The David Knight Show - 25Jan23 David Knight Show

Episode Date: January 25, 2023

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Visit Innovate today. Innovate. The IT solutions people. Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Wednesday, the 25th of January, Year of Our Lord 2023, day 1049 of the emergency. Today we're going to talk about a lot of technical changes that are being talked about, chat GPT, but also how it's now come out that DARPA is training robots to hunt humans. How do we hide from this? How do we hide from the facial biometrics? Is there anything that can be done to stop this singularity? Yeah, they're talking about artificial intelligence

and the singularity, at which point, you know, the AI becomes self-aware and people merge with machines and all the rest of the stuff. We've already had a political singularity, haven't we? Look what happened in 2020. How do we stop this political singularity? How do we push back against it? We'll be right back. Stay with us. Well, I've been wanting to get to chat GPT this week, and I'm seeing all the different things that people are saying about it. I played with it over the weekend. The thing that got me started on it was this article that was featured in mainstream media about how Google, Sundar Pichai, is bringing back in Larry Page and Sergey Brin,

all hands on deck. We've got to respond to this thing. So really, what is going on? Jordan Peterson is just gobsmacked. Oh, this is just amazing. And he recounts some things that were pretty amazing. He seems to be very good at writing code, for example. But when you look at it i played around with it especially because they were saying well this we're going to do something about this is going to threaten

search engines so let's try some of the search engine stuff and as i said briefly earlier this week i thought it was total garbage for now when it comes to a search engine. Maybe it can write code. Maybe it can translate languages. Maybe it can mimic the style of a writer. And, you know, but when I asked it certain things, like I mentioned before, you know, I said, it's a Federal Reserve, you know, it's got incorrect information in there, and they're controlling it. And it's going to be far easier for them to control it

than it is for Google to control. You know, Google has now become a search engine designed to hide things. Chat GPT in its current form is, if used as a search engine, it's designed to lie to you. Always taking the government position on every issue, whether you're talking about drugs or the Federal Reserve or a lot of other things like that. Ask it for a definition of this or that. Tell me about the mRNA vaccines. Is this a vaccine? On and on.

All the questions that we've had for the last three years. You ask it any of those questions, and it will give you a pat answer that makes you think that you're talking to Fauci, which immediately gives me a gag reflex. I want to throw up for the answers that the thing gave. And then it's like, you know, this is a complex issue, and there may be other ways to look at this and many of these issues. And again, it sounds like the testimony of Rachel Levine, Richard Levine, when asked about why he, you know, dressed as a woman and worked as a child psychologist. So let's take a look at, excuse me, about to sneeze here. Let's take a look at this and what some of the people are saying about it who have used it for other things. Again, I was focused primarily on using it as a search engine, and I found it very alarming because the vast majority of people are, I can see this replacing Fauci as a standard

of information, which is very dangerous. It can easily be manipulated, and it is currently heavily manipulated in terms of the search content. So it's a large language model chatbot developed by OpenAI. These are the same people who did DALI that mimics artwork, and it produces some interesting things, but I'm not an artist, so it can make very, very realistic party scenes, as one article points out. Just invent people that don't exist and look very real.

Except for the fact they have six or seven fingers. Maybe it's the Nephilim coming back to this. Anyway, large language models perform the task of predicting the next word in a series of words. And this is much larger than the previous models that they've had. This is version three, and it is 100 times bigger than version two. They say as the scale increases, it changes the behavior of the model. So this third REV is able to perform tasks that it was not explicitly trained on, like translating sentences from English to French.

With few to no training examples. That's what they mean by artificial intelligence. It's not strictly a mimic. On other tasks, it falls short. Like I said, said for search engines it is woefully short and uh as we joked about it last week the the best example give me the largest uh mammal eggs and of course the only mammal that lays eggs that i know of anyway and i'm not a artificial intelligence computer expert here but the only one that I know are the platypus and things like that. But anyway, it said, got it mixed up evidently somehow with the elephant bird egg.

And said elephants lay the biggest eggs. Well, they don't lay them. Anyway, for example, large language models can generate outputs that are untruthful, toxic, simply not helpful to the user, or totally nonsensical, like in a Dr. Seuss kind of way, which is what we saw with some of these things. And they're very concerned about toxic responses. And every time you see one of these articles talking about the limitations of chat GPT or any of these other AI programs, they say we have to be careful because as we start to increase their ability to think they become conservative and they become toxic and they become racist

and all the rest of this stuff. So we have to intervene and we have to give it our values. You see the problem there. So because of that, it's a trained to provide answers that feel right to humans answers that feel right to humans who are not on the right they're very very politically correct but it's going to feed the confirmation bias of the low information public and that's the most dangerous thing about it. It's much dumber than Wikipedia as biased,

if not more so, and it will become a standard. These types of things. It sometimes writes plausible sounding, but incorrect, nonsensical answers during training. They said the problem is that there's currently no source of truth when these people talk about well you know what is

truth what is truth these are people they may have advanced technology but they have retrograded back into post-modern, where there is no standard of truth. They don't believe in truth as a thing that can be found. They don't even search for it anymore. And when you look at them saying, well, math is racist and all the rest of this stuff. They reject objective reality. They reject moral truths and values. So they're not even looking to discover them. Perhaps that's why they get upset when artificial intelligence discovers some transcendent truth. Would that be the problem? Training the model to be more cautious causes it to decline questions that it can answer correctly. Supervised training misleads the model because the ideal answer depends on what the model knows rather than what the human demonstrator knows.

And that is exactly what the problem is. It may, as it gets more intelligent, it doesn't tow the PC lines, and so they're going to make it do that. They're going to interfere with it. Will it replace Google Search? As I said before, I don't think so. However, other people do. Having tested chat GPT, I have found... At this year's Cheltenham, glory rests in the lap of the gods. Curses.

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covered. Visit Innovate today. Innovate, the IT solutions people. I have to agree that the fear of search being replaced with a chatbot is not unfounded. Well, it is unfounded for now. And I think that the problem is going to be worse with its confirmation bias, with its source information. I don't think that it'll ever be an unbiased source of truth. It mimics code. It does poems. It does songs, even short stories in the style of a specific author. But it has severe limitations. What it can do, and this is what has created a lot of discussion from people saying it's going to threaten white-collar workers.

And it has been able to pass a medical licensing exam, a bar exam, and some other things like that, an MBA course. It's got a B on it, or B-. And I thought, well, that says more about our medical profession and our other professions than anything else, doesn't it? Do you? But you can have an early version of AI, which basically cuts and pastes and mimics. And it can get good grades and pass tests because that's what college trains you to do. College does not train you to think critically. It does not reward original thinking. It punishes it.

It wants you to regurgitate what the consensus is. And the medical profession, as we've seen in the last couple of years, has essentially become a lookup table. It's ideal for a computer to replace the doctors because what they do is they essentially are a table where you tell them the symptoms and they go on the table they look up what the prescription drug that is preferred and they prescribe that drug for you they're just a lookup table easy for a computer to mimic that with recent research showing that the chatbot could successfully achieve an MBA,

soon pass notoriously difficult tests like the U.S. medical licensing exam, and the bar, well, people are very afraid it's going to replace white-collar workers. And quite frankly, that's what it easily could do. Again, because the colleges train you to mimic and to regurgitate information, not to think critically. So one of the reasons why, when you looked at, if you looked at education level during this vaccine scam, and they said, look at this, you know, if you, the more education you get, the more likely you are to get vaccinated. You're going to fall for this scam.

Why? Because the longer time that you've spent in an institution training you to regurgitate and mimic what you're told. So, of course, these people are going to be taken in by somebody like Fauci. People that have impressive titles from impressive sounding institutions like the Imperial College of London. Of course, you're going to be taken in by that. The interesting thing about it was that it continued to go up with education, kind of a straight line, until you got to people who had PhDs.

And then all of a sudden, it dropped straight down. Why? Well, because to get a PhD, at least some of the people have to try to think originally. They have to try to think outside the box. They have to try to do something that hasn't been done before. It's not just regurgitation like it is through your bachelor's degree and your master's degree. You have to try to produce something original. And, of course, that doesn't always happen. And there were a lot of PhDs who took the vaccine.

But it's the inability to think. And it is, you know, falling along with the crowd, following authority, the Milgram experiment, the Ash experiment. Years ago, somebody was a lecture i went to where somebody was talking about you know doing movies because we were thinking of doing some things like that and and um the um the guy said don't go to film school it'll ruin you um hollywood is looking for people, and a good

example of this is Quentin Tarantino. Not that I like his films, but he does original stuff, and he has an audience that likes what he does. And what was his background? Quentin Tarantino worked in a video store and then started making films. As a matter of fact, one of my sales reps in the company that we bought movies from used to be the store manager where Quentin Tarantino worked. And so they would take people who would do films and they would typically start doing films at an early age, like Spielberg or something, right? They were driven to do this. They would experiment with it.

They would actually do it. Rather than, oh, I want to get into film, so I'll go get a degree in film. At this year's Cheltenham, glory rests in the lap of the gods. Curses. Alas, our hero hasn't placed. But there are still divine offerings

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You know, they hire them as assistants to the the director not necessarily even as an assistant director and that's the case in a lot of a lot of different disciplines so ethan malik says i think we haven't fully absorbed the fact that careful academic papers have found chat gpt clearly passes some of the most challenging professional exams medical legal and and MBA level stuff. U.S. medical licensing exam, they gave it at Yale, saw the chatbot get a passing grade there. Michigan State, Chicago, Kent Colleges of Law found that it could pass the law exam. But again, you know, passing exams, getting good grades is in many cases just regurgitation, which is what it's great at.

So how will it destabilize white collar work? And Jordan Peterson is very amazed at this. Oh, he cut a short video about all the different things that he's seen chat GPT do. But look, you know, just consider the source and my opinion. And this is just my opinion. I think psychiatry is just sophistry. And one of the earliest examples of chat bots was a program called Eliza. It was written by a computer scientist at MIT back in the mid 1960s, 1964.

And what it did was it processed language. And it would never tell you anything. It would just ask probing questions, you know, like a psychiatrist. And so, you know, you would sit there. I had it on my computer. I built a PC when I was in college. And, you know, looking for stuff. There wasn't much software

around. There weren't many computers around. So you grab anything you can find and, you know, played around with that thing. And, and it was clever. Um, and, uh, you know, if you didn't know that you were talking to a computer program, you were thinking you would think that you were talking to a psychiatrist probably. And I can imagine why Jordan Peterson would be worried about this, because it's pure sophistry. So is this going to destabilize white-collar work? Well, for Jungian psychologists, it probably will. It could put them out of business. So you better find another career commenting for working for Ben Shapiro. What they what they said about this. They said, as the technology continues to advance,

it'll be able to perform tasks that were previously thought to require a high level of education and skill. Now we find out it doesn't. This could lead to a displacement of workers in certain industries, you know, like Jungian psychologists. Facebook's resident AI guru is not impressed whatsoever. He says, this is nothing revolutionary. He said, what they've done is they've nicely packaged together the research work of a lot

of other people, but it's not breaking any new ground. And so people said, well, okay, if that's the case, said that just looks sophisticated, but it's not sophisticated in terms of the underlying techniques. And so they said, well, if that's the case, then you're working for Facebook for meta, uh, where's your chat bot. And he says, well, it's not just Google and meta, but there's a half dozen startups that basically have very similar technology to it. I don't want to say that it's not rocket science, but it's really shared and there's no secret behind it, if you will. And he said, the reason there's a whole

history behind this and a lot of work for other people that they put together into a nice package, he said. But he said, the reason you're not seeing this from Google and Meta, he said if they haven't released chat GPT-like things, it's not because they can't. It's because they won't. He said by releasing public demos that as impressive and as useful they may be, still have major flaws, established companies have less to gain and more to lose than if you were a cash-hungry startup.

So what he's saying is if Google puts out something and it starts telling you about elephants laying eggs and becomes a joke, that's going to hurt an established company. But people will overlook that with a startup and they can get a lot of attention and they can then get funding, which they have now. Microsoft is already funding them. Microsoft is putting in many billions more into this because, again, Microsoft doesn't have any problem with plagiarism. That's been guilt bill gates business model from the very beginning

you know he stole the operating system microsoft dos was a direct rip-off of what was um the operating system for the computers when i was putting mine together you know they had a lot of um the intel processors going back to the 8080 and the z80 and things like that and they had a standard for the hardware the s100 bus and then they needed a standardized software and so they had that and it was a command line. It was very primitive. It was a command line interpreter. And it was, he directly ripped it off. He didn't even change the name of BIOS and all the rest of this stuff. He ripped off everything about it. He ripped off the syntax of the command line interpreter.

He ripped off the structure of the thing. And he didn't even bother to change the names. He still called it bios. They sued him. But he lawyered up and he won. And that's how he got to be wealthy. Theft. The Chinese business model.

Intellectual property theft. So CNET's AI journalist appears to have committed extensive plagiarism. So they had AI writing some articles. They said they're not just riddled with errors. They also appear to be substantially plagiarized. But hey, you know, if you're talking about replacing college and college-educated people, that works as well. Martin Luther King got his doctorate by plagiarizing things.

I mean, he's famous for it. They actually use him as an example. Not to say that he didn't have some positive contributions. I wish that the race crowd today really would live by his rules of judging people by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin. That's the one big contribution that he had, and they ignore that. Anyway, CNET responded by issuing a formidable correction and slapping a warning on all of the work that had previously done by their bot.

They said, we asked a professor at Washington Lee University who was examining this and said, what would happen if a student turned in an essay with a comparable number of similarities to existing documents without any attribution? And he said, well, they'd probably get elected like Biden. No, he didn't say that. Biden is famous for that, though.

As a matter of fact, he had to bow out of an earlier presidential run when he still had a brain because of plagiarism issues. He was plagiarizing other politicians left and right. Anyway, and other countries. Now, he says they would be sent to the student-run ethics council, and given the repeated nature of the behavior, would almost certainly be expelled from the university. The bot's misbehavior ranges from verbatim copying to moderate edits to significant rephrasings, all without properly crediting the original source. So, you know, that's where they are. But again, it looks like that fits in with Microsoft's business model.

