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Today's Vortex features an episode of the One True Faith discussing hypocrites and traitors that appear faithful but aren't. Michael calls on Catholics to demand accountability from treasonous teachers while challenging their erroneous actions and teachings.

TRANSCRIPT   When it comes to the climate, it's proven to be a very useful tool for the promotion of the communist agenda, perhaps even more so than the illegal immigration issue has been. The reason why is that immigration is essentially a U.S.-only issue, while climate alarmism has been ginned up to be a worldwide issue. It is two separate lines of attack ultimately aimed at destabilizing the republic, of course, but the climate cause has diverted trillions of U.S. tax dollars into the pockets of globalists and their agenda, with no end in sight. These people are enemies of the republic, both foreign and domestic. And in their push to end America, they have employed a dizzying array of weapons, with one of the major ones being the two-sided coin of propaganda and censorship. The censorship of scientists who challenge the communist narrative is pretty well attested to — even so far as attacking and canceling a Nobel prize winner, Dr. John Clauser, who was a featured presenter at this week's Deposit of Faith Coalition press conference in Baltimore. Of course, the Marxist media could not resist taking a pot shot at Clauser. In this, it was the Washington Post who attended the press conference and went on to publish this headline: "He won a Nobel Prize. Then he started denying climate change." In their push to end America, they have employed a dizzying array of weapons. The threat to the republic was spelled out in pretty clear terms by award-winning international journalist Alex Newman of Liberty Sentinel, who has been following this topic up close and personal for many years. Of course, whenever there is a some kind of Marxist, communist, globalist push going on, you can count on key people in the hierarchy to be cheerleading the effort, all in the name of social justice and "loving your neighbor," of course. That aspect or dynamic of all this has not escaped the careful watch of Mark Morano, who has done a terrific job of cataloging it for many years. Before continuing, we'd like to thank the many many supporters who donated to make all of this come together. You are the people ultimately responsible for the success of such efforts because without your backing, they just don't happen. We can sit here in the studio day after day with all kinds of ideas and plans and schemes, but if you don't agree with them and back them and give them the necessary juice, they go nowhere. So for everyone in the Deposit of Faith Coalition, of which Church Militant is, of course, a member, our deep gratitude. The average Joe still doesn't get the war that is going on, a war the Queen of Heaven came to earth to warn us of. In 2,000 years, she has never come to earth to warn about a specific form of government, until 1917 in Fatima, a mere couple of weeks before the Russian Revolution. Talk about "let him who has ears, hear"! Climate change, illegal immigration, wiping out the family, undermining the republic, wrecking the economy and a host of things are all different facets of the same ugly jewel. Like all wars, this one has many different battles and battlefields, and they are all part of the one single large effort. They've been at this for over a century, and we are very far behind, perhaps too far behind. That remains to be seen, but in the meantime, that doesn't make the war, or all of these many individual battles, any less worth fighting. It actually makes them more worth it.

Today's Vortex features highlights from a talk given by the founder of Climate Depot, Marc Morano, at the Deposit of Faith Coalition's press conference in Baltimore, Maryland, on Nov. 14. Morano parses out the confusion and corruption regarding the climate issue both in and outside the Church.

Today's Vortex features a presentation given by award-winning international journalist Alex Newman at the Deposit of Faith Coalition press conference in Baltimore on Nov. 14. Newman exposes the false predictions by climate scientists, and their refusal to confront skepticism from dissenting scientific voices.

Today's Vortex features 2022 Nobel laureate John Clauser at the Deposit of Faith Coalition press conference in Baltimore, Maryland, held on Tuesday, Dec. 14. He discusses the significant methodological errors in climate change data collected by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and more.

