Author: VD

The 17th Nicene Centenary

The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milano is celebrating the 17th Centenary of the Nicene Council.

From December 19, 2024 to June 17, 2025 visitors can admire the exhibition “Jubilee 2025 – XVII Centenary of the Council of Nicaea” curated by Mons. Marco Navoni and Mons. Francesco Braschi in rooms 2 and 3 of the Pinacoteca.

The Holy Year, every twenty-five years, solemnly commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, the Son of God who became man for the salvation of humanity.

In the first centuries of the Christian era, the identity of Jesus of Nazareth was one of the most debated theological questions: it was asked whether He, as the Son of God, was God like the Father, or whether he was inferior to the Father, and therefore a creature like the others, although the most excellent. He was a priest of the Church of Alexandria at the beginning of the 4th century, named Arius, who systematically denied the divinity of Christ with the intent of safeguarding the idea of ​​the uniqueness of God: this doctrine, from the name of its author, took the name of Arianism.

To solve the issue and quell the controversies that were dividing Christianity, the Emperor Constantine the Great, exactly 1700 years ago, in 325 convened the first Ecumenical Council in Nicaea, Asia Minor (now Turkey) according to tradition, 318 bishops took part. The Council condemned Arius’ doctrine as heretical, declaring that for the Christian faith Jesus Christ is the Son of God, equal to the Father in divinity. Furthermore, the Fathers of Nicaea fixed the date of the Easter feast, the main Christian holiday, by fixing it on the first Sunday after the full moon following the spring equinox, putting an end to the calendar differences between the Christian Churches

Note that this is a celebration of the actual Nicene Creed, which I acknowledge, and which cannot, under any circumstances, be considered heretical. What most people erroneously believe to be the Nicene Creed is actually the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, which was not formulated for another 56 years.

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Defectus Eclipsus

The mystery of phantom time continues as TEMPUS OCCULTUM is now up to Episode 14.

The door of the observatory creaked open, and I started, hastily covering Brother Clemens’s manuscript with a star chart. But it was the old astronomer himself who entered, looking unsurprised to find me there.

“I thought I might find you here,” he said, closing the door behind him. “Your meeting with our visitor from Rome has concluded, I see.”

“Yes,” I replied, my voice tight with excitement and anxiety. “Brother Clemens, I’ve been comparing your calculations with a reference provided by Doctor Visconti, and I’ve found—”

“Discrepancies,” he finished for me, sinking onto a stool with a sigh. “Yes, I imagined you would.”

“Then you’ve known? About the falsified eclipse records, the impossible comet appearances?”

He nodded slowly. “For many years, Brother Lukas. But knowing and proving are different matters. And proving and revealing different still.”

“But this is extraordinary evidence!” I exclaimed, gesturing to the open books. “If Halley’s Comet appeared in 530 and again in 684, with only 154 years between—”

“Then the chronology is compressed,” Clemens said, “and the missing years must lie somewhere in that interval. Yes, I reached the same conclusion decades ago.”

“Why did you never publish your findings? This overturns our entire understanding of medieval history!”

The old man’s expression was a mixture of resignation and suppressed excitement. “Publication requires approval, Brother Lukas. And such approval would never be granted for work that undermines the established chronology. Men like Visconti ensure that.”

“The guardians of true time,” I murmured.

“They have many names throughout history,” Clemens replied. “But their purpose remains constant: to maintain the fiction, to guard the secret that time itself has been manipulated.”

Also, there is a sneak preview of the stamp design for one of the two volumes of the Castalia Library edition of A SEA OF SKULLS.

