Thu Episode #2162: Colonial Plunder Dressed as Foreign Policy

what the war is about. They have put a total block eighty said, and as of last night they announced, and I believe it had started this morning. The Venezuelan Navy is escorting these tankers. So we'll see what happens. But at least Trump is finally telling us the truth, still telling us lies about it, telling us the truth that it's a war of colonialism. And then, of course you have Homeland Security that decided in laterally that they're going to start taking DNA from all visitors from friendly

countries and allies. If you want to come here as a tourist. Five years of social media and DNA and who decided this? Did Congress know is decided by the bureaucracy. We'll be right back. Well, let's begin with the stupid wars, because they are stupid, and as I mentioned here at the beginning, we have total blockade. But the House is going to vote this week on a bill to block Trump from launching a war with Venezuela day eight dollars short, perhaps, but they may do it today. They may not do

it today. Maybe they'll do it after it's already started. The House could vote as soon as Thursday on a bipartisan war powers resolution aimed at blocking Trump from launching an attack on Venezuela, met a major US military build up in the Caribbean and thought and threats of regime

change of Austin Maduro. The bill is introduced by a Democrat, has thirty one co sponsors, including three Republicans, Thomas Massey, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Don Bacon, all of whom, well, Massey is running again, but you know he's got the zionist billionaires who want to get him out as well as Trump. But the other two have said, bora, we're not going to have that fight. And most of The GOP would rather go to war with anyone and kill anyone rather than go to war with Trump, because they're

all about themselves. They don't care about anybody else. They don't care about the Constitution. He's wore up Uldu. They're despicable. The Constitution does not permit the executive branch to unilaterally commit an act of war against the sovereign nation that hasn't attacked the US, said Thomas Massey in a statement when the bill was introduced. Congress has the sole power to declare war against Venezuela, and Congress must decide such

matters according to our Constitution. Well, clearly Trump knows when this vote is going to come up, because he's got his little weasel, Mike Johnson, who's basically scheduling and controlling that stuff. So maybe that has something to do with the timing of the total blockade that is there. This is go ahead, knock that chip off of my shoulder

type of thing. Another War Powers resolution that was introduced in the House by Representative Gregory Meeks, Democrat New York aims to stop Trump's bombing campaign against alleged drug boats in Latin America, and that was expected to be brought to a vote yesterday. I didn't see whether that happened or not. But it also had thirty one co sponsors, but not a single Republican, not Massy, not Marjorie Taylor Green. Why is that? To me? That is as outrageous. That

is an act of war. There is a war crime the way they have conducted it. Something needs to be done about that. Meanwhile, Julian Assange has filed a criminal complaint in Sweden, where the Nobel Foundation is headquartered, and he accuses the Nobel Foundation the people give out the Nobel Peace Prize, accuse them of misusing the peace prize funds by awarding them to Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Carina Machado, who is publicly called on the US to attack her

own country. Yeah, she's the one that gave the peace prize to. And when you look at this, it's like as absurd as it seems that Trump thinks that he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. Perhaps this is why, Hey, if Maria can get one, I guess I should be able to get one. She's calling for war against her

own country. The complaint dated on Wednesday and submitted to Sweden's Economic Crime Authority and War Crimes Unit, where the Nobel Foundation is based, argues that Alfred Nobel's will legally restricts the Peace Prize funds to purpose is that promote peace and bars their use to advance war or foreign

military intervention. And he is spot on because it's her party and the people affiliated with her that Trump is trying to install there and giving her a Nobel Peace Prize is a pr move that is being done by this committee diverse. Disbursing prize money to Machado violates the mandate and could constitute a crime under Swedish law, Assange says, while warning that the Nobel Peace Prize could be used

as an instrument of war. Interesting because it exists because offered Nobel created dynamite, and then when he saw how it was being used in war, he took the money that he made from it and set up this peace prize. Yes, and now we come full circle again. Now they're using it to create war. The complaint sites a series of public sayments in which Machado endorsed potential US military intervention in Venezuela while defending Washington's use of force amid its

heavy military build up in the Caribbean. Assane pointed out that she had that she had justified US strikes on boats off of Venezuela's coasts, which have killed ninety five people to date. The US maintains that it is targeting Narco terrace, while the UN has condemned the strikes as extra judicial killings, and that's what they are. But now Trump is telling us the truth about the purpose of this,

as we'll get to in a second. Here, Trump boasted that Venezuela surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America, while promising to tighten the screws on Caracas until they quote return all of the oil, the land, and other assets that they previously stole from us. Now he's starting to get to the truth of the matter. It's about oil always, and you know it's about regime change. But the regime change is the penultimate cause of this.

Oil is the primary cause of it, as it is over and over again with our wars Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and things like that. In Afghanistan, I think they're really there there after the opium and the lithium, But you just have to ask the Cia while we're having these wars because they're the ones that are starting it right, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei lavrav said, the US actions off of Venezuela's coast undermine hopes that an agreement can be

reached with Washington. How can we deal with these pirates here? It's kind of interesting. We had that young woman who has been the pr point for the European Union and pushing war, and she said, we can't trust Russia. In the last one hundred years, they have started nineteen wars. Really, I don't remember that I looked it up. I mean, you count them up best. I can come up with this ten to fourteen, depending on how you break these actions down. I mean, they've had some actions they count

if you count World War Two. In the last one hundred years, everybody was going to war with everybody else. And at the beginning of that Russia was allied with Germany, so you could say that they were the aggressors in that war. But then there were the situations where they invaded Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Georgia, Chechen things that were in their sphere. You know, like, we say we can do that. Trump says we can do that in South America. They were

also in Afghanistan and Syria. We also in Afghanistan and Syria and Iraq. We can throw that in there as well. So how do we measure up with all this stuff? You know, we've also been in Grenada, in Cuba and Venezuela, We've attacked them and so forth. I mean, we've got a much longer list. Panama could just keep going. Who's the threat here? Yeah, who's the domino theory applied to? I mean, we're like the ones who set up the dominoes and we're knocked them down, you know, everywhere I look,

that's what I see. So anyway, Trump has declared a total and complete blockade of sanctioned oil tankers in and out of Venezuela, and as of last night, Venezuela was saying that they were going to escort it with naval vessels, and there's a lot of news articles about that that came out just this morning, may kickoff today. Trump on Tuesday said a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned

oil tankers. Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America's I just quoted, and it'll only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they've ever seen before. I'm just sick and tired of these war sellers, these warmongers boasting about their power. I don't want to see a bunch of Americans get killed, but I'm just sick and tired of the American military and the Pentagon makes me want

to throw up. I despise them, just like I despise Israeli government. The president, and the blockade, an action that's generally considered an act of war under international law, would continue until Venezuela quote returns our oil. Think about that. Of course, he only said the same thing Siria said, you take the oil? What claim do we have in

Syria for oil? And of course they're still there, and of course they still had, you know, just had in the last couple of days three Americans killed there, and the Pentagon says they're not going to change anything about their policies there in Syria. They don't care. It doesn't matter to them. Law, morality, the death of their own troops, none of that matters to these people. It's just amazing.

So finally Trump is telling the truth, even if it's ugly and of course, especially the way he puts it here, the president appears to be referring to the nationalization of all projects under Hugo Chavez, who forced foreign run companies to be converted into joint ventures in which Venezuela's state oil company held a majority state. Isn't that what Trump is doing with TikTok? Same thing? And Maduro might want to take a look at what we did to another

country that did that, Iran. Most of day was elected, he wanted to do the same thing that Hugo Chavez did, so there was the CIA coup against him. They put in the shaw of Iran. They trained his secret police to brutally repress the people that are there. That's the pattern. Western wall companies accepted Chavez his terms, including Chevron, which continues to operate in Venezuela today, while others rejected the deal out of hand, most notably Exxon Mobile. They exited

the country. They sued the Venezuelan government and international arbitration over the expropriations, but the oil remains the property of the Venezuelan state and is unclear what Trump means when he claims that Venezuelan land was stolen from the US. Again, what claim do we have over Syrian oil? And why are we there? Trump also claimed that Maduro's government was a foreign terrorist organization, referring to his administration as we heard this over and over again, the non existent cartel

the Sons. Now, this article from Anti Walla's the first time I have seen this. I said, the term cartel the Sons was first to use in the early nineteen nineties to describe some Venezuelan generals who had sun and insignias on their uniforms. Why because they were involved in cocaine trafficking, not VENTONYL Ventnol didn't even exist then, in cocaine trafficking, and they were actually working with the CIA at the time. If you want to shut down the

world's worst drug cartel, shut down the CIA. They're the ones who are the worst, the most powerful of all these cartels. They are worst. They're worse than the Sinaloa cartel, l Chopping and the rest of them. But they just keep going and going, unlimited amounts of money, and the murders, the assassinations, the coups, the wars that they start everywhere, just disgusting or discuss me. The US War Department says, now, no force posture changes. That's the way they put it.

They're not going to make any adjustments here because we had some Americans killed in Syria doing things which we have no legal right to be doing, no justification. It's nothing but piracy. But we got a thousand US troops in Syria? Why are they there? I'm going to ask yourself. I mean, didn't we have this discussion under Obama? And under Obama he kept itching to put US boots on the ground. And I don't know if he did it or Trump did it, or Biden did it. They didn't

tell us even when they did it. They did it. They helped to establish and put in charge of Syria ISIS and the people that we were fighting in Afghanistan, and then we put them in charge of Syria. Why because of oil and because of geopolitical competition with Russia. As Henry Kissinger said, we have no permanent allies. We have permanent interests, and those are interests. And so we will fight al Qaeda in Afghanistan in a rock and say that's what we're doing there, and then we will

put al Qaeda and isis in charge in Syria. It's always about the oil. It's always about the big corporations. It's just never changes, never changes. And so Haig Seth says, in terms of the video of the strike, the second strike on the drug boat survivors, of course I'm not going to release the full video. We knew that as well. The one video that you're not going to see. They will put out video of every single strike against boats.

They're not in conflict with them, they're not fighting them, they aren't shooting back or shooting at them, and that they have not verified have drugs. They will put every single one of those videos up. They will put up videos of them and their piracy taking a tanker with one to two million gallons of oil, barrels of oil. I'm sorry, barrels. I think a barrel is like fifty gallons or something. But they will put those videos out.

That's the only video they won't put out. And I guarantee you that if this thing turns into a shooting war, they're going to put out tons and tons of video, but they're not going to put out video of their clear war crimes. I say the whole thing is a war crime, and I've said that from the very beginning, but this one is something that even people who want to support their action have a real issue trying to explain that away. So of course he's not going to

put it out. We all know that they're going to read it. It's top secret, top secret. Cannot see that. And I said for the longest time that classification things are done more to protect them than to protect the nation, And the whole idea of national security is really to protect them and not the nation, especially when you look at the fact that our government by becoming the policeman

of the world. This all happened under Truman. Truman creates the CIA, he creates the NSA, he creates a national security state, He turns the military into the world's policeman. All that stuff goes together, and now we look at NATO and look at Mark Ruta, the guy who tried to destroy all of the farms, the small farms in the Netherlands, the most productive farms in the world, and he wanted to put them out of business, criminalizing fertilizer

of all things. Because he's got a system set up with Picnic and family members that are partnering with Bill gates. They want to manufacture the food and deliver the food, and they don't want any competition from farmers. So the people in the Netherlands woke up to what was going on. Some of the things are starting to happen now in France as well. They're going around in France with this mass culling program that is happening there, just like they

did with chickens here in this country. We're going to do a PCR test and oh, we've got one positive here for some disease that we claim we're looking for, so we're gonna have to kill your entire herd of cattle. It's like going to kill a million chickens because we got one positive PCR test. It's absurd. But rather than roll over and die for the government, like the poultry farms dead here and again, most of it was being done with the cooperation of the really big egg farms

because it worked out for them. They made a lot more money if they reduced the number of eggs. But they're in France. The farmers are pushing back and the veterinarians that are going in there and doing the tests have to have armored cars and military aid because they're ready to fight. These people want to starve us, they want to kill us in war, because that's what Mark Ruda is doing. After trying to destroy the farms and the Netherlands, the people kicked him out. So where'd you go?