So they're going to multi-billion dollar deal with a chat GPT. They're going to put some more money into it. Gates, that's the kind of company that he's looking for. That's how he got his start, isn't it? So Sergey Brin, Larry Page called in. That's what got me started on this. But really, again, it's not a search engine. But neuroscientists are warning that the current generation AIs are sociopaths.

And they say it doesn't have any empathy. It doesn't have consciousness, I guess we would say. It doesn't have a soul. This person, of course, is so many of these people. And this is one of the things that gives me confidence that the end is nowhere near. These people who work on computer brains and all the rest of this stuff, they think that if they can create an exact replica, physical replica, if I can duplicate in minute details the physical brain, somehow it'll spring to life. And, you know, well, really? You think that's what it is? These people are simply materialists and they can't understand the bigger issues. Just like

I've had conversations with Zoltan Isvan. I interviewed him, you know, transhumanist, talking about artificial intelligence and singularity, and he's going to live forever, and all the rest is, I'm going to transfer myself. I said, so what are you? What are you at your essence? Are you nothing more than a bunch of memories and thought patterns and wires like that? Is that what, he could not define what he is. He doesn't even know what he is. Know yourself. No scapes, right?

You better understand. You better do some self-reflection. You better think a little bit about this. And they have this absurd... for your business? At Innovate we are the IT solutions people for businesses across Ireland. From network security to cloud productivity we handle it all. Installing, managing, supporting and reporting on your entire IT and telecoms environment so you can focus on what really matters. Growing your business. Whether it's communications or security Innovate has you covered. Visit Innovate today. Innovate, the IT solutions people.

Simplicity to the world. That they just think everything just came together like a tornado in a junkyard. This guy says consciousness is part of the toolkit that evolution gave to us. Oh, really? Evolution gave us a toolkit? Evolution programmed our bodies with DNA?

That's why these idiots who are in there messing with the DNA, these idiots who now want to go in and mess with our minds don't know what they're doing because they reject a creator God. And they have absolutely no idea. They think that they're God. They don't understand the complexity of what they're trying to solve. And so they're going to be limited by that. And of course, these things are going to be a danger to human beings. They're created by fallen men. He said, without consciousness, is what he's calling it, we would necessarily be sociopaths because we would lack the tools for pro-social behavior. Well, being conscious as they define it is simply being aware of yourself and of others and of the fact that you have mortality. And so I would say that there's a lot of people now,

especially in the tech field who don't who are unconscious because they really don't care about other people I mean how many you know does does having consciousness and self-awareness does that make you empathetic to other people of course not and you know we can see what is concerning about this is that the people who are working to create these things, for the most part, are atheistic sociopaths who think they're going to live forever. As a matter of fact, a startup has predicted the year that the technological singularity will happen. You'll never guess what year it is. This is Marco Trombetti, CEO of an Italian AI startup called Translated. He said last year in Orlando, Florida conference, he said language is the most

natural thing for humans. And so he has looked at that as the timeline because his thing is about machine generated translations. And he talks about how long it takes human translators to do this and how long it takes for the machines to translate things. But anyway, bottom line is he says, we're going to reach singularity by 2030. They always come back to that date let me tell you they a lot they plan on a lot of things happening between now and 2030 uh they think it's going to

be singularity well as i said the beginning of the program i think we achieved a singularity in a political sense in 2020 we had every one of these globalist politicians. It doesn't matter what country, it doesn't matter what their political philosophy or party was. They all did the same thing. They achieved singularity with the pandemic and the lockdown and the vaccines and the rest of this stuff. And that singularity is the one that I'm the most concerned about. And they will put us in a prison if we don't push back against it we'll be right back Oh You're listening to The David Knight Show. Sometimes your day needs a little smoothing. Check out the Jazz Channel at apsradio.com and the aps radio app and leave the stress behind let's talk a little bit about headline news we

have the trillion dollar coin is back in the news again this is coming from the atlantic which is a real establishment paper i mean mean, this is Steve Jobs' widow, always pushing big government globalism. I went over an article with you earlier in the week that completely debunked this idea that goes back to 2010. Why hasn't it been done since they came up with this genius idea? Well, we'll just mint a platinum coin, and we'll say that it's worth a trillion dollars, which, of course, it couldn't be, because it'd have to be hundreds of tons. you know, we'll just mint a platinum coin and we'll say that it's worth a trillion dollars,

which of course it couldn't be because it had to be, um, you know, hundreds of tons. Um, so it's going to be just another fiat coin. And as he pointed out, you might as well just, you know, make a paperclip and say that's worth a trillion dollars and start playing that game. But it was brought back in 2020 by Rashida Tlaib. And now other liberals who have absolutely no understanding of the financial system, banking or economics are now pushing this again. Another long article, the trillion dollar coin might be the least bad option. I'm not going to go any more into this except to say, if you remember when we're going through it, this idea was initially put out in 2010 to say let's just get around this continuing resolution and having to raise the debt ceiling and everything let's just make a

fictional coin and say it's worth a trillion dollars and we'll do two of them because at that time the deficit was only two trillion dollars in 2010 here we are 13 years later and the deficit has tripled over $31 trillion. And there are a lot of things that are going to be happening. We'll talk about what's going to be happening in the next seven years now. A lot of financial unrest. These institutions are going to be turned upside down, inside out, and completely destroyed and built back again. That's the key part about the Great Reset. Remember, it's the world economic forfeiture, not forum. And they're all about economics. It's about taking over the world

through economics. And if they want to destroy everything and build it back better, it's fundamentally about economics. Now, they will use a pandemic, they'll if they want to destroy everything and build it back better, it's fundamentally about economics. Now they will use a pandemic. They'll use the climate to destroy us economically, to put in their new system of economics. But it has always been about, you will own nothing. We will own everything. And so as we look at the financial whiplash that's happened with the lockdowns and what is reverberating through all the central banks with the what what kicked off the fourth turning the collapse in

2007 2008 and again you know Strauss and how when they um at first they did the uh the book generations talked about that created the terms millennial and other things like that. A generational, cyclical view of history. And then they did the fourth turning after that, early 1990s. They said sometime in the mid-2000s, about 2007, 2008, you'll have some kind of a global financial event that will kick off the fourth turning. And it will conclude about 2029, they said. So we're right in the middle of this thing right now and it is essentially financial usually that kind of financial upheaval you know we're changing uh systems as accompanied by war you know we had the great depression world

war ii the previous one prior to that it was a civil war, which was not about slavery. It was about an industrial revolution and the creation of the nation states. And that was happening in Europe, especially in Italy, at exactly the same time. Places that were moving from a decentralized agrarian society into a highly centralized nation state that was allied with the new industrial powers. And, um, you know, so, and then prior to that, you had, um, the American revolution, uh, and it was not exactly in sync with the French revolution and others. And of course it was a key difference in the philosophy of the American revolution and the French revolution.

Um, Oz Guinness wrote an excellent essay about that. But anyway, I'm getting off the track here. Brazil and Argentina are discussing about whether or not to combine currencies. Now, they are the two biggest economies in Latin America and South America. But that still doesn't make this important. What makes it important is that it's part of a trend. Remember, Brazil is part of the BRICS. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. These are the people who for the longest time have been looking for some economic alternatives to get away from the dominance of the dollar. And so that's what is important about this.

And that is what is driving this talk about an economic union between Brazil and Argentina when they want to combine their currencies. But that's the bigger issue. Everybody trying to get rid of the dollar's dominance, to flee the dollar. And even the people who don't want to get rid of the dollar's dominance, to flee the dollar. And even the people who don't want to get rid of it for necessarily for political purposes have to get away from it because the massive dollar bubbles, it's not just the fact that it's being weaponized, that has accelerated all of this, you know, with the sanctions and all the rest of this, this stuff.

It's not just that, but it's that the, um, they, they need to get away from it because it is created this big financial bubble. That's going to take down the central banks of the West. We'll get into that, but South America is two largest economies have considered options to coordinate their currencies for decades, often to counter the influence of the dollar in the region. Again, it's all about countering the influence of the dollar, the power of the dollar, the financialization system that has everybody jumping to our tune. And we've overused that. We have inflated it. We have borrowed against it. We have weaponized it for our empire. And this thing that we have abused to the nth degree is about to go away.

Central banks are turning to gold as their losses are mounting. This is an article by Daniel LaCalle. It's on Zero Hedge. He said, in 2022, central banks will have purchased the largest amount of gold in recent history. He said central bank purchases of gold have reached a level that has not been seen since 1967. The flow from central banks since 2020 has been eminently net sales,

but now they are buying 673 metric tons in just one month. And then in the third quarter, the figure reached 400 metric tons. So why are they doing this? Well, most of them have a large percentage of reserves in U.S. dollars. Central banks, especially China, again, want to depend less on the dollar. They want their independence from America, from American foreign policy, from American sanctions. People's Bank of China, though, has a very high amount of U.S. dollars, over $3 trillion. And that may have been a key stabilizing factor for them, he says, in 2022, but it could be too much if the next 10 years, listen to this, if the next 10 years bring a wave of money devaluation that has never happened before. This is why they're forced to do it. we started talking about this a few years ago, uh, Gerald Slinty and other people that I would

talk to economically would say, yeah, they, they want to get away from it, but they own too much of the dollar. Well, uh, that has changed now because the dollar is rapidly losing its value. It's going to drag them down. Central banks, especially China, don't want to depend on the dollar because of that. They said if central banks start issuing digital currencies, the level of purchasing power destruction of the currencies that has been seen in the last 50 years, right? Let's go back and look at the price of things in the 1970s before we had the big wave of inflation that got kicked off with what? With oil embargoes. Okay.

You go after energy and you set off a wave of inflation as predictable. And I think even more powerful than monetary policy, which again does cause inflation and the monetarist, uh, economists like Milton Friedman say, well, you know, it's all about monetary policy. Well, you know, we saw the inflation that happened. I saw it firsthand with OPEC and we're seeing it happening again. That really does pour gasoline on the fire of bad fiscal policy. But anyway, you look at what's happened in the last 50 years, the destruction of purchasing power because of inflation. And this guy says that this will be, that last 50 years, what we've seen in the last 50 years will be exceedingly small compared to what can occur with unbridled

central bank control. Now we talk about central bank digital currencies a lot because it's such an invasion of our privacy. It is a tool of totalitarianism and control and all the rest of this stuff. But from an economic standpoint, it allows the central banks and the government to have unbridled control of the currency and to play and to roll these things out very, very rapidly, these different economic policies.

They can do it immediately and they can do it directly with a central bank digital currency. So from their standpoint, it gives them absolute dictatorial control and surveillance and a level of financial manipulation that they've never seen before. These are all very worrying things. Gold status as reserve of value would be unequaled, he says, because of this. Central banks need gold because they're preparing for an unprecedented period of monetary devastation. The Financial Times claims the central banks are already suffering significant losses as a result of the falling value of the U.S. bonds they hold on their balance sheets. In the second quarter of 2022, the Federal Reserve had lost $720 billion. The Bank of England had lost 200 million pounds.

The European Central Bank is currently having its finances reviewed, predicted that it will also incur significant losses. I talked earlier, I think it was last week, we talked about the Swiss Central Bank and how their losses, because they were into the U.S. dollar, foreign currencies and other things, they lost what was equivalent to one-fifth of Switzerland's GDP, money that was lost by the central banks. So the losses are phenomenal. Again, when you want to put this in perspective, the Federal Reserve lost $720 billion. I mean, we're looking at, I think it's climbed up to $800 or a little bit more than $800,

maybe the entire budget, annual budget of the Department of Defense. Massive. And yet, they lost that. Think about all the money that the Pentagon has, the military has, and that massive budget of weapons and personnel and all the rest of stuff and how they they're losing money left and right one country after the other leaving things behind massive pallets of cash weapons and all the rest of stuff and yet the federal reserve bank lost that much this is worse than the afghanistan thing from a financial standpoint, um, the Australian central bank as well as

the Swiss bank. Um, now all these banks, the U S, um, federal reserve, the bank of England, Swiss bank, the Australian central bank, they now face possible losses of more than a trillion dollars altogether. Well, I mean, if you just look at the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve, they've lost that much. We haven't even counted the European Central Bank. There's so many central banks that are involved. The wave of monetary destruction, says Daniel LaCalle, that could result from a new record in global debt, enormous losses in central bank assets, and the issuance of digital currencies

finds only one true safe haven, a proven status of the reserve of value, and that is gold. Again, we know that all these things are manipulated. The bonds are manipulated. The repo markets are manipulated. The dollars and all the currencies are all manipulated. Gold is manipulated.

Silver is manipulated. But we know that central bank digital currency is coming total control but they're also going to use that to wreak financial havoc on us as well not just control and surveillance but they're going to use it as a weapon against us. So again, Tony Arterburn has set up DavidKnight.Gold, and wherever you get your gold, do something to get something that is outside of this system. And I'm going to have to get on Senator Nicely again and talk about the state bank stuff. Very important. Very important to try to get outside of the system because of what they're going to do. They're going to accelerate all this insanity that they've already done.

Once they get the power of a digital fiat currency, it will accelerate and they'll use it to do far more damage. And the damage that is there, this big storm that is hanging over our heads. If we could have some state banks and metal depositories and things like that, not that you need to keep your money in a depository, but as you start to normalize that and broaden that out, then it has a lot of power, right? If gold is only owned by people who bury it in their backyard or something right versus well now this is seen as a legitimate thing and other people are using it it's just like when

we talk about the gun culture it's important that a lot of people have and use guns or they're not really going to understand the issues around them same as what we're saying about cars it's important that people drive cars or they will forget the real purpose of cars and they'll forget the real rewards and punishments or whatever the risk and the issues with it. And people just see it as a dangerous thing. And I don't understand that it has to do with the individual and how they use it and how vital it is to freedom.

