​A vicious, savage bully has provoked war in Ukraine, but it is not Vladimir Putin.
 
The globalist cabal, operating through the WEF and other devious agencies, has been determined to bring Ukraine under its control even before it imposed a blatant coup in 2014.  While Trump’s national-populist movement puts America FIRST, this group will settle for nothing but America ONLY, and not for America’s sake.  The plan since at least 1971 has been for America to rule the world, and for them to rule America.
 
With globalist operatives now in control of strategic U.S. policymaking positions, their hard-won exile of Trump provides a golden opportunity to stop the only countries of the world that can get in their way.  They want to subdue Russia and break up any possibility of a competing Eurasian power block.
 
This cabal has relentlessly taken financial advantage of Russia since the fall of the USSR, and pushed NATO from 16 countries to 30, breaking its 1991 promise to Russia not to expand.  It seeks to place nuclear missiles on Russia’s border and secure a regime change in Russia that it can control.  Its unprecedented media-complicit PR campaign has incited a distorted public-screeching-frenzy worthy of any self-respecting lunatic asylum.
 
The one cool, calm actor in all of this – if we ever bother to listen to him speak – is Vladimir Putin, who knows that to stop this devouring globalist monster he must act now, if ever, not to ‘take over’ Ukraine, but to break it from globalist control.
 
Matt Ehret’s “The Two Americas” makes it clear that, as Putin has known for a long time, and as loyal Americans must also understand, the globalist cabal has provoked this war, and will not cease such provocations until it is either victorious over us all or is vanquished.

What would you like to get for Christmas this year?  How about --- some of the deepest secrets of the universe?  How about some irreversible mind blowing and brain numbing?
 
Nearly 30 years ago the Hubble Telescope was launched after having been in planning and development for 20 years before that.  After another several years during which a flaw in its mirror was fixed, Hubble began to produce the most spectacular views of the universe we had ever seen. 
 
Many new revelations about the nature of the universe came forth, but the one that stuns me most is about the number of galaxies the universe contains.
 
The Hubble Extreme Deep Field Project took the unusual approach of focusing Hubble’s telescope on one tiny spot of the universe for 23 days.  Doing that allowed the extremely faint light of distant, un-before-seen galaxies to be captured.   Astronomers came away with staggering new estimates of the number of galaxies in the universe.  While the extant estimate of 200 billion galaxies is mind-blowing in itself (remember that the average number of stars in just one galaxy is suggested to be 100 billion), we are now looking at a figure of at least 2 trillion galaxies, with some estimates ranging up to 10 trillion.
 
This means there are an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the universe (or 200 sextillion -- that’s 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000!).  As one scientist put it, that’s 10x the number of cups of water in all the oceans of the earth.  On top of this, if the higher end estimates are correct, the star count of the universe would be one septillion suns – we’re not even talking about the number of planets, remember!
 
That’s now.  But it is all going to change on Christmas Day 2021.
 
On that day the replacement for the Hubble telescope will be launched.  It is called the James Webb telescope and is 100 times more powerful than Hubble.  It is designed to operate on the infrared spectrum of light which means it will see things that normally can’t be seen.  It will take up its position approximately one million miles from earth in a spot that shields it from the light of the sun, moon and earth, giving it the ability to see much more deeply into dark regions of the universe where our vision has never before been able to reach.
 
Just as Hubble marked a major dividing line of ‘before and after’ in terms of our understanding of the size and scale of the universe, Webb has the potential of revealing  mind-bending information that could well prove revolutionary to human knowledge.
 
After many delays and reschedules, the last one being just this week, the launch of the Webb telescope is now coincidentally planned for Christmas Day, which for Christians marks the most revolutionary event of human history --- God willfully humbling Himself to becoming a man.  Of course, if we turn the telescope around and ponder, not how little God became in the Incarnation event, but how big He actually is, as the vastness of the Creation unfolds before us, then perhaps we may be on the brink of realizing something more profound than galaxies and stars that the Hubble and Webb telescopes are trying to show us.
 
Enjoy your figgy pudding!

I regularly bookmark articles for various issues tracked by the Street Level Republican web site.  But when I started collected articles about the Covid pandemic, all of my organizing sensors became overloaded.  With all of the twists and turns and changing information I realized that there was at least ten times the amount of reporting on this issue than almost anything else.  My file was a completely overloaded and confused mess.
 
It has taken some time to come up with a way to organize and sort them all so they would be helpful for research and reference.  I’m glad to announce that a preliminary organized archive has been completed and posted on the web site.  It is pretty good as it stands, but I will be doing continual refining and adding to it.
 
If you are looking for a way to locate general or specific information related to any of the issues that have arisen out of the pandemic, you may well find what you need there.  If you find it helpful, please link to it and pass it on to anyone you think might find it useful.
 
You will find the archive here:  Covid Pandemic Article Research Archive

Sometimes knowledgeable and well-intentioned people can stray into territory unfamiliar enough to put them in danger of unexpectedly falling off a cliff.

Such was the case in an interview of Lee Greenwood by Steve Bannon on his October 19, 2021 War Room broadcast.  Bannon is highlighting Greenwood’s project of publishing a ‘God Bless the USA Bible’ which alludes to his classic, 3-decade-long chart topping song.  In the course of the interview, Bannon and Greenwood, no doubt unwittingly, fire a bazooka into the critical subject of biblical inspiration. The following is a transcribed excerpt of this recorded discussion as posted on the War Room’s America’s Voice Channel:

Bannon:  (00:03:50)
“Lee, one of the controversies now with this whole kind of cultural Marxism and struggle sessions, everything we’re seeing from woke culture, it’s really going back to the founders and going back to our documents, do you believe, in including this with the King James Version of the Bible, are you telling the world or implying you believe these are divinely inspired documents on the foundation of our country?”
 
