Nov. 8, 2023 - Bannon's War Room
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| This is what you're fighting for. | ||
| I mean, every day you're out there. | ||
| What they're doing is blowing people off. | ||
| If you continue to look the other way and shut up, then the oppressors, the authoritarians, get total control and total power. | ||
| Because this is just like in Arizona. | ||
| This is just like in Georgia. | ||
| It's another element that backs them into a corner and shows their lies and misrepresentations. | ||
| This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged. | ||
| As we've told you, this is the fight. | ||
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All this nonsense, all this spin, they can't handle the truth. | |
| War Room Battleground. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Welcome to War Room Battleground. | ||
| It's Natalie Winters, not Stephen K. Bannon, hosting today, November 7th in the year of our Lord, 2023. | ||
| We got a very packed show for you. | ||
| I think it's going to be a nice juxtaposition, a tale of two cities, or I guess a tale of of two parties, not Republican, Democrat, but uniparty, and us, the American people, talking about the weaponization of the federal government. | ||
| We have a really a first-hand victim, and I don't just mean members of the war room posse, but someone whose organization, a good part of the show, has been on a while. Well, the wrath of the federal government has been unleashed against them, which is, of course, not an anomaly for, I guess, anyone who comes on this show, Present Company, and of course, my co-host, Stephen K. Bannon, included. | ||
| But then we will get into our Darren Beatty joining us, Dave Walsh, and, as the posse has demanded, more rants from me. | ||
| You may just get a rant, because I don't know about you guys, but I'm pretty fed up with the so-called bombshell that dropped today about CYSA and Election misinformation and censorship, that's a bombshell, right? | ||
| I don't know about you guys. | ||
| I knew all that stuff years ago, but we will get into that after we have our first guest who is joining us, who is Tom, and I can never remember his last name. | ||
| But Tom, I'm sure your last name is appearing on the screen right now, but I know you're with the wonderful American Accountability Foundation, which you guys do great work. | ||
| I'd say one of the most underrated organizations in DC. | ||
| But before we get into how the government is weaponizing against you, I know it's a cliche by now, but it is very true, if you could sort of walk us through, because there's an interesting link Sure. | ||
| I guess your manifestations or your worst nightmare sort of came true with what you were saying the federal government was gonna do to conservative advocacy groups. | ||
| So why don't you walk us through that and then we'll take it from there. | ||
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Sure, so about a year ago, we started digging into, particularly what Sheldon Whitehouse was doing. | |
| He's a senator from Rhode Island, famous for belonging to an all-white beach club in Rhode Island. | ||
| We started digging into what he was doing to target conservative groups, and we put in requests for the document. | ||
| We literally wanted the receipts. | ||
| What we found out was he had a laundry list of groups that he was targeting that he had urged the IRS, the Department of Justice, and the US Treasury to investigate. | ||
| It was all conservative groups. | ||
| It was all groups like ours, Tea Party USA, the Conservative Partnership Institute, Really the groups that were at the cutting edge of the fight for kind of America First values. | ||
| And so we discovered that and we publicized and said, look, this is just wrong. | ||
| We went through this weaponization of the IRS about 10 years ago under Barack Obama and Lois Lerner, and we can't do this again. | ||
| So we publicized that. | ||
| We really kind of got out in front with that. | ||
| So flash forward to about two weeks ago, we get a letter from the Internal Revenue Service that says, look, we're examining your C3 status and Again, for nonprofits, that's incredibly important because that allows patriots like your viewers to make tax-deductible donations to our organization, just like they can do to organizations on the left. | ||
| They said, look, we're going to examine it. | ||
| And it became very clear when we went through the document. | ||
| This wasn't just kind of a random audit that they do to any organization. | ||
| They specifically outlined that they were concerned about our communications about elected officials. | ||
| And that told us right off the bat, this isn't about how you run your business. | ||
| This is about who you talk about and what you work on. | ||
| So we knew right away that there was a weaponization of the IRS that was really part of this larger effort that we've been seeing, whether it's Jeff Clark or Steve Bannon or Mark Meadows, who the Biden administration is using kind of the tools and the power of the federal government to shut down. | ||
| So that's how we got to this week when we had to announce that, look, we're not going to take it. | ||
| We're fighting back and we're going to make sure that the IRS Personnel, not policy. | ||
| Not the, you know, financial policy that you guys are using to run your organization, but it's because you guys have dared to attack the likes of Anthony Fauci, his successor, Monica Bertagnoli, I believe you guys have also done. | ||
| Great reporting on how I believe it's the American Library Association, how they have ushered in, really opened the demonic floodgates for child pedophilia propaganda into and grooming materials. | ||
| That's what they are. | ||
| There's no sugarcoating in the war room. | ||
| Um, into children's classrooms, and I think the Barbara Bush Foundation gave the lady, Emily Jablonski, if that was her name, not to give names today, but gave, okay, there, I've redeemed myself, but gave her, um, an award. | ||
