The World and Everything in It: July 30, 2024

PREROLL: The World and Everything in It is made possible by listeners like us. My name is John Beason from Tucson Arizona. I serve as a pastor at New Life Bible Fellowship and I've benefited from world's Christian worldview journalism since I was a teen. As a father of two teens now, I pray that God blesses WORLD’s ministry long into the future. I hope you enjoy today's program.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Venezuela’s strongman president Nicolas Maduro claims victory …but did he win the election fair and square?

BLINKEN: The international community is watching this very closely and will respond accordingly.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Also, the challenge of running America’s prisons.

And an athlete competes in very different summer games … the Highland Games.

WOMAK-ADAMS: To win the day, you don't have to win every single event. You just have to be in the top three.

MAST: And commentary on the desecration of the holy at the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

REICHARD: It’s Tuesday, July 30th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

MAST: And I'm Lindsay Mast. Good morning!

REICHARD: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR:  Venezuela election » Disputed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has declared victory in his country’s national election … but did he actually win that election?

The White House has its doubts. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby:

KIRBY:  And we've seen the announcement by Venezuelan electoral authorities. And quite frankly, we have serious concerns that the result as announced does not reflect the will and the votes of the Venezuelan people.

Both the Trump and Biden administrations have held that Maduro rigged previous elections.

And the US government’s message to Maduro: If you say you’ve won the election … prove it. Secretary of State Tony Blinken:

BLINKEN:  It's critical that every vote be counted fairly and transparently, that election officials immediately share information with the opposition and independent observers without delay, and that the electoral authorities publish the detailed tabulation of votes.

And several Latin American governments are calling for an emergency meeting of regional leaders to express concern over Sunday's election.

Trump shooting investigation » Former President Donald Trump has agreed to an interview with the FBI … as part of the investigation into the assassination attempt against Trump at a Pennsylvania rally. FBI special agent Kevin Rojek:

ROJEK: We want to get his perspective on what he observed. So just like any other witness to the crime, as well as get his perspective on what occurred to him during that event. But it is a standard victim interview like we would do for any other victim of crime, uh, under any other circumstances.

Rojek says the FBI has determined that the shooter was highly intelligent, attended college, and maintained steady employment. He was also a loner with few friends.

The bureau’s investigation also revealed that he made searches related to power plants, mass shooting events, and information on improvised explosive devices. He also looked up details about the assassinations of political officials around the world.

AUDIO: (Liturgical chant)

Israel/Hezbollah strike »  Hundreds of mourners gathered at a funeral in northern Israel on Monday…honoring one of the 12 children killed from a rocket strike on a soccer field by Hezbollah over the weekend.

More than a dozen more teens and children were seriously injured from the attack.

Israel Defense Force Spokesman Daniel Hagari

HAGARI: For more than nine months Hezbollah is attacking our citizens in the north, firing 1000s of rockets and missiles…targeting families, homes and communities.

U-S security leaders say they’re working to broker a truce … hoping to avoid another front opening in Israel’s war against another Iran-backed terror group, Hamas.

Dems push for SCOTUS overhaul » Vice President Kamala Harris says she fully backs a new proposal from President Biden … to overhaul the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Biden-Harris administration wants Congress to establish term limits for the high court. That’s something Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna says he can get behind:

KHANNA: Every president would get two appointments in their term. Term limits is something I've supported for House and Senate members. We have term limits for the president. Why not have term limits, uh, for Supreme Court justices?

The proposal would also impose a new code of ethics for the court’s nine justices.

Biden also is calling for a constitutional amendment that would limit presidential immunity.

House Speaker Mike Johnson called the proposal a “dangerous gambit,” and predicted it will be dead on arrival in the House.

Republicans say it’s a politically motivated ploy by Democrats to attack a court they don’t agree with.

Iowa abortion »  Unborn children in Iowa are now protected from abortion once a heartbeat is detectable. WORLD’s Christina Grube has more.

