Dec. 1, 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. | ||
| He was brilliant, ambitious, controversial, and one of the most influential secretaries of state in American history. I think we've made further progress. | ||
| Henry Kissinger served Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and was consulted by presidents of both parties on international issues throughout his life. | ||
| Henry Kissinger has been a friend of mine. | ||
| Nixon made him a national figure, and together they reimagined U.S. | ||
| foreign policy, detente with the Soviet Union, relations with China, shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East. | ||
| Kissinger helped shape Nixon's policy in Vietnam and negotiated an end to the war, famously declaring success prematurely just days before the 1972 election. | ||
| We believe that peace is at hand. | ||
| He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | ||
| Nothing that has happened to me in public life has moved me more than this award. | ||
| Though his co-recipient, North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho, declined the honor. | ||
| Four years later, President Ford awarded him the Medal of Freedom. | ||
| He was a master of pragmatic, big-picture diplomacy. | ||
| But he had his critics, who described him as manipulative and insecure. | ||
| Some called him a war criminal for his role in bombing Cambodia and widening the war in Vietnam. | ||
| Born in Germany in 1923, Kissinger's Jewish family fled to America as Hitler rose to power. | ||
| He became a U.S. | ||
| citizen, served in World War II, and earned a Ph.D. | ||
| at Harvard, where he became a professor. | ||
| He caught the eye of Richard Nixon, who made him National Security Advisor, then Secretary of State, the only person ever to hold both jobs simultaneously. | ||
| There is no country in the world Where it is conceivable that a man of my origins could be standing here next to the President of the United States. | ||
| But their relationship was complicated, and White House tapes reveal that Kissinger sometimes enabled the worst in Nixon. | ||
| It was a very curious relationship, because we were not personally very close. | ||
| The night before he resigned in disgrace, Nixon asked Kissinger to kneel and pray with him. | ||
| And of course it was a crushing event, but I think that evening, As an experience with dignity. | ||
| Kissinger was no faceless bureaucrat. | ||
| He was a world-renowned celebrity. | ||
| I love your foreign accent. | ||
| And he loved the spotlight. | ||
| He was even something of a pop culture icon. | ||
| After leaving government, he opened his own consulting firm, remaining active and sought after for decades. | ||
| At 95, eulogizing John McCain's life, Kissinger sounded a wistful note about his own. | ||
| Like most people of my age, I feel a longing for what is lost and cannot be restored. | ||
| Henry Kissinger was a man of great accomplishment and controversy. | ||
| But as he once told NBC's Barbara Walters, he had no regrets. | ||
| If I had to do it over again, I would do it again. | ||
| Substantially the same way. | ||
| Which may make me unreconstructed. | ||
| Maybe one reason why I'm at peace with myself. | ||
| Lester Holt, NBC News, New York. | ||
| Thursday, 30 November, Year of the Lord 2023. | ||
| Welcome for the second hour of our late afternoon, early evening coverage here in the War Room. | ||
| Complicated, this one, because of the Phyllis Schlafly's of the world and her book, Kissinger on the Couch, I think is one of actually the most important texts out there. | ||
| Dr. Kissinger, and he tried to weasel his way in through certain members. | ||
| of the Trump entourage in 2016 after we won, of which we would have none of it and really went out of our way to make sure that he didn't get into the administration or really have much influence as he tried, just like he tried with Ronald Reagan and was shut off. | ||
| Uh, the most important damage he did and lasting damage he definitely did was not simply in Southeast Asia, uh, in the killing fields, uh, the, I don't know, 20 or 30 million, uh, folks in Southeast Asia slaughtered after his kind of abrupt, um, surrender in the, um, in, in talking Nixon to the surrender in, um, in, uh, South Vietnam, uh, with, uh, when he was Jerry Ford's, I think national security advisor and secretary of state. | ||
| I want to bring in Brad there. | ||
| You wrote a pretty smart obituary. | ||
| When the Chinese Communist Party makes a big deal and comes out with an official statement, it calls him an old and valued friend. | ||
| What does that term mean for people in the audience out there, particularly in our vast international audience? | ||
| We have a lot of folks in Australia and in the littoral nations around the South China Sea. | ||
| When the CCP refers to someone as an old and valued friend, what does that mean, sir? | ||
| Well, Steve, it means that he was valuable to the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| He was a useful idiot, to use Lenin's term, regarding an individual who is going to serve the interests of the Chinese Communist Party, which is why their mourning has lost. | ||
| So from our perspective, of course, Kissinger's death, to the extent any death can have a silver lining, is positive, and it's positive in the following respect. | ||