| So I'm just curious, you know, why, let me rephrase, just like when I was saying in the beginning, you know, juxtaposing a tale of two cities, two parties, it's not Republican versus Democrat, because there are a lot of Republican organizations They just kind of run with the colors of the swamp, right? | ||
| They toe the line. | ||
| They do what they're told. | ||
| And they don't ever have these audits. | ||
| But it's organizations like yours that dare to sort of defy these conservative norms. | ||
| I'm just curious, why do you think they're going after you now? | ||
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Yeah, I think it's simple why they're going after us. | |
| We're effective. | ||
| We put lead on the target and our research brings down their left-wing nominees, whether it's Guys like Dave Chipman, who was the leading advocate for gun control, or Emily Drabinski, who is peddling what is essentially gay porn into public libraries for five-year-olds. | ||
| We're conservative, America-first researchers that are focused on exposing these people. | ||
| And I think the administration understands that's a threat because we dig in, we do the deep dives that reporters used to do that they don't do anymore. | ||
| We do that kind of research that changes the debate, that brings down nominees. | ||
| Again, whether it's exposing Monica Bertognoli's past at the NIH or Exposing Kristen Clark, our Attorney General, whether her past of domestic abuse, we dig into that like no one else does. | ||
| And what they're doing here is the process is the punishment. | ||
| What they want to happen is that I don't have the time to dig into these people because I've got to comply with document demands from some researcher or some examiner. | ||
| in Missouri at the IRS who just demands that I turn over all these documents. | ||
| And if I don't, it cripples my organization. | ||
| So I've got to go through this process and comply or they're going to destroy us. | ||
| And look, I'm in a very fortunate position. | ||
| I've got a lot of really allies from my years of working on the Hill and working in professional politics. | ||
| We're going to make sure we beat this. | ||
| And I'm confident we're going to win because we've got patriots supporting us around the country, whether it's in Ohio or Florida or Texas. | ||
| We've got folks all over the country who are supporting us. | ||
| What I'm worried about is there's a small nonprofit in Kentucky that's really engaged in an issue with their school board, and they get a letter like this, and they've got a $50,000 annual budget and no lawyers, and they're like, well, what do I do now? | ||
| So we're going to fight for them. | ||
| We're going to fight for the people that support us because we've got the ability to do it, and this is just simply wrong. | ||
| Well, it's certainly convenient timing as we're approaching the 2024 election, and I don't think anyone could say that lawfare is not sort of the modus operandi, or at least currently the go-to tactic of not just the Democratic Party, but people who are, of course, opposed to Donald J. Trump. | ||
| So I'm just curious if you could sort of expand on that a little bit for the audience who maybe isn't super familiar with what this lawfare looks like up close and personal, not just necessarily against Donald J. Trump, Well, so first off, we definitely have not seen the last of it. | ||
| We're not the only ones here. | ||
| America First agenda exposing the Biden regime. | ||
| So how far, how deep do you think this current kind of legislative lawfare onslaught against groups like yours is going? | ||
| And have we seen the last of it? | ||
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Well, so first off, we definitely have not seen the last of it. | |
| We're not the only ones here. | ||
| Like, I don't want to, you know, I don't want to make us into into bigger martyrs than we There's people that are having much more intrusive attacks than AAF is, but what you're fighting is a government that has endless resources. | ||
| We're a small organization, less than a billion dollar budget. | ||
| We're going up against an organization, the IRS, that has 87,000 agents, new agents. | ||
| We have to fight back against the limitless resource And we have to take it out of our budget. | ||
| We have to take it out of things that we would otherwise use for investigating nominees at the Federal Aviation Administration or the Department of Justice. | ||
| And if we don't do it, we lose by default. | ||
| And that's the same thing that happens to people that are getting sued or getting their bar credentials attacked. | ||
| They've got to expend their personal resources to fight back against this. | ||
| And that's what the government wants to do. | ||
| They want you to kind of come to heel by making it so incredibly expensive and so time consuming. | ||
| They just throw your hands up and you're like, screw it. | ||
| I can't fight anymore. | ||
| I give up. | ||
| That's what they want to happen. | ||
| I think the only way this stops is if we get a president that says, all right, the beatings are coming now and you've been doing this to our side. | ||
| For ages. | ||
| And we're going to dish it out in the same measure that they dished it out to groups like AAF and folks on the right. | ||
| And the only way it stops is when that happens and that everybody says, look, this is ridiculous. | ||
| We got to stop this stuff with the government attacking individuals because of their political positions and everybody needs to retreat to their corners. | ||
| But until we have a president that's willing to come in and have that approach and say, look, the beatings are going to be again now, leftists, this stuff isn't going to stop. | ||
| They want it to be a Pyrrhic victory or so, right? | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| But I think it's sort of funny in the buried lead where they sort of say, the quiet part out loud, the projection aspect to it is that they fundamentally miscalculate and I think underestimate what the Trump movement is about. | ||
