Monday, November 11, 2019

Putin-KGB's-Russia PEARL HARBOR Attack Against UNITED STATES - OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL, OIL.---- MOSCOW, PUTIN'S KGB INFORMATION WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA !!! - DESTROYING THE US CONSTITUTION, US FLAG --- TRUMP’S IMPEACHMENT, CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS

That was quick - Thank you to those for Reporting the PROBLEMS and DISCREPANCIES regarding the Technical & Mechanical Internet operations of the Google Blog related to the Thalamus Center Blog website. November 30, 2019 - PUTIN'S RUSSIANS are OUT TONIGHT!!!
       SURPRISE,
 SURPRISE!!!
PUTIN'S 
RUSSIAN
 CYBER 
AT WORK!!!
OIL!?!
PUTIN’S RUSSIA

DIGITAL WAR

Russia had 
compromising 
information that could 
be used to 
blackmail
 Trump...
…a Russian government
 attack on our country
that was unprecedented
in scale and scope… it 
was a huge digital 
Pearl Harbor against our country…


Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion Gps Investigation of Donald Trump
by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch

November 26, 2019 / Fresh Air / NPR
After Donald Trump was elected but before he was inaugurated, BuzzFeed published a leaked document that became known as the Steele dossier - a series of memos written by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele suggesting Russia had been cultivating, supporting and assisting Trump and that, according to several sources, Russia had compromising information that could be used to blackmail Trump…
…Later when we became more concerned that there was a Russian government attack on our country that was unprecedented in scale and scope, we tried to raise awareness with national security reporters and investigative reporters not so much to affect the outcome of the election - in fact, specifically not to affect the election - but because we thought that this was something we needed to raise awareness about because it was a huge digital Pearl Harbor against our country… Read or listen more: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782908119/fusion-gps-founders-on-russian-efforts-to-sow-discord-they-have-succeeded





The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20036

THE FUTURE OF POLITICAL WARFARE: RUSSIA, THE WEST, AND THE COMING
AGE OF GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPETITION
ALINA POLYAKOVA
SPENCER P. BOYER

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Kremlin’s political warfare against democratic countries has evolved from overt to covert influence activities. But while Russia has pioneered the toolkit of asymmetric measures for the 21st century, including cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns, these tools are already yesterday’s game. Technological advances in artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and machine learning, combined with the growing availability of big data, have set the stage for a new era of sophisticated, inexpensive, and highly impactful political warfare. In the very near term, it will become more difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between real and falsified audio, video, or online personalities. Malicious actors will use these technologies to target Western societies more rapidly and efficiently. As authoritarian states such as Russia and China invest resources in new technologies, the global competition for the next great leap in political warfare will intensify. As the battle for the future shifts to the digital domain, policymakers will face increasingly complex threats against democracies. The window to mount an effective “whole-of society” response to emerging asymmetric threats is quickly narrowing.
This paper outlines the current state of play in political warfare, identifies emerging threats, and proposes potential policy responses. It argues for greater information sharing mechanisms between trans-Atlantic governments and the private sector, greater information security and transparency, and greater investments in research and development on AI and computational propaganda. As authoritarian regimes seek to undermine democratic institutions, Western societies must harness their current—though fleeting—competitive advantage in technology to prepare for the next great leap forward in political warfare. Western governments should also develop a deterrence strategy against political warfare with clearly defined consequences for specific offensive actions, while ensuring they retain their democracies’ core values of openness and freedom of expression…

…By 2016, when Moscow turned its attention to the U.S. presidential election, the tactics,while familiar, were also savvier. Russia and its proxies combined cyberattacks with psychological operations and exploited social media platforms to stoke societal tensions and discredit the anti-Kremlin candidate, Hillary Clinton. In January 2017, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in an unclassified report that in the U.S. presidential election, “Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process” through a “strategy that blends covert intelligence operations—such as cyber activity—with overt efforts by Russian government agencies” and proxies.2 Indeed, in the elections that followed in Europe, Russia’s fingerprints were visible everywhere to varying degrees: from the attempts by Russia-linked trolls (human-curated fake accounts) and bots (automated accounts) to spread “fake news” about the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron in the spring of 2017 to a disinformation campaign around the Catalan independence referendum in Spain that October. In each case, the tools and objectives were the same: the use of disinformation campaigns, cyberattacks, cultivation of political allies and proxies, and political subversion in order to divide, destabilize, and deceive democratic societies… Read more: PFD https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/fp_20180316_future_political_warfare.pdf


This entire posting has been sent out as an U.S. Group Mailing before posting it here on the Thalamus Center.
OIL!?!
REJECTION
OF THE
SCIENCE 
ON
CLIMATE CHANGE 
PUTIN
KGB (cf. FBI)
THE
BLACKMAILER
Kids Are Being Abused!!!
BY THE
VIOLENCE
 of  the
HOMOSEXUAL
RC HIERARCHY'S
FIERCE ANTIGAY AGENDA
CAUSED BY THEIR 
REJECTION
OF THE 
SCIENCE 
ON
HOMOSEXUALITY
FOR THE PAST 62 YEARS
THE
GLOBALLY
PERPETUATING
DESTRUCTIVE   
LIFETIME TOXIC
 SHAME
PUTIN BLACKMAILING TRUMP?
(KGB cf. FBI)
 CYBER 
PEARL HARBOR Attack Against 
UNITED STATES
11/ 26/19
Photo 


The Trump-Putin Relationship, as Dictated by the Kremlin
Why does the White House cede [give up] control of the narrative to the Russians?
NATASHA BERTRANDANNA NEMTSOVA
APRIL 15, 2019
In December 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with President Donald Trump at least twice by phone, ostensibly about economic and counterintelligence issues. Americans first learned about both calls from the Kremlin. When then–CIA Director Mike Pompeo met with Russian intelligence officials subjected to sanctions in January 2018 at Langley, Americans learned about it first from the Russian Embassy—via Twitter.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded that a criminal conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russia did not occur in 2016, according to a memo written by Attorney General William Barr late last month. But fundamental questions remain: Why do so many of Trump’s positions bewilderingly align with Putin’s, including chastising U.S. spies, dismissing NATO as “obsolete,” and questioning the value of the European Union? What explains Trump’s affinity for Putin, and the extensive secrecy that has shrouded their interactions since 2017? Why has the White House made it so easy for the Kremlin to shape the narrative around Trump and Putin’s encounters, often to Moscow’s advantage?…
Read more:



What to Do When the Russian Government Wants to Blackmail You
Russian officials have a long history of using compromising material, or kompromat, as a weapon against political opponents.
ANNA NEMTSOVA
MARCH 27, 2019
MOSCOW—From Jeff Bezos’s allegations of extortion and blackmail by the National Enquirer, a publication with links to President Donald Trump, to Trump’s relations with the Kremlin, one particular word has gained prominence, and it’s not even an English one.
Opponents of the government here in Moscow are well versed in the risk of their foibles and vices—from hidden-camera footage of them in bed with lovers to secretly recorded conversations—being used as compromising material, a practice better known by the Russian portmanteau kompromat…

Disinformation Campaigns 
cyberattacks, 
cultivation of political 
allies & proxies, 
in order to 
divide, destabilize, 
and deceive 
democratic societies
Photo
A timeline of the 
Trump-Putin relationship
Nov 19, 2019
CNN's Jim Sciutto examines the relationship between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
WATCH:

Charges of Ukrainian meddling? A Russian operation, US intelligence says
“…The impact of the successful 2016 Russian campaign remains evident today.
 Our nation is 
being torn apart. 
Truth is 
questioned.
Our highly professional and expert career foreign service is being 
undermined 
(Dr. Fiona Hill)…”
The View From Moscow On The Trump Impeachment Inquiry
NPR November 27, 2019
Last summer, just days before former special prosecutor Robert Mueller publicly warned that the Kremlin would continue its interference in U.S. elections, Russian state television aired a 30-minute special report titled "Ukrainian Interference.”…
Oil storage tanks at the Salym oilfield, Russia Photo
An oil worker inspects a pumping jack, also known as a 'nodding donkey,' during drilling operations in an oilfield operated by Bashneft PAO in the village of Otrada, 150kms from Ufa, Russia, on Saturday, 
March 5, 2016.
 Is Fracking Causing Earthquakes in Oklahoma? Photo

 The fact is that if Canada doesn’t provide oil, someone else will — even if that someone is Vladimir Putin Photo
Russia Ready To Seize Control Of The World's Largest Oil Reserves
Oct 17, 2019 Photo
"Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth" – October 1, 2019
by Rachel Maddow Photo, 
THE NEW YORK TIMES,  NPR,  Audio NPR

Rachel Maddow 
On Corruption In the 
Oil And Gas Industry 
Sep 30, 2019,  
MSNBC, or YouTube 
and GPB/NPR
Rachel Maddow
AMERICAN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR
  • attended Stanford University
  • won the John Gardner Fellowship award for public service
  • attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. 
  • She received a doctorate (D.Phil.) in politics in 2001; 
  • her dissertation was titled “HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and American Prisons.” 
  • Read more:
Current Conventional OIL Production In Map of Russia and Ukraine Photo, Photo 

Ukraine crisis: Would Putin shut off gas again? March 3, 2014 Photo
OIL 
CONTROLLING 
THE
UNITED STATES CONGRESS
 REPUBLICANS
 &
THE 
ROMAN CATHOLIC
 HIERARCHY -> KILLING 
-> TRUTH,  JUSTICE,
 LOVE,  - &   UNITED STATES of AMERICA 
Photo
THE ONLY 
HOPE
IS
TRUTH
EDUCATION IMPEACHMENT
&

POPE FRANCIS



“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many [a]miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
Matthew 7:21-23
Photo - Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles 
by Meister des Hausbuches, 1475

“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.
Luke 14:26








1st IMPEACHMENT HEARING  
Rachel Maddow shares an answer from State Department official George Kent at today's public House impeachment hearing that sums up the theme of what Americans have learned from the impeachment process so far: "You can't promote principled anti-corruption action without pissing off corrupt people.” 
Nov 13, 2019 Photo 



6 moments in the first day of impeachment hearings
PBS - Nov 13, 2019

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Hitler 1936 To 1945 Nemesis 
by Ian Kershaw 

Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI, 
Science & Religion,
Caritas in veritate Pope Benedict XVI

Pope John Paul II 1988

Jesus Heals the Centurion’s Highly Valued Slave - Blessing A Gay Committed Relationship, 
Luke 7-1-10 Photo

  
OIL'S
EXTORTION CONTROL
 
BRIBERY
&
BLACKMAIL? 
THE
CONNECTION
 BETWEEN 
United States Congress 
REPUBLICANS 
And 
Roman Catholic
HIERARCHY
REJECT 
SCIENCE 

CLIMATE CHANGE
AND 
HOMOSEXUALITY

 
THE 
KILLS 
TRUTH 
WITHOUT TRUTH
 
THERE IS NO 
LOVE

LETTER OF HOLINESS 
JOHN PAUL II  
TO REVEREND 
GEORGE V. COYNE, S.J.
DIRECTOR OF THE VATICAN OBSERVATORY 
1 June, 1988 
  ...Science can purify religion from error and superstition; 
religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.

      For the truth of the matter is that the Church and the scientific community will inevitably interact; their options do not include isolation...Read more: John Paul II https://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/letters/1988/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_19880601_padre-coyne.html


Science + 
+ Religion = 
Truth = LOVE

Caritas in veritate Pope Benedict XVI  

Letter to Father George V. Coyne 
Pope John Paul II 1988


Caritas in veritate
 ...Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions, the word “love” is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes to mean the opposite. Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space…
      …REASON always stands in need of being purified by faith: this also holds true for political reason, which must not consider itself OMNIPOTENT. For its part, RELIGION always needs to be purified by reason in order to show its authentically human face. Any breach in this dialogue comes only at an enormous price to human development… Read more:http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html
(Benedict XVI 




Pope at Mass: The devil destroys because he is envious 
12 November 2019, 
Gossip destroys others...
Berlin Wall anniversary...
Mud of politics...
…Pope Francis concluded praying that God “may make our hearts grow in faith in Jesus Christ, His Son", who assumed our human nature, "to fight with our flesh and to be victorious in our flesh" over the devil and evil. May this faith "give us the strength not to play the game of the envious one, the great liar, the sower of hatred”. Read more: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope-francis/mass-casa-santa-marta/2019-11/pope-francis-mass-devil-destroys-because-envious.html

(Envy - to wish that you had a quality or possession that another person has)

Pope considering adding ‘sin against ecology’ to Church’s catechism
Nov 15, 2019
Speaking to a group of lawyers on Friday, Pope Francis said that the Catholic Church is contemplating the introduction of “ecological sin” to the compendium of Church teaching.
“We have to introduce, we are thinking about it, in the catechism of the Catholic Church, the sin against ecology, the sin against our common home, because it’s a duty,” he said…

Yale University
Pope Francis and the Environment:
Yale Examines Historic Climate Encyclical
Yale experts say Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment could transform the global climate debate for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. 
Watch the video:

NEWS ARTICLES RELATED TO POPE FRANCIS, CLIMATE CHANGE, 
AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi departs after speaking to the media with a U.S. Congressional delegation at the opening day of the UNFCCC COP25 climate conference on Monday in Madrid, Spain.
 Photo
Pelosi to climate conference: 'We're still in' Paris agreement
Trump made official his decision last month to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate pact.
Dec. 2, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to assure nations at the U.N. conference in Madrid today that the U.S. would join its efforts to fight climate change despite President Donald Trump's move to pull the U.S. out the Paris agreement.
"By coming here we want to say to everyone, we’re still in," Pelosi said at a press conference in Madrid. "The United States is still in.”…
Read more:


U.N. climate change conference kicks off in Madrid without Trump Admin.
Dec. 2, 2019 | MSNBC - Watch:


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OIL!?!
Charges of Ukrainian meddling? A Russian operation, US intelligence says
“…The impact of the successful 2016 Russian campaign remains evident today.
 Our nation is 
being torn apart. 
Truth is 
questioned.
Our highly professional and expert career foreign service is being 
undermined 
(Dr. Fiona Hill)…”
BELOW EXCERPTS TAKEN FROM:


Outrage at Trump’s summit comments: Ex-CIA chief John Brennan calls president’s performance ‘nothing short of treasonous’
JUL 16 2018
KEY POINTS
  1. President Donald Trump’s criticism of American law enforcement and praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin drew widespread yowls of criticism Monday, with former CIA Director John Brennan calling Trump’s performance “nothing short of treasonous.” 
  2. Even hosts at Fox News, which rarely misses a chance to praise Trump when many others are blasting him, were stunned by Trump’s refusal to condemn Putin for what U.S. intelligence agencies have said is solid evidence of Russia’s sustained effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. 
  3. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the Senate minority leader, said, “In the entire history of our country, Americans have never seen a president of the United States support an American adversary the way President Trump has supported President Putin.”
President Donald Trump’s criticism of American law enforcement and praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin drew widespread yowls of criticism Monday, with former CIA Director John Brennan calling Trump’s performance “nothing short of treasonous.”
Even hosts at Fox News, which rarely misses a chance to praise Trump when many others are blasting him, were stunned by Trump’s refusal to condemn Putin for what U.S. intelligence agencies have said is solid evidence of Russia’s sustained effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Fox Business host Neil Cavuto called Trump’s performance “disgusting.” Fox News political analyst Brit Hume called it “lame.”
Trump in a joint news conference with Putin in Helsinki said that both the United States and Russia were to blame for what he also called the worst relationship between the two countries in their history.
Twitter exploded with condemnation of Trump’s supine stance toward Putin, with Republican and Democratic elected officials alike blasting the president… Read and Watch more:


 Photo -Trump faces bipartisan rebuke over 'treasonous' summit with Putin Republican politicians join Democrats in condemning Trump for his refusal to challenge Putin on election meddling 
17 Jul 2018. additional coverage: (a) washingtonexaminer, (b) cnbc, (c) politico, Full text: Trump and Putin’s press conference, transcribed, 07/16/2018 
(d) vox, The US apparently kept no detailed notes of Trump-Putin meetings for the past 2 years, Jan 14, 2019.
1 Photo , 2 Photo, 3 Photo 
Putin's early career as a KGB [cf. FBI] spy

What Does KGB Stand For?   
The KGB was the primary security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991. The KGB served a multi-faceted role outside of and within the Soviet Union, working as both an intelligence agency and a force of “secret police.” It was also tasked with some of the same functions as the Department of Homeland Security in the United States today, safeguarding the country from domestic and foreign threats.


