The David Knight Show - 24Jan23 MegaCities, SmartCities, "Spatial Equity"; Now Food Outsourced to China b/c Energy

Episode Date: January 24, 2023

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODESMegaCities — where are they and how do they fit into the plan for global domination? 2:57 A giant prison in the desert — a Davos dream come true 9:33 Private cars, they say, must be done away with because they're only used 4% of the time. Debunking that argument using mainframes vs personal computers 20:06 The 15-minute city plan — where did it start, what's the purpose and why is close proximity to a PHARMACY a design priority? 30:20 The "15 minute" city, varies from 5-20 in different parts of the world — but they're all following the same plan 37:12 A look at what Paris has done to take the lead and why the "Yellow Vests" pushed back 43:10 They admit — the pandemic lockdowns paved the way and set the precedent 48:29 Canterbury’s new zone system. 54:43 Now FOOD is Being Outsourced to China Because of ENERGY. The attacks go beyond WEF & Netherlands farm destruction — food processing is being shut down due to energy costs and relocated to China where millions of animals are warehoused — grown and slaughtered. 1:06:31 Has Earth's Core Stopped Spinning? Will It Reverse? What they think they're seeing, why science is never "settled" — and did YOU cause it with "climate change"? 1:35:19 Reason pushes back on the idea of an Egg Cartel — a Dirty (half) Dozen. Here's what Reason is missing, just like they missed what was happening with social media censorship 1:46:33 Drought & flood are nothing new to California, even though they pretend it is every year. They funded mitigation measures a decade ago — but have done NOTHING 2:01:14 21 State AG's are taking legal action against ESG for fraudulent violations of fiduciary responsibilities. 2:06:17 Aretha Franklin's "Natural Woman" attacked by Trans Cultural Mindset Alliance as they try to get it banned as transphobic 2:12:23 LaLa Harris goes to FL to push marxist CRT and to give her version of the Declaration of Independence that omits "the right to life" 2:19:19 Tony Dungy: God Worked in Damar Hamlin Collapse. Tony rightly says life was honored by everyone's concern. But he shies away from the truth when attacked by the transgender mob saying he wants to be loving. Is telling the truth NOT an act of love? 2:29:23 Wyoming moves to ban all vaccine and mask mandates for both government and business. 2:49:06Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here:SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation through Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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No, we bet. More power to you. Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Tuesday, the 24th of January, year of our Lord, 2023, day 1048 of the emergency. Today we're going to take a look at how the climate MacGuffin is metastasizing. We'll take a deeper look at the smart cities at C40, the cities that are complying with this, that are part of this within the United States. There are quite a few cities worldwide. What is the plan for the X amount of minutes? What are the implications for that in all aspects of our lives? Is it going to be five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes? Well, it's going to be a prison, however big it is. That's what they're negotiating right now.

We'll be right back. Stay with us. mega cities smart cities yeah they got a lot of different names for it don't they of course the plan is coming out of the United Nations. It's being pushed and really funded by organizations in and around Davos, the World Economic Forfeiture Group, because that is fundamentally what this is about. By 2050, 70% of the world's populations will live in cities, up from 54% in 2020. So 54% of the world's population lives in cities. It's going to become 70%. This has a lot of implications for us, not only in terms of all aspects of liberty, as Jefferson said, cities are a threat to the health, the wealth, and the liberty of mankind. And that is absolutely true. We see it over and over again.

When we were, actually, I wasn't on the program. I was listening to Travis when he was with Knights of the Storm. And a very good program. I would recommend that you check it out. Jason Barker and Angry Tiger and Rhonda Tate and many people that are rotating through there. They're creating a larger community. But as I was talking about getting away from Austin, that was one of our key concerns was getting away from Austin. And the threat of big cities to everything, even being in the periphery of a big city and how it influences elections even. And this is something we see in every state,

pretty much every state. You can see that, um, and you see it when you map out the, um, red and blue stuff and you see the areas outside of the cities and every state it's all red. And then in the cities it goes all blue and they wind up winning the elections. It's been that way for a very long time. Even saw this at the County level for the first time. And that was really when it kind of dawned on me what was happening because we moved into a very rural area. It's all farms

and things like that it was adjacent to a university town the liberals the socialists the communists of the universities university of north carolina chapel hill moved into that county up into the northern corner of it and they decided that they wanted to start making all kinds of rules about what people could do with their property, whether they could sell it or not, they got shut down. And so then what they did was they changed the way the County commissioners were elected. They had been elected based on geographical zones so that you had representation, those geographical zones.

And what they did was they changed it to election at large and they put up a slate of electors. I forget how many of them it was, let's say eight, all out of that little community that had encroached into this rural county. And they took over the city council. That would not have happened if they hadn't made that fundamental rule change. They had, um, you know, prior to that, you know, the, the people in the vast areas would have stayed the change. They had, you know, prior to that, you know, the people in the vast areas would have stayed the same. You know, the farmers would have had representation. They started taking away the farms and the freedoms of these farmers whose farms had been in their family for generations.

And that's how they did it. And that's how they take over state government as well. Because of the cities, just take a look at Virginia is a good example of that. The suburbs of Washington, as well as Virginia beach, where it's a large population, the military that is not from that area. And just with a couple of rural areas, you can add into that the capital, of course, Richmond. With that, they can outvote all the rest of the people in the state. If we don't have some sort of district representation, electoral college, if you will, but that's simply

more breaking this up into regions. If we don't have that, we're going to be swamped by these megacities. We already are, and we know how this is going to happen, but it's going to be even worse. Everybody's going to be concentrated into these cities. They will be completely controlled, and they will toe the line. And so the megacities, these are defined, actually, as a metropolis that has more than 10 million people. I said right now there are 33 of those cities worldwide.

There are 33 cities with more than 10 million people. Tokyo is the biggest one, 37 million people. Delhi, 32 million. Shanghai, 28.7 million. And of course, it's very easy for them to control all those people with a lockdown, wasn't it? They had no freedom. None whatsoever. You put people in cities and you lose your freedom.

You lose your money. You lose your health as well. And so Mexico City, they mentioned as well, it's down at 22 million. Of course, LA and New York City are also mega cities. They have populations over 10 million now. They expect that Chicago will soon join them. And so that's instructive for Americans. Think of the three places in America, the worst places to live. L.A., New York, Chicago. A threat to everything that you have.

By 2050, 14 more cities are set to join their ranks. And so London, by the way, is not over 10 million yet. London, they project to go over 10 million by 2050. Chicago is 8.9 million. They project it to go to 10.8 million. And it is this concentration that allows them to have control. And if we go back and look last week, one of the interesting things, a couple of interesting things happened at Davos. And of course, it was the pushing of what was going to happen in the cities.

They brought in a Saudi Arabian diplomat to talk about Neom, this nightmare city that Mohammed bin Salman is creating there. And this is what the Saudi Arabian diplomat had to say. Virtually no traffic. You can go to different places very efficiently without using cars. There are no cars. Not one single car? It's going to be different types of transportation that are, like I said, environmentally friendly. It's based on renewable energy.

Oh, yeah. It's all environmentally friendly, but it's hostile to humans, isn't it? Humans must be sacrificed. We're a virus on this planet Earth. We must be sacrificed to planet Earth. Sacrifice everything. Your property, your liberty, everything. And that, by the way, was a clip from um luke radowski we are change and um luke always does a great job uh it can be

recalled that saudi arabia unveiled its plans for a new futuristic city says gateway pundit that will house nine million people they're not quite a megacity. Oh, they can pack some more people in there. With a massive 1,500-foot-high, 109-mile-long mirrored wall in the middle of the desert. Well, if that doesn't scream prison, it is one giant prison out in the middle of the desert.

And it is like every dystopian science fiction film you ever seen uh where the people are confined into a giant city uh and uh you know lots of rules lots of controls at this year's cheltenham glory rests in the lap of the gods. Oh, curses. Alas, our hero hasn't placed. But there are still divine offerings up for grabs, with all NoviBet customers getting a €10 free bet for every day of Cheltenham. And on top of that, we're paying up to seven places each way on selected races throughout the festival. I declare this a most generous offering.

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Exactly what they want. To put that in perspective, it'll be taller than the Empire State building and the eiffel tower once it is completed a giant prison it will have vertical farms oh great okay facial recognition you need that don't you you need facial recognition that's what we're all missing right now we all need to have ids in order to complete our lives that That's what Bill Gates was saying back when he was pushing ID 2020. Now he's got IA 2030. He also had that at the same time, right? By 2030, everyone, everywhere, every age vaccinated.

The immunization agenda, IA 2030. But the 2020 ID, he pretty much got there with all this COVID stuff. And they're going to keep that in place, as they were saying, Tony Blair was saying. They're going to keep those IDs in place. So they're going to have vertical farms, facial recognition, zero emission transportation, and cloud seeding, because they don't like to use the term geoengineering and that would, um, validate a lot of what people have been saying about, uh, our suspicions and, uh, actually data that we have seen.

We've seen the geoengineering. We've got pictures of, uh, of the planes that have the nozzles and we've had testimony from pilots who have done it. And you can see when you have the cross hatching, persistent contrails, if you track it and there was a program, um, and an app called a Skyter alert. I don't know if they're still there or not. And people could take pictures of the contrails being cross hatched over the area where they were.

And they were in send that in and they were able to correlate that to increases in temperature so we know what they're doing but they just oh cloud seeding cloud seeding during a panel discussion titled the evolution evolution of urban life he said the line will revolutionize the way people look at cities and urban planning it is an attempt to create a city environmentally friendly and sustainable quality of of life, virtually no traffic. All of the dreams of these dystopian tyrants, my entire life, coming to fruition. And I'm sick of it. My entire life, I've been hearing this nonsense about, you know, cars are evil, cities are good.

This was something that, this dichotomy is always presented by these people. And interestingly enough, the CEO of Lyft wrote a paper saying that his training is as an urban planner, the CEO of Lyft. And the intention is to get rid of cars. You can hear the people screaming in the first earth day, 1970, I've played that for you. No cars, get rid of cars. You can hear the people screaming in the first Earth Day, 1970. I've played that for you. No cars, get rid of cars, put everybody in cities, that type of thing. And he was saying, you know, all the problems that we have are due to the car. We have urban sprawl, right?

What's so evil about that? What is so evil about the suburbs? What is so evil about having a home and a little bit more room? They hate that. They hate everything that happened in the middle of the 20th century that gave us freedom. They hate the suburbs. They hate, um, uh, you know, a little bit more living space. Got to stop that.

It's urban sprawl because everything belongs in the city. So if you've got something that is outside of the cities, they got to bring that back into the cities. And we can't have people commuting. We're going to put them in areas where they can walk to everything within 15 minutes. That's why Google called their test project for a smart city in Toronto. They called it Sidewalk Labs.

They said they're telling you that you're going to be walking everywhere. And if you don't toe the line on everything, they'll kick you out of your little micro apartment and you'll be living on the sidewalks. So there'll be virtually no traffic, he said. You could go to different places efficiently without using cars. There are no cars. There are going to be different types of transportation, environmentally friendly,

and based on renewable energy. This is based on getting rid of mobility and replacing it with containment. Prominent leaders argue that communal sharing, what is another name for communal sharing? Anyone? Anyone? Communism. Yes.

You'll own nothing. You will share everything. Communism. These people have been pushing for these utopian communist communities since the middle of the 1800s. You had some of these that were created the one that was the most persistent was the united um was it with the oneida uh community in new york at this year's cheltenham glory rests in the lap of the gods curses alas our hero hasn't placed.

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Gamblingcare.ie. But the, you know, they continued because they had something they could manufacture, but all of them died. And the communism

that was inherited in that was replaced in that community as well. But now they're coming back to that. All of the smart city stuff and

everything is just these failed utopian communities of the 1850s with computers. With computers. The wasteful private vehicle, they said. We need to have a clean energy revolution. We need it now. We can't wait, says the world economic forfeiture at Davos. Three circular economy approaches to reduce demand for critical metals. They talk about circular economy.

They want to encircle you. That's what they mean. Entrap you. The unelected globalist group, says Gateway Pundit, recommends the public go from owning to using to by implementing vehicle sharing initiatives to decrease mass reliance on critical metals. Because, of course, this system that they are enforcing on us, just there's only going to be one means of transportation by car, and that is electric vehicles with batteries charged off of the infrastructure and controlled by just a few corporations. You will not own them.

You will rent them by the hour, as Eric Peters and I have been saying for years. That was the plan. They're very, this is obviously what they want to do. It was planned that this whole thing of battery operated electric vehicles was designed because they know that the system can't support that many of them. We don't have, as they say, the critical metals. We don't have the critical infrastructure. We don't have all the charging stations distributed everywhere.

If you have electric vehicles, you are by definition going to limit people's range. And you're going to limit the number of them because of the reliance on these critical metals. And they will be owned by just a few people who are friends of government. That's crony capitalism. It was designed to fail. For if you think that the purpose of this was for everybody to be driving a zero emission car. That was never the purpose. The purpose was to take the car from you.

They've been saying that since 1970 and earlier. The purpose is to get rid of the private car. It's the same thing when you talk about schools. Purpose of schools. Schools are not failing conservatives. They're not failing because Johnny can't read or do math or write or think. They were designed to do that. They were designed to be instruments of control.

These electric battery vehicles are not a failure of planning. They were designed to fail so they would have control. They said, and defining this, the World Economic Forum has complained, they say the average car or van in England is driven just 4% of the time. While most already have a personal phone, 39% of workers globally have employer-provided laptops and mobile phones. This is not at all resource-efficient, they said. We can have more sharing

to reduce ownership of idle equipment and thus material usage. Well, apply that same thing to your phone and your computer. No, they won't do that because they're instruments of control. And if you understand, you know, a phone is a computer as well at this point. If you go back and look at computers, on average, they estimate that computers are idle about 70% of the time. I was surprised. I thought it would have been much, much higher. Why? Because even when you are sitting there intensively working on your computer, typing as fast as you can, or moving your mouse as fast as you can, most of the The only exception is if you're doing something that is computationally intensive,

you're rendering a video or you're playing a video game or something like that. That's when it uses a lot of CPU. And guess what? If you're mining crypto or something like that, which is equivalent to playing a video game or rendering a video or something, if you're using it intensively, it uses a lot lot of power isn't that the basis for them wanting to ban crypto how much power it uses when you're actually using the entire computer and it's just not sitting there idling but isn't that a good thing i remember when i was in engineering school

i mean i go way back um i just barely missed, fortunately, the slide rule. One of the classes we were in, they had a giant slide rule on the wall so the teacher could demonstrate how to use it. And it was about five feet long. It was amazing. And we joked with them, said, what is that? Calculators that come in, just engineering calculators that just come in. And I didn't need those things didn't need to go to tables and books and get a couple of numbers and interpolate between those two numbers to get the exact i mean you know that was a lot of

labor saved there but what we had well we still had to use a mainframe computer to do some programming. And we had a mainframe computer, an IBM, that was used by two universities. It was University of South Florida, a very large university. It had a student body at the time of over 20,000 people. And there was another smaller university, and they both used it for everything. And I mean everything. It wasn't a science and engineering classes. It was used for all of their financial accounting and all the rest of this stuff, everything, all administrative work from two colleges, all research work, all academic work, all that, uh, one computer.

