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Dec. 2, 2023 - Bannon's War Room

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Episode 3218: Kinetic Conflict Brewing In Guyana

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		tornado. The tornado hit the city of San Francisco You want a poll to serve as a political advisor of sorts?
		We got that poll too.
		Look, polls can be useful.
		They can be informative and educational.
		But let's face it, polls cannot tell us in December of 2023 who will win an election in November of 2024.
		Don't believe me?
		Just ask Hillary Clinton.
		As Vanity Fair's Molly Jongfast puts it, let's stop treating polls as actual news events.
		Joining me now is Molly Jongfast, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and the host of the Fast Politics podcast.
		I mean, Molly, my first question out of the gate, based upon everything that we know, should we just do away with polls altogether then?
		I mean, what's the utility in having them?
		Well, so polls are good for seeing a pattern, right?
		And they're good for watching a trajectory.
		So if someone is polling really well in Wisconsin and then they're polling less well, okay, you could see that that's useful.
		But the reality is national polls have almost no use because we don't elect a president that way, right?
		We elect with an electoral college.
		So national polls, I would just throw out because who cares?
		Winning the popular vote is meaningless in this country.
		So then my question is, how do we, as journalists, how do we, the media, use a poll then if you're telling me it's not a predictor of what's going to happen, and even unless it's kind of in our backyard, it may not actually have any significance in there?
		Way to think of it is this.
		There's a guy called Daniel Borenstein who wrote the Borenstein who wrote this book in 1962.
		He was sort of the first to sort of look at PR as a kind of public relations is almost a crisis.
		And he came up with this idea of pseudo events.
		Right.
		So pseudo events are events that are created for news coverage like a press conference.
		Okay, so you look at a poll like a press conference.
		So people don't take press conferences largely as breaking news, right?
		Congress has press conferences all the time.
		Sometimes they're covered, sometimes they're covered on C-SPAN.
		They are just data points, but they're data points where a politician has tried to show you what they want to show you.
		And that's what I think we should take polls as, right?
		There can be useful information in them, but they should not drive the news cycle.
		And one of the things that's really destructive is you see a lot of opinion pieces written off polls as a news peg.
		So, for example, when I was working on this piece, there were like three pieces on the Washington Post site that were written with polling as fact.
		So, for example, the border comes back to bite Democrats because it's based on a polling.
		So it's based on the supposition that the border is somehow a problem for Democrats because of a poll.
		And that in itself is not, it's just, it's sort of an unnatural bit of news that may or may not be true, but then it shapes the narrative.
		There are two things that, if you took Mike Johnson's totally core beliefs, easy in the top five, or two things.
		One is Young Earthism, right?
		Young Earthism Says the theory of evolution is crazy and the earth is 6,000 years old and men walk with dinosaurs and God breathed life into man and Adam came from, I don't know, Eve came from Adam's rib or something like that.
		It's too insane to even think of.
		We've gone through this election, we've done a little like geographic, cultural take on Louisiana and Mike Johnson's influences.
		Sometimes you look at a politician, or you look at Kevin McCarthy, and say, that guy's pliable, he's just like a bowl of Jell-O, or McConnell, he'll do anything he can to stay in power.
		When you look at these Christian nationalists, and you look At Mike Johnson, or you look at people I've talked about, Woody Jenkins, Tony Perkins, the influencers in his life, you have to understand something.
		These people are committed.
		They believe this s**t. They believe it in their bones.
		And what they'll do, if you meet them, they're very polite, but they want a theocracy.
		Johnson has already said he doesn't believe in democracy.
		They do these covenant eyes where he spies on his kid.
	That's what they want.
	They want to spy on you.
	And they believe it.
	They really do.
	It is a mistake to look at them and think that they're just phony baloney, full of s**t, saying anything politicians.
	No.
	They're committed to this, and they think they're right, and to take them as anything else is a giant mistake.
	And so that's the purpose of this lecture.
	This guy was formed into being what he is, and he is an avowed anti-democratic theocrat.
	And if you want to know what they think, And they're all evangelicals.
	Let me refer you to a document, I think it was from the 1870s, put out by the Catholic Church called the Syllabus of Errors, which might be the most profoundly stupid document in the last 200 years.
	And they believe what you will read in the Syllabus of Errors.
	They may not be papist, but they think democracy is a sign of weakness.
	They think that theocracy is the way we should go and we should be run by these people.
	And they're very upfront about it.
	And the biggest mistake that you can make is think that they're full of s**t. Because they don't think they are.
