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[01:25.360 --> 01:35.520]  In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
[01:36.800 --> 01:38.640]  It's The David Knight Show.
[01:45.440 --> 01:52.160]  Now, the clock strikes 13. It's Monday, the 22nd of December, year of our Lord 2025.
[01:52.160 --> 01:56.400]  Well, we have new calls for impeachment, not of Trump,
[01:56.400 --> 01:59.760]  but of Pam Bondi because of the Epstein issue.
[01:59.760 --> 02:00.960]  Is this a distraction?
[02:02.000 --> 02:06.880]  Well, yes and no. I have to wonder if people would be paying attention to the wars,
[02:06.880 --> 02:09.120]  if this wasn't happening, or if they'd just tune out.
[02:09.840 --> 02:13.040]  But it does tell us a great deal about the character
[02:13.040 --> 02:15.120]  of the people who are leading us into these wars.
[02:15.760 --> 02:18.480]  And it's not just Trump or Clinton.
[02:18.560 --> 02:22.240]  It's also the CIA and the Mossad who are behind all of this.
[02:23.120 --> 02:28.160]  And that is what I think really is behind what the cover-up is really about.
[02:28.160 --> 02:29.120]  So we're going to talk about that.
[02:29.120 --> 02:33.200]  We'll also talk about what happened with the power outage in San Francisco.
[02:34.080 --> 02:38.640]  Kind of gives you a glimpse of what this technocrat dystopia will look like
[02:39.680 --> 02:44.000]  if we have the critical infrastructure that is very, very complex and interconnected.
[02:44.000 --> 02:46.000]  If it starts to fail, what's that going to look like?
[02:46.560 --> 02:47.840]  We'll be right back. Stay with us.
[02:48.480 --> 03:12.960]  Well, welcome back.
[03:12.960 --> 03:16.640]  And as we saw over the weekend, began on Friday after the show was over,
[03:16.640 --> 03:20.800]  they started, quote, unquote, releasing the files as required by the law,
[03:21.360 --> 03:23.760]  passed by Congress, signed by Trump.
[03:24.720 --> 03:28.400]  And yet they've been accused of flouting the letter of the law.
[03:29.520 --> 03:31.440]  Well, you know, we're trying to do what we can.
[03:31.440 --> 03:32.960]  We only had 30 days, right?
[03:34.320 --> 03:38.880]  Now, how about nearly a year? 295 days, actually, if you look at it.
[03:38.880 --> 03:45.040]  They've had to go through and make sure that victims were not mentioned in these files.
[03:45.040 --> 03:46.960]  But that's not really what they're concerned about.
[03:47.760 --> 03:50.560]  Do you think for a moment that they're concerned about victims?
[03:51.280 --> 03:52.640]  They're concerned about the perps.
[03:53.520 --> 03:54.800]  That's what they're concerned about.
[03:55.760 --> 04:00.240]  The criticism comes after the files were required by law to be made public on Friday.
[04:01.040 --> 04:05.120]  Thousands of files were released then, but it was not the full scope of the documents.
[04:06.160 --> 04:11.040]  Massey and Kana, who co-sponsored the Epstein Transparency Act,
[04:12.000 --> 04:15.760]  said the Justice Department has 30 days to produce the files.
[04:15.760 --> 04:18.880]  That's what the Act said, and that 30 days is up.
[04:19.760 --> 04:23.440]  In the past 48 hours, we've seen the Justice Department acknowledge that it's an incomplete
[04:23.440 --> 04:28.720]  release, but they've put out more than 13,000 files, said Margaret Menon,
[04:28.720 --> 04:31.280]  who was interviewing them on the Sunday talk shows yesterday.
[04:31.920 --> 04:32.880]  They say more will come.
[04:32.880 --> 04:35.920]  This isn't everything you asked for just yet.
[04:35.920 --> 04:38.400]  But would you acknowledge that they're complying with the spirit,
[04:39.120 --> 04:40.880]  if not the intent of your law?
[04:40.880 --> 04:42.400]  No, said Massey.
[04:42.400 --> 04:45.200]  They're flouting the spirit and the letter of the law.
[04:45.920 --> 04:47.760]  It's very troubling, the posture that they've taken,
[04:48.400 --> 04:51.360]  and I won't be satisfied until the survivors are satisfied.
[04:52.320 --> 04:54.960]  He said, you know, I've said in the hours leading up to this release
[04:55.760 --> 05:00.080]  that we will know if they're complying if they implicate any of the other criminals
[05:00.080 --> 05:03.440]  that were involved and the suspects that are involved.
[05:03.440 --> 05:07.840]  The witnesses, the victims themselves have given the FBI, and they've never been mentioned.
[05:08.800 --> 05:12.960]  So then Margaret Brennan confronted Massey with his very specific benchmark of success.
[05:12.960 --> 05:19.520]  You said you know of at least 20 men who are accused of sex crimes known to the FBI.
[05:20.400 --> 05:21.680]  How do you know that number?
[05:22.240 --> 05:23.840]  And do you know those names?
[05:23.840 --> 05:24.400]  She said.
[05:25.520 --> 05:28.960]  Massey said the survivors' lawyers have told me those numbers,
[05:28.960 --> 05:31.440]  and they've described their professions in general.
[05:32.160 --> 05:36.960]  But they've only given me one of the names, and I mentioned that name in the congressional hearing.
[05:37.600 --> 05:38.560]  Jess Staley.
[05:39.200 --> 05:40.800]  So I searched these documents.
[05:40.800 --> 05:45.760]  I didn't see Jess Staley, nor did I see 19 other names.
[05:46.880 --> 05:52.560]  Staley is a former JP Morgan Barkley executive who admitted to in court
[05:52.560 --> 05:55.440]  that he had consensual sex with Epstein's assistant.
[05:56.320 --> 05:58.720]  And here we are back into Bill Clinton land, right?
[05:59.680 --> 06:01.920]  This is the way this thing always operates.
[06:02.640 --> 06:08.000]  And so this is what Massey had to say about inherent contempt.
[06:08.560 --> 06:11.280]  What are you going to do about it to force them to comply?
[06:11.280 --> 06:12.560]  I mean, can you do anything?
[06:15.040 --> 06:15.840]  Absolutely.
[06:15.840 --> 06:20.720]  Look, people have talked about, and by the way, Todd Blanche is the face of this,
[06:20.720 --> 06:24.800]  but it's really the attorney general's office, Pam Bondi, who is responsible.
[06:24.800 --> 06:27.680]  And there are several ways to get at this.
[06:27.680 --> 06:29.760]  Some take longer, some are shorter.
[06:29.760 --> 06:35.600]  The quickest way, and I think the most expeditious way to get justice for these victims
[06:35.600 --> 06:39.440]  is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi.
[06:39.440 --> 06:41.920]  And that doesn't require going through the courts.
[06:44.000 --> 06:48.160]  And basically, Ro Khanna and I are talking about and drafting that right now.
[06:50.240 --> 06:51.680]  Well, it'll be interesting to see.
[06:52.560 --> 06:57.440]  I think Dan Bongino just jumped off the rat ship just in time.
[06:57.440 --> 07:03.440]  But I don't know that that's necessarily going to spare him from being drugged
[07:03.440 --> 07:05.040]  into this thing in terms of hearings.
[07:05.760 --> 07:09.120]  There's going to be a lot of hearings that are going to ask questions of Bongino
[07:09.120 --> 07:16.080]  and of Cash Patel and of Pam Bondi as part of this, as this rolls out, I think.
[07:16.800 --> 07:19.600]  Any Justice Department official who has obstructed justice
[07:19.600 --> 07:23.440]  could face prosecution in this administration or in future administrations.
[07:24.160 --> 07:31.200]  Now, he gets out before the direct flaunting of the law.
[07:31.200 --> 07:36.720]  I mean, prior to that, it was just lying to the public, which politicians do all the time.
[07:36.720 --> 07:39.040]  And you're changing his story.
[07:39.040 --> 07:42.240]  We've shown you the clips of that, just like you did with the vaccine.
[07:43.120 --> 07:48.960]  But it truly is amazing to watch these people lie and spin
[07:48.960 --> 07:50.960]  and think that we can't tell the difference.
[07:50.960 --> 07:54.320]  What we found out was the most important documents are missing, said Ro Kahana.
[07:55.200 --> 07:58.080]  They have had excessive redactions.
[07:58.800 --> 08:02.000]  The documents released Friday make only limited reference to Trump,
[08:02.000 --> 08:05.680]  even though the administration has acknowledged that his name appears in the files.
[08:06.400 --> 08:10.560]  Being named in the records does not indicate that Trump knew about Epstein's crimes.
[08:10.560 --> 08:14.640]  But let me add, hanging out with him for 15 years does.
[08:15.600 --> 08:17.040]  And the same thing is true of Clinton.
[08:17.040 --> 08:20.400]  Clinton wants to say, whoa, was there before he was convicted of anything?
[08:20.960 --> 08:23.520]  You were there because you had no convictions.
[08:23.520 --> 08:24.720]  You should have been impeached.
[08:25.280 --> 08:27.840]  You did the same stuff that Jeffrey Epstein did.
[08:27.840 --> 08:32.880]  But of course, Jeffrey Epstein's defense lawyer was the special prosecutor for Bill Clinton.
[08:33.520 --> 08:34.160]  Very special.
[08:34.880 --> 08:42.160]  He ignored all of the credible allegations of sexual assault and rape made by many, many women
[08:42.800 --> 08:46.240]  that Hillary Clinton just dismissed as trailer trash, right?
[08:47.280 --> 08:48.480]  Bimbos and so forth.
[08:49.440 --> 08:53.120]  Well, we know who the trash is, and they're not in trailers.
[08:54.160 --> 08:55.120]  They're in palaces.
[08:56.640 --> 08:59.760]  What we found out is the most important documents are missing.
[09:00.480 --> 09:01.200]  That's right.
[09:01.200 --> 09:02.080]  Except for Clinton.
[09:02.640 --> 09:08.080]  And this is, I think, an obvious strategy of the Trump administration.
[09:08.080 --> 09:11.120]  Let's put out every picture we got of Bill Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein,
[09:11.120 --> 09:14.560]  have him swimming in the pool with Colleen Maxwell and all the rest of the stuff.
[09:14.560 --> 09:16.480]  Redirect attention away to him.
[09:17.280 --> 09:20.240]  And Lindsey Graham is picking up the ball and running with that.
[09:20.240 --> 09:26.560]  Even Tim Kaine, who is Hillary Clinton's running mate, has thrown some shade on that.
[09:26.560 --> 09:28.000]  Said, yeah, they need to explain that.
[09:28.640 --> 09:29.680]  And I'm sure that they will.
[09:30.480 --> 09:35.040]  Well, they have been asked to testify, but so far they are stonewalling.
[09:36.240 --> 09:38.320]  Maybe they didn't learn anything from Steve Bannon.
[09:38.320 --> 09:42.800]  Maybe they think that they are so important, just like Steve Bannon thought he was,
[09:43.760 --> 09:50.960]  that they don't have to worry about getting charged with contempt of Congress,
[09:50.960 --> 09:55.120]  which they can send you to jail for, which is what happened with Bannon, unnecessarily.
[09:55.920 --> 09:59.200]  If he didn't want to talk about anything, all he had to do was just show up
[10:00.000 --> 10:01.200]  and take the Fifth Amendment.
[10:02.320 --> 10:06.480]  But instead, he decided that he was so important, he was just not even going to show up.
[10:06.480 --> 10:07.520]  Bill and Hillary do that.
[10:07.520 --> 10:10.160]  They're definitely going to wind up with the same thing.
[10:10.640 --> 10:14.080]  They'll be there until they get a pardon from the next Democrat president,
[10:14.080 --> 10:15.440]  which may not be that long.
[10:15.440 --> 10:16.000]  Who knows?
[10:16.640 --> 10:19.920]  Well, one of the issues here, of course, is Luss Wexner,
[10:20.880 --> 10:24.160]  the billionaire who gave Epstein his New York mansion.
[10:25.360 --> 10:28.880]  This guy has got all kinds of tentacles and everything.
[10:29.520 --> 10:34.560]  First of all, you see him and all these different entertainment and social media
[10:34.560 --> 10:43.840]  that are pulling down our society, like the Victoria's Secret stuff.
[10:46.000 --> 10:52.480]  I say that because of the event, not just a store selling sexy lingerie,
[10:52.480 --> 10:55.680]  but the way that they did this, and it became a big event.
[10:57.200 --> 11:01.200]  So he's part of that, and many other corporations,
[11:01.200 --> 11:03.600]  he's made a lot of money with that, but he's also very well connected
[11:04.320 --> 11:05.040]  with Massad.
[11:05.040 --> 11:09.760]  He's also very well connected, assert a lot of people, with organized crime.
[11:10.400 --> 11:15.680]  In particular, one murderer that was there, a gangland type of murderer.
[11:15.680 --> 11:21.200]  So he's the founder of L Brands, Incorporated, that now owns Bath & Body Works,
[11:21.840 --> 11:24.800]  Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch.
[11:25.600 --> 11:27.360]  What a disgusting store that is.
[11:29.440 --> 11:31.200]  Back in the 90s, when our boys were young,
[11:31.200 --> 11:36.400]  we would go around the other side of the mall to avoid passing that filthy place.
[11:36.400 --> 11:37.280]  Just disgusting.
[11:38.240 --> 11:41.920]  Lane Bryant and The Limited are all his properties.
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[13:21.840 --> 13:27.680]  He gave Epstein his 45,000 square foot mansion right next to where he lived.
[13:27.760 --> 13:29.680]  I wonder what his motivation was in that.
[13:31.200 --> 13:32.240]  Imagine that.
[13:32.240 --> 13:37.920]  Somebody gifting you a 45,000 square foot mansion in New York.
[13:38.880 --> 13:40.400]  How much would that be worth, right?
[13:41.280 --> 13:44.480]  Despite the Wexner Foundation conducting an independent review,
[13:47.200 --> 13:49.760]  independent of outside sources looking at it,
[13:49.760 --> 13:54.800]  they claimed that Epstein had no contact with the Foundation staff after September 2007.
[13:54.800 --> 13:58.880]  Epstein was regularly consulted for approval and advice on financial transactions.
[13:59.600 --> 14:00.400]  This is the thing.
[14:01.360 --> 14:08.240]  Everybody's saying, well, the dividing line is when he got the sweetheart deal from Acosta.
[14:09.200 --> 14:10.080]  I don't think so.
[14:10.080 --> 14:13.600]  I mean, these people were hanging around him when he was doing the stuff that he was
[14:14.960 --> 14:16.720]  escaped convictions for, really.
[14:17.920 --> 14:20.720]  Because that was a very minor conviction that was done there.
[14:20.720 --> 14:22.720]  Same thing that happened with Bill Clinton.
[14:23.360 --> 14:25.840]  The Wexner Foundation review found three main claims.
[14:25.840 --> 14:33.360]  One, that Epstein played no role in the management or administration of the Foundation's operations.
[14:33.920 --> 14:36.960]  He had no meaningful role in the Foundation's budget or finances.
[14:36.960 --> 14:40.480]  And then he did not make decisions regarding the use of the Foundation's funds.
[14:41.760 --> 14:49.280]  All of these claims are now proven false based on a release of some emails
[14:50.000 --> 14:51.520]  that somehow made their way out.
[14:51.520 --> 14:53.360]  The truth is going to come out, folks.
[14:54.000 --> 14:57.440]  Les Wexner has long been known as a financial donor to Israeli causes.
[14:57.440 --> 15:01.280]  According to emails, Epstein played a role in this funding
[15:01.280 --> 15:05.600]  by helping the Wexner Foundation finance pro-Israel charities like
[15:05.600 --> 15:09.040]  college halals and free birthright trips.
[15:09.920 --> 15:14.560]  Just four days before Epstein would plead guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution
[15:15.200 --> 15:18.960]  as part of his infamous sweetheart deal from the guy that Trump then
[15:19.520 --> 15:21.680]  appointed as his labor secretary.
[15:21.680 --> 15:25.120]  A guy who had no experience in labor whatsoever.
[15:26.160 --> 15:30.880]  I mean, there's just guns smoking all over the place, folks.
[15:30.880 --> 15:31.760]  It's crazy.
[15:31.760 --> 15:33.760]  But anyway, this is what Wexner wrote him.
[15:34.800 --> 15:36.880]  Les Wexner's wife, Abigail, he said,
[15:36.880 --> 15:38.720]  Abigail told me the result.
[15:38.720 --> 15:40.720]  All I can say is I feel sorry.
[15:40.720 --> 15:44.000]  You violated your own number one rule.
[15:45.280 --> 15:46.400]  Always be careful.
[15:47.360 --> 15:52.000]  In other words, it was the kind of thing that I can't believe that you are a pedophile.
[15:52.960 --> 15:55.680]  I would never have suspected that you'd do something like this.
[15:55.680 --> 16:00.160]  No, what he said was what you went wrong was you weren't careful enough
[16:00.160 --> 16:01.600]  when you did this stuff.
[16:01.600 --> 16:03.920]  I can't believe you were a pedophile who got caught.
[16:05.920 --> 16:08.160]  Yeah, I can't believe you were careful enough to not get caught.
[16:08.160 --> 16:10.320]  You know, when we rape and we kill people,
[16:10.320 --> 16:12.080]  we've got to be very careful about this.
[16:12.640 --> 16:13.680]  What's the matter with you?
[16:14.640 --> 16:19.680]  He also violated my number one rule of not molesting and raping people.
[16:20.800 --> 16:22.960]  Yeah, that's not in his list of rules.
[16:22.960 --> 16:25.520]  Yeah, war murder, evidently.
[16:25.520 --> 16:30.800]  Over the last several weeks, former Ohio State University athletes and survivors have protested
[16:31.440 --> 16:34.880]  demanding that Les Wexner comply with a subpoena to appear for questioning
[16:34.880 --> 16:41.680]  and ongoing litigation related to sexual abuse by former OSU team doctor Richard Strauss.
[16:42.640 --> 16:46.240]  And so he's got connections with Richard Strauss.
[16:46.240 --> 16:50.000]  He has his lawyer is now sitting on the board.
[16:50.480 --> 16:52.560]  He's got all these connections to Ohio State.
[16:52.560 --> 16:55.760]  He gave him a lot of money, of course, in order to get these connections.
[16:55.760 --> 16:57.760]  It wasn't like he was a scholar or something.
[16:59.120 --> 17:03.200]  Wexner's name should not be on the Les Wexner football complex
[17:03.840 --> 17:07.360]  because he continues to defy subpoenas from lawyers representing students
[17:07.360 --> 17:10.640]  who are suing Ohio State for not protecting them from Strauss.
[17:11.440 --> 17:13.920]  And because of his association with Epstein,
[17:13.920 --> 17:17.760]  Epstein and Maxwell were directly involved in funding this facility.
[17:19.360 --> 17:23.280]  They're referring to a two and a half million dollar donation by Wexner in 2007,
[17:24.000 --> 17:31.280]  which is matched by donation from a foundation that was run by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
[17:31.280 --> 17:36.160]  So two and a half million from Wexner, two and a half million from Epstein.
[17:37.200 --> 17:39.200]  It's something OSU can be proud of.
[17:41.600 --> 17:42.800]  It's amazing.
[17:43.440 --> 17:49.120]  Wexner's personal attorney, John Zeager, is the chair of the board of trustees.
[17:50.080 --> 17:52.240]  They said a lot of stuff doesn't line up here.
[17:52.240 --> 17:53.600]  Zeager represents Wexner.
[17:53.600 --> 17:54.960]  He sits in there on that board.
[17:54.960 --> 17:58.320]  He's probably making a lot of judgment calls on whether to settle.
[17:58.880 --> 18:00.720]  And this guy's evading a subpoena.
[18:00.720 --> 18:02.320]  How is any of that right?
[18:03.200 --> 18:05.520]  Said one person who was commenting on it.
[18:05.600 --> 18:12.480]  Lawyers representing the abuse victims called a federal judge that Wexner's private security
[18:12.480 --> 18:16.560]  has repeatedly prevented process servers from serving him with subpoenas.
[18:16.560 --> 18:17.120]  Isn't that nice?
[18:18.160 --> 18:24.400]  You can have all these bodyguards who keep the people who want to serve you with subpoena at bay.
[18:25.840 --> 18:27.600]  Do this over and over again.
[18:27.600 --> 18:32.000]  He knows that they're serving him, but you know, he can play these games.
[18:32.960 --> 18:36.240]  They said the attorneys have asked for an alternative way to deliver the subpoena,
[18:36.240 --> 18:38.640]  but the judge has not yet ruled on the request.
[18:39.520 --> 18:43.120]  So yeah, you've got to get past his bodyguards in order to physically hand this to him.
[18:46.560 --> 18:50.880]  Wexner's Israeli and potential mafia connections have also been discussed.
[18:51.920 --> 18:55.520]  He's a prominent figure donor to Israeli causes,
[18:56.320 --> 19:00.640]  but he's also considered to be one of the most prominent Jewish philanthropists.
[19:00.640 --> 19:07.200]  In 1986, Steyn was introduced to Wexner by Robert Meister, an insurance executive who
[19:07.200 --> 19:10.080]  provided insurance for Wexner's clothing company, The Limited.
[19:10.800 --> 19:16.080]  And it was Meister's wife, Wendy, who introduced Les Wexner to his future wife, Abigail.
[19:17.040 --> 19:21.360]  She was a young Israeli-American attorney with her own connections to the state of Israel.
[19:21.360 --> 19:28.000]  Her father, Yehuda Kapell, was a former commander of a special operations unit of the Haganah,
[19:28.000 --> 19:34.720]  the main Zionist paramilitary organization. Yehuda Kapell was a key player in the founding
[19:34.720 --> 19:41.760]  of Israel's military intelligence. Again, it all goes back to Mossad and CIA,
[19:41.760 --> 19:46.000]  and the fact that this is a blackmail honeypot. That's the key information.
[19:46.000 --> 19:50.960]  And I think that more than anything, that is why Trump is stonewalling.
[19:51.600 --> 19:56.960]  He's doing it for Israel. He's doing it for the CIA. He's doing it for his masters, I think.
[19:57.680 --> 20:02.480]  Otherwise, there isn't anything that could come out of those files. I mean, everybody knows that
[20:02.480 --> 20:06.400]  he hung out with Epstein. There's not anything that could come out of those files that would be
[20:06.400 --> 20:10.480]  any more damaging than what the public already knows about Trump. They just want to keep
[20:10.480 --> 20:16.640]  as much as possible these criminal organizations protected, Mossad and the CIA.
[20:17.280 --> 20:23.440]  That's why I think this is very important. This is not just a salacious story about sexual
[20:23.440 --> 20:28.960]  depravity amongst the elite. That's an old story. We've known that for the longest time.
[20:28.960 --> 20:34.640]  It's like what I say about Candace Owen focusing on Macron's wife and trying to prove that
[20:34.640 --> 20:38.080]  she's actually a man. It's like, well, we already know she's a pedophile.
[20:38.640 --> 20:43.120]  Anybody that did what she did with Emmanuel Macron is a much older teacher
[20:43.760 --> 20:48.880]  when Macron was her student. If you do that in the U.S., you go to jail as a pedophile.
[20:49.600 --> 20:56.800]  End of story. What else do you need to know? And what is the point of pursuing that except for
[20:56.800 --> 21:01.840]  views? The important thing that we understand is where these people are coming from. We need
[21:01.840 --> 21:05.200]  to define their character. I think their character has been defined. Clinton's character has been
[21:05.200 --> 21:10.720]  defined. Trump's character has been defined. Macron's character has been defined. But the
[21:10.720 --> 21:17.360]  question is, what's going on with the people who really run the government, the CIA, the Mossad?
[21:18.960 --> 21:26.240]  Rumors stem from a 1985 murder of an attorney, Arthur Shapiro. The murder was described as a
[21:26.240 --> 21:30.080]  mob-style slaying and immediately set off an investigation by Columbus Police Department.
[21:30.720 --> 21:37.520]  The murder remains unsolved to this day. The main suspect was a man named Barry Kessler. He was
[21:37.520 --> 21:42.720]  found guilty in at least one other murder for a higher plot and he was sentenced to death,
[21:42.720 --> 21:48.480]  but he never admitted to killing Arthur Shapiro. By 1991, the Columbus Police Department's
[21:48.480 --> 21:51.840]  organized crime bureau had researched and written a report on Shapiro's murder.
[21:53.040 --> 21:57.920]  It was not initially made public, but later became known after it was revealed that the
[21:57.920 --> 22:06.160]  Columbus police chief, listen to this, had ordered its destruction. The police chief was temporarily
[22:06.160 --> 22:11.360]  suspended for his actions. Not fired, temporarily suspended. So you have the organized crime unit
[22:12.160 --> 22:25.280]  does this thing and he wants it destroyed. Why? Well, we later found out that it had some
[22:25.280 --> 22:32.800]  connections with rumors stemming from the 1985 murder of Arthur Shapiro. Pulling this and it
[22:32.800 --> 22:40.480]  turns out that despite the efforts to destroy this, the so-called Shapiro file, the Columbus
[22:40.480 --> 22:46.800]  Free Press was actually able to get a hold of it and they published it in the late 1990s.