| He touted himself as a great strategist, and indeed he was a great strategist for the People's Republic of China. | ||
| He wasn't a great strategist for the United States or for America's interests, which is very important to keep in mind. | ||
| What you've been talking about, Steve, for years, the growth of the Chinese Communist Party, its influence in international politics, is due to the extent it is to any one individual. | ||
| It's due to Henry Kissinger. | ||
| If there's a father of the growth of the Chinese Communist Party, it's Henry Kissinger and what he allowed. | ||
| He allowed investment, trade, all of those elements that he facilitated that were the rocket fuel for the People's Republic of China. | ||
| Henry Kissinger opened the floodgates through Kissinger Associates, His law firm's ties, obviously, to Wall Street, financiers, K Street, and Washington lawyers, as well as on the Hill. | ||
| This guy is responsible for what Cleo Pascal talked about this morning. | ||
| The Chinese showing up with mountains, with tons of cash, right? | ||
| Well, where did they get that cash? | ||
| They got that cash, really, from the policies that Henry Kissinger allowed. | ||
| And facilitated through Kissinger Associates. | ||
| So he was indeed an old friend of China, the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| He was their best friend. | ||
| But from our perspective, he had the Midas touch in reverse. | ||
| Right. | ||
| This guy was a was a disaster. | ||
| He's responsible for the engagement school, right, for allowing that to capture, if you will, the strategic mindset, the economic mindset of the American national security. | ||
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But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but it's deeper than that, though. | |
| Let's go back in time. | ||
| This obsession with the Peloponnesian War and with this theory of Athens and Sparta, and this concept of the Thucydides Trap, which is a declining power and a rising power. | ||
| Graham Allison and Henry Kissinger ran the exact same scam, the exact same scam in the early 70s, in his original rise to power, where he was the advocate in all the inner circles of government of saying that the Soviet Union and their system is a better system. | ||
| And remember, this was all the phony numbers were coming out about the Soviet economy. | ||
| And he and Graham Allison, and Graham Allison, remember, was the great nuclear strategist. | ||
| Like Herman Kahn and Graham Allison were about decision theory, and, you know, he was at Harvard, all this decision theory. | ||
| They came up with the concept that we were the declining power and they were the rising power, and we had to reach some sort of rapprochement. | ||
| And that led to detente, and that led to all the... The reason I know this, as a young naval officer, I took the courses from the Naval War College. | ||
| And we start with the Peloponnesian War, and I said, look, I love history, I love reading Thucydides, I love reading about the Peloponnesian War, but why in the hell is a naval officer in the Pacific Fleet in the mid-1970s? | ||
| Why are we doing that? | ||
| And I was informed that, oh no, this is actually the intellectual construct of how the senior members of our government think about this, that we're a declining power and they're a rising power. | ||
| And I said, that's kind of odd because I look around as a young naval officer going throughout Asia, I kind of see the United States as being a pretty good, not just power, but we're still on the rise. | ||
| Reagan came in and rejected that. | ||
| That's why he was not in the Reagan administration. | ||
| Reagan said, I want anybody but Kissinger. | ||
| And they tried to force him on. | ||
| He said, no, no, no. | ||
| This is why he picked Richard V. Allen. | ||
| And he told Richard V. Allen. | ||
| And Richard V. Allen's kind of going through and getting caught up in this geostrategic mumbo-jumbo. | ||
| He goes, hey, Dick, how about this? | ||
| We win, they lose. | ||
| They're the evil empire. | ||
| Now that took it away for 20 or 30 years. | ||
| They took the exact same construct and the exact same two guys because they weren't really in the flow anymore. | ||
| Because America first had kind of dialed them out and they knew this day was coming, a populist nationalism. | ||
| He took his client and once again ran this whole Thucydides trap with Graham Allison that once again, we're the declining power and now it's China, the CCP's rising power. | ||
| And we have to do all types of engagement and all types of coupling and all types of Risk management. | ||
| Am I wrong in that overall context that he ran this scam for basically 50, 60 years, that America was always in decline, and that these autocratic empires on the Eurasian landmass were ascendant? | ||
| No, that's exactly right, that he was the strongest advocate of detente with the Soviet Union, in essence trying to appease the Soviet Union. | ||
| He was a vociferous critic of Ronald Reagan. | ||
| And Steve, that's exactly right, that Reagan wanted to win the Cold War, something Kissinger thought impossible, and Reagan showed, of course, that it could be done, and it was done. | ||
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So, this individual who's, again, being- By the way, hang on a second, hang on a second. | |
| He called Ronald Reagan. | ||