He went to NATO and he's now saying that Trump has been very good for NATO. And I said this myself when he was in his first term. I said, he's not going to get out of NATO. What he's doing is he's threatening to do that as a prod to get the NATO countries as a reason for them to go to the people in their country and say, hey, we're going to have to up our defense spending because

it's going to be on us. Trump was there as a prod to get them to up their defense spending because they all knew that the Ukraine War was going to be happening. I mean, if Alexey Restovich and Ukraine knew that, of course they knew it too. There's an open secret for everybody on both sides of this. Russia

as well even knew exactly when going to attend. So as I said, you know, so many times you see Trump positions himself out there as a foil against the globalist when in reality he's doing their work for them. He did it at NATO, he did it with the lockdowns, leading the lockdowns and developing the poison mRNA for everybody. He is a manchurion candidate of the globalist and the technocrats. He's the guy that is pratting around telling you how he opposes them, how he hates him. He's opposed to

the CIA right, the deep state. And then what does he do, And he's opposed to George Bush's Iraq war based on lies about weapons and master destruction. What does he do? He takes the person Gena Haspell, who sold those lies, who produced those lies about weapons of mass destruction by torturing people, and there were lies. She's the one who did the torture, who covered up the torture, who gave them the lies, and he puts her in charge of CIA his entire first term because Pompeo was

a figurehead. She was a number two there until they just said, we don't need a disguise anymore. We'll just make her number one. Over and over again. He talks about these issues from the perspective of people who love this country and loved the Constitution, and yet he does just the opposite. He does what is in the interest of NATO and the UN. Well, let's talk about the other stupid war, and that is Ukraine before we take

a break. Here John Mehersheimer Meerscheimer is talking about why diplomacy is going nowhere in the Ukraine Russian War, and as a consequence, he says Ukraine is doomed. And he's absolutely right. And I've said this before. I said, Alexey Arrostovich a guy who basically doesn't really have a filter. He just tells you the way it is, you know.

And he said, now is the time that we need to try to arrange to have peace on some terms so we can preserve Ukraine as a country instead of being a region of Russia as it has been for four hundred years. With Silenski having much belatedly dropped aspirations for Ukraine's NATO membership, European officials are now openly admitting that what pretty much everyone knew but was afraid to say. The U High Representative acknowledged in fresh remarks that Ukraine's

membership in NATO is quote out of the question. However, said at the same time, the European Union now needs to provide concrete security guarantees. So the reality is that I say, all right, you're not going to be a NATO, we're not going to give you formal status, but we're still going to have the essence of what NATO was about, the Article five protections to say that if you were attacked, we view that as an attack on all of us.

And so they use them as a cat's pause, a provocation, and then if they are attacked, that's their excuse to go to war with Russia. That's what this is all about. You know. The whole purpose of NATO was as a mutual defense agreement the way it was sold everybody, and it is a trip wire to draw us into wars. If this Ukraine NATO membership is not in question, if this is out of the question, then we need to see what the security guarantees are that are tangible. They

can't be just papers or promises. They have to be real troops and real capabilities. So they're reactivating the draft in several European countries and they're spending inordinate amounts of money on weapons of war to destroy their countries and other countries. It's absolutely insane. The world is going crazy. So this is Kaja Kallis, and you've seen her, you know, she's like thirty something and she has been their spokesperson

for war. She's the one who said, in the last one hundred years, Russia has attacked at least nineteen countries. As I said before and again I look that up and it's like, okay, you know, there's the countries of World War Two, and then there's things under the Soviet Union when there were the uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia and then later on uprisings in Georgia. But the only count that I could come up with was ten to fourteen.

But she says nineteen. You know, you can also throw in Afghanistan in Syria, but we were there as well, and we had no reason to be there either. Plus we can also throw it on our side Iraq, Panama, Cuba, Vietnam, Venezuela, Grenada, Libya, Somalia, Yemen. We have done this year. I think something bombing runs in Somalia. Why is that? Who talks about that? Nobody cares. So Europe is still going to propose some scheme such as Article five security guarantees, things just short of formal

NATO membership. But the Russian leaders are going to see this for what it is a recipe for future war euros is Chicago professor John Meerscheimer. So there's virtually no reason to think that a peace agreement can be stuck to struck rather to end the war, despite all the diplomatic maneuvering that has been taking place in recent months. For sure, diplomacy is a good thing and principle, but in practice in this case, it's going nowhere. Russian demands

are completely at odds with Ukrainian and European demands. Neither side is willing to budge an inch. Moreover, many seem to think that the proposal of the Trump administration is pushing is a joint US Russia plan, one that both Moscow and Washington support, when in fact, there is no evidence that the Russians have accepted Trump's twenty seven point plan. And you know, when we look at this, Lindsey Graham has admitted repeatedly before and throughout this war that the

purpose is to go after Russia. Well, I think this is working really good. I think how many Russians we killed, how much of the equipment we've taken out. This is exactly what we wanted, you know, before the war. It's like, well, next year we're going to go act Putin. He's telling the people in Ukraine what were they doing that year? Well, that year they were going after Ukrainians. The Ukrainian army

was attacking other Ukrainians because the government that we put in. Indeed, the proposal is unacceptable to the Russians, as they made clear on December. The fourth Diplomacy will not only become relative, will only become relevant when there is a major development on the battlefield that tells both sides that it's time to negotiate an armistice, turning the hot war into a frozen conflict. And I don't think that that's going to happen if Selensky's not gone. And of course the US

under Trump is pushing for elections there. Urte's take on it is that Zelensky is stealing the election before it's even been announced. His preconditions make a mockery of it. They said, first of all, Ukrainians have a right to finally be released from their perverse bondage to what is in effect a long ago failed Western proxy war against Russia, just as I said, Lindsey Graham has admitted that over and over again. He doesn't even have any shame about that.

The former Biden administration policy official Amanda Sloat has casually admitted that much now as well. Why then did the US, Why then did the West want war in order to diminish Russia by using the Ukraine as a battering ram and Ukrainians as cannon fodder, and everybody except the military industrial complex the warmongers have said this from the very beginning, and many of the warmongers, like Lindsey Graham has said

it from the very beginning as well. No peace will last without an end to Ukraine's ultra corrupt current authoritarian regime. And you talk about defending democracy in Ukraine as absurd under Zelenski, there is no such thing left Now Even some Western mainstream commentators are starting to admit Zelensky's authoritarianism.

Yet the former entertainment producer and vulgar comedian stated systematically, rather, it started systematically undermining what little democracy that Ukraine used to have well before the election of February twenty twenty two, as Ukrainian observers and critics at the time widely discussed and deplored after their political institutions, their religious institutions, you name it, and even Bill Gates said it was the most corrupt country on Earth and had been for a

long time. Zelensky's regime is so corrupt that he has sold out its own people so badly to the West that a lasting peace threatens, not only with them losing power, which they certainly would, but also with a wave of prosecutions starting with Selensky himself and rolling down like an avalanche. Put differently, this is a regime that would always be tempted to restart the war in order to distract from the retribution that it fears. This is why Trump is

right to call for presidential elections in Ukraine. Zelensky has extended his mandate on flimsy grounds and usurped power even formally. In reality, the Ukrainian constitution does not prohibit elections, as he's been saying. It only prohibits parliamentary elections. They can still have an election for president, So even the election for the presiden's eas he's putting it out there, is already rigged to fail. They are planning to shift the

whole presidential election online so they can rig it. It's kind of what happened with Trump. Remember when he when he shut down the country and we had to do a vote by mail election. I was saying that all through the summer, said, if you're going to do that, we know how that's going to be rigged. That's why, to me, the whole election stolen thing never even passed

the sniff test. I believed, and I said it then that I think this was the whole thing, the lockdown election, the vote by mail stuff, that was all done to hand over power to Biden deliberately because they want to have this plausibility. They don't want to have a situation

where does both the vaccine and the mandates. Let's split this so that one group can get upset about the vaccines, but then hold Trump harmless and say, yeah, but you know, Biden made us take that poison that Trump made us pay for and gave billions, hundreds of billions of dollars to these criminals, the pharmaceutical people. So meanwhile, Slunsky and

NATO are playing a very dangerous game of brinksmanship. They're very excited about the fact that they were just able to sink a Russian submarine that was at dock using a sea drone and put it out of action. And this is a sea drone rather than an aerial drone. We've seen a similar situation done with very expensive I think they're bombers, weren't they. It's like five or six bombers or something that were parked on an airfield and

they took them out with an aerial drone attack. I want to put that out there as if this is evidence that they can win the war. This is not the battlefield, folks, This is sabotage. Sabotage is like espionage, right, you go around, you sneak around, and you blow something up. That's what this is like. I mean they just the fact that it was delivered by drone, ariel or sea drone doesn't change the fact this was not done in

a battle. It's sabotage. And you're not going to be able to win the war if you can't win any battles. Sabotage isn't going to do it alone. Well, that's the insanity of where we are at this moment. Let's take some of the comments here, Travis, are you there. Okay, I think Travis stepped out. I think he had to go the rest of it. So we're going to let's do some Christmas here.

foreign tourists. Now just getting like Hitchhiger's guy at the Galaxy, Travis, where you know they measure exactly how how much you What was it about the fat or something going on to a particular planet. Do you remember that Travis has gone again? I guess I don't know. He's not working. He was telling me that he had some issues with his fat fingers. She's still having fat finger issues. Just waved to me.

you know. So the Trump administration is now considering a dramatic expansion of data collection on foreign tourists, including a proposal that would allow authorities to collect DNA from people entering America. Is it a free country? No, it isn't. It's the country. It's one country under technocrats, government buy and for the technocrats. These are countries under the visa

waiver program. So these are travelers who are coming from friendly allied nations that have a long standing visa free agreement. The proposal appears in a new Department of Homeland Security notice that seeks public comment on the revisions to the electronic system for travel authorization and the I ninety four arrival and departure records. So again, this is the way government operates.

don't even come from the Senate. They are things that are You have the bureaucracies that they create, and then they have abdicated their power to those bureaucracies to do whatever they wish, and then the bureaucracies in most cases will wind up and force the rules. They have their own little police forces that are out there as well as adjudicate whether or not you have broken the rules that they created that they are enforcing. Talk about a

consolidation of government. We've taken all three of the branches, and we've combined them now into an unlikeed bureaucracy. And this is just the latest example of it. Just like they said, well we're going to require we're going to require real ID or we're going to charge you eighteen dollars. And then they didn't get any comments, I guess, so they said, well, no, we decided to make it forty five.

