The David Knight Show - 8May23 Texas — 2 Mass Murders, 2 Different Weapons — Which Does Media Focus On?

Episode Date: May 8, 2023

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODESSUV used to kill 8, hospitalizes 10. AR-15 used to kill 8, hospitalize 7. Look at the different narratives 2:50 Margarine Ads: The "Ask Your Doctor" Ads of the 70's Why was there a sudden push of ads for margarine that became so embedded in culture? There's an industrial/commercial reasons for "It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature", Imperial, Mazola, Fleishman's "Goodness of Golden Corn" 27:36Even the cost of becoming King has gone up!! Inflation fit for a KING! The cost of coronation adjusted for government-created inflationImagine my surprise — Prince Andrew, the Pedo Prince, booed at the parade. Harry, the man formerly known as Prince, is kicked to the back as Royal Brothers Duke it out 37:19 MUST HEAR: Julian Assange wrote a letter to King Charles inviting him to visit his majesty’s prison in Belmarsh. 40:36 Anti-monarchists want the King to be replaced with an elected President. Is Donald a composite of the WORST aspects of the Royal Family? 48:23 Biden controllers push Bitcoin tax — yet another way to shut down crypto. 55:25 Texas committee passes bill to create 100% reserve gold and silver backed digital currency. It's VITAL to move states (and ourselves) away from the Fed Reserve monopoly and what can be done to protect financial transactional freedom (and privacy) 58:22 Does the "debt ceiling" matter? Doug Casey makes the case for acknowledging USA default and bringing down the structure in a "controlled demolition" 1:16:30 Is there any way to profit from the collapse of western civilization? Or to minimize the damage to yourself? 1:37:37The Trojan Horse of E-Verify. Florida poised to mandate use of E-Verify for private employers. NO government should be able to tell you whether you can work. It will start with illegal aliens but it won't stop there 1:43:27 The Amish vs federal government. Meanwhile, look at the toxic metals in fruit juices and soda pop that FDA doesn't care about. 1:50:34 INTERVIEW Eric Peters, EPautos.com (there were some audio issues but Eric's content is great as usual. News continues at 2:31:34) Bootgay can't answer where the juice for EVs is going to come from and has NO IDEA how much more of a burden they will be on the gridmore airbag recalls as a poorly designed EV resulted in a man having a $42,000 repair bill for a $1,600 air bag deployed in fender benderAI hype, fear — and hope that it will crash and burn like self-driving carsA look at the government's "seditious conspiracy" against the Constitution and the absurd jail sentences being handed out 2:31:34Scientists say they can now read people’s thoughts using AI. IBM says it's going to replace 7,800 jobs with AI — or is there something else going on? 2:44:32 Richard Dreyfus tells PBS, Hollywood’s new diversity inclusivity standards "make me want to vomit". And he talks about how absurd it is that blackface is freaking people out. 2:55:47Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here:SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation through Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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See vodafone.ie forward slash terms. Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Monday, the 8th of May, Year of Our Lord 2023. Well, today we're going to take a look first at two tragedies that unfolded in Texas. One of them, a mass shooting in a mall. Another one, what appears to be a deliberate drive through a crowd with a speeding SUV. Same number of people killed in both incidents. Actually, more people injured. The same number dead. More people injured with the SUV.

But, of course, you know which one the media is focusing on. Which one the government is focusing on, which one the government is focusing on. We'll also take a look at the coronation of King Charles. We'll have some fun with that as well. Pretty interesting, some of the things that have happened there that maybe you haven't heard too much about. And a fascinating letter from julian assange to the king inviting him to come see what belmarsh prison is like we'll be right back Well, as I said, we've got two tragic incidents happened yesterday. One of them never got equal billing, and you know which one.

That is the SUV. We've seen this type of thing before. When you look at red flag gun laws, and I've mentioned this many times, the Waukesha christmas parade murders done with a person with an suv deliberately targeting individuals as they're running steering the car to run over them was not an out of control car but they kind of dropped and no call to have people mentally evaluated before we're allowed to drive. I guess we can be grateful for that. Of course, the reason for that is the culture.

Even though the AR-15 is the most widely owned firearm, it's still a minority of the country. And so the media can lie to you about what you don't experience. Actually, they were able to lie to us about what we did experience with the COVID lockdowns and all the rest of the stuff. People are looking around. It's like, I don't see that happening here. I don't see any friends and relatives dropping dead from all this stuff. But yet, when we look at this, we had eight people killed in the SUV attack, 10 injured

in the gun attack. We had eight people killed and the suv attack 10 injured and the gun attack we had eight people killed as well seven injured uh eight seven people were killed right away with the suv and eight person died later on they said they may have more than 10 people injured because the ambulances picked up people they took them to a lot of different hospitals there in Brownsville. This was done at a bus stop in front of a shelter for migrants and homeless people there in the Texas border town of Brownsville. They're inundated with the immigration problem. And most of the people who were run over were not Mexican.

They were coming from venezuela this is the deep uh mass migration from south america and from the rest of the world through south america coming up through panama as we've reported and um as we had a guest uh talk about that and this is all they're assisted're aided, depending on which country they're coming from, they will focus on, they will inject them into the right country in Central or South America, depending on the laws. And of course, they're traveling through a lot of safe countries for them where they're not being persecuted politically. And that is supposed to mean that they can't get political asylum here in the United States. But it is absolutely being overwhelmed there in Brownsville. And the people,

all the people who are there are feeling this pressure from the government on down. I mean, just as you hear the mayor of New York City and the mayor of Chicago saying, what is Abbott sending his people for? We can't handle all this. You're giant cities. You think these small cities like Brownsville can handle it? Oh, you're focusing on big cities with black mayors. Well, that's what big cities elect. So anyway, most of the victims are Venezuelan men. I mean, they're not families

coming. It's Venezuelan men coming. This SUV, a Range Rover, just ran the red light that was about 100 feet away, just went through the people who were sitting there at the bus stop, they said. They said the SUV flipped over after running up on the curb and then continued to move for about another 200 feet. I guess he's going pretty fast if he slid that far. He flipped over. He's sliding, I guess. Some people were walking on the sidewalk about 30 feet away from the main group

were also hit. In addition to those killed, they said 10 people were taken to area hospitals. And again, the numbers will be rising because the spokesperson for the sheriff's department or the local government said, so we don't know an accurate account on that. He said police have not identified the driver because he's been very uncooperative, has given several different names. They're not sure who he is yet. Police also haven't yet determined what caused the crash. Was it an accident?

Doesn't sound like it. Was he intoxicated? Doesn't sound like it. Sounds like it was deliberately targeting these people. Luis Herrera survived the crash, saying that he and his friends were waiting to go to the airport when they were struck. So they were going to try. I don't know if they were going to send them to New York City or to Chicago, or is this

the Texas government? Is this the federal government injecting them further into the country? I don't know. The shelter is the only overnight shelter in the city of Brownsville, and it manages release of thousands of migrants from federal custody, but it can only hold 250, so there's a lot of people who are on the streets. And it's brought everybody to the cracking point. I'm not saying there's any justification for what this man did,

but you understand how the federal government is complicit in all of this. And then we go to Texas mall shooting. Mauricio Garcia had unusual messages on his phone. Might indicate that he was mentally unstable. There's other indications that he was mentally unstable. Was he under psychiatric care? Was he being given SSRI drugs or other things like that? And so when we look at the stories about how the Texas Mall shooting is covered,

you have horrific descriptions in detail of what happened to the victims' bodies. No such report about the SUV. Same number of people killed, even more people injured. But they don't go on to the gory details, and I'm not going to go into the gory details either. It's very disturbing. But they want you to be disturbed about the gun killing and not about the SUV killing. But you notice that the SUV and the gun didn't really kill people. It was the people using them because they are tools. And they want to ban one tool and not the other tool. That's the thing to focus on.

I'm glad that they're not looking to ban cars for this reason yet. Oh, they're going to ban them for all types of reasons. And I'm sure that we'll get to the point where that will be one of the reasons. Well, we need to have control, got to end private vehicles because they can be weaponized as if anything else can't. And again, we have more people killed with their bare hands than with firearms every year. And the situation in the New York subway where you had a Marine choke out an aggressive, crazy individual. You had other passengers who were trying to restrain him as well while the Marine had him in a chokehold.

He'd been arrested 42 times. He had assaulted recently an elderly woman. But the government doesn't protect people from any of these things. And so we look at that situation in New York and it looks like the corrupt Soros district attorney will charge the Marine for that because of the differences in color of skin is what we're talking about here. If both victims had been the same color, there probably would not be a crime. As a matter of fact, some of the people on there who were trying to help the Marine restrain this guy that died were the same color as the person who died. You know, we don't have a society anymore where people are judged by the content of their character.

If they were, there wouldn't be any question about what happened to this guy on the subway, right? We are simply now judged by the color of our skin. And that is supposed to be a virtue to judge people by the color of their skin now. Isn't it amazing how we have turned in just my lifetime, we've seen all of our values turned upside down and inside out anyway, horrific. And as it's done, but there was no deep description of the bodies that were killed by the SUV. There are deep descriptions of the bodies of those who were killed by the Texas small shooter.

But understand the problem is the people. What's the people? What is it that is making people do this type of thing? On his phone, as people are trying to get clues as to this Texas small shooter, by the way, that story, both of those stories were pretty much on all of the mainstream media yesterday. I checked again this morning and, uh, the SUV shooting has disappeared from pretty much all of them. And, uh, the mall shooting is still there and it's getting bigger because now they've got to investigate. Now they think that in this particular case, this guy has indicated that he is a white

supremacist. Again, his name is Mauricio Garcia. His parents don't even speak English, but they do live in Dallas. And, you know, if he were applying for a job, he would apply as a non-white. But now, because he's a killer, they want to identify him as white. How many times have we seen that? Anyway, he appears to be kind of nutty on his message machine. He said, leave your name and number.

He said that his personalized message asks his parents for money insists to his provider that the cell phone bill has already been paid includes a dig at the federal government for not providing him with enough financial aid as well as a jab at a deceased dallas residence friends if they owe him money he also said if you're female uh i have plenty of money was he kidding was he crazy well he absolutely was crazy whether this message was great whether he was crazy when he recorded that message or not he was living in a hotel that they identified as a one star very low rent very small hotel working as a security guard, working as a security guard.

He's had three different jobs as a security guard. Presumably he was vetted at all of those. They trained him how to use guns as well. So I don't think a red flag law would have worked unless you want to red flag people for political comments that they make. And they're saying that he had some political comments. I haven't seen those yet. He had no serious criminal record.

Neighbors said he was quiet, but he always acted unusual. So again, we see the Biden is going to push an assault ban on the back of this. That's why they're focusing on it. Oh, here's one. This fits the narrative. Let's run with this one. ar-15 check uh he's got some things that we can say he's a right-wing conservative neo-nazi check and we'll call him a white guy for the purposes of this even though if he was out there applying for a job, he would get extra credit points if he was Hispanic as he is.

So the media, Biden are pushing this as part of an assault ban and other aspects that are, I think, relevant in terms of his mental state are not discussed. People need to look at the mental state of the SUV driver. And again, I'm not a big fan of the insanity defense. I think if you murder people, especially mass murder, I think if you murder people, you are insane. That's not a get-out-of-jail-free card. It's not a get-out the electric chair free card either.

By definition, I would think that we would label people who murder other people as insane. I don't know why that's even germane to any of this. Anyway, his mother doesn't speak English, but he did like you or I would. He seemed just like a very good kid, always polite, friendly, but perhaps a bit mentally slow. Just the way he spoke and responded, it was a distinct impression I got, they said. So, again, that is really all we have there to explain why this might happen. Again, he would not have been hired by three different security companies. Do you think you could pick me up? Every connection counts, which is why Ireland can count on our network.

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together we can. Subject to coverage availability. Limitations and terms apply. See If there was anything that was obvious about this guy's personality, a preliminary view of what is believed to be the shooter's social media accounts reveals hundreds of posts that include racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist rhetoric, including neo-Nazi material and material espousing white supremacy to senior law enforcement officials said. So they said, well, we don't understand what triggered him, but do they know what triggered the SUV driver? Again, this guy, we don't even know who he is yet because he's refusing to give his name. Is that not his car?

Can they not figure it out from his car? Brownsville issued a disaster declaration last month after 15,000 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, crossed over in a single week. In a normal week, about 2,000 migrants would cross the border at Brownsville. Is that normal? Should that be normal? And yet you went from 2,000 to 15,000 illegal immigrants. They call them migrants for the purpose of USA Today. We've never seen these numbers before. Really? How is it then that the White House

press secretary, Jean Perrine, wants to tell us that it's down by 90%, right? The surge in migrants comes as Title 42 is set to end Thursday. The pandemic era policy allows U.S. Border Patrol to send asylum seekers from certain countries back to Mexico. Its expiration is expected to further increase the flow of migrants. We don't want them wandering around outside, said a city commissioner, Pedro Cardenas. He said, so we're trying to make sure they're as comfortable as they can be so they don't have to go out and look for anywhere else again brownsville new york chicago everybody's resources in denver as well california as well everybody's resources are being stretched to the breaking point because this is a plan

you want to talk about the great replacement oh that's a white supremacist conspiracy theory. Well, you know what the conspiracy theory was? Cloward and Piven. It was an economic conspiracy. This is people, economists, two economists, Cloward and Piven, who had said, well, you know, we tried to collapse American society into dependency on the government with a welfare state, but it just wasn't happening enough.

And so what we can do is we can open up the borders, open up our entitlement system to people who are not citizens, and then we can collapse the American economy. That's what this is about. It's just that simple. It is a conspiracy theory. It is a replacement. But the target is to collapse us.

Everything that our government is doing, in case you haven't noticed yet, is to destroy our society, to destroy us financially, to destroy us spiritually, to destroy us physically. Everything is targeted at us, and not just us, not just our government against us,

but every Western government against all of its people, to take everybody down to what used to be called the third world level. And perhaps the second world was the communist tyrannies. So maybe what we're going to get is, you know, two and a half. We'll get Marxism, because that's usually what you wind up with when you eviscerate the economy. You usually have to eviscerate people's freedom. So then you've got the useful idiot on Fox News,

Geraldo Rivera, who said politicians who pose with AR-15s should pose by the dead bodies. Well, you know, you had Biden posing with a giant EV, a Hummer, by one of the heaviest, most inefficient, from an energy standpoint, vehicles out there that you can find. The Hummer, even more inefficient in terms of energy usage than its internal combustion version, because it's even heavier. Biden is driving that thing and posing with it. We've seen this trend of vehicles getting heavier and higher, which

makes them more lethal to the poor people like me that like to drive these old fashioned little cars, little convertibles and stuff. Uh, very well of that as I, uh, well aware of that as I drive around and look at the underside of these cars as they're getting higher and higher. I haven't grown up in my vehicle yet. I'm still back where I was 50 years ago. But looking at the undercarriage of these vehicles, when I bought the Trance Spitfire back in 1974,

we drove it off the lot, Karen was with me, and we stop at a stop sign, a stoplight, and a big city bus pulls up next to us we looked over and we can see everything underneath the uh bus i was like that's kind of interesting is it and now everybody's driving vehicles that are big and high like that and i'm still driving those little low small cars but uh anyway so any Anyway, so my point is, is that should we make Biden pose next to a picture of an SUV? And since he did that, rather, should we make him pose next to the bodies of these victims? Because we've had multiple of these now happening. Seems like SUVs are the weapon of choice for the car killers, doesn't it?