You talk about centralization. And as I stood there in line waiting to use the key punch machines, again, you know, key punch machines. You know, you didn't get to use a terminal unless you were an upperclassman who was a computer science major. I had a lot of computer classes in electrical engineering, but um who was a computer science major i had a lot of computer classes in electrical engineering but i wasn't a computer science major so i didn't get a chance to use the terminal so i had to go through and use punch cards and karen and i would go in and wait in the wee hours of the morning to use this thing because that was when the availability was the best the lines were the shortest They had 16 key punch machines.

They always had an IBM tech who was there because constantly, you know, you'd recognize him. He had a white shirt and a black tie. And always had to wear that. And there was always, out of the 16 machines, at least one, usually two, were down. They were mechanical. It was a mechanical nightmare.

And the whole thing of having stacks of punch cards to use was a nightmare for the users. But as I'm standing there in line, waiting to use these limited resources, I'm thinking about how valuable this mainframe computer is to them. It cost millions of dollars. And it was like deep thought from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Everybody lined up to make your sacrificial offering of punched cards and hope that it was acceptable to the IBM card reader, because if it choked on one of these things, it's back to the drawing board. You got to figure out where that thing was in the order.

Anyway, so we're all sitting there, and everything is around this concentrated resource. And I thought, what an inefficient way to live and to work. Everybody focused on this machine and waiting on this machine, waiting on it, servicing it, all the rest of the stuff. And they would give you an accounting thing when you run your job, your job used X amount of time and X amount of memory and CPU resources and blah, blah, blah. And they'd put out a cost function to it. And I thought, this is insane way to structure this. Well, while I was still in school, personal computers came around, took off like wildfire. And of course, most of the time they're sitting there doing nothing. I thought, this is perfect.

It's decentralization. The machine is waiting for me instead of me waiting for the machine. But that's not the model that the UN and Davos and all of our global leaders want. They want all things concentrated for control. We will wait for availability. And that's what will happen with the cars as well. I mean, just look at any public transportation. I'm waiting for the bus. I'm waiting for the plane.

I'm doing this. But it I'm waiting for the plane. I'm doing this. But it allows them all that control, all this crowd control. You get in a line. You get scanned. You get approved. You have to be approved in order to use this thing. And it'll be that way with the cars as well.

So that is the nightmare. Car sharing platforms such as GetAround blue SG that have in Europe have already seized the opportunity to offer vehicles where you can pay per hour used. This is the, again, what Eric Peters and I've been saying for years, you'll rent it by the hour, your transportation,

but it also provides a tremendous opportunity for these so-called stakeholders that pony up the money for this stuff and do the bidding of the davos leaders and they will be on the ground floor and they will have the concession they'll be the concession holders not just the stakeholders they will control the transportation and so the big multinational companies are all jockeying in position. Who can do ESG better? We want to please our masters because they're looking at the future. Their vision of the future is a totalitarian world where resources are doled out to their friends. We can see it in China. Banning private ownership in its entirety is essential,

according to the World Economic Forfeiture Group, WEF. No private property of any kind. No liberty, no mobility, no speech, no guns. That is their vision for the future, which brings us to the 15-minute city and what they are and how to build them says Forbes. Now we want to know how to stop them and the way you stop them.

How do you stop a building? How do you, you undermine the foundation of it? That's how you bring it down. We have to undermine the foundation of these 15 minute cities. And that is the climate MacGuffin. That is a thing that's being sold. Everybody. Uh, David Weatherby.

I bought a slide rule on eBay years ago. Never could figure out how to use this thing. I asked a coworker who used to be an engineer and he couldn't help me either. Cause such things. I mean, I was, I was in college, what, 50 years ago or something. I mean, it was even before that. Um, and nobody ago or something. I mean, it was even before that. And nobody misses them either.

Great talent. I saw a progressive insurance commercial where they're pushing an app to get on your phone to monitor your driving, to save money for your insurance. And at the end, she says to help you drive less as well. That's the whole purpose. That's the whole purpose. Make insurance and make everything about the car the fuel the insurance the cost of the car to make it so unaffordable that you can't get it so they don't have to just come out and confiscate it like well i don't know you know it's just the way it is i don't know why eggs are so expensive i don't know why cars are so

expensive i don't know why gas is so it's all designed that way. As a matter of fact, I will get to it in a minute. Reason magazine yesterday, if I talked about, after I talked about the egg situation, reason magazine came out and said, it's, it's not a cartel. It's the flu. Reason is wrong. Reason is wrong. Again, reason was wrong about speech and they were wrong for years about speech.

It took them five years to understand how wrong they were. And they were wrong. They only understood once you had the Twitter files released showing that yes, there is collusion. There is collusion that Twitter reason rather is so afraid. I think I'm just guessing here. This is my opinion, but I think that reason is so afraid, I think, I'm just guessing here. This is my opinion. But I think that Reason is so afraid of being labeled conspiracy theorist

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They've said that for the longest. We need to understand the global plan and we need to oppose it locally. They've said that for the longest. We need to understand the global plan and we need to oppose it locally. We have to stop it at the local level. So this is what their plan looks like at the local level, the 15-minute city. And Forbes likes it, of course. It's big business. That's why you're not going to get any help from Reason, Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the conservative libertarian think tanks are going to be absolutely no help on this.

None whatsoever. If you're an urbanite, how long does it take you to get to a supermarket? What about a public park, a pharmacist? Because that's your number two thing, right? Pharmacy. And you notice every, as we're talking about this, every time they talk about the essential things within a 15-minute radius, pharmacy is the first or second thing they mention.

You know, school, pharmacy, public park, pharmacy. They want to push those drugs to you, don't they? The pharmakia. So, a public park, a pharmacy, a primary school. For proponents of the 15-minute city planning concept, the answer to all these questions should be less than 15 minutes. It's always sold as convenience, but it is a con for control. The concept is very simple.

What defines short is varying from place to place. In Copenhagen, for example, they have a plan where it is five minutes to everything. And that goes back to 2016. Interestingly enough, as we look at this conspiracy, it all started coming out about 2015, 2016. You had the UN for the longest time. It talked about UN Agenda 21. We're going to pack everybody in the cities and the rest of the country is going to be off limits.

You'll not live there. But what about the farmers? There will not be any farms. And I'll tell you how they're going to handle that as well. It's vertical farming. Yeah. China's already doing that. They a a pig skyscraper millions of pigs confined to this thing they're going to grow them there slaughter them there and um you know so there will be no farms nobody gets

out it's going to be like uh the the national things. And, you know, let me just say as an aside, it makes me sick to see this encroachment constantly from the government, constantly stealing everything from us. You know, we moved to this area. I've been coming here with my family to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park since I was a child, as long as I can remember. Favorite place to come. That's why I wanted to be here.

It was such a relief to get out of Florida. So come to a more temperate climate, but I love the park. I love the bears. We got video of us feeding the bears. Uh, you know, they would come up to the cars and you'd crack the window and then slobber all over it. And you get that. That doesn't happen anymore.

Uh, we've been here for over a year. Haven't seen a single bear because they moved all the bears. They love to talk about how these parks, they only allow access to about 1% of the park by the public. I've seen them brag about this out West. I don't know if it's different here. Maybe the Great Smoky Mountain National Park is the most visited of all the national parks. Because it's, you know, close to high population centers and things like that. But I think it also has to do with the fact that it has been free.

Free. There are state highways and roads that run through the park. And the state of Tennessee said you're not going to close it and charge admission. So the Great Smoky National Park was the only park where there was no admission charge. That's going to stop as of March the 1st. And they have struck an agreement with the Republicans who caved on this thing, and they said,

well, we won't charge you unless you stop. We're not going to charge admission to the park, but if you pull over and look at anything, we're going to give you a ticket if you haven't paid us. Always find a way. Always stealing everything from us. This is a national park. We look at when they do a shutdown. Let's say that they don't get this continuing resolution and they do a temporary shutdown. Eventually they, eventually they'll, they'll do it, but you know, they're going to negotiate and negotiations run on longer and they shut down. You've seen this in the past. What's the first thing they close the parks. It's the only thing the government has and anybody wants. So they shut down the parks. And, um, so, you know they they always take control of the things that you want and

then shut them down just disgusted to see this frankly and uh disgusted to see people caving on it i don't know what happened in the and the same thing i know that and i'm gonna get uh senator nicely back on the guy that is pushing the bills for metal depositories as well as the state bank here in the state of Tennessee is a good guy. And he's head of transportation, not head number two on the Transportation Committee. And they're trying to put in toll roads. The governor here, Bill Lee, is trying to push toll roads in.

Frank Nicely's taking point to stop it. Tennessee was one of only 14 states that didn't have tolls in it. I hate tolls. I refuse to use tolls, but I kept getting charged for using tolls in Texas, even though I wasn't on the tolls. And most people just pay it and not fight it. It's a big fight to try to stop a $1 fine.

But if you don't get right on it, all of a sudden it's seven and 10, you know, just balloons. It's a big fight to try to stop a $1 fine. But if you don't get right on it, all of a sudden it's 7 and 10, you know, just balloons. It's amazing. As Frank nicely said, most of these things are run by company out of Spain. And they are. And you're never going to see the end of the tolls.

They continue. They never get the road paid off for some reason. And the fees keep going up and up. And you get a situation like we had in Austin where the only roads that they wanted to build were toll roads. Not interested in doing anything else. As a matter of fact, they would come in and deprecate the existing roads, the feeder roads. They put traffic lights on because in Texas they do this weird thing where they have one way roads that run parallel to an interstate or a big highway or something like that. And so they multiply the stoplights on those roads.

To force you onto the toll roads. I'm sick and tired of this death by a thousand cuts. It's what they do to firearms, isn't it? Regulate and tax it to death. That's what they're doing to our liberty. Anyway, getting back to this. So what defines short? Well, it varies from place to place. In Copenhagen, they came up with a five-minute city. In Melbourne, Australia, the goal was 10 minutes. Other cities, such as Glasgow, Portland, and Hamilton, New Zealand, aim for 20 minutes. So the specific time varies, and so they'll talk about it as the X-minute city. That might be 5, 10, 15, 20 minutes.

But the whole point is that they're going to create a little village, just exactly like the prisoner's village, where you will not get out of it because you won't need to. We'll have everything there. Everything that we've determined that you need will be there. You'll have your pharmacy right there to go get your drugs. What else do you need? We'll have a grocery store there as well. A grocery store. You're not going to be able to shop around. We're not going to have any competition. You'll have a provider of this and a provider. You might have a hair salon or something, but you're not going to have competing hair salons.

You're not going to have competing barbershops or whatever. No, this is, again, if you look at, they talk about how important it was and how wonderful it was that the pandemic got people accustomed to this. We don't want you moving around a lot. And the other side of this was the pandemic that allowed them to shut down all of these service businesses, reduced a lot of them. So not to worry about that. And if you want a concession, you know, to do a service business or something like that, well, that's going to be very valuable because you're going to be the only person who provides that service within this 15 minute village. So I think you need to get permission from the people who control everything.

And you need to be, um, you need to toe the line with them. They need to be happy with you, and you need to do everything that they want. So one of the first places that this was implemented, to a large degree, was in Paris. A person named N. Hildalgo became mayor of Paris nearly a decade ago, 2014. And in this article from Forbes, where they are just salivating over these 15-minute cities, they talk about Paris and how it is the shining example for everybody.

The mayor said, in Paris, we all feel we have no time. Let me tell you, everybody feels that way. I'm working from home. I don't hardly ever leave and leave the home, and I feel like I've got no time. I'm working around the clock. I'm putting in 16-plus hour days to do this stuff. Still not finished with everything. Everybody feels that way.

But anyway, we're always rushing from place to place, always trying to gain time. Because, you know, why would you want to travel in Paris, right? Well, there are unique things in Paris, right? Maybe you want to go to a museum. Maybe you want to go to Notre Dame or Notre Dame. I know when I think efficiency and time saving, I think government bureaucracy. I just think of all the times I've gone to the DMV and just been in out, in out, real fast. Or you're sitting there, staying there, waiting for the bus.

I sat in the Austin DMV for two and a half hours and got nothing done one day. The air conditioning was out. It was 100 degrees in that building. Yeah, we want to extend the DMV everywhere, don't we? Yeah, it is amazing. It is amazing. But, you know, you go to Paris, there's a lot of unique things, different places. You got the Louvre, you got the art market, Montmartre, where you can go look at different things.

So there's unique places there. I don't know what the plan is. Maybe you won't be able to get to these unique places. Maybe they'll let you go if you use public transportation. If you're a good boy or girl, you'll get a ticket to use that public transportation once every X amount of time, right? Because, you know, that uses energy too. I mean, you know, the buses and the subways are, well, maybe they don't really care because that's something that they control. Anyway, you know, there's another reason that you might want to go somewhere else, right?