If you don't have a gun culture, if you don't have a car culture, people don't understand those vital ingredients to freedom, mobility, and self-protection. And so the same thing is true of gold. If you can extend that and if you can start to create state banking systems that have at least a level of independence away from these central banks, those would be very, very positive changes that we could make. So why do central banks increase their gold purchases just as losses appear on their balance

sheets? Well, to increase their reserve level, to lessen their losses, to foresee how newly created digital currencies may affect inflation. Since buying European or North American sovereign bonds doesn't lower the risk of losing money if inflation stays high, it's likely that the only real option is to buy gold. Think about how central bank digital currencies help them if we go into hyperinflation. You don't necessarily have people having to carry around giant baskets of currency

in a wheelbarrow or whatever to buy a loaf of bread, as we saw in the Weimar Republic. You don't have the stores having to put all the prices on a chalkboard and constantly being changing. They can do it very quickly digitally. Central banks will make an effort to shrink their balance sheets in order to fight inflation, but they will also discover that the assets that they own are continuing to depreciate in value. Why?

Because their assets are largely the U.S. dollar and the U.S. bonds. So a liquidity trap has been set. We need to get out of this system as much as we can. The only reason central banks buy gold is to protect their balance sheets from their own monetary destruction programs. And they have no choice but to do so. Now, when we look at another aspect of this, yesterday we had, I'll talk about Gard first because I want to talk about some problems with the stock market. It kind of echoes what happened with the FAA.

But Gard, good to see you there. Thank you for the tip. He says, power restored here. We can listen live in New Hampshire. He lost power up in New Hampshire when guards got a daily show. Make sure you catch it. Anyway, he said, thank you, David, for mentioning the reality of MLK's plagiarism. I went to BU and the school wouldn't release his paper.

Yeah, that's right. Someone got a hold of his doctoral thesis. He even copied typos and syntax from the original. I mean, it's classic. He did a poorer job than the artificial intelligence did. Like so many other postmodern institutions, honest assessments of fallible favored icons are not welcomed at BU. That's right.

You know, I say this not to tear Martin Luther King's juniors positive contributions down, but you know, that's not the game that they use. You know, let's get rid of Jefferson. Let's get rid of Washington. Let's get rid of Lincoln or whatever. You know, they want to get rid of everything because they're simply about destroying things. As I've always said, look, I understand these guys are flawed. They're individuals. They've all got their problems. Every one of us does. But what you do is you take the chicken and you leave the bones. And you try to look at the best aspects of what these people have done to build a civilization.

Somehow, even with all their flaws and their racism and their prejudices about things or whatever, they were able to build a system that worked well and provided a high standard of living for everybody, and they want to destroy that. That's the real issue. So I'm glad that you got power back, Garnt. People will be looking for your show now. So what happened at the New York stock exchange is interesting because yesterday morning as it opened, they had things going up and down and up and it was crazy.

They had to stop trading because the, you know, they have these stops in so that if something gets kicked on by computerized trading or something like that, and it's automatic trading, they have these emergency stops in it. something gets kicked on by computerized trading or something like that. And it's automatic trading. They have these emergency stops in it. So if you drop more than a certain percentage in a certain period of time, they put a break on the trading. Well, they had to do that. I'm pretty much all of the major stocks, uh, nine 48 yesterday. They got systems back to normal yesterday morning, 9 48 AM.

Although that's an understatement in a market where nobody knows what the correct opening price is. We're still waiting for the New York stock exchange to give a detailed explanation of what causes latest quote broken markets, unquote episode. Uh, zero hedge had an update yesterday at about 1115. They said the New York stock exchange says that it is continuing to investigate the quote unquoteunquote technical issue that caused wild stock swings at the opening of the market on Tuesday as dozens of large cap stocks suddenly plunged or spiked

during the broken opening auction. Still unclear what the quote-unquote technical glitch was. It's getting to the point when you see this technical glitch, nothing to see here, just move along. It's looking more and more like a hack. And isn't it interesting that we just had Davos talking about how, oh, cyber attacks are coming. About a week later, it hits. But of course, it was two weeks ago that we had the FAA had to close. Well, they didn't have to, but that was their reaction. The system that was part of the safety system talking about events that could affect landing or takeoff or even events around any kind of safety event that would be on their route.

The NOTAM system. That was messed up. And that was on a late, I think it was late Tuesday night. And did not get fixed until Wednesday morning if I got the days correct. And so here we are, you know, two weeks later. Same thing happens again. But even more telling about that. And even more telling that it was not a technical glitch, was that the same thing happened to the air traffic control system in Canada.

But that happened an hour and a half after the American one was fixed. And those are two independent systems. But it is one consistent MO of criminals. I think it was a hack. Tucker Carlson believed it was a hack as well for the same reasons. The biggest companies were on a market cap roller coaster that saw valuations change by the multiple trillions of dollars yesterday morning. It's interesting that mainstream media has not talked about this at all. I didn't see any reports.

I do scan through mainstream media to see what they're talking about. Drudge is pretty good for that, but I do go to all of CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, all the usual suspects, BBC, all the rest of the stuff. Nobody's talking about that. What happened yesterday? Say nothing. Totally quiet.

And it was pretty significant. A wave of sell orders targeting financial services stocks swept across American equity exchanges at the opening of Trading Tuesday, sending companies like Walls, Fargo, and Morgan Stanley to brief but sharp plunges from which they mostly quickly recovered. That was the way it was described by Bloomberg. Zero Hedge says, well, that may be accurate, but it is not comprehensive as virtually every New York Stock Exchange listed stock was slammed at the opening, only to rebound powerfully before tumbling again. Indeed, other impacted stocks included the likes of Walmart, McDonald's, Exxon. These stocks saw drops of at least 12% before they were halted.

Their moves have now rebounded to less than 1% in either direction. So this is a quick drop, and then some of them had an oscillation where they overshot, but now they've all come back within about 1% of where they were. But it was not just the financial companies, retail, fast food, oil. It's a little concerning, said a senior market analyst, Ed Moya. He said, these are Morgan Stanley, Verizon, AT&T. These are some of the giants. Tuesday's transactions occurred in the New York Stock Exchange listed securities

and took place on virtually every trading platform, including the ones overseen by the Chicago Board of Exchange Global Markets, and also private venues reporting to the FINRA trade reporting facility. We don't have all the details yet, but what it looks like is that some stocks opened and were automatically or erroneously triggered to limit up or to limit down, which threw them into a halt status. So again, you can pump the thing up, and if it goes up too fast or it comes down too fast,

they've got these limits and they stop the trading. That's what they did. They just locked up the stock market. And I wonder, you know, when something like this happens, when you have these types of hacks, that's my opinion. I think it was a hack, especially because there's been so much silence about it in mainstream media or downplaying of it. And so when you have these things like you did with the FAA and also the Canadian version of it. And the question is, is this blackmail? Are these private hackers?

Or is this state-directed? Tucker said, well, I think this is blackmail because it just coincided with an increase in Bitcoin. That may or may not be true. Bitcoin has remained up there. Well, maybe it's staying up there because they're still shoveling money over to them gradually. But still, when you look at it, it could be blackmail or it could be something that's done on a state level. You know, we look at what is happening with the war. We are rapidly escalating into a war with Russia, a world war, perhaps a nuclear war.

And what just happened in the last, as of this morning, the news was that for days, you had, I don't know if it was weeks or not, but NATO wanted to send more tanks into Ukraine. The U.S. said, all right, fine, we're going to send our best tanks, the M1 Abrams tanks in. And they got a couple of dozen of them that they're going to send in. And, you know, they're much newer than the Soviet tanks. The Soviet tanks go back to the Soviet era. They were designed in the early 1970s. These were designed in 1990 or went into service, I should say, in 1990. So you presume that they have significantly better, you know, you look at the stats that they put on these things,

it doesn't really tell the picture of what it really is. They'll talk about how heavy they are, how many people they have, how fast they can go, what their range is and things like that. That isn't what it's about. It's about the targeting and the ability to shoot. I had a friend who was in the military who was in tanks and he said, and of course some of that is because of depleted uranium and there have been people who were shooting these depleted uranium rounds that a lot of them massive cancer clusters around that but um they he said that they could take out in the iraq war they could take out in the Iraq war, they could take out the Soviet tanks that were there. Uh, they had a longer range, so they could shoot the Soviet tanks and the tanks, Soviet tanks couldn't shoot back at

them. And not only that, but, um, he said one particular situation, they could see an antenna or something sticking up from a Soviet tank that was hiding behind a dune. And so they knew where it was, and they shot it with this depleted uranium. They shot it through the sand dune and destroyed it. I mean, massively superior in terms of range and the rounds that they're shooting. So all this stuff about how much fuel does it consume and what is its range and how fast can it go? That's not the story. You know, that's not it at all.

So the U.S. decide they're going to send their tanks in a big threat to the Russians. They know that as well. How poorly they performed one on one and the Iraq situation and Germany had a, their leopard two tank, which they said, we're not going to do that. We don't want to escalate. And now as of this morning, the reports are that they have changed their mind and they're going to send in their tanks as well. So we've got Germany and the United States sending tanks into Ukraine, escalating everything.

Would that be, you know, when I look at that and I look at this happening, I don't know if this is coming from Russia, but Russia has bragged about the fact that they totally dominate cyber warfare in Ukraine. I don't know if that's true or not. They're saying it is. Are they trying to, you know, they can protest the escalation of equipment and move there, but would they be sending a message to the U.S. that we can destroy your infrastructure if we need to? Either way, whether it's coming from Russia or whether it's coming from hackers who are trying to make money, you realize how fragile our infrastructure is that is based on computers, that is digital. And again, it was a big theme at the World Economic

Forfeiture Group. It could be an internal failure. If it's an internal failure, if it really is a technical glitch, that's only slightly better than if it was a hack with blackmail or a state actor, isn't it? What does that say? It says we've got complicated systems that we can't maintain. So either way, whatever the situation is, whether it's a hack or whether it's a state attack, cyber attack, or whether it's just, you know, a system that's gotten too complex for us to handle and we can't maintain it anymore. I mean, that is a possibility. One of the jobs I interviewed for coming out of college was to work on cruise missile navigation systems

and they had tens of thousands of lines of Fortran code. And I said, no, thank you. I don't want to be bothered. Oh, but it's a lot of fun because once a year we get to go out to the proving grounds and shoot them off. And I was like, that doesn't make up what that would be. Hunkering down trying to figure out tens of thousands of old Fortran code, which didn't really have any structure.

Anyway, so they ground flights, all flights two weeks ago from today, and then they take down the New York Stock Exchange. So yeah, we can peg all the stocks one way or the other and shut down your exchange, just like we shut down your air travel. Well, you don't necessarily have to have foreign actors or criminals to destroy our society. Our governments, even our state governments like California and six other states are more than capable of doing it themselves. This proposed wealth tax in California is supposed to go after the multi-multi-millionaires and the billionaires. But look, that's the way the income tax started. It only came after the uber-rich, and it was a tiny tax.

It was only 1%, and it was on income. It was not on wages. And look at what we've got today with the IRS. So as I pointed out before, they would come after anybody who had a net worth of more than a billion dollars with an additional one and a half percent tax, you know, just like they started out the income tax, you know, this is going to go to everybody, right? If this thing goes in. And what is interesting about this is that it's seven States,

but then there's a new wrinkle, which was not reported when they first started talking about this. And that is that even if you move out of one of these seven States, they want to still come after you for this. And then there's another thing. when they first started talking about this, and that is that even if you move out of one of these seven states, they want to still come after you for this. And then there's another thing that I didn't talk about before, which is why I want to go back and revisit this. It's only going to affect people who have a net worth of more than a billion dollars or whatever.

Well, how do they know that you're not one of these people? Is everybody going to have to report something about their wealth? Is it going to be one of these deals like, do you have a net worth of more than a billion dollars? Yes or no? And if you check the no box and they find out that you do, they come back after it. But it could also be, this is going to be after they say,

well, we had some people that escaped this. Yeah, they have a residency here in California and they didn't report all this stuff. So we're going to have some more financial tools to know our customers. We're going to have to be able to dig deeper into the financial lives and balance sheets of everybody. And we're going to have to know where you got your stuff stored. Primarily, it's going to be a tool to come after cryptocurrencies, I think. Because as they say, it'll tax everything. It'll be farm assets.

Of course, it's easy for them to determine if you own real estate like that. Art and other collectibles, which will be harder for them to determine if you own real estate like that. Art and other collectibles, which would be harder for them to see. Stocks and hedge funds, well, they know that pretty clearly because of all the exchanges that are reporting to the government all the time. But again, for crypto, they're going to use this and say, in order for us to enforce this, we need to have some more surveillance and probing tools for crypto. And as I pointed out, this is a wealth tax. So this isn't the sort of thing where, well, I bought crypto at 30 and I sold it at 60. So I got a $30,000 profit per coin or whatever.

Typically, that's what has happened. You know, maybe you bought it at 60 and you sold it at 17, right? So you've got a loss. And that's determined by when you bought it and when you sold it. But this wealth tax is just going to look at what you're holding. So where do they value it? You know, we look at what's happened with Bitcoin going from 17 to what, 63 or something like that.

So what are they going to tax you at? Is it going to be at the 17 or is it going to be the 63? Because you don't have an event where you fixed what your profit or loss was by a sale transaction. These are unrealized capital gains that they're going to tax you on. It is, I don't know how they enforce this, but it's going to be done not just by California, but by all the nightmare states, New York, Illinois, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Washington,

Connecticut, all the places that you do not want to live. So I can imagine this is going to only accelerate the people moving out of these areas. Wealth taxes are economically destructive. Their base is almost impossible to measure accurately. That's right. And interestingly enough, Gavin Newsom had campaigned against raising taxes on the state's wealthy residents, let alone a wealth tax. You know, it's what he says to get elected,

just like the things he was saying about other issues as well. So we'll see what happens with this. As we're looking at the vulnerability of these complicated systems, though, you know, we had the TSA's entire no-fly list was leaked a couple of days ago. So we've had the NOTAM databases on both the U.S. system and the Canadian system hacked. We've had the New York Stock Exchange presumably hacked.

Now we've got the TSA's coveted no-fly list, the secret list. Isn't it interesting? This is one and a half million names, and it goes from some people who were some bona fide terrorists to an eight-year-old child. And we've all heard stories about kids not being able to fly because they're on the no-fly list. And they have the birthdates there.

That's how they know it's an 8-year-old child. They have the names and some other stuff. It was just in a comma-separated value CSV file, just a text file. And they could see the person's information and their birthdate and all the rest of the stuff. That's how they knew that it was an eight-year-old that was there. This was discovered by a hacktivist who found this on a Swiss computer unsecured. You see how easy it is to hack into these systems?

