Ukraine attacking Russia using long-range weapons provided by the US “might be interpreted by Russia as a direct attack by the US, by NATO, on Russian territory,” former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter tells Sputnik.
Such an attack, Ritter explains, might be regarded as a prelude to a “larger military incursion” meant to accomplish the US’ ultimate goal, “the strategic defeat of Russia.”
“Russia has made it clear that as a nuclear power, it not only will not, but cannot be defeated strategically - because if such a possibility manifested itself, Russia would be required to use its nuclear arsenal to ensure that outcome would never, never occur. This means general nuclear war,” he says.
Ritter also recalls the warnings made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who questioned the US’ apparent belief that a Russia-NATO conflict would be limited to Europe and who said that a Russian retaliatory strike against the United States is possible if such a conflict were to break out.
“This is a very dangerous escalation, one that could rapidly create the conditions conducive for not limited nuclear conflict, but a general nuclear war, a global-ending global disaster, the destruction of the US, the destruction of Russia, the destruction of Europe, the destruction of the world. Why? Because the US and NATO will not be honest about the state of affairs in Ukraine today,” laments Ritter.
Ukraine has already “lost the war," he adds, and nothing that Kiev might do to try and “tip the scales” in its favor is going to change that.
“All it will do is provoke Russia into enlarging this conflict so that it's not just Ukraine that pays the price, but Europe, the US, and the rest of the world,” Ritter says. “Hopefully, the Ukrainian Defense Minister Andrei Yermak will be received by the US, and have their recommendations regarding using long-range weapons to strike deep inside Russia rejected. Because there's only one outcome if the US greenlights this escalation, and that is total nuclear war.”
Lavrov Warns Russia-Ukraine Talks Will Get Harder With Time
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned those who are trying to hinder peace talks between Russia and Ukraine that negotiations would become tougher as time passed.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned potential negotiations a year and a half ago. He said we had nothing against them... Opponents must understand that the longer they take, the harder it will be to agree on anything. It was easy to agree in Istanbul, less than a month after the start of our special military operation. But Ukraine did not want it," Lavrov said in an interview to the RT broadcaster for the documentary Bridges to the East.
The top Russian diplomat stressed that Ukraine's joining NATO was non-negotiabl.
Turkiye hosted several rounds of Russian-Ukrainian peace talks in Istanbul in March 2022, which ultimately failed. It also helped mediate the UN-backed Black Sea Grain Initiative in July 2022, which provided for safe maritime exports of Ukrainian food until it expired the following summer.
Russian President Putin said in June that Russia would cease fire and start talks with Ukraine as soon as Kiev withdrew troops from regions that Russia saw as its own and abandoned plans to join NATO.
A man at Donald Trump's rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, stormed into the press area as the former president spoke Friday but was surrounded by police and sheriff’s deputies and was eventually subdued with a Taser.
On July 13, Trump had a brush with death when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at him during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The would-be assassin had taken position on a nearby rooftop that gave him an unobstructed view of his target. The man fired several rounds, one of which grazed the former president’s right ear. One rally attendee was killed and two others were seriously injured. The shooter was subsequently killed by return fire from the Secret Service.
According to media reports, the man made it over a bicycle rack surrounding TV reporters and cameras, and began climbing the back of a riser where they were perched.
This guy had an electrifying ⚡️⚡️⚡️ experience at the Trump rally and got a free ride to jail. You could actually hear the taser. 😂😂
Attendees near the area tried to pull the offender off the structure, with police officers eventually subduing him with the help of a taser.
The incident came shortly after Trump took a swipe at the media over what he described as unfavorable coverage of his presidential campaign and an alleged bias in favor of his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris.
The crowd cheered the police as they led the man away, with the GOP hopeful quipping: “Is there anywhere that’s more fun to be than a Trump rally?”
Just now: a protester was ejected after hopping the press fence, jumped up onto the riser at Trump’s PA rally. @CBSPolitics@CBSNews
It is not clear what motivated the offender, and whether he was a Trump supporter or opponent.
Soon thereafter, law enforcement personnel handcuffed another man in the crowd and escorted him from the event. It remains unknown whether his detention had anything to do with the original incident.