Oh, well, the AR-15. Here's a newsflash that Geraldo Rivera and the Washington Post don't seem to understand. These are the most popular vehicles and the most popular guns. And so if somebody is going to use that to kill people, it's most likely that they're going to use those, the most popular ones. So anyway, I think the politicians who have created this crisis, this immigration crisis, should pose to the people that are living on the streets now in Texas towns. How about that, Geraldo?

You think that should happen too? The AR-15, the most popular rifle platform in America. And again, that's why they're coming after it, to get rid of it. The problem is not the rifle. The problem is not the gun. The problem is the people. We've had a lot of these rifles around for a long time.

We've had, you know, again, I'm old enough, I remember people driving around in their pickup trucks with a rifle rack there on the back. I remember people bringing their rifles to gun, guns to school so they could practice with it. And we didn't have school shootings. It was absolutely unheard of. Wasn't until a couple of decades after I got out of school, they started having these types of things.

On January the 18th, Geraldo, uh, supported Biden's assault weapons ban with a claim that the AR and AR 15 stands for automatic rifle. The guy is termly ignorant. Why do we even care what he has to say? Well, we care what he has to say because it's evident that it's propaganda and because it is a talking point. He's a good example of the no nothing idiots who are useful idiots for this agenda.

Here's some more useful idiots. The Washington post, the gun that divides a nation. This is written by Sabrina Pacific. It's almost like Pacifica, but it's got an I on the end. I already pronounced her name. Anyway, Sabrina. And the Washington Post.

Says, how did the AR-15 come to dominate the marketplace? Well, because it's lightweight. It has very little recoil. It's easily used by women, Sabrina, and a lot of other reasons why it's popular. Anyway, why is it dominating the marketplace? Why does it loom so large in the American psyche? Oh, well, that would have to do with people like you who are trying to build it into this mythological thing that kills everything in its path. And again, it's one of the reasons why that story of Charles van Vick in South Africa back in the 1990s. Yeah, they had four people coming in.

They had what Democrats would call assault weapons. But in their particular case, they really were fully automatic weapons and throwing hand grenades into a church. And this group of guys with fully automatic weapons and hand grenades was stopped with one person who had a 38 snub nose with five shots. And he ran them off. Anyway, um, A 38 snub nose with five shots in it. He ran them off.

Anyway, that's why that's an important story. Powerful weapon was originally designed, says Sabrina, as a soldier's rifle in the 1950s. It soon became a standard issue for U. U S troops in the Vietnam war, where the weapon earned a new name, the M 16, but few gun makers saw a semi-automatic version of the rifle. Um, again, that's only a superficial thing there and it is not fully automatic. And, uh, they do eventually mentioned that it is not fully automatic, does not have that capability, but they said, they said in the 1950s

gun manufacturers didn't even want to make it you know this is the whole thing about the nra and other industry allies were focused on promoting traditional rifles and handguns and blah blah blah guess what in the 1950s they didn't make us suvs either did They didn't make Hummers. So what? People are now selecting AR-15s and SUVs as their tools. And that's why we see them being used in these killings when somebody misuses these tools. But that doesn't mean that we ban the tool. It doesn't mean that we file a lawsuit against the company that made the SUV or the AR-15. They go on to say about one in 20 U.S. adults, roughly 16 million people, own at least one AR-15. Almost every major gun maker now produces its own version of the weapon, just like every car manufacturer now produces an SUVv and they get higher and higher and heavier

and heavier especially with all the battery stuff the modern ar-15 dominates the walls and the websites of gun dealers as they wring their hands again this is um you know tools change people's tastes change what they believe that they need change, but we still need transportation and we still need self-defense. And we want our transportation to be controlled by us and owned by us, and we need our defense to be controlled and owned by us. That's the bottom line. Every year, thousands of people go to their very first concert. Our boosted signal at large events means they can always call a taxi to get home Mom!

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I switched from butter to imperial margarine. You mean this is margarine? He even looks a bit like Charles, doesn't he? In that whole commercial. When I went back to look at that, I thought, well, I've got to have some some picture of the coronation and i just can't stand looking at the real thing and camilla deville looked so clownish in those big crowns and it's exactly like the crown they used in the margarine commercial and when i looked that up you know margar commercial, I actually put crown in there as well. But when I put in their margarine commercial, I started seeing all these commercials that came out at the same time about margarine. I thought, yeah, I remember that one.

Oh, I remember that one. I remember because they played them over and over and over again. They were like the ask your doctor commercials on Fox and CNN and MSNBC. You know, the, we were basically were owned by Marjorie and commercial. Think about it. Chiffon margin. Marjorie had, um, the, it's not nice to fool mother nature. Right. Then there was another one, you know, when you open up the tub and, um, you say, um,

uh, parquet and butter, you know, it, it talked back to you. All of them were about comparing margarine to butter. And I thought, why was it that it happened at that point in time? All of a sudden, you know, margarine had been around for quite a while. And in one form or the other, been around for decades. But all of a sudden, it got really, really big. And I thought, well, if all these big corporations all of a sudden are pushing something on you, something changed in the technology that made it super cheap and profitable, didn't it? About that time.

And that is the case. And so before we get into the coronation, let's talk about something that's got much more important in terms of our everyday lives and something that affects everybody in the world, not just the people in the UK. And that is the margarine thing on the slide tangent here. But this really is a, it really is important when you stop and think about why did this happen? And why did you have all these memorable commercials that they played over

and over and over again hammering in those little hooks you know not nice to fool mother nature oh is it butter or is it margarine all the rest of this stuff um and really what happened was the processing aspect of it you know it was, they were able to come up with some new manufacturing processes that allowed them to simulate butter with vegetable oils. And then they portrayed it as being very natural, even though it was very unnatural. They portrayed it as being very natural. Here's another one of the commercials that I'm sure if you're of a certain age, you'll remember.

This is a Flashman talking about how golden natural their margarine is. From the goodness of golden corn comes delicious Fleischmann's margarine. Fleischmann's, so low in saturated fat, because Fleischmann's is made from 100% corn oil, with almost a cup of liquid corn oil in every pound. Fleischmann's can help lower... Okay, so it's made from corn oil. And it has...

It doesn't have saturated fats. It has unsaturated fats. Well, that seems to be a good thing, right? I know we had a lot of doctors that were selling that to people. But the reality is a little bit more complicated. I'll give you an abbreviated version of it from this website that did a very good job explaining it. Margarine is made of vegetable oils. Although that may sound well and good, unfortunately, our bodies don't recognize industrial vegetable oils as food.

This is foodhow.com. vegetable oils as food. Vegetable oils like canola, corn, soybean, and safflower oils are highly processed by heating and then further processing. This processing may involve using de-waxing, petroleum solvents, refining, de-gumming, deodorization, and there are several other unnatural sounding terms. I'm quite sure that you could never replicate that in your own kitchen. Less than a hundred years ago, human consumption of processed vegetable oils was practically non-existent. That's because we just didn't have the technology needed to process and extract these oils. But once we figured out how to extract these oils from plants on an industrial scale, vegetable oil consumption skyrocketed. And that will lead nicely to my next

point. As most vegetable oils are already highly processed, they need to be treated and processed even further to make margarine. As you know, vegetable oils are not solid like butter is. To make vegetable oils solid for use in margarine, they will have to go through a process known as hydrogenation. This means that oils are heated on high pressure and then treated with hydrogen gas and a metal catalyst. And all that heavy processing will produce trans fats food companies use this process to increase the products shelf life make margarine solid in room temperature and to save costs however our bodies tend to find these altered molecules very challenging to process. Yeah, putting it mildly.

And so, of course, you know, you put all these chemicals in there for de-waxing, for de-gumming. As I've said many times, typically when you look through the list of bizarre chemicals that are on the ingredients of your processed packaged foods, a lot of those are put in there to help them in terms of the manufacturing process, to make it go through the machinery. And then they don't come out. You wind up eating those things. Might as well eat the engine oil that's running the machine as well. But then they have to, after they do all of that,

in terms of processing the vegetable oil, the hydrogenization, uh, part of it was really what was new, I guess, at that point in time. So everybody now has a cheap alternative that can be mass produced, a cheap mass produced alternative to butter. And that's why it took over the airwaves with all of that stuff. But at what cost to your health, right? And it's just another example of what has happened to our food supply. So with that aside, let's go back to the actual coronation where, uh, he spent a little bit more than what you would spend on margin in order to put a crown on his head.

As one person said, Oh, look look chucky's got a new hat we only paid a hundred million pounds for his new hat using taxpayer money the two of them had their own private little party there and and i just looked at him that this is absolutely absurd that they would spend this much money on on this and the way it's being portrayed by the media. You know, his crowning achievement. Well, he finally got his crown, but it's not much of an achievement for him. Came at the expense of a lot of other people. And I think there's something in it for us to understand outside of those who are under that repressive system.

We got in our own repressive system. We have something similar to that. The presidential elections. I mean, we spend at least 10 times that much to crown some figurehead every four years. More than a billion dollars for that process and that's not even counting the big party that they throw in their honor with all the security issues and that's one of the things that made this one so expensive uh the fact that they had increased costs of security and so to get a new hat for charles and a new title for Charles.

But you have the cost of living, of course, in the UK is skyrocketing because of the government's programs to make energy more deliberately more expensive to ban cars and ban the rest of stuff. It is forced austerity on the poor subjects, just like here. So they can reset the table and bring this all down. And of course, they are the ones who are crowning themselves at the same time. This diversion between the groups. The cost of a royal coronation has gone up, even adjusted for inflation. Adjusted for inflation. You have King Charles at 100 million pounds so these this is um all in pounds 100 million and the next closest one was back in 1937 uh 25 million for george the sixth

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See Vodafone.ie forward slash terms. Father of Queen Elizabeth II. Hers was about 21 million. You go back, they take these things back to 1821, even before Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria's was only $6 million in today's adjusted for inflation. However, her grandfather, $20.9 million. And he was George IV. I guess he's the grandfather.

I don't know. I'm not up on my royal genealogy that much. So I apologize if I got that wrong. Don't send me a letter because I don't really care. But, you know, as he is, we're talking about hydrogenated, highly processed food and kings. Just throw this in as an aside. While Charles is having his day, Burger King and the U.S. is not doing too well. They've had to close another 400 locations coming up here. They have still just under 7,000 restaurants.

First quarter they had to close 124. Now they're going to close another 400. So perhaps they should throw a big parade for themselves. Maybe that will help, but it didn't help when they had as part of the parade, Prince Andrew, the pedo Prince. He was roundly booed being as we all now know, a pedo buddy of Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein. Uh, so he got booed and there's a lot of soap opera aspects of this.

You know, Prince Andrew is out, uh, Prince Harry is no longer even a Prince and so, you know, they're not posing, having, who is going to get to have their picture taken with a Chuck andilla as they, with their new hats. You know, it's a really big deal for the royal watchers. So the Duke, that is Prince Andrew, was removed from his position as a working royal. Now, if that isn't an oxymoron, I don't know what is. A working royal. Yes, what do these simple folk do, he might say, right, from Camelot.

What is a working royal? Well, that's somebody who goes a lot of different places to have his picture taken more frequently. And so now he's not getting his picture taken as frequently. Instead, he's getting booed. So he's now no longer a working royal and so charles and his brother andrew are at odds with each other william and his brother harry are no longer at uh you know on good terms either i guess they're all duking it out with each other

hasn't gotten to that but anyway the man the man formerly known as Prince Harry did not get his picture taken with the group. And maybe you don't care about that. But as I look at this, I thought, there's a lot. When you look at the people in the UK that are really infatuated with royalty, don't we have our equivalent here in the U.S. with MAGA? Why would people in the MAGA cult, why would they desire a king or president that combines all the worst aspects of Charles and Andrew and Harry

and Donald Trump? He has the, he has a self aggrandizing foppery of Charles surrounding himself with gilded this and gilded that he has the Epstein pedo perv vibe like Andrew. And of course he's an incurable narcissist who can't keep his mouth shut, just like Harry. So we have, in our Maga King, we have embodied all of these royal twerps that are there. And just to keep this in perspective, Julian Assange wrote a letter to King Charles inviting him to visit His Majesty's prison in Belmarsh.

This is from the expose. It's actually expose-news.com. It's a UK publication. So, Julian Assange said, I implore you, King Charles, please visit His Majesty's prison, Belmarsh, for it is an honor befitting a king. The Indian news and media website First Post highlighted Assange's plight and added a message of their own. They said, as a Republic Day gift from India for the BBC, here's a list of suggestions for the BBC. But I'll read you the letter because I think it is a great letter. Hopefully Julian Assange has not been damaged mentally enough.

It looks like he still has his wits about him if he wrote this letter. To His Majesty King Charles III third on the coronation of my liege because you know he's australian citizen i thought it only fitting to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to commemorate this momentous occasion by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom his majesty's prison belmarsh you will no doubt recall the wise words of a renowned playwright who said, The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as a gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.

Ah, but what would that bard know of mercy, faced with the reckoning of the dawn of your historic reign? After all, one can truly know the measure of a society by how it treats its prisoners, and your kingdom has surely excelled in that regard. Your Majesty's Prison, Belmarsh, is located at the prestigious address of 1 Western Way, London, just a short fox hunt from the old Royal Naval College at Greenwich. How delightful it must be to have such an esteemed establishment bear your name. It is here that 687 of your loyal subjects are held. Supporting the United Kingdom's record is the nation with the largest prison population in Western Europe.

As your noble government has recently declared, your kingdom is currently undergoing the biggest expansion of prison places in over a century. With its ambition projections showing an increase of the prison population from 82,000 to 106,000 within the next four years. Quite a legacy indeed. As a political prisoner held at your majesty's pleasure on behalf of an embarrassed foreign sovereign. Who would that be? Yeah.

Trump. Obama. But mainly Trump. Right? I am honored to, and Biden, you know, the Obama-Biden-Trump axis, which really no difference between them. He says, I'm honored to reside within the walls of this world-class institution held at your majesty's pleasure on behalf of an embarrassed foreign sovereign. Truly, your kingdom knows no bounds.

During your visit, you'll have the opportunity to feast upon the culinary delights prepared for your loyal subjects on a generous budget of two pounds per day. Savor the blended tuna heads and the ubiquitous reconstituted forms that are purportedly made from chicken. And worry not, for unlike lesser institutions such as Alcatraz or St. Quentin, there is no communal dining in a mess hall. At Belmarsh, prisoners dine alone in their cells, ensuring the utmost privacy with their meals. Venture further into the depths of Belmarsh, and you will find the most isolated place within its walls, healthcare. Or as its inhabitants lovingly call it, hell care.

Here you will marvel at sensible rules designed for everyone's safety, such as the prohibition of chess, whilst permitting the far less dangerous game of checkers. Deep within Hellcare lies the most gloriously uplifting place in all of Belmarsh, nay, the whole of the United Kingdom, the sublimely named Belmarsh End-of-Life Suite. Listen closely, you may hear the prisoners' cries of, Brother, I'm going to die in here, a testament to the quality of both life and death within your prison. But fear not, for there is beauty to be found in these walls. Feast your eyes upon the picturesque crows nesting in the razor wire and the hundreds of hungry rats that call Belmarsh home.