| Because if we were about money, if we were about high paying jobs, if we were about setting up these shady dark money NGOs to launder money to whatever cause, who knows what, We would have stopped a long time ago, because the lawfare wouldn't have been worth it, right? | ||
| President Donald J. Trump would not have returned from the plow, as Stephen K. Bannon always says, if it wasn't about the same thing that motivates you, the same thing that motivates him, the same thing that motivates myself, and Stephen K. Bannon, and everyone who watches this show, which is love of country, and no price, right? | ||
| No price can be put on that. | ||
| So before I let you go, I want to know what the path forward looks like for you guys. | ||
| And most importantly, how the War Room Posse, even besides writing checks or, you know, supporting you guys financially, but how they can help you and get the word out and share this story. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So the path forward for us is, you know, we're going to work through the process. | ||
| We have a lot of lawyers who, who know how to do this, but I think what, what the Posse can do is, you know, consume our materials. | ||
| We're a research organization. | ||
| We like sharing the information. | ||
| So go to our website, American-AF.org, and sign up for our newsletter. | ||
| Get the research we do on nominees, empower yourself with the good work that my team puts together, and really be a force for exposing the radicals on the left, whether they're in government or non-profits. | ||
| Just get empowered with that information. | ||
| So please visit our website and follow us on Twitter at Exposing Biden, where we put out all of our information and just be part of the team. | ||
| Tom Jones, you and all of your people over at the American Accountability Foundation rock. | ||
| I say this as a researcher myself, you guys do great work. | ||
| Thank you so, so much for joining us. | ||
| You are welcome back anytime. | ||
| I'm sure the next some iteration or derivation of lawfare that they use against you, you are more than welcome to come on the show or the next bombshell report you guys have on some crazy deranged leftist. | ||
| We will certainly have you back. | ||
| Thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| Have a good one. | ||
| Now, Warren Posse, before we get to our next guest, Darren J. Beattie, who has a new story. | ||
| You guys know Revolver.News is always coming in hot. | ||
| I just want to set the stage for a little bit because I'm sure you guys have seen by now that the Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Jim Jordan, released a new report last... it was yesterday or this morning, right? | ||
| Big breaking news about the censorship industrial complex. | ||
| I'm sure all the House Republicans have their fiery tweets, they use the word bombshell quite a lot, but you know what? | ||
| I don't know about you guys, but for me, for everyone who's watched this show, that story, right? | ||
| The collusion between CISA and DHS and the Election Integrity Partnership, social media platforms, That's not a bombshell. | ||
| That didn't just break yesterday. | ||
| And I don't just mean it because you guys know that story chapter and verse because you guys are probably the ones who've been censored time after time. | ||
| But I also say that because we've been talking about that story all the way back when I was working at the National Pulse here on War Room for years. | ||
| So my question is not necessarily for the people who are guilty. | ||
| I think of basically guillotining free speech, the First Amendment, you know, hiding under the guise of misinformation. | ||
| But for House Republicans, how dumb do you think Americans are? | ||
| How dumb do you think your voters are? | ||
| The people who are getting routinely censored and suppressed and kicked off these social media platforms? | ||
| I don't know about you, but I take it as an insult to my intelligence that Jim Jordan and the Weaponization Committee wants to put out some frankly shoddily pieced together report with apparently no understanding of how messaging and narrative building works. | ||
| Years after this happened, years after the 2022 election, I mean, it's, there's so much to unpack here, not just on the DHS's seclusion, which we'll have Darren joining us shortly to unpack that, because as you guys know, he, Mike Benz, that whole group of people have done wonderful work on that. | ||
| But the very same members of Congress who are tweeting right now, right, about how horrible this is, In fiscal year 2022 to fiscal year 2023, the budget for CISA, that is the cybersecurity and information security agency right under DHS's purview, that's conducting all these censorship operations was increased by $313 million. | ||
| They were the ones who okayed that. | ||
| So while your supporters, your voters, were actively getting censored by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, you name it, although I hope none of you guys are on TikTok. | ||
| Our Republicans who are supposed to be defending us, we're giving them hundreds of millions of dollars more. | ||
| I mean, you can't even make it up. | ||
| And Kate Starbird, the lady who runs the Election Integrity Partnership, which was the key function, the key component of how this whole money and information laundering kind of approach to censorship worked, These people don't hide their true agenda. | ||
| We put the story out, I think it was last year, I went through some of her old tweets where she says that you have a moral and ethical obligation to suppress content that promotes right-wing populism. | ||
| Well, I don't think you can watch a War Room show without either myself or Steve declaring us right-wing populists. | ||
| So she's quite literally calling for the censorship and suppression of war room content, of Donald Trump content, of the America First movement, yet our taxpayer dollars that these House Republicans are supposed to be stewards of are giving them more money and we couldn't even pass the amendment that stripped CISA of their funding. | ||