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Pay Now or Pay More Later

The Chinese Global Times points out some of the obstacles that are facing the USA’s attempt to bring back the semiconductor industry:

The substantial losses incurred by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC) factory in the US state of Arizona illustrate both the consequences of ignoring market logic and the deep-seated difficulties the US faces in its attempt to forcibly restructure global semiconductor supply chains through political intervention. TSMC’s Arizona facility incurred a staggering loss of nearly NT$14.3 billion ($441 million) in 2024, the largest loss since the establishment of the US factory, Taiwan-based media outlet Economic Daily News reported on Monday, citing TSMC’s latest Annual General Meeting Report to shareholders. By contrast, TSMC’s factory in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu Province earned nearly NT$26 billion last year.

This financial disparity goes beyond a simple comparison of operational efficiency; it underscores the challenges of replicating TSMC’s traditional profitability model in the US, a market plagued by high costs and a fragmented supply chain.

TSMC’s Arizona struggles were predictable. It is no secret that the decision to build chip manufacturing plants in the US was never driven by commercial viability but by geopolitical pressure under the CHIPS Act. There are multiple causes for TSMC’s losses in Arizona. While the site has been in volume production since late 2024, the trajectory of financial deficits indicates that its problems are not temporary. 

A key factor is the disruption of the supply, industry and market chains. The semiconductor industry is a highly complex and intricate system where upstream and downstream companies are closely interdependent.  While the US excels in chip design, it lags significantly behind Asia, especially East Asia, in terms of the complete supply chain needed for manufacturing. TSMC’s Arizona factory relies heavily on importing key components and raw materials, which not only drives up logistics costs but also extends the supply cycle. Any hiccup in the supply chain can lead to production standstills.

All of these issues, problems, and challenges are real. And yet, what is the alternative? There is no alternative, unless the USA is willing to become dependent upon either a self-reliant USSR or the global manufacturing giant China for all of its digital devices?

The point is not efficiency or minimum cost; it’s the misplaced focus on efficiency and lowered costs that created this dilemma for the USA in the first place. The point is national sovereignty, particularly when war is increasingly going to be decided by large-scale high-tech drone manufacturing. It’s important to take market logic into account, but it’s even more important to avoid confusing market logic with national best interest.

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Gaiman Sues Alleged Victim

But not for defamation. Oh, no, he wouldn’t want to open up that can of worms. He’s suing the woman who used to live in his house for breaking her NDA.

The author Neil Gaiman is seeking more than $500,000 from Caroline Wallner, the potter who accused him of sexual misconduct during the time she lived and worked on his property in Woodstock.
Wallner moved to Gaiman’s property in 2014 when he offered her and her ex-husband, a builder, work as caretakers. The alleged abuse occurred between 2018 and 2020, after Wallner’s marriage had fallen apart and her husband had moved out, leaving Wallner behind to take care of their three children. It was then, Wallner says, that Gaiman began to pressure her for sex in exchange for staying on the property. “‘I like our trade,’” she recalled him saying. “‘You take care of me, and I’ll take care of you.’”

Gaiman denied that he’d abused Wallner and told New York that it was she who had initiated their sexual encounters, but in 2021, Gaiman paid Wallner $275,000 in exchange for signing an extensive nondisclosure agreement that prevents her from suing Gaiman or telling anyone about her alleged experiences with him. Now, Gaiman has filed a demand for arbitration, accusing Wallner of breaching their NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine. In his claim, Gaiman argued that Wallner violated the confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions of their agreement and is requesting a full repayment of their settlement amount, plus attorneys’ fees and $50,000 for each interview she’s given to the media. (Wallner’s ex-husband, who signed the NDA as well, is also named in the claim, shared with New York.)

Vincent White, Wallner’s lawyer, was surprised Gaiman had filed the claim against his client. White, an employment lawyer in New York who specializes in sexual harassment in the workplace, said that in his experience, allegedly abusive men only rarely sued women for violating NDAs because the optics were so poor. When you’re trying to silence someone who’s alleging “really heinous acts,” White said, “everyone thinks, Oh, the allegation must be true. I would think he may have come to the conclusion he has nothing left to lose.”

