The David Knight Show - 26Dec2023 Christmas Green & Red — Environmentalism and Red Ink

Episode Date: December 26, 2023

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Music Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, here on Airstrip One, we gather for The David Knight Show on December 26, 2023, Year of Our Lord. I'm Gardner Goldsmith filling in for David Knight. And today on the program, strategic oil concerns in the Middle East.

King Charles III, king of the environment. And is the United States sleepwalking into blackouts? That plus your comments at Rockman and Rumble. And also on Twitter slash X. Feel free to join us as we welcome this day after Christmas. Nice to have you here, everyone, and it's nice to be here filling in for David. I'm Gardner Goldsmith, coming out of the offices where I occasionally visit and often send my stories for MRCTV. And of course, you might be familiar with my work at MRCTV.org, the Media Research Center, now in its 37th year of fighting the left-wing bias in media and in

political reporting. And we've got a lot to discuss today. I want to thank everybody at MRCTV for granting me the opportunity to join you here. And moreover, I want to thank David Knight and the entire Knight family and wish them a blessed, blessed year, as well as a blessed year to you for a wonderful 2023 and 2024 coming up. I hope it is absolutely beautiful for all of you and your family. I hope you had a terrific Christmas, absolutely beautiful time here in Southern New Hampshire, where I am, the live free or die state where, irony of ironies, the state penitentiary inmates make the license plates that says live free or die on every one of those.

It's going to be a great day today, and it's going to be very interesting because there's breaking news out of the Middle East. Just trying to find out what the situation could be down there, whether or not Iran might be getting pulled more into this battle between Israel and the Hamas fighters in Gaza. Of course, Israel doesn't really seem to be able to distinguish between the Hamas fighters and the civilians. And there's more to talk about on that day after Christmas, unfortunately, for what's happening there in the Holy Land, Bethlehem in particular. So we'll talk about that and I'll get your thoughts as to whether or not we can really trust much of the information we're getting from any of the mainstream sources. And I don't even call them mainstream sources anymore. I just call

them just arms of the deep state in many cases. And whether or not we can trust some of the arms of the alternative media. We'll get your thoughts on that as well as we check out what's happening today on The David Knight Show. Please remember, if you get the opportunity, David Knight's website is a great resource. And if you go to TheDavidKnightShow.com, you can find out all of the streaming sources there. You might be watching on Rumble. You might be watching on Rockfin. You might be watching us on DLive. And hello, thank you for welcoming me

as the guest host today on The David Knight Show. What's in store? Well, what is in store today looks like this. Here's our roundup for this day after Christmas. First, we'll be looking at the kingly collectivist corruption of Christ the King. Yeah, we are be looking at the kingly collectivist corruption of Christ the King. Yeah, we are talking blasphemy. Yesterday, the King of England, King Charles III, yes, yes,

pip-pip, cheerio, and all that other British sort of lingo, yes, King Charles III, collectivism, yes, yes, all that other British collectivist lingo, he gave his Christmas statement yesterday. And you will not believe what was hiding inside that. Actually, you probably are well aware. If you are a viewer and a regular contributor to the David Knight program and chat, you are probably very well aware of things you picked up. We'll compare notes. We'll look at number two as well. How the climate cult's death agenda today follows decades of government encroachment of travel rights. Yes, very,

very interesting stories that all tie together right after we look at that kingly collectivist corruption of Christ the King. Then our third story will be gun rights and Bruin. The Bruin decision coming up to almost two years old now, and we're looking at oil and water. Why? Many of the people who were very excited about the Bruin decision justifiably were excited for a slight change, but might have jumped the gun a little bit. I'll give you an example of one of the stories coming out of Massachusetts and a court decision there that gives us an indication that, of course, the fight continues, the fight for your right to defend yourself

against the state. Then we're going to be discussing in jazz parlance, as you see on the screen, the speech police and fascist corporate cronies seem to dig each other. I mentioned on my Liberty Conspiracy Program, which by the way, I should mention, I also host the Liberty Conspiracy Program every Monday through Friday, streaming at Rockman and Rumble and my Twitter feed, which is at guard goldsmith and if you're just listening in audio that's gard goldsmith short for gardner goldsmith gardner which is named after one of the families that came over on the mayflower and if you're from the boston area you might be familiar with isabella stewart gardner she married into the gardner family the gardner family also not to like puff up the garden family but kind of an interesting little facet there. They also founded as they were one of the five families that left the Plymouth plantation and founded Salem.

And so I can't be blamed for the Salem witch trials, which actually didn't happen in Salem proper. They actually happened in North Salem, which is sort of Peabody now. But the Isabella Stewart Garden Museum, if you ever get a chance to visit Boston, that is a very interesting place. And I'll tell you more about that after we get into our first blush on the news. But if you do want to follow me, it's at Guard Goldsmith, G-A-R-D Goldsmith. And of course, you can find my work at MRCTV. And watch or listen to Liberty Conspiracy on that at Guard Goldsmith on And of course you can find my work at MRC TV and watch or listen to Liberty conspiracy on that at guard Goldsmith on Twitter slash X and also on Rockman and rumble. And we would be happy to have you there. We start at six o'clock Monday through Friday, and we usually run for at

least 90 minutes. And I don't think I've done anything shorter than 90 minutes, but last night was the first time I went for about 45 minutes, maybe 50, just to say hello to everybody at Christmas time. And I played some clips of Andrea Bocelli singing from his holiday concert that we got to see as a little something to say, always remember you are never alone because the Lord created you and is there for you. So thanks so much, everybody, for being such good kindred spirits. Now let's take the opportunity to go to the United Kingdom, a kingdom of a different sort, a kingdom of what I think is corruption. Let's hear some of that royal music. © BF-WATCH TV 2021 Oh, the color, the pageantry, the grandeur, the splendor of King Charles at his coronation. All I can think of is Monty Python.

He's got the magic scepter. He's got the big gold ball. And that hat just seems a little too heavy for him. Boris Johnson there doesn't bow until it's too late. He's a little slow sometimes that Boris Johnson. What could you do? And there's King Charles walking very slowly and looking quite confused, actually. Okay.

Well, that was the king being sworn in. And almost two years ago as well, he seemed to want to adopt the mantle, yes, pun intended, of being the king of the world, not even having to ride the Titanic. Yes, he issued the Terra Carta, not the Magna Carta, but the Terra Carta in Athens. Yes, it was the new rules for the earth. Of course, he was speaking for nature and saying that we all had to change our lives. And of course, that means government making us change our lives for the good of the planet. And who would speak for the planet? Yes, another fallible human being named King Charles. If you see the reductio ad absurdum to that, I agree with you, and welcome to the logic class that Charles seems to have missed.

Yes, it is a little unusual to see a human being claiming that he can speak for the earth as opposed to any other human being who says that he or she can speak for the earth. But that is the yes mantle that King Charles has adopted. And so yesterday, King Charles brought it unto himself to not only issue his Magna Carta for the entire planet, and of course, it all has to do with climate change, the MacGuffin. And I'll show you a little something later. I got my MacGuffin shirt from the David Knight store, and I can't wait to show it to you. It's really great. And that's Scottish, by the way.

So the Scots aren't particular fans of the King. They've been talking about breaking off for quite a while. And Sean Connery was one of the big outspoken people about that. And he was very positive for getting Scottish independence once more. Go with the blue and the orange, my friends. And there are no tigers in the Scottish Highlands. But I'm quite fascinated to see how hard King Charles is pushing this. After flying in his private jet to COP 28 and also being part of COP 26, where they had their electric cars in Scotland and they had to charge their all of us with austerity in our lives, changing how we heat our homes, trying to get everyone connected to an electric grid, which can then be monitored and, of course, attenuated based on government policies. And beyond the government policies, we can't actually

address this to whether it is actually secure for us, whether it will be there when we need it, or anything like that. They want to apply all those things in a sort of neo-feudal way where they will be the feudal lords. And King Charles apparently thinks that he's got the royal blood in him to lead the way. So he issued the terra carta in the beautiful pagan style of the Greeks and said that the earth must be protected. He would be the one to protect it. Well, yesterday it looked like maybe he might actually give a nod at least to the Anglican church of England. But given the fact that the Anglican church is seen as sort of something of a blaspheme for many Catholics because, of course, old Henry wanted to get some divorces. Well, Charles offered this statement.

You can see on the screen, if you're just listening, I've called up the Twitter feed of GB News. GB News, positives and negatives. I don't like the way they treated Calvin Robinson. I don't like the way they treated Calvin Robinson. I don't like the way they treated Lawrence Fox, but they still get some good information out, just like Fox News does. Once a year, maybe CNN will have something crop up and an occasional network will do something. GBN scores a little higher on that, for me anyway, but still, it's not like the news resources I can find by going to Rantingly or going to MRCTV or checking out Tony Arterburn's show or anything like that.

But he spoke yesterday for Christmas. And I want you to see his Christmas message. We're going to jump past that wonderful pageantry and the music and go to the king looking very stiff and artificial in his blue suit with his hand on the back of a chair, as he starts to use Christianity for his government collectivist control grid that he wants. Yeah, folks, it's the electric breakdance boogaloo, King Charles III, the sequel. Here we go. And yes, I know what you're thinking. You're saying, how much energy did this take to get this wonderful, great, high-altitude shot of Buckingham Palace? How much energy does the palace use? Many of the festivals of the great religions of the world are celebrated with a special meal,

a chance for family and friends to come together across generations, the act of sharing food, adding to conviviality and togetherness. All right, so already we've got him on Christmas Day, which, yes, we will mention to the pagans, is a day applied to a pagan holiday. The Druids are probably up in arms at me right now. So, yes, I will mention, yes, the Christian holiday was applied to this. No one is exactly sure when Christ was born, but already we have him either being cosmopolitan and trying to be as accepting of every religion as possible on this Christmas

day yesterday, or we have him injecting something that perhaps is a bit of an insult to Christians because he actually is, watch this, going to start to use the fact that Christ the Lord God created the world as a reason to allow for global collectivist government control of everything you do, from your food to your energy to the heating of your home to how you travel. And in addition to that, he's going to use it as an argument for government taking tax money from people to fund the moves of migrants and the housing of migrants in particularly in the United Kingdom, but also anywhere in the world. And you can see right at the start here, he's mentioning food. The food is one of the flagstones that he's put down, one of the stepping stones he's putting down for his narrative, for this sort of collectivist argument that he's going to lay out, it's the first hint that he's going to be talking about global scarcity, which of course is actually being caused by government

impediments on the free market, government impediments on things like nitrogen fertilizer and energy to be able to transport the seeds and the food after the food has been grown or slaughtered. This is all government created. If the market is allowed to function, and we'll discuss this in a little while, in the way that an old Scotsman, Adam Smith, mentioned in 1776, by allowing the invisible hand, whether people look at it as human interaction and self-interest, having to serve a customer and be honest to be able to continue their work, and the bad people being flushed out of that system and the good ones rising to the fore, rather than the political, mercantilist, fascist system of funding weapons manufacturers, and funding all sorts of green climate change organizations.

All of those things are the types of things that evidently this man seems to like. So he's laid the path already and will continue with the King. For some, faith will be uppermost in their hearts. For others, it will be the joy of fellowship and the giving of presence. It is also a time when we remember those who are no longer with us and think also of those whose work of caring for others continues, even on this special day. This care and compassion we show to others is one of the themes of the Christmas story, especially when Mary and Joseph were offered shelter

in their hour of need by strangers as they waited for Jesus to be born. There you go, right there. in their hour of need by strangers as they waited for Jesus to be born. Over this past year... There you go, right there. Right there. Yes, of course. As they sheltered in a place where they were accepted in their hour of need. That's the signal for the migrant explosion that, of course, lays out a very nice image, but hides the reality of the

political machinations clearly behind, for example, replacement immigration policies that have been openly stated by deep state members, by one world people, by people associated with Klaus Schwab and King Charles, and also overlooks the idea, the very effrontery of government officials taking money from the local people who, I don't get subsidized when I want to move, do you? No. And by the way, I am a Christian anarchist, a voluntarist. So I don't believe that political borders that are established by the state by forcing my neighbor to pay for them actually represent any sort of a border that my neighbor might want because all the neighbors might have different opinions and those opinions could change hour to hour, day to day.

So I'm not in favor of government running borders. I'm in favor of private property, ancient traditions of common law, and even going back to what was done in Exodus with tribes. I like what the Brehon law system did in ancient Ireland. I like what the Vikings did with their Goddard system, a non-compulsory voluntary system that they had in Iceland, where they had different temples for adjudication of disputes. In Ireland, they went tribally. It was all done by reputation. And I don't like the idea of taking money from people in order to facilitate my move. It's where I want to go. Do you?

I didn't find that somewhere written in the false social contract that they foist on all of us and tell us is for real. Oh, maybe that's part of the reason. Maybe it's because they tell you that they're giving you a contract that you never signed, that you actually signed this contract to be run by government. How does that exactly work logically? My heart has been warmed by countless examples of the imaginative ways in which people are caring for one another, going the extra mile to help those around them simply because they know it is the right thing to do at work and at home, within and across communities.

My wife and I were delighted when hundreds of representatives of that selfless army of people, volunteers who served their communities in so many ways and with such distinction, were able to join us in Westminster Abbey for the coronation earlier this year. They are an essential backbone of our society. Their presence meant so much to us both and emphasized the meaning of coronation itself. Above all, a call to all of us to serve one another, to love and care for all. Cervé's also lied. Again, again. So he mixes volunteers and who knows how many of those people actually were real volunteers. What percentage of them in Westminster Abbey were real volunteers with the spirit of what you're trying to put forward, which is collectivist control, seizure of money. And again, driving the sentiment that if you don't accept this collectivist concept of the migrants being moved in based off your neighbor's dime, that somehow you are an evil person. It's at the heart of the Christmas story, the birth of Jesus who came to serve the whole world,

showing us by his own example how to love our neighbor as ourselves. Throughout the year, my family have witnessed how people of all ages are making a difference to their communities. This is all the more important at a time of real hardship for many when we need to build on existing ways to support others less fortunate than ourselves. Because out of God's providence we are blessed with much, and it is incumbent on us to use this wisely. However, service to others is but one way of honouring the whole of creation, which, after all, is a manifestation of the divine.

