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What the hell is going on?

June 30, 2015
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Depression being treated by assisted suicide in Belgium. Children crucified by ISIS for failing to fast during Ramadan. The mentally handicapped being used as suicide bombers. Young women being sold into sex slavery. Terrible atrocities are taking place all over the globe - are you brave enough to take a stand? Glenn shares just a few of the disturbing stories of the day and an amazing story of history of one man who went to extremes to uncover one of the darkest moments in world history. Have you heard the story of Witold Pilecki? And will anyone be brave enough to do the things he did in WW2?

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it may contain errors:

We don't see things anymore. Because if we see things, it requires us to do something. And too many of us don't know what to do.

24-year-old woman named Laura, she's in Belgium. She's been going to the psychiatrist in Belgium since she was a kid. She's had suicidal thoughts since she was about ten.

The psychiatrist that she's seeing now diagnosed her depression as treatable. And I'm quoting. Her condition of depression is treatable by death. End quote.

Well, gee, thanks, Doc. I think a lot of aches and pains and troubles that I have might be treatable by death.

Pat, your back pain, I've got a solution for you. Death!

PAT: I'm not sure that's the most viable solution for me right now.

GLENN: She just died. Lethal injection.

PAT: (sighs)

GLENN: She was allowed to be killed. Her depression has been cured.

Why is this happening? Because we don't see people as people. We don't see people as valuable.

Turkey, Turkish authorities on Sunday have opened up their borders, and 10,000 people have just come across. They were running from the terror group ISIS.

In Syria, over the weekend, ISIS crucified and killed two children for failing to fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan. By the way, children are not required to fast during Ramadan. ISIS said they were. They crucified them.

And how appropriate, they nailed up above their cross their crime for all to see.

Some things haven't changed from 2,000 years ago. Apparently, they were caught eating. ISIS has beheaded and crucified a number of children on a number of occasions. Back in February, the United Nations Committee on the rights of the child detailed some of the horrific abuses carried out by ISIS.

One of those charges is that they're now using mentally handicapped children as suicide bombers. They can teach them to go over there and push this button.

They are using children as suicide bombers as young as eight years old. Those are generally the boys. The girls are being sold as sex slaves in the marketplace, again, as young as eight years old.

What are you going to do? What is it we do? How do you stop something like that? Well, I'm a firm believer that America sees love versus evil, and they will choose love.

That's getting weaker and weaker as the days go by. But I still believe that evil will overplay its hand. The lies will end. The ends never justify the means.

We need to do what we're supposed to do with a pure heart. Without anger. Without angst.

We're to do unto others -- ye without sin, don't lie or cheat. Respect your elders. Be true to yourself. Don't judge unless you want to be judged.

Union workers are no different than I am. Millennials. Parents. Conservatives. Libertarians. Honest liberals. They're no different. There are a few principles that we all agree on. Crucifying children I think is one of those.

Selling children into sex slavery is one of those. We may not know how to stop it. But we have to be able to hold it at bay. We have to recognize it. You see, there's a difference. There's a real difference between what has gone in the past and what has happened now. And God will not hold us blameless.

After World War II, we said never again. But never again, we didn't know what was happening.

Let me tell you about somebody from history that you've probably never heard of. He was a guy just like you.

There was one difference. He volunteered to prove that it was happening. The allies said they didn't know what was happening in Auschwitz. So Witold Pilecki volunteered to be put on a plane to Auschwitz. He was inmate number 4859. He got there. They tattooed his arm. He volunteered to go into Auschwitz. Because we didn't know what was going on.

So he went. He talked to prisoners. He watched. And then he got smuggled parts, and he put together a radio, and he transmitted that information out of Auschwitz. He escaped Auschwitz, believe it or not. He got back out. Just in time for the Russians to come.

They tried him for espionage. We don't know where he was buried. But that man went in to prove what was happening.

We know now what's happening. Never again means now.

How do we wake people up? I don't know. I don't know.