Shortly after this incident, police detained another man in the crowd and escorted him out of the arena. It remains unclear whether this second detention was related to the initial altercation.
The disturbance took place amid heightened security measures at Trump rallies following an incident where a gunman fired at the former president, grazing his ear, during an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Security at political events has been noticeably tightened since that shooting. It is not clear what motivated the man who stormed the press area or whether he supported or opposed Trump.
Trump's criticism of the media is a frequent feature of his rally speeches, often prompting his supporters to boo and gesture toward the press section. As the incident unfolded, Trump remarked to the crowd, "Is there anywhere that's more fun to be than a Trump rally?" His comment came just moments after police had led the man away. The rally continued without further incident.
At least 20 people have been killed by Israeli Terrorist attacks in Nuseirat, central Gaza, among at least 34 killed across the Strip today, medical sources tell our team on the ground.
The siege of Jenin city by Israeli Terrorist forces leaves Palestinian residents without food, water, electricity or internet access, as the most intense military raid on the occupied West Bank in decades continues.
Jenin is a ghost town. All of the shops are closed. Nobody is leaving their homes.
We’re right outside the refugee camp and we’ve been hearing exchanges of gunfire and loud explosions for the past 40 minutes. Israeli military jeeps and armoured personnel carriers have been zooming in and out of this area, leaving skidmarks on the road.
We are having difficulty getting information from inside the camp, as have paramedics. Telecommunications have been obstructed. There is no electricity. It’s difficult to ascertain whether there are people injured or not.
Paramedics have told me this is the most difficult assault on Jenin they’ve seen in a very, very long time.
Palestinian health ministry confirms killing of two in Hebron
The ministry announces Muhammad Ihsan Yaqin Marqa and Zahdi Nidal Abu Afifa have been shot killed by the Israeli forces in the north of the occupied West bank governorate.
Earlier, Israel’s military said troops shot and killed two Palestinians in two separate incidents in the occupied territory.
The army said one infiltrated an Israeli settlement and another shot at soldiers after his car exploded.
‘Growing sense of turmoil’ in Nuseirat after night of deadly attacks
Strikes have hit residential areas in the Strip, causing a great deal of destruction.
We have especially seen the impact in Nuseirat refugee camp, where 20 people have been killed since yesterday evening, according to Palestinian authorities. The vast majority of them were targeted without any sort of warning.
Emergency workers told Al Jazeera they struggled to pull victims out from under the rubble.
There is a growing sense of turmoil in the area, especially as full residential squares have been under heavy bombardment.
But not only Nuseirat has been targeted. Medical sources at Al-Aqsa Hospital told Al Jazeera that Palestinians have been killed and wounded from an overnight strike on a residential home in Khan Younis.
There have also been air strikes in Gaza’s north, where our sources said the main focus of confrontations between Hamas fighters and Israeli terrorist forces is Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood. This is a very tiny area that has been repeatedly stormed by the Israeli army. The level of destruction in the north is beyond imagination.
The past week in the Ukraine conflict has seen intensive combat along the front line, with the most active hostilities continuing in the border areas of Russia’s Kursk Region, as well as in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), where Moscow’s troops have liberated several communities.
Russian forces have also managed to make new gains in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR). The country’s Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday the liberation of Stelmakhovka, a large village located immediately to the east of the border between the LPR and Ukraine’s Kharkov region.
The heavily fortified village had been serving as the key Ukrainian stronghold in the area, with its fall potentially opening a way for Russian troops to approach the Oskol River, located some 15km to the west. Should Moscow’s forces be able to reach it, the Ukrainian forces will end up cut in half in the area, with the potential development likely forcing them to retreat beyond the Oskol, which flows north to south across Kharkov Region.
Donbass push continues
The Russian military has made new gains in the DPR, continuing their advance to the northwest of the town of Ocheretino, once a key logistics hub and a major stronghold for Ukrainian troops, where they had unsuccessfully tried to stop Moscow’s forces after the fall of Avdeevka early this year.