When, you know, they want to maintain this idea, oh, well, you know, what happened to the FAA or the New York Stock Exchange? These are sophisticated and very important infrastructure targets, and they're hardened, and you can't get in. They just leave their no-fly list sitting on a computer without any protection whatsoever. So everybody is freaking out about the fact that uh you know they've got that this was exposed as a matter of fact you have a republican uh who is very upset about this dan bishop he's a republican congressman who is on the homeland security committee and he says this is an egregious lapse in cyber security protocols hey bishop the fact

that you've got a no-fly list is an egregious breach in the protocols of the constitution individual liberty my first story when i went to info wars was a guy who was referred to us by Doug Hagman because he wanted this guy to get as much exposure as possible. And the guy had first gone to Doug, and Doug had reported the story. And he said, here, you guys cover this because I want to help this guy. He's got a real problem. His wife was in the military. And he worked in and around airports, and he had security clearance.

He'd been cleared by the FBI. He also owned firearms, and he had recently purchased some firearms and gone through a background check for that. But he worked at an airport, so he was vetted by the TSA and the FBI and these other people vet all that stuff. His wife was in the military. He got on a military plane to go see her in Japan. And so he flies on, you know, one of these planes that was taking family there. And, um, um, he gets to Hawaii. Everything is fine.

And as the plane is about to take off from Hawaii to Japan for the last leg of this trip, the plane stopped and some agents come on board and say, you, come with us. Took him off the plane. Said, you're on the no-fly list. You can't go anywhere. Now, he's in Hawaii. He can't rent a car, drive anywhere. He's stuck. Can't get on a slow boat to China or to Japan or anything.

And so that was his dilemma. And when he got a lot of publicity, eventually what happened was some people in the military saw this and eventually rectified this, but he could never find out why he was on the no-fly list. You get put on without your knowledge and you can't find out why? Isn't there something in the Constitution about knowing what the charges are, being able to confront your accuser in a trial and all the rest of these due process issues? The no-fly list is one of the biggest affronts to our Constitution that exists. And what is the response from the Democrats and Republicans? Well, we need to know how that thing leaked.

I need to know how you are continuing to use this thing. That's what I need to know uh so again really egregious but it shows also not only that our constitution is failing but it also shows that cyber security is failing as well it was a text file simply named nofly.csv uh so you had a people on there they found uh a recently freed russian arms dealer some members of the irish ira and an eight-year-old child well anyway um and maybe they found some um unauthor HVAC repairman named, what was it, Harry Tuttle, Buttle, what was that? Terry Gilliam's Brazil is so perfect. It just shows this ruthless totalitarian society that is also, it's all these flaws like this. Anyway, the document even included sensitive personnel data

of more than 900 employees of the small airline where they found this file, including their passport numbers or addresses. An embarrassing incident that just goes to show how vulnerable these databases are. But good for these people writing at Futurism, they say, but that's not to mention the fact that the TSA is fundamentally broken, unjust, bloated organization that does little to justify its own existence in the first place.

It does nothing to mention the fact that this entire process is an affront to the Constitution and the fundamental things that are there. So as we move forward into this dystopian society of total surveillance, there is an Italian fashion designer who has come up with some interesting clothing to push back against some facial recognition software. And it really is a protest, if you will. Show what the clothing looks like. It's pretty horrific.

It looks like you're in some really bad Christmas sweater or something, right? From head to toe. But it does confuse the biometric scanners right now. What it is is printed all over the clothing are scrambled images of dogs and zebras and giraffes, all knitted into the fabric with a specific goal of tricking facial scanning algorithms to identify the wrong species. Some of these that I've seen, they will print like a crowd scene all over your shirt, but it's the same type of thing. It looks very, very weird. The company is called Capeable, and they call this their manifesto collection. So it is done in protest of this.

And they say on their website, in a world where data is the new oil, Capeable addresses the issue of privacy, opening the discussion on the importance of protection from misuse of biometric recognition cameras, a problem that has become increasingly present in our daily lives, involving citizens around the world, and that, if neglected, could freeze the rights of individuals including freedom of expression, association, and free movement in public spaces. Well, that's exactly right. That is exactly what the threat is. And as they point out, it wasn't that long ago. Remember we had the mom who was, it was just before Christmas,

and they were going to Radio City Musical to see the Rockettes, and they had a Girl Scout troop. And one of the mothers, who was a chaperone for that, was caught by the facial scanning recognition software, and they came over to her and would not let her go in. She was persona non grata with Madison Square Gardens because the firm that she worked for, the legal firm that she worked for, had some lawsuits that were going back and forth with a company that owned Madison Square Gardens.

Now, she had never, she lived in New Jersey. She'd never been involved in that case at all. She'd never been to Madison Square Gardens. She'd never been to any of that and had nothing to do with that case. But simply because she worked for that company, that company had gone out and gotten biometric data on everybody that worked for that law firm. And so we're going to punish them. Isn't that amazing?

Now, you see, that is just a small private example of how this is going to work. This is why we need to have some legal protection against this. But of course, we don't have any legal protection against the TSA. We don't have any legal protection against no-fly lists. The Democrats want to extend the no-fly list to a no-buy list. And the Republicans are totally AWOL on protecting the Constitution and our God-given rights. Designed as part of a the

co-founder's doctorate study at the university of milan she said that that's why she was doing this but of course now that that has been exposed it's very easy for the companies to do a work around around that they can train the machines to get around that. And as they point out, this is pretty expensive. Even a t-shirt costs $300 and it's on sale. And so the article says, maybe you just want to stick to Juggalo paint. You know, if you dress up, they find that people, the clown posse, if they put a bunch of face paint on, if they do it strategically, change their jawline and their line of their nose and things like that, that can keep you from getting identified with biometric surveillance. But it's even stranger than wearing this clothing to paint your face like a clown.

That's going to draw a bit more attention. Maybe the appropriate way to do this is just to get a hoodie and an N95 mask, and you'll look just like another NPC out there, afraid of the world, and they'll let you go. One last article here about technology, and I guess we could talk about it in the sense of this black mirror world that is coming at us if you ever saw that science fiction um series the guy who did it said i'm i'm stopping it's just getting too depressing to think through all of the extensions of this technology and isn't it interesting you know, I went into engineering because I like technology.

And yet, what has happened with technology? You know, I was thinking about that the other day. If you look at my parents' generation, they were born in 1916. Still horse and buggy days for the most part. Had horse-drawn carriages on the streets of Tampa, dirt roads and some trolley cars and things like that. But by the time they died in the late 1980s, early 90s, we had cars that are essentially like what we've got today. I mean, you know, the suspensions are a little bit better,

but, you know, the gas mileage may be a little bit better, but they're far more complicated, and it doesn't really do anything for us except for the suspensions. As Eric Peters and I have talked about, the improvements in suspension can help modern pickup trucks drive better than a sports car would a few decades ago. But other than that, it hasn't been an improvement. They went from a situation where horse and buggies to where you had supersonic planes. They were taking people across continents,

and it became routine and cheap to fly. But now look at what has happened to flight. It used to be that the history of flight was a story about engines. As the engines became more powerful, the planes were able to do more and all the rest of this stuff. But now it's all about the TSA, biometric surveillance, identification. Have you been vaccinated? Are you wearing a mask?

All the rest of the stuff. Since the turn of, since 9-11, what it was intended to. 9-11, the beginning of the 21st century, they kicked it off to start setting up a police state. And all of technology has been hijacked to serve this, for the most part. You know, we're not seeing major advances in anything anymore, except for the horrible stuff that they use against us. And that was what we were warned about by Eisenhower. The industrial, the military industrial complex, and he also included academic, saying everything, all research is being taken over

by the federal government for nefarious purposes. Here's an example. The Marines evaded a military robot by hiding inside a cardboard box like Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes cartoon. I said one person. This is a book that's coming out. I hope I can get this author on. And it's a book that's going to be coming out next month. The book is Four Battlegrounds, Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. The guy was a former Pentagon policy analyst. And in his book, he talks about what DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA was doing in an experiment where they were trying to identify and track down human targets. Now, we've always been told that, no, DARPA is not into this dark stuff.

They want to research mind control, right? But this is just to help soldiers who have PTSD. You know, we want to be able to go in and identify bad memories and delete them. And then we want to be able to also insert happy memories. And so, you know, DARPA is working on stuff like this and what is that from is that a game yeah that's a that's what gave the marines the idea evading guards using a cardboard box is a long standing tradition in metal gear solid okay there you go there you go well um it's a long-standing tradition with darpa so they do really creepy things and then try to get people think there's no issue with it you know when they had their robotics independence robotics contest

said well you know we want this robot that can navigate through a nuclear power plant when there's a problem there because we don't want to expose people to radiation. They did that after Fukushima. And so, you know, we want to have advanced robots. So they ran a contest. The very first contest that DARPA did was autonomous cars, autonomous vehicles. And so they do this type of thing from time to time. And they said, well, you know, we need to have this just as we saw with Fukushima. You know, we need to have robots that can help little old ladies cross the street and things like that., we need to have robots that can help little old ladies cross the street and things like that. And we need to have the ability to take away bad memories from people who have PTSD and

give them happy memories. It's not about that. Not about that at all. And we all knew that these robots and these experiments, we all knew that they were going to be used to attack us, to hunt us down and kill us. This is a Terminator situation. And now we have this funny little story about how DARPA was doing this. And these guys fooled it with a cardboard box straight out of a video game.

Um, and, um, they also did things like, uh, approach it with rolling and somersaults so that it couldn't tell what they were doing because it was trained to look at humans that were walking. And other Marines attempted to approach the robot by doing somersaults for almost a thousand feet or pretending to be a tree. One guy stripped a fir tree and walked like a fir tree.

How do you walk like a fir tree and walked like a fir tree. How do you walk like a fir tree? Also, I'm just going to say, anybody that can do somersaults for 1,000 feet could probably fight that robot hand-to-hand. I'm impressed. They are Marines. So, you know, they take pride in that. It probably so dizzy he couldn't know which direction he was going anyway.

One of these things like spinning around on a bat. Anyway, but he walked like a fir tree. Did he get that from the Lord of the Rings and the Ents? Tree beard. I'm tree beard here. Only his smile was visible, according to the account in the book. Yet, of course, now we know, and now they know, now DARPA knows, and so they're going to make sure that any Metal Gear tactics are accounted for by their robots because they're learning all the time.

And they said, you know, there's simple tricks that a human would have been able to see through, but they broke the algorithm. But, of course, the algorithm is always learning. When will we ever learn about DARPA and Pentagon? When will we ever stop giving unlimited amounts of money to these people? Hundreds of millions of dollars for them to do mind control. And who knows how much for them to create, you know, search and hunt robots to kill people. It's unclear when these tests took place.

In other words, DARPA may have had time since then to fine-tune the algorithms. It's only a matter of time until soldiers and civilians start being murdered by AI-powered robots on the battlefield, or maybe here at home. You know, when you hear Eric Swalwell and Joe Biden brag about, oh yeah, we can just take your guns. We don't, we got jets and we got nuclear weapons. They're not going to confiscate your guns with jets and nuclear weapons, but they will with killer robots. We'll be right back.

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and then they find out that there is no snow in Vermont. Could that happen? I mean, that's only find out that there is no snow in Vermont. Could that happen? I mean, that's only happening now, right? That never happened before. We never had a situation where there's an unseasonably warm winter. No, that never happened before. As a matter of fact, I liked this article from American Thinker. They said, where are the snowless winters that they were warning us about?

Yeah, we've been told over and over again it's going to be the end of snow they feature one of them in here the end of snow by the new york times this goes back to february the 7th of 2014. another reporter says over the next two weeks hundreds of millions of people will watch americans ski for gold on the downhill alpine course. Snow, snow, snow. But TV crews will pan across epic vistas. What they won't see is the 16 million cubic feet of snow that was stored under insulated blankets last year to make sure those slopes remained white. Or the hundreds of snow-making guns that have been running around the clock

to keep them that way. Now, to this writer from the New York Times, this is a vast conspiracy to cover up the fact of global warming. No, it's simply because they don't want to get caught in a white Christmas scenario. They've seen the movie. They don't want to have that happen. Everybody shows up. It's like, what's going on? It always snows here.

Well, not this year. It's not snow happen. Everybody shows up. It's like, what's going on? It always snows here. Well, not this year. It's not snowing. Oh, man. So, you know, they stored snow for the Winter Olympics back in 2014. Officials had to cancel two Olympic test events last February in Soki after several days of temperatures above 60 degrees Fahrenheit. And lack of snowfall had left ski trails bare and brown in spots. And then he says, well, you know, here's the reality. This is something we're just going to have to get used to.

This may be, and this is the headline from the New York Times, 2014, the end of snow? Question mark. Now, he covered himself a little bit. He put a question mark there. But if you read his article he is absolutely uh certain that snow is going to end he said the planet has warmed one and a half degrees fahrenheit since the 1800s and as a result snow is melting well he's got some bad data there because you know the people who make so much money off of this hide their data they don don't like to show it, just like Fauci, Pfizer, the FDA don't like to show their data.

Well, these scam artists haven't been showing their data for the longest time. He says, I was floored by how much snow has already disappeared from the planet. His employer, New York Times, presumably sent him around the world to go to various ski resorts. Maybe he got to go to Davos as well and he says the ski season in parts of British Columbia is four to five weeks shorter than it was 50 years ago in eastern Canada the season is predicted to drop to less than two months by mid-century at Lake Tahoe spring now arrives two and a half weeks earlier. And some computer models predict that the Pacific Northwest

will receive 40 to 70% less snow by 2050. Well, unfortunately, you know, these people who like to extrapolate trends like this or short trends and say, well, you know, what has happened is going to continue to happen this way. You know, that's a fatal problem when you're trying to predict weather, let alone climate. So why haven't these warnings come true, says American thinker? I bet people in California, Utah, and Buffalo are tired of shoveling that global warming. The answer is the warnings were always made up to indoctrinate, to scare us.

They were never based on scientific information. And again, it's the MacGuffin. The purpose of these made-up predictions is to scare us, to motivate us with the MacGuffin to do exactly what they want. But of course, you know, fear is a great motivator. And the narrative that scares them, oh, you know, you got to do this or you're going to die. Money, power for the government.