| What was it, about a month ago? | ||
| And this is the same tactic that the left uses on every single issue. | ||
| They outsource their dirty, dirty agenda that is so unconstitutional it makes me laugh when House Republicans think that criticizing what the left wants to do is unconstitutional holds any weight. | ||
| They know that. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| They don't respect the document. | ||
| But that's exactly what they do on every issue. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| They outsource their dirty work to the NGOs. | ||
| Meanwhile, Our advocacy organizations, like we just had Tom on, are getting pummeled by the IRS, by Democrats in the Senate. | ||
| But it's exactly what the left does. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| From immigration on the border, right? | ||
| They outsource the massive invasion that's going on in this country to the NGOs that are operating on the border. | ||
| Of course, the United Nations, all of those organizations are totally in on it. | ||
| They do the same exact thing with elections, right? | ||
| They use these shady NGOs to help clean the voter rolls. | ||
| They use them to help literally design the mail-in ballot templates to make sure that people who don't speak English, and people who probably aren't even American citizens, can get their vote in. | ||
| It's the same tactic, and meanwhile the best we have are some lukewarm, lackluster House Republicans who want to tweet stories three years later after they break, take credit for it, and do nothing, and just try to fundraise off of it. | ||
| And by the way, we'll get to Darren, but I know there's been a lot of people talking about this story, right? | ||
| Because I guess maybe our memories are short, but I want to tell you where this story's going. | ||
| Because I'm going to link it to another story that I'm sure House Republicans will try to take credit for in, like, three or four months. | ||
| The Cybersecurity Advisory Committee was set up by CISA not too long ago. | ||
| It was hailed as a flagship product of the Biden regime. | ||
| And you guys may remember it because it was a story that the Intercept had broke, where they talked about collusion between the federal government and of course the social media platforms on censoring you, whether it was COVID information, Afghanistan, the Chinese Communist Party, the origins of COVID, the election, you name it. | ||
| But what the very lead of that report was, and Jim Jordan, you can take credit for this if you'd like, is that it wasn't just the big social media platforms that were involved in those meetings. | ||
| It was representatives from the entire spectrum of corporate America. | ||
| So when you talk about the ushering in of a social credit score system here in the United States, the collusion between big government, big tech, big social media platforms and big academia, And you look at the types of people who are on this board, I'll read you the companies in a second, but it shows you where they're ultimately going with this. | ||
| Because they're not just stopping with censoring your Facebook posts. | ||
| That's just the buy-in. | ||
| What they want to do, what they want to... I mean, they admit it! | ||
| Fundamentally transform this country. | ||
| They had representatives from Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, MasterCard, Walmart, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, you name it! | ||
| All in these meetings, helping to censor. | ||
| So right now, they might just be coming after your social media posts, but how long until JPMorgan Chase shuts down your account? | ||
| Apple probably starts hacking into your devices, Or maybe doesn't even let you buy a device at their store anymore because your social credit score just isn't good enough. | ||
| We've gone from we the people to we the censored, and the best that we can get is our House Republicans giving us, you know, angry, angry tweets and no tax cuts and cutting the budget of this organization, though that's a great place to start. | ||
| You're not going to get us out of this mess. | ||
| So with that being said, it's why you have to go to birchgold.com slash Bannon, because I just told you how they're going to weaponize the financial and economic sector here in the United States against us. | ||
| You'll be lucky if you can even open a bank account at JPMorgan Chase. | ||
| They're too busy colluding with all the bigwigs over at Twitter and all the CISA and DHS people who just hate your guts and hate everything you believe and stand for. | ||
| And the way they get away with it now is just by going after your Facebook posts, but you gotta go to places like Birchgold.com slash Bannon, read the End of the Dollar Empire to understand how you can make your financial status and protections immune. | ||
| from all that craziness. | ||
| Now, Darren J. Beattie, I know you have done a lot of work on this front at Revolver.News. | ||
| I'll definitely keep you through the break, but just your thoughts. | ||
| Maybe you disagree with me. | ||
| That's totally fine, just because we both went to the University of Chicago doesn't mean we have to have the same opinions, but I would just love your analysis of today's bombshell story that is CISA colluded with big tech and big corporations to silence us during the 2020 election. | ||
| Well, it's great to be here. | ||
| And first of all, Natalie, I have to say, I'm very charmed by your conscientious practice of noting the middle initial of everyone who deserves the highest level of admiration. | ||
| I notice every single time, every single time it's Donald J. Trump, every single time it's Stephen K. Bannon, and every single time it's Darren J. Beatty. | ||
| I will note that Jim Jordan does not get in the middle initial, which I think reflects on the refinement of your judgment. | ||
| So I just wanted to start with that. | ||
| More substantively, though, you're absolutely right about CISA. | ||
| This is one of the biggest stories, one of the biggest developments, and actually a partially optimistic development, because in a sense, they were caught red handed. | ||