Over the week, Russian troops continued their westward push in the area while simultaneously expanding their zone of control to the north and south of their main axis of advance. The Russian Defense Ministry has announced the capture of the villages of Orlovka, Nikolayevka, Kamyshevka and Mezhevoye, located to the southwest of Ocheretino.
The development means that Russian forces have reached the immediate vicinity of the towns of Selidovo and Novgorodovka, as well as advanced towards the city of Pokrovsk (also known as Krasnoarmeysk), the last major settlement under Ukrainian control in the area. Uncorroborated footage circulating online suggests the country’s forces have already actually entered Novgorodovka, as well as seized a coal mine and a major spoil tip to the northeast of Selidovo.
The towering spoil tip has been one of the key points for the Ukrainian defenses in the area, given its dominant position over the town itself.
Active hostilities have also continued to the northwest of the city of Gorlovka, with Russian forces advancing on the satellite town of Toretsk (also known as Dzerzhinsk).
Following the liberation of the villages of New York (also known as Novgorodskoye) and Zalizne (Artemovo) last week, Russian troops forces have reportedly entered Toretsk itself, with active combat continuing inside the town.
The battle of Kursk
Hostilities have been ongoing in the border areas of Russia’s Kursk Region since Kiev launched a major incursion earlier this month. While the Ukrainian forces have continued their efforts to push deeper into Russian territory, Moscow has been seeking to push them back while striking rear targets and incoming reserves in Ukraine's adjacent Sumy Region.
The Ukrainian advance has been halted, with the situation effectively turning into an oncoming battle with no distinctive frontline, centered around multiple settlements, including the villages of Korenevo, Kremyanoye, Malaya Lonya, Martynovka, Borki and other locations.
Over the past week, Ukrainian forces have sustained heavy casualties in the area, with military convoys and smaller infantry groups repeatedly ending up ambushed, while staging areas have been subjected to heavy missile, artillery and aerial strikes.
A new drone video from Kursk Region circulating online, for instance, shows several pieces of Ukrainian armor, including a US-made Stryker armored personnel carrier (APC) overturned, apparently by a powerful explosion nearby. The vehicles bear the distinctive white triangle markings used by the invasion force.
The Russian military has actively been using FPV kamikaze drones to fend off the attack. For instance, a video shared by Apty Alaudinov, the commander of the Akhmat Special Forces from Russia’s Chechen Republic, shows a Ukrainian convoy ambushed by FPV drones operators with the unit.
Footage shows an Australian-supplied Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle sustaining a hit, with a Stryker APC seen on fire in the background. The extremely low altitude of the drone and the exceptional quality of the footage suggests that the FPV was being operated using a fiber-optic cable, rather than by radio.
Another video shared by the Russian Defense Ministry shows a Ukrainian T-72M1 tank, likely received by Kiev from Eastern Europe, sustaining an FPV drone hit in the rear of its turret. The tank was spotted by a surveillance drone rolling out of a wooded area between two fields, firing at unseen targets. The FPV hit caused an internal explosion of the tank’s ammo stock, which ripped its turret clear off, obliterating the vehicle.
According to Moscow’s latest estimates, Kiev’s forces have suffered massive casualties in the attack on Kursk Region, losing more than 7,400 servicemen in just over three weeks, as well as sustaining heavy material losses. Up to 74 tanks, 36 infantry fighting vehicles, 64 APCs, as well as some 486 other armored vehicles have been destroyed. Kiev has also lost some high-value assets, including two artillery and one aerial radar, five anti-aircraft launchers, 10 electronic warfare stations, four US-made HIMARS and one M270 MLRS multiple rocket launchers.
Strikes on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure
On Monday, the Russian military conducted a massive strike with ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as kamikaze drones on Ukraine’s critical dual-use infrastructure, namely energy generation facilities used to service Kiev’s military-industrial complex. It was one of the largest-scale attacks to have taken place during the conflict.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it has targeted multiple facilities across Ukraine, including electrical substations and gas pumping stations, as well as stockpiles of aircraft munitions, delivered to Kiev by its Western backers.
Footage circulating online purports to show the aftermath of a cruise missile strike on Kiev Hydroelectric Power Plant, located in the town of Vyshgorod to the north of the Ukrainian capital. The facility was apparently hit by several projectiles; a large plume of black smoke has been seen billowing from it.
