There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
Some people claim that the creation account in Genesis 1–2 is more like an ancient myth than a record of real events. Does it matter whether the Bible’s creation account is real history? In this message, R.C. Sproul shows that only the biblical record of creation can provide a satisfactory explanation for the world in which we live.
And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.Revelation 21:5
Glory be to His name! All things need making new, for they are sadly battered and worn by sin. It is time that the old vesture was rolled up and laid aside, and that creation put on her Sunday suit. But no one else can make all things new except the Lord who made them at the first; for it needs as much power to make out of evil as to make out of nothing. Our Lord Jesus has undertaken the task, and He is fully competent for the performance of it. Already he has commenced His labor, and for centuries He has persevered in making new the hearts of men and the order of society. By and by He will make new the whole constitution of human government, and human nature shall be changed by His grace; and there shall come a day when the body shall be made new and raised like unto His glorious body.
What a joy to belong to a kingdom in which everything is being made new by the power of its King! We are not dying out: we are hastening on to a more glorious life. Despite the opposition of the powers of evil, our glorious Lord Jesus is accomplishing His purpose and making us, and all things about us, “new” and as full of beauty as when they first came from the hand of the Lord.
“As for us, we can’t help but thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters loved by the Lord. We are always thankful that God chose you to be among the first to experience salvation—a salvation that came through the Spirit who makes you holy and through your belief in the truth. He called you to salvation when we told you the Good News; now you can share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14 (NLT)
Who are you? What is your place in this world?
This question often baffles many. In our quest to be prominent or recognized we tend to overlook the obvious. There is a uniqueness we bring to this world. I have witnessed in my own life, the very area we tend to struggle in is sometimes the area God has chosen us to bring about change and healing in the lives of those that have been in a similar place.
God chose us to be vessels of His grace in the lives of others. The truth be told, it does not always look glamorous because we sometimes have to bare our souls or show our vulnerabilities, but we have been called for such a time as this to help transform lives. When we begin to embrace the call on our lives to be instruments of love and lead others to the divine grace of our Lord, we find that it is only by God’s grace that we are able to do what He has called us to.
He has equipped us with everything we need to carry out our function in the body of Christ. No, what we have been called to do may not look like the calling of others. It may not be our “ideal” assignment but our part is necessary in bringing the good news to those that we encounter in need of the same grace that we received.
Lord teach us to recognize our value to the Kingdom of God. You have called each of us to impact the lives of those around us. Help us to embrace the place that we have been called to even when it appears that our part seems small and insignificant. Help us to remember that we have been called to help bring Glory and Honor to your name and not our own. In Jesus name, Amen
Thought: If you have struggled with knowing where you fit in the Kingdom of God, ask God to show you through your everyday life what He has called you to. Keep your eyes open and attentive and begin to take notice of the people that seek you out for help.
“Speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.” Ephesians 4:15
Many Christians remain stunted and immature in spiritual things, staying the same year after year. For some we can see no passionate and powerful changes in their character or behavior. They merely exist, but never “grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head.”
But should we be content with staying at rest, when we might advance in the fullness of our understanding, experience, and practice of the Lord and His ways? Should we be satisfied to believe in Christ, and to say, “I am safe,” without wishing to know in our own experience more of the fullness which is to be found in Him? It should not be so. We should, as good workers in heaven’s house, deeply desire to be enriched in the knowledge of Jesus.
It is commendable to attend to other people’s needs, but we must not neglect our own spiritual growth. Why should it always be winter time in our hearts? We must have our seed time, but shouldn’t we long for a spring time, and then a summer season, which will give promise of an early harvest?
If we are going to ripen in grace, we must live near to Jesus -in His presence- ripened by the sunshine of His smiles. We must continue in sweet fellowship with Him. We must leave the distant view of His face and come near, as John did, and pillow our head on Him. Then we will find ourselves advancing in holiness, in love, in faith, in hope, in every precious gift.
The sun rises first on mountain-tops and covers them with its light, and presents one of the most charming sights to the eye of the traveler. So it is when we see the glow of the Spirit’s light on a person who has risen up in spiritual stature, like Saul, above his fellows, until like a mighty snow-capped Alp he reflects the beams of the Son of Righteousness, and bears the glow of His glory high above for all to see. When we witness God working in a person that way, we can only rightly glorify His Father which is in heaven, who has ripened this son or daughter by the sunshine of His smiles.
Question: What kind of things most often distract us from fellowship with God? What can be done to avoid these things?
Originally written by Charles H. Spurgeon. Updated to modern English by Darren Hewer, 2011. Used by Pemission
Israeli forces attack north Gaza’s main city from both sides Israeli troops and tanks attacked Gaza’s main northern city from the east and west on Monday, three days after it began ground operations in the Palestinian enclave that have increased international pressure for civilians to be protected. Israel’s military said it had struck more than 600 militant targets over the past few days as it expanded ground operations in the Gaza Strip,
Saudis On High Alert After Yemen’s Houthis Fire Another Missile At Israel, Fresh Clashes Erupt Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen have reportedly fired another missile aimed at Israel on Monday. An initial launch of a couple of missiles over a week ago saw a US warship of Yemen’s coast intervene to shoot down the projectiles. This time the Houthi missile flew over Saudi territory, putting the kingdom on a high state of alert.
Inside the gleaming developments that made Hamas a $1bn terror group High-value assets in Turkey ‘form part of a secret global investment portfolio’ The block of flats towering over Kezban’s house looks much like the other developments going up in a building boom in the city. But the US government believes this compound, Anda Park Balat 2, to be a high-value asset in a secret global investment portfolio that could be worth as much as $1 billion run by Hamas, potentially making it one of the richest terrorist groups in the world. Ankara has even granted citizenship to people linked to Hamas,
Obsessed With Destroying The Jews: The Ultimate Enemy Of Israel Is Satan “Israel is an occupier!” “Israel is an apartheid country!’ “Israel is a colonizer!” “The Zionist regime stole land from the Palestinians!” Over the last few decades, we’ve heard it all. It’s not based on facts, but it continues to be spread. As a result, amid a full-blown war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip to respond to the most extensive twenty-first-century pogrom since the Holocaust, Israel is still seen as the perpetrator.
Hamas offers to trade Russian hostages for weapons The Hamas terrorist organization offered Moscow a deal for the release of eight Russian citizens who were kidnapped on October 7 in exchange for the transfer of weapons to Gaza to use against Israel, … According to the report, Hamas is primarily seeking anti-aircraft weapons from Russia.
Rockets launched at Jerusalem, kidnapped soldier rescued Terrorists in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon continued to fire barrages of rockets at Israel on Sunday. Toward the end of week three, Israel began conducting small-scale ground activities in the Gaza Strip. On Friday night, IDF forces entered the Gaza Strip and have remained there, with the intensity of the activity slowly growing since then.
PM: Ceasefire demand is call for Israeli surrender “Just as the US would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of Pearl Harbor [in 1941] or after the terror attack of 9/11 [in 2001], Israel would not agree to a cessation of hostilities.”
Terrorist leader killed in a Samaria raid Four Palestinian Arab terrorists, including a terrorist leader, were killed during an IDF raid in Samaria overnight. Israeli troops on Monday bulldozed Jenin’s iconic gate, a place terrorists notoriously posed for photos in the Palestinian Authority-administered city in Samaria, during a series of raids in the area.