| There is a major case going up before the Supreme Court in Missouri v. Biden, which takes to task the people that you mentioned, like Kate Starbird and others involved with CISA. | ||
| The EIP, the Election Integrity Partnership that you mentioned, we've been on this for a long time. | ||
| And as I know you've been at revolver.news, a major piece that we published back in the day, classic now, was about Renee D'Aresta. | ||
| And just to give, we don't have infinite amount of time, but just to give people a sense of what clownish, ridiculous people are running the censorship industrial complex. | ||
| One of the key figures in this space is a woman named Renee DiResta. | ||
| Now, she cut her teeth as part of an organization called New Knowledge. | ||
| Now, New Knowledge's claim to fame was they were kind of early on in this whole racket of blaming everything on Russia. | ||
| Russia this, Russia that, Russian bots, Russian disinformation. | ||
| Now here's the kicker. | ||
| It turns out that New Knowledge, the organization that Rene DiResta was affiliated with, created fake Russian bots. | ||
| They created fake Russian bots. | ||
| They weren't even Russian. | ||
| And not only that, they got fake Russian bots to support A Republican candidate that they wanted to demonize. | ||
| And then on the basis of this person's support by fake Russian bots, they said, this person is a Russian agent. | ||
| And furthermore, the problem of Russian disinformation is so bad that we need more funding based on fake accounts that they set up. | ||
| Now you think in any sensible country, in any sensible universe, If you're caught red-handed in something like that, your future employment prospects are limited to the fast food industry, or even worse, because we need honest people in those industries. | ||
| We don't want people to spit in your food and stuff like that. | ||
| She's not even worthy of being in the fast food industry. | ||
| And yet, instead of being cast out of any kind of gainful employment, she effectively got a promotion. | ||
| She got a nice cushy job at this Stanford affiliated think tank, the Stanford Internet Observatory. | ||
| And by the way, all these universities now have the associated basically censorship laboratories and Stanford's is the Stanford Internet Observatory associated with the election integrity partnership. | ||
| Now, the reason I know about this organization so intimately is that in there, they did a long study before the 2020 election. | ||
| In which Revolver News' reporting was prominently featured. | ||
| In particular, they did a very detailed study on how what they call disinformation goes viral. | ||
| And they used as a case study, Revolver News' coverage of color revolutions. | ||
| People might forget, before we really kind of got on the map with January 6th stuff, we broke ground with covering color revolutions. | ||
| And that was a major aspect of kind of a Game-changer in terms of the conversation 2020 they did a deep dive on that and they have a whole graph on how it goes from revolver to Other sources, you know like Tucker Carlson and so forth very detailed very Sophisticated analysis and I'm thankful to them because they're effectively saying, look how influential Revolver is. | ||
| But it's amazing that they took the time to do this and that it's being run by this scam woman who's associated with this organization, setting up fake Russian bots. | ||
| And now it's going to come out that she's involved in the latest grift, which is effectively to coerce and pressure Congress into forcing various institutions to do business | ||
| with companies like NewsGuard, which are these services that for a small... As much as I love to dunk on NewsGuard, real testament to the IQ of this country, we got to jump to break, but I'll hold you through. | ||
| I'll let you pick up. | ||
| And I hear you have a spicy story that sort of dovetails with everything we were talking about. | ||
| It's a hot tamale. | ||
| It's the big one. | ||
| It's the big one. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| War Room Posse, we got him, we got Dave Walsh, we got a packed show. | ||
| we will be right back. | ||
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War Room Battlegrounds with Stephen K. Bannon War Room Battlegrounds with Stephen K. Bannon you Welcome back to the War Room. | |
| It's Natalie G. Winters. | ||
| Maybe I should start adding that thanks to Darren's very intelligent acknowledgement. | ||
| I guess noticing that I seem to include middle initials on people whom I respect. | ||
| Darren J. Beattie. | ||
| Although I don't even know what the J stands for. | ||
| The G for me stands for Grace. | ||
| Maybe you can tell the audience if it's not top secret. | ||
| You can pick up where you left off with the sissy stuff. | ||
| I enjoy letting you just rant because you usually make the points that I want to make. | ||
| You make my job easy, but don't take up too much time because I do also want to talk about the new story that you just dropped on Revolver.News. | ||
| Indeed, and the J is for a distinguished Jeffrey. | ||
| Just wanted to break that only with you, only on this show. | ||
| I would only break that bombshell on this show. | ||
| But yeah, there's Not much more said about us. | ||
| NewsGuard is a story unto itself. | ||
| We also did, you know, one of the first stories on NewsGuard, which, you know, basically, if you pay them money, they'll tell you what websites are naughty and what websites are nice. | ||
| And instead of calling it naughty, they'll say, oh, it has a nutrition label. | ||
| This is a nutritious information, or this is not very nutritious. | ||
| Stay away from that. | ||
| And of course, It conforms exactly to what you'd expect in your outsourcing your judgment to proven liars and scumbags of the likes of, for one example, General Michael Hayden, who gained notoriety, among other things, for heading the NSA, just as it was developing illegal spy capabilities that Edward Snowden exposed. | ||
