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
Ecclesiastes 10:1 — If you read about marketing, you’ll read about “brand consistency.” The thing that has always amazed me about “business books” is that most of the time they espouse principles that are based in Solomon’s words with illustrations from the author’s life.
Ecclesiastes 10:16-17 — In other words, elections matter!
Ecclesiastes 10:20 — Ever wonder where the expression “A little bird told me” came from?
Ecclesiastes 11:9 — Solomon keeps bringing the point back to this – yes, you can enjoy life, but remember God will bring you into judgment! So, remember your Creator (Ecclesiastes 12:1)!
The context is aging, approaching death, and the call to remember the creator acknowledged in your youth. Verses 3 – 6 compare the aging body to a house where the keepers are the hands that become paralytic and shaky; the strong men are legs that begin to bow and no longer hold up the body; the grinders are teeth that have decayed with age, and can no longer chew strong meat; the windows are the eyes that dim and can no longer see well; the doors being shut in the streets are the lips and mouth which can no longer swallow; and the sound of grinding low is the lost teeth, and inability to chew properly; rising up at the sound of a bird is the inability to sleep soundly being disturbed at the least sound; the daughters of music being brought low is the weak and feeble voice of old age.
The silver cord is the nervous system breaking; the golden bowl breaking representing the brain and loss of memory; the pitcher broken at the fountain and the wheel broken at the cistern is the heart slowing and failing to pump; which then results in the death of the body.
Ecclesiastes 12:12 — There are approximately 130 million books in the world as of 2010, and over 2 million new titles every year are published. Solomon was right! And much studying can be fatal. While I was in law school, this news clipping from the New York Times was passed around:
Ecclesiastes 12:13 — Yes, what is the conclusion of the matter? Fear God, and obey Him!
Ecclesiastes 12:14 — Because one day God will bring every secret thing into the open!
2 Corinthians 8:5 — Vic Eliason shared with me a story that a pastor told him. Elvis Presley was religious according to his pastor – Elvis recorded religious songs, attended church, and even gave generously into the offering. But while Presley gave of his money, he didn’t give his heart. His pastor told him, “Elvis, God doesn’t want your money – He wants your heart!” Yes, it is good to give, but unless you have given your heart to the LORD, giving all of your goods profits nothing (1 Corinthians 13:3).
2 Corinthians 8:14 — God did not give you an abundance to be hoarded, but so you could give to help others!
Psalm 49:6 — Speaking of money … you can’t buy salvation with it (Psalm 49:7). Souls are precious (Psalm 49:8). Use your earthly resources to lay up treasure in heaven (Matthew 6:19-21)!
Psalm 49:16-17 — You can’t take it with you (1 Timothy 6:7). This may be the only picture ever taken of a hearse with a U-Haul behind it:
Proverbs 22:21 — How can you know the truth? Read God’s Word!
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No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. (Psalm 84:11)
Many pleasing things the Lord may withhold but “no good thing.” He is the best judge of what is good for us. Some things are assuredly good, and these we may have for the asking through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Holiness is a good thing, and this He will work in us freely. Victory over evil tendencies, strong tempers, and evil habits He will gladly grant, and we ought not to remain without it.
Full assurance He will bestow, and near communion with Himself, and access into all truth, and boldness with prevalence at the mercy seat. If we have not these, it is from want of faith to receive and not from any unwillingness of God to give. A calm, a heavenly frame, great patience, and fervent love—all these will He give to holy diligence.
But note well that we must “walk uprightly.” There must be no cross purposes and crooked dealings; no hypocrisy nor deceit. If we walk foully God cannot give us favors, for that would be a premium upon sin. The way of uprightness is the way of heavenly wealth-wealth so large as to include every good thing.
What a promise to plead in prayer! Let us get to our knees.
I’ve previously written about knowing God’s will. I’m certainly not an expert, but I can truthfully say I know more about it now than I did a few years ago. In fact, I believe knowing God’s will is fairly easy if we are willing to do what we need to do to understand what His will is all about. In essence, knowing and fulfilling God’s will is what God wants for each of us. But we have to do some grunt work.
We are told repeatedly in His Word that if we are willing to live the way He wants us to live, in most cases, understanding His will becomes normative or second nature. This does not mean we will live it perfectly but our desires will be to try to do so. Yes, there are things we don’t know, but want to know, that will often only come to us through sustained efforts in prayer regarding something; a job, a spouse, higher education, a move to another area, etc. These things and many others may require us to focus on Him, praising Him for how He guides us as we seek His will. Often, they seem almost naturally occurring when all is said and done yet we know as we look back that God guided our direction as we sought to fulfill His will.
One of the (and often stated), benefits of doing His will results in getting to know God a bit better each time we determine to do what He wants us to do. The Bible tells us that we will find God if we seek Him with all of our heart, mind and soul (Deuteronomy 4:29-31).
But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice. For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.
Many sections of Scripture repeat this idea, like Jeremiah 29:13, Amos 5:4-6, Psalm 34:4-5, and others. We should absolutely seek God and He will reward that seeking.
But what does it mean to seek God? Here I am – 67 years-old – and I think I have a better understanding of what it means to get to know God now than when I first became a Christian at age 13. If you look up at the Deuteronomy reference quoted above, you’ll note that one part states, “…When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice.” This is speaking to the nation of Israel and the end times, but it also has application for Christians.
Throughout Scripture, obedience is really the key in getting to know God. If we are not willing to obey His commands, then we really have no business asking God for anything. Why should He respond to our prayers by giving us what we ask for? The Old Testament is filled with God’s remonstrance against Israel for not living obediently and constantly seeking idols. Yet, they also came to the Temple to worship God. God grew sick and tired of it.
So I’m wondering if all too often, we spend too much time pleading to “know” God but aren’t willing to put the effort and time in to be obedient to Him? If we say that we are His, doesn’t it come back to this question asked by Jesus Himself, found in Luke 6:46?
But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say?