And if you come in the spring, you may even catch a glimpse of the ducklings laid by the wayward mallards on the prison grounds. But don't delay, for the ravenous rats ensure their lives are fleeting. I implore you, King Charles, to visit His Majesty's Prison Belmarsh. It is an honor befitting a king. As you embark upon your reign, may you always remember the words of King James Bible, Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. And mercy may be the guiding light of your kingdom, both within and without the walls of Belmarsh.

Signed, Julian Assange. Well, I think that was a fitting tribute for the king. Meanwhile, on the outside, you had people being arrested for engaging in other forms of speech that the government doesn't like, right? You know, they're trying to kill Julian Assange for his speech. And, of course, as they were celebrating the coronation of Charles and Camilla de Vil, you had other people out there with signs. They didn't like the monarchy.

They didn't like being charged $100 million for this ceremony. They had signs like, not my king, just as people here have done that for the coronation of our presidents. You know, those figureheads that we have. Not my king, police arrest notorious anti-monarchist activist ahead of the coronation of King Charles. So they had a group of anti-monarchy protesters wearing shirts, carrying placards inscribed to the message, Not My King. And of course, the response to speech that you don't like is to throw the people in jail. And so this one guy, Smith, Graham Smith, chief executive of a group called the Republic.

He's been given prominent coverage in the legacy media including from the bbc writes bright mark during the lead up to the coronation of the king he was said to have been unloading placards bearing the inscription not my king from van at the time of his arrest according to the republic activist that was there he says it's quite a worrying thing to happen we're pretty shocked actually and quite surprised like i said we've been quite open with the police about what we're trying to do. They said it's perfectly legal for us to bring placards, to bring flags down here, and to protest the coronation. But then they just, they changed their minds, and they arrested these people. It was peaceful, right?

Mostly peaceful anyway. In a democratic society, it's absolutely our right to do this and to be peaceful. Absolutely. And that's what we're here to do. We're not planning any disruption at all. Yeah, kind of like most of the people there, January 6th, I think. Republic, the leading anti-monarchist group in Britain, argues for the abolition of the monarchy and for the king to be replaced, listen to this, with an elected head of state, a position that would still largely be ceremonial, akin to the presidency in countries like Germany. And I would add the United States.

Jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. If you're going to hold big elections instead of just a hereditary kingship, oh, that party is going to really cost you now. We have a hereditary bureaucracy that rules us here in the United States. The intelligence community, the military industrial complex, the bankers, the corporatocracy that we have. That is what rules us here. These figureheads that we put in there with these presidential elections

really don't have much more to do with what's going on than Charles does with the rule of his country. And I think it's kind of interesting as we look at the intelligence community, the CIA, NSA, and all the rest of these people, and how they're linked. They're linked with what? The remnants of the British Empire. Five eyes, they call it. That's the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.

Except for the US, all of them are still technically under the British Empire. It is a continuation of that. It is a dark, secretive rule. And of course, they enforce it with a standing army of police. They had 11,500 police officers. There's one of the reasons why it costs so much money. Why is it that we see this kind of terrorism that is out there? Is it because the government has terrorized its own people?

You have the prosecutors who are arguing for a long jail sentence for Stuart Rhodes, saying they engaged in terrorism. Why? Stuart Rhodes wasn't even there. He didn't commit any violence against anybody. No, they said it was the fear and the coercion. Fear plus coercion, said federal prosecutors, equals terrorism. Oh, really? Well, then by that definition, you have terrorized us for three years now, and you haven't stopped with the fear, the lies, the coercion, the shame,

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That's a website. Well, we have a Bitcoin tax being proposed by the White House. On the basis of what? Well, on the basis of the damage that it's doing to the environment. And I told you that this was coming. I said, it's going to be the way that they are going to punish it, justification for shutting it down. And of course, if you want to destroy something, you tax it. The justification for shutting it down, the justification for banning it is going to be the environment. And they telegraphed that when in March of last year, Biden told all of the executive branch

bureaucracies to come up with a report in one of four areas. And they assigned these four areas to different bureaucracies. And so it was how we're going to completely redesign the financial system how are we going to enforce this against people so he gave that to homeland security fbi other people like that how are we going to enforce cbdc and then you know somebody's got to write the code so that was the third one but the fourth one was the environmental aspects of this. And of course they want to tell you that there are no environmental aspects, even though it would be a central bank, digital currency,

and it would have to have some computer resources to process. Those don't count. The only footprint that we're going to count in terms of calculation is going to be Bitcoin. We've got to be very, very worried about Bitcoin mining or any crypto mining. That's got to be stopped. It just uses too much power. But they will never talk about their surveillance state.

That is, in real time, it's maintaining an online database that can be queried in real time about everybody, in every aspect of everybody including your biometrics constant online surveillance and matching it up to their database we don't have to worry about the power requirements of that though do we they got multiple centers just with the nsa that are bigger than cities and using a lot of water resources not just electricity resources. We don't have to worry about that. What about artificial intelligence?

And the fact that they are training these AI programs, very, very computer intensive. You've got Elon Musk in just one recent order going out and getting 10,000 GPUs. And these are not just any GPUs. These are not like the ones that you use in the games that you play, I'm sure. Because each of these GPUs cost $10,000. They're super fast, which means that they use a super amount of energy as well.

So astronomical amounts of energy can be used for training artificial intelligence. Astronomical amounts of energy can be used for training artificial intelligence. Astronomical amounts of energy can be used for surveillance on you. As a matter of fact, they can embed their monitoring software on your phone, on your computer, on everything else, and constantly watch you. Well, that takes cycles as well. Yeah, this is a violation, in my opinion, of the Third Amendment. You're having to house and pay for your own surveillance and that was a big part of why they wanted to put troops into people's homes in colonial times to keep an eye on them of course and so we have that in a digital format now

then you have to pay for feeding that beast but when you look at the Bitcoin tax, this is yet another one of the things to shut down crypto, all crypto. It won't just be Bitcoin. And we've been seeing this as part of the, they've got to eliminate crypto. Because if they don't eliminate crypto as they push people to CBDC, we know what will happen because they've already-gamed it in Nigeria. As people see CBDC say, well, if we got to do this digitally, we'll just use Bitcoin instead. And that's what happened in Nigeria. Nobody wanted to use the government's digital currency. So they got to shut down crypto. And so we see them denying bank charters to organizations that wanted to be entry and exit ramps into the crypto world. We see them forcing Silvergate to close, even though it was still solvent.

They didn't have to use a penny from the FDIC. They've had three major bank failures, but Silvergate closed under regulatory pressure, primarily because they were crypto. We see Elizabeth Warren warring. Warren is warring against crypto in every way possible, with new rules and other things. Taxes are just the latest thing. And of course, I believe that this is really the purpose of the Restrict Act as well. The Restrict Act is going to be very broad, just like the Patri the patriot act it'll have a lot of different negative aspects to it it will impact free speech for sure

but it will also i think it is primarily focused and and initially focused against crypto that's why there are the gigantic penalties and prohibitions against dealing with people that they ban. All they have to do is point a finger at a company or an organization, say you will not have anything to do with that, you know, with Binance or whoever. And then if you try to escape that prohibition and try to escape that fine by using a VPN, a virtual private network, they'll escalate the fine, which is already really bad. I forget what the initial fine was. But if you use a VPN to go to a prohibited site, $1 million.

This is about the money aspect of it. This is about crypto, first and foremost. It'll have a lot of different uses. But of course, CBDC itself is also about limiting speech. And so first you have to enact CBDC, and then you can control everything that everybody does, especially what they say. The restrict act is going to be there to eliminate the competition to CBDC. And then of course, it will also be a tool to eliminate your free speech.

So let's take a look at what is happening in Texas. We have Michael Meharry, who I've interviewed many times in his capacity working with the Tenth Amendment Center, and he's talking about the Texas committee now having passed a bill and committee, gotten out of committee, to create a 100% reserve gold and silver backed transactional currencies on may the second last week, a Texas house committee passed a bill to create 100% reserve gold and silver backed transactional currencies. This is vital.

And I'm glad they understand that there. I'm glad that we've got some senators here like Frank nicely. Who understand that here. Catherine Austin Fitz puts it, you know, we have to preserve financial transactional privacy and freedom. And that's what this is about. It's preserving financial transactional freedom and privacy has to be a part of that. So in Texas, this would create an option for people to conduct business and sound money. It would set the stage to undermine the Federal Reserve's monopoly on money. That is essential. Because if we don't do something to create some alternative paths to the Federal Reserve,

they're going to be continually centralizing power. And CBDC is the end game. And it is a way to have a mark of the beast society, the fastest way to that. It's not the only path to that, but it is the fastest way. If we can stop CBDC, understand we're not out of the woods yet. There's so many different ways that they want to push a digital ID on us, a global digital ID as well. But that

is the most direct path. And we need to understand that with the mismanagement of the Federal Reserve, with the mismanagement of the fiat currency, we need to get back constitutional money. And we need to have something that is going to be an alternative to the Federal Reserve System, something that will break their monopoly on money, and to possibly create a viable alternative to a CBDC. So this was introduced in Texas on March the 10th. It has gotten a bipartisan coalition of 42 co-sponsors. So this may happen.

May happen. The legislation is still in the early stages, just getting out of committee. Uh, but again, it's got 42 co-sponsors bipartisan as well. The legislation would require the state comptroller to establish and provide for the issuance of gold and silver specie,

and also to establish digital currencies that are 100% backed by gold and silver specie, and also to establish digital currencies that are 100% backed by gold and silver and 100% redeemable in cash, gold or silver. Specie is defined in the bill as a precious metal stamped into coins of uniform shape, size, design, et cetera, and used as currency or medium exchange or as a medium for purchase sale storage transfer delivery of precious metals every year thousands of people go to their very first concert our boosted signal at large events means they can always call a taxi to get home. Mom? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was grand. Do you think you could pick me up? Every connection counts, which is why Ireland can count on our network. Vodafone. Together we can. Subject to coverage availability. Limitations

and terms apply. See vodafone.ie forward slash terms. And retail or wholesale transactions. So again, it focuses on the precious metal. It is redeemable in precious metals of gold and silver. The comptroller would be required to authorize the Texas bullion depository as the issuer and to ensure that the holder of the specie may use the specie as legal tender and payment of debt and readily transfer the specie to another person. The comptroller would also be required to create a mechanism in everyday transactions. And see, this is the key thing.

Now, that's one of the reasons why they're doing the digital currency thing, because they can fractionalize it and make this a way to get around having to print up a currency so it has some advantages with that perhaps you know the fact that it's always redeemable is there to try to keep it honest uh so you know there's always the concerns about the digital currency that are there but again this is where the real issue is. How do we practically use this for transactions? That means we've got to be able to fractionalize it, have some small amount of it, because not every transaction is going to be $2,000.

And so to use a digital currency is legal tender and a payment of debt. And number two, by electronic means, readily transfer or assign the digital currency to another person. Physical gold and silver backing the digital currency would be stored in a pooled account at the Texas Bullion Depository. And it's state owned. Individuals would be able to purchase transactional currency representing the smallest fractions of physical gold or silver. And, um, those individuals will be able to redeem their transaction, transactional currency for dollars for gold or silver on demand and an outpouring of strong support. This is a key thing in any state where we want to try to get this done.

Not just Texas, not just Tennessee, anywhere. If you can get somebody who is going to put the stuff out there, you've got to support them at the grassroots level. So in Texas, a 78-page document representing hundreds of messages of support for the bill was presented to the committee members during the hearing last month. Again, they weigh your response by the pounds, not by the argument. This is one of several bills introduced to the Texas legislature this year to promote

sound money, including legislation to establish state gold and silver reserves and a bill to make gold and silver legal tender in Texas. This would create currency competition with the Federal Reserve notes. It would undermine the Fed's monopoly on money. It would also provide a sound money-backed competitor if the Federal Reserve implements a central bank digital currency. Professor William Green, who is an expert on constitutional tender and wrote a paper for the Mises Institute, said that when people in multiple states actually start using gold instead of the Federal Reserve notes,

it would effectively nullify the Federal Reserve and end the federal government's monopoly on money. See, that's the key thing. It's going to be necessary to have multiple states doing this, not just Texas, not just Tennessee. And there are multiple states who are looking at this. So again, wherever you live, see if that is happening in your area. See if you can support the people who are doing it in whatever state you live in. He said, over time, as residents of the state use both Federal Reserve notes and silver and gold coins, the fact that the coins

hold their value more than Federal Reserve notes do will lead to a reverse Gresham's Law, where good money, that is gold and silver, will drive out bad money, the Federal Reserve notes. As this happens, a cascade of events can begin to occur, including the flow of real wealth toward the state's treasury, an influx of banking business from outside the state, as people in other states carry out their desire to bank with sound money, an eventual outcry against the use of the Federal Reserve notes for any transactions.

But it has another aspect here that Michael is not covering, and that is what I talked about in the interview that i had with a cast from katherine austin fits um about a week and a half ago i played it last monday it was on friday after the show ended because of her schedule had to do it um and then record it but um what she's pointing out is that not only do we need to have transactional freedom and privacy and Liberty and that type of thing, but you have to have a way to, uh, you know, the state government is a big enterprise that is involved in a lot of other

things. And the people of a state need to have some way to be able to make these exchanges. When we go back and we look at the great depression, local communities, and you can still find some of these in museums started creating local tokens that people could use as kind of you know a barter exchange at one point in time we had a business that we had involved in a a business barter exchange. And, um, you know, it's, it's something that is,

um, when, uh, people have excess capacity, uh, for something, it's the one way that you can, you have to be careful with it because you have to pay taxes on,

um, you know, with using federal reserve stuff, even though you get credits in the barter system, you were still on the hook to pay the taxes in cash. And so you didn't want to do too much of it, but it'd be a way if you did it right, it'd be a way that you could use up some of your excess capacity. You know, if you're a restaurant, do some things like that.

And then you could take your dollars and you could buy supplies or services from other people who are part of that barter exchange. And so you had communities that were setting up barter exchanges as well during the Great Depression. Again, minting wooden coins and other things like that. So there has to be a way for people, if you have a collapse of the system, and this is not a theory, it's already happened to us historically. We've just forgotten about that with the great depression. So if you have something like that happening again, um, it's going to have to be done at the community level or at the state level, something

like that outside of the federal reserve system, which by the way, folks, we know that the federal reserve is trying to collapse the system. They're trying to destroy the regional banks the small and medium-sized banks you know that's what this rapid increase in interest rates is about and as we've seen uh jerome powell chair of the federal reserve saying well you know i hope we don't have to destroy the you know create a recession or destroy these other people in order to preserve our currency, our fiat currency. That's their number one goal.

And it really doesn't matter to them about your life. Your business doesn't matter to them. Your job doesn't matter to them. All that matters is the power that they have with these fiat currencies. And they want to keep that game going. And they will do anything to us to keep that game going and they will do anything to us to keep that game going so we have to do something to protect ourselves and that means we do it at the state level and we have to have some parallel system here and so really the key is to make it easier

to use gold and everyday transactions and the question is will the te the Texas scheme of doing it digitally, will that do it? Well, you know, we don't have to be completely reliant, of course, on the state or the local people doing their thing. You know, gold and silver remain money recognized by the Constitution. They've always been reliable. And, of course, to to that degree you can always take action yourself you know that's why talk about gold and silver that's why you know tony arteman who set up david knight dot gold uh let you takes you to his wise wolf gold and lets him know that you came from me but you know you can still take action to protect yourself independent of whether these politicians are wise enough

or have enough of a backbone to stand up to the Federal Reserve. You can still do it yourself. At the root of the move towards CBDC, of course, is the war on cash. The elimination of cash creates the potential for the government to track and even control consumer spending. Imagine if there was no cash, this article from Zero Hedge says, it'd be impossible to hide even the smallest transaction from the government's eyes. As a matter of fact, that was when Mark Zuckerberg was making his push to become the world's banker.