Lapid: To win the war, Sinwar, Mashal, Haniyeh must die Yair Lapid on Monday said that in order to claim victory, Israel must kill six senior Hamas terror leaders, including its chief in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, and its leaders in Qatar, Khaled Mashal and Ismail Haniyeh.
Prophecy, or common sense? Hamas invasion was foretold in 2016 Then-Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman eerily presaged much of what happened on October 7, but his warnings were dismissed. After the Gaza war, the blame game will begin in earnest. But no one is blameless, because there are those who warned for many years that Hamas was planning to invade, and successive governments, both left and right-wing, failed to take them seriously.
CAM calls on authorities: Act before it is “open season on Jews” The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) called on authorities around the world to act immediately to ensure the safety and security of Jews and Jewish communities as threats against them continue to rise. Earlier today, a flight from Israel to the Russian Republic of Dagestan was forced to divert from its intended destination after rioters stormed the airport, seeking to attack any Jews on the flight.
Recent Turkey-Israel reconciliation falls apart after Erdoğan blasts Israel, calling it ‘war criminal’ Just last year, the two nations agreed to reappoint ambassadors, each of whom arrived in the respective countries earlier this year. The moves to draw closer were halted late last week as Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan blasted Israel in a speech on Saturday, where he praised the Palestinians in Gaza, called Hamas “freedom fighters” and labeled Israel a “war criminal.”
Earthquakes Continue to Rattle the Globe, Including Across the United States According to long-term records maintained since around 1900, USGS says they expect about 16 major earthquakes in any given year. That includes 15 earthquakes in the magnitude 7 range and one earthquake magnitude 8.0 or greater. In the past 40-50 years, USGS records show that the long-term average number of major earthquakes has been exceeded about a dozen times. The year with the largest total was 2010, with 23 major earthquakes (greater than or equal to magnitude 7.0). In other years the total was well below the annual long-term average of 16 major earthquakes. 1989 only had 6 major earthquakes and 1988 only had 7.
60 Million Americans Under Freeze Alerts As Powerful Arctic Blast Crashes Temps Nationwide As highlighted in last week’s article, temperatures across the Lower 48 are diving as a cold blast pours in from Canada. These bone-chilling temperatures come just in time for Halloween. About 250 million Americans are feeling below-average temperatures, while 60 million will be under frost or freeze alerts.
Mexico throws troops, aid into Acapulco as hurricane death toll rises Mexico’s government on Sunday intensified efforts to get the stricken coastal city of Acapulco back on its feet as the toll of dead and missing from a record-breaking hurricane that ravaged the iconic beach resort continued to rise.
Hurricane Otis death toll climbs to 45 in Mexico At least 45 people have died after powerful Hurricane Otis tore through southern Mexico’s Guerrero state as a devastating Category 5 storm last week, the region’s governor said Sunday.
Israeli Tanks Roll Deep Into Gaza As The Entire World Braces For More Escalation There isn’t going to be peace in the Middle East any time soon. As you will see below, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unequivocally ruled out a ceasefire. IDF forces will continue with their mission until victory is achieved.
Neo-Nazi Terrorists Have Been Targeting US Power Grid A power-grid security watchdog warns there is a cadre of neo-Nazi domestic terrorists targeting U.S. power-grid with guns and explosives, seeking to undermine the American way of life.
Is The Writing on the Wall for Netanyahu? Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to apologise on Sunday for accusing his intelligence chiefs of failing to warn him about the threat of a large scale attack by Hamas. In a statement posted on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday and now deleted, Netanyahu said: “At no time and no stage was a warning given to Prime Minister Netanyahu regarding war intentions of Hamas.
Amazon Already Has 750,0000 Robots In Quest To Eliminate Humans Altogether “750,000 robots working collaboratively with our employees” is pretty sobering, but Amazon is just getting started! When it says it is “freeing employees up to better deliver for our customers,” it means getting rid of them altogether. Like Marc Andreessen, Jeff Bezos is a Techno-Optimist and utterly unplugged from reality.
Krishanti Vignarajah: Meet the Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama Associate Who Will Resettle Palestinians in Your Hometown …it turns out that terrorist sympathizers help bring the migrants here. It was revealed this week that Homeland Security asylum officer Nejwa Ali previously worked for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, a body designated by the government Ali works for as a terrorist group. The PLO press office she worked for was expelled from the country by the Trump administration. She went to work for the feds shortly thereafter.
Jaw-Dropping Fact: CDC Data confirms COVID Vaccine can reduce your Lifespan by at least 24 years The long-term consequences of Covid-19 vaccination are now being realised… A year ago, doubly vaccinated Australians were 10.72x more likely to catch Omicron than the unvaxxed. Now they are 20x more likely and the triply or more vaxxed are 35x more likely, as the latest NSW Health stats show…the latest US data analysed by Josh Stirling…shows a really really disturbing trend. The damage to health caused by each vaccine dose does not lessen over time. It continues indefinitely.
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” —Thomas Jefferson (1802)
Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1941, work on Mount Rushmore that began in 1927 was completed. It’s now a monument to history and a beautiful tourist spot. If only all Americans viewed our history as something worth preserving. —Mark Alexander
When you make a bargain with the devil, death quickly follows.
Emmy Griffin
President Joe Biden has been pushing for a “humanitarian pause” in the conflict between Hamas and Israel. At a news conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the president continued to urge the “two-state solution” and preserving the “dignity and self-determination” of the Palestinian people. Team Biden doesn’t want the humanitarian toll to spur the surrounding Middle Eastern co-ideologists to enter into the fray, ergo food, gas, water, and medical aid need to be increased in Gaza.
What Biden and his administration either ignorantly or willfully have ignored is that the Palestinians are in no fit state to either receive aid or contemplate a two-state solution. They are in no fit state because, ideologically, most of them do not want a two-state solution; they want a Jewish genocide. They proved this when they elected Hamas to rule them. Since 2006, Hamas has “governed” the Gaza Strip and it’s still a popular leading party. The Palestinians both hate and need Hamas because Hamas is realizing their own goals.
The Palestinians, like many in the Middle East, believe that all the land therein belongs to Allah. Israel and Judaism are significantly older than Islam, and the Jews have a far older claim to the land of Israel than the Palestinians do. But a Jewish state stands squarely in the Islamists’ way. The Israel-Hamas conflict is, at its root, a religious war. But the price the Palestinians are paying for their devil’s bargain is excruciatingly high.
Hamas uses its own people as human shields. Hamas would not allow its people to flee to the south, out of the way of Israeli airstrikes. Hamas wants the images of dead and traumatized children to be plastered on the news so that Israel is pressured by disingenuous “allies” to stop. Hamas’s leadership will even tell the West this to its face.
Former Hamas leader Khaled Mashal recently claimed that Hamas knew what it was stirring up when it invaded Israel and that “no nation is liberated without sacrifices.” Mashal spoke like he was there in Gaza defending his people. Nope. He, like the rest of the Hamas leadership, lives like a millionaire in Qatar, safely away from the consequences that their actions set in motion.
How exactly did the Hamas leadership get their money? They stole it directly from the Palestinian people by extorting it, or they were given it by co-ideologues like Iran. Gaza has a 47% unemployment rate, and starving people live in abject poverty, yet Hamas is hoarding all the resources. Its terrorists take all the goods coming in from foreign aid, and instead of using those goods to build a successful region, they use them to prepare for war. The terrorists also dig up water pipes to use them as makeshift rocket launchers, and any concrete that comes in doesn’t go toward damaged buildings; it goes toward creating more miles of tunnels under the schools and hospitals.