Maybe you've got a job that is somewhere else other than where you live, and maybe you don't want to have to try to move every time you get a job. You commute a little bit. That used to be possible. They're making that impossible by design. That's their intention. And if you stop and think about this, you know, we're going to concentrate everybody in a 15-minute radius here. And so, you know, it'll be, you know, where you

can go to your pharmacy and you can go to school and you can go to your job. But what happens if your job changes, if you want to change your job? How are you going to move? Because they're going to control the housing. You're not going to own anything. It's communism. It's global communism. So you apply to your masters when you get the job and maybe they'll let you transfer, you know, and everybody has to transfer because you can't, kid can't get to that school without crossing the lines of a little prison

village that they have set up. I mean, everything's got to be homogenized and dumbed down. Let's say that you want to go to, you know, somebody has some kind of a shop that is unique. Well, I'm sorry, that's not within your 15-minute area. And you won't have any shops like that. Because if somebody comes up with a service or a product that is kind of unique,

people aren't going to be allowed to travel there. The only audience that you're going to have is a fit. So it's going to dumb everything down to this gray conformity, which is what we've always seen in communist totalitarian societies. Think East Germany. Think North Korea. You're not going to have any specialty shops. There won't be any specialties.

You'll have common shops because we've got communism. So they said, this is a natural progression for this mayor, Hildalgo, the mayor of Paris. Since her election in 2014, prioritizing active transit has been her key focus. She has created hundreds of kilometers of bicycle lanes. Throughout the city, she has closed off scenic stretches of the Seine riverbanks to cars. So forget about sightseeing, forget about going to various places, Notre Dame, anything. By one estimate, she's removed 73,000 car trips from the area. Well, you know, those used to be nice things. They used to be things that people liked to do. I still go driving just for pleasure. Roads around here are nice and twisty

and I like to drive them with a top down. You know, we used to be a Sunday driver. We used to joke about that. That was something from my parents' generation. People would take the car out and go for a drive on Sunday. That's all they would do. And so my generation, we had somebody, and we had a lot of people in Florida and Tampa and St. Petersburg, especially St. Petersburg, a lot of retirement community. And the older people were not in a hurry.

They didn't have anywhere to go. They weren't rushing to get to school or to a job or whatever. They were taking their time. And we referred to them as Sunday drivers. But there won't be any Sunday driving there. As a matter of fact, it was back in 2017, Karen and I went back to Tampa where I grew up. I had some family business I had to take care of in person.

And so we went and we made a little bit of a trip of it. But we were driving around Tampa. I could not believe how many bicycle lanes that they had done and we were there for the better part of a week and we saw one person on a bicycle one middle-aged man riding a bicycle the entire time we didn't see anybody else using one of these bicycle lanes i said look at that. All of this for that one guy. Look at how they have constricted the roads.

They call it a road diet. They put speed bumps on. They call it a road calming measure. But they constrict the road. They call it a road diet. They create congestion artificially. They don't expand the roads. They don't build any new roads. Instead, they make the roads that exist smaller or they close them off altogether

to traffic. Then we went to Daytona Beach. That was another place that we used to go to frequently. It wasn't too far from Tampa. We would drive over there for short trips. And I just couldn't believe what it looked like. It was a ghost town. And the government there had determined that you would not be allowed to drive up and down the beach. Now, Daytona Beach was unique in the sense that it had very compacted sand. The Daytona 500 grew out of the fact that

when in the early days of cars, they actually did car races on the beach. And, um, you know, they would have one leg that would be going up and down the beach. I'd have a return leg that would be out on, uh, um, us, um, us one, I think it was, or a one or something like that. One a, I don't know. Anyway. Uh, so there'd be a road there, uh, on the return one of them, you know, and the other, so two parallel stretches.

And then there would be this connection between the two, and that was soft sand. And so if you go back and, you know, look at the early Daytona races, you'd have people racing up and down those two long, right? But then when they'd have to make the connection between the hard surface and the hard sand, they went through the soft stuff, and that's where they lost it, when they're going through that soft sand.

But, you know, now to preserve the beach, no cars allowed. And I said, you know, I wonder how the beach survived all those high-speed car races that they had. And they closed it down. And through the years, you know, they would have, when I was there, there'd be a speed limit of like 15 miles per hour because people were walking all over the place. The place was packed. People would be parked. People would be driving. People would be walking up and down Daytona Beach.

And they had a boardwalk there that was vibrant. And a lot of people would park on the beach and not realize just how far the tide came in. And you would always have cars that were abandoned and the salt water was washing over them. And then the owners would come out, and there'd be people that'd be parked around. They made money on an emergency basis pulling people's cars out of the salt water as it was encroaching. So that was another entertaining thing to do. Watch that happen. But, I mean, I would, even as a teenager, I would rent little motorcycles that had, you know, motorbikes that had governors on them.

And I would ride up and down. But when we went back in 2017, they would charge you to get onto the beach, and they prohibited you from driving on the beach where the boardwalk was. So you couldn't even pay them to do that. You could pay them to get on some other stretches of the road, and it wasn't cheap. It was like $10 or something. I said, no thanks. Not going to do it. It's just amazing to me how they're stealing everything from us. And we let them do it.

You need to get some people in charge of that government and say, no, we're going to let people drive up and down the road. Where's DeSantis, Mr. Freedom, and all of this stuff? Oh, it's the environment. We've got to save the sand. It was never harmed. You go back and look at pictures of people in the 60s and the 70s. It was packed. And it survived.

But what it's not surviving is this shutting everything down. The place was a depressing ghost town. And that's the way they want all of our lives everywhere to be. It was a dystopian glimpse of the future. One thing that I've seen is racetracks all across the U.S. are closing down. If you actually Google it, you continually see racetrack being sold, racetrack being sold, racetrack being sold. They're all going.

We're losing the car culture just like the gun culture constricted quite a bit and as we lose that car culture we lose our cars it's all just going to be knocked down and paved over to make more outlet malls yeah oh yeah well no to make 15 minute cities i wonder you know yeah you'll live in a mall you'll have a little tiny cubicle in a mall that you'll live in that's the vision of of Neom, a giant billion dollar mall. What's really funny is you remember Cary Town Center in North Carolina, right? Yeah. It's no longer a mall. It got bought out by Epic Games and it's now a huge game development place.

And a lot of people, I don't know exactly what's going on with it now, but a lot of people want to have her speculating. Are they just going to make those live work cubicles where you can actually live at your workspace? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. I didn't know that anyway that's amazing so going back to paris for the first time so the mayor people experienced the city without cars during the pandemic 19 you know covet 19 and they

understood we can live without cars and it's better oh? Why don't you tell that to the yellow vests? The people who the yellow vest required to have a car, you had to have an emergency vest in case your car broke down. That was a regulation in France. And so as they continued under this mayor to make it impossible for people to live and work using their cars. The people with cars were staging protests on a regular basis. What COVID-19 did was it shut down those Yellow Vest protests just like it shut down the protests of communist encroachment in Hong Kong.

It gave them an excuse to use full authoritarianism. This is why we cannot allow them to set the MacGuffin. They have us chasing the MacGuffin of zero emissions. They have us chasing the MacGuffin of zero COVID tests. Other cities, they say lockdowns saw workers stay home. Once busy roads became quieter, safer, cleaner. Just like Daytona Beach. Completely devoid of any human activity.

I tell you, that was one thing I did like about the pandemic. I really did like that. The traffic was like going back 20 or 30 years. You know, driving around Austin, you could actually drive around Austin and my commute into, uh, into the, uh, into work when I would drive early in the morning. I mean, there was absolutely nobody there. The commute that would normally take me an hour. I could do in 20 minutes because it's pedal to the metal, even around the corners. It was basically my commute became a racetrack.

Um, anyway, so that part of it was nice. It was sad to see that go. As Lisa Chamberlain of the World Economic Forfeiture Group succinctly explained, this is reported breathlessly by Forbes magazine, the 15-minute city went from a nice-to-have to a rallying cry. The pandemic created an urgency around equitable urbanism

that sidelined arguments about bike lanes and other amenities that have roiled communities for years because we don't like this stuff. Nobody uses the bike lanes. Nobody likes having the roads made smaller and smaller as the cities get more and more populated. That's one thing that Elon Musk got right. He said, we're going to do boring. We're going to go vertical because the cities are going vertical. And he said that. And of course, everybody has known that.

You look at every sci-fi movie from the time they started making movies, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, all the way through. You always see these high rise concentrated cities, but what happens with the traffic? Well, they either have layer after layer of elevated roads, or they have flying cars that are operating in different vertical strata. Global organizations such as C40's Cities Climate Leadership Group, that's the full title, just call it C40. In July 2020, they published a framework for cities to build back better, and the 15-minute city concept was at the heart of it. They're the people who are really selling this.

So C40 has continued to champion the concept ever since, from Shanghai to Seattle. Just last week, they launched the Green and Thriving Networks program to develop integrated climate actions at the neighborhood scale. Again, they scheme globally and they implement locally. We have to understand what their schemes or global schemes are and fight them at the local level. So they did a study of 543 cities, 500 in the U.S., and 43 in New Zealand.

And so what they looked at, they said, well, the amenities that we know that everybody needs to have are pharmacies, number one. Pharmacies. Got to get those drugs into you. Population control, population pacification. Got to get those pharmacies. That's their number one thing isn't it amazing pharmacies supermarkets pharmacies before food you need your drugs before you need food parks primary schools uh again there's not going to be any competition for the supermarkets or the

groceries or anything like that there won't be any competition for any of these things. They will all be concessions that will be granted by your government masters, just like in China. The X-minute statistics, again, they call it the X-minute because some of them, they range from 5 to 20 minutes, represent cities' access to all of the amenities under consideration. So if you live in a three-minute walk from a park, four minutes from a school, six minutes from a supermarket, and eight minutes from a pharmacy, pharmacy is always there. Pharmacy.

How does that? Do you know what's not there? Church. I don't care about that. Right? I'm not going to have any of those. We're going to shut those down, I guess. Right?

Many other things you could think of. So if you did all that, they'll put this through and they'll say, well, you've got an amenity time of three minutes, but you've got an X minute time of eight minutes. Always the pharmacies. Pharmacy's number one concern. Make sure that you have access to the pharmacy. Well, the 15-minute cities, as we've talked, the first time I talked about this was what was happening in Oxford and then Canterbury happened right after it, but actually it began in Belgium.

If we go back and we look at the city of Canterbury, they said, quote, what is planned is to divide the city of Canterbury into zones to make it difficult to travel between the zones, encouraging people to stay, shop, work, live and recreate within their zone of habitation. In doing so, they will be encouraged to walk, bicycle or use public transportation to get from one place to the other within their zone or their district. Yeah, districts. I mean, it sounds the whole thing is a prison system. The only way to get from one zone to another by automobile will be by accessing a ring road loop in the U.S.

to travel around the perimeter of the city to cross-town destinations. And, of course, they will measure how many times you go, as I've reported in the past. Those who break the rules will face fines, possibly the same as the fine that is already in place in Oxford. Oxford was the first one in the UK to do it. If you break the rules, if you trespass and go to another zone, too frequently or against the rules,

you don't use the outer ring road but you go directly to another zone 70 pounds um is the fine so you know talking about what 80 or something enforced by number plate recognition cameras and you won't be able to make simple journeys around the city either according to the draft of the canterbury District Local Plan, the implementation of an ANPR-based sectoring system and modal filters to limit cross-city trips, they will instead have to drive out of their neighborhood onto a new bypass, essentially a much larger outer ring road, before re-entering their chosen zone. So short journeys across the city, like to a supermarket, retail parks, or to a specialized surgery, will be banned to encourage residents to walk, cycle, or use public transportation.

You need some surgery? Better call an ambulance, because you aren't going to get there otherwise. The COVID-19 crisis, they said, has torn a hole in city budgets said canterbury decimating urban economies thus to build back better they recommend that all residents will live in 15-minute cities go to your job your school your doctor entertainment all within 15 minutes isn't that nice such a um it's just amazing to me. Amazing, I guess, two things are amazing. That they would have the audacity to say this stuff out loud. And the second thing is that nobody is outraged and pushing back against this. So if you look at what is happening with the C40 people,

if you go to their website, show the website to people, it's all about urban planning. That's top and center. And again, this is all brought to us by the people who think that cities are the greatest thing that man has ever invented. They actually said that. The Lyft CEO, in writing his paper, cities are the best invention of mankind. Automobile is the worst. I'm sorry, it's exactly the opposite.

Sustainable land use planning measures help cities avoid and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. And we will adapt this to the effects of climate change so that we can promote, listen to this, spatial equity. Spatial equity. Well, that's, you know, if you've seen Dr. Zhivago, you know that when the communists took over his house and he returns home after being away for a while. He had a large house. He was a doctor. And the family goes, shh, don't say anything. There's all these people there.

And he knows, you know, what's going on with the communist revolution. So, oh, so nice to see you, comrade. And also they get him up there and they say, don't say anything. And they relegated the family that owned the house to the, to a corner of the attic. And, uh, then the little dictator who's running that little 15 minute house, if you will, maybe it's a five minute house comes up and he's scrutinizing this guy. And, and Chivago is trying to be so, uh so positive about everything. Oh, this is wonderful.

Such an improvement. You've really made an improvement to my home, your home, your home. Your attitude has been noticed and will be reported. Well, you know, they don't need that little guy anymore. They've got AI cameras to report your attitude. So spatial equity, spatial equity from the people who are selling you diversity, equity, and inclusivity, right? Uh, does, do they give you any equity? Do they really care about diversity? Do they care about including? No, these are plans to exclude you. These are

plans, not about diversity, but about homogenizing everybody and into the society that they have. But that'll be the euphemism that they have, spatial equity, to make sure that everybody is forced into a small cell, 200 square feet or so. A mix of economic activities within a short walk, but what happens again if you want to change your job? Well, you apply to your communist masters because they gave you the job, they will probably give you the transfer to have the housing that goes along with it. And when you look at C40 and you see as they lay out all their plans, they reference sources.

They've got two sources for what they are talking about in this particular article about the 15-minute city on C40. Both of these sources are from the UN. UN Habitat, 2013. Streets as Public Spaces and Drivers of Urban Prosperity. And the UN Foundation, 2016. That is their sources for all this stuff. It's all coming from the UN.

And they say, well, we want sustainable, resilient, and equitable future. There's that word again, equitable. And they have a map, and you can look at it by region. If you go to the C40 org, and you can show that to them, they have under the cities, they have a map of North America, and that's the U.S. and Canada. And then they have a list of the cities. Guess what city is at the top of North America?

Because it's alphabetical order. Austin. Austin, the very first city, part of the C40 group. Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, L.A., Miami, New York City, the ones that you would expect. Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, all the usual ones. And Canada, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal. But they've got quite a few cities that have already signed up. And in this latest Davos meeting, key takeaways for cities and local economies.