[22:48.160 --> 22:53.440]  The report was described as having quote unsubstantiated allegations, but it specifically
[22:53.440 --> 22:59.760]  named Les Wexner and his businesses as having relationships with individuals believed to be
[22:59.760 --> 23:07.920]  associated with organized crime families. So why was that police chief, who then, by the way,
[23:07.920 --> 23:13.760]  didn't lose his job, he was getting suspended and so he, I guess, got a paid vacation for
[23:13.760 --> 23:20.560]  doing that, a reward, and he's back in the saddle again. Les Wexner, through the limited,
[23:20.560 --> 23:26.160]  is associated with at least two organized crime families who are associated with the Pittsburgh
[23:26.160 --> 23:32.560]  crime family. That's the thing, folks. The mafia, the intelligence agencies, I mean, just like we
[23:32.560 --> 23:37.120]  saw the JFK thing, there's all these different connections happening with them. Why? Because the
[23:37.120 --> 23:45.760]  CIA operates and all these intelligence agencies are organized crime. The difference is they've
[23:45.760 --> 23:53.040]  got a flag and a song and they've also got an unlimited black budget and the money that they
[23:53.040 --> 23:57.200]  get is secret. What they do with the money is secret and what they do to other people
[23:57.760 --> 24:05.120]  is always held secret. The CIA is the worst kind of organized crime. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and
[24:05.200 --> 24:10.960]  I want to be honest with you for a second about how an act of compassion really feels. A couple
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[25:42.800 --> 25:49.120]  for more details. The upstained victim, Maria Farmer, has finally been vindicated after this.
[25:49.120 --> 25:53.040]  This is one thing that came out of it. This is from Bynchel Harvey. She had claimed for many
[25:53.040 --> 26:01.600]  years that she had contacted the FBI about Epstein way back in 1996, but they did nothing about it.
[26:03.200 --> 26:08.080]  The FBI and others said, that's not true. You didn't contact us. Well, now they have seen with
[26:08.080 --> 26:12.640]  the documents that she did. That's the one thing, perhaps the only thing that's come out to show
[26:12.640 --> 26:22.000]  that the, wait a minute, the FBI was lying. The FBI lied about being contacted and a whistleblower
[26:22.000 --> 26:24.800]  contacted them and telling them what was going on with Epstein. They ignored it
[26:25.760 --> 26:34.800]  and shut it down. Just like the FBI under Cash Patel and Dan Bongino lied and tried to cover
[26:34.880 --> 26:42.640]  up this whole thing. The FBI, F-I-B, FIB, that's what they really need to do, call it. This
[26:44.080 --> 26:52.320]  is a 1996 child porn complaint that she filed with the FBI. About a decade before investigators
[26:52.320 --> 26:59.360]  began scrutinizing his predatory behavior, and as I've said before, I believe that that was Trump
[26:59.360 --> 27:06.560]  who knew about all this stuff and was fine with it until he had a real estate fight with Epstein,
[27:06.560 --> 27:14.000]  and then he did this to get even. I'm absolutely convinced of that. Absolutely. There's no question
[27:14.000 --> 27:19.120]  in my mind that it was Trump who turned him in, and Trump who knew. You even had Mike Johnson
[27:19.120 --> 27:25.440]  saying, hey, he was a witness against him. He was an informant, that's what he said.
[27:25.920 --> 27:30.640]  Right? Well, how do you be an informant if you're not privy to what's going on?
[27:32.960 --> 27:37.120]  It wasn't like he goes to a party and is like, whoa, whoa, I'm going to tell him. He hung out
[27:37.120 --> 27:43.120]  with the guy for 15 years before he informed on him, and he informed on him right after they had
[27:43.120 --> 27:49.600]  a real estate fight. Maria Farmer has for years, so she called the federal investigators in the
[27:49.600 --> 27:55.120]  summer of 1996, but the FBI has never publicly acknowledged her original report. Not even to
[27:55.120 --> 28:01.280]  her. Some people had accused her of inventing this story. After the release of thousands of
[28:01.280 --> 28:06.720]  Epstein files on Friday, the New York Times contacted Ms. Farmer about a report stamped
[28:06.720 --> 28:12.240]  with a date of September 3rd, 1996. She broke down in tears and said, I've waited for 30 years.
[28:13.200 --> 28:22.080]  I can't believe it. They can't call me a liar anymore. Yeah, well, when the FIB, the F-I-B,
[28:22.080 --> 28:25.120]  called you a liar, that's probably because you're telling the truth.
[28:26.240 --> 28:31.920]  Ms. Farmer said she was grateful to be vindicated, but heartbroken, that the FBI didn't take stops
[28:31.920 --> 28:38.240]  to step Epstein until years after her report. They should be ashamed. They harmed all these
[28:38.240 --> 28:44.720]  little girls. That part devastates me. The FBI did not respond to requests for comment, as you
[28:44.720 --> 29:01.120]  would expect. Thomas Massey had stated in an interview that he would know whether or not the
[29:01.120 --> 29:06.960]  DOJ had released the files because he'd talked to the victims and they had given, said there were
[29:06.960 --> 29:10.640]  20 very rich and powerful men. They talked about what they were in, but they only gave him one
[29:10.640 --> 29:21.520]  name, as I said before. So what happens now? Well, after the partial release on Friday, on Saturday,
[29:22.240 --> 29:28.640]  they removed some photos. A photo of Donald Trump and more than a dozen other Epstein files
[29:28.640 --> 29:37.760]  mysteriously disappeared on Saturday, the day after. And so it was, the disappearance happened
[29:37.760 --> 29:42.560]  the day after. The missing files that were available on Friday contained a photo of Trump
[29:43.200 --> 29:47.520]  alongside his wife, Melania Epstein, and the pedophiles' long associate,
[29:47.520 --> 29:52.480]  Ghislaine Maxwell. Of course, we've also seen many pictures like that because it wasn't that
[29:52.480 --> 29:59.840]  they got together just once. This is a regular thing. Other images included paintings depicting
[29:59.840 --> 30:06.800]  nude women and one showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. The unexplained
[30:06.800 --> 30:12.640]  missing files fueled speculation about what was taken down and why the public was not notified,
[30:12.640 --> 30:17.280]  compounding long-standing intrigue about Epstein and the powerful figures that surround him.
[30:18.720 --> 30:25.680]  It's the institutions, folks. It's not just the individuals. Yes, it is individuals, but it's also
[30:25.680 --> 30:29.280]  the institution. I think that's really what they're most concerned about protecting.
[30:29.920 --> 30:35.120]  So the most consequential records expected about Epstein are nowhere to be found in the
[30:35.120 --> 30:42.240]  initial disclosures. Missing are FBI interviews with survivors, internal Justice Department memos
[30:42.240 --> 30:47.920]  examining charging decisions, and records that could have helped explain how investigators
[30:47.920 --> 30:54.000]  viewed the case and why Epstein was allowed in 2008 to plead guilty to relatively minor
[30:54.000 --> 30:59.120]  state-level prostitution charge. They might also have some information in there as to why
[31:00.080 --> 31:08.560]  Acosta, the prosecutor at the state level, the federal prosecutor, was told to go easy on him.
[31:08.560 --> 31:16.720]  He's got connections with intelligence. That's the real issue always. Deputy Attorney General Todd
[31:16.720 --> 31:21.200]  Blanch acknowledged in a letter to Congress on Friday that the release was incomplete,
[31:21.200 --> 31:28.160]  that the Justice Department said that it plans to release records on a rolling basis. The
[31:28.160 --> 31:33.200]  department was not given any notice as to when more records might arrive. Now the question is,
[31:33.200 --> 31:42.560]  why so long? You know, you've had months of delay, months of lies and fake releases, and I think,
[31:42.560 --> 31:49.600]  you know, the first fake release was back on February the 27th. And look at how they have
[31:49.600 --> 31:54.720]  paid the price in terms of public opinion. It's been very damaging to them, and they know that.
[31:54.720 --> 32:00.160]  I mean, they live by the opinion polls, so they know that. You've got Mike Johnson shutting
[32:00.160 --> 32:06.160]  Congress down, keeping it shut, refusing to allow a woman to be signed in, keeping Congress out,
[32:06.160 --> 32:11.280]  keeping Congress in, keeping the House in recession while the government was shut down,
[32:11.280 --> 32:16.160]  which is not what they did before. Even though the government was shut down, Congress still
[32:16.160 --> 32:23.920]  met, but Mike Johnson used that as an excuse. They took their August recess. He took it out
[32:23.920 --> 32:29.280]  a week early so they wouldn't have this vote that produced the law that is now producing
[32:29.280 --> 32:35.760]  this conflict that may result in the impeachment of Bondi. Look at all the things that Trump and
[32:35.760 --> 32:45.120]  Johnson have done to try to delay and to hope that this goes away. And they're saying, well,
[32:45.120 --> 32:49.760]  we only had 30 days to look through this stuff. They were looking through it before. That's one
[32:49.760 --> 32:56.000]  of the reasons why they did that. So the ones that were new were often lacking necessary context,
[32:56.000 --> 33:01.360]  or they were heavily blacked out. Republican allies seized on the Clinton images, including
[33:01.360 --> 33:08.400]  photographs of him with Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Chris Tucker, Kevin Spacey, even Walter
[33:08.400 --> 33:16.000]  Cronkite. That's the way it is. Of course, he was somebody who was connected with the Bohemian Grove
[33:16.000 --> 33:22.400]  and all the rest of this stuff. Walter Cronkite was one of the biggest gaslighters ever. Just
[33:22.400 --> 33:32.640]  amazing to me. It truly is, when you look at his reputation, doesn't match the action that we see.
[33:32.640 --> 33:36.320]  None of the photos had captions. There was no explanation given as to why any of them
[33:36.320 --> 33:41.120]  worked together. The media's records released so far show that federal prosecutors had what
[33:41.120 --> 33:48.160]  appeared to be a strong case against Epstein in 2007, yet they never charged him. That included
[33:48.160 --> 33:53.040]  intelligence. They're the ones who tell you what to do. Included testimony from FBI agents who
[33:53.040 --> 33:57.520]  described interviews they had with several girls and young women who described being paid
[33:58.080 --> 34:05.200]  to perform sex acts for Epstein. The youngest was 14 and in ninth grade.
[34:05.520 --> 34:10.640]  Another, who was then 21, testified before the grand jury about how Epstein had hired her when
[34:10.640 --> 34:16.240]  she was 16 to perform a sexual massage and how she had gone on to recruit other girls to do the
[34:16.240 --> 34:22.240]  same. For every girl that I brought to the table, he would give me $200. There were mostly people
[34:22.240 --> 34:25.680]  that she knew from high school. She said, I told them, if they think that you're underage,
[34:25.680 --> 34:33.760]  just lie about it. Tell them that you're 18. And of course, this all goes back to Alex Acosta.
[34:34.480 --> 34:42.960]  That Trump chose to be labor secretary. Why do you think they chose him? Well, Alex Acosta had
[34:42.960 --> 34:47.200]  backed off when they told him that it was intelligence. You think maybe intelligence told
[34:47.200 --> 34:57.040]  Trump to pick him? They don't have any connections prior to that. So again, as corrupt as the rest of
[34:57.040 --> 35:02.800]  them, why would Trump even have picked him without any experience in what he got him for?
[35:04.640 --> 35:17.760]  Well, the Midas Touch, they are a very anti-Trump organization. However, if the shoe fits, wear it.
[35:18.320 --> 35:26.000]  And so they show that there was a previous document that Trump's name was in, and they
[35:26.000 --> 35:30.960]  have a screenshot of that. You can see that on Twitter, Lance, if you want to pull that up.
[35:30.960 --> 35:38.720]  There you go. So you see these two documents. And in the original release, Trump's name was there.
[35:39.360 --> 35:44.000]  Then it got blacked out. So they've actually redacted it more than they did before.
[35:45.360 --> 35:54.800]  So there's impeachment threats against Bondi. Roe Kahana and Massey went on. He said, Massey
[35:54.800 --> 36:00.400]  and I are different. We don't do memes. We don't do speeches. He said, we take action to fight
[36:00.400 --> 36:06.320]  a corrupt system. Except, you know, Massey has said this really as he has said himself. It goes
[36:06.320 --> 36:11.440]  back to Mossad. It goes back to CIA. We'll see if they fight those corrupt systems or not.
[36:12.320 --> 36:18.000]  Congress is talking about possible impeachment, said Kahana. They're talking about inherent
[36:18.000 --> 36:23.680]  contempt for the attorney general or the deputy attorney general. The deputy attorney general,
[36:23.680 --> 36:29.040]  Todd Blanche, said Sunday that DOJ officials are ready to take on impeachment proceedings or other
[36:29.040 --> 36:35.920]  retribution from Congress. He said on Sunday, he argued, there's well-subtle law in a case like
[36:35.920 --> 36:43.840]  this. The redacting information very much trumps some deadline in a statute. When asked whether he
[36:43.840 --> 36:49.200]  was worried about Massey and Kahana's. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what you're
[36:49.200 --> 36:55.360]  doing for just one minute. And I want you to hear about Alejandra. She lives in a remote community
[36:55.360 --> 37:02.160]  with very few resources and little to no health care. So when Alejandra gets sick, her parents
[37:02.160 --> 37:08.640]  have no real options, no doctors in their community and no money for real medical care.
[37:09.200 --> 37:14.720]  By the third day, her body was shutting down. She woke up and just long enough to tell her mom,
[37:15.280 --> 37:22.800]  I can't take the pain anymore. I can't keep going. Her parents drove hours to find a doctor who
[37:22.800 --> 37:28.880]  tried everything, but she needed a private hospital and that was impossible for her family
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[37:35.440 --> 37:42.640]  Alejandra was treated and against all odds, she survived. She lived because someone just like you
[37:42.640 --> 37:49.120]  took action. Right now, unfortunately, there are children just like Alejandra who won't survive
[37:49.120 --> 37:55.520]  unless someone like you steps in. Compassion International partners with local churches,
[37:55.520 --> 38:02.480]  providing children with the support that they need, critical medical care, plus food, education,
[38:02.480 --> 38:10.400]  and the hope of the gospel, all in Jesus' name. So help a child just like Alejandra today.
[38:10.400 --> 38:17.760]  You can visit Compassion.com. That's Compassion.com. It's Bretzky. I don't know how they let me on this
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[38:48.640 --> 38:52.720]  We're doing everything that we're supposed to be doing. You know, it's interesting, I think.
[38:54.960 --> 39:02.400]  Blanche, with his name, he's got an E on the end, but if you just have Blanche without the E,
[39:02.400 --> 39:11.040]  that's a verb to whitewash something. How ironic, isn't it? Because this is the guy who also
[39:12.000 --> 39:17.840]  did the long interview with Ghislaine Maxwell and then moved her to a very
[39:19.520 --> 39:25.520]  much better prison, right, country club. Kana, in a separate Sunday interview with CBS Face the
[39:25.520 --> 39:30.080]  Nation, seemed to back off of his impeachment threat, suggesting the most expeditious way to
[39:30.080 --> 39:35.440]  get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. He said,
[39:35.440 --> 39:40.000]  that doesn't require going through the courts. I believe we'll get bipartisan support in holding
[39:40.000 --> 39:45.600]  her accountable, and a committee of Congress should determine whether these redactions are
[39:45.600 --> 39:50.880]  justified or not. Well, here's Massey on the cover-up. Is that simple? Why do you think he
[39:51.520 --> 39:55.840]  is working so hard not to get them released for so many months? What do you think the real reason is?
[39:57.120 --> 40:06.480]  These files implicate billionaires and friends of him, of his, and of political donors that he's
[40:06.480 --> 40:12.320]  trying to protect. And Epstein also had close ties to our own intelligence agencies and Israel's
[40:12.320 --> 40:18.960]  intelligence agencies. That's why there's so much effort in trying to stop this. And I do believe
[40:18.960 --> 40:23.440]  they'll try to stop it somewhere else, and that's going to backfire on them, too.
[40:25.600 --> 40:28.480]  Exactly. You know, this whole thing about, oh, well, you only had 30 days.
[40:29.360 --> 40:33.680]  No, they passed the law because you were dragging your feet. I mean, you release this stuff with a
[40:33.680 --> 40:41.040]  lot of fanfare and BS. Remember the influencers that showed up? All these people, Libs of TikTok
[40:41.040 --> 40:46.800]  and this other guy. And interestingly enough, they're not just big Trump supporters. They
[40:46.800 --> 40:52.320]  were hardcore Zionists. They figured they would be complicit with the cover-up. And of course,
[40:53.280 --> 40:57.040]  they had to tell people what they had, and they had nothing. It wasn't like they could say,
[40:57.040 --> 41:01.040]  yeah, we got all this stuff. Well, then what do you got that's new? Well, actually nothing.
[41:01.840 --> 41:08.960]  And so this whole thing was a sham from the beginning. That was 295 days before the deadline,
[41:09.920 --> 41:16.000]  and they did everything they could to delay, to stall, to divert interest away to other things.
[41:16.000 --> 41:23.840]  As a matter of fact, one person says, well, all of the following have happened since the release
[41:23.840 --> 41:29.520]  of the redacted Epstein files that nobody's talking about. The U.S. just took control of
[41:29.600 --> 41:36.000]  another oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. The U.S. has bombed Syria. Netanyahu is briefing
[41:36.000 --> 41:44.720]  Trump on a possible war with Iran. This is called distraction. Well, certainly that's what the news
[41:44.720 --> 41:50.080]  media is talking about, but there are some articles about all this stuff, and we will be talking about
[41:50.080 --> 41:55.040]  all this stuff. But it is important that we look at the people who are dragging us into this war
[41:55.040 --> 42:03.040]  are the same people who are running honeypot blackmails with miners. That's the real issue.
[42:03.920 --> 42:09.040]  If you get to the CIA, if you get to the Mossad, you're going to get to the bottom of these wars
[42:09.040 --> 42:15.920]  as well. That's the issue here. Both of these things can be looked at. And again, people are
[42:15.920 --> 42:22.480]  going to focus on the salacious sexual content. But would those people pay any attention to the
[42:22.480 --> 42:30.240]  wars if that wasn't reported? I really don't think so. So don't dismiss, don't mistake two
[42:30.240 --> 42:35.600]  of this week's attention-getter stories. Trump renaming Kennedy Center in his own honor in the
[42:35.600 --> 42:42.480]  unveiling of the unpresidential plaques at the White House. They are clickbait. Yes, they were,
[42:42.480 --> 42:49.040]  but it also tells us something very important about Trump. And so it's worth talking about those
[42:49.040 --> 42:55.120]  things. Republicans were willing to let the government shutdown linger in order to avoid
[42:55.120 --> 42:59.760]  reopening and the inevitable passage of the Epstein-Files Transparency Act even after the
[42:59.760 --> 43:06.960]  shutdown ended. Speaker Mike Johnson delayed swearing in newly elected Democrat representative
[43:06.960 --> 43:14.320]  for 50 days after her special election because she was the last one to fall into place to make
[43:14.320 --> 43:20.880]  sure they had enough votes. None of this is surprising. Not the DOJ's failure to comply with
[43:20.880 --> 43:28.160]  the law. This has been a hallmark of the Trump administration. Failure to comply with the law.
[43:29.120 --> 43:35.680]  Make me, right? They do whatever they wish and then they defy you to force them to do something
[43:35.680 --> 43:44.080]  about it. It is a hallmark of corruption, folks. The arrogance and the defiance of the law. That's
[43:44.160 --> 43:50.240]  what we see time and again with the Trump administration. As the Times noted, close to 20
[43:50.240 --> 43:56.000]  women have publicly accused Trump of groping, forcibly kissing, sexually assaulting them,
[43:56.560 --> 44:00.800]  behavior that he once bragged that he could get away with because of a celebrity but later denied
[44:00.800 --> 44:07.280]  ever engaging in. In 2023, Eugene Carroll won a five million dollar civil judgment against him
[44:07.840 --> 44:12.240]  for sexual abuse and defamation. The public's interest in understanding where the president
[44:12.240 --> 44:17.760]  had more than a social friendship with Epstein is grounded in that context and understandable.
[44:19.200 --> 44:26.080]  But it's not even an open question when you look at the fact that he was hanging around with him.
[44:26.080 --> 44:31.760]  And then you have Bill Clinton who faced impeachment only over Monica Lewinsky.
[44:33.040 --> 44:36.080]  He wasn't convicted even of that, even though that case was clear.
[44:37.040 --> 44:43.840]  That was clearly he lied under oath and that's what it was about. It wasn't about his conduct
[44:43.840 --> 44:47.920]  with Monica Lewinsky. That's what all the Democrats that I've talked to, oh, you know,
[44:47.920 --> 44:54.160]  what about that? And it's like it wasn't about his conduct. It was kind of an impeachment trap
[44:54.160 --> 45:00.400]  that he lied under oath. But I think that he really did all of those things. I believe
[45:00.400 --> 45:07.440]  the women who accused him of that, they were very credible, I thought, far more credible than Bill
[45:07.440 --> 45:16.320]  and Hillary. So the issue is the perjury that was involved with that. And that's why it's also
[45:16.320 --> 45:23.040]  important the cover-ups, the lies, the violation of laws, these ancillary things in order to cover
[45:23.040 --> 45:28.560]  up something that is also a crime or something that just may be embarrassing. Those things are
[45:28.560 --> 45:36.560]  also important. So what is the point of all this? Many people said 90 percent of the released Epstein
[45:36.560 --> 45:42.640]  files are redacted. Some of them just a sheet, everything is blacked out. Is that a release?
[45:42.640 --> 45:49.600]  No, it's not. So it sparked a firestorm of criticism over the heavy-handed use of the literal
[45:49.600 --> 45:56.560]  black pen. You know, I wonder if the next president will continue this new hall of fame
[45:56.560 --> 46:01.520]  walkway that Trump did with the portraits of the president and he put the picture of the auto pen
[46:01.520 --> 46:09.440]  of Biden. I think maybe the next Democrat president would take Trump's picture off and put a black pen
[46:09.440 --> 46:18.240]  up for redaction. Trump is redacting his own administration, actually. Over 100 pages
[46:18.960 --> 46:23.200]  are redacted, leading many to wonder what was the point of releasing them in the first place.
[46:24.000 --> 46:27.360]  Trump administration stated that release was intended to provide closure
[46:28.000 --> 46:33.600]  and to demonstrate a commitment to government honesty. They really think you're going to believe
[46:33.600 --> 46:39.360]  that. Just the opposite. Unfortunately. It shows how committed they are to government honesty.
[46:39.360 --> 46:48.240]  Yeah, that's right. They should be committed. Yeah, that's right. We had, we're doing an
[46:48.240 --> 46:53.360]  adoption. We had a lawyer ask us why we'd gotten out of the video business. I said,
[46:53.360 --> 46:57.920]  well, because of our convictions. Oh, I need to know the nature of those convictions and what
[46:57.920 --> 47:05.680]  the charges were. No, no, no. It's our Christian convictions. But I said, you know, the lawyers,
[47:05.680 --> 47:10.560]  that's the only kind of convictions they have is criminal convictions if they're there. Same
[47:10.560 --> 47:14.880]  thing with politicians. Unfortunately, most of the pages were kept hidden and the mass
[47:14.880 --> 47:20.240]  redaction immediately raised eyebrows on social media. Lawyers reportedly worked on the files
[47:20.240 --> 47:26.400]  from Thanksgiving week until the day of the release. No, they had a very, very long time.
[47:26.400 --> 47:34.880]  If you go from February the 27th to December the 19th, that's 295 days. And I don't even know that
[47:34.880 --> 47:40.640]  you start the clock with that because they had already deliberately, there you go. Thank you,
[47:40.640 --> 47:46.720]  Les. There's just one black page after another. There's a picture, no context,
[47:46.720 --> 47:51.920]  and then more black pages. And there's a plane or this or that. There are pictures of this.
[47:53.200 --> 47:57.440]  Users discovered the majority of the pages showed nothing but blacked out text like you just
[47:57.440 --> 48:02.720]  showed there. So what was the point of releasing all this? Well, in order to defy the law,
[48:03.680 --> 48:11.360]  as they argued that they complied with the law. And we look at a release of just page after page
[48:11.360 --> 48:16.880]  after page of blacked out text. Do you remember when all this pandemic and the Trump shot was
[48:16.880 --> 48:24.480]  going around and Pfizer and everything? Well, in the EU, you had Ursula Fond of lying had had some
[48:24.480 --> 48:30.080]  very private conversations with Albert Borla. And they wanted to get that information. And they also
[48:30.160 --> 48:35.440]  wanted to see more information about the vaccine itself. And so you had several members of the
[48:35.440 --> 48:40.080]  European Parliament held a press conference. They said, we demand information and this is what we
[48:40.080 --> 48:44.960]  got. And they held it up and it's black page after black page after black page, all of it redacted.
[48:45.520 --> 48:50.800]  They said, this is not a release. Law says you have to release some documents. It doesn't say
[48:50.800 --> 48:56.800]  there has to be text on the documents or photos. Here's some black squares that fulfills the letter
[48:56.800 --> 49:02.000]  of the law. And see, that's it, you know, defying the law while saying that you complied with it.