Hamas has taken so much from the Palestinian people that hospitals are desperate for more resources now that Israel has started its counterattack.
Yet this is what the Palestinian people chose for themselves. They are so blinded by their hate for Israel — hate that has festered for generations — that they have been driven mad with bloodlust. As former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once wrote: “We will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
Gaza is not there. Frankly, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, Kuwait, Turkey, and many more co-conspirators in that region are right there with Hamas. They will happily sacrifice every last Gaza native if that means their hatred of the Jews can be indulged.
It’s becoming crystal clear in one conflict after another that not all presidents are equally good at deterring our enemies.
Douglas Andrews
If Joe Biden meant to send a message to the Iranian regime about its ongoing efforts to harass, maim, and kill American troops in the region, the mullahs clearly didn’t get it.
Otherwise, why would they keep on attacking us following last week’s U.S. airstrikes against two facilities linked to Iranian forces in Syria?
The Biden administration went even further than the retaliatory strikes. Over the weekend, Biden officially notified Congress via a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Pro Tempore President Patty Murray of those strikes, thereby exercising his duty under the War Powers Act, as The Washington Times reports. Indeed, Biden vowed to “take further action” should U.S. bases and troops in the region come under additional attack. “I directed the strikes,” said Biden, “in order to protect and defend our personnel, to degrade and disrupt the ongoing series of attacks against the United States and our partners, and to deter Iran and Iran-backed militia groups from conducting or supporting further attacks on United States personnel and facilities.”
And yet: “From Oct. 17 to Oct. 30,” the Washington Examiner reports, “U.S. and coalition forces have been attacked at least 14 times at al Asad Air Base in Iraq and nine times at al Tanf garrison in Syria via a mix of one-way attack drones and rockets for a total of 23 attacks to date, a senior defense official told reporters on Monday. The total demonstrated an increase from late last week.”
A senior defense official said that we’d “successfully disrupted” many of these attacks and that most of them had “failed to reach their targets thanks to our robust defenses.” But that’s not really the point, is it?
The point is deterrence, and Joe Biden simply doesn’t get it.
We’re reminded here about Winston Churchill’s devastating assessment of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938: “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.”
Globalists and Obama-era apologists were indignant when Donald Trump ripped up their guy’s awful Iran nuke deal, but what was the result? In his 2019 book The Case for Trump, Victor Davis Hanson puts forth the undeniable facts: “What followed the pull-out from the Iran deal were foiled Iranian-planned terrorist operations in Europe, popular Iranian protests against the theocracy at home, and zero incidents of Iranian hazing and confrontations with American warships in the Persian Gulf.”
Those are some pretty good results, no? And they came from credible deterrence.
Joe Biden, on the other hand, can’t seem to get the deterrence thing. “He has done nothing to hold the Iranian regime accountable,” said former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “Literally nothing. Indeed, he’s done just the reverse of that.”
Later in his book, Hanson sounds downright prophetic about Iran’s long-game strategy in the wake of a nuke deal: “Iran had always likely assumed from its one-sided agreement that, once freed from sanctions, it could build up cash reserves during its decade of non-proliferation compliance, use its newfound income to advance its ballistic and cruise missile programs, subsidize terrorism and insurrections, build a Shia crescent through Syria and Lebanon, and all the while accelerate nuclear research and technology.”
Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw, a retired Navy SEAL, understands deterrence. And he’s seen it practiced by a master. Two weeks ago on Fox News, he offered these insights:
If you want to prevent war, you have to be able to threaten it and threaten it credibly. And that takes statements that make people uncomfortable. President Trump did this all the time. He had an intuition for what deterrence actually was. President Biden whispering “Don’t do it, don’t do it” into the microphone is not as effective. … Iran and Hezbollah are actively in the decision-making process about whether they will open up that multifront war [against Israel] … and that decision will be dependent on what they think will happen to them in return. If you want to prevent war, you have to make it very clear that you’re willing to beat the crap out of your enemies if they try something.
That’s deterrence, folks. Some leaders get it, and others don’t. And the ones who don’t not only provoke our enemies — they put our own forces at risk.
Woke kills Halloween, judge stops Biden’s border-wire cutting, ADL caves, and more.
Thomas Gallatin & Jordan Candler
Cross-Examination
Woke kills Halloween: In the South Orange-Maplewood School District of New Jersey, school children will not be allowed to celebrate Halloween. This is not the 1690s, when fear of witches had the authorities banning the holiday; no, the boogeyman that Superintendent Dr. Ronald Taylor fears is that a celebration in which kids dress up in a variety of costumes and ply their neighborhood for candy won’t fully placate the tenets of wokeness. As Taylor explains it, allowing students to dress up for Halloween fails to foster “diversity, equity, and meaningful inclusion.” The lesson is that nobody is allowed to have fun if every cultural sensitivity is not fully and equally placated. In other words, if one person of minority culture is offended, then all should be offended. Sorry, kids; fun is too offensive.
Judge stops Biden’s border-wire cutting: U.S. District Judge Alisa Moses issued a temporary restraining order against Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Control on Monday, ordering them to stop “disassembling, degrading, [and] tampering” with the razor wire on Texas’s southern border with Mexico. Last week Texas filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration for its efforts to keep the border wide open, as federal agents were caught cutting down and removing razor wire fences on the border near Eagle Pass. Under Governor Greg Abbott, Texas has acted to secure the border despite the fact that Biden has refused to do so. Furthermore, while the Biden administration has claimed to be engaged in border enforcement, this episode of fence cutting demonstrates the exact opposite. Biden wants the border open.
Good news: ADL caves: Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik, who has been the target of leftist censorship crusaders for daring to expose the extremism on the Left, had been ridiculously tagged an extremist herself by the leftist Anti-Defamation League. Moreover, the ADL had pressured Elon Musk to ban Raichik from X, formerly known as Twitter. As Musk tweeted, “ADL has pushed hard for us to shut down accounts like Chaya’s, even though it has nothing to do with anti-Semitism, which is their supposed charter!” Last month, Raichik blasted the ADL as an organization that has “completely gone off the rails.” She noted that “it seems the ADL simply attacks anyone who doesn’t go along with the far-left agenda. The ADL targeted me, a young conservative Jewish woman, for speaking out against wokeness, far-left indoctrination of children, and the medical mutilation of minors under the guise of gender ideology.” Apparently, the ADL conflates opposition to wokeness with anti-Semitism. Well, after Riachik threatened a lawsuit against the ADL, her name suddenly disappeared from its “Glossary of Extremism.”
Iranian girl dead; where is the leftist outrage mob? A 16-year-old Iranian girl died last week after an encounter with authorities in Tehran. Video footage shows that she was abducted on a subway platform while waiting for the train. It appears that she was targeted by authorities for violating Iran’s Islamic dress code laws. Opposition leaders in Iran are claiming that she was effectively beaten to death by Iran’s morality police because she was not wearing a headscarf. The beating left her in a coma, and she was eventually declared brain-dead. U.S. special envoy to Iran Abram Paley stated that he was “shocked and concerned about reports that Iran’s so-called morality police have assaulted 16-year-old Armita Geravand.” Meanwhile, where is the leftist outrage on college campuses against Iran’s violence and injustice against women? Oh, that’s right — they are too busy protesting in support of Hamas.