Unless Gaiman has a gambling problem or went short on gold, there is only one reason to sue Wallner for breaking her NDA: he’s hoping to intimidate other individuals under NDA with him from breaking theirs. Which means that if he’s unsuccessful, we’re very likely going to see more alleged victims coming forward; I expect the final number to be closer to 50 than the eight who have already spoken out.

And imagine how awful and creepy a man has to be to even want to buy a woman’s silence about her experience with him, let alone pay millions of dollars for it.

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Failure = Replacement

It’s pretty obvious that people have paid absolutely no attention to what Owen Benjamin has been saying for years when they get their panties in a bunch about the Big Bear pointing out the utter futility of the so-called White Pride crowd. Even AC managed to completely step in it today:

Owen Benjamin says white people should be replaced because they are not having children, and so filling America with Somalians is a superior answer. I do not really know what to say here. He either cannot recognize the problem, or he is part of the problem. It is one or the other.

AC is actually the one who should have kept his mouth shut here because he is opining in obvious and utter ignorance. There has not been one single more enthusiastic advocate for young white men getting married and starting families than Big Bear. He was far ahead of me on the absolute importance of young men prioritizing marriage and children over being based, being theologically-correct, being well-informed, and every other form of knowledge.

Let’s review Owen’s actual words, as provided by the individual on Gab who was serving as his self-appointed prosecutor. This was the charge:

Jewish comedian Owen Benjamin says White Pride is a cancer, and Whites need to be replaced because they are lazy cowards. This doesn’t sound funny to me.

You want to talk about White replacement? People always do this clip where me and Joe Rogan are laughing about White replacement like it’s this big gotcha moment. And guys, it’s not a gotcha moment. Like, if you refuse to have children and you refuse to do labor, you should be replaced. Mexicans, Somalians, it doesn’t matter, you’re not valuable to society, no one owes you anything, your skin color is not a credit, it doesn’t make you special.

Right? This White Pride shit is like cancer.

“Oh, Jew, Jew”

I’m a 6’8″ blue-eyed – I look like a Nazi propaganda poster. I mean, I don’t have the jawline for that, I get it, but enough with the Jew stuff. It’s just stupid. You know that poster where the SJW, “Everyone I don’t like is literally Hitler” and it’s got Hitler like holding a blanket or something?

The Nazis are even worse. They’re like “Jew, Jew” and you’re like, what are you talking about? You’re lazy. You have no kids. You’re replacing yourself because you’re a coward. Because you can’t stay with a woman because you’re afraid of rejection. You don’t want to be up at night with a baby, you don’t want to spend your money on someone else, you don’t want to limit your lifestyle and your traveling ability, and so we need people to replace you.

Now, the truth is that Owen is actually making weaker case than I would here. Because the point is not that these people “should” be replaced, it is that they “will” be replaced and that they “are” being replaced because they a) won’t breed, b) won’t work, and c) won’t fight. For all their incessant posturing, they are essentially modern Lotus Eaters who are incapable of sustaining the civilized societies that are their birthrights.

In fact, no one who doesn’t have children has any right to even try to criticize Owen Benjamin on this subject, because unlike his childless would-be critics, Owen is the man in the arena. Owen is the man who has shown up to fight for the future. And Owen is warning the retarded elements of the Right that they are wasting all of their feeble energies on crying out for sympathy that will never be forthcoming instead of the three things it has to do to survive.

To be honest, these online pseudo-nazis are so enervated, both physically and intellectually, that it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if, in addition to lacking wives, jobs, and children, they didn’t even own any guns. Although it would surprise me if they were actually dumb enough to get vaxxed after all their constant posturing about how the world is out to get them; if they somehow managed to fail that one too, then they’re definitely going to be replaced.

The irony, of course, is that Owen is less Jewish than I am American Indian. And yet, his critics always point out his ethnic ancestry while my critics assiduously avoid mentioning mine.