[49:02.800 --> 49:09.040]  Everybody sees what this is. And this is something that really is an American invention. The
[49:09.040 --> 49:15.040]  national security state where we can't tell you anything. Everything is secure because the
[49:15.040 --> 49:20.000]  security that they're looking for is their job security and let's keep themselves securely out
[49:20.000 --> 49:25.760]  of prison. That's why you have national security folks. The significance of these files lies in
[49:25.760 --> 49:32.640]  their potential to expose a sprawling network of international power, wealth and systemic abuse.
[49:33.440 --> 49:39.520]  We have names for that. Mossad, CIA. That's what it is. That's the international network
[49:40.240 --> 49:43.440]  of power, wealth and systematic abuse. It's also the international network
[49:44.080 --> 49:51.040]  for assassinations, for wars, for coups. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and I want you to pause what
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[51:27.520 --> 51:34.800]  So after they discovered a picture of Trump, after they released the documents on Friday,
[51:34.800 --> 51:41.280]  they removed it. On Saturday, the image in question identified and they have the file number here.
[51:41.760 --> 51:46.720]  Reportedly depicted an open desk drawer containing multiple personal photographs.
[51:47.440 --> 51:53.040]  Among the items visible were a picture of Trump alongside several young women as a separate photo
[51:53.040 --> 52:00.080]  of him with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Left a conspicuous, after they removed it, it left a
[52:00.080 --> 52:09.600]  conspicuous numerical gap in the digital archive from 467 to 469. So they didn't even go back and
[52:09.600 --> 52:15.760]  renumber anything. House oversight Democrats said, Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered
[52:15.760 --> 52:21.600]  up? We need transparency for the American public. And so again, as I mentioned, the people that are
[52:21.600 --> 52:26.960]  on there, we got Kevin Spacey, Bill Gates, Mick Jagger, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Richard Branson,
[52:26.960 --> 52:34.880]  the billionaire, the man formerly known as Prince Andrew, and Bill Clinton, of course, over and over
[52:34.880 --> 52:41.760]  again. It's a club, folks, and you ain't in it. And be thankful that you aren't. Congress's rule
[52:41.760 --> 52:47.280]  that demanded that they release all unclassified documents related to the investigation has been
[52:47.280 --> 52:55.280]  defied by this stuff. So even Senator Kaine is calling on Bill Clinton to explain the large
[52:55.280 --> 53:01.840]  presence in the Epstein files. Again, Kaine was Hillary's running mate. And so on a Sunday show,
[53:02.800 --> 53:09.520]  he said Clinton should address questions surrounding the files linked to Epstein. He said,
[53:10.320 --> 53:16.560]  he was asked rather, Bill Clinton is featured prominently in the first batch. As I was discussing
[53:16.560 --> 53:21.600]  just now, to be very clear, NBC News does not know the full context behind these images.
[53:21.600 --> 53:27.280]  Simply being in the Epstein files doesn't imply any criminal wrongdoing. But does Clinton owe
[53:27.280 --> 53:33.760]  the public an explanation about his relationship with Epstein? And Kaine said, well, you know,
[53:33.760 --> 53:38.800]  I actually haven't tracked what Clinton has said. And if there are unanswered questions, you know,
[53:38.800 --> 53:45.280]  he should address them. I suspect that he will. Except they are defying the subpoena to talk to
[53:45.280 --> 53:50.240]  Congress, both Bill and Hill. Clinton's link to this graced financier has been known,
[53:50.880 --> 53:56.880]  and he has not faced any allegations of wrongdoing. Well, maybe that's thanks to
[53:58.000 --> 54:01.760]  somebody that they had, you know, this is a small circle of people. We keep seeing the same ones
[54:01.760 --> 54:04.880]  over and over again. We keep seeing people like Alan Dershowitz over and over again. And also,
[54:05.520 --> 54:11.840]  the other guy who defended Jeffrey Epstein was the guy who was supposedly the special prosecutor
[54:11.840 --> 54:18.640]  for Clinton, who looked away from all of the very credible cases, allegations
[54:19.280 --> 54:25.920]  from people like Juanita Broderick and others about sexual assault and rape, and went with
[54:25.920 --> 54:30.880]  lies under oath about Monica Lewinsky. But even that he couldn't get a conviction for.
[54:31.760 --> 54:37.600]  Didn't try too hard, I think. And you know, so he does that for Clinton. Then he covers for Epstein,
[54:37.600 --> 54:44.720]  Ken Starr. And he's operating under the cover that this guy is a Christian, right? He wears
[54:44.720 --> 54:49.520]  that on his sleeve. That's his his trading card. I'm a Christian. I'm a Christian.
[54:50.160 --> 54:57.360]  And then he goes to a Christian university. And after having defended Jeffrey Epstein
[54:57.360 --> 55:07.680]  and Bill Clinton, he defends an entire football team and charges of sexual harassment and assault.
[55:08.640 --> 55:15.760]  And then that cost him his job at I think it was Baylor where he was. But I finally
[55:15.760 --> 55:19.840]  added him this third strike. But I figured, you know, I guess he figured, hey, if I could
[55:20.400 --> 55:25.760]  cover for Clinton and for Epstein, it's not possible that entire football team could do
[55:25.760 --> 55:32.720]  more than they did. Right. So why not? Right. Just warming up with that. So it wasn't just
[55:32.720 --> 55:37.280]  the picture of Trump that disappeared. They had 16 photos that were taken down on Saturday.
[55:38.480 --> 55:46.400]  More than a dozen photographs, as a matter of fact. They follow him around. You know,
[55:46.400 --> 55:50.960]  it's amazing when you look at the number of photographs that Jeffrey Epstein has.
[55:52.080 --> 55:56.320]  I wish I had that many photographs of my life, people around me and things like that.
[55:56.320 --> 56:01.920]  Unfortunately, I didn't. Evidently, he had a full time photographer following him around,
[56:02.880 --> 56:06.320]  taking pictures of him. I bet he had many hidden photographers,
[56:06.320 --> 56:12.480]  all of which were very qualified with massage training. That's true. That's true. And that's
[56:12.480 --> 56:17.280]  not even counting all of the video cameras that he's got embedded in the ceiling and things like
[56:17.280 --> 56:22.560]  the various rooms that are there. But it is amazing, you know, somebody find that photographer and
[56:22.560 --> 56:30.560]  ask him what's going on. He was there all the time. So again, you know, when we look at
[56:32.880 --> 56:38.480]  Todd Blanch, it's not he was in charge of releasing these documents. And he was the guy
[56:39.200 --> 56:44.080]  who was the one who interviewed going Maxwell for that lengthy amount of time, then puts her
[56:44.800 --> 56:51.360]  and club fed a very nice facility to spend her time there till she gets her pardon.
[56:52.800 --> 56:55.840]  The guy Todd Blanch, the guy who white washes all this stuff.
[56:56.720 --> 57:01.040]  And remember, when we talk about it being the intelligence agency,
[57:01.040 --> 57:06.560]  Glane Maxwell was even talking. So Alex Acosta has told us that layoff is with intelligence.
[57:06.560 --> 57:10.560]  Remember when everybody was saying, why did they come after Jeffrey Epstein,
[57:10.560 --> 57:15.920]  but not after Glane Maxwell? Remember how that went for a long time before she was arrested?
[57:16.480 --> 57:23.840]  And remember how she trolled the intelligence agencies? She very deliberately had her picture
[57:23.840 --> 57:29.440]  taken holding a book. Remember that? The title of the book was Book of Honor,
[57:30.240 --> 57:38.640]  the secret lives and deaths of CIA operatives. Secret lives and deaths of CIA operatives.
[57:38.640 --> 57:44.880]  So that have been referring to Jeffrey Epstein, saying he was a secret operative. Maybe instead
[57:44.880 --> 57:53.040]  of honor, maybe they should talk about horror, the horror of what the CIA does over and over again.
[57:53.920 --> 58:02.240]  So DOJ brass, including Bondi and Cash Patel, have now attempted to downplay the Epstein file
[58:02.240 --> 58:10.720]  for months, 295 days as of Friday, with Bondi going so far as claiming in June that the release
[58:10.720 --> 58:18.160]  of more files is neither appropriate nor warranted. A month later, reports surfaced that she had told
[58:18.160 --> 58:24.240]  Trump that his name was in the files. So Blanche is saying that he's going to put these out on a
[58:24.240 --> 58:33.040]  rolling basis. I think it's more likely they should be on a roiling basis. In other words,
[58:33.040 --> 58:40.320]  it's going to be constant agitation, constant turbulence. And part of this, it may be used
[58:40.320 --> 58:46.000]  to distract people's attention from war and other things, because that's not really very interesting
[58:46.000 --> 58:51.760]  to most people. Most Americans don't see war as an abstraction. And of course, they've been so
[58:51.760 --> 58:56.720]  propagandized by Hollywood, they think that we're capable of winning every war, even though we've
[58:56.720 --> 59:03.280]  lost them all since World War II. I think the real reason for the rolling basis is that they're going
[59:03.280 --> 59:09.360]  to release the stuff with the Democrats first, and then the Democrats will say, oh, well,
[59:09.360 --> 59:13.920]  ignore all of this. It doesn't matter. And then when they release the stuff of the Republicans
[59:13.920 --> 59:18.240]  and the Democrats try and hold that up, they can say, oh, look, well, you ignored it before.
[59:18.800 --> 59:24.560]  Yeah, yeah. Well, they got Blanche there to whitewash it all. So the clock began ticking,
[59:24.560 --> 59:28.960]  he said, when Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 19th. No,
[59:29.520 --> 59:33.600]  the clock started ticking when he took office because he'd promised to release them.
[59:34.720 --> 59:41.040]  And I'm not even counting that. I'm counting when he did his phony release. How can people look at
[59:41.040 --> 59:50.000]  that and not see a cover up? And that was 295 days before this. So Blanche said that the DOJ's
[59:50.000 --> 59:54.640]  review protocol conformed with the law that attorneys redacted material that identified victims
[59:54.640 --> 59:59.840]  showed child sex abuse, would imperil an investigation, showed images of death, physical
[59:59.840 --> 01:00:04.800]  abuse or injury, and or contain classified national security or foreign policy information.
[01:00:05.680 --> 01:00:12.160]  In other words, so all the crimes, especially the heinous ones, were covered up
[01:00:13.440 --> 01:00:18.800]  since nobody was charged. What they're saying is that if you've got situations that involve
[01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:24.320]  victims, if it shows child sex abuse, well, they're going to keep it secret, but they're
[01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:29.840]  not going to charge anybody. How about if it shows death, physical abuse or injury?
[01:00:30.560 --> 01:00:33.040]  Well, they're not going to show you that information and let you know about it. And
[01:00:33.040 --> 01:00:38.080]  they're not going to charge the people who did it. Think about that. Think about that.
[01:00:39.520 --> 01:00:48.240]  1200 victims, 1200 names being identified as victims and this 1200 of them. And yet
[01:00:48.880 --> 01:00:56.720]  it was all done single-handedly by Jeffrey Epstein. None of these other people had anything to do with
[01:00:56.720 --> 01:01:03.760]  it. So they said we excluded, and this is what they said we excluded. It's a good article from
[01:01:03.760 --> 01:01:10.720]  the New American listing the details of this. So there's nine things that they said we're going
[01:01:10.720 --> 01:01:17.200]  to redact for. Anything with Jeffrey Epstein, including prosecutions, investigations or
[01:01:17.200 --> 01:01:22.080]  custodial matters. We're going to redact that. Same with Ghislaine Maxwell. Then they're going
[01:01:22.080 --> 01:01:26.400]  to redact anything that has to do with flight logs or travel records for any kind of aircraft
[01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:32.480]  vessel or vehicle. Then they're going to redact any individuals, including government officials
[01:01:33.120 --> 01:01:38.000]  named or referenced in connection with Epstein's criminal activity. So if there's a government
[01:01:38.000 --> 01:01:43.040]  official that's joining him in criminal activity, you're not going to be allowed to see that.
[01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:49.680]  And they say this. This is what we're going to cover up from you. Any entities with known or
[01:01:49.680 --> 01:01:55.360]  alleged ties to Epstein's trafficking... Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what
[01:01:55.360 --> 01:02:01.200]  you're doing for just one minute, and I want you to hear about Alejandra. She lives in a remote
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[01:03:35.920 --> 01:04:03.760]  I mean, the whole part four seems to be, we're just not going to release any of the information
[01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:08.560]  that you want, any of the stuff related to who is committing these crimes. That is literally
[01:04:08.560 --> 01:04:13.280]  the whole thing. Yeah, we know that there were sex crimes going on at this island. The question is,
[01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:19.920]  who are the individuals involved, especially the government officials? It's absolutely ridiculous.
[01:04:20.640 --> 01:04:24.880]  Yeah, they're especially not going to, they mentioned nothing about immunity or plea deals.
[01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:28.560]  So we're not going to tell you anything about discussions that were going on with Alex Acosta
[01:04:28.560 --> 01:04:35.360]  or anything like that. None of that's going to be allowed. And so, yeah, it is. It's just a complete
[01:04:35.360 --> 01:04:40.880]  cover-up and it's right in your face. No, we're not going to release anything that is of any substance
[01:04:40.880 --> 01:04:46.480]  that might get anybody else in trouble. Any immunity deals, any non-prosecution agreements,
[01:04:46.480 --> 01:04:50.960]  any plea bargains, any sealed settlements involving Epstein or his associates, that will not be
[01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:56.720]  released. Any internal Department of Justice communications will not be released. All
[01:04:56.720 --> 01:05:01.360]  communications, memoranda, directives, logs, metadata concerning the destruction, deletion,
[01:05:01.360 --> 01:05:06.400]  alteration, misplacement, or concealment of documents will not be released. This is to
[01:05:06.400 --> 01:05:13.840]  protect themselves because they're the ones pushing, the DOJ communications are the ones pushing
[01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:20.880]  with the directives and other things to cover up, to delete. And finally, the documentation of
[01:05:20.960 --> 01:05:26.320]  Epstein's detention or death. Any witness interviews, any medical examiner files, any
[01:05:26.320 --> 01:05:30.400]  autopsy reports, any written records detailing the circumstances and the cause of death,
[01:05:31.120 --> 01:05:37.040]  and or whether he actually did die, which I'm not 100% convinced of to this day.
[01:05:38.560 --> 01:05:44.400]  There were questions about it. And so again, all of that will be kept secret.
[01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:50.080]  So let's start out with how will you know if they've released all the materials, said Massey.
[01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:55.600]  I would say that if Massey and Kana are serious about this stuff, they had to begin with that
[01:05:55.600 --> 01:06:02.880]  list of nine things and say, how dare you exclude this stuff? You're not authorized to do that.
[01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:09.680]  There wasn't, that was an exclusion that came up. That was created by Todd Whitewash, Todd Blanche.
[01:06:10.720 --> 01:06:16.240]  So Todd Whitewash came up with those rules and it's absolute hogwash. They need to call him out on
[01:06:16.240 --> 01:06:21.520]  that. Well, how will you know? And again, he said, I've talked to the lawyers in private.
[01:06:21.520 --> 01:06:24.960]  They've told me, you know, they've come up with 20 names, although they wouldn't give me only but
[01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:31.200]  one of the names of somebody who was already publicly linked to all this stuff. But they
[01:06:31.200 --> 01:06:36.560]  told me about them and what industry they were in and that type of thing. None of those names were
[01:06:36.560 --> 01:06:42.880]  there. So he said, collectively, they come up with that. So he said, if those names are not in there,
[01:06:43.840 --> 01:06:50.960]  we know they have covered it up and they have. So the issue is this, folks. It's not the DOJ
[01:06:51.600 --> 01:07:01.200]  and the FBI, the real issue. The real issue is the CIA. And this article that was on Zero Hedge
[01:07:02.080 --> 01:07:08.480]  is from Larry Johnson, who used to be an analyst for the CIA. He says, the CIA is broken.
[01:07:09.440 --> 01:07:15.760]  Can it be fixed? No, it can't. The reality is the CIA is pure evil.
[01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:24.640]  We need an exorcism to get this demon out of the federal government. It is a cancer
[01:07:25.440 --> 01:07:34.240]  that has metastasized throughout the government. And so he talks about Cy Hirsch and his
[01:07:34.880 --> 01:07:43.040]  article about bad intelligence about Ukraine that is affecting—Trump is being lied to, as he says.
[01:07:44.160 --> 01:07:51.200]  And I don't think that—I'm not going to go there. I'm not going to try to give Trump an alibi for
[01:07:51.200 --> 01:07:58.080]  what he's doing. He's responsible. He's a big boy. He appointed these people. He appointed
[01:07:58.800 --> 01:08:05.040]  the person that he accused of lying us into the Iraq war with lies about weapons of mass
[01:08:05.040 --> 01:08:09.440]  destruction obtained by torture, Gina Haspel. He put her in charge of the CIA. So he's fully
[01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:15.840]  complicit with all this stuff. There's no excuse. But this guy goes back through some of the
[01:08:15.840 --> 01:08:22.240]  specifics, the fact that the CIA is saying that both Ukraine and Russia are on the verge of
[01:08:22.240 --> 01:08:26.480]  economic and military collapse, that Putin is facing economic, political, military, and public
[01:08:26.480 --> 01:08:33.680]  pressure, that the banks have cut off all loans to the civilian population. None of this is true.
[01:08:35.200 --> 01:08:43.840]  And when you look at the massive army that Russia still has, over a million in arms and so forth,
[01:08:43.840 --> 01:08:48.400]  and the fact that Russian wages have actually increased more than their rate of inflation
[01:08:49.280 --> 01:08:54.560]  and that they are making loans. There's no prohibitions on domestic lending to Russian
[01:08:54.560 --> 01:09:02.080]  individuals. All of this stuff is a lie, and it is easily disproven by a lot of other independent
[01:09:02.080 --> 01:09:08.640]  sources. And so this guy who used to be an analyst for the CIA says, so why does the CIA persist
[01:09:09.200 --> 01:09:15.200]  in peddling provably false information? And then he makes it all about John Brennan and
[01:09:16.480 --> 01:09:22.400]  an institution that he put inside of the other stuff. But he's looking at it from the standpoint
[01:09:22.400 --> 01:09:26.400]  of just being an analyst and of just informing the president as to what's going on.
[01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:31.840]  The president would be much better informed about what is going on if he just looked at
[01:09:31.840 --> 01:09:39.520]  social media rather than the CIA briefings. But the reality is that they do more than just analyze
[01:09:39.520 --> 01:09:45.280]  information and present it to the president. Again, they're involved in assassinations,
[01:09:45.280 --> 01:09:52.400]  in coups, and starting wars, and sexual blackmail, all of this stuff. Why do we have an
[01:09:52.400 --> 01:09:58.960]  organization like that? It is the foundation and the linchpin of this abomination we call
[01:09:58.960 --> 01:10:07.440]  national security. We have been more secure before we had quote unquote national security.
[01:10:08.400 --> 01:10:16.000]  We didn't have that for the first 150 years or so of this country. And we were all much more
[01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:23.760]  secure. These people are constantly doing evil things, not just to foreigners, but to Americans
[01:10:23.760 --> 01:10:30.240]  as well, as well as drawing us into one war after another. It is not about intelligence.
[01:10:31.200 --> 01:10:39.120]  It is a black op with a black budget. They have unlimited amounts of money. They can do things in
[01:10:39.120 --> 01:10:46.080]  secret. They're above the law. It attracts a criminal class. And I think that that kind
[01:10:46.080 --> 01:10:50.720]  of money and power is going to corrupt somebody that's not even criminal to start with.
[01:10:51.920 --> 01:11:00.000]  It's got to be taken out. That's reality. When are we going to redact the CIA? That's the bottom
[01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:04.160]  line, folks. Well, we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
[01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:18.160]  You're listening to the David Knight show.
[01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:24.400]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want to be honest with you for a second about how an act of compassion
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[01:16:37.600 --> 01:16:41.040]  It's just so different and new. I've been in this infrastructure business for,
[01:16:41.040 --> 01:16:44.640]  you know, three decades. No one has ever seen infrastructure like this.
[01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:48.720]  Now, I expect that these trends will only increase in the future.
[01:16:48.720 --> 01:16:52.560]  In the last few months, we launched voice and vision capabilities
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[01:17:54.240 --> 01:17:59.520]  You know, when we went to break, I didn't realize I'd gone on for an hour.
[01:17:59.520 --> 01:18:03.840]  I guess I should have brought out the hook and pulled me off stage.
[01:18:03.840 --> 01:18:07.680]  But I went on for an hour and we have something very important today.
[01:18:08.400 --> 01:18:13.760]  I am Marty offered to do matching funds today on all platforms, as a matter of fact.
[01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:17.600]  And we really want to thank him so much for all the support that he's given us
[01:18:18.320 --> 01:18:22.320]  in the past and today. And so I failed to mention that.
[01:18:22.320 --> 01:18:26.320]  And I went for an hour about this other stuff. And so just to remind you,
[01:18:26.400 --> 01:18:29.840]  I am Marty is doing matching funds today, if you would like to help us
[01:18:29.840 --> 01:18:34.880]  for this short month that we have on all platforms, including snail mail.
[01:18:36.320 --> 01:18:42.240]  We got a special meme there that he sent us, I think. Was that for Marty, I think?
[01:18:42.240 --> 01:18:42.800]  Yes.
[01:18:42.800 --> 01:18:49.040]  Yeah. That's good, Marty. I like that. Yeah. And Lance is back with us today and
[01:18:50.320 --> 01:18:55.520]  he's been working on a special project. And of course, Travis is not back with us yet.
[01:18:55.520 --> 01:19:00.240]  They went back to Austin to visit relatives for the holidays.
[01:19:00.240 --> 01:19:06.480]  He'll be back, but not before Christmas that we are going to have the holiday here with it.
[01:19:06.480 --> 01:19:09.200]  But anyway, let's talk a little bit about some Christmas things.
[01:19:09.200 --> 01:19:13.840]  It was an interesting situation in the UK.
[01:19:14.720 --> 01:19:18.880]  A grocery store chain, as well as we'll get to that in a moment,
[01:19:19.600 --> 01:19:25.040]  grocery store chain pulled a card from the shelves over one person complaining.
[01:19:26.080 --> 01:19:31.040]  They have operators who are standing by to enforce any kind of censorship
[01:19:31.040 --> 01:19:35.120]  for any kind of DEI reason. But before we do that, I haven't read the
[01:19:35.840 --> 01:19:41.840]  comments either. I'm getting way behind. So we have first one here from Gard Goldsmith.
[01:19:41.840 --> 01:19:44.800]  Good to see you, Gard. Liberty Conspiracy is where you can find him.
[01:19:44.800 --> 01:19:49.360]  He has broadcast weekly evenings as well as Substack. Pull it down there, Lance.
[01:19:50.320 --> 01:19:53.360]  It scrolled off there. Yeah, we got so many of them.
[01:19:53.360 --> 01:19:57.600]  The exclusion of girls' faces on the shots indicate that they likely were victims,
[01:19:58.240 --> 01:20:03.200]  implying things about the males in the pics. Yeah, we can kind of draw our own conclusions,
[01:20:03.840 --> 01:20:07.040]  especially because one of these things, they said there was a toddler's foot in it.
[01:20:07.040 --> 01:20:15.040]  I didn't pick that up. But yeah, Megan Kelly comes to mind when we talk about that kind of issue here.
[01:20:15.040 --> 01:20:17.600]  I don't know. I guess does she have a problem with 14-year-olds?
[01:20:18.560 --> 01:20:24.880]  Um, just amazing, her reaction, all this stuff. Big Brit is back again, says Black Rock is now
[01:20:24.880 --> 01:20:31.840]  buying up utility suppliers. They will have a monopoly on that. Yes, everything is moving to
[01:20:31.840 --> 01:20:39.440]  a monopoly. And unless we have a big reset of everything, they are going to, they're putting
[01:20:39.440 --> 01:20:43.360]  the shackles and the chains on us in every different direction. It's truly amazing.
[01:20:44.240 --> 01:20:49.600]  KWD-68, about the time the Epstein drama ends, the skies will be filled with AI-supported drones
[01:20:49.600 --> 01:20:54.320]  to keep us in line. That's right. And probably narratives about UFOs as well.
[01:20:54.960 --> 01:21:01.200]  M. Seller says, Les Wexner has ruined Columbus, Ohio. It is over the top globalist. The
[01:21:01.200 --> 01:21:07.280]  interstate system and more. It also has creepy vibe, no more of a Midwest wholesome feel. Yeah,
[01:21:07.280 --> 01:21:12.320]  you know you can feel that in a lot of different places, can't you? I've been to places where we
[01:21:12.320 --> 01:21:16.720]  definitely felt that, places that we're thinking of moving to. And it's like,
[01:21:16.720 --> 01:21:22.560]  no, there's something wrong here. You really can get a vibe from some cities like that.
[01:21:22.560 --> 01:21:26.080]  That's one of the reasons why we're here in Tennessee, buckle on the Bible Belt.