| So just when you thought it could be It couldn't be any dumber. | ||
| It couldn't be any more ridiculous. | ||
| It couldn't be any more outrageous. | ||
| You learn the details of these organizations and it's far, far worse than you thought. | ||
| So that's that. | ||
| As to the latest piece at Revolver, I'm very proud about this. | ||
| This is probably one of the biggest investigative stories that we've done. | ||
| It's taken a long time. | ||
| It's a very deep dive and it's an issue that's very important and that is aviation safety. | ||
| You know, we all fly quite a bit, and we don't want our airplanes to crash. | ||
| And we don't really think about all that goes into preventing the airplanes from crashing. | ||
| And you don't really want to think of the people involved. | ||
| You always want to imagine some hyper-competent person and, you know, multiple layers of redundancy. | ||
| To some extent, they have that. | ||
| But we've gotten into a dire situation. | ||
| There's a catastrophic collapse in aviation safety with Um, a sharp increase in near misses on the runway. | ||
| So airplanes almost colliding into each other on the runway and even more terrifying to imagine increasing incidents of what they call loss of separation, which is when planes get too close to each other mid air. | ||
| And this has all been happening, uh, with increasing frequency. | ||
| And we decided this is important enough. | ||
| We need to do an ultra deep dive. | ||
| This is a major piece. | ||
| We spoke with several. | ||
| Air traffic control employees, many of whom, most of whom frankly didn't want to go on the record. | ||
| We talked to the official spokesmen, former senior officials within the FAA and others. | ||
| And some of them, you know, the amount of nonsense that they would give us to paper over the reality is quite incredible. | ||
| The long story short, the finding that we've had is there are two major and neglected features that account for the Catastrophic decline in airline safety. | ||
| One is COVID-era hiring freeze. | ||
| Now, we know about the lockdowns in terms of the economic devastation. | ||
| Revolver did an early and very groundbreaking study using the life years metric to show that actually the COVID lockdowns resulted in an order of magnitude greater loss of life than it saved. | ||
| We didn't even take into account the fact that organizations like the FAA had a hiring freeze on air traffic controllers, leading to a massive and devastating shortage of people. | ||
| So the people who are there are having to work overtime shifts, are tired, are not functioning according to their optimal capabilities. | ||
| And this is compounded by the fact, so that's the quantity. | ||
| The quality is affected by Obama-era Affirmative action policies under Obama believe it or not, but you have to believe it because it's documented. | ||
| The Obama administration decided to replace the skills oriented merit test that had previously vetted potential air traffic controllers and replace the test with this stupid thing called a bio, um, bio data test. | ||
| Which is effectively asking people information about their lives. | ||
| And the woman in charge of this, she's actually a professor of HR, if you could believe such a thing exists. | ||
| And in her dissertation, the whole dissertation is about how they can increase diversity by replacing skills-oriented tests with these bio-data tests. | ||
| And if you break it down to what it's actually saying, it's quite remarkable, it's saying, If we want to increase diversity, we have to basically eliminate the questions that have disparate impact and differential results to the point that the test is effectively testing nothing. | ||
| And when the tests are testing nothing, then we get the racially desired results that reflect the proportions that exist in the population, which is what they want. | ||
| But the results of this are disastrous, and they devastate the level of competence And if there's anybody that you want to be competent is the air traffic controller. | ||
| And so this is gets into really deeper issues about the state that our country is in now, because you would think, you know, there's one side of us that would think, okay, the people in charge of the regime know that the diversity thing is a joke. | ||
| They know that the eliminating merit in favor of diversity is a joke. | ||
| And yes, they'll do it in places where they can get away with it, where it has sort of more of a cosmetic effect. | ||
| But if anything, they will suspend that activity when it comes to critical infrastructure like air traffic control, and maybe make up the difference by having more diversity in your airline commercials or something like that, where it doesn't do as much damage. | ||
| But no, they actually gutted air traffic control with this diversity agenda. | ||
| And the larger point, the subtext here is really, there's a lot of talk. | ||
| People like Peter Thiel have lamented the decline in technological innovation, but actually the situation seems far more bleak than that. | ||
| Let alone the question of whether we innovate is the question of whether we can simply maintain the complex systems. | ||
| That are essential to a first world civilization and lifestyle, among which is a functioning and safe aviation industry. | ||
| And this underscores a very dangerous trend that there simply isn't institutional knowledge. | ||
| There is not replicated institutional knowledge in critical sectors of our society and economy. | ||
| Such that we can simply maintain these functioning systems into the next generation. | ||
| We've got competent people on the older side of generation X and on the boomers, the younger side of the boomers, the older boomers are mostly retired. | ||
| But when they phase out, there's a real question as to how we maintain the basic functioning of a first world society. | ||
| And what's going on in the aviation industry does not bode well for this. | ||
| And the remarkable thing there is, just the last point on this, is there's a tendency to look at this and say, okay, well, the ruling class, they're taking care of themselves. | ||