Jesus has a solid point. If we claim to be Christians, shouldn’t we be involved in obeying Him? Ultimately, obedience speaks to our love for God. So, to understand what that means, we need to know at least something about His Word, don’t we? If we don’t, then we will miss sections of Scripture that tell us exactly what true religion is all about.
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. (James 1:27 NKJV)
James isn’t the only one who says this either. It is a repeated command throughout God’s Word (Exodus 22:22, Deuteronomy 24:19, John 3:17, Psalm 68:5; 82:3, Isaiah 10:2, Malachi 3:5, Zechariah 7:9-10). But what are these verses talking about? They are talking about the fact that God’s own heart reaches out to widows and the fatherless as well as people who are taken advantage of by others and God wants to reach out to these people through us!
God expects His children who claim to be Christians, to do what He Himself would do where people are concerned. That often includes widows and orphans and the poor in general. Now, I’m not talking about “social justice.” This has nothing to do with that. I’m talking about simply being obedient to God’s commands to help those who have far less than He has blessed us with in our lives.
Recently, I had the opportunity to help a grandmother; a widow and raising two grandsons. The widow’s husband died a number of years ago and the widow lives on a very small pension of just over $800/month. The (mobile) home they were living in was coming down around them.
I learned about the situation from a friend at church. I forget how it came up but he was talking about going over there to demolish the old mobile home and put in another one. He and his wife had purchased another mobile home for the widow. I was amazed at the fact that the grandmother did not even attend our church. But folks at our church learned of her and her situation because of another couple in our church that has a food ministry to those in need in the community. The grandmother came for food and they took the time to listen to her and realized there was a far greater need than just food, so they got others involved.
After I heard this story, I immediately volunteered to help, noting that I was not a carpenter or anything but I’d be happy to do the grunt work if he needed my help. I committed to helping the next day.
I arrived and began picking up the massive amount of garbage and junk around the property. I recall having passed this home many times in the past on my way to somewhere and I always noticed several things. First, the amount of junk around the house was astounding to me. Second, there was a beautiful long white haired Great Pyrenees dog that was always kept chained up to a large tree in the front and was filthy. It always broke my heart when I saw him. I learned later that the grandmother had many animals, including a donkey they kept in a pen in the back. The donkey never got enough food or water and eventually had to be put down. The widow should probably not have any animals really because she cannot afford to adequately care for them.
As I began picking up trash, I was mystified how anyone could allow this to happen. Everywhere I looked, it was trash, worn out rusted tools, numerous go-carts, ATVs and motorcycles and the like. I must’ve picked up about 30-40 tires and put them all in one pile to be dealt with later. There was a ton of metal that also was placed in another pile in the hopes of getting a few pennies for all of it.
I had no experience running excavators or bobcats, but the guy in charge of the demo said I needed to just get in and start doing it. He gave me basic instructions and told me to “go.” So I did.
I began moving around the area, picking up piles of junk and dropping it all into an onsite roll-away dumpster with the excavator I was driving. When the dumpster would fill up, it would be removed and replaced with another one. We also graded dirt to try to flatten and grade the area for the placement of the new mobile home and to get the rainwater to run away from the mobile home.
I learned quite a bit but the most important aspect of all of this is what we accomplished for a widow and her grandsons. I know nothing about the grandsons’ father or mother; where they are and/or what they are doing. I just know the grandmother has the grandsons living with her and she really cannot afford it.
Note in the first picture, some of the exterior demo has already begun. The second image down shows a view from the side. In the third picture down, I’m picking up garbage and filling up the dumpster. I couldn’t help the next day, but I was able to help the day after. Another day of picking up garbage, cast off wood, more rusty cast-off tools, tires, metal and many other things. Finally, as seen in the last photo down, the old mobile home is completely gone and the final piles of garbage are ready to be placed inside the dumpster. Then the grading began.
I was again talking to the guy who is leading this project and he said he and his wife budgeted $50,000 for it, including the purchase of a newer used mobile home (which had to meet square feet minimum by the County).
This project represents Christianity in action. I don’t have $50,000 but I can certainly donate a few days of my time for such a good project.
This is not one of those situations where we can just walk away and not worry about it any longer. This grandmother will need help. She’s going to have to understand that when something breaks down, she needs to let the church know. If she needs food, she needs to feel free to come to the place where she will be given food (normally with a whatever she can afford donation).
I was talking one of the guys helping (he had his young son helping too) and a woman down the road needed some grading done. So he and the head guy went over to chat with her. When they came back, the one guy said, “I’m getting a new dog!” Then he told me about the husky the woman had that was kept on a run. The problem is that huskies need huge amounts of space because they are so active! You cannot keep them in a cage or even on a run. They are working dogs and hate being confined to small spaces. So the woman told him he was welcome to take the dog. Interesting that out of helping this one grandmother, another woman is relieved of the dog she cannot help that much but clearly wanted to do something for the dog because of its previous circumstance.
In the end, obedience is key to getting to know God. He honors it when we take the time to obey His commands. Without our obedience to His commands and will, we cannot truly hope to begin knowing God.
If we are truly sincere about wanting to know God, we must be just as sincere in wanting to obey His commands. We cannot say we want to know God and not live sacrificially. The two go hand in hand.
What God wants is to use us as a channel of blessing to others and Jesus is our best Model for that. This can mean evangelizing the lost. It can mean helping the widows, the orphans and the poor (always with an eye on their spiritual needs). This is what God wants and He has made this abundantly clear throughout His Word. Are you paying attention?
Intense hailstorm hits Mexico City, Mexico An intense hailstorm swept through Mexico City on Friday, August 30, 2024, producing huge hail accumulations and stranding drivers.
6 months’ worth of rain hits the Black Sea coast of eastern Romania, causing severe flooding Torrential rains caused intense flooding in eastern Romania on Friday, August 30, 2024, and Saturday, August 31, causing significant property damage in multiple towns. Agigea, Tuzla, Costinesti, Eforie, Mangalia, and Vama Veche were the worst-hit towns. An orange rain warning was in effect till Sunday, September 1.