[01:21:27.040 --> 01:21:31.280]  Scott Callow-Rosegarden says, they gifted one subscription to the David Knight Show.
[01:21:31.280 --> 01:21:38.240]  Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Pezzano Vante, 1776. I think I saw a clip about Epstein's
[01:21:38.240 --> 01:21:44.560]  New York City mansion that said it was worth $77 million. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.
[01:21:44.560 --> 01:21:50.560]  45,000 square feet. That's probably a deal if you can afford it. Who would want to live there?
[01:21:50.560 --> 01:21:55.920]  I mean, that's maybe creepier than a house with mass murderers going on there. Who knows,
[01:21:55.920 --> 01:21:59.680]  they might have had mass murderers there for all we know. The Real Octo Spook says,
[01:21:59.680 --> 01:22:03.360]  all Epstein property, wealth, money, et cetera, will be stolen in plain sight.
[01:22:04.080 --> 01:22:09.200]  The victims will get a pittance if they get anything. That's one thing that our justice system
[01:22:10.160 --> 01:22:16.400]  is not really focused on, and that is any kind of compensation for victims. Not even in civil
[01:22:16.400 --> 01:22:21.680]  court will they be able to find anything there. Citizen of Americaca says, like Thomas Massey said,
[01:22:21.680 --> 01:22:26.480]  as soon as power shifts hands, you can expect the next administration's attorney general to bring
[01:22:26.480 --> 01:22:33.360]  Bondi up on charges. Yeah, there's no statute of limitations on that. A lot of people are willing
[01:22:33.360 --> 01:22:39.280]  to put their head in a noose for Donald Trump. Maybe what he'll do is what he didn't do for J6
[01:22:40.480 --> 01:22:46.080]  people, and that is preemptively pardon her. That's an option for him. Otherwise, why would
[01:22:46.080 --> 01:22:51.120]  these people be doing this kind of stuff? Why would they be committing crimes and lying for
[01:22:51.120 --> 01:22:57.600]  Donald Trump if there wasn't an implication of a pardon in the works? But of course,
[01:22:58.560 --> 01:23:04.720]  can you really count on Trump? Is he loyal to the people who support him? I'm not so sure.
[01:23:06.080 --> 01:23:12.000]  Jerry Alatalo says, I'm about to launch catastrophic Vietnam 2.0 criminal war against
[01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:18.720]  Venezuela, but you're still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? That creep? Yeah. Yeah, he does. It's a
[01:23:18.720 --> 01:23:27.520]  hoax, right? Well, he was, right? It is a hoax, but the hoax is what he's doing, not what the
[01:23:27.520 --> 01:23:32.400]  other people are doing. Wally Walrus says, Galen's pardon is on its way. Remember when Trump said,
[01:23:32.960 --> 01:23:38.080]  I've heard that name before, but I haven't heard that name for a very long time. And you see
[01:23:38.080 --> 01:23:45.120]  picture after picture of them hanging together as a foursome or whatever. It's amazing. New Republic
[01:23:45.120 --> 01:23:50.960]  Rising 83 says, the FBI sat there for 10 years knowing that he did child porn, etc. If they ever
[01:23:50.960 --> 01:23:56.400]  did have a backbone and wanted to bag him, they were probably scared off by the CIA and Mossad.
[01:23:57.120 --> 01:24:05.520]  The CIA has superior tech. They would have known it. But again, that's a good point. Even if the
[01:24:05.520 --> 01:24:10.320]  CIA wasn't involved in it, which I believe they were, they would have known because they're
[01:24:10.320 --> 01:24:14.560]  watching all of these people and all of these different things happening.
[01:24:15.280 --> 01:24:22.320]  Wally Walrus said, I'm so glad my girls aren't in the schools anymore. Army recruiters, Epstein
[01:24:22.320 --> 01:24:27.600]  recruiters, etc. Yeah. Nadelander says, nobody's getting impeached. Nobody's going to jail. Nobody
[01:24:27.600 --> 01:24:34.800]  ever does. Nobody ever will. That's right. But it is important for us to know what these people are
[01:24:34.800 --> 01:24:39.680]  about, just like the Constitution. They're not going to obey it, but it's important for us to know
[01:24:40.320 --> 01:24:44.960]  what criminals they are. Citizens of Maricopa says, first they said it was a hoax. Trump is
[01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:50.800]  like, why is everybody still talking about this Epstein guy? It is a hoax. Now it's all redacted
[01:24:50.800 --> 01:24:56.320]  for security purposes. How can it be a hoax and be redacted for national security purposes at the
[01:24:56.320 --> 01:25:04.240]  same time? Well, I think the redactions tell you what national security is about. National security
[01:25:04.240 --> 01:25:08.480]  and the CIA and the federal government is all about crimes that they don't want you to see.
[01:25:09.440 --> 01:25:16.320]  Everything that you do must be available to them, but nothing they do, even when they're engaged in
[01:25:16.320 --> 01:25:22.000]  pedophilia. Are you laughing? Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and I want you to pause what you're doing for just
[01:25:22.000 --> 01:25:27.920]  one minute and I want you to hear about love, generosity, and compassion. We say those words
[01:25:27.920 --> 01:25:34.560]  all the time and they sound good. They feel good, but here's the truth. Those words don't mean anything
[01:25:34.640 --> 01:25:41.600]  unless they turn into action. And right now, not later today, not tomorrow, there's a child in the
[01:25:41.600 --> 01:25:48.400]  world who doesn't know if they'll eat, if they'll have a chance to learn, or if there's any hope
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[01:26:59.200 --> 01:27:04.880]  Bonnie told you the truth. It's all redacted to protect the victims, not the pedophiles.
[01:27:05.840 --> 01:27:14.640]  Yeah, yeah. I guess that's sarcastic. OldToys62. The women chose to do what they did for money,
[01:27:14.640 --> 01:27:19.120]  whatever Epstein's operation was. It wasn't slavery or forcing people to do something they
[01:27:19.120 --> 01:27:24.080]  weren't willing to do. It's private business. It's not the public. I disagree strongly with that,
[01:27:24.640 --> 01:27:30.960]  strongly with that, because we're talking about underage girls, and this is the argument that
[01:27:30.960 --> 01:27:35.360]  we've had about the training stuff all the time, and it's why we have prohibitions about
[01:27:36.000 --> 01:27:42.480]  underage. At a certain level, even if the girl consents, it is still a statutory
[01:27:42.480 --> 01:27:46.960]  rate because they're not mature enough to know that. That's why this whole thing with them
[01:27:47.840 --> 01:27:53.200]  gaslighting people over sex change operations and mutilations is so abhorrent, because we've
[01:27:53.200 --> 01:27:58.960]  known for a long time that children can be manipulated. That's why we don't give them
[01:27:58.960 --> 01:28:05.440]  the right to vote, to drive cars, to own guns under a certain age. That's why we don't allow
[01:28:05.440 --> 01:28:11.280]  even consensual sex, because it's too easy to get them to consent to something that they will later
[01:28:11.280 --> 01:28:16.880]  regret, to something that they would not consent to if they had the judgment of an adult. So I
[01:28:16.880 --> 01:28:23.040]  couldn't disagree with that more. Yeah, I put that up just to discuss that, address it, but
[01:28:23.760 --> 01:28:29.280]  it reminds me of the thing we were just covering where the girl was saying, oh, well, just tell
[01:28:29.280 --> 01:28:37.200]  them you're 18, as though these CIA and Mossad spies can't see through the lies of a little
[01:28:37.200 --> 01:28:44.240]  teenage girl under the age of 18. Yeah, that's right. This is obviously evil. I mean, it's...
[01:28:44.240 --> 01:28:51.440]  They know, they know. And you know, people lose their licenses at places where they serve alcohol
[01:28:51.440 --> 01:28:58.000]  or at gambling casinos if somebody comes in and they're underage and they don't card them or
[01:28:58.000 --> 01:29:02.640]  whatever. And a lot of times somebody will have fake ID and they still should know about that.
[01:29:02.640 --> 01:29:07.040]  StealthPatriot, thank you very much for the tip, I appreciate that. He says, well golly,
[01:29:07.040 --> 01:29:12.400]  I told you Trump wasn't in the Epstein list. Ignore the pages of BlackBlock. Merry Christmas,
[01:29:12.400 --> 01:29:16.640]  David and family. Thank you very much. Appreciate that, StealthPatriot. And I just want to remind
[01:29:16.640 --> 01:29:21.600]  everybody that I Am Marty is doing matching funds today on all platforms, on all platforms. So
[01:29:22.160 --> 01:29:27.520]  thank you so much, Marty. Appreciate that. And Max, Diddy held his 45th birthday party
[01:29:27.520 --> 01:29:35.280]  at Trump's Plaza Hotel. We know that he liked and miked up locations with cameras and Trump has
[01:29:35.280 --> 01:29:40.800]  said to attend Diddy's parties. Yeah, isn't it interesting? You know, Trump is hanging out with
[01:29:40.800 --> 01:29:45.120]  Diddy, Andrew Tate, all the rest of these people. Andrew Tate thinks, oh, I'm not going to get a
[01:29:45.120 --> 01:29:52.320]  pardon and comes to Mar-a-Lago. They have LGB festivals there in Mar-a-Lago and the MAGA people
[01:29:52.320 --> 01:29:59.520]  are just absolutely amazed that Trump is not releasing this stuff. Make America double think
[01:29:59.520 --> 01:30:05.680]  again. You know, that is what this is really about. Real octospook. Galen was able to use
[01:30:05.680 --> 01:30:13.920]  the pedophiles' fear of exposure to save herself. Yes. But I think it's more than just the individual
[01:30:13.920 --> 01:30:20.320]  pedophiles. I think it is the blackmail network behind it that is even more important. The
[01:30:20.320 --> 01:30:28.560]  Mossad, the CIA, the people who get us involved in wars over and over again, involved in assassinations
[01:30:28.560 --> 01:30:33.520]  and coups. But let's get back to, let's talk a little bit about Christmas and get on to something
[01:30:33.520 --> 01:30:39.440]  that's a little bit more interesting. Even though this is kind of a crazy angle on it, a Christmas
[01:30:39.440 --> 01:30:46.240]  card has been pulled from a large grocery store chain in Britain, one of their biggest, Sainsbury.
[01:30:47.360 --> 01:30:53.120]  It was a card that one person campaigned about it being transphobic. What was it?
[01:30:54.080 --> 01:31:01.360]  You can pull this up, Lance, and show it to them. This Christmas, I'm identifying as a Grinch.
[01:31:03.040 --> 01:31:09.840]  Oh, you can't say I'm identifying as anything. That is transphobic now. Wait a minute. Are they
[01:31:09.840 --> 01:31:15.040]  saying that this person who identifies as a Grinch isn't a Grinch? Isn't that? Well, actually,
[01:31:15.040 --> 01:31:19.200]  that is the irony of this whole thing. The person who is getting them to take down this Christmas
[01:31:19.280 --> 01:31:26.400]  card is really a Grinch, although they're not identifying as a Grinch. This whole identifying
[01:31:26.400 --> 01:31:31.280]  thing they say is a joke. I've said this for the longest time. I've said, look at how they've
[01:31:31.280 --> 01:31:38.240]  changed this. They used to tell everybody there's a gay gene. You're naturally wired this way. It's
[01:31:38.240 --> 01:31:47.520]  not a choice. I said, then they have reversed this whole thing by saying, well, people can choose
[01:31:47.520 --> 01:31:53.120]  to identify as this or that. Now, gender becomes your choice. You get to choose your gender.
[01:31:53.120 --> 01:31:58.480]  There's nothing at all biological about it. First, they told us that something that was a choice
[01:31:58.480 --> 01:32:03.680]  was hardwired. Now, they're telling us that when you decide that you're going to get rid of what
[01:32:03.680 --> 01:32:10.720]  is really hardwired in you, and that is your physical body, you're going to try to change that,
[01:32:10.960 --> 01:32:19.280]  that's not a choice. That is also hardwired into you. Sophie Molly, a transgender influencer,
[01:32:20.000 --> 01:32:26.640]  said, transphobic Christmas card in my local Sainsbury, please do better Sainsbury. And then
[01:32:26.640 --> 01:32:36.160]  she later went to other LGBT organization press outlets and said, the card belittles the identity
[01:32:36.160 --> 01:32:41.600]  of trans and non-binary people. Trans people don't choose to identify as their gender.
[01:32:42.240 --> 01:32:52.240]  It's part of who they are. Being trans is not a choice. Yes, it is. Of all things, it is. I mean,
[01:32:52.240 --> 01:32:56.960]  how in the world, of course, there's nothing rational about any of this stuff, but you know,
[01:32:56.960 --> 01:33:01.600]  people say that there's a homosexual gene or whatever. How in the world can you say
[01:33:01.600 --> 01:33:09.120]  that you're physically wired to be a different gender? It's utter nonsense. Gaslighting, lying.
[01:33:10.000 --> 01:33:13.840]  So she said, cis people are saying that they identify as something. It tells the world that
[01:33:13.840 --> 01:33:19.200]  they think that it's a choice to be trans. It is something that you can switch in and out of,
[01:33:19.200 --> 01:33:24.400]  like playing dress up, but this is not true. And so the corporation is going to go along with that.
[01:33:25.280 --> 01:33:28.320]  And I said, you know, the funny thing is she actually does identify as grinch.
[01:33:28.960 --> 01:33:32.000]  They think it's like dress up, but really it's dress up and surgery.
[01:33:34.480 --> 01:33:37.520]  You know, the dressings that you get after surgery, I guess.
[01:33:38.560 --> 01:33:44.960]  So they're not just done with that. They are looking, the government is looking to shut down
[01:33:44.960 --> 01:33:52.720]  Christmas songs. And Labor's got a, what they call a banter ban. They have passed a law
[01:33:52.720 --> 01:34:00.560]  law called the employment right bill that obliges people running pubs, the publicans,
[01:34:01.200 --> 01:34:06.560]  to protect their staff from any offensive lyrics of songs that might be sung. You know,
[01:34:07.440 --> 01:34:11.200]  pubs were a place where people would go and get drunk and sing songs and stuff like that.
[01:34:11.200 --> 01:34:13.760]  No, no, no, you can't do that. You might have something that is offensive.
[01:34:14.640 --> 01:34:21.440]  And so we have to protect people from that. And so they want to make the pub owners their little
[01:34:21.440 --> 01:34:27.600]  Stasi snitches and enforcers with all this stuff, protect people and criminalize saying
[01:34:27.600 --> 01:34:34.320]  offensive songs like jingle bells. Yeah. Jingle bells. That is supposed to have racist origins.
[01:34:34.320 --> 01:34:39.280]  They said, or, you know, uh, do they know it's Christmas? They said that stereotypes,
[01:34:39.280 --> 01:34:46.000]  the continent of Africa or baby it's cold outside. Oh, that is, uh, something that the
[01:34:46.000 --> 01:34:51.760]  me too movement doesn't like and on and on sitting in a pub with a glass of wine while
[01:34:51.760 --> 01:34:57.440]  loudly singing along to a Christmas song is a much loved tradition in the UK,
[01:34:58.160 --> 01:35:04.640]  but it's days may be numbered, uh, as public landlords now have to ban offensive lyrics
[01:35:05.200 --> 01:35:08.960]  under new laws, requiring them to take all reasonable steps to protect staff
[01:35:09.600 --> 01:35:15.760]  from third party harassment. Employers will have a legal duty to prevent harassment by third parties
[01:35:15.760 --> 01:35:21.440]  relating to protected characteristics such as race, religion, sexual orientation, or age.
[01:35:22.160 --> 01:35:27.840]  They said it's being turned and they're being turned into banter cops forced to police what
[01:35:27.840 --> 01:35:35.680]  their customers say. Toby young of free speech union said that the banter ban would lead to
[01:35:35.680 --> 01:35:41.760]  the policing of harmless fun and pubs, bars and restaurants, giving the skulls and finger waggers
[01:35:41.840 --> 01:35:47.040]  another pretext to stop people from enjoying themselves. The governments didn't listen
[01:35:47.040 --> 01:35:51.680]  insisting that we're being alarmist, but a ban on Christmas music and carol singing
[01:35:51.680 --> 01:35:57.680]  will be the least of it. Prepare to live in a country in which every hospitality venue
[01:35:57.680 --> 01:36:05.920]  is micromanaged safe space overseen by a lanyard wearing banter bouncer. Welcome to
[01:36:05.920 --> 01:36:12.160]  Keir Starmer's Britain, he says. Well, um, I don't know how they're going to get their Christmas
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[01:37:51.440 --> 01:37:55.840]  for more details. In Denmark, they're now shutting down their postal service.
[01:37:56.800 --> 01:38:03.360]  After 400 years of delivering letters, they've decided to end as of the 30th of December.
[01:38:04.240 --> 01:38:08.800]  They say that Danish society has become increasingly digitalized and we don't need
[01:38:08.800 --> 01:38:14.320]  this anymore and so the iconic red boxes that they use in the country for mail,
[01:38:15.280 --> 01:38:21.440]  thousands of them have been shut down and they went for huge amounts of money and they all
[01:38:21.440 --> 01:38:26.880]  went immediately as they auctioned them off. Sending more than a 400-year-old tradition,
[01:38:27.520 --> 01:38:32.480]  announcing the decision earlier this year to stop delivering letters, Postnord, which was formed in
[01:38:32.480 --> 01:38:40.000]  2009 by a merger of Swedish and Danish postal services, said it would cut 1,500 jobs in Denmark
[01:38:40.000 --> 01:38:46.960]  and remove 1,500 red post boxes amid the increasing digitalization of Danish society. The company said
[01:38:46.960 --> 01:38:52.480]  demand for letters had fallen off drastically while online shopping continues to increase,
[01:38:53.040 --> 01:38:58.000]  so they've decided that instead they're going to just focus on parcels. They're not going to do
[01:38:58.000 --> 01:39:04.000]  letters anymore. It took only three hours for a thousand of the distinctive post boxes
[01:39:04.000 --> 01:39:07.840]  that have already been dismantled to be bought up when they went on sale earlier this month
[01:39:08.560 --> 01:39:17.120]  at a price of about $300 each and so they said Danes will still be able to send letters using
[01:39:17.120 --> 01:39:22.240]  the delivery company Deo, which already delivers letters in Denmark, but will now expand its
[01:39:22.240 --> 01:39:28.480]  services from the 1st of January from about 30 million letters to 80 million letters next year.
[01:39:28.480 --> 01:39:33.120]  They expect it to go up. The interesting thing is a couple of interesting things about this. First of
[01:39:33.120 --> 01:39:40.320]  all, the mail will still get through. It'll be done by a private company rather than a government
[01:39:40.320 --> 01:39:46.400]  company and this private company has taken this on because they said we actually see an uptrend,
[01:39:46.960 --> 01:39:52.320]  not a downtrend. They said younger people, 18 to 34 year olds, are sending two to three times as
[01:39:52.320 --> 01:39:57.920]  many letters as other age groups. They're starting to see value in it. They said when you get
[01:39:57.920 --> 01:40:03.600]  something hand delivered in the mail, somebody knows that you have paid to deliver it to them
[01:40:04.240 --> 01:40:09.120]  and so it has more value to them than email that they get or something that they get electronically
[01:40:09.760 --> 01:40:15.280]  and so it's actually kind of a countercultural thing that is happening there. Of course,
[01:40:15.280 --> 01:40:22.880]  it also gives you more privacy. The postal system has, for the longest time, run mail
[01:40:22.880 --> 01:40:29.200]  covers on things. They take pictures of everything that is in the mail. I thought it was interesting
[01:40:29.200 --> 01:40:34.480]  when we moved here and I did the change of address online. They started sending me
[01:40:35.280 --> 01:40:41.600]  email pictures of all the mail that they deliver each day, but they've been keeping those images
[01:40:41.600 --> 01:40:46.960]  for a very long time. That was one of the reasons why the government insisted on running
[01:40:46.960 --> 01:40:53.200]  the postal system because even without opening your mail or trying to look through it, they can
[01:40:53.200 --> 01:40:58.800]  look at who you're sending mail to and who you're getting it from. They can make some judgments
[01:40:58.800 --> 01:41:04.880]  about that. That's kind of the metadata, if you will, of snail mail that is there and so the
[01:41:04.880 --> 01:41:09.120]  government likes to have a hand in that. Well, the interesting thing is that even if this doesn't
[01:41:09.120 --> 01:41:15.280]  work out for the private company, Danish law says that there must be a way for mail to be delivered.
[01:41:15.840 --> 01:41:20.720]  So, if the private company doesn't make money doing this and they have to get out, then the
[01:41:20.720 --> 01:41:26.880]  government will have to do that. They'll be required by law. Somebody else will have to do it.
[01:41:27.840 --> 01:41:34.240]  Where is Lysander Spooner when we need him, right? You know, that's the story. Lysander Spooner
[01:41:34.240 --> 01:41:40.080]  started his own mail service and competition to the U.S. Post Office because the postal service
[01:41:40.080 --> 01:41:46.720]  was really jacking rates up sky high at the time. He was responsible for getting them down for
[01:41:46.720 --> 01:41:54.880]  quite a while. He was responsible for actually having an act of Congress saying that the
[01:41:54.880 --> 01:42:00.960]  government would have a monopoly on delivering mail because one guy was doing it so much more
[01:42:00.960 --> 01:42:08.480]  effectively than them. They didn't want him to be able to do that. So, under Denmark's national ID
[01:42:08.480 --> 01:42:15.520]  system, all official communications are sent digitally rather than by physical mail, but today
[01:42:15.520 --> 01:42:24.800]  they said only five percent of Danes are getting postal mail. Scarcity of physical letters has
[01:42:24.800 --> 01:42:29.920]  increased their values because people know that if you write a physical letter, if you write it by
[01:42:29.920 --> 01:42:34.560]  hand, you've spent time and you've also spent money, and that's one of the things that the
[01:42:34.560 --> 01:42:41.200]  younger people are looking at. Well, there's an interesting wordplay about Christmas. As we've
[01:42:41.200 --> 01:42:47.600]  talked about with music, it's kind of, I like Christmas, I like Christmas music because it goes
[01:42:47.600 --> 01:42:52.720]  back and encompasses a lot of different styles historically. You know, it goes through a lot of
[01:42:52.720 --> 01:42:58.880]  different genres of pop music and decades of pop music, but part of that is an ancient history
[01:42:58.880 --> 01:43:05.280]  of music. And the same thing is true of language. This is an article from World magazine talking
[01:43:05.280 --> 01:43:10.800]  about the exalted language of Christmas, a style of speaking, writing, and singing that's aimed at
[01:43:10.800 --> 01:43:16.000]  emphasizing the high spiritual significance of the birth of Christ and the various traditions
[01:43:16.000 --> 01:43:22.960]  surrounding its celebration. It's elevated vocabulary, ceremonial syntax, ornamental imagery
[01:43:22.960 --> 01:43:27.840]  that we use to highlight our gladness and our joy. Some of the exalted vocabulary words of Christmas
[01:43:27.840 --> 01:43:34.560]  are archaic and antiquarian, yet we gleefully sing them in hymns and anthems. Hark and yawn,
[01:43:35.440 --> 01:43:42.960]  deck and dawn, jolly and jingle, gild and gloam, hither and thither, lore and yore,
[01:43:44.000 --> 01:43:50.880]  eye and air, glistening, glittering, hail and herald, glad tidings and sure abidings.
[01:43:51.840 --> 01:43:59.440]  Yeah, it has a broader musical vocabulary of styles and historical stuff, and also
[01:43:59.440 --> 01:44:05.520]  because of that you have a broader vocabulary of lyrics as well. Some of the exalted vocabulary
[01:44:05.520 --> 01:44:09.600]  words of Christmas are holdovers from various linguistic threads that created modern English.
[01:44:10.400 --> 01:44:17.440]  Yule, another word for Christmas, comes from the Norse word jule, the 12-day season from Christmas
[01:44:17.440 --> 01:44:25.360]  to Epiphany. The nog and eggnog comes from nig, the style of winter ale brewed in 17th century
[01:44:25.360 --> 01:44:32.240]  Essex, but its origin goes back to an even older Scots Gaelic term, meaning beer warmed with a fire.
[01:44:33.520 --> 01:44:39.600]  Merry is a word that comes to us from Anglo-Saxon, meaning both courageous and joyful.
[01:44:40.160 --> 01:44:46.720]  It's not just happy, it's courageous and joyful, both bold and gladsome, as in Robin Hood's Merry
[01:44:46.720 --> 01:44:53.440]  Men, or Shakespeare's Merry Gales and Merry Weather. Some borrow directly or transliterated
[01:44:53.440 --> 01:44:59.760]  from other languages, Nativity and Noel, Fetching and Festive, Tidings and Tenenbaum,
[01:45:00.480 --> 01:45:05.840]  Gloria and Excelsis Deo is Latin, Joy Comes from an Old Norman, which in turn is passed down from
[01:45:05.840 --> 01:45:15.360]  Latin, the Dutch Mistletoe, Greek Carols, Latin Advent and Norman Tinsel. All these have...