| He called Ronald Reagan, when Reagan was coming out of being governor of California and was starting to get on the national stage and was running in the primary against Gerald Ford, he told the American people and the media that Ronald Reagan is the most dangerous man in the United States of America. | ||
| For the simple reason, as Reagan goes, what are we talking about? | ||
| This is a Cold War, right? | ||
| It's ideological, it's economic, it's political, it's diplomatic. | ||
| It'll be military where we need military. | ||
| But we can win this. | ||
| Not only can we win this, we must win this. | ||
| Kissinger called him the most dangerous man in America for simply having the construct of victory. | ||
| Something we've lost since President Reagan. | ||
| Dr. Thayer. | ||
| And something to which he blinded us Kissinger blinded us right again with all of his advice and all of his arguments about why we needed to assist China again the logic of the engagement school of which he's the father right that by engaging with China we were going to change them. | ||
| We were going to influence them so the guy is a strategic idiot, and I don't know why anybody listened to him ever Given his track record in terms of what he did in the Nixon administration Ford administration and then afterwards so it was his advice was just disastrous so the You know, Hitchens wrote that book in 2001 about why you should be put on trial for the crimes against the Allende in Chile, right? | ||
| And East Timor in Bangladesh. | ||
| Kissinger should have been tried for how he betrayed the country. | ||
| right, how we betrayed our country by facilitating the rise of its greatest enemy. And the fact that you have such the obvious thing... But was he not correct at the time to think that we could bring China at least over temporarily to be a counterweight to the Soviet Union? And basically, Reagan did use that leverage with much else and really economic warfare and technological warfare, | ||
| the issues we should be doing today, to essentially break the Soviet Union. Was the initial foray or the initial opening of China with Nixon as a strategic counterweight to the Soviet Union? | ||
| You must always break the Russian-China bond, which now our elites force Russia and the KGB into the arms of the CCP. And we've got this debacle in the Eurasian landmass. | ||
| that we're going to pay for right now? | ||
| Was he not smart, at least in the initial strategic construct of it? | ||
| But that's Nixon driving that, Steve. | ||
| Nixon did it for balance of power reasons, and he also saw that as a way to contribute to the end of the Vietnam War, to stabilize the situation in Vietnam. | ||
| So Nixon is driving it. | ||
| And yes, Kissinger was instrumental in that role, to his credit. | ||
| Uh, certainly we wanted to use to give the Soviet Union another front right to force them to deal with the communist Chinese again, their relations between Beijing and Moscow had really soured and they fought each other, of course, on a border war in 68. | ||
| And then again, more significantly in 69. | ||
| When Soviet troops basically killed approximately 1000 Chinese. | ||
| But look, that was the Cold War, Steve. | ||
| What this guy did is through his policy, through his desire, his avarice, his greed, was put us in a position that greatly hurt us in the new Cold War that we're facing, that we're in right now with the People's Republic of China. | ||
| So that has to be, um, you can't erase that stain, right? | ||
| That's, that's, uh, lasting damage to our country. | ||
| That was lasting sacrifice of our interests. | ||
| Uh, when we had even greater leverage against China, we could have employed it, but Henry Kissinger was there saying, don't do it, right? | ||
| Uh, go along with the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| They're in essence, he's arguing they're a positive force. | ||
| So it's a disaster. | ||
| This guy was just a strategic, Moron and that needs to be recognized Despite what happened with under Nixon's guidance again. | ||
| You want to keep that in mind? | ||
| That Nixon is it was a strategic thinker truly a strategic thinker and Kissinger Obviously had an instrumental role there but was the National Security Advisor not Richard Nixon who had a vision for Asia and had a vision really for Advancing America's interests against the Soviets and ending the Vietnam War for watching. | ||
| Dr. Thayer, where do people get, you've got your article up on warroom.org, where do they get you on social media and where do they get all your writings now? | ||
| at X at Brad Thayer and then a truth and get her at Bradley Thayer, Steve. | ||
| Thanks very much for calling attention to this. It's a very important issue. | ||
| They're saying he was an old friend. That's because he was an old friend of China and he was their strategist. | ||
| He wasn't an American strategist. He wasn't out for America's national security interests. | ||
| Yeah, not a good guy. Thank you very much. But we won't talk badly about the dead. | ||
| Dr. Thayer, thank you so much. | ||
| Honored. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We'll just give you a reality check. | ||
| This Thucydides trap is still, it's the declinist mentality. | ||
| It's still the organizing principle of how the declinists, how our elites think about this relationship with the Chinese Communist Party that we have. | ||