Another video from the scene suggests the plant’s generator hall sustained at least one hit, while the dam itself was damaged as well; the road running across it was littered with debris.
A large fuel depot was among the targets, with several large tanks ending up destroyed in explosions and resulting fire, footage from the scene shows.
Hunt for HIMARS systems
The Russian military has continued its effort to find and destroy Ukrainian HIMARS-family multiple rocket launchers, supplied to Kiev by the US and some other Western nations, reporting the destruction of several pieces over the week.
Long-touted by Ukrainian propaganda as an ultimate high-precision tool for striking high-value Russian assets, HIMARS-family launchers have been repeatedly used by Kiev to launch indiscriminate attacks deep into the country’s territory. In recent months, however, the systems have seen more actual combat use, providing fire support for troops or striking logistics, presumably due to the exhaustion of Ukraine’s Soviet multiple rocket launcher systems, both from domestic stocks and deliveries from abroad.
On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the destruction of two HIMARS launchers in Ukraine’s Sumy Region. The launchers were apparently being used to support Kiev’s forces in Russia’s Kursk Region.
One system was hit by a ballistic missile fired by an Iskander-M launcher, when it was discovered traveling from its firing position to a hiding spot in a wooded area near the village of Stepanovka. The strike caused multiple secondary detonations at the site and a massive blaze, footage shared by the ministry shows.
Another system was caught at a resupply point in the border village of Kondratovka. The HIMARS was hit by an airstrike, with the ammo stockpile, a transporter-loader vehicle and an escort car destroyed in the blast as well, according to the Russian military.
A few days ago, a M270 MLRS, a heavier tracked cousin of HIMARS, was destroyed in Ukraine’s Nikolayev Region, footage circulating online suggests. The vehicle was discovered by a surveillance drone deep in Ukrainian territory, some 60km away from the front line, near the village of Berezingovatoye.
Drone footage shows the launcher, a transport vehicle and a soft road car poorly concealed in a wooded area. The location was hit by a ballistic missile, apparently fired by an Iskander-M system.
The powerful blast triggered the detonation of an ammunition stockpile, which turned out to be stashed in an agricultural hangar nearby. All the vehicles there ended up destroyed; the hangar was completely obliterated by the ammunition explosion.
Minister of the Supreme Court, STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes. Ton Molina/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
A Brazilian Supreme Federal Court judge has ordered the suspension of social media platform X in the country, the G1 news portal reported.
Judge Alexandre de Moraes ruled that X must be suspended in Brazil on August 30, the report said.
Moraes earlier ordered X owner Elon Musk to notify the court within 24 hours about who would be the new legal representative of X in Brazil, otherwise it would be suspended.
The deadline expired on Thursday evening. X said on Friday it refuses to comply with "illegal orders" from a court in Brazil and expects to be shut down in the country.
Earlier this month, Musk said he shuttered the X offices in Brazil after Moraes threatened to arrest its legal representative if the social media company did not comply with the court's censorship orders.
At press time, Sputnik reporters were able to access X while rerouting their internet traffic through Brazil using a VPN, however, downdetector.com.br has noted a higher than normal number of reports of X being down in the country, starting around 4 pm local time.
Musk's Starlink Asks Brazilian Supreme Court to Unfreeze Its Accounts
US entrepreneur Elon Musk's Starlink has asked the Brazilian Supreme Court to unfreeze its accounts in Brazil after they were blocked by a judge's decision, the country's media reported on Friday.
On Thursday, the G1 news portal reported that Starlink's accounts had been frozen in Brazil due to the lack of a legal representative in the country. On the same day, Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes reportedly ordered Musk to notify the court within 24 hours about who would be the new legal representative of his social media platform X in Brazil, otherwise it would be suspended.
Musk said that X and Starlink are two separate legal entities, arguing that the judge's decision was unlawful. Thus, Starlink applied to the Brazilian Supreme Court, asking it to reverse Moraes' ruling and unblock its accounts, G1 reported.
The company reportedly claims not to be part of the proceedings against X. It also claims that its accounts were blocked "without valid grounds or established and valid procedure" and that Moraes failed to provide the company with the right to defend itself, G1 said.