They just do it. Then they said, well, we're going to require five years of social media history from anybody coming to this country as a visitor. And now you've got to give your DNA. Do you go see the happiest place on Earth?

tell people try to stop us. I say, the way the whole executive branch operates, from Trump down to these other organizations and the other organizations, bureocracies, the unconstitutional bureaucracies that shouldn't even exist, have been doing this for quite some time. And you could see this pretty much with the IRS that really kind of set up the pattern a law under themselves. They would write the tax code,

they would adjudicate where they violated their tax code. They would drag you into their courts, they had their police and so forth and so on. Now this is being adopted by all of them because it works so well for the IRS. Among the elements that they will collect is DNA, alongside facial images, fingerprints, IRIS scans. What do you think our government that is this paranoid, this much focused on a control being omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, knowing

everything about everybody. What do you think they're going to do to us? Their fatherland security administration from the very beginning, you know, that's really what this is about. The Nazis called it their fatherland. We call it the homeland. Same thing, folks, same ideas. This is represent the most extreme biometric data collection regime anywhere in the world. Yeah, the US already had the most extreme security measures after nine to eleven. Like I said, when we were in China, there were

these announcements as we were leaving. If you're going to the United States, you have to get there extra early, but you know, because we've got to go through all kinds of extra security procedures, and now they're still ramping it up. The US has collected fingerprints from most foreign visitors for years, but this significantly expanded after September eleventh. So right now they're just doing fingerprints and photographs, but now they're going to do social Next, they're going to

do social media and DNA fingerprints. While intrusive are generally used to identify verifications and law enforcement matching, DNA, by contrast, contains vastly more information, including genetic relationships, health predispositions, and biological traits that extend far beyond identity confirmation. The proposal is particularly notable because it would apply even two applicants

coming from friendly countries. These agreements that have been there as part of the visa waiver program are based on mutual trust in order to streamline travel. You know, it used to be that if you want to go to the UK, you didn't have to get a separate visa because they were countries that were friendly to each other

and trusted each other. But now it's not going to be the case for people coming from the UK to here, so again they're making this social media disclosure and now they're proposing DNA, making it all mandatory to come to America. The agency wants to collect extensive family information, including names, dates, places of birth, contact details, residences for parents, spouses, siblings, and children. This is your tutalitarian technocrat Trump regime, always

looking for more data that they can put in there. Yeah, missus Robinson, we'd like to know a little bit about you for our finals social map of millions of travelers each year the technocracy. The document links the expanded data collection to a January twenty twenty five executive order as well as another executive order of April twenty twenty five. So again, this is rule by fiat by Donald Trump, and this is the kind of stuff that we see

when we have a king as aar. It doesn't, however, explain how DNA collection will be operationalized, stored, shared, or protected from misuse. I'm sure they're going to turn it over to Musk and Altman to do with it what they wish. Unlike fingerprints, DNA can be used to infer familial connections, the meaning that the data of one traveler could effectively place their relatives under ndirect genetic surveillance, even if those relatives never even travel to the US. It

also raises international implications. Many visa waiver programmed countries have strong data protection laws, including restrictions on genetic data collection, so put some at odds, but they'll be more than happy to do the same thing to those of US going to their country, as well as to their own people as well. CBP is currently seeking public comment. The agency describes changes as part of an effort to enhance security,

to reduce fraud, to modernize traveler vetting. You know, we have been working on enhancing security since the end of World War Two. Why have we never achieved It seems like the more we work to enhance security about everything, the less security we have. Certainly, the less liberty we have, the less rule of law we have. This is the

security state. The DNA provision would place the US far beyond existing global norms for border screening, transforming short term travel into one of the most invasive data collection exercises any democratically elected government has ever imposed on visitors. There is a public comment on this proposal that is opened for sixty days, So tell them what you think. If you want it won't matter. They're going to do whatever

they wish. Constitution doesn't matter. Remember when the CIA tried to unlock mind control of this article from Reason talking about mk ultra. They have a very limited take on mk ULTRA. The reason they're bringing it up is because the University of Texas historian John Lyle has just done a book about this, and so they talked about it

in the context of that book. And of course it was Sidney Gottlieb if I remember correctly, I think there was somebody that I interviewed called him the Poisoner in Chief. I think, wasn't it. I think that was Sidney gottlib I think it ran for him.

sure they keep their access to them. And so even when they go in and talk about the abuse of the CIA MK Ultra program and you know LSD and other things like that, or they talk about DARPA as well. They'll say, yeah, you know, this is really horrible, wasn't it. You know, but don't it. I'm glad they're not doing this anymore. You know. That was part of the book Raven Rock, the plan to save themselves and let the rest of us die, And he was in that. He

very explicitly said it over and over again. Well this is the way things were back in the fifties and sixties. Good thing they've changed now. You know, our government's not like that at all. A couple looking it's like, you have no idea. They are so much worse than they were then. So Lala is careful not to speculate beyond the available evidence that he could collect, even though he acknowledges that the CIA destroyed most of the evidence. Just

go with what they wanted you to see. But what is on the record is bad enough, they said the CIA. Of course, you powerful drugs such as LSD, on fellow agents, on prisoners, on mental patients.

some genuine volunteers. Even Gottlieb mournfully concluded that LSD was quote in fact, not a reliable way to get information from people. You know, if it was, he would have no problem doing it. I mean he stopped it because he didn't get out of it exactly what he wanted. They are all kinds of things. Dumping it in the water supply of a French town, you know, they were looking at it as a way to confuse and disorient

the people at war. It's what they said. These people have been very much into Satanism and other things like that, and it's their obsession with reading people's minds and controlling people's minds is something that has been about the only constant that's there the tactics that they use are constantly changing. They try to do it through chemicals. They've decided that they can do it better through EMF and that's where we are today.

so many different ways. I mean, we could talk about and we did talk about yesterday, and it's absolutely true. You know, you have the Fabian socialists that are out there, and you have who are doing it very subtly, and so forth, the Marxist who are trying to set us against each other for a violent conflict and revolution. You've got a CIA and people like that trying to undermine our society's values with drugs, with art, with music and

all these other They're very deliberate in those processes. In the mid twentieth century, it truly is amazing. It's almost like there's all these different demonic forces out there. They've all got their own tactic and strategy, and they're all hitting us at once. It's a multi pronged war, spiritual war. In addition to its LSD efforts, it funded such dangerously absurd psychology psychology experience experiments as forcing people to listen

to constant negative statements continuously through headphones. I hope you don't consider this broadcast. I try to give you positive news. Yeah, this is what these people are about, and that's its constant negative news. However, there is the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ, and this time of year that we celebrate is coming into darkness, and that is what transcends all this. Don't ever forget that.

that stuff truly is amazing. Well, meanwhile, Trump is cause playing as a victim in this lawsuit with the BBC. That's the take headline from Raws story, and that's what the British was saying about it. Trump received sharp criticism from the Guardian's editorial board on Tuesday after he sued the BBC for defamation. Trump filed a thirty three page complaint in a court on Florida on Monday, alleging that the BBC deceptively edited a portion of a documentary The

Details January sixth, twenty twenty one. The lawsuit seeks to recoup ten billion dollars in damages. Absolutely absurd. The BBC has said that it will defend itself in the case. By the way, it just reminds me, you know, the way Trump and Milania have threatened people. You know, don't talk about the decades that I spent with Jeffrey Epstein all or I'll sue you for defamation. Actually, it's definition of character is what it is. But Fox News is

putting out trailers of Milania. She's got this new and in it it's amazing. They make her look like she's some badass high fashion model or something. It's just it's disgusting, I think, you know. And at the same time, it's like, you know, look at me. Here I am with my you know, ten thousand dollars purse, in my twenty thousand dollars shoes and everything, and you know, telling Trump, well, I'll be there later. Maybe you take care of it yourself.

You know, I'm the ultimate queen. So you know, we got a king and now we got a queen. And they're celebrating this. This is this is what the Trump people are doing. They're normalizing the things that decent people have always looked to skew at that's their role.

damages amounting to ten billion dollars. The Guardian said a serious era of judgment was made in the editing process, though the House of Representatives January sixth committee concluded that Trump did use his speech to incite an insurrection, but the claim that a program that was not even broadcast in the US was part of a malicious plan to defame mister Trump and subvert the Democrat process ahead of

last year's election is utterly specious. So what I just said earlier, I think the most important subversion of the election was the vote by mail stuff this particular time around, And that's one hundred percent Trump's responsibility. It's his fault. By relentlessly targeting the USA legacy media and now the BBC while cause playing the role of victim. Trump is seeking to galvanize his base and to narrow the parameters

of acceptable scrutiny and judgment. Well, what he's trying to do is he's trying to destroy the free press of speech by intimidation by law fair. He doesn't dislike lawfair, he wants to use it his health. So the population of vaccination and movement restrictions. This is what's going on in France. As I said before, the farmers there realize how revolting government is and they're about to revolt themselves.

The slaughter of entire herds of cattle in order to combat a supposed disease outbreak in France has sparked widespread protests and farmers revolt and made comparisons to the draconian COVID measures. And again, this is what it's all about. This is the PCR test, and it will be used to create one fantasy pandemic after the other. So it was necessary for Carrie Mullis to have died before all this stuff kicked off. I'm not so sure that was coincidence.

After two nights of clashes, counts, and tear gas, a group of veterinarians finally stepped out of an armored police vehicle their task to euthanize cattle, hundreds of them at a time, in order to stop a contagious disease engulfing southern France. We have to kill you in order to save you. That's the insanity of this. And we talked about all this over and over again. The insanity that, Okay, so you've got a million chickens. You got one chicken

that maybe isn't even sick, doesn't have any symptoms. But even if it were sick, and the others are not sick, that's how according to their contagion theory, which I no longer subscribe to. By the way, I just put that in as a footnote. It prove it scientifically, they don't.

But if the contagion thing were legitimate science the theory, their theory that they violate their theory is that you would the other animals that were there would either have a be genetically predispose not to get that disease, or they would have the immune system that would be able to handle it and subvert it. And now they would have immunity. That's how you would get heard immunity. But now as part of the COVID thing, they sold the lie. Well, the only way that you can get heard immunity is

not by natural immunity. The only way that you can get heard immunity is by vaccines. And again that is such an absurd thing. Their theory of immunity and virology and all the rest of that is that the vaccine is there to train your immune system to identify something so the one it encounter is a real thing, you'll know how to fight it. So this is like people who are fighter pilots training on simulators so they'll be able to do it in the real dogfight, which they

don't have anymore. But anyway, the bottom line is that, well, if you can survive the real battle, you don't need to have the simulator, right, and the real battle is much more of a test. People who do well in a simulator may not survive in a real battle. And so that's the nonsense behind all this, the idea of this phony science of virology that how immunity works, and

the contagion all the rest of the stuff. They just threw all that stuff out the window during COVID and now it's all about, no, we don't do any challenge never have done any challenge tests. In other words, they never have checked their vaccine theories, their virology theories by vaccinating people and then exposing them to the disease that they were vaccinated for to see if they catch the disease, because they haven't isolated the disease and they don't test

the vaccines. Folks, it is such a sham and it's absolutely unbelievable. What a sham and what a lie. This whole thing is. It's just like thing, your vaccine, your mass doesn't protect you, somebody else's does. Well, that's how they get to this point. But this is the absurdity. They're doing it with the animals. They're doing it now with cattle, as they did it here with the chickens. And of course Trump gets in it's like, well, we're

going to stop killing all the chickens. But the way that you stop it is you have your chickens vaccinated with MR and A. That's what Brooke Crawlin's at the USDA did. So, Okay, just get everything vaccinated and we'll leave you alone. Otherwise we'll kill all your livestock if you don't get them vaccinated. How corrupt. Yet, for many farmers, the vets are the sharp end of an over zealous tool of quote total slaughter unquote reminiscent of the COVID error.