GRUBE: The new pro-life protections took effect yesterday … banning most abortions around six weeks gestation.
Although the law was passed last year, a judge had blocked its enforcement as a legal battle played out. But the Iowa Supreme Court later reiterated that there's no constitutional right to an abortion in the state. And that hold has now been lifted.
Currently, 14 states have near total protections for unborn children.
For WORLD, I’m Christina Grube.

National debt hits $35 trillion  » The Treasury Department says the U.S. national debt … has now topped $35 trillion dollars.

The debt has ballooned by 150 percent over the past 15 years. The country is expected to pay over a trillion dollars in interest payments alone this year … even as the federal government continues to overspend, adding to the spiraling debt.

I’m Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: More reporting on Venezuela’s election results.

Plus, competing in the Highland Games.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Tuesday the 30th of July, 2024.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

Up first… contested election results in Venezuela

AUDIO: Banging pots and pans.

MAST: That’s the sound of disappointed Venezuelans protesting the election results by banging on pots and pans in Caracas.

Polling data collected by the opposition pointed to a landslide victory for its candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez. But when authorities announced the results Sunday night, President Nicholas Maduro claimed victory for a third term.

MADURO: (Speaking in Spanish)

REICHARD: Here Maduro says the electoral system has a high level of confidence and transparency…but many disagree. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Venezuelan authorities to release the vote tallies that would verify who really won.

BLINKEN: The international community is watching this very closely and will respond accordingly.

REICHARD: What does the election mean for Venezuela today…and in the coming weeks? Here to talk about it is WORLD’s Latin America associate correspondent Carlos Paez.

Carlos, good morning!

CARLOS PÁEZ, CORRESPONDENT: Good morning. Thank you.

REICHARD: Well let’s start with some background. We know Nicholas Maduro has been in power for 11 years now, since 2013 when he became president after the death of Hugo Chavez, the strongman. What has Maduro led Venezuela into since that time?

PÁEZ: Yes, Nicolas Maduro was the former vice president and handpicked successor of Hugo Chavez to continue on the presidency in 2013. He tried to follow the same policies of the Chavista regime implemented earlier, but during his administration, we saw the collapse of the Venezuelan economy. We saw the devaluation of the Venezuelan Bolivar. We also saw that the Venezuelan oil industry collapsed, even though it boasts having the largest oil reserves in the world, to the point that Venezuela now has to import its own gasoline from Iran and other countries.

REICHARD: Many of us remember that the opposition to Maduro used to be led by Juan Guaido…he declared an interim government following the contested 2018 election…but he’s no longer in charge. What happened to him, and who’s leading now?

PÁEZ: Juan Guaidó was the former Interim President of Venezuela. In 2019 he tried to overthrow Maduro through a constitutional means, but he was unsuccessful because of the divided opposition that supported him and that later took him out of his position. The difference now is that María Corina Machado has won the opposition primaries with 93% of the popular vote, and that makes her the strongest opposition leader that Venezuela has had since the rise of Hugo Chávez.

REICHARD: So why is Gonzalez on the ticket instead of Machado?

PÁEZ: Yes, so Machado won the primaries last year for the opposition, but she was part from competing by Nicolas Maduro through arbitrary means on the Supreme Court of Venezuela. Edmundo Gonzalez was picked by the opposition as a substitute for Machado. He has pledged to follow the same policies of María Corina Machado, and Machado successfully transferred all her political popularity and support to Edmundo Gonzalez. So at the end of the day he is representing Machado movement.

REICHARD: Well, now you have been looking into how this latest election that ended on Sunday was done. What did you find?

PÁEZ: Yes, so as time passes, we see more evidence that there was an electoral fraud by the part of the government. The Carter Center from the United States issued a statement demanding the Venezuelan Government to show the voting machine tallies on the election which have not been published to the public, and the opposition has, at the same time, declared victory itself, claiming to have won 70% of the popular vote for Edmundo Gonzalez

REICHARD: And just so people know, the Carter Center is an international observer of elections around the world. Can you speak to who was eligible to vote in this Venezuelan election? Given how many Venezuelans live abroad, that must be a concern.