Russia is accused of hacking the DNC's emails and engaging in other forms of cyber subversion in order to throw the race to Trump. A series of politically-charged and disinformation-spreading social media groups and advertising campaigns have been traced back to Russia.


Before he became the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin was a KGB spy — take a look at his early career 2 Photo
Jul. 16, 2018
Vladimir Putin's KGB career may have ended decades ago, but that didn't stop the Russian president from citing his spy credentials during Monday's press conference with US president Donald Trump.
Dissmissing the idea that Trump's presidential campaign colluded with Russia in 2016 and disputing the credibility of the Steele dossier, Putin said, "I was an intelligence officer myself, and I know how dossiers are made up."
Russia is accused of hacking the DNC's emails and engaging in other forms of cyber subversion in order to throw the race to Trump. A series of politically-charged and disinformation-spreading social media groups and advertising campaigns have been traced back to Russia.
Putin has denied hacking the election. Trump has argued that he "doesn't see any reason" why Putin would meddle in the election, despite the consensus of the US intelligence community that Russia interfered in order to ensure a Republican victory.
Here's a look into Putin's early career as a KGB spy:


Trump says he doesn't 'see any reason' why Russia would have hacked the US election when asked whether he believes Putin or the US intel community 
3 Photo 
Jul. 16, 2018 
  • Standing next to Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference on Monday, US President Donald Trump indicated that he believes Russia over the US intelligence community when it comes to the Kremlin's meddling in the 2016 US election.
  • When asked whether he would publicly condemn Putin for Russia's interference, Trump proceeded to bash the Democratic National Committee, the FBI, and the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.
  • Trump said that while he had "great confidence" in the US intelligence community, Putin was "extremely strong and powerful in his denial" of Russia's election meddling.
  • Republican lawmakers condemned Trump's statements, and some former government officials and intelligence veterans suggested his remarks rose to the level of treason.
Following a high-stakes one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, US President Donald Trump refused to say he trusts the US intelligence community, bashed the FBI and the Democratic National Committee, and indicated that he believed Putin over American intelligence agencies.
After the Associated Press White House reporter Jonathan Lemire asked Trump during a joint press conference with Putin who he believed and whether he would publicly denounce Russia's interference in the 2016 US election and warn Putin never to do it again, Trump declined to do so and appeared to pin the blame on the US.
"We have two thoughts," Trump said. "You have groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the [DNC] server. Why haven't they taken the server? Why was the FBI told to leave the office of the Democratic National Committee? I've been wondering that."
He added: "With that being said, all I can do is ask the question. My people came to me … They said they think it's Russia. I have President Putin. He just said it's not Russia.
"I will say this," Trump said. "I don't see any reason why it would be.”…
IT’S
KGB 
[cf. FBI] 
INFORMATION
 WAR !!!
Disinformation Campaigns 
cyberattacks, 
cultivation of political 
allies & proxies, 
in order to 
divide, destabilize, 
and deceive 
democratic societies
Robert Mueller is waging more than a legal battle — it's an information war
Jul. 21, 2018
The recent indictment from Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 US election, naming 12 officers from the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency, makes for compelling reading. But it would be a mistake to treat it as simply a law-enforcement instrument. It's also the latest offensive, and an especially effective one, in an ongoing information war. At a time when Russia is involved in activities from allegedly poisoning people in the United Kingdom to backing divisive populists, the Mueller indictment offers valuable lessons to other democracies facing Moscow's implausibly deniable campaigns of political subversion.
The indictment accuses the officers of hacking computer networks associated with the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign, with the aim of interfering with the 2016 election. Beyond simply accessing information, they allegedly ran a coordinated campaign to leak damaging information under the identities Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks.
This is not simply a vague broadside but a forensically detailed document that lists names, dates, and even the addresses in Moscow from which they operated. One Viktor Netyksho, for example, is a colonel who headed Military Unit 26165, a GRU computer intelligence unit based at 20 Komsomolskiy Prospekt in Moscow. Likewise, it is not just that Aleksandr Osadchuk helped leak documents under the Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks personas, but that Col. (again) Osadchuk commanded Unit 74455, at 22 Kirova St. in the Moscow suburb of Khimki, in a building GRU insiders call "the Tower.”…
This is an age of information war, which Western governments need to win. By all means, they should protect their sources and current operations. But at the same time, they must realize that they need to win the information battle. In this, they face often-skeptical domestic audiences, especially since the Iraq War and the false claims of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. The days of governments being able to get away with saying, "We know," and expecting to be believed are gone, and instead governments should be driven not by the conservative strictures of "need to know" but a more transparent "need to secure" approach that leans toward transparency where possible.
ABOVE EXCERPTS TAKEN FROM:


CONNECTING THE 
DOTS
Photo The growing Russian military threat in Europe  - Assessing and addressing the challenge: The case of Ukraine - May 17, 2017
Photo - Putin’s War Is International War:
Russia Attacked Ukraine Across The Border On - February 8, 2018 
Photo - Russia Lies About Invading Ukraine as It Invades Ukraine 


TRUMPGATE: THE UKRAINIAN SAGA STILL GOES ON
19 November 2019 Photo
The fifth day of the public 
United States Congressional Impeachment Hearings.

November. 21, 2019

United States
 Capitol Building, 
Washington, D.C.
 
Disinformation Campaigns 
cyberattacks, 
cultivation of political 
allies & proxies, 
in order to 
divide, destabilize, 
and deceive 
democratic societies
Fiona Hill’s book about Vladimir Putin’s career as an intelligence operative tells us a lot Photo, More 
The Brookings Institution

RACHEL MADDOW
Russian propaganda seen fusing with Republican Ukraine narrative
Rachel Maddow shares video of testimony by former National Security Council official Fiona Hill in which she describes the Russian propaganda roots of the Ukraine conspiracy theory promoted by Donald Trump and his followers and notes the dismaying fusing of Russian propaganda narratives with U.S. Republican talking points.
Nov. 21, 2019 - WATCH:


Fiona Hill, a former senior director on Russia at the National Security Council, pushed back Thursday against the unfounded theory that Ukrainian officials sought to interfere in the 2016 election, and said the Russian government spreads disinformation by operating "like a Super PAC." Watch her opening statement in the fifth day of public impeachment hearings.
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FOLLOWING THE MONEY
THE
 BIG 
 MONEY  
Super PAC
OIL!?!
EXTORTION CONTROL
 
BRIBERY
&
BLACKMAIL? 
THE CONNECTION 
BETWEEN 
United States Congress 
REPUBLICANS 
And 
Roman Catholic
HIERARCHY
REJECT 
SCIENCE 
CLIMATE CHANGE
AND 
HOMOSEXUALITY
 
THE 
BREACH
KILLS
TRUTH 
WITHOUT TRUTH
 
THERE IS NO 
LOVE
definitions:
Super PAC
a type of independent political action committee which may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, and individuals but is not permitted to contribute to or coordinate directly with parties or candidates.

Definition of super PAC
US politics

: a type of political action committee that is legally permitted to raise and spend larger amounts of money than the amounts allowed for a conventional PAC

specifically : an independent PAC that can accept unlimited contributions from individuals and organizations (such as corporations and labor unions) and spend unlimited amounts in support of a candidate but that cannot directly contribute money to or work directly in concert with the candidate it is supporting

NOTE: The term super PAC has seen occasional use since the 1980s, but its now-established specific meaning and widespread use derive from federal court decisions made in 2010.

In 1974, Congress enacted limits on individual contributions to federal candidates and political committees in the wake of the Watergate scandal. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court in the Citizens United case declared the corporate expenditure ban unconstitutional, holding that independent expenditures could not be constitutionally limited in federal elections, and implicitly that corporations could give unlimited amounts to other groups to spend, as long as the expenditures were made independently from the supported candidate. Subsequently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit … held that the limits on individual contributions to groups that made independent expenditures were unconstitutional. Thus was born the super PAC.
— Fred Wertheimer, CNN.com, 14 Feb. 2012

Some strategists in both parties said they believed that the central role of super PACs in the Republican primaries will make it difficult for candidates in 2016 — when both parties will have contested primaries — to resist deploying allies to organize one, forcing them to compete for the allegiance of a small group of wealthy donors who can write six- and seven-figure checks.
— Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2012
Merriam Webster Dictionary:


Campaign Finance Regulations Increase the Influence of Super PACs
Institute For Free Speech



SUPER PACS AND THE NONPROFITS THAT FUND THEM
Newsweek 


The Billionaire's Daughter Quietly Shaping the Trump Campaign
The Fiscal Times


WGBH NEWS

Read the full transcript of Former Russia Director for the National Security Council Fiona Hill's opening statement from Nov. 21, 2019.




Who Is Fiona Hill, the Scathing Star Witness in the Trump Impeachment Hearings?
BY MICHELLE RUIZ
November 21, 2019
Are the Trump impeachment hearings not “explosive,” “dramatic,” or “interesting” enough for you? That should have changed on Thursday with the coolly scathing testimony of Dr. Fiona Hill, Trump’s former top adviser on Russian and European affairs.
As one particularly colorful detail from a New York Times profile of Hill reads, “Once, when she was 11, a boy in her class set one of her pigtails on fire while she was taking a test. She put the fire out with her hands, and finished the test.”
Who is Hill, what did she say, and how does her damning testimony fit into the impeachment inquiry at large?
Read more:

Opening Statement of 
Dr. Fiona Hill
to the House of Representatives
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
November 21, 2019

Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Nunes, and members of the Committee. Thank you for inviting me to testify before you today. I have a short opening statement. 

I appreciate the importance of the Congress’s impeachment inquiry.

I am appearing today as a fact witness, as I did during my deposition on October 14th, in order to answer your questions about what I saw, what I did, what I knew, and what I know with regard to the subjects of your inquiry. I believe that those who have information that the Congress deems relevant have a legal and moral obligation to provide it.

I take great pride in the fact that I am a nonpartisan
foreign policy expert, who has served under three different Republican and Democratic presidents. I have no interest in advancing the outcome of your inquiry in any particular direction, except toward the truth.

I will not provide a long narrative statement, because I believe that the interest of Congress and the American people is best served by allowing you to ask me your questions. I am happy to expand upon my 
October 14th deposition testimony in response to your questions today.

But before I do so, I would like to communicate two things…

...This relates to the second thing I want to communicate.

Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country—and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.

The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. This is the public conclusion of our intelligence agencies, confirmed in bipartisan Congressional reports. It is beyond dispute, even if some of the underlying details must remain classified.

The impact of the successful 2016 Russian campaign remains evident today. Our nation is being torn apart.Truth is questioned. Our highly professional and expert career foreign service is being undermined.

U.S. support for Ukraine—which continues to face armed Russian aggression—has been politicized.

The Russian government’s goal is to weaken our country—to diminish America’s global role and to neutralize a perceived U.S. threat to Russian interests. President Putin [former KGB] and the Russian security services aim to counter U.S. foreign policy objectives in Europe,including in Ukraine, where Moscow wishes to reassert political and economic dominance.

I say this not as an alarmist, but as a realist. I do not think long-term conflict with Russia is either desirable or inevitable. I continue to believe that we need to seek ways of stabilizing our relationship with Moscow even as we counter their efforts to harm us. Right now, Russia’s security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are running out of time to stop them. In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests.

As Republicans and Democrats have agreed for decades,Ukraine is a valued partner of the United States, and it plays an important role in our national security. And as I told this Committee last month, I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine—not Russia—attacked us in 2016. 

These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes. President Putin and the Russian security services operate like a Super PAC. They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own political opposition research and false narratives. When we are consumed by partisan rancor, we cannot combat these external forces as they seek to divide us against each another, degrade our institutions, and destroy the faith of the American people in our democracy. 

I respect the work that this Congress does in carrying out its constitutional responsibilities, including in this inquiry, and I am here to help you to the best of my ability. If the President, or anyone else, impedes or subverts the national security of the United States in order to further domestic political or personal interests, that is more than worthy of your attention. But we must not let domestic politics stop us from defending ourselves against the foreign powers who truly wish us harm.

I am ready to answer your questions.
Domestic Political Errand
vs
U.S. National Security Foreign Policy


Rachel Maddow shares video of testimony by former National Security Council official Fiona Hill at a Donald Trump impeachment inquiry hearing in which she describes a split in the team tasked with dealing with Ukraine between those working on a Trump domestic political errand and those working on national security foreign policy.
Nov. 21, 2019

…Gordon Sondland told this tale in his closed door deposition about really how shocked he was by just how uncontrollably emotional she [Fiona Hill] was in front of him…  

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

STEPHEN CASTOR, COUNSEL FOR REPUBLICANS ON THE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE:  He testified about some sort of coffee he had with you on your last day.  He indicated you were upset and you were upset with Ambassador Bolton and upset with the way things were going. 

FIONA HILL, FORMER WHITE HOUSE ADVISOR ON RUSSIA:  I had a couple of testy encounters with him.  One of those was in June `18 when I actually said to him, who put you in charge of Ukraine, and, you know, I admit I was a bit rude, and that’s when he told me the president, which shut me up.  And this other meeting was maybe about 15, 20 minutes as he depicted it was, and I was exactly to be honest angry with him. 

And, you know, I hate to say it but often when women show anger, it`s not fully appreciated.  It’s often, you know, pushed onto emotional issues perhaps or deflected onto other people.

