore - in such a splintered and materialistic society, it is clear that this phenomenon of regression and homosexuality should be particularly welcomed, and therefore it is in no way a surprise to see the alarming increase in homosexuality and the "third sex" in the latest "democratic" period, or an increase in sex changes to an extent unparallelled in other eras."

Julius Evola, Eros and the Mysteries of Love: Metaphysics of Sex, Inner Traditions International, 1991
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"Los grandes parlanchines son normalmente pícaros. También ignorantes. Confunden el ruido con las nueces. Padecen el estigma del egoísmo. Y el egoísmo político busca, a base de palabras, hacer mucho ruido y, a río revuelto ganancia de votos...A borbotones salían de la boca de los políticos arrogancias y sinrazones. Y, lo que es peor, la imposición en la sociedad de los caprichos interesados y enfermizos de algunos políticos que buscan desde el poder solucionar su problema, insoluble por estar ínsito en su propia naturaleza. Los refranes siempre contienen aleccionadores axiomas. Este es uno de ellos, «los sabios construyen y los tontos embrollan».
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Sodomonio. Se trata de una relación, realidad y personalidad humana, que tomó nombre de la ciudad de Sodoma, por sus costumbres y relaciones generalizadas, socio sexuales, denominadas sodomía, materializadas entre individuos del mismo sexo, hombres con hombres, hoy conocidos como gais, y mujeres con mujeres. Sodomía conforme al diccionario significa relaciones de carácter social, sentimental y sexual desviadas, antinaturales y ecológicamente incorrectas. Munus- función, práctica calificada corrupta e incorrecta para la misma naturaleza. Y sobre todo para toda inteligencia sana y no obcecada.

Bonifacio Difernan, O.S.A, Matrimonio versus sodomonio
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Two recent books about Peronism

Juan Bautista Yofre, El Escarmiento. La ofensiva de Perón contra Cámpora y los montoneros. 1973 - 1974, Planeta, 2010. 440 pp.

Jose Pablo Feinmann, Peronismo. Filosofía política de una persistencia argentina. Cámpora y los Montoneros. Sudamericana, 2010. 770 pp.

A good book about peronism is always a reason to celebrate, and Juan Baustista Yofre's book is a cause for celebration. In spite of the fact that Peronism, the political movement created by Juan Domingo Perón, has largely determined the political and historical process in Argentina the second half of the twentieth century, it has not been a matter of scholarly debate. It could be said that Peronism has been much more matter of opinion than an object of systematic study.

Jorge Asis, an argentine writer and former diplomat, offers a lucid analysis on two books recently published on peronism.

One of the books was written by an investigative reporter, Juan Bautista Yofre, and the other, by José Pablo Feinmann, a jewish philosopher living in Argentina.

The period covered by Yofre is from the return of Peron on June 1973 until his death on July 1, 1974. Feinmann book is more comprehensive covering the period from 1943 to 1972.

According to Asis, "El Escarmiento" ("The Chastisement")was based on hard facts while the other, Feinmann's book is more a freestyle interpretation by a former peronist follower.

While Feinmann prefers the first Peron - alluding to Peron's first term- a much more authoritarian and uncompromising figure, Yofre likes the last Peron, a mature stateman who could understand the gravity of the marxist infiltration in his party and took the neccesary steps to get rid of it. For Feinmann this depuration of marxists elements ammounts to a dirty work.

Yofre has documented extensively the training of Montoneros and other armed groups in Cuba in that period. This marxist infiltration in a national movement is commonly referred as "entrismo" (to infiltrate).

Asis considers that Feinmann has committed some exagerations in his appreciations such as considering Heidegger, the German philosopher, a "proto-peronist". Feinmann, has become disillusioned with peronism and joined the FPV, the political party founded by the Kirchners. He writes a monthly column in the pro-government newspaper, Pagina 12 with apologies to the Kirchners which are under heavy criticism for charges of corruption.

Yofre's book is important not only for his extensive research, but in the contribution it makes to our understanding of both Peronism and democracy in Argentina. He shed some light on Father Mujica's murder in Buenos Aires at the hand of the Montoneros. He also refers to former Minister of Foreign Relations Jorge Taiana's incarceration as occurring during the peronist period (Peron's wife term) not during the military period. At that time Taiana was charged with setting a bomb in a coffee shop in Buenos Aires and killing a waiter. The bomb was directed to navy officers who were sitting at the coffee shop but they left the place before the explotion took place.

See here Asis' article in Spanish.

Maestra Ciruela - (aka Miss Know-it-all)

About the G-20 Summit in Canada last week:

The first lady is not interested in the exchange of ideas or experiences, she went to the summit to lecture her peers, she is incapable of learning from others.


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