	And they'll be nice to you, they'll smile and fellowship, but these are really, really fanatical people who want to get into every aspect of your frickin' life.
	Trust me.
	Right.
bill maher ▲ ● ▼		Mike Johnson, he's from your home state of Louisiana, the Speaker of the House.
		I read today he wrote a forward in a book that describes two conspiracy theories and homophobic insults.
		I thought, Mike Johnson wrote the forward to the Bible?
		Do you think Mike Johnson can hold his party together now that he has taken the mantle?
unidentified		Well, first of all, I don't think he can hold his party together.
		Second of all, you're exactly right.
		Mike Johnson and what he believes is one of the greatest threats we have to date to the United States.
		I promise you, I know these people.
bill maher ▲ ● ▼		You're talking about Christian nationalism.
unidentified		Absolutely.
		This is a bigger threat than Al Qaeda.
		Let me tell you something.
		They have a Speaker of the House, they got at least two Supreme Court Justices, maybe more.
		Don't kid yourself.
		People in the press have no idea who this guy is, how he was formed, what the threat is, and this is a fundamental threat.
		To the United States, it is a fundamental thing.
		Don't believe in a constitution.
		Don't tell you that.
		Mike Johnson himself says, what is democracy but two wolves and a lamb having lunch?
		That's what they really, really, really believe.
		And to say, oh, come on, man, it's just some ****.
		No, no.
		They believe that and they're coming and they've been doing it forever.
		They're funded.
		They're funded, they're relentless, and you know, they probably won't win for a while, but they might.
		And if they do, the whole country blows a gas.
bill maher ▲ ● ▼		You just have to look at that painting, I think it's a Kincaid painting that a lot of them like, where Jesus is handing the Constitution to Thomas Jefferson.
bill maher ▲ ● ▼		I mean, if you could look at that and go, hmm, that's the way it probably happened.
unidentified		I know it well.
		That wasn't a photo?
		No.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Pray for our enemies.
unidentified		Because we're going medieval on this, people.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people.
unidentified		The people have had a belly full of it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		I know you don't like hearing that.
		I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
		It's going to happen.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
unidentified		MAGA Media.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼		I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
unidentified		Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified		War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Babb.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		It's Saturday, 2 December, the year of our Lord.
		Right there we want to give you a compendium of what's happening around the world.
		Of course, Battlefields the kinetic part of the Third World War in in Gaza as Sharia supremacist try to drive out and kill the Israelis and drive the drive Israel into the sea.
		Of course, the the stalled offensive in Ukraine where we've pumped already 120 billion dollars.
		Now, and we're going to have Hornwall on later, Zelensky's announced he's putting all his money, all his resources, all his troops in, wait for it, the defense of Kiev as the Russians start to advance on all fronts.
		You saw the southern border right there.
		That was cartel, that was the cartel guys bringing people through, cutting the wire.
		At the wall, cutting the wire, cutting the wire in the wall and just having the illegal alien invaders come right through and laughing.
		Waving and laughing at the border patrol.
		And the invasion of your country continues.
		And of course, James Carvell, still a big, one of the big strategists in the Democratic Party.
		Well, first of all, Molly Young's sitting there saying the polling doesn't matter.
		This polling is all rigged.
		Anything that shows Trump with momentum, Trump ahead, the American people are not doing that.
		That's all made up.
		Now the polls are all against him and getting worse.
		Of course, they're all saying it's fake news.
		But then Carvell and Bill Maher, and I want you to embrace this, that Christian nationalism, that Christians, Evangelical Christians and traditional Catholics, where they talked about the Syllabus of Errors, which really was a throwdown against modernity back in the 19th century, a throwdown against Nietzsche and what they foresaw the 20th century was going to become with Hitler and Mussolini and Mao Zedong, Stalin, all of it.
		But that's to be mocked and ridiculed.
		And even more importantly, it is, you're dangerous.
		In fact, James Carville said You're more dangerous than Al-Qaeda.
		And remember, Al-Qaeda is the Twin Towers.
		Al-Qaeda was the Afghan war.
		Al-Qaeda is one of the most important parts of the Muslim Brotherhood's war against the Christian West.
		But you're more dangerous.
		Folks in the audience that have a biblical worldview, traditional Catholics, that believe in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
		According to the secularists that control this country, you're more dangerous than the most dangerous terrorists that have taken this country on in 50 years.
		Think about that.