| Of course, here, you know that our focus is to take down and destroy or assist Lao-Bai Jing in taking down and destroying the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Ben Harnwell from Rome. | ||
| Ben, of course, they're heating up. | ||
| It's a firestorm on Capitol Hill now behind closed doors on the situation with Ukraine. | ||
| But as we're looking at this, another $80 billion, we're taking our eye off the ball strategically in the Central Pacific, which is we fought and died for back 80 years ago. | ||
| As we're doing this, we can see it's evident what's happening. | ||
| Europe is quickly, rapidly heading towards an internal civil war. | ||
| Steve, I wonder what the common denominator might be of all these countries and the civil wars that are brewing in each and every one of them. | ||
| to the Netherlands, to Sweden, to France, a civil war is kind of in the early early stages, sir. Steve, I wonder what the common denominator might be of all these countries and the civil wars that are brewing in each and every one of them. | ||
| I've got two articles to illustrate this. Yeah, yeah. | ||
| I'm going to take a wild guess. | ||
| Might it have something to do with mass unlimited forced immigration onto a populace, into a nation state? | ||
| Is Victor Orbán look like an oracle every day that this goes on, sir? | ||
| An oracle and a prophet. | ||
| I have two articles to go through with you today that illustrate precisely what's going on here in mainland Occupied Europe. | ||
| They're coming at this from different angles, as you might expect. | ||
| There's a fantastic article here in today's Daily Telegraph. | ||
| All of the links of this will be posted on my feed. | ||
| Specifically, I might add on Bannon's War Room on Rumble. | ||
| You can get that via Geto when I post this. | ||
| The first article here from the Telegraph carries the headline, France could be on the brink of civil war. | ||
| Now, I'm just reading that out because, to make this absolutely abundantly clear, this is the mainstream media saying this. | ||
| This isn't the war room, though we are saying this and have been saying this for a long time. | ||
| This is admittedly towards the right of the mainstream media, but it's still very much controlled opposition. | ||
| And basically digging down to what's going on in France here, what happened this week is that Olivier Véran, who is the minister in charge of being the spokesman for the French cabinet. | ||
| He went to Crepol, which is this town where this young 16-year-old was knifed to death by, I think, an Algerian, whose repatriation order had been signed some 10 years ago, and the French authorities hadn't got round to forcibly removing him. | ||
| He went wild at the party. | ||
| This is just south of Lyon, in the south of France. | ||
| And he was heard saying that he was out to kill whites. | ||
| So this minister goes down there and he says that the government is clearly aware that violence from Pax is ratcheting up and that there are tensions and you can't stand these gangs anymore and neither can we. | ||
| And he promised the full mobilisation of the state to guarantee the safety of all citizens. | ||
| Steve, these are just words, they're empty words echoing around because the government feels the need to be close to the people. | ||
| It is ideologically and conceptually impossible for globalists to do this. | ||
| They can mix naturally with the people like oil can mix with water. | ||
| It's inauthentic and not going to be believed. | ||
| And in fact, it wasn't believed. | ||
| In fact, one guy, when this guy was mouthing these platitudes, one guy shouted out, You've done much more for them than you do for the hard-working people in the countryside who get no benefits and raise their children with values. | ||
| This is, Steve, as the headline says, an indication that there is a growing irreconcilability between the French people, the ordinary working class of the French people, and the elites, which are voicing continually the problem on this country. | ||
| And what is the problem? | ||
| It is enforced immigration. | ||
| I'm not, as you said just now in your introduction, but not only is it simply an immigration situation, because immigration in and of itself needn't bring a country to the point of collapse, right? | ||
| We know this because a lot of countries have had immigration over decades and if not centuries, if you look at the United States, Immigration in and of itself is an issue. | ||
| The problem is in the values of the people that are coming in. | ||
| That's really, I think, you know, I just mentioned the oil and water metaphor. | ||
| The issue here, and the article goes on to say this, is that the French state believes it has failed because it has allowed groups coming in to avoid assimilation. | ||
| That's a really cack-handed way of confronting the problem. | ||
| Because of course, a lot of these groups themselves don't want to assimilate. | ||
| I've got one final quote on this article that illustrates this point. | ||
| And it basically talks about people coming in who hate, that's the word it uses, who hate France and hate its values. | ||
| And that's the issue. | ||
| And of course, Steve, globalist elites aren't going to be able to confront that, which is why it will require a change of direction. | ||