Headlines
Israeli troops fight “fierce battles” against Hamas in urban areas deep inside Gaza (Times of Israel)
“A time for war”: Netanyahu rejects calls for ceasefire, citing U.S. response to 9/11, Pearl Harbor (National Review)
House GOP proposes Israel aid offset by IRS budget cuts (Daily Wire)
White House announces plan to tackle anti-Semitism on campus after outrage (New York Post)
Over 100 Columbia professors sign letter defending students who supported Hamas’s “military action” (New York Post)
UMass lecturer who refused to condemn terrorism promises pro-Hamas protesters legal support (Free Beacon)
Gutless Gretchen Whitmer cancels visit to Dearborn amid threats of protest (Detroit Free Press)
Federal contractor urges DHS to ditch term “illegal immigrant,” says “jihadist” is “racially charged” (Daily Wire)
Maine mass shooter’s family reached out to sheriff five months before rampage (AP)
NRCC has best fundraising day in over 18 months after Mike Johnson wins speakership (Daily Caller)
Policy: How Gavin Newsom became China’s useful idiot (The Federalist)
Humor: White House accidentally hands out plastic baggies of cocaine to trick-or-treaters (Babylon Bee)
A three-term Democrat congressman has decided to challenge Joe Biden.
Thomas Gallatin
Is it 1967 all over again? That may be the question members of the Democratic National Committee are wondering as they saw obscure three-term Democrat Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips announce his bid for the presidency over the weekend.
And not unlike Eugene McCarthy’s impact on Lyndon Johnson, the 54-year-old Phillips may prove to be the straw that finally convinces Joe Biden that the time has come for him to exit stage left.
The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of Americans believe Biden is too old to run again, and with Kamala Harris even more unpopular than Biden, he couldn’t have bid farewell months or years ago. The most recent Gallup polling shows Biden dropping to a new approval rating low of just 37%, with all indications being that he is a lame duck who doesn’t seem to know it.
The trouble for Democrats is, like McCarthy, Phillips is not really in a position to win the nomination. Outside of Minnesota, no one’s ever heard of him.
However, what Phillips does do is press the issue for the DNC. As he stated in his announcement, “I will not sit still and not be quiet in the face of numbers that are so clearly saying that we’re going to be facing an emergency next November.”
While Representative Jamaal Bowman pulled the literal fire alarm, Phillips has pulled the figurative one for Democrats and their diminishing presidential prospects if they stick with Biden.
Phillips has just made it safe for Democrats to publicly start talking about someone other than Biden, or Harris for that matter.
And unlike RFK Jr., whom the majority of Democrats view as a fringe anti-establishment candidate, Phillips represents a party moderate in the model of Biden. He expresses the Democrats’ legitimate concerns over a repeat of a Biden/Trump contest, but this time with the headwinds clearly blowing against Biden.
With California Governor Gavin Newsom playing a game of pickup basketball with kids in China while attempting to burnish his foreign policy acumen, the situation appears like it’s being primed for Biden to step down and Newsom to take up the party standard. Phillips may just be paving the way for a credible challenger.
Of course, the remaining problem is what to do with Harris, but that may be solved with another primary race. Harris will be free to jump into the fray, and get promptly dispatched by Newsom, or think better of it and make a possible run at the California Senate seat.
The remaining question is just how much lower will Biden’s popularity sink before the real panic at the DNC sets in?
The work of a special committee on the weaponization of the federal government has been a welcome consequence of the Republican-controlled House.
Michael Swartz
It only took a 22-page report to end an onerous IRS practice that, it was argued, had been in place for “several decades.”
While Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan’s run at the House speakership was unsuccessful, his work in chairing the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has been decidedly more productive — at least in the instance of getting the IRS to curtail its practice of unannounced visits to taxpayers’ homes.
“The Committee’s and Select Subcommittee’s oversight and investigation of the IRS’s abusive actions yielded real results for the American people,” the committee’s report explained. “The Committee and Select Subcommittee identified how IRS employees abused an IRS policy, and it forced the IRS to reevaluate its policy. Commissioner Werfel stated that ending the policy after decades was ‘the right thing to do and the right time to end it.’ While the policy should have been ended decades ago, taxpayers no longer have to worry the IRS will come knocking on their door without prior notice.”
The report was initiated after journalist Matt Taibbi reported that the federal government’s most despised agency had come to his door back on March 9, which coincidentally was the day he testified before Congress about the Twitter Files. It was allegedly about rejected electronic tax filings in 2018 and 2021, due to concerns of identity theft. But as Anthony Brian Logan asked on our pages a few weeks later, “Did the IRS visit his home out of grave concern or to intimidate him?”
We’ll return to Taibbi in due course, but another incident outlined in the congressional report is cause for even more concern. An unidentified Ohio woman was visited in April of this year by an IRS agent who gave a false name, then proceeded to act in an intimidating manner toward her despite the fact that her taxes were paid in full.
Again, quoting the congressional report: “Agent ‘Haus’ then furnished several documents to the taxpayer for her to complete. Because these documents included sensitive information about the decedent, the taxpayer offered Agent ‘Haus’ the opportunity to speak with her accountant, which he accepted. However, when her accountant did not answer, the taxpayer called her attorney who immediately and repeatedly told Agent ‘Haus’ to leave the taxpayer’s home since the taxpayer had not received any prior notice from the IRS of any issue with the decedent’s estate or delinquent tax returns. Agent ‘Haus’ responded aggressively, insisting, ‘I am an IRS agent, I can be at and go into anyone’s house at any time I want to be.’ At the end of his unannounced visit, Agent ‘Haus’ told the taxpayer he would mail her paperwork for her to execute and threatened that she would have exactly one week to satisfy the remaining balance or he would freeze all her assets and put a lien on her house.”
The woman, believing she was being scammed, reached out to her local police, who in turn contacted the IRS only to find that Agent “Haus” was indeed an IRS agent, but using an assumed name. After an investigation revealed the woman had no issues with the agency, an IRS supervisor eventually apologized for the agent’s conduct a month later. No word on whether Agent “Haus” was reprimanded or forced to write out the words of the Fourth Amendment on a chalkboard a hundred times.
While the treatment Taibbi received wasn’t as extreme as the Ohio woman’s, it was more troubling in another respect — that of intimidating an inconvenient government witness. But in both cases, we see that same philosophy of menacing entitlement. No one likes to hear from the IRS, as the situation is often that of having to prove one’s innocence at great cost and heartache.
And Taibbi, whom Power Line’s John Hinderaker calls “one of a group of honest liberals who are not blind to the contemporary Left’s faults,” responded by questioning some of those institutions he once supported. On his Racket News site, Taibbi laments:
Anticipating criticism for expressing public thanks to a Republican congressman, I’d like to ask Democratic Party partisans: to which elected Democrat should I have appealed for help in this matter? The one who called me a “so-called journalist” on the House floor? The one who told me to take off my “tinfoil hat” and put greater trust in intelligence services? The ones in leadership who threatened me with jail time? I gave votes to the party for thirty years. Which elected Democrat would have performed basic constituent services in my case? Feel free to raise a hand. If silence is the answer, why should I ever vote for a Democrat again?“
Of course, the cases outlined in the Jordan report are just two of the most egregious ones, and it’s a fair question to ponder whether any of this would have been discussed if not for the high-profile Taibbi case. It’s likely that the vast majority of incidents were more like that of the Ohio woman, who was fortunate to have her case merit such special attention. How many others who feel they’re compromised simply roll over and sign away their assets and freedom in order to get the government off their back?