		We've got a lot to get to today from the battlefields in Israel, Ukraine, the South China Sea, and particularly today on the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, South America.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Batt.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		We're going to get into some economics later in the show in capital markets.
		Just a note, the gold closed last night at the highest price in its history, $2,084.
		That's up from we started with Birchgold three years ago was 17 is $1,730.
		I think I'll double-check that over the weekend.
		We don't give personal financial advice here, but we do lay out macro and we know a lot of hedge funds follow us from the days of the pandemic.
		So some macro advice go to birchgold.com slash Bannon right now two things.
		I said this a while ago, you know, because I went to Georgetown to get a degree in national security studies, a master's, and then to Harvard later to get an MBA.
		If you watch this show consistently, get our newsletter, go get the videos, do the links, I'm not so sure you need to get a master's degree.
		I'm saying that seriously.
		It will cost you a couple of hundred thousand dollars to get all in because there's a lot to learn.
		And we can give you the tools, we can send you a direction that at least on the back of the envelope, you can come to some pretty good understanding of directionally where we're headed.
		And we pride ourselves on that.
		And that's where everybody from the Dave Ramaswamy's to the Peter Navarro's, the Dave Bratz, all of it jump in here and help us break all this down.
		Remember, On the 18th of December, nine days from the 18th of September, we're going to add another $1 trillion to the face amount of the debt.
		So this thing's clearly spiraling out of control, only going to get worse.
		But go to Birchgold, check it out, get the end of the dollar empire, immerse yourself, particularly the third installment, the debt trap.
		You should understand and also you can ask the Birch Gold team, Philip Patrick and the team, quite frankly, why are the BRICS nations?
		And we're going to talk about the geostrategic direction of the BRICS nations led by the Chinese Communist Party.
		But why are the BRICS nations buying gold at record rates?
		That's not buying gold.
		Buying gold records 22 and 23 is going to be ahead of that.
		Why are they doing that?
		And our Federal Reserve, besides printing more fiat currency to cover up the deficits because the Chinese Communist Party and the Japanese insurance companies got all the bonds they want and ain't buying them, and you can't even sell a 30 or a 10, you got to do these short-term notes and short-term treasury bills, which are only going to add to your agony as they refinance a third of the 34 trillion dollars every year, right?
		Short-term at high rates.
		Not good.
		Terrible situation.
		Not being addressed.
		That's one of the big pressure points we're going to put on this coming week.
		This thing yesterday with Santos was to chop block Mike Johnson in the MAGA side.
		This is 100% McCarthy.
		1,000% McCarthy and his guys trying to put pressure.
		They're never going to give it up.
		They want that power back.
		And for Kevin McCarthy, it's time for you to go back to Bakersfield, California, or at least step down from the house and go, you know, Nuzzle up to your roommate Frank Luntz.
		Just go hang out there.
		Put a fire on.
		Get the Christmas tree.
		Get some hot cocoa.
		Maybe have matching PJs.
		I mean, who knows?
		You're a free man.
unidentified		Go do it.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		We've got, this is the 200th anniversary.
		Back in the old days, they didn't used to do the State of the Union with all this fanfare and the President goes down and everybody, you know, it's this huge thing.
		What's going to be in the speech?
		What's not going to be in the speech?
		It's just so amazing and just all this, you know, overhype, overhype, overhype.
		They used to write it and send it to Congress and I think the clerk would read it 200 years ago today.
		They sent the address, the year-end, back then it was done as a year-end thing around the holiday season.
		And in it was a proclamation about what President James Monroe, who had been one of the, not, he was a fighter in the revolution.
		This is that second tier of the revolutionary generation of really the guys that fought it, that started to come to power.
		He was president.
		A proud Virginian.
		And in fact, buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, my hometown.
		He gave a proclamation.
		A proclamation to put Europe on notice.
		That yo, Europe.
		You're a cockpit of just discontent and hate and class structure with these worthless aristocracies, and we don't want it brought over here.
		And we're particularly not going to have it in our backyard.
		So the proclamation part of the annual address is called the Monroe Doctrine.
		Frank Gaffney, we got a team of experts today, not simply talking, this is not about history, this is about today.
		We're pretty good at giving you a, when we talk about macro, not just the macro part of capital markets and economics, but geopolitically what drives things.
		And folks, we got a burning dumpster fire just south of us, and it ain't just the southern border.
		It's deeper, it's geostrategic, and it's going to cause us a world of hurt.
		You can write that down on 2 December in the year of our Lord 2023.
		Frank Gaffney, Walk me through it first.