| And that, I think, is why Marine Le Pen is always growing in the polls and appears to be a credible threat now in the next French presidential election. | ||
| Is this not a full validation of the novel The Camp of the Saints? | ||
| I mean, The Camp of the Saints, when I recommend to read it, understand it's got some very rough parts to it that are going to upset you. | ||
| It's a description of people and of cultures. | ||
| Some of it is not quite pleasant, and not quite pleasant reading. | ||
| But that's not the point of the novel. | ||
| The point of the novel is about how elites respond when their culture and society is under direct attack, not militarily. | ||
| But from this issue of mass, mass migration and how the elites don't really buy into or believe the core values of the cultures and societies they represent. | ||
| Is this not we're seeing in France right now? | ||
| This is decades and decades and decades. | ||
| And particularly seen in Netherlands, you're seeing in Sweden, you're seeing in France. | ||
| And these are nations that have lectured the United States, have lectured particularly the the people that freed them in World War Two. | ||
| And actually, freedom in World War I, the backbone of our nation, which is working class Americans from the great heartland of this nation, who they detest. | ||
| Is this not the Camp of the Saints played out in real time? | ||
| Steve, when I first met you some ten years ago, you were talking to me about that book, the Camp of the Saints, right? | ||
| Ten years, ten years ago. | ||
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And I read the book. | |
| And I think, in fairness to yourself, you were well, well, well ahead of the curve to be talking about that then, because it is a gradual unrolling of exactly the contents of that book. | ||
| And you're right. | ||
| It's, you know, it's always impossible. | ||
| And I've said this before. | ||
| I said again, it is impossible with our sociopathic overlords to know where incompetence ends and bad faith begins. | ||
| And I don't think that that is anywhere more visible than in the immigration crisis, the mass, whole-scale importing of third-world illegals who are hostile to the values of the Judeo-Christian West. | ||
| Is it that their elites are incompetent or does it go beyond that into a whole-scale bad faith? | ||
| Well, I think it's increasingly looking like bad faith because nobody can be this incompetent for this long without realising that there is something amiss. | ||
| Ben, hang on for one second. | ||
| We're going to come back to Rome and Ben Harnwell in just a moment, Joe. | ||
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| Ben, I got a couple of minutes here. | ||
| I want to walk through the Financial Times of London and The Economist. | ||
| My two favorites. | ||
| Back to back. | ||
| And you know this hurts them. | ||
| These are, the Economist is the People Magazine of the Party of Davos and the FT is the Daily Tip Sheet. | ||
| It hurts them no end. | ||
| to basically agree with the War Room and particularly on the corruption and the theft of American taxpayer dollars in the Ukraine. Huge story in the Financial Times today about that and then the Economist cover it absolutely blows you away about what they finally admitted to against all their all our bettors at the Atlantic Council. | ||
| Ben, take it away. | ||
| Steve, this is basically the War Room's editorial policy over the last two years in distilled form on these August 2 journals. | ||
| Let's do the FT one very quickly first. | ||
| It's titled The Big Read, Bribery and Corruption. | ||
| The crackdown on Ukraine's oligarchs. | ||
| Volodymyr Zelensky's government is taking action against politically influential business figures. | ||
| But will a new generation take their place? | ||
| The interesting thing, Stephen, it goes into Igor Kolomoisky, who was, of course, Zelensky's big sponsor, the billionaire. | ||
| who's had all of his assets confiscated by his somewhat ungrateful protégé. | ||
| The interesting thing, again, about this article, Steve, is that it even exists. | ||
| It's putting front and centre the nature, the corrupt nature of the oligarch state that is Ukraine in the mainstream media. | ||
| And, of course, all of the oligarchs here that it's referencing have strong ties to Zelensky. | ||
| Even if, of course, the Financial Times doesn't draw that out explicitly. | ||
| Just a little bit of prior knowledge, I think, fills in the gaps there. | ||
| No, I mean, this is not an article that indicates, and we wouldn't have seen the likes of this six months ago, but it really indicates the nature of the state that we're supposed to be defending, that is supposed to be the beacon of democracy and the rule of law, that we're sacrificing so much here in the West to come to the aid of. | ||
| I'll put the link to that, obviously, if people want to chase that down and read it. | ||
| But I think it's an illustration of how, for some time now, and I do backdate this to the pivot point as being the NATO annual meeting. | ||
| I think that was in Vilnius, wasn't it, in July of this year. | ||
| From that moment forth, and it's been accelerating, it's been hardlining, that's when the media really started to pivot away from Zelensky. | ||
| Very, very quickly, I just have to mention this, is the front page of The Economist. | ||
| If Memphis would be so kind as to put that up. | ||