And what I was angry about is that he wasn`t coordinating with us.  I’ve actually realized having listened to his deposition that he was absolutely right, that he wasn`t coordinating with us because we weren`t doing the same thing that he was doing.  So I was upset with him that he wasn`t fully telling us about all of the meetings he was having. 

And he said to me, but I`m briefing the president.  I`m briefing Chief of Staff Mulvaney.  I`m briefing Secretary Pompeo, and I`ve talked to Ambassador Bolton.  Who else do I have to deal with? 

And the point is we have a robust interagency process that deals with Ukraine that includes Mr. Holmes, includes Ambassador Taylor as the charges in Ukraine, and includes a whole load of other people.  But it struck me when yesterday when you put upon the screen Ambassador Sondland’s e-mails and who was on these e-mails.  And he said these are the people you need to know and he was absolutely right, because he was being involved in a domestic political errand.  And we were being involved in national security foreign policy, and those two things had just diverged. 

So he was correct.  And I had not put my finger on that at the moment, but I was irritated with him and angry with him he wasn`t fully coordinating.  And I did say to him, Ambassador Sondland, Gordon, I think this is all going to blow up and here we are. 

(END VIDEO CLIP) Transcript:
WATCH:
Rachel Maddow looks a new reporting from the New York Times that U.S. intelligence briefed senators that the Ukraine election meddling conspiracy theory was disinformation generated by Russian intelligence services, and points out that among the Republicans still pushing that story are senators who should know better. 
RACHEL MADDOW
US intel briefed senators that Ukraine theory is Russian op: NYT Nov. 22, 2019
WATCH: MSNBC
or WATCH: YouTube


Charges of Ukrainian meddling? A Russian operation, US intelligence says
New York Times. Nov. 22, 2019
Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. Republicans have used similar talking points to defend President Trump in impeachment proceedings.
WASHINGTON — Republicans have sought for weeks amid the impeachment inquiry to shift attention to President Trump’s demands that Ukraine investigate any 2016 election meddling, defending it as a legitimate concern while Democrats accuse Mr. Trump of pursuing fringe theories for his benefit.
The Republican defense of Mr. Trump became central to the impeachment proceedings when Fiona Hill, a respected Russia scholar and former senior White House official, added a harsh critique during testimony on Thursday. She told some of Mr. Trump’s fiercest defenders in Congress that they were repeating “a fictional narrative.” She said that it likely came from a disinformation campaign by Russian security services, which also propagated it.
In a briefing that closely aligned with Dr. Hill’s testimony, American intelligence officials informed senators and their aides in recent weeks that Russia had engaged in a yearslong campaign to essentially frame Ukraine as responsible for Moscow’s own hacking of the 2016 election, according to three American officials. The briefing came as Republicans stepped up their defenses of Mr. Trump in the Ukraine affair.
The revelations demonstrate Russia’s persistence in trying to sow discord among its adversaries — and show that the Kremlin apparently succeeded, as unfounded claims about Ukrainian interference seeped into Republican talking points. American intelligence agencies believe Moscow is likely to redouble its efforts as the 2020 presidential campaign intensifies. The classified briefing for senators also focused on Russia’s evolving influence tactics, including its growing ability to better disguise operations…
Trump Continues Pushing Debunked Ukraine Conspiracy Theories |MSNBC
Nov 23, 2019
Trump went on Fox News and claimed, without any evidence, that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to work against him. That lie came just one day after Dr. Fiona Hill testified that pushing out that misinformation is doing the work of the Russian intelligence services. Ali Velshi discusses with Michael Weiss and David Corn. Nov. 22, 2019
Disinformation Campaigns 
cyberattacks, 
cultivation of political 
allies & proxies, 
in order to 
divide, destabilize, 
and deceive 
democratic societies

i.e. Devin  Nunes

Devin Nunes was directly involved in the push for Biden Ukraine investigations, says Lev Parnas
Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, says he helped arrange meetings between Nunes and Ukrainians.
By Sean Collins  Nov 23, 2019       
        Ed MacMahon, a lawyer for Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, who faces charges of campaign finance violations, has told the Daily Beast that his client helped Republican Rep. Devin Nunes arrange meetings meant to advance the Ukrainian investigations into the Biden family that are at the center of the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
       Now, another lawyer for Parnas — Joseph A. Bondy — has told CNN that Parnas is willing to testify before the House Intelligence Committee about Nunes’s involvement in the Ukraine scandal. Nunes is the ranking member of that committee, and in that capacity has led the Republican defense of Trump during the recent public impeachment inquiry hearings.
       Nunes has argued the impeachment inquiry is a partisan attack on the president; he tried to derail the proceedings by introducing (disproved) conspiracy theories, worked to out an anonymous whistleblower whose complaint launched the inquiry, and repeatedly referred to the inquiry as a “drug deal.”
         During Thursday’s hearing — at which former National Security Council official Fiona Hill and State Department official David Holmes testified — Nunes himself briefly became the subject of the proceedings due to the Daily Beast article, which Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell read into the record.
       Parnas has said his efforts, as described in the Daily Beast article, bore fruit — and that Nunes eventually met with disgraced former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in Vienna in December 2018.
        Congressional records show that Nunes and members of his staff travelled to Europe in late November and early December 2018. The records do not specify whether he went to Vienna, however, or who he met with.
        “I can confirm that Victor Shokin told Lev Parnas that he had met with Nunes in Vienna in late 2018, and that [Nunes aide] Derek Harvey informed that they were investigating the activities of Joe and Hunter Biden related to Burisma,” Bondy told NBC News...
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Lev Parnas, left, Helped, center, Rep. Devin Nunes’ Investigations Bidens Met, right, Ukraine Ousts Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, December 2018 - Photo, Photo - Background Photo - Fiona Hill’s book about Vladimir Putin’s career as an intelligence operative tells us a lot

New details in Lev Parnas’ reported effort to help Devin Nunes
THE LAST WORD |MSNBC
Nov. 22, 2019
The Daily Beast reports that indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas arranged meetings in Europe to help Rep. Devin Nunes' investigative work in 2018. Betsy Woodruff Swan, who broke the story, tells Ali Velshi that Parnas' lawyer claims Nunes and his team were looking for dirt on the Bidens. Barbara McQuade also joins.
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State Department Files Show Giuliani, Pompeo Contact Before Ukraine Ambassador's Exit
NPR November 23, 2019
About 100 pages of newly released State Department documents show Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani had at least two phone conversations in the weeks before a U.S. ambassador in Ukraine was removed from her post.
Additionally, the files show a White House aide played a role in connecting Giuliani's team with officials at the State Department so that Giuliani could get on Pompeo's official call schedule in late March.
The conversations between Pompeo and Giuliani took place around the time Giuliani and two of his associates were working to push U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch from office. She was recalled from her post in Kyiv in May.
These events are central to the impeachment inquiry being led by House Democrats against President Trump. It also pulls Pompeo, who has sought to distance himself from the Ukraine affair, closer to the center of the crusade to oust Yovanovitch…
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Trump cites 
fake polls
to make the case that support for impeachment is falling
Trump claims support for impeachment is “down into the 20’s in some Polls.” But these polls do not seem to exist.
Nov 25, 2019
President Donald Trump has been working to defend himself against the ongoing impeachment inquiry by citing polling he says shows support for impeachment is on the decline. While some polling does in fact show a decrease in support for impeachment, it is not “dropping like a rock” as the president has claimed, nor have polls “turned very strongly against Impeachment.”
And it isn’t clear Trump is referencing numbers from any actual polls, like the data he cited Monday that he said shows support is “down into the 20’s in some Polls.”
In fact, polling suggests support for impeachment is holding fairly steady. It remains particularly strong among Democrats, with a mid-November Morning Consult poll finding 82 percent of Democrats supporting impeachment and a mid-November NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll finding 86 percent of Democrats in support. A FiveThirtyEight meta-analysis Monday finds an average of 80 percent of Democrats support impeachment…
There's nearly a Nixon '74 level of public support for impeaching Trump
June 22, 2018 Photo
Impeachment has stagnated in the polls. That happened with Nixon, too. 
November 12, 2019
(CNN)This week is arguably the most important to date in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. It's the first time there will be public testimony, which comes at a time when the American people have become seemingly locked in their impeachment positions: They're for the inquiry but much less sold on impeaching and removing Trump from office…
…But the case against Nixon during 1973 and 1974 should give Democrats more optimism. Opinions on impeaching and removing Nixon from office remained stagnant for months on end. Americans were split on the question in Harris polling from January 1974 to April 1974 for Nixon, just like they are now for Trump.
Then the dam started to burst. A combination of factors, including Nixon's refusal to turn over any more materials in the Watergate case and public hearings during the House impeachment investigation in May 1974, began to change the tide of public opinion.
By the beginning of June 1974, a clear majority were for impeaching and removing Nixon from office in Harris polling.
A look at the recent polling on the impeachment inquiry against Trump (not impeach and remove) does provide reason to believe that the numbers on impeaching and removing him could move.
A majority of just over 50% support the impeachment inquiry in an average of recent polls, while 43% are opposed to it. But before it was announced, a majority of Americans said they were against the inquiry in an August Monmouth poll. Only since late September, when the inquiry was announced, has opinion on it moved toward a majority of Americans being for it…
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Senate could come around to impeaching, says analyst
Fmr. Acting U.S. Solicitor General, Neal Katyal
Nov. 26, 2019 MSNBC

New polls show a slight increase in support for impeachment
Two polls taken after the public hearings show a slight increase in support compared to the weeks prior. And one suggests support among independents may be growing.
Nov 26, 2019
Book Review 

Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS 
Glenn Simpson and 
Peter Fritsch
November 26, 2019

had compromising information that could be used to 
blackmail Trump.
"...the Kremlin was planning and running an operation to elect Donald Trump the president of United States..."
 "...we became more concerned that there was a Russian government attack on our country that was 
in scale and scope, we tried to raise awareness with national security reporters and
 investigative
 reporters...
it was a huge digital Pearl Harbor against our country...”




























Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS 
Glenn Simpson and 
Peter Fritsch
November 26, 2019

Before Ukraine, before impeachment: This is the never-before-told inside story of the high-stakes, four-year-long investigation into Donald Trump’s Russia ties—culminating in the Steele dossier, and sparking the Mueller report—from the founders of political opposition research company Fusion GPS.

“A master class in how Washington works.”—The Atlantic

Fusion GPS was founded in 2010 by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former reporters at The Wall Street Journal who decided to abandon the struggling news business and use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firms—and opposition research for political candidates. In the fall of 2015, they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump.

What began as a march through a mind-boggling trove of lawsuits, bankruptcies, and sketchy overseas projects soon took a darker turn: The deeper Fusion dug, the more it began to notice names that Simpson and Fritsch had come across during their days covering Russian corruption—and the clearer it became that the focus of Fusion’s research going forward would be Trump’s entanglements with Russia…


NPR - FRESH AIR:
Inside the Steele Dossier & The Fusion GPS Investigation Of Trump


NPR - TRANSCRIPT:
Fusion GPS Founders On Russian Efforts To Sow Discord: 'They Have Succeeded'
November 26, 2019
During the '16 campaign, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch hired former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele to investigate Trump's involvement with Russia. Their new book is Crime in Progress.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. After Donald Trump was elected but before he was inaugurated, BuzzFeed published a leaked document that became known as the Steele dossier - a series of memos written by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele suggesting Russia had been cultivating, supporting and assisting Trump and that, according to several sources, Russia had compromising information that could be used to blackmail Trump.

This dossier had been commissioned by Fusion GPS, a private research company providing research for law firms and corporations as well as opposition research for political candidates. Fusion was first hired to investigate Trump during the primary by the Republican news site The Washington Free Beacon. After Trump won the primary, the law firm representing Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee started funding Fusion's research into Trump.

My guests are the founders of Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch. They're former Wall Street Journal reporters. Some of the Russians who surfaced in the Trump investigation were people Simpson and Fritsch had reported on at The Wall Street Journal while investigating Russian corruption and organized crime. Simpson and Fritsch have written a new book called "Crime In Progress" about their investigation into Trump, its impact and Republican attempts to discredit Fusion GPS and the Steele dossier…

PETER FRITSCH: The truth is Chris Steele came into this project about nine months in. We started looking at Donald Trump and his relationship to Russia as part of a much broader project, which was looking at Donald Trump's business career. As has been reported, we first started working for Republicans. About nine months in, we started working with Chris Steele. Now, we saw a lot in the early going that caused us to have concerns about Donald Trump's relationship with Russia…

SIMPSON: Well, I think the single most important thing that comes out of the dossier - which is really in the first memo - was that the Kremlin was planning and running an operation to elect Donald Trump the president of United States. And that it was a big operation that involved a lot of different aspects and was very deliberately designed to elect Trump and not just to sow discord in U.S. political system - although that was a secondary purpose...

 SIMPSON: Later when we became more concerned that there was a Russian government attack on our country that was unprecedented in scale and scope, we tried to raise awareness with national security reporters and investigative reporters not so much to affect the outcome of the election - in fact, specifically not to affect the election - but because we thought that this was something we needed to raise awareness about because it was a huge digital Pearl Harbor against our country...



U.S. President Donald Trump meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congressional leadership in the Cabinet Room of the White House October 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. Pelosi later said Trump referred to her as a "third-grade politician.”

To: President Trump
House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)


11TH HOUR
Maddow explains why Putin's Russia hacked the 2016 election
Rachel Maddow joins to discuss her new best-selling book 'Blowout' and what she uncovered about the facts surrounding Russia's attack on America's democracy.
Oct. 17, 2019
WATCH: MSNBC 


‘Internet melts down over Pelosi’
Jeanne Moos


Trump impeachment hearings highlight immigrants’ stories
By JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press | November 21, 2019 



Impeachment’s rock stars: Powerful women
By Jessica Mendoza, Story Hinckley Staff, November 21, 2019 https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2019/1121/Impeachment-s-rock-stars-Powerful-women


How Russian President Vladimir Putin Emerged as a Winner in President Donald Trump's Impeachment Hearings
BY ABBY VESOULIS AND VERA BERGENGRUEN 
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
After weeks of partisan heckling in a whirl of overheard phone calls and conspiracy theories, the former top Russia expert on the National Security Council had had enough [Russian propaganda seen fusing with Republican Ukraine narrative, November 21, 2019 (video)]. By the time Fiona Hill gave her public testimony before the House Intelligence Committee last week, she had a clear message for the country: this is precisely what the Kremlin wants.

“I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests,” Hill said in her Nov. 21 opening statement to lawmakers, some of whom had questioned witnesses about a widely debunked theory that Trump had pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate. “Some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country — and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did…This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.”