This is a belief shared by all religions. To care for this creation is a responsibility owned by people of all faiths and of none. We care for the earth for the sake of our children's children. During my lifetime, I have been so pleased to see a growing awareness of how we must protect the earth and our natural world as the one home which we all share. I find great inspiration now from the way so many people recognise this, as does the Christmas story, which tells us that angels brought the message of hope first to shepherds. These were people who lived simply amongst others of God's creatures.

Those close to nature were privileged that night. And at a time of increasingly tragic conflict around the world. I pray that we can also do all in our power to protect each other. The words of Jesus... All right, let's pause it right there and just consider something. Has anyone seen the protesters outside one or two or all of the weapons manufacturing plants that build weapons for Israel in Great Britain and what the police have done to them. I don't think King Charles wants to talk about that as he talks about peace on earth and this blasphemous way that he brings in the stories of the shepherds, again, hiding the fact that you will be the sheep. You will be the sheep.

In his globalist, climate change, MacGuffin, anthropogenic climate change, nonsense-driven grab for more power. And we see images of him visiting African nations, formerly perhaps under the British or the Dutch control. And you think about how they want to continue their colonization through corporatism and mercantilism, otherwise known as fascism. This is what we're seeing from King Charles.

And when we look at the policies of this man and how many hundreds of millions of dollars he and his family receive every year, in addition to their net worth, it is quite a rich dish to have to suck down that sort of eggnog on Christmas as he talks about caring for the poor and wants to institute policies that will make them poorer, that will not allow the productive capacity of the market. And we'll discuss this again, referring to Adam Smith. And interestingly enough, tying in It's a Wonderful Life with the great spirit of David Knight on this David Knight show together in opposition to the very sort of command and control centralized authority that

King Charles right there represents. the Commonwealth and wider world. They remind us to imagine ourselves in the shoes of our neighbours and to seek their good as we would our own. So on this Christmas Day, my heart and my thanks go to all who are serving one another, all who are caring for our common home. I think we can leave it there with the common home. I think we understand, and we can go back to that. We'll check in at Rockfin and Rumble Chat. Thank you for joining us on The David Knight Show. I'm Gardner Goldsmith filling in, and yes, I know I don't have as much hair as King Charles. I'm not quite as seasoned as King Charles. I'm not as learned as King Charles, but I think't have as much hair as King Charles. I'm not quite as seasoned as King Charles. I'm not as learned as King Charles,

but I think I have a few ideas that maybe King Charles might want to consider. I don't want to sound too assumptive, but since he seems to be quite assumptive himself and telling us that we should care for our neighbor at the same time that he doesn't acknowledge that the greatest ability to leverage extra time to be able to engage in charity work, the greatest power that man can find to be able to engage in charity is if he can lighten or she can lighten the load of what is required for his or her life just to survive. And the biggest driver to allow for that is the

free market. Evidently, being a monarch, King Charles doesn't seem to like that concept. So, okay, well, King, let's take a quick look at some of the ideas that have come around thanks to King Charles. As I wrote on Twitter, I said, the king misrepresents the words of Christ and the logic of godly creation into bulwarks for an anti-rights government worship credo that stands completely opposed to Christian principles and leaves government in charge of all, pretending to be for the people and earth. So let's take a look, everybody, at what his kinds of ideas have wrought, at least on the environmental and economic fronts. When we look at the climate change MacGuffin, remember the MacGuffin t-shirt at the David Knight store at the David Knight show dot com.

And for that, let's get a little theme, some nice, smooth music for your morning or afternoon or night, wherever you might be in whatever time zone you call home. Let's hear from our friends. And I often do this on my show as a theme for the climate change, anthropomorphic climate change cult. Cool in the gang. But oh, it's too hot, too hot, too hot, lady. I gotta run for shelter, gotta run for shade. It's too hot, too hot, too hot, lady. Gotta cool this anger, what a mess we have made. So long ago, you were my love, oh my love. helped put together so many of the great musicians who wrote so many of the wonderful monkeys tunes and also was sort of the bane of existence for the monkeys for quite a while because he wouldn't free

up many of them to do their own thing for example mike nesmith wrote a different drum and that was a song he wanted to introduce into the monkeys lineup of tunes and record for one of the records don kirshner would have nothing of it. So Mike Nesmith sold it to Linda Ronstadt and the song went to like number three or number one. And Mike went up to Don and said, hey, hey, Don, thanks. Ah, yes. Central authorities commanding everything. It's wonderful, isn't it? Yes, indeed. Maybe he was the climate change activist of music, that Don Kirshner.

But let's take a look at what would happen if someone were to institute King Charles's ideas. So here's a little headline for you that originally was published in The Telegraph. It was an op-ed that for a while was behind their paywall. The Telegraph's Neil Record writes, what could happen if we just stopped oil? Six billion people might die. And this is not inflammatory. There are some of the people in England, of course, the just stop oil people who seem to love investing in gorilla glue, which of course requires a lot of energy to get to the temperatures to create the glue. And, you know, over in Germany, some of those highly

intelligent so-called doctors glued themselves to the floor of a Volkswagen slash Porsche display floor, and they shut off the lights and left them there as the heat went off for the night and those guys weren't able to get to the bathroom. It's always really smart to glue yourself to something, particularly a collectivist ideology that's going nowhere. But let's hit this. He writes, many of us have been exasperated by the antics of just stop oil protesters. Now, I believe that these are well-meaning and they are committed to their cause. And I'm sure that they think that they're trying to save the planet in the best way they can think of. Gain publicity, get people talking, and influence politicians. Yes, collectivism. One size has got to fit all,

even when your use of energy is not bringing direct harm to another person and no one's ever brought you to court for harming them in a tort way, the way that the British commoners used to understand. If you said that you had been harmed by someone, say, burning a fire in their land and it came over and hit your land, then you could bring someone to court and say, I've been harmed. I'm a real person and I want just compensation. I want to go in front of one of our local juries. That was the way that it was done. It was supposed to be small areas of control, people who knew each other, not these large areas control that, of course, the one worlders want because they'll control everything. Continuing with the original, which was originally published on, let me see, it was six days ago by Mr. Record. He is the Neil of record. But what would happen if we literally just stopped oil tomorrow and did without the natural resources on which the world, its economies and population depend? The answer, most likely six billion people would die within a year. I'm going to assume the oil in Just Stop Oil means fossil fuels.

So oil, gas, and coal. Yes, the cheap, plentiful, easy to move, easy to store things that don't lose their energy third world people having to dig in very dangerous mines to dig up the toxic chemicals that will be shipped around the world. And then, of course, we'll have to be stored in very toxic landfills. I'm also going to assume, he writes, that we have today's technological knowledge and infrastructure. So we're talking about stopping fossil fuels now, not at some unspecified time in the future. Day one, no more mining of coal. The world's oil wells shut down. The world's gas fields likewise. The first to feel the change would be gas users. Gas stocks held above ground are typically not that high. So the UK would quite quickly say in 10 or 15 days have to turn off its gas distribution system as it would be unable to maintain pressure. And that's the sort of thing that just about a year

ago they were leaning towards doing when they were going to shut down the oil fields in the North Sea. But luckily some of the Scottish interests and some of the more sensible people in the British Parliament said, oh no, that would be really dumb. That already coming after the prime minister at that time, Boris Johnson said, expect a winter of austerity similar to World War II. Why? Because you were going to impose it on people, Boris, while of course you partied in number 10 Downing Street. This would mean in turn that the domestic supply would shut down too. Gas would stop flowing in some 21 million households. 74% of the population would no longer have heating, hot water, and cooking facilities. In their panic, people might

turn to electricity for their cooking and heating, but wait! The UK electricity grid relies on natural gas as its buffer energy source. Every day, demand varies according to consumer demand and other main energy and the other main energy supplier. Renewables are highly variable and can only power the grid when gas is picking up the lion's share of the gap between their output and consumer demand. And of course, in bad weather, they've got to rely on carbon-based fuels to make sure that those systems are maintained, not frozen, just as the people in Texas. So the moment that the main gas distribution system is depressurized, the grid balancing system fails and power cuts ensue. Ah, that's awesome. Now let's skip to day 25 since yesterday was the 25th of December.

Day 25. I'm probably being generous with the timing here, but diesel and petrol are likely to have run out by day 25. This means that food distribution would fail. And so the population, most of which are entirely dependent on bought food, begin to starve. Day 50. In the urban world, many people would be near death from starvation. In the 50 days since the ending of fossil fuel supplies, law and order would have broken down, and I suspect that mass conflict and slaughter would have taken place with the increasingly desperate search of the means of survival. Now, this is just one man's opinion. Other people sitting around the living room might speculate in other ways.

Doesn't mean that he has any more insight than anyone else. Day 100, just three months or so since the world just stopped oil. Sounds like a Larry Niven novel here. My guess is that around half of the world's population would be dead. Oh, okay. Well, King Charles, Merry Christmas to you too. And in the spirit of that, let's look at one of your friends who is no longer around but seemed to not care about half a million people getting slaughtered by government policy. We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima.

And, you know, is the price worth it? I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it. Oh, okay. Well, that's just classic stuff from Madeleine Albright, of course. And that was when half a million were estimated to have died. As many people noted with the bin Laden letters, just about five years later, the number seemed to have doubled. But that was due to an embargo of Iraq, similar to the embargo that FDR imposed on Japan prior to the Japanese responding by attacking Pearl Harbor, an attack about which Roosevelt clearly, clearly knew. And of course,

because Roosevelt was so concerned about the Sino-Japanese War, he had to make sure that he took the side of China and something that really had nothing to do with the United States. Now let's take a look at another part of what could happen, not just the food supply chain, but other types of things, the supply of information and privacy. Right now, the machinations, as we are a week out of the COP 28 meeting in air-conditioned Dubai, and by the way, the last one that they had in the desert last year was air-conditioned as well, and not only was it air-conditioned, they had air-conditioned passages that they constructed between buildings in the hotel complex. Yeah, that's awesome, isn't it? And they took photographs with bicycles that they never used.

So here is one aspect of something I want to make sure I remind you about, which I want to make sure I remind you here on the David Knight Show. If you go to the little Gardner Goldsmith section at MRCTV, you'll see this piece. This is down the list a little bit now. We've got another new one that just came out, and I'll tell you about that later in the show. With big thanks to the MRCTV team, editor Eric Scheiner emailed me this morning. That's senior editor Eric Scheiner, director of MRCTV. And I've got another one. I've got three more that will be coming out today and tomorrow as the team gets back together to work today over at MRCTV.

Here is something that I wrote last week. Climate surveillance, EPA gore working with little known interests to spy on your emissions. Now, if you watch my Liberty Conspiracy show, I discussed this last week when the story came out. But I would like to introduce it to you here at the David Knight program. Of course, much larger audience for David's show. And please spread the word about the show and help expand the audience for David's show. What wonderful people, just not only for the sake of how wonderful they are, but just not only their integrity and their graciousness, but the information and the wisdom that David puts into every day is just, it is unmatched by any human being I've ever met. I don't know how to describe it, but here is my attempt to add some information so that maybe

some alarm bells will go off on this Christmas holiday. Since December 15th marked the 232nd anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and December 16th was the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, perhaps it's time to assess the status of our natural rights, especially, folks, when we consider where they stand against the mindset organized through government means of people like King Charles. And I want to stay focused on what he said and the way that he twisted the Bible to now point towards collectivism, mandated collectivism, not voluntary, not you using your free will. They said, in other words, do we live in the purported land of the free or are we trapped in the land of the lost? And by the way, David Niven, actually the science fiction writer, he worked on some of those Land of the Lost episodes.

David Gerrold, creator of Trouble with Tribbles and a science fiction author himself, was story editor on that show. They had some pretty high concept science fiction in there. Reference to recent U.S. state and local government action tilts the scales far, far to the side of the lost rights. As I mentioned, in just the last half decade, we've seen each level of government engage in lockdowns, infringe on the rights of landlords, block the fulfillment of private contract, censor, lie, play favorites with numerous interests in numerous industries, turn our tax cash into weaponry and welfare showered on foreign nations, pump false narratives about concerned parents being potential domestic terror threats whom the feds can surveil whom holding prisoners for more than two years without trials while withholding

likely exculpatory evidence from those whom the feds did grind through their insane judicial mill force us to house soldiers in new u.S. military bases all around the world, reauthorize the so-called National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, of an insultingly unconstitutional Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Section 702, allowing secret spying and much more. Hi, have you ever heard of a public warrant in your life? Washington, D.C.? The contrast between founding era America and contemporary America is so stark one might speculate that it had been derived from the plot of a dystopian novel.

But there is much more. In fact, hiding behind those stark brazen usurpations of our rights, the feds have been using indirect means to skirt the explicit rules of the Bill of Rights, and they have been employing typical fear-mongering narratives to promote their so-called good work with the third parties. Under the guise of national security, and by the way, we will revisit Madeleine Albright's mindset in a little while as we look at what happened in Bethlehem, what's happening in Ukraine, and what's happening in Gaza. Under the guise of national security, and after being exposed for directly collecting without public warrants from judges, the digital communications of innumerable Americans.

The feds changed tack and began paying digital communications corporations as if they were subcontractors to hand them the information that the Fourth Amendment is supposed to stop government from getting without warrants. So, of course, when we saw James Clapper facing Ron Wyden just about a few days before the Edward Snowden information was released about how the NSA was spying on us without warrants, and James Clapper put his hand to his temple when asked, using the passive voice, when Ron Wyden asked him, is the government spying on millions of Americans without their knowledge? And then he said, no.