| The commercial airline industry is sort of an issue of the commons. | ||
| The commoners go on commercial, the elite fly private. | ||
| But the thing about the air traffic control is. | ||
| Air traffic control affects private just as much as anyone else. | ||
| And in fact, we lead the story with a very, very near catastrophic event involving a private aircraft in an airport as a result of air traffic control failure. | ||
| So it really underscores how fanatically committed to diversity over meritocracy the ruling class is, such as to even put themselves in this kind of danger. | ||
| Because flying private will not save you from this issue. | ||
| And the last question that we address, which is an important one, because one way to fix all of this is to effect a dramatic reversal in terms of our culture, in terms of our legal system, in terms of basically the broad range of perspectives that animate our seemingly Uncompromised commitment to diversity above everything else. | ||
| So either that changes, which is a very difficult thing, or something else has to take effect. | ||
| And that something else could be technology. | ||
| It could be, say, that the advancements in technology pick up the slack created by the degradation of competence that comes from this diversity agenda. | ||
| And so that's an open question. | ||
| But one really bleak aspect of this story is There are software systems and technological capabilities that assist air traffic controllers in detecting and avoiding near misses and things like this. | ||
| But so many of the airports don't even have the latest technology on this. | ||
| And in light of the fact that we've directed nearly a hundred billion dollars to Ukraine, my humble suggestion to the enterprising elected officials Who might be listening to this is take up this issue. | ||
| Say, how about some of that $100 billion should go into preventing the next catastrophic aviation disaster in the United States because our airports aren't even adequately equipped with the latest technology for air traffic control. | ||
| Something so basic like that. | ||
| It's just a no brainer for enterprising elected officials. | ||
| So. | ||
| I very much hope that people will read this piece at revolver.news. | ||
| Doesn't matter how disturbing it is. | ||
| Doesn't matter how difficult it is to stomach. | ||
| We have to look at these things straight in the eye and acknowledge the circumstances that we're in. | ||
| People need to go and read this piece. | ||
| They need to understand it. | ||
| They need to digest it. | ||
| They need to share it. | ||
| And most of all, we need to bring this pressure onto elected officials so we can prevent the next aviation disaster. | ||
| As a result of the one-two punch combination of a disastrous and really abysmally stupid COVID policy and a disastrous and even more stupid diversity agenda. | ||
| Well, Darren, you know, I would love to keep you over because anytime I hear the word diversity, equity and inclusion, I love to talk about my high school experiences with that whole push, you know, I was actually The, uh, not the star, but they modeled the pilot episode of the second season of the Netflix show, Dear White People, off of my activism in high school. | ||
| Shameless plug for myself. | ||
| You can look, I talked about it in more depth on Don Jr.' 's podcast. | ||
| I just did his show, but Darren- The lore goes deep. | ||
| The Natalie lore goes deep. | ||
| That's amazing. | ||
| It's amazing. | ||
| It's, it's great. | ||
| Um, but I have to let you go. | ||
| Cause you have Dave Walsh to talk about some more substantive stuff like energy and how we're going to power our houses. | ||
| But Darren, in the meantime, people want to follow you, get everything that Revolver's working on all the stories. | ||
| Where can they go to do that? | ||
| There's only one thing you need to know. | ||
| If you're watching this, go to revolver.news. | ||
| At the very top, there's this piece I'm talking about, about the catastrophic decline in aviation safety. | ||
| Take the 30 minutes to an hour. | ||
| To read it and digest it and share it. | ||
| And let's do something about it because this is very serious stuff and it speaks to the larger issue in this country. | ||
| We're not going to be able to maintain all these systems that we now take for granted. | ||
| And that will transition the United States into what Trump might've called an asshole. | ||
| I won't say, I won't say the full word because I got in trouble by one of the producers last time. | ||
| So out of respect, I will just say asshole. | ||
| But people know what I mean. | ||
| Darren, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| Thank you, Natalie. | ||
| I think we got Dave Walsh joining us. | ||
| Now, Dave, I know you're always coming on the show to talk about energy and wind power, solar, nuclear, how all of this sort of overlaps and frankly doesn't work. | ||
| But it seems like the state that the Biden regime has put us in when it comes to American energy independence really has propped up Qatar to be really poised in a position where Really couldn't be much better, maybe, except under Barack Obama. | ||
| But to be in amidst this ongoing Middle East, you know, if it'll turn into a regional war, but Middle East conflict between Israel and Hamas, specifically because they've become the second largest exporter of liquid natural gas. | ||
| So I'm just curious if you could sort of walk us through how the Biden regime really has enabled Qatar to sort of have the upper hand in some ways in what's going on in the Middle East right now due to their policies. | ||
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Well, there are two ways. | |
| There was a piece in USA Today two days ago, very troubling because it mirrors what's going on here in a negative sense. | ||
| Qatar, with about 4 million people, has the second largest LNG exportation business in the world right behind us. | ||
| We just passed Qatar about a year and a half ago in overall exports of liquefied natural gas. | ||