| It's simply the stand-alone, this is the front, the cover story, this is the front page, the front cover of The Economist. | ||
| It simply says, is Putin winning? | ||
| With his face, there we go. | ||
| That's the front page of The Economist. | ||
| So that's sort of seeding, furthermore, the constant drumbeat now. | ||
| That it's only a question of time now before the Zelensky defensive operation. | ||
| I just want to see this. | ||
| I haven't broken down. | ||
| Let's get that cover up totally so people can see it. | ||
| Let's go back to the cover of The Economist. | ||
| I want to see the full thing of it, about his war machine. | ||
| I haven't had a chance to go through this in detail, so I'm not saying I agree or disagree with it, but here is what should be the takeaway to this audience and to the American people and our audience, vast audience throughout the world. | ||
| The commentators, former military commentators on MSNBC and CNN and BBC in the UK and Boris Johnson, these guys, but let me just deal with the U.S. | ||
| for a second. | ||
| None of these people should be back on TV or allowed to be back on TV. | ||
| The misinformation lies that they fed the American people in the early stages of this war and then later about the destruction of Russia, Russia's military, Russia's economy, Russia's capital markets, Russia's central banks. | ||
| We're just all 1000% wrong. | ||
| We are not fans of Vladimir Putin and these KGB criminals. | ||
| that run Russia. | ||
| Just like we're not fans of, and we're mortal enemies of, the criminal element in the CCP that run China. | ||
| We are big fans of the Chinese people, Lao Bai Jing, and we're big fans of the Russian people. | ||
| Let me repeat this, because it's not said, and it's not talked about in the way that folks think about the current situation throughout the world, and particularly the greatest generation. | ||
| The Chinese people, And the Russian people were the principal allies of the United States, of the American people in World War II. | ||
| And they took the brunt of the fighting and they took the brunt of the casualties. | ||
| Certainly our lead ally was Great Britain and the United Kingdom, but they were fighting not just for their own freedom, but to preserve their empire. | ||
| Churchill was very open about that, very blunt about that. | ||
| And he kind of put off a deal by Halifax that would cut a deal with the Nazis to preserve that and to fight on. | ||
| But with all the valor and all the bravery we talked about earlier in the day about the valor of the Marines in the Pacific and fighting for the central island chain that we had to take island by island left all that blood and treasure and particularly in North Africa and Sicily and Italy and then Normandy and Western Europe and the 8th Air Corps over over Germany. | ||
| Our casualties, with all the valor and courage of the Americans, our casualties were relatively light compared to our two major allies, the Russian people and the Chinese people. | ||
| We sold those people out immediately after the war. | ||
| The American elites and the British elites and the globalists over-armed Stalin, particularly towards the end of the war. | ||
| We kept pouring money in there and there's still never been an explanation about that. | ||
| That's why he was armed to the teeth and that's why he took Eastern Europe. | ||
| We never challenged him in Germany. | ||
| The American, Montgomery and Patton, were going nuts, and particularly even Montgomery in this regard, of why did we not cross over? | ||
| Why did we not go to Berlin? | ||
| We could have been there much earlier than anybody else. | ||
| And in fact, the race between Patton and Montgomery, Montgomery probably would have won this one, given where Patton was strategically positioned, but both of them had been there long before the Russians, and we didn't do it. | ||
| We also turned over China to Mao Zedong and his band of criminals in 1949, a communist-infested State Department. | ||
| This is what brought Senator McCarthy to power from Wisconsin, a tail gunner Joe, was who lost China? | ||
| Because the American people were shocked. | ||
| The American people always had this kind of bond with the Chinese people for decades and decades and decades. | ||
| And all of a sudden, China was gone to the communists. | ||
| How did that happen? | ||
| So, this is why you have to understand all these people that are globalists that stood up there, Avril Stavridis, I know Jim, he's a flake. | ||
| All these people, all the former diplomats, all the people that were involved in the Trump impeachment, they stood up there and lied to you every freaking day. | ||
| And we pumped in $113 billion. | ||
| And what did Mershheimer say? | ||
| Mersheimer said, and warned the Ukrainian people, they're going to pump in as much money and they're going to fight to the last Ukrainian, then they're going to abandon you. | ||
| So now we have $113 billion that's been skimmed off the top by all those oligarchs the FT's finally focused on now. | ||
| Half of it's stolen to get into Monaco and these tax havens with their yachts and their mistresses in the south of France and all that, while you slave away with no pension and no health care. | ||
| This is what happened. | ||
| This is exactly what happened. | ||
| Now they're talking about putting another $60 billion on top of the $113 billion. | ||
