The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Michael Rectenwald | 9/9/19

Episode Date: September 9, 2019

The DOJ ordered Apple and Google to release data on ALL the users of a gun scope app, and that’s just the latest attempt to watch our every move – for our safety, of course. Author Michael Rectenwald joins the show to discuss the onslaught of “smart” technology and why we’re dumb for trusting it. Joe Biden’s gaffes keep racking up, but they’re starting to sound more like aneurysm side effects. Kamala Harris laughed after a man called Trump “mentally retarded,” but then denied ever hearing him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, today we have kind of a roller coaster ride for you. The information on you that is being sold, the Total Information Awareness Program, Harpa and DARPA, coming to the U.S. very soon. Also, we're talking about the new streaming services, the plays. We've been dinged again by Facebook last week, now this weekend. YouTube demonetized my interview with Dave Rubin. Guess we're just too dangerous for them. Plan Parenthood, a story that you have not heard anywhere that should be the lead in every decent journalist paper or report today.

Michael Rectinwald joins us to talk about Google. More on Eli and Ilan-O-Mar, and Representative Clyburn says, I don't think the Bill of Rights would pass today. Stu and I look at that all on today's podcast. You're listening to. The best of the Glenback program. Here's what broke last week. The Department of Justice on Thursday filed a court order stating they want Apple and Google to hand over the information of more than 10,000 gun owners. The DOJ wants information of gun owners who use the mobile app called Obsidian 4, which allows rifle owners to calibrate their scope using their cell phone.

The government wants users' data as part of a larger immigration. and customs enforcement investigation into breaches of weapons export regulation. This scope, we have stuff here in America that, you know, our enemies abroad would love to be able to get their hands on. And so we export, bad guys export some of this stuff. They buy it and export it. And the government's trying to catch these guys. Now, the company isn't under investigation, but the investigators are looking for a quick way to find out where the app is in use. so if it's in use in Afghanistan, then they know and they can track it all the way back to

who sold them that. So it seems like a pretty good idea, except they're asking for a warrant on everybody. So anybody who has bought this, you're not under suspicion, but they're going to get all of your information. So did you download the app? What did you use it for? how long did you use it for? All of your information is going to go into the hands of the federal government. It's not really a good idea. This is not the way we issue warrants in America. But the problem is bigger than this.

The problem is most people don't understand that we are, I don't even know how long we are before we get there if we're not there now. My guess is by 2020, 2021, 22 on the outside, we are going to be living in a full social credit kind of world. We already are there. Now, here's what I mean by that. My podcast with Dave Rubin has been demonetized. Now, last week, Facebook would not promote Bridget Fetesey's podcast, which feels. featured me. So a digital wall went up. If you went to Facebook and you say, I like Glenn Beck,

you may not have gotten that notice that I had done a new podcast, even though you're there saying, I like Glenn Beck, because some have said, I don't like Glenn Beck. The mob has spoken. And so we got a notice that it violated their community standards. No answer. Dave Rubin, wrote yesterday and said, Glenn, I don't know if you've seen this, but now the podcast that we just did has been demonetized.

How is that happening? What did we do to violate community standards? Well, nothing. Probably my name is on a list. Can I see why my name is on the list? Can I see that list? No, no, no. You can't.

My social credit score is too low. And so, they won't allow any advertising to happen on anything of mine. Well, people will say, well, you make enough money? This isn't about me. First of all, that's not my podcast. That's Dave Rubens. And Dave Rubin, up until he signed with us, that's how he makes money.

He makes money through YouTube. If they demonetize him, he has no money. He can't do what he does. and it's all because of a social credit score. He has angered the gods. And it is godlike magic because you can't, there's no fair hearing. There's nothing. You don't even know what the algorithm is.

You don't even know what you've done. Last week, the court has said that we can't just have no-fly lists. You can't be put on a terrorist watch list without even knowing about it. You can't be on a no-fly list. That's unconstitutional. Well, we've been saying that for a while. Now the federal government has been told you can't have it by a court. But we have those lists.

