The Title comes from an email I received this morning from Michael Brenner. He doesn’t have a Blog or an account on X. He is a prominent American scholar specializing in International Relations, American foreign policy, and transatlantic affairs. He is best known for his critical analyses of U.S. geopolitical strategies, European security, and global power dynamics.
This is what he wrote: BRETHREN
There is an old blues ballad called: “The Devil Don’t Knock Twice.”* Assuming that he knocks at all — or just sidles up to you at a Delta crossroads with a proposition that you can’t refuse. The specter of Satan requesting entry – into your home, into your soul – suggests that you have a choice whether or not to let him in. That evidently is true for even the most downtrodden, the most desperate, the most vulnerable.
We Americans – individually and collectively – have been privileged with three knocks, each seeking entry.
The first time, we took a deliberate look through the peephole, sized him up as off-beat, hyper, a little weird but quelled our doubts in opening the door. After much strained and acrid palaver, we agreed to a 4-year lease on the premises.
At its end, he aggressively demanded an extension of the same duration – the 2nd knock. With decidedly mixed feelings we turned him down. An inspection of the property had revealed widespread damage. The house was desecrated with Satanic graffiti and reeked of foul sulfuric fumes. Worse, the Evil One had turned it into a refuge for a coven of unisex demons from the nether world.
Furious at the rejection, he incited them to ransack the place and to seize it in his name. We managed to repel them – just barely. That wasn’t the end of it, though. Hardly. The diabolical schemer launched a massive all-out campaign to overturn the eviction. Spurious lawsuits, incessant protest rallies, random acts of vandalism – even blatant intimidation of judges and prosecutors.
Satan himself raging everywhere – fuming, breathing fire and brimstone – vowing revenge against all who had played a part in his eviction, who had thwarted him in any way – or else! This went on for years.
Then, he knocked on the door a 3rd time – declaring loudly that he would make the house a great mansion again – if we let him in – or else. We opened the door wide.
Searching Google for the original ‘The Devil Don’t knock Twice’ found this: Unearthed from the depths of the American South, [LOST TAPE #013 — “The Devil Don’t Knock Twice” by Jeremiah “Dust Bowl” Reed (1934)] captures the haunted soul of early Delta Blues. Recorded on fragile acetate in a dusty roadside chapel during the Great Depression, this lost field recording reveals the raw emotion, pain, and faith of a man who sang not for fame—but for survival. The cracked voice of Jeremiah “Dust Bowl” Reed echoes through time, blending gospel roots, delta slide guitar, and an atmosphere so authentic you can almost smell the rain on dry soil.
Woke up on a Monday, sun behind the ground Look out on the future, couldn’t tell a place of time Been chasing that dollar, brother, in a field of wooden yield Now the dust is my blanket and the highway is my field
[Chorus] Cuz the devil don’t knock twice, son You just walk right through your door Leave you standing in the ruin Wonder what you suffered for He don’t send no letter, don’t whistle no sweet tune The devil don’t knock twice He just come and take the moon
I had a good woman, pretty as a newborn day She stood by the fence post ’til the wind blowed away Had a house made of timber, a roof to keep me dry Then the bank man came calling with the death note in his eye
[Chorus] Cuz the devil don’t knock twice, son He just walk right through your door Leave you standing in a ruin Wondering what you suffer for He don’t send no letter, don’t whistle no sweet tune The devil don’t knock twice He just come and take the moon
I walked a thousand miles, man, just to keep my spirit whole Try to run from the bad luck that will stamp upon my soul But whether it’s the drought or the poor man’s power line The darkness is a shadow and it follows close behind I’m standing by this doorway, listening for a sound Just a grid on the wind, brother, blowing across the ground
I learned my lesson early, the hard way, cold and fast When the devil wants your life, he don’t need a second pass
[Chorus] Cuz the devil don’t knock twice He just walk right through your door Leave you standing in the ruins Wondering what you suffer for He don’t send no letter, don’t whistle no sweet tune The devil don’t knock twice He just come and take the moon…
For those who prefer a Rock & Roll cover of the original Country Music:
While the eyes of the world are on Gaza, Israeli settlers in the West Bank still behave with impunity
As the harvest season begins, attacks on Palestinian farmers and their land are spiralling. The words of peace following the Gaza ceasefire ring hollow.