Thanks to House Republicans, “most” unannounced home visits from the IRS are now a thing of the past. But that doesn’t mean the agency doesn’t have other unsavory tactics within its bag of dirty tricks. Remember, they’re from the government and they’re here to help.
You can’t bribe Americans to buy cars they don’t want.
Stephen Moore
One of the textbook marketing flops of all time was the Ford Edsel sedan, which was heralded as the hot new car in the late 1950s. All the automotive experts and Ford executives said it was a can’t-miss. Henry Ford (the car was named after his son) guaranteed hundreds of thousands of sales.
But one big thing went wrong: Nobody ever bothered to ask car buyers what they thought of the new car. As it turned out, they hated it. So instead of sales of 400,000, Americans bought 10,000, and the model was embarrassingly discontinued.
The obvious lesson for the industry: You can’t bribe Americans to buy cars they don’t want. Given the all-in approach to electric vehicles at Ford and General Motors, it’s clear that Detroit never got the message.
Last week, Honda and GM announced an end to their two-year collaboration in building a platform for lower-cost EVs. Honda execs said it was too hard.
Amazingly, less than 10% of all new car sales over the last two years were EVs. This is despite the fact that the U.S. government is writing a $7,500 check to people for buying an EV, and some states are kicking in $5,000 more. The Texas Policy Foundation calculates that all-in EV subsidies can reach $40,000 per vehicle. It would practically be cheaper for the government to purchase a new gas vehicle for every American car buyer.
Energy expert Robert Bryce estimates that Ford has lost $62,000 for each EV it has rolled off the assembly line. That’s hardly a road to profitability.
Meanwhile, the news is even worse for wind and solar power. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that “clean energy” investment funds are tanking, with some down as much as 70% in recent months. Solar has been one of the worst-performing industry stocks this year.
This collapse is happening right when Exxon and Chevron have engineered a combined $110 billion blockbuster acquisitions to expand oil and gas drilling in the Permian Basin in Texas, one of the biggest oil fields in the world. This year, they both reported their largest profits ever.
They and their investors are looking at the real-world data, not green energy propaganda. In 2023, the world is guzzling oil and gas like never before. Global consumption of fossil fuels was higher in 2022 than at any time in human history, even as the developed countries spend hundreds of billions of dollars trying to stop oil, gas and coal.
Despite the $370 billion green energy slush fund stashed in the federal budget, almost 80% of our energy still comes from old-fashioned fossil fuels. We’re a long, long way from “net zero.” And remember: Unlike green energy, fossil fuels get almost no subsidies. In fact, they pay taxes.
All of this is to say that there is no “global energy transition” going on. If there is one, it’s away from green energy, not toward it.
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Blood on Their Hands — The New York Times went with the story of an intentional Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza. It was confirmed by Hamas, the people who concocted the story in the first place. With this single act of criminal negligence, this fake atrocity has entered the history books, and much worse.
The Day the Delusions Died — A lot of people woke up on October 7 as progressives and went to bed that night feeling like conservatives. What changed?
College Students Stand With Hamas — Ami Horowitz interviews students to find out if they favor a two-state solution, whether violence is ever acceptable, and what it means when students chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
“Because of our economic policies, we now are reducing inflation. We have created over 14 million new jobs. … Wages are up. And so we’ve seen great progress.” —Vice President Kamala Harris
“The challenge that we have as an administration is we gotta let people know who brung it to ‘em! That’s our challenge. But it is not that the work we are doing is not very, very popular with a lot of people.” —Kamala Harris
Non Sequitur
“This is a double standard. The United States rightly called out Russia for its siege of Ukraine. … Our credibility and our authority on the moral stage is greatly diminished if we do not also call out this siege that Israel is launching on Gaza as violations of international law.” —Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
Non Compos Mentis
“The American people are actually quite far away from where the president and even Congress, the majority of Congress, has been on Israel and Gaza. … They do not support a war-crime exchange for another war crime.” —Pramila Jayapal
“The United States has a responsibility to deescalate the situation. … This is the moment for us … to call for a cessation of hostilities.” —Pramila Jayapal
For the Record
“No ceasefire with Hamas evil. If the world is truly concerned about Palestinian life, the answer is simple: Hamas must surrender.” —Ben Shapiro
“People who defend Hamas are your enemies. This is not a debate over tax policy.” —David Harsanyi
“The attack of October 7 claimed 33 American lives, making it one of the deadliest terrorist attacks for Americans in history. If, as Secretary Blinken suggests, another ten Americans remain captive in Gaza, then the attack of October 7 was also — is also — one of the worst hostage situations for Americans on record.” —Charles C.W. Cooke
“Does anyone think that anti-Semitism suddenly erupted on our college campuses overnight after Israel responded to the October 7th massacre? Of course not. This hatred has been festering in our universities for years. And left-wing ideologies, like ‘diversity, equity and inclusion,’ are entirely responsible for it. Sadly, the more highly educated someone is, the more likely they are to be anti-Semitic.” —Gary Bauer
Leftmedia Lob
“It’s not just [House Speaker Mike Johnson’s] political ideology that should scare us. Johnson is basically a Christian fundamentalist. He believes that America is a Christian nation, and that those values should be reflected in our interpretation of the Constitution. His ideas of what America should be are completely out of line with what America actually is.” —MSNBC’s Jen Psaki
Lack of Self-Awareness Award
“Democracy will be on the ballot, as evidenced by the position that many of the election deniers on the other side of the aisle continue to hold.” —House Minority Leader/Election Denier Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)
Belly Laugh of Day
“Biden is a leader with a vision for our future. He has the ambition to meet the challenges of the moment.” —Kamala Harris
Insight
“Today’s federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution.” —Walter Williams (1936-2020)
And Last…
“We need to enforce the laws we already have. Hunter Biden is the poster boy for gun law enforcement! But there is nothing logical about taking away the rights of law-abiding Americans just because someone else breaks the law. And how many people were huddled in their homes wishing they had a gun when much of Maine was locked down Thursday?” —Gary Bauer
Joe Biden greets elected officials and Space Force leadership, Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz)
[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire.]
By James Varney
Real Clear Wire
Hundreds of people on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist have almost certainly slipped into the United States amid millions of other illegal immigrants during the last three years, according to former federal officials and experts.
“You have to be extremely naïve to not be significantly concerned about this,” said Rodney Scott, former chief of U.S. Border Patrol from 2020 to 2021. “Regardless of what the Biden administration may claim, what it said during the campaign and the executive orders taken in January 2021 have been interpreted around the world as the border is open. You’re insane if you don’t think terrorists will use that to their advantage.”
In the aftermath of Hamas’ terrorist attack against Israel on Oct. 7, President Biden, without mentioning the border, told “60 Minutes” that the threat the U.S. could face from terrorists in the country had escalated.
Although the terrorist threat linked to the border crisis is impossible to quantify, some experts find the available numbers alarming. During Biden’s first three years, a record-shattering 6.5 million-plus immigrants have been “encountered” by border authorities. That pace is increasing: The most recent monthly figures, September’s, showed another record number of monthly encounters – 269,735.
At the same time, federal officials have seen an alarming increase in border crossers listed on the U.S. Terror Screening Dataset, the official name for what is commonly called the “terrorist watchlist.”
In fiscal 2023, which ends this month, Border Patrol agents have apprehended 172 such people, all but three of them along the southwest border. When all U.S. places of entry are added – by land, sea and air – another 564 people on the watchlist were caught, bringing the total to 736.