We have those black lists. I don't even know how to talk to my children anymore to alert them of this problem. Let me just start to break this down. Do you have a Roomba by any chance? This comes from a company called I-Robot? The CEO, Colin Engel, told Reuters recently that its data-based business strategy for the smart home starts with the new revenue stream that is coming from Roomba. What revenue stream are they making because we buy them? No.

Because Roomba actually maps the floor plan of your home. and it sends that information back to iRobot. Irobot then takes everybody's map of their home and it sells it to interested parties. This is the beginning of the internet of things. Everything you have will be on the internet. Everything. And if you opt out, well, then it won't really work for you.

still buy Roomba, but it's not going to work as well? Or would it have they made it more difficult? Take things like, see, we're doing this to ourselves because we think it's good, the sleep number bed, which is a great bed. But they now have smart bed technology and sleep tracking. So what does that mean? Well, the bed's base and mattress customizable with features that raise or lower the angle of the bed, sensors that soften or firm up the mattress, other sensors now measure heart rate, breathing, and movement. And every morning you get a sleep IQ score representing your individual quality and length of sleep. Your restful sleep, restless sleep, time out of bed.

What adjustments you can make. Now, the company suggests that you connect that sleep app to your fitness tracker on your arm and the thermostat in your house. to see how your work or bedroom temperatures actually affect your sleep. It sounds great. Now, in the company's 12-page privacy policy, customers are advised that providing information is an affirmation of consent to use that information in line with policy,

which employs the usual onerous terms, third-party sharing, Google Analytics, targeted advertising, and much more. If customers create a user profile to maximize the effectiveness of the app, the company then also collects your biometric and sleep-related data about how you, your child, and any other person that uses the bed, it gets all of their information, and it sends it out, including their respiration and heart rate while sleeping. It also collects all audio signals in your bedroom. What?

this is not this is not uncommon almost everything will become a part of the internet of things and the question you have to ask yourself is

what does a smart product know whom does it tell so who knows who decides and who is it that's deciding who decides where is all of your information going? They are now monitoring, recording,

they're communicating behavioral data, they have now smart vodka bottles, they have internet-enabled rectal thermometers, and everything in between. Smart light bulbs, smart toothbrushes, smart coffee mugs, smart oven, smart juicers, smart utensils to improve your data, digestion. Home security cameras with facial recognition. It's great. Home alarm systems that monitor

unusual vibrations that happen usually right before a break-in occurs. Indoor GPS locators, sensors that attach to any object to analyze movement, temperature, other variables, every kind of connected appliance, cyborg cockroaches designed to detect sound. Even the baby's nursery is is a surplus of information. I don't think we have any idea how bad things are getting and we are just allowing it to come into our home. So what does this mean? How is it we're supposed to function anymore?

What is coming our way? Well, there is no opt-in, opt-out kind of function anymore. and the last bastion is the human body. I'm going to take a break, and I'm going to talk to you about the total information awareness program. It was started because of the Patriot Act right after September 11th. But maybe the week of September 11th, we should look at what has happened since September 11th. the government shut down funding in 2004 or five, but we had already granted license to other companies to start making these things

and make them they have. And I'm going to show you how a visit to your vet could end up putting you onto some social score that you don't like could mean the loss of your gun. It definitely means the loss of your personal information. Just going to the vet. Okay. I told you last week about something called Harpa. Harpa is like DARPA, okay?

But it's the health advanced research project agency. Harpa. It's all about your health. Just like DARPA is about defense. This is a government agency that looks over the horizon and says, what can we do? Now, remember, DARPA is the one that really gave us the microwave oven. I mean, the things that DARPA has done from going to space to weapons has been remarkable. One of the best group of, I think, inventors and thinkers on Earth.