Last Monday, when the US president, Donald Trump, addressed the Knesset alongside the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, my compatriot lawmaker Ayman Odeh and I raised a banner calling them to “Recognise Palestine”. We were brutally expelled by force from the parliament’s plenum, revealing the fragile state of the supposed “only democracy in the Middle East”. How can Trump and Netanyahu speak of peace in the Middle East without recognition of the people deprived for decades of their basic liberties and rights under vicious occupation?
Nowhere is the deceit more clear than in the occupied West Bank. There, the words of peace are but a weak and distant voice, but the horrifying sounds of settler violence and terror still echo loudly. More than 30 occurrences of settler violence against Palestinians have been documented since the announcement of Trump’s 20-point plan at the end of September, including physical assaults, theft of agricultural produce and torching of vehicles and property.
The rise of settler terrorism is not coincidental. This period marks the start of the harvest seasons. More than a vital economic event, it is an important social and national moment that exhibits endurance under occupation. Precisely for these reasons, year after year settlers target Palestinians during this precious time. During the 2024 harvest period, Yesh Din (an Israeli human rights group that collects and disseminates information regarding violations of Palestinians’ human rights in the West Bank) documented 113 separate incidents of violence, harassment, harvest-thwarting or damage to olive trees and crops involving Israeli civilians and soldiers, which took place on lands belonging to 51 Palestinian villages, towns and communities.
Yesh Din also found that “Israeli security forces appeared to have played a greater role in obstructing the olive harvest”. In about 70% of forceful prevention of access to lands, soldiers, border police officers and settlement civilian security coordinators (CSCs) were actually present. They either personally prevented Palestinians from accessing and harvesting in their own lands, or failed to stop settlers who harassed or assaulted them.
This comes as no surprise, as the leader of the settlers’ political party, Bezalel Smotrich, was appointed as an additional minister in the Ministry of Defence in charge of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT). In Umm al-Khair, for example, a special COGAT unit uprooted private olive trees of Palestinians, citing lack of permits, but ignored violations of an illegal nearby settler outpost. Last week, the Jerusalem district court ruled to halt all building work in the outpost, which was built on lands seized by Israel and unlawfully transferred to settlers.
In the occupied West Bank, settler terrorism is nothing but a tool by the government to pursue de-facto annexation. Earlier this month, Smotrich led a march of thousands of settlers in support of annexation of the West Bank. He was quoted as saying, “We are continuing to take hold with our feet of the Land of Israel with many pioneers, many heroes, and hundreds of thousands of settlers who live in this part of the land … we need to normalise it and make it eternal.”
The settlers and their supporters in the Knesset are clear on their motives and intentions. Why, then, do political leaders in the west refrain from meaningful sanctions and diplomatic measures? Smotrich was sanctioned by the UK in June, but the effect of the sanction has been minimal. He may not be able to travel to the UK and tour the West End, but he still enjoys the ministerial power to grab lands in the West Bank. Even in the announcement of sanctions, the UK highlighted they take place “in his personal capacity” solely.
If the UK government acknowledges the reality of settler violence and its grave implications on Palestinian life, why does it still allow settlement produce to be sold in markets and shops in Britain? If Starmer is serious about recognition of Palestine as a state, how come it allows the Israeli government to violate its sovereignty with such violent means? Or was the recognition an empty ploy to shut down dissenting voices in the UK, a hollow act only to be realised in the rebranding of some maps?
A just peace must respect the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people for self-recognition, sovereignty and liberty from military occupation and siege. Only when every human being’s dignity between the river and sea is respected can we truly say peace has been achieved.
True peace requires an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel: this is the sole formula that enjoys consensus among the international community, the Palestinian national movement and the Israeli peace camp.
Trump may have inflicted pressure on Netanyahu to halt the genocide, but he probably only did so because the burden of his relationship with the pariah regime of Netanyahu had become too great. The mass protests across the globe for the liberation of Palestine, and the unwavering anti-government demonstrations inside Israel, are the real forces behind this pressure.
It is thanks to this enormous civil movement that a ceasefire has been signed, the hostages released and the people of Gaza can enjoy safeguard from annihilation. After the ceasefire agreement has been signed, it is vital to keep applying this pressure. The world has turned a blind eye to the atrocities in Gaza for too long; it must not repeat the same mistake in the West Bank.
Dr Ofer Cassif is a member of the Knesset, representing the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) since 2019
Micaiah delivers this truth to the king and his ally King Jehoshaphat of Judah, at the risk of his life, after which he is slapped by a false prophet, struck by the king, and imprisoned until Ahab’s return from battle. However, Ahab does not return, dying in battle as Micaiah foretold.