		Okay, the world's on fire, and I've got Gaffney, I've got Colonel Mills, I've got Dave Walsh, Sam Faddis, Ben Harnwell.
		We're bringing in all hitters today to break this down for folks so that you can have a merry Christmas season.
		Frank, give me the big picture here.
		Walk through, because here's one thing I admire about Gaffney.
		You know, Gaffney's been on this Muslim Brotherhood and the Sharia Supremacists for 30 years, and he was chased off Fox.
		I mean, nobody's taken as much incoming on that topic as Frank Gaffney.
		On that, he's a hero and he's never backed down.
		But Frank Gaffney has been pestering me for three years now.
		He's saying, hey, we need to do more coverage on the war room on South America because that's a powder keg.
		And when it blows up, it's going to blow up like nobody's business.
		Frank Gaffney, you've been all over this for a couple of years.
		Walk us through.
		Why are you concerned?
frank gaffney ▲ ● ▼		Steve, you mentioned the key word.
		This is our backyard.
		I actually think of it as our front yard.
		I mean, this is our immediate neighborhood, and nobody's done a better job than you of chronicling with help of some of our best reporters what's coming across that southern border.
		But what's on the other side of that border has been, as you say, a place in which all of today's foreign powers are Enemies in many cases, but certainly foreign challengers, have been operating with impunity.
		We've ignored it.
		Benign neglect is the best one to be said to have done to it, but mostly we've just ignored it.
		And as a result today, you have now in most countries in this hemisphere, in fact, I believe it's not an exaggeration to say from the Arctic in the north to the Antarctic in the south, every major country, with the exception now, I guess, of Argentina, is run by more or less Marxists.
		If not out-and-out Marxists, certainly Marxist-aligned folks like Joe Biden, for example.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		But the point is, whether it's You're saying, hey, hang on, you say, you look at Canada, you got, you got Castro's son, illegitimate bastard son there, and that, that whole thing, the great Canadians, that thing's out of control, right?
		And they're in bed with the CCP.
		Mexico, you got a populist, and we love populists, but he's a left-wing populist that's in bed with the cartels.
		You got the illegitimate Biden regime sitting in Washington, D.C.
		So all of a sudden, I'm not feeling so great about the northern part of it, okay?
		Then I go down in Central America, it gets worse, worse as you go further south. It doesn't get better. It doesn't get better.
		I don't think this is what Monroe... I don't think Monroe...
frank gaffney ▲ ● ▼		But Steve, just in the very moment is the Chinese communists, the Russians, the Iranians, Hezbollah, are now all over the hemisphere and are beavering away to establish not only a presence there.
		This Belt and Road Initiative is very evident in Brazil and in Peru and in other parts of the hemisphere where the Chinese are building, as they are everywhere else, infrastructure that will be used ultimately, count on it, for power projection by them.
		Controlling the locals, yes, Exploiting them, yes, but building in place dual-use ports, dual-use rail systems, dual-use airports, dual-use road networks, and mines and so on that the Chinese, especially, and their friends will be exploiting.
		Which brings us to the present moment, Steve.
		The pattern that you touched on earlier, and that we're all about at, among other places, our committee on the present danger of China, and I'm so glad you've got a couple of our members coming up next, is that we're dealing with a strategic arsonist in Xi Jinping.
		Our great friend Captain James Finnell said on my show, Securing America, yesterday that this is a game of go, except it's no game.
		It's a strategic play by the Chinese Communist Party's leader to create fires all over the world, starting with Ukraine, Which was preceded by Vladimir Putin meeting in Beijing with Joe Biden, excuse me, with Xi Jinping.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Joe Biden's paymaster.
frank gaffney ▲ ● ▼		He met with Xi Jinping and his team in Beijing before they went into Israel.
		And similarly, I think this tanker war that John Mills will doubtless talk about is a reflection of that same set of instructions being handed down.
		Now, get this.
		The distinguished expert that I rely on most in Latin America, Joseph Humeyer, pointed out to me the other day that he's been tracking this increasing mobilization of Venezuelan military personnel to, it seems, go into Guyana to actually invade the place.
		And he said, interestingly enough, it began, that mobilization began right after Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan dictator, came back from, wait for it, Beijing.
		So the question is, and we did a fascinating, I mean, just absolutely gobsmackingly powerful webinar Thursday of this week, about What is almost certainly the penultimate fire that Xi Jinping will set?
		And there may be North Korea in the meantime.