Earlier in the day, X said it refuses to comply with "illegal orders" from the Brazilian court and expects to be shut down in the country.
Mario Nawfal: Elon Musk Now Has Target on His Back After Telegram CEO Durov's Arrest
Persecution of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France is by no means a coincidence, but part of the disturbing trend of curtailing free speech, investor and host of the largest show on X, Mario Nawfal, told Sputnik.
X giant Mario Nawfal sat down with Sputnik on Friday to discuss Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's arrest, globalist attack on free speech, and what's next for X and Elon Musk.
According to the entrepreneur, Pavel's arrest is "a reminder that free speech and even privacy is becoming more and more of an illusion, rather than reality."
"We’ve seen the censorship that happens in every single country around the world, including... Europe, the US, Brazil. Pavel’s arrest takes another social media platform off the list of those who want to censor, those who want power," Nawfal said, suggesting that Rumble and X could become the next targets.
Threat to Independent Journalists and Dissenting Views Growing
The X Spaces host warns that walls are closing in on independent journalists, social media platforms, and even citizens who challenge the established narrative or dare to express their dissenting views online.
"We’ve seen in the UK recently as well with the riots what happens when free speech is cracked down [on], and it’s not pretty. We’ve seen people arrested and go to jail for months and years for things they said online," Mario said, referring to warnings from the UK Crown Prosecution Service against "online violence" earlier this month and subsequent arrests over online posts.
The X Spaces host doesn't rule out that he also has a target on his back.
Commenting on reports that in fact Durov came to France at the invitation of Emmanuel Macron, Mario revealed that he himself was invited to interview an unnamed country’s president just days before Durov’s arrest. Nawfal now believes that it could have been a trap and that he "would probably end up like Pavel," given his record of criticizing the country in the past.
The entrepreneur made it clear that a number of countries are unsafe for independent journalists and social media figures.
"The UK with the crackdown on free speech, Brazil…Pakistan is on my list of countries that I can’t go to because of having [ousted Pakistani president] Imran Khan [on the show] and supporting Imran Khan. I never expected France to be one of those countries, but here we are," Nawfal said.
What Message Does Durov's Arrest Send to the Business Community?
Macron effectively torpedoed France's reputation for business, according to the X Spaces host.
"You've got these executives that will be very concerned, [asking] ‘why was Pavel being targeted on a criminal level? Why can't the company be sued first on a civil level?’" he said.
When asked what he thinks about Macron earlier persuading Durov to move Telegram’s headquarters to Paris in 2018, Nawfal suggested that the change of heart could be caused by changes in the geopolitical situation.
However, the entrepreneur didn't rule out that Macron's generous invitation to open the Telegram office in France was part of an effort to control the platform. When all else failed they simply arrested Pavel, the pundit presumed.
Western countries used to like Telegram when it was used by some players to fan protests in Belarus or create problems for Russia, but they quickly changed their mind when an encrypted and uncensored Telegram app became a risk for them, he continued.
Following Durov's arrest in France, reports emerged saying that European Commission officials are now seeking to enforce the Digital Services Act (DSA) on Telegram which would envisage online censorship and direct supervision by the European Commission (EC).
The only obstacle is that the platform insists it doesn't have 45 million monthly users in the European Union – the threshold for applying the bloc's online self-censorship rules.
Legacy Media Stayed Mute on Durov's Arrest
Nawfal was one of the first on X who questioned the corporate press' silence with regard to the attack on free speech in France. Previously, Western media were keen to criticize Moscow for the alleged pressure on the Telegram founder.
The crux of the matter is that the story of Durov's arrest and free speech censorship doesn't fit into the mainstream media narrative, according to the pundit.
"So the skeptical, speculative guess that I have is that that was intentional, and they don't want to shed light on the crackdown on free speech around the world," he said.
Nawfal is increasingly concerned about the concentration of political power in the hands of a few and the formation of nothing short of a cabal, which includes both politicians and their subservient media.
"When I talk about the cabal, it's become systemic. You've got those unelected officials that behind the scenes have just got so much influence on various aspects of society," Nawfal noted. "And it's become more of a cycle, where politicians, through various means, influence the media, usually through financial means. They influence the media from the top down."