I would say error e r the regulatory overkill, and they are galvanized to take extreme action to stop it. So unlike America, we just passively go along because we are the cattle Right National Veterinary Order said, and intervening under police escort with hundreds of angry people waiting is something we have never experienced at this level. We need to stop making yourself tools of this tyranny. We're going

to experience worse. Online abuse has escalated. Some vets are being told keep going like this and we'll put your heads on pikes. The standoff has left Macron already an embattled president and his soldier monk Prime Minister Sebastian Lacorna scrambling to avert a Christmas of discontent. Now is the winter of our discontent, right, and poor Emmanuel Macron is cast in this article as the victim. He's a victim, you know, like poor Fauci. So again we've seen all

of this. We saw it with COVID. They saw it with COVID, and they came up with these absurd premises and they're going to keep them because nobody has pushed back. Nobody has said, nobody has paid a price for this, not in any single country. They all did the same thing, and they all got away with it. And now they're doing it to our food supply, and they're going to do it to us again with some made up disease

that they come along with. Next the A sixty three motorway near it, brother farmers dismantled a speed camera they said was blocking tractors and they dumped it into a bonfire, and the footage went online and went viral online. You know, once you start realizing what this is really about, people get the big picture. Right. They think we don't know, but we do. And just as Oliver Anthony said, the people north Richmond, they think we don't understand what they're

doing to us, but we understand what they're doing. The question is how long are we going to take it? Elsewhere? Measures have been hurled at prefectures, slurry sprayed on state buildings, and tires set on fire beneath motorway bridges as tractors tore up barriers and turned infrastructure itself into a weapon of protest. Now, the heart of the unrest is a lumpy skin disease, that's what they call it. It's harmless

to humans. But you know, we're going to have to kill all the cattle to save the cattle from this disease that is harmless to humans. In response, authorities have imposed a strict eradication strategy, a systematic culling of infected herds, bands on livestock movements, emergency vaccinations. Again, they tried their hand at that here in the United States with a bird flu. Remember what they did all we're going to go test milk. Now, why would you test milk if

you got bird flu? Right? None of this stuff makes any logical sense. You know that they're just making this up. It's any kind of a pretense. It's as ridiculous as Trump's Canada is shipping Fitanel to us, or Venezuela's shipping fitanel to us. All this stuff that they were doing with cattle, with milk and everything trying to tie together with a bird flu was every bit as absurd as all the nonsense that Trump is doing about fentanyl coming

from all these different places. So wiping out entire herds for a single confirmed case has become unbearable. And again we're talking about a case that means that this is PCR. That means that there's not necessarily a sick animal. That's certainly not a death, but even of an animal for them to wipe out an entire herd. But this is a little bit different. People. These these are much more

valuable animals, and they're much more relatable than chickens. Chickens don't have eyebrows, as they say, right, you got something that's got an eyebrow. You got a friendly cow or something that They give them names. They say the cows have names, they have character, they have history. One farmer said, for them at night. I work seven days a week with them, and I'll fight to the end for mi cows. If they solder or heard, we won't be able to start again. It'll be the end of a lifetime of work,

said another farmer. The genetics the work of our parents and our grandparents. In other words, they worked on optimizing their herd genetically over a very long period of time, and they're going to end all that, and why well, because they want you to be forced to buy their lab meat that Bill Gates is going to make, and that people like Mark Ruda, now the head of NATO, wanted to have a monopoly on the distribution of the

lab meat from Bill Gates. Left wing Union has branded the eradication policy has quote more frightening than the illness itself. It usually is urging an end to the calls and calling for blockades to put an end to this madness. The anger is being fueled by a broader set of factors vo collapsing farm incomes just like here, regulatory fatigue just like here, and fear of cuts to the agricultural budget.

On Monday, the revolt spread beyond farmers themselves. More than two hundred mayors and elected officials gathered outside the prefecture and FOI in one area, calling on the state to urgently listen and a reopen dialogue with the farmers, and demanding a rethinking of the total culling protocol in favor of more targeted slaughter of infected animals. This is what is needed and what we have not seen in reaction

to any of this stuff here in America. Local elected officials standing with the people whose lives and livelihoods are being destroyed by unnecessary tyranny from our government, pretending that they're protecting us from a disease. The French agriculture minister, however, insisted that she had no alternative. She said, to save the entire industry, slaughter is the only solution. Kill them all, to save them all. And just like Brooke Rawlings and

she said, there are three non negotiable pillars. Listen to three pillars of this stuff. Depopulation, vaccination and movement restrictions. What this has always been about. The lockdown and restricting movement that they did to us with COVID, that they did with birds and cattle and all the rest of this stuff. Those two things go together. They've been practicing and wargaming that stuff since two months before nine to eleven. And in the long term, folks, it's not about depopulation

of cattle or birds or pigs. It's about depopulation of people. That's the most effective way for them to control the people who are left, and that's through making sure there's not that many of us. Go ahead, Travis pick up.

suicide at the end of his life. There you go, that's a fun fact, fitting not very fun in fact. Jerry Altalo lewis jolly on. Jolly West was an American psychiatrist known for his research on brainwashing and mind control. Yeah, he was involved in a lot of different things. He would crop up randomly in strange places. What's he doing here? And Birdhouse Blue says, is your dad moonlighting? Is Santa Claus on the weekends?

Claus or whatever. They'd make like fifty thousand dollars in just one month going to the UAE and being Santa Claus. But yeah, I think I would probably wind up committing suicide. Like colleag.

and that's that's what the bookmark is based on. And then of course the book itself is the way that you can do journalism. It's always good to do not just journalism, but to journal your life and to keep a record of what is happening to you. It's always nice to go back and look at especially if you

look at it from a spiritual standpoint. If you make that part of your journaling, it's interesting even if you just go back and record the everyday things that are happening to you at a given period of time, you know, to we forget some of those things. We remember them differently than the way we're experiencing them at the time. So it's always good to do that a life of reflection. So regular people are starting to rise up against AI S right, I let you go on.

Those aren't deep fakes that are there. But the only deep fake thing that's in there is the AI generated FBI and CIA or an say or whatever listening to people. But you know they don't take pictures themselves and put it out on the internet doing that.

for forty five years. When I first got into first jobs and engineering, part of it was tempesting, they called it because you know, they were spying on each other and they could they could electronically eavedrop on the keyboards and figure out which keys you were pressing, even if

they couldn't actually get into your computer. It was a much bigger deal back then, actually, because they didn't have internet access or Wi Fi or other things like that that are much easier to surveil than the way they were doing it with the I forget what they called the Actually the defense program was called tempest, and that was where you went through and you made sure that you didn't have the that your physical devices didn't emit

those kind of clues to them. But I forget what they actually called the the Survellan's part of it anyway.

and the abuse of power. Some individuals have taken matters into their own hands, removing cameras or creating data bases to track their presence. That's right, there's not too much of that happening here in the US. We've become very pacified, haven't we. I mean you see this type of thing happening more in the UK and in France. AI surveillance company pushing back against them is what I mean, taking

down the cameras. AI surveillance company. Flock Safety might be having a banner year as it aggressively expands it, strigging it across the US, but ordinary people are not impressed. For four hours on Tuesday, residents of Longmont, Colorado, where flock has at least twenty three AI powered cameras and licensed readers, express their outrage to city councilors over the

city's contract with the company. According to local magazine, nearly every seat at the hearing was full and ninety percent of the attendees were there to express their transparency and privacy concerns over Flock. Longmont's website states that the committee's safety cameras do not perform predictive analytics or facial recognition. They said, call the council. That same assurance is absent from the Flock page, leaving me to believe that this

privacy standard may have been quietly discarded with Flock's adoptions. So, in other words, this is the shell game. They play plausible deniability. Well, the Government of Longmont would never resort to the kind of creepy surveillance that you're talking about. That's we leave that up to our subcontractors who can do it and hand the stuff to us, and we can claim that we're not doing it. This is the oldest game in the book. As a matter of fact.

This is a lot of what's going on with the Five Eyes, the five intelligence agencies that are constantly looking at us, the US, Canada, Britain, UK and Australia New Zealand, and what they'll do. In many cases, you know, they're spying on their own citizens. But if it's something that is there's a little bit of a legal issue with

that they think they might get in trouble. They have their partners do it, so you know, hey, the British spy on the Americans, the Americans spy on the British, and then they hand that over to them, and so they do the same thing with the corporations as partnership as well, and then cross their fingers and say, well,

we're not actually spying on you, No they are. Flox's retention policy doubles the length of data retention used for community canvas from fourteen days to thirty days, once again signaling to me that the flock standard has been a convenient way to stretch the existing privacy standard, said one person speaking at the meeting. And again, I don't know the population of Long Want, Colorado. I've not heard of

it before. Imagine it's a pretty small town. We've got a lot of small towns around here in this general vicinity in Tennessee that are buying into this stuff. Where are they get the money for that? Why are they spending the money to spy on us? That's the real issue. And it's at these small communities where we can have a say in this, if we get enough people to understand what is really being done to them. That's the

key thing. People don't understand it. The city council voted then five to one in favor of rejecting any future expansion of the flock cameras. But it's not clear what's going to be done with the twenty three existing ones. May we'll keep them there, right, it's this ratcheting effect. It's pretty decisive when however, for the critics of the tech and a suburb of Boulder, Colorado. So there's where

it is all throughout the country. Communities and activists are rising up in anger against the cameras, which have been installed largely at the behest of municipal police departments. And so the police department says that we need it. And of course, you know, it's kind of like the military and the federal government. The military says they want something, it's like, okay, you know, the government jomps and gives them whatever they want. Same thing as true of the police.

In most places. The company's untested AI recognition program has led to numerous false positives, But just as troubling as the false positives are the cases where it does work, like those of the Atlanta police chief who used Flock's automated license plate reader to stalk and to harass people, or the Texas cop who used data from eighty three thousand automated license plate readers to track a woman suspected

of seeking an out of state abortion. This is coming from futurism, and so this guy is going to track people down for doing out of state abortions. But they can. Whenever you have this kind of power, power is always going to be used by these people, and they have the power, they will use it. That's why they want it. Citizens in areas like Yacama, Washington, and Cleveland, Ohio and Eugene, Oregon have mounted municipal these municipal cameras, each of them

functioning as nodes in an interconnect network. Others have organized public protests, ironically enough, becoming the likely subject of police surveillance by Flock's AI facial recognition cameras. So it does automated license plate reading facial recognition, but also builds a.

these things across the country. Flock sent the activist behind deflock a cease and desist order, but he is so far defied the legal threat with help from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Well, good for him. Why is that got to be a secret? Right? Put that up? And if it isn't public. The whole basis of their business is that if you're operating, if you're walking around or driving in public, hey, we can take your picture and we can send it to the police and we can do

all these other things with it. So on what basis can they argue that you can't put up a map of where their cameras are. That's absurd. I mean, for the longest time, you've had a lot of driving apps and other things like that that warn you where there are cameras, speed cameras or red light cameras or things like that. We've all got apps on our program on our phones that'll tell us that type of thing. AI industry insiders are living in fear of what they are creating.