They're going local with this. This is what the urban dictates are all about. They said, we've set up here at Davos. Again, they want to tell us it's just a bunch of guys who like to get together and talk and feed their ego. And this is Klaus Schwab. He's harmless. He's a joke. Their influence is declining and all the rest of the stuff.

Don't believe it for a moment. Don't believe Scott Adams when he tells you that we've won, as I said. They're trying to get you to let your guard down. They're still using COVID, still using the lockdown. They're still going to bring back masks and mandates if you let them. They're still talking about how they need to keep in place Tony Blair. They've got to keep in place all these controls that they put on our movement in the name of a virus. And so there's a new global alliance, the Davos Ba Culture Alliance. And the World Economic Forfeiture Group will host the new alliance.

And it's going to be run by executive director of the UN's human settlements program. They call it UN Habitat. Do you see how this all puts together? Your habitat for humanity is going to be in these megacities. They have the plans that are running out of the UN and Davos is helping them to implement it because they have merged together. They are not going the way of the dodo bird. This is not something that is declining. And again, nature and circularity at the core of the climate action in cities.

These are their favorite terms. These are echoed in all of these documents as you start going through it. As I said, this is all supported by 45 partners, 45 giant multinational corporations getting in on the ground floor of crony capitalism. You have people like the global CEO of Deloitte, the big accounting firm. Salesforce announced commitments to launch the World Economic Forfeiture Group's first place-based uplink innovation challenge focused on sustainable cities. It's going to be piloted in San Francisco.

They're putting the plans together. They're coordinating it. What Davos does is they bring together the corporations and the politicians, the money and the power. They're the money and the power brokers. They talk about it. Those people in this room, we're going to be the stakeholders. We're going to design the future.

You don't have a say-so in all of this. We've seen this from our political leaders as well. This is where they go to make their plans, to establish their business relationships, because it is about a business. It is exactly what they're doing, and it is a kind of strange fascism, a merger of corporations and government. So what is this going to say to us about food? We're going to talk about that when we return. Thank you. If you like the Eagles, the cars, and Hue dark desert highway the cars and huey lewis in the news

you'll love the classic hits channel at aps radio download our app or listen now at apsradio.com let's talk about food and of course in this last, we've seen a lot of moves by the World Economic Forfeiture Group, getting Mark Ruta, just like Justin Trudeau, one of their up-and-coming young puppets. Also in Sri Lanka, they tried to implement it first to shut down the farms based on these phony claims about nitrogen. Look, they've been talking about nitrogen runoff for a long time from farms. Oh, look, it gets in the water, creates algae and things like that. Look, you can address that without banning all farms, of course. So this is merely used as a pretense to shut down farming.

Any pollution issues can be addressed. As a matter of fact, somebody had as as an article I saw this last week, somebody said, people forget what the 1970s were like. Look at the air pollution in LA and look at other things like that. That was what allowed them to push. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency. It was set up to address pollution. You did have runoff.

You had other things like that. But now it's being used to push the green agenda because they were they got a lot of things cleaned up as a matter of fact as i've said before david one of the guys that i worked with at the american the american tradition institute had worked for the epa from its inception uh worked for them for 30 years and then said um they've metastasized into something that is not about cleaning up the environment. It's about controlling our lives. All this environmentalism, just an excuse for this.

And so when you look at the nitrogen thing, that is not a reason to get rid of farms. If it's a problem, you clean it up and it can be addressed. Just like if you got power plants or cars that have high emissions, it can be addressed. It's a matter of money. It makes the cars more expensive. It makes the power plants more expensive. But of course, in China, they don't care. They don't have to put any emission controls on their oil power generation stations. They don't have to put any emission controls on their coal electricity production, and they can have as many of them

as they want. But when you look at what is happening in the West, a major French food company is shutting down 80% of production. Why? Because of soaring energy costs. So this is the other side of it. They can come in as they're trying to do in the Netherlands, as they did in Sri Lanka and say, we're just going to shut the farms down. You got some pollution issues here. So we're just going to shut down every single farm everywhere.

This is an excuse, but what they're doing in the UK, and it's not just food, of course, I've talked about how they've had to shut down giant processing factories that make metals because they are very intensive with energy. They shut them down first. But now it's gotten to the point, and all of the energy crisis, you understand, that is happening in the EU and the gas prices that have gone up here, all of that is done by our governments against us. There's nothing external to that.

We don't have some kind of an embargo from a foreign cartel like OPEC. This is a cartel, for sure, that has this plan put together, but it's being imposed by our own leaders in every country. Self-imposed. People at the top, whether you're talking about Biden or Trump, who want to destroy this country and will use any excuse to do it. They marched to the orders of the globalist elite at the UN and at Davos. And Trump was the perfect puppet because he was always yammering about how much he hated them

and yet he did everything that they wanted. Was he a fool or a traitor? I vote for traitor. I don't think he's a fool. I guess the people who think he's going to save everything, they portray him as a fool because they don't want to believe that he's criminal. I actually give him more credit than they do.

I say he's a very clever criminal. So they're shutting down everything. It's not just the metal facilities, not just food. They don't have the electricity to make food. A group which owns several food companies in France has shut down four of its eight factories over energy costs, and that amounts to 80% of its total production. They shut down the most productive. 50% of the power of the food plants produced 80% of their food, and they shut them down. So this company, Cofigio, I guess, owns several French food brands.

None of these would make any difference to most of you. I don't think I have anybody that listens to me in France. Anyway, that's why things are happening so badly there. I'm just joking. This decision aims to cope with the spectacular increase in energy costs, gas and electricity necessary for cooking and sterilizing cooked dishes and recipes, which will be multiplied by a factor of 10 from the beginning of the year. They said energy costs were set to surge this year.

The president said it will go overnight from 4 million euros to 40 million euros. So they're literally starving people. And I said this from the very beginning. If you cut people's fuel, you are cutting their food. And you're cutting everything in the country. Will the food production move to China? Yes, that is the plan.

The production of metals and manufacturing and even the production of food to be moved to China. Why? Because they are allowed to have cheap energy. Why are we not allowed to? Well, because our masters, whether you're talking about Macron or Biden or Trump, our masters have decided that we are polluting too much. But it's okay for China.

It's okay for China. It's okay for India. The two most populous countries have absolutely no restrictions on what they can build in terms of quality or quantity. And that's because of the Paris Climate Accord. They excluded them, the two most populist, the two most dirty producers. It's not global climate change that they're worried about. It's not man-made climate that they're worried about.

To me, that is a bigger red flag than the fact that Obama is buying beachfront property. And it was a flag to the climate people who believe all of this nonsense. The true believers in it were outraged at the exceptions that were put in the Paris Climate Accord. But the other thing that I find is interesting is, as all this stuff was being forced, this austerity was being forced upon Europe in the name of sanctions against Russia and all the rest of this stuff, a lot of people were saying, well, France is doing better because France is mainly nuclear. They don't need to get the oil and the gas from Russia.

Well, it turns out that the French government owns the nuclear power plants. And somehow the French government is having trouble getting the nuclear power plants to operate. So we're just going to have to raise the price on these things. So if they don't have a reason, they just won't do it. They don't need to have a reason. And France said just, well, sorry, you know, yeah, we have all these nuclear power plants, but for some reason we just have to shut them down. Maintenance or whatever, but, you know, it just came at a bad time.

Just one of those things. It's just a coincidence. But even the French, who are not reliant on these so-called fossil fuels, are having their energy cut by their own government, just as we are here, just as everybody in Europe is. Last month, a federation of French supermarket chains warned that France could face major issues with food spoilage due to possible power outages and cuts.

Many supermarkets would not have adequate time to prepare for such outages. We have never experienced this situation. Stores are very poorly equipped today with generators. We will not throw away frozen products that have, for the most part, more thermal inertia. On the other hand, for the fresh products that do not last for two hours, there will indeed be a significant waste, they said. The UK newspaper The Times has claimed that France may be close to having to ration energy due to issues with the country's nuclear power plants.

Why? Oh, well, just necessary. We cannot, the one country that wasn't relying on fossil fuels, but now they can't figure out how to run the nuclear power plants. Energy to cook and preserve food for canning or for ready meals is not the only place that energy security and food security intersect. As reported by Breitbart London, this is an article from Breitbart, the sudden surge in

energy prices has also impacted the production of fertilizer. So if you go after the fuel, you can't produce fertilizer. You can't take the fertilizer to the farms. You can't take the food from the farms to the supermarket and people can't afford to go to the supermarket. I mean, it's just everything. It's fundamental, fundamental, but don't worry. They've got a solution. House crickets will be allowed as food in the European Union. Let them eat bugs. We officially will be able to find their way to the EU citizens tables starting on January the 24th.

The European commission has ruled earlier this month that now the European food safety authority, this is their equivalent of the FDA is now going to let bugs be added to food. We used to have the justification for these organizations, like the European Food Safety Authority and the FDA. The justification used to be that they were going to look at the purity of food and make sure they didn't have bugs in it.

But now they're going to authorize the addition of them. They're safe to use, says the European FDA. And the FDA, of course, same thing. Yeah, they're great. They're great. They're safe, just like the vaccines are safe. No problem. And so now you can add bugs to cereal bars in Europe and to biscuits, pizza, pasta-based products, and whey powder. European regulations state that

adult crickets have to first undergo a 24-hour fasting period so they can discard their bowel content. After that, the insects are frozen, washed, thermally processed, have their oil extracted, and ground into powder. Yeah, they're completely clean after that 24-hour fast. Just, yeah, go ahead and eat them. On top of crickets, the European Commission has also approved earlier this month, the larvae, the mealworm, for human consumption. So, it's going to be a, and this is the way they sell it. Proponents insist that insects could become a major source of animal protein

while reducing humanity's carbon footprint. Again, we've got to stop chasing this MacGuffin. There is no end to the austerity, the deprivation, the tyranny that will be imposed upon us if we don't fight this climate lie. And it is an absolute lie. So, yeah, it's going to reduce humanity's carbon footprint. They want to reduce humanity. They will be satisfied with nothing less than that.

But in the interim, this is all about moving all economic activity, all manufacturing, even of food to China. China's 26-story pig skyscraper. It'll be slaughtering a million pigs a year. Why? Because they have cheap, affordable energy. They're given a pass by Paris. As a matter of fact, when you look at this, this is going to be, like most manufacturing

facilities, a skyscraper. It's going to be very energy intensive. They will keep the animals in a controlled environment and all the rest of this stuff. That requires a lot of energy. No problem, because China is not impacted by any of the global climate regulations that you see in Paris, Climate Accord or any of the subsequent ones. That is not kicking in for them. It won't kick in for decades.

They're just fine. And so send all of your manufacturing to China and all of your food production to China because they have cheap available energy and you don't. The biggest single building pig farm in the world with a capacity to slaughter 1.2 million pigs a year. Because they can also make massive investments in oil refineries and coal plants and all the rest of this stuff. But you can't.

You are prohibited from doing that. So it's going to cost about a half a million pounds. So, you know, about be more than half a million dollars. It has gas temperature and ventilation controlled conditions. Animals be fed through more than 30,000 automatic feeding spots at the click of a button from a central control room. Very energy intensive compared to letting them roam around freely. It's unfathomable, says a farmer in his 50s living in the village across the road from the farm. He said he's worried that the farm's proximity could lead to an odor issue.

But no worries about that because they have a lot of technology and a lot of energy to control the smell and the ventilation and all the rest of this stuff, right? We just apply energy to solve these problems, and that's the way it's been. The availability of cheap energy is essential not only to the quality of life, but to the quantity of life, to life expectancy. And a policy released in 2019, China's Ministry of Agriculture, said that it would allow the construction of high-rise breeding facilities. This isn't going to be by itself. They'll have them for all kinds of things.

It was an announcement that was welcomed by investors. Big multinational companies rushed in to fund this if, you know, they let the corrupt politicians participate in the profits here. So they said this is more biosecure and environmentally friendly because, you know, if you can keep them in these isolated areas and control access to it, you won't ever have anything, you know, like an avian flu outbreak or something. Except that that is not the case. An assistant professor of environmental studies at New York University, Matthew Hayek, said intensive facilities can reduce interactions between domesticated and wild animals and their diseases, but if a disease does get inside, it can break out through all the animals in that building like wildfire. I've heard multiple reports of so-called biosecurity, efficiency, sustainability, he said.

We hear the same storytelling for U.S. indoor facilities. However, there's very little evidence that these intensive facilities have any of those benefits in reality. The higher the density of animals, said another professor at the University of Hong Kong, evidence that these intensive facilities have any of those benefits in reality. The higher the density of animals, said another professor at the University of Hong Kong, the higher density of the animals, the higher the risk of infectious pathogen spread and amplification, as well as a potential for mutation. But nevertheless, this explains the freak show goblins I see in the cities. Well, they're going to continue to concentrate everything for control. And if you look at all of this, this is a recipe for disaster.

Everything that they do. Just going back to Monsanto's design. To say that we're going to put glyphosate out there, it's going to poison the soil for everything except for our GMO seeds. That'll be the only thing that'll grow in the soil. Well, that's a recipe for disaster, isn't it? First of all, it is a recipe to turn you into a renter. You have to buy your seeds from them every year.

They can raise the price as they wish. They were driving farmers in India into debt and into suicide. You have to buy your seeds from them every year. They can raise the price as they wish. They were driving farmers in India into debt and into suicide. But, of course, it also drifts and it poisons other adjacent land. That was a big problem in many areas. And so they banned it in certain communities. So the response was, we'll go to Washington because we don't want to have a quote, patchwork of regulations. We'll have one regulation and we will write that regulation with our senators and congressmen in Washington, D.C. to make sure that we can continue to do business.

You know, they could pour in one community, they poured small rural community, they poured, small rural community, they poured in $8 million to stop the prohibition of the glyphosates and dicambra that were drifting onto adjacent farmland. And they poured $8 million of ads into there, but the farmers knew what was going on. And they didn't care what those commercials were lying to them about, so they voted it down anyway. So they said, oh, it'll be much better for us to spend $8 million on some senators and congressmen, and we'll get what we want. And so they did that.

So now the next thing is lab-grown meat that's being pushed by Reuters moves closer to American dinner plates, not our dinner plates. No way. Executives at cultivated meat companies are optimistic that meat grown in massive steel vats could be on the menu within months after one company won the go-ahead from a key regulator. You know, the FDA. FDA has no problem with that. FDA's not going to have any problem with crickets.