Floods and landslides claim 9 lives in Andhra Pradesh amid record rainfall, India A low-pressure system over the Bay of Bengal has been producing torrential rains across Andhra Pradesh since August 30, 2024, causing severe flooding and landslides that have claimed at least 9 lives. The districts of Guntur and Krishna were hit hardest, receiving over 200 mm (7.8 inches) of rain within just 12 hours.
Even Most Third World Countries Do Not Have As Much Theft And Violence As We Do How does it feel to live in one of the most crime-ridden nations on the entire planet? Our major urban areas are absolutely teeming with predators, and millions upon millions of law-abiding citizens are literally afraid to leave their homes at night as a result. Of course, at this point, it isn’t exactly safe to be strolling through the streets in the middle of the day either. On Saturday afternoon, a wide receiver who was a first-round choice of the San Francisco 49ers during the most recent NFL draft was shot in the chest as a thief attempted to steal his Rolex watch.
The Iron Grip Tightens: Starmer’s UK Slides Towards Authoritarianism, removes painting of Thatcher Under the fresh leadership of Keir Starmer, the United Kingdom is experiencing a jarring shift towards restrictive policies that have begun to echo shades of a darker, more authoritarian regime. This emerging narrative from Downing Street signals a departure from British traditions of liberty, evoking concerns that resonate deeply, particularly among American observers familiar with the sanctity of free speech and individual rights.
Military Threat: China’s AI Robots According to the CCP, China’s humanoid robots are “catching up fast with global rivals,” with advances such as the incorporation of AI into some of its robots that have military capabilities. We’re picturing mindless robot patrols enforcing the next ‘welded in’ pandemic lockdown, with deadlier results.
“I want an American character, that the powers of Europe may be convinced we act for ourselves and not for others; this, in my judgment, is the only way to be respected abroad and happy at home.” —George Washington (1795)
ON THIS DAY in 1777, at Cooch’s Bridge, Delaware, Patriot forces carried the Stars and Stripes into battle for the first time. And in 1783, the Treaty of Paris brought the American War for Independence to an official end.
Douglas Andrews, Thomas Gallatin, & Jordan Candler
Government & Politics
“Meet the Press” coughs up a major correction about Kamala: Kristen Welker is no Tim Russert. But as the host of NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” it seems she’s not even up to the low standard set by her immediate predecessor, Chuck Todd. A case in point came this weekend when Welker tried to attack Donald Trump for his recent appearance at Arlington National Cemetery to honor 13 fallen American warriors. Welker’s guest, Republican Senator Tom Cotton, had said of Harris, “She was four miles away — 10 minutes. She could’ve gone to the cemetery and honored the sacrifice of those young men and women, but she hasn’t. She never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them.” To which Welker replied with a fake fact-check, “They did meet them during the dignified transfer. They were with them at the dignified transfer.” Um, no. As “Meet the Press” put it in an X post shortly afterward: “On our broadcast this morning, we incorrectly implied that both President Biden and Vice President Harris attended the dignified transfer of 13 American service members killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal. Biden was in attendance but Harris was not.” Ouch.
Wasn’t Walz supposed to help Harris in Minnesota? Normally, a vice-presidential nominee is supposed to help the ticket by solidifying support in the state from which he hails. Apparently, though, no one ever told “Coach Tim Walz” this. Indeed, the deployment-dodging, valor-stealing, ChiCom-sympathizing former unpaid assistant high-school football coach and current governor of Minnesota actually appears to be hurting Kamala Harris’s polling in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. At least according to a new poll from KSTP. “Harris now leads Trump 48% to 43%, a significant decline for her from the previous survey that showed her up 50% to 40%,” reports the New York Post. That is, the Post notes, “the opposite of a post-convention bump that normally would have been expected.” Moreover, the sampling favored Democrats, “with Dems making up 40% of the sample, Republicans 35%, and independents the remainder.” If the Democrats are forced to play defense in reliably blue states like Minnesota, they may well be in big trouble come November 5.
Is Harris’s polling surge fake? Recent polls show that Kamala Harris has either surpassed Donald Trump or is in a dead heat with him in the race for the White House. According to Suffolk University/USA Today, Harris has surged past Trump and now holds a five percentage point lead over him nationally. This represents quite a swing from just two months ago when Trump led Joe Biden by four percentage points. However, given Harris’s sustained unpopularity as vice president, some question the validity of the current polling data. Critics contend that the pollsters have been oversampling Democrat voters, and based upon percentage comparisons from both the 2016 and 2020 election results, they appear to have a point. The benefit of artificially inflating Harris’s numbers would be to gin up Democrat voter enthusiasm and encourage more campaign donations while at the same time discouraging support for Trump. Furthermore, given the fact that the vast majority of the mainstream media is in the tank for Harris, it’s not surprising that what we’re currently seeing is pollaganda at play rather than a genuine reflection of Americans’ opinions.
Kamala Harris goes viral with “cringe” new accent at Detroit rally (Fox News)
Biden joins Harris at Labor Day rally, returns to campaign trail (Roll Call)
Pelosi claims Harris won an “open” primary (Daily Wire)
About that list of anti-Trump Republicans: In recent days, much has been made within the Harris campaign and the mainstream media (but we repeat ourselves) about a list of “more than 200” people who used to work for former Republican Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, and former Republican presidential nominees John McCain and Mitt Romney, who’ve nonetheless penned an open letter to endorse Kamala Harris for president. That seems huge if true. But it’s mostly not true. As The Daily Signal reports, “Many of the signatories were interns or apolitical staff, and many of them went on to work for then-President Barack Obama and current President Joe Biden.” Still others, we can be sure, are of the Trump-derangement strain. Columnist Tyler O’Neil reports that many are apolitical staff, such as “a guy who flew Marine One for George W. Bush (props) who also flew Marine One for checks notes Barack Obama. Not exactly a GOP politico, huh?” But hey, let’s not let the facts get in the way of a great narrative.