And then Wyden gave him a second chance to answer. And he said, no, because Wyden already knew that they were. And of course, Clapper then said, oh, not knowingly, something to that effect. He outright lied, could have been prosecuted for perjury, was not. And all they did after that, in the grand furor that erupted after that, which wasn't really a grand furor, it was only people who believe in civil liberties, evidently, they granted, Congress granted the NSA the power to do that in an indirect way by just paying for the information. And this is where Al Gore and the climate cult come in. I said under the guise of national security and so on and so forth. The political economic term for government getting the information and paying these subcontractors to hand them the information from the phone systems or the Internet systems. The political economic term for this is fascism, or one might use mercantilism if he or she wanted to use the warning language of economist Adam Smith from 1776. And that is from his book, The Wealth of Nations. It's actually

got a much longer title, but it's just abbreviated to that. And while the fascist payoffs from government to corporate pals are objectionable enough, the rights attacking intent of the connection is even more alarming. And the feds are expecting the practice, expanding the practice. I recently discovered the existence of a nonprofit so-called called Carbon Mapper. And yes, NewsGuard, yes, you can try to censor us again, even though I know you were getting government money through DARPA. Thank you, NewsGuard. This is GuardGuard. Hello. If you are interested and would not want to bother us at MRCTV again, we use what are called hyperlinks. And what you can do, I know it's sort of shocking. They've been around for a while.

You can actually click on the hyperlinks news guard. And I know it's wacky, crazy stuff. This is wild stuff, Sammy. Hey, Kat, to use the jazz parlance, man. Dig, dig, man. Yeah. You know what? You can dig into the stories by clicking the hyperlinks and finding all of the evidence and it's all provided. So you don't have to send us emails where I have to work for an entire weekend answering your questions and hassles that you're going to downgrade us and make it impossible for MRCTV to get advertisers,

even though you are getting my tax money. That's awesome. That's great. Love fascism, don't you, NewsGuard? Did you reveal that to people? Because you're so good on the truth-telling side. Oh, you didn't do that, did you? Who's the good fascist entity?

Yeah, you are, NewsGuard. Good for you. Anyway, Carbon Mapper is based out of Pasadena, California, where I used to live. And it is a corporation that already is working with federal agencies to use spy planes in order to surveil our so-called climate change emissions. Yeah, this is real. As I noted, Gabriela Aoun-Anguera writes for Grist that Carbon Mapper is, quote, a nonprofit created in 2020 to drive emissions mitigation, you know, of the climate, otherwise known as carbon emissions. They call them carbon emissions, carbon dioxide, which is on earth used by living creatures, living plants and so on to actually grow. And then we beasts and beasts of burden graze on those things. Other animals use them, nuts, grass, flowers, pollen, all those things. They rely on carbon dioxide to grow and then the

living animals and insects and birds they all take care of those things because they also they flourish thanks to the growth i know it's kind of weird i remember learning that in third grade i don't know what happened to some of these carbon mapper people. But anyway, she writes that it was a nonprofit. And by the way, good luck finding out who was behind that nonprofit. Oftentimes, if you go to the About section of a website, you'll find some of the investors or the founders and that sort of stuff. Well, it's a little tricky if you go to their website. She adds that they're going to be using aircraft. And by the way, they're looking forward to using satellites.

Yep. The aircraft that Carbon Mapper uses carries an imaging spectrometer capable of measuring hundreds of wavelengths of light. Gases absorb different light wavelengths, leaving a spectral fingerprint invisible to the human eye. Yeah. So what happens is if you put it through a prism, little black bars come up. And we used to do that in the astronomy classes that I was taking at BU. So anyway, you just put the telescope up and you find out what gas is being burned from a particular star, that sort of stuff. Through a coalition that includes the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, also based in Pasadena, Planet Labs, and several other institutions, Carbon Mapper is working to launch two spectrometer-equipped satellites to detect methane, also not going to be damaging to the Earth, and a very good byproduct of living creatures that are very

useful for human beings and CO2 directly at their sources. Well, as I mentioned, there's a little more to this because if you go back to November of last year, it turns out that in my research for MRCTV, Al Gore was already involved in this larger web of data collection and surveillance that they want to do on you. I said in my November 13th, 2022 piece entitled Al Gore Opens Climate Gathering, COP 27, by pushing carbon use surveillance satellites. I noted that Gore came to and from the COP. That's the Council of of of participants. Climate called Soiree promoting a Google Tide project called Trace.

And we'll finish it with this, everybody. Yeah. Happy. What was in your Christmas stocking? A Christmas cane of candy like this? Well, perhaps. About Trace, I got to write. On their Climate Trace website, Google and Al Gore's new pal, sorry, not just pal, he actually has a vested interest in Trace, as the website's about section admits, they tell avid avunculars, quote, until now, most emissions inventories have been based on self-reported, often years-late data that relied on rough estimates. So what does that tell you? We'll get to that. Opaque methods and inaccessible reporting. Hmm. There seems to be an admission there that maybe they would like to scratch from

the record. Remember that. Until now, remember that sentence. Government officials, scientists, investors, executives, and activists need better data. Hmm, I thought that they could tell us to support the creation of policies, programs, and campaigns, and policies otherwise known as threats against you. It's just our policy here in the mafia. Programs, in other words, fascist, money-sucking ideas that politicians won't put into the private market and ask for voluntary investment, but will institute through taking you and your neighbor's money, and campaigns, same thing, aimed at limiting global temperature rise by 1.5 degrees Celsius as agreed to under the Paris Climate Agreement, you know, which isn't a treaty, and even if it were, would not be

constitutional. So I wrote this at MRCTV. I said, beyond the fact that the U.S. government never agreed to that so-called agreement as a treaty, this begs the question, even if one were to have accepted their unsupportable premise about man's use of carbon-based petrol chemicals ushering climate Armageddon. If Trace now admits that previous cultist claims of climate apocalypse were unreliable and lacked supportive data to serve even their purposes, and of course we know they're changing the climate record and you can find that at Real Climate Science. There's a whole web page showing the way the charts have been manipulated. I'll see if I can call that up for you in a little bit. I said, even if one were to accept their unsupportable premise about man's use of carbon-based petrochemicals ushering climate

Armageddon, if Trace, Al Gore invested in it, if Trace now admits that previous cultist claims of climate apocalypse were unreliable and lacked supportive data to serve even their purposes, how can they claim that their arguments to this day are valid. I actually used the singular. Their argument to this day is valid. I said it's not. And more important, their modus operandi, modus operandi of prescribing certain activities, threatening to punish people for emissions of harmless gases, avoiding the reality that the state never can be an aggrieved party in a tortious claim. And the new expanding surveillance eye of Carbon Mapper and, of course, Trace, which will collect all of this information, they want to add to Gore's Trace. And that tells us that the America in which we live is not the America the founders envisioned

when they adopted the Bill of Rights. And by the way, folks, the area where I skipped just for brevity, I want to read you this little part, because in a view of businesses, of farmers, of maple sugar house people, people using kilns for their clay. Outside monitoring from satellites to find out your emissions will act as a backstop to the inspections oil and gas companies do themselves. And of course, they want to first say that they're going to apply it to the oil and gas companies do themselves. And of course, they want to first say that they're going to apply it to the oil and gas refiners. But even if it's those, they say, although the EPA rule requires operators to periodically check their infrastructure and repair leaks, inspections are made bimonthly or even quarterly. Now, what's wrapped into that? EPA penalties. That's what's wrapped into that. And what is left out of EPA penalties? Any constitutional hint in any way whatsoever of all, when the EPA demands information, that's a breach of the fourth amendment. They don't have warrants. They're not getting warrants from judges saying you have committed a crime. You've broken some, some law, some statute. No, they don't. They demand the

information you must cough it over or you will be fine. That is a breach of the fourth, first of the contract clause, but also, well, not necessarily because the states are prohibited, but we'll get into the contract clause at a later time. Congress prohibits states from interfering in private contract, but it is a breach of the fourth amendment of the fifth amendment for self-incrimination

and due process of the fifth and sixth and eighth amendments. And the eighth amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. You're supposed to have a jury trial in a timely manner based on the Bill of Rights. And the Eighth Amendment, how can you be punished if you've never even been given a trial? The EPA's entire modus operandi runs counter to about half of the Bill of Rights. That's fairly sizable, but I'm sure if it were challenged, you wouldn't see anything about that in the Supreme Court. And to

cap this off in this section here, as we head into another section about cars and highways, here's something from the Telegraph from Catherine Porter. The USA is sleepwalking into a future of Christmas blackouts. Yes, the dam sang, let's wait for the blackout. Last week, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, NERC, the body that is in charge of U.S. and Canadian grid reliability, published its latest 10-year outlook. I'll have to look into them and see how they were formed. And they say that sharp increases in peak demand forecasts and the potential for higher generator retirements are raising concerns for electric reliability over the next 10 years. Well, why would those be retired other than by policy, so-called government threats to stop them.

Again, if no one is being harmed, if no one's bringing a tortious claim that I or my property have been harmed, the state can't claim harm because the state is not a person. So they're just getting in the way of heretofore up to that point, peaceful activity like supplying energy to people. Now, there's a mixture here because, of course, many of these facilities that are generating electricity are corporations that have been started by states. They're often given, or multiple states in regions, they're often given exclusive ability, like in California, for the wholesale market for PG&E, which, as I've mentioned numerous times, runs its power lines over government-run, poorly managed land.

And as you could see, there were fires that started over those lands because those power lines slough off sparks, just like what seems to have been the cause of the Lahina fire. And we know that California actually saw PG&E turning down and actually telling people they were going to have rolling blackouts one of the years after they had one of the big fires in the Napa Valley, saying that they were doing it specifically to try to reduce fire risk. So if you had a private system of real liability with real private property, do you think any of that stuff with that high risk stuff would be allowed? No way. And of course they do this and then it makes us virtually trapped within their energy grid because what are we going to do? And they want to increase the number of people who are on the energy grid, even as they're telling people, you've got to get electric cars in California within a few years in the next decade, they're

going to have to be almost 80 to 90% electric vehicles based on their emissions requirements, which are going to exclude the actual internal combustion engine. How in the world are they going to have the charging capacity to be able to provide that energy when even now they're doing rolling blackouts in the summertime and not just for the fire reasons? Gavin Newsom is operating in a fantasy world, as are many of the climate cultists out there. It's really incredible. But, you know, with that in mind, let's now turn to another theme. This is a good one. I get to go back to England for a second and I get to hear from one of the big guys from the New Wave movement. He's actually a pilot as well. And I got to say, I enjoy the guy's music a lot. He's very, very cool. He is, of course, Gary Newman. So let's hear from him right now. Yes. As I said, when that song came out, the sonic qualities of the song were just they blew people away.

They raise the hair on the back of your neck, that sort of thing. Many people were just amazed by the shrill sound of the synthesizer. It was really quite, quite different from anything that anybody had really ever heard. And of course, really wrote on the established work of people like Emerson, Lake and Palmer, people using the Moog synthesizer and so on. Gary Newman with cars. And that lets us round things off with the story of the cars.

As I mentioned on December 5th, I'm wondering, and maybe you are, is government losing its insane game to force EVs on us? And if you hear David Knight and Eric Peters speak on this program as they get to chat about what's going on, many of the major corporations involved with making cars have lost a lot of money as they've invested in something that people just don't want. But politicians want to foist on people. Things that are extremely dangerous, that can be involved with fires that are almost impossible to put out with any human effort. It's amazing. So here's a little something from December 5th from MRCTV.

And again, kudos and thanks to the MRCTV team and this one by P. Gardner Goldsmith. Don't know who that guy governments, and the politically connected media and special interests who seem to roll over our rights at an accelerated rate. And as a little comical quip, just to take that political smile, to frown and turn it upside down, turn it into a smile, of course, the long train of abuses now includes Amtrak, a literal train run by the government taking our money. So how things have really changed, eh, Mr. Jefferson? Oh, man, we're moving on up. Today, that train is run by the feds in D.C., various state and local governments, and the politically connected media and special interests who seem to roll over our rights at an accelerated rate. But another train seems to have appeared. It's a train composed of numerous recent reports about consumers and automakers rejecting the

highly hyped climate canard connected government subsidized electric vehicle push of recent years. But that's okay because Kamala Harris has tens of millions of dollars going out for electric postal trucks. That'll be awesome in North Dakota in January, won't it? Welcome to Maine. Hey, where's my mail? Sorry, you're being evicted. I never got the bill. Well, you know, that's because the postal service has been so awesome. By the way, they need more of your money to keep afloat. But let's continue. These good ideas, they're just awesome. Ask Lysander Spooner, who started his own private postal service in the 1800s, wrote the book, No Treason, the Constitution of No Authority, and showed that none of you or

I signed the Constitution. It was signed by people who can't claim to have represented us and it is foist on us. And the least we can do is just ask those people running for the offices, please, please uphold your promise to abide by the rules in there. But they don't. So that's where we get things like subsidized government-run solar things like Trace. Anyway, from Ford dropping the price of its F-150 Lightning in July, that was the second time they dropped it, because so many were sitting on sales lots where the trucks have to be fed power to keep the batteries viable.

Thank you, Eric Peters, for educating me on that. I really appreciate his amazing insights. His writing is incredible and fun to read. Go to ericpetersautos.com. To the corporation later announcing a long-term delay in what had been a planned $12 billion investment in making more EVs. To GM dropping its plan to start another EV pickup

plant and Toyota sounding alarms and dropping big EV plans. Early and consistent critics of this anti-market, anti-freedom move by the feds to steer automakers towards expensive, unreliable, heavy, fire-prone EVs and away from fueling consumer demand for efficient, low-priced, well-built vehicles that run on inexpensive, plentiful, portable, storable gas and diesel have been proven right. All right. Despite billions in Biden administration subsidies to push automakers into changing their plants. Remember the millions that Biden just sent out to a couple of plants for GM? Yeah, they're shutting those plants down. Well, pretty much they're giving pink notices to thousands of workers at two Michigan plants.