Futurism says that must be hard, right at least they feel just as paranoid and miserable about where all the rest of where this is going as the rest of us do. At Newer ips on the big AI research conferences hell this year in San Diego Convention, visions of AI doom were clearly on the mind of many scientists and attendance. But as one guy who wrote for The Atlantic pointed out, he said, these people aren't seeing the

forest for the trees, right. I mean, there's a lot of things that they're talking about, these hypothetical doomsday scenarios, and again, artificial general intelligence is still hypothetical, not clear that they're going to achieve that at all or anything close to it. Nevertheless, you know, they say, well, it's going to become a super intelligent thing. This is the premise of Hugo de Garrison, and he saw the negative consequences of it. Of course, Ray Kurzweil thinks that's a

great thing if we create some horrific thinking machine. But

that's not a given at all. But they think about the they think about that these imagined problems, but they ignore the things that are right there in front of us right now, in terms of how can be misused for political advantage, how it can influence public opinion, how it can influence children and other people who are already disturbed in many different ways, you know, like Rob Bryer's son or something that we've seen many cases where it

is intensified the demons that people are struggling with So they didn't mention how fake videos already affecting public debate, or meaningfully address the chatbot mental health crisis, or the fact that it's stealing copyright that stuff from many people in the arts and humanities. So this guy who was writing for The Atlantic wasn't the only one to notice how this disconnected. You had a keynote speech said, are

we having the wrong nightmares about aie. Part of the reason that you have people like Sam Altman sell this fear and paranoia about this science fiction take on all this stuff is because he wants to get money from the people he's talking to in Congress in the White House. And you better clear the tests because this thing is going to be so huge, it's going to take over the world. And you want to be the one controlling this monster. That's great. So you want to build a

monster and have it under your control. And so it is self serving for them to do this, So they ignore all of the immediate issues that we're already seeing, the ones that are here, the ones that are imminent, they ignore those and they focus on these massive science

fiction scenarios. Sociologists warned that the researchers are missing the forest for the trees by focusing so much on the risk posed by artificial general intelligence, a technology that we don't don't even know will be possible to create and for which there is no agreed upon definition. After someone in the audience complained that the immediate risks were raised like chatbot addition that were already known, he said, well,

I don't really see these discussions here. I keep seeing people discussing mass unemployment versus human extinction, and so the discourse around AI safety is often dominated by these apocalyptic predictions in rhetoric. One guy who is considered to be one of the three Godfathers of the AI. His name

is Bengeo. I think if I'm pronouncing that quickly. Who also Jeffrey Hinton is another one, and the two of them are talking about, oh, we're so sorry that we created this thing, you know, and pushing this apocalyptic version the end of the world type of deal. Benchio has cast himself as an Oppenheimer like figure in the field, which, just like Venheimer, regretted that he had participated in creation

of the nuclear bomb. In twenty twenty three, Benjo famously said that he regretted his life's work after he quit his role at Google. He said, it includes jobs, destruction, and militarized AI systems that will further empire. And so the Atlantic writer said that when you look at this organization NeurIPS, he said it short for neural information processing systems, it hearkens back to a time when scientists vastly underestimated the complexity of our brains neurons and compared them to

the processing that was done by computers. And we're going to take a break, and when we come back, that's one of the things we're going to talk about. We've got more general news to talk about when we come back, but we're going to take a quick break. Do you want to cover the comments traps before we go to breaker? We can do when we come back.

And I got people who are upset with us because of what we said about Candice Owen and again with everything that's happening, you're going to focus on your own internal you know, he said, she said stuff. I really couldn't care less.

It's why it made me so upset to see Tillis do that in North Carolina. North Carolina didn't have any toll roads until he became Speaker of the House, and he leapfrogged the people that had been head of the Republican Party, a good guy that was out of the Republican Party there for a long time, the minority leader, and Tom Tillis came out of nowhere LeapFrog's this guy. And then when they get the majority in twenty ten, after the voters remorse of putting Obama in, he had

a big change in North Carolina. They've put this guy, Tom Tillis in and Speaker of the House, and he starts on all these toll roads for foreign country, foreign government corporations that are running these toll roads, and the next thing you know, they're running him for Senate, and he's been a senator now for a while. He's going to retire this year. But all that toll roads. So that's why the same thing's happening here in Tennessee. Frank

Nicely was pushing back against that. That's Bill Lee that's doing that here. So you can imagine that Billy is going to get some kind of a payoff down the road politically and economically. We're doing that type of thing. We're gonna take a quick break, folks. We'll be right back.

they sell gold. I mean there's some you know, there's there's websites out there that talk about bitcoin and all this stuff is about bitcoin and crypto and things like that. There's other sites like kitko that talk about gold and silver all the time. But zero hedge is just looking at investments, and as they look at it, they're looking at at this as if it were chart which can reflect the general consensus of people. But again, I don't

look at silver and gold because of that. I look at it because of what's happening geopolitically economically, the massive financial resets that are happening, the uncertainty, the end of a fourth turning that is upon us, all of those things. I think are the underlying factors of this, and so they will look at this and saying, well, it's breaking above the flag from early December. The all time high

is the obvious magnet. And we have seen the trend line remain intact as well over the twenty one and the fifty day intervals and so forth. Again, I don't I'm not a chartist. Some people do that and they make a lot of money doing that. I'm saying it can't be done, but I'm just looking at the bigger

factors that are there. And we saw these factors last year, even though everybody was the trend at the time, the fad was we're going to get into crypto because look at what Trump's going to do to make crypto sore. I can tell you they're not talking about it, but Trump is going to make gold sore because he's going to He's going to make the he's going to make

the dollar sore sore. George Washington is going to be hurting because he's going to put in a new Federal Reserve chair and he's gonna start manipulating things the way Trump wants them to be manipulated, which means that they're going to do things like quantitative easing and cutting interest rates and other games that they're going to play, which is only going to accelerate the demise of the dollar

and increase inflation and increase interest rates. You know, every time that they have by FIAT lowered interest rates, the market reacts in the opposite direction. They say, well, that's going to be inflationary. So the longer term interest rates like automobile loans and especially home loans, we're going to go up on the interest rates on those because people are going to be paying us back with cheaper dollars. So all this stuff backfires on them, and that's the

real thing to look at. By the way, this is another interesting story, and it's an interesting story and a warning. Although I don't think I'm not going to insulter intelligence say that you would fall for the scam, but some people do. You just need to always be careful, understand that people always coming after you. But I think it something else about gold, even versus cash. In this story, an elderly man gave away his gold after a fake US Marshall called, and he's not the only one. This

is a story from Epic Times. The coin shop owner had seen his share of hefty deals, but this call caught him off guard. An elderly man from nearby Snowflake, Arizona wanted to purchase gold coins valued in the tens of thousands. Did they call these people snowflakes who lived there? Anyway? The next day, when the man walked into the shop and show Low that's the name of the town, show Low in I guess our district or something, his nervousness

was obvious. A man was clutching his phone, hanging on to every word from a woman's voice that seemed to be directing him. Before we sat down and talked about the price or the product or anything else, he showed me a one hundred and eighty thousand dollars cashier check that he had already made out to me. And so the shop owner thought, this is all kind of strange. I haven't even talked about price or anything like that.

One hundred and eighty thousand dollars. You get into cashiers check, and you're going to walk out here with that kind of stuff. The man stumbled over basic questions. He was anxious to speed through the sale. The shop owner's unease grew. Was this overly customer being manipulated by some scammer. Taking care not to alert the woman on the line, he discreetly slipped the man a note asking if he needed help. Certain now that something was amiss, he reached out to

the police. The FBI and other agencies quickly took up the case. Two weeks later, they arrested a suspect and they uncovered a complex scheme that had already stolen one hundred thousand dollars in gold coins from the seventy nine year old man. And this dealer, because he saw he was suspicious something was happening, gave him a line, well, it's going to take me a little bit of time to get all that together because it's so large an order,

and that's probably what happened anyway. Known as the gold bar, is a government impersonation scam. The scheme draws in unsuspecting elderly, retirement age and vulnerable people. You should know if it's somebody saying the calling from the government and they want you to give them payment in gold, that might be a tip off, because our government doesn't have any use

for real money. The scam often begins with people pretending to be US government workers or law enforcement officers going to the Ohio Department of Commerce, and January, local media paid or rather said than an eighty nine year old woman from Sylvania, Ohio lost more than a million dollars in a similar scheme would have been cheaper for if she had been a supporter of the show and listened

to the show anyway. A letter in the mail, an email, or a phone call informs a victim that their identity has been stolen and their bank or investment accounts are in danger. Then the victim may be told that the agency can protect their money for a short time if they act fast. Again, this is a con game, very similar to what the government does to us anyway. So yeah, we'll protect you, don't worry about it. Where they're the scameras.

The scammers then convinced the person to buy gold, silver, or other valuable metals and arrange for a courier to pick them up, claiming that it will help to keep them safe from theft. So, your identity has been stolen, so get all your money out of the bank, convert it to gold, and then give it to us for safekeeping.

That's the bottom line. Again, it's not very plausible. It's not maybe as implausible as the scam where they told the lady that she had to give them money because an astronaut was running out of air stranded space station and needed to buy oxygen. Remember that one tra having. I don't know how that.

avoid criminal charges or to prove good faith. Basically, this is a very common scam, said the Snowflake police detective Amity Tooth. Again, I would like to be idle to fight as a snowflake police that theyctive that's the town that he lives in.

praying on our ignorance. So as they're investigating it, they said, there was a woman with a foreign accent who identified herself as Holly O'Brien. Yes, I am Holley, yes away sounding kind of like a man too, I don't know, but anyway, she told him that someone had stolen his identity and used it to rent a car, which was

later left in El Paso, Texas. The caller then claimed that police had found illegal drugs and blood in the driver's seat of the car that belonged to him and was that they rented in his name, and she warned the men that he would be charged with a crime unless he could prove his identity by sharing details about his possessions, and so he did as he was asked. Then he then he agreed to hand over one hundred thousand dollars in gold coins from his private collection to

a courier on October twenty seventh. But they weren't finished yet. They wanted to clean out his bank account, so they told him to withdraw one hundred and eighty thousand dollars out of his bank and buy more gold coins and we'll come by and pick them up. I think that they would have stopped at nothing. They would have ruined him. They would have found some other way to continue to extort money from the victim. The scams are a significant

national problems of the detective. These cash for gold scammers often choose their victims at random. They cast a wide net, They do thousands of coal calls, and finally they get somebody who bites on it. Most people hang up or don't answer, but one out of a thousand people believes them. They're told to turn their assets into cash or to buy gold, silver, or other valuable medals for safe keeping. See scammers want gold. It's even more untraceable than cash.

You know, the cash some of it' Scott numbers on it. The gold doesn't. In June, an Indian national living in the US on a student visa pleaded guilty in a case in which elderly victims lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and gold. According to a release from the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas, Groove rashish Hi Mongoo Kiya, twenty one, I guess was sentenced. I don't know. I'm probably murdering the pronounci of his

but that's fine. He's a crook, twenty one years old here on a student visa, and he pleaded guilty in Austin more and he's getting more than eight years in prison. Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. And he was ordered to pay more than two and a half million dollars in restitution, which is unusual. Usually you don't see restitution in these cases. That's one of the big problems of our system. Another guy was Kashan Patel, not

Cash Patel. They don't like cash, they like gold. Speaking of which, Bongino is packing his bags. He's going to go back, they said, he's going to go back and do a show again. But anyway, that's been in the works for a while. Rumored about that for quite a while, but now the rumors have become substantiate. He's gonna leave as at the beginning of January. So this non cash Pattel twenty years old, conspired with the same guy and with others in the multimillion dollar twenty twenty four scheme.