He put together a white paper about this central bank digital currency. Well, it actually wasn't going to be central bank. It was going about this central bank digital currency well actually wasn't going to be central bank it was going to be a facebook digital currency i guess we could have called it fb dc instead of cbdc it would have been fbdc the facebook digital currency and he said in that paper he said look we can do this i've got the technical expertise to do this here at facebook all that remains to be seen but anyway he claimed that claimed that he did, but what he said, the key thing in that whole white paper was one sentence where he said, this coin, this digital coin Libra can be a default global ID.

Bingo. That's what it's all about. You know, government can turn off your ability to make purchases and, um, it will be the shortest path to a comprehensive surveillance state to a global mark of the beast. The U S constitution, however, says in article one, section 10, no state shall make anything but gold and silver coin tender and payment of debts. So the constitution is on our side. Every year, thousands of people

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Subject to coverage availability. Limitations and terms apply. See Vodafone.ie forward slash terms. Even if the money is on their side, and even if they will play all kinds of media games to make us look like paranoid conspiracy theorists, you better be paranoid about what they're planning to do. It's their conspiracy, and you better be paranoid about their conspiracy. So anyway, this bill will now move to the Calendars Committee. This committee will determine which bills move to the House floor for a vote. Supporters of the bill in Texas have created an online tool to register support for the bill, moving it to the House for debate and for a vote. And so in this article from Michael Meharry, and you can find it on Zero Hedge as well, as the 10th Amendment Center, he has links to where you can submit your comments and where you can ask them to move this forward. And again, this is something that needs to be done in every state. And in every state, if you speak up

and you tell the representatives about an issue, they do pay attention. I'll just remind you again of the example that I always talk about. In the late 80s, early 90s in North Carolina, they tried to kill homeschooling in the early stages. And a small, tireless minority kept writing letters and got a democratically controlled government to ignore the teachers union and allow homeschooling to continue. Because of enough of you, and again, it weighs so heavily when people write into them because people don't typically do that.

Let's take a look at Zimbabwe. They're trying to do the same thing as Texas in a sense. They want to have a central bank digital currency, but have it be backed by gold. I guess you could say that Zimbabwe has learned their hyperinflation lesson. They had, you know, 2,500% inflation and things like that. But then the question is, can you trust these people, right? I think Zimbabwe is still run by Marxist government. I could be wrong about that.

But Zimbabwe Central Bank has set a price for its gold-backed digital tokens. The country is planning to sell its gold-backed digital currency to investors beginning May 8th today. The tokens will be sold at a minimum price of $10 for individuals or $5,000 for corporations and other entities. The gold-backed digital currency tokens will be sold in U.S. dollars and in the local currency, which is fast fading away. Get a wheelbarrow to change it into a digital currency. However, the local currency price will have a 20% margin above the willing buyer, willing seller interbank mid rate. What is that? Well, that's kind of the, uh, the middle rate, uh, between the exchange rates that banks are willing to pay and what they're willing to sell currencies to each other.

So they look at the buy and the sell price and they pick the midpoint. And, uh, then they charge you a 20% surcharge over that. If you want to get into the Zimbabwe gold, a gold backed digital currency. Um, I don't think so. As a matter of fact, you know, when you look at, I've talked about this before as well, Jim Rogers, who actually got his start as somebody who actually made everything work for George Soros, helped George Soros to make his money. But he really is a free market guy.

I mean, he doesn't work for Soros anymore. He was doing it as the investment thing, I guess, before Soros amassed this incredible fortune and started using it for evil. Anyway, Jim Rogers, I remember the book that he wrote, read it back in the early 90s. It's called Investment Biker. He went around the world with his girlfriend on a motorcycle.

Now, of course, he had to take boats in some places, but he talked about it. It was kind of an interesting travelogue, but I thought the most interesting thing and the thing that really stuck with me over the years was he said he kind of came to the realization that you can actually have a metric for how corrupt a government was by looking at the difference between the black market exchange rate and the official government exchange rate. It was really spread apart when it was a very corrupt government. So I guess that's what we're going to be seeing in Zimbabwe as well. Zimbabwe has been battling

currency instability and high inflation rates for over 10 years. After a period of hyperinflation, and I mean it was hyper, the country adopted the U.S. dollar in 2009 in an attempt to revive the struggling economy. The Zimbabwean dollar was reintroduced in 2019. However, in just three years, they gave up. They went back to the U.S. dollar. So now they're coming up with a digital currency that will supposedly be backed by a dollar

do you trust them well i don't know i i would not advise anybody put their money again go david knight dot gold and take it to tony and get the real thing without some corrupt marxist politicians in the middle uh doug casey talking about the debt ceiling you know this is the current thing right now between the republicans and and the democrats and they're all virtue signaling to their base about it does it really matter he said the whole thing is a farce he said the u.s should just go ahead and declare bankruptcy and he makes a case for it he says says, um, he said, uh, the situation is completely irredeemably out of control. It's a farce quite laughable, except for the fact that it is so deadly serious. And so, um, so the situation is beyond redemption because most us government expenditures go to pay

entitlements, things like social security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, numerous other types of welfare. Those things he said will be very hard to cut at this point. Breaking the doggy dishes of millions of corrupted Americans would cause unrest. Plus he said the so-called defense budget, quote unquote, defense budget, which mostly supports the military-industrial complex while fomenting conflict, is actually much larger than is disclosed because it should include $50 billion worth of foreign aid.

It should include the cost of running outrageously large embassies over the world. It should include the cost of the CIA. It should include the black budgets of all types, but it doesn't. Meanwhile, all it doesn't. Meanwhile, all U.S. government agencies are bent on expanding themselves. The bureaucrats who run them realize that if they don't grow the budget every year, they reduce their chances of going from one GS level to the next. So naturally, they all grow like a cancer. As a result, the debt ceiling, quote unquote, is a fiction. It will stay out of control unless there is a total reorganization of the government, which itself would be risky. And it's not going to

happen until we have a financial catastrophe that leaves absolutely no alternative. Let me stop here and just reemphasize. This is why it is so imperative that we have things like publicly owned state banks. Not to compete with the small and medium-sized banks, but to support them. And to have precious metals depositories in your state. To have your state government owning precious metals. To set up some way that we can have a state currency for all these reasons. Because nothing is going to get better. It's going to continue.

There's no incentive for anybody to change the entire system. And it is so corrupt at this point. And it's going to have to implode. And it will, of its own. And then it's going to be a catastrophic financial situation and if we don't have something outside of their situation as individuals as well right that's why it's important for you to prepare as an individual but also to prepare your state as well you know you don't want to be the only person who is there with gold and silver and ammunition you know

trying to defend your pile that's not what we want you don't want to you know, trying to defend your pile. That's not what we want. You don't want to, you want to try to, yeah, freedom is the one thing you can't have unless you got it, you know, so other people have it as well. And so you have to build that consensus. You have to build that community. You have to do it at local level from the bottom up. And, um, because the top down is going to collapse. It is going to be a financial catastrophe. And, uh, then we will fix everything.

Hopefully we'll get it something better next time. Yeah. This is part of the fourth turning. It happens, you know, every 70, 80 years, people realize that these institutions have gone through their life cycle and they are hopelessly corrupt. You know, institutions have a life cycle just like the human body does. And, uh, you know, you just as, um, as you age, your DNA is not exactly replicating things the way that it should. And you get the accumulated problems and, you know, the accumulated corruption of all the

years and all that margin that you've had or whatever it it is that you're that you're imbibing and uh and that's it and that's where we are these human institutions the same way and so um he was asked uh doug casey in this interview was asked they said you've previously stated the u.s government should default on the national debt what are the reasons for that he says i know it sounds outrageous to propose that the government default on its national debt, but I'll give you at least five reasons. He said, let's conduct an outrageous but not unreasonable thought experiment. Number one, barring default, future generations of Americans will be turned into serfs in

order to pay off this debt. Number two, it would punish the enablers who lend the U.S. government money. People who lend the U.S. government money facilitate it by doing all the stupid and destructive things it does. They should not be rewarded. They should be punished, he said. Third, official default is better than the alternative. He says it's like a hundred- story building that's about to collapse. If that's the case, should you wait until it collapses randomly and unpredictably, or should you have a controlled demolition?

Oh, you mean like taking it down like building seven? Pull it? Yeah. As a matter of fact, I thought it was kind of interesting that Tucker, after taking the lead in terms of shaming and mocking for the longest time, people who did not believe the official story about 9-11. He said, what's the matter with you? That can't even come up with a good story. He said, they just asked me questions like, you know, what is the melting point of steel and all the rest of the stuff?

Or, you know, why would a building fall and free? He says, why are they asking me all these questions? And it was stupid what he had to say. Absolutely stupid. But it was controlled. Again, his father worked for Voice of America. His father has been a CIA propagandist his entire life. He himself wanted to work for the CIA. So now he's saying

this. If you go on TV tonight and say, I think the earth is flat, people will just laugh at you. They don't care if you think the earth is flat. It's not a threat to anyone. But if you say, what actually happened with Building 7? That is weird, right?

What is that? If you were to say something like that on television, they'd flip out. They would flip out. you'd like lose your job over that why why it's my country right this is an attack on my country can i ask you like i don't really understand do buildings actually collaborate no they maybe they do i don't know but like why can't i ask questions about that anything you're not allowed to ask questions about is something you should be asking more questions about as far as i'm concerned

yeah yeah maybe buildings just do collapse on their own right and uh maybe we don't have to worry about looking at the building codes or the fire codes or any of the rest of this stuff maybe that just happens right uh well whatever um anyway's, um, a controlled demolition preferable to it just randomly collapsing says Doug Casey in terms of talking about taking down our system, this current system. Uh, by the way, when he talks about the flat earth thing, it's one of the reasons why I don't bother with it. What difference does it make? Right. What difference does it make? It doesn't make it, but building seven does make a difference because if they pulled it, that means that they had to plan it.

That means that they had to pre-position explosives and other things in it. And, um, so that makes all the difference in the world. Just like it makes all the difference in the world. If you understand that the pandemic was planned, you know when i talked about this on friday um just a digress here moment the reason i talked about all that stuff

was not to say oh yeah i got it right from day one no i was trying to tell you how you know they're lying and try to tell you pay attention to the people the influencers and the people in media who lied to you at that time. They may be telling you the truth about a lot of things, and they may be very articulate about how they present the truth to you as well. And you can always use that, but never trust anyone, right? As Thomas Jefferson said, bind them down, the politicians, with the chains of the Constitution. Put no trust in man, anybody.

Don't trust me. Pay attention to what I have to say. Don't trust them. Pay attention to what they have to say. And if they've got, as communicators, a great way of phrasing something, use that. But don't put your trust in them. And so the reason I went through all that stuff,

and I said, look, you know, all these different aspects when I talk about the the pandemic that happened. It's like, how did we know that this was taking place? Well, it was a pattern of behavior. It simply knew that because I'd been watching them for so long. And and I warned you about the people who, like me, had been watching it for a long time, but then went along with a lie for their own personal gain or for whatever reason that they had. So, again, it's important because they're not done with this thing yet.

You know, it was before this happened, right? Dark Winter was a seminal germ game. It happened in 2001. They played their simulation two months before nine 11, the false flag one week after the anthrax attack. And then the model state health, uh, model state health, emergency powers act model legislation sent out on all the states so they could pass laws to allow them to do what they did to us starting in 2020.

And so that was Dark Winter. Now, I was told a couple of years before this whole thing happened about Dark Winter 2. And I was talking about that. And I think that's the right way to refer to this pandemic. It really was Dark Winter 2. It was taking the game up to another level and they had practiced this with the you know the johns hopkins people and the cia people and the nih people and all the rest of the intelligence community, they had planned these games and

they had practiced these games at least every year for 20 years. But then Dark Winter 2 took it to another level and there's going to be more. And so you better understand what the pattern is. You better understand who the players are, who lied to you so that you don't trust these people. Just don't trust anybody. Don't trust Tucker. Listen to him. If you find his information useful, but don't trust him.

Certainly don't trust Trump. Don't trust anybody. Understand that you've seen this pattern. Understand they're coming back. That was simply the next level of the germ game. But they're going to come back with something that is going to be more intense. Anyway, talking about declaring default. So, you know, bringing down this collapsing, this crumbling building

and a controlled demolition, he said, it would be better than just letting it collapse at random when you don't know when it's going to happen. Fourth, he said default would make further borrowing on the part of the U.S. government impossible, at least for a while. Yeah, that would really hurt their reputation. Kind of like the aftermath of the, you know, the war of independence. Nobody wanted any paper money, worthless continentals and things like that. Fifth, it's almost necessary that the debt go away to help definancialize the U.S. economy. This is an important part of this. When you stop and think about everything that we do, right,

not even as we have a military empire that is trying to exert worldwide control of everyone, everything, every other country. How do we do that? We rely even more so on financial instruments, on sanctions and stuff like that, than we actually do on weapons. Really, that is the case. And as Doug Casey is pointing out, everything has become so financialized that we are really seeing everything is being done with financial engineering and social engineering instead of real engineering.

We need to get America back to the situation where we're doing real engineering, where we're building real stuff, where we're producing real energy and real food and all the rest of this. Instead, we're being controlled increasingly by these banksters and their fiat fictional economy and the sanctions that are there. And that's why, overall, I think it's a good thing that Biden has overplayed this hand. Biden has, the Biden administration, let's just put it this way, because he's just a meandering idiot in front of these people who are really running the show and what they have done is they have overplayed their authoritarian tendencies to such a degree that just like trudeau in canada when he confiscated accounts you know he's done

this on an international level he overplayed his hand when it came to vaccine mandates and that's why i said even during the 2020 election everybody said well you better hope on an international level. He overplayed his hand when it came to vaccine mandates. And that's why I said, even during the 2020 election, everybody said, well, you better hope that Biden doesn't get in because he's going to mandate these horrible Trump shots. It's like, well, who gave us the horrible Trump shots? Trump. And how is he going to do it? He'll do it a lot more subtly. You know, he'll do things like we saw with the wine.

Oh, I'll give you you you could win a million dollars how about that you know one or two people will win a million dollars and who knows how many people are going to be injured for life how many people are going to be killed from this shot you feeling lucky punk go ahead you know how many shots have you had i know you're asking how many shots is it going to be is it going to be one shot it's going to be two shots i it going to be two shots? I mean, that was their dirty hairy version of it. And that's what the Republicans are going to give us. The Republicans are going to do it. They were going to apply their coercion strictly through the private sector. You know, Trump may not have issued a mandate for the military or he may have remember Millie was there with Trump.