Factually, that Biblical War was over the King of Israel wanting to get control of the Golan Heights. It took over 1,380 years from the Time of Micaiah until Israel got control of the annexed Golan Heights in the 1967 War.
Micah the Jewish Prophet some 150 years later faced the same risk facing the ruler of Israel declaring: Hearken now to this, you heads of the house of Jacob and you rulers of the house of Israel, who condemn justice and pervert all that is straight. The Major Jewish Prophet Isaiah complements that prophecy in chapter 59: Rebelling and denying the Lord, and drawing away from following our God, speaking oppression and perverseness, sprouting and giving forth from the heart words of falsehood. Justice has turned away backward, and Righteousness stands far off, for TRUTH has stumbled in the street, and EQUITY cannot come.
It it any wonder, when the ‘chosen people of God’ were already on that Path some 2700 years ago, so many People don’t know what is TRUE and what to BELIEVE in OUR Generations.
Continuing in the Spirit of those ancient Prophets, I do what I can living my 82nd year, interacting with these People on X or email. I never get replies and I understand why.
A painful and difficult morning. Innocent civilians, women, men, and children were brutally murdered and wounded in cold blood on a bus in Jerusalem by vile and evil terrorists. In the face of this barbarity, we saw extraordinary acts of heroism which prevented even further loss of innocent lives. This shocking attack reminds us once again that we are fighting absolute evil. The world must understand what we are up against, and that terror will never defeat us. My heart goes out to the bereaved families, and I pray for the full and swift recovery of the injured.
Every man is Righteous in his own eyes. Obviously you can’t see it, but the majority of the World can see women, men, and children are brutally murdered and wounded in cold blood by vile and evil terrorists dropping bombs from the air killing thousands of CHILDREN!
As for the Evil, you’re projecting as you defy the Lord God of the Jews. You speak of righteousness while presiding over the bombing of children.
The world sees the truth: you are not fighting terrorists; you are becoming the terror you claim to oppose. You defy the very God you invoke.
Scripture commands: “Love the stranger as yourself.” (Leviticus 19:34) “Give the stranger an inheritance among you.” (Ezekiel 47:22-23) Yet you subject Palestinians to occupation, apartheid, and now genocide.
You have forgotten that Abraham—a stranger in the land—was promised the whole earth, not a blood-soaked strip taken by force.
Repent. Return to the way of justice before the God of Abraham holds you accountable.
To the intercession of the Saints and the Virgin Mary, we entrust our unceasing prayer for peace, especially in the Holy Land and Ukraine, and in every other land blood-stained by war.
To those in power, I repeat: listen to the voice of conscience! The apparent victories achieved with weapons, which sow death and destruction, are in reality defeats and never bring peace or security!
God does not want war, he wants peace, and he strengthens those who are committed to leaving behind the spiral of hatred and taking the path of dialogue.
Which “Holy Land”? The small, blood-soaked strip in the Middle East—or the entire earth, which God calls His footstool? (Isaiah 66:1)
You speak of peace, yet confine holiness to a plot of land fought over for millennia. But Scripture says: “The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool.”
If the whole earth is God’s footstool, then all of it is holy—and all of it is meant to become the Promised Land when humanity finally enters God’s rest. But today, “truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter” (Isaiah 59:14).
We see this in Gaza, in Ukraine, in the hypocrisy of leaders who bless weapons while praying for peace. You urge those in power to “listen to conscience.” Yet what conscience remains in empires that sell arms, bankroll genocide, and betray the poor?
Isaiah presents the choice clearly: Either we turn toward the rest of God—a world of justice and sacred belonging—or we face the fire of divine fury: “Behold, the Lord will come with fire… His rebuke with flames of fire.” (Isaiah 66:15) The “apparent victories” of weapons are indeed defeats.
But true peace requires more than prayer—it demands prophetic defiance of the systems of war.
Will you name the Beast? Will you declare that no land is holy until all lands are free? —Ray Joseph Cormier A witness to the whole earth.
Check Out My New Op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal “President Trump has opened the door to peace in Ukraine through diplomacy. Congress must reinforce his efforts by ensuring the tools of economic pressure are at hand. Passing Senator Graham’s sanctions bill would show Putin that America speaks with one voice and that our entire country stands behind the president as he seeks to end this war.”
You have too many SINS of Historical OMISSION about the US WAR with Russia over Ukraine in NATO, so US troops and missiles would be right on Russia’s border. That Russia will not tolerate, like the US would not tolerate Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962.