According to the Department of Justice, he also pleaded guilty and it is going to be serving more than five years in prison. The group sent fake online messages and imperson aided US government officials, while Patel, not the cash matel who's impersonading an FBI director, collected cash and gold from the victims, passed some of it to others in the group, and kept some of it for himself. Again the gold Patel. So I sat with the victim multiple times.

When he was on the phone with her. She would talk to him and it was pretty noisy in the background. So my assumption is that she works in a call center, and the likelihood of the call center being in the US is slim to none. I guess those are people on the call center that are waiting for their H one B visus to come through, so locally here. Well, the OCC says that nine big banks took part and

approa debanking practices. Yeah, there are some risks in putting your money in the bank at PayPal is now the people who debanked me PayPal, now I want to be a bank as that I should probably file a report with the people who are reviewing them to give them access to FDIC insurance. Because this is actually the Office of the Control of the Currency. The OCC and the Trump administration is looking at this because I mean, they have personally suffered from this, so this is something that

is in their sites. On Wednesday, the Office of the Control of the Currency released its report saying that it had found conclusive proof that nine large banks and these are the big banks, these are the big banks that are too big to fail, too big to jail, that they had policies that either refused services to some industries or required higher levels of screw utiny that exceeded the actual financial risk between twenty twenty and twenty twenty three.

And I'm telling you that this is not just industry wide, this is individuals because I have suffered from it as well. One of the banks on it was Bank of America. They nearly cost us the ability to get this house finance because it nearly ran out of time because of the games that they were playing. You know, we'd had

a credit card playing with them for quite some time. Again, we went back to our dealings with them, went back to before the big merger when there was Nation's Make in North Carolina and Bank of America California, and that was rubber stamped during the Clinton administration made this really big bank, and that was the thing that kicked off all the big bank mergers. Even at the time that people are pushing back against it, said you can't authorize that.

That's going to kick off a rash of mergers of the biggest banks, and you're going to wind up with a half dozen big banks, which we did and which they then bailed out. But anyway, they played games with us.

In the course, we've seen that Bank of America doing that to the people who were there on January the sixth, Proud of the fact that they were giving the information about where these people were based on their use of their credit cards, gave it to the FBI to try to indict these people, and then even going back and saying, and we noticed in our history that these people have

also purchased guns in the pass. So these are people who exercise their right to redress their grievances peacefully, and they also under the First Amendment, and they also exercise their liberties as recognized under the Second Amendment. So you should go round these people up, said Bank of America, absolutely reprehensible, but it's also JP Morgan as well as Bank of America, City Bank, Wells Fargo, US Bank, Capital One,

pn C Bank, and TD Bank US. They're restricting access, says the OCC the Office of Control of the Currency. They're restricting access in numerous sectors including oil and gas exploration, coal mining, firearms, private pensions, payday lending, tobacco and e cigarette manufacturers, adult entertainment, and political action committees, as well

as digital assets. So if you're involved in these activities, and or if you're involved in telling the truth about government, big pharmaceutical companies and the lockdowns and stuff like that, they'll also come after you for that. They've got a long list of things they don't like and industries that they don't like. Those that I just mentioned there. Most of those fall into the ESG stuff, the environmental and social governance. We don't like oil, we don't like firearms,

that type of thing. It's unfortunate that the nation's largest banks thought that these debanking policies were in appropriate use of their government granted charter and market power. While many of these policies were undertaken in plain sight and even announced publicly, certain banks have continued to insist that they're

not doing it. And of course we saw this famously in the UK with Nigel Faraj when he got debanked, and they kept denying that they did it until some of the evidence turned up and it went all the way up to the President of the Bank. The Bank Policy Institute, which advocates for these banks, reacted to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and said it's in the bank's best interest to take deposits to lend and to support as many consumers and businesses as possible.

But the industry supports fair access to banking and as already working together with Congress and administration to ensure banks are able to serve law abiding customers. Well, that's just not the case, is it. As a matter of fact, even with this stuff being exposed, Jamie Demon, the CEO of JP Morgan, was really arrogant about the whole thing. He told Fox News that the issue was mostly made up and that the people concerned about it needed to

quote grow up. These bankers are scammers, just like the government that works with them and their scammers. Just like these people I talked about before. Look at what they charge people with credit card. I mean talking about Christmas time here, look at the credit card rates. It is so criminal, it really is. I've said many times in the past if I was going to run for office, I would run. I would make that my lead issue. Just like Andrew Yang made Universal Basic Income his lead issue.

I would make usury bank income that UBI. I would make that my lead issue. I'm just outraged at when I see this stuff, and you know, don't get in a situation where you got to where you can't pay the balance off each month. It's just insane. And that they would be allowed to, you know, play charge twenty thirty more, you know, whatever their rates are. They're really high on these on these cards, and at the same time, the banks will typically pay you a tiny fraction of

one percent interest. You talk about a skewed system like that. It's absolutely criminal, and it used to be criminal. It's criminal until we had that big wave of inflation that happened in the late seventies. And at that time, interest rates got up so high and inflation was high and all the rest of stuff. So they swept away the usery laws that had capped things at ten percent. Rather than tying it to inflation rates or interest rates or anything,

they just got rid of it altogether. And that's why you wind up with this K shaped interest rate. You know, one of them being the rate that they pay you, the other one being the rate that they charge you. It is truly userss what they're doing, and it is a criminal I think well, Americans could see up to two thousand dollars refund next year, says the Soros soy boy Scott Bessant. Our Treasury Secretary's not talking about stimulus check.

This is all based on the fact that, oh, yeah, we cut taxes this year and most people haven't cut their withholding, so they're going to get a tax refund next year. So yeah, and that good news, I made a government made the government an interest free loan an admission. Really that Trump and Bestent are trying to make a case about the economy. If the economy is as strong as they're talking about, why do we need to have a two thousand dollars tax refund or these other things

that they're promising us. They did promise that they might throughout two thousand dollars in terms of rebates from the tariffs. Wait a minute, so you're saying that the tariffs are taxes and we need to be partially reimbursed with that. What is all that about? And if the economy is as strong as they're saying, I mean, nobody really needs

the money, do we. Treasurey Secretary of Scott Besson said that working Americans are set to get very large refunds next year as tax cuts were enabled and the Republican backed one big beautiful bill, one big BS bill is what this is set to go into effect. And what he's saying is that if you're one of these categories where they don't have taxes on tips or overtime, once they remove that, you're going to see that you're going

to get some money back. Well, how many people fall into that category anyway, after the refunds, they're worth holdings. He's sort of likely to change next year, so they'll see that they had they'll see a real increase in wages as well as getting some money back. They will change the withholding. So it's going to be great. The bill was passed in July. Working Americans didn't change their withholding, so they're going to be getting very large refunds in

the first quarter next year. Talk about pipe dreams, you know, will taxes really go down now? Trump said his economic policies, including his widespread tariffs on imports, are creating jobs, the stock market, and attracting increased investment in the US. And none of that is true. As a matter of fact, it's not reducing imports in the United States. The imports from China have gone up by twenty nine percent versus

a year ago. Last month, the Trump administration officials floated the idea of sending out a two thousand dollars payment to lower middle income workers that would be taken from some of their windfall tariff income. Well, yeah, you're going to see that right now. It's not needed though, because now we've got an imaginary projected tax refund. All this stuff is smoke, mirrors and lies. That's the reality. Got a couple of comments, Sir Travis, Yes we do.

He's taken a little bit of a sabbatical, so he'll be joining us again after the in the new year, So in January, he's going to be back on the regular schedule, and we hope to have him even do the show some more because I like it when Tony hosts. We got some good backup hosts that come on, so yes, yeah, he'll.

a privacy violation. I mean, just this is you know, where we have gone in the last thirty years, so this is the early nineties, and think about how they have rapidly normalized this and moved the overton windows so that people accept all these types of things. The people in Netherlands said, we don't want that kind of information being kept on us. We don't want you knowing where we're going and when we're going, and the basis of them saying that was what had happened in World War

Two when the Germans came in. They came in so quickly with blitzkrieg right that they were not able to destroy records. The Dutch, you know, in the Netherlands, they were so big on keeping records on everybody just because they can. I guess, you know, it's what bureaucrats like to do. They had the stuff on three by five cards and they had them packed solid into drawers, and

so the Germans come in very quickly. They want to destroy this stuff, so they don't know things about people ethnically, politically, religiously and that type of thing. And they couldn't set things on fire because it's like trying to light a log. They were packed together so closely. So I say, we don't want that, and they don't realize it. But the Nazis that we have today, the technocrats have much easier

way to sort through all this stuff. I mean, even when the Nazis got those three by five cards, they had to set their manually go through it, and now you can do it in an instant. That's what AI superpower really is. So we're going to take a quick break, folks, We'll be right back.

bill that he calls the RAPID Act. They get acting that for it, the Reasonable and Prudent Interstate Driving Act, In other words, to take speed limits off on a trial basis in certain areas. The legislation would allow higher speeds on designated rural, interstate or intrastate segments while maintaining tough penalties for dangerous driving. Again their version of the Audubon Highway that might be more popular than Route sixty six if they were to do that. The Rapid Act

accounts for that difference. He said. Most drivers can tell the difference between a crowded city freeway and a wide open stretch of rural interstate, and you can tell the difference it. Let us raise speeds where it is safe, and keep tough penalties for reckless driving, and update our laws to reflect how people actually use the roads. He said. When you look at Montana, they did this in nineteen nineties. In Germany that has done this for ninety years, you

see a pattern. Most drivers tend to drive around eighty miles an hour on their own when not presented with a speed limit. The bill limits nighttime speeds to only eighty miles per hour. You know, it used to be that. I think they put speed limits on in Montana used to not be there. And I remember when we about twenty five years or so ago, we were driving through there and I took a break and let Karen drive, and she was going over one hundred miles an hour.

This cop pulls up, motions get over, you know, and so it's like, she said, you told me there's no speed limits here. And it's like, yeah, I didn't think there was any speed limits. So we get pulled over and he comes up, and I think it was because of the car that we were driving. He thought maybe, you know, it was out of state. The license said it was. It was a Mercedes that we had at the time, and I think he thought, well, these you know,

are these people legit? Are they criminals? Because I've had a situation like that when we were moving my mom and my sister. They both had Toyota cameras, and I guess the guy thought it was unusual for there'd be two cars driving late at night. They were exactly the same. So he pulled us over just to kind of sniff around. And of course there was nothing, and there was anything with this guy, but he said, no, there's some construction

up I've had. You might want to saw it down a little bit, you know, And he looked in the back and Travison Lance were in the back and car seats and stuff like that. But yeah, it was not dangerous. You know, maybe you're a gas listening to the radio, but it really wasn't. I mean, you know, it didn't really even realize that she was going one hundred miles an hour until the cop pulled up, and then she looks at it as like, uh, oh, so anyway, but now they do have a speed limit, but maybe Arizona

will wise up. The data out of Montana showed that there were actually fewer fatalities in the D restricted speed zones than in the speed limited zones out of an abundance of caution. He said, I propose a one year pilot on a segment of Interstate eight. They will be chosen by the Arizona Department of Transportation Director and subject

to annual safety audits. Coupper City anticipates a decrease on cash and crash and fatality rates, as it's been shown that driver behavior such as seat belt use has a more significant influence on these matters than the speed at which drivers travel. And the Arizona legislature section opens on January twelfth, so we'll see what happens with it. But again that allow us to do that. I think we can.