Anyway. So he says the U S is tremendously over-financialized. It's all about buying, selling, creating, and packaging financial instruments and government debt. It's just one of those aspects. He said,

people would have to, if we, if, if this all went away and they defaulted on the debt, people would have to concentrate more on real wealth than on funny financial wealth on actual engineering, as opposed to financial and social engineering. He said, of course, an objection that reasonable people would make is, well, if you default on the debt, it's going to be catastrophic. He says, my answer is that just because all the paper debt and the U S government goes

away, doesn't mean that the real wealth in the world will disappear. The farms will still be there. The factories will still be there. The technologies will still be there. The skills of the workers will still exist. And that's true. That was the argument for not doing the big bailouts of the big banks in the 2008 time frame. You know, just those people who ran those things into the ground would lose their shirts,

but the stuff would still be there. Other people would pick it up at a discounted rate and continue on. And hopefully you would get people who could operate it in a better way. That's what's supposed to happen. The problem with what he just said there about the farms will still be there, the factories will still be there, the technology will still be there, that presumes that this happens in a short period of time. If this thing continues to run on, the banksters, the hucksters, the politicians, the global financiers who are running this great reset, who want to

be the only stakeholders, the only people who have any ownership in anything. If this continues to go this way, they will own everything. But even more so, they're shutting everything down. As part of this reset, it isn't just that they want to get title to the farms, which they would lose when they went bankrupt. They want the farms to go down. It isn't just that they would own all the power companies and they would own all the electric cars and you would have to rent them by the way. They want the grid to go down. And so we got to stop these banksters from implementing that plan. And that is the climate MacGuffin.

And that's why I say that is a Trojan horse. If we're going to support somebody who says all the right things about the vaccines and about CBDC and says the right things about free speech, but if he's going to support the idea of the green agenda saying, well, it's just not being done. Right. I can do it. Right. You know, it's just too much money is going to Bill Gates and the rest of the

people. If you follow that logic, I think RFK Jr. Is going to be a Trojan horse for the climate reset. If we don't stop this whole thing, it's based on a lie. You can't get good results. If you base it on a lie. You can't get good results. If you base it on a lie. Finally, uh, you have, uh, Doug Casey saying, furthermore, I'd point out the U S government. Isn't we, the people, the U S government has become a discrete entity with its own interest.

Oh yeah. We understand that. Don't we? It is like a giant corporation. And if the U.S. government, this giant corporation, declares bankruptcy, it is a problem for its employees and its clients, much more so than for you, the taxpayer. It'll still have implications for us, of course, because you see Lehman Brothers going bankrupt and what that do.

You know, it's a shock to the system, locked up things for everybody. But it is a good point that he's making. He says it's a rather academic thought experiment that I've just gone through these five points. The powers that be will prefer to build the current house of cards even higher, probably propping it up with foreign exchange controls, with CBDCs, with a social credit system, with higher taxes, more inflation, price controls, and who knows what else in the years to come. The default will happen, but it'll be more gradually. It'll be through the subtle fraud of inflation. And that's what it is. Inflation is like the decaying building where, you know,

all of these pieces are gradually rotting and falling off. And then at some point, it's going to go very suddenly, suddenly. The solution to this problem is to go back to commodity money. He said money should be once again, just a medium of exchange, a store of value, and it should no longer be used as a political football. And that was the realization of the founders of this country. That's why they, uh, with their paper money experiment, they defined, um, you know, money as gold and silver.

And so you can still do that individually if the governments won't do it collectively. Finally, they said, uh, it's hard to U.S. government was ever debt-free, but it did happen once, and that was in 1835, thanks to President Andrew Jackson, the first and only president to completely pay off the national debt. And a big part of that was he shut down the second bank of the United States, the precursor to the Federal Reserve. And they said in this interview, Doug Casey, it's unthinkable that a modern president would do such a thing.

Doug Casey said it was wonderful Andrew Jackson paid off the national debt, something Alexander Hamilton with his warped ideas of economics sold to the country. But it's now absolutely impossible to pay off $32 trillion worth of acknowledged debt. Not even possible. It's run up so big. Scores of trillions of contingent liabilities and scores of trillions more of unacknowledged debt. He said, I'd like to point out there actually have been previous defaults by the U.S. government.

For example, Abraham Lincoln defaulted during the war between the states, and that is a more appropriate term, than civil war. The South was not trying to gain control of the North. It was a war between the states as they were trying to get their independence. Anyway, Lincoln defaulted by printing up so-called green-backed currency. And, of course, on the other side, the Confederate government printed up money that was even more worthless. And we'd seen it during the previous fourth turning of the American Revolution, when they printed up worthless continental money.

Roosevelt defaulted on the debt by fraudulently devaluing the dollar. That was in the next fourth turning, right? The Depression, World War II. Notice I pattern here? Anybody see a pattern? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Is that? Devaluing the dollar from the price of gold from $20.50 to $35, but only after confiscating it from citizens. That was a default, he said. Then there was Nixon in 1971 defaulting on the promise to pay foreign governments at $35 per ounce of gold. Now gold is $2,000 per ounce. So, okay. So in 1971, gold was, or dollar was one 35th of an ounce.

Now it is one 2000th of an ounce. So in other words, if you want to look at it in terms of gold, it has retained its value in terms of a corresponding quantity of gold. It has now retained 1.75% of its value. One and three quarters percent. In other words, it's lost 98 and a quarter percent of its value since 1971, 52 years. It's lost over 98% of its value. Doug Casey, the real question is how to profit from the collapse of an overextended and

corrupt empire. Is there any way to profit from the collapse of Western civilization? That's so serious. It's almost like asking whether it's possible to profit from an asteroid hitting the earth. The best you can hope for is to insulate yourself as much as possible. At this point, the best way to be hurt the least or possibly even

profit within a bad scenario is to own gold, silver, and other commodities and to improve your skills as a speculator. And I would say just not as a speculator. Again, he starts to fall back into this trap. You know, he's coming at it from a financial standpoint. Improve your skills, right? Even if you don't have the ability to acquire gold and silver, you do have the ability to acquire skills. Think about marketable skills. Think about building real stuff, growing food and all the rest of the stuff. If you can, if you have those types of skills,

you got something to barter with. You say, remember, most of the real wealth in the world is still going to exist. It's going to change ownership is all. And you're going to have to have the ability to earn money. We'll be right back. © BF-WATCH TV 2021 ¶¶ Analyzing the globalist's next move. And now, The David Knight Show. All right, non-rock fan Igor Prohorov. Thank you for the tip, Igor. He says, please invite Neil Howe on your show to discuss his new book that is a sequel to The Fourth Turning.

I would love to have him come on. We'll reach out to him. Hopefully, he will agree to come on. If he's got a book to sell, maybe he will. Strauss is the co-author of the previous ones. And again, we talk about the terms millennial, it's because of these guys. You know, millennial, Generation X, Y, Z, and all these different terms. Their first book in the very early 90s was called Generations.

And then they followed it up with The Fourth Turning, where they showed this cycle of 80 years, uh, you know, and how within 80 years you have, uh, this repeating cycle of four generations, you know, influenced by where they're born in this cycle. So somebody who is born, uh, in the midst of, or right after one of these big things, like the baby boomers, they will have corresponding people previous 80 years and, uh, you know, how, how things happen to the generations born after the generation that fights the wars and so forth that typically happen on these fourth turnings. And so they trace that back for 500 years.

So all these terms that we use, and that's why I say these, it's not an accident that they came up with this 2030, uh, all these people who use the term millennials and generation X, Y, Z, and so forth. Uh, they're very familiar with Strauss and Howe's work. Uh, and they, and those terms have been ubiquitous and yet they don't like to talk about the fourth turning. Why? Because they don't want you to see what they know in terms of the cycle. And again, that's one of the reasons why you know if you've got this. That's one of the things that you need to understand so that you can see what they're doing, why they're doing it now. But as I was talking about the CBDC

and how they're trying to roll this out as a term of control, take a look at this. Florida is poised to mandate the use of E-Verify for private employers. Now, long before any of this stuff happened with the pandemic, I was raging about E-Verify. I said, this is not the solution for illegal immigration. This is not the solution. And people get so upset with me, conservatives. Oh, yes, it is. We need to have E-Verify. I said, why would you ever want the federal government to tell you whether or not you can have a job? And didn't we go through that during the pandemic? Nope, got to have the jab or you can't have a job. Well, the principle

remains the same conservatives. They've got a different set of criteria, but it's still, if you set the precedent that the federal government can tell you whether or not you can have a job, do you realize what a Pandora's box that is? How this for a mark of the beast, for IDs, for all the rest of this stuff. This is the conservatives want to have this because you know, it'll be for their cause. Well, guess what? You set up this every time they come at these things from different angles, you know, just having a driver's license, having a social security number,

all these different things. Every time they add something else, but this adds another aspect to these IDs. And that is, this will be used to let you know whether or not you can have a job. So now a job is not a right. You know, Republicans will go to the limit, you know, fighting the unions for the right to work. And yet, what they would do with this legislation is to say that having a job is a privilege

for everybody granted by the federal government. This is the wrong way to go. It's gone through the Florida legislature, the Republican legislature. They believe that DeSantis is going to sign it. This is why I say DeSantis, like RFK Jr. The contradictions between these two guys are maddening. They can be so good on one issue and so horrible on another. So you look at DeSantis. You look at his hate crimes stuff. You look at his ID law now

with this. How is that any different with the jab job mandate? It's not, it's not. The government should never be able to tell you whether or not you can work. The government should never be able to tell you what you can say or not. You see, there's some glaring problems with the Santas and Republican party when they say otherwise. And this is how we always get this stuff. How do we get these schools now that are sexualizing our children? Well, we decided as conservatives a long time ago, uh, we'll be good to have schools because we can train kids on the pledge of allegiance and on the 10 commandments and we can make them, uh, we can give them the tools that they need,

the educational tools, so they'll fit like cogs into the industrial society and work for the corporations and all the rest of this stuff. And guess what? You had a different group of people now come in and take over the levers of that machine that you created for your purposes, and they're using it against us, and they're using it against the family and our kids. Same thing will happen with this. You set up a machine to tell people whether or not they can have jobs. This is not the problem with the immigration stuff. The problem with immigration is not work. Work is not nearly the magnet that welfare is.

People look at this and say, well, people come in and they'll work cheaper. Well, guess what? That's going to happen anyway. People can telecommute now. So E-Verify isn't going to help you with that. If you think that you're going to go into this digital ID slavery

because you want to protect your job, they can do it with telecommuting, right? That's happening already. It's not a theory. And it'll happen even more extensively. We saw during pandemic that you had people remotely operating robots that could stock the shelves, right? And so that means that you could have somebody, if they didn't have their

robots working exactly right in the Amazon warehouses, you could still have somebody working for pennies on the dollar in India, stocking the shelves or pulling the shelves, operating the equipment and making the decisions so they didn't have to use some intelligent robots or artificial intelligence or whatever. They could use cheap labor to control things, seeing it and controlling it. It'd be a much cheaper way to do it. It's not going to protect you from people who want to work at a lower rate. The real problem with immigration is not the work aspect.

The real problem is welfare. That is the magnet. When people come into this country because they want to work and make more money than they can make in their country, many of them will go back to their country. That's where their loyalties lie. People who are coming in because they want the free stuff, they're going to stay. They like that free lunch. And guess what? They're going to vote to get an even bigger lunch. That's very different from the people who come because they want to work. Workers typically will go back home.

The welfare dependents will stay. They'll vote for more welfare. But you want government to be able to tell you if you can work? Do you really, conservatives? The libs and the progs have got a whole lot of reasons to tell you that you can't work. They, you may not be the right kind of, you know, gender confused, right? Because of your sexual preference.

No, we're not going to grant you a job. We're not going to do it because we don't like your politics or we don't like your religion or whatever. They've got a long list of things. Maybe they don't like what you put on social media, what you believe about politics. You want to give them that weapon to use against us? That's one of the most insane things I've ever seen. Again, opposing E-Verify is like opposing Trump or opposing RFK Jr.

You want somebody to get angry at you, you oppose E-Verify. But it's wrong. It's a trap. It's a trap. It's a trap. I should have had the General Akbar clip here. Taking a look at what we want to, whether or not we will be left alone in our local communities, I think it's instructive to look at what is happening to the Amish now. But a totalitarian government is not going to tolerate the Amish either,

just like it doesn't, you know, it's going to be a clash one way or the other. And so you now have the federal government coming after the Amish with lawsuits and other things, claiming that they've run afoul of the FDA or this regulation or that regulation. They won't leave people alone. A peaceful community that doesn't bother anybody. No, they're not going to leave them alone. The Amish of Lancaster County, humble private people. Uh, they don't like to have their photograph taken, their names publicized.

They shun pride, shun vanity. They experience a particular joy and satisfaction and living close to the earth, free of the stress and the pressure of outside worldly entanglements. The peaceful simplicity of Amish life has its allure, but it also has its everyday challenges and economic realities interacting with a larger society around them, and even more so with the government. Some multi-generational farm owners, like Jesse Lapp,

try to adapt to these influences through agritourism and diversification into the trades, while still passing their wisdom, their traditional farming methods, down from generation to generation. Lapp, who is 44 years old, said, If you don't pass on the techniques from one generation to the next, it gets lost. As those of us on the outside now realize. We're trying to, how do you grow a tomato? Farming is not a textbook, he said.

He said he learned it from his father who learned it from his father and those before him. He said you learn things from your parents, from experiences, from what your parents struggled with. You learn from that. That's very biblical, by the way. It's one of the reasons why homeschooling is so important. It falls in line with Deuteronomy 6. When you're in the way with your children, you talk to them. You talk to them about the world, about politics, about this.

You pass on skills and understanding to them. You pass on your values, about this. You pass on skills and understanding to them. You pass on your values, your morality. However, strictly organic farmers in Lancaster County, like Amos Miller, are being confronted with government regulations they see are hostile to their Christian values and their personal choices in producing food. Miller, 45 years old, is at the center of a U.S. Department of Agriculture lawsuit accusing him of violating federal food safety laws. He has an organic farm. It would be perfectly fine if he was doing some high-tech industrial processing

with all kinds of foamers and fillers and lubricants and all the rest of the stuff in his food. But no, we don't want to have an organic farm, right? That's competition for the big guys who give us money. There have been financial penalties, threats of jail time over selling non-federally inspected milk and meat at his organic farm, Bird in Hand, Pennsylvania, is the town where he lives in. There are many farmers that would like to continue to be farmers. He said, it's in our culture. We love farming, but the food system is so monopolized and regulated that we can't be

true farmers. You can't make a living on the farm and so uh one person who studies the amish says they don't consider technology to be evil in and of itself they just believe that technology if left untamed will undermine worthy traditions and will accelerate the assimilation into the surrounding society. I've always thought that the Amish were an interesting case. What is our response to the wicked and evil society that we live in? Do we withdraw from it completely, live kind of an isolated, monastic life? At what level do we cut it off?

Because we don't want to embrace it wholeheartedly and fully. So at what level do we cut it off? Because we don't want to embrace it wholeheartedly and fully. So at what level do we cut it off? Well, this person said mass media technology in particular, they fear, would introduce foreign values into their culture. By bringing greater mobility, cars would pull the community apart, eroding local ties. Horse and buggy transportation keeps the community anchored in its local geographical base.

Well, those are all good things, and of course, they have been able to pull the community and keep the community together. Largely, what they're discounting here is the religious aspect of this as a cohesive force. But I think you really do have to fight to keep your culture. You have to fight to keep your family. Is that not apparent at this point in time? As we're on the cusp of losing it? And just as we have lost the tools of farming,

we have lost, in many cases, the tools of learning, but it is not too late to get them. And, uh, if you try, you can at least pull in the tools of learning very quickly farming. That may be another issue. Uh,

but you know, um, it may be helpful to do external things like that. And you do need to do some external things like that, but ultimately it has to proceed from things like that. And you do need to do some external things like that. But ultimately, it has to proceed from inside of you, out of the heart the mouth speaks. And the changes come from within in your society. And the only thing that's going to be real

is what is flowing out of you. And so we have to understand that we don't fight against flesh and blood. We don't fight against technology either. And this is where the religious aspect of it comes in, the understanding, spiritual aspect of it. There are rulers and there are powers. There's an unseen realm that we are fighting against, and what are their tools?