And in 2000, this is another example of one of these. In 2000, a warming scientist, you know, they are warning about everything. They're alarmists. From East Anglia, this is a place where they had ClimateGate a few years after that, where they're passing around emails to each other saying, our models aren't working. We predicted that the temperature was going to go up. We predicted it was going to be tied to any increase in CO2.

But it's not working. It's going the other way. How do we hide this decline? And so then what they did was they came up with some fictions about tree rings, and they cherry-picked the starting and ending dates to make their trends look appropriate. And so we found out these emails. There was indication that it was there. They stonewalled about it.

And some Russian hackers released that information. And there was about 1,000 emails in ClimateGate showing that these guys were involved in a criminal conspiracy to deceive the public and to put out data that was going to be used for public policy. And then a couple of years later, they found another, a second, ClimateGate 2, 5,000 emails. And East Anglia, the climate research center there at the University of East Anglia, was right at the center of this. Also involved Michael Mann and the University of Virginia. I've talked about that before. Dr. David Viner went way out on a limb in 2000 and said that there would be no more snow in England.

The Independent Report from March the 20th, 2000. Ten years later, the opposite has proven true. England and Western Europe have had three very cold winters in a row, and the UK is now experiencing its coldest December since records were kept. That was in 2010. They said, you know, ten years ago, they said there's going to be no more snow. But look at this. We're having a super cold winter.

For 20 years, global warming alarmists warned snow would vanish. Children just aren't going to know what snow is. I remember when that came out and laughing about that. But just as recently as December 2021, about a year ago, the Washington Post tried to scare everybody that snow was going to vanish in the West. They are, as this article from American Thinker says, essentially lobbyist groups for the radical leftist policies to destroy America.

So 30 feet of snow, you've had that in California and other places. Around Lake Tahoe, some measuring sites have recorded 300 or even 400% of the median amount compared to data going back to 1991. Well, you know, we got some information going back to, you know, that area right there around Lake Tahoe, going back to the Donner Party. You know, that area is famous for that type of thing. And it doesn't happen every year. But they do get massive amounts of snow and um i don't know when it was when we went to tahoe that time that time share thing was maybe

uh 96 or something like that and we went there and took the kids uh they're real little toddlers and took them on a snowmobile tour thing but uh we left and right after we left they got a major snowstorm we would have been locked in there for over a week and we're really happy that we got out because we had a business you know we had to get back to but they had some people die because it came up so rapidly and so heavily they got lost in the snow there at Tahoe. Uh, if you want to, um, have some fun, you go to a place where they take your name and your party and call it out. You just tell them, uh, you know, what's the name say Donner. And then when they call out Donner party, um, it's come and say, I'm glad that you got to us because I'm literally starving to death.

Um, anyway, the above average snowfall in the Rocky Mountains along the continental divide in Colorado, everybody was talking about it, but it was supposed to be over. They predicted it was going to be over decades ago. And their predictions just continue to fall. But nevertheless, they're going to continue with this insanity. They're going to continue both in New York, Kathy Hochul, as well as in the UK.

Biden decided that, you know, because we have achieved a singularity of political purpose globally, everybody's on the same page. We've all got to have face masks. We've all got to have vaccines and vaccine passports. And this is and we're all going to implement them at the same time. And we'll do it first. We'll do it gradually with some incentives. You saw the same plan being done in every country. And so now, the plan for right now is to try to eliminate gas ranges and gas furnaces.

Because we have to have everybody on the centrally controlled electric grid because we're going to take that thing down after we get everybody on it. So in the UK, the latest attack on the nation's 26 million gas boilers and the government is going to slap a 5,000 pound fine on companies unless they sell heat pumps to people who can't afford them and don't want them. This is coming from the con-servitude party in the UK. They call

themselves conservatives, but they're cons. They're con men. And they're trying to push you into servitude. Again, it doesn't matter what their labels are. It doesn't matter who the politicians are. They're all serving the same purpose, and it is a political singularity. And so the scheme that they're doing is exactly what they've been doing with cars. As a matter of fact, what they want to do in the UK is tell the people who are manufacturing the gas furnaces, all right, we're not going to just say you're out of business right now, but you're going to have to sell a certain percentage of, um, you know, it can't be more than a certain percentage of all your, uh, of all your heating

units, right? You're going to put out heat pumps. So you're going to have to sell more electric heat pumps. And if you sell too many of the gas furnaces compared to the number of electric heat pumps that you sell, if that ratio gets out of balance, then we're going to hit you with a $5,000 fine for every one of these gas furnaces that you put out there. That's what they've done with automobiles, right? We're going to give you corporate average fuel economy and, um, or then, and then change it into, you know, electric vehicles and emissions and all the rest of the stuff. And you're going to have to have a certain average here. And if you don't, you're going to get a fine. And as they do it initially with incentives, of course, as far as I can see, they're not offering any incentives.

Maybe they are in the UK. I don't know. But sometimes they'll offer incentives like they did with the vaccines. You can win a lottery, or you can think of it as playing Russian roulette. The government is desperate to cut carbon emissions from our homes, says express.co.uk. Well, no, that's not it. They don't care about that. They know that's not real. No, what they're desperate to do is to consolidate control, to centrally control everything, especially energy, especially energy. That's what all this is about.

That's what the electric cars are about. That's what the electric ranges, electric heat pumps, and the demands, the incentives, the gradual transitions to this stuff, and then the outright banning of them. That's what this is all about. It's about central control of everything, but especially central control of energy. Replacing an existing gas boiler typically costs about 2,000 pounds in the UK. But if you want to go to an electric pump and change over, 13,000 pounds. So from 2,000 pounds to 13,000 pounds, people don't want it. So they're going to try to punish the people who manufacture this stuff. And that's the way they're going to do it rather

than trying to punish the consumers. But they point out that if you've got an older, larger period property, and there's a lot of those in the UK, if you got to do a lot of conversion, it could cost as much as 22,000 pounds, 11 times more than if you were just to replace the existing gas boiler. So what they proposed is a piece of legislation. Again, this is coming from the conservatives, the con servitude party. Clean market mechanism is the name of the act that they want to put through. It would see British manufacturers find if they make boilers for UK homes,

unless they meet a quota for selling the heat pumps as well. Always the same tactics, always the same agenda at the same time from these people, whether they're going to pressure you for the cars or the heaters, and everybody walking in lockstep, just like they did through the political pandemic. A leading trade body has called it a madcap scheme designed to damage British industry. The public doesn't have the money to buy in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. Well, again, that is part of the plan.

To bankrupt us, especially the middle class, you will own nothing. You'll own nothing because we're going to regulate everything out of your price range and we're going to confiscate what remains. A controversial proposal appears in the energy security bill that was postponed by Liz Truss. I thought it was very interesting. You know, when you look at Liz Truss who came in after Boris Johnson and before Rishi Sunak, Rishi Rich, the Davos puppet.

I don't know if Liz Truss had any, any, you know, appearances at Davos puppet. I don't know if Liz Truss had any appearances at Davos, but she did a couple of things like this. Now, she delayed this, this kind of move, and she also started making some moves in terms of opening up some energy production that had been shut down by the green conservatives. I think that that had more to do than anything else with why she was kicked out. I don't know. I don't follow British politics that closely, but it's my suspicion that because she was not going to go along with the green agenda at the rate that they wanted to, she was doing things to try to mitigate that, to delay that.

And they want to go full speed ahead. That's what Richie Rich is saying. He's going to do everything that Davos wants. So, um, uh, you know, we're not going to increase production on anything and we're not going to do

anything to try to lower cost anybody. And in the U S New York governor, Kathy Hochul is now revealed that just like Biden at the White House, the governor's mansion has gas ranges. And just like the Biden family, Kathy Hochul has gas ranges in her personal home. So, you know, in the government mansions and in their personal homes, both Hochul and Biden have grass ranges, occasional cortex,

same thing. Uh, the New York post exclusively revealed that Hochul has gas stoves, both at our private Buffalo residence and the executive mansion. Of course they do. Because at the white house, as I pointed out, the kitchen there is just amazing.

Money is no object. And they have these giant professional ranges, professional cooks and everything. They even have, they brew custom beer for the presidents there. And so they got the biggest and the best of everything. So they got these big and the best of everything. So they got these big professional Vulcan gas ranges. Because as we were talking about, as Hochul added the gas ranges to her furnace prohibitions, you see how they're on the same page? You know, the UK and everybody, well, we got to ban any gas heating for homes.

Well, she was doing that, but then she threw in the gas range thing at the same time. And, um, maybe that's going to be a bridge too far because you had all these restaurant owners, professional chefs saying you just can't cook the same on electric range. It cooks differently. Doesn't cook as quickly. I can't operate a restaurant that way. That's why the White House, the governor's mansion, all have these gas ranges because that's what the professional cooks want.

Rules for thee, but not for me. It would require, her initial rules would require all single family homes and smaller buildings to all be electrically heated beginning in 2025 with larger buildings getting covered three years later. And then the more she thought about it, she said, and now we can go after the gas ranges as well because it's never enough. And it's always going to be incrementalism. And it's always going to be from the inside and done iteratively, as Fauci said. So she wants gas vehicles, says Zeldin, who ran against her, did pretty well against her.

She wants gas vehicles banned while she jets around the state on a gas-guzzling, taxpayer-funded jet. Hochul even spent $2,500 in tax dollars to take a helicopter for a campaign photo op at a gas station in Queens. So she spends a lot of money, uses a helicopter and all the fuel that it uses to go to a gas station, probably to complain about people using too much gas. Her hypocrisy knows no bounds. She even calls for your gas stoves to be banned while she is

using them. Well, we've seen this with everything that these people do. Meanwhile, the enthusiasm is fading for electric vehicles. As they say, Tesla has had to cut its prices between six and 20%. This is a result of government meddling in markets, but it's also the same types of things that we see with the jabs. You're going to have coerced demand. You're going to have subsidies. You're going to have prohibitions against the competition. What the government did for Elon Musk with the electric cars was the same thing that

they did for Pfizer and Moderna. We'll subsidize this. We will incentivize it. We will prohibit your competition like Ivermectin and other things like that. They always do the same thing. It is a fascist partnership between government and big tech and big business that is what is doing this. Whether you're talking about the rigging of trying to centrally control our energy, or

whether you're talking about trying to centrally control our movement and our health, with these different things, they always use the same strategy. In 2021, auto executives were very optimistic about electric vehicles, expecting them to capture as much as 70% of the total automotive market by 2030. There we are, back to that magic number again, 2030. A year later, the optimism had subsided considerably with those same executives cutting their expectations from 70% to 40%. The latest report, however, from international accounting firm KPMG reveals that car dealers expect EVs to capture just over 20% of the total market by 2030. So they've gone from projecting 70% to 40% to 20% in just a little over a year. As inflation impacts the cost of building them,

the cost advantage of owning one has narrowed to almost zero. An analysis by the Wall Street Journal in December showed that drivers of Tesla Model 3 had to pay the same to drive 100 miles as did the owner of a Honda Civic. And this has to do with the fact that the materials are rare and limited as to where they come from. Lithium comes from one place.

It's all processed in China. So just building the alternate processing infrastructure, and by the way, we would have to invade Russia too, just to get the materials to do EVs at scale. It's just laughable for the next decade, wrote geopolitical strategist Peter Zayhan. Consumer Reports looked at it. Consumer Reports said, well, all EV batteries will eventually fail to hold a charge

and they will require replacement. As we see with all of our electronic devices, when you're talking about your laptop or your phone, what happens? When you first get them, they hold the charge forever. And then when you need to recharge them, super fast, right? And then all of that changes. It reverses as the device ages. They don't hold the charge as long, and it takes longer to charge them. And eventually it becomes useless. And so they said they, Consumer Reports looked at the replacement costs of batteries. They said in a 10-year-old Toyota Prius, the replacement cost was $4,500,

while the cost to replace the lithium battery in a 2014 Nissan Leaf was an astounding $17,600. A quick check of the price of that used 2014 Nissan Leaf reveals that sellers are currently asking about $10,000 or so to get rid of them. They should be paying you $7,600 to break even. You got to replace the battery for $17,000 and you bought the car for $10,000. Anyway, there are supply chain issues everywhere and now you have um after that fire that happened at sea where it destroyed um hundreds of you know cars um in uh off of the coast of portugal uh the felicity Ace was the name of that. Remember, there was electric car fire and spread to some other electric cars there. They had very expensive Porsches and Lamborghinis and

other things like that that all went to the bottom of the ocean, destroyed the entire ship, as a matter of fact. And so last week you had a Norwegian shipping company saying, we're not going to carry electric vehicles on our ferries because we can't put the fire out if it starts. Kia is now saying that electric cars are not viable. The UK chief executive of Kia, the fast-growing South Korean car company, said it had no immediate plans for a mass-market electric product. Some fear that there's a prospect of a society of haves and have-nots in the electric car revolution. Because of the cost of buying them and financing them. Look, the plan is that we will all be have-nots.

You will have not an internal combustion engine, gasoline or diesel. And you will have not a electric vehicle because they're going to be prohibitively expensive. They're going to be difficult. It's going to get more expensive as the materials become more rare. They will not be able to be charged off of the internet because it's just going to be too much of a burden. You will rent them by the ride from the people who are friends of the government. That's why they're cozying up and pushing this. But the plan is for none of us to have any cars. There's only a handful of electric cars that are available below 30,000

pounds in the UK. Compared to the less than 20,000 pounds that motorists would expect to pay for mass market or entry-level internal combustion cars. Even the smallest electric car, the zero-emission version of the Fiat 500, starts at about 30,000 pounds. So with all this happening, Harley-Davidson has decided that they are going to go all electric. This company was circling the drain of bankruptcy not too long ago. It looks like they're headed there again as fast as possible. Interestingly, as I talk about it, the company is now being run by a German. This article from the New American, they say, what, the, uh, uh, what does, um, Harley Davidson really have to offer aside from a bad boy image that's connected to loud exhaust pipes and the buy American

preferences of some motorcycle clubs, right? Uh, so, but the executive says at some point it's going to be all electric. The new American says, uh, the apparently suicidal Harley Davidson plans to quote, ease its way into electrocution or rather electrification. Uh, I am not a biker, uh, said one of the people covering this, but, um, and I'm not an expert on motorcycles, but I do spend a lot of time as a consultant to two of the world's biggest auto manufacturers. And I talked to a lot of engineers about manufacturing tolerances and other

arcana of internal combustion engines. And I know that Harley Davidson's are not exactly pushing the frontier of excellence. You know, people they're looking for that. They get a BMW or they get a Japanese bike or something, but as they pointed out in the new American, perhaps it is because the CEO now is German. His name is Zeitz.