TRANSCRIPT   While a lot of attention has been focused on Pope Francis and his pro-globalist climate alarmism, it might be good to step back and look at the Vatican's history in this area. Back in 2007, under Pope Benedict, not Pope Francis, the Vatican signed a deal to offset its carbon emissions output by planting a forest in Hungary. They went worldwide because the Vatican, which besides being the physical center of the Church, is also the world's smallest country and was signing up to be the world's first so-called carbon-neutral nation. Much ballyhoo surrounded the photo op when the developer of the company to plant the forest presented the certificate of award to curial Cdl. Paul Poupard on July 5, 2007. The Vatican was about to make history and was advancing the nonsense of climate alarmism. The green economy is phony because the science behind it is phony. A couple of years later, when Benedict was still pope, the entire roof of the Vatican's Paul VI auditorium was covered in solar panels to offset carbon emissions for the world's tiniest country. The panels were donated by a German company, SolarWorld — which was fitting because Benedict was German — who said the offset would save 70 tons of carbon emissions. The press release did not contain any information about how much carbon was pumped into the atmosphere in the harvesting of the raw materials to make the panels, nor the actual manufacturing of them, nor the transportation of them to Rome.  And in ten years, when the panels have reached the end of their useful lives and have to be torn off and thrown away, no word on which landfill the 2,800 panels would find their way to. Such much for caring for the environment. All that mattered was that the Vatican had been willingly enlisted as a publicity partner with its solar energy commitment and its brand new shiny carbon-offsetting forest, which, by the way, turns out was never planted because the company that said it would; it just never did. Nice photo op but no trees. The scientific tribalism surrounding the climate narrative has turned out to be a pretty big business, especially when you toss in billions and billions of dollars in government subsidies. But even with those tens of billions of dollars of your money to boost them up, corporations across the country and the world are throwing in the towel on the facade of a so-called green economy because it's losing massive amounts of money for them. The market for electric vehicles has collapsed, as Mercedes-Benz, General Motors and Honda have now discovered. Dealers can't sell them because consumers don't want them. Ford had so many 2023 EVs sitting around because dealers refused shipment that they have simply rebranded the supply as 2024 models and will try to offload them on consumers that way. Over in the windmill sector of the green economy, it's the same story, as company after company sees its profits crater, stocks fall and bank accounts drain. One Danish company has lost nearly $6 billion and multiple planned windmill farms are being canceled left and right. And when it comes to the solar panel industry, remember the German company that installed them on the roof of the Vatican auditorium? It went belly up in 2017 because of what it said was "ongoing price distortions" that prevented a "positive forecast for the future." Of course, warning signs were everywhere before the collapse. The year after the panels went into the Vatican "America last" mastermind Barack Obama had his administration direct a half billion dollars of your money to a solar panel company called Solyndra. Just two years later, in 2011, it went belly up. So much for your money and Obama's little pet project. Obama's Solyndra scandal, as it came to be called, was only the first in a string of such bankruptcies, which became so bad for irresponsibly directing tens of billions of dollars into an ideologically driven industry that even CNN got

TRANSCRIPT   While a lot of attention has been focused on Pope Francis and his pro-globalist climate alarmism, it might be good to step back and look at the Vatican's history in this area. Back in 2007, under Pope Benedict, not Pope Francis, the Vatican signed a deal to offset its carbon emissions output by planting a forest in Hungary. They went worldwide because the Vatican, which besides being the physical center of the Church, is also the world's smallest country and was signing up to be the world's first so-called carbon-neutral nation. Much ballyhoo surrounded the photo op when the developer of the company to plant the forest presented the certificate of award to curial Cdl. Paul Poupard on July 5, 2007. The Vatican was about to make history and was advancing the nonsense of climate alarmism. The green economy is phony because the science behind it is phony. A couple of years later, when Benedict was still pope, the entire roof of the Vatican's Paul VI auditorium was covered in solar panels to offset carbon emissions for the world's tiniest country. The panels were donated by a German company, SolarWorld — which was fitting because Benedict was German — who said the offset would save 70 tons of carbon emissions. The press release did not contain any information about how much carbon was pumped into the atmosphere in the harvesting of the raw materials to make the panels, nor the actual manufacturing of them, nor the transportation of them to Rome.  And in ten years, when the panels have reached the end of their useful lives and have to be torn off and thrown away, no word on which landfill the 2,800 panels would find their way to. Such much for caring for the environment. All that mattered was that the Vatican had been willingly enlisted as a publicity partner with its solar energy commitment and its brand new shiny carbon-offsetting forest, which, by the way, turns out was never planted because the company that said it would; it just never did. Nice photo op but no trees. The scientific tribalism surrounding the climate narrative has turned out to be a pretty big business, especially when you toss in billions and billions of dollars in government subsidies. But even with those tens of billions of dollars of your money to boost them up, corporations across the country and the world are throwing in the towel on the facade of a so-called green economy because it's losing massive amounts of money for them. The market for electric vehicles has collapsed, as Mercedes-Benz, General Motors and Honda have now discovered. Dealers can't sell them because consumers don't want them. Ford had so many 2023 EVs sitting around because dealers refused shipment that they have simply rebranded the supply as 2024 models and will try to offload them on consumers that way. Over in the windmill sector of the green economy, it's the same story, as company after company sees its profits crater, stocks fall and bank accounts drain. One Danish company has lost nearly $6 billion and multiple planned windmill farms are being canceled left and right. And when it comes to the solar panel industry, remember the German company that installed them on the roof of the Vatican auditorium? It went belly up in 2017 because of what it said was "ongoing price distortions" that prevented a "positive forecast for the future." Of course, warning signs were everywhere before the collapse. The year after the panels went into the Vatican "America last" mastermind Barack Obama had his administration direct a half billion dollars of your money to a solar panel company called Solyndra. Just two years later, in 2011, it went belly up. So much for your money and Obama's little pet project. Obama's Solyndra scandal, as it came to be called, was only the first in a string of such bankruptcies, which became so bad for irresponsibly directing tens of billions of dollars into an ideologically driven industry that even CNN got