I think we can handle it. PayPal is, as I mentioned before, planning to launch a bank serving small businesses around the US. And when I see this, I hear Admiral Ackbar saying it's a trap and be very careful. They're going to push this ESG or whatever the government agenda du jour of the day is. They will use that to debank you don't fall for it, but they are going to pay people interest. They're going to have interest bearing savings accounts. Imagine that a bank that will

actually pay people interest. They filed documents with the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and with the FDIC in order to launch the PayPal bank. And again, if they get thea FDIC insurance coverage, they will get protection for It's now up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars per depositor per bank account, so that'll be covered in case they fall. But Trump is expected to sign an order

reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule three drug safe sources. So it's interesting, you know, as he's pushing claiming that he's got to have a war with Venezuela over drugs, he's now moving to reschedule marijuana now. Of course, to put it as a Schedule three drug is not to remove prohibitions of it. Those are still controlled sub And the other question people should be asking themselves is where did these schedules come from. You may think that they came

from Richard Nixon, but they didn't. The drug war came from Richard Nixon.

The order is expected to reclassify marijuana from Schedule one to Schedule three drug. Schedule one drugs apply to substances with no quote currently accepted medical use and something that has a high potential for abuse. That includes other Schedule one drugs are there are heroin, LSD and ecstasy in addition to marijuana, And so you know, we look at heroin and LSD. Wait a minute, that's all CIA is all over that stuff. I don't know anything to do

with ecstasy. But when you look at heroin and these other things, LSD that's there. You know, going back to to Sydney Gottlieb, maybe we should prohibit the CIA instead of drugs. The biggest drug gang that's out there. Schedule three for substances with moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence. That would lump in marijuana with things

like codeine. You know, because when you go pick up some cough syrup that has codine in it, you have to give them your ID and all the rest of the stuff and they have to report it to the government. Testosteron anabolic steroids and ketamine. So I don't know. I guess maybe if the ketamine is controlled like that. I don't know anything about it. I just know that it's

a favorite of elon musk. Moving the drug to a lower schedule would not change the fact that it remains illegal for recreational use at the federal level, but it could open up the door to more research into marijuana and expanded medical uses that might also lower the tax burden for state licensed marijuana dispensaries and dozens of states where it is legal, and it is dozens of states. Medical marijuana is now legal in forty states and the District of Columbia. And so this is done. And here's

the interesting thing you should think about. Marijuana legalization is one of the best examples of states using their Tenth Amendment recognized powers. The Tenth Amendment doesn't give states powers. No, it recognizes the fact that the federal government was a creation of the states.

the states to have certain powers. That's not true at all. And this is a good example of it, in defiance of the federal War on drugs, which again they're just a surrogate for the UN agenda. And I remember when I didn't know that for the longest time, and I thought it was outrageous and intrusive that the UN would get very upset. It's like California, one of the first states that legalized medical marijuana, got the UN very upset and they put out a statement about it. It's none

of their business. They can't enforce any of this stuff. And then when I was talking to law enforcement against phibition, they pointed out that, yeah, it came from the UN in the first place, and so this whole drug war is a UN program. That's enough reason right there to push back against the drug war. But we have a lot more reasons as well. And so you have forty states that didn't just reclassify it to Schedule three drug. They just said no, you know, you can use it

for medical use. And I don't know how many states have legalized it now for recreational use, but that is a nullification of state law of federal law rather, and one of the reasons why the federal government has not had this legal fight with them is they're running this entire drug war on a bluff. They don't have the legal authority on the constitutions. You've heard me say many times.

The eighteenth Amendment in the Constitution testifies to the fact that everybody in the country realized that they needed to go through the extra steps of amending the Constitution in order to prohibit alcohol, and so we have the eighteenth and the twenty first Amendment to prohibit it, to relegalize it testify to the fact that it's not something that the Commerce Department can do, and so Iriwana has been deemed a Schedule one drug since classifications were created in

nineteen seventy, created by whom by the UN. However, most states have approved the drug for certain medical uses, and twenty four states have legalized the drug recreationally. There we go, twenty four states. The state policies technically clash with federal law. This article from CBS is not going to point out that this is nullification. They're not going to point out the constitutional issues of this. They're not going to point

out the powers that the states have retained. None of that's going to be pointed out with any of this stuff. And you know, when we look at Texas, Texas is a good example. There was a great state Rep in Texas. I interviewed him several times, David Simpson. He was the guy who pushed back against the TSA. And he was the one who came up when the TSA started doing the body scanners and the pat downs the kids and

everybody else. He pushed back on that. And in the state House where he introduced the bill, they unanimously said, we want the TSA to stop that in Texas, and then it went to the Senate and it was stopped in the Senate by the Lieutenant governor who used to work for the CIA, and then the CIA set him up and made him a billionaire in the oil business. And he had spent more money to buy his way into that office than anybody ever had in Texas. And

so he stopped it in the Senate. And then David Simpson tried it again, and again it passed in the House, but not with as many votes. It wasn't unanimous that the second time, and they stopped it in the Senate again. The reason I bring that up is because he was the real deal. This guy was a real conservative menium, short hair, clean cut guy, always wore a cowboy hat. He was a seventh generation Texan. I really admired him,

a great guy. And he also brought up the bill to allow certain medical condition one particular medical condition, and that is uncontrolled seizures. And you had some families in his jurisdiction that had tried everything that you know, Rockefeller Medicine had for these seizures, these uncontrollable seizures. Nothing were and the pharmaceutical companies sell an extract from marijuana that supposedly helps and maybe it does help some people, but

it wasn't helping these kids. Colorado had legalized it for medical use, and so they could go to Colorado and they could get it, but if they brought it back to Texas, where they lived and where they were not ready to move to Colorado, if they brought it back to Texas, they were in danger of going to jail for a very very long time because it's a Class

one drug. And so he got an exception put in for that, and he in Texas where they didn't I don't know if they've legalized medical marijuana now or not, but at the time they didn't recognize. They didn't have

marijuana legalized medically except for that one thing. And they said, if you've tried all of these other things, and you've got a doctor's note saying that you've tried all these other things and your kid still is having these uncontrolled caeizures, then will allow you to go through all the burdensome steps to be able to get this stuff. So that was something of a victory. Later on, he just went through and he said, he put up a billity he said,

let's just strike marijuana. This is a bill to strike marijuana from being mentioned anywhere in Texas law. He said, God created it and we should not be regulating it. Any natural substance like that shouldn't be prohibited by Again, this is not something that's being brewed or distilled or anything like that. It's just a natural substances there. And that did not pass. But I really admired him for his principles. He's another one of these guys like Frank Nicely.

Every once in a while you find a state rep. That that's a good guy. I believe it's time to end the needless arrests and the incarceration of adults for small amounts of marijuana for personal use. We must also implement smart regulations while providing access for adults to safe tested product, said the Trump administration in a statement. Well, I think it's also time maybe that you stop murdering people the pretense that they are carrying drugs off the

coast of Venezuela. How about that, you know that's where this we're on drug eventually is going to lead or been saying it for the longest time. That is the natural progression of all this stuff. Your phony drug war, and so when you look at it, they said, well, it's going to allow them to do some research on this that we couldn't do before because the universities or other companies, of course, they don't have any financial incentive to show that marijuana works for these types of things.

And one of the things that was really bad about that whole situation was, at the same time reporting on the fact that these children could not get any help from their constant seizure. I'm also aware of in reporting the fact that that happens to many kids as a

reaction to vaccines. So the pharmaceutical industry out there vaccinates the kids, they wind up some of them having these uncontrolled seizures, and then if the parents try to use something that's natural, that grows naturally, then they get locked up. What an injustice that is. And you know most of that is still in place, but many people so well, you haven't proved, you haven't done any tests, and so forth.

It's like, oh, yeah, you mean, like your pharmaceutical tests of vaccines, they're supposed to tell us how safe and effective they are. These fraudulent studies that you run, Well, nobody's going to spend the money to do a study on marijuana because there's no profit in it for them. They only do that if it's something that they can patent,

and so there's no center for it. But any academic organizations that might do it out of purely academic interest because it was a Schedule one drug, it's very difficult for them to do that anyway. And so they're saying that might help for them to determine some of these things as to whether or not they are safe or effective. So we shall see. Well, Donald Trump was offered two hundred and fifty million dollars to run for a third term,

reports Newsweek. Guess who it was. It was Miriam Addelson and the same one who flew back Jonathan Pollard, the trader that Trump pardoned, and she flew him back on her plane. He got out and kissed the ground in Israel and he was met by nt Yahu. And so this was at a ceremony around Hanukkah and Trump called on her to address the guests that were gathered there

during the speech. The billionaire Millam Addelson again a billionaire just like Trump, well not like Trump, I mean, Sheldon Adilson was able to run a casino for a profit. He didn't bankrupt six casinos. He became a multi billionaire by running his casinos. So he's obviously smarter than Trump. And Trump is now his lackey, his employee. Although he's dead,

it's his widow. He's got his money. During her speech, the billionaire said that she had discussed the legality of Trump's third term with Alan Dershowitz, and then the people in the audience started chanting four more years. Then the pair embraced Trump and Miriam Maddelson before Trump returned to the microphone and said she said, think about it. I'll give you two hundred and fifty million dollars, and the audience began to laugh, and then Adilson said, I will give it.

a large corporation. It is somebody who is supporting a foreign government, somebody who supported one of the worst traders we've ever had in this country. And so when you look at it, this is not just a bribery. It's not just that President Trump is actually a little puppet for these people. He actively courted that he's such a prostitute that he was soliciting all of this stuff when

he ran for office. Remember when he said, you know, it used to be that Israel owned Congress, and rightfully so, he said, rightfully so, why should any foreign nation own Congress. It's supposed to be owned by the American people. And so he said, remember when Israel owned Congress? And rightfully so. But they don't anymore. You need me, I'll do it for you. Right He's out there prostituting himself. He's soliciting money from these people who are more than willing to

give him the money. He just says the open part right out loud, and he absolutely is a prostitute. Steve Bannon has repeatedly claimed that there is a plan to get him to remain in the White House. In the election. In twenty twenty eight, forty five percent of Trump voters do not want him to take office again forty three percent do Another eleven percent of the Trump voters said they weren't sure about it at all. Well, I think the constitution is pretty clear. Steve Bannon, however, says, well,

he's going to get a third term. Trump is going to be president in twenty twenty eight, and people just ought to get accommodated to that. Again, these are people who have absolutely no regard for what the constitution or the rule of law says. So I can understand why he would say that and why it might be a thing, right, because Trump's mode of operation this is just to do whatever he wishes and to defy people. He defies the Constitution, then he defies you to stop him somehow, and so

I could see that he would do that. And they have a political science professor that Newsweek quoted who said, well, the truth is that there is some technical ambiguity in the constitutional statutes, potentially some way to circumvent the restriction. But the intention, especially when the twenty second and the twelfth amendments are taken together, the intention is clear presidential terms should be limited to two and even if Trump can find some pack to allow him to seek a

third term, it'll be controversial. He better believe it will be. But maybe he'll just declare an emergency and say it's an emergency, I can do whatever I wish, because he defies the Constitution that way over and over again and dares you to stop him. The reality is, though, is that he is going to be term limited by God. All of us are actually, but you know, kind of like Darth Vader Ginsburg, or you had Diane Frankenstein or Glitch McConnell. These people who have to be carried out

feet first out of government. That's the way that Trump is. That is a real tell. I think it is not the spirit of George Washington, who when he willingly set the example by just two terms that I'm out. I'm going to go back to the real world. Here. He was hailed by the King of England as the greatest man alive for doing that. I can't say that about Trump, can you? For all the terrorist stuff that he's doing.