		There may be, oh, I don't know, the Serbs going into Kosovo.
		There may be the Turks going into Armenia.
		There's a lot of other places where I think the fires are being set by Xi Jinping, the strategic arsonist.
		But the one that will precede, I believe, immediately, the ultimate fire, the one he intends to set to liberate, as he would put it, Taiwan.
		We'll be in the American homeland.
		And this particular webinar, Steve, which was riveting, was about bio lab that he had down the road from where he met with the president and those 400 traders.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Hang on a second.
		We're gonna take a short break.
		We're gonna take a short break.
		We're going to be back with the entire team next.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You know Saturday morning is my favorite show because we get to drill down on something, We get to drill down a little quicker, a little more deeply onto big issues and that's what we're doing here today.
		We're going to give you lots of news.
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		Frank, real quick I want to make sure people don't lose track of the bioweapons lab.
		Because today, by the way, we have on Real America's Voice at one o'clock on the other Rumble channel, the side Rumble channel, They're going to have the families of fentanyl.
		It will play again tomorrow from one to three.
		On Getter, we will also be putting it up and probably tomorrow I'll be giving commentaries.
		We've got it up.
		So the Fentanyl Families in Washington, D.C.
		is going to be, the Real America's Voice team is going to be doing that.
		The biolab and the pandemic was a bioweapon attack on the United States of America.
		The fentanyl is a chemical weapons attack on the United States of America by the Chinese Communist Party.
		The Chinese Communist Party, although they're having a financial crisis and they need a bailout from the 400 traders and from the Biden regime with your money, either your pension fund or your tax dollars, are aggressive everywhere.
		They're in the back of what's happening in Latin America, we'll show you in a minute, in the Middle East, in Ukraine, obviously in the South China Sea.
		This is why they're, wait for it, an existential threat to the United States of America.
		And this is why yours truly was fully sanctioned, the first civilian in history.
		Right after Joe Biden took his hand off that big old family Bible of his as the illegitimate president of the United States because he didn't win.
		Frank, tell me quickly, give me an update on the, and we want everybody to go to this webinar.
		It's totally free.
		We're going to push it out today.
		Why is a bioweapons lab in California such a big deal run by an adversary?
frank gaffney ▲ ● ▼		Just on his face, it's a big deal that you have an enemy that actually, as you say, Steve, launched a biological warfare attack against our country.
		Having one situated here, who one of our guests, Dr. Stephen Hatfill.
		pointed out, the value of being in close proximity to where you want to use biological weapons, of having your manufacturing facility close at hand, is that the fresher the stuff is, the more powerful it can be.
		Sam Faddis was also a contributor to the program.
		He can amplify on that point.
		He knows a lot about this subject.
		But the short form of it is this, Steve.
		I think each of our really distinguished experts, Sam Faddis, Dr. Stephen Hadfield, Grant Newsom, and Brian Kennedy, all rock stars of this program, were gobsmacked by what we went over in that program, in part based on the research that had been done in an investigation conducted by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
		And just a couple of quick data points.
		There were enough pathogens inside that place, especially if they were further replicated, including a freezer that had on the outside of it Ebola as a label, to do infinitely more harm to the American people if disseminated properly than the combined effects of COVID and fentanyl.
		Think about it.
		And here's the thing, Steve, again, you've done a wonderful job of documenting, among other things, that folks coming across that southern border seem to include large numbers of Chinese, Communist Party, People's Liberation Army, Special Forces units.
		If they were to marry up, that facility is now fortunately offline.
		And no thanks, by the way, to the FBI and the CDC.
		This was another of the absolutely stunning Findings of the committee.
		These guys couldn't be troubled to get out there and figure out what the hell was going on, let alone, you know, assess and remove.
		And they, if you can believe this, they opened up the freezer saying Ebola on the outside, and it's stuffed with these silver foil packed things, none of which said Ebola.
		And the CDC apparently said, well, we don't need to examine that.
		It's not labeled Ebola.
		Anyway, the point is, Steve, that if those Special Forces guys happen to have some of these other labs around the country that they can get access to that we haven't found yet, but may well exist, then we are in a mode where You have the ability, not just for sabotage against critical infrastructure or assassinations and the like by those special forces, you have mass destruction of America.
		And if that happens, you know, when they light the final fuse to take Taiwan, they may be able to do what their famous strategist Sun Tzu always recommended, win without fighting, because we will be out of the game.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, hang on for one second.
		We're going to tie that.
		We're going to go to South America right now.