PÁEZ: Yes, so of the 8 million Venezuelans located in exile, only 69,000 were able to vote. That means that basically 25% of the Venezuelan population was uneligible to vote and barred from its voting rights. Within Venezuela we also saw regularities for people to get registered to vote, and that poses a huge risk for a transparent electoral process.

REICHARD: So how has the opposition responded to that?

PÁEZ: The opposition has clearly denounced this as an attempt from the government to steal the votes. They have also emphasized that the great majority of Venezuelans living abroad are going to vote for opposition, and that is why they got barred from voting on the elections, and they have decided to not recognize the electoral results provided by the government and María Corina Machado has instead declared Edmundo Gonzalez as the new president of Venezuela.

REICHARD: And what do we know about how the citizens are responding to the election results?

PÁEZ: There have been protests worldwide, especially among the exiles who were not able to vote, that people are expressing a lot of anger, a lot of disappointment, but María Corina Machado has made it clear that this is not the end of her campaign, but actually the beginning. We have to see how the people will respond, if they will turn aggressive, or if they will wait for a signal from María Corina Machado to take further action.

REICHARD: Carlos, is there anything else regarding what's going on in Venezuela that would be helpful for people outside of Venezuela to understand?

PÁEZ: Yes, it is important for people abroad to realize that this can have regional consequences as well. 25% of the Venezuelan population has said that, that they would leave the country, marking another wave of mass migration that could destabilize the region all the more, and many of them coming to the United States and passing through the border with Mexico. It is also important to note that the taking of office for the next Venezuelan presidency will take place early next year, and there will be a six month period that will be crucial to determine what will happen to Venezuela in the near future. It will depend a lot, not only on the national politics that take place, but also on the commitment of world powers, especially if the United States and other Western leaders, to ensure a transition of power if Gonzales is recognized as the legitimate president of Venezuela.

REICHARD: We'll be keeping an eye on it for sure. Carlos Páez is an associate correspondent for WORLD and reports on Latin America. Carlos, thanks so much!

PÁEZ: Thank you.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: Holding prisons… accountable.

Last week, President Joe Biden signed a bill establishing independent oversight of the Bureau of Prisons. That’s the federal agency responsible for 122 correctional facilities across the United States.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: The bill is called the Federal Prison Oversight Act. It aims to combat rampant sexual abuse, staffing shortages, escapes, and civil rights violations.

What’s it like to work in a federal prison? And how might this law change that?

MAST: WORLD’s Addie Offereins wrote this report. WORLD correspondent Anna Johansen Brown brings it to us now.

ZUMKEHR: Thomson is in the middle of nowhere.

ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN, REPORTER: Jon Zumkehr [ZUM-KER] is a corrections officer at a federal prison in Thomson, Illinois—just across the border from Iowa. He’s also the president of the facility’s union.

ZUMKEHR: We’ve lost 60 staff since January. And again, what you said is accurate. The whole country is facing a law enforcement shortage. It's a recruitment and retention crisis

Thomson is missing almost 30 percent of its staff—and Zumkehr says the Bureau of Prisons is doing little to address the shortages.

Instead of finding ways to retain officers and attract new ones, the prison regularly asks other prison employees serving as nurses, cooks, and teachers to guard prisoners.

ZUMKEHR: They'll take that teacher out of the classroom, and they'll put them in that correctional officer's job. Which, again, we say is making the prison less safe because if it requires 100 people to run that prison, and you take 10 of the people away and put them in officer positions, and that's the average we do a day at Thompson, you'd have 10 less staff at the prison, which makes it less safe.

Compounding the problem of staff shortages is a rise in inmates abusing staff members. Between 2019 and 2023, inmates at Thomson sexually assaulted female staff more than 1,600 times. But according to Zumkehr, staff members who raised concerns were brushed off.

ZUMKEHR: We made an allegation to say these are happening on a daily basis, that our staff come to work and inmates expose themselves to them, that it was an attempt to intimidate female staff. And we had the leadership at the time say, “Oh, it's just part of the job. You know, this is a male environment. Just deal with it.”