If there is any winner in the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry so far, it is Russian President Vladimir Putin. Experts say the Trump administration’s advancement of Russia’s disinformation campaign that it was Ukraine — not Russia — that interfered in 2016 elections has both succeeded in creating friction between Ukraine and the U.S., a key backer in Ukraine’s long-running conflict with Russia, and has taken the heat off Russia as Americans get ready to vote again next year.
Hill was not the only witness who told the Committee that the politicization of U.S. support for Ukraine was playing right into Russia’s hands. On Nov. 20, Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, testified that the delay in military aid and absence of Zelensky’s requested White House meeting “could be looked at” as benefitting Russia…
...The U.S. intelligence community has also firmly established it was Russia, not Ukraine, that infiltrated America’s democratic processes in the last presidential election. “We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence wrote in its January 2017 report. “We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.”
None of this stopped Republican Rep. Devin Nunes from continuing to circulate the unfounded Ukraine theory during the televised impeachment inquiry hearings last week.The ranking Republican on the Committee repeatedly used his time to give oxygen to the theory during the hearings as a justification for Trump’s request for the probes.. “Once you understand that Ukrainian officials were cooperating directly with President Trump’s political opponents to undermine his candidacy, it’s easy to understand why the president would want to learn the full truth about these operations and why he would be skeptical of Ukraine,” Nunes said...
...Whether Republicans directly excused Russia’s 2016 involvement or not, Putin comes out victorious, says Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi. “All of this helps Russia, big time. Because their number one objective in Europe is to divide countries like Ukraine from countries like the United States,” the Illinois Democrat told reporters during a break in Hill’s hearing last week. “It creates a chilling effect with all other countries that might want to come closer to the United States.”...
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DECEMBER 3, 2019
RELEASE
THE TRUMP-UKRAINE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY REPORT
House Democrats release 300-page impeachment report accusing Trump of abusing power
DECEMBER 3, 2019 
Washington — House Democrats released a report with their findings from the impeachment investigation into President Trump's dealings with Ukraine, accusing the president of placing "his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States" and endangering national security by soliciting assistance from a foreign government to boost his reelection prospects. 

The report is based on more than 130 hours of public and private testimony by 17 witnesses before three committees over the past two months. Democrats' case against the president centers on a delay in military aid to Ukraine and Mr. Trump's request that the Ukrainian president investigate a political rival and unfounded allegations of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election, as well as efforts to obstruct the impeachment investigation.

The report lays out nine key findings of the investigation, including:
  • The president "solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, in the 2020 U.S. presidential election" and "sought to undermine the integrity of the U.S. presidential election process."
  • Mr. Trump "sought to pressure and induce Ukraine's newly-elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to publicly announce unfounded investigations" to benefit the president politically.
  • "President Trump ordered the suspension of $391 million in vital military assistance" to Ukraine "without any legitimate foreign policy, national security, or anti-corruption justification."
  • "Faced with the revelation of his actions, President Trump publicly and repeatedly persisted in urging foreign governments, including Ukraine and China, to investigate his political opponent."
  • "President Trump ordered and implemented a campaign to conceal his conduct from the public and frustrate and obstruct the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry."

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff wrote in the preface of the report that the president had not only compromised American national security by withholding aid to Ukraine, but also obstructed justice in his opposition to the inquiry…
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Call logs between Giuliani, budget office revealed in impeachment report
Dec. 3, 2019 |MSNBC 
Call records highlighted in the House Intelligence Committee's report of the evidence it has collected in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump show a history of phone calls between the president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and the Office of Management and Budget.


'Hard time': Warning for Trump in bribery cases landing politicians in jail
Dec. 2, 2019
MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber reports on how politicians in both parties have been brought down by bribery, as Pres. Trump faces evidence of bribery in the Ukraine scandal. Melber analyzes cases that sent politicians to prison, from a congressman caught on tape accepting a bribe, to another politician convicted of a bribery deal that was “inferred” but not spelled out.


How did Trump get to the brink of impeachment? The Ukraine bribery plot explained
Dec. 1, 2019
As House Democrats ramp up impeachment probe, and gather evidence and testimony from key witnesses, MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent breaks down the full timeline of the Ukraine bribery plot. In this special report, Ari details the key dates from Congress approving the military aid, to the phone call with the Ukrainian president, to the filing of the whistleblower complaint and where the probe is headed next.
OIL
CORRUPTS
MOST DESTRUCTIVE INDUSTRY 
Rachel Maddow in Conversation on her forthcoming book,
‘Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth’ 
by Rachel Maddow.
October 12, 2019
It takes a mind like Rachel Maddow’s to dissect the convoluted chaos of today’s current events and emerge with a single cause: not ideology, she says, but oil. In Blowout, the Emmy award-winning MSNBC host traces how the greed of the oil industry has corrupted the world, causing disasters both environmental and political, including, Maddow says, the Russian interference in the 2016 election. Through painstaking reporting, Maddow’s book reveals the extent to which the interests of oil companies influence every aspect of our lives, from the personal to the political. In conversation, Maddow will address how we can and must curb the power of the oil industry, for, as she warns: “Democracy either wins this one, or disappears.”

OIL
FORCING 
 
REJECTION
OF 
SCIENCES 
CLIMATE CHANGE 
and 
HOMOSEXUALITY
THUR 
BRIBERY
&

BLACKMAIL
UNITED STATES 
REPUBLICANS 
and
HIERARCHY

































































HIERARCHY Photo: 
Divorces y bodies gay,grades desafíos de la Iglesias(Divorces and gay weddings,great challenges of the Church)Synod of Bishops on the Family 2014


REPUBLICANS  Photo 
Republican lawmakers storm hearing room, disrupt Trump impeachment inquiry, October 23, 2019

Midterm report: 
Synod of Bishops [HIERARCHY] on the Family 2014  
Oct 14, 2014 
Excerpt:
Welcoming homosexual persons
50. Homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community: are we capable of welcoming these people, guaranteeing to them a fraternal space in our communities? Often they wish to encounter a Church that offers them a welcoming home. Are our communities capable of providing that, accepting and valuing their sexual orientation, without compromising Catholic doctrine on the family and matrimony?
51. The question of homosexuality leads to a serious reflection on how to elaborate realistic paths of affective growth and human and evangelical maturity integrating the sexual dimension: it appears therefore as an important educative challenge. The Church furthermore affirms that unions between people of the same sex cannot be considered on the same footing as matrimony between man and woman. Nor is it acceptable that pressure be brought to bear on pastors or that international bodies make financial aid dependent on the introduction of regulations inspired by gender ideology.
52. Without denying the moral problems connected to homosexual unions it has to be noted that there are cases in which mutual aid to the point of sacrifice constitutes a precious support in the life of the partners. Furthermore, the Church pays special attention to the children who live with couples of the same sex, emphasizing that the needs and rights of the little ones must always be given priority.



The Crisis That Changed Pope Francis
October 23, 2014 
Change on the march
…He got what he wanted. There was free and fierce debate between liberals and ideological conservatives (the most strident of whom, US Cardinal Raymond Burke, has been going round claiming that the pope is about to sack him from his post as the Holy See’s most senior canon law judge). Pastoral conservatives have divided between the two sides. Yet the vote on welcoming gays failed by just two votes to get the two-third majority…
...there will be a larger Synod on the family next October [2015] ...
It will not be a straightforward business. Indeed it could get rather messy. But then family life is like that. And Pope Francis is, above all else, a family man.



[HIERARCHY] Pushback at The Synod on The Family [2014]
October 14, 2014
While very many synod fathers warmly welcomed and appreciated the midway report presented by the Relator General, Cardinal Peter Erdo, on Oct. 13, a significant number [of HIERARCHY members] expressed serious objections to parts of that interim text, both in terms of content and style. That text sought to summarize the rich and often heated debate inside the synod hall during the first week, but the day after the report was presented there was an evident attempt at pushback.
     Many [HIERARCHY members] were upset by what they charged as the media’s misrepresentation across the globe of the synod report’s openness to homosexuals in particular, but also regarding cohabitation and irregular marriage situations



Republican lawmakers storm hearing room, disrupt Trump impeachment inquiry, 
OCTOBER 23, 2019
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives impeachment inquiry devolved into chaos on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers, encouraged by President Donald Trump to get tougher in fighting Democratic efforts to impeach him over dealings with Ukraine, stormed into a high-security hearing room and delayed testimony by a witness…
TO
AND
CONTROL
DEMOCRATIC
COUNTRIES
Photo - The Aspen Institute - Madeleine K. Albright - Global Development Lecture
 BIO. TULANE UNIVERSITY, 
Photo - The book - Fascism: A Warning 2018
David M. Rubenstein Lecture | 
Sanford School of Public Policy - 
- “Fascism: A Warning” 2018

Photo - NPR  (44 mins., audio)  book - 'Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power' by Rachel Maddow, 2012 , 
Photo - NPR  review and 8:27 mins.,audio - 
The  Book 'Blowout...' 2019

There are several basic ruthless BEHAVIORAL similarities between the United States Congress REPUBLICANS and the US Roman Catholic HIERARCHY. These ruthless similarities all stem from one seemly "root cause" - that is "OIL." It is "OIL" that forces their REJECTION / DENIAL of the SCIENCES specifically of CLIMATE CHANGE and HOMOSEXUALITY. WHY? It is, as research fines, to destroy and to gain control of democratic countries.

Science + 
+ Religion = 
TRUTH = LOVE

Caritas in veritate Pope Benedict XVI  

Letter to Father George V. Coyne 
Pope John Paul II 1988

REPUBLICANS


Listening to the Trump’s impeachment inquiry and then to the public hearings - it is unbelievable how unwavering in a most obnoxious lockstep commitment to every word of President Trump - the Republicans both in the House and the Senate of the US Congress have remained. These Republicans completely reject the Truth of the evidence from the witnesses attesting to how Trump “use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election (https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/12/politics/trump-ukraine-impeachment-inquiry-report-annotated/).” In addition, these same Congressional Republicans back Trump rejecting the science on climate change and support his “move to begin pulling out of the Paris Agreement last month signaled to world leaders that the US government is stepping away from the global push to stop the climate crisis (https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/politics/cop25-trump-climate-change-accelerating-america-pledge-report/index.html).” What is driving or who is behind this enforcing this blind obedience to Trump?


HIERARCHY 




 RC HIERARCHY’S
 HOMOSEXUALS “INTERNALIZED

The Eyes Have It: Sex and Sexual Orientation
Differences in Pupil Dilation Patterns
August 3, 2012
           …pupil dilation to stimuli indicates activation of the autonomic nervous system. This system is associated with many automatic processes such as perspiration, digestion, blood pressure, and heart rate. For this reason, pupil dilation has been used as indicator of automatic response, for example, in studies of implicit reaction and cognitive load. Other research suggests that pupil dilation can reflect automatic attention, or attention that is likely not in the conscious control of participants. It is therefore unlikely that participants suppress pupil dilation to stimuli they are sexually attracted to. Pupil dilation patterns could therefore reflect, with high sensitivity, automatic attention related to sexual attraction and sexual orientation… Read more: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0040256

THE EYES OF THE 
RC HIERARCHY
REVEALS THE
RC HIERARCHY’S
GAY SEXUAL ORIENTATION
RELENTLESSLY
IN A DISSOCIATED STATE OF MIND
BY THE
RC HIERARCHY'S  
LIFETIME
OBSESSION
 HOMOSEXUALITY

The merest glance at a photo of one of Jim French’s male nude art photography models such as the above photo of Pete Kuzak for the repressed homosexual RC Hierarchy - would instantly ignite an unconscious physical same-sex sexual arousal. This is because being raised:

…with autonomy-thwarting parents, they may be prevented from exploring internally endorsed values and identities and as a result shut out aspects of the self perceived to be unacceptable. Given the stigmatization of homosexuality, individuals perceiving low autonomy support from parents may be especially motivated to conceal same-sex sexual attraction, leading to defensive processes such as reaction formation…

  …Psychodynamic traditions hold that people have a preferred view of themselves, which may not reflect reality. When this idealized view is threatened by contradictory thoughts or feelings, people engage in one or more unconscious processes to defend against the threat to self. Among defensive processes that have been recognized as having some empirical support is reaction formation, a process indicated in the modern body of research on self-esteem preservation (e.g., Baumeister, Dale, & Sommer, 1998). Reaction formation refers to the process of adopting values or beliefs, or engaging in behaviors, that are in opposition to feelings or impulses experienced within oneself that are deemed unacceptable. Empirical work has shown reaction formation processes with respect to sexism (Sherman & Garkin, 1980), sex guilt (Morokoff, 1985), and prejudice (Dutton & Lake, 1973), indicating that individuals sometimes defend against self-relevant, threatening information by engaging in opposing behaviors…Read more: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cody_DeHaan/publication/221790068_Parental_Autonomy_Support_and_Discrepancies_Between_Implicit_and_Explicit_Sexual_Identities_Dynamics_of_Self-Acceptance_and_Defense/links/0f31752d7447a6e150000000.pdf?

There are endless examples of this type of unrealistic sexual behavior among the majority of the members of the RC HIERARCHY - who relentlessly throughout their lives have been and still are condemning homosexuality. They remain oblivious, completely without any empathy for the violent harm they are causing gay children and adults. As most recently and cruelly demonstrated in my hometown Grand Rapids, Michigan at the beginning of Advent “Michigan Catholic Priest Refuses To Offer Communion To Married Lesbian Judge 12/03/2019 (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michigan-catholic-priest-communion-lesbian-judge_n_5de55c1fe4b0d50f32a6f0a0),” and “Catholic Pastor Tells Lesbian Chief Judge: ‘No Communion For You’ - Nov 30, 2019 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2019/11/30/catholic-pastor-tells-lesbian-chief-judge-no-communion-for-you/#27a5a73d53e7).” It is speculation to think that because this attack against the Grand Rapids Chief Judge took place just after Trump lost several court appeals e.g. (“Appeals court hands Trump another loss, saying Congress can seek his tax returns”  Nov 14, 2019 - https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/13/politics/trump-financial-records-appeals-court-house/index.html) and (“Judge tells Trump he's not a king -- the President is not so sure” Nov 26, 2019 - https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/26/politics/donald-trump-constitution-supreme-court-executive-power/index.html) that there is any connections between Trump’s Republicans and this mindless uneducated Grand Rapids priest and bishop. This Grand Rapids bishop is not his own person, he is the puppet control by someone like Cardinal Burke - who is also seems to be controlled by another group of powerful people, BIG OIL?!? When Truth is blatantly negated like it is by the majority of the members of the RC Hierarchy surprisedly mirroring the same way Truth is blatantly negated by Trump's Congressional Republicans during his impeachment process - it raises the question as to how is this possible? Are these two groups of people being coerced by one ever more powerful entity?        