Rep. Chip Roy has a simple bill that mandates proof of citizenship to vote, but the media says Dems might shut down the entire government to oppose it (Not the Bee)
EPA gives $20M to black colleges for electric bikes: In a move designed to reinforce the climate change narrative, the Environmental Protection Agency is giving a nearly $20 million grant to Dillard University, a private historically black college in New Orleans, for the purpose of combatting the “climate crisis.” Part of the means of “fighting” this so-called climate crisis will be the purchase of electric bikes for 300 families. The rest of the grant will go to the school for expanding its electric bike-sharing program, which includes the installation of bike charging stations and the fitting of campus buildings with solar panels. Reason Foundation senior transportation policy analyst Marc Scribner blasted the spending as “just bad federal policy design.” That’s climate policy in a nutshell.
Security
Another Islamic convert, another terrorist in the making: Theirs is the Religion of Peace™, they’ll tell you. And if you don’t believe them, they’ll slit your lousy infidel throat. We haven’t heard much news stateside of late about the ongoing war between radical Islam and the West, but that’s not for lack of effort on behalf of the jihadists. As PJ Media reports via Las Vegas’s KLAS: “Joshua Robles, 16, has been ‘accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack.’ … Ultimately, Robles was deemed to be so dangerous that bail was set at $1 million. … Authorities think that Robles was ‘building explosive devices similar to the ones that killed three and injured hundreds in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.’ There is some indication that he planned to carry out an arson jihad attack on New Year’s Day 2024.” Robles had also been searching for floor plans for a local Las Vegas high school. On a sheet of notebook paper found in Robles’s bedroom, he reportedly wrote, “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.” Under that: “DEATH TO JEWS.” But again, Islam is a religion of peace.
U.S. Marines attacked by mob in Turkey (Daily Wire)
Northern border sector continuing to break records in apprehensions (Center Square)
The U.S. has seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s presidential airplane (Not the Bee)
Economy
CA Dems reject no tax on tips: California Democrat lawmakers voted down a bill introduced by Republicans that would have eliminated the state’s tax on tips. Republicans saw the recent embrace of the tax-elimination policy first advanced by Donald Trump and subsequently embraced by Kamala Harris as a winning issue that would boost revenue for California’s tipped workers, primarily in the restaurant industry. Yet the Democrats’ overspending turned a $97 billion surplus into a $31.5 billion deficit in just two years, so the notion of the Golden State’s government losing more tax revenue was a no-go for the state’s Senate Democrats. Republican State Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, who introduced the legislation, responded to the downvote, stating, “It is deeply disappointing that the legislature chose not to consider a proposal that could have provided much-needed relief to California’s workers.”
Shake Shack shuttering six California locations after $20 fast food minimum wage (Just the News)
Volkswagen says it could close plant in Germany for the first time ever (CBS News)
Culture
Reagan movie divides critics and audiences: Movie critics, like the Leftmedia, apparently put politics before art and, as a result, have difficulty recognizing and appreciating what everyday Americans see and enjoy. Case in point is the recently released “Reagan” film starring Dennis Quaid. Critics have panned the Ronald Reagan biopic, giving it only an 18% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, whereas audiences have apparently loved the film, giving it a near-perfect 98% approval rating. Indeed, that Rotten Tomatoes divide represents the largest disparity between critics and the general public in Hollywood history. Critic Adam Nayman from The Ringer was representative, dismissing the film as a “berserk Saturday Night Live sketch.” Yet the wider public has gushed over Quaid’s excellent depiction of Reagan. And the opening weekend numbers appear to support the general audience’s reaction, as the film outperformed expectations of $5 million in ticket sales by pulling in $10 million. Maybe if critics could get outside of their own leftist political worldview, they would be able to recognize and enjoy good movies like the rest of the country.
Reparations bills die on final day of California’s legislative session despite urgent protests (Sacramento Bee)
A powerful California general was credibly accused of anti-Semitism. Gavin Newsom gave him a promotion. (Washington Free Beacon)
Women’s college adopts women-only admission policy, angering students and faculty (National Review)
26 states have blocked Title IX, nearly 700 schools won’t comply (Center Square)
World
Hamas threatens to release video showing six slain hostages’ “last message” (Jerusalem Post)
Maduro orders arrest of presidential opponent (Daily Wire)
Brazil Supreme Court upholds judge’s decision to block Elon Musk’s X across country (NY Post)
Far-right success in German votes piles new pressure on Scholz’s government (AP)
“If there was something we could have done to save you, and we didn’t think of it, I beg your forgiveness,” said a desperately grieving Rachel Goldberg at Monday’s funeral for her 23-year-old Israeli-American son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin. “We tried so very hard, so deeply and desperately. I’m sorry.”
I’m reminded of the words of King Theoden in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers when he visited the grave of his only son: “No parent should have to bury their child.”
Tragically, in this broken world, as in J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythical Middle Earth, parents do sometimes have to bury their children. Worse, they have to do so because of the actions of evil men.
Goldberg-Polin was one of more than 250 hostages taken by Hamas terrorists during their brutal October 7 assault on Israel. Born in Berkeley, California, he moved to Israel in 2008. He lost part of his left arm in a grenade explosion during the attack. Hamas jihadis killed more than 1,200 Israelis (including 45 Americans), and many of the 250 hostages have since died or were murdered in captivity. In recent days, Hersh and five others were executed — shot in the back of the head — and their bodies were found over the weekend in a tunnel beneath Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip.
The other five victims were Eden Yerushalmi (24), Ori Danino (25), Almog Sarusi (27), Alexander Lobanov (33), and Carmel Gat (40). Roughly 100 hostages remain in Gaza, and it’s not certain they’re all alive.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered heartfelt condolences, saying to the families, “I am asking for your forgiveness that we didn’t manage to bring them back alive. We were very close, but we couldn’t make it.” Grief and sorrow weren’t all he offered, though. “Israel is not going to ignore this massacre,” he added. “Hamas will pay a heavy price for this — a very heavy price.”
As if inhabiting an alternate fantasy universe, however, American leftists inexplicably blame Netanyahu for the terrorism of Hamas — a proxy of Iran, which Democrats seem bent on appeasing. In fact, after news of the hostage deaths broke, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris yet again urged Israel to show restraint.