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[01:46:55.440 --> 01:47:03.040]  Float into the English melting pot. We wrap our Christmas presents in bobbles and bows,
[01:47:03.040 --> 01:47:07.680]  shiny paper and fleece ribbons, and we decorate our homes with holly and ivy, mistletoe and
[01:47:07.680 --> 01:47:13.120]  yule logs, twinkling lights and conifer trees, ornaments and nutcrackers. But it shouldn't
[01:47:13.120 --> 01:47:19.200]  surprise us then that we adorn our sentences with exalted vocabulary as well. The festive language
[01:47:19.200 --> 01:47:25.280]  of Christmas. And then as we look at some of these Christmas carols, this is an interesting article
[01:47:25.920 --> 01:47:34.240]  about a dark ancient lullaby that became a Christmas carol. Coventry carol. The Coventry
[01:47:34.240 --> 01:47:40.400]  carol stands out not just for the haunting melody. The carol's shocking subject matter
[01:47:41.040 --> 01:47:46.240]  is the children King Herod murdered in Bethlehem following the birth of Christ.
[01:47:47.040 --> 01:47:53.600]  This carol is not just about the birth of Christ, at least not directly. It's about the terrible
[01:47:53.600 --> 01:47:59.440]  events surrounding Jesus' birth as chronicled in Matthew, and that is the massacre of the
[01:47:59.440 --> 01:48:04.800]  innocents. And when you go back and look at the lyrics of it, I just always think, before I saw
[01:48:04.800 --> 01:48:10.480]  this, just this, right this moment here when I was looking at, for this show, Herod the King
[01:48:10.480 --> 01:48:18.960]  in his raging. I thought it was in his regime. I always thought it was Herod the King in his regime,
[01:48:18.960 --> 01:48:26.720]  but it's Herod the King in his raging. Charged he hath this day, his men of might and his own sight,
[01:48:27.280 --> 01:48:33.040]  all young children to slay. The original song came from a medieval mystery play.
[01:48:34.240 --> 01:48:40.160]  Historian said, we don't know who wrote the Coventry carol, either the text or the tune.
[01:48:40.800 --> 01:48:45.120]  But that's the thing that I think is so interesting about it, is the medieval
[01:48:45.760 --> 01:48:50.880]  chord progressions that are there. What we do know is that Coventry's mystery plays themselves
[01:48:50.880 --> 01:48:56.880]  date back to the 1300s and the 1400s. The carol appears much later, in the early 1500s,
[01:48:57.680 --> 01:49:04.720]  written into a particular pageant called Shearman and Tailors. And so I think it's interesting,
[01:49:04.720 --> 01:49:09.280]  you know, that's the thing about the Coventry carol. It's about the violence
[01:49:10.240 --> 01:49:16.560]  that was conducted by Herod. And we see at Christmastime so often this contrast between
[01:49:16.560 --> 01:49:21.440]  war and peace. You know, as we talked about last week, I heard the bells on Christmas day again.
[01:49:22.000 --> 01:49:27.600]  You know, that was not the peace that Christ came to bring the first time. But you know,
[01:49:27.600 --> 01:49:36.320]  there is that dichotomy between love and hate, between gifts and greed, between life and death
[01:49:36.400 --> 01:49:43.040]  that is always there. And we've seen it before in other stories, like the story about World War I
[01:49:43.040 --> 01:49:49.600]  and Silent Night and how it created a truce that really started to expand. And the leaders got
[01:49:49.600 --> 01:49:54.800]  really worried that the grassroots people were not going to fight each other because they made
[01:49:54.800 --> 01:50:01.440]  common cause over Christmas and being Christians and Silent Night and so forth. Well, there's also
[01:50:02.080 --> 01:50:09.120]  a contemporary aspect of war and peace with a Coventry carol that really goes back to World
[01:50:09.120 --> 01:50:18.160]  War II. This was originally a podcast talking about the origins of the Christmas carol. But
[01:50:18.160 --> 01:50:24.560]  if you go back and look at Coventry, England and what happened there in World War II.
[01:50:24.560 --> 01:50:34.720]  On the evening of the 14th, 15th of November, Germany launched their largest aerial raid of the
[01:50:34.720 --> 01:50:44.720]  war on the city of Coventry. Over 500 bombers flew over the city in repeated waves and launched
[01:50:44.720 --> 01:50:52.400]  incendiaries and heavy bombs across the city. The bombing actually started at 7.30 in the evening
[01:50:52.400 --> 01:50:57.360]  and the all clear didn't go off until I think just before eight o'clock the following morning.
[01:50:57.360 --> 01:51:02.960]  Waves and waves were coming in one after the other. So it was 12 hours of solid bombing.
[01:51:08.000 --> 01:51:16.560]  I am speaking from the ruins of Coventry Cathedral. Six weeks ago the enemy came and
[01:51:17.120 --> 01:51:23.600]  hurled down fire and destruction upon our city from the sky all through the long night.
[01:51:24.720 --> 01:51:33.440]  So many lives were lost. So many homes destroyed. So the BBC every Christmas would have a Christmas
[01:51:33.440 --> 01:51:39.360]  carol service which would be broadcast across the empire and clearly the only place the obvious
[01:51:39.360 --> 01:51:46.160]  place to choose for the broadcast for that year was Coventry Cathedral and a service was held
[01:51:46.800 --> 01:51:53.520]  in the ruins. And our cathedral nave and chancel utterly burnt and brought to the ground.
[01:51:54.720 --> 01:52:00.640]  Provost Howard famously spoke about building a kinder more Christ childlike world.
[01:52:01.680 --> 01:52:09.440]  We are trying hard as it may be to banish all thoughts of revenge. We are in brave spirits
[01:52:10.080 --> 01:52:13.840]  and can wish the empire a courageous Christmas.
[01:52:16.160 --> 01:52:21.040]  Here around me in the ruins are the few we could muster
[01:52:21.040 --> 01:52:32.320]  of the cathedral choir and they're going to sing our ancient Coventry carol.
[01:52:40.160 --> 01:52:58.400]  I would describe it as much more subdued and subtle. There's a little bit of a haunting
[01:52:58.400 --> 01:53:03.520]  tone that's sitting with me in a way I'm not sure what to do with or think about.
[01:53:03.520 --> 01:53:08.000]  You can't have the incredibly hopeful carols that you cling to
[01:53:08.000 --> 01:53:13.120]  without having a reason to cling to them which is being aware of your own weariness.
[01:53:13.760 --> 01:53:18.000]  You have to have the full story of the nativity in the early years of the church.
[01:53:18.000 --> 01:53:22.320]  There was good and bad. That for me is actually what this carol is about.
[01:53:22.960 --> 01:53:29.520]  When we know that there is darkness and sadness around us sometimes we just have to sit with that
[01:53:29.520 --> 01:53:43.600]  for a bit. In a way it's festive in its own melancholy way.
[01:53:59.520 --> 01:54:22.640]  Hey it's Ben Ferguson and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute and I want
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[01:56:24.800 --> 01:56:40.960]  You're listening to The David Knight Show.
[01:56:45.840 --> 01:56:47.200]  I wish I had the Christmas Night album.
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[01:57:00.640 --> 01:57:04.320]  What'd you wish, George? Well, not just one. Wish a whole hat for.
[01:57:04.320 --> 01:57:08.960]  First, I'm going to TheDavidKnightShow.com and purchase the Christmas Night album.
[01:57:08.960 --> 01:57:12.880]  Then I'm going to listen to Christmas classics like, are you going to throw rock?
[01:57:12.880 --> 01:57:17.840]  I want the Christmas Night album, too. Hey, that's pretty good.
[01:57:17.840 --> 01:57:27.840]  Oh, hello, girls, can't you come out tonight? Can't you come out tonight?
[01:57:27.840 --> 01:57:32.720]  David's Christmas Night album includes 21 instrumental Christmas melodies like
[01:57:32.720 --> 01:57:37.440]  God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Silent Night, and as all new, I'll Be Home for Christmas.
[01:57:38.160 --> 01:57:43.360]  What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it,
[01:57:43.360 --> 01:57:46.800]  pull it down. I'll take it. Then what?
[01:57:47.520 --> 01:57:53.360]  And then I'll buy you your own download of David Knight's Christmas Night album.
[01:58:43.520 --> 01:58:52.400]  You're listening to The David Knight Show.
[01:58:55.840 --> 01:59:00.080]  And I want to thank people who've just contributed to us. And of course, today we have
[01:59:00.080 --> 01:59:05.360]  Marty, I am Marty, is doing matching funds today. So we really appreciate that. Thank you, Marty.
[01:59:05.920 --> 01:59:09.760]  And Karen just came in and reminded me. He said he would
[01:59:10.720 --> 01:59:18.080]  cover snail mail contributions, but they need to be told to us today as a pledge.
[01:59:18.080 --> 01:59:23.520]  So you can put it on there as a pledge and then send it later. So if you were going to have that
[01:59:23.520 --> 01:59:28.240]  included in the matching funds, you would need to put a comment there and tell us that you pledge
[01:59:28.240 --> 01:59:35.040]  that somehow. Thank you. For the love of the road, a gift subscription. And Colombo 27, thank you
[01:59:35.040 --> 01:59:40.240]  very much. And he writes, Merry Christmas. And I could write, I guess maybe, oh, one more thing.
[01:59:41.280 --> 01:59:45.840]  The hallmark of Colombo, but thank you so much for the gift. Radice Brough, thank you as well.
[01:59:45.840 --> 01:59:50.960]  He says, yes, all mail is scanned. Beware and informed delivery is over the course of the week,
[01:59:50.960 --> 01:59:57.840]  if you read the bottom. Your friendly poster worker. Star Barkley, thank you very much.
[01:59:57.840 --> 02:00:02.480]  Merry Christmas to you all and to the amazing Knight family. And thank you, Marty. Yes,
[02:00:02.480 --> 02:00:06.480]  thank you for the matching funds today. Dougalog, thank you very much. He says,
[02:00:07.200 --> 02:00:12.480]  big salute to Marty for matching. Thank you very much. And Max says, remember seeing,
[02:00:12.480 --> 02:00:17.440]  I remember seeing a homosexual who adopted a little boy on TV state that he knew that he
[02:00:17.440 --> 02:00:26.960]  was a homosexual at three. Yeah, this is, this is what they tell us. So anyway, citizen of
[02:00:26.960 --> 02:00:32.880]  Americaca, Rudolph the indigenous color-nosed reindeer. If we call it red, the communist and
[02:00:32.880 --> 02:00:38.400]  the indigenous Americans might be insulted. That's right. Can't be a red skin or red nose,
[02:00:38.400 --> 02:00:42.640]  I guess. Oracle of Truth, thank you very much for the tip. And he says, thank you, Marty.
[02:00:43.200 --> 02:00:49.680]  Felice Navidad, yes. Star Barkley, I've seen the ruins of the cathedral. Walk around it,
[02:00:49.680 --> 02:00:55.920]  the modern one right next to it. They left it there as a reminder. Yes. And of course you saw
[02:00:55.920 --> 02:01:02.880]  and if you're watching it, not listening to it, you saw that article, the altar that they put up
[02:01:03.440 --> 02:01:10.960]  and a cross out of a couple of burned pieces of wood and behind it in gold, father forgive.
[02:01:11.600 --> 02:01:19.200]  Yes. So it goes, is this AI? Well, you know, the interesting thing is there's a little bit
[02:01:19.920 --> 02:01:24.720]  of AI there, the bombing stuff that you probably could tell that. I mean, there's a lot of tells
[02:01:24.720 --> 02:01:30.000]  about that at one point when the plane started going backwards and just run it through quickly.
[02:01:30.800 --> 02:01:37.040]  But also as it continued to go, it started making the fire trucks more modern.
[02:01:38.560 --> 02:01:45.040]  But the other things that were there, you know, that's one of the good uses of AI rather than
[02:01:45.040 --> 02:01:48.880]  doing the Ken Burns effect, you know, which we used to have to do that. If we have a still image,
[02:01:48.880 --> 02:01:56.160]  what we do, we pan and we zoom in or zoom out or whatever. And that can be effective.
[02:01:56.160 --> 02:02:00.400]  It was used by Ken Burns in the Civil War documentary and it became, he did it so much
[02:02:00.400 --> 02:02:06.480]  that it became known as the Ken Burns effect. And you can do some nice things with that. But
[02:02:06.480 --> 02:02:11.520]  if you take a picture like that, like I did, you got a picture of people walking in the ruins,
[02:02:11.520 --> 02:02:19.120]  taken through the remaining ruins of the cathedral and you see that arch that was there and
[02:02:19.760 --> 02:02:24.640]  people picking their way through. If you give that to AI, it'll actually animate the people
[02:02:24.640 --> 02:02:30.880]  walking. If you tell it to, it'll move into the picture and it does it in a way that is very
[02:02:30.880 --> 02:02:36.240]  different than just a zoom. Because as it moves the camera through, it is able to create the
[02:02:36.240 --> 02:02:40.720]  surroundings there. And then that's what I did with the clip of the ruins of
[02:02:42.000 --> 02:02:47.600]  Coventry Cathedral, right? It's a lot of rumble there and you see rubble and you see the buildings
[02:02:47.600 --> 02:02:52.240]  standing around it, but it actually moves the camera through. So you get the perspective of
[02:02:52.240 --> 02:02:57.040]  movement rather than just making the picture larger to give it some movement. So yeah,
[02:02:57.040 --> 02:03:02.320]  can be used for some aspects like that. And I think that's probably a pretty good use of AI
[02:03:02.960 --> 02:03:09.360]  is to take a still picture, especially one of architecture, something to move into it.
[02:03:09.920 --> 02:03:16.480]  That shot of the altar with the Father Forgive behind it, that was AI moving in for a closer
[02:03:16.480 --> 02:03:23.440]  picture. But let's talk a little bit about war this Christmas season. Marines know that we don't
[02:03:23.440 --> 02:03:29.840]  kill unarmed survivors for a reason, writes James Webb. He says it's not in line with the
[02:03:29.840 --> 02:03:36.000]  U.S. military's history, with its tradition, or with ethical standards. And the problem is
[02:03:37.360 --> 02:03:41.840]  that if you look at this article, he does a good job of talking about it from simply
[02:03:42.560 --> 02:03:47.920]  an historical, traditional and ethical standpoint. He talks about the pragmatics of it.
[02:03:48.720 --> 02:03:52.080]  If we're going to embrace total war, guess what? The other side will as well.
[02:03:52.960 --> 02:03:59.200]  And we can actually save lives of our soldiers if we don't do what Hegseth is doing. It's very
[02:03:59.200 --> 02:04:06.320]  reckless, besides being unethical, besides being unchristian. And of course, that's one argument
[02:04:06.320 --> 02:04:13.520]  that he doesn't make. That was codified into the way that we fight wars. And he talks about the
[02:04:13.520 --> 02:04:19.520]  difference between the way Germans treated American prisoners in World War II, and the way Americans
[02:04:19.520 --> 02:04:25.280]  treated German prisoners, and the way American prisoners were treated in Japan, the way German
[02:04:25.280 --> 02:04:32.640]  prisoners of war were treated by Russia. There is a big difference when Christ is taken out of the
[02:04:32.640 --> 02:04:41.760]  society here. So the ethics are pragmatic, but ruthless war, like Hegseth wants, is an abomination,
[02:04:41.760 --> 02:04:49.120]  folks. It's like murder, and you don't have to be a Christian to understand that. But as Christians,
[02:04:49.120 --> 02:04:54.480]  we should definitely understand, and we should push back against this. I am seeing absolute
[02:04:54.480 --> 02:05:01.440]  silence from Christians about Hegseth's murder program. And he has literally worn his Christian
[02:05:01.440 --> 02:05:08.080]  convictions or symbols or whatever on his sleeves as tattoos. He's got tattoos all over his body
[02:05:08.080 --> 02:05:15.600]  about Christian symbols. And his Christian principles are just that, skin deep. There's
[02:05:15.600 --> 02:05:20.960]  nothing there. But the Christian leaders should be pushing back against this, especially Doug
[02:05:20.960 --> 02:05:27.520]  Wilson, who is, Hegseth has allied himself with a church plant that Doug Wilson has. Where are the
[02:05:27.520 --> 02:05:33.440]  people there speaking out against this? Well, if they speak out against it, he won't come to their
[02:05:33.440 --> 02:05:39.680]  church, and they won't get the publicity that they want, right? As the Trump administration
[02:05:39.680 --> 02:05:45.760]  continues to kill so-called Venezuelan narco-terrorists through quote, non-international
[02:05:45.760 --> 02:05:51.440]  armed conflict, unquote, whatever that means, he says, it's clear that it's doing so without
[02:05:51.440 --> 02:06:00.880]  congressional authorization and in defiance of international law. Again, they are busy making up
[02:06:00.880 --> 02:06:06.240]  terms like narco-terrorists and other things. They're doing the same thing that the LGBT and
[02:06:06.240 --> 02:06:11.760]  the left does all the time. You know, we're going to call you cisgender. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson,
[02:06:11.760 --> 02:06:17.360]  and I want to be honest with you for a second about how an act of compassion really feels.
[02:06:17.360 --> 02:06:22.800]  A couple of years ago, I made the choice to partner with an amazing organization called
[02:06:22.800 --> 02:06:29.600]  Compassion International. Why? Because I wanted to sponsor a child in need. It was a nice idea,
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[02:06:41.360 --> 02:06:47.120]  going from starving literally alone on the streets to getting the health care and education
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[02:06:54.160 --> 02:07:00.800]  of that compassion not only illuminates in her, it illuminates now in me. That is the power of
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[02:07:55.920 --> 02:07:59.840]  and the Trump administration is playing those games as well, just like the radicals,
[02:07:59.840 --> 02:08:05.680]  because the Trump administration is a radical administration. The Trump administration is
[02:08:05.680 --> 02:08:11.760]  trying to rip out the roots of our society, of our constitution, and our rule of law,
[02:08:12.640 --> 02:08:17.920]  and make no doubt about it. They're coming after some bad things, but a lot of the stuff that
[02:08:17.920 --> 02:08:23.280]  they're ripping out are things that we don't want to have ripped out. They are throwing the baby out
[02:08:23.280 --> 02:08:27.760]  with the bathwater. The administration is demonstrating wanton disregard for centuries
[02:08:27.760 --> 02:08:33.680]  of Western battlefield precedent, customs, and traditions that righteously seek to preserve
[02:08:34.480 --> 02:08:42.480]  as many lives during war as possible. Continuing down this path will not only stain our national
[02:08:42.480 --> 02:08:50.800]  honor, but it will spread like spilled ink. It will also ensure reciprocal treatment of our troops.
[02:08:51.280 --> 02:08:56.800]  Think about that, right? The most egregious example of this abandonment of American civility
[02:08:56.800 --> 02:09:01.600]  on the battlefield is the now infamous double-tap incident, which occurred off the coast of
[02:09:01.600 --> 02:09:08.960]  Venezuela. As they allegedly called for help by radio, we had a couple of men unarmed, effectively
[02:09:08.960 --> 02:09:15.120]  vaporized. Rand Paul said that those who were deliberately killed in the second strike, he said,
[02:09:15.120 --> 02:09:23.200]  it's a debate. It's a debate if they were ever a threat. According to the Pentagon's own laws
[02:09:23.200 --> 02:09:28.720]  of war manual, again, a gross violation to kill people who are shipwrecked. However,
[02:09:28.720 --> 02:09:34.640]  it is deemed legal under Hegcess rules. It is ethically, morally unconscionable.
[02:09:35.600 --> 02:09:41.360]  It is severely damaging to America's reputation. This kind of action is not in line with U.S.
[02:09:41.360 --> 02:09:49.120]  military's tradition or its ethical standards. Instead, it is the kind of act that made German
[02:09:49.120 --> 02:09:55.440]  U-boat crews infamous in the 20th century. That's one of the reasons why that's in the
[02:09:56.640 --> 02:10:00.960]  rules for America, because when somebody is shipwrecked, you don't finish them off,
[02:10:00.960 --> 02:10:05.600]  and that's what the U-boats were doing. It wasn't enough for them to disable, cripple, or sink.
[02:10:06.240 --> 02:10:12.720]  They had to kill the people that were there, the survivors. During World War II, our reputation
[02:10:12.720 --> 02:10:17.440]  for just and humane treatment of our adversaries led directly to millions of German soldiers
[02:10:17.440 --> 02:10:23.600]  surrendering to the U.S., undoubtedly shortening the war and preventing additional American
[02:10:23.600 --> 02:10:30.640]  casualties. It should be noted that less than 1% of Germans captured by the U.S. died in captivity.
[02:10:31.360 --> 02:10:36.160]  Overall, the number of surrendered Germans dwarfs the number of Germans
[02:10:36.160 --> 02:10:41.920]  that U.S. troops killed on the battlefield. Further, many of these Germans intentionally
[02:10:41.920 --> 02:10:47.680]  fled away from a Soviet army known for its barbarism, fled to the Western Front in order
[02:10:47.680 --> 02:10:52.320]  to surrender to advancing Americans. This is a historical fact, and I think it's very important
[02:10:52.320 --> 02:10:57.920]  for us to remember this. The Germans, do you want to have to kill every single one of them? That's
[02:10:57.920 --> 02:11:02.640]  going to cost more lives of your people, and that also means that they will give you prisoners of
[02:11:02.640 --> 02:11:08.960]  war no quarter as well. And we could see the fact, and it's been well known, that the Germans wanted
[02:11:08.960 --> 02:11:14.960]  to surrender to the U.S., not to the Soviets. Clausewitz may have summed it best when he said,
[02:11:15.520 --> 02:11:22.560]  war is a continuation of politics by other means. In other words, the objective is not just to kill
[02:11:22.640 --> 02:11:29.600]  or to simply slaughter. Without question, during war, violence must be used and is used,
[02:11:29.600 --> 02:11:36.000]  but it is applied to achieve a specific political outcome. In other words, a capitulation,
[02:11:36.000 --> 02:11:42.320]  not the massacre of an adversary. And this is the difference between war and genocide, folks. This
[02:11:42.320 --> 02:11:49.760]  is why people criticize what Israel is doing in Gaza. And if we're just focused on eradicating
[02:11:49.760 --> 02:11:56.240]  every single person, killing them all, as Hegseth has said, that is not moral, that's not just,
[02:11:56.240 --> 02:12:04.240]  it's not even smart politics. And so again, you're looking for capitulation of an adversary.
[02:12:04.960 --> 02:12:10.880]  In short, if violence is tailored and you kill only when it is necessary, it is your legal,
[02:12:10.880 --> 02:12:17.520]  moral, and ethical duty to preserve life, both civilian and combatant, whenever you can. And as
[02:12:17.520 --> 02:12:24.880]  we see with the Coventry thing, the practice that the Germans began with coming after civilian
[02:12:24.880 --> 02:12:33.040]  populations, what happens is that people see that breach of ethics and morality, and they respond
[02:12:33.040 --> 02:12:39.680]  in kind. They bombed Coventry. Later on, we bombed Dresden, firebombed it incessantly.
[02:12:40.320 --> 02:12:44.240]  Well, it was justified because of Coventry, they said. Well, what about Coventry?
[02:12:45.200 --> 02:12:51.360]  That type of thing. And so the real, a really important thing that came out of World War II,
[02:12:51.360 --> 02:12:56.960]  that I've mentioned many times before, is the idea that we don't try to save the lives of
[02:12:56.960 --> 02:13:02.480]  non-combatants. And so now we're at the point, we're acting like Santa Ana or something. We just
[02:13:02.480 --> 02:13:08.400]  execute everybody that's there, whether they are combatants or not, whether they're still in the
[02:13:08.400 --> 02:13:15.360]  fight or not. We just execute and kill everybody. And that's going to come back on our own troops
[02:13:15.360 --> 02:13:24.000]  and on our civilians as well. Over the duration of the conflict, nearly 99% of US POWs captured by
[02:13:24.000 --> 02:13:33.280]  the Germans and Germans captured by the US returned from captivity unharmed. This was not the case in
[02:13:33.280 --> 02:13:38.880]  other theaters of war. As a matter of fact, you know, it was a big deal for the Great Escape
[02:13:39.520 --> 02:13:45.120]  when they executed those prisoners. That was a big deal. And it was because it was atypical.
[02:13:45.120 --> 02:13:48.400]  The Japanese were doing that kind of stuff all the time. The Russians were as well.
[02:13:49.680 --> 02:13:53.920]  This is not the case in other theaters' war. It was rare for the Japanese to take American
[02:13:53.920 --> 02:13:59.360]  prisoners. And if they did, more than 40% of them died in brutal captivity.
[02:13:59.360 --> 02:14:05.680]  They can look at the bridge over the River Kwai, for example. But they also experimented on people.
[02:14:05.680 --> 02:14:13.280]  And we brought, rather than execute the Japanese who had experimented on American prisoners,
[02:14:13.280 --> 02:14:18.640]  and the Germans who had done the same thing, we brought them in and put them in charge of
[02:14:18.640 --> 02:14:27.920]  our biological chemical warfare units. We became the monsters that we fought. And once somebody
[02:14:28.000 --> 02:14:34.320]  starts total war, then the other side adopts that as well. Just like once one side starts to bomb
[02:14:34.320 --> 02:14:40.000]  civilian populations, the other side adopts that as war. The numbers on the eastern front,
[02:14:40.000 --> 02:14:44.240]  which was the scene of a clash between two of the most violent ideologies in human history,
[02:14:44.880 --> 02:14:52.240]  saw even greater disregard for human life. Again, the Soviet Russia was communist.