The FDA is there to rubber stamp anything that these giant corporations want. just like big pharma. Cultivated meat faces big obstacles. They have to attract more funding. Well, that's what Davos is for. And so you go there to get your funding. And then they have to convince people that they want to eat the biopsy burgers, which is what I call them, biopsy burgers. Cultivated meat is derived from small samples of cells collected from livestock. Only one country so far, Singapore, has approved the product for sale, but the FDA has said that they're okay with a chicken breast

grown by a California-based company called Upside Foods. They said that's safe for human consumption. So there you go. You can get a chicken breast biopsy burger. Sounds so appealing, doesn't it? That's the way we should label this thing. And they like to talk about how they have a slaughterless, slaughterless house.

We'll be right back. Thank you. I'm going to go. You're listening to The David Knight Show. Hear news now at APSradioNews.com or get the APS Radio app and never miss another story. We got some great comments here. Dave Weatherby, I used to live in Toronto. The Spanish toll road company, Centra, yeah, you see them everywhere, charges over a dollar per mile to drive on their Highway 407. And if you don't pay the toll, they have the authority to order

the province of Ontario to cancel your vehicle registration. Like I said, I avoid these things out of principle and I was still getting, you know, uh, um, charged by them, these, uh,

companies, uh, and Texas, it wasn't central. It was actually the Texas department of transportation for the most part. There's running this stuff, but you know, they,

they build all these roads and yet they're tens of millions of dollars in debt on their highway fund. How does that happen? Um, LFA, thank you for the tip. He says in their future, there'll be no jobs for which you would need to move out of your 15 minutes.

That's right. As Klaus, as Klaus has said, not everybody can be a robot polisher. Just eat your insects, go into the metaverse, get drugged up because the pharmacy is real nearby right and be happy if the monthly shot will be just the vaccine and nothing else that's

right um you're right you won't need a job you'll earn nothing you'll earn no money there'll be no good in it uh brian deb mccartney david could get Peter, uh, Vodinka on his guest. We saw him speak in grand Rapids, Minnesota about his journey to freedom. The title of his book, he escaped the communism of Czechoslovakia only to see it happening here. That would be good. That would be good. We need to do that. Karen.

Um, let's get that. See if we can find that guy. Um, as a matter of fact, if you've got any more contact information on him, please send that to David Knight show at protonmail.com. David Weatherly, I can't understand why Republicans liberty minded independents can't even get on the ballot here in Orlando and Orange County for important local offices like mayor, D.A. and sheriff. The whole thing is controlled by the Democrats. Well, that's true. But, you know The whole thing is controlled by the Democrats. Well, that's true. But, you know, it's also controlled by the parties. It's difficult to get liberty-minded individuals within the Republican Party on the ballot.

That is where the control begins. That's why I talk about ballot access. They've got, because they have a duopoly control, they make it very difficult for any independents or for any third parties to even get on the ballot. And then if you try to go through their party infrastructure, that is very tightly controlled at the local level. And so the ballot, whether you're trying to get on the ballot through the Republican Party or you're trying to get on the ballot through independent or third party, they control that so when people talk about corrupt elections that's where it begins who is on the ballot where your choice is on the ballot and then next stage is if you are able to jump through all those hoops and get in on the ballot they won't let you in the debate and on and on and on um eric thank you very much

i appreciate that tip thank you very much i appreciate that um david says when you want to watch every dystopian movie ever there's a scene early on where the disembodied announcements read the rules of the universe the character is living in here in orlando we saw that in real for real on the theme parks as patrons were reminded how they must wear their mask disney was tyrannical. Yeah, I'm afraid I'm done with all the amusement parks. I was absolutely repulsed by what I saw and had been for many years, frankly. Again, that trip that we took to Florida back in 2017,

we went from Tampa to Daytona Beach. We stopped in Orlando and said, I don't want to go into any of the theme parks. It's too expensive, but we thought, well, we'll go down and see if we can find some place to eat. Um, universal studios had like a open mall area where they had shops and a lot of different restaurants. So we were going to go in there, but you know, back then, five years ago, six years ago,

they had set up TSA type security to scan you and all the rest of the stuff. And I just said, I'm not doing it. And so we just left. And then, so then we go to Daytona beach. Everything has been closed by the government. You can't get on the beach to drive. So we wound up just, uh, they they've done a new, um, North South road. It's a little bit further inland, but the interesting thing is the A1A, I think they

call it or something like that. The highway run one, uh, it goes all the way up from Daytona Beach all the way up to St. Augustine. And it is right on the water, a little two-lane road that nobody wants to travel. Because, you know, hey, you could get on the heavily traveled interstate. Why go on a road that nobody wants to take the road least less travel right that is right on the water and uh that goes way back just two little two lane road we took that all the way up to saint augustine and it was really nice with a top down you know right there right on the water and nobody drives i can it. Everybody, they're looking at their maps that are routing them onto this, uh, interstate system that's there. Um, Richard Williams,

thank you for the tip. I appreciate that on Roxanne. Trump is a fool. He believes his actions will not come with a price. He's seeing it now. You got people, you know, the, because he's out there whining about the evangelicals who really are pro-life. Trump's not pro-life. He's complaining because these evangelicals who supported him are too pro-life. And so he's losing their support. But he always does that. And anybody that works for him, he perceives it as something that is not in his best interest or is an affront or an assault to his ambitions.

And as his former lawyer, Ty Cobb, said, he is a deeply wounded narcissist who is incapable of acting except out of his own perceived self-interest or out of revenge. So, you know, if he gets elected, you better watch your back, all you people who used to support him and don't, because he's going to be coming for you. Yeah, the Don, the Mafia Don. So let's see, we've got some more here. Gerald Smith, thank you for the tip. He says, love the night chess piece trailer.

Well, thank you. Brilliant metaphor for God sculpting us for this war for truth, goodness, and godliness. It is. It is. I think C.S. Lewis used that as well, talking about sculpting, talking about the blows from the master sculptor in our life that are shaping us into something that is better. May we all embrace being the fierce knights that God is sculpting us to be in these moments of mass genocide.

Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Gerald Smith. So the key thing that's underlying all this is this lie, this MacGuffin that we're all chasing, that we're all hunting. You know, the lions on the Scottish moor, when there aren't any lions on the Scottish moor. And how do you stop it from being a MacGuffin? You point out that there are no lions on the Scottish highlands. And so I saw this story.

The Earth's core has stopped and may be reversing direction. I said, well, how long is it going to take them to blame that on us, right? Are they going to blame us? It's got to be you and your SUV. So quick, change the direction you're driving your SUVs right now because the Earth's inner core has now stopped changing direction. They're not even sure of this. This is a good example of the uncertainty of science.

Earth's inner core, they said, and this is coming from Vice. So, you know, Vice, as some scientist calls them, it's like, oh, okay, we'll just go with that as if it's true. It'll give us cover. This person's got a title. They work for a university somewhere. So let's do an alarmist story on that. So they say the Earth's inner core has recently stopped

spinning and now may be reversing the direction of its rotation, according to a surprising new study that probed the deepest reaches of our planet with seismic waves from earthquakes the mind-boggling results suggest that the earth's center pauses and reverses direction on a periodic cycle lasting about 60 to 70 years whoa another fourth turning as the world turns this is uh another one of these climate soap operas here as the world turns, this is another one of these climate soap operas here. That's the world turns. Um, you know,

it's pretty amazing when you stop and think about it. Right. Um, especially for the people who think that the universe of the world is billions and billions of years old, as Carl Sagan used to say, I'm a younger creationist. I believe God created the earth.

I believe he sustains it. And part of that belief is based on observation of the second law of thermodynamics, that you don't just walk away from it. Everything is cooling off and slowing down and decaying. We see that everywhere, everywhere. The world is under a curse. The way they express that is with the second law of thermodynamics. Everything is dying. Everything is cooling off. And so why is it that the earth is still spinning?

Still spinning at the same speed that it's been spinning for thousands of years? Why is it still spinning when you got the interior core slowing down and maybe reversing direction what keeps it spinning what keeps it orbiting around the sun um you know we don't see these things dying down you would expect it to die down if it was billions and billions of years old perhaps if it's a younger earth maybe there's some uh issues there that it hasn't had the time to do that, but you would think that it would slow down, wouldn't you? Anyway, scientists think this periodic spin switch is a normal part of its behavior that does not pose risks for life on planet Earth. And evidently, they have not found anything that they can tie to your behavior to try to use as an excuse to take stuff away from you yet. Give them some time. You know, just like the ozone hole. I remember when they first said, um, we just looked at the ozone and there's a hole over the poles. I was like,

okay, is that something new? Well, we don't know. We never looked at it before, but, uh, we know that it's not normal and it's got to be caused by your air conditioning or your car, something like that. And so we've got to, we've got to take stuff from you, but we want everybody now to buy this new and improved refrigerant that is made by this government sanctioned company. Uh, so because there's a hole over the ozone. Well, I don't know if there's a hole over the ozone. I don't know if it was always there. I don't know if it's bigger or larger. They don't either, frankly.

Earth's inner core is a solid metal ball, 75% the size of the moon, and it can spin at different speeds and directions compared to our planet because it is nestled within a liquid outer core. But scientists are not sure exactly how fast it spins or whether its speed varies over time. Well, somebody's going to come up with a theory at some university, and then they're going to use it against us. I guarantee this is going to happen.

Located some 3,000 miles beneath our feet. The core experiences such intense pressure that it is likely as hot as the surface of the sun. But it's your fault if anything changes. The inner core remains one of the least understood environments on our planet, though it is clear that it plays a role in a lot of things that are essential to life on Earth, such as the generation of the Earth's protective magnetic field, which blocks harmful radiation from reaching the surface. So they've got a couple of scientists who have come up with this. Their names are not Ying and Yang, but Song and Yang.

A pair of researchers at Peking University's Sinoprobe Lab, the School of Earth and Space Sciences there. So these two scientists, these two Chinese scientists, have captured, quote, surprising observations that indicate the inner core has nearly ceased its rotation in the recent decade and may be experiencing a turning back in a multi-decadal oscillation. In other words, an oscillation takes place over multiple decades. With another turning point, in the early 1970s, there are two major forces acting on the inner core, they said.

One is the electromagnetic force. Their magnetic field is generating by fluid motion in the outer core. The magnetic field acting generating by fluid motion in the outer core. The magnetic field acting on the metallic inner core is expected to drive the inner core to rotate by electromagnetic coupling. The other one is gravitational force. And so these two things have to be in equilibrium. There is a gravitational coupling. If the two forces are not balanced out, the inner core will accelerate or decelerate. Both the magnetic field and the Earth's rotation have a strong periodicity of 60 to 70 years. We believe the proposed 70-year oscillation of the inner core

is driven by the electromagnetic or gravitational forces. However, this is not something that the government has attached itself to yet. So there are differences of opinion that are still allowed. And not everybody agrees with them. Song was part of the team that first reported evidence of the intercourse rotation in 1996 by measuring slight time for temporal changes in these waves, which are generated by earthquakes. However, the origin of the temporal changes has been a matter of debate within the geoscience community ever since. So what he's saying is, is that it last changed direction in

1970, but he didn't posit its existence or movement until 1996. So there's a lot of extrapolation and theory involved here. And not everybody believes that, agrees with it. Some researchers are still arguing that the temporal changes do not come from the inner core rotation, but from localized deformation at the inner core boundary. So they're trying to gather data over a longer duration to test different models. You see, they've got a model.

Models are based on data. If your data's not good, you don't get good results like the model we got from the Imperial College of London that was used as an excuse to take everything from us. You know, Trump said we got these two very smart people because, you know, they're from the Imperial College of London. That's very impressive, isn't it? I mean, as far as titles go, you can't get any more impressive than that. So again, real science is based on data, on models, on testing the models. And then of course, when you've got something like this, there's a lot of assumptions and extrapolations that are involved there. Not everybody agrees. That's the nature of science. And if everybody agrees, you're not talking about science, you're talking about politics.

So I mentioned that because you need to pull back and look at these climate predictions and all the rest of the stuff. The climate predictions are no better than this. As a matter of fact, we've been getting climate predictions for 50 years, you know, as long as the inner core has been turning in this direction. And so it's about time for us to reverse the direction of this inner core. The climate lies, the climate MacGuffin are really like the inner core of the World Economic Forfeiture Group. We've got to stop it and reverse direction.

And you do it by opposing it with the truth. But it gets even worse. Now we have the Federal Reserve talking about inflation. Did you know that climate change is the cause of inflation? Yes, that's what the president and CEO of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank says. Susan Collins. Well, you know, things expand when they get warmer, so I guess the money's heating up and it's, you know, just getting... Cold cash. We got some hot money that needs to be laundered. I don't know.

Yeah, this is Susan Collins. Not that Susan Collins is a senator, but this is another one. Yeah, it's crazy. Of course, they dropped this theory on us on NPR. Understand, it's not the Federal Reserve. It's not their quantitative easing. It's not their mortgage backed securities. It's not the low interest rates that they left on for a long period of time. It has nothing to do with that. It has nothing to do with Biden's supply chain and Trump's supply chain interruptions. It has nothing to do with Biden's sanctions. No, it's climate change.

None of those things that they, you know, it's climate change. She said, um, the fed is monitoring all different kinds of information holistically. She says holistically. And I would assume that they're also monitoring the speed of rotation and the direction of rotation of the inner core. Because, you know, they're very important people. And they know everything. And you need to trust them because they know everything.

Some of them, she said, are factors on the supply side that the Federal Reserve really doesn't have much influence over at all. Well, the federal government does. By the way, I told you I played with chat GPT over the weekend. First question I asked it was, is the Federal Reserve private? Let's just cut right to the chase here. It says, no, the Federal Reserve is not private. Okay. It has to report to Congress. So, and the next question is, what is the nature of those reports? Does Congress, you know, and does Congress, and it just goes down that path. It is so shallow, so politicized. It is worthless, in my opinion.

I don't know, go a little bit more of that. But, yeah, the first thing, when I started going down that path, asking it, well, okay, so you say that they have to report to Congress. Please describe the nature of Congress's oversight of the Federal Reserve. I did two of those questions, and it stopped working. I'd been asking it all kinds of questions, questions about cars and all kinds of things, some technical things that weren't political at all. And when I started asking it questions about the Federal Reserve, after I got about two questions deep on the Federal Reserve, it stopped working.