Biden did break from vacation early to issue a statement saying he was “devastated and outraged” and that “Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes.” But he also said he’s “still optimistic” about a ceasefire that can only be had by offering big concessions to those same Hamas leaders.
Moreover, it was Team Biden/Harris that demanded a delay in Israel’s entry into Rafah. Biden called it a “red line” and even withheld weapons to enforce the point. “I have studied the maps,” proclaimed an obviously incompetent Harris at the time. “There’s nowhere for [Palestinian civilians] to go,” and if Israel went in, she added, there might be “consequences.” The resulting three-month delay clearly benefited only Hamas. Israel managed to evacuate a million Gazans, though the six dead hostages had nowhere to go.
Now, Harris is trying to sound tough. “Hamas cannot control Gaza,” she said. Yet Biden on Monday accused Netanyahu of not doing enough to reach a hostage deal with Hamas. The mixed messages have been disastrous, and Netanyahu correctly said it sends a message to Hamas: “Kill more hostages.”
Indeed, Iran-backed Hamas felt emboldened in the first place because of the Biden/Harris surrender and retreat from Afghanistan. A weak and feckless American administration has deadly consequences around the world, and, in that regard, Harris is the incumbent.
Mark Alexander: The New York Times Shreds the Constitution — Demos hope their dullard constituents are too ignorant to discern the difference between a democracy and a Republic.
Douglas Andrews: Did Kamala Lie About Flipping Fries? — Her as-yet unverifiable claim about having worked at McDonald’s while in college is well worth looking into.
Michael Swartz: The First American ‘No-Go Zone’ — A Denver suburb gives us a chilling glimpse of the future in the Biden/Harris regime’s open-borders America.
‘We Invited Trump’ — Eight of the 13 Gold Star families send video messages to Kamala Harris in response to her tweet attacking Donald Trump for an incident while attending a ceremony with them at Arlington Cemetery.
Veep Thoughts With Kamala Harris (Vol. 20) — Harris finally sat down for an interview with a friendly journalist but struggled to reassure voters who question her competence.
“Let’s be clear. My values have not changed.” —Kamala Harris
For the Record
“Harris claimed, ‘I haven’t changed my values.’ Maybe not, but she sure has changed her positions to attract the independent voters she must have to win the all-important swing states. … Commentators who claim she is ‘racing toward the middle’ mean she is making a pragmatic journey to get votes, not something born out of conviction.” —Cal Thomas
Delusions of Grandeur
“I have served with President Biden for almost four years now. And I’ll tell ya, it’s one of the greatest honors of my career. Truly. He cares so deeply about the American people. He is so smart and loyal to the American people. … He has the intelligence, the commitment, and the judgment and disposition that I think the American people rightly deserve in their president.” —Kamala Harris
“I think history is gonna show not only has Joe Biden led an administration that has achieved those extraordinary successes, but the character of the man is one that he has been in his life and career, including as a president, quite selfless and puts the American people first.” —Kamala Harris
“I am running because I believe that I am the best person to do this job at this moment for all Americans.” —Kamala Harris
The BIG Lies
“My first thought was not about me, to be honest with you. My first thought was about him.” —Kamala Harris regarding the Joe Biden coup
“When Joe Biden and I came in office during the height of a pandemic, we saw over 10 million jobs were lost. … Hundreds of people a day were dying because of COVID. The economy had crashed. In large part, all of that because of mismanagement by Donald Trump of that crisis.” —Kamala Harris
“Today, we know that we have inflation at under 3%. A lot of our policies have led to the reality that America recovered faster than any wealthy nation around the world.” —Kamala Harris
“The root causes work that I did as vice president, that I was asked to do by the president, has actually resulted in a number of benefits.” —Kamala Harris
“We have laws that have to be followed and enforced that address and deal with people who cross our border illegally. … I would enforce our laws as president going forward. I recognize the problem.” —Kamala Harris
“I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion.” —Kamala Harris
Lack of Self-Awareness Award
“One of my highest priorities is to do what we can to support and strengthen the middle class.” —Kamala Harris
World’s Smallest Violin
“My wife the English teacher told me my grammar’s not always correct. But again, if it’s not this, it’s an attack on my children for showing love for me, or it’s an attack on my dog.” —Tim Walz when asked, “The idea that you said that you were in war, did you misspeak, as the campaign has said?”
Belly Laughs of the Day
“I certainly own my mistakes when I make ‘em.” —Tim Walz
“[Harris] is a homework doer.” —CNN’s Abby Phillip
Dezinformatsiya
“Harris was not the border czar.” —CNN’s John Berman
Political Futures
“A lot of pro-life activists have worked for a very long time to eradicate abortion. At a time they are on defense, the presidential candidate they are backing turning his back on them too feels raw and feels like a betrayal for them. … Pardoning those who went to prison for praying at abortion clinics would be one way to remind those voters that there really are differences between the two sides that matter in the real world. Emphasizing regulatory control is another. Trying to change the message in the middle of a campaign through improvisation will end badly.” —Erick Erickson
And Last…
“Somehow, in the whirlwind of campaign 2024, we have reached the point where it’s news that the Democratic nominee for president of the United States of America will answer questions from the press.” —Matthew Continetti
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz think they are saviors, racing to rescue a dying country. Guess what? They’re just two dummies with radical agendas who are hiding from the American people and Mark Levin has some thoughts about them both.
Today’s 20-min top headline news brief includes:
[1:15] -President Joe Biden got off his beach chair and spent Labor Day on the campaign trail with VP Harris in Pittsburgh, PA.