Greenwood: (00:04:10)
“Oh, without a doubt, I mean, to tell you the truth, if anybody’s been to the original Statue of Liberty at Plymouth Rock, instead of a torch in the Lady Liberty’s hand, she’s pointing to God, and those original people who came over on the Mayflower, they were very religious and they knew they had to pray to their almighty God in order to survive this new land, and so, yes, these documents were written by people who put everything on the line, their family, their fortunes, and many of them paid the price for it, so you can’t just, like, ignore it.  I mean these are things that, if you go to Washington, D.C. and see the beautiful buildings, and some of the monuments, you know, people think they’re going to tear down history.  You’re not going to tear down the history of this country.  It’s how we got started, we are under God, we’re a divine land.”
 
Bannon:  (00:04:55)
“ Given that . . . this wasn’t an easy process to get this Bible published. . . you’d think -- Lee Greenwood, the divinely inspired documents of our founding, the King James Version of the Bible . . . would be something any publisher would be all over, but you actually had to struggle to get this published, right? . . . “
Steve Bannon’s War Room Pandemic Broadcast, Episode 1346 Part 1, October 19, 2021
 
Well-intentioned, no doubt, this project could be seen as a very generous effort from Lee Greenwood, who by all reports is very supportive of great causes.  Entertainers don’t quickly lend out their rights and connections to copywritten works, especially ones of this magnitude.  Conservatives might naturally react with satisfaction that a notable celebrity is robustly supporting the nationalist/populist cause against globalists by reaffirming what most of them believe to be the hand of Divine providence in the implementation of the American idea of freedom.

But with an obvious intention to reinforce respect for America’s founding documents and leaders, Bannon and Greenwood are effectively demoting the Divine status of the historical Judeo-Christian scriptures in a way that could, far too easily, be picked up and imbedded in whatever vastly-decayed grasp on its spiritual heritage is still held by the American public at large.

Anyone with a theological background will instantly see the massive landmine stepped on in this conversation.  It remains to be seen whether this theological faux pas disappears like a dud or explodes with damaging effects.  That is, whether the idea put forth is picked up and becomes embedded in the popular mindset or not. I suspect that both Bannon (a serious Catholic) and Greenwood (a conservative Protestant), given the opportunity to clarify their statements, would likely agree that they don’t mean to say the Scriptures should be put on a par with any other documents.  However, the clear and inescapable implication of what was said is that American historical documents were just as inspired as the Old and New Testament scriptures.  Added to that, the tangible act of publishing them together in what is touted as a heritage ‘family bible’, which some are calling the ‘Trump Bible’ (a whole separate issue in itself), makes a powerful combined visual statement.

With all the due respect I have for our American founding documents, let me say, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO – a thousand times, NO!  Inspired, yes, clearly – perhaps the most inspired human political documents in history.  But not inspired in the same way and on the same level as the Judeo-Christian scriptures.

ALL of classical Judeo-Christian heritage is built upon the belief that there is a God, and that He has spoken to humans through the special revelation of himself.  This concept was the primary driver of Western Civilization until the delayed tsunami of Enlightenment’s humanism finally washed ashore on popular cultural consensus in the 20th century.  We know a lot about our Creator through the general revelation we see in the design of nature, but we learn specifically of his nature, actions and intentions through what theologians call ‘special’ revelation, or more generically, ‘The Word of God’.  Throughout the history of Israel and even before, for a message to be received as the ‘Word of God’ there had to be a clear affirmation that God had directly delivered the message to humans by communicating this message through a confirmed prophet.  Once that had happened and was confirmed to the people, this message was revered and protected with utmost care.  The Word of God, delivered by the Spirit of God through a prophet of God is the action that produces sacred scripture.  It doesn’t take one long when reading the bible to realize the significance of statements like, “the Word of the Lord came to . . . “  The issue of biblical revelation and inspiration is an extensive subject.  For a deeper dig into how carefully this process was respected and guarded one can start with this article.
 
Presuppositions embedded in the anti-supernaturalistic rationalism of the Enlightenment effectively undermined the exclusiveness of special revelation, and dethroned the ‘inspiration’ of bible writers into the concept of general human inspiration, which we appropriately apply to works of literature, arts and other creative endeavors.  This development set up the massive liberal/conservative theological controversies of the 20th century, leading to widespread splintering of the historical allegiances of denominations and their theological schools.  It set loose a cancer upon biblical Christianity, for without the objective guidance of divine scripture, all interpretation and conceptualization collapses into a human-generated anthropocentric realm where some standard OTHER than biblical authority necessarily emerges as the prime guiding directive.
 
Francis Schaeffer’s huge How Should We Then Live? book and film project provided an extensive explanation as to why American freedom could ONLY escape falling into tyranny by recognizing and preserving the objective standard of special revelation.  He reinforced the significance of special revelation even more pointedly in other works such as He Is There and He Is Not Silent.  Schaeffer elevated American ideals in the proper way, by showing them to have come about as consequences of consistently applied biblical truths pertaining to the social and political realm.  The American experiment in many ways is the human application of divine revelation to the governmental areas of life, but it should not be confused with the revelation itself.  Schaeffer would have been apoplectic at the very thought of publishing American founding documents together with Holy Scripture and especially so when blithely presenting them in a way that implies that they both carry the same weight of inspiration.