Because the Bureau won’t deal with this behavior, prisons bear the brunt of it.

ZUMKEHR: And the effects on the female staff? We have people quit. It affected their marriage, it affected their home life. I had many emails from staff saying I sit in my car every day prior to coming into work, and I don't want to go into work. I don't want to see, you know, the things that they were seeing ... .Your recruitment and retention issue just goes down the tubes.

Zumkehr hopes the new Federal Prison Oversight Act will change that.

ZUMKEHR: We're federal employees, you know, we need to be transparent to the public on the good, the bad and the ugly.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree that the Bureau of Prisons is in desperate need of rehabilitation. Last year, the Government Accountability Office added the Bureau to its high-risk list—areas of the federal government that are vulnerable to fraud, abuse, and mismanagement.

The Senate passed the oversight measure unanimously.

Here’s the bill’s sponsor, Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia

AUDIO: It will require the inspector general of the Department of Justice to undertake ongoing and regular inspections of every single federal prison in the United States. It will establish an independent ombudsman at the Department of Justice to investigate the health safety welfare and rights of incarcerated people and staff.

Criminal justice experts and prison ministry leaders say the bill is also an essential first step toward increasing rehabilitation opportunities for inmates.

Michael Hallett is a professor of criminology at the University of North Florida. He researches religious programs in several of the United States’ largest maximum security prisons.

HALLETT: The American prison system is currently so understaffed, that they don't have enough staff even to make sure that volunteers who come in are safe enough to execute their programs.

He says this cuts prisons off from a vital source of accountability.

HALLETT: That creates a situation where prisoners become more isolated and prisons themselves become far less transparent. When outsiders are coming into the prison, especially religious volunteers, who get to know their prisoners over months and years, they could report back to outside authorities what's going on in the prison. As soon as you remove those volunteers, that makes prisons much more dangerous.

Kate Trammell [TRAM-ULL] is the vice president of advocacy for Prison Fellowship.

She agrees that staffing shortages do cut down on opportunities for rehabilitative programming. And she says that rehabilitation is vital.

TRAMMELL: We know that most of the men and women who are in federal prison will one day walk out those doors and be our neighbors. Many of them will walk straight back into parenthood. They will be looking for jobs, they will be looking for housing, and every opportunity that we can give them well inside to take hold of a new life, to practice new behaviors is going to be so helpful in setting them up for success.

That’s why Trammell hopes the new bill will encourage a healthier prison environment.

The bill will result in more inspections and reports…but it’s still up to the Bureau of Prisons to make the changes. After the Justice Department’s inspector general files a report to Congress and the public, the Bureau then has 60 days to respond with an action plan. And that’s where the rubber will meet the road. The Bureau’s director says it would need tens of millions of dollars in additional funding to make recommended changes.

Regardless of how effectively the act is enforced, Zumkehr says the conversations involved are essential for rebuilding trust.

ZUMKEHR: Anything to shine more light on the process is important right now. And I think we need to get the public support, you know, kind of behind us and trust. And I think we get that being transparent.

For WORLD, I’m Anna Johansen Brown…with reporting from Addie Offereins.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Just two guys in a car, that turned out to be so much more.

John Johnson hailed a ride in Dallas and Uber driver Danny Blanton showed up.

BOTH MEN; How’s it going, John? Yes sir, how you doing? Man, I’m great. How about yourself? I’m good, man…

MAST: The men made small talk for a few seconds, and then you can see in the video how passenger Johnson cocks an ear in recognition of that voice.

JOHNSON: What’s your name, man? My name’s Danny. I think I know you. You don’t know me?

MAST: Blanton turned around and… oh boy!

BLANTON:  Man!! What the….? (laughter)

MAST: They’d worked together in the 1990s at a Dallas nightclub and lost track over the years. But they’ve already gotten together since and the video of friendship has gone viral.

MARY REICHARD: Just pick up right where you left off.