By way of comparison, between fiscal 2017 and 2019, Border Patrol agents apprehended a total of 11 people on the terrorist watchlist. Scott sounded an alarm to Congress in the 2021 period when the total jumped to 16. “When a number doubles it gets your attention, and we’ve moved way beyond that,” he says now.
Yet the “known unknowns,” to use Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s famous phrase, indicate the problem is even worse, according to experts. For one, the “terrorist watchlist” is only as good as the information that has been entered into it.
“Not everybody’s on the watchlist,” said Todd Bensman, who has tracked Central American immigration routes and the southern border for years with the Center for Immigration Studies and is the author of “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History.”
“There have been thousands and thousands – tens of thousands – of people from the Middle East who have entered and it’s completely reasonable, even the president has acknowledged it, to worry that some of those could be, or could become, terrorist threats,” Bensman said.
Scott, who spent a half decade in counterterrorism at the Department of Homeland Security before moving to Customs and Border Patrol, said that as legal immigration channels dried up, criminals and terrorists began to seek people who would not appear on any intelligence agency’s datasheet.
“They’re looking for what they call ‘clean skins,’” Scott told RealClearInvestigations. “People with no type of record who can operate freely. They are continuously looking for new channels they can exploit, and they’ve shifted their ports of entry and increased those coming with no prior record.”
Mark Morgan, a former chief operating officer and commissioner with Customs and Border Patrol, echoed that point, telling RCI that “the fact someone isn’t on that list could just mean they haven’t dipped their toe in the pond yet.”
Using a hypothetical, Morgan said border authorities might ask a 30-year-old man from Lebanon if he has any association with Hezbollah, and in some rare cases do a check with the country of origin.
“What’s he going to say? And not every other country has precise, up-to-date information or maybe a good relationship with the United States,” he said. “We can’t even verify the ones we encounter.”
But experts warn that the number of “encounters” is only the known part of the equation. Far more frightening, they say, are the unknown numbers who have snuck into the country.
Through the use of surveillance videos from blimps, drones, and satellites, along with old-fashioned gumshoe work of studying footprints, CBP produces a figure it calls “known gotaways.” That stands at 1.7 million during the Biden administration. Morgan said he considers the “absolute floor” for the real figure is the public number plus 20%.
That would put the total over 2 million. Those unknown hundreds of thousands are uniquely disquieting, in part because so many took measures to dodge border patrol agents. Most current border crossers know that under the Biden administration’s policies, if they surrender at the border they can apply for amnesty or some other favored status and will simply be processed and released to await a distant court date. Thus, most people trekking into the U.S. from Mexico now give themselves up, or simply sit down on U.S. soil and await Border Patrol, according to current and former agents.
“And they’ve lost track of people that already came in,” Scott noted.
Scott and others said it stands to reason that people on the terror watchlist would be far less likely to give themselves up. Instead of becoming an encounter, many are probably “gotaways.”
It’s not clear if DHS or CBP has issued new directives or policies since Biden said he planned to meet with them after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. The agencies declined to comment on specific policies. Joshua Trevino, with the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation, told RCI there does not appear to have been any change in operations on the ground in Texas.
“Nothing has been made public, which is probably because they haven’t done anything,” he said.
CBP does not breakdown the nationalities of those it encounters, although immigrants from 180 of the world’s 195 recognized nations have been encountered at U.S. borders in the past three years, according to Morgan. Scott said San Diego officers told him they have dealt with 200 languages this year.
A San Diego ‘Situational Awareness’ Bulletin
In one sign of the growing concern, the Daily Caller reported on Oct. 25 that an internal bulletin from CBP’s San Diego office warned that “foreign fighters of Israel-Hamas conflict may potentially be encountered at southwest border.”
Specifically, the “situational awareness” bulletin cautioned about those with ties to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, all groups designated as terrorists by the U.S. government.
CBP did not dispute the accuracy of the report but declined to comment on internal documents. A spokesperson told RealClearInvestigations that to date “CBP has seen no indication of Hamas-directed foreign fighters seeking to make entry to the United States.”
The potential threats are two-fold: fighters sponsored or directed by terrorist groups, like those cited in the San Diego bulletin, or people who may have some sympathies with radical Islamic groups and are prompted to act by the war.
To some extent, the former has already occurred, Bensman said, pointing to a federal case concluded in April. Former Al Qaeda fighter Shihab Ahmed Shihab pled guilty in Ohio to plotting to assassinate former president George W. Bush. Shihab flew into the U.S. in 2020, and told undercover FBI agents that after overstaying his visa he had smuggled two Hezbollah operatives across the southern border, half of the team he planned to use.
The team would arrive in the U.S. via international travel to Brazil and then by foot through the Darien Gap, which joins the continents at Colombia and Panama. A federal official familiar with immigration patterns told RCI that “increased migration from South America is a major factor in these increased encounters,” but stressed that is true for all crossers and that those who appear on the U.S. Terror Screening Dataset are “uncommon.”
Bensman, citing other cases of dubious crossings, said that is scant solace to concerned Americans.
“So, we know of one plot,” he said.
It is what authorities call “HVEs,” or “homegrown violent extremists” that constitute the biggest threat, according to some. On Sept. 26, less than two weeks before Hamas attacked, the Council on Foreign Relations argued that “homegrown threats still loom larger than the southern border.”
It was far more likely that terrorists acting in the United States would be motivated by “white supremacist” thinking, or inspired by lone-wolf jihadist terrorists, like the killer at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. The CFR did not respond to questions from RCI about the situation after Oct. 7.
GOP Sen. Ted Cruz’s home border state of Texas is ground zero in the massive influx of illegal immigration the U.S. has seen since Biden’s inauguration.
“This administration is making America less safe and is making the world less safe,” Cruz said. “As the [San Diego] memo rightly notes, terrorists crossing the southern border will try to obscure their background. Because if they are coming here, there’s a very real possibility they are coming here to commit acts of terror.”
Cruz, who went to the border last week with four other Senators, said on his podcast Monday that border agents told him of a new Biden policy in the past year amounting to “guidelines for non-pursuit.” Under it, he said, agents pursuing migrants are barred from any actions “that could potentially endanger someone’s safety,” such as transporting apprehended migrants in a vehicle with not enough seatbelts for all.
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s office did not respond to multiple queries about the situation on the border since Hamas’ attack, and the Lone Star State’s Department of Public Safety declined to comment.
The combination of a huge increase in the number of immigrants apprehended via the U.S. Terror Screening Dataset, the 1.7 million or more “gotaways,” and the easier ability terrorists have to enter the U.S. now via cartel-controlled pathways should serve as a warning to policymakers, many immigration and anti-terrorism experts believe.
“It’s beyond a real concern now,” Mark Morgan said. “What happened in Israel should tell you two things: that global terrorism is alive and well and that there can still be massive intelligence failure. So, if you asked the intelligence community right now how many of the 1.7 million plus gotaways might be a terrorist threat the honest answer is ‘we don’t know.’ If you ask if there could be a sleeper cell the honest answer would have to be ‘we don’t know.’”
This article was originally published by RealClearInvestigations and made available via RealClearWire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls the war with Hamas a battle between the forces of civilization and the forces of terror, saying Israel will never surrender, and that it is time for everyone to decide where they stand – his remarks coming as pro-Palestinian protests and antisemitic actions spread worldwide and as Israel recovers a captured soldier from Hamas; CBN Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell explains from Jerusalem why Israelis are so united against Hamas, how Israel hopes to rescue more hostages and target Hamas tunnels, and whether or not Hezbollah will join the fighting against Israel; must see interview: although President Biden says Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people, Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch tells CBN News that Hamas is actually popular among Palestinians; and how Jews and Christians are working together to help Israelis escape the ongoing warfare, including rocket attacks from Hamas.