[4:38] -Newsmax host Carl Higbie: “Could we get some real leadership back in DC, please?” [Carl Higbie Frontline]
[11:08] -Newsmax host Chris Salcedo: “Power is all that left-wingers desire, and they will stoop to any level to get it.” [Chris Salcedo Show]
[14:15] -Newsmax Jerusalem correspondent Daniel Cohen reports on the murdered hostages and the demonstrations filling the streets. [Newsmax Breaking]
[18:03] -Former US ambassador Ric Grenell: “U.S. leadership is completely gone under the Biden-Harris administration.” [Newsline]
“Societal decay is the result of active, ongoing struggle against the truth, and this battle requires vigilance, discernment, and a steadfast commitment to upholding the principles that sustain a just and moral society. Christians must be prepared to engage in the hard work of defending and preserving the truth, even when it is unpopular or difficult. We must be willing to stand against the tide of societal change when it moves away from God’s standards and to do so with both wisdom and courage.”
(Owen Anderson – Clear Truth Media) Our culture is falling apart. Conservatives often lament this decay, observing that as moral standards erode, communities become increasingly licentious until they ultimately collapse and require reconstruction. The standard explanation for this phenomenon is that it’s challenging to preserve societal values, whereas succumbing to immorality, sloth, greed, corruption, sexual perversion, and other vices is relatively easy…
However, I propose a different explanation for societal decay, one that applies not only to societies founded on general revelation principles but also to explicitly Christian societies.
In Of Antichrist and His Ruin, John Bunyan discusses the fall of Babylon, but what he articulates can be applied to the downfall of any society and not just the end of Babylon as a type of the kingdom of darkness. Bunyan says that as long as Christians are in Babylon, it can be influenced for good, but also that by its nature it attracts unclean spirits, and thereby becomes the habitation for the vilest of the sons of men. View article →
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Russian armed forces have eliminated more than 9,300 Ukrainian servicepeople and 80 tanks during military operations in the border areas of the Kursk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
We are literally killing ourselves and everything around us, and most people don’t even know that this is happening. But even if we could get everyone to understand the extinction-level threat that we are facing, would they change their behavior? The plastic products that we are constantly discarding do not magically disappear. Instead, they break down into smaller and smaller pieces. Today, there are trillions upon trillions of incredibly small plastic particles known as “microplastics” that have literally saturated our entire environment. You may not realize this, but microplastics now make up approximately 40 percent of the dust in our homes. Every time it rains, microplastics come pouring down from the sky, our soil is absolutely teeming with microplastics, the air that we breathe is filled with microplastics, and microplastics are in virtually everything that we eat and drink. An article that was recently published by Yale University discussed how pervasive microplastics have now become…
No matter how hard you may try, it is impossible to escape microplastic pollution.
It is literally everywhere.
Unfortunately, scientists have discovered that microplastics tend to accumulate inside our bodies.
In fact, one study that was recently conducted in New Mexico found that microplastics are actually accumulating inside our brains…
A study, posted in May, looked at the increasing levels of micro and nano plastics (MNPs) in the environment and how they might affect our health.
Researchers examined these shard-like particles in human organs – specifically the liver, kidneys, and brain – using autopsy samples collected in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from 2016 to 2024. The brain tissue samples came from the frontal cortex, which is responsible for abstract thinking, creativity, and motor tasks.
If you feel like you can’t think as clearly as you should, this may be one reason for that.
Sadly, this may also help to explain why our entire society is not thinking too clearly these days.
According to CNN, the scientists conducting this study found that brain samples from 2024 had concentrations of microplastics that were 50 percent higher than brain samples from 2016…
Human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a preprint posted online in May. A preprint is a study which has not yet been peer-reviewed and published in a journal.
“The concentrations we saw in the brain tissue of normal individuals, who had an average age of around 45 or 50 years old, were 4,800 micrograms per gram, or 0.5% by weight,” said lead study author Matthew Campen, a regents’ professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
“Compared to autopsy brain samples from 2016, that’s about 50% higher,” Campen said. “That would mean that our brains today are 99.5% brain and the rest is plastic.”
Okay, let’s allow this to sink in for a moment.
Right now, our brains are half a percent plastic.
That is bad, but consider what will happen if the amount of plastic in our brains continues to rise at a rate of 50 percent every 8 years.
If that actually happens, 28 percent of our brains will be plastic 80 years from now and everyone will be dead.
I did the math on this more than once just to make sure that I was correct.
It is being reported that the most common type of plastic that the researchers found in human brain tissue was polyethylene…
The most common type of plastic found was polyethylene, with greater amounts in the brain compared to the other tissue samples. Polyethylene is widely produced and used in things like packaging, plastic bags, storage containers and toys, according to the book Microfluidics for Cellular Applications.
Plastic products that we throw away every day contain very dangerous toxins.
Constant exposure to such toxins can have very serious consequences.
According to a study posted on the official website of the NIH, “there exists a definite correlation between exposure to micro- and nanoplastic particles and the onset of several cancers”…
Micro- and nanoplatics have been already reported to be potential carcinogenic/mutagenic substances that might cause DNA damage, leading to carcinogenesis. Thus, the effects of micro- and nanoplastics exposure on human health are currently being investigated extensively to establish clear relationships between those substances and health consequences. So far, it has been observed that there exists a definite correlation between exposure to micro- and nanoplastic particles and the onset of several cancers. Therefore, we have conducted research using PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases, searching for all the research papers devoted to cancers that could be potentially related to the subject of exposure to nano- and microplastics. Ultimately, in this paper, we have discussed several cancers, including hepatocellular carcinoma, pancreatic cancer, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, biliary tract cancer, and some endocrine-related cancers.
You have probably noticed that a lot more people seem to be getting cancer these days.
We are facing an unprecedented explosion of cancer in our society, and it gets worse with each passing year.
There are lots of reasons why this is happening, and exposure to microplastics is one of them.
When Jaime Ross, PhD, a neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy, decided to study how contaminating the drinking water of mice with tiny fragments of plastic might affect their cognitive function, she didn’t expect the experiment to yield much.
But in just three weeks, Ross and her team found microplastics had made their way into the mice’s brains, passing the robust defenses of the blood-brain barrier. The researchers performed a variety of tests and found that the microplastic-exposed mice started exhibiting signs of cognitive decline similar to dementia.
The more plastic that accumulates in our brains, the more difficult it will be for us to think straight.