I'm not a conspiracy-minded guy on DARPA. I'm glad we have DARPA. However, things are moving so quickly now. We have to have some way to watch what DARPA and now Harpa is doing. Harpa is something that apparently every time it's brought up in the White House, the president really likes. He likes technology and he likes solving crime. So this is safe home from Harpa.

Safe home. It's an acronym. Stopping aberrant fatal events by helping overcome mental extremes. Now, what they want to do is they want to identify potentially violent people. Potentially violent people. Anybody see Minority Report? We don't have the three women in the milk bath to do it. Harpa is doing this.

And it's doing this because we are being tracked by everything, and it's only going to get much worse. The safe home plan sounds pretty great. I mean, it's a way for us to make sure that the crazy people don't get their hands on guns and they're helped before there is a problem. Except it means total surveillance. Now, Harpa says they're only going to try this. for a couple of years.

But I want to remind you what DARPA did here in a second. They're only going to try this for a few years. And they're only going to do it with people who voluntarily allow Harper to access the data. Now, they haven't answered whether or not

that means like me when I went on to iTunes and went, I agree, without reading it. When I have my Fitbit and I say, which I don't have, I agree. am I now part of Harper? Is my information being used by

Harper? The answer is most likely. Now, they're trying to develop a sensor suite and this will have artificial intelligence identify changes in mental status. So it is looking for the sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric. violence. They're going to use Apple watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo, Echo, and Google Home, and other, quote, powerful tools. All right, let me take you back in time for something called

TIA, Total Information Awareness. Have you ever heard of this, Stu? This was in the Patriot Act. TIA, its mission is to, quote, detect, classify, and identify foreign territory. and decipher their plans and therefore enable the U.S. to take timely action to successfully preempt and defeat terrorist acts. Oh, I remember when we were young and stupid. It was the logo of this was the pyramid with the eye of God above it. Sound familiar? Sound like, oh, I don't know. I have Molok.

So this was defunded in 2004. TIA was to strive to achieve human identification at a distance, including face recognition, iris recognition, and gate recognition. They also were working on odor recognition. So you could tell somebody by the smell of them. We have that built in already. Right. So all of this has already been done.

And their goal was to stockpile as much information as possible on everyone on Earth. to protect the government, to protect us from everything on earth. Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy, every medical prescription you fill, every website you visit, every email you send and receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip that you book, every event you attend. All of these transactions go into the Defense Department's virtual centralized grand database, including your trip to the vet.

Hmm. Fluffy got hurt. So Fluffy is going to the vet. But we notice that your teenage son, who is also having trouble in school, has just booked an appointment at the psychiatrist's office. Did Fluffy get hurt from an external injury or internal? How did it happen?

The Best of the Glenn Beck program. Hey, it's Glenn, and if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray Unleashed. His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast. A man I have an awful lot of respect for Michael Rectinwald is joining us now. His Twitter is anti-PC NYU Proff. He was a guy who was part of the system and, you know, was teaching deconstruction and everything else. And we kind of woke up and saw what was happening and saw that. These leftists were serious about getting rid of capitalism and taking control and shutting everyone up.

And he started to speak out. He was shunned by all of his friends. He was pretty homeless there for a while. And he has come roaring back. He authored the book Springtime for Snowflakes, which is kind of his story. But it's intense when you see it from the inside. he has a new book out called Google Archipelago, which is about how we are building gulogs.

And we're allowing Google and others like that to do it. Welcome to the program, Michael Rectinwald. Good morning. It's good to have you on, Michael. And I want to have you down and really talk about your book, but I know your book, which comes out what, in a couple weeks? A couple weeks or any day, not. It's scheduled for the 30th, but it could be any day that it'll be released.