TRANSCRIPT   If you haven't seen this yet or heard about it, take a look. Those are two climate freaks who just marched into the London National Gallery and took hammers to a 400-year-old famous painting "Rokeby Venus," valued at $90 million. The climate change lunatics are from the group Just Stop Oil and, on the same day, doused Birmingham University library in orange paint and went to London's West End and charged the stage, interrupting a performance of Les Mis.  While physical violence and destruction may not be the first go to for commies, it is never far from consideration. It's just how they roll. By the way, they were finally arrested and charged — we'll see how that goes though. The point — the Left will destroy anything in its supposed claim to want to save everything.  One of the giant claims of the ecoterrorist crowd is that "the downtrodden" take the brunt of it when it comes to greedy Christian Westerners using oil and coal to destroy the environment via climate change. They're always so concerned about the poor and so forth, just like the U.S. bishops frequently reference the "preferential option for the poor." The climate change lunatics are from the group Just Stop Oil. How many climate victims does Cdl. Robert McElroy of San Diego allow to camp out in his house, giving them a preferential option? Why don't we open up the Vatican and give a preferential option to the homeless sleeping out on the stone ground in the colonnade each night? The level of hypocrisy is off the charts. You can't, on the one hand, stand in front of microphones and issue statements all over the place that you "prefer the poor" and then just step over them on your way in to luxury digs. Yet this is par for the course. For example, this coming week in Baltimore, nearly every U.S. bishop, more than 300, will fly in from around the country, hang out in the swanky Marriott by the Waterfront in the Inner Harbor, have nice meals in the hotel at breakfast and lunch, and then a fleet of luxury SUVs will pull up at the main entrance and drive them all over town in group of 26 where they will eat very expensive steaks and enjoy a splendid Bordeaux. A few desserts will likely be gobbled down as well. This happens twice a year, every year, at the expense of the Church (meaning you), as they continue to close parishes and schools, bellyaching there isn't enough money. What they actually mean is there isn't enough money left over after they get done using a million dollars, twice a year at their semi-annual boondoggle, where relatively little happens related to the Faith (unless it's another giant vote to water it down or pretend the Deposit of Faith is optional). One of the things that the USCCB does is produce baptismal documents for the Left's agenda — climate change, illegal immigration, canceling the Second Amendment, you name it. To help expose these errors, Church Militant is once again happy to organize our Deposit of Faith Coalition members in sponsoring another press conference for politically conservative media so they can understand the connection here. Presenting to the media on Tuesday, Nov. 14, which will be at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore during the bishops' annual meeting, will be a number of the most highly respected experts ever assembled, including: John Clauser, 2022 Nobel Prize winner in physics, who will debunk the phony science behind all this Marc Morano, producer, writer and former investigative reporter for Rush Limbaugh, who'll blow the lid off the plot to collapse America's energy, transportation and food supply Alex Newman, award-winning international journalist who has covered this topic and the misinformation from the Left about it for years (think Greta Thunberg and the media canonization of her), and Yours truly, a multiple-Emmy-award-winning investigative journalist — I'll be presenting on the hierarchy's complicity in all this. The pre