The 2014 CIA coup in Ukraine is the SIN of omission you refuse to name. This isn’t about freedom; it’s a US proxy war. Americans aren’t that exceptional! Russia justifiably feels the same way about US Troops on Russia’s border. The G-7 and NATO Summit put the World on the Path to Nuclear annihilation. US-NATO-Canadian WAR Propaganda leaves the unthinking & unquestioning population in the DARK they don’t know it.
Apparently with your religion you have eyes to see, but don’t see what is unfolding in TODAY’s Material World is the spirit of this letter unfolding before our eyes:
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. (false beliefs about God in Judaism, Christianity and Islam) For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth ($Billionaires, Presidents, Prime Ministers, CEOs and other IDOLS of the People) and of the whole world, (the majority of the silent Passive Powerless People) to gather them to the BATTLE OF THAT GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY. Behold, I come as a thief. (when you least expect it) Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue ARMAGEDDON.
In 2014 the CIA orchestrated the Regime Change of the Democratically Elected, Russian friendly Ukraine government, installing the UN-elected, anti-Russian government that immediately started shelling the majority Russian speaking UKRAINIANS in the East bordering Russia, making this WAR you support with shrinking incomes inevitable.
In 1976, as Americans were celebrating Revolution, I reached an exceptionally high level of visibility at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City. As a Canadian, I was called out of the compressed crowd of delirious Republicans in the Lobby of The Crown Centre Hotel for questioning by the US Secret Service. The crowd was looking up to the SS restricted mezzanine expecting the President to be standing there any minute.
The SS Agent led me straight to the President’s podium, questioning me in view of the thousands of Republicans in the Lobby below. The Agent eventually asked me if I was Jesus Christ? Having no illusions about that THEN and NOW, in a nanosecond answered, “NO!” The very next question was, “Who are you then? A Prophet?” Being newly BORN AGAIN for only 18 months, I was not as definite answering that question. The Secret Service has the long buried record of that 1 night in MY Life.
After the Republicans left town, The Kansas City Times published 2 historical newspaper records on my Time in their city, the 1st on September 13, 1976, with a followup on ALL SOULS DAY, November 2, 1976, this being a brief excerpt from the September 13 record: “He came to town for the Republican National Convention and will stay until the election in November TO DO GOD’S BIDDING: To tell the World, from Kansas City, this country has been found wanting and its days are numbered […] He gestured toward a gleaming church dome. “The gold dome is the symbol of BABYLON,” he said.” […] He wanted to bring to the Public’s attention an “idea being put out subtly and deceptively” by the government that we have to get prepared for a War with Russia.”
The 1976 Kansas City Prophecy: Thirty Months to Destiny – The Fork in the Road of History Because of that history in my CV, when Biden was threatening Russia with Economic War in February 2022, like Trump is threatening CanaDa Today, I went to the OSCE Website DAILY, set up by MINSK I & II to monitor TRUCE VIOLATIONS between the US proxy anti-Russian Ukraine government and the Russian speaking Ukrainians bordering Russia. Violations were reaching up to 2000 a DAY, provoking the Russian SMO to stop it.That I saw with my own eyes. The Ukraine WAR actually started the week BEFORE February 24, 2022.
MIKE POMPEO
Director of the CIA and US Secretary of State in Trump’s 1st term. I interact with Pompeo often, this last time on the 12th. Several times I’ve included this video of him boasting “I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.”
Speech is not violence; violence is violence – just as human beings are not avatars of a political system, they are human beings. Our country needs a return to First Principles – and prayer – to defeat the scourge of political violence.
The Israeli murderous Genocidal massacre of Palestinian women and CHILDREN in Gaza with no defence against US jet fighters, US bombers and bombs, US Apache Attack helicopters, tanks and artillery, with 100% support and complicity of the US is POLITICAL VIOLENCE. Christ knows people like you have eyes to see and will not see!