So you won't be waiting long. Okay. So it is, I've read much of it. I haven't read all of it. You haven't sent me all the chapters, but I've read much of it. And it's really, really good. And it goes into how Google is building this box for us. How concerned are you that the government is now reaching out and saying,

hey Google and Apple and Amazon Echo, we need your help to find out who the crazy people are. This is alarming. I mean, we're talking about an unprecedented infiltration of surveillance into the home, the likes of which, you know, 1984 will pale by comparison. And we won't need helicopters, you know, hovering outside your window because you'll be voluntarily with the smartification of your home, turning virtual assistance and televisions and every other appliance possibly in your house into an agent or an app for surveillance upon you. And so anything that is said in the home can be recorded and sent to the proper agencies in question, so to speak. And therefore, there are going to be thousands, if not millions, of false positives

where you may be even arrested because something. You may have enacted a Shakespearean play in your home. and there's a talk of murder and things like this, this would be enough perhaps to trigger the authorities to come and get you. Well, there is, there is, as part of this, Harpa is what it's called. As part of this, they are monitoring, they want to be able to monitor everything. So not only the language in your home, what people are saying, but they want to have access to, for instance, your son has a doctor's appointment, it's a psychiatrist. He has his records at school show that he's starting to get into some trouble. And your dog just went to the vet and it had some external injuries.

It had been hit by the car or something had happened to it. That's enough to trigger Harpa and say there's a possibility that there is a disturbed child living in this house with real psychiatric problems and he's beating the dog. We've got to get the guns out of the house. and you all have no, you have, you're not, you're guilty until you prove innocent. Right. This is Minority Report in action. And, you know, they're going to be collating so much information from, like you said, doctors' records, you know, medical records, activities in the home, language that's

used in the home. Anything, any data that's possible to collect will be collated with other data and interpreted as such, perhaps even by algorithms without even human intervention. So we have algorithms determining whether or not somebody is about to commit a crime. It's alarming. I mean, we're talking about an abridgment of rights that could be quite unprecedented in this country. So I don't know.

Have you read surveillance capitalism, the book? Yes, I have. Okay. I've been reading that off and on, and I picked it up over the weekend because I was looking into the surveillance again. And we just talked about what they, where, where she really goes into, look, even Roomba now is selling a map of your home. It goes and it maps the floor of your house. I don't know who's interested in buying that, but they get a lot of money from people who are

buying maps of homes. And it's, it's everywhere. It's going to be everywhere. How do you possibly unplug from this matrix? I mean, that's a great question. First of all, I would like to say that I call this Google Marxism rather than surveillance capitalism because the objective is a kind of leftist totalitarian state where it's basically everybody under surveillance and the rest of the pop, you know, you have a series of monopolies on top

and everybody else in a sort of actually existing socialism at the bottom, all under surveillance, all under the state. The corporate entities are fusing as state apparatuses to become these massive powers, these governmental powers. What I would do is I recommend the stupefication or the stupidification of your house. Everything should be dumb as a doorknob. Otherwise, you're dealing with your TV. your radio and your phone and your Alexa or your Google Home, all of these things are surveillance agents.

So you have to get your house clear of anything so-called smart because if it says it's smart, you're dumb to use it. And if it says this is a safe home initiative, it should be considered these are all misnomer's. It's a dangerous home initiative. It's dangerous for you. So people will think Michael people will think that this is conspiracy theory. We're seeing what we're seeing happen right now is a social credit score. If you have said something that the mob doesn't like, you can lose your job.

If you have a politically incorrect opinion, I can be demonetized and then deplatformed. it's happening already, but people are not for some reason waking up. And I think in looking at what the news is just in the last few weeks because of the gun issue and what the government is talking about doing now and what Google and Amazon and everybody else is talking about doing, I fear we are maybe two years away from being in a box that we can't get out of. That's right. I mean, we're looking at already the spread of these smart cities from China to the west.