On Tuesday investigative journalist Todd Bensman joined Steve Bannon on the War Room to discuss the ongoing invasion at the US Southern Border.
US Border Patrol apprehended 3.2 million illegal aliens in fiscal year 2023 (Oct 1-Sept 30). Since Joe Biden was installed in January 2021, the number is estimated at 10 million illegal border crossers. That number equals about the population of 41 individual states.
During their discussion on Tuesday Todd Bensman told the War Room that in the coming months we can expect up to half-a-million illegals to cross the open border each month.
Todd Bensman: That video footage is the proof that it materialized. And so are the numbers. 270,000 sorry, crossed the border in September alone. We had 12,014 thousand days during September. We’re having that now. We’re looking at maybe a half a million a month. A million a month coming in. If you count the gotaways and the ones they’re airlifting in from other countries and the ones they’re bringing over the bridges, that’s 50,000, that’s 70,000. We’re looking at 300 and 5400 thousand a month. 500,000 a month. If you count even more gotaways.
Steve Bannon: Hold it!… I want you to embrace this. America 6 million additional illegal alien invaders. On top of the eight to ten that’s you’re talking, 14 to 16 million that is now bigger than North Carolina. It’s bigger than all these states make it what the top ten state within the top ten in the Union? Bigger. Bigger than Michigan, bigger than Wisconsin. You’re getting up to Pennsylvania levels!…
…We’re going to have something to say about it. Not one fricking penny for Zelensky and these crooks and criminals in Ukraine and all the conservative media fanboys and you know exactly who they are that cheered that on and fought our fight and fought us tooth and nail about what we did in the House of Representatives to clean this mess up.
I don’t see you guys every day down there on the border. You care more about other nations border than you care about the only one border in this world that makes any difference to American citizens right now. And it’s not in Gaza, and it ain’t an eastern Russian speaking province of Ukraine. It is in the southern United States from the Rio Grande Valley through New Mexico and Arizona all the way to Imperial Beach, California.
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince of Iran, joins ‘FOX & Friends’ after the president of Iran issued an ominous warning to the U.S. and Israel. #FoxNews
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the world this week that “if Hamas and Iran’s axis of evil win, you will be their next target,” in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal published on Tuesday.
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized.
Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons… who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”– Edward Bernays – Propaganda (1928) pp. 9–10
“Axis of Evil” seems to be interchangeable, based upon who the Deep State needs to be the enemy at any given time. Bush junior first coined the phrase in his January 29, 2002 State of the Union speech when describing Iran, Iraq and North Korea. Of course, we know his Deep State handlers then falsified claims of 9/11 involvement and WMDs, to take out Sadaam and steal his oil. The barely cogent doddering old fool senator McConnell this week declared Russia, China and Iran as the new “Axis of Evil”. You notice Iran is still in the club, but they now consider two nuclear armed superpowers to be evil and enemies. Kim Jong Un must be so disappointed at being kicked out of the club.
I always thought the quote above, attributed to Orwell, was really from Ron Paul. Either way, we are most certainly living in an empire of lies, where the war on truth is relentless and never ending. As the quote from Bernays reveals, the war on truth has been consciously waged for at least a century, and probably for centuries, as the invisible government of men behind the curtain manipulate the minds of the masses with propaganda, lies, disinformation, and misinformation, in order to control and profit from the false narratives they spin. The UN, WHO, and WEF truly are the real “Axis of Evil” in our world today.
They are the front organizations for a globalist cabal of billionaires, bankers, and their armies of psychopathic bureaucrats, corrupt politicians, media mouthpieces, satanic pedophiles, and blood thirsty generals intent on blowing up the world. All three diabolical organizations are focused on implementing their overlords’ Great Reset agenda of depopulation, central bank digital currencies, social credit scores for the plebs, 15 minute city gulags, living in 300 square foot pods, forced transition to an all EV society, confiscation of firearms to insure their control, making the peasants eat bugs while they dine on Filet Mignon and lobster, and convincing you you’re happy owning nothing while they own everything.
There have been a lot of wars in the 50 years since the Deep State killed JFK in 1963. And every one has been a failure. Traditional war has accomplished nothing. Vietnam – failure. Iraq – failure. Afghanistan – failure. War on Poverty – $15 trillion of your tax dollars spent since 1965 and poverty is worse, with Democrat run urban ghetto shitholes worse than 3rd world countries. War on Drugs – over $1 trillion spent since Nixon declared war in 1971, with tens of thousands in prison and drug use at all-time highs, when taking into account Big Pharma created addictions.
War on Terror – over $8 trillion spent since 9/11, along with the implementation of a surveillance state Orwell couldn’t have conceived in his darkest nightmares, and now parents and grannies are classified as domestic terrorists. Meanwhile, real terrorists can saunter across our southern border and be transported by our government anywhere they choose. War on Covid – at least $6 trillion directly with your tax dollars, but trillions more in the destruction of businesses, jobs, and lives. And of course the proliferation of wars on CO2, fossil fuels, farmers, meat, white people, biology regarding gender, the Constitution, and common sense, continue unabated, as they all contribute to the Great Reset agenda.
The War on Truth is relentlessly fought by our ruling class and their co-conspirator minions in the regime media and Silicon Valley tyrant social media propagandists. Orwell and Bernays were contemporaries, but had entirely divergent viewpoints regarding truth. Orwell saw authoritarian governments suppressing truth as an existential evil.
Bernays was so annoyed by the Nazis giving his propaganda book a bad name, he changed the narrative and started calling it public relations. He was enthusiastically in favor of an invisible government of men manipulating the masses into thinking whatever they want them to think by obscuring the truth and employing psychological techniques to mold the beliefs of the unsuspecting masses.
Bernays‘ techniques have been taken to a new level with the advent of technology in the 21st Century. The ability to lie, misinform, fake, and shroud the truth has never been easier, especially after decades of government indoctrination in public schools designed to dumb down the masses, make them obey authority, feel rather than think, and never question the approved establishment narrative. Never has this been more true than with government reported economic statistics. If you want to see how fake the government statistics are, just go to John Williams’ site Shadowstats to get the truth.
This past week, the regime media was ecstatic about the 4.9% 3rd quarter GDP report and Biden was so excited he was drooling and shitting his pants while taking credit for our stupendous economy. What they fail to mention is government spending is a major component of the GDP calculation, and your friendly government drones added $1.1 trillion to the national debt in the 3rd quarter to artificially boost GDP. In addition, they used an inflation rate of 3.0% in their calculation. Without the artificial government borrowing and spending, and using the real inflation rate of 8% to 10% you are experiencing in the real world, and the real GDP is really -5% or worse.
The most laughable of all the fake government statistics is the reported unemployment rate of 3.8%. Only a proud Woman’s Studies graduate who has been jabbed eight times, still wears a mask alone in their Prius, and has an I Support Ukraine and I Support Israel flag in their social media profile, could possibly believe that drivel. There are 267 million working age Americans, with 162 million employed. Of course, 26 million of those jobs are part-time and another 4 million people are working multiple jobs. So, 40% of the working age population are not working. Only 50% have a full-time job. The government just pretends 100 million working age people choose not to be employed. So they don’t count.
