Let’s just say it clearly: that thing is not a Nativity scene.
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EN GREGE RELICTO^[1]

Considerations on the Nativity scene in Saint Peter’s Square

At the center of Saint Peter’s Square, a metallic tensile structure dominates the scene, hastily decorated with a tubular light, underneath which stand, disturbing as totems, a few horrible statues that no one endowed with common sense would dare to identify with the characters of the Nativity. The solemn background of the Vatican Basilica only serves to augment the abyss between the harmonious Renaissance architecture and the indecorous parade of anthropomorphic bowling pins.

New from Remnant TV...

A new strain of COVID leads PM Boris Johnson to cancel Christmas in the UK.
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In this episode of The Editor's Desk, Michael J. Matt discusses the latest scare tactics coming from the World Economic Forum's Klaus Schwab who, after using the Covid pandemic to get us all to move our lives online, is now warning that cyberattacks are about to pull the plug on our New Normal.

Technofascist Klaus Schwab is warning that the digital infrastructure which sustains our New Normal is under urgent threat of cyberattack. 
_____________Michael J. Matt |  Editor, The Remnant

Ten years ago, I made the decision to not completely turn The Remnant over to the Internet. I knew the newsprint model had become an expensive dinosaur, but I could not help being wary of Greeks—or, in this case, GEEKS—bearing gifts.  

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