We have a city in Australia, Darwin. Australia has adopted the smart city model. This is an outdoor prison, if you will, because it's a kind of digital gulag because every act is recorded, every act is collated with other data. All of this data is fed into the various agencies. People are basically facing digital fences or even digital leashes such that they can't move. beyond such certain parameters. So we're looking at. Hang in, hang in. Explain, explain that because people will say,

I'm not doing anything wrong so I don't care. And it's not even, you know, China doesn't have to come in and break down the door to get you and put you in prison. They now have such surveillance that you cannot leave your house. There's nothing you can do outside of your house, and so they keep you in your house. By choice, you choose to do it. That's right. One of the things to be concerned about is not just whether you're doing something wrong, but whether you're doing something that is interpreted as dangerous. Because, you know, this is, this is, one thing to note is that these are left-leaning or left authoritarian forces that are going to be controlling this. So they're going to be looking at anything that is right-leaning as dangerous. I mean, we've already

seen countries banning certain individuals from entering the country. Laura Lumer in England and others like even Ann Coulter in Australia. So we're, this is not just, so we're seeing people being limited in their scope of travel. It's going to get to the point perhaps where we won't even be able to leave a city. Or as you said, people will be smart to not leave their home unless their home is smart. in which case you're basically in it. You've created your own digital dungeon. So Michael Rectinwald, he is the author of Google Archipelago, which is a tough title for a lot of people.

You just said it was Google Marxism. Tell me why you chose that name. Well, Google Archipelago is a takeoff from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's book, a three-volume series called Guglog. archipelago, which was about the Soviet prison system during the Soviet Union and which Solzhenitsyn himself was imprisoned for several years. So what I'm saying is that Google is an emblem for a broader set of digital giants that are basically creating a digital gulog around the world, and we're voluntarily, unfortunately, voluntarily submitting ourselves to it. This Google Google digital go logging is kind of, as I said, it's all about surveillance. It's all about

these smartification of devices. It's all about these open-air surveillance systems that are feeding information directly to the state. So they're basically collating, collecting, collating, and processing through algorithms, all this data. And it's being used to basically it'll be used and it has been used in China. And it's being used in Darwin, Australia, and it's going to be used by Google Sidewalk Labs in Toronto to basically record every move that's made. And I wrote in the book that much of what, everything that goes on outside the home will be recorded and known, and much of what goes on inside the home will be. And I was correct, because look at what's happening here, where they're going to use Google Home and Alexa, Amazon Alexa, or Echo,

to basically echo everything you say inside the house to everybody in the agencies outside the house. So this is a digital gulogging, and that's why I've called it Google Archipelago. Google is the leading edge of all this. You know, Google was funded by the intelligence agencies in the first place. It was developed by the government largely. Yes, it's a private industry, which makes it even worse because now you have no freedom of speech on their platforms. They are algorithmically differentiating against right-leaning people in all kinds of areas, including their search results. It's just incredible.

This is the most dangerous thing, Michael, I have seen because we have always stood for the Bill of Rights. but the Bill of Rights does not apply to Google or Amazon or any of these companies. And these companies are becoming as big and as dangerous as a government can. And then they're getting in bed with a government. So the government can say, well, we're not doing anything to suppress those. They are. And it doesn't cover them. So is there a solution to this?

Is there something we should be doing as a nation? It's a corporate state, you know, so that we're looking at are kind of what I call corporate socialism or Google Marxism. And what we need to do, first of all, is to turn off these devices, get rid of the smartification of the home in terms of anything that can be recording what you're saying and sending it anywhere. Have you looked at the legal side? Is there anything that the government, you know, people are talking about breaking these companies up. and, you know, I don't, I just don't like the government getting involved in anything, and I certainly don't want to regulate them because that's what these companies want. They want regulation because regulation makes the cost of entry for other companies much higher.

Right. So they actually welcome regulations, so we don't want to encourage regulation. We also don't want to punish success in the United States. we don't want to punish successful corporations. However, I think that what has to be done is that Google needs to be understood and even called a state apparatus. And so once we acknowledge that it's actually been produced by the state to a great degree, we're talking about a place, and Facebook as well, we're talking about spaces that have to be considered public. And so I think the move should be for the dumbification of the home and the publication, if you will, of the digital realm. So in other words, knowing that these companies have been funded by and are being used by the government, it would require them then to be known as a state apparatus, which then the Bill of Rights would fall into. under.