Despite billions in Biden administration subsidies to push automakers into changing their plants to only make EVs, despite federal government mandates on emissions that will push automakers to have to eliminate internal combustion engines from their lines by 2030. Will there be a revolution before then? I don't know. Automobile manufacturers and recently 4,000 car dealership owners are sounding the bells of protest. And now Volkswagen, a year after its CEO announced it couldn't sustain viability of its EV battery manufacturing in Europe. Well, maybe they could just open their doors to anybody who just as a pastime loves to glue his hand to a display room floor and call himself a doctor. They are hemorrhaging money so much that they're drastically cutting their EV production. Peter Johnson notes for Electric that as crazy as it sounds,

European consumer demand, I know, for EVs has halved. Arno Antelitz, a Volkswagen CFO, explained on a media call last month that the EV orders are down to 150,000 in Europe. That's 50% lower than the 300,000 from last year. So maybe, just maybe, there is hope as they try to go about this wonderful, great reset. What do you think, folks? Let me know as we approach the end of the year. I'm Gardner Goldsmith filling in for David Knight. Happy, cheerful day after Merry Christmas Day. And we're going to enjoy some extension of the Christmas cheer today as I fill in for David with great thanks to David and the Knight family. I want to remind you, if you want to get your MacGuffin t-shirt, go to thedavidknightshow.com. You want to get any of the

items that are over there, please check them out. I think you're going to really, really love them. And we're going to extend that Christmas spirit a little bit today as I check in with Rockfin chat, see what's going on with people. Don't forget you can contribute at Rockfin and Rumble. And of course, you can always go to thedavidknightshow.com and find out all the areas where you can stream the show and find all the links to the show. Thank you and welcome to Rockfin Chatters who are right there right now.

Little John, Merry Christmas. A little late, but thank you so much for joining us. Karen Carpenter, great to see you, Karen. And by the way, I hope you still have that festive hat that you had when I saw you with the Knights of the Storm. Great stuff. You are always so much fun to see. Your opinions are fantastic. Michael Pomeroy is in Rock Bend Chat. Thank you for being there. And I also want to thank the folks at Rumble Chat and Rumble Viewers. And this is amazing. When I do Liberty Conspiracy, we might get a nice number of people and it's just the

audience here is just big. It's wonderful. And they are attracted, I think, for many reasons, gathering that daily news, going to the links, the sites that David Knight mentions. And I hope I'm mentioning them. If you want to find many of these, I'm hoping that I'm giving you the references. And on my Liberty Conspiracy show, I try to make that a news source every day so that when you watch that show, it links up to my Twitter slash X feed for that day. And if you want to get that information for a story that might have been the one that really interested you, and we say, oh, I want to send this out and went out to friends or a couple of stories, you can do that. And on Sundays, I put out my Sunday news assembly at Substag. And that is typically at least 20 stories. This week, it was 21 stories that are breaking

news stories pertinent to perhaps, you can decide of course, to you and your freedoms and contextual information that helps us open up the political onions, unpeel those, and get some long-standing intellectual ammunition that we can then apply through lessons from these breaking stories, give them to future generations or just for our own edification. Take that intellectual ammunition and apply that in a syllogistic way to new stories that might be breaking and say, oh, wait, I can compare. What was this? What was that? What's that historical figure? What's that economic term? I remember we got that from this story. So you can do that if you are headed to Liberty Conspiracy each night, Monday through Friday. We're on Rumble and on Rockfin and on my Twitter feed. Again, it's at Guard Goldsmith.

And I should mention also, I always forget about this, my fiction. Right now I have three novellas that are out. You can find those on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. And I very rarely mention those things. My script writing days are past me when I worked in television at Star Trek Voyager and very utopian there with their UN symbology and The Outer Limits where they were very dystopian there at The Outer Limits. It was always something that future science was going to screw up somehow, mutation, star know, whatever it might be. But yeah, it's been a long time since then I've gotten into prose fiction. So I have a number of novels that are going to be coming out.

One of them was delayed because the publishing company offered me a contract and I actually declined the contract because they wanted me to, they said, oh, are you going to go under a pseudonym? And I said, what are you talking about? Essentially, I'm paraphrasing. And they said, well, you know, we've been seeing that you have a lot of political work. I'm like, that is my work. I support my principles and I try to expand what my parents gave to me. And, you know, the ideas of peace and leaving my neighbor alone, the golden rule, as Charles said. And except that's exactly the opposite of what, I don't know, that's been waiting to come

out for six years. It's the sequel to one of my novellas. It's a 440 page novel that hasn't come out yet. So I might have to put that out myself, but you can find my fiction at Amazon. Just look up Gardner Goldsmith and you'll find Bite, which is a vampire story. Fishing, which is very dark, very violent story. So beware of that that don't give it to you know young teenagers or anything like that and i apologize for some of the language in that it's about a mass mass murderer uh and then wall which is uh sort of crypto archaeological stuff uh based on the idea of what if there had been a great wall of china 10 000 years before the original one uh before the han before the the major dynasties phase.

And what might that have been like? Why would they have built that giant wall? So, and it gets supernaturally weird. But thank you all. Really appreciate you being there inside Rumble. To get back to the Rumble folks, Hal9000 Watson, thank you so much. Again, that IBM reference, very key. And thank you. Let's see. We've got Big British back again. Says they are making EV insurance very high here. They're even being banned from underground car parks. Yes. And the weight of those things, as I mentioned, a Liberty conspiracy, Big Brit. I have to sorry if I'm shortening that in a strange way, if that's not the way you would like it. I'm sorry, but I'll just call you a Big Brit. But, yeah, the weight of those cars means that, as I mentioned, when we went down to the Boston Garden to see Andrea Bocelli last week. I don't know how they're going to keep track because they can't fit as many cars into those parking garages. They're not made for that type of weight.

What are they going to do if they're all or a larger number of them become electric vehicles? And of course, if there's a fire, even if you don't park close to one of those, one of those electric vehicles, if there's a fire on one of the floors of those places, that could cause major problems for the other cars around it and then destroy your car. So what are you going to do? We've got condo complexes that are now banning them.

A lot of things like that. Malls, that sort of thing. Narrow Way Narrow Gate Ministries, thank you very, very much for being there. I cannot understand why someone would, by rolling a Molotov cocktail and park it, would buy a rolling Molotov cocktail and park it in the garage of their home. It's a ticking time bomb. Absolutely. And then having to charge it. Of course, you can't charge unless you change the electrics in your home

to allow for higher capacity. And that is a big fire risk. Unbelievable. As Eric Peters mentioned, the through time of charging for getting a full charge, even on high capacity, government subsidized chargers outside is many,

many, many, many minutes and 15 at the shortest, 20 at the shortest, 20, 15 to 20. And that means that you're going to have people waiting. It's just ridiculous. The whole concept is insane. Quick thoughts again over at Rockfin and Harps is there from Australia. Happy Christmas, Harps. And thank you for the great communications. And Brian, Deb McCartney, two, two, two viewers in one. Good morning, God. God morning, guard and all the Rockfin family. And they are like a family there.

You know, folks, while we have the opportunity, and since I'm filling in for David Knight, this great, great occasion for everybody. Let's take this opportunity to remind ourselves about Season's Greetings and some of the other canards that they foist on us like this. This was actually a New York City health billboard that was put out and electronically put out, I believe, on their Twitter feed. Someone grabbed it. Season's greetings, I wrote, from the fascist fools in government. Yes, they're telling people to mask up because of course that N95 mask does so much. Well, thanks for joining us on the show, everybody. Remember, TheDavidKnightShow.com.

And I think I also have something else to carry on some of that Christmas cheer. I'm delighted to present something born from my love for music and the Christmas season. Christmas night is a perfect accompaniment for anything from family gatherings to moments of peaceful reflection. A help is to provide a fresh take to the soundtrack of Christmas. This collection of 20 instrumental songs brings new life to timeless Christmas classics. Channing Carroll's. For the listeners of The David Knight Show, this is more than music. It's part of our shared journey.

Christmas Night is available at thedavidknightshow.com. May it bring a little extra joy and peace to your Christmas season. Thank you for your unwavering support and for joining me in this new musical adventure. Merry Christmas to all and all a good Christmas night. Wonderful stuff. And, you know, I'm listening to that. I'm watching that and I am taking nice long breaths and, uh, and just, you know, feeling the satisfaction of, uh, just being associated with David Knight. If you're just joining us, folks, I'm Gardner

Goldsmith filling in for David. He's taking some time off for the holidays and that album is wonderful. It's relaxing. It just puts a smile on your face. And it's interesting when David approaches me and Tony will be filling in Tony Arterburn of Wise Wolf Gold and Silver Exchange. And you can contact them and go to DavidKnight.Gold to get involved with the Wolf Pack or just buy a spot purchase of silver and gold, as, of course, the U.S. dollar is going to be going down, going down, down, down, as a great new wave song used to say. But it really puts a smile on your face just to think about all the good people like David who strive to really do something good for the audience. And how big a drive that is.

It's strange because you get into the nervousness of wanting to put on a good show, to be gracious for the audience. You know that this is going to be around live and after the fact. People might be listening to this on their way home. So you want to provide good information. You know you're filling in for David Knight, who is just the king of information. He's just amazing. And so it's quite fascinating to embark on that nervousness, making sure you get the tech right, that sort of stuff. You know, the measurement of the length of time you talk about a subject, the different facets of a subject, it's quite interesting. So thank you so much. And when it comes to that David Knight music, I was doing so much work listening to that music. And I hope that if I can engender some positive ideas to go over and get that, please check it out because it is amazing what he's done. It's incredible using his musical abilities and his capacity not just to play instruments, but to compose instruments with some of the technology he's got.

And I also want to just put out another quick mention to the folks who donated last week to David's show. It is just, as you know, David relies on donations for this show. So it's up to us. It's up to us to support the source of information, the people behind it. So I want to just congratulate and thank everyone. I know, you know, I'm on David's show, so I've been doing this on my show at Liberty Conspiracy as a person who's been given such a kind welcome from David and knows David and really just loves their family. contributions to keep that show running. He's got his gas gauge and they measure it. It is just fantastic. So thank you one and all, and let's continue that all throughout the year and maintain that kindred spirit, that kinship with David. You can of course contribute over at Rockfin at Rumble, and you can go to Subscribestar and subscribe there on a monthly basis if you want to do that. And Rumble, I believe until the end of the year, is not taking a percentage out of contributions over at Rumble.

So keep it in mind if you're so inclined. Kevin Kline, please, please remember David's show. What a great, great way to really support freedom. I'm looking over in the corner and I have a cap here. I'll just show you. I often mention this on my show. I also watch Clayton and Natalie Morris of Redacted. And so I supported them by getting one of their hats.

And, you know, I'll give a little plug for them even though you know just sitting here we're not going to talk about information provided by redacted but they again are the sorts of people where they have a lot of viewers on rumble maybe they get some ad support they go on youtube but they can't talk about everything on youtube they're censored and david has been so heavily censored um that it really is awesome to see how we recognize this and we're pushing back. So thanks, everybody, for doing that. Just for me, from the Goldsmith household, from the old English and Irish. A lot of people think I'm Jewish, so we're going to get into the situation happening in Israel soon. right now very quickly at a very good piece to follow up and sort of cap off this idea of austerity, the government running our energy, fertilizer, communications, injections, medicine.

This comes from the Mises Institute. Anthony Mueller wrote this in 2020, November. About 2,400 years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato came up with the idea of constructing the state and society according to an elaborate plan. I have a cunning plan. Oh, yes, Baldrick. Thank you, Blackadder. Plato wanted wise men, philosophers, at the helm of the government, but he made it also clear that this kind of state would need a transformation of the humans. Yes, of course, and it was done by the noble lie. Plato wanted to create the just city, the most just city, and it was founded on what? A lie that different people had different types of metals in them, and the people who had gold in their systems were to be the rulers, and the people who had the base metals were the lower

caste. Isn't that great? Does it remind you of anybody like maybe Klaus Schwab and Al Gore? And he says here in modern times, the promoters of the omnipotent state want to substitute Plato's philosopher with the expert and create the new man through in this project, which has reached its present stage in the project of the Agenda 2030 and the Great Reset. A lot of that has to do with energy control. We'll get to what's going on in the Middle East in just a moment. The Great Reset, with, of course, a memory of wonderful Madeleine Albright. The Great Reset did not come from nowhere. The first modern attempts to create a global institution with a government function was launched by the government of Woodrow Wilson, who acted as U.S. president from 1913 to 1921. Under the inspiration of Colonel Mandel House, the president's prime advisor, and he was heavily connected to the British, the president's prime advisor and best friend, Wilson, that was Mandelhaus, Wilson wanted to establish a world forum for the period after World War I.