TRANSCRIPT   Well, well, well — what do you know? In a rather ironic twist to climate alarmism, new scientific findings are showing the more we clean up air pollution, the more global warming increases. Talk about "can't win for losing." Quoting, from of all places, The New York Times last Friday, "This week, a team of scientists made public, data indicating that the planet is heating up even faster than expected. Among the factors cited by the researchers, who published their findings in the journal Nature Climate Change: lower levels of air pollution." Continuing with the Times story, "Reducing air pollution in the coming years would remove the cooling influence by a larger amount — good for lungs, bad for global warming." Well, ain't that a kick in the pants. Of course, the Times, like all the major media, is all in on the Marxist messaging that man causes the changes in the climate, so this story is getting played as a kind of one-off, bad, unintended consequence exception to an overall good story. The Times would never consider the alternative (not to mention true) story that man doesn't cause the temps to rise (or fall, for that matter). Rather, nature does that all on its own, as it always has. History's lengthy record shows all sorts of massive changes in climate, which were inadvertently noted down in relation to other stuff. Man doesn't cause the temps to rise. For example, there were fruits grown in northern Europe that today we consider more tropical or warmer climate fruits — yet, there it is, in the ledgers of monasteries who were selling the fruit as a commercial venture to stay open. There is, of course, the great retreat of the Ice Age. How did that happen? Certainly not from fossil fuel plants 10,000 years ago, unless the cavemen were really much smarter than we give them credit for. No, what's at work here is a giant spin-machine narrative based on a little factual data about the earth's temperature. Yes, the temps have increased, and even decreased. That's a fact. The lie part comes in when they say that man is causing that to happen with his oil and gas and coal industries. That part is not true. In fact, as we hear in the New York Times story, the exact opposite is going on. The more air pollution, the more global warming is dialed back, because the particulates clog the air, so to speak, and shield the earth to a degree from harmful solar radiation, keeping the temperatures down. So which is it, commies? Is the fossil fuel industry good because it reduces the temps or bad because it causes pollution? It's more like a "pick your poison" scenario, isn't it? The truth is always so compelling on its own that even The New York Times can't resist printing it every now and then (that is, mostly "then"). But humor aside, the corruption of the scientific narrative around the weather is noteworthy because of what it's used for, which is to advance the story line that fossil fuels are bad; that coal, oil, even natural gas and their continued use threatens man's very existence on the planet. That's called an "existential threat" — meaning a threat to your very existence. And phony Catholic Joe Biden never grows tired of the expression. To him and his comrades, everything is an existential threat this or an existential threat that. Fear is what these commie bastards traffic in, and not just reasonable fear but always end-of-the-world fear, which allows them to sell the phony baloney line that everything must change now. Of course, if there actually is a real threat and it is life-extinguishing, then that response is not altogether unwarranted. But none of this is true — none of it. It's completely made up so they can run around, scream about the end of the world and throw papers everywhere. If they really believe all that, then why aren't they row-boating their way across the oceans instead of jetting around on private planes that