18 US SENATORS AND PRIME MINISTER CARNEY
To: mark.carney@parl.gc.ca; pm@pm.gc.ca; Steven.Guilbeault@parl.gc.ca; Greg.Fergus@parl.gc.ca Sent: Thursday, September 11th 2025, 11:37 Subject: TRUTH IS FALLEN IN THE STREET AND EQUITY CANNOT ENTER To: Senator_Kennedy@Kennedy.senate.gov; Senator_Merkley@Merkley.senate.gov; senator_ossoff@ossoff.senate.gov; mike@rounds.senate.gov; elizabeth_warren@warren.senate.gov; senator@cotton.senate.gov; correspondence_reply@durbin.senate.gov; info_sanders@sanders.senate.gov; SenatorHawley@hawley.senate.gov; Hirono.outgoing.mail@hirono.senate.gov; Senator@cortezmasto.senate.gov; senator@klobuchar.senate.gov; senator@Gillibrand.senate.gov; Senator@Thune.senate.gov; Senator@Schumer.senate.gov; senator_warner@warner.senate.gov; ChaplainOffice@mail.house.goSent: Tuesday, September 9th 2025, 12:35 Senators,
This is my reply to your colleague Senator Tillis on X this morning. This is the State of The World I see unfolding as a Watcher from CanaDa.
President Trump met with Putin 3 weeks ago. Since then, Putin met with his fellow authoritarians to conspire against the US. Then he returned to Moscow to authorize the largest air strike on Ukraine since the start of his illegal invasion. It’s time to stop this liar and murderer.
Senator Tillis, you call Putin a liar and murderer? Look in the mirror. The US & NATO provoked this war by expanding eastward after promising Gorbachev they wouldn’t. That’s the original lie. This war is a direct result of American arrogance and broken promises.
You’re repeating the same reckless brinkmanship that nearly ended the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy wisely chose diplomacy over annihilation, but today’s warmongers—like you—would rather risk nuclear war than admit their policy failures.
Kennedy’s warning echoes through time: “Nuclear powers must avert confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.” You are pushing Russia toward that exact choice. This isn’t strategy; it’s a death wish.
You serve the same spirit that killed Kennedy when he sought peace with the Soviets. Now, you align with the “unclean spirits” of Revelation 16:13-16—the spirits of devils gathering the kings of the earth, you included, for Armageddon.
Your hypocrisy is staggering. You condemn Russia for violating international law while supporting US-Israeli strikes on Iran. You fuel genocide in Gaza while pretending to care about peace in Ukraine. You are a servant of the Beast, not the Constitution.
Repent, Senator. Step back from the brink. Choose diplomacy over destruction, truth over tribalism. The world is watching, and God is judging. 12:15 PM · Sep 9, 2025
The Price of Truth: Fear, Freedom, and the Divine Deliverance
The path of the watchman has always been fraught with peril. From Micaiah to Christ himself, speaking unvarnished truth to those who wield earthly power has often come at the risk of life and freedom. This ancient reality echoes violently in our modern halls of power, where fear has become a more potent silencer than any decree.
Today, after the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk, we see both Republican and Democratic politicians gripped by a palpable fear for their lives. The threat of public violence, born of a deeply divided and inflamed populace, holds them in a silent bondage. They fear stepping out, speaking up, or challenging the narratives that benefit their parties, lest they become the next target in a world where the streets are no longer safe for truth-tellers. This fear, ultimately, is a fear of death itself—a bondage that has paralyzed those meant to lead.
But Christ came to set the captives free. He declared, “If therefore the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). And again, the Apostle Paul reminds us that through Christ, we are delivered from “all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery” (Hebrews 2:15). It is this divine freedom that breaks the chains of earthly fear. It is the conviction that there is a truth greater than any political agenda, a power higher than any human institution, that liberates the prophet to speak without compromise.
The picture above was published by The Ottawa Citizen a few days before this report of me being violently ejecting from the Visitors Gallery on the 1st Day of TV in the Canadian Parliament October 17, 1977.
Not 1 standard Probation Condition was checked off. Typed in at the bottom of the form were these explicit words, “not to attend on the Sparks Street Mall or any other Street in Ottawa for the purpose of SPEAKING OR SHOUTING. I was sent to jail for the 1st Time in my Life for breach of that Probation.
In protest, I walked along the Sparks Street Mall with a sandwich-board sign wearing the gag over my mouth all Day long. I couldn’t move very far before a crowd about 6 deep gathered around me all day long, half of them having regular cameras long before phone cameras, taking pictures.
As the earth turned and the shade of the sun moved, I didn’t know who and when the Ottawa Citizen photographer was in that crowd taking the picture? It’s remarkable at the instant shot, the shade of the sun off my nose formed a perfect line between light and darkness. In the darkness is FEAR OF THE TRUTH and in the Light is EAR THE TRUTH.
God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, Hebrews 2:4
Will you, too, speak truth to power? Will you sigh and groan over the abominations done in our name? The time for silence is over. The watchman must speak.”
Dear Ray,
Let us illustrate the Israeli settlements in West Bank with numbers and maps as follows:
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