MAST: It's The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST:  Today is Tuesday, July 30th.

Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

LINDSAY MAST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: the Scottish Olympics….in North Carolina!

Now, these games don’t receive the coverage of what’s going on in Paris right now…but still, competition reigns. Athletes compete in these Highland Games with rocks and trees instead of equipment.

REICHARD: WORLD'S Mary Muncy followed one athlete from practice to competition. Here's the story.

AUDIO: [Sound of practice]

MARY MUNCY: Greg Womack-Adams is throwing large rocks in the yard beside his condo in Raleigh, North Carolina.

GREG WOMACK-ADAMS: It’s the loneliest game of fetch.

He’s practicing for the 68th annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in North Carolina. Last year he got third at the tournament. This year he wants to win it.

WOMACK-ADAMS: Traditionally, there's nine different events.

The one he’s practicing now is like shot put but with a rock. The rock is about 20 pounds.

WOMACK-ADAMS: To win the day. You don't have to win every single event. You just have to be in the top three, typically throughout the day.

The Highland Games also include things like bagpipe competitions, a race, and dancing and it brings thousands of Scottish-Americans together.

Greg Womack-Adams is named for his grandmother’s McGregor clan and he wears the clan's colors red and green on his kilt when he competes.

WOMACK-ADAMS: I grew up about an hour south of there, so it just means a lot to me, and I've always wanted to win at Grandfather.

Womack is a 32-year-old, 6’3” 250-pound partly-Scottish man. He started competing in the Highland Games in a bagpiping band, but at one in 2016, he had time to compete with the band and try the athletics.

WOMACK-ADAMS: I was doing CrossFit at the time, and thought I was hot stuff. I was like, I can do that.

He did have plenty of experience throwing rocks, after all…

WOMACK-ADAMS: I've thrown rocks since I was a kid. But moving in that fashion to put that force on the implement, and then the weights themselves were just terrible. Terrible.

While Womack was out there, the other competitors gave him little tips on how to get better and he realized he wasn’t just throwing rocks in a field, he was joining a community.

ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome everyone to the 68th Grandfather Mountain Highland Games.

Womack walks onto the field wearing his kilt, neon green, kneehigh socks, and cleats. He takes fourth in the first event and second in the next.

AUDIO: [CHEERING FOR GREG]

Some of his friends and his mom are on the sidelines. He heads over to grab a sandwich.

WOMACK-ADAMS: I'm not in the lead.

MUNCY: But it's two events.

WOMACK-ADAMS: It’s two events, yeah, and so now we're going to the distance events, and I'll pick up a lot of points there.

He eats a sandwich and heads back to the field.

He places in the top three in the next few events, but not first. A newer guy is taking first in a lot of the events. Then at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon it’s time for the hammer toss—one of Womack’s best events.

He puts on boots with stakes on the front to keep him anchored to the ground… then he warms up by swinging the 22-pound, 4-foot-long hammer in a circle around his head. They have to stay inside a box and toss the hammer as far as they can. He gets three attempts and the best one will count.

ANNOUNCER: Greg is up. Greg from Raleigh North Carolina, structural engineer.

He steps into the box and takes a deep breath. He swings the hammer around his head a few times, building speed. And then he almost falls and steps out of the box. One of his shoe stakes had come up.

He gets two more tries. They’re good, but not good enough, and he gets second place.

WOMACK-ADAMS: Did not fall on my face, did not stab myself with the knives on my boots, so that's a victory in and of itself.

But at this point, he’s not averaging high enough to win.

WOMACK-ADAMS: I'm at peace with it.

He gets second in the last event and helps his friends pack up before heading to the awards ceremony.

ANNOUNCER: Men’s B class open overall results, third Greg Womack-Adams.

It’s the same place he got last year.

WOMACK-ADAMS: Sometimes you just get bested, and then you just kind of have to live with that.

At his next games, he’ll be in a higher category… with even stiffer competition. But he’ll be back throwing with some of his friends that moved up before him.