What's Next for X and Elon Musk?
Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk is not immune to the unfolding crackdown against free speech, according to Nawfal. He referred to the fact that former President Donald Trump scarcely avoided an assassination attempt for his views and political stand, while Durov is now barred from leaving France.
Nawfal noted that Musk is now targeted by both US and EU political elites.
"Because they cannot control him, because they cannot control his platforms, they target him, they target his companies and they label him as an enemy of the state," he emphasized.
The US deep state and allied European elites are obsessed with power and they are scared of losing it, according to the pundit.
"[EU social media regulator boss] Thierry [Breton], sent out a letter to Elon [Musk] before the Trump interview, urging him not to conduct the interview," X Spaces host recalled. "That’s an interview by an American businessman and an American former president, and they've got the EU sending out a letter warning them on what content they talk about on the platform."
Nawfal believes that overregulation is an antithesis to innovation and that censorship will only stifle growth.
In this respect, he doubts that any sort of economic miracle will manifest itself in Europe any time soon under those circumstances.
"So I think the days of [the EU] out-innovating the US and out-innovating China are past, they are behind us now. Unless we see a drastic change in the region. And it doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon," he concluded.
What is ‘Malformation’?
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently admitted that he censored Covid-related content on his platform at the behest of the Biden administration. This confession may be the result of Zuckerberg genuinely feeling guilty about his actions, Nawfal said.
“The positive thing is that it could indicate a shift,” Nawfal told Sputnik. “I’m an optimist. I genuinely think a lot of these people, even though they are very left-leaning, these employees of social media companies – they genuinely support the free speech, even when it comes to things they disagree with.”
According to him, Marc Andreessen from Meta’s* board of directors told him that Meta and other companies are “watching” Elon Musk and X “almost like an experiment” and that they even copied some of the things Musk did with X. "So I genuinely think Meta will start taking a page out of Elon's book, and while you’ll never see absolute free speech, I hope they start resisting any censorship attempts," Nawfal said.
He did, however, note Meta coined a peculiar new term “malinformation,” dropping this remark while commenting on RFK’s Instagram account ban.
“That’s essentially factual information used with malicious intention,” Nawfal said explaining what the word “malinformation” means. “Please let me know how the hell can someone determine whether something is malinformation or not. If you post something that’s factual but criticizes the incumbent governments, is that something that can be censored?”
Though Trump’s possible return to the Oval Office may be a “step in the right direction” when it comes to fixing the current situation with the freedom of speech in the United States – where currently various security agencies can lean on media outlets to de facto regulate the flow of information – this problem is simply too big to be solved during one presidency. “I just don’t think one president during four years could do that alone,” Nawfal said, describing himself as a “big believer” in both US democracy and legal system.
“It requires a shift among the US public,” Nawfal added, arguing that if a sufficiently large number of voters would regard this issue as serious, US presidents and lawmakers would have to act upon their constituents’ will.
How Governments and Companies Force Their Narratives Down People’s Throats
Social media outlets now catering to the whims of particular audiences (right- or left-wing leaning, for example) result in some worrying trends, Nawfal warned.
Algorithms designed to retain the audience on the platform in question in order to make more ad revenue end up feeding users more content that relates to them: for example, the pro-Trump crowd is being offered more content “criticizing Biden and supporting Trump.”
“What happens when they do this is it becomes a loop that takes you further and further into those echo chambers. Essentially the algorithm forces everyone to have different echo chambers,” he explained. “That’s kinda become embedded in society to take a stance. Media companies have taken a stance, social media companies’ algorithm, for financial purposes, force people to get into their own echo chambers.”
And the addition of censorship to this equation effectively results in people becoming entrenched in their opinions and being shielded from content that could challenge their beliefs.
“Censorship adds another layer to this, where companies and governments further force their narratives down your throat in a very subtle way, without you even knowing. And when you have somebody, Elon [Musk], trying to break this status quo with X, they try to bring him down,” Nawfal remarked. “As they’ve done to Meta all the time, as they’ve done to YouTube and Google all the time.”