Yeah. And we would have our rights back. We would have the free speech that we are entitled to as citizens of the United States, the First Amendment and the Second Amendment, which helps you guarantee all the other rights that we have. So I think it's absolutely incumbent upon us to develop a movement for this particular agenda. And I don't mean screaming in the streets. I'm talking about a kind of response that's, legal that is also, you know, reasoned and then using evidence rather than, you know, leftist-type tactics to bring this to its stop.

Michael, thank you so much. And we will have you on again here in the next week or so about your book. A lot of this is in the book. You really need to read it and know what's going on. Google Archipelago, that is by Michael Rectual. You can find him at Michael Recktonwald.com, but follow him. He is an interesting guy who thinks deeply about these subjects, and his book is terrifying, bone-chilling, hair-raising, Google Archipelago.

You can find it online now. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Should we go through the gaffes made by. our vice president. This is all after he was vice president. This is only in this run up. I don't think by the time we get to the election, if he is actually the candidate,

we are just not going to make it. We're not going to have enough time during the show to actually play the Gaff montage. No, we won't. We're up to, this is, I think, our seventh update so far. We've been doing it for about seven weeks. Seven days, really. I mean, we just started doing the updates to it.

And I know we, there are, every once in a while they'll be talking about Biden and some of the stuff he said. And I'm like, oh, we never even put that one in the original construction of the GAF montage. So there's more to add from the past and current. But this is just since he's announced. Okay. Here we go. This is Joe Biden.

We have this notion that somehow if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talent as white kids. Wealthy kids. White kids. Asian kids. We choose unity over division. We choose science over fiction. We choose truth over facts. When the kids from Parkland marched up to, and I met with them, and then they went off up on the hill when I was vice president. They went off the hill. Just like in my generation,

when I got out of school that when Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King had been assassinated in the 70s, late 70, I got engaged. My long friend, time friend, and she's a friend, she's been my friend, in and out of public life. There over 40 kids shot in Kent State on a beautiful lawn by the National Guard. We should set up a system, which I propose, if I'm elected president, that allows the folks at the health department in the United States, HHS. He's saying that it was president, my boss, it was his fault. I promise you, if I'm elected president, you're going to see the son.

single most important thing that changes in America is we're going to cure cancer. Donald Trump, Donald Trump is reelected. Forreity and slip. Folks, if you're interested, join me. I could use the help. Wow. I mean, it goes on and on. I mean, some of those things are just, we could go back to that one. The President Hump's speech had multiple.

What would they call, Bertations? Yeah. Because that one news anchor kind of just stopped being able to speak. for 30 seconds and kept saying the word bertation over and over again. She had multiple bertations during that run up to the moment where he calls him President Hump.

How come nobody's talking about the aneurism thing? Well, I mean, there is a it's a weird thing, right? You're turning, at some level, you're turning health into politics. But I mean, in this case, it's important, right? It just like it was, I mean, it was, they certainly

had no problem mocking Donald Trump's health examination where his his doctor was like a mad scientist. He's like a doctor of a villain in some Marvel comic. He was awesome. He's the most healthiest guy in the universe. That's my medical opinion. That guy was awesome.

Why didn't that guy have a show yet? I know. I want that guy. Why doesn't Netflix hired him? You know, somebody with a medical condition. Can we play Kamala Harris, please? Do we have time? 17 seconds.

What are you going to do in the next one? to diminish the mentally retarded action of this. That was what she says. Well said. Okay, well said. Now, she says, well said, to what are you going to do about this mentally retarded Trump? She later apologizes and said she hasn't,

she didn't really hear him. Wait, what? And that's not the first time she's done that. This is her go-to. Yeah, I didn't really hear it. She may have a hearing problem. We should have her hearing checked. The Blaze Radio Network.

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