In any event, the lessons of history are very clear. Societal failure inevitably dictates replacement. This has been observed to be the case everywhere from Australia to Zimbabwe. Few nations survive any period of mass migration unscathed, and more than a few are replaced entirely by the invaders. And I am unaware, to date, of any that have been preserved by weak and childless men bewailing their fate.

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Fake Pope Dies

Fake Pope Francis went to what one can only presume was his infernal reward this morning, thereby presenting the genuine Christians in the Catholic Church another chance to clean their house of the post-Vatican II diableristes. I’m not optimistic in this regard; neither am I judgmental as the Southern Baptists and most of the Protestant denominations are just as converged and very nearly as bad, if not worse.

Perhaps only now can we truly understand the wisdom of Jesus Christ declaring that he is wherever two or three are gathered together in his name. Because it is now obvious that there is no human organization on this Earth that is immune to corruption and convergence.

I understand all the various theological arguments in defense of this particular organization or that particular organization as the One True Church. But regardless of how convincing, or unconvincing I might find them, I just haven’t seen any sign that any of the various Christian organizations have successfully policed themselves to remain uncompromised and true to its own foundational principles, let alone the basic principles set down by Jesus Christ.

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Who are the Reactionaries Now?

As comically unprincipled as conservatives are, liberals are even worse. Specifically, 2.86 times worse.

Support for free trade among American liberals has more than doubled since Donald Trump won his second term as US president in November, a study has suggested. During the election campaign, Trump accused America’s trade partners of ripping off the country and vowed to impose harsh duties on them. On April 2, he made good on his threat, announcing new “reciprocal” tariffs on nearly 90 countries, saying that it would raise revenues and boost the number of jobs in the US.

After global markets reacted by dropping sharply, the president put most of the tariffs on hold for 90 days, reducing them to a baseline rate of 10%. However, the pause does not apply to China, whose exports to the US are now subject to tariffs of up to 145% amid an ongoing tit-for-tat trade war.

A poll by Polarization Research Lab, first published by the Financial Times and actively shared by social media users on Friday, has suggested that “American attitudes towards free trade have rapidly polarized” over the past several months.

In early 2024, there was some 20% support for unrestricted exports and imports among both liberals and conservatives, the study said. However, the divide on the issue between the groups, which appeared in the run up to the election, has increased dramatically since Trump’s victory, it said. According to the poll, more than 40% of leftists surveyed now say that they “strongly approve” of free trade.

Meanwhile, the number of conservatives who support free trade has decreased, albeit not as sharply, with some 13% of them still favoring it, the study suggested.

In other words, 20 percent of liberals now SUPPORT the nonsensical, societally-destructive concept of free trade solely because President Trump is against it. Conversely, only 7 percent of former free trade-supporting conservatives have changed their mind on the topic.

A pox on both their retarded houses.

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The Intelligence War

There are various reports, which appear to be based on direct public statements by comedian Jim Davidson of having seen a video showing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in compromising positions, that would likely lead to the end of both Starmer’s marriage and his political career:

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom may be headed for a major scandal, as rumors intensify about explosive CCTV footage allegedly showing Keir Starmer and Lord Alli in compromising positions inside a private office. The footage reportedly captures something physical between the two, and Starmer’s wife was shown the video—prompting her to storm out and contact divorce lawyers immediately. Labour HQ is reportedly in chaos trying to figure out a way to bury the story.

If legitimate, there is virtually no accident that the video was leaked. Whether it was by the Russians in response to Starmer’s anti-Russian bellicosity, or the Europeans angry about Starmer’s lack of enthusiasm for their anti-tariff campaign, or someone else is largely irrelevant. But it will make it clear that the never-ending shadow war between intelligence agencies is heating up and there will be more secret lives of politicians being exposed.

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Jesus Has Risen

After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.

The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”

So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”

The Guards’ Report

While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.

The Great Commission

Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

— Matthew 28: 1-20

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