Yet the plan of American participation in the League of Nations failed and the drive towards internationalism and establishing a new world order receded during the Roaring Twenties. A new move toward managing a society like an organization, top-down, central command and control, however, came during the Great Depression. What a shock. Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not let the crisis go to waste. Of course, driving his agenda forward with his New Deal. FDR, it was a manufactured crisis, government made. FDR was especially interested in the special executive privileges that came with the Second World War. Oh, those privileges. You know, just the kinds of things that they tell us today with the War Powers Act are totally constitutional and yet are not. And they play and play along these lines. FDR was especially interested in

these special executive powers that came after and during World War II. Resistance was almost nil when he moved forward to lay the groundwork for a new League of Nations, which was now to be named the United Nations. Under the leadership of classy people like Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt, 26 nations agreed in January 1942 to the initiative of establishing a United Nations organization, UNO, which came into existence on October 24th, 1945. And of course, just two years later, they took over a lot of land in the Middle East and established the State of Israel. But of course, one cannot criticize the state of Israel, a state policy, because that would mean that you were anti-Semitic. Right? And as we saw with Representative Stefanik, who called in the heads of MIT, Harvard, and University of Pennsylvania on this, what I think is overblown, although there have been instances of this, accusations of terrible, terrible anti-Semitism, which often is a misconstruing of people just calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. And British commentator Douglas Murray in a debate with

Cenk Younger of the Young Turks, it's not so aptly named, sadly named reference to the Armenian genocide. I don't know why they use that term. But Douglas Murray, the conservative Brit who went to Israel to report on the battle against Gaza, where, you know, thousands, tens of thousands have been killed. We'll go into that in a minute. How many starving right now? How many without medical care? Not just those blown apart or crushed due to ammunition and armaments. The Douglas Murrays of the world, evidently, seem to think that even Cenk Younger, who says, how about a two-state solution? He being a hardcore left-wing collectivist,

but actually saying, how about a two-state solution? Douglas Murray saying, no, there cannot be a two-state solution. Well, what does that mean? That means that there will be no Palestinians there, unless it gives you three options. It gives you the option of genocide. It gives you the option of flushing them out and having no more Palestinians there or flushing most of them out, killing the rest and leaving those people, maybe most of the rest, those people who are left there, who were told to travel to southern Gaza. And then the Israelis started bombing that

because, of course, the excuse they gave was the same excuse they gave for killing their own civilians under the IDF during that October 7th battle where the Hamas people crossed the border and took hostages and so on, killed a lot of people. But the Israeli forces killed a lot of innocent people and their own soldiers because they said they couldn't distinguish between their people and Hamas, which is exactly what I warned people on my show was going to happen when they moved. They told everybody to move south and now they're shelling the south. Where are they going to go? What are the options, Douglas Murray, if there isn't a two state solution? What are you implying? I think we know. There will be no Palestinians by name anyway.

Everyone will be ensconced within a much larger Israel. That's causing some problems there. Is it because you want to put a pipeline through? You want a new way to transport oil? You're going to dig a new water channel through there? I don't know. What are you going to do? A new canal? What's going to happen? Well, these central planners, they've been around, of course, since the 1940s, as we saw with the creation of the UN. But even before that, in the mid-1800s, there were people working on a worldwide basis to try to establish a Jewish state in the Palestinian region. And just to finish this off, the unctuous pronouncements of promoting international peace and security, of course, through the force of government, which is not peaceful,

developing friendly relations among nations, right, under one giant nation, supranational national control, and, you know, how dare you step out of line and working for social progress, better living standards and human rights hides the agenda of establishing a world government with executive powers, because, of course, government is in opposition of human rights. As I mentioned, as an anarchist, as a voluntarist anarchist, anarchy not meaning violence like the people who adopted the mantle of the anarchists who were really socialists in the 1920s, but anarchy meaning no human ruler. A person or group of people who presume to usurp your ability to control your own life and make decisions for yourself, they are acting in an aggressive way.

That's immoral. It doesn't matter whether one person does it or 50 people vote to have it done. It doesn't make it any more acceptable. Having a piece of paper that was voted on by a group of people to say, here's this piece of paper. This will give us control over you, whether it was done in the UN or even, yes, the United States Constitution. It doesn't matter. What if they were to amend

the Constitution to take away the Second Amendment? Would it then be acceptable for government to go after privately held weapons of self-defense? Of course not. Would it be acceptable

for government to force my neighbor to pay for the armed police force that then would go out and act as jackbooted thugs and take away people's guns? No. So they're doing that now. But the predicate, the immoral predicate is is the basis for my philosophy. Checking that predicate at every front to say, is someone being forced to pay for this? Am I, in wanting some result from government, imposing my will on someone else and hiding that aggression, glossing it over with the candy coating of, well, everyone voted. They did their civic duty. So let's march forward with brown shirts all tight and ready. Let's goose step to the glorious future of doing this under the name of human rights by taking away people's rights, which is exactly what the UN does.

They say this became clear with the creation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, in 1945. And that's when they started pushing eugenics. Under the foundation of UNESCO in 1945, the English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and declared globalist Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous Huxley, became its first director. At the launch of the organization, Huxley called for, quote, a scientific world humanism, global in extent. Remind you of anything that you might have heard at the beginning of the program from a king? was Hegel meets Marx as the first radical attempt at an evolutionary philosophy. And by the way, the dialectic there, the dialectic is a non-choice, sort of like, would you prefer to get groped or scanned at the airports? And by the way, on Liberty Conspiracy, as a quick aside, talking about the surveillance state with Al Gore, I find it quite bemusing, not amusing, but bemusing that many Americans have been up in arms over two things.

First, that Rite Aid was doing facial scans of some customers for ID purposes. And second, that pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens and others were giving government people's medical information. Well, as I've noted, and I've noted since it was passed in 1996, HIPAA, if you go between pages 75 and 95 of the Health Insurance Portability and Addressability Act, or whatever it's called, that was purported by people like Orrin Hatch, the supposed conservative from Utah, the senator who said that it was going to promote privacy. That was purported as something that would provide you privacy at your doctor's office. Well, in the great eugenics government surveillance giant grid that they slowly have built up over the years. That wasn't anything like that. If you want your information to be private at your doctor's office, that's up to you and the doctor and a

contractual arrangement between you. If you don't care about it, then you don't have to have it as part of your contract. You can go to a doctor that maybe charges less because he sends your medical information out to advertisers, to insurance companies, whatever. Maybe you get a discount. It's up to you. In a private market, those things would appeal or not appeal, and the market would rise or fall for those people. That's all. They'd get more or fewer customers because of how they exchanged information, because of how they treated their customers and their customers' interests and what they did. More paperwork? Okay, I might go there because I know my information is secure. It's a little higher price. The government imposed itself between the private contracts of customers and

doctors, patients and doctors, and said, no, we are going to make it such that if you want to share private information with anybody else beyond this office, you have to get the patient to sign that based on government diktat. That's not freedom. That's not privacy. That's a bully interposing between you and somebody else. The bully wearing the cloak of the federal government without any constitutional authority to do so, but moreover, without any moral authority to do so. Because intervening between two consenting people involved in a private market exchange is immoral and it immediately degrades the ability of the market to be able to show what people really want. Do you want more privacy? Do you want less privacy? Let's see the market compete about that.

You don't have that choice now. Because in 1996, Orrin Hatch and Ted Kennedy and others like Nancy Kassebaum, they all worked and John McCain. They all worked to destroy that contract freedom. They also put into HIPAA something that actually didn't start until Obamacare was finally initiated after the ridiculous Supreme Court ruling saying that Obamacare was finally initiated after the ridiculous Supreme Court ruling saying that Obamacare is perfectly fine. And that is something that is between pages 75 and 95 of the PDF. And you can find it, you can read it. It mandates that any medical office that takes Medicare, Medicaid, or other government subsidized patients must apply a patient number, a code,

to the patients, all patients, and supply that information to the Director of Health and Human Services any time the head of HHS, a highly unconstitutional federal body, demands that information. This is something people should have been up in arms about in 1996. And I've been writing about it ever since then. I have many pieces about it with, yes, Hyperlinks News Guard in my MRCTV pieces for MRCTV. And very few people have spoken about this. So as they started to engage in contact tracing, I would hear from people and they would say, oh, how are they doing this? Well, how do you think they're doing it? You never stopped HIPAA. You actually praise HIPAA. In this bizarre upside down world, you're praising the intervention, the usurpation

by government of your ability to privately contract. How in the world are you not a slave? That's absurd. You're a data slave. You are their food a slave? That's absurd. You're a data slave. You are their food. You're their fodder. And now they want to watch you from satellites to find out if you're making maple syrup or you have a kiln where you're doing pottery. Maybe there's your side gig so you can continue paying for your electric vehicle. Keep it parked outside, draining power just so you don't burn your house down.

It's insane. Absolutely ridiculous. misinformation about CVS and about the facial recognition at Rite Aid, I don't understand why Americans have suddenly become enraged by facial recognition being done by a private drug store. And yet the TSA two years ago, starting in Florida and North Carolina and Georgia, I think Atlanta in particular, and a few other airports, there was about 16 airports, started their test run of facial recognition. We go back to the Hegelian dialectic. They say, oh, you're here at the airport. Hello. And I say, they point me to the scanner and I say, oh, no, I'm not going to get irradiated. You're going to have to grope me.

And they say, oh, you're choosing the pat down. I say, I'm not choosing anything. You're imposing yourself between me and the airline with which I want to contract. This started, of course, with the federal takeover of the air routes, starting with the United States Postal Service and lighted air routes in the 1920s that they claimed no private carriers could use. They didn't have radar, so they started lighted air routes at night with big lights on them going across the country. And they had giant arrows made of concrete, which you can still see in the Southwest down on the ground that would point towards airports. And they prohibited private carriers like Pan Am at that time from flying those routes. They couldn't do that, but they did. United States Postal Service, they turned them something like postal roads, like post roads, similar to the creation of the interstate highway system. We'll tell you about that in just a minute,

because there's more coming with the car stuff. But this Hegelian dialectic that they mention here, it is absolutely right. It's dialectical materialism. They give you false choices. They say the first radical attempt at an evolutionary philosophy, the director of UNESCO laments that the Marxist approach to changing society was bound to fail because of its lack of an indispensable biological component. So they engage in eugenics. And of course, now it's for the survival of all that some people must be controlled by the people who will be the controllers. And he mentions many people here. Margaret Sanger, H.G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, Bill Gates Sr. And of course, Microsoft co-founder and head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,

Bill Gates. Check this out if you get the opportunity. It's at the Mises Wire, and I will tweet it later today at Guard Goldsmith. Let's talk about those highways, shall we? And once more, let's hear a little something from our pal, Gary Newman. Oh, yes. So how does this all tie into what I mentioned at the beginning of the program here in the David Knight Show? Because if we look at what we're planning for the rest of the show and what we've gotten to discuss so far in the show,

we're going to talk about the battles in the Middle East, battles over oil, battles over land, but what are the paving stones that they put forward? Because, of course, they're not going to let us use tarmac, so we're going to have to use paving stones. We're going to have cobblestone streets. I said, how the climate cult's death agenda today follows decades of government encroachment of travel rights. Well, we saw a little bit about UNESCO, a little reference there to the future that you can find by checking out,

you can make for yourself by checking out that United Nations and the origins of the Great Reset piece from Mises Wire. But this is a story out of Austin, Texas. And I know that David is very happy he's not having to go around Austin anymore. Check this out, everybody. Think about the past, oh, 70 years since World War II. What was one of the things that Eisenhower found very important to do? What was one of the things that many of the people that Eisenhower found very important to do? What was one of the things that many of the people came after him found very important to do? Interstate highways, of course, inspired by the Autobahn. It's part of defense purposes, right? Well, there's a story from the cool down that shows just how much people have accepted and what they shouldn't accept and how after

years and years of those types of encroachments into liberty and localism, some people are starting to push back. I wonder if they understand the deeper roots of this, which go back to American history and the fact that in American history, it wasn't the government that originally made the roads, even in Great Britain. The roads were common areas in local local vicinities between farmers who would allow access for their neighbors to bring their materials to market their their cattle, their their vegetables and produce. And it was a voluntary system. And it was a neighborly thing to allow a little bit of access for your neighbors to get through. And those people who didn't allow that were kind of excluded and shunned from working with other people and being as prosperous as others. Now we see the malignant manifestation of this is coming back again. It is the interstate highway system in Austin.

And here's the story coming from the cool down. The headline reads, residents outraged over approval of controversial massive highway expansion in major city. Everyone needs to get involved. And get ready for your comments at Rockfin and Rumble. And there are some other comments as well that I'm going to be reading from a couple of the other stories coming up. I got to check some of those. And I really appreciate your thoughts. Rockfin and Rumble, go for it. Here we are. Jeremiah Budin writes this. The Texas Department of Transportation has received federal approval for a controversial plan to expand Interstate 35 through Austin. Is that Route 66? No.

That became a graveyard after the interstates. Over the objections of local citizens and advocacy groups, the government of Texas is ready to do this thanks to the federal government. They have gotten approval for this. It's an interstate, of course. And the locals say the project will have massive negative impacts on the environment and quality of life in the city. It's billions of dollars, folks. $4.5 billion highway expansion. It will add two lanes in each direction in certain sections and widen other areas, which officials say will reduce traffic. Oh, so, well, we've got to combine the interests of people.

We've got to weigh certain interests here. Well, who is who's actually weighing this? Who's funding this? Who gets to respond and stop if they don't like it? Do the local people? the Transcontinental Railroad, which saw numerous politicians in Washington, D.C. buying land where they knew they could steer the railroad and then reselling it to the federal government at massive profits, which is exactly something that Abraham Lincoln did. And then the project was way overdue, way over budget. At the same time, it was beaten by a private Transcontinental Railroad. These sorts of things give special favors, otherwise known as rent-seeking, to people who want government policy to harm others but help them. It's a $4.5 billion highway expansion. That itself is an imposition on people in places like the United States government that don't have the money. So future generations who have no say in this land of the free will be forced to pay for it. They say this project will bring congestion relief to Central Texas.