It said, I can't process that. It stopped working. So your mileage may vary. But I thought that was interesting. First thing that ever got censored was my report on the Federal Reserve. First thing at Infor, anything, anything that Alex had ever done, nothing was censored until we started talking about the Federal Reserve. First thing that I got censored on, but the first thing he got censored on as well. So chat GPT doesn't like to talk about the Federal Reserve. And if it does talk,

it'll give you a bunch of lies about the Federal Reserve. But going back to the Federal Reserve, they said some of the factors on supply side, we don't have any control over. The things like weather condition, bird flu, oh, that's taken a real toll on, for example, egg prices, they said. Well, again, the eggs have been manipulated by a cartel, I believe. Farmers believe as well. And yet, there's been a lot of pushback against that. As that group of farmers has said, we need to do something about the fact that we've got, should have called them the Dirty Dozen and the Egg Cartel.

The Dirty Dozen Egg Cartel. Except there's only about a half dozen in that egg cartel, you know, the dirty dozen egg cartel, except there's only about a half dozen in that egg cartel. So there you go. You know, half of your carton is empty and, uh, the other eggs that are there are rotten as they can be. Uh, so everywhere we're seeing this, the epic times, which typically toes, a conservative line says avian flu is crushing the farmers. They're going with a party line seeing this. The Epoch Times, which typically toes a conservative line, says avian flu is crushing the farmers. They're going with a party line on this. So is reason, by the way. Interesting

that I find myself in agreement with Robert Reich on the egg cartel thing. That doesn't mean that this is the wrong position on it. You know, even a broken clock can be right twice a day. And, you know, Robert Reich broken clock can be right twice a day. And, you know, Robert Reich could be right once in his life. The Clinton economist. So avian flu is crushing farmers, they say. Well, and again, in their story, they say stopping the spread of avian flu is like chasing a ghost. The biosecurity measures of all the farmers infected,

whether they're infected or not, like not having visitors on your property, covering your workers from head to toe in bio suits and constantly and meticulously disinfecting equipment, clothing, buildings, walls, tires. It's expensive. It's mind numbing. Do you notice a similarity here? Have they moved their flu, their influenza narrative,

have they moved it from COVID into the chicken farms? They're having them do all the same stuff. Even if you don't have any infection on your farm. They got everybody wearing hazmat suits. They're totally paranoid about anybody bringing any deliveries to them. You know, the tires, it could be, it could be flu on the tires. How long is it going to be before you got big pharma saying, we're going to need to inject your poultry with mRNA vaccines. We've rushed this vaccine out there.

And, you know, hey, they're just animals. Let us go ahead and do that. I'm very concerned about the fact that the chicken farms have now been Shanghai'd. Same thing the Chinese did to Shanghai. Locked them down. We got cases here. We got cases here. We got cases here. You know, if, if, um, uh, you know, we're not that far away from treating people like a bunch of disposable birds,

you know, look at, uh, what the Chinese government did in Shanghai. They locked people in their homes, didn't even care if they gave them food. Now, after afterwards, they say, Oh, we opened up and look at all the bodies we've got to get rid of. It's just gone like wildfire through the population. Oh, really? Maybe these are the people that they killed during their months-long lockdown, saying we don't care if you get any food, medical care, anything. You're not getting out of your house. They go up to the house, drill a hole in the concrete floor,

and put a rod in it so people couldn't open their doors. Their doors are opening to the outside. Or they would, you know, attach stuff to the doorframe to make sure they couldn't open their door. Seal them in. They didn't care if they survived. And so I wonder how much of this is really true. Now, as part of this article from Epoch Times,

they talked to one farm. They said, yeah, you know, we're worried about this. They've told us to be afraid. We're wearing masks. We're wearing bio suits. If UPS or Amazon comes or your children's school bus, we're worried that they're going to bring the disease onto the farm. It'll destroy the flock. All of our chickens will be killed if they find a case of it, right?

We'll kill, we just tested your chickens and they tested positive. So we're going to kill all the chickens. We don't know if this is for real or not. And again, you know, is this a case where they're sick? Would they recover? You know, is getting a positive test for avian influenza. Is that fatal to the chicken? Or could they survive?

Is it 100% case fatality rate? Well, it is when the FDA is involved. They'll kill that chicken and every other chicken on the farm. So they said, we've lost two of our family farms out of the 120 with avian influenza back in April of last year. So why is the price still going up? The price wasn't that high in April, but it is still going up. And if you lost two out of 120, we lost 1.6% of our farms.

Now, that's a big deal for the farms that had the government come in and kill all their chickens. But that, if you look at the bigger picture, and this is what the farmers were saying, they said, yes, there is avian influenza, and yes, flocks are being culled, but it's a very small percentage. And if you look at the productivity of the hens, they basically have made that up. You know, and the other farms where they haven't gone in and killed all the chickens, then you have made up for that in terms of the productivity of the layers that remain.

And I ask you this, why is it that the influenza, the avian influenza, follows our geographical borders? That's not a problem in Mexico. Why is that? Is it because this is a political virus? Is it because we have a government that is determined to kill flocks based on, well, we've got a case here. Kill them all. Is that what's going on? I wouldn't be surprised if it were.

I don't have any evidence that that is, but my sense is that is what is happening. Since it is not in Canada, it's not in Mexico, it's limited to the United States, and we've seen this kind of overreaction many times. It's a combination of government and of corporate monopolies. And where do those corporate monopolies come from? Just as we saw with the baby food case, right? It was overreaction by the government and it was concentration of resources by the corporations.

Now, Reason Magazine says Robert Reich is wrong. Corporate greed isn't to blame for egg prices. And I think Reason is wrong. Reason has always taken, and this is how they were wrong for years, years, until the Twitter files were released. Reason Magazine stuck to the line that the corporations, even if they're doing this because they are biased, they have a right to do this. And there is no conspiracy between the corporation, between social media and government. That doesn't exist, said Reason, for years.

And we had John Stossel saying, they've censored me. I don't like them censoring it, but they have the right to do it because they're a corporation. No, they don't. Corporations don't have rights. Human beings have rights. Corporations are creatures of the government. Even if they're not colluding with the government, they are creatures of the government. They do not have any rights.

They do not have the right to take rights from people who are created in the image of God, endowed by our creator. The corporations are endowed by the government to exist. And they better not get in the way of my rights. And you better not allow this, and you better not excuse it. And that's what Reason and Cato and the Heritage Foundation did throughout all of this government censorship. Well, you know, they're acting in a nasty way, but they have a right to do that. No, they don't.

They were the deputy state. They were the deputized state all along, and now we see the documents. And now they've said, oh, well, okay. And reason is wrong again about this. They cannot acknowledge that there are cartels. They cannot acknowledge that there are cartels. They cannot acknowledge that there are conspiracies. And as I said, many times I said it when I was talking about this with free speech over the years, I said, the problem with libertarians is that they believe that government can do no wrong. They believe that greed is good, right? Greed is not good.

And yes, people will, out of their own self-interest and their business, they will do things to satisfy the marketplace. But what does that need? That needs a functioning marketplace. The marketplace does not function when you have too few producers or you have government-corporate collusion. And that's the reality. The left, the Democrats, will look at the world and they divide it. Again, the similarity, part of the worldview that is shared by both the socialists and the libertarians is they tend to break everything into government and corporations.

The socialists say corporations can do no right and government can do no wrong. And the libertarians are just exactly the opposite. Well, the corporations can do no wrong and the government can do no right. What they fail to realize is that the two of them have merged. You're not talking about two competing groups and you're not talking about

competition in a marketplace either. This is captive crony capitalism. This is a banana Republic. This is a situation where you got the FDA working with Pfizer. So is Robert Reich wrong? Some laws of economics says reason are ironclad. Competition is a natural regulation of economic activity. Okay, well then explain to me, Joe Lancaster,

where the competition is in an egg market that is controlled by a half dirty dozen corporations. Where is the competition in that? So over the weekend, Robert Reich, a guy who I have no respect for economically, his economic analysis, said CalMaine, the largest egg producer in the U.S., is raking in record profits, $198 million in the latest quarter. That's a 65% increase from a year ago. That in and of itself does not prove this point,

but they have, as I did the longer explanation yesterday, and we cut that out as a video, if you look at that, the farm group, Farm Action, said, well, let's have an investigation because it seems like they're saying that they're going to use this inflation to make profits. They've had a 65% increase in profits, right? We're not talking about a 65% increase in prices. No, we've got a 138% increase in the price of eggs over a year. And what is behind that? They're using inflation as an excuse. They're using the avian flu as an excuse.

This is something that the farm group says, well, we think that they are doing price gouging. Can we have an investigation? Oh, no. Well, you've got competition, so that can't possibly be happening, except that it is. It is inherently more likely that these fluctuations in price are driven by market forces rather than egg manufacturers all simultaneously deciding to charge more. Well, when you have a half dozen or so large companies, you don't think that they can get together and collude on this?

That's just human nature. That's history. We've seen that happening over and over again. And when you want to look at the government's role in this, I mean, how does Reason Magazine explain what happened with the baby food? Well, they understood that it was a monopoly that had been given by government. It created a consolidation of the production of that, and then an overreaction by government regulators shut that down.

Is that maybe happening again? Do we have a monopoly that is natural or created or de facto monopoly that has happened? And do we have a government that is overcautious, that is destroying everything in its path? Is our government operating like Xi Jinping in Shanghai, but doing that with the birds? Is our government operating like our government, like our government did with the baby food thing? We know that our government is creating all kinds of havoc in the fuel and energy market. And of course, the summer warning is that gas is going to be over $4.

Oil is going to be at $180. The Washington Times says, oil analyst Stephen Kopitz said that oil markets are being driven by changing factors. No, they're being manipulated. All of these factors that he lists, the war in Ukraine and the sanctions and all the rest of this stuff,

the reduction in exploration, all of these things are being manipulated. Oh, COVID did this to us. No, the government did it to us. It was a reaction to COVID, whether real or imagined. It was their reaction to the pandemic. It was their pandemic policies that did it to us.

But the pandemic didn't do it to us. The government did it to us. The government is manipulating this oil situation. And it's amazing when you, you know, the words actually do mean something. It's why the Democrats are so intent on making sure that they control the language. So when you look at the environment, California's rains could have supplied the state's needs

for 10 years if they had stored them. The rain that fell on California in recent weeks could have supplied the state's water needs for over 10 years had it been captured and stored. Unfortunately, it was left to drain into the Pacific Ocean. And you know, where it is now being stored as snow, you can bet that they're not going to do anything about that either. They're going to be suffering floods, and they will blame that on climate change and all the rest of this stuff. They got 32 trillion gallons of water in three weeks from all the rain.

In 2014, the state used about 1.4 trillion gallons. A more recent figure from the U.S. Geological Services suggested the state withdraws about 1 trillion gallons per year. Usually when I hear the word trillion, I just add dollars to it, you know. But 1 trillion gallons per year is what they use. So, you know, they let all this stuff go the the issue here though is that they know about this this is not anything that is new you know go back look at the lyrics in 1960s uh you know hey it never rains in california but you know when it does it pours

something like that effect. California's weather has always been notorious for the fact that it typically doesn't rain, but when it does, it's a deluge. And so they've known that it comes in these spurts. It's not a consistent thing. So in 2014, California voters approved $3 billion a decade ago. For what? For water storage projects.

To date, nothing has been built. Nothing's been built. They know it's a problem. They know that the water comes and spurts and stops, and so they said, well, spend $3 billion for storage projects. Didn't do a single thing. But they're going to use this as, well, Mother Earth is angry with us. 21 attorneys general are pressuring advisory firms to dump ESG rules,

saying that, alleging wrongdoing. This is coming from Breitbart. So these are, you've had direct interaction from DeSantis and the state of Florida with BlackRock and some of the other ones. These are a couple of advisory firms that are advising people, I guess, on how to invest their money. Institutional Shareholder Services, also known as ISS. Glass Lewis and Company, known as Glass Lewis. They give proxy voting advice to states.

So they advise states how to invest. And they've been advising them to invest in ESG projects. And as they, I, I SNS, ISS and glass Lewis are part of an international group of financial institutions, climate action, 100 plus committed to aligning their lending and investment portfolios with

net zero profits. No, I mean missions, right? But that's what they're going to get. Net zero profits because they don't care about making profits anymore. They perceive themselves as being political activists. They perceive themselves as being philanthropists or non-government organizations that are pushing forward an agenda, a policy. And yet they're selling themselves. They're getting that money by presenting themselves as being a financial concern.

People invest in these companies because they want to make a profit. And so what the attorneys general are saying is you are engaged in fraud. You're telling people that you are a for-profit company when you're being run as a political institution. So you are subject to both federal and state laws governing the advice and the duties of proxy advisors. You are also subject to contractual obligations, including some directly to some of our state's investment vehicles,

say the state attorneys general, because you have a lot of pension plans and other things like that, that are being invested in these companies that don't care about making a profit. So the money is not going to be there when they need it. They better shut this down. It should be more than 21 States. Why isn't it all 50?

So the group of attorneys in this case, says Breitbart, are alleging that the advisory firms are breaking their contractual obligations by abandoning their fiduciary duties to their clients and adopting radical environmental agenda that is going to be impossible. They have become social crusaders. I mean, it's in the name, ESG. Environmental social crusaders, if you will. They're not concerned about fiscal performance.

They think that they are running a political organization. So last year, the Republicans in the House of Representatives launched an antitrust investigation into this group called Climate Action Plus 100. They alleged the group is working like a cartel. There's that word again, cartel. See, those things actually exist. You can have an egg cartel, an egg cart, the dirty half dozen, to ensure the world's largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change.

But again, you know, reason doesn't believe that cartels exist. BlackRock has caved over DeSantis' moves against ESG, reports Zero Hedge. They've come to an agreement with the state of Florida after DeSantis declared that asset managers overseeing some of the state's $220 billion in pension funds cannot employ environmental, social, and governance investment strategies, ESG. DeSantis and other trustees of the state authority that runs Florida's pensions formally changed the plan's policies on Tuesday to say that the decisions

surrounding investments must be based only on monetary factors, which should not take into account social, political, or ideological interests. To the extent that BlackRock has complied with the governor's directives to abandon the ESG metrics, we appreciate this and celebrate this win, they said. Well, here's the reality. You know, just as you have DeSantis telling the school systems and the teachers, you're not going to teach CRT. We saw the same thing happening in Texas with AVID. You know, everybody looks at this and says, this is a big problem. Look at how they're undermining our kids, how these institutions have been undermined. And I say, well, I know what we'll do.