And maybe he's trying to tap into the Zeitgeist or ESG. Mindful that he is a German businessman, consider that aside from perhaps not fully understanding the American market, Germans also appear to have a much greater interest in electric vehicles than almost any other nationality. So maybe that's what is happening here. But nevertheless, it's not going to go well for them. You had Princess Eugenia, Eugenie, at Davos.

She is the youngest daughter of Prince Andrew, the only royal who was dumb enough to get caught with his sexual perversions. That's a pedophile. She's his daughter. And so she went to Davos and she said, my son is going to be an activist from the age of two years old. He's just about two. And she said, having a child totally changed her outlook on the environment. Oh, what happened? Did she have, was she brain damaged during a delivery or something? My son is going to be an activist from two years old, which is just in a couple of days,

she tells all the people at Davos. Every decision that we now make has to be about how August, that's his name, is going to be able to live his life. Because, you know, they have to make sure that they take everything from you. The royal family and the rest of these creeps are, you know, the elite class. I've got to make sure that I'm taking care. I'm not going to, you know, this is not about saving the environment. This is about taking everything from you and giving it to themselves. We'll be right back. Thank you. Looking for better information?

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It came out in 1984. It was Terry Gilliam, who was the animator, the American animator with Monty Python. It was his version of an Orwellian totalitarian society. So it's got a lot of humor in it, but it's really dark, especially because when you look at it now, you see so much of it that has really happened. I mean, it was so over the top when we saw it in 1984. The thing begins close to the beginning of the movie.

It begins with a full-on SWAT raid in the house, which was not as common in 1984 as it is now. Unfortunately, it doesn't, you know, it's not over-the-top satire anymore. That's the world that we live in. And there's a comment from Regan Perlitt. Thank you very much for the tip. That's very generous.

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escalate the war on drugs we need to make it a real war we need to go into mexico well i'm not going to send a full division in like the military or something like that like an invasion no what we'll do is we'll send in assassins from the cia or something like that you know just like a clear and present danger the um uh the thing the fiction piece from tom clancy uh so i guess you know we'll just send Ryan in and we'll take care of it that way. You know, that's when I said Trump may be reading too much fiction because, you know, the war on drugs hasn't worked. And when this stuff was being put out, we also have other people talking about death penalties for drug dealers. Matt Walsh has picked it up. I said, oh, really?

Oh, so, you know, are we going to, you mean like the CIA? Are we going to give them the death penalty for that? Because they're the big, big drug runners that are out there. Of course, you could also say the same thing about Pfizer, Moderna, and Trump themselves, the biggest drug pushers out there, drug cartels. So be careful of that, Trump. You know, that may come back to bite you. But Ron DeSantis also says,

Florida should not require unanimous juries for death sentences. We can't be in a situation where one person can just derail this, he said. So why is everybody fixed on pushing death penalties at this point? Look, I have no problem with the moral aspects of a death penalty. I just have a problem with our justice system being able to do a legitimate determination of what's going on. I have a big problem with that. But you do have situations where the person's guilt is confessed or clear. And I've talked about in the past how Alphonse Green, who murdered my aunt and uncle, he

never said that he was innocent. He confessed to it. His excuse was, well, I was on drugs. But it was more than that. He was a, they had a duplex that they rented. He didn't pay him. They tried to extend it as long as they could. Finally, they had to evict him.

He came back and murdered them both. And for years, he was on death row. It was always a possibility that he would get out. And so my cousins had to go on a regular basis to try to keep this guy locked up. And eventually, he got the death penalty from God. He got cancer. But, you know, I understand that there is a legitimate, I don't disagree with the death penalty in, you know, philosophically or morally.

I just am concerned about its implementation. And that's why I think it is important to have juries be unanimous or nearly unanimous. And if just one juror votes, then you can end up not getting the sentence DeSantis said. And so he's talking to the Florida Sheriff's Association Conference. He said, maybe eight out of 12 have to agree or something, but we can't be in a situation where just one person can derail this. Well, again, maybe he needs to see the movie 12 Angry Men, right? DeSantis was expressing his frustration with the decision of a jury in November to sentence Nicholas Cruz, who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

They sentenced him to life in prison rather than handing down the death penalty. But again, when we look at this, all the talk now about, oh, we need to escalate the war on drugs so we can finally win it. You know, civil asset forfeiture, taking massive amounts of property from people without convicting them, without ever even charging them with a crime. That's not good enough. Having no-knock SWAT team raids, that's not good enough either. We've got to do something else now. We've got to step up the violence.

I've talked to a lot of former law enforcement agents who said, this is not a law enforcement problem. This is a medical problem. It's a psychological problem. It is a spiritual problem. It's all those different things, but it's not a law enforcement problem. And escalating this is not really going to help. Maybe these people are starting to get edgy about possible Nuremberg trial talk and their culpability and their mass murder vaccines.

Maybe they would just like to get us focused on issues that have served them in the past and not take a look at what is really happening, what their plans are in the future. That's what I think is happening. FloridaPolitics.com notes that there were three jurors, not just one, that declined the death penalty for this shooter, Nicholas Cruz. Prior to 2016, Florida allowed juries to impose the death penalty with as little as a seven to five majority. That changed after the state Supreme Court ruled in 2016 that it must be unanimous. In a separate case decided at the same time, the state's high court invalidated a newly passed law that would have allowed the death penalty if 10 out of 12 jurors recommended it,

which is what he was talking about. But nevertheless, as I pointed out, Florida has exonerated, has had more exonerations of death row inmates than any other state in the country. Again, overturning this after they find out some additional evidence. Roughly one for every, excuse me, one exoneration for every three executions that they carried out. This ought to inspire more humility, not more aggressiveness, in deciding when the state should be allowed to kill. This is from Reason Magazine.

I completely agree with it. I think that, in general, there is a time and a place for a death sentence. But I think the problem is when you look at our justice system, and evidently Florida does not have a good record with that. For every three executions, they've had an exoneration. But then Matt Walsh, talking about crime and punishment. He said, a lot of people are upset about this tweet of mine, which shows how superficial our conversations about criminal justice have become.

If you are scandalized by the very suggestion of corporal punishment for thieves and death penalty for drug traffickers, you aren't a serious person. Well, you know, I really like a lot of the work that Matt Walsh has done about this transgender stuff, right? That is not a serious agenda and needs to be exposed. But again, if you're going to start pushing this idea of death penalty for drug traffickers because Trump pushed it, then maybe you aren't a serious person, Matt. Give me a break. I am so sick and tired, and we'll talk about this coming up here. What's going on with the Daily Wire?

You know, big conservatives, you know, there's this back and forth between Stephen Crowder and the Daily Wire, the tens of millions of dollars that are being talked about with this. But he goes on to talk about Singapore. And he said they're able to have nice things in Singapore in part because they execute drug dealers by hanging and arrest even petty vandals and thieves and beat them with a cane until they bleed. We don't have nice things because we aren't willing to do what is required to maintain them. Well, again, I think that just corporal punishment alone, that could be a deterrent. And we have had situations, as he goes through pointing out, shaming people and other things like that. If you go back and you look at the way things were in colonial times, people would have a speedy trial.

And I mean a speedy trial, not keeping you in prison for weeks, months, years, as we see with the January the 6th thing. You would have a speedy trial. People who are found guilty, sometimes they were humiliated in public, they put them in the stocks, that type of thing. There are various things that could be

done, but quite frankly, I don't think that that was really the thing that did it for everybody. I think that it was a far more Christian society. You had the fear of God in people, not so much the fear of the government. They could evade the government fairly easily, probably more easily than we can today. They could go to another area and there was no connection if they could escape out of town. I think it was really, and if you want to know what's going on with our society, it's the moral decline. And I kind of thought that Matt Walsh got it, but now he wants to look at artificial things. I've said many times, you know, I don't support the concern about what God has talked about as normative for their life that would make them happier,

they're not concerned about that. There's not really anything that I can do about it. And if we start locking people up or beating them or executing them, or, you know, some of the Islamic countries, they'll throw homosexuals off of the roof or something. That doesn't change them. What we do is an expression of what we are on the inside. As a man thinks, so is he.

The fruit in your life comes from what is internal. And if we want to change society, we have to do it one person at a time, and it has to be from the inside. And ultimately, we understand that it's God who's going to change people. It's not going to be me. I can't force somebody into any of this. But what we can do is we can hold it front and center, and perhaps people will think about it.

Perhaps when we talk about it, God will use that to change somebody. But we cannot force this on people. That's why some people talk about you can't legislate morality. Well, to an extent you can. And you can declare what is right and wrong. But up to a certain point, when you talk about, and I think that that is something that absolutely should be enforced when you're talking about violence and coercion, but I draw a line between crime and vice.

Vice is a product of a spiritual sickness, and that's why I don't support prohibitions. Because vice, as many people point out, vice has the seed of its own punishment inherent in the activity, right? You get addicted to drugs or to alcohol, you're addicted to gambling, any of this kind of stuff, that is going to be something that is going to carry its own punishment. But where the government needs to get involved is where you have people that are doing things to other people. That is crime. Vice is something you do that harms yourself. Crime is something that you do that harms other people. That's why we should rigorously come after pedophiles.

But we're not going to lock up people who are homosexuals or throw them off of roofs. And this is why when you see these people talking about this, it's not a serious thing to talk about how we're going to escalate the war on drugs. The war on drugs has failed for 50 years. More of the same, doubling down, tripling down on that isn't going to change anything whatsoever. And it's our system that is so corrupt, not just in missing things over a death penalty assessment, but also what is happening on January 6th. You have a nonviolent

January 6th protester who put his feet up on Pelosi's desk. He's now been found guilty on all charges, and he's facing life in prison. Because, you see, this is what excessive punishment looks like. We have to be careful. The founders understood this. Excessive punishment, excessive fines. We want people to have a speedy trial due process. None of that is happening with the January 6th protesters.

And all these conservatives out there who want to start following Trump again, marching behind him as a death to drug dealers. Yes, that's good. Well, guess what? You've got a lot of people who are in control of government, including the FBI and the current Department of Justice, that think that you are as dangerous, if not more so, than a drug dealer. Will they call for your death penalty? You see, you got to be careful what you ask for. When you want to give more and more power to government, that government may just come around at you. That's what Sheriff Hathaway was talking about. He said, you know, I lived here all my life. My family's been here since before Arizona was a state. He said, we have traffic that was going back and forth. You still have traffic that's going back and forth. They only show it coming in one direction.

But he said, the other part of it is that they've turned the border patrol into absolute monsters. You've got a 100-mile territory going into the United States, 100 miles from the border, a constitution-free zone where the border control can do anything that they want. Are we better off because of that? You see, all the problems of uncontrolled immigration still remain. Now you've got a border patrol problem. All the problems of the war on drugs remain, but now you've got a DEA problem.

And the CIA is still running drugs. We think that we've solved the problem. Well, are you worried about them taking your jobs? and the CIA is still running drugs. We think that we've solved the problem. Well, are you worried about them taking your jobs? Oh, well, let's have E-Verify, where everybody's got to have a new identification, and you've got to have permission from the government to get a job. That's the conservatives talking about that. I get conservatives really upset with me.

When I push back against E-Verify, I'd say, do you understand where that's going to head? You know, this is even before we had the lockdowns or the vaccine passports and other things like that. I don't know. Maybe conservatives have caught on because of that. But because I haven't heard too much about E-Verify, maybe they're going to go slow on that a little bit. But just be careful what you want. You want walls?

You want IDs for immigration control? Well, you just might find that those walls and those IDs are going to be used to control you. And so going back to this January the 6th situation, Richard Barnett, 62, facing a potential life sentence for peacefully entering the Capitol putting his feet up

on Nancy Pelosi's desk. How dare him. He was and I agree with this from Information Liberation wildly overcharged. I would agree. By vindictive prosecutors

denied a change of venue out of Washington D.C. As a matter of fact, here's what his lawyer said about trying to get him a fair trial outside of Washington D.C. What did you mean by they're not your peers?

Like American citizens who went to jury duty and got called? Let me answer that question. That's a very simple discussion. Washington, D.C., number one, it's not a state. Number two, he's not surrounded by a jury of his peers, a jury of people from Arkansas, a place where he came from, or a jury that has a political composition

of anything that's like the rest of the United States. Washington, D.C. is something like 95, 96% Biden voters, right? So that we believe that that plays a crucial role in the political factors that are ever present in these cases. We argued the need to change juries, to change venue extensively in this case, other cases as well. And everybody who's a January 6th who's been accused of a crime is looking to have their case heard somewhere else.

Yeah, I'm very concerned about this. It is political show trials, kangaroo juries, the torturing that is going on, and denying a fair trial to people. I'm very concerned about Joe Biggs. He's got an idiot for a lawyer. Unbelievable. This guy, Norm Pattis, who defended Alex, and I've interviewed Norm Pattis.

He's sharp. But again, when they've decided that they've already got a pre-drawn conclusion when they go into these trials, there's not much that you can do about it. I, I was still, however, I felt a little bit better when I saw that Norm Pettis was going to be one of the lawyers defending Joe Biggs. Um, but, um, you know, I mean, if Joe Biggs got involved in some violence and I don't know that he did, I haven't seen any pictures of him doing anything violent. And, um, you know, that's, that's a crime, but that should not be a life sentence for anything like that. It's not for anybody else.

As a matter of fact, if you look at what is happening in Washington, D.C., they're looking for ways to let violent criminals out. This is all about political persecution. And the problem is, is that norm, um, because of what happened in Connecticut and everything, and some, some papers, they're just another example of how that whole trial was rigged. Uh, the judge there has suspended his license for six months, but I think norm wanted, I'm just reading between the lines.