[02:14:53.040 --> 02:14:59.520]  And they are not going to abide by any moral or ethical principles. Only those who have not
[02:14:59.520 --> 02:15:05.280]  seen war close up and personally would dare to revel in bloodshed and violence that it produces.
[02:15:06.080 --> 02:15:13.600]  Again, when I look at Hegseth, the guy is just an unbelievable pariah. All he wants to talk about
[02:15:13.600 --> 02:15:18.640]  is killing everybody. All he wants to talk about is lethality. That means that he doesn't really
[02:15:18.640 --> 02:15:24.400]  get the big picture. He doesn't understand what Clausewitz said, was that war is to achieve a
[02:15:24.400 --> 02:15:30.400]  political means and you're trying to not kill everybody. It's exactly the opposite. And I
[02:15:30.400 --> 02:15:34.800]  don't support war for those reasons. As I've said many times, if they're doing it for politics,
[02:15:35.600 --> 02:15:39.520]  war is when they tell you who to kill. Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.
[02:15:40.560 --> 02:15:46.800]  And that's why most of our wars are started. But from a tactical standpoint, I understand
[02:15:46.800 --> 02:15:54.880]  what he's saying, what Clausewitz is saying. And it does have some ethical consequences that are
[02:15:54.880 --> 02:16:00.000]  positive. Nearly 20 years ago, he said, my father and I had a conversation that remains crystallized
[02:16:00.000 --> 02:16:06.320]  in my mind as if it were yesterday. During a sweltering late summer North Carolina afternoon
[02:16:06.320 --> 02:16:13.680]  in 2006, my father and I soaked up the AC in his hotel room, clinging to the final moments before
[02:16:13.680 --> 02:16:21.200]  I deployed to Ramadi, Iraq as a Marine infantryman. Attempting to avoid what was to come for a few
[02:16:21.200 --> 02:16:27.520]  more precious moments, my brain wanted to focus on baseball, on fishing, on anything other than
[02:16:27.520 --> 02:16:35.040]  the impending immersion into a world of violence. But my father, a heavily decorated Vietnam Marine,
[02:16:35.040 --> 02:16:40.400]  had other ideas. Interrupting eventually while locking me with an almost an electric stare,
[02:16:40.400 --> 02:16:52.560]  he said coolly, when you pull the trigger, make sure it's for the right reason.
[02:16:52.560 --> 02:16:56.160]  Right reason. The decision will stay with you for the rest of your life.
[02:16:56.160 --> 02:17:02.000]  That's right. And you know, that's an important thing. People who are in war have difficulty
[02:17:02.800 --> 02:17:08.480]  even coming to terms with it when it was something that was done to defend their life or the lives of
[02:17:08.560 --> 02:17:16.080]  others who were there, even when it's a just cause for the war, but even more so when it is
[02:17:16.080 --> 02:17:22.400]  unnecessary. And they have a long time to think about that. And even if they're in a situation
[02:17:22.400 --> 02:17:27.360]  where they're defending their lives and others, if they don't feel that the war was justified,
[02:17:28.320 --> 02:17:31.520]  it's very difficult for them to live with that. It's difficult, I think, to live with that
[02:17:31.520 --> 02:17:38.400]  regardless. But you better hope that you've got a justified war. And you better hope that in that
[02:17:38.400 --> 02:17:45.760]  war your killing was justified. The administration would be wise to absorb this kind of wisdom
[02:17:45.760 --> 02:17:52.320]  before moving further down a path from which neither lives nor souls nor national honor
[02:17:52.960 --> 02:18:03.520]  can be reclaimed. I think what Hakeseth is doing is so disgusting. I just can't express my contempt
[02:18:04.080 --> 02:18:09.680]  for him. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute,
[02:18:09.680 --> 02:18:16.000]  and I want you to hear about Alejandra. She lives in a remote community with very few resources
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[02:20:09.600 --> 02:20:16.000]  the second such operation this weekend as of yesterday. The U.S. Guard is in active pursuit
[02:20:16.000 --> 02:20:21.040]  of a sanctioned dark fleet vessel as part of Venezuela's illegal sanctions evasion. Again,
[02:20:21.040 --> 02:20:27.760]  this is civil asset forfeiture being upsized to the size of a tanker that carries millions of
[02:20:27.760 --> 02:20:36.240]  gallons of oil. It is flying a false flag and it is under a judicial seizure order. Well, again,
[02:20:36.800 --> 02:20:43.440]  who are they to talk about false flags? Literally, I guess. Another official said the tanker was under
[02:20:43.440 --> 02:20:48.720]  sanctions but added that it had not been boarded so far and that interceptions can take different
[02:20:48.720 --> 02:20:54.800]  forms including sailing or flying close to vessels of concern. The move is an escalation
[02:20:54.800 --> 02:21:01.520]  of Trump's targeting of a shadow fleet that he calls it after he announced a blockade of all
[02:21:01.520 --> 02:21:07.440]  sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. Bloomberg had earlier reported that
[02:21:07.440 --> 02:21:12.800]  U.S. forces boarded a Panamanian flagged oil tanker sanctioned by the U.S. that was en route
[02:21:12.800 --> 02:21:20.800]  to Venezuela to load. The White House's National Economic Council director, Kevin Hassett, said
[02:21:20.800 --> 02:21:25.360]  Sunday that the first two oil tankers seized by the U.S. were operating in the black market
[02:21:25.920 --> 02:21:31.520]  and providing oil to sanctioned countries. So we just take it upon ourselves to prohibit
[02:21:32.400 --> 02:21:38.960]  whatever drugs we wish. Then we can prohibit oil or anything else. And, of course, this is
[02:21:39.840 --> 02:21:44.080]  not somebody from the Pentagon. This is somebody from the National Economic Council,
[02:21:45.040 --> 02:21:52.720]  the director of that. Yeah, it's all about the money. They're pirates. Anyway, I don't think
[02:21:52.720 --> 02:21:56.880]  that people need to be worried here in the U.S. that the prices are going to go up because of
[02:21:56.880 --> 02:22:02.160]  these seizures of these ships. It's just a couple of them and they were black market ships anyway.
[02:22:03.120 --> 02:22:08.240]  But one oil trader told Reuters that the seizures raise geopolitical risks and probably will push
[02:22:08.240 --> 02:22:16.000]  oil prices higher than when Asian trading resumes today. Expectations of an end to the war in Ukraine
[02:22:16.000 --> 02:22:22.640]  could help oil's price gains help keep them in check, said this person. But will there be
[02:22:22.640 --> 02:22:27.280]  peace in Ukraine? That's the issue. Yeah. What an idiotic statement. No, of course,
[02:22:27.280 --> 02:22:35.200]  seizing oil tankers isn't going to have an effect on the price of oil. I kind of doubt that.
[02:22:35.200 --> 02:22:39.920]  Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, it does have a way to work itself through what happens to
[02:22:39.920 --> 02:22:45.840]  the insurance companies when they have to pay these claims and so forth. And it all goes through
[02:22:45.840 --> 02:22:50.640]  all that. And so people are going to want more money if they are putting their lives at risk
[02:22:50.640 --> 02:22:57.200]  because of the U.S. military. So is there going to be peace in Ukraine? Well, we had last week,
[02:22:57.200 --> 02:23:03.680]  we were talking about whether the EU had a moment of decision to make as to whether or not they're
[02:23:03.680 --> 02:23:11.600]  going to be real bona fide pirates or not. And they blinked. They didn't fully and finally steal
[02:23:11.600 --> 02:23:20.800]  all the Russian money that they quote unquote froze. And part of it was a Macron in France
[02:23:20.800 --> 02:23:30.000]  going against Fred Mertz in Germany. And I guess Fred Mertz says that Macron is going to have some
[02:23:30.000 --> 02:23:39.280]  splaining to do, Lucy. So it's being reported that Macron betrayed Fred Mertz by failing to
[02:23:39.280 --> 02:23:45.840]  back the German chancellor's push to steal Russian assets frozen in the EU in order to fund Ukraine,
[02:23:45.840 --> 02:23:52.080]  as reported by London's Financial Times. The EU leaders fail to agree on European Commission's
[02:23:52.080 --> 02:23:58.720]  controversial proposal to use Russia's immobilized central bank funds to finance Kiev's military and
[02:23:58.720 --> 02:24:06.240]  economy. And again, this is the lunacy, these sanctions that were done. It's destroying the
[02:24:06.240 --> 02:24:11.040]  Western financial system. It's making it very clear to everybody that it can't be trusted,
[02:24:11.040 --> 02:24:15.600]  so they're creating other financial systems away from the petrodollar. It's one of the dumbest
[02:24:16.160 --> 02:24:23.440]  moves that Biden could have ever made in the EU. But you had division as reported last week
[02:24:23.760 --> 02:24:30.240]  in Brussels, the Belgian bank there where it's stored in Brussels, they were very much against
[02:24:30.240 --> 02:24:37.520]  this. And so it turns out that they were able to get France to join Belgium, Italy, Hungary,
[02:24:37.520 --> 02:24:42.080]  and Slovakia, and the Czech Republic also did, and stopped the idea that they were going to
[02:24:42.080 --> 02:24:48.880]  confiscate this money and give it to Ukraine. On Sunday, citing an anonymous senior EU diplomat,
[02:24:49.520 --> 02:24:53.920]  said Macron betrayed Mertz, and he knows that there will be a price to pay for that.
[02:24:53.920 --> 02:24:58.160]  The French president didn't publicly object to the so-called reparations loan proposal.
[02:24:58.160 --> 02:25:04.000]  Macron privately called it its legality into question. Moreover, his team reportedly indicated
[02:25:04.000 --> 02:25:10.720]  that France, saddled as it is with mounting debt, would be unlikely to issue guarantees in case the
[02:25:10.720 --> 02:25:17.440]  impounded assets had to be returned to Russia. Fred Mertz, on the other hand, has lost any
[02:25:17.440 --> 02:25:24.480]  semblance of rationality. He's totally war crazy. You look at what is happening in Germany,
[02:25:24.480 --> 02:25:31.840]  as they have used this green MacGuffin to destroy German industry and manufacturing,
[02:25:31.840 --> 02:25:38.320]  to make it non-competitive with the Chinese, making energy so incredibly expensive and outlawing
[02:25:40.400 --> 02:25:45.680]  internal combustion engines, losing their advantage in that. They are destroying their
[02:25:45.680 --> 02:25:53.040]  own economy, and at the same time, Mertz wants to go on a military buildup and go into unbelievable
[02:25:53.040 --> 02:25:58.560]  amounts of debt in order to do it. Very different from anything that we've seen from Germany since
[02:25:58.560 --> 02:26:04.480]  World War II. This is more like the lead up to World War I. Going into debt, building up a military,
[02:26:05.760 --> 02:26:10.560]  totally irresponsible in everything he's doing, but also wanting to steal this money.
[02:26:11.280 --> 02:26:17.120]  So EU leaders instead approved an interest-free loan to Ukraine that'll be backed by the bloc's
[02:26:17.120 --> 02:26:24.800]  budget. Picking up the tab will be taxpayers and all EU member states, except for Hungary, Slovakia,
[02:26:24.800 --> 02:26:30.800]  and the Czech Republic. So France and Italy push back against the theft, but they put their own
[02:26:30.800 --> 02:26:38.160]  taxpayers on the hook to pay for this quote-unquote loan to Ukraine. Speaking during an end-of-the-year
[02:26:38.160 --> 02:26:45.280]  Q&A session on Friday, Putin warned that whatever the EU steals, and however they do it, they will
[02:26:45.280 --> 02:26:51.440]  have to pay it back someday. In November, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that
[02:26:51.440 --> 02:26:57.600]  Western Europe had lost the right to have a say in the Ukraine crisis and had effectively removed
[02:26:57.600 --> 02:27:05.440]  itself from negotiations due to its obstinate warmongering. And we can all see that. And we
[02:27:05.440 --> 02:27:11.760]  can see that with Trump when it comes to Venezuela or when it comes to Iran or to Gaza or whatever.
[02:27:12.720 --> 02:27:18.160]  Everybody can see who the instigators of these things are. Moscow has characterized Western
[02:27:18.160 --> 02:27:25.040]  European nations' stances as completely unconstructive. And Zelensky, you know, the
[02:27:25.040 --> 02:27:30.240]  hopes for this stuff is that there'll be peace. Will there be peace as long as Zelensky is there?
[02:27:30.960 --> 02:27:37.920]  Well, RT is saying that Zelensky has to steal the election that he is reluctant to have.
[02:27:38.800 --> 02:27:44.960]  And he has to steal it because he's been so corrupt. And the people in Ukraine know how corrupt he is
[02:27:45.520 --> 02:27:48.640]  that in order to stay out of jail, he's got to keep the war going.
[02:27:50.160 --> 02:27:56.960]  His preconditions make a mockery of this election, of course. And he's even denying
[02:27:57.600 --> 02:28:02.880]  the vote to people in eastern Ukraine, which tells us a great deal about
[02:28:04.480 --> 02:28:08.880]  the basis of this war to start with. We'll talk a little bit more about that in a second.
[02:28:08.880 --> 02:28:13.840]  Why then did the West want the war? In order to diminish Russia by using Ukraine as a
[02:28:13.840 --> 02:28:19.920]  battering ram and Ukrainians as cannon fodder. And he had a lot of people saying that at the
[02:28:19.920 --> 02:28:28.000]  very beginning. And you had people saying that here in the US, but also independent countries
[02:28:28.000 --> 02:28:32.560]  like India, where you looked at the military leaders were saying the same thing there.
[02:28:32.560 --> 02:28:38.160]  Secondly, more practically, no peace will last without an end to Ukraine's ultra-corrupt
[02:28:38.160 --> 02:28:44.400]  current authoritarian regime. Any talk about defending, quote unquote, democracy in Ukraine
[02:28:44.400 --> 02:28:49.680]  is absurd. Under Zelensky, there is no such thing left. And now even some Western mainstream
[02:28:49.680 --> 02:28:55.760]  commentators are starting to admit Zelensky's authoritarianism. He's nothing other than,
[02:28:55.760 --> 02:29:01.440]  as Russia says, a vulgar comedian who started systematically undermining what little democracy
[02:29:01.440 --> 02:29:09.280]  Ukraine used to have well before the escalation of February 2022. And again, he was elected
[02:29:10.160 --> 02:29:17.040]  in 2019 on a campaign of peace. And his lieutenant Alexei Rustovich said, no,
[02:29:17.120 --> 02:29:21.360]  it won't be any peace. We're not going to have any negotiations. And those are negotiations between
[02:29:21.920 --> 02:29:28.480]  Eastern Ukraine and Kiev. Kiev was bombing civilians in Eastern Ukraine. And notice how
[02:29:28.480 --> 02:29:37.120]  the Western press will talk about the bombings of whenever civilians are hit in Ukraine. And they
[02:29:37.120 --> 02:29:43.600]  should talk about it. But they completely ignore the fact that for five years before the election
[02:29:43.600 --> 02:29:49.200]  of Zelensky and for eight years before the invasion by Putin, that they had been shelling
[02:29:49.200 --> 02:29:54.560]  their own people in Eastern Ukraine because they weren't their own people. These are people who
[02:29:54.560 --> 02:30:00.800]  were culturally, linguistically tied to Russia because Ukraine had been a part of Russia
[02:30:01.760 --> 02:30:06.960]  for 400 years. And this is what the situation is in Eastern Ukraine. And this is why Zelensky
[02:30:07.600 --> 02:30:12.160]  is denying the vote to those people because he knows that they don't want to be ruled by him.
[02:30:12.160 --> 02:30:17.280]  That's what began this whole thing. After the CIA, NATO orchestrated coup in Ukraine,
[02:30:18.240 --> 02:30:22.720]  that's when these people said, well, we don't want to be a part of that. We want to stay with,
[02:30:23.840 --> 02:30:29.920]  we want to join Russia or whatever. And I have absolutely no sympathy for any country or
[02:30:29.920 --> 02:30:37.280]  organization that was created by secession as Ukraine was. They seceded from Russia.
[02:30:38.240 --> 02:30:42.320]  And then they turn around and deny the right of self-government and secession to others.
[02:30:43.040 --> 02:30:48.080]  Just take a look at the United States under Lincoln. The Declaration of Independence
[02:30:48.640 --> 02:30:56.880]  was a statement of secession. Our country was born on the right of self-government and secession.
[02:30:57.520 --> 02:31:05.360]  And yet Lincoln denied that. But the Confederacy allowed the people in Western Virginia
[02:31:05.360 --> 02:31:10.800]  to leave and to stay with, when they left the Union, they said, well, you can separate from us
[02:31:10.800 --> 02:31:18.000]  and you can stay with the Union. And that's not what Ukraine did. West Virginia stayed with the
[02:31:18.000 --> 02:31:27.360]  Union, but Ukraine would not allow Eastern Ukraine to stay with Russia. So Trump is right to call for
[02:31:27.360 --> 02:31:33.120]  presidential elections in Ukraine, but Zelensky has extended his mandate on flimsy grounds
[02:31:33.840 --> 02:31:38.080]  and thereby usurped power even formally. They often heard claim that Ukraine cannot hold
[02:31:38.080 --> 02:31:44.160]  presidential elections during war, by the way, is badly misleading. It is a misrepresentation
[02:31:44.160 --> 02:31:50.320]  of the Constitution. The Constitution only prohibits parliamentary elections in time of war.
[02:31:50.960 --> 02:31:56.480]  And this is simply a law that Zelensky himself got put in because he doesn't want to have these
[02:31:56.480 --> 02:32:01.840]  elections. Zelensky and his fixers are planning to shift the whole presidential election online.
[02:32:02.400 --> 02:32:09.200]  And if they do, falsification in Zelensky's favor is guaranteed. Again, same thing we saw
[02:32:09.200 --> 02:32:14.320]  with Trump doing a vote-by-mail election. It was guaranteed that we were going to get the outcome
[02:32:14.320 --> 02:32:19.440]  that we got, which is one of the reasons why it was so puzzling to me that people would rally
[02:32:19.440 --> 02:32:26.480]  around him for January the 6th, because he had set the entire stage for a corrupt election by
[02:32:26.560 --> 02:32:32.320]  doing it vote-by-mail. Citizens in eastern Ukraine will not be allowed to vote, says Zelensky. Over
[02:32:32.320 --> 02:32:37.440]  the weekend, he erected more barriers to holding a vote, stipulating that citizens in eastern Ukraine
[02:32:37.440 --> 02:32:42.480]  would not be allowed to participate. You know those people that he was bombing for eight years?
[02:32:44.080 --> 02:32:48.240]  Do you think they'd vote for him? Of course not. They didn't want to be a part of Ukraine in the
[02:32:48.240 --> 02:32:53.600]  first place. Any election in Ukraine cannot be held in Russian-occupied parts of the country.
[02:32:54.240 --> 02:32:59.760]  He said once again, adding that a proper voting process can take place only if security is
[02:32:59.760 --> 02:33:03.920]  insured. Well, they wouldn't have voted for him even if they weren't occupied by the Russians,
[02:33:03.920 --> 02:33:11.360]  because they'd already voted to leave. That's why they were being shelled by Kiev. The four areas
[02:33:11.360 --> 02:33:17.920]  that Putin has called our four new regions, says our citizens forever include Donetsk, Luhansk,
[02:33:17.920 --> 02:33:24.480]  Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what you're
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[02:34:59.840 --> 02:35:06.080]  Annexed after a popular referendum during the first year of the war, Zelensky's new openness
[02:35:06.080 --> 02:35:10.640]  with holding an election has been coupled with plenty of caveats and likely immense barriers.
[02:35:10.640 --> 02:35:16.160]  For example, last week he said a ceasefire with Russia must be in place before the elections can
[02:35:16.160 --> 02:35:22.720]  be held, at least for the duration of the election process and voting. Ukrainian law forbids wartime
[02:35:22.720 --> 02:35:28.000]  elections, he said, but Trump is pressuring Zelensky, whose term ended last year, to hold a vote.
[02:35:29.280 --> 02:35:35.680]  But again, it's not the Constitution. It's Zelensky's law that prohibits that. Trump said they
[02:35:35.680 --> 02:35:39.680]  haven't had an election for a long time. You know, they talk about a democracy, but it gets
[02:35:39.680 --> 02:35:46.320]  to the point where it's not a democracy anymore. And so then American thinker says, so why should
[02:35:46.320 --> 02:35:54.480]  Americans die for European tyranny? It's clear that the Europeans want war as badly as Zelensky,
[02:35:55.280 --> 02:36:00.880]  and they want war with Russia, and they want to bring war to their own country. Fred Mertz wants
[02:36:00.880 --> 02:36:06.400]  war to come to Germany. Macron wants it to come to France, and on and on.
[02:36:07.120 --> 02:36:12.800]  Stammer wants war to come to Britain, and why? Because they are at war with their own people.
[02:36:13.680 --> 02:36:18.000]  They have brought the barbarians inside the gate. They are destroying their industry. They're
[02:36:18.000 --> 02:36:24.160]  destroying their society. They're raping and pillaging their own people, and so they need
[02:36:24.160 --> 02:36:30.080]  a distraction. After the European Commission levied a several hundred million dollar fine on
[02:36:30.080 --> 02:36:35.280]  Musk and his social media platform on X earlier this month, journalist Michael Schellenberger
[02:36:35.280 --> 02:36:40.960]  wrote a damning post in which he excoriated Europe's rank censorship and its state-sponsored
[02:36:40.960 --> 02:36:47.600]  propaganda. He accused the European Commission of engaging, quote, in a deception campaign aimed
[02:36:47.600 --> 02:36:53.040]  at confusing Europeans and Americans into thinking that European elite's goal is anything other than
[02:36:53.040 --> 02:36:59.120]  to censor the American people. He pointed out that Musk's fine came while European governments
[02:36:59.120 --> 02:37:06.880]  are demanding backdoor access to all private text messages under a pretense of combating the
[02:37:06.880 --> 02:37:14.320]  transmission of child pornography. And when we look at this in America and you look at the fact
[02:37:15.520 --> 02:37:20.880]  that the FBI, when they're told about Epstein's operation, told about his child pornography,
[02:37:20.960 --> 02:37:25.200]  they ignore it for 10 years. They deny it ever happened for 30 years.
[02:37:27.520 --> 02:37:32.560]  It's all a game. And they create a so-called, yes.
[02:37:32.560 --> 02:37:37.440]  I don't think they're really distributing this stuff over text messages all that much.
[02:37:38.000 --> 02:37:42.720]  It doesn't seem like the most secure way. We need to look at every single
[02:37:42.720 --> 02:37:48.640]  form of communication between any citizens in our nation to ensure that it's not child
[02:37:48.640 --> 02:37:56.400]  exploitation material, is what they're claiming. Yeah, it's obviously a ruse, right? And it doesn't
[02:37:56.400 --> 02:38:01.600]  have anything to do with reality. So they're creating a so-called democracy shield of
[02:38:01.600 --> 02:38:06.720]  government-funded fact-checkers that enable censorship by proxy. We've seen this for the
[02:38:06.720 --> 02:38:10.480]  longest time. We know how this works. It was done by both the Biden and the Trump administration in
[02:38:10.480 --> 02:38:15.280]  the past. The European Commission announced the fine to coincide with the rollout of the Trump
[02:38:15.280 --> 02:38:21.440]  administration's new national security strategy statement. That was the one where Trump was highly
[02:38:21.440 --> 02:38:30.320]  critical of EU. And Trump made this promise. He said, we will oppose elite-driven, anti-democratic
[02:38:30.320 --> 02:38:36.000]  restrictions on core liberties in Europe, the Anglosphere, until the rest of the Democrat world,
[02:38:37.200 --> 02:38:43.920]  especially among our allies. The problem is the American government is doing this on behalf of
[02:38:43.920 --> 02:38:48.880]  Israel as well. The EU is now in the direct violation of the NATO treaty.
[02:38:50.480 --> 02:38:58.000]  Schellenberger pointed out. Excuse me. The NATO treaty itself requires member states to have free
[02:38:58.000 --> 02:39:05.440]  speech and free and fair elections. France and Germany are actively, illegally preventing political
[02:39:05.440 --> 02:39:11.280]  candidates from running for office for ideological reasons, namely their opposition to mass migration.
[02:39:12.240 --> 02:39:17.200]  And the Romanian High Court, with the support of the European Commission, nullified election results
[02:39:17.200 --> 02:39:25.680]  under the thin, unproven pretext of Russian interference after a nationalist populist presidential
[02:39:25.680 --> 02:39:32.480]  candidate won. And of course, you have the rampant censorship done by the UK as well.
[02:39:33.360 --> 02:39:37.520]  Schellenberger accused the European political class of betraying its own constitution, a document
[02:39:37.920 --> 02:39:44.000]  that purports to protect free speech. Everyone has a right to free expression. This right shall
[02:39:44.000 --> 02:39:50.320]  include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and to impart information and ideas without
[02:39:50.320 --> 02:39:57.520]  interference from public authority. That is in the European constitution.