We'll make a pronouncement and we will prohibit them from teaching CRT. And we'll prohibit them from investing in ESG and losing money, you know, intentionally. Well, guess how that's going to work? Does that really work i said for the longest time the teachers say we're not going we'll still teach it they can't control what's going on the classrooms you can't even control these school boards school board said we're going to still continue to teach it and they can do it without you knowing it so if you're going to leave BlackRock there and tell BlackRock, all right, that's it.

No more ESG. BlackRock says, okay, we won't do that anymore. But then they're going to continue to do it. You've got to get rid of BlackRock. In August, DeSantis banned state pensions from investing in ESG strategies. So that part of it is good. That's what has to be done.

You can't put out, you can't leave them in charge of anything. Anybody that's going to push ESG, they have to be kicked out. BlackRock manages still, though, $13 billion in Florida pension funds as of December. And they said, well, we're committed to the mandate from the small business association. Um, I think that's what that, you know, no, sorry. State board of administration, state board of the SBA. Uh, this is kind of a corporate structure within the government that allocates, um, it does investment advice to the other people. For example, it has a chief financial officer,

this State Board of Administration. His name is Jimmy Petronas. He said he was pulling $2 billion in state funds out of BlackRock. He accused them of using Florida's pensions to fund a social engineering project, he said. He advised the state board of administration to remove the firm as one of its asset managers as well. So he's pulled some of the stuff away from them, but not all of it. And they put out these regulations and say, see, I fixed it.

No, the only way you fix it is to take the money to completely purge black rock out. Because think about it, even if this were effective in the state of Florida, and Florida said, okay, well, you're going to somehow do investments for us that are not ESG. So we'll leave the money with you. BlackRock is going to push ESG other places. BlackRock is a problem just like ESG is. And so it's not enough just to address part of the problem, the ESG part. BlackRock is the bigger part of the problem.

And if you leave any money with BlackRock, you're perpetuating this ESG stuff. So Larry Fink has said that the ESG issue has turned ugly, but not as ugly as it should be. Because again, how will they determine compliance? And even if they do comply in Florida, they will still be spreading that poison to other places as well. We'll be right back. Decoding the mainstream propaganda.

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So now we got some trainees who are upset about that. The Transcultural Mindfulness Alliance. This is a newly created organization who's desperate for some attention, so let's give them some. The absurdity of all of this and how these people are doing it for their own political purposes, to draw attention to themselves. They were created January of this year, which means that they can't be more than a couple of weeks old.

And their first thing is to come out and try to shut down Aretha Franklin's classic, a natural woman, because there are no natural women anymore. There is. They, and they actually said it, they tweeted it out.

There is no such thing as a natural woman. So they are demanding what? They're demanding that it be removed from Spotify and from Apple Music. Now, are they going to comply with this? Who knows? And political correctness is off the charts right now, and they want to take her hit off the charts. According to the organization's bio on social media,

they aim to promote cultural changes to ensure the inclusivity of trans individuals. We're all sick of this, frankly. As one person said, get a life. Stop trying to control everything. Stop trying to cancel everything stop trying to cancel everything censor everything but again they're coming they list that um they uh it says on their twitter profile that they were founded in january 2023 and they're also say that they're out of Oslo, Norway. But they also said they joined back in 2009, November 2009. So what is going on with this?

Maybe these Norwegians just don't dig Aretha like the rest of us do. But we need to tell them to get lost. Absolutely the appropriate response. And then let's tell this person to get lost too. Lala Harris. Oh, I think she is kind of lost. She's lost the plot. She's lost her place in the script.

She went to Florida where the state is taking on critical race theory, CRT being taught in the schools. And she goes down there to defend critical race theory, essentially saying in the headline of WND, if it's not racist, it's not American history. She's saying, we have so-called leaders banning books. Oh, okay. Well, they don't ban speech? Oh, yes, they do.

And what books are they banning? You know, there are books that are inappropriate for kids, aren't they? Haven't we always done that for kids? They, on the other hand, as we talked about yesterday, Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Sabelle Newsom, are creating books and films that push pornography to kids. Maybe they should be banned. And not maybe, they definitely should be.

There's stuff that is not appropriate for kids. We've always understood that. They understand that as well. They don't want kids to have guns. Well, in general, I don't think that's a good idea either. But I'm not, you know, when they go into banning things, it's just things that they don't like. It doesn't have anything to do with maturity. And again, you know, you can't make a blanket rule about any of that stuff, I think. But, you know, you could, I just go back and I understand that my father was driving a car when he was eight years old.

There were no driver's licenses. And it was kind of driven home in a report. We went to report on a shooting in another state. It was in Virginia. And to try to get a better picture of where things were. We wanted to rent a boat. And they had just enacted a rule saying that you had to have a driver's license to drive a boat. And I thought, wow, I was driving a boat when I was eight years old,

like my dad drove a car when he was eight years old. And they made an exception for people who were over 50 or something, right? Why? Well, because they knew that those of us who were over 50 were driving boats when we were eight years old. They tried to grandfather these things, which is a literal case in that particular example. They said, unfortunately, in Florida, she said, this is Lala Harris, extremists, so-called leaders, are banning books and blocking history classes. Which history classes would those be? Oh, the 1619 Project?

That's not history. That's propaganda. That's propaganda. So she said, preventing people from freely discussing who they are and who they love. She's talking about the grooming aspect and the Marxist aspect of it. Because the Marxists are trying to push a race war here. The Marxists have always pushed war as their path to power. In Europe, they did it with economic class warfare here.

They're trying to use race warfare. That's what this is about. And, uh, we don't need to, uh, these, these people who claim that they support free speech and everything,

and they don't, it's obvious that they don't support it. Uh, they just want to get their agenda out. And we have to understand that if their agenda is one of lies and propaganda, we should shut that down. If it is something that is sexually inappropriate material being aimed at kids, we should shut that down without apology. Yes, we do censor those books. Yes, we're not going to allow pornographic books to be given to kids in schools and libraries.

End of story. The company called College Board started developing its own course to sell to schools that included CRT. So the state of Florida called out the company, saying that the course would not be acceptable in Florida because of racist content. ideology because they were talking about things like black queer studies, black feminist thought, and the black struggle in the 21st century. All of it coming from a Marxist orientation of struggle, conflict, race war. The College Board is privately pitching state officials on its experimental new African American Studies high school curriculum, but has so far refused to publicly release the materials that taxpayers would end up paying the college board millions for the public schools to use. So on Sunday, Lala Harris went to bat for the college board, claiming that preventing teachers from teaching kids to judge each other by the color of their skin

and filtering history through a Marxist lens amounted to banning American history. This is a column at The Federalist. Every Republican officeholder with any power over education policy should go even further and investigate K through 12 schools and colleges for using public resources to promote racism and racial division and Marxism. It violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, says Joy Pullman, who wrote the column at The Federalist. But that was not all that Lala Harris had to say when she was in Florida. She was sent down to Florida on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I guess they wanted to get her out of D.C. Let's send her on a mission to Florida.

We'll send her down there ostensibly to attack DeSantis, but really what they wanted to make sure was that she didn't get in the way of their women's march. Because if she's in Washington, D.C., as the first woman vice president, she would have to speak there. And we all know what happens when Lala Harris speaks. Well, here's what happened when she went to Florida. She decided that she would talk about

the Declaration of Independence, but she left out that part about the right to life that everybody memorizes in school. You know, the thing, as Biden talked about it, you know, the Declaration, the thing, you know, that thing. We are here today because we collectively believe and know that America is a promise, a promise of freedom and liberty, She said during her 18 minute long remarks, not for some,

but for all a promise that we made in the declaration of independence, that we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. No, you're endowed with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But she doesn't want to use thatowed with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but she doesn't want to use that phrase, the right to life,

because she wants to pursue her happiness by killing babies. And we should not get in her way of pursuing her own personal ambition and happiness and killing babies. The government should not be telling people what to do with their own bodies. She laughingly said, have we just had two years of that government telling us what to do with our bodies? And Oh, by the way, the baby is not your body. The baby is not your body.

Uh, how can they not understand that half the time? It's a different sex all the time. It has different DNA fingerprints. It is a unique person. And even when they talk about God seeing us as unique individuals, like that Democrat congresswoman said, even when she reads the Bible where it clearly states that God creates us and treats us as individuals.

So you can't see a personhood of a child. Tony Dungy took heat for speaking at the March for Life. He referred, in terms of talking about the sanctity of life, he referred back to the Daymar Hamlin incident. And I hope I'm, am i pronouncing his name correctly do you know well neither one of us watch football so i see his name in print all the time i think it's tony dungy i apologize if it's something else um i don't know how to pronounce his name i should have searched for it and gotten an nfl broadcast or something but he's an award-winning

coach he's an outspoken christian and uh a NFL hall of fame coach as a matter of fact, and he still does football analysis. And since neither one of us watching, I forgot to look up his name. I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing it the right way. So apologies if I don't, I am willingly ignorant of sports, but at the event marking the 50th anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade on Friday, he had some very good comments, frankly. He says this. Listen to his logic.

He says, it's amazing to me that God actually used football to shine light on the subject of life for us all. The fact that you had Damar Hamlin, he said, Damar Hamlin made a routine tackle and his heart stopped beating right on the field. It could have been tragic, but something miraculous happened. The team, the medical staff rushed out. They got Damar's heart started again, but you know what? That wasn't the real miracle. The real miracle was the reaction of everybody to that. All across the country, people started praying. And that is interesting because, you know, we just had a Supreme Court case where a high school football coach who had, after the games, he would go out to the middle of the football field, kneel, and silently pray.

You know, we just had a woman arrested for silently praying in front of an abortion clinic. We can't have a coach doing that at the 50-yard line. So they fired him, and he fought it, and he went to the Supreme Court, and he won. But that's how far we have gone to try to push God out of our lives, and especially in things like team sports. And so this coach, Tony— I'm told by those in the know in chat it's pronounced Dun-gee. Dun-gee. Okay. Well, I figured. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you, chat, for correcting me. So Tony Dun-gee looks at this, and he understands. If you talk about this, they're going to fire you in the public schools and so forth on this mistaken idea that the exercise of religion is not protected. That's not establishing a religion. That is exercising your faith. It's a big difference. Establishing a religion is to say, as we had in the historical context,

established religion looked like this. You had every one of the states initially, colonies, we'll say, had an established religion. In Maryland, it was Catholic. In Rhode Island, it was Baptist. In some of religion. In Maryland, it was Catholic. In Rhode Island, it was Baptist. In some of the New England states, it was Congregationalist. And they were established. And you had to attend.

You were forced to attend, or you were penalized. And you had to give money to that church, or you were penalized. That's why Jefferson said, no, we're going to have religious liberty. We're not going to do that. And so some of them first started getting rid of the attendance, and then some of them eventually, they got rid of the money, but it did not end with the Constitution. That practice of having an established state religion persisted into the 1830s and, um, in Massachusetts and one of the other new England States, which is escaping me right now. Uh, but, uh, that established that,

that continued on for a long time. That's what establishment looks like. And I've made the argument and I've made it to Thomas Jefferson himself, uh, at Williamsburg many times. We'd go there, we'd go there pretty often, uh, from North Carolina and, and he would sometimes come down. He spoke at a think tank, um, the conservative think tank in Raleigh at one occasion. And so when the, they let questions from the audience come up, I would always harangue the guy. He was a very good Jefferson reenactor. I'd always harangue him about the similarity between establishing religion, which he opposed, and having state-run education, which he supported.

I said, do you realize that you're going to be compelling people to financially subsidize ideas that they find abhorrent? Because I find these ideas abhorrent that Lala Harris and other people are teaching in schools. The LGBT stuff, the grooming, the Marxist CRT stuff, I find that to be abhorrent. I don't want to have to pay for that. Even if we've now reached the stage of enlightenment where we are not compelled to attend, we are still compelled to provide financial support to these government schools, and I find that to be

antithetical and i said freedom of education and freedom of educational thought is the same as freedom of religion and freedom of religious thought and so we should have no government schools well i don't know about that you know it always do that, but I wasn't talking to him. I was talking to the audience. Anyway, so I'm glad that Tony Dungy, is that it? Okay, Tony Dungy said he saw God working in this because that was the key thing, everybody praying about this. You know, interestingly, nobody had a problem with that. That event with

Damar Hamlin showed people what was going on with the vaccine. It showed people that when things get tough, there's still a lot of prayer out there. And I think all of these things came together. You know, it was the understanding of what the vaccine is doing to people that, uh, brought everybody to their knees because all the NFL crew, as well as the, uh, most of the players had been vaccinated as there, but for the grace of God, go, I maybe my number is next. Uh. So God does work in mysterious ways, doesn't he? His wonder to perform. He plants his feet upon the waves and rides upon the storm. The contest between two playoff contenders was eventually canceled.

And the coach said, that is unbelievable. You've got millions of dollars of ticket money and advertising money. We're on the line, but because a life was at stake. Now here's where he talks about not the vaccine, but he's talking about the preciousness of life because they were Hamlin's life was at stake. People wanted to see that life saved. They prayed for him. They canceled the football game. He said, that's exactly why we are here today at the March for Life on Friday, because every day, innocent lives are at stake. The only difference is they don't belong to a famous athlete. They're not seen on national TV, but those lives are still important to God and in God's eyes. You know, it's interesting to me, this whole storyline that we've had since we came back from break.

Every person involved in this is black. We got Aretha Franklin. We got Tony Dungy. We have Lala Harris. And yet Planned Parenthood has focused on a black genocide. That was the outspoken statements from their founder, Margaret Singer at the very beginning. And of course, the father of the Bush clan,

Preston Bush was holding the money bag for her. He was the first treasurer. His name's right there on the first fundraiser from Planned Parenthood. So Prescott Bush. So yeah, when we look at this, it was always designed to be a black genocide. They wanted to put the abortion clinics in the black neighborhoods and the rest of the stuff. She said it over and over again. She was a eugenicist, Planned Parenthood until just recently. Always denied that, even though it was in print everywhere. Her comments were in print everywhere.