On top of everything else, another study found microplastics in every single one of the human and dog testicles that researchers examined…
A new study found a “pervasive” presence of microplastics in human and dog testicles.
The research, published last week in the Toxicological Sciences journal, found that out of all 47 canine and 23 human testes that were examined, all had a presence of microplastics.
The findings suggest that there are potential consequences for male fertility.
This could help to explain why fertility rates have been absolutely plummeting all over the globe.
What we are facing is truly a worldwide emergency.
As I documented in my book entitled “End Times“, the amount of plastic that we produce globally just continues to go up every year, and so this crisis is growing at an exponential rate.
But even if we stopped all plastic production immediately, all of the plastic that we have already discarded would continue to break down for decades to come, and so the total number of microplastics in our environment will continue to go up no matter what we do.
It is time for humanity to admit that we have failed and to collectively cry out for help before it is too late.
Benjamin Netanyahu rightly holds the line by not giving in to Hamas and giving up the gains they have made in the Philadelphi Corridor
In Tel Aviv yesterday, thousands of Israelis marched in the streets, demanding that Benjamin Netanyahu give into the demands of terror group Hamas, and immediately issue a ceasefire and withdraw IDF troops from Gaza. In New York City today, thousands of Pro-Palestinian rioters marched in the streets in support of Hamas, demanding the same thing. It’s amazing seeing how much support Hamas and the Palestinians who attacked the Jews on October 7th have both in Israel and America, isn’t it?
“Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.” Zechariah 9:5 (KJB)
I am very sorry that those 6 hostages were killed over the weekend, truly heartbreaking. But guess what? Hamas has no intentions of releasing the others, and never did. In WWII, the Allies had to carpet bomb Nazi Germany into submission, and then spend years expunging as much of Nazism as possible from the German state before returning it back into German hands. It was an ugly and brutal battle against an implacable and unreasonable foe. Hamas is such a foe for the Jews here in the 21st century. You cannot negotiate your way to a peace with a wildly rabid enemy who demonically exists only to destroy you. Could Mordecai negotiate with Haman? No, and Israel cannot with Hamas. NTEB stands firmly with the Jewish people, the nation of Israel, and with leader Benjamin Netanyahu who is in a really tough spot. Never again is now, right now.
Netanyahu apologizes for hostages’ deaths, defends Philadelphi Corridor decision
FROM THE JERUSALEM POST: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a rare apology to the families of the six executed hostages but insisted that he would not cave on the issue of retaining an IDF force in the Philadelphi Corridor.
“My heart and the heart of the nation is shattered into pieces,” Netanyahu said in a special press conference in which he defended that position.
He spoke as the death of the hostages shot at close range by their captors over the week, rocked the nation, with the major union holding a national strike demanding a deal.
To the families of the six hostages, he said, “I ask your apology that we did not succeed in bringing them home alive.”
Earlier in the day, US President Joe Biden blamed both Netanyahu and Hamas for the absence of a deal. He also dismissed that criticism noting that just five days ago senior US officials were talking about Israel’s flexibility and determination to reach a deal.
“I want to ask you something, what has changed in the last five days? What has changed?
“One thing, these murderers executed six of our hostages. They shot them in the back of the head. That’s what’s changed, and now after this, we’re asked to show seriousness. We’re asked to make concessions. What message does this send Hamas?
This is the Pro-Palestinian, Anti-Israel rally taking place in New York City right now. Mostly peaceful. pic.twitter.com/0Z6xUksFSB
“It says, kill more hostages. Murder more hostages. You’ll get more concessions. The pressure internationally should be directed at these killers, at Hamas, not at Israel,” Netanyahu said. “We say yes, they say no all the time, but they also murdered these people, and now we need maximum pressure on Hamas.
“I don’t believe that either President Biden or anyone serious about achieving peace and achieving the release [of the hostages] would seriously ask Israel. Israel to make these concessions we’ve already made. Hamas has to make the concessions.”
Netanyahu spent the bulk of his press conference defending his decision to hold fast to the Philadelphi, emphasizing that this saves the potential to return the remaining 101 hostages and doesn’t prevent it.
“The moment Hamas understands this, we will have a deal,” he said. READ MORE
The global crackdown on free speech continues unabated and if you think it’s relegated to countries like China, Cuba and North Korea, think again.
A Brazilian Supreme Court panel on Monday upheld a decision to suspend Elon Musk’s social media platform X in the country.
Last Friday, Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the platform blocked.
Since the decision, Musk and his supporters have tried to paint de Moraes as a renegade and an authoritarian censor of political speech. But Brazil is no outlier. The European Union is also cracking down on free speech with its Online Service Act and we have our own free-speech haters here in the United States.
In fact, one of them is a candidate for president.
Kamala Harris came out over the weekend and admitted in the wide open that she wants to see the same type of state-sponsored censorship implemented in the United States as what we see taking shape in Brazil.
The government, Harris believes, should have ultimate control over what you and I are allowed to post on the internet, as well as more control over what we are allowed to see and hear. She doesn’t trust us to decide for ourselves as to the truth or accuracy of what we see or read online.
Take a look at the video below and let the gravity of what Harris is saying sink in for a moment.
So, she’s very impressed with the socialist government of Brazil’s legal action to shut down Twitter, now called X.
She’s telling us that social media platforms, which are where most people get their news today, are “directly speaking to millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation, and that has to stop.”
That means, in her view, all voices must be sifted through a filter. The question becomes, who should we allow to be the official filter of news and information? Who should be allowed to be the overseer? I think Kamala is pretty clear on that. It’s the government. And that is as anti-American and unconstitutional as you can get.
But it’s not just Kamala Harris who thinks this way. This is the majority viewpoint among the self-apointed globalist elites worldwide.
Robert Reich, the former secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor under Bill Clinton, said in an August 30th op-ed for The Guardian that Elon Musk should be dealt with harshly for his commitment to free speech on his X platform, which Reich described as “out of control.”
