My kids and I were looking through a box of my grandpa’s stuff, and we found a book of Christmas hymns called “Well-Beloved Christmas Hymns”. And the only one of all 25 or so hymns I had even heard before was Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella, and that one I’m only familiar with because one of my friends made a mashup of it, and Hark the Herald Angels Sing. That’s a song I’ve never heard on popular radio, and it is a fantastic song. The hymns in that book were all lovely, some better than others, obviously, but all about Christ Our Savior. This is what they took from us.
The best way to fight the subversion is to ignore it and replace it.
I’m not really a Christmas carol guy, as my preferred holiday music is Handel’s THE MESSIAH, but I have produced a new remix of THIS VERY NIGHT which is on UATV, and those who are not UATV subscribers can hear at Sigma Game.
As you know if you are a Library or Libraria subscriber, the two volumes of THE TALE OF GENJI by Lady Murasaki Shikibu are the subscription books for October 2025 through March 2026. Written some 1400 years ago, GENJI MONOGATARI is the world’s first true novel, and one of the great classics of Man’s literature. And so, naturally, we want the Castalia Library edition to be something truly special.
There are seven English translations produced between 1882 and 2015, although only four of them are complete. So, we’re asking Library subscribers, literary readers, and linguistic enthusiasts to help us choose the translation for the two-volume edition on which we’re working now.
You can read the selections, vote in the poll, and leave any comments or rankings you might have right there on the Library stack. If you have any interest in this sort of thing at all, or you want to help Castalia, please take five minutes, read the five translations – which are, on average, only five paragraphs apiece – and share your opinion. This is important data for us, so the more people who can weigh in with their opinions, the better.
One of the reasons the unelected EU leaders are so desperate to prevent Kiev from surrendering is that their own financial corruption is going to be exposed. Which process, apparently, has already begun:
Ursula von der Leyen is facing the starkest challenge to the EU’s accountability in a generation ― with a fraud probe ensnaring two of the biggest names in Brussels and threatening to explode into a full-scale crisis.
Exactly a year into her second term as Commission president, von der Leyen, already plagued by questions over her commitment to transparency and amid simmering tension with the bloc’s foreign policy wing, must now find a way to avoid being embroiled in a scandal that dates back to her first years in office.
An announcement by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office that the EU’s former foreign affairs chief and a senior diplomat currently working in von der Leyen’s Commission had been detained on Tuesday was seized on by her critics, with renewed calls that she face a fourth vote of no confidence.
“The credibility of our institutions is at stake,” said Manon Aubry, co-chair of The Left in the European Parliament.
If proven, the allegations would set in motion the biggest scandal to engulf Brussels since the mass resignation of the Jacques Santer Commission in 1999 over allegations of financial mismanagement.
Police detained former Commission Vice President Federica Mogherini, a center-left Italian politician who headed the EU’s foreign policy wing, the European External Action Service, from 2014-2019, and Stefano Sannino, an Italian civil servant who was the EEAS secretary-general from 2021 until he was replaced earlier this year.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office said it had “strong suspicions” that a 2021-2022 tendering process to set up a diplomatic academy attached to the College of Europe, where Mogherini is rector, hadn’t been fair and that the facts, if proven, “could constitute procurement fraud, corruption, conflict of interest and violation of professional secrecy.”
The EU is nothing but a supranational criminal enterprise. Which shouldn’t exactly be a surprise, of course, when you’ve got a group of second-tier satanists in charge. If you give satanists the chance, they will always lie, cheat, and steal, because those are among their inverted virtues. It was never going to be successful; every transnational “union” falls apart and usually sooner rather than later. But the sheer shambolic nature of the EU makes it clear that the member-states never should have given them the ability to produce currency. These current arrests for fraud and corruption aren’t even scratching the surface yet.
As usual, the fraud itself is not the news. The news is that the fraud is now being permitted to be reported.
UPDATE: It’s worth noting that both of the arrested EU bureaucrats were involved in the 2014 coup that brought the current Kiev puppet regime to power.
Belgium police aided by the FBI raided the European Union Diplomatic Corp in a sweeping corruption probe arresting former European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini and former Secretary-General of the European Union diplomatic service Stefano Sannino—both of whom were masterminds in overthrowing the legitimately elected Ukrainian government in 2014.
UPDATE: Keep this in mind whenever you contemplate the concept of “success” and “achievement” in Clown World. It’s the exact opposite of a meritocracy.
After serving as a European Commission vice president and head of the EEAS, Mogherini was appointed rector of the College of Europe in 2020, amid criticism she wasn’t qualified for the post, didn’t meet the criteria, and had entered the race months after the deadline.