It was undeniable, but they continued to deny it. And so here we are. It is all about life, isn't it? The life of Daymar, the life of other children, and it is these corporations that seek to shut that down. Now, what he had to say about that, I thought was a beautiful analogy, talking about the preciousness of life. What if Daymar had been aborted, right? I mean, he's black. They would, you know, be in the target for Planned Parenthood. And he would not have been there in the first place. But sports editor David Zirin replied, I'm done with Tony Dungy and the way that the

NFL and the NBC coddle his right-wing extremism. His right-wing extremism now to care about innocent life. Well, fine. I'll take that label. I really don't care. I don't care if you call me a right-wing extremist. I don't care if you call me a conspiracy theorist. I believe certain things, and I'm not going to,

your labels are not going to make any difference to people, and I'm sure it's not going to matter to him either. This sports writer called Dungy an anti-gay bigot. What does that have to do with that? Well, it doesn't have anything to do with what he said at the Life thing. On Twitter last week, he posted but then deleted a tweet about students who identified as cats. Some people blasted that as transphobic. He later apologized.

He said, as a Christian, I want to be a force for love to everyone, a force for healing and reconciliation and not for animosity. Well, I just have to say that at that point, I disagree with Tony Dungy. Loving people is telling them the truth. As a Christian, we know that some people are going to be offended by Christ and by the gospel. Should we not tell them the truth about what is happening should we as many of these

religious christian leaders as they label themselves should we have told everybody go get the vaccine to love your neighbor or is loving your neighbor telling them this is a dangerous untested vaccine and you should not take it where how do we love our neighbor? Do we tell people who are in the throes of this fantasy world that want to identify as a cat? Do we tell them, come on, get up off your knees. God's got a better plan for your life. Don't pretend that you're a cat. Don't pretend that you're in the wrong body.

God's got a plan for your life. You're born a male, you're born a female. That's got a plan for your life. You're born a male. You're born a female. That's what God intended for you, and you'll be happier with that. Should we tell people the truth even though they will hate us for it or attack us for it? Isn't that what Jesus did? Isn't that what John the Baptist did? If they cut off our heads, we have to tell them the truth. And I think,

you know, I like what he had to say. He is highly respected and talked about a lot. Like I said, even though I didn't know how to pronounce his name, I've seen his name everywhere. But he's also indicative of a problem that is in Christianity right now. And that is, we are ashamed of the truth. We're so concerned about hurting somebody's feelings. And guess what? These people that you're concerned about hurting their feelings are perpetually offended about everything, including even Aretha Franklin's natural woman.

We have to stop walking on eggshells with these people. They need the truth just like everybody else does. They've been deceived, and we need to take them out of this deception. I often think when I talk about the deception, the fact that we don't struggle with flesh and blood, but with the powers behind this, the image that comes to my mind is always from the Lord of the Rings. Remember that? That was the guy's name. It was, um, uh, Theoden, right?

Rohan. And it was really well done in that, you know, I mean, his eyes are just glassed over, right? And that he is being manipulated and controlled by this, know foreign source or whatever he's like he's possessed by him in a sense and his eyes are just kind of glazed over and uh as gondolf is screaming at him you know basically doing a uh deliverance i guess right and you know he just comes to his senses these people are so deceived by their own lusts and by the other things that people have done to them, uh, that, uh, they really don't understand. And we're not doing them any favor to play along with it. Oh, okay. You're a

cat. I don't want to, uh, I don't want to offend you about that. We got to do what you see Gandalf doing right there. That's really the reality. And look at him. He doesn't like it. He's, get out of here. Leave me alone. And after a while, you see his eyes kind of clear up and he's okay. The truth is a liberating thing. Telling people the truth is really love. So try to understand the truth. We live in a society where people believe that there is no such thing as truth. And that's why we got people believing that they're cats. That's where this whole transgender thing came from. And if we're not careful, we're on the path to transhumanism. That's where the cat thing is going. Transhumanism, the metaverse, that's where this is all about.

Final thing before we take a quick break here. Sheila Jackson Lee defends her bill to make white people criticizing non-white people a criminal offense. Now, in this interview that she had on, um, you know, with joy read, joy read says, well, does this bill allow potential prosecution of people like Tucker Carlson?

Uh, and, um, Sheila Jackson Lee says, uh, the bill has nothing to do with speech. Oh, really?

It doesn't. Uh, she says, this is not criminalized speech. It's a crime bill, a crime law bill, which means that intent would have to be proved that what generated out of that speech or your intent was to provoke someone to violence and that violent act did occur. So if Carlson or anyone else chooses to speak in ugly terms, his speech is protected.

No, it isn't. No. What this is is a thought crime. Carlson or anyone else chooses to speak in ugly terms, his speech is protected. No, it isn't. No. What this is is a thought crime. This is making certain thoughts criminal. This is making certain ideas criminal. And speech is just an expression of those ideas that you have criminalized. They don't want us talking about the truth.

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And if you don't ask people donate, they won't. So, um, I'm asking you in my awkward way, I don't like to do that. And I guess, you know,

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We've had, as a matter of fact, I have not added these to the, and the things that came in yesterday as we talked Ingrid, S, Ronald C, Robbie M, David and Joan F, Bruce W, Russell and Sherry E, Tom and Nancy K, Mr. Davis, and John R. Thank you, all of you, for your support. And I want to single out out of that one, Tom and Nancy, they have been with us from the very beginning, something of family in a sense, because they've kept us informed as to what they're doing with homeschooling. Sent us this picture of, they took a photograph of artwork that was done by their young daughter that they're homeschooling. And I just wanted to pass along, we keep them in our prayers, and I just want to pass this along for all of you. Because, you know, one of the things that we were talking about with

Nights of the Storm is that there really is something of a family, and an extended family. And so he said he's got a lot of things that he's concerned about. He said, please pray for us. We had a flood from an adjacent apartment here. It's caused serious issues. Happened on Christmas Day. We missed being able to see relatives, but he's also worried about what is happening within his company. His company that he works with has as a client, some pharmaceutical companies. He's worried about a vaccine mandate being imposed that he may have to change jobs. And he's also worried, since he's homeschooling the kids, with the political environment that just changed with

more Democrats in charge in the state of Pennsylvania. He's concerned that that's going to impact them with homeschooling. So he's concerned about his job. He's concerned about where they live. And so please keep Tom and Nancy in your prayers. And that would be greatly appreciated by all of us. As we're talking about the mailbag and things that we've gotten, this was sent to me by Seth Hancock, who writes articles on Substack. And he wrote an article about some of this. This is a bill in Wyoming. And he said, this has been approved to move out of committee by a slim vote, five to four. This is a move to ban all vaccine and mask mandates for both government and business. It was put in by a new state representative, Jeanette Ward.

He said, who happens to be a friend of mine. I wrote about it in a piece on Biden continuing the COVID emergency. But first of all, the bill itself, as I said, it has cleared committee. He sent me a link to the news article there in Wyoming. And at first when she put it in, she had criminal penalties for people who tried to impose mandates, uh, government mandates or private business mandates. Uh, they removed that.

That was removed by a Democrat and then they changed it. It was broad in terms of, um, anti-discrimination based on any vaccination status. They narrowed it down by saying any, it now relates only to COVID-19 vaccines. So they made it simply about COVID vaccine mandates and they removed any criminal penalties from it. But it's still good to have that on there. And we should take what we can get,

learn that lesson from the left and then say, well, you know, we've already done this for COVID vaccines. This is going to apply to everything and move it to everything. That is what is to be pursued. But it was a Democrat who successfully stopped the punishment with an amendment, and he was one of four lawmakers to vote against the bill entirely in that committee, including a Republican who said that he was worried about repercussions from the federal government if the vaccine and masking requirements weren't adhered to. What? Where do they have the authority to do this?

Where is your backbone to stand up to usurped authority from the federal government? Oh, I don't want to offend them. And I don't want to offend big pharmaceutical companies. Probably what he was saying. Just didn't want to say that. I don't want to handcuff our hospitals and our health care facilities in the future, he said. I'm a little worried that if COVID becomes a more severe strain, we haven't controlled these. These vaccines haven't worked.

Oh, yes, but by all means, since you admit that the vaccines don't work, let's still mandate them for people, right? And the masks don't work either, so let's mandate them as well. This isn't about the disease. This is about control. Everything is about control. The 15-minute cities, taking away cars, the digital IDs, it's all about control. The 15-minute cities taking away cars, the digital IDs, it's all about control. So Seth Hancock has a sub stack and he put up this article, Biden regime renews COVID emergency as the big lie

continues. That's right. Just a few days ago, he said the Biden regime extended the COVID state of emergency as the fraud continues. And again, this is the, I think it's the fourth time that Biden has done it. No, he's been in office for two years. So it's the eighth time that he's done it. Trump did it four times. He did it once in December of 2020 after the election. And so Seth Hancock says, a few years ago, my friend Bill Ward wrote new lyrics to the tune,

The Song That Never Ends. Welcome, my friend, to the show that never ends. This is the fraud that never ends. It just goes on and on, my friend. Some people started believing it, not knowing what it was. They'll just keep repeating it forever, just because.

And so now they're going to push the variants. The Wall Street Journal is already pushing the fear of the variants. So it is good to say, you know, we're going to stop the COVID vaccine mandates and masks and all the rest of this stuff because they're not finished milking this COVID cow either. It is a cow that they have milked for unlimited authority. And that still goes on and on and on and will go on and on. So I want to talk a little bit about, because we don't have too much time left,

I want to talk a little bit about, I mentioned it yesterday, what was going on with speech issues and with this dispute between Crowder and the Daily Wire, which is Ben Shapiro's organization. First of all, the Democrats are now not just pushing censorship behind the back door, but now they're coming out front and talking about an amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United versus the Federal Election Commission that was made back in 2010. I know one of the guys, I worked with him in a group.

It was a small lobbying organization that was out of one of the western states. It was Montana, Wyoming. I can't remember now because it's been a while. But they won that case. And it's always been portrayed as something that was there to defend big business, but that wasn't the essence of what was there. Cause I knew one of the plaintiffs that was there, but, um, you know, when you look at the direct attacks on the first amendment, if you allow these people to continue with the obvious censorship, it gets more and more bold. And now they're doing things like that out in the open. But there's also things that are happening kind of behind the scenes.

One person tweeted out, 8th Century Woodchipper is his name on Twitter. The hardest thing in the world is to persuade normie cons. In other words, the usual, you know, run the mill conservatives. Hardest thing in the world is to persuade them that Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire are allowed on social media because their entire purpose is to keep you from entertaining forbidden opinions. And I think that is kind of interesting. And I think, you know, when we look at this back and forth with Crowder, one of the things that crowder put out uh he was angry about a contract that he said he was offered and he created an organization called stop big con he says um when we were fighting the

media entertainment industrial complex he said um uh we were told that um that quote-unquote content did not work on the right side of the spectrum, that an entertainment show would never work. Now, to be honest, I have not watched Crowder. And so any comments that I have about his comment about his content, it always came across a little snippets that I saw. It came across as an entertainment show that once in a while would throw in some real content, kind of like Joe Rogan and kind of like Joe Rogan.

He got offered a major contract, $50 million. I don't know how many years that was for, but it was a $50 million contract. Now he did not talk about that, but he talked about in his program, where he was very angry, was the fact that there were all these penalties in it. He said these contracts came with three, four, five ad reads per show,

which would fundamentally change what this show is. In other words, it would be a whole lot of ads throughout the show. And he said, if I fail to do that, there'd be a $250,000 reduction in fee per quarter, a million dollars a year. And he says, and then when you look at demonetization, if the show was boycotted or dropped by more than 50% of the advertising partners, the company is not able to replace within 90 days. The fee would be reduced by another 25%. He said, that's like telling the liberals, hey, boycotts work.

They work, and we will punish them for you. And that's exactly right. That's what you get into when you go to an ad-supported model. You're vulnerable to these boycotts, and they really do work. And this organization, Daily Wire, is funded strictly by these advertisers. You know, the ads that are placed on our podcast, I don't know anything about them. And they don't fill all the different spots that they could possibly fill because there's a lot of sponsors who won't advertise with us.

I mean, the first month we did it, Pfizer put ads on my program. Yes, I was for a moment. Good morning. America is brought to you by Pfizer. Yeah, I was brought to you by Pfizer for a couple of weeks till they realized what I was saying. Uh, but then they demonetized me promptly. He says, let me go on. He says, specifically YouTube demonetization. So, you know, he is on YouTube. So I can understand why they would assume that he plays ball with what YouTube demands, because he obviously does. If he didn't tread on, if he didn't cross some forbidden lines,

Crowder would not be on YouTube. But they have demonetized him as a warning, but they have not deplatformed him. So he said, well, I thought that this was a mistake because, you know, I've been demonetized for years there. But just understand the fact that Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire are not only on YouTube, but they are monetized by YouTube. They don't have any problem with what Ben Shapiro is doing. As a matter of fact, Ben Shapiro was pushing the vaccine until just recently. Why did he change?

Everybody sees what's coming. Scott Adams sees what's coming. Ben Shapiro sees what's coming. They're not going to tell you the full truth about it. Still. They won't tell you that, um, it's poison,

but they'll say, well, we shouldn't mandate it when in fact they were demanding that it be mandated for you. But anyway, he goes on with it. He goes, so let me just get,

we have, um, to the point where, you know, they, if you get a strike, they take 20%. If you get demonetized on Apple, they take another 10 or 20% or whatever.

He goes pretty soon. You realize that, you know, you've got only five to 15% of your contract left. In other words, he'd only have a mere two and a half million to seven and a half million dollars. I mean, it's hardly worth doing it for that, right? That's, uh, so, uh, anyway, it's, uh, he, he was always kind of towing the line. He'd say things like, in many instances, vaccines are a good idea. Digital vaccine passports are not.

That was what he was saying in April 2021 when I was telling you they're going to kill you. It's interesting to see. It's interesting to think about how this is set up. And I ran out of time because I really wanted to give you the take from the daily skeptic but we'll do that tomorrow and I want to thank Eric thank you very much for the tip says god bless you well god bless you appreciate the support The common man. They created common core to dumb down our children. They created common past to track and control us.

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