I think we need to worry about ourselves. Stay awake. Stay awake. What happens when you've had such a shock to your body and you have a concussion, what do they say? As a nation, we have a concussion. We have had major impact in the last 15 years. We don't even know who we are anymore. We have a concussion. What do we have to do? We have to slap each other awake all the time. Don't go to sleep. Don't go to sleep. Don't go to sleep. If we go to sleep, we die.

Our nation has a concussion. Don't go to sleep. Wake up! Stand up. Grab your children. Grab your wife. Grab your husband. Stand up. Slap them across the face. Don't worry about your neighbor. Worry about yourself. Worry about your church. Worry about your synagogue. Worry about people the most like you, and keep them awake so we can help the people who are least like us.

Here's what I would like you to do. On Thursday, we're going to make an announcement on exactly what's going to happen on 8/28 and 8/29. I want you to be there on August 28th and August 29th in Birmingham, Alabama. I want you to go to your church and I want you to tell your church -- we want to put a bus together. Because we want to be the seeds, and we want to bring this back home. Because they're going to give us information on what is happening over in the Middle East and how we can help. And we're going to stand. And we're going to start to link arms with churches that are the least like us all over the country. And we're going to begin to move as one body. Because the body needs feet. The body needs hands. The body needs eyes. The body needs a mouth. The body needs a torso. And we got to stop rejecting the hands -- the hands has to stop rejecting the fingers.

We have to start moving as one body. That doesn't mean that we join our theology. Because we're never going to agree on theology. And that's okay.

Let's stand together and keep each other awake. I want you to go to your church and I want you to go to the members of our church or your local community, and you get a bus together, and you say, we're going to go down to 8/28 and we're going to stand and we're going to make a difference. Because this is not, let's just stand and get together and feel good. This is stand, get together, learn, take it back, and do.

When something happens in your community, we're going to be there together. When there is somebody like there was in Charleston, we're going to go together. When something happens in Baltimore, we're going to be there together. When something happens at the Supreme Court, we're going to be there together. When there is a problem, we will be there.

When something is happening in the Middle East, we will be there. We will provide aid. We will provide comfort. We will provide love. We will provide the truth. We will stand. We will not be afraid. We will do the things that we know are right because we answer to no man. We answer to God.

I don't know if I could be Witold Pilecki. I don't know if I could have the number 4859 on my arm. But I'll be damned if I'm not going to try. I only have one life. And I'm swinging for the fences. Join me. Please. The time is now.

How America’s elites fell for the same lie that fueled Auschwitz

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The drone footage out of Gaza isn’t just war propaganda — it’s a glimpse of the same darkness that once convinced men they were righteous for killing innocents.

Evil introduces itself subtly. It doesn’t announce, “Hi, I’m here to destroy you.” It whispers. It flatters. It borrows the language of justice, empathy, and freedom, twisting them until hatred sounds righteous and violence sounds brave.

We are watching that same deception unfold again — in the streets, on college campuses, and in the rhetoric of people who should know better. It’s the oldest story in the world, retold with new slogans.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage.

A drone video surfaced this week showing Hamas terrorists staging the “discovery” of a hostage’s body. They pushed a corpse out of a window, dragged it into a hole, buried it, and then called in aid workers to “find” what they themselves had planted. It was theater — evil, disguised as victimhood. And it was caught entirely on camera.

That’s how evil operates. It never comes in through the front door. It sneaks in, often through manipulative pity. The same spirit animates the moral rot spreading through our institutions — from the halls of universities to the chambers of government.

Take Zohran Mamdani, a New York assemblyman who has praised jihadists and defended pro-Hamas agitators. His father, a Columbia University professor, wrote that America and al-Qaeda are morally equivalent — that suicide bombings shouldn’t be viewed as barbaric. Imagine thinking that way after watching 3,000 Americans die on 9/11. That’s not intellectualism. That’s indoctrination.