| And what do we have? | ||
| We have 75,000 to 100,000 dead Ukrainians. | ||
| That's what we got. | ||
| Men, women, and children in a nation that looks like Dresden in 1945. | ||
| That's what the West has delivered. | ||
| That's what the EU has delivered. | ||
| That's what NATO has delivered. | ||
| NATO, who has not lived up to any of their commitments. | ||
| And remember, in World War II, not one of those nations fought with us. | ||
| France wasn't really with us. | ||
| You had De Gaulle and a handful of patriots in France. | ||
| You had a handful of people in the resistance. | ||
| Spain wasn't there. | ||
| Italy wasn't there. | ||
| Germany wasn't there. | ||
| All the Sweden was neutral. | ||
| The Irish were neutral. | ||
| The ones that fought, you know, Norway flipped right away? | ||
| No. | ||
| You've been lied to. | ||
| Now it's time to see what you see. | ||
| We're going to drill down on this more. | ||
| Ben, how do people get to you? | ||
| Fantastic job. | ||
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How do people get to you on social media? | |
| Look, I don't eat into John's time. | ||
| I just simply, if you want to chase me down, go on to get at Steve Bannon. | ||
| Stephen K. Bannon has an excellent post of mine that I hope he'll be sharing later. | ||
| Just if I can very quickly just read the one sentence here in the press release that The Economist did when they published their front cover here. | ||
| It synthesises the lies that they're playing at in their attempt To re-write history. | ||
| In Europe, we consider that for the first time since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, it looks like he could win. | ||
| That's simply, from the very opening sentence there, it's a lie moving forward. | ||
| That's stunning. | ||
| It's mind-boggling. | ||
| It's mind-boggling. | ||
| What do you have to say, Economist, to the 75,000-100,000 dead men, women, and children in Ukraine, you cheerleader? | ||
| The editor there and the staff, you're disgusting. | ||
| Boris Johnson, you're revolting. | ||
| The Financial Times, you're disgusting. | ||
| The blood of the Ukrainians are on your hands. | ||
| Every bit as much as they're on the Russians' hands. | ||
| Your hands. | ||
| You let them down this path, and then you cut them loose when they're no more use to you. | ||
| When this thing got too tough. | ||
| Thanks, Ben, appreciate it. | ||
| Okay, I don't have time to play a bunch of clips we had with Joe Allen, we'll have to do that again, but Joe, just jump in here and let's cut to the heart of it. | ||
| Elon Musk dropped a bombshell. | ||
| Of course, they're all focused on all the peripheral stuff. | ||
| He dropped a bombshell at this deal book Um, interview with Sorkin, I think the biggest bombshell, you might not agree, was that he said AGI's three years away, godlike intelligence is three years away, and it used to keep me up at night understanding this could lead to the annihilation of humankind, but I've kind of come to grips with it because it will be the most exciting time in mankind's history as we grapple with | ||
| The ability of God-like intelligence to annihilate us. | ||
| Is that a simple summary of what he said, brother? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I do disagree with his timeline, or at least let's say that he clearly knows something that nobody else does if AGI is less than three years away. | ||
| He doesn't seem to know what's going on at OpenAI, so I'm not sure what info it is that he's working with. | ||
| Maybe it's something at XAI, But isn't the whole situation of the memo that was sent, the reason we're in this open AI fiasco, is the staff sent a memo that said Sam Altman is working on things that could bring irreparable harm to mankind and he's not being honest about this. | ||
| The concept of acceleration is as far as this. | ||
| Does Elon saying that not lead you to believe he knows something? | ||
| being a dialed in guy they know something about what Altman and these guys are working on that the staff said we got to fire the fire Altman and shut this thing down. Yes, you know, it's quite likely that Elon Musk has a much more direct line to open AI than I do for sure. But even even this this description of AGI that he gave, you know, he just talks about superhuman abilities in these specific spheres. | ||
| Um... | ||
| I'm not sure that he even means a full-on general intelligence, but if he does, then what you're talking about is a massive leap From, you know, average essays, from derivative artworks, from a program that really can't even do math very well, to a program that he says will be writing better than J.K. | ||
| Rowling, which maybe isn't saying much, that it will be making novel discoveries in physics, will be creating novel technologies, things like that. | ||
| You're talking about such an enormous leap, skipping all of these intermediate steps, I'd be very curious as to what he really means by this, but one way or the other, let's say he just means super advanced artificial narrow intelligence, or a major breakthrough to something like a general intelligence. | ||
| This is plausible in the sense that if you look at the acceleration of capabilities from five years ago to today, and play them forward, which is what these guys are doing, these singularitarians are basically doing, Going all the way to 2045 when they believe that there will be no distinction between human beings and machines, no distinction between actuality and virtual reality. | ||