[02:39:59.120 --> 02:40:03.440]  So just like our government, they openly violate the constitution.
[02:40:03.760 --> 02:40:09.520]  Trump is doing it in terms of shutting down free speech, because he's told to by his Israeli masters.
[02:40:10.400 --> 02:40:14.880]  The European Commission is doing it because it's part of their globalist agenda and because the
[02:40:14.880 --> 02:40:21.360]  criticism is of them and of their great replacement program. How can the European Commission pretend
[02:40:21.360 --> 02:40:27.280]  to defend its own charter when it seeks to eradicate the free exchange of ideas on X,
[02:40:28.000 --> 02:40:35.200]  when it seeks to censor Americans' speech, when it seeks to spy on citizens' private text messages,
[02:40:35.840 --> 02:40:43.520]  and when it seeks to create an army of government-funded NGOs to justify censorship
[02:40:43.520 --> 02:40:49.680]  and to push the Commission's propaganda? He said Germany's entire defense is subsidized by the
[02:40:49.680 --> 02:40:54.560]  American taxpayer. There are thousands upon thousands of American troops in Germany today.
[02:40:54.560 --> 02:41:00.800]  Do you think that the American taxpayer is going to stand still if you get thrown in jail in Germany
[02:41:00.800 --> 02:41:09.760]  for posting a mean tweet? Vance has explicitly warned European elites that America and Europe
[02:41:10.320 --> 02:41:15.520]  do not have shared values if you're jailing people for saying that we should close down our border,
[02:41:16.320 --> 02:41:20.560]  or if you're canceling elections because you don't like the result. And Vance said when he
[02:41:20.560 --> 02:41:25.760]  addressed them, he said, and that's what happened in Romania. You don't have shared values if you're
[02:41:25.760 --> 02:41:31.200]  so afraid of your own people that you silence them and shut them up. And look at what is happening
[02:41:31.200 --> 02:41:38.320]  in Germany, AFD Alternative for Deutschland. They are trying to make these people criminals in every
[02:41:38.320 --> 02:41:44.640]  way possible, taking away any rights to own guns and other things like that, but also trying to
[02:41:44.640 --> 02:41:50.800]  outlaw the party, the political party. In France, the populist party there that was anti-immigration,
[02:41:51.840 --> 02:41:56.880]  they conspired with each other to remove their candidates so their vote would not be divided.
[02:41:56.880 --> 02:42:02.640]  So even though in a series of three elections, beginning with the European Union elections and
[02:42:02.640 --> 02:42:09.280]  then going to the French elections in two series, in each one of those elections that followed each
[02:42:09.280 --> 02:42:14.320]  other in close sequence, the national party's percentage of the vote went up each time,
[02:42:15.040 --> 02:42:20.880]  but they were unable to get control of the parliament because the various political,
[02:42:20.880 --> 02:42:26.240]  all the rest of the political parties in France conspired with each other to make sure that they
[02:42:26.240 --> 02:42:31.920]  had a candidate who was going to be first past the post and was going to make sure that that
[02:42:31.920 --> 02:42:38.080]  larger vote percentage did not translate to larger representation. So you see this happening in every
[02:42:38.080 --> 02:42:42.880]  one of these countries there. Trump's emissaries work to deliver peace between Russia and Ukraine.
[02:42:43.520 --> 02:42:46.800]  There are rumors on the continent that the European Commission is threatening,
[02:42:46.800 --> 02:42:54.160]  behind somewhat closed doors, to sell $2.3 trillion in U.S. Treasury holdings
[02:42:54.160 --> 02:42:57.920]  should the American government impose an unsatisfactory peace settlement,
[02:42:58.480 --> 02:43:04.080]  that'd be any kind of peace, or outright withdraw military and financial support from Ukraine.
[02:43:04.480 --> 02:43:09.520]  Such economic warfare against the U.S. could trigger a financial crash
[02:43:10.080 --> 02:43:17.040]  more severe than what occurred in 2008. And so there's an implied threat of blackmail
[02:43:17.680 --> 02:43:22.720]  that if you don't continue to fund the Ukraine war, we will pull our money out of the U.S. Treasury bills.
[02:43:23.600 --> 02:43:27.920]  The fact that the European powers would consider destabilizing the global economy in order to
[02:43:28.880 --> 02:43:35.120]  prolong war on the European continent says a great deal about their twisted priorities.
[02:43:36.080 --> 02:43:40.320]  Given how ill-prepared Europe is to fight its own battles without the assistance of America's
[02:43:40.320 --> 02:43:46.000]  military machine, it is maddening to watch the deranged posturing of Europe's bellicose
[02:43:46.000 --> 02:43:54.480]  ruling class as it salivates for more war. And what is true of the EU in Ukraine and in Europe
[02:43:54.480 --> 02:44:01.360]  is really true of America in regards with China. A lot of bellicose posturing by Trump
[02:44:02.080 --> 02:44:06.000]  for a war that they can't win, and I don't know they could win the war in Venezuela either.
[02:44:06.880 --> 02:44:14.320]  It could turn in, if they want, if their real goal is to get the oil and things like that,
[02:44:14.320 --> 02:44:19.600]  it could turn into another one of these quagmires. Once you start to occupy a country,
[02:44:20.240 --> 02:44:27.600]  once you decide that you're going to do regime change, and we've seen it in Iraq, we've seen it
[02:44:27.600 --> 02:44:32.080]  in Afghanistan, over and over again, once you've decided that that's going to be your goal,
[02:44:32.960 --> 02:44:38.720]  now you are at a disadvantage. And we've seen America lose one war like that after the other.
[02:44:38.720 --> 02:44:46.320]  So we are also watching bellicose boasting about this, salivating for more war,
[02:44:46.880 --> 02:44:52.560]  writing checks that they can't cash. While mourning the recent death of a British soldier in Ukraine,
[02:44:53.200 --> 02:44:59.200]  UK's Prime Minister Keir Starmer tacitly admitted that a military contingent of unknown size is
[02:44:59.200 --> 02:45:04.000]  already operating in the country. This led one of Russia's most prominent political commentators to
[02:45:04.000 --> 02:45:09.840]  conclude that nuclear strikes on Britain are inevitable. Should the British people perhaps
[02:45:09.840 --> 02:45:17.840]  have a say whether their political leadership will risk nuclear war over Russian-speaking
[02:45:17.840 --> 02:45:23.280]  territories in eastern Ukraine? Again, this is the perspective that is always lost,
[02:45:24.320 --> 02:45:30.160]  that these areas were Russian for 400 years, culturally, linguistically Russian.
[02:45:31.520 --> 02:45:38.560]  And these arbitrary lines that were set up by NATO and others when they gave Ukraine its
[02:45:38.560 --> 02:45:48.160]  independence, that is not worth going to war over to go fight and to free the people from Russia
[02:45:48.160 --> 02:45:54.640]  when they speak Russian and are culturally Russian. Meanwhile, the French government is not so quietly
[02:45:54.640 --> 02:46:00.000]  preparing hospitals for the arrival of tens of thousands of wounded soldiers in the next few
[02:46:00.000 --> 02:46:05.040]  months. They've publicly made that statement, we reported that here, given that French President
[02:46:05.040 --> 02:46:10.160]  Macron is reportedly planning to announce a rapid expansion of the country's military service,
[02:46:10.800 --> 02:46:17.040]  a significant military engagement on the continent appears increasingly likely. Similarly, Denmark,
[02:46:17.040 --> 02:46:24.720]  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Poland and Germany are all working to increase the sizes of
[02:46:24.720 --> 02:46:29.840]  their military forces. I think that's true of the UK as well. They're also talking about conscription
[02:46:30.400 --> 02:46:37.600]  and Germany. Is this really what Americans want? Must we really permit Europe's totalitarian
[02:46:37.600 --> 02:46:44.880]  political elites to recklessly provoke a U.S.-NATO-Russia war? It is revealing that
[02:46:44.880 --> 02:46:50.960]  Europe's speech police work so assiduously to censor social media posts that dare to question
[02:46:50.960 --> 02:46:57.440]  the ruling class's apparent desire to transform a regional conflict between Russia and Ukraine
[02:46:57.520 --> 02:47:02.240]  into a battle royal involving the whole of the continent, and I would say of the world.
[02:47:03.200 --> 02:47:11.920]  How duplicitous, how desperate could Starmer, Macron, Mertz and Queen Ursula von der Leyen be
[02:47:11.920 --> 02:47:18.320]  if they feel compelled to silence every European commoner who prefers to keep his children safely
[02:47:18.320 --> 02:47:24.960]  away from exploding drones on the battlefield? What is the point of defending a royal court
[02:47:24.960 --> 02:47:31.040]  of unelected European aristocrats who cynically paddle on about the need to defend democracy
[02:47:31.680 --> 02:47:36.400]  while spying on fellow citizens' private communications and silencing their online debates?
[02:47:37.200 --> 02:47:42.640]  Why should Americans fight and die for European elites who conspire to prevent non-globalist
[02:47:42.640 --> 02:47:48.960]  politicians from holding office and who summarily cancel elections whenever the globalists don't
[02:47:48.960 --> 02:47:55.680]  get their preferred outcome? Why should America's military defend a European ruling class
[02:47:55.680 --> 02:48:01.680]  that regularly censors American citizens? And I would say the same thing about Israel.
[02:48:03.200 --> 02:48:10.240]  You know, why should we partner with them? Why should we defend them when they attack us here
[02:48:10.240 --> 02:48:15.760]  in America? And Israel's censorship has been far more effective so far than the EU.
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[02:48:24.400 --> 02:48:30.400]  I made the choice to partner with an amazing organization called Compassion International.
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[02:48:50.960 --> 02:48:56.880]  getting the health care and education she needs to reach her God-given full potential.
[02:48:56.880 --> 02:49:03.040]  I got to be a part of that change and the light of that compassion not only illuminates in her,
[02:49:03.040 --> 02:49:10.560]  it illuminates now in me. That is the power of compassion. The light of Christ shines on all of
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[02:49:57.680 --> 02:50:05.680]  wants to attack Iran again and he's going to come and lobby Trump over the period between Christmas
[02:50:05.680 --> 02:50:10.560]  and New Year. And as a matter of fact, you got Lindsey Graham, of course, is all for war
[02:50:10.560 --> 02:50:17.200]  anywhere all the time. Elevating the risk that the ballistic missiles present to Israel and
[02:50:17.200 --> 02:50:23.120]  eventually to the region. We need to replenish your supply of air defense capability, but we cannot
[02:50:23.120 --> 02:50:29.600]  allow Iran to get back into ballistic missile production business that could overwhelm Iron
[02:50:29.600 --> 02:50:38.080]  Dome. Yeah, yeah. So we got to get some weapons to these guys. We can't have a war that doesn't
[02:50:38.080 --> 02:50:44.160]  include us, says Lindsey. Trump is having declared that the Islamic Republic's nuclear program has
[02:50:44.160 --> 02:50:49.840]  been completely obliterated and the U.S. knockout strikes against three nuclear facilities in Iran.
[02:50:50.560 --> 02:50:55.200]  Israel suspects, however, the Iranians are still conducting nuclear development activity in secret.
[02:50:55.840 --> 02:51:00.720]  Of course, Netanyahu's been doing this for three decades, telling everybody they're just weeks and
[02:51:00.720 --> 02:51:05.520]  months away from having a nuclear weapon. And so he's still going down that line. Meanwhile,
[02:51:06.080 --> 02:51:13.200]  Trump doesn't want to admit that he didn't get out and destroy the nuclear program. So
[02:51:13.760 --> 02:51:19.120]  there's a bit of a problem with their messaging that they have to agree about. Netanyahu is due
[02:51:19.120 --> 02:51:24.880]  to visit the U.S. We should have Gina Haspel on as an expert on hunting for weapons of mass
[02:51:24.880 --> 02:51:30.160]  destruction. That's right. Yeah, where's Gina? When you need her? Unfortunately, Gina's not in
[02:51:30.160 --> 02:51:38.560]  prison. That's where we need her to be. December 28th and January 4th, Netanyahu will be there to
[02:51:39.200 --> 02:51:44.720]  lobby Trump at Mar-a-Lago, who reportedly lobbied the president to take more military action against
[02:51:44.720 --> 02:51:52.160]  Iran. Again, the same arguments you just heard made against European elites and globalists.
[02:51:53.600 --> 02:51:59.840]  You can make again for war for Israel. But Israel has control of Trump and Congress and has
[02:52:00.640 --> 02:52:07.040]  a lot more gains in censoring Americans that we have not seen yet with the Europeans. They just
[02:52:07.040 --> 02:52:14.560]  aspire to shut down free speech. They've actually gotten Trump and Republicans to pass laws and
[02:52:14.560 --> 02:52:23.520]  Florida to tie this to money so they can blackmail people or bribe them. And again,
[02:52:24.800 --> 02:52:31.600]  the treacherous actions of the Europeans don't hold a candle to what has been done with Israel
[02:52:31.600 --> 02:52:37.760]  in terms of betrayal. Jonathan Pollard. And look at the Trump administration and how they have owned
[02:52:37.760 --> 02:52:45.440]  that. Trump pardoning him and then his big donor, Miriam Adelson, shipping Jonathan Pollard back.
[02:52:45.440 --> 02:52:50.240]  And Jonathan Pollard didn't just steal information to give it to Israel. Israel then turned around
[02:52:50.880 --> 02:52:57.920]  and gave that information to Russia and to China, totally betraying America.
[02:52:58.720 --> 02:53:04.800]  And that doesn't even get into the attacks of the U.S. liberty. But you have people like Huckabee
[02:53:04.800 --> 02:53:10.480]  and Trump embrace one of the worst traitors to the U.S. ever, Jonathan Pollard. He was born in
[02:53:10.480 --> 02:53:17.280]  America, but he was a traitor to America. Israeli officials are preparing to brief Trump about the
[02:53:17.280 --> 02:53:24.320]  options for attacking it again. So it's going to be a full court press of them telling them how
[02:53:24.320 --> 02:53:30.800]  essential it is for them to do it. And they probably, since they own this guy, they probably
[02:53:30.800 --> 02:53:36.320]  can get him to do it. He'll say, well, there's new evidence. Yeah, we destroyed everything,
[02:53:36.320 --> 02:53:39.360]  but they've been moving really fast. And so we're going to have to go do it again.
[02:53:40.640 --> 02:53:45.440]  Israeli officials are concerned that Iran is reconstituting nuclear enrichment sites
[02:53:46.000 --> 02:53:50.880]  that the U.S. bombed in June. The timing of potential new Pentagon action against Iran
[02:53:50.880 --> 02:53:56.080]  couldn't be worse given the concentration of American military assets currently in the
[02:53:56.080 --> 02:54:02.000]  southern Caribbean. The U.S.'s threatening regime change actions against Venezuela's Maduro
[02:54:02.000 --> 02:54:08.800]  and cartels in Latin America. The carrier group, the USS Gerald Ford, recently moved from the
[02:54:08.800 --> 02:54:13.760]  Mediterranean where it was closer to the Middle East. However, Pentagon has just this week engaged
[02:54:13.760 --> 02:54:20.960]  in new counter-ISIS strikes in Syria as well. And so presumably it would have enough or limited
[02:54:20.960 --> 02:54:28.080]  support assets in the region if it were to assist with some new Israeli and Iran operation.
[02:54:29.120 --> 02:54:33.440]  Again, look at how we are spread out with this American empire.
[02:54:35.520 --> 02:54:43.040]  You know, it's just ripe for collapse. These unprovoked attacks on foreign powers
[02:54:43.680 --> 02:54:49.120]  and adventurous adventures abroad could grow increasingly unpopular with the American people.
[02:54:49.760 --> 02:54:55.280]  And there certainly is a large chunk of the MAGA base which is dead set against the U.S.
[02:54:55.280 --> 02:55:03.440]  entering new wars and new conflicts. Also at a time when the Ukraine proxy war shows no signs
[02:55:03.440 --> 02:55:10.800]  of slowing. So again, can they keep going in this direction for how long? Will people support it
[02:55:10.800 --> 02:55:14.240]  or will they speak out against it? Trump has said that if Iran pursued a nuclear weapon,
[02:55:15.040 --> 02:55:18.640]  the site would be attacked and would be wiped out before they even got close. So while Trump
[02:55:18.640 --> 02:55:24.640]  might be open to new action, the official stance is that there is no need for this at this point.
[02:55:25.680 --> 02:55:28.960]  But that won't stop him if he's told that that's what he needs to do. When you look at
[02:55:29.520 --> 02:55:37.040]  what's happening with the rebuilding of Gaza, they call it Project Sunrise. I think it's kind
[02:55:37.040 --> 02:55:44.960]  of interesting that they put a price tag on it. They set $112 billion in order to rebuild Gaza
[02:55:44.960 --> 02:55:50.640]  as a high-tech metropolis. Think about that. When you look at the massive sums of money that we
[02:55:50.640 --> 02:55:55.840]  throw around, the hundreds of billions for this, the hundreds of billions for that, and so forth,
[02:55:55.840 --> 02:56:02.320]  $112 billion is all it would take. It's a small sum compared to the kinds of amounts of money that
[02:56:02.320 --> 02:56:08.400]  we throw around in foreign aid or wars or this and that. And that would be enough to rebuild
[02:56:08.400 --> 02:56:15.120]  that entire area into a high-tech metropolis, they say. That's the kind of money that is
[02:56:15.120 --> 02:56:21.760]  being squandered by the federal government. There's some expensive-looking graves there.
[02:56:21.760 --> 02:56:29.120]  Yeah, exactly. But like that joke video about Trump and his casino in Gaza,
[02:56:30.000 --> 02:56:38.640]  way more than 18 holes there. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, two Jewish real estate guys,
[02:56:39.280 --> 02:56:44.000]  are the ones putting this stuff together. The Wall Street Journal reported a 32-page
[02:56:44.000 --> 02:56:50.400]  PowerPoint presentation that was labeled sensitive and titled Project Sunrise has
[02:56:50.400 --> 02:56:55.360]  developed over 45 days and reportedly presented to officials from Qatar, UAE, Egypt, and Turkey
[02:56:56.320 --> 02:57:02.800]  to turn Gaza Strip into a high-tech metropolis over the next two decades. These people are just
[02:57:02.800 --> 02:57:10.000]  grifters and pirates. They're murdering thieves. That's all this is to them. Four phases of
[02:57:10.000 --> 02:57:17.280]  reconstruction beginning in southern Gaza. It also talks the calls for turning Rafah into Gaza's new
[02:57:17.280 --> 02:57:23.920]  administrative center, housing over 500,000 residents. Again, in Gaza, it's about the real
[02:57:24.000 --> 02:57:32.720]  estate in Venezuela. It's about the oil. Pirates, thieves, murderers, as Smedley Butler said.
[02:57:32.720 --> 02:57:38.800]  It's a racket. They're gangsters. The plan does not specify where two million Palestinians will
[02:57:38.800 --> 02:57:43.360]  be sheltered during the reconstruction period. Israel's blockade of shelter materials has left
[02:57:43.360 --> 02:57:49.360]  Palestinians sheltering in bombed-out buildings and tattered tents. In early December, a severe
[02:57:49.360 --> 02:57:56.800]  winter storm caused a dozen fatalities. About 95% of Gaza's tent camps have flooded due to heavy
[02:57:56.800 --> 02:58:02.320]  rain. Both Witkoff and Kushner come from prominent Jewish real estate families rooted in New York's
[02:58:02.320 --> 02:58:07.680]  property sector with careers built around large-scale high-value developments and deep
[02:58:07.680 --> 02:58:14.640]  financial ties to Gulf sovereign wealth funds. The U.S. will provide about $60 billion in grants and
[02:58:14.640 --> 02:58:18.640]  loans and guarantees to back new debt. So there you go. There's your corruption.
[02:58:20.480 --> 02:58:25.440]  Taxpayers will pay half of it, and they'll get some investors to pay the other half in other
[02:58:25.440 --> 02:58:29.840]  countries. But we'll be on the hook for this, and guess who's going to make the profits off of this?
[02:58:30.720 --> 02:58:37.680]  Trump and his cronies. What does it take to impeach this guy? Why aren't they talking about this?
[02:58:38.320 --> 02:58:44.320]  Trump shared an AI-generated demo for Trump, Gaza, and True Social. Remember that? The bearded
[02:58:44.320 --> 02:58:49.360]  belly dancers and stuff. The video, however, depicted his Riviera Plan come to life and
[02:58:49.360 --> 02:58:54.720]  involved the forced removal of Palestinian population, U.S. ownership, and development
[02:58:54.720 --> 02:59:00.880]  of the land for the world's peoples, he said. Well, we're going to take a quick break, and
[02:59:01.760 --> 02:59:05.360]  we will be right back. Stay with us. We'll be right back.
[02:59:37.680 --> 02:59:42.720]  Everything from virtual reality to designing our own data centers. Describing what's coming,
[02:59:42.720 --> 02:59:46.880]  even. It's just so different and new. I've been in this infrastructure business for, you know,
[02:59:46.880 --> 02:59:52.400]  three decades. No one has ever seen infrastructure like this. Now, I expect that these trends will
[02:59:52.400 --> 02:59:58.080]  only increase in the future. In the last few months, we launched voice and vision capabilities
[02:59:58.080 --> 03:00:01.280]  so that ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak.
[03:00:05.600 --> 03:00:11.120]  It imports up to 128,000 tokens of context. That's 300 pages of a standard book.
[03:00:11.120 --> 03:00:16.800]  That's all AI-generated. Actually, let's add in some altocumulus clouds.
[03:00:18.560 --> 03:00:23.040]  Hey, it's Ben Ferguson, and I want you to pause what you're doing for just one minute,
[03:00:23.040 --> 03:00:29.680]  and I want you to hear about Alejandra. She lives in a remote community with very few resources and
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[03:00:36.000 --> 03:00:42.720]  no doctors in their community, and no money for real medical care. By the third day,
[03:00:42.720 --> 03:00:47.040]  her body was shutting down. She woke up just long enough to tell her mom,
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[03:01:02.320 --> 03:01:09.360]  And that is when Compassion International stepped in. Now, through Compassion, Alejandra was treated,
[03:01:09.360 --> 03:01:15.760]  and against all odds, she survived. She lived because someone just like you took action.
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[03:06:24.960 --> 03:06:29.520]  Francisco over the weekend and what that is a harbinger of, but I just want to thank some
[03:06:29.520 --> 03:06:37.360]  of the people who have left us tips on Zelle. And again, Marty is doing matching tips today on
[03:06:37.360 --> 03:06:44.160]  Zelle and all platforms. Gregory C, William W, Ryan Forrest, Michael P. Thank you so much,
[03:06:44.160 --> 03:06:50.960]  all of you for that. And also on Substar, we had a tip from Paula C. Thank you all of you. And we've
[03:06:50.960 --> 03:06:58.400]  got some tips on some of these other platforms here. Virtue Hope via snail mail says, and thank
[03:06:58.400 --> 03:07:04.400]  you, Marty. Merry Christmas. And Lance, exactly what is it that they need to do about snail mail?
[03:07:04.960 --> 03:07:09.200]  Just put in the letter that this is for the matching funds.
[03:07:09.200 --> 03:07:13.680]  Okay. All right. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that, Marty. Thank you so much.
[03:07:13.680 --> 03:07:19.760]  Neurodivergent says, thank you, Marty. And thank you for the tip. Neurodivergent. God bless you
[03:07:19.760 --> 03:07:28.000]  and the Knights. Merry Christmas to you all. I'm Marty did a tip that he's going to make, I guess.
[03:07:28.080 --> 03:07:32.880]  So thank you, Marty. Appreciate that. And Junk Silver. Thank you. And thanks, Marty. And says,
[03:07:32.880 --> 03:07:36.240]  Merry Christmas to all. And by the way, Junk Silver, I guess we're going to have to come up
[03:07:36.240 --> 03:07:43.440]  with another name for that. Silver's not Junk anymore, is it? Gtalent60. Thank you very much.
[03:07:44.160 --> 03:07:49.120]  And Brian McCartney said that Lance, if we send a check, we'll be matched by IamMarty.
[03:07:50.160 --> 03:07:51.520]  And I think you just answered that.
[03:07:51.520 --> 03:07:52.560]  Yeah, I just answered that.
[03:07:53.200 --> 03:07:59.040]  Yes. And Gard Goldsmith, he says, in Coventry, Richard Branson, of all folks, donated a statue
[03:07:59.040 --> 03:08:05.920]  of two people hugging while sending a twin to Dresden. Well, there you go. I guess it's,
[03:08:05.920 --> 03:08:10.800]  what about, I guess that we've got an equivalence there. They were both wrong,
[03:08:11.360 --> 03:08:16.480]  right? Both of them are wrong. Maybe that's what he's saying. I hope so. I hope that's the message
[03:08:16.480 --> 03:08:22.240]  that people get. Defy Tyrant 1776. Steal a Twinkie at gunpoint at a convenience store.