 These examples are further validated by these RC HIERARCHY REPRESSED HOMOSEXUALS: (1) by their complete absence of having any graduate authoritative academic degree in the field of SCIENCE - related to GENDER STUDIES and SEXUAL ORIENTATION, and (2) not only by their adult depressive psychological behavior, but also by their inability to related civilly with their co-workers in the curia or to form lifelong lasting relationships (https://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2019/09/pope-francis-sealing-schism-caused-by.html). These facts have been revealed in the Vatileaks of 2012 and by Pope Francis in his Christmas address to the Roman Curia, December 22, 2014 (https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2014/december/documents/papa-francesco_20141222_curia-romana.html). Also, their behavior is described by Frederic Martel in his book “In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy,” including Andrew Sullivan's review of this book (http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/andrew-sullivan-the-vaticans-corruption-has-been-exposed.html).
In reality these the members of the RC HIERARCHY are projecting their own internal homosexual thoughts and feelings outward on to others. They do not realize that they are publicly “outing” themselves by their antigay statements. This is because as we learn from the science on human sexuality that we human beings do not have conscious control of the natural functioning of our sexual orientation, i.e. thoughts, feelings or physical sexual arousal - no more than we have conscious control of our hearts beating or our breathing. This is because these bodily functions  are all under the control of our autonomic nervous system. “The autonomic nervous system is a control system that acts largely unconsciously and regulates bodily functions such as the heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, pupillary response, urination, and sexual arousal…(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system#cite_note-Human_Physiology_-_Janig-2).” 

Our sexual orientation functions regularly and continuously throughout our lives 24 hours a day - 7 days a week non-stop. We can no more completely suppress the natural functioning of our sexual orientation than we can completely suppress our breathing. If we attempt to hold our breaths - as if to stop our breathing - we will only pass out and our bodies will resume our breathing. The same is true regarding our sexual orientation. It is impossible to attempt to suppress the natural and continuous  functioning of our sexual orientation.  Even if we should try to suppress the natural 24/7 functioning of our sexual orientation - it will continue to express itself outside our full conscious awareness. The natural and continuous  functioning of our sexual orientation - will continue its 24/7 functioning  under disguised forms of defense mechanisms, such as, dissociation, projection, reaction formation, etc., leading to very embarrassing situations and even at times into dangerous and harmful situations. It is something like driving a car under the influence of mind altering drugs i.e. alcohol (e.g. driving drunk). For example -   Reaction formation “in which unacceptable or threatening unconscious impulses are denied and are replaced in consciousness with their opposite (https://dictionary.apa.org/reaction-formation).”  Reaction formation, is   one of the most obvious revealing defense mechanisms that is employed by people who are obsessive in emotionally condemning homosexuality, this is especially true of those people who are obsessively condemning of adult pornography. 


The Above PHOTOS:

Internalized Homophobia - Cardinal Robert Sarah, Cardinal Raymond Burke, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Archbishop Viganò, Cardinal Walter Brandmuller, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco and Pete Kuzak

Vatican cardinal critiques Jesuit Martin on homosexuality Cardinal Robert Sarah 
Sep 1, 2017 
    ...Sarah made during the 2015 synod gathering of bishops on the family where he put together homosexual ideology and Islamist terrorism as major threats to humanity. These, he said, were “demonic” and “destroyers of family.”


Cardinal Sarah blocked discussion of gays, says bishop
24 OCTOBER 2015
A standard-bearer of progressive thought at the Synod [2015] on the Family, Bishop Johan Bonny, admitted last night that he had been prevented from raising the issue of the pastoral care of gay Catholics in the gathering’s group discussions.
Bishop Bonny of Antwerp, who was in a group led by a senior African cardinal, Robert Sarah, said there had been no way of discussing the issue “in a peaceful way.”
Bonny was speaking at a press conference in Rome called by the three Belgian bishops at the synod on Friday night. Clearly alluding to tensions with Cardinal Sarah in the group, he said it was better to talk about the gay issue “in a positive way than in a bad atmosphere.”
In his synod intervention, Cardinal Sarah, Prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship, reportedly compared “gender ideology” with Islamic State fundamentalism and Nazism…
Read more: 

Transgender Surgeries Are “Luciferian Refusal” of God’s Will, Says Top Vatican Cardinal -  Robert Sarah
April 11, 2019
A top Vatican official has condemned [without personally achieved  any graduate authoritative academic qualification degree in the field of SCIENCE - related to GENDER STUDIES - in order to be qualified to professionally speak or to write on the topic (Matthew 15:14) renders SARAH - “a luciferian charlatan” who warrants impeachment] so-called gender ideology, specifically gender-confirming surgery, as “a Luciferian refusal” of God’s will and has endorsed the Vatican’s ban on gay priests [Sarah commits the BREACH of not maintaining an ongoing dialogue between SCIENCE and RELIGION on the subject of GENDER STUDIES as directed by Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI].
Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, said in an interview regarding his new book:... Read more:


Cardinal Raymond Burke, Ireland 'worse than the pagans' for legalising gay marriage, 
28 MAY 2015 

Senior Catholic Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco calls gay marriage a 'confusing Trojan horse' which undermines the family 
11 November 2014 

Archbishop Charles Chaput - Gays can't use U.S. Catholic family meet to attack Church, bishop says JUNE 25, 2015

It is time for Archbishop Viganò to meet the press September 13, 2018

German Cardinal Walter Brandmuller: ‘Statistically proven’ that homosexuality is to blame for abuse January 7, 2019 https://www.worldtribune.com/cardinal-statistically-proven-that-homosexuality-is-to-blame-for-abuse/

Photo, Photo, Photo, Photo

Michigan Catholic Priest Refuses To Offer Communion To Married Lesbian Judge
12/03/2019
Critics of Rev. Scott Nolan argue that LGBTQ Catholics like Sara Smolenski are being singled out by priests, while other Catholics who contradict key teachings ― on the death penalty, for example ― don’t receive the same level of scrutiny.
A Michigan Catholic priest has stirred up controversy by telling a married lesbian parishioner and lifelong Catholic she is barred from receiving the Eucharist ― a key Christian rite.
Rev. Scott Nolan recently informed Kent County District Court Judge Sara Smolenski that she should not come forward to receive communion at his church, St. Stephen Catholic Church. The Diocese of Grand Rapids said Wednesday that it supports Nolan’s decision…
Read more:



Catholic Pastor Tells Lesbian Chief Judge: ‘No Communion For You’
Nov 30, 2019
This is the first Sunday of Advent for the Roman Catholic Church, including St. Stephen in East Grand Rapids, Mich., a 96-year-old parish experiencing the same steady decline in the number of worshippers being felt by congregations across the nation. This is also the first Sunday since its pastor, 33-year-old Rev. Scott Nolan,, called one of his prominent, long-time parishioners, and advised her she should no longer come forward for the sacrament of Holy Communion.
The reason, according to that parishioner, is that she is married to another woman.
Most likely, this wouldn’t be a news story had the woman Father Nolan denied communion not been Sara Smolenski, the 62-year-old chief judge of Kent County, Michigan’s 63rd district court, and the epitome of a lifelong parishioner; her parents, who wed at St. Stephen’s, baptized her there and she attended its school. The funeral masses for the judge’s parents were held there as well.
“I was raised in that church. It created who I am. We were taught ‘love everyone,’” she told MLive…


It is surprising how closely the majority of the US Catholic Bishops (Hierarchy) exhibit this same surreal mindless blind obedience of these Congressional Republicans - in their complete rejection of the science of homosexual sexual orientation - remaining in lockstep commitment with the majority of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, globally. The question is the same - What is driving or who is behind this enforcing this blind obedience among the RC Hierarchy?


Rachel Maddow explains through her authoritative research (in her book - “Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth" October 1, 2019) identifies that it is big oil - really big oil - that corrupts, destroys - democratic countries to gain control - out of the greed for power.  Madeleine Albright through her historical authoritative research (in her book - - “Fascism: A Warning” 2018) explains how democratic countries are taken over by fascism - that destroys democratic institutions - causing enormous confusion and disorder for fascist elements to begin paving the way for a dictator to gain control and take over. Though Madeleine Albright does not declare that Donald Trump to be a fascist, but she does describe Trump as the most undemocratic US president.

Photo - Benito Mussolini 
The ghosts of fascism
Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State, warns about the rise of authoritarianism.
February 07, 2019
...Albright...talked about the insidious, creeping  
quality of fascism, which can worm its way into a society and take over before the population has a chance to sound the alarm. At one point, Albright quoted Benito Mussolini, whom she described as the first fascist: “If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, nobody notices.”… Read more: https://news.ucsc.edu/2019/02/madeleine-albright-feature-story.html

To be continued:

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz





_______________________________________________________________
__________________________________________
VATICAN’S
RC HIERARCHY REPRESSED HOMOSEXUALS’
REJECTION
SCIENCE
HOMOSEXUALITY
IS


SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2019
Acts?!? - 
UNSUBSTANTIATED - DIABOLICAL NONSENSE - CHILD ENDANGERMENT!!!
Gay Marriage Proposals - NEW HOPE - TRUTH - LOVE - GAYS who are OUT - MENTALLY HEALTHY AS STRAIGHTS - EXPOSING - THE UNHEALTHY ANTI-GAY RC HIERARCHY REPRESSED HOMOSEXUALS’ (1) ABSENCE OF SCIENCE, TRUTH & LOVE (2) "INTERNALIZED Vatican’s UNSUBSTANTIATEDTeaching on Homosexuality - PERPETUATING GENERATIONAL GLOBAL VIOLENCE - TO END THE RC VIOLENCE & BEGIN PROTECTING CHILDREN KNOW THE SCIENCE - & - KNOW THYSELF https://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2019/05/gay-marriage-proposals-new-hope-truth.html

Above excerpts:

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2018
LET’S GET A GRIP!!! - Divide & Separate - A Curia Tactic - PANICKING EXPOSURE - Burke & Lepanto = Denunciation of “GAYS” in the Church and Attacks Threats - UNFETTERED Economic Liberalism (Globalization - Requiem for the American Dream:The Ten Principles of Concentration of Wealth and Power  - by Noam Chomsky)


SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2018
Update: April 14, 2018 - - - THE BREACH - Antigay Prejudices, Unsubstantiated, Suppression, Repression, Exploitation, Globalization, Annihilation - - NO SCIENCE - - NO TRUTH - - THEREFORE - - - NO LOVE http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-breach-antigay-prejudices.html


SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2017
Part 4B - Homosexuality - “If it is NOT a choice, if it is NOT a disease, in the perspective of faith it can only be a GIFT” - Bishop Cruz, Brazil - ’seeks to END ‘PREJUDICES that KILL’ http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2017/11/part-4b-homosexuality-if-it-is-not.html




Pope Francis compares politicians' homophobic rhetoric to that of Hitler
BY NATACHA LARNAUD
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Pope Francis denounced a resurgence of homophobia on Friday by comparing the rhetoric of anti-gay politicians to that of Adolf Hitler. "These are actions that are typical of Nazism, that with its persecution of Jews, gypsies, people with homosexual orientation, represent an excellent model of the throwaway culture and culture of hatred," Francis said. 
These threats, Francis said, often take the form of "symbols and actions that are typical of Nazism."
"When I hear a speech (by) someone responsible for order or for a government, I think of speeches by Hitler in 1934, 1936," he said. 
"These actions are typical (and) represent 'par excellence' a culture of waste and hate," he added. "That is what was done in those days and today it is happening again."
As a result of Nazi rule, six million Jews were killed between 1933 and 1945. Homosexuals and gypsies were also sent to extermination camps…
Read more:

THE 
UNHEALTHY
& 
THE CLOSETED - ANTI-GAY 
RC HIERARCHY REPRESSED HOMOSEXUALS’ 
(1) ABSENCE OF SCIENCE, TRUTH & LOVE
(2) "INTERNALIZED Vatican’s
UNSUBSTANTIATED Teaching on
Homosexuality HOMOPHOBIA" - PERPETUATING GENERATIONAL
GLOBAL VIOLENCE

A kleinian analysis of homophobia
Carol M. Sussal D.S.W.

Projection - to - Paranoia 
Repressed Homosexual Feelings Toward the Persecutor
A mental disorder characterized by powerful delusions of jealousy and persecution
Theories of Personality - Jess Feist and Gregory J Feist

Internalized Homophobia
Internalization of societal antigay attitudes
Prejudice, Social Stress, and Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations: Conceptual Issues and Research Evidence - Psychol Bull. 2003 September ; 129(5): 674–697. - Ilan H. Meyer - Columbia University  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2072932/pdf/nihms32623.pdf
RC Hierarchy Repressed Homosexuals - 
Standard Practice  
Demonize OPENLY Gay Men 
Without Evidence - 
Becomes “the extremely bad, to be destroyed, controlled or 
demeaned…represent all that is bad inside [the HOMOPHOBIC RC Hierarchy], all that overwhelming guilt cannot handle" 
Becomes the projections of RC Hierarchy unwanted repressed homosexual impulses - attributing them to - Openly Gay Men i.e. Mr. Cruz or a gay priest.

One, of many, many examples of the above: is the Chilean bishops’ antigay demeaning statements made against Mr. Cruz, an abuse survivor, were a means to control to silence him by destroying his credibility because he was an openly gay man.

“…Mr. Cruz, through tears, explained that he had told Francis in their nearly three- hour private meeting that he had maintained his Catholic faith even though Chilean bishops had apparently told the pope that he had left the church “for a life of perversion...”

God Made You This Way,’ Pope Is Said to Have Told Gay Man  
May 21, 2018 
ROME — A Chilean survivor of clerical sex abuse has said that Pope Francis told him in a private meeting this month that God had made him gay and that both God and the pontiff loved him that way, a remarkable expression of inclusion for the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. 
…Mr. Cruz had already said that Francis had apologized in the meeting for the large-scale sexual abuse scandal involving Chilean clergy members… Mr. Cruz, through tears, explained that he had told Francis in their nearly three- hour private meeting that he had maintained his Catholic faith even though Chilean bishops had apparently told the pope that he had left the church “for a life of perversion.” 
…Mr. Cruz said that his lawyer warned him in 2009 that the church would focus on his homosexuality, leaving him vulnerable and threatening to make life extremely difficult for him. 
He said that his lawyer later told him that Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz, a confidant of Francis, had raised the question of whether Mr. Cruz could even be considered a victim because, Mr. Cruz said, “I was gay and I might have liked it.” 
“It was horrible,” he added. “This has always weighed on me.” 
THE 
ABSOLUTE CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE TO END
THE EVIL OF
"REPRESSED"
HOMOSEXUAL
MURDEROUS RAGE
 AND 
PERPETUATING
 GENERATIONAL
 VIOLENCE: 

KNOW THE SCIENCE!!!

AND

KNOW
 THYSELF!!!