Texas Transportation Tax Sucking Commission Chairman J. Bruce Bug Jr. said, according to KVUE, well, some of the locals aren't too happy. One downside of expanding a highway to relieve traffic is that it doesn't actually work. Studies have shown that increasing the size of highways does nothing to ease congestion and instead actually increases traffic while also increasing car and noise pollution and displacing residents. Well, that's debatable, I think. They have Houston, Texas here as an example. The world's largest freeway weighs in at a gargantuan 26 lanes. The result is standstill

traffic. Advocacy groups Rethink 35 had harsh words for the plan. They say, as a heat dome scorches central Texas in record temperatures, there could be no greater. Oh, just put a thermometer there and that'll help the climate canard promoters to say that temperatures are rising. Put it near an air conditioning vent. That'll be good. Or even if the numbers don't give you the data that you want, just do what the people at Climate Gate 1 and 2 did at University of East Anglia. Or do what Michael Mann seems to have 1 and 2 did at University of East Anglia, or do what Michael Mann seems to have done and manipulate the data. Rethink 35's board president, Adam Greenfield, said, quote, as a heat dome scorches them, Department of Transportation of Texas is

announcing its decision to massively expand I-35 through Austin. And of course, a lot of people say they've got to unite. It's time to unite and defend our city, region, and planet, said one person, the Austin City Councilor, in a press release named Greenfield. Everyone needs to get involved. Department of Transportation Texas can be stopped. So we have localities. We have the state. What happened when the interstates were started? Well, here are some of the consequences. Jacob Hornberger is the head of the Future of Freedom Foundation. He wrote this in 2022.

And by the way, every week, Jacob Hornberger and one of my mentors, Richard Ebeling, great economist, economics professor, formerly of Hillsdale College, who left after they sort of pushed out on many of the real free market Austrian economics people. Also former head of Foundation for Economic Education. He now teaches economics at the Citadel. Berger and Richard Ebeling, the man I just mentioned, every week on the FFF, Future Freedom Foundation YouTube channel, they talk about economics and they're just phenomenal. And they haven't been censored that much either. So that's a really good thing if you want good information. And he writes this in 2022. I was recently on a road trip to Missouri where I saw a sign that indicated that I was on the famed Route 66,

a U.S. highway that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles from the 1920s through the 1960s. Although I grew up in South Texas, as a kid, I was very familiar with Route 66 because of one of my favorite television programs. It was called Route 66. And by the way, they shot that all on Route 66. It was black and white, beautifully photographed. And all of those episodes, I believe, are still available on BitChute. It's remarkable. It's a great show. Every story was separate as Martin Milner and George Maharis, the two actors who played the main characters, their characters traveled, I think it was west on Route 66 and encountered new people in each town, and

they shot them in those towns. Literally, you can see, like, they were shooting as daylight was, you know, receding, trying to get the shots in. It's an amazing, amazing experience to watch and learn from this, this program, Route 66. The show featured such guest stars as Peter Lorre. I saw one of those. It was great. Lon Chaney Jr., Boris Karloff, Buster Keaton, James Coburn, Ed Asner, Joey Heatherton, Tuesday Weld, Slim Pickens, William Shatner, DeForest Kelly, and many others. The show ran from 1960 to 1964. Route 66 was established in 1926. It ultimately became one of the most famous roads in the U.S. As you can imagine, countless businesses along the highway got established after the road was built. These

included motels, restaurants, fast food places, tourist attractions, and countless stores. And of course, I'm sure you're familiar with what happened. Most of all those businesses ended up being destroyed by the biggest socialist project in American history, the interstate highway system. I think maybe COVID might beat that now. I don't know. It hasn't been running as long. The government subsidized welfare schemes of Medicare and Medicaid, socialist Ponzi scheme of Social Security, which, by the way, its first year when Social Security paid out, it paid people more than what they could have put into it. So it always was a Ponzi scheme relying on the input from people who are not yet retired. up being destroyed by the biggest socialist project in American history, the interstate highway system, a massive federal public works project that was inspired by the Autobahn system of National Socialist Germany. This massive socialist program commenced in the 1950s

under the Eisenhower administration. Today, it's easy for socialists to point to the interstate highway system and exclaim, look at what we socialists did to facilitate transportation within the United States. Of course, that goes to Frederick Bastier's what is seen, what is not seen. What is not seen are all the opportunities that people have lost because they had to fund that. It warps the flow of usable capital, puts it into things and new projects, new businesses that wouldn't have started up, takes money away from flourishing businesses and causes deterioration of what human beings actually started for their real natural interpersonal relations. He says, however, as with all socialist projects, it's necessary also to see what is unseen about socialist projects. For one thing, what is one

of the main complaints of status today? Isn't it air pollution? Well, guess what one of the principal causes of air pollution is? That would be automobiles. The interstate highway system was a gigantic subsidy to the automobile industry. It has been one of the principal causes, if not the principal cause, of the extremely large number of pollution producing cars that have been sold in the past 70 years. That's one of the unseen consequences of this massive socialist program. Then, of course, you get government regulations in the cars. I happen to think cars are great. And and, of course, many deaths at higher speeds.

But, you know, people should be able to choose just smaller areas of control, at least based on what the founders wanted. Now, I just want to mention the idea that the interstate highway system could be done under military rationale for the protection of the United States. That's the argument. Let's fold that back a little bit and look at this as if I were in one of the lecture halls and, or you were in one of the lecture halls and you were up at the board or I was up at the board. You know, I was doing my professorial stuff or whatever. Right. So in my teaching years, I would cover the interstate interstate highway system. And I typically would get arguments from people who some of the students who are pretty, pretty well versed in American history, but they, to my eyes, they wouldn't take that extra step, which was to, they would say, well, you know, Gardner or Mr. Goldsmith, they would say the highway system was done for defense. And that is a constitutional purview.

And again, I'll say I didn't sign the constitution, but even if you look at the constitution as a valid so-called document with authority, and I don't see how people can arbitrarily claim authority over other people. But let's say that they voted to have authority over you and somehow that that's valid. At least the Constitution has certain rules under which they're supposed to operate. The Constitution only gives the federal government three forms of land per view over three forms of land. They can only control three forms of land. One is the 10 square mile area of the Capitol. They chose Washington, D.C. And of course, it's a wonderful, very, they're supposed to enter with all the so-called rights and privileges of every state. Every state does not have any requirement to cede land to the federal government in any way whatsoever. And even if they could cede land, which means all the parks, all the national monuments, ANWR, all these areas, even if they could cede land to the federal government, there's no provision in the Constitution that is an enumerated power that allows the feds to actually run those lands. Even if New Hampshire or Missouri or any other state wanted to grant the federal government some land, let's say you're in Arizona and the Grand Escalante, Arizona, Nevada area, Grand Escalante desert area, which by the

way, has tons of valuable anthracite in it. And when Bill Clinton locked it up, that then gave the lipo group the world's share of usable anthracite at that point, percentage wise. Strangely enough, the lipo group was heavily invested in getting Bill Clinton elected. I know. Shocker, right? Totally shocking. But that's John Huang and all those all those very, very not corrupt cats in any way whatsoever. They're working with the Clintons. How could they have been corrupt? We all know we came. We saw he died. You know what I'm saying? Just ask Ron Brown. But anyway, by the way, this show is not sponsored by Ron Brown Airlines. That would be kind of ghoulish and sick. But my Liberty Conspiracy show is sponsored by Ron Brown Airlines. That would be kind of ghoulish and sick. But my Liberty Conspiracy show is

sponsored by Ron Brown Airlines. So, you know, just keep that in mind next time you're traveling through the Crimean region. But anyway, so the United States government, the only other type of land that they can run are military garrisons. Right now, the other portion of this is there is not supposed to be a standing army in the United States. And I wrote an article recently for MRCTV, and I mentioned this on Liberty Conspiracy. If you look at the California Constitution, it's right there on the first page. They mentioned that the militia, when called to duty within the states, they're supposed to be just the citizens of the states. And then when they're called up, they can be called up by the governor. When they're called up by the president under constitutional declaration of war by the Congress, the president can call them up. Then it's up to them to decide, do I want to fight or not fight? It was not supposed to be a standing army. And one of the provisions of the constitution, if you look at the bill of rights, you go through one, two, three. Oh, there's not supposed to be any housing mandated on us, housing of soldiers, right? No quartering of soldiers.

Well, what are we doing all around the world? We're forced to quarter soldiers, not in our own homes, but everywhere, everywhere during a time of no declared war. It's doubly insulting. It's like two, two, two insults in one. Double your pleasure, double your fun. So this story about the interstate highway system can clearly be unraveled, even for people when I'm in a lecture hall, and even for students, you can say, well, let's take a look at that. Let's look at this in a positive way and see if we can derive some longstanding information from this, that we can understand understand historically and at least constitutionally to say, what about the game rules that they swear they're going to abide by to for defensive purposes. They can't just take that land and say this is for defense because there's no declared war.

And then they can't claim that they're military garrisons. These hundreds and thousands of miles of roads, that's a military garrison. Come on. Well, I mean, that's just fatuous, right? So the interstate highway system is not constitutional in any way. And to draw out a little bit more information, this is quite interesting. You can actually find this at antiwar.com, and that's going to get us into our next subject as we round off the third hour of The David Knight Show.

But before we go into that extra subject, that added subject, which is not extra. It's all planned. But before we go into that, I want to mention, get ready to lay down those comments at Rockfin and Rumble about this. And if you have some differing opinions, feel free. That's great. I love to get the information. The audience at the David Knight Show is just so kind and profoundly well-educated. Really looking forward to that. And this isn't like blowing smoke or anything like that.

Besides, if I were blowing smoke, that would, you know, global warming climate change MacGuffin. But anyway, Antiwar.com actually released this one in 2006. Sam Koretz writes this, and I think it's exceptionally good. If you want to check it out, I'll tweet this as well. So it is defense highways. It was originally from The Economist and they reprinted this one. Highways began expanding rapidly after President Dwight Eisenhower, 50 years ago this month, that's 2006, signed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. He should have been impeached for that.

Of course, the Congress passed it, so they wouldn't have impeached him. Let's continue. Which committed the government to invest heavily in a national network of interstates. The network that he authorized was often referred to as the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. The generals thought that better roads would make it easier to move military convoys around in case of attack, as well as to evacuate big cities in a hurry. The overpasses were made high enough so that ballistic missiles could be transported beneath them. Though the atom bombs and invaders never came, life in America would never again be the same. The interstates replaced social interaction and serendipity with speed

and efficiency, and some have lamented the change ever since. By 1962, John Steinbeck, of all people, was writing about the disappearance of antique stores, factory outlets, and roadside stands selling squash juice. He complained that the new roads would make it possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing. What Mr. Steinbeck didn't mention, of course, he was a socialist, was that it also would give levers of power to the federal government to claim that states should get highway money and then withhold that money if the states didn't mandate that their, oh, public schools, wonderful institutions that have been very, very good, forcing ideology on kids, if their public

schools didn't conform to Title IX, if their colleges didn't conform, if they didn't do certain things regarding, oh, I don't know, maybe collection of medical data. But we'll continue. He writes, the interstates paved the way. He complained that the new roads would make it possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing. The interstates paved the way for fast food chains such as McDonald's, Burger King, and Kentucky Fried Chicken, which set up shop near the access ramps. Besides changing the way that motorists eat, the new highways also transformed the ways in which companies moved their goods. One reason that Walmart became a cost-cutting behemoth was because it exploited the logistical advantages of the new system faster than its

competitors did. Besides linking distant places to each other, the system has encircled many urban areas with beltways, which let motorists move between surrounding suburbs without having to bother with the cities. Once commuters began whizzing on a good day around those beltways, centrifugal force did the rest, propelling office space staff and tax revenues away from the center. The big question now is whether Americans are willing to keep spending more than $80 billion a year, that was in 2006, of their tax money to maintain and upgrade the system. Clifford Winston at the Brookings Institution has tried to measure the benefits reaped from improved logistics, and the Brookings is a fairly, you know, rhino, milquetoast, deep state type organization. Although this is clearly an imprecise exercise, he reckons that government financed highway investments have run into steeply diminishing returns since the 1980s.

Well, again, based on just purely economics, this is one of the keys that I try to teach in class, valuation is subjective. So no one can say that anything that the government does holds any value because the people who are forced to pay for it are now having their valuation replaced by political valuation and threats. They can't choose. They can't show what they value. They can't do what Frederick Bastia said, spend their money the way they want to spend their money on what they want. It's being redirected. And the politicians who are redirecting it, they're not using their own money. So you can't say that the politicians care. And this is one of the things when it comes to these highways, we don't know any government institution building the highways.

Right. But at least locally, that is something that at least you can sort of say I could escape a bad system. One of the things I want to mention is that the taking of property through eminent domain is something that is in the Constitution, but it's highly immoral. And of course, it shows us the canard that we are served with the very idea that government is established to protect our property and our natural rights from encroachments by others. Oh, we'll get the kitty cat in the studio. Hey, kitty cat. Hey, how you doing, kitty? She might want to come up on the camera, I think, but sorry, buddy. So maybe she wants some tuna fish for Christmas. She might like that. Yeah, you want tuna, don't you?