And it is primarily through media and mass technology and entertainment and news and government and that type of thing. It is a war against our mind. And they have talked about this for the longest time. You go back and you look at Michael Aquino and he was talking about mind wars. And he was doing that back in the 1980s, the psychological operations,

the gaslighting, the lying, the stuff that they're doing, that's why it is so absolutely essential to keep these people away from young, developing minds. They are the ones who are the most vulnerable to this type of thing. And when you look at what happened in 2020,

I'm still astounded that they were able to have their way so easily with so many adults. I'll never get over that, watching that happen. And if they can do that to adults, what can they do to children? Well, they can mutilate them. They can sterilize them. They can do anything they want to the kids. And in many cases, they get access to the kids by doing that to the parents.

With any kind of institution, we're talking about the fourth turning. With any kind of institution, whenever it is centralized, it's very easy to use it as a destructive force. And that is true of the big centralized religions. You get somebody up at the top and you turn them, then everything gets... So I think it's one of the reasons why God sets up in this spiritual war that we fight.

He sets up decentralized things. Decentralized independent churches. That's what works in China, isn't it? You know, the ones that sold out to the government and said, all right, we're going to appease them. We can give up on this and on that, and then they'll let us have our traditional Western-style church building and all the rest of this stuff.

They're being swept away. What is there to remain? The home churches. The underground home churches. If you send your child to be raised by the state in the government schools, they will be swept away. If you raise them in the institution that God created, the family, that is decentralized,

and they can corrupt one family, but that doesn't mean that the other family will necessarily be corrupted. You put everybody into this hierarchical dumpster bin, and you watch somebody set that dumpster on fire. That is really what we're looking at here. So, you know, when we look at this, it is a mental war. It is a mental war. It is a spiritual war.

And again, you know, Amish have prevailed because they have that kind of foundation and they understand it is the spiritual aspect of it that is going to give them the backbone to fight the federal government, the FDA and the USDA and all the rest of these parasites that are going to be coming after them because they're looking at something that is, their hope is in something else that is even beyond this life. And they have a confident expectation in that.

And so it'll be interesting to see how this develops. Again, when you look at the Amish, they're the fastest growing population in the United States. There's still only 300,000 people, but it's because of their birth rates. They're growing faster than anybody. Why are their birth rates so high? Is it simply cultural? That is absolutely a part of it, but I think it is also the fact that they are eating healthy food. You know, the U.S. Department of Agriculture that wants to shut down this Amish organic farmer

has absolutely no problem with fruit juice and artificial soda having high levels of toxic metals. And this is a study that just came out of Tulane University in Louisiana. They found commonly consumed beverages such as fruit juice and artificial soda contained levels of toxic metals, including arsenic, cadmium, lead. And, uh,

again, it wasn't found by the U S department of agriculture. It wasn't found by the FDA. It was found by an independent study. They went out and they pull some of these things off and tested them. No, the FDA and the USDA, they're out there trying to shut down competitors

to Big Agra. They're not trying to police Big Agra's products. And the other part of this is, you know, we look at these drinks that we get, carbonated, many of them, and they put them in plastic containers. They put them in aluminum containers. What does carbonation do? Highly acidic stuff. Is it going to leach that aluminum and plastic in addition to the rest of these things? They're talking about arsenic in most of these things and the different levels of things that they put in there. We look at what is happening in the food products and the drinks that they're selling and how the government just takes a pass on it, exactly as they did with all the medical products as well. Same organization, the FDA, doing that.

You look at another article came out talking about all of the, in the wastewater of America and many of these countries, how many pharmaceuticals are found in them, and legal and illegal pharmaceuticals. And yet our government will dump fluoride into the water, claiming that it's for our own good. Since when do you medicate people by putting the medicine in the water? Since when is any kind of medication either going to be safe or effective if you don't control the dose? All of it is an absolute lie.

And yet the government busies itself with shutting down organic Amish farmers. It says everything doesn't. Well, we're going to take a break. And then we're going to have Eric Peters of EP Autos join us. There is a lot of car news out there. Much of it reported on his site, epautos.com. We'll be right back. Decoding the mainstream propaganda.'s the david knight show all right welcome back folks and joining us now on the line is eric peters ep autos.com it's always great to have eric on he's got a lot of really good articles and insights and there's

been a lot of uh news that has happened in the last couple weeks eric i want to get your take on it as well but uh welcome to the show thanks for coming on always great to have you bet thanks for having me on by the way i enjoyed the listening to the part the last segment before you uh put me on about these corporations who have given us the best government they can buy yeah that's right that's right. That's right. Absolutely true. But probably the worst food that we could buy is the worst food, the worst drugs, the worst health care, and all the rest of the stuff. And they're coming after our transportation. And we're seeing a lot of that stuff rolling out. Talk about, you've got an article, the juice for all that. Talk about that.

There's an interesting exchange with Boudigay, as I call him, and Thomas Massey. Talk a little bit about that. Yeah, yeah. Massey cornered him and got him to admit how much it's going to cost to charge. And got into some of the actual numbers and the nitty-gritty and pointed out the cost to power to recharge an EV at home is about as much power as a 5 to 50 times as much power as a running radiator does. Hang on a second, Eric. We're getting the end of your words are cutting off.

Is that on our end, Travis, I think, or maybe it's on his? It might be a trigger thing. We're not sure. Is there anything that's different about your audio? Because it's clipping off. No, it's the same. Okay. Now? I don't know.

Yeah, it does it right as you. It's okay. And then at the very end of the sentence, we'll go through it. I think we can still figure out what's happening. I'm sorry. Okay. Go ahead. Continue with what you were saying.

Essentially, Massey pointed out, we're not going to be saving any money buying an electric vehicle, leaving aside how much it's going to cost them to buy the vehicle itself. These are high-draw appliances, and it's exactly the right word. And you make a comparison between buying an electric vehicle and running a high-draw appliance like a refrigerator. And it consumes about 25 to 50 times as much electricity to run or to charge an EV as it does to run a major appliance. And what the effect that is going to have on the typical person's utility is absolutely astounding. And it's not just the financial aspect of it, it's the capacity aspect of it, because

the grid isn't an efficient capacity to deal with this massive increase in draw that's going to happen if we ever get to the point where uh ours let alone two-thirds or all of them are uh battery powered devices yeah um you know let's try because still really cutting off and i think it's at the very end of your sentence and so as long as you've got a sustained thing there it's okay but then it's cutting off okay let's try to uh re-establish contact maybe it was something with this particular thing it might be something with um uh cutoff level or something like that's happening but it's happening at the end so let's try to re-establish contact eric and um and i'll just continue on with this i'll give people kind of a preview of some of

the things that we're going to talk about so uh travis is going to call him right back uh one of the things we're going to talk about that uh has, has been something that, uh, Eric and I have a couple of things we've been talking about are still now coming back, coming back in fruition. Uh, the fact that, uh, now new cars, once part of the American dream are now out of the reach for many, but also, um, airbags and the danger of airbags, a lethal airbags are back. We're getting a do not drive warning from the national highway traffic safety administration. They recalled 90,000 BMWs.

Uh, Eric, are you back now? Does it sound okay now? Uh, I don't know. We'll try it. Uh,

we'll try it a little bit, but, uh, go ahead. Okay. Yeah. Let's talk a little bit more about, let's jump back to,

uh, this, uh, booty gay thing. And, uh, let's talk a little bit more about, let's jump back to this Boudigay thing. And what you and I have said all along, we know that there isn't any plan to really have private electric vehicles because they're not building the infrastructure. But even worse than that, they're actually taking, there's not enough capacity on the grid, and they're strangling that at the same time. And Boudigay doesn't seem to know or care about that interestingly enough well if that was one of the most striking things about the exchange to me is that massey uh who has a background as an electrical engineer i believe

yeah it was point things just elementary things about overall capacity and so that you would think the secretary of transportation would know something about you know even if he doesn't have the technical background and and training that he might have looked into a little bit before, you know, appearing in Congress to discuss the matter publicly, but the smirking arrogance of these people who know nothing and yet are going to dictate everything to all of us. Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. They don't care.

You know, just like he doesn't care about what happened with the shutdown of the aviation system, right, when it was hacked in. They don't want to talk about the NOTAM system and the vulnerabilities to our infrastructure. They just kind of merrily go along. But it's even worse than that when you look at what Boudiguet is doing. It's clearly not incompetence. It is designed to take that down why is he wasting money destroying roads for example calling them racist and tearing them down

yet they know this uh they've certainly looked into it he himself may not have but the apparat chicks underneath them certainly have got to be aware of the fact that plugging in a hydra device something with a 400 volt battery pack that draws a substantial amount of electricity, is going to cost people. You know, people were sold, or some of them were sold on this. Well, you know, you buy an EV, and you'll save a lot of money because you'll never have to buy gasoline again, which is absolutely true. You'll just be paying for power in the form of electricity,

and probably more for it than you would have paid for gas oh yeah absolutely and we're starting to see that now um one of one of the the things that just came out hidden cost of evs an ohio man gets a 42 000 repair bill after a fender bender an electric truck you know and this is not even uh you're replacing the batteries but you know this is the kind of um the kind of thing that that we're starting to see with these cars it's not just a planned obsolescence it's a plan to make sure that you don't own anything that's really what it is well and the worst part about that what you just mentioned uh the cost of the insurance for these electric cars is that it is going to be imposed on all of us, including those of us who do not buy an electric car.

I just wrote an article this morning and published it a couple of hours ago about this and how the cost of the typical policy is expected to go up anywhere from 10% to 14% this year. And a great deal of the driving force behind that is the cost to replace as well as repair these EVs. You know, they get into an accident and there's any prospect at all of the battery pack having been structurally damaged in some way. Nobody wants to take the fire risk of that.

So they throw the vehicle away or you have to replace the battery, which is, you know, stupefyingly expensive. Who's going to pay for that? Ultimately, we all do because it's sort of like, you know, pre-existing conditions with Obamacare. You put a bunch of people or, you know, afflicted with various chronic expensive conditions, and, you know, they can't pay for it, so the rest of us get to pay for it. Yeah, that's right.

In this particular case, this guy with an EV, the key thing about it was a very small accident. It got hit from behind. It deployed the airbag, and it was the airbag that caused the $42,000 repair. The insurance company thought it would be about $1,600, but it actually cost $40,000 because the way that they'd integrated this thing into the, um, uh, that required a complete disassembly of the vehicle in order to get at it. And so because of that design, uh, that mal design, well, right. Uh, is going to cost him $42,000 to replace the $1,600 airbag.

None of it was essential, as you and I have talked about many times. The airbags are really kind of a waste. You know, the seatbelts can help. They've had studies to show that. But the airbag becomes a negative efficacy if you're not wearing your seatbelt. And it doesn't really make any difference if you are wearing your seatbelt, but it does destroy your car. It's also a subjective.

You know, you can say an airbag might decrease the chance of a severe injury. It might save your life. You can say the same about a seatbelt, but ultimately it's a value judgment. Yes. And, you know, it's, I believe, to be free to weigh the pros and cons of ourselves, make their own decisions. Instead, you know, we're in this pyramidal system where the people at the very apex, the governing class, the apparatchik regulatory class,

decree we should pay for it. This is what we're going to pay for it. That's right. Yeah, and if you go back and you look at what we just went through these last three years, you know, the fact that you had these idiots out there telling you that, well, we can tell you that you've got to have a seatbelt and you've got to have an airbag, so we can tell you that you've got to have a mask. And it's like, well, okay, except that you don't care about the economic damage that your lockdowns and your masks do. You don't care about the economic damage that your mandates do to the cars.

And you don't care about the fact when they actually become a negative effect on our health. And this BMW recall, they've got 90,000 BMWs who have now killer airbags yet again. This is something you and I have talked about for a long time. I don't know if these are the Takata airbags. I would imagine this is a different manufacturer because I think they shut them down. Yeah, they did. There are still hundreds, potentially millions of airbags in circulation worldwide. I'm not sure offhand what the number is, but it's a lot. And another thing that people ought to be aware of, too,

it's analogous to the inherent fire problem with EV batteries. There's an inherent problem with airbags in that over time, when it's in system, it will wear and wear out and snafu, because that's what happens with anything that's mechanical electrical event stops working yeah so you know potentially you have an older vehicle 12 15 years old uh the the heck it could be non-functional or it might it might deploy randomly it might not be defective it's just old and i found out about this actually when i was reading the owner's manuals of the new cars that i test drive and a number of them will say

right there in black and white that, you know, if your vehicle is over a certain age, you should go to your dealer to have your airbags fixed. And of course, who cares that it costs $42,000 to fix it? Yeah, and even if it only, put that in air fingers quotes, only let's say $4,000, who's going to spend $4,000 to, you know, on a car that by that time is maybe $7,000 or $8,000? That's right. Yeah, it turns out, I'm looking at this, and it is the Takata airbags that this happened to. And these are cars that are 17 to 22 years old.

And so it is exactly as you described. Who's going to take a, you know, okay, so let's split the difference here. Let's take a car that's going to be 19, 20 years old. You got a 19, 20 year old car and you're going to replace all the airbags. You can't afford it. That's more than the cost of the vehicle. These are 2000 to 2006 BMW three series. You got 2000 to 2004 X fives, all these with the Takata airbag.

And as we've seen in the past with other manufacturers, what happens, as you pointed out, is as they get old, especially in humid climates, you start to have a deterioration of the electronics in it, and it can go off. And when it goes off, it's like being shot in the chest with a shotgun because it's not just the impact of the airbags going out, but it shoots metal fragments into your chest and face is what it does. It's insane.

You know, a really spectacular aspect of this. If you think of the vehicles in that category, 17, 20 ish year old, who typically is going to drive. Yeah. Yeah. Young kids. Yeah, that's right. You know, it's going to be a teenager's first car.

So, you know, the same government constantly ululating how concerned it is for our safety and how if it's in one life, one life is utterly indifferent when it comes to a policy that is very likely to cost lives. That's right. And we've seen that. You know, again, you and I have watched this happening in cars. And once they set that precedent, it's like earlier in the program, Eric, I was talking about E-Verify. And I said, you know, if you're going to allow the government to tell you when

and where you can work and set an ID for it, and you're going to have a privilege and all the rest of this stuff, guess what? Uh, you're going to get some people in charge of that system and they're going to come up with all kinds of reasons for you not to be able to have a job. They don't like your politics. They don't like your politics. They don't like your religion. They don't like your skin color, your sexual orientation, whatever, right? They're going to be able to shut that thing down. But we blindly go into these things, and that's what you and I have been talking about for the longest time in automobiles, the fact that they take liberty away and they replace

it with government-granted privileges, with bureaucratic mandates outside and above the law. You know, our Congress people don't even get involved in it except to have some hearings where they complain to somebody who's in charge of one of these bureaucracies. Yeah, I think it's worked so well because superficially, initially, it seems benign, doesn't it? You know, if you go back to the 60s when the first to create cars must have seatbelts, well, a non-psychopathic person would say, yeah, you know, I can see that. They don't have a seatbelt in the car. They do not see, however, that it's been established, and that's why people, once in a time, piece by piece, they keep pushing and pushing. That's why it's so important to call a halt to it before it begins.

