© (Mary Altaffer / APDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is seen on a television monitor addressing her supporters, as reporters file their stories after a June 7 news conference by presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
In the winter of 1941, a Jewish gravedigger from Chelmo, the western province of Poland, appeared in Warsaw and desperately sought a meeting with Jewish leaders.
He told them the Nazis were rounding up Jews, including the old, women and children, and forcing them into what looked like tightly sealed buses. The buses had the exhaust pipes redirected into the cabins. The Jews were killed with carbon monoxide. He had helped dig the mass graves for thousands of corpses until he escaped.
On the way to Warsaw, he had gone from village to village, frantically warning the Jews. Scores of Jews, in the villages and ultimately in Warsaw, heard his testimony of horror and dismissed it.
A handful of listeners, however, including
Zivia Lubetkin, who two years later would help lead the uprising by 500 armed Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto, instantly understood the ultimate aims of the Nazi state.
"I don't know how we intuitively shared the same horrible conviction that the total annihilation of all the Jewish communities in Nazi-occupied Europe was at hand," she wrote in her memoir, "In the Days of Destruction and Revolt."
Comment: For those awake and aware enough to see how far gone society is, how ponerized our governments have become, how instability and chaos are the ever-growing rule rather than the exception, we have a double responsibility. The first is to keep ourselves healthy, safe and clear-minded enough to continue to see what is occurring. The second is to find strategically smart ways to share what we see with our brothers and sisters - to those of us who
want to see reality as it really is and possibly help in shaping it. Physical, psychological and spiritual preparation for the increasing turmoil, and for those us who want to see a real future, are the order of the day.
Listen to today's Sott Radio show for more insights into what we're facing:
A Time for Warriors: Interview with Stefan Verstappen
Comment: This Russian soldier sacrificed his life to help save many with Russian aid yet the US accuses Russia of preventing aid reaching Syrians.