Just take a look at this article from Reason. Thanks thanks to anti trust officials, I robot will now be acquired by a Chinese robotics firm instead of by Amazon. So you have a trust officials in the US and in the EU said we're not going to prove that, and so it's better for China to have all manufacturing, which is what these people have been doing. Everything has been handed to them on a silver platter, I should say, a lump of coal. They're allowed to build the cheap

energy facilities that they need to do manufacturing. And if you can't be competitive on energy costs, you can't be competitive on manufacturing. And that's just one aspect of what has been handed to China on a silver platter. The only thing the FTC and the European Commission succeeded in doing was to transfer ownership of I robot from an American company to a Chinese one. So think about that, and that's really what is happening now with the tariffs.

The tariffs are not working the way Trump and his failed Democrat politician Peter Navarro thought that they would. I robot, the creator of Rumba, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday. If Amazon had been allowed to acquire the company in twenty twenty two, consumers likely would have enjoyed improved quality and lower prices. But now, thanks to anti trust regulators, I robot will be acquired by a massive Chinese robot vacuum manufacturer instead of by American owned Amazon, and so I

guess that sucks, right, Yeah, Power horbes a vacuum. So I guess you could explain it that way with these the federal government the EU power abhors a vacuum, and they certainly did abhoor the Roombo vacuum. The deal alarmed anti trust regulators in the US and the EU, however not in the UK. They declared that the transaction would be okay and it wouldn't be a competitive concern in the markets. And again it was already a very competitive market. I mean, there's a lot of competitors to the room

but Robot and have been for some time. The British economy, however, is only about a tenth the size the American economy and only a fifth the size of the EU's economy, so it was not viable if they can only do business, for example, in the UK. So again you want to talk about monopoly, Our governments have handed the monopoly of

basically all manufacturing to China. When you look at the China price of intellectual property, theft of cheap slave labor, and now they've added to it, and then currency manipulation, but then they've now added to it. I think the most important factor, and that is very cheap available energy. So as we're looking at these failed policies, Customs and Border Patrol has brought in a record two hundred billion

dollars from terrifts. Now, this in and of itself, I think is outrageous because when I went back and looked at if I remember correctly, it's a couple of weeks ago, I went back and looked at what the biggest tax increases in history were. FDR had the biggest tax increases you could imagine, and if it was adjusted into today's devalued dollars, it will be about two hundred billion. And that's what the tariffs have done. So these are FDR level tax increases that Trump is imposed on us. And

besides that, though it's even worse. It's not just the monetary aspect of it or the money. This is creating chaos and havoc for businesses small and large in America, and it has raised prices for consumers as well. This on again, off again, the constantly changing and shifting tax parties, because he's just putting them on in whatever mood he's in. If he gets upset with some government one evening, then the next day they got tariffs slapped on him. We've

seen this happen over and over again. And according to UCBP, the revenue was collected from January twentieth to December of the fifteenth, after the implementation of more than forty executive orders. This is not the way it's supposed to work. Congress has the power to tax, and of course they're not going to call Trump on this because they are afraid

of him in the Republican Party. And so the lucky loser who bankrupted six casinos in his failed Democrat Soros advisor, you know, the his Soros advisor Besset and his failed Democrat Peter Navarro. This is a scheme that they've come up with. But as bad as that is, raising taxes by two hundred billion dollars and then boasting about it like it's better for the government to have that money

than for the consumers and the businesses to have that money. Great, well, Trump is now saying it's eighteen trillion, and Reason says there's absolutely no way that that is possible. I mean, first of all, I just told you his slightly over two hundred billion and slightly over it's like two and thirty six billion, So thirty six billion is not anything to ignore. But still rounding out these numbers. But that's a long way from eighteen trillion. He's telling people it's

about one hundred times bigger than it really is. It is the big lie. And how do you get people to believe the big lie? Well, you repeat it over and over and over again. And as a matter of fact, he has repeated it over and over again. As Reason points out, he has given this eighteen trillion dollar figure. He has repeated that now at least five times, and

they give the dates on which he said it. He first used the eighteen trillion dollar figure during a cabinet meeting in December the second, then he repeated it during comments to reporters December the third, Then in an interview with on December the eighth. He also brought it up, unprompted and somewhat bizarrely during the announcement on December fourth of a new peace treaty that aimed to end hostilities

between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On Sunday, Trump brought it up again while speaking to reporters in the White House. He said, because of the tariffs, we've taken in more than eighteen think of this, more than eighteen trillion. There's never been anything like it, And then moments later he repeated the claim, we took in more

than eighteen trillion and ten months. Well, the reality is is that if this is somebody who's going to lie about the number of people that he killed with the Trump shots, if he's going to boast about the Trump shots, and if he's going to take tens of millions of people that he killed and even more that he disabled and then say that he saved millions of lives, he'll lie about anything, And of course it doesn't have to even be close to the truth. So this is factually

wrong and it is logically absurd, they pointed out. And yet you've got some conservative media personalities out there who are trying to make excuses for him and say that, well, no, what are you saying is actually true? So how are they doing that? What kind of lies are they telling you to try to make a case that there's eighteen

trillion dollars of stuff here? Well, they said, over the first eleven months of this year, the federal government collected two hundred and thirty six billion in tariffs and duties. And that's what the Treasury Department is saying, that's what the Customs and Border Patrol people are saying in their

monthly reports. That is a huge difference two and thirty six billion versus eighteen trillion, but it still represents the biggest tax increase since nineteen ninety three, denominated in dollars, not denominated in purchase price, if you account for the devaluation of the dollar. It goes back to FDR and Trump's tariffs are expected to generate about two point three trillion dollars over the next decade. That's the Trump administration's figures.

What he's basically saying is that if these tariffs were to stay in effect, you know, for the next decade, two point three trillion, Well, he's talking about ten times that. So what he's saying is that he took in the amount that they project they would take in over a century, not a decade, but over one hundred years, because it's ten times that amount. But getting eighteen trillion dollars in

tariff revenue in a single year is impossible. The US only imported about three point three trillion dollars of goods last year, and you'd have to tax those imports at six hundred percent in order to get eighteen trillion dollars in new tariff revenue. Of course, if you taxed imports at that level, you would end up with roughly the same amount of imports as tariff revenue, which is zero. You would bring it all to a stop. Part of the confusion here lies in the carelessness with which the

President uses phrases like we took in. I don't think that's careless at all. I think it's a very deliberate and studied ambiguity that he's pushing out on people. We took an end seems to be referring not to tax revenue from the tariffs, but a combination of tax revenue and various investment deals that have been promised by private businesses and by foreign governments. And understand that even that doesn't get you there. But understand that these promises have

been laughable in the extreme. Remember when he was talking to the European Union, and I think it was Ursula fond of lying, who strung him along, and he was happy to go along with it, talking about how much investment the EU is going to make in the US, Well, the EU doesn't have anything that it makes Those that all be private companies in the eupa union. And if you looked at the dollar figure that was thrown out there,

it was patently absurd. It was more than these companies had to invest in a given year.

So none of that was going to happen. And that's the point they make, is that a lot of these things are just promised by big businesses or by foreign governments and they haven't taken in anything they've been taken if they weren't willingly going along with it. The only people have been taken in have been the MAGA people listening to these MAGA influencers. So most of these funds have not been received by the federal government in any way.

If they are to be invested, they are fully private, and these foreign governments don't have any more control over that kind of investment than Trump does, and so they were absurd multiples of reality anyway. And then in April, the White House launched a website tracking the Trump Effect. So here we are. So if you're going to make that case, and you're going to say, well, that includes all the tariff revenue, but it also includes all the

investment promises that are going to happen here. They're going to build all these different factories there which haven't been built and haven't been started yet, so it hasn't been

taken in. But even if you include that, and they do have on their website, they are tracking what they want to call the Trump Effect, meant to track the quote new investment in US manufacturing, technology, and infrastructure since Trump returned off US and by their own tally, by their own inflated tallly, that comes up to nine point six trillion, So it's still double what his own website says.

Absolutely amazing. The guy is the most childish liar. I just take a look at his new ballroom right that ballroom project how long ago did that happen? Was that like two or three months ago? It began as a two hundred million dollar.

Maybe he's going to do some mocking sculptures of them next who knows, but he put it out there in metal, and it is pure idiocracy. White House staff updated the so called Presidential Walk of Fame Wednesday by adding lengthy descriptions of each former president and rhetoric. The lines are trumps, such as calling Joe Biden the worst president in American

history and calling him sleepy Joe. Trump set his well known opinions of each of the former presidents in stone, actually in metal, I think by adding these plaques underneath the portraits that now hang along the colonnade where he put up a picture of the autopen instead of of Joe Biden, that kind of, you know, childish meme trolling. It's not even funny, really, Caroline Love. It's always left to her to try to cover up for this clown and make him sound reasonable in some way, she said.

The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each president and the legacy that they left behind. As a student of history, many were written directly by the president himself. I wonder what grade he got in history. So here's an example. Sleepy Joe was by far the worst president in American history. Puts us on a plaque taking office As a result, of the most corrupt election ever seen in the United States.

In Obama's description, he says he passed the highly ineffective Unaffordable Care Act, resulting in his party losing control at both Houses of Congress and the election in the largest House Republican majority since nineteen forty six. For Bill Clinton, he writes, he attributed the legislative successes to through Republicans in Congress quote unquote, and he boasted that Trump terminated the North American Free Trade Agreement, the trade deal that

was struck under Clinton. He said, also included a line about how Hillary Clinton lost to him in the twenty sixteen election a clown, a narcissist. What a joke this all is. And again he doesn't have any criticism, interestingly enough of George H. W. Bush, who if you remember both Bush and Bush the first and Bill Clinton wanted NAFTA. It was only Ross Prow that was pushing back against it at the time. Reagan, known as the Great Communicator, said he was re elected in a landslide in eighty

four and left office with high approval. He was a fan of President Donald J. Trump long before President Trump's historic run for the White House. Likewise, President Trump was a fan of his quote unquote, this is the kind of idiotic dribble that he had put on metal plaque, and he's got hanging there on that walkway there. Under Nixon, he wrote one of the greatest political comebacks in American history, and he won the largest popular vote history victory and

American history. He left out the part that he created EPA, that he ended gold, that he had wage and price controls, that he opened up to China, that he imposed a fifty five mile hours speed limit on everybody, and that he created that started the drug war. Yeah, how about all that stuff? And then he gave props to Gerald Ford for his quote brave pardon of Richard Nixon, the kind of thing that Trump was not brave enough to

do for the January six people. He knew, you know, it was brave because gerald Ford knew he's going to take a lot of political heat for it. Trump didn't want to take the political heat for the j sixers that he had used and thrown under the bell.

that he did. And under JFK's plaque, he said he had the failed Bay of Pigs, invasion of Vietnam War. Can you imagine how long the list of failures will be for Donald Trump when he finally gets his plaque. Maybe what we would put under it just a quote attributed to Buzz Lightyear, the former astronaut, to stupidity and beyond. That's really the Trump administration. So that's it for today. Thank you for joining. Yes, have a good day. I wish I had a Christmas Night album.