[03:08:22.800 --> 03:08:28.960]  Get five years in prison. Steal a billion dollar ship. Nothing. That's right. And we've got a long
[03:08:28.960 --> 03:08:33.120]  tradition of this as part of our drug war. You know, just take people's car, their plane,
[03:08:33.120 --> 03:08:40.160]  their business, their hotel, parents' home. Just take it and you charge the inanimate object with
[03:08:40.160 --> 03:08:44.640]  a crime, which is exactly what they did with a tanker. This tanker has been involved in some
[03:08:44.640 --> 03:08:47.680]  illegal activity, so it's a criminal tanker and we're going to steal it.
[03:08:48.560 --> 03:08:52.960]  Angios Sunnita says, if you compare what happened leading up to World War II and what's happening
[03:08:52.960 --> 03:08:59.520]  now, it's almost identical. Yeah. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. It really does. Nmax,
[03:08:59.520 --> 03:09:06.960]  Soros. Fourth turning. Yeah, that's right. Because it's a fourth turning. Nmax says,
[03:09:06.960 --> 03:09:12.160]  Soros and the Clintons pushed the whole Ukraine thing back then. Can't blame the Ukrainians.
[03:09:12.720 --> 03:09:18.480]  No, but I mean, Zelensky is their puppet and it's pretty clear that the Europeans want this war.
[03:09:18.480 --> 03:09:23.200]  NATO wants this war and they want war with their own people as well. I mean, look at who they
[03:09:23.200 --> 03:09:30.800]  picked to head NATO after he was driven out of his own country. Mark Rutte, who tried to kill all the
[03:09:30.800 --> 03:09:36.080]  farms in the Netherlands. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson and I want you to pause what you're doing for
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[03:11:11.440 --> 03:11:16.000]  have the most productive farmland anywhere in Europe, the people there woke up and threw him
[03:11:16.000 --> 03:11:23.120]  out. So then NATO put him in as head of NATO. So Three Little Birds says China has stopped all
[03:11:23.200 --> 03:11:31.200]  exports of silver and gold. That's a big tell, isn't it? And they continue to accumulate,
[03:11:31.200 --> 03:11:38.240]  to stack it. Bulldog says China is buying silver using CNY at a discount. They could sell it back
[03:11:38.240 --> 03:11:44.480]  to the U.S. at a premium if needed. Yeah. Three Little Birds says silver is needed for the AI
[03:11:44.480 --> 03:11:50.080]  data centers. It's needed for a lot of different things. But at this point in time, gold is also
[03:11:50.080 --> 03:11:55.920]  needed for them to have credibility as they're all trying to move to different economic systems.
[03:11:55.920 --> 03:11:59.680]  That includes, and I think we're going to see this a lot in the next year, that includes the
[03:11:59.680 --> 03:12:05.120]  stable coins. The stable coins now, some of them, you know, when you look at Tether, which is
[03:12:05.120 --> 03:12:12.640]  Leutnick's thing, Tether has been backing itself, saying it's a stable coin by backing itself
[03:12:12.640 --> 03:12:17.920]  with U.S. Treasury bills. Well, they're not necessarily conveying the idea of stability
[03:12:17.920 --> 03:12:23.760]  anymore. So they have to start acquiring gold and real estate as well. So that's an important
[03:12:23.760 --> 03:12:29.760]  thing to look at for the next year. Three Little Birds says the silver paper industry is collapsed.
[03:12:30.320 --> 03:12:36.720]  Possession of real silver is now the real value. ComEx will explode soon because of it,
[03:12:36.720 --> 03:12:43.040]  and spot silver will skyrocket. Yeah, that's one of the places where they really expose the
[03:12:43.040 --> 03:12:49.360]  the dichotomy between what they claim they own in terms of silver and what they actually have.
[03:12:50.160 --> 03:12:56.320]  And so that's, again, why you should focus on physical silver and gold. Go to Tony Arterbon,
[03:12:56.320 --> 03:13:00.480]  Wise Wolf, and you can let him know that you're coming through us if you go through David Knight
[03:13:00.480 --> 03:13:04.560]  Die Gold. He's got the links there to him, and that's how he knows that you're coming through us.
[03:13:05.200 --> 03:13:11.600]  But at the very least, try to start setting aside a little bit. And that's why he set up
[03:13:11.600 --> 03:13:17.120]  the Wolfpack thing. It's kind of unique to Tony, where you can start to accumulate as a savings
[03:13:17.120 --> 03:13:22.160]  program. And you're going to save something that isn't going to be decreasing constantly in value.
[03:13:22.160 --> 03:13:27.280]  If you put your money in the bank, they don't pay you any interest, even in the checking,
[03:13:27.280 --> 03:13:33.440]  even in the savings accounts. And it's on something that is rapidly losing its value.
[03:13:34.080 --> 03:13:39.920]  So try to save as much as you can. If you can save, try to put as much of it as you can into
[03:13:39.920 --> 03:13:43.600]  something that's going to retain its value, or perhaps even go up against the dollar,
[03:13:43.600 --> 03:13:49.520]  which is going to be silver and gold. So Big Britt is back again and says,
[03:13:49.520 --> 03:13:54.480]  it's all about wanting to wipe out millions of people in the European war. It's just an excuse.
[03:13:54.480 --> 03:13:58.640]  I agree. So let's take a look at this power blackout that happened in San Francisco and
[03:13:58.640 --> 03:14:04.080]  went on for quite some time. I think it's kind of a harbinger of the kind of society, of course,
[03:14:04.080 --> 03:14:08.640]  when you look at Silicon Valley, the kind of society these technocrats want to impose on
[03:14:08.640 --> 03:14:13.840]  us. It knocked out power to more than 130,000 homes. About a third of the city was plunged
[03:14:13.840 --> 03:14:19.520]  into darkness. And then it had some knock-on effects that were kind of unusual for San Francisco
[03:14:19.520 --> 03:14:26.560]  because they're heavily involved in these Waymo self-driving cars. And what happened was these
[03:14:26.560 --> 03:14:33.680]  Waymo cars froze at intersections and created massive blockades. And so if you've got emergency
[03:14:33.680 --> 03:14:40.080]  vehicles, it's difficult for them to navigate through that. And that's something to think about.
[03:14:40.080 --> 03:14:44.640]  You know, Jack Lawson and I were just talking about the vulnerability of the infrastructure
[03:14:44.640 --> 03:14:51.520]  on Friday and how easy it is to take everything down. There was a fire in a substation. And people
[03:14:51.520 --> 03:14:55.200]  said, well, you want to know why power is out. Here's what it looks like. Here's the fire in
[03:14:55.200 --> 03:15:01.360]  substation. And yet, you know, there's no information about what caused the fire.
[03:15:01.440 --> 03:15:08.400]  It could have just been some kind of equipment malfunction or poor maintenance or something
[03:15:08.400 --> 03:15:13.920]  like that. But it's not difficult to sabotage these types of things. And that's what we have
[03:15:13.920 --> 03:15:20.800]  to look at in the future as we continually push towards these wars with Venezuela or with Mexico
[03:15:20.800 --> 03:15:25.520]  or whoever else it is in Latin America. You know, you have people like Alex Jones saying, well,
[03:15:25.520 --> 03:15:29.920]  I'm all for that. Let's go somewhere where we can win a war. Well, you might want to think about
[03:15:29.920 --> 03:15:34.800]  what happens. It's so easy for these people to come across the border and to
[03:15:36.800 --> 03:15:42.640]  engage in this kind of sabotage of our infrastructure that is there. This was done
[03:15:42.640 --> 03:15:50.160]  probably just by, I guess we could say, ordinary means. Waymo's are paralyzed everywhere.
[03:15:51.360 --> 03:15:57.520]  And so today is the first time that, it's not the first time that they plunge large swaths
[03:15:57.520 --> 03:16:02.320]  of San Francisco into darkness. The power company on the Saturday before Christmas,
[03:16:03.040 --> 03:16:11.440]  one of the busiest shopping days of the year. The same thing happened 22 years ago in 2003
[03:16:11.440 --> 03:16:19.120]  at about the same time. Officials have yet to say what sparked the substation fire. So again,
[03:16:20.800 --> 03:16:26.800]  the response to it was to make sure that you had access to the important stuff. What is the
[03:16:26.800 --> 03:16:31.840]  important stuff? Well, you need to be able to recharge your devices. So they'd set up an area
[03:16:31.840 --> 03:16:36.480]  that we could recharge your device because that'd be one way that you could communicate with people
[03:16:36.480 --> 03:16:43.840]  since nobody has landlines anymore. Also get Wi-Fi access. Oh, and then third on the list is
[03:16:43.840 --> 03:16:51.920]  bottled water. They put device charging and Wi-Fi access before bottled water or food or restrooms
[03:16:51.920 --> 03:16:58.880]  or anything like that. So again, please stay off the roads and stay inside due to the inoperative
[03:16:58.880 --> 03:17:05.360]  traffic lights and the Waymo vehicles that are blocking the intersections and emergency vehicles.
[03:17:06.400 --> 03:17:11.920]  So a lot of videos on social media showing stalled Waymo's nearly causing collisions.
[03:17:12.720 --> 03:17:18.000]  They shut down some of the metro stops as well through the day. So once they get everybody
[03:17:18.000 --> 03:17:25.360]  involved in mass transportation and Waymo's, they get rid of individual cars that people own
[03:17:25.920 --> 03:17:30.240]  that run off of fuel. Once they do that, they've got us immobilized. That's the whole point for
[03:17:30.240 --> 03:17:38.240]  this. So they started stalling at intersections because they're unable to function if the traffic
[03:17:38.240 --> 03:17:46.400]  lights are not functioning. So they just freak out and stay there. So no power, no Waymo.
[03:17:48.720 --> 03:17:52.960]  No way you're going to get anywhere. Centralized transportation, leaving everybody vulnerable.
[03:17:52.960 --> 03:17:58.000]  They shut down the mass transit as well. Well, when we look at how they're trying to shut down
[03:17:58.000 --> 03:18:03.440]  society, one of the key ways that they're doing this, of course, is through education. And we look
[03:18:03.440 --> 03:18:11.280]  at what is happening in the UK. They're now teaching British teachers to, quote, spot misogyny
[03:18:11.360 --> 03:18:18.160]  and boys and target them for reeducation. Always target the boys. You know, this was happening
[03:18:18.960 --> 03:18:23.440]  early on with Ritalin way back in the nineties and even eighties when we're looking at it's one of
[03:18:23.440 --> 03:18:28.560]  the reasons why we do. Hey, it's Ben Ferguson. And I want you to pause what you're doing for just
[03:18:28.560 --> 03:18:34.480]  one minute. And I want you to hear about love, generosity and compassion. We say those words
[03:18:34.480 --> 03:18:40.480]  all the time and they sound good. They feel good. But here's the truth. Those words don't mean
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[03:18:46.880 --> 03:18:53.280]  there's a child in the world who doesn't know if they'll eat, if they'll have a chance to learn,
[03:18:53.280 --> 03:19:00.320]  or if there's any hope at all. And while we're all busy, life keeps moving forward. But that
[03:19:00.320 --> 03:19:06.320]  child is waiting. This is where you come in with Compassion International. You have the chance to
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[03:19:12.720 --> 03:19:20.640]  food, education, and hope through local churches and people already in their community. Put your
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[03:20:07.040 --> 03:20:13.280]  to the rape gangs because it might look racist to crack down on foreigners. But now suddenly,
[03:20:13.280 --> 03:20:19.520]  the real problem is young boys who they say are radicalized and are becoming misogynists.
[03:20:20.240 --> 03:20:26.480]  The only solution, of course, is Orwellian, an agenda to re-educate British boys that might show
[03:20:27.120 --> 03:20:32.720]  supposed signs of misogyny. And of course, as we've seen from the British government itself,
[03:20:33.680 --> 03:20:39.600]  that could be somebody correcting a female. Don't you dare correct a female. You need to know who
[03:20:39.600 --> 03:20:44.560]  rules you, those that you're not allowed to criticize. So while they talk about how they
[03:20:44.560 --> 03:20:49.600]  have to stamp out the patriarchy, they're rapidly trying to establish a matriarchy.
[03:20:49.600 --> 03:20:56.880]  This reminds me of that whole boyhood thing that Keir Starmer was pushing, that show from Netflix
[03:20:56.880 --> 03:21:04.320]  that took a true story about, I believe it was a migrant rapist, and then made it about alt-right
[03:21:04.320 --> 03:21:14.240]  incels and misogyny and how toxic masculinity is a threat to everyone and took a pale,
[03:21:14.240 --> 03:21:18.960]  British kid as the face of it instead of the migrant rapist that it was, because they don't
[03:21:18.960 --> 03:21:23.040]  want to acknowledge these things. That's right. It was done by Netflix, and they called it
[03:21:23.040 --> 03:21:27.520]  Adolescence. Adolescence, that was it. Yeah, they were showing it in the schools and everything. And
[03:21:27.520 --> 03:21:34.160]  of course, the real criminal who had done this, if you look at this guy, he was a black young guy,
[03:21:34.160 --> 03:21:40.240]  and pictures I've seen of him, I mean, he absolutely looks insane. He looks a lot worse than
[03:21:41.200 --> 03:21:45.280]  Nick Reiner, who killed his parents. I mean, he's got this wild look in his eyes. It looks demonic.
[03:21:46.880 --> 03:21:50.080]  But we're not going to pay any attention to that. Instead, we're going to reimagine this,
[03:21:50.800 --> 03:21:56.000]  that the problem is not the migrants coming in. The real problem are these British white boys
[03:21:56.000 --> 03:22:01.440]  that are there. According to the BBC, teachers will be given training in order to spot and tackle
[03:22:01.440 --> 03:22:06.720]  misogyny in the classroom, while high-risk pupils could be sent on behavioral courses
[03:22:06.800 --> 03:22:12.640]  as part of the government's strategy to cut in half violence against women and girls.
[03:22:13.600 --> 03:22:16.800]  Yeah, that's going to fix it. That's the problem is it's the schools.
[03:22:16.800 --> 03:22:19.680]  Yeah. Why has it doubled? It's because of the people that have been brought in.
[03:22:20.480 --> 03:22:24.720]  They call violence against women and girls a national emergency, adding that the government's
[03:22:24.720 --> 03:22:29.920]  goal is to be so ambitious that we change culture. Well, that's the problem. They're changing culture
[03:22:30.560 --> 03:22:35.760]  with immigrants. They're changing culture to rape gangs. If teachers are seeing signs of sexually
[03:22:35.760 --> 03:22:40.480]  harmful behavior, or they're worried about the attitude of pupils with regard to misogyny,
[03:22:40.480 --> 03:22:46.000]  teachers currently don't have anywhere specialist or targeted to send these pupils. So now they're
[03:22:46.000 --> 03:22:51.920]  going to set it up. They're going to set up re-education camps. We have a tragic shortage
[03:22:51.920 --> 03:22:59.440]  of concentration camps for children. For white boys there. The focus is largely on white native
[03:22:59.440 --> 03:23:03.760]  born British men. Why? Well, because those are going to be the people that have to worry about
[03:23:04.400 --> 03:23:08.240]  pushing back against what they're trying to do to people. So, you know, you can put them in
[03:23:08.240 --> 03:23:13.520]  re-education camps until you can send them off to war and kill them. They've designated public enemy
[03:23:13.520 --> 03:23:19.680]  number one, the white native born British men, despite numerous mass murder events and sexual
[03:23:19.680 --> 03:23:24.960]  assaults perpetrated across Europe by third world migrants, or children of third world migrants.
[03:23:25.920 --> 03:23:32.080]  So BBC cites data from a charity called Reducing the Risk, claiming that nearly 40% of teenagers
[03:23:32.080 --> 03:23:37.600]  in relationships are victims of abuse, but the website doesn't give direct sources for this
[03:23:37.600 --> 03:23:44.080]  number. It is literally taken from a December Youth Endowment Fund report, and the report's
[03:23:44.080 --> 03:23:50.640]  conclusions are misleading, as the 40% stat is largely tied to perceived psychological abuse,
[03:23:51.200 --> 03:23:56.240]  including such terrible crimes as, quote, looking at a partner's phone without their permission,
[03:23:56.800 --> 03:24:01.760]  or saying something critical about their appearance. The report notes that only 4%
[03:24:01.760 --> 03:24:05.680]  of teens in Britain suffer from actual physical or sexual abuse in relationships,
[03:24:06.240 --> 03:24:12.320]  and that criteria for that is also very broad. Re-education projects launched along with the
[03:24:12.320 --> 03:24:18.960]  release of the Netflix series Adolescents, framing young white British boys as murderers
[03:24:18.960 --> 03:24:25.680]  of female classmates when it actually happened with a young black migrant. So now, like racism,
[03:24:25.680 --> 03:24:30.080]  children in the UK will be programmed to believe that they are guilty of another original sin,
[03:24:30.720 --> 03:24:36.640]  while rape gangs from foreign lands continue to abuse British girls. But it's not just that that
[03:24:36.640 --> 03:24:43.600]  you see in the UK and in the schools there. It's also something that happened in the US and New
[03:24:43.600 --> 03:24:49.280]  York, upstate New York, where most of the students are Native American, and I think this is probably
[03:24:49.280 --> 03:24:54.400]  the reason that they're pushing back on this. It is an unusual thing, but we've seen this kind of
[03:24:54.400 --> 03:25:00.080]  abuse. It's one of the reasons why that, along with Ritalin and the targeting of boys and other
[03:25:00.080 --> 03:25:06.000]  experiences that Karen had as a school teacher is why we decided not to put our kids in. This is a
[03:25:06.000 --> 03:25:14.160]  time-out box in an elementary school, and this is, when you look at that picture there, it's like a
[03:25:14.160 --> 03:25:20.400]  pine box with a locked door on it. This is pretty shocking. This is where we keep the really dangerous
[03:25:21.040 --> 03:25:25.920]  elementary school students. Yeah, once they turned into
[03:25:27.360 --> 03:25:33.200]  Mr. Hyde, they put him in there to keep him under control. The image from the elementary school was
[03:25:33.200 --> 03:25:37.840]  odd. A wooden box tucked into the corner of a classroom. Tall and white enough, it seemed for
[03:25:37.840 --> 03:25:43.360]  a small child or two. But the next image, or the inside, was even more disturbing. Bare walls and
[03:25:43.360 --> 03:25:48.880]  a padded floor. The photos were posted to social media this week by a former member of the school
[03:25:48.880 --> 03:25:54.320]  board who blew the whistle on this and accused officials of building a time-out box for students
[03:25:54.320 --> 03:26:00.000]  who have disabilities. Officials also revealed that the box depicted in the social media post
[03:26:00.000 --> 03:26:04.800]  was not the only one. Two others had been installed in other schools, according to the
[03:26:04.800 --> 03:26:10.400]  superintendent. They say they have now been removed. But I gotta say that, you know, going back,
[03:26:10.400 --> 03:26:15.280]  and this would have been the late 70s that Karen was teaching school, right, when she first started
[03:26:15.280 --> 03:26:20.560]  teaching school. They had open classrooms, so you could hear what was going on in the next
[03:26:20.560 --> 03:26:26.400]  classroom, which in and of itself was kind of a crazy thing. But the teacher that was adjacent to
[03:26:26.400 --> 03:26:32.480]  her was bullying this child. I think I've probably talked about this before, but it bears repeating
[03:26:32.480 --> 03:26:41.680]  in light of this disciplined time-out box. And she would, this kid was not disrupting the class or
[03:26:41.680 --> 03:26:46.800]  anything, but she was picking on this kid, and he was very, very sheepish. And she would say,
[03:26:46.800 --> 03:26:52.960]  stand in that trash can, because you're nothing but a piece of trash. And she kept berating him
[03:26:52.960 --> 03:26:57.280]  doing various things, but that was, you know, a key thing as well. So Karen went to the principal
[03:26:57.280 --> 03:27:01.520]  and said, this is what's going on. He goes, yeah, we know. She's really bad, but we can't do anything
[03:27:01.520 --> 03:27:07.760]  about it because she's got tenure. And Karen said, if you can't do something about that.
[03:27:07.840 --> 03:27:11.040]  She came home and told me, she said, I'm not going to be a part of this at all. And so
[03:27:11.840 --> 03:27:18.640]  that was a big factor in her deciding not to teach. That was the factor, really. And also for us to
[03:27:18.640 --> 03:27:23.760]  decide that we were going to teach our own children. We don't want to subject to that kind of abuse.
[03:27:23.760 --> 03:27:29.680]  And he had parent teacher day when the parents came in. His father was very sheepish as well.
[03:27:29.680 --> 03:27:36.720]  And he came in and he was going to talk to her about that. And she just cowed him down as well.
[03:27:36.720 --> 03:27:40.080]  Karen could hear all this because they just had a small partition that was there.
[03:27:40.640 --> 03:27:45.920]  It was absolutely amazing what this teacher was doing to people. And, you know, we look at Nick
[03:27:45.920 --> 03:27:51.360]  Reiner again. Now they're saying he's prescribed schizophrenia medication before the deaths of
[03:27:51.360 --> 03:27:57.120]  his parents. And who knows if that was SFRIs or maybe even the schizophrenia medication that he
[03:27:57.120 --> 03:28:02.800]  gave was given had some of those same types of things. It's very important that we understand
[03:28:02.800 --> 03:28:07.920]  who we can trust our kids with. And that was the big failing of Rob Reiner. As he said,
[03:28:07.920 --> 03:28:12.880]  we kept sending him to these places and he kept telling us how, you know, he didn't like it. It
[03:28:12.880 --> 03:28:18.800]  wasn't working for him. And he said, we trusted these people because they had their degrees on
[03:28:18.800 --> 03:28:23.040]  the wall in plaques. And we thought they knew what they were saying. And they told us he's lying to
[03:28:23.040 --> 03:28:29.040]  you and you need to keep doing this. And they kept doing it. And they gave him all of these
[03:28:29.040 --> 03:28:34.480]  different psychiatric treatments and all these drugs. And it only made things worse and worse.
[03:28:35.120 --> 03:28:41.280]  So we need to get ourselves out of the timeout box that we've all put ourselves in and really
[03:28:41.280 --> 03:28:44.560]  understand what is happening and make sure you don't put your kids in that as well.
[03:28:44.560 --> 03:28:47.600]  We're just about out of time. I want to respond to some of the comments here.
[03:28:48.400 --> 03:28:54.640]  AP Rumble Seat says, dangerous self-driving cars, foolishness, part of the Musk AI hype. I agree.
[03:28:54.720 --> 03:28:57.760]  How many EVs are blown up thus far? Quite a few. Yeah.
[03:28:57.760 --> 03:29:02.400]  Another thing is, even if you're not using it, obviously you're still on the road with these
[03:29:02.400 --> 03:29:08.720]  unsafe drivers. But this Waymo thing shows yet another problem with them is that they can block
[03:29:08.720 --> 03:29:16.160]  the roads even if you have no connection to them. It's like we saw with that guy that did the
[03:29:16.160 --> 03:29:19.440]  physical denial of service by ordering a bunch of Waymos to a certain street.
[03:29:20.000 --> 03:29:24.080]  That's right. That's right. And we saw something that was similar to that when we got,
[03:29:24.960 --> 03:29:30.480]  our family got stuck in a traffic jam just before Thanksgiving up in Buffalo, New York.
[03:29:31.520 --> 03:29:35.360]  It was a massive amount of snow. And they're used to that, but it happened so quickly. And at the
[03:29:35.360 --> 03:29:42.320]  time that it happened, they had, the people there were always relying on the city to do snow removal.
[03:29:42.880 --> 03:29:46.640]  So most of them didn't have SUVs or anything like that. They had really small cars.
[03:29:47.200 --> 03:29:51.520]  And it happened so quickly that even in an area that is known for getting a lot of snow,
[03:29:51.520 --> 03:29:56.400]  you had a lot of very small cars that couldn't navigate it and they got stuck in various places.
[03:29:56.400 --> 03:29:59.040]  And so there's one stuck here and one stuck here and you couldn't get around them. They
[03:29:59.040 --> 03:30:02.320]  were the ones blocking you. Even if you had a car that could get through the snow, we did.
[03:30:02.960 --> 03:30:08.160]  But we couldn't get around because, and it was a mess getting out of that place. So
[03:30:08.160 --> 03:30:13.760]  that's really what Waymo is doing to people as well. So yeah, it all started with Ridland,
[03:30:13.760 --> 03:30:20.000]  says, and Max, where they screwed up a bunch of mainly boys, giving them meth-like drug,
[03:30:20.000 --> 03:30:25.360]  setting them up for lifelong drug use. Absolutely right. You know, we look at the institutional
[03:30:25.360 --> 03:30:31.440]  pushing of drugs. Is it any surprise that our kids are looking at illegal drugs as well?
[03:30:32.240 --> 03:30:36.880]  Thank you for joining us and thank you, Marty, so much for your help and for the matching funds.
[03:30:36.880 --> 03:30:43.280]  Have a good day, everybody. And today, if you put in that this is a check to be matched,
[03:30:43.280 --> 03:30:47.760]  you can send in a snail mail check for Marty to do matching funds on.
[03:30:47.760 --> 03:30:50.800]  Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Marty, again. Thank you.
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