| I can see where he comes to that logic. | ||
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No, no, no, no, no, I know, I know, I know, I know, but you've got to bring it. | |
| Ho, ho, ho, ho, slow down. | ||
| You've got to bring up the edge of this, because the development of it and all that is going to come later. | ||
| The shock, and this is why we're not prepared to do it, either by society structures, our culture structures, our norm structures, and particularly government. | ||
| The front edge of this is going to be the most important edge. | ||
| Because, and there is going to come a definite, I want people to understand this concept and this construct. | ||
| This thing called the singularity is the convergence of all this, with AI obviously being ahead, but it's also got biotechnology part of it, a quantum computing part of it. | ||
| A robotics, regenerative robotics part of it. | ||
| All that, that convergence. | ||
| We have a line out there. | ||
| It's theoretical right now. | ||
| On this side of that line is Homo sapiens. | ||
| But you and I and you know the other 7 billion Homo sapiens that are on the earth today. | ||
| And that has been from time immemorial. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Back to the recess of time. | ||
| There is a line and over that line, that edge is Homo sapien plus. | ||
| I'm not sure it's Homo Sapien 2.0, but it's Homo Sapien 1.5 or 1.25. | ||
| That edge is, once you cross that edge, you don't go back. | ||
| You don't go back. | ||
| The pressure to be part of that, the pressure to have that, the pressure to have your children participate in that and leave behind the unwashed masses, the Luddites, is going to be enormous societal pressure. | ||
| And then you're going to have really a House of Lords or a Ben Harnwell says, sociopathic overlords. | ||
| And then the rest. | ||
| Am I not, is that, do you not understand what I'm saying in that? | ||
| The other developments in the 2035s and the 2045s and the 2050s, yes, there's going to be so much they're going to blow people away. | ||
| But is the initial shock that we are not homo sapiens anymore, that there's something else there? | ||
| And that's why Elon Musk, the people in Silicon Valley are the most immature. | ||
| Right? | ||
| They don't have discernment. | ||
| They don't have judgment. | ||
| They certainly don't have wisdom. | ||
| They have technical expertise. | ||
| And that expertise is basically unchained right now. | ||
| Just look at the immaturity of Elon Musk sitting there in that interview. | ||
| Like, really a petulant child. | ||
| I used to say he was 11 years old. | ||
| He's about 9. | ||
| But you have a petulant child who's a brilliant engineer, there's no doubt about that. | ||
| But he also has the control of a vast power, including Neuralink, which he's lied about and misrepresented from the beginning. | ||
| So, clearly they're going to lie and misrepresent about where they are in AGI. | ||
| Because they understand that maybe adults are going to shut the freaking thing down till we get control of it. | ||
| Once this thing gets out, once you get near AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, God-like intelligence, there's no putting it back in the bottle, Joe Allen. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| It cuts both ways, though. | ||
| They've promoted all sorts of technologies that simply haven't lived up to the promise. | ||
| Everything from the flying car to the autonomous car. | ||
| It's very difficult to tell when they are trying to cover their tracks in order to push a technology forward under our noses, but without us knowing it, and when they're just over-hyping something to gain that much more momentum. | ||
| With AGI, though, Steve, I agree. | ||
| On that line between Homo Sapiens 1.0 and Homo Sapiens 2.0, I would say we're already at 1.5 to the extent that our lives are dominated by the digital, to the extent that we are basically fused to our digital devices, and to the extent that, as modest as this step may be, to the extent that the entire planet | ||
| At least in the developed countries has been at least those who accepted it forcibly injected with an experimental genetic | ||
| You know how I got smart on this? | ||
| You know how I got smart on this I got smart on this by reading my favorite book, Dark Aeon. | ||
| Joe, we've got to bounce. | ||
| We'll put all your social media up there. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I know you're heading out to AFA. | ||
| Is it Friday night or Saturday night? | ||
| That's Saturday night. | ||
| You can find links warroom.org under the transhumanism tab and a few tickets left, but not many. | ||
| So I do hope that the last few get taken up. | ||
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| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Look forward to having you back on tomorrow. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| We'll play some clips. | ||
| We've done great clips. | ||
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| Eastern Time. | ||
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| I will guarantee you that. | ||
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