Yeah, there you go. So eminent domain, the taking of property is obviously something that undercuts the very so-called rationale of government based on John Locke's philosophy of the second treatise of government written in 1670, but not really published until a couple of years later during the time of the Scottish rebellion, very big. And he actually fled to Sweden for a little while, to Holland for a little while. And the idea that the government can take your property for the greater good is similar to the idea that the government can trace you, track you, force you to take an injection, so-called for the greater good. The idea that the government can curtail your speech rights because you're spouting misinformation. They can do that for the greater good. Of course, they will decide what is the greater good. They will decide

what is misinformation. They will decide what is sickness and they will decide what level of emergency that is. And predicated beneath all that is the idea that they already can take your money to fund all of that. So one of the things that Richard Epstein has mentioned, and he's a professor, I think he might be close to retirement or retired now, in his book, Takings, Richard Epstein mentions that even the idea of taking non-property, but regulating your business, telling you that you can or can't do this or that with your business, that you must open your doors to this, that you must include this, you must put this ramp in. Those are all takings. Taking of your time, taking of your energy, taking of your financial resources, whatever it might be. And those should be compensated

based on the government's constitution. The problem is, of course, the constitution leaves it up to the government to claim that it is so-called just compensation. Well, what's that mean? Let's turn now to another story outside of this story out of Austin, Texas, outside of this interstate debate, which clearly gives us some evidence and I think some good historical information to remember that the interstate highway system is not constitutional. It's not moral and it directs money away from where the money would normally go. Now, let's turn to what I think is a very interesting story from Steve Lado. He's a lawyer on YouTube and he's got a really fun channel. Very interesting. Besides the fact that he has these really neat toy cars behind him, like car models of like old Mustangs and things like that, old Pontiacs. Check this out. There's a story

about how the court says a car can no longer be paid for, can no longer be towed for unpaid tickets. And keep in mind what we discussed tort law and government running the roads. People often say, well, Gardner, how can roads be built if government doesn't do it? Well, again, that goes up against history. Thomas DiLorenzo in his great book, How Capitalism Saved America, mentions, I'll give an approximation. I won't read it precisely. I don't have the book right next to me, But he mentions that there and it's in my book, Live Free or Die as well. Something like eleven hundred miles of roads within the first few years of the, I believe, colonial post-constitutional era were private by that time already. The very toll house cookies came from toll roads and toll bridges. If you and I are not capable of being able to coordinate to build a road to get to each other, then I guess

I can't build a driveway to get the car from the government run road to my garage. I must not be able to do that. I might not even be able to do a front path to my front door. I don't even know how I'm going to do a door. I don't even know how private businesses build parking lots or have air conditioning to make it more comfortable for their customers. I don't know why those parking lots are better managed in the wintertime than government run roads. Isn't that strange? incentive to do a good job and government doesn't because it has the monopoly on the legal use of aggressive force and can take our money for doing really bad jobs on the roads and of course bridges that are unsafe now let's talk about how they manage parking in government-run parking areas here is steve lado with a very interesting case case. Oh, got to give us the volume here. Rules on something in an unusual way. And then I look

at it and go, but wait a second. Why didn't I think of that before? Chris sent me a note from CBS News. Court finds towing of cars with unpaid tickets unconstitutional. And as soon as I read the headline, I thought, wait a second. That is kind of a strange situation that you have unpaid tickets. They can tow your car. But there's other things that you can do in this life where you don't pay fines and they don't come and just take your stuff. So why would a car be any different? And interestingly, when the state tried to defend this, the city that is that, you know, try to defend this, they had a hard time coming up with a good argument. So towing cars that have accrued unpaid parking tickets without a warrant, a common practice in San Francisco and many other places violates the California Constitution, the California Court of Appeal decided Friday. So that is towing the car without a warrant.

So the court's saying, if you think you're entitled to take possession of that car, go get a warrant. See what the court says. The city implemented a practice of towing legally and safely parked cars if they had five or more unpaid parking tickets and the owner had not responded within 21 days of issuance. So in other words, they don't come across a car that's illegally parked. They're about to ticket it and they go, wait a second, this has got unpaid tickets. No, they come across the car. It's legally parked.

Everything's good, but it's got unpaid tickets attributed to it. After a car is towed, car owners must provide proof that they've paid the outstanding ticket. So let's just pause it right there, everyone, and say, what is illegally parked? But after a car is towed, car owners must provide proof that they've paid the outstanding tip. So let's just pause it right there, everyone, and say, what is illegally parked? Right. This is the problematic assumption beneath this. Because they're saying, OK, he says, Mr. Lato, this is a car that is not illegally parked. And yet they're towing it away because they have unpaid tickets. Well, what's the predicate for the unpaid tickets? The idea

that the government can run that land and they can control who can park, where, when, and how. Well, some people might say, well, it's a city guard. You got to manage it somehow, right? Well, who's going to manage it? This opens up what's called the tragedy of the commons. How many parking spaces are going to be on the main street? How wide will the main street be? Who's going to get their bread buttered? Will there be a parking lot that the government manages near this business or that business? Will there be only this many parking spots near this area of the city? How's that going to be managed? What will the rates be? Should the rates be lower? How long will the parking meters last? All these things are then argued about, just like policies over government run schools, what's the content going to be? How long will they be open? How many students per teacher will be the ratio? All these types of things

open up what's called the tragedy of the commons. When there's no private property, then people can't manage how that property is going to be used. Do we want it to be for parking or do we want it to be green space? Do we want that park to be a baseball diamond or a football field? Do we want that park to be managed this way or that way? And that goes back into the government claiming those Western lands. In some cases, more than 75% of some states is government, federal government run. Why can't the people, at least in those states, decide and then break it down even further and get it to real valuation being revealed through private property? And some people say, well, Gar, that might mean that natural spaces aren't taken care of. Well, that's not my prerogative. If I like natural spaces, I should be willing to cough up some money for natural spaces and keep them going. If I think that that has a market

viability, otherwise I'm imposing my will on somebody else who actually could reflect his interests. Now, where this gets warped, of course, is once you get the government getting involved in making these decisions, the biggest players will then game the system to try to get the government to do what they want them to do to give them advantages. So you have tragedy of the commons, everyone arguing, and then the most vocal people, the people connected to the government, will then engage in rent seeking. And we're back where we started. So this is quite interesting to see. And it's going to be very interesting to see how this case plays out for Mr. Lato. But I think it shows you how even in these situations where people say, well, that's not fair, that they're towing away. How can they do this? Don't they have to get a warrant?

Well, yes, they do. And that is a big facet of it constitutionally. But beyond that, we can learn about how this problem arose because the government runs the property and they're trying to manage that property. And it's not possible to manage it the way everybody wants. Tickets. And in that case, they can get their car back. But if the tickets go unpaid, the city would then sell the cars at junk auctions, which is pretty much what they would sell for because people don't know what these cars even run. We don't know. Court found that the practice violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures without warrants. The city argued, and here's the thing, this is the city's argument. The city argued that their towing practice qualified for an exception from the warrant because the cars were a threat to public health. All right, everybody. Yeah, that helps

turn the government frowns upside down big time. Now, everybody, get ready with your comments. And if you've been commenting, feel free if you want to repost any of those if I've missed anything. I'm Gardner Goldsmith filling in for David Knight. And again, thank you so much for everyone in the David Knight family being so wonderful. And Travis, hats off to you if you're watching for being such a great help on the tech side, Tony Arterburn as well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And all of you in the chat at Rockfin and rumble. And first off, right off the bat, I want to face the camera and thank MJ Nichols who just donated a little while ago inside Rockfin. And thank you so much, MJ, especially while I'm here, sort of trying to, you know, uh, do a good job on the good ship, David Knight Show, the ship of freedom. Thank you for coming aboard. I'll be your purser. And we'll see you on the Lido deck.

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Check out their website. They've got the schedules of so many good people. I'm honored to be a part of that, you know, seeing the schedule at knightsofthestorm.com. Jason says, he says, they're talking about farming towns. Brian McCartney say, guard, you always do a great job. Thank you. Thank you so much.

And I'd be interested to see, Harps is on from Australia. I'd be interested in finding out the Australian perspective with those highways. Because I got to go through Queensland traveling east from Charleville. And I was wondering about that myself. You know, Charleville is way out of the bush. And people own so much land there and they do their cattle ranching with helicopters. They didn't have schools. They did the school of radio.

It was radio schools where the teacher and the kids would communicate on radios when I was there. Now it's the Internet. They had the Royal Flying Doctor Service. And there've actually been novels written about that because they couldn't drive people to hospitals, but they did have these highways that they seem to have built. And you can see that sort of thing in Mad Max, you know, Road Warrior, that sort of thing. Harps actually right here says, what they did here, Jason, Harps is in Australia, folks, if you're not familiar with Harps, great guy. Merry Christmas, buddy. What they did here, Jason, was kill the towns by moving

the highways well away from the towns, almost killing them. The move in immigrants into the towns, then move immigrants into the town. So it's a Ponzi scheme. Yeah. And we know here in the United States, Harps, I don't know if you've got to see some of my Liberty Conspiracy shows, but the Center for Immigration Studies, and I wrote a piece on this for MRCTV, the Center for Immigration Studies discovered that the Biden administration had given at least 200,000 migrants an app on their phones to get flights inside the United States anywhere they wanted to travel. And just recently, and something that I'm going to be mentioning a little bit in just a couple of minutes to sort of round off the show, they've discovered that the TSA is allowing people who have been arrested for being illegal immigrants to use their arrest warrants as IDs at the TSA checkpoints. Meanwhile, they force us to engage in the Hegelian dialectic of getting groped, scanned or facial scanned. And people don't seem to be upset about that, but they're upset about Rite Aid doing facial scans.

We don't have to shop at Rite Aid. You got to keep giving the TSA your money. Let's get some folks to open up the cheer towards talking about freedom, right? We'll do that. We'll just keep working with a smile on our faces and keep heading in that direction, right? MJ Nichols, Steve Swan. Yes, yes. And everybody is wishing great health and good relaxation to David. Let's see. Hal 9000 Watson. Says, I remember seeing adverts for a world license. Hal 9000 is at Rumble if you want to communicate with Hal 9000. Absolutely. And he says, eat the bugs. Yes. So right. And also Narrow Way Narrogate Ministries there. Yes. Narrow Way Narrogate Ministries has noticed the ship sinking on Mr. Lato's bookcase. Yes. And Honor Seeker writes very, very well. And I'm so glad you mentioned this. Frederick Bastier's The Law, which is, I think, one of the most beautifully put together logical analyses of the difference between statute and natural law. The opening line of Frederick Bastier's The Law published in the 1830s, 1840s

is the law perverted, exclamation point. And what he means is they have taken the idea of natural law and everybody assumes and everybody gets this normalcy bias. They call politicians lawmakers. No, there's one lawmaker. He made us. Natural law, interpersonal relations based on biblical truisms. We don't need people telling us this is the law. No, I think I get it. You are a person who has been put into a tax-funded office

that's claiming power over people. And even if you say, Mr. Politician, that you're there to protect us, well, where are you getting the money to fund the police and the so-called justice system? How is that just that I have to keep paying for your justice system? How about we pare it down to the most basic moral level and see that the only way you can operate morally

is by removing your force through the state. Stop telling people they have to pay for their own protection. You're a mafioso. Leave me alone. How about that? Well, folks, let's see how this manifests now. The remainder of this program, everybody, we're going to touch base on some breaking stories. We're going to look at a number of big ones that might get kind of dark. We're going to talk about what's going on in the Middle East. And we're going to talk about perhaps how Mr. Biden, by the way, who told us, don't forget, decency is on the ballot. Mr. Biden wants to continue funding the slaughter of innocent people in the Middle East. So let's take the opportunity right now to relax, listen to some of David Knight's great music and compositions and video. Then we'll come back with, unfortunately, some of the heavy, heavy information to keep informed about what's going on with the united states warmongers Thank you. David Knight Show. Whether you're feeling like the blues or bluegrass, APS Radio has you covered.

Check out a wide variety of channels on our app at APSradio.com. Get ready, everybody. It's time. Unfortunately, we got to start talking about something that I think requires a bit of a theme. And for that, we're going to hear from a guy whose voice at least can remind us of the great wonders of humanity when people put their minds to stopping warfare. Edwin Starr. Wow. Boy, I can't imagine what it would be like to see that guy live. And by the way, about that Andrea Bocelli concert I got to see. Andrea Bocelli had been, he had a virus.

And so he had to postpone by about two weeks. Came back, you know, really quickly. I thought it was going to be a six month wait, but came back within two weeks to come back to Boston. He literally, the first time they were going to play a couple of weeks ago, um, the perform, he was going to perform in the orchestra would play, um, uh, Andrea and his wife came out and they apologized. And she said, you know, we've been here. We were all there in the audience, but they just couldn't perform. And she said, we're so sorry. We waited a little bit after the start time, but we want to let you know. And Andrea, she was out on her own Andrea. You can see his hand on the staircase. She goes, oh, she looks over and says, oh, he wants to come

up. So he came up and spoke and he told people, he said, I'm very sorry. I just don't think I'll be able to do the job that I want to do for you, which was just remarkable. What a noble, noble spirit. The man, of course, was blinded after he had many years of sight and shows the incredible strength of a man who believes that God has reasons for things and wants you to answer these things and showed so many people what they can do themselves. So he came back and last Wednesday, I got to go down with my sister and it was amazing. You could see that at certain points, that man with that voice allowed himself to extend notes and push the notes even further than he might normally have. Because I think he looked at it as showing that virus, whatever it was he had, who was boss. And he really showed an amazing, amazing power of recovery. So any of you who might be

hurting right now, whether it's financially, emotionally, with your family, whatever, just remember the spirit in you, you were created by God. You were created by a reason, for a reason, multiple reasons. And part of that is to show others what you can do. There's nobility in the struggle. So please keep it in mind. I'm just reminded of that when I think about that amazing voice of Edwin Starr. Now let's look at fighting wars. All right. So let me give you some of this information here. This is, of course, pretty big. So. Boy, this is this is rough. This one came out on the 21st, but I want to mention it. A U.N. report says over five hundred and seventy thousand people are starving due to the Israeli siege, according to a report using data from the U.N. and other aid agencies that was released Thursday. Oh, boy. And David communicated with me last night, sent me the text of some of the things that seem to be cropping up. I'm looking for more information

to confirm this, of conflicts between Iranian forces and Israeli forces. 570,000 people. But hey. We have heard that a half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it? I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it. Just amazing. Amazing. I don't know if they ever learn. They get so wrapped up in their worlds.

This is the integrated food security phase classification said the Israeli onslaught in Gaza has, quote, caused catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity across the Gaza Strip. But, folks, there's more. So I want to show this to you right now. And it ties into how we open the program. Going to give this to you. Going to give that to you in just a minute. First, Bethlehem. You might have been seeing this trending. Bethlehem's bombed out nativity sends message.