The Eyes Have It: Sex and Sexual Orientation Differences in Pupil Dilation Patterns
August 3, 2012
           …pupil dilation to stimuli indicates activation of the autonomic nervous system. This system is associated with many automatic processes such as perspiration, digestion, blood pressure, and heart rate. For this reason, pupil dilation has been used as indicator of automatic response, for example, in studies of implicit reaction and cognitive load. Other research suggests that pupil dilation can reflect automatic attention, or attention that is likely not in the conscious control of participants. It is therefore unlikely that participants suppress pupil dilation to stimuli they are sexually attracted to. Pupil dilation patterns could therefore reflect, with high sensitivity, automatic attention related to sexual attraction and sexual orientation… Read more: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0040256

Anti-gay Hate Crimes
Lashing out
Ultimate Indicator
An
Internal Conflict
(“The PLANK”)
With One's
Sexual Orientation


Homophobes Might Be Hidden Homosexuals
 April 12, 2012
  Homophobes should consider a little self-reflection, suggests a new study finding those individuals who are most hostile toward gays and hold strong anti-gay views may themselves have same-sex desires, albeit undercover ones.
The prejudice of homophobia may also stem from authoritarian parents, particularly those with homophobic views as well, the researchers added.
   "This study shows that if you are feeling that kind of visceral reaction to an out-group, ask yourself, 'Why?'" co-author Richard Ryan, a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, said in a statement. "Those intense emotions should serve as a call to self-reflection.”
The research, published in the April 2012 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, reveals the nuances of prejudices like homophobia, which can ultimately have dire consequences. [The 10 Most Destructive Human Behaviors]
"Sometimes people are threatened by gays and lesbians because they are fearing their own impulses, in a sense they 'doth protest too much,'" Ryan told LiveScience. "In addition, it appears that sometimes those who would oppress others have been oppressed themselves, and we can have some compassion for them too, they may be unaccepting of others because they cannot be accepting of themselves.”…
Hidden homosexuality
…The research may help to explain the underpinnings of anti-gay bullying and hate crimes, the researchers note. People in denial about their own sexual orientation, perhaps a denial fostered by authoritarian and homophobic parents, may feel a threat from other gay and lesbian individuals. Lashing out may ultimately be an indicator of the person's own internal conflict with sexual orientation.
This inner conflict can be seen in some high-profile cases in which anti-gay public figures are caught engaging in same-sex acts, the researchers say. For instance, evangelical preacher and anti-gay-marriage advocate Ted Haggard was caught in a gay sex scandal in 2006.  And in 2010, prominent anti-gay activist and co-founder of conservative Family Research Council George Rekers was reportedly spotted in 2010 with a male escort rented from Rentboy com. According to news reports, the escort confirmed Rekers is gay.
"We laugh at or make fun of such blatant hypocrisy, but in a real way, these people may often themselves be victims of repression and experience exaggerated feelings of threat," Ryan said. "Homophobia is not a laughing matter. It can sometimes have tragic consequences," as was the case in the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay man.
Read more:

Matthew Shepard's Murder: Student Recalls Finding Dying Mathew Tied to Fence — 'Oh My God, It’s a Person!'
Matthew Shepard's murder on Oct. 12, 1998, raised awareness about violence against LGBTQ people https://people.com/crime/matthew-shepard-death-anniversary-20-years/


The mothers of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd look on as President Barack Obama signs into the law the 
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., - Hate Crimes and Prevention Act, October 28, 2009


AUTONOMY-THWARTING UPBRINGING
IS THE
FAILURE 
to ACHIEVE the
DEVELOPMENTAL 
GOAL of ADOLESCENCE
the
UNDERSTANDING &
 ACCEPTANCE of ONE'S 
HOMOSEXUAL SEXUAL ORIENTATION as a
GIFT from 
GOD! 
IS
STAGNATION
IMMATURITY
 Never Developing Into A Fully Functioning 
ADULT 
Individual Person 
PARENTING AND HOMOPHOBIA 
Parental Autonomy Support and Discrepancies Between Implicit and Explicit Sexual Identities: Dynamics of Self-Acceptance and Defense - 2012 
When individuals grow up with autonomy-thwarting parents, they may be prevented from exploring internally endorsed values and identities and as a result shut out aspects of the self perceived to be unacceptable. Given the stigmatization of homosexuality, individuals perceiving low autonomy support from parents may be especially motivated to conceal same-sex sexual attraction, leading to defensive processes such as reaction formation… 
…Psychodynamic traditions hold that people have a preferred view of themselves, which may not reflect reality. When this idealized view is threatened by contradictory thoughts or feelings, people engage in one or more unconscious processes to defend against the threat to self. Among defensive processes that have been recognized as having some empirical support is reaction formation, a process indicated in the modern body of research on self-esteem preservation (e.g., Baumeister, Dale, & Sommer, 1998). Reaction formation refers to the process of adopting values or beliefs, or engaging in behaviors, that are in opposition to feelings or impulses experienced within oneself that are deemed unacceptable. Empirical work has shown reaction formation processes with respect to sexism (Sherman & Garkin, 1980), sex guilt (Morokoff, 1985), and prejudice (Dutton & Lake, 1973), indicating that individuals sometimes defend against self-relevant, threatening information by engaging in opposing behaviors… Read more: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cody_DeHaan/publication/221790068_Parental_Autonomy_Support_and_Discrepancies_Between_Implicit_and_Explicit_Sexual_Identities_Dynamics_of_Self-Acceptance_and_Defense/links/0f31752d7447a6e150000000.pdf?
17 Antigay 
Leaders 
Exposed as 
Gay or Bi,
Republican Who Spread Butt on Gay Sex Site Resigns


INTERNALIZED
HOMOPHOBIC
LETHAL
VIOLENCE
What you have said 
in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be
 proclaimed
 from the roofs.
Luke 12:3

LET’S 
GROWUP!


STOP
THE
VIOLENCE!


KNOW
THE SCIENCE!!!


AND


KNOW
THYSELF!!!

The martyrs of all times, with their fidelity to Christ, tell us that injustice does
 not have the last word: we can continue to hope 
in the risen Lord.
Pope Francis
24 Apr 2019
HAPPINESS 
IS 
Openly gay pro strongman 
Rob Kearney marries his boyfriend 
Joey Aleixo on St. Patrick’s Day 2019
Mar 19, 2019, Photo
A 
GIFT from 
GOD!
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EARLY CHILDHOOD TRAUMA GROWING UP GAY - Curial RC Hierarchy Members FANATICAL - ANTIGAY - RE-ENACTING - NAZIS “CUMULATIVE RADICALIZATION” "Working Towards the Führer” http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2019/03/early-childhood-trauma-growing-up-gay.html



The SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2019 is the continuation of:



Pope Francis - SEXUAL ABUSE SUMMIT - A PHENOMENALLY COMPREHENSIVE STEP FORWARD - Inclusive of the Science of Homosexuality - In PROTECTING ALL CHILDREN Including LGBT CHILDREN & In EXPOSING & In Helping to REMOVE Mountains of CORRUPTION - The First Witnessed SYNERGIC GROUP OF RC PRELATES along with Pope Francis - in Christ’s Name - being Christ to all God’s People and willing to lay their lives down for others. More than a pilot light - a courageous Light of CHRIST!!! Restoring TRUTH giving MEANING and VALUE to LOVE!

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The REAL-> S*C*A*N*D*A*L !!! Repeating HITLER’S NAZIS BREACH - "JUNK SCIENCE" Up The Wazoo At The Vatican - Supplied by RC Hierarchy - DOMINATED by Ruthless Closeted Repressed Homosexuals, e.g. BURKE, MULLER. CHAPUT, VIGANO, etc., etc., etc., All Developmentally Stagnated - Emotional Sexual Immaturity - Twisting The Meaning of “LOVE” to Mean OPPOSITE - These Are The WINDOWS To Be THROWN OPEN - Since John XXIII 1959 https://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-real-scandal-repeating-hitlers.html


S*C*A*N*D*A*L ?! - - S*C*A*N*D*A*L !?! - - - S*C*A*N*D*A*L !!!!!! -> WHO  D*A*R*E*S  TO TALK ABOUT GAY PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS CAUSING SCANDALS COMING FROM THE VATICAN??? THE REPRESSED HOMOSEXUAL RC PRELATES IN THE CURIA??? - THE VATICAN HAS BEEN THE SOURCE AND BEDROCK OF ENDLESS CLOSETED GAY SCANDALS OF THE CURIA!!! - - -

UN chief urges action to address root causes of 
poverty - Photo
US Catholic 
bishops find [Adult]
pornography 
more important than poverty
Dec. 6, 2015 
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018
PORNOGRAPHY Is Not the Problem—You Are = DISSOCIATION of Homosexual Repressed RC Prelates from their “DEEP-SEATED HOMOSEXUAL TENDENCIES” = “SPHINCTER MORALITY”

______________
THE LETTER
TO STOP
Kids Being Abused!!! 
BY
The VIOLENCE of
 “REPRESSED HOMOSEXUAL
ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY’S” UNANIMOUS
 ARBITRARY  
REJECTION OF THE SCIENCE ON HOMOSEXUALITY
FOR THE PAST 
62 YEARS!!!

St. Francis, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy Photo
Grand Haven Lighthouse Pier Lake Michigan - Photo
‘God Made You This Way,’ Pope Is Said to Have 
old Gay Man, May 21, 2018 - Photo
Chilean bishops offer mass resignation over sex 
abuse scandal, May 18, 2018 - Photo
The Overstimulation of Everyday Life: 1. New Aspects 
of Male Homosexuality
Sidney H. Phillips, M.D., 2002 - Photo 
"Homosexuality: coming out of the confusion”
Sidney H. Phillips, M.D. - Int J Psychoanal
1518 appointed the Papal Master of Ceremonies
- Michelangelo responded by DEPICTING
Cesena, in his “Last Judgment” fresco - 
as the judge of the underworld with - 
a snake biting his no-naked area  Photo

The letter dated: July 12, 2017 


Science  + 
+ Religion = Truth = LOVE






July 12, 2017 

Bishop David J. Walkowiak
Bishop of the Grand Rapids Diocese
360 Division Avenue S., 
Grand Rapids, MI 49503-4501

Dear Bishop David, 

I received your letter dated October 2015, that included a request to set an appointment to dialogue with you. At the time, my commitments,obligations and lack of financial means did not permit me to follow through. Furthermore, the around trip from Canton, MI to Grand Rapids, MI would have been about eight hours. However, after seeking reliable spiritual direction I was advised to write a letter to accept your request to meet. In the process of writing this letter, I began to thoroughly research the situation, from the combined insight obtained from three professionals perspectives, as a priest, as a psychologist, and as a historian. Through these perspectives, I have analyzed the many ways in which I was a victim of antigay hierarchal violence, having no judicial oversight to appeal to for protection within the church or civilly. This is an unidentified form of structural violence directed not at me alone but also many priests, theologians, sisters, religious and others, including Pope Francis for the past four decades - all have been victims of this form of violence. 

S t r u c t u r a l   V i o l e n c e
Introduction
by Deborah Du Nann Winter and Dana C. Leighton
Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century
…Direct violence is horrific, but its brutality usually gets our attention: we notice it, and often respond to it. Structural violence, however, is almost always invisible, embedded in ubiquitous social structures, normalized by stable institutions and regular experience. Structural violence occurs whenever people are disadvantaged by political, legal, economic, or cultural traditions. Because they are longstanding, structural inequities usually seem ordinary—the way things are and always have been. But structural violence produces suffering and death as often as direct violence does, though the damage is slower, more subtle, more common, and more difficult to repair. The chapters in this section teach us about some important but invisible forms of structural violence, and alert us to the powerful cultural mechanisms that create and maintain them over generations…
One outcome of exclusionary thinking is the belief that victims of violence must in some way deserve their plight. But certainly it is easy to see that young children do not deserve to be victims…
Section II:  Winter, D. D., & Leighton, D. C. (2001). Structural violence. In D. J. Christie, R. V. Wagner, & D. D. Winter (Eds.), Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. New York: Prentice-Hall.

The main purpose of this form of structural violence is to silence and remove anyone in the Church who openly discusses the science on the sexual orientation of homosexuality - gay people. This antigay hierarchical, structural violence has been successful in firmly suppressing this science on homosexuality for the past 60 years. In 1957, world renowned psychologist, Dr. Evelyn Hooker conducted ground breaking research proving that homosexuality is not a mental illness. She proved that being homosexual was just as normal as being heterosexual. For years the hierarchical church has rebuked such scientifically sound findings and have championed the obsessive suppression of gay people. Such actions lead to question who benefits from falsifying truth? The hierarchical church did not suppress the scientific research on heart surgery or cancer for the past 60 years. This vicious form of gay suppression is entrenched in the corruption of the curia in which speaking the truth has become a reprehensible thing. Through my years of analysis, I have come to find that the greatest harm this suppression imposes is on our children.

Truly I tell you, unless you 
change and become like little children, 
you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 
Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this 
child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 
And whoever welcomes one such child in 
my name welcomes me. 
Matthew 18: 3-5


…whoever causes one of these 
little ones 
who believe in Me to stumble, 
it would be better for him 
to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, 
and to be drowned in the 
depth of the sea. 
Matthew 18:6

My “coming out” in March 1997 was all based on substantiated science and scripture. Furthermore, it was motivated to protect defenseless children. How did risking my life by coming out warrant such extreme vindictive retaliation for the past 20 years by members of the curia and hierarchy? 

How did it get twisted around that I refused to return to the Grand Rapids Dioceses, when in fact, it was made clear to me that it was unsafe for me to return by their coercing me to acquiesce to being sent away to be re-educated on the science on the sexual orientation of homosexuality. They wanted me to leave the priesthood on my own, which would be another grave sin to commit. Since I had no recourse to appeal to for justice in 1997 - what recourse would I have available to me if I returned and more severe immoral tactics were used against me?

This tactic of the curia to dispose of someone was most recently demonstrated by Cardinal Raymond Burke firing Boeselager the Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Malta. Burke falsified a papal decision of Pope Francis that no one was to be fired, that the problematic issues with the Knights of Malta should be resolved through dialogue. Burke without any true dialogue with Boeselager stated that it was Pope Francis’s wish that he resign as the Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Malta. When Boeselager refused to resign because of “unreasonable circumstances,” Burke fired him on the grounds of disobedience. Sound familiar?  Boeselager, then appealed directly to Pope Francis and an investigation was ordered into the firing of Boeselager. It was later exposed that the grounds that Burke had used against Boeselager were over “condoms.” However, this information was contrived by a group of Burke’s supporters known as “Lepanto Institute for the Restoration of All Things in Christ.” This group is described as a “militant traditionalist organization close to Burke (Austen Ivereigh).” “This ultraconservative organization specialized in the denunciation of "gays” entering the Church and in attacks on the major development associations that question unfettered economic liberalism (La Croix International).” On February 4, 2017, Pope Francis replaced Cardinal Burke as the Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and overnight all over Rome appeared posters of Pope Francis with a sad expression with the words - “Where is your mercy?”

It was the truth from science and religion that morally obligated me to come out for the protection of children growing up gay in March 1997. This was an act of love and my duty as a priest. It is the true meaning of being a priest. Pope Francis  on Thursday, June 22, 2017  in his homily during Mass at Casa Santa Marta confirmed this fact stating,"The Good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep,” using as an example the parish priest of Barbiana, Fr. Don Milani, the from the Diocese of Firenze (Florence). 