Often, that indoctrination comes from hostile foreign actors, peddled by complicit pawns on our own soil. The pro-Hamas protests that erupted across campuses last year, for example, were funded by Iran — a regime that murders its own citizens for speaking freely.

Ancient evil, new clothes

But the deeper danger isn’t foreign money. It’s the spiritual blindness that lets good people believe resentment is justice and envy is discernment. Scripture talks about the spirit of Amalek — the eternal enemy of God’s people, who attacks the weak from behind while the strong look away. Amalek never dies; it just changes its vocabulary and form with the times.

Today, Amalek tweets. He speaks through professors who defend terrorism as “anti-colonial resistance.” He preaches from pulpits that call violence “solidarity.” And he recruits through algorithms, whispering that the Jews control everything, that America had it coming, that chaos is freedom. Those are ancient lies wearing new clothes.

When nations embrace those lies, it’s not the Jews who perish first. It’s the nations themselves. The soul dies long before the body. The ovens of Auschwitz didn’t start with smoke; they started with silence and slogans.

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A time for choosing

So what do we do? We speak truth — calmly, firmly, without venom. Because hatred can’t kill hatred; it only feeds it. Truth, compassion, and courage starve it to death.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage. That’s how Amalek survives — by making you fight him with his own weapons. The only victory that lasts is moral clarity without malice, courage without cruelty.

The war we’re fighting isn’t new. It’s the same battle between remembrance and amnesia, covenant and chaos, humility and pride. The same spirit that whispered to Pharaoh, to Hitler, and to every mob that thought hatred could heal the world is whispering again now — on your screens, in your classrooms, in your churches.

Will you join it, or will you stand against it?

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Bill Gates ends climate fear campaign, declares AI the future ruler

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The Big Tech billionaire once said humanity must change or perish. Now he claims we’ll survive — just as elites prepare total surveillance.

For decades, Americans have been told that climate change is an imminent apocalypse — the existential threat that justifies every intrusion into our lives, from banning gas stoves to rationing energy to tracking personal “carbon scores.”

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates helped lead that charge. He warned repeatedly that the “climate disaster” would be the greatest crisis humanity would ever face. He invested billions in green technology and demanded the world reach net-zero emissions by 2050 “to avoid catastrophe.”

The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch.

Now, suddenly, he wants everyone to relax: Climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” after all.

Gates was making less of a scientific statement and more of a strategic pivot. When elites retire a crisis, it’s never because the threat is gone — it’s because a better one has replaced it. And something else has indeed arrived — something the ruling class finds more useful than fear of the weather.The same day Gates downshifted the doomsday rhetoric, Amazon announced it would pay warehouse workers $30 an hour — while laying off 30,000 people because artificial intelligence will soon do their jobs.

Climate panic was the warm-up. AI control is the main event.

The new currency of power

The world once revolved around oil and gas. Today, it revolves around the electricity demanded by server farms, the chips that power machine learning, and the data that can be used to manipulate or silence entire populations. The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch. Whoever controls energy now controls information. And whoever controls information controls civilization.

Climate alarmism gave elites a pretext to centralize power over energy. Artificial intelligence gives them a mechanism to centralize power over people. The future battles will not be about carbon — they will be about control.

Two futures — both ending in tyranny

Americans are already being pushed into what look like two opposing movements, but both leave the individual powerless.

The first is the technocratic empire being constructed in the name of innovation. In its vision, human work will be replaced by machines, and digital permissions will subsume personal autonomy.

Government and corporations merge into a single authority. Your identity, finances, medical decisions, and speech rights become access points monitored by biometric scanners and enforced by automated gatekeepers. Every step, purchase, and opinion is tracked under the noble banner of “efficiency.”

The second is the green de-growth utopia being marketed as “compassion.” In this vision, prosperity itself becomes immoral. You will own less because “the planet” requires it. Elites will redesign cities so life cannot extend beyond a 15-minute walking radius, restrict movement to save the Earth, and ration resources to curb “excess.” It promises community and simplicity, but ultimately delivers enforced scarcity. Freedom withers when surviving becomes a collective permission rather than an individual right.