TRANSCRIPT   As the Soviet Union communists penetrated major institutions in the United States, including the Church, some of their espionage activities started coming to the surface. Many people are already familiar with the notorious case of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and their stealing of the atomic bomb secrets for the Soviets. But that was specific government infiltration to get at military information to neutralize the United States' atomic advantage. What was not as widely known was the deep penetration into other aspects of American life — specifically religion. In sworn testimony before the U.S. Congress in 1953, former communist (turned Catholic revert) Bella Dodd broadly outlined the Soviet plan for working with Catholics: At different times in the history of the Communist Party, they emphasized the fact that it was possible for you to be religious and, at the same time, communist. But those were the periods in which they were trying to win over larger numbers of, let's say, Catholic trade-unionists, Catholic workers, and so forth and so on. Those were the periods which were called the periods of extending the hand of communism to the people in the religious groups. What you did was to say substantially this: 'These men have a blind spot. They believe in God, but we communists know that there is no God. But in order to get them to work with us, we will work with them on a minimum program.' As a matter of fact, even when you were in the Communist Party, the Communist Party from time to time established committees like the — there was a committee on Catholics for Human Rights, which consisted of communists who had been Catholics, whose purpose it was to work with mass organizations which had a large number of Catholics. It would be incorrect to think of Soviet communist infiltration into the world of Catholicism as some cloak-and-dagger effort with thousands of secret agents wandering the halls of seminaries with decoder rings and midnight liaisons, for example. The much larger, by far and away, effort was made by simply targeting certain individuals as well as leaders of various groups who could be persuaded that, at least in many areas, Catholics and communists have common goals they could work on together (for the betterment of mankind, you know). The strategy to enlist sympathizers paid off handsomely. In short, they tricked them, finding a "soft spot" or "blind spot" they could capitalize on down the road. And they did. They hunted out what we could term "sympathizers." Dodd and other former communists all came forward in those early years of the 1950s and testified the same thing — that it was not really secret communists planted all over religious and other institutions, but associations made where the commies could convince their targets they could, and should, work together. The strategy to enlist sympathizers paid off handsomely. Why take the chance of having spies uncovered in colleges and media and churches when "locals" could do your dirty work for you? As we see looking around now, in the Church specifically, it worked like a charm. There may be here or there, in key roles in the Church, truly committed communists, but that's nowhere near as effective as having hundreds if not thousands of brainwashed useful idiots spouting your "social justice" vocabulary for you. The communists' agenda has a small (or maybe not so small) army of water boys who have been "persuaded" to think of the gospel in terms of saving the poor, the immigrant and the environment. And these water boys then construct an entire storyline about this, which floods into parishes, campus ministries, chanceries, seminaries and so forth, until it just all becomes accepted as fact. Again, yes, there may be, in fact, actual "card-carrying" commies in the episcopate, the priesthood and various lay groups, but that doesn't really matter. What does matter is the message being spread

TRANSCRIPT   There are many avenues to undermining and destroying the republic and, by extension, severely damaging the Church, whose natural law teachings are the republic's foundations. You can, of course, flood nearly 10 million illegals into the country, a number whose total now exceeds the population of 41 states. From the communist Democrats' point of view — check! You can also do everything you can think to weaken the strongest economy in world history, an economy that has been built on energy mainly derived from fossil fuels — oil and coal to be specific. A step-by-step process would first include making oil and coal the "bad guy" needing to be done away with. The reason? They are destroying the climate and bringing about apocalyptic changes in the environment. This mantra has been screamed at the top of their lungs for 40 years now, through the media and universities, and it is now accepted by the public as a fact. But it's not true. Nonetheless, the communist propaganda is relentless.  Just a couple months ago, former New York City mayor and billionaire-at-large Michael Bloomberg announced he is donating another $500 million to, in his words, "finish the job on coal." This follows on approximately $500 million he's already directed into the effort. Finish the job on coal! This is all part of a much larger effort by Marxists in D.C., as well as corporate board rooms, to "transition" the country from fossil fuels to so-called renewable energy sources of wind and solar power to feed the electric grid. What they don't tell you is that there is nowhere near enough capacity with those sources to keep the lights on, literally; and the push, for example, for electric vehicles, which appears to be falling flat, would only add to an already over-taxed system. Remember just last year when California governor and phony Catholic Gavin Newsom was cheering a new state law making all new vehicle sales be of just electric vehicles, and months later said the strain on the state's existing electric grid was too great and then regulated how and when electric vehicles could be charged up? If the strain is too great when a only small percentage of vehicles are drawing down power for the state's grid, how on earth will it stand up to 14 million cars plugged into it? It's nuts. Here's the deal — all these claims and supposed solutions are bogus. Man isn't destroying the environment and creating massive climate change. Solar flares are. Undersea volcanoes are. (To name just two major causes.) But, like they always do, the communists find something, anything, to push a lie that benefits their agenda and then use media and academia to broadcast the lie far and wide so that people can be "prepped' to believe the lie and go along with the resulting laws and policies, all of which have the single goal of destabilizing the economy to undermine the republic. And this is why liberal U.S. bishops are dirty rotten players in all this. Being the single biggest religious body pushing the error that climate change is caused by man, the USCCB causes the most damage. They back the communist Democrats' initiatives, policies and agendas, which are based on a lie. Within the USCCB itself, there are multiple groups they sponsor and fund that also pretend to be goody-two-shoes, saving the earth, the whales and the spotted owl, and disguising it all as somehow part of the gospel mandate, while at the same time they express no meaningful concern and toss almost no money behind the effort to save babies from abortion. The "climate change is caused by man" lie is just that, a lie propagated by enemies of the Church, both within and without, as well as enemies of the republic. To help expose these errors, Church Militant is once again happy to organize our Deposit of Faith Coalition members in sponsoring another press conference for politically conservative media so they can understand the c