The research to find the answers to these questions endlessly kept unfolding more and more information that led back in time - more than a century and a half. The research doors were opened wide once Pope Francis was elected and he along with his team of experts, and cardinals began reforming the curia. The research revealed two main historical events that were dependent on exploiting societal prejudices against gay people to rise and to stay in power. The, first, began with the ideology of Nazism promoted by Hitler and the Nazi regime that led to the deaths of 70 million people unprecedented in human history. The, second, began the with ideology of the “trickle-down theory” known as Reaganomics that led to Globalization and the greatest inequality in human history - “A world where 1% of humanity controls as much wealth as the bottom 99% will never be stable (President Obama’s departing speech to the UN General Assembly September 2016).‟ Ian Kershaw explains what Hitler’s place in history will be:

…Primarily, as the inspiration of the most lethal and destructive war in history, and of the most terrible genocidethe world has ever seen. He left behind him not just physical, but also moral, ruination such as history has never previously experienced. He represented an extreme pathology of modern society. He showed us the most radical face of modern inhumanity – how an advanced society can undergo a breathtaking descent into modern barbarity that’s quite without precedent. That’s what, with the passage of time, we can see was historically defining about Hitler. Never before Hitler’s time had we seen so clearly what human beings are capable of…
…we shouldn’t mystify Hitler’s personality. The uniquenessof Nazism can’t be reduced to that strange personality. Another time, another place, and Hitler would have had no impact at all. He couldn’t have derailed a modern society without that society itself making a major contribution to its own fate… We shouldn’t be complacent about the future. New forms of fascism and racial intolerance rightly appal and worry us…
…what we can do is to remind ourselves of the essential point about Hitler: he represented the most fundamental and frontal assault ever launched on all that we associate with humanity and civilisation. 
Excerpt from: - Hitler’s Place in History - Ian Kershaw
Professor of Modern History at Sheffield University
Lecture - Wednesday 27th April 2005

Over the past year and a half - I have been researching and writing 24/7, since I received your letter - gathering significant amounts of factual data on all three levels (as a priest, psychologist and historian). This research includes my personal experience of being a victim of the hierarchical, antigay violence. As it happens when I do research, such as it did when I was doing the qualitative research on the Holocaust in graduate school for psychology, it is only after thoroughly exhausting every possible avenue several times do all the pieces begin to fall into place like  a jigsaw puzzle that a picture is formed. 

The picture centers on the crucial importance for the safety and well-being of all of humanity present and on into the future and is dependent on maintaining an ongoing dialogue between science and religion. This is necessary to obtain truth that which then gives meaning and value to love. Without this truth formed through this process - 

…Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions, the word “love” is abused and distorted,to the point where it comes to mean the opposite… 
Benedict XVI - Caritas in Veritate 2007  2009

Pope Benedict XVI goes on to make the warning that “Any breach in this dialogue comes only at an enormous price to human development…” St. Pope John Paul II made an early statement to this effect explaining how science and religion cannot be separated. He explains - as Benedict does that science is the study of all of God’s creation and religion is formed from the bible, which is the inspired word of God. They both explain how the dialogue between science and religion becomes a self-correcting mechanism of oversight, preventing abuse and maintaining integrity of both science and religion - thus allowing science and religion to guide us on our journey into the future. Both John Paul II and Benedict XVI are writing from their experience having lived through the atrocities of Hitler and the Nazi regime (1933-1945) that resulted from their manipulation and abuse of science and religion to invent a pseudo-science to legitimize Hitler’s ideology of Nazism and pseudo-religious terms to promote it. They experienced living in a social environment saturated in the racial ideology of Nazism - where the meaning of love was so twisted around that in actuality love meant the opposite. Love meant exterminating people considered to be less than human or subhuman - “Life Unworthy Of Life.” 

With the recent election of President Trump we are experiencing living in a similar social environment saturated with the ideology of the “trickle-down theory.” This led to Globalization that was also legitimized by the manipulation of science and religion that twisted the meaning of love around to mean the exact opposite. In addition to Mr. Trump’s behavior, the Republican Convention 2016 slogans, “Lock her up!” (that sounded like the palpable hysteria of the Nazi Party “Sieg Heil” chant at a Cathedral lit Nuremberg Rally of the 1930s) and his being elected US president are all blatant examples of love twisted to mean the opposite. Both the rise of Nazism and Globalization were depended on the exploitation of societal prejudices against gay people. 

However, in regards to rise of the  “trickle-down theory”of the 1980s that led to Globalization - the majority of the members of the curia and hierarchy are responsible for the exploitation of societal prejudices against gay people. The research of Dr. Evelyn Hooker and subsequent research completely dispel prejudices against gay people. Instead of the curia and hierarchy acknowledging the truth of this science - they manipulated religion by misusing the bible and continued to wrongly condemn homosexuality. Thus they twisted the meaning of truth around to the point that it continues to mean the opposite. They and their supporters are not about truth and therefore not about love. They are no different than the palpable hysteria of the Nazi Party “Sieg Heil” members at the Nuremberg Rallies of the 1930s. And this is the violence, their twisted meaning of truth - the complete absence of love, they have used against me and against so many others before and after me. Some of our best and brightest theologians and bridge makers, such as, Sister Jeannine Gramick and Fr. Robert Nugent. Gramick and Nugent have been responsible since 1977 for saving millions of people’s lives, especially very young children. To the best of my knowledge, they were the first to begin an ongoing dialogue on the science of the sexual orientation of homosexuality - gay people and religion - scripture and theology.   

S c i e n c e   can purify religion from error and superstition; 
R e l i g i o n   can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. 
Each can draw the other into a wider world, 
a world in which both can flourish. 
For the truth of the matter is that the Church and the scientific 
community will inevitably interact; their options 
do not include isolation. 
St. Pope John Paul II - 1988

I came out in March 1997: for the protection of children, as young as 4 and 5 years of age, who are growing up gay. Since then it has become a moral obligation to educate and prevent forced parental suppression and unsubstantiated antigay social and religious norms.What has bothered me ever since was the fact that I found it difficult to find the  r o o t   c a u s e  in understanding “how” and “why” and “when” did the meaning of “love” and “truth” get so monumentally - twisted around; notably among the majority of the members of the curia and hierarchy to mean the exact opposite.

For the past 10 years I have been writing in an effort to explain how this mindless inquisition that started almost immediately after coming out in June 1997 - of being coerced “behind closed doors” by a directive from the curia conveyed by the bishop for me to acquiesce to being sent away “somewhere” to be re-educated on the science on the sexual orientation of homosexuality. This directive was not only shocking, but traumatizing as well. 

This irrational directive from the curia completely negated the immediate need of protecting the lives of millions of very young defenseless children from lifelong debilitating harmful effects. It also negated the wealth of the authoritative substantiated research gathered from the major medical and mental health associations, institutions, and organizations, including universities. This was the reason for my “coming out.” 

Through knowledge acquired during my studies at the University of Michigan and attending the American Psychological Association National Conventions my research was reinforced on the science of sexual orientation. The action of the curia and hierarchy was a blatant affront, a direct attack on truth and love, as taught and embodied in Jesus Christ, of which the entire purpose and meaning of priesthood is based on. It was like a supervisor telling a heart surgeon that he is going to be be sent away on a sabbatical to be reeducated on the ancient system of medicine known as “bloodletting.” I cannot explain how twisted it sounded - to be told such absurdity!!! “Who in the hell is running this ship?!?” I was 47 years old at the time.

How did the curia and hierarchy cause a breach in the dialogue between science and religion that ended up twisting the meaning of love around to mean the opposite?

We will learn from studying the - science on sexual orientation that it is composed of interrelated biological and psychological processes that are not able to be consciously controlled or suppressed. These interrelated processes function outside our conscious awareness - automatically and continuously throughout life as part of the autonomic nervous system - like the heart beating and breathing. The continuous functioning of our sexual orientation - is essential in meeting our most basic human need for love, attachment, intimacy, through which empathy is developed. The continuous functioning of our sexual orientation is as vital to human survival from the beginning of life to the end - as the heart beating and breathing. Any attempt to force the suppression of a child’s gay sexual orientation is the same as suppressing the heart and breathing rate which can cause a number of lifelong adverse effects (persistent form of depression (dysthymia), suicidal ideation, and obsessive dislike for gay people that is implicit, to explicit verbal expressions of hate, to lethal forms of violence, and torture).

The majority of the members of the curia and hierarchy are European. They are the ones who grew up in the toxic antigay social environments left behind by Hitler’s Nazi regime. This begins to explain the long history of the majority of the members of the curia and hierarchy’s collective obsessive antigay crusade. This collective thought suppressed all emerging science on homosexuality for the past 60 years. For these members of the curia and hierarchy the thought of gay science has been a long closed door slammed shut in their early childhood years. This was out of great fear from their witnessing the terror in the adult’s warnings of how Hitler treated priests who were found out to be homosexuals. As this trauma of the early childhood events are not remembered, only the emotional terror of the event remains. It is this emotional terror that is wronglymistaken as an innate guiding voice of their conscience strongly conveying to them that homosexuality is evil. This misunderstanding then becomes a force that completely obliterates years of scientific research on homosexuality. It is more likely that such scientific research ignites seemingly unending waves of unexplainable terror. That door slammed tightly shut - is the breach in the dialogue between science and religion on the issue of homosexuality. This is a childhood defense mechanism. It is the only means available to the child to stop the unending waves of fear. However, as adults, these childhood defenses must be reexamined in a safe environment - to be challenged in the adult dialogue between science and religion on issues of homosexuality. As Pope Benedict XVI explains, this is the only process to find truth and give real value and meaning to the understanding of love. I do not presume this to be an easy task to unravel and should only be attempted in a safe environment. However, this situation - is not unusual - it brings to mind the words of St. Paul to be understood with great care and empathy.  

When I was a child, I talked like a child, 
I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. 
When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
1 Corinthians 13:11

No, no, no this type of breach in the dialogue between science and religion on gay sexual orientation has to stop! Justice demands that I be exonerated and proper restitution be made for all harm endured, including the lost salary for the past 20 years to be made quickly. Not to follow through on this road of true justice is to continue this breach in the dialogue between science and religion on gay sexual orientation. Am I, like so many others, going to be made an example of what happens when a priest speaks aloud the truth? Will this be a situation reminiscent of Hitler’s regime to remove and silence Anti-Nazi priests? Are you going demonstrate publicly how an advanced society of people made a major contribution to the modern barbarity of Hitler and the Nazi regime by their complicity and indifference?

 My moral obligation as a priest is to protect people, especially children.

I look forward to setting a time to dialogue the reality of this situation in the light of the warnings of both St. Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI while maintaining an open discussion between science and religion for the search of truth that leads to love. 

Sincerely yours, 

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz 

Cc. Pope Francis
PS. For more information on the: 
  • Science of Homosexual Sexual Orientation 
  • Gay Adult Porn & Homophobia - Who views it the most and why?
  • Vatican’s Swiss Guards Break Up a 
  • D r u g - F u e l e d   G a y   O r g y 
at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - July 2017
  • “Priests In Panties” 2010 
  • Who is the blame for all the gay closeted sexual acting-out scandals at the Vatican?
Can be found online at the -Thalamus Center 
  • Saturday, July 1, 2017 - Pope Francis - Teaches the World to Dance the TANGO - the Dance of LOVE - INCLUSION - through - DIALOGUE! - http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2017/07/pope-francis-teaches-world-to-dance.html

Enclosures:

Letter from Bishop Walkowiak
Bishop of Grand Rapids Diocese - Dated, September 17, 2015 

Letter from Archbishop Joël Mercier
Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy - 3 March 2015


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The end of the letter.

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz - June 9, 2017



S c i e n c e  On  
H o m o s e x u a l 
  

 DR. EVELYN HOOKER


In the USA, 1957, Evelyn Hooker’s most notable and ground breaking research proving that homosexuality is not a mental illness was completed called:-
 in which she administered several psychological tests to groups of self-identified male homosexuals and heterosexuals and asked experts to identify the homosexuals and rate their mental health. The experiment, which other researchers subsequently repeated, argues that homosexuality is not a mental disorder, as there was no detectable difference between homosexual and heterosexual men in terms of mental adjustment... Photo

Being Gay Is Just as Healthy as Being Straight
Evelyn Hooker's pioneering research debunked the popular myth that homosexuals are inherently less mentally healthy than heterosexuals, leading to significant changes in how psychology views and treats people who are gay...
Hooker's work was the first to empirically test the assumption that gay men were mentally unhealthy and maladjusted. The fact that no differences were found between gay and straight participants sparked more research in this area and began to dismantle the myth that homosexual men and women are inherently unhealthy.
In conjunction with other empirical results, this work led the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the DSM in 1973 (it had been listed as a sociopathic personality disorder). In 1975, the American Psychological Association publicly supported this move, stating that "homosexuality per se implies no impairment in judgment, reliability or general social and vocational capabilities…(and mental health professionals should) take the lead in removing the stigma of mental illness long associated with homosexual orientation." Although prejudice and stigma still exist in society, this research has helped millions of gay men and women gain acceptance in the mental health community. Read more:                                         http://www.apa.org/research/action/gay.aspx

A B S E N C E  o f  S C I E N C E

B l i n d   o p t i m i s m
by Ian Kershaw 



The problem with early childhood exposure and or experienced traumatic events is that the memories of such events can be sealed in the unconscious that continue to disrupt the adult-child victims lives - until if these repressed memories are able to be recovered and integrate in the person’s life. On continuum from mild to extreme this happens to everyone to some degree. It is just that in Benedict XVI's case the traumatic situation and events are historically unprecedented way over the top. We need to have some clear idea of the historic times that Benedict grew up in from birth until he was 18 years old. Ian Kershaw “is regarded by many as one of the world's leading experts on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Kershaw).” Kershaw describes in great detail - the horrific atrocities instigated by Hitler and how we should see his place in history. Kershaw looks upon Hitler’s place in history as: 

Primarily, as the inspiration of the most lethal and destructive war in history, and of the most terrible genocide the world has ever seen. He left behind him not just physical, but also moral, ruination such as history has never previously experienced. He represented an extreme pathology of modern society. He showed us the most radical face of modern inhumanity – how an advanced society can undergo a breathtaking descent into modern barbarity that’s quite without precedent…
Read more:
Hitler's Place in History - Ian Kershaw
Professor of Modern History at Sheffield University
Wednesday 27th April 2005
&

AUSCHWITZ - CHRISTMAS 2008 
A flashback far more severe than in
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 
December 26, 2008 
Fr. Marty Kurylowicz





…The horror of the Holocaust began in 1933 and ended in 1945. The psychological fallout would have been far more extensive and more deadly, especially when it is not identified as such…
AUSCHWITZ -- CHRISTMAS 2008 -- A flashback far more severe than in --- BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN – December 26, 2008 – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz
(posted below, original posting)




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Know thyself 
Oracle at Delphi 

This above all: 
to thine own self 
be true,
 And it must follow, 
as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 
William Shakespeare

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your 
brother's eye and pay no attention to the 
plank in your own eye? How can you 
say to your brother, 'Brother, 
let me take the speck 
out of your eye,
'when you yourself fail to see the 
plank in your own eye? You hypocrite,
 first take the plank out of your eye, and 
then you will see clearly to remove 
the speck from your brother's eye. 
Luke 6:40-42
Kids Are Being Abused!!!
BY
The VIOLENCE of
 REPRESSED HOMOSEXUAL
RC HIERARCHY'S FIERCE ANTIGAY AGENDA 
Dissociation    
S e l e c t i v e   
I n a t t e n t i o n 
From  L O V E
Killing Empathy 
Creating Narcissists 
as fully demonstrated by the members of the 
Roman Catholic 
Curia & Hierarchy
NARCISSISM
THE BIRTHING OF 
CLERICALISM 


The Closet: Psychological 
Issues of 
Being In 
and 
Coming Out
Oct. 01, 2004 
Cultural Psychiatry,
Dissociative 
Identity Disorder
By Jack Drescher, MD

  In the jargon of contemporary homosexual culture, those who hide their sexual identities are referred to as either closeted or said to be in the closet. Revealing one's homosexuality is referred to as coming out. Clinical experience with gay patients reveals hiding and revealing behaviors to be psychologically complex.