		I want to bring in Walsh, our energy expert.
		Dave is going to stay with us.
		We're going to talk about a reparations fund of your tax money of this COP 28, the big climate change situation.
		We're getting to all that that's happening.
		Wait for it.
		UAE.
		Our great ally, United Arab Emirates.
		Oh yeah, the same guys are trying to get off the petrodollar.
		Those guys, those allies, quote-unquote.
		Walsh, help me out here on Guyana, or Guyana, I pronounce it Guyana.
		This country that I think the last time it came into the American media was about Jonestown.
		And Jones went there for a reason.
		It was off the beaten path.
		But it kind of came to the forefront of a lot of folks on Wall Street when I think Exxon bought Hess, I forget what it was, five or six billion dollars.
		And it was because they control the oil fields in Guyana.
		How big is this?
		Is this oil a big deal or is this just some sort of myth?
dave walsh ▲ ● ▼		It's a very big deal.
		The total find appears to be about 11 billion barrels.
		ExxonMobil began exploring there five or six years ago.
		They've got 30 successful wells already in their exploration, producing now 400,000 barrels per day.
		By 2027 production, there ought to be a million barrels per day.
		It's huge.
		It's exactly why Chevron bought Hess.
		Hess had a 30% interest in it.
		Now that's Chevron.
		Exxon, a 45% interest in it.
		But guess who's got 25% of it?
		CNOCC, the Chinese National Oil Corporation, owns 25% of the Ghana fields.
		A million barrels per day.
		And meanwhile, they're over-instigating the COP28 meetings, but at the same time, a heavy investor in the Guyana fields themselves.
unidentified		So, no, this is critically important.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Is this oil easy to extract?
		Is it like Saudi Arabia, or is it more like North Sea, where it's quite expensive?
		Is the cost to get this out make it attractive?
dave walsh ▲ ● ▼		It is offshore, but it's not necessarily deep well offshore.
		And it's cleaner than the Venezuelan oil that we're going to talk about.
		It's much dirtier.
		This is cleaner oil, much more readily usable, less refining activity necessary, so it's got some great properties.
		And it's in the West.
		This is why Exxon Mobil, Chevron covet the position of Western oil resources they're developing, which is a great thing for the nation here.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, hang on one second.
		I want to bring in Faddis.
		Faddis, you wrote an amazing substack piece, right?
		That ties Sheen and all this together.
		It sounds like we've got Ukraine that's now a stalemate and a fiat.
		Well, it's a stalemate until the Russians start rolling on Kiev, and trust me, they're going to be rolling.
		That's the next thing you're going to hear right around Christmas.
		This disaster and fiasco in Gaza, in the entire Middle East with the Persians and the Muslim Brotherhood, South China Sea, we're not spending enough time and enough energy and resources focused on that.
		Now we got something here in South America.
		How big a deal?
		Is this a tinderbox?
sam faddis ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, look Steve, it's a huge deal.
		I think it's somehow poetic in a sick way, right, that today is the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine.
		We announced as a country that really didn't even have an army yet that foreign powers needed to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
		So, so much for that.
unidentified		You can put lighter fluid on that and set that on fire.
sam faddis ▲ ● ▼		I mean, look, we have a, Venezuela is a hostile communist state in bed with the Iranians, in bed with the communist Chinese.
		Getting ready to stage a pretext referendum and they're going to apparently tear off two thirds of a neighboring country.
		and seize its natural resources.
		Obviously, Xi gave the go ahead for this because Maduro was just in China, what, less than two months ago.
		Got the nod for that.
		Interesting that in between, by the way, we brought Xi here, feted him, treated him like an emperor, and that, wow, I mean, the Biden administration just lifted sanctions on Venezuela, oil sanctions, to make sure, I guess, that they had enough money to fuel this invasion.
		There's another piece of how we're watching our entire national security policy go up in flames all around the world.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Walk me through this referendum.
		I think it's Suriname.
		Talk to me about Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname.
		What's this referendum?
		I think they're having it on Sunday.
		How does this all tie together as a pretext for maybe a kinetic conflict?
sam faddis ▲ ● ▼		So what we're talking about when we're talking about seizing the land from Guyana is We're talking about what they call the Essequibo portion of Guyana, which amounts to two-thirds of the country.
		And as is the case all over the world with any countries that share a border, depending on what point you go back to in history, you're going to find all sorts of variations in the border.
		Not to mention that, what are we talking about now?