WOMACK-ADAMS: I feel like I've reached that false horizon now. I'm like, Oh no, the peak was still still ahead.

He competes to win, but that’s not why he’s there.

WOMACK-ADAMS: Yeah, it's fun to throw rocks and trees in the field, but it's the people that make it fun.

He’ll keep training when he gets home. But for now, he’s going to go eat pasta with his friends and enjoy watching the pros compete tomorrow.

AUDIO: [CHANTING FOR GREG]

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Mary Muncy in Raleigh and Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina.

MARY REICHARD, HOST:  Today is Tuesday, July 30th, 2024. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. The Summer Olympics opened in Paris last week…but France’s cultural displays weren’t all fun and games. WORLD Opinions Commentator Carl Trueman with what one disgusting performance says about France’s cultural decline

CARL TRUEMAN, COMMENTATOR: The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics will be remembered as an eloquent testimony to the tilt of contemporary Western culture. The drag queen parody of the Last Supper and the appearance of the severed head of Marie Antoinette performing karaoke said it all: a culture that has given the world the plays of Racine, the novels of Hugo, the paintings of the Impressionists, and the music of Fauré, served the world a dish of blasphemous kitsch and gaudy perversion.

Of course, those responsible denied any intention to offend Christians: In a statement to the Telegraph organizers said, “On the contrary, each of the tableaux in the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony were intended to celebrate community and tolerance.” [End quote] According to the Telegraph, ‘Organizers further noted that pop culture, from “The Simpsons” to “The Sopranos,” has parodied “The Last Supper” for decades, if not centuries.’

Certainly such parodies are not new is true, confirming the organizers’ intellectual laziness and lack of imagination. But The Simpsons and The Sopranos are nothing more than examples of trivial entertainment, not public rituals intended to have national, even international, cultural significance. If queers mocking the Lord’s Supper and a decapitated singing head are the things that France – or at least her officer class – consider to represent her, then things have surely taken a most dark turn. ‘This is France’ tweeted President Macron. I hope he was exaggerating.

As we reflect on this moment, Christians should note that this action indicates at least three things about our current cultural climate. First, the culture from which it emerged is largely parasitic, dependent for its existence on the denial or the mockery of that once considered true. It has nothing positive to say, glorying only in the defilement and destruction of things that earlier cultures saw as holy. Under its tasteless wrappings, it’s an anti-culture of nothingness.

Second, despite the outrage, the performance is oddly appropriate. Yes, France has produced many great cultural figures, as noted above. But on display in the opening ceremony is that other strand of French cultural life, the one that has come to dominate, the one that represents the anarchic and ecstatic destruction of every notion of truth, beauty and goodness. It is that stream of thinking that runs from the perverted sexual fantasies of the Marquis De Sade through the weird obsessions of a man like Georges Bataille to the amoral philosophy of Michel Foucault, perhaps the most cited author in the humanities in the West today. Yes, France has produced great beauty. But the French thinkers who dominate Western intellectual approaches to culture today are those who exulted in ugliness and evil.

Third, this again points to the real problem of the West. It is not merely that science has reduced man in his own eyes to being just one amoral animal among others. It is not merely that post-industrial, bureaucratic society has turned persons into things, subjects into objects. It is not even that our culture’s obsession with sex has unleashed all manner of anarchy upon the human race. It is that we now delight in desecration – of God and thus of those made in his image.

And that brings out the real horror of this ‘queering’ of the Last Supper. In desecrating God’s grace, it denies the real solution to humanity’s problem. We need to be consecrated. And that comes only through the means of grace, the Word and the sacraments. The spittle dripped on the latter by the organizers of France’s Olympics is destructive not simply of culture but, more importantly, of souls. May God have mercy on us all, for we need it.

I’m Carl Trueman.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Tomorrow: Congress heads out for summer vacation…but what did they get done for government funding bills? We’ll talk about Republican spending priorities on Washington Wednesday.

And veterans find healing through the spoken word.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Lindsay Mast.

MARY REICHARD, HOST:  And I’m Mary Reichard.

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