Both futures demand that citizens become manageable — either automated out of society or tightly regulated within it. The ruling class will embrace whichever version gives them the most leverage in any given moment.

Climate panic was losing its grip. AI dependency — and the obedience it creates — is far more potent.

The forgotten way

A third path exists, but it is the one today’s elites fear most: the path laid out in our Constitution. The founders built a system that assumes human beings are not subjects to be monitored or managed, but moral agents equipped by God with rights no government — and no algorithm — can override.

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That idea remains the most “disruptive technology” in history. It shattered the belief that people need kings or experts or global committees telling them how to live. No wonder elites want it erased.

Soon, you will be told you must choose: Live in a world run by machines or in a world stripped down for planetary salvation. Digital tyranny or rationed equality. Innovation without liberty or simplicity without dignity.

Both are traps.

The only way

The only future worth choosing is the one grounded in ordered liberty — where prosperity and progress exist alongside moral responsibility and personal freedom and human beings are treated as image-bearers of God — not climate liabilities, not data profiles, not replaceable hardware components.

Bill Gates can change his tune. The media can change the script. But the agenda remains the same.

They no longer want to save the planet. They want to run it, and they expect you to obey.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Why the White House restoration sent the left Into panic mode

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Presidents have altered the White House for decades, yet only Donald Trump is treated as a vandal for privately funding the East Wing’s restoration.

Every time a president so much as changes the color of the White House drapes, the press clutches its pearls. Unless the name on the stationery is Barack Obama’s, even routine restoration becomes a national outrage.

President Donald Trump’s decision to privately fund upgrades to the White House — including a new state ballroom — has been met with the usual chorus of gasps and sneers. You’d think he bulldozed Monticello.

If a Republican preserves beauty, it’s vandalism. If a Democrat does the same, it’s ‘visionary.’

The irony is that presidents have altered and expanded the White House for more than a century. President Franklin D. Roosevelt added the East and West Wings in the middle of the Great Depression. Newspapers accused him of building a palace while Americans stood in breadlines. History now calls it “vision.”

First lady Nancy Reagan faced the same hysteria. Headlines accused her of spending taxpayer money on new china “while Americans starved.” In truth, she raised private funds after learning that the White House didn’t have enough matching plates for state dinners. She took the ridicule and refused to pass blame.

“I’m a big girl,” she told her staff. “This comes with the job.” That was dignity — something the press no longer recognizes.

A restoration, not a renovation

Trump’s project is different in every way that should matter. It costs taxpayers nothing. Not a cent. The president and a few friends privately fund the work. There’s no private pool or tennis court, no personal perks. The additions won’t even be completed until after he leaves office.

What’s being built is not indulgence — it’s stewardship. A restoration of aging rooms, worn fixtures, and century-old bathrooms that no longer function properly in the people’s house. Trump has paid for cast brass doorknobs engraved with the presidential seal, restored the carpets and moldings, and ensured that the architecture remains faithful to history.

The media’s response was mockery and accusations of vanity. They call it “grotesque excess,” while celebrating billion-dollar “climate art” projects and funneling hundreds of millions into activist causes like the No Kings movement. They lecture America on restraint while living off the largesse of billionaires.

The selective guardians of history

Where was this sudden reverence for history when rioters torched St. John’s Church — the same church where every president since James Madison has worshipped? The press called it an “expression of grief.”

Where was that reverence when mobs toppled statues of Washington, Jefferson, and Grant? Or when first lady Melania Trump replaced the Rose Garden’s lawn with a patio but otherwise followed Jackie Kennedy’s original 1962 plans in the garden’s restoration? They called that “desecration.”

If a Republican preserves beauty, it’s vandalism. If a Democrat does the same, it’s “visionary.”

The real desecration

The people shrieking about “historic preservation” care nothing for history. They hate the idea that something lasting and beautiful might be built by hands they despise. They mock craftsmanship because it exposes their own cultural decay.