Homosexual Identities
In the developmental histories of gay men and women, periods of difficulty in acknowledging their homosexuality, either to themselves or to others, are often reported. Children who grow up to be gay rarely receive family support in dealing with anti-homosexual prejudices. On the contrary, beginning in 
childhood--and distinguishing them from racial and ethnic minorities--gay people are often subjected to the antihomosexual attitudes of their own families and communities (Drescher et al., 2004). Antihomosexual attitudes include homophobia (Weinberg, 1972), heterosexism (Herek, 1984), moral condemnations of homosexuality (Drescher, 1998) and antigay violence (Herek and Berrill, 1992). Hiding activities learned in childhood often persist into young adulthood, middle age and even senescence, leading many gay people to conceal important aspects of themselves… 

DISSOCIATION

What psychological mechanisms facilitate separating one's sexual identity from the rest of one's persona? Sullivan's (1956) concept of dissociation may be illuminating, particularly its most common aspect: selective inattention. A ubiquitous, nonpathological process, selective inattention makes life more manageable, like tuning out the background noise on a busy street. However, through dissociation of anxiety-provoking knowledge about the self, a whole double life can be lived and yet, in some ways, not be known. Clinical presentations of closeted gay people may lie somewhere in severity between selective inattention--most commonly seen in the case of homosexually self-aware patients thinking about "the possibility" that they might be gay--to more severe dissociation-- in which any hint of same-sex feelings resides totally out of conscious awareness. More severe forms of dissociation are commonly observed in married men who are homosexually self-aware but cannot permit the thought of themselves as gay (Roughton, 2002). Read more: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/closet-psychological-issues-being-and-coming-ou

17 Antigay 
Leaders 
Exposed as 
Gay or Bi,
Republican Who Spread Butt on Gay Sex Site Resigns

January 27, 2016  Photos
  The internet was buzzing in January when an editor at a gay website in Virginia wrote that he'd encountered an antigay Republican lawmaker while on Grindr, without naming the person. Not every antigay crackpot is actually gay, but there's no shortage of those who actually are. Here are some hypocrites who just couldn't practice what they preached… Read more: http://www.advocate.com/people/2016/4/18/17-antigay-leaders-exposed-gay-or-bi


Puerto Rico Republican …Sen. Roberto Arango has previously voted in favor of Resolution 99, a proposal that would block any attempt to permit  same-sex marriages in Puerto Rico. He has also opposed adoption rights for gay people. The AP reports that local news media published photos from the application showing, “a man’s nude upper body with a cell phone obscuring his face,” and another showing “a rear view of a nude man on his hands and knees… 

A child’s sexual orientation is not about sexual behavior - it is about love, wanting to feel one with another. Depending on the severity of this rejection of a child’s expression of love - the child wants to desperately please his parents and will learn to hid from his parent such emotions of love that are disturbing to them. He will even hide them from himself and thus begins the mental dissociation of this child - attempting to suppress the never ending - regular functioning of his sexual orientation of the emotional impulses - to be loved and to love and to feel one with another.

Sexual orientation 
- refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic and/or sexual attractions to men, women or both sexes...

Autonomic nervous system 
The autonomic nervous system is a control system that acts largely unconsciously and regulates bodily functions such as the heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, pupillary response, urination, and sexual arousal… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system#cite_note-Human_Physiology_-_Janig-2 

However, a person’s sexual orientation like the heart beating, breathing, sexual arousal, etc., are all under the control autonomic nervous system that operates automatically and unconsciously - they cannot be suppressed. 

The Eyes Have It: Sex and Sexual Orientation Differences in Pupil Dilation Patterns
August 3. 2012  …pupil dilation to stimuli indicates activation of the autonomic nervous system. This system is associated with many automatic processes such as 
perspiration,
 digestion, 
blood pressure, 
and 
heart rate. 
For this reason, pupil dilation has been used as indicator of automatic response, for example, in studies of implicit reaction and cognitive load. Other research suggests that pupil dilation can reflect automatic attention, or attention that is likely not in the conscious control of participants. It is therefore unlikely that participants suppress pupil dilation to stimuli they are sexually attracted to. Pupil dilation patterns could therefore reflect, with high sensitivity, automatic attention related to sexual attraction and sexual orientation… Read more: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0040256 

"Pupil dilation patterns could therefore reflect, with high sensitivity, automatic attention related to sexual attraction and 
 sexual orientation..."



"Clinical presentations of closeted gay people may lie somewhere in severity between selective inattention--most commonly seen in the case of homosexually self-aware patients thinking about "the possibility" that they might be gay--to more severe dissociation--in which any hint of same-sex feelings resides totally out of conscious awareness"
“Brokeback Mountain” 2005


AUSCHWITZ - CHRISTMAS 2008 - A flashback far more severe than in
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
December 26, 2008 – Fr. Marty Kurylowicz


Dear Fr. Geoff Farrow,

I have been so saddened by Pope Benedict XVI's cruel words to LGBTQ people around the world, to their parents, families and friends, most ESPECIALLY TO CHILDREN. After reading the accounts of this human travesty, I did not know where to find comfort or hope. And then I thought about your blog. And just like receiving a wonderful Christmas present, sure enough I found the hope and comfort I needed to hear. Photo 

I am a priest and a clinical psychologist (MS). And for one of my research projects I chose to do a qualitative research project of the recorded verbal accounts of survivors of the Holocaust, 50 years after the event. It was a difficult research project, because I could not make sense of one of the accounts of the survivors. 

For example, one survivor was describing what it was like riding the train to AUSCHWITZ, but he was describing how he was trying to make conversation with a girl on the train. I listened and wrote out this one account almost 30 times but I just was not getting it. I could not understand how this man could be talking about wanting to make conversation with this girl on the same train to AUSCHWITZ!?! 

Because I had taught high school religion classes for nearly 20 years, it hit me hard, like a flash of lightning. Instantly, all the pieces came together, so fast. Though this survivor was in his late 60’s when he gave his account of his story on audiotape, he was remembering the events that took place, but naturally they were recounted through the mind of a teenager, the age he was on the train to AUSCHWITZ. That is why the dialogue wasn’t making any sense. I was thinking of him as an old man because the voice on the audiotape was the voice of a 68-year-old. As shocking as a bomb going off, all the different aspects of the psychological developmental stages of a teenager kicked in. I realized only too fully that he was just a young normal teenager on that train!!! And so was the girl he was trying to make conversation, and their moms and dads were there with them!!! There was no way to pretend I did not realize what I discovered. It kept hitting me: this is not some script from a movie or TV miniseries on the Holocaust. No; as much as I wished it were. The reality of this horror hit me all at once, on so many different levels of consciousness: what an unbelievable horror it was!!! How could we treat human beings like this! I remember when the realization of the magnitude of this horror first hit me, like an instant reflex. I threw down the transcript I was holding as if it were a blazing hot poker. It kept hitting me over and over again that this is not a movie script or some kind of play – this really happened! It really happened! Oh, my God, how could this have happened!?!!!

My supervisor told me at the time that I was traumatized by the oral content. Qualitative research is an attempt to understand the complexity of emotions, the kinds of emotions, and the degree of intensity involved. Our emotions are what allow us to connect with other human beings. We identify with the non-verbal quality of emotions more immediately and strongly than with the words used to express them. The non-verbal qualities include tone of voice, eye contact, facial expression, body posture, and gestures, all of which express emotions. Emotions are why we can connect with people through time, across cultures, and individually. It is the expression of human emotions in the arts that makes some works of art timeless, because they continually speak to all people through the ages. 

And when I heard what Pope Benedict XVI said about homosexuals and transgendered human beings at Christmas 2008, I felt that same trauma all over again. Because in some way, somehow, he was conveying in a non-verbal manner the horror of the Holocaust, in what appears to be a traumatized, trance-like, accepted social norm from that period of time dictating that some people just don’t count, aren’t important, and can be easily disposed of. And if you rock the boat, you could be next to be disposed of.

I truly have to believe that a person in his position would not be doing this consciously or intentionally. The horror of the Holocaust is like an atomic bomb with fallout so extensive that it spreads over a radius of more than 150 miles. The horror of the Holocaust began in 1933 and ended in 1945. The psychological fallout would have been far more extensive and more deadly, especially when it is not identified as such.

It hit me the way it did when I realized that the research I was doing about a Holocaust survivor, a man 68 years old telling his story, who was remembering what it was like to be on the train to AUSCHWITZ, from the perspective of a young teenage boy who just wanted to talk to a girl. It seemed like the same kind of horror, a tacit assumption that some people don't count and can be disposed of without remorse. Could it be that Benedict XVI is unconsciously repeating Hitler's crime against humanity by taking on a long-accepted social attitude from that period of time? 

The question I asked myself was: what would it have been like for someone growing up gay during the Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 -1945? 

What would be the severity of the psychological effects on a boy who grew up to be gay in Germany during the time of Hitler’s NAZI PERSECUTION OF HOMOSEXUALS 1933 -1945? During the Nazi regime, homosexuals were publicly defamed and falsely accused for the major social problems of that time, which was done to incite massive public hatred and hostility directed against homosexuals. Homosexuals were used for medical experiments, physically mutilated, brutally tortured and exterminated.

Would this child, as an adult, in a severe dissociated state of mind from his own homosexual feelings (Harry Stack Sullivan MD, Dissociative Processes, Clinical Studies on Psychiatry (1956)), unconsciously perpetuate the terrifying horror of the insensitivity he had experienced growing up? If he found himself in a position of authority would he recreate the same social and political environment of violence and terror for homosexuals that he experienced, as a child who grew up to be gay, during the NAZI PERSECUTION OF HOMOSEXUALS? 

I think in truth on a much deeper level I was frightened, really frightened, to hear Pope Benedict XVI’s Christmas remarks against homosexuals and transgendered human beings and even more frightened by the silence from the larger global community of human beings. What is so frightening is, even if there is agreement that one person does not matter or is not important, in truth then no one matters. Therefore, when I thought about your blog and what you did on October 5, 2008, I felt more reassured, I felt hope, and I felt comforted. NOW, isn’t that the true meaning of Christmas? 

God Bless you,

Fr. Marty Kurylowicz

. . . .Written by Martin S. Kurylowicz, M.Div., M.S.
Edited by Madeline Wright, Ph.D., M.S. . . . .
  
“What you cannot do is accept injustice. From Hitler – or anyone. You must make the injustice visible – be prepared to die like a
soldier to do so.”
Mahatma Gandhi

STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
by Deborah Du Nann Winter and Dana C. Leighton
Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century
…Direct violence is horrific, but its brutality usually gets our attention: we notice it, and often respond to it. Structural violence, however, is almost always invisible, embedded in ubiquitous social structures, normalized by stable institutions and regular experience. Structural violence occurs whenever people are disadvantaged by political, legal, economic, or cultural traditions. Because they are longstanding, structural inequities usually seem ordinary—the way things are and always have been. But structural violence produces suffering and death as often as direct violence does, though the damage is slower, more subtle, more common, and more difficult to repair. The chapters in this section teach us about some important but invisible forms of structural violence, and alert us to the powerful cultural mechanisms that create and maintain them over generations…
Read more:
SECTION II  STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

INVISIBLE 
INJUSTICE
THE VIOLENCE OF 
RC HIERARCHY’S 
IGNORANCE OF THE 
SCIENCE ON HOMOSEXUALITY 
IS 
STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE

IS

CHILD 
ENDANGERMENT

Child Endangerment refers to an act or omission that renders a child to psychological, emotional or physical abuse. Child abuse based on the offense of child endangerment is normally a misdemeanor, but endangerment that results in mental illness or serious physical illness or injury is a felony. 


Internalized Homophobia
Internalization of societal antigay attitudes
Prejudice, Social Stress, and Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations: Conceptual Issues and Research Evidence - Psychol Bull. 2003 September ; 129(5): 674–697. - Ilan H. Meyer - Columbia University  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2072932/pdf/nihms32623.pdf


RC HIERARCHY’S
REPRESSED HOMOSEXUALS
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 Turkson, Morino, more - all wrongly without facts - (in the absence of substantiating facts then - their accusations are their subjective repressed
 homosexual projections) blamed homosexuality for the Roman Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandals 2018 
For decades they CARELESSLY did not RESPONSIBLY build their accusations on TRUTH - the ROCK. They failed for decades to protect children, wrongly scapegoating 
gay people - increasing societal antigay 
prejudices - harming gay children growing up, while destroying the moral integrity of the Church bringing us to child sexual abuse crisis we are in today. By their example they are fully demonstrating the characteristics of the structural violence of
 CLERICALISM, no one is safe!!! The ultimate root cause is the cause of their CLERICALISM, which is their failure to face the TRUTH about they own sexual orientation that is obvious to everyone is HOMOSEXUAL! The key give away is their collective fierce refusal to recognize the science on homosexuality for the past 62 years! Like a house of cards or a tsunami striking their false facade it is all beginning to fall apart!

CHILDREN AND STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE
Milton Schwebel and Daniel J. Christie
Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century.
The reduction of direct violence requires not only interventions aimed at individuals, but also structural changes aimed at how societies operate...In this chapter, we examine the effects of structural violence on children. Structural violence is the unequal distribution of power and wealth within and between societies, and it has insidious effects on the health, intellectual development, education, and general welfare of millions of children. The cruelties of structural violence on children are often subtle, unspoken, unrecognized, and even normalized, regarded by many people as natural or “just the way things are.” This chapter focuses on how children suffer the cruel effects of structural violence, and why it has long-lasting consequences on their intellectual, social, and emotional development…
Read more: Chapter 10:
Milton Schwebel and Daniel J. Christie
Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

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