My favorite story from JUNIOR CLASSICS VOL. 4: HEROES OF CHIVALRY
Guerin de Montglave held the lordship of Vienne, subject to Charlemagne. He had quarrelled with his sovereign, and Charles laid siege to his city, having ravaged the neighboring country. Guerin was an aged warrior, but relied for his defence upon his four sons and two grandsons, who were among the bravest knights of the age. After the siege had continued two months, Charlemagne received tidings that Marsilius, King of Spain, had invaded France and, finding himself unopposed, was advancing rapidly in the Southern provinces. At this intelligence, Charles listened to the counsel of his peers, and consented to put the quarrel with Guerin to the decision of Heaven, by single combat between two knights, one of each party, selected by lot. The proposal was acceptable to Guerin and his sons. The names of the four, together with Guerin’s own, who would not be excused, and of the two grandsons, who claimed their lot, being put into a helmet, Oliver’s was drawn forth, and to him, the youngest of the grandsons, was assigned the honor and the peril of the combat. He accepted the award with delight, exulting in being thought worthy to maintain the cause of his family. On Charlemagne’s side Roland was the designated champion, and neither he nor Oliver knew who his antagonist was to be.
They met on an island in the river Rhone, and the warriors of both camps were ranged on either shore, spectators of the battle. At the first encounter both lances were shivered, but both riders kept their seats, immovable. They dismounted, and drew their swords. Then ensued a combat which seemed so equal, that the spectators could not form an opinion as to the probable result. Two hours and more the knights continued to strike and parry, to thrust and ward, neither showing any sign of weariness, nor ever being taken at unawares. At length Roland struck furiously upon Oliver’s shield, burying Durendal in its edge so deeply that he could not draw it back, and Oliver, almost at the same moment, thrust so vigorously upon Roland’s breastplate that his sword snapped off at the handle. Thus were the two warriors left weaponless.
Scarcely pausing a moment, they rushed upon one another, each striving to throw his adversary to the ground, and failing in that, each snatched at the other’s helmet to tear it away. Both succeeded, and at the same moment they stood bareheaded face to face, and Roland recognized Oliver, and Oliver, Roland. For a moment they stood still, and the next, with open arms, rushed into one another’s embrace.
“I am conquered,” said Roland.
“I yield me,” said Oliver.
The people on the shore knew not what to make of all this. Presently they saw the two late antagonists standing hand in hand, and it was evident the battle was at an end. The knights crowded round them, and with one voice hailed them as equals in glory. If there were any who felt disposed to murmur that the battle was left undecided, they were silenced by the voice of Ogier the Dane, who proclaimed aloud that all had been done that honor required, and declared that he would maintain that award against all gainsayers.
The quarrel with Guerin and his sons being left undecided, a truce was made for four days, and in that time, by the efforts of Duke Namo on the one side, and of Oliver on the other, a reconciliation was effected. Charlemagne, accompanied by Guerin and his valiant family, marched to meet Marsilius, who hastened to retreat across the frontier.
One of my favorite things about Christmastime in recent years is the way that the War on Christmas is in full and shambolic retreat. It’s heartwarming to see so many people treating the fake regard for the imaginary holidays with all the contempt and derision that it has always merited.
[Excessively vulgar derision removed. Sure, it’s funny, but edifying it is not. Any time you can be mistaken for South Park, you’ve gone too far.]
I can’t even imagine what the channers and memelords are going to do to the Diwali festival if anyone tries to shove that one down our throats…
The primary Clown World justification for its relentless wars against sovereign nations around the world over the last 200 years doesn’t even exist. The so-called “liberal democracies” are neither liberal nor democratic.
Labour is facing fury today after it emerged more elections are being delayed amid dire polls for Keir Starmer. Four mayoral contests that were due to be held in May are being pushed back by two years, with accusations that the PM is ‘subverting democracy’ to ‘save his skin’.
Some 7.5million residents in Essex, Hampshire and the Solent, Sussex and Brighton, and Norfolk and Suffolk will not vote until 2028.
Ministers argue that more time is needed to finish reorganising local authorities in England.
But critics point out that Sir Keir is braced for a hammering in the local elections, as polls show his party trailing far behind Reform. Even Labour MPs voiced concerns, with former minister Jim McMahon saying the government had to be ‘better than this’. Battles in nine council areas, East Sussex, West Sussex, Essex, Thurrock, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Norfolk, Suffolk and Surrey have already been postponed from this year to 2026.
Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice this morning accused Sir Keir of ‘running scared’, swiping that ‘generally it’s dictators that cancel elections. Some 7.5 million people are now going to be denied the opportunity of voting in mayoral elections,’ he said.
‘Funny isn’t it, we’ve just announced our mayoral candidates for all of these areas and all of a sudden the Government, terrified of losing to Reform, are cancelling them.’
He added that a two-year delay ‘is a deliberate dictatorial cancelling of democracy in the United Kingdom and we shouldn’t tolerate it’.
The truth is that the “representative democracy” at which the trained media clowns bark and clap approvingly has always been an inversion of the actual concept of democracy. Everything from the constitutions and elections and judiciary systems are designed to limit democracy, to rein it in, and to prevent the will of the people from being enacted.
It’s a fundamentally dishonest system and it always has been. Now the veil is being torn, in the USA, in Ukraine, and in the UK, which is less a cause of Clown World’s systemic collapse than a consequence of it.
But it was always a lie.
There are a few genuine demi-democracies, where referendums actually consult the will of the entire electorate. But even those are strictly leashed by their “representative” and “judicial” elements, both of which are de facto anti-democratic. But “representative democracy” is no more democracy than “civic nationalism” is nationalism.
