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Sen. Wiener on SB 145, threats from QAnon

Posted: Sep 27, 2020 / 12:01 AM PDT / Updated: Sep 26, 2020 / 08:24 PM PDT

State Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, joined Inside California Politics to talk about SB 145 and how it has made him a target of the conspiracy group QAnon.

https://fox40.com/inside-california-politics/sen-wiener-on-sb-145-threats-from-qanon/

Full Text of SB 145:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB145

2 hrs ago

THE BIG READ: Inside the QAnon cult as its contagion

spreads to Scotland

By Neil Mackay

Writer at large

The world’s most powerful, dangerous and fastest-spreading conspiracy theory has now infected British and Scottish society … and we should be very worried. Neil Mackay investigates

IT’S fitting that QAnon arrived in Scotland and the rest of Britain during coronavirus. This global conspiracy theory is as virulent and transnational as the pandemic. It operates like a virus – spreading from place to place, infecting one carrier after another, the sickness growing exponentially.

Like coronavirus it’s dangerous, and can be deadly – some people don’t even know they’re infected. It’s a threat to global order – just like the virus. And just like the virus, there’s no known cure. Both QAnon and coronavirus are rare and exotic contagions that have only recently been born.

When the world first learned of coronavirus a collective shudder went down the spine of humanity. Just a brief summary of QAnon’s core beliefs is likewise enough to chill the blood of any sane person.

If you haven’t heard of QAnon yet, then what you’re about to read isn’t a joke or exaggeration – it’s part of the belief system of millions of people around the world. Put simply, those in the QAnon cult have no doubt that the world is ruled by a monstrous cabal comprised of politicians and the media. This cabal is stocked with paedophiles and Satanists. Many think Donald Trump is the saviour sent to fight this evil.

The power of this belief system lies in its ability to metastasise and suck in just about any other conspiracy theory imaginable –including far-right hate tropes about Jewish influence over politics and the media.

QAnon is amorphous and ever-changing –like a virus. Most believers aren’t members of any formal organisation. Many hold beliefs in varying degrees of importance. It’s an ideological pick-and-mix -– acolytes can rally around one part of “the cause” while taking little interest in other issues. So some may be motivated by paedophilia allegations while not being drawn to anti-Semitism– and vice versa. However, all share the same hate and fear when it comes to the modern world, and the same religious zealotry when it comes to doing something about it.

QAnon, which thrives online, is fundamentally a psychological disease of the digital age. It’s almost apocalyptic in its vision.

More at link:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18751513.big-read-inside-qanon-cult-contagion-spreads-scotland/

Secretary Pompeo to Ask Vatican to Halt Accord With

Communist China

A stark reminder of the depth of China's tentacles

by Mario Alexis Portella September 27, 2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to meet with Pope Francis September 29, 2020, in Rome to discuss, among other topics, the accord the Vatican made with China.

In 2018, the Holy See, the universal government of the Catholic Church, made a secret, provisional agreement with China. Although the contents of the agreement have remained under wraps, the agreement has to do with seeding the appointment of bishops to the communist government (after which they are confirmed by the pope).

Writing in First Things about the accord, Pompeo notes, “The church’s hope was that it would improve the condition of Catholics in China by reaching agreement with the Chinese regime … “

However, Pompeo says, “The human rights situation in China has deteriorated severely under the autocratic rule of Xi Jinping, especially for religious believers. Credible reports have exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s program of forced sterilizations and abortions of Muslims in Xinjiang, its abuse of Catholic priests and laypeople, and its assault on Protestant house churches … Now more than ever, the Chinese people need the Vatican’s moral witness and authority in support of China’s religious believers.”

Pompeo reportedly will ask the pope not to renew the agreement with China.

In January the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen, who has been the leading voice for persecuted Catholics in China, sent a letter to the College of Cardinals imploring them to denounce the agreement the Vatican signed with China’s Communist Party (CCP).

Zen, referring to the Vatican document’s pastoral guidelines of the Holy See concerning the civil registration of clergy in China (of June 28, 2019), said:

“First of all, I cannot believe that there is such a statement in the agreement, and I do not see it there. (By the way, why must such an agreement be secret, and why is it not granted even to me, a Chinese cardinal, to see it?) But, even more clearly, the whole reality after the signing of the agreement shows that nothing has changed.”

A Brief History of Vatican Agreements with Nefarious Regimes

This is not the first time the Holy See has made agreements with an authoritarian state:

The Lateran Treaty of February 11, 1929, ended a long and troubled historic, diplomatic and political journey that led to the dual recognition between the Italian state and the Vatican City state. However, the treaty served to allow Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to consolidate his power and, with the support of almost the entire Italian Catholic hierarchy, lead Italy into two wars: the one against Ethiopia (1935) and World War II.

The Reichskonkordat between the Holy See and Nazi Germany was signed on July 20, 1933, by the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII) — despite the misgivings of Pope Pius XI — and Franz von Papen, the Vice-Chancellor for Adolf Hitler. It ensured the loyalty of bishops in Germany to the state through an oath and required that all priests in the country be Germans and subject to German superiors. Restrictions were also placed on Catholic organizations in Germany.

In the 1960s, the Church began, under its principal architect, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, the strategic policy of Ostpolitik — the normalizing relations and openness toward the Warsaw Pact nations (the satellite countries of the Soviet Union).

The policy included ending all public criticism against communist regimes and endless negotiations with these rogue governments. The results were, to put it mildly, terrible:

In Hungary in the mid-1970s, the leadership of the Church and its properties were micromanaged by the Hungarian Communist Party, which also had de facto control of the Hungarian College in Rome.

In Czechoslovakia, the ostpolitik empowered a band of Catholic collaborators to serve as a front for the Communist Party and its repressions.

All of this began to end with the election of Pope John Paul II in 1978, who challenged and revealed the hypocrisy of the Warsaw Pact communist dictatorships. It was through the efforts of this pope, together with then-President Ronald Reagan, that communism in Poland collapsed, triggering a domino effect that brought down the other communist regimes, including eventually the Soviet Union.