		We're talking about boundaries that were inherited from European powers, right?
		originally Venezuela, Spanish colony, and I think it was actually the Dutch that were occupying Guyana, and there's disputes over where the border should be.
		So it's been at least 100 years since an international tribunal came in and completely settled this alleged dispute between Venezuela and Guyana and laid down the border where it is now.
		So Maduro is going back to dredging up ancient boundaries from literally when the conquistadors were in South America as a pretext.
		And he's now submitting this question of whether the Essequibo region belongs to Venezuela to the Venezuelan people for a popular referendum.
		Okay, this is Venezuela.
		Elections are even more of a sham there than they are here now.
		Maduro doesn't lose elections.
		There's no question what the result of that referendum is going to be.
		It's all garbage, right?
		It is a PR stunt.
		It's a pretext so that when he goes ahead and does what he fully intends to do, obviously, he will then claim that the Venezuelan people told him to do it and stand behind him.
		It's all that's going on.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You know, Venezuela is one of the biggest, you know, folks coming through here through the southern border and through the Darien Gap.
		Do you believe that this is going to lead to military action?
		I mean, who's there to even defend Guyana?
		I don't see their military listed in the top 10 in the world.
		So how does this play out?
		We've got about a minute more.
		Hold all you guys.
		But how do you think it plays out?
sam faddis ▲ ● ▼		I think it's very, very likely the Venezuelans are militarily going in.
		The Guyanese effectively have no military that will stand against them.
		Unless the United States of America intervenes and actually enforces the Monroe Doctrine, Maduro will do whatever the heck he wants.
		The Brazilians have mobilized.
		Unclear what that means.
		I suspect it means they're just trying to keep it from spilling over onto their soil.
		But we'll see.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, hang on for a second.
		Frank, Sam are going to stick with me.
		Dave Walsh, we're going to get John Mills in here because we've got not just issues in South America, obviously in the dairying gap coming through, but particularly the Panama Canal.
		Yeah, baby.
		When we let that go, remember the great idea of Jimmy Carter and these guys, let the businesses take over.
		Bill Buckley, too, pushed it hard.
		A lot of folks were not that excited about it.
		Short commercial break.
		We're going to be back here on the 200th, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine.
		I think James Monroe would probably spit on the floor if he came back next in the War Room.
unidentified		Here's your host, Stephen K. Batt.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		On the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, of course, Madeira wouldn't try to heckle us by having this referendum that's showing him.
		Remember, his partners, he's got the KGB all over.
		He's got the CCP as a partner.
		The Persians with their paramilitary group, Hezbollah, is all throughout Latin America.
		The Monroe Doctrine is a joke because we've allowed it.
		Various things coming up today.
		We've got the fentanyl town hall.
		We're going to get that up.
		We'll be on getter on that.
		The president speaks twice today.
		The second one, I think is going to be the important one.
		He's going to go after this whole thing of Biden and democracy and Biden that was the defender of democracy and President Trump's a fascist.
		He's going to take that head on and I think send some incoming to Joe Biden.
		So don't watch that.
		A lot of that thing's going to tie to the executive order that we've been talking about all week that they signed about artificial intelligence and other aspects.
		Of why they're anti-democratic in reality, particularly when Sam Faddis says that our elections here are only slightly less comical than the ones in quote-unquote selections in Venezuela.
		Then Joe Allen tonight, Grace will be there live.
		We're going to figure it out.
		So just check in all day long on our Getter account and Rumble.
		We're going to be up and then we're going to replay it tomorrow at the town hall on fentanyl, the tragic victims of fentanyl.
		Colonel Mills.
		Okay, we got the disastrous, we're going to go to Crimea and take Crimea that we put all the money back of and all the Ukrainians died on the fantasy of taking over eastern Russian-speaking Ukraine and Crimea.
		Not going to happen.
		Now they're scrambling to go on defense.
		Russians are gearing up.
		Harn will be on here. They're actually putting more defense around Kiev. You've got this thing on fire in Gaza.
		They just started shelling each other again. Intense combat right now. South China Sea.
		We're just doing a pathetic job of messaging to the Chinese that we're serious about this.
		Now you've got Latin America, but it's all over. It's Central America. It's the Panama Canal. It's the whole thing.
		Give us your perspective.
unidentified		Yeah, thank you Steve.
		Yeah, just all my personal observations and opinions here.
		So, Venezuela, this is Guiana, formerly British.
		This was, surname was Dutch.
		Over here off the map is French Guiana.
		Trinidad and Tobago, related to the UK.