The economy is so good, those people not in the labor force have decided to camp out permanently in homeless encampments across the nation. Shadowstats calculates the true unemployment rate at 25%. Do you think 3.8% or 25% is closer to the truth? Anyone with an IQ above room temperature realizes Bidenomics has been disastrous for the average American and is reflected in Biden’s approval ratings and consumer expectations about the future being the lowest since Great Financial Crisis in 2012. Wall Street cheered retail sales reportedly up 0.7% in September, when critical thinking people realize they are up due to inflation. Real retail sales are negative.
They need to keep you believing all is well until they decide to pull it, when they believe it is in their best interest to do so. They will position themselves to benefit from a financial collapse. They will continue to push their climate emergency tripe, even though the facts unquestionably support the opposite of what their narrative spews relentlessly. Facts don’t matter to the Great Reset disciples. But facts don’t cease to exist.
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley
The climate narrative is solely designed to increase your taxes, reduce your freedom, and enrich the globalist cabal who believe they can manipulate you into doing whatever they tell you to do. Truth has no part in their agenda. The only way to defeat these psychopaths is to keep hammering away with truth, despite the hate, censorship, and canceling thrown our way.
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” – George Orwell
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
Society is lost in a blizzard of lies. They lied about Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election. They lied while impeaching Trump twice. They lied about the “armed” insurrection on January 6 where no one was armed. They continue to lie while weaponizing the judicial system against Trump. They lied about George Floyd and BLM. They lied about the origins and risks of Covid. They lied about the safety and effectiveness of their “vaccines”. They continue to lie about the deaths caused by this toxic concoction. They lie about Putin’s motivations. They lie about the Ukraine war. They are lying about the Israel – Hamas conflict. They are going to lie us into World War 3, unless we stop them by courageously speaking the truth, no matter the consequences.
Their war on truth will fail, just as all their other self serving wars have failed. We will get no truth from the regime or their globalist overlords. It is up to average Americans to speak the truth, listen to and comprehend the truth, and become the truth which will be the only chance to stop this madness. I do believe the existing social order of psychopaths in suits will be swept away during the denouement of this once in a lifetime crisis. Before they are defeated and vanquished there will be much bloodshed, pain, and sacrifice necessary to achieve victory. We can change the earth, by holding tight to the truth. It is time to become heroes.
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” – George Orwell
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.” ― William Faulkner
Previous episodes of antisemitism in the U.S. pale in comparison to the exterminationist frenzy of today.
The United States is experiencing the most explosive and dangerous eruption of antisemitism in its 250-year history. Indeed, it is absolutely unprecedented in American life. Never before have thousands of people gathered to support the mass murder of Jews with open calls for the annihilation of the Jewish state.
Worst of all, perhaps, this is the first and only form of any organized hatred in the U.S. that has been exterminationist in intent. Not even the most abhorrent Confederate supporters of slavery assembled to call for the extermination of all black people.
Certainly, there have been elements of anti-Jewish bigotry in America since colonial times, but they would barely register compared to today. A cursory look at history reveals as much.
Until the middle of the 19th century, mainstream Protestants were more anti-Catholic than anti-Jewish. Since there were so few Jews in America back then, it’s not surprising that this was the case.
The most infamous official act of American antisemitism in the 19th century was General Ulysses S. Grant’s Order No. 11, issued during the Civil War, to expel Jews from the border states. President Abraham Lincoln immediately revoked it and chastised Grant. The order never went into effect. No Jew was ever expelled. Grant later called it the most regrettable act of his life. He went on to become one of the most pro-Jewish presidents in American history.
In 1881, Russia’s Tsar issued the “May Decrees,” which were designed to expel Russia’s Jews by making life there impossible for them. It triggered a wave of emigration that saw 2.5 million mostly penniless Jews arrive in America by 1914.
The still small and well-established native-born American Jews feared such huge numbers would spark a dangerous antisemitic backlash. For the most part, it didn’t. The worst recorded act of violent antisemitism was the widely publicized 1919 Georgia lynching of Leo Frank, a Jew falsely accused of murder. There were no acts of mass violence against Jews.
Henry Ford is well known to this day as one of the most powerful antisemites in American history. What is less known is that Ford ultimately repudiated his loathsome views and closed down the Dearborn Independent newspaper he used to espouse them. Ford denounced Hitler early on for his persecution of Jews and was later a leading donor to Jewish organizations.
Not even Father Charles Coughlin, whose popular radio broadcasts blamed the Jews for every ill under the sun, came close to being an exterminationist antisemite. When the Catholic Church finally censured him for his bigotry, he quickly fell into oblivion.
The most frequent expressions of what we insulated Americans used to consider “antisemitism” were the fancy hotels that banned Jews, the “numerus clausus” that limited the number of Jews at top universities and the country clubs that denied membership to Jews.
Today, this seems quaint compared to the outpouring of support for Hamas’s Oct. 7 rampage of antisemitic mass murder and crimes against humanity.
What makes this celebration of the slaughter of Jews still more terrifying is that it’s led by some of the best-credentialed elites in our society and has attracted many young people.
These “sophisticated” supporters of genocide cloud their exterminationist intentions with euphemisms like “Decolonize Palestine”—which means rid it of Jews. “Free Palestine” surely can’t mean “Free Gaza” since it’s been entirely Judenrein since 2005.
Never before in history has America elected anyone to Congress who dared support groups seeking the extermination of the Jews. Today, some half a dozen members of Congress either openly support Hamas or refuse to condemn it.
Just as Israel can no longer tolerate Hamas, neither can we tolerate its supporters. Whoever defends or justifies Hamas must not just be condemned. They must be shamed, shunned and expelled from civil society.
The longer such diabolical voices are amplified by a collaborationist media and go uncondemned by leaders of their own political party, the louder their voices and the larger their numbers will become. This would constitute not just an existential threat to America’s Jews, but to America itself.
Iranian born Muslim, now Christian, Michael Germi joins the program to discuss the war in Israel, the Iran connection and how to witness to the Muslim people.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a chilling word of caution fitting for Halloween, D.C. area parents sternly warned their trick-or-treating children to avoid venturing anywhere near a large house on Pennsylvania Avenue where a creepy old man lives.
“Whatever you do, stay away from that place,” a father said with a hushed quiver in his voice. “There are stories about that house. Horrible stories. An old, scary man lives there. People say he has thin, wispy, white hair. He speaks only in indecipherable groans and mumbles. He is unnaturally drawn to small children. Just…just stay away. Stay away, I tell you!”
The children listening to the story stood in hushed terror, their eyes widened by the horrifying story. “W-where did he come from?” asked one child dressed as Boba Fett. “Why does he look and act the way he does?”
“No one is sure where he came from, son,” answered the boy’s mother, solemnly. “Some people say he came from Delaware, which sounds plausible because nothing good comes from Delaware. But as for why he is the way he is…everyone says he’s just mentally disturbed. He’s kept confined in the basement of his own home because everyone is afraid of what he might do if they let him out. No one is safe around that man. If you value your lives…just stay far, far away.”
At publishing time, the children had reportedly wandered too close to the big house on Pennsylvania Avenue and said they saw only the silhouette of a man stumbling and lumbering awkwardly around the grounds of the house. Before fleeing in terror, the children said the last thing they saw was the terrifying figure tripping and falling while attempting to go up the stairs to the front entrance.
Their culture is not your costume. DO NOT appropriate ghost, zombie, or vampire culture this Halloween.
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