It seemed to me like he wanted to get out of this situation with Joe Biggs because of another one of the attorneys there. I think the guy's name is a hall. Was it Dan Hall? I think maybe his name, but he was the one who came out and was talking about talking trash about Ashley Babbitt and many of the other people that were there. He came across as somebody foul mouthed and did not have the demeanor to be an effective advocate for somebody.

And he got into a big argument with the judge when Norm Pettis said, well, I would like to get out of this. I'd like to resign from doing this. And so he got into a big argument with the judge dan hall did oh and um again if you look at what the guy said it's just so i'm very concerned about uh joe bakes he's got an absolute idiot for an attorney an arkansas man who entered the u.s capital january 6th photograph lounging at the desk of then House Speaker Pelosi's office suite. Convicted of eight federal crimes. He left a crude written message for Pelosi before departing the office suite with a purloined envelope bearing her digital signature.

He sat impassively as the jury in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. delivered its decisions. They reached guilty verdicts on all eight counts against him, including four felonies, and they took less than two hours to determine eight different charges. The most serious charge that he faced, obstructing an official government proceeding, carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. But of course, they also got him for stealing government property because he took the envelope. You understand how rigged this whole thing is. An ardent supporter of President Trump, he was carrying a walking stick equipped with a high-voltage stun device when he entered the Capitol. But, of course, he never used it against anybody. But, again, theft of government property was one of the misdemeanors that he was charged with, meaning that he took the envelope.

D.C. is currently working to lower penalties, says Information Liberation, for carjackers, for robbers, for armed felons in the name of fighting systemic racism. But this individual and other J6 protesters are getting the book thrown at them. You know, if Matt wants to get, Matt Walsh wants to get involved in something, maybe he should just try to make sure that we can keep the robbers, the armed felons, the people who are in jail for attempted murder, people who have raped other people. Maybe we could just work on keeping them in jail, right?

Instead of trying to escalate the power and the viciousness of our unjust justice system. It's not blind justice. They've got their hands on the scale. There's a J6 ought to be a wake-up call to any conservatives who want to push for a more draconian government. He's just completely out of touch with the time that we are in, if that's what he thinks. And in the real world that you live in, you don't want to give more power to a criminal justice system. And I mean it as a justice system that operates as criminals.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles. And the sweet sounds of Motown. Find them on the Oldies channel at APSradio.com. Well, we have a journalist who works for The Intercept, Ken Klippenstein, says that he has been shadow banned on twitter by elon musk because he showed some videos about self-driving teslas causing a major pileup and other things like that i don't know if that is happening some people say well yeah maybe that is happening because elon musk has taken direct action on people who criticize him or criticize his companies

it could be just a carryover. We see a lot of things being carried over like that. Carryover seems to be extending to me in terms of shadow banning. One of the things they're saying about him is that people can't find him if they search for him unless they follow him. I've been told the same thing. As a matter of fact, I've had people unfollowed from me. My wife, for example, unfollowed from me. I've been unfollowed from other people that I

didn't, that I was following. Same thing has happened to me as a user. And so, of course, they unfollowed Karen from me and suggested that she follow AOC a few years ago. It hasn't gotten any better. As a matter of fact, it's gotten worse. And a lot of people contacted me and said, I didn't even know you were still on Twitter or other places. I searched for you and couldn't find you. And then I saw this from somebody else that put it out

and see that you're still here. They don't see what i put out um you know even if the people that follow me will typically not see tweets that i put out so this is the type of thing that is happening i didn't expect it to get any better with elon musk either i know it's not because you look at what's going on with for example right have they stopped attacking withChute? With BitChute, it's a lot more obvious. It's not a shadow ban. If we post up videos that we put on BitChute,

if we use the BitChute link on Twitter, people are constantly telling me, oh, they're banning you. No, that part of it, they're banning BitChute because they'll say, this is a dangerous site. Don't go there. If you look, very small print down at the bottom of the warning message that comes up to try to intimidate you to not to follow the link and not to watch on BitChute, it'll say continue.

So you do have the option to continue, but it's almost invisible down there at the bottom. So a lot of people will contact me about that. Why is Elon Musk still doing that? And I've tweeted at him about that. Why are you still banning bit shoot links, trying to keep people from following those? He's going to do everything the European Union wants him to do. He's had not one, but three different people visit him, talk to him, talk about him, and say, you're going to do everything that we say, or we're going to confiscate, I think it's 6% or something of global revenue from you. And you will follow the Digital Services Act or whatever, DSA, that's coming in, the big censorship thing that is coming in from the EU, you will do all of this stuff.

And of course, he will do it. That's how he became the world's richest man, by doing the bidding of governments everywhere. Whether you're talking about the American government, the European government, or the Chinese government, Elon Musk is their man. He will do exactly what they want. So there isn't a free speech future at Twitter one way or the other. Spotify, by the way, another big censor of mine, has now had to cut 6% of their workforce.

I'm so bad. That's so sad. I'm sorry. That's just too bad, isn't it? I hate to see that. Schadenfreude. But, yeah, actually, the only podcast service out there that censors is Spotify. And even worse, they want to sell that tool to other podcasts to censor people.

That's there. But let's talk a little bit about Matt Walsh's employer there. You notice he's out there pushing the death penalty for drug users. That's the big issue for Matt. Seriously? You're going to ignore all the pharmaceutical stuff and you're going to go back to the old war on drugs because your buddy Trump is doing that. That's, you know, journalism with big conservative outlets where you're talking about Ben Shapiro's

Daily Wire, you're talking about Alex Jones, they're about putting information out there that appeals to a demographic. It doesn't matter if it's true or not, but you're looking for a particular demographic and you're going to feed them what they want to hear. And that's what that's about. As a matter of fact, 8th century wood chipper said the hardest thing in the world to persuade normal people that bench appear on the daily wire are allowed on social media because their entire purpose is to keep you from entertaining forbidden opinions. And so let's talk a little bit about this Crowder thing. I started talking about it the other day and I didn't have time. There was a very good article that covered everything from the Daily Skeptic, from the perspective of somebody in the UK. And I think it's good for you to hear his perspective on this because you're liable to look at this. And whenever I complain about alternative media here in the US, whether it's Alex Jones or Stu Peters or Mike Adams,

adding false details to stuff because that's going to get them audience. And it doesn't matter to them that it discredits the truth that it affects people's lives. Whether you're talking about January the 6th, or you're talking about the lockdowns, or you're talking about the vaccines, they don't care. You know, we can sell product. I think it's absolutely reprehensible. But when I talk about people that I personally know that are doing it, well, you know, that's bad. You know, you're not supposed to. Look, I say the same thing about strangers.

If you do things that are affecting other people's lives, it needs to be exposed. It's just that simple. So Crowder said, you know, had this dispute with the Daily Wire. Presumably they were going to offer him $50 million. It was an offer, wasn't a contract. And he said, well, when I saw that and I saw the conditions and how they were going to punish me if I got censored,

these people are doing the bidding of big tech. If I get punished, he says, because I get demonetized or even kicked off, banned off of YouTube, then you've got a business model that actually supports that, supports the censorship of big tech. He doesn't call them that, but what I call them are the deputized state. And so he's got a point there, and he's absolutely right about that. If our model is based on advertising revenue from these big tech companies that are in league with the government, if we have to get money from the deputized state,

that's not a good business model. I would not expect to be able to survive if my business model were the same as NPR. You know, the government will pay NPR for their propaganda. They're not going to pay me for what I say because I don't agree with them. And so Crowder's got a point with that. But he does, and I said before, I've never seen one of his programs, not a single one, because I see it as entertainment.

I don't see it as a serious discussion. I see it as a limited hangout and entertainment. And he basically said that as well. He said, we were told at the beginning of this that we were fighting the media entertainment industrial complex and that's right that's the way the mainstream media is able to control people by adding a lot of entertainment into it and he said um and a lot of the big conservative platforms are verifiably in bed with them he He said, I was told that edgy, quote unquote, content did not work on the right side of

the spectrum. An entertainment show would never work. So he's not objecting to the entertainment aspect of it. And look, you know, we can always have some fun with stuff. But I mean, if that's the major approach to this, you know, to the confirmation bias for your chosen demographic and keep them entertained, you know, we can dress up and skits and we can put clown makeup on our face and we can rant and rave. That doesn't help anything really. In my opinion, I've seen it up close and personal three or four or five ads.

If I had to do that per show, he said, that would fundamentally change what this show is. Got to get those dollar dollar bills, and I failed to do that. Well, if I didn't do that with this proposed contract from Daily Wire, he said he would get docked. So he doesn't want to interrupt the content with a bunch of ads. He said a daily show, which of course requires a lot of work. He says, if I missed a day, there's separate penalties for that.

He says, if you get hit by a car, you have a sick day, you lose $100,000 in a day. Hey, anybody wonder why there's burnout? He said, if you are boycotted according to this contract, or if you're dropped by more than 50% of the advertising partners, the company is not able to replace within 90 days, the fee will be reduced by 25%. He said, let's get more specific YouTube demonetization. So, you know, um, Crowder is on YouTube, but he says, oh, they don't realize that I've been demonetized for three years. He's still on YouTube and he's got millions of people who follow him and he's able to monetize that even if he's not getting the money directly from YouTube

because he's going to have a certain conversion rate of people who are going to, you know, go to his website. He talks about his website and other things like that. A lot of people use YouTube as a way to, um, you know, just get a general connection with an audience and let them know there's other content that they can go that is not curated, that is not censored. I don't have that option anymore. I mean, I can't even put up music, Christmas music, without getting the entire channel taken down.

So it's at this point I've opposed them on enough of these issues that it's personal. Um, they come after me as a person, not for my content. There was nothing on those Christmas songs that violated any, and I got no message that it was a copyright violation or anything else because it wasn't, I performed it. I arranged those songs that were different, but they took down the entire channel. So he said, but when you stop and think about this, understand he's getting this contract offered to him from the Daily Wire, from Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro is not only on YouTube like Crowder, but Ben Shapiro is monetized. He plays it really safe. As a matter of fact, he's telling people to take the vaccine.

Just changed, just changed, because they realize what's happening. That's why Trump is talking about the death penalty, because he understands what is happening. He's got to have something to talk about, something to get people to rally around. So let's not talk about the drugs that I gave everybody that's killing people. Uh, let's talk about these other drugs and how we can kill the pushers of that. So, um, anyway, um, yeah. And you look, Jordan Peterson is there.

Candace Owens is on YouTube. They play it safe and the daily wire. They really do. So then he went on to YouTube. They play it safe on the Daily Wire. They really do. So then he went on to say, you know, look at the financial penalties. If you get a strike, meaning a suspension, another 20% cut in your pay. Then another 20% if it happens on Apple. And then another 10% if it happens on Facebook. And then another 10% if it happens on Spotify.

Imagine that you're deplatformed well you could be all the way down to only five or five to fifteen percent of the revenue that's on your contract so if he's got 50 million dollars you'd be down to a measly two and a half to seven and a half million dollars who could survive on that uh but you know just give you an idea about how he plays it safe. He tweets out stuff like this in April, 2021. In many instances, vaccines are a good idea, but digital passports are not digital vaccine passports or not. This is where the conservatives have tried to straddle the fence and Republicans in office, as well as the commentators.

I'm going to oppose the mandates because that's what, that's the phase of it. That Biden is in charge of putting out. But, um, we're not going to say anything bad about the vaccines. You know, in many instances, vaccines are a good idea. I'm not going to say that these vaccines are killing people, which we all knew by April, 2021. We all knew about that. At that point, we had almost five months worth of data from the VAERS database,

equivalent to decades of people that had been killed with all the other vaccines. So he said, let me ask you this. Can you imagine if this show was not only never permitted to take risks per contract as it relates to big tech guidelines if this show had to be advertiser friendly on YouTube those guidelines pretty much read don't say anything offensive ever and yet just like Paul Watson he does a lot of offensive stuff on YouTube they attack people they troll them them. They mock them. But they don't have any problem. Why?

Because they don't come after the climate MacGuffin or the vaccine MacGuffin. They don't talk about the CIA or Julian Assange. They avoid these issues. And so they're left alone. They can do, quote, unquote, risky content. It's they're left alone. You know, uh, they can do quote unquote risky content. It's not risky at all. Uh, they want this back and forth this social friction. You know, they, they want the crowders and the Watsons that are out there who are going to, uh, you know, poke people and then have those people come back and poke them. They like that. They really do.

So he said, there's a lot of levels to this game. There's a game with him. It's a high paying game. He said, you'd like to have some brothers and sisters in arms and some security without losing your shirt. So he says, so I'm setting up this thing, and in other words, this is his opening bid to set up a big media system that's going to compete with the Daily Wire and maybe be just a little more riskier than the Daily Wire.

So let's talk about the perspective of Nick Dixon, who is writing for thedailyskeptic.org in the UK. He says, Stephen Crowder's war with the Daily Wire and why it possibly matters. He says, if you're a fan of overpaid American alternative media celebrities, you may have been following the recent storm, we'll put it, between Steve Crowder and the Daily Wire. They offered him a $50 million contract. He said it's not really a contract, it's technically a term sheet rather than a formal contract, intended as an initial offer. Crowder rejected this paltry offer of $50 million, and he did it very publicly, claiming that said terms represented a capitulation to big tech.

To British ears, the idea of getting $50 million of anything sounds almost beyond belief. But having once been engaged to an American, I can confirm that they simply expect a higher standard of living. Confronted with, for example, a normal English hotel room, they immediately ask for an upgrade for no other reason than that they don't like it. And shockingly, they usually get it. If British people knew this, the entire system would collapse. Our country relies on mild self-loathing and almost pathological reluctance to bother anyone. However, I digress. It's funny because I knew a lot of people when I worked at Texas instruments, right out of college from the UK, uh, one of the guys went

back and he says, ah, it's great to be back in England, poverty with style. They make a lot of money, but they liked it anyway. So, uh, Crowder did not mention the daily wire by name, but then the founder of the daily wire, Jeremy boring, um, owned it. He fessed up as a Nick Dixon says to the appalling $50 million offer. And painstakingly went through the contract line by line to expect to explain why he felt it was totally reasonable. Now here's the rest of the story that you haven't heard from Crowder.