And even when something seems like a reasonable thing, like they'll say, no, wait a minute. Something that's up to the individual, between them and the manufacturer of the car, that's not something that the government of an essentially free society has anything to do with at all. That's right. Yeah, I remember when they did that. And I went for a couple of years without wearing a seatbelt, even though I'd been wearing it before. It's like, oh, you're going to mandate it? Okay, let me take mine off. I even had at one point I had a Volkswagen rabbit, which had their so-called passive

restraint system in it. Never had a chance to test it out, but the seatbelt plugged into the, uh, the door. Yeah. And then they had, instead of a lap belt coming across that you had to attach, uh, they had a knee bar there. Well, I disconnected that thing on my car i disconnected the passive restraint system for a while just because it bothered me so much i was ready for somebody to give me a ticket so i could take them to court but you know

it's uh i eventually started wearing them again but you know it just if you allow these principles to get established then there is no end to it. It truly is. I think a good way to understand it is to think about taxation. And if you accept the idea that the government has the moral right to take a penny of your money, then you've already seeded the argument. And it's just a question of haggling over how much more the government's going to take. That's right. And we see that happening with Bernie Sanders. He's the ultimate haggler. He's out there saying, you know, we shouldn't have any billionaires, right? If you've got a billion dollars, that's too much and the government needs to take it away.

He's got $3 million net worth, right? Sure. He used to be after the millionaire. He's never worked a day in his life in the free market either. That's right. Yeah. So anyway, we've talked many times about the self-driving Teslas. Steve Wozniak has said in the past, he said, I love my Tesla, but don't put that thing in autopilot mode because it's trying to kill you.

He's at it again now. He says, if you want to learn about AI killing people, then get a Tesla. In a way, it's kind of a story to me, though. It reveals that AI perhaps is not as infallible and omniscient as it's often presented. It could just be that it's an extraordinarily complex program,

and it does not have only the same analytical I have as human beings. We deal with unexpected facts that happen to come up. Whereas anything that's, it faces something outside of its programming. It doesn't do anymore. I agree. And I think that is my big hope.

I'm hoping that all this AI stuff is a hype and fear. You know, they want you to fear the AI. They want you to trust the AI. You know, we've lost all of our trust in the last couple of years and authority figures. Hopefully a lot of people have, if they had misplaced trust and authority figures, Fauci should have dis, uh, disowned them of that. Uh, but if, you know, there's still people who are going to, uh, believe that. But, um, for those of us who have moved on beyond that, I think they're hoping that they can establish artificial intelligence as the new experts.

Because that's the way they've sold the climate MacGuffin. That's the way they sold the pandemic MacGuffin. They've got to have an independent scientific expert. Well, what better than a computer telling you that this is going to happen? So I think there's a big con with all of that. And as you pointed out, the thing that gives me hope is this whole driverless car thing and how all these different companies are folding up those efforts because they're not working.

And I'm hoping the same thing is going to happen with AI. I hope so too. This is kind of a one-size-fits-all business model. And a way to understand it that might be helpful is to think about what happens

when you call the customer line. You get the phone prompt, you get the machines, you don't get a human being, you deal with the... And it's exasperating because it's inefficient and it's... You have no appeal. ...conversation with anybody.

And I think that's what they want. They want to bureaucratize everything according to this one-size-fits-all model that they're going to try to pigeonhole into. I agree. And, you know, they want to... Again, they want to get everybody um uh you know afraid of artificial intelligence you know the articles we saw last week about this guy 75 years old he's retiring from google and uh and he's saying oh this thing is scary it's out of control

you've got sundar peach i saying hey there's a lot of this stuff i don't understand about i imagine sundar peach i doesn't know anything about the internal workings of Google's search engine at all. I mean, he's a bean counter who's been brought in. He wasn't even there with the founding of the company. And even the guys who founded the company, they've had people working on this thing for a long time. They probably wouldn't recognize the code or know what was going on with it either.

So that's all kind of water under the bridge. But then you see the same lies being put out with this that we saw about self-driving cars. All these copies can learn separately, but they share their knowledge instantly. So it's like you had 10,000 people, wherever one person learned something, all of them learned it. That was what they were telling us about the AI, remember? All of these experiences, and they would extrapolate this and say, well, we've had this many cars driving this many miles, and so they'd multiply them together.

And so it's like, we've had like 20 million miles worth of experience, and yet they all go to the same intersection and stop. Yeah. And you know, for what it's worth, even if it were perfect and there were no glitches and it didn't drive you, I have great difficulty understanding the importance of that, why you would want to surrender control of your vehicle to make sure it's going to tell you just how fast you can go, how you can go, and it's just like us, except I guess you don't have anybody that you don't know inside the car.

Yeah, I agree. I agree. Yeah, there was. I agree. Yeah, there was an interesting article I saw on healthimpact.com. Is Congress really more concerned about AI launching a nuclear attack than an 80-year-old demented President Biden? Right. Right. Better with AI running the country. Yeah. Did you notice that he put Kamalaris in charge of the project that's

going to monitor this stuff you know how about that you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna fight back against artificial intelligence with artificial stupidity how about that yeah well and i heard things well one of the latest apparently uh be that military do convert to EVs too. So I'm sure that Putin will exercise forbearance while we recharge our tanks. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Or Jennifer Granholm, the Department of Energy. She's got that great idea. Yeah, we've got the fleet is dead in the water because they ran out of batteries. We were pursuing the enemy, but because they ran out of batteries and you got this, uh, you know, we were pursuing the enemy,

but then we ran out of juice. Um, we had to wait there for two hours. I think every day you may have caught it. To me is the abuse of the name of Tesla by applying to these that are the farthest thing removed from what I had himself in mind. Yeah. The idea was to unplug us, not plug us in.

Exactly. Yeah. Tesla was looking for ways to get away from a control grid to be able to, uh, you know, transmit power without that central control. He didn't like the central control of people, you know, at, um, uh, Thomas Edison or the Westinghouse guy, he didn't like that. So he's looking for something outside of that. And yet, you know, they, and that's one of the reasons why that name was was captured

right uh to confuse people about what the real purposes are to take a hero a technological hero and to use that to co-opt that name yeah war is peace and freedom is slavery that's right absolutely uh yeah while we're talking about word, talk about etymological atrocities, one of the articles on Epiotus. Oh, my gosh. We were constantly barraged with the misuse of words to describe things. You could start, oh, I don't know. How about a liberal?

A liberal used to be somebody generous with people's money. And now it's exactly the opposite of that. And so, for example, the Sun recently started referring to drugs that don't prevent you from getting sick or spreading sickness as a vaccine. On and on, it's serial. It's making it impossible to have any kind of a conversation because the presence of all of the words that people use have been distorted and manipulated through the meaning so that the conversation becomes about something that you're not talking about in the place. That's right. Yeah, what is a woman? We don't even know what a woman is anymore.

And that's what they do. They unhinge us from reality, and they also take the high ground in terms of a debate by defining the terms. And, you know, that's the way they define the words. Of course, you know, liberal was something that was good because it meant about liberty and things like that. And so then they co-opted that about 100 years ago or more. Progressive is now they they have driven the term liberal into the ground. So now they've got to come up with progressive all the rest of these things.

But yeah, that is really the tactic that they use. And it shows that it really is about propaganda. It really is about mind wars, isn't it? Yeah, and it's very important for that reason to go back to basics. And when you're engaging in a conversation with anybody and one of these terms comes up, you have to pause and define the term openly. Let's see, what exactly are we talking about here? And then have the discussion don't

have the discussion based on the abused etymology also etymology that that they're used to manipulate the conversation and of course you know one of the things uh is uh climate you know what they mean by climate oh that's you know that's that was one of the main ones in my article. Miscaracterized carbon dioxide, colorless, non-reactive inert gas that has nothing to do with air quality as a pollutant. Mm-hmm. And for a very good reason, because the person who hears pollutant or they hear emission automatically, they go back to the original definition of that,

which meant some kind of compound that came out of the tailpipe of a car that fouled the air. And, of course, nobody liked it. So that's the intent, logically, to think in those terms of something that isn't that, that doesn't do that. Yeah, I agree. We're still having the problem with it cutting off. Keep your, when you talk, try to keep at a lower volume.

It seems like when you're at a lower volume, it doesn't cut off as much, and maybe that might get us through it. Yeah, when we look at it, you were talking about how Jennifer Granholm wanted to change her military over into electric vehicles. They've gone the other way in the Ukraine. They've got one of these ridiculously wealthy oligarchs have gone through and modified a Porsche. And we've seen this in the past. I've seen some people doing it with Porsche 911s

and getting them raised and make them so that they're off-road vehicles. Uh, there's somebody who does that, I think in Louisiana or something. And one guy that I saw that did it, uh, he was driving around in LA because, you know, they don't fill the potholes and do things like this as a perfect urban assault vehicle. While they're talking about using it as a commander's vehicle in the Ukraine army, uh, they may have to bug out pretty quickly. So it's probably a good idea to have a luxury Porsche that's converted to that, right?

Yeah, especially, you know, one that's a little tires and can go pretty much anywhere. That's right. Sure. Yeah. It's got night vision cameras. It's got high tech internet access. So they'll still be able to get their internet while they're bugging out and running away uh it'll be kind of interesting to see that happening but um yeah when we um you've got some interesting uh uh reviews

uh the last few days of course ep autos doesn't just talk about politics in the bigger picture but you're talking about real vehicles that people can still for the time being actually get uh give us your take on the um uh the jetta this is one of the cars the 2023 jetta that they've been trying to kill for a long time because it got so fuel efficient with diesel fuel when it when it arrived and so i guess this was i suppose about a week or so for me to i went out and i opened the sedan a moment because I looked inside the sedan, and there was a manual shift stick console. And, you know, it's become so unusual to find a manual transmission, particularly in a sedan.

Good luck finding that. Well, this one comes standard. And just to rattle off the specs, the thing costs about $22,000, the standard national transmission, and I think it gets 42 miles per gallon on the highway. So not far off of the pace of the really excellent diesels that football is. What was the mileage because it got cut off there with the interview? What was the mileage? It was 42 miles per gallon on the highway.

Wow, wow. 42 miles per gallon, and it's a gas engine, not a diesel, because they've been scared to death with that. But it's got a stick shift in it. That's interesting to see the stick shift start to come back. Yeah, standard. Yeah, you know, it's almost impossible to find a stick shift in any sedan. You know, for the most part, the few that do offer it, it's typically off the high performance model. The standard model has been considerably more than that. In this case, it's typically off the high performance model, and considerably more than that.

In this case, it comes second. So you save money on the front because the man is less, and then you save money on gas going down the road. And it's just a contrast to this whole thing in a car that costs $20,000, so about half the cost of something like a Tesla 3. It's remarkably good mileage and every way a more practical and versatile vehicle. It'll go 500 miles before you have to tank it up. This is $270,000 for the base-batteried Tesla 3. Wow. Wow. That's great.

Yeah, it is interesting. We're getting so much cut off, though. I'm not sure what has happened with it. I think we're going to need to. It's hard. It's kind of like trying to listen to RFK Jr. Yeah. Because it's cutting off so much.

But it's always great. I'm sorry. Go ahead. I'm sorry. I hope it's not on my end. I don't know. I'm sorry, too. We'll see if we can figure out what's going on.

We'll get it fixed. I mean, we talk all the time, and so we'll have to get that done. But always great talking to you, and we'll see if we can figure out what's going on. We'll get a fix. I mean, we talk all the time and so we'll have to get that done, but always great talking to you and we'll get this fixed. So next time we talk, we can actually hear you, but thank you so much. Eric Peters, epiottos.com folks.

We'll be right back. using free speech to free minds it's the david knight show all right and we're back um i was talking before we uh brought in eric about what is happening in terms of our food supply and how they're not really too concerned about that you know there has been some information uh that has come out now about uh the proud boys and I want to jump over to that. So give me a second here to get into that. We've got a 25-year jail term that they're looking for, Stuart Rhodes. And again, as I've said, when I look at what happened with these groups in January the 6th, and I do want to go back and talk about these things, not because of politics not because, um, um, you know, because of, uh, politics or because of Trump, but if we don't get

a hold of what is happening with this, we're going to fall for all this stuff again, and it's going to get even worse because, um, uh, one way or the other, if we keep allowing Trump and the Democrats to polarize us, they're going to be pushing us into a real civil war. And I think that more than anything else is the seditious conspiracy. It's on the side of the Biden administration. It's on the side of Trump and these people pushing it. I think Stuart Rhodes and others who played this game did it because it was a popular thing to do. I think it was a stupid game. I think they won stupid prizes.

But I think what the Biden administration has done is a very serious escalation of this injustice. And everybody sees what an injustice it is. Out of proportion it is to what actually happened. And I talked about it last week, and I'll just mention it briefly. You compare what happened in the Tennessee three that they have celebrated, that Biden has celebrated, actually getting in there, trying to shut down the operation of the government, getting their hands on legislators, pushing them, pushing the state police. And of

course, the thing that kept this from getting out of hand was the fact that the Tennessee state police did not come in with armor and billy clubs and all the rest of the stuff and start beating people and gassing people. That is a big part of what happened with this. But we see how even people who were not in the building are being caught up by the thousands. We see the over-the-top persecution of people like Sam at InfoWars who is doing journalism.

Fortunately, he's not going to jail for this, but he's going to be under house arrest. He'll get something put on his record in terms of criminal thing by the way this is being done over the top and um it is uh when you look at stewart rhodes as in many of these other cases i think you know what stewart rhodes did what and what he's been alleged to have done even before this all happened there were allegations of improper use of money. When we look at what happened with Stop the Steal and Ali Alexander and other things like that, it was, and Alex and Roger and all the rest of them, what Trump did, the crime that

they committed, in my opinion, is ripping off their supporters, putting their supporters in this position, throwing their supporters under the bus, getting their supporters arrested. That's their crime. They didn't do anything to overthrow the government. But interestingly enough, the people that they fleeced and threw under the bus are still following them, still following them in terms of commentary, still voting for Trump, still sending Trump even more money. They don't seem to learn from any of this.

And of course, the seditious conspiracy was on the side of the Biden administration, overwhelmingly criminalizing this, overcharging people, excessive punishment, excessive fines, denial of due process. And what we saw with all of this was what unfortunately has now become all too common. And that is the FBI using informants, using infiltrators and all the rest of this stuff, instigating this, agent provocateurs and informants from the very beginning. And of course, this isn't anything new. It is new to some conservatives who

think that the FBI has gone off the rails since Trump got elected. They have been off the rails since before the FBI was created. The FBI, you know, J. Edgar Hoover got his federal bureaucracy because of the Palmer raids. They were over the top in World War I, J. Edgar Hoover was. This thing has been corrupt from the very beginning. You look at what they did throughout the 60s, the civil rights movement, look at what they have done for the longest time. And of course, the difference was that the tyranny was on the right, and now it's coming from the left.

And that's the only thing that's changed. That's what conservatives are seeing in this. So you see, um, this, these types of articles, uh, from information liberation,

proud boys juror suggests that a lack of evidence was proof of guilt and the seditious conspiracy. Uh, so they said it was, uh, all the chatter that was there. It was all the chats. It was a parlor.

It was telegram. Those telegram text messages back and forth. Not just the chats, said the juror, but also the private text. I think that's what it boiled down to. What they had to say prior to January the 6th and the fact that they wanted to do so much in secret, and that's why the government couldn't present

too much of the evidence that they'd already deleted because it was unrecoverable. But what is the, and that's the evidence that they said convicted them of a seditious conspiracy. The fact that the government made accusations against them and the fact that we couldn't find anything. Well, that means that it must be a seditious conspiracy, right? The very lack of proof is what makes this a seditious conspiracy.