		So now, this referendum, and we're looking at possible invasion.
		Now, as already previously stated, Venezuela, light constabulary forces, not a lot of well-trained heavy infantry, but Lula's mobilizing.
		This is all Brazilian territory.
		Lula's concerned.
		I think most of the action, and this is where a lot, as Dave was talking about, a lot of the oil is actually offshore, So I would say see a lot of kind of a hodgepodge of commercial vessels, light patrol vessels skirmishing up here.
		And Ali, the president of Guyana, I mean, he's flown into this territory, gotten a great video of him on a mountaintop declaring this is Guyana territory.
		But this is a brush fire in our front yard about to go off here, so very concerning.
		So I'd say a lot of it's going to be offshore, and it's going to be ugly.
		There are British defense connections.
		They have a very light footprint here in Guyana, a very light footprint in Trinidad and Tobago.
		So do the Dutch over here, so that kind of draws them in.
		But Venezuela, you've got a heavy Chinese footprint, you've got a heavy Iranian and Hezbollah footprint, a heavy Russian footprint.
		This is all about the next arson fire set by Xi.
		And so for broader context here, we've got to look down here is where Venezuela is, and Guyana is just right off the map over here.
		But look at what's going on.
		You know, the strategic areas here, you've got a Chinese footprint in the Bahamas, you've got a Chinese footprint at the Lourdes spy base.
		You got Chinese Gulf oil plat... This is international territory right here.
		This oval is the rough international territory.
		You got Chinese Gulf oil platforms out here.
		What's going on with those?
		Who knows?
		Now, Panama.
		Panama.
		And I was just down there with Mike Leon and Vandersteel.
		We rented an airplane.
		It looks like the Normandy invasion off of each entrance.
		And the Panama Canal actually runs north-south.
		But on the north end, the south end, a huge backlog of ships.
		Why?
		Because you have a Dangerously low water level, and it's falling in the new year.
		They're looking at 18 ships per year, and I've talked to Dave Walsh about this.
		It's now getting to the price point where LNG shippers are looking at going into the Arctic.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		You mean 18 ships per day?
unidentified		Yeah, excuse me, 18 shifts per day.
		And it's getting to the price point.
		LNG is looking at going to the South and going to the North.
		I mean, that's the tip of South America, where the Chinese have a mysterious Antarctic research station down there, supposedly, or through the Arctic waters.
		But it's getting to that price point, and it's just really out of, you know, Brush fire after brush fire.
		We got huge fentanyl problem in Puerto Rico.
		The Puerto Rican population is vanishing as they flee the island.
		You never want a vacuum like that.
		That's only opportunity for China.
		The Chinese footprint right where we have a Naval facility in the Bahamas and the Chinese run all of the IT.
		Huawei runs all the IT.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		And of course Cuba.
		John, where do they go quickly?
		Can the CCP shut down the Panama Canal?
unidentified		Yeah, absolutely.
		It's in progress.
		It's a slow motion shutdown.
		I'm looking at all the factors.
		It's quite within the world of the possible that Chinese IT is noodling with the infrastructure of the Panama Canal Authority, the ACP.
		Interestingly enough, DJI Drones has some kind of IT information technology relationship with the ACP.
		It's a possible entry point for tomfoolery.
		I would, now they have large new locks, a much deeper draft was supposed to be allowed.
		Now every time they run those locks, that's totally gravity feeding those, and it's a huge amount of water pushed out.
		Civil engineering miscalculation, probably.
		Chinese aiding and abetting that greater flow of water.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Colonel Mills, what's your, what's your, how do people get to your, what's your social media, where they go to your site to get all this, you get the maps, you get everything, where do they go?
unidentified		Yeah, Colonel Rhett Johns, Substack Getter and Truth, Colonel Rhett Johns, Substack Getter and Truth, and then the new book, War Against the Deep, State.com, Foundation of Mass Surveillance, and the fourth, fifth, and sixth branches of government.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼		Okay, you, if you, and Mark did the, if you haven't, If you don't see this, if you're hearing it on the podcast or on radio, go to warroom.org.
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		It gets all the video, all the clips, all the authors, all the links.
		Colonel Mills, thank you very much for doing this for us this morning in the War Room.
		We'll take a short break.
		We got Walsh, Thaddeus, Gaffney.
		We're going to be joined by Ben Harnwell.
		We're going to talk about COP 28.
		If you don't know what COP 28 is, we're going to tell you how it's going to directly affect your personal life.

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