Something just shifted deep inside the global financial system — and almost no one is explaining what it means for you.
Japan’s 30-Year LSEG Government Bond just hit a historic high yield of 3.427%.
Worse, Japan’s 10-year government interest rate just spiked to 1.84%, the highest level since 2008, jumping more than 11% in a single day.
That doesn’t sound dramatic on the surface. It is.
For 30 years, Japan was the quiet engine that kept the world’s debt machine running. Their interest rates were near zero. That meant banks, hedge funds, and governments could borrow cheap money from Japan and pour it into U.S. bonds, stocks, real estate, and everything else that now feels permanently expensive.
That cheap money kept:
Mortgage rates lower
Stock markets higher
Government borrowing easier
Credit cheap and plentiful
That era is now ending.
Translation: interest rates are finally going to start climbing. And by climbing, I mean by a LOT. I can remember when they were 17 percent. No one is financing new cars at 17 percent, and home prices will be coming down hard if the central banks can’t find yet another can to kick.
All the media reports are breathlessly positive about the success of the Black Friday sales, nearly 10 percent higher than last year. But the media can never be trusted in matters economic, or anything else.
Notable that Black Friday sales data shows a 9.1% increase spend from last year.
But: -1% in total item volume from last year. Prices +7% higher. Consumers bought on average 4.1% fewer items.
And: An 11% increase on buy-now-pay-later use. Klarna specific use up 45% by volume since last year
Meaning: Roughly 11% of ALL Black Friday spending was financed through BNPL. And 84% of all purchases were financed by credit cards, where 67% of those consumers expect to not pay the full balance in the first month.
This is the sign of a weakening and stretched consumer.
There was no increase, just the combination of more debt and more inflation. It’s all a house of cards.
Now, the Castalia sale went very well, despite the fact that our prices were actually LOWER than they were a year ago. This, ironically, also points to economic contraction, because historically, books do best during periods of contraction and inflation since it’s a) cheaper to stay home than go out and b) books offer some of the highest value-per-dollar of any entertainment option.
I worked it out on last night’s Darkstream. The average individual reads at 238 words per minute. There are about 1.2 million words in the 10-volume set of the Junior Classics. It will therefore take around 84 hours to read through them once. At the retail price of $349.99, that’s a price of $4.16 per hour.
Compare that to the price of a ticket to a 90-minute movie, which is $16.08, or $10.72 per hour. Except you can, and you will, re-read the Junior Classics, and multiple people can read them. In a household with children, the cost per hour is probably around 65 cents. So, it makes sense that as the economy contracts and people find themselves staying at home more, they tend to read more and purchase more books.
Thousands of Porsche vehicles across Russia automatically shut down. The cars lock up and engines won’t start due to possible satellite interference. Many speculate the German company is carrying out an act of sabotage on EU orders. No official comments yet.
Any modern car can do this. I’d rather have a 1980 Ford Escort or Honda Civic than a new high-end Mercedes or Acura at this point. What is the point of having a vehicle when your transportation ability can be removed, and will be eliminated when you need it most?
I, for one, really appreciate the Jewish contribution to Christmas music. This time of year wouldn’t be the same without “Rudolph,” “White Christmas,” “Chestnuts,” and more. As opposed to attacking this supposed “subversion” of Christmas, traditionalists should ask themselves why they are so unmusical, charmless, and boring and couldn’t compose any timeless songs.
Of course Spencer doesn’t care about the subversion; he’s not a Christian. And the 20th Century songs are quite good, for the most part, being catchy and well-compose. But that doesn’t make them any less subversive; their intent is to shift the focus of Christmas from the Christian celebration of the birth of Man’s Savior to rather less edifying topics, including snow, hoofed mammals with nasal abnormalities, and the urban shopping experience.
Silver Bells is absolutely and undeniably a charming song. That’s why it is successfully subversive.
Where Spencer has a point is when he observes that we Christians would do well to follow the lead of our gifted forebears and compose our own songs. We can’t possibly know if they are timeless or not, because only the test of time will tell. And, let’s face it, neither we nor the subversives will ever write anything as good as Adeste Fideles. But that shouldn’t stop us from doing our best to serve our King.
So, this would seem to be as good time as ever to share this new mix of This Very Night, complete with guitar and choir. If you’re a UATV subscriber, you can download the MP3 by clicking on the blue button.
Stars above shine ever bright Angels sing with pure delight Of Mary born this sacred night Comes our savior, Jesus Christ
Shepherds hear the holy call Heaven’s gift for one and all In the darkness shines a light A savior born this very night
Heartfelt prayers on Christmas eve In His grace we now perceive And by faith do we believe The King of Kings shall we receive
Hallelujah raise your voice In His birth now we rejoice Come to Jesus, hear the call He has come to save us all
Children gather ’round the tree Hearts aglow with reverie Love and hope and faith and glee By this birth are we set free
Hallelujah raise your voice In His birth now we rejoice This is Christmas, heed the call Jesus came to save us all