It is truly amazing, and they're taking it to the next level. We had one individual who has been sentenced to 14 years in prison, the longest sentence yet. But, of course, a prosecutor wants 25 years in war for Stuart Rhodes. But this Kentucky welder was sentenced to 14 years in prison, the longest so far. His name is Peter Schwartz. He's a 47-year-old Army reservist. By the way, you know, Joe Biggs has got two purple hearts. The way I look at it, he's been betrayed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Washington, D.C.

by the people that he's followed. It's really sad to see it. It really is sad. Anyway, he said, talking about how he was arrested February 2, 2021, about a month after the event. He said 30 agents assaulted him with flashbang grenades, armored vehicles, more than 10 assault rifles aimed at his chest, he said. At no point did either my wife or I resist, but we were both roughly handled and force-dragged up the stairs after being shackled and handcuffed as we were shoved around. And let me just say this, if there's anybody out there who's left-leaning,

and you can tell it to your left-leaning friends. As I said about J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, they were always coming after the left throughout J. Edgar Hoover's administration. It's only recently that they've pivoted in their politics. But all this stuff could change overnight, as conservatives have, some of them may have understood, has changed. They just, I don't think that they ever saw

that it was a right-wing orientation that was getting rid of the rule of law and bringing in a Gestapo. That's not my term. That was Harry Truman's term. So the FBI is trending towards a Gestapo. He's got files on everybody. Nixon said the same thing.

You got Nixon and you got Harry Truman saying the same thing about J. Edgar Hoover. But Hoover, besides being focused on left-leaning causes, he was focused on blackmailing all of the politicians in both parties. It is a criminal enterprise. And Ramaswamy has said if he's elected president, he'd get rid of the FBI. Fine, but don't replace it with anything. That's the problem. We've got to stop believing that government should be doing the things for which it has, first of all, no authority. And there's a good reason that they don't have any authority for it,

because they know pragmatically that it's not their job and that it will corrupt them. But anyway, as Schwartz was giving an interview to the Gateway Pundit, he broke into tears when he made a heartbreaking call. He said to his parents who are in their 70s, knowing that he may never see them again as a free man. He said, the hardest part of this for me is that about 10 years ago, my parents, a lot of people in my age group, their parents have passed away and it's tragic.

And everybody always said the same thing. They would always say that they wish they could have spent more time with them. Uh, now he will not be seeing them. Uh, he's again in his forties, his parents and their seventies.

So, um, when we look at the way this thing is being used, and that is one of the most reprehensible things about it, it would be one thing if, and it was totally reprehensible to fleece your supporters, to put them in jeopardy like this. is a complete reorientation and precedence to come after anyone and everyone so they can get to Trump. The exact opposite of what he had to say. They've got 14 convictions of seditious conspiracy. The maximum that you can get from each of these convictions, and most of these people are convicted of seditious conspiracy, of a conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding,

you know, kind of like in Tennessee, and then actually obstructing the proceeding, you know, kind of like in Tennessee as well. But anyway, all of those carry very heavy, they're felonies, they carry very high potential trials, but we're looking at people, even if they're in their 40s or 50s, we're looking at life sentences for everybody with this. And I've seen this kind of thing for a long time. I talked earlier about Julian Assange. I've talked many times about Ross Ulbrich and the Silk Road and the travesty of that trial. And the FBI was right at the center of that Silk Road trial.

Corrupt agents who had taken over the site were skimming off millions of dollars, and the defense was not allowed to talk about that. They had, from the prosecution standpoint, they wanted to make it clear that nobody other than Ross Ulbrich had any control. At the same time, they were coming after these FBI agents for their embezzlement because they'd gotten control of the website. And then sentencing him to multiple consecutive life sentences, so no opportunity for parole, on the allegations from the press, and pushed along by a district attorney who never charged

him, let alone convicted him of murder for hire. And yet the judge used that in the sentence as if he had been convicted. So we've been seeing this type of thing happening for a long time, and it is going to a whole other level with both the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys. But it is coming for all of us. It is setting these precedents that are going to be metastasizing in government oppression. That is the thing that we really need to be concerned about. We'll be right back. The David Knight Show is a critical thinking super spreader.

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You know, we have scientists saying we can now read your mind. Can they? Mind-reading technology can now transcribe people's thoughts in real time based on blood flow and their brain. You know, we've had DARPA has funded research, they say, because they want to go in and remove memories for soldiers who are suffering from PTSD, remove unpleasant experiences, just erase that from their memory. And then maybe, you know, give them some nice, pleasant memories or something like that. I mean, straight out of, you know, the name of, um, what's the name of the movie?

Uh, total recall. And, um, and of course the science fiction, uh, novel that it was based on. I, I didn't have total recall right there at that moment. Oh, the irony of it. Anyway, the, uh, PTSD. And I said, of course, that's why they want to read your mind, isn't it? Yeah. DARPA wants to, they just, and you know, the robots want to help little old ladies across the street.

Is this something that is real? The mind reading technology did not exactly replicate the stories, but it captured main points as they produced a rolling text of people's thoughts. Not just single words or sentences without using a brain implant, they said. The technology also interpreted what people were seeing when they watched silent films or their thoughts as they imagined telling a story. Well, you know, when we look at this again, there is a lot of effort being put into this right now to build artificial intelligence into this super monster and to create a kind of crisis and to get us afraid of it, but also at the same time to get us to trust it. A senior author of the study from the University of Texas, Austin said, we were kind of shocked that this worked as well as it does. This is a problem that I've been working on for 15 years. They said, well, this kind of technology could be used on someone without them knowing, such as an authoritarian regime. Where would we find something like that? I don't know.

Would we have to look too far to find something like that? Interrogating political prisoners or by an employer spying on employees. Researchers say the system can only read the thoughts of an individual after being trained on their thought pattern. So that won't happen to somebody secretly. Well, I don't know, but I look at, again, I'm very skeptical about all this artificial intelligence stuff. And I think a lot of this is a confidence game. A lot of this is because you look at chat GPT, right? Do you believe that?

I know that I've had an engineer send me a letter saying, well, I use it for circuit design. Got it exactly right. Got all the voltage drops right. Design designed this thing, did it very quickly. It can be useful for some things like that. But if we're going to use this thing to say that it's capable of reading our mind, we need to also understand some of the mind games. And when I looked at this and I said, well, it's looking at blood flows and things like

that to try to image this stuff. It reminded me very much of polygraphs. And there's been a lot of talk about polygraphs. I know Karen was a district personnel manager for a large convenience store chain. And whenever they would have a lot of theft, this was back before we had Soros DAs who just said, go ahead, take what you want. We won't bother you. It was back when people knew that it was going to bankrupt them if they had that. So they keep pretty close tabs on it. If they had some big discrepancy, they would polygraph the people that were there. And she knew, as did most people there, that the polygraph guys that

they would bring in would tell her, yeah, it really, for this thing to work, they have to believe that it works. And see, I think that's a good analogy for all this artificial intelligence stuff. The polygraph was more than anything. It was based on you believing that these people could look at your pulse rate and that little needle that's going there. Right. And that they would be able to tell if you were lying, if somebody was cool and calm about it, they couldn't really tell anything about it. But the people who, you know, hook them up to a polygraph and this thing is going to be watching you. And it knows if you're lying, right. And it really was a confidence game.

And you get people to confess just based on that. It's very intimidating. It was based on you believing that it worked. And I think there's a lot about this chat AI stuff as well. IBM, and they've got a new CEO. I don't know how new he is. I've never seen his name before. Arvind Krishna from India. He's now the CEO.

And they're saying that they revealed plans to halt recruitment for positions that may be replaced by artificial intelligence and automation within the next few years. Now, you notice the key word there was may be replaced. They might be able to be replaced by artificial intelligence. And yet they are doing layoffs of 7,800 people. When I first began working in engineering, I stayed away from IBM. Everybody would say, you know, IBM always likes to brag about the fact they've never fired anybody, but it is an acronym for I'll be moved. And the way that it would work and people that I knew who had worked for IBM, they said the way this works is they'll set up a factory somewhere. So they could maintain at the time, they wanted

to maintain this fiction that they never fired anybody. They don't care about that anymore. But it was supposed to be the stable place to go. You had to work for IBM. You'd be there all of your life, you know, which was, you know, the ideal that people had looked at in the 1950s. So I can find a job with a big stable corporation. I got a job for life, that type of thing. And so they wanted to maintain that fiction. Well, what they would do is they would, uh, if they wanted to, if they've got a division or some business division that they want that's not doing too well and they need to downsize it, what they would do is they would move it somewhere far away.

And they would say, well, we're not going to fire you, but we're going to move this facility where you've been working, this division where you've been working across the country, if you want to pay for your move and follow us, we'll let you do that and you won't get any raise or anything. If they really wanted you to stay with the company, they would pay for your moving expenses and things like that. But if they didn't want you, if they wanted you to voluntarily leave, they wouldn't pay for your moving expenses. And I think there's a lot of that involved in this as well, because what they're saying is they may be replaced by AI within the next few years. They don't want you to see them laying off 7,800 people because that would make them look bad as a company. It would look like they were failing. So they're going to blame it on what may happen with AI in a few years. So this is more of what IBM used to do with I'll be

moved type of stuff. I think it really is a dodge that is being put out by them. And it also helps them to push this idea of the invincible artificial intelligence. It was an article that was on Health Impact News, how AI will replace humans like the Wizard of Oz and save the economy. He said, whenever I read about AI, now it's going to replace all humans someday. I am frequently reminded about this scene

from the Wizard of Oz. And, you know, and I think that the phony image that they're putting there for people and the idea they're trying to create something that is big and scary, like the projection of The Wizard of Oz, when in reality it was just a little guy behind the curtain, you know, pulling the levers and that type of thing. I think that is really what they're doing. And I'm hoping, as I said earlier, when we were talking to, uh, Eric Peters, I think that the, um, the self-driving artificial intelligence, the fact that

it has crashed and burned from everybody who has tried it now, uh, that is a very hopeful sign and I hope that that is an indicator of what is truly going to happen to this stuff, because we do not want to live under the system. It is a tool that is going to allow for a lot of manipulation, uh, by the people who control it and it will, it is adding new capability to people who seek to control us. But it is more of what Hugo de Garis described in the Artelike War. I think it's more of the elites leveraging their advanced technology against the rest of us. It's more of that than it is about some kind of super intelligent AI destroying all of humanity.

A good example of it is how we see so much automation already in war. Not just a stupid ideas like Jennifer Granholm saying we're going to have electric vehicles on the battlefield, but it is what's happening in the Persian Gulf, for example, robots in the Gulf, this would be the Persian Gulf. And they're talking about how there is an arms race on this aspect of it. Again, Iran used naval forces and some of their Revolutionary Guard troops to stop and waylay two ships over the last week and a half. Iranian tensions are one aspect of the current situation.

Unmanned vehicles, they said, could help to patrol vast areas of the ocean. They could ostensibly help monitor naval activity, perhaps confront threats. However, some of them are slow and could be kidnapped by Iranian fast boats, which has already been done. They captured two sail drones in 2022. They got drones that operate as, you know,

as a sailing ship. And these people have fast motorized boats that use internal combustion engines because they've got a source somewhere to get the oil in Iran. I don't know where they get it from. Showing that some of these vessels may be vulnerable. If they're cheap and expendable, that may not be an issue, which is one of the reasons why unnamed unmanned vessels like flying drones

can be preferable in some regions. Israel, meanwhile, has put out their first unmanned submarine. It's about 10 meters long. It can operate for weeks at sea. It can also be transported into a container, making it versatile, easy to move by land, sea, and air. So this type of technology is being leveraged in a very real way to give a projection of power. But of course, it still does have a long ways to go. But that doesn't mean that they're not going to continue to invest in it. At the same time, I don't think they're going, you know,

they say that we're very worried about artificial intelligence running away. So who do they put in charge of it? They put in charge of it Lala Harris. And as AI czar, can you imagine anything more absurd than to have Lala Harris as your artificial intelligence czar? They gave her a $140 billion budget. Well, that's nothing by the federal standards today. Certainly nothing by the kinds of money that Joe Biden has been working on. While we're talking about Lala Harris, it makes me think about what Richard Dreyfuss said,

talking about the Oscars. If you didn't think that the films coming out of Hollywood could get any more repulsive, well, he said, Hollywood's new standards for even being considered as a best picture is to have all kinds of identity politics. He said the patronizing inclusivity standards make me want to vomit. Well, that's the way I describe most of their movies. The new diversity inclusion standards are thoughtless and patronizing, he said in an interview on Friday. Richard Dreyfuss said, and this was on PBS. He went there on PBS. He said this type of stuff.

Asked what he thought of the new standards which are going to go into effect next year. And, of course, he's won an Oscar in the past. He claimed to really love being an American, and he said, These things make me vomit. I think we are in the end game now. Well, let's hope that we are. He said, we should not be governed by the latest moral fad because this is an art form. It's also a form of commerce and it makes money, but it is an art and no one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.

And he's got his finger on the pulse. He understands that the foundation of this is a new system of morality, and they're weaponizing that in terms of you're not going to be able to work unless you toe the line on our form of morality. He argued that one cannot legislate over the perceived sliding of others. He said, what are we risking? Are we really risking hurting people's feelings? You can't legislate that. And that's why I say that about the hate crime bill

and what DeSantis has done with hate crime stuff. You can't legislate hurting somebody's feelings. And that's what the hate crime stuff is all about. You look at how malleable this all is. You look at the people who have caved on this and the hatred that has bubbled up just against people who didn't wear the mask or get the vaccine over the last few years. But he started talking about the 1965 film version of Othello

where he had Laurence Olivier doing it in blackface, because he's playing the central character in Othello. He said, Laurence Olivier was the last white actor to play Othello. He did it in 1965, and he did it in blackface, and he played a black man brilliantly. Am I being told that I will never have the chance to play a black man? Is someone else being told that if they're not Jewish, they shouldn't play the merchant of Venice?

Are we crazy? Do we not know that art is art? This is so patronizing. It's so thoughtless. And it is treating people like children. Exactly. And that's what the censorship, that's what the felony hate crimes they've done in Florida

is all really about. Breitbart recounts how just in 2021, you remember this story? A Chinese-born music professor at the University of Michigan was forced out of teaching a Shakespeare class after he showed Othello to his class, the Othello of Laurence Olivier in Blackface. And so Dreyfus was asked by PBS if there's a difference

between the question of representation and who is allowed to represent other groups and the case of blackface explicitly in the country, given the history of slavery. He said, well, there shouldn't be, because that's patronizing. It says that we are so fragile that we can't have our feelings hurt. We have to anticipate having our feelings hurt. We have to anticipate our children having their feelings hurt. And we don't know how to stand up and bop the bully in the face.

Well, I think he did a pretty good job of bopping one of the central bullies in the face, and that is NPR. He went right to their face and he went there. Well, that's it for today's program. Thank you for joining us. Has your news been censored, banned, censored, banned over and over again? Has vital information been held prisoner by mainstream and anti-social media? It's the duty of every thinking person to make the great escape to thedavidknightshow.com. There you'll find links to live streams, videos, audio podcasts, and support links. Live stream the show at DLive and TREVAT every Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. Eastern.

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