Israeli airstrikes killed dozens in Christmas bloodshed. So here we go. Antiwar.com, linking to Al Jazeera if you're listening and not viewing. Bethlehem's bombed-out nativity sculpture sends a powerful message. The scene of a devastated nativity cave symbolizes the plight of Christ's family and Palestinians now. Bethlehem, occupied West Bank. This year, Bethlehem is somber and quiet. There is no Christmas tree and there are no holiday lights or tourists to see them. Instead, the city of Jesus' birth, which is in the middle of a war zone, is marking Christmas with a powerful and poignant message,

solidarity with Palestine. The Holy Family Cave is a sculpture that depicts a harrowing tableau, a bombed out version of the traditional nativity cave, which many Christians traditionally believe is where Jesus was born in Bethlehem. It is the site now of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. The new mural draws a comparison with the journey of Christ and his family when they had to flee Bethlehem under an oppressive ruler to Egypt before returning to Nazareth two millennia ago. Surrounded by rubble and barbed wire, the Virgin Mary embraces the baby Jesus while Joseph embraces her, offering solace.

Well, let's see what's happening on Christmas, as this comes from archive.is. Originally from Reuters, Somebody had to archive it. December 24th, Israeli airstrikes killed dozens, Gaza officials say, in Christmas bloodshed. Pope Francis lamented the war in the Holy Land, one of the few good things he's done recently, where Palestinian health officials said airstrikes killed at least 78 people on Christmas Eve and one of the Gaza Strip's deadliest nights in Israel's 11-week-old battle with Hamas. Israeli strikes that began hours before midnight persisted into Christmas Day on Monday.

Local residents and Palestinian media said Israel stepped up air and ground shelling against al-Burij in central Gaza. Well, let's just go to the south. Oh, I'm sorry. They're bombing that too. At least 70 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike. Oh, they must have all been terrorists. Oh, that term, terrorists.

How do you know they were terrorists? Did you try them? Did you extradite them? No, we declared war. Declared war against the civilians? No. Well, you've killed maybe 20,000 people. 570,000 starving. But what's perhaps the larger game here? What else is going on? Well, I want to turn to this. This is a very interesting piece about recent developments with Yemen, the Gulf, geopolitics, and energy. Your gas prices are going to be skyrocketing.

The brutal war that Israel is waging on Gaza is expanding day by day into a regional conflict as other countries are pledging to support the Palestinian people amid what experts from the United Nations have referred to as a potential genocide. In December, the political forces that govern the majority of Yemen announced that they would attack any ships going through the Red Sea that are planning on providing supplies to Israel. This has massive economic implications because it means that ships will have to be rerouted and instead go south around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and instead enter the Mediterranean through Western Europe. Iran has also called for blocking off the Strait of Gibraltar in order to prevent supplies from being sent to Israel. What this means is that resistance forces in the so-called Middle East, or a better term is West Asia, are now attempting a naval blockade of Israel to block supplies from being sent to Israel in order to stop this brutal war on Gaza. Israel is very

reliant on imports of energy and food, and most of those imports go through three main ports, two on the Mediterranean, including the port of Ashdod, which is quite close to Gaza, and also the Haifa port in the north. And also on the south, Israel has the port of Eilat, which connects to the Red Sea going through the Straits of Tehran, which are controlled by Saudi Arabia. The resistance forces that govern Yemen are not able to block the two major ports on the Mediterranean, but they are able to prevent ships from transiting through the Bala Mendab Strait, which connects the Arabian Sea to the Gulf of Aden into the Red Sea. All right, that's key. I just want to make sure that, you know, a lot of times information flows

very, very quickly on a program. So I've retweeted this and I hope you'll check this out. I just want to pause it there so you can see that map, of course You see the Mediterranean, Suez Canal, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Iran, Red Sea Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, Qatar, Oman, Yemen There's Yemen And they are really causing a lot of problems for many of the warmongering states and their oil supplies. And I say that, you know, understanding that that's going to raise energy prices. But the United States involvement over there has been, it's not excusable to say, well, the United States has a vital interest in making sure that the waters flow over there.

I don't have a vital interest in forcing my neighbor to pay for ships, to pay for some sort of plan or strategy or tactics on the day to day or hour to hour to try to manage some ocean area thousands of miles away from here, regardless of what might happen. I don't control that. That would be like saying, well, there's a gas station in New Hampshire and I want to make sure that the flow of gas is always going on there. So I'm going to make sure that nobody gets in the way of that gas station and not too many people sell it out. I don't own that gas station. I'm not in that area. It gets in the way of that gas station and not too many people sell it out. I don't own that gas station. I'm not in that area. It's not my interest. And this is all geopolitics. It's all government run actions.

Very, very dangerous. I also want to mention to people inside Twitter, thank you so much for tuning in to The David Knight Show. Rattlesnake George, you can now comment as we go live at Twitter slash X. You'll see it on the right side of your screen if you're watching on a computer. In your browser on the right side, you'll see the little icon of David Knight's face showing that we're going live. And Rattlesnake George posted a very good comment a while back saying, Patrick Henry had to threaten rebellion against Washington to give us the Bill of Rights. And Daryl, D-A-R-A-L, I hope I'm reading that right, Daryl, to David, hope you had a Merry Christmas, David. Daryl, I hope I've been able to pass on that upbeat sentiment.

And Merry Christmas to you. I hope you are enjoying things with loved ones. And I want to also thank all the folks inside Rockfin. SoloCat1980 says, Israel's war with the innocent people in Gaza while pretending to be fighting their own created barbarian threat called Hezbollah. Yeah. And of course, we know that Netanyahu and even George Bush indirectly helped promote Hamas to be the political rulers of of Gaza. And I'm still waiting for these high on their horses, self-appointed elites of people like so-called representative, and there's no way that any political entity can be representative of anyone, Congresswoman Stefanik. Why is she so upset about what's happening on college campuses regarding people criticizing Jewish states or not criticizing Jewish states, but maybe criticizing Jewish people.

Can she not see that calling up the heads of these universities and saying, why aren't you more outspoken about these people who are echoing the fascist Nazis of the past? Can she not grasp the power imbalance there? Does she not have a clue that she is calling people up and she is an agent of the biggest, most powerful government in the history of the planet? She's telling these people answer to me, and she has the gall to try to bring in echoes of what? Of fascism to say, you've got to stop these people being critical of the state of Israel, which, of course, they passed that resolution that somehow even Hasidic Jews in New York, this is the one thing I would agree with on with Jerry Nadler, who represents a lot of Hasidic Jews from his district in New York, so-called represents. You can't mathematically represent anybody as a government official.

You got one person, but the other person might disagree. Oh, there's representation for you. It's immediately negated. And somebody else might change his mind in five minutes. Who knows, right? You can only do this. You can only represent your own interests through your own private actions in the marketplace. Anybody telling you they're going to represent you while they're trying to represent somebody else is impossible. It's ridiculous. It's another of the canards that they sell people for the promotion of the state, that term representative.

That's obnoxious. But anyway, it is amusing because Congressman Nadler mentioned, I've got a lot of Hasidic Jews in my district. They're very critical of the state of Israel. They understand the difference between people who are practicing Hebrew Jewish people and people who are just Zionists, who are secular Jews. And so it's very interesting to see that. I think it's also interesting to see that so many people like Douglas Murray and others are so willing to adopt that mantle, as we mentioned King Charles before, of literally extermination to protect the state. You can remove the state of what? Is it killing to protect the state? Is that enough to remind people who say that they're supporting the future of the Jews? Murdering people, innocent people people to supposedly get at bad guys.

And I've mentioned this in my philosophy classes to the students. I said, look, they keep giving us this argument that. The. Israeli defense forces are perfectly sanctioned, it's perfectly acceptable, even though it's tough. They often give us these nice, well, you know, this is the way it is. It's war. Oh, I see. Thank you for ending the conversation with a euphemism that means nothing. It's war. Who's causing the war? What's causing the war? What forces have been around for decades, growing and growing like NATO, taking people's private property, causing violent reactions. And as I mentioned before, the Israelis killed three hostages recently, and they have argued by mistake. They tried to rescue these people. They said, oh, we couldn't distinguish them. Oh, we just

couldn't distinguish them from the Hamas fighters. I don't know how that happened. You mean just like you couldn't do it on October 7th either. I get it. So they said, and I can actually show you, they actually say, well, you know, it's what happens. I've got CNN. Let me show you CNN. And they're totally cold way of handling this with the typical newsreader nonsense where they tell us, well, yes, it's vague. They put on those sad faces. It's very, very tragic. The IDF says that it mistakenly destroyed, killed these people.

And they were, you know, they they were to be rescued but there was just nothing we could do about it so let me see if i can show this to you here and call this up yeah i think i've got it all right yeah okay let me get this geared up in the system. I think this is the CNN bit. And oh, and by the way, don't forget, as we reminded you, as Joe Biden said, decency is on the ballot. You know, so that's whether it's Hunter Biden or warmongering, it's, you know. So here we go. Let me see if I've got this for you. Hostages as a threat during their ground operations. Their bodies were brought back to Israel.

At least two of the hostages were Israelis kidnapped from farms on October 7th. The identity of the third hostage has not been released. The IDF says it has deep remorse for the incident and that immediate lessons have been learned and are being passed on to troops in the future. Okay, so again, they use the passive voice, lessons have been learned, lives have been lost. No, who committed the crimes? Who killed these people? Well, you got to understand, guard, you know, they were hostages and it's perfectly okay to go into these areas. And even if you have to kill some innocent civilians to get at the bad guys, you got to get at the bad guys. Right. And these were hostages. Well, what is a fact about the Israeli Hamas Palestinian relationship?

For years, the Israeli government has taken women and children from Gaza and held them without charge, without habeas corpus, for months, sometimes over a year. So let's look at it this way. If we were to flip the tables, and again, I'll get to the final point on this as a free market, libertarian anarchist, Christian anarchist. I'll get to my final moral point here on human interaction. But if you were to flip the tables here, flip the coin, would it be acceptable for agents of Hamas to say, well, Israel has been holding Palestinians without charge. They've been holding our people hostage. So it's perfectly acceptable for us on October 7th to bust in and kill a few innocent people as we try to get at our guys and get them free. What's the difference?

What is the moral difference? They're totally equivalent. They're both incorrect, but They're totally equivalent. They're both incorrect, but they're totally equivalent. And then the final point is this. I can't come up with the answers there, but one answer I can't come up with goes like this. In philosophy class, when I teach philosophy, right, I'll say, okay, here's a great example of one of the dumb things that PBS government funding, tax funding does. They have this thing called crash course philosophy with this. I think the kid's name is Green or something like that. They're two brothers.

And they're awful, really terrible. And a lot of teachers turn to these things because they're easy to show to students while they sit there and have a snack or something. I don't know. They don't pair them apart. They don't get the kids to logically analyze these things. So they have this example. It's the jungle warlord example. It's supposed to present this philosophical moral quandary when it's not a moral

quandary, but they try to make it such because it's groupthink. It's for the greater good. It's consequentialism. It's public health. So they say you're in the jungle and you get stopped by a and the warlord takes 20 of you, has a gun, pulls you away, and says, okay, puts the gun in. You can't turn it on the warlord. You've got to point it at one of these people and says, okay, you have to kill one person. If you don't, I'm going to kill all the other of those 18 people. And so the students are saying, what do we do? Some of the students get it. They say, well, for the greater good to save those people, wouldn't it be okay? Is it acceptable to kill that one? Is it acceptable for that one to die, to be killed, to use the passive voice for an intentional reason?

Well, then you say, who's killing? You're killing. You, you are taking a life. First of all, practically, you don't even know whether or not this warlord is telling the truth. And even if he were, you are making the decision. You may think you're under duress, but philosophically, it's not him. He's not the one. You can't be absolved. You're the one pulling that trigger. You're the one. You are the one. You can't be absolved. You're the one pulling that trigger. You're the one. You are the

one killing an innocent person. They're the ones in the IDF. They're the ones in the Hamas superstructure that kill innocent people because they think it's for the greater good. They're the ones in government who take your rights because they think it's for the greater good. They're the ones in government who take your rights because they think it's for the greater good. They think that they're protecting more people by locking you down, calling your business non-essential, putting money into damaging, destructive, deadly mRNA jabs. The very development of all these viruses, massively immoral, unconstitutional, would never happen in a private realm. They're the ones who are doing this. And if you participate, you are culpable.

So the answer is you don't do anything. And no, you can't point it at the guy. You let him kill you. Rather than be a party to his evil because there's a greater good. You do not let people coerce you into doing evil. And at every level, even tiny levels, when we pay our taxes, so-called taxes, we know that that military industrial complex, which has given tons of money now to the formerly near bankrupt Nikki Haley, because Lockheed Martin brought her on their board. And Boeing, I believe, had former Senator Kelly Ayotte

while she was also on the board of Fox News. And now, yeah, she's running for governor of New Hampshire. Isn't that quaint? So she was promoting more weapons to go to Ukraine while she was on the board of Fox. She was on Fox promoting something for which she sat on another board. And this is the land of the free. The corporatized fascist U.S of government payoffs to state and local politicians, we can break away from that if we represent moral substance, key moral substance, and we keep trying to promote that.

Whether it be reminding people about the rules that they promise under the Constitution or going beyond that, the way Lysander Spooner would. The way people looking at the Bible would. So the final thing I'll mention is we can't force my neighbor to pay for what I think is the right thing to do there. I don't have to implicate my neighbor into this life or death decision. And I shouldn't be implicated. I shouldn't be in that jungle with the warlord telling me, you've got to take out one of these people for the sake of everybody. That is not morality. That's consequentialist philosophy. That's devilish. Of course it is, because it negates the value of the individual.

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