TRANSCRIPT   Next week is the big press conference in Baltimore during the bishops' annual meeting there, blowing the lid off the phony science surrounding environmental alarmism and its economy-devastating consequences. It's hosted by the Deposit of Faith Coalition, and it's built on a strategy of going around the media censorship of the bishops, the religious Left and the major Marxist media outlets and going straight to the burgeoning politically conservative media with expert information. And for Catholics, the concern is not just the false claims being made, deceitful as they are, but also that the U.S. bishops are in total lockstep with this nation-destroying Marxist agenda lying to you, pushing it from the pulpits in parishes and profiting by collecting money to fight so-called man-made environmental damage. There are Judases, but the Faith itself remains. Because Catholics, even good ones, have been and remain largely ignorant of the political process. And Catholic media, in every tribe, just don't report any of this, at least in any substantive way. The ground war in the world of politics has largely been ceded to men and women of goodwill who are not Catholic, at least for the most part. Some folks might say, "Hey, Church Militant, why are you allying with Protestants in this fight? Easy answer, because they at least see and understand the importance of not giving up any more ground in the battle for culture and politics. Catholics don't, at least for the most part. Obviously, many Catholics who support Church Militant get it. But outside of a few pockets here or there, like us, Catholics have been AWOL in this war. Many have failed to understand what has been going on in the Church for decades regarding the bishops' alignment with the Marxist agenda of the Democrats. The bishops have been given a pass by the average Catholic, trusting way too much. And wicked men with miters have cashed in on that and have become, in a sense, the greatest enemies of the republic you never knew you had. They push the entire agenda of the Party of Death — Obamacare, illegal immigration, climate alarmism, the Green New Deal and "health" issues — so much so that, as we said before, Ronald Reagan's administration in the 1980s used to call the bishops the "Democratic party in robes." Even on the question of abortion, the bishops did draw a sort of dotted line there. But it's so vague that most of the time they say nothing meaningful. To this day, the bishops, after tens of millions of innocent babies have been slaughtered in the womb, still have not taken up one national collection in support of pro-life work — not one! It's been faithful lay Catholics who have led on this issue, not them. Disgraceful. I can't imagine how they are going to try and explain that to the Judge when they see Him. Good Catholics who are politically astute need to grasp that — in the area of politics, culture and even the faith, oftentimes — the bishops are the enemies of the average believing Catholic. And the entire Catholic establishment, what we here have dubbed "Catholic Inc.," is totally down with all of this — covering for them, deflecting for them, censoring for them, you name it. Many of the leaders and luminaries of the Church have set themselves in opposition to you, your children, the faith and the nation. It's just that simple. Study it; grasp it; cry over it and then commit to fighting it. Just like we did here all those years ago. Allow me to ask this: If we were wrong in reporting what we have, even when the entire corrupt Catholic establishment was blackballing us, was our reporting wrong? So let's ask the obvious question. Why wouldn't good Catholics try to link arms with men and women of goodwill who are fighting the same political and cultural battles we are? Of course, there are theological differences, duh. But there are greater theological differences with a majority of the hiera