| We're up to nearly $120 billion a year in export value, a huge portion of our total oil and gas Exportation is $350 billion. | ||
| Out of our total exports of only $2 trillion, oil and gas is a huge component of it. | ||
| Natural gas now, LNG, is a massive component of that. | ||
| And Qatar is right behind us. | ||
| So this tiny country does swing way beyond its weight with massive influence in the Middle East due to that monetization revenue stream. | ||
| But, you know, in a massively negative sense, further the fact that they harbor The Hamas leadership in their country, and they have for several years, yeah, it does put them in a position to be in the middle of these discussions about hostage releases and the continued activity with Israel in attacking the sites that attacked them just four weeks ago. | ||
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So, what you're looking at is here, we're eschewing the abandonment of oil and gas production, including natural gas production. | |
| This administration can't stand it, can't stand pipelines. | ||
| Can't stand offshore oil and gas permits, wants less natural gas produced and used here. | ||
| And here, of course, because it's used in most of the rest of the world very actively, even though the 13 countries that are heavy into managing CO2 and man-caused global warming are promoting not to be interested in oil and gas, of which 13 countries, we are unfortunately one. | ||
| The other 170 countries in the world know all about using Oil, coal, gas, nuclear power to promote their economies. | ||
| So natural gas is going to be a huge element of the global economy for the next 50 years, and especially as more of this wind and solar occur in Western Europe and here, because that stuff only works on average about 25% of the time, natural gas is essential for the rest of the time, given that coal is out of favor. | ||
| So it's fundamentally important, and here we're We're proffering abandoning also to let tiny nations like Qatar have massive diplomatic influence that we once enjoyed as a major global economic powerhouse. | ||
| So building on Darren's comments about infrastructure destruction in this country, you know, a consequence of this one on energy is a massive reduction in our ability to be influential in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world by abandoning in the longer run critical fuels production. | ||
| And just curious to link this back to, I believe it was a wind project off the coast of New Jersey that they've sort of called quits on, but how the Biden regime has just really pushed for energy policies, even if you take the LNG aspect out of it from a global perspective, but really has just fundamentally kneecapped American energy independence, if you want to drill into that story a little bit, and then probably got to let you go. | ||
| Well, European developer Orsted has now cancelled their participation in Ocean Wind 1 and 2 off Southern New Jersey, which were collectively going to be 3340 megawatts at a cost to build of about $11.8 billion. | ||
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They sought added subsidies from New Jersey. | |
| They didn't get them, sought added subsidies from the federal government. | ||
| Fortunately, they didn't get them, although in other projects such as the one at Sunrise Wind up in Long Island, They appear to be succeeding in getting subsidies increased from Biden's government from 30% now up to 40% to keep Sunrise and the Rhode Island project going that they have going. | ||
| But the one in New Jersey, the biggest single project in the U.S. | ||
| for offshore wind is now off the books. | ||
| It's off the books because these projects operate 42% of the time. | ||
| They don't operate 58% of the time. | ||
| At $11.8 billion, this type of project is about nine times more costly than building a combined cycle plant of exactly equivalent net capacity. | ||
| Those plants run all the time, so you only need about a 1,400 megawatt combined cycle plant to generate that same equivalent but continuous baseload duty power. | ||
| It would cost about $1.5 billion, $1.6 billion to build one of those. | ||
| Here, this offshore wind at operational 42% of the time Of the same capacity is about $11.8 billion to build. | ||
| Utterly senseless economically. | ||
| So that's driven it, if you will, into a ditch, the inability to get more incentives. | ||
| And thank God they got them past those costs along to the rest of us in the country, not the rate payers in New Jersey eating that. | ||
| It's been canceled by Orsted. | ||
| So as well, the Sunrise Project in Long Island's in trouble. | ||
| The one off of Rhode Island has been on the critical list. | ||
| Looks like it might, uh, Revolution of Wind, about 800 megawatts. | ||
| And Dave, we're coming up against the end of the show. | ||
| I'm sorry to cut you off, but I know you talk about this more on your Getter. | ||
| So where can people go to get all of your analysis? | ||
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| Find me on Getter and True Social at Dave Walsh Energy. | ||
| Thank you, Natalie. | ||
| He's a must-follow. | ||
| Dave, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| It's all the more imperative that you guys check out places like Public Square so we aren't beholden not just to this radical green energy agenda, but the radicals, the incompetent radicals, I'm sure Darren wants me to add that, whether it's DHS, CISA, you name it, because the way that they want you to live your life pretty soon enough, like I said, Amazon is included in that CISA collaboration where they want to deprive you not just of your right to post on social media networks, but really what is, I think, | ||
| The opening stages of a war for the fundamental freedoms that not just that we are promised and trying to in this country because they are God-given inalienable rights because you're Americans and that's what we deserve. | ||
| War Room, I will be back I think later this week and Steve will be back tomorrow. |
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