Reich listed six things that can be done to “rein him in,” and one of them was for governments around the world to “threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X.” He cited France’s arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov last week as the model for what should be done to Musk and anyone else who dares to question the official globalist narratives on key issues such as vaccines, LGBTQ issues, certain election results, NATO’s wars of aggression, etc.
Current Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a July 2 statement that his department is working to create a program run by AI that will scan the internet looking for posts that counter the government’s official narratives (he calls it disinformation) and then somehow punish or marginalize the authors of the unauthorized remarks.
Fast-forward to the 3-minute mark and watch through the 7:07 mark to hear Blinken speak boldly of his anti-free speech, anti-First Amendment vision for America. He admits this vision originates with the United Nations.
Only outright communists and techno-tyrants would admit to supporting such authoritarian ideas and concepts.
Unfortunately, that’s what today’s puppet politicians have become as they continue to shill for the globalists at the World Economic Forum and United Nations. Both the WEF and UN are in the midst of a global campaign to wipe out all voices of dissent and redefine them as criminals. The regimes in China, North Korea, Iran and Cuba have never allowed people to speak critically of government authorities so nothing is changing there. It’s the Western so-called “democracies” that are in the crosshairs of this global campaign.
Will you submit to this beast system? Or will you double down on courage and speak truth to power, submitting only to the higher authority of God and His Son, Jesus Christ?
If you are determined to push a bear into a corner, you better know what you are doing. Right now, Ukraine is begging the Biden administration to allow it to use long-range missiles provided by the United States to strike targets deep inside of Russia. Since the Ukrainians have eventually gotten just about everything else that they have wanted from us, they will probably get approval for this at some point too. So how do you think the Russians would respond if missiles that are provided by the United States start falling in their major cities and killing innocent civilians? Do you think that the Russians may consider us to be responsible?
Right now, the Russians are reviewing their rules for using nuclear weapons, and it is expected that they will “lower the threshold for their use”…
World War 3 fears have exploded with Vladimir Putin set to change Russia’s doctrine for nuclear weapons that could see him lower the threshold for their use.
Russia’s nuclear weapons policy, devised in 2020, says that Moscow can use their weapons if they are attacked by an enemy or the existence of the state of Russia comes under threat.
Needless to say, this would bring us even closer to nuclear war.
Once the first nuke is used, it is just a matter of time before there is a full-blown exchange between the United States and Russia.
According to Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, the work to update the rules for using nuclear weapons has reached “an advanced stage”…
Putin said in June the doctrine was a ‘living instrument’ that could change depending on world events, and now Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov appears to have confirmed that work on a new document outlining adjustments is underway.
‘The work is at an advanced stage, and there is a clear direction to make adjustments, which are also conditioned by the study and analysis of the experience of conflict development in recent years,’ Ryabkov said in comments carried by Russia’s TASS news service yesterday.
‘This includes everything related to the escalation course of our Western opponents in connection with the ”special military operation”.’
This certainly doesn’t mean that a nuclear war is imminent.
But we are heading in that direction.
Vladimir Putin has made it very clear that if the Russians believe there is an existential threat to “Russia’s statehood”, they will strike…
Putin meanwhile, has warned that defeat for Russia would mean “the end of Russia’s statehood” – possibly a subtle justification for the use of nuclear weapons.
He added: “It means the end of the 1,000-year history of the Russian state. I think this is clear to everyone… Isn’t it better to go all the way, until the end?”
As I have documented repeatedly, the Russians very clearly understand that whoever strikes first will have the best chance of surviving a nuclear war if one becomes inevitable.
In recent years, the Russians have been feverishly preparing to fight a nuclear war. The Sarmat is the most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile in the world by a very wide margin, and it is now on combat duty…
Vladimir Putin today put the world’s most powerful Armageddon nuclear rocket dubbed Satan-2 on combat duty.
The ‘unstoppable’ 15,880mph intercontinental missile system, known to Russians as Sarmat, is the size of a 14-storey tower block.
The announcement came from Yury Borisov, head of the Russian Space Agency.
‘The Sarmat strategic complex has been put on combat duty,’ he told students at an educational event.
A single Sarmat missile can carry enough firepower to wipe out an area the size of Texas.
The U.S.’ Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation said that ‘despite decades of research, development, and testing, there remains no reliably effective anti-missile system to counter intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)’.
Existing missile defence systems, such as the U.S. Patriot system, can target incoming short-, medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles whose threat is localised to one region, but cannot effectively protect against nuclear-capable ICBMs such as the Sarmat that can deploy warheads across vast areas.
Meanwhile, the core of the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal is made up of hopelessly outdated Minuteman missiles that first went into service in the 1970s.
If we were to fire those missiles at Russia, we would be praying that they could get past the most advanced anti-missile systems on the entire planet.
Most people in the western world still assume that we are protected by the magical doctrine of “mutually assured destruction”.
But are you sure that doctrine still applies in an environment where the balance of power has shifted so dramatically?
Our leaders seem quite confident that the Russians will never use nuclear weapons, and so they are allowing the Ukrainians to provoke them in all sorts of ways.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has revealed to CNN that the Zelensky government has presented a list of significant targets which lie deep inside Russia to the Biden White House for approval to strike.
His words in the new CNN interview come as Kiev is engaged in intensive lobbying with Washington to get President Biden to greenlight the use of US missiles for longer range attacks. Ukraine has also been begging to receive long-rage missiles toward that end.
Ukraine especially wants all current restrictions on ATACMS systems’ range and use to be lifted. It argues this is crucial for protecting Ukrainian civilians.
At this point in the war, Ukraine has been sending weekly and near daily drone strikes against Russia, targeting especially oil depots and energy facilities. Several more have been reported struck and damaged on Sunday, including sites in the Moscow region.
So far, the Russians have shown a great deal of restraint.
But one of these days the Ukrainians could push the Russians a bit too far.
If the Russians use even a single tactical nuke against Ukraine, NATO will get directly involved in the conflict.
And that would put us literally one step away from nuclear war.
This is a far bigger story than most people realize. Unfortunately, most of us are still in a deep state of sleep as our leaders continue to drag us toward a point of no return.
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