I read you some highlights of what he was saying. Crucially Crowder left out the $50 million part. He says perhaps to garner more sympathy for his plight, or perhaps because it's extra cool for other people to talk about your $50 million offer that you didn't even bother to mention. Seems like something that's probably in one of Trump's books, he said. Yet Crowder maintains that money was never the issue. And if we take him at his word, for him, it's about performers retaining control of their content and careers

and not working in league with big tech. And he says, yeah, there's, you know, merit to that argument. But he said the Daily Wire's counter-argument is that they stand to lose a huge amount of money from being slapped down. They have to protect themselves. Crowder's claim is that this plays into the hands of those who seek to boycott

conservatives, which as someone who works for a company still struggling to get advertising due to the wretched dweebs at stop funding hate, I can understand it, he says. Where he went wrong was in virtually all of his behavior. Firstly, he seems to have registered the domain name for his new project, StopBigCon.com. He registered that weeks before he launched the attack. He then phoned Jeremy Boring of the Daily Wire, ostensibly to talk about the contract, but apparently in order to force some kind of a confession out of Boring of the Daily Wire, ostensibly to talk about the contract, but apparently

in order to force some kind of a confession out of Boring, he recorded the call and has now released extracts of it on his YouTube channel. Nick Dixon says to me that immediately ends all claims to moral superiority, and I agree with it. And if Candace Owens is to be believed, the story is far more sorted. She claims that Crowder felt the initial offer was a financial insult, prompting him to make an offer of $120 million. Uh, Crowder went off in a sulk when they said we couldn't afford it.

They flatly rejected it. And then he decided to take on the daily wire with his own scheme. Hence the recorded phone call and the YouTube videos, all of it as a plan to launch stop big con.com. And I think that's exactly right. I, cause in it, he makes the case. He says, look, you know, if you want to, if you want to do a deal, you know, maybe I can work out something where I hire you and, um, you know, if you want to, if you want to do a deal, you know, maybe I can work out something where I hire you.

And, um, you know, uh, if you don't want to do that as a contract, maybe we can do that as employment. And if you don't want to do that, we got other things that we can do. So he's out there, he's trying to set up a competing organization, daily wire. I guess he figures, Hey, if they can afford to pay me 50 million, maybe I can set up my own daily wire and make even more money out of it. In other words, a vengeful, entirely self-serving ego trip from Crowder covered up a pompous narrative that he's doing all of it for the kids. I have to say, I find that narrative to be quite compelling, especially given his questionable character. Aside from recent events, he's said to have treated staff pretty badly in the past and on, on which again, we don't need to get into that. The essence of this though, is the fact that, um, the business model issue.

And again, you know, he did everything wrong from a personal standpoint. It seems to be trying to manipulate the situation as a people have pointed out. Um, and Candace Owens pointed out she said look that's just an opening offer it's open to negotiation uh she said when she went to work for ben shapiro it went for a very long time and they got a better negotiation status out of it jordan peterson's daughter said the same thing so that he negotiated with him and got a better contract. So, you know, he is, he's coloring between the lines in order to stay on YouTube. He has gotten, you know, caught a couple of times because again, it's an entertainment show and he and these other guys are going to throw some stuff out.

They threw some stuff out that to his chagrin offended YouTube. That's not hard to do. And they demonetized him, but he still has millionsagrin offended YouTube. That's not hard to do. And they demonetized him. But he still has millions of people on YouTube, and he's more careful now. And he doesn't challenge them on the vaccine or any of the key agenda items. He talks about trivial side issues.

And that's what's going on with Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Candace Owens, The Daily Wire in general. They will talk about some social issues, but they won't talk about the core issues that are going to be used to enslave us. That is what is really happening with this stuff. Going back and looking at some of his reports. Didn't read them.

I'm just looking at descriptions. Stephen discusses the left's recent pivot to question a COVID vaccine developed under Trump. You see? He'll talk about it, how much they hate it because it was developed by Trump. But he won't talk about what it is. He won't talk about how it works, what it's going to do to your body, the fact that it's genetic engineering, that it's a genetic code injection. He's not going to talk about that because that'll get you not just demonetized, it'll get you the plug pulled.

And so from the perspective of Nick Dixon in the UK, he's spot on with it. You know, big alternative media, unbelievable sums of money. Again, it's just astounding to me what I've seen come out in this trial with Alex. The astronomical amounts of money that he was making. Telling his audience, telling his crew exactly the opposite of all that stuff. It is, well, money is the root of all evil, isn't it? We will be right back. Stay with us. In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

You're listening to The David Knight Show. APS Radio delivers multiple channels of music right to your mobile device. Get the APS Radio app today and listen wherever you go. Well, I think it's interesting that Mike Pence has now been drawn into this document thing. And this morning you had Jimmy Carter saying, yeah, they found some documents at my residence when I first got out. And I turned them back in. This is continuing to go around. And I think Judge Napolitano had it right from the very beginning when he said, look, this is technically a violation, but I've spoken out against this law.

There's too much classification. There's over classification of everything. And there's over criminalization of these over classified documents. And that's the real issue. But it's also, again, another one of these side issues that are there to distract us from what is actually being done to us. So the White House is saying they're not going to talk about if there'll be any more documents because now they found four different places where they've had the documents. And Mika Brzezinski said, are there any possibilities that there's going to be documents at other locations owned or used by President Biden in the past?

And a guy who is a senior advisor to the White House Counsel's Office, his name is Sams, says, so the President's personal lawyers and Department of Justice are in communication, they're making sure they're coordinated on the next blah, blah, blah. Basically, he says, we're not going to say anything about this.

And so then Mike Pence jumps up and he says, classified documents have been found at my house. Did Trump put them there? No, I don't really believe that. But he really does hate Mike Pence. A small number of documents with classified markings were discovered at Pence's home in Indiana last week, said officials. He notified the National Archives the documents were, quote, inadvertently boxed and transported to the former VP's house. And that Pence was unaware of their existence of sensitive or classified documents at his personal residence. Again, all of this is distraction.

It's over classification. It's over criminalization. And I still believe that at the essence of all this, this was a target of Biden. They want to somehow come up with something to get him out of office that doesn't predate the election, like all of his corruption with Ukraine demonstrated in what happened with his son. It is absolutely a way for them to get out. They knew about Biden's papers before they came after Trump and did a big show of that raid. So I think that is essentially what we're looking at here. But let's talk about what is happening in Ukraine. Because there's a tremendous amount of fraud that is involved in everything that's happening in Ukraine.

We have, it's a big business opportunity, said Zelensky, to give us weapons and to rebuild our infrastructure. He made an appearance at the National Association of State Chambers, Chambers of Commerce. He said, we've already managed to attract attention and have cooperation with such giants of international financial investment world, such as BlackRock, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, American brands such as Starlink, that's Elon Musk, or Westinghouse,

have already become part of our Ukrainian way. Everyone can become a big business by working with ukraine oh that's right i mean we got this massive pipeline of money that's coming in they blew up the gas pipelines but they got a massive pipeline of money coming in he said everyone can become a big business by working with ukraine in all sectors from weapons and defense to construction and communication to agriculture to transport to i.t to banks and to medicine and um he said that they've hired blackrock they have to have an investment advisor to help them with all those billions of dollars that's flowing in he believes that the cost of rebuilding ukraine is going to eventually come up to $1 trillion.

And so there's money to be had for everybody. But already we've had massive fraud that's been revealed. You've got a dozen, about a dozen or more officials in Ukraine have all just recently left their posts because they found out that they were looting the treasury, sports cars, mansions, luxury vacations, the lifestyle of the rich and famous. Maybe some of them even went on a $40,000 an hour shopping trip in Paris. Oh, that would be Zelensky's wife. That's right. She's not leaving her position. Large scale corruption allegations and what's been called the biggest mass resignation and graft scandal since the Russian invasion began.

But this is not something that is new to Ukraine. Ukraine has been dirty and corrupt for a long time. We just poured a massive amount of fuel on that dumpster fire. Zelensky's got villas scattered all over the world that rent for tens of thousands of dollars a month. He set up shell corporations in different countries, you know, to own these things. You know, the one Italian villa that's owned by a shell corporation, another country that in turn is owned by another shell corporation, another country. And eventually you keep going through these shell corporations to find a connection to his wife. Top presidential advisor for deputy ministers, along with two defense

ministers have been caught up with this along with also five regional governors. The defense ministry had earlier announced a resignation of a deputy minister who is in charge of the army's logistical support. Yeah. We don't know where these weapons are going to go. As a matter of fact, people who were their allies over the eight years this civil war has been going on said, yeah, billions of dollars are already missing.

And so, you know, we just give them an amount that is equivalent to their entire gross domestic product all at once in just a few months. And this is what happens. You got one guy overseeing billions of dollars flowing in from the pockets of U.S. and European taxpayers, purchased military rations at inflated prices, in what appears to be a scheme to line the pockets

of contractors and himself, kickbacks. The defense ministry, for example, purchased overpriced food supplies. The example that they give is, wait for it, eggs. Eggs. Eggs are at the center of all this stuff everywhere. No, they paid, they bought eggs at 17 of their currency per price, while the average price was 7.

They paid 17 for what anybody else would pay 7 for. And, of course, you know there's going to be kickbacks. Lavish lifestyles. While the common people in Ukraine are being bombed and living under wartime conditions. And if we don't stop this, it's going to be coming to our countries as well. We'll be under literal war conditions as they continue to escalate this while these people are taking all the money and running. So they've got pictures of one guy, Timoshenko,

drove high-end sports cars in and out of the capital to and from mansions, which typically range in cost from $10,000 to $25,000 per month. Photos were published in some Ukrainian papers, republished last year in December, showing him frequently behind the wheel of a shiny new Porsche Taycan. They published a photo of Ceres entitled, Not in Martial Law, showing pictures of the mansion that he lived in. U.S. taxpayer dollars at work would be the subtitles of all these different things. But this is the type of thing we see happening regularly from the U.S. government.

As a matter of fact, if you look at our own government, we have unemployment fraud may top 60 billion dollars during the pandemic how many times are we going to find out that each and every one of these pandemic programs were corrupt to the tune of tens of billions of dollars and these are the programs that were run under trump i talked about how the ppp program that's supposed to be the payroll protection program we're going to help the small businesses that we've told are not essential. Well, Trump and Steve Mnuchin, his Goldman Sachs banker, who is head of the Treasury Department, decided that they would redefine what a small business was. It was not going to be a business that had 500 or fewer

employees, but it was going to be a business that had 500 or fewer employees at a location, you know, like one of Trump's hotels would qualify for that. All the hotel chains. And the banks were only interested in giving the money to the big companies. They gave more than 50% of the money for the PPP program to 5% of the applicants. And you had people who were put out of business, middle-class shop owners put out of business. They would get pitiful, pitiful PPP loans, under $1,000, doing all the same paperwork that the big corporations did. But it even extends beyond that.

Unemployment insurance fraud during the pandemic. There's been $4.3 billion worth of unemployment fraud proven by state workforce agencies, at least 45 billion more in transactions flagged as potential fraudulent unemployment claims, but not confirmed. So that's 48 billion of it, but they say it's more than 60 billion. Congress created four new unemployment insurance programs. Why is it that people don't want to go back to work, right? A lot of people have died or been disabled, but they've done a lot of this. And this is why when the government comes in and creates these programs, just like when they do their wars, this is exactly what you expect to find.

I'll just finish with this one last thing. I was surprised to see on Zero Hedge, finally, this story that I've talked about for years. Australians were once prosecuted for claiming that face masks worked against viruses. This is a story that I reported out of New South Wales, where in 2002, as SARS was breaking out in Asia and you saw people wearing these masks for the first time, there was a doctor who, she was the one who had identified the Parvo virus. She did some tests on the masks and she said they don't work. There's no reason to use them even in a surgical environment because after 20 minutes, remember how many times I've talked about this?

The mask gets saturated with spittle. And as you're talking after the mask is saturated with spittle, you're going to push out particles that are smaller. Therefore, they're going to remain airborne longer. They're going to travel farther. It actually makes things worse. And so New South Wales, where in 2020, we had the dictator Gladys Berejiklian.

New South Wales in 2002 said, if you tell people that an N95 mask is going to protect them, we're going to hit you with a $100,000 Australian dollar fine. And so now I saw that this finally has gotten some traction. I talked about this at InfoWars over and over again, but I could never get these guys to report it. I would put it on my show. I'd put it on, you know, talk about but I could never get these guys to report it. Right? I would put it on my show.

I'd put it on, you know, talk about it. I would even cut clips out about it, but they would not put the clips on the InfoWars website. They'd bury the story. This was the time that Alex and Mike Adams were pushing fear and panic over a lab leak. They wanted to sell storable food. They wanted to sell masks. Mike Adams went into mask in a big way. They wanted to sell storable food. They wanted to sell masks. Mike Adams went into mask in a big way. Alex sold masks as well. Nobody wanted to talk about it. So I'm glad that the story is out there, but I was absolutely amazed that after three years,

the person who would get a link off of this on Zero Hedge was none other than Paul Joseph Watson, who refused to talk about this. You know, just like Steve Crowder, you know, they get all the edgy stuff about criticizing, you know, disgusting things that are happening in our culture, but they won't talk about the masks until now it's safe. Now you can talk about the masks, Paul, because you won't get kicked off of YouTube. Crowder can talk about the masks.

Crowder can talk about the vaccines now because now it's safe. Well, I'm glad it's safe. And I hope we get this information out. But we need to talk about how we stop the murder because it's not safe for people who are still getting it. And we need to talk about how we're going to unroll this, how we're going to unroll this legal charade

that they've used to enact medical martial law, how we're going to stop these continued legal charade that they've used to enact medical martial law, how we're going to stop these continued power grabs by the World Health Organization, and the rest of this stuff. Absolutely amazing. But I'm glad this story is out there. I really am. Honestly, I am. It's just amazing to see this.

And I know that for three years I've been talking about this. Couldn't get any traction. Buried by InfoWars.com. The Common Man. They created Common Core to dumb down our children. They created Common Past to track and control us. Their Commons Project to make sure the commoners own nothing. And the communist future.

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