The White House ballroom is not a scandal — it’s a mirror. And what it reflects is the media’s own pettiness. The ruling class that ridicules restoration is the same class that cheered as America’s monuments fell. Its members sneer at permanence because permanence condemns them.

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Trump’s improvements are an act of faith — in the nation’s symbols, its endurance, and its worth. The outrage over a privately funded renovation says less about him than it does about the journalists who mistake destruction for progress.

The real desecration isn’t happening in the East Wing. It’s happening in the newsrooms that long ago tore up their own foundation — truth — and never bothered to rebuild it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Trump’s secret war in the Caribbean EXPOSED — It’s not about drugs

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The president’s moves in Venezuela, Guyana, and Colombia aren’t about drugs. They’re about re-establishing America’s sovereignty across the Western Hemisphere.

For decades, we’ve been told America’s wars are about drugs, democracy, or “defending freedom.” But look closer at what’s unfolding off the coast of Venezuela, and you’ll see something far more strategic taking shape. Donald Trump’s so-called drug war isn’t about fentanyl or cocaine. It’s about control — and a rebirth of American sovereignty.

The aim of Trump’s ‘drug war’ is to keep the hemisphere’s oil, minerals, and manufacturing within the Western family and out of Beijing’s hands.

The president understands something the foreign policy class forgot long ago: The world doesn’t respect apologies. It respects strength.

While the global elites in Davos tout the Great Reset, Trump is building something entirely different — a new architecture of power based on regional independence, not global dependence. His quiet campaign in the Western Hemisphere may one day be remembered as the second Monroe Doctrine.

Venezuela sits at the center of it all. It holds the world’s largest crude oil reserves — oil perfectly suited for America’s Gulf refineries. For years, China and Russia have treated Venezuela like a pawn on their chessboard, offering predatory loans in exchange for control of those resources. The result has been a corrupt, communist state sitting in our own back yard. For too long, Washington shrugged. Not any more.The naval exercises in the Caribbean, the sanctions, the patrols — they’re not about drug smugglers. They’re about evicting China from our hemisphere.

Trump is using the old “drug war” playbook to wage a new kind of war — an economic and strategic one — without firing a shot at our actual enemies. The goal is simple: Keep the hemisphere’s oil, minerals, and manufacturing within the Western family and out of Beijing’s hands.

Beyond Venezuela

Just east of Venezuela lies Guyana, a country most Americans couldn’t find on a map a year ago. Then ExxonMobil struck oil, and suddenly Guyana became the newest front in a quiet geopolitical contest. Washington is helping defend those offshore platforms, build radar systems, and secure undersea cables — not for charity, but for strategy. Control energy, data, and shipping lanes, and you control the future.

Moreover, Colombia — a country once defined by cartels — is now positioned as the hinge between two oceans and two continents. It guards the Panama Canal and sits atop rare-earth minerals every modern economy needs. Decades of American presence there weren’t just about cocaine interdiction; they were about maintaining leverage over the arteries of global trade. Trump sees that clearly.

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All of these recent news items — from the military drills in the Caribbean to the trade negotiations — reflect a new vision of American power. Not global policing. Not endless nation-building. It’s about strategic sovereignty.

It’s the same philosophy driving Trump’s approach to NATO, the Middle East, and Asia. We’ll stand with you — but you’ll stand on your own two feet. The days of American taxpayers funding global security while our own borders collapse are over.

Trump’s Monroe Doctrine

Critics will call it “isolationism.” It isn’t. It’s realism. It’s recognizing that America’s strength comes not from fighting other people’s wars but from securing our own energy, our own supply lines, our own hemisphere. The first Monroe Doctrine warned foreign powers to stay out of the Americas. The second one — Trump’s — says we’ll defend them, but we’ll no longer be their bank or their babysitter.

Historians may one day mark this moment as the start of a new era — when America stopped apologizing for its own interests and started rebuilding its sovereignty, one barrel, one chip, and one border at a time.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.