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March 13, 2023 - The David Knight Show
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13Mar23 Third Anniversary of Lockdown and a "New" Financial Emergency
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You're listening to The David Knight Show.
As the clock strikes 13, it's Monday the 13th of March.
Year of our Lord, 2023.
Three years since the lockdown began.
We're still under a state of emergency.
Today, it was a tough decision to decide whether to begin with the bank problems that have happened over the weekend.
We've had three banks that have now gone down.
Yeah, I know they typically talk about two.
There's a third bank as well.
Doesn't get a lot of attention.
We're going to talk about what they have in common.
Not vulture capitalism.
Yeah, these people are vultures, but virus capitalism.
That's where we're going to start. We'll talk about both of these big issues when we come back.
Stay with us..
Thank you.
Well, where do we start?
Well, I think we start with the money.
That's where it always starts, right?
All the money? Show me the money, Jerry, and I'll show you the plan.
If we go back and we look at what happened with the pandemic, for example, and just the money side of it.
Let's just take a look at the money side of the pandemic.
It boosted the super rich share of global wealth.
This is an article from 2021, December 2021.
And, you know, what these two things have in common is a big grift.
It's about taking your money and giving it to the people who've already got more than they can ever use in their lifetime.
The share of household wealth owned by billionaires rose during the pandemic.
It's a record amount.
Millionaires also came out far ahead.
Elon Musk had a 600% increase in his net worth.
$150 billion. Of course, it comes and it goes.
He added a lot more than that subsequent to it.
Lost a lot as well.
I don't know what that was. That was according to Newsweek.
He lost $200 billion earlier this year.
But anyway, he was one of the billionaire class that saw everything go up.
The banks, the big box retailers, they were too big to fail.
They were too big to close, by the way.
And that's the key thing.
Things going online.
What's happening with all this stuff?
I'm going to show you a common thread with these bank failures.
Yes, there's a lot of nonsense going on with ESB. That's the MacGuffin, the climate MacGuffin, just like the virus MacGuffin.
But there appears to be, and several Republican senators have looked at this, and there appears to be an Operation Choke Point involved in this.
Not for guns, but to choke out cryptocurrency.
Perhaps that's one of the reasons why this is focusing around Silicon Valley.
Anyway, what is happening with the people getting richer and richer?
Billionaires in 2021?
It went up to 3.5% of global household wealth, just a few of them, up from slightly just above 2% at the start of the pandemic in early 2020.
Forbes' annual World Billionaires List this year included a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires with a combined worth of $13 trillion, up from $8 trillion the previous year.
The new report showed that a wider group of 520,000 adults who make up the top 0.01%, so that's one one-hundredth of a percent of the people in the world, together saw their share of global wealth hit 11%, up from 10% in 2020.
Belonging to the top 1 100th of 1% category means that you have a household wealth of at least $19 million.
Analysts say some super-rich have benefited from the shift online of much of the world's economy during lockdowns, while others simply gained from rising asset prices as financial markets bet on the speed and the shape of the global recovery.
And, uh... Of course, we had a lot of new billionaires minted just in a couple of companies.
We had in Pfizer, Moderna, a few of those.
You had nine new pharma billionaires created by Donald Trump and his program.
You know, the warp speed thing.
They got to a billion dollars pretty fast.
That part of the warp speed.
You know, not just rushing out something that is novel and untested.
But also rushing out the money to them.
Jim Cramer, you know, even a broken clock can be right once in a while.
And Jim Cramer can be right once every few years.
He was one of these people who was just telling everybody to invest in Silicon Valley Bank shortly ago.
But he was right about this.
He said the pandemic led to one of the greatest wealth transfers in history.
Even Jim Cramer could see it.
Obvious. The bigger the business, the more it moves the major averages, and that matters.
Because this is the first recession where big business is coming through virtually unscathed, if not going for the gold.
How did that happen?
What was the nature of the lockdown, you remember?
We had, under the George W. Bush administration, we had banks that were too big to fail.
Remember? They bailed out the banks, the big banks, in 2008.
Under the Obama administration, we had corrupt banks, J.P. Morgan, HSBC, convicted of fraud and money laundering for drug cartels.
But Eric Holder said, essentially, they were too big to jail.
So under W, they're too big to fail.
Under Obama, they're too big to jail.
Under Trump, they're too big to lock down.
You don't lock down not just the banks, but all the big box retailers, you see.
They're special. They're allowed to survive, thrive, because they shut down their competition.
The mom and pops, and that's one of the reasons why I said the day I was fired, I said that it made me sick.
Coming from a family of people who worked in small business, it made me sick to see what Donald Trump did to them.
That son of a gun.
You talk about somebody born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
Home run. He was born on third base.
He was born at the home plate.
That's where he was.
The only big bankruptcy we've seen, said Kramer at the time, was Hertz.
And, yeah, just massive incompetence to lose money in that environment.
So billionaires got 54% richer during the pandemic.
And the response was that people, all these Democrats and demagogues, were saying, what we need now is a wealth tax.
We need a wealth tax. Well, guess who's going to pay that wealth tax?
Billionaires don't pay the taxes.
Corporations don't pay. They pass this stuff on to you.
They'll find a way out of it.
Or they'll go live somewhere else.
They're not limited to living in this country.
They'll find a way to make us pay.
And you remember, that's the way the income tax began.
Oh, we've got to get those filthy rich people.
It was a tax, a 1% tax on the less than 1% of the people.
Now look where it is. This is where the wealth tax will go if we ever have one.
And so the demagogues are jumping in, trying to exploit envy and jealousy about a situation that they created as they transferred all this wealth to a few people.
Yeah, let's use that.
They create the crisis, never let it go to waste.
This is a good example of the way...
Business Insider.
What a publication that is.
Billionaires made $3.9 trillion during the pandemic enough to pay for everyone's vaccine.
Yeah, right. What if we don't want it?
Yeah, like I said, nine new pharma billionaires.
But that's their take on this whole thing.
Well, you know, these...
We got so much money here, we can pay for everybody's vaccine because that's what everybody needs.
Our number one thing that we need.
And so as all of this is happening, so will it be with the bank crisis.
We have two different pandemic, two different MacGuffins.
We got the pandemic MacGuffin.
We got the climate MacGuffin.
Isn't it interesting how they all...
Have the same solution.
Same solution is to track us and to tag us, to give us a global digital ID. Isn't that interesting?
It doesn't matter what the problem, that's why I call it the MacGuffin, right?
It doesn't matter what that is.
We know what the solution must be.
It always comes back to the same thing.
Whether we're going to go into a new ice age or whether the polar ice caps are going to melt or whether it is a supposed worldwide pandemic, we're all going to die.
And in order to not die, we have to give up everything we own except a global ID. It's always a solution.
And so as we look at this, the convergence, and I think the quickest...
Point to all of this.
Again, they've got biometric surveillance.
They've laid the legal foundation, which is still there.
Still there. And they're adding to it with the World Health Organization.
New rules to make this mandatory.
To give an international, unelected bureaucracy unaccountable to anyone.
And to make us all accountable to it.
So that they can point the finger at any area that they wish.
And say, that's a pandemic.
And we're going to tell you what you can and cannot do.
That's where we are right now.
Many people will look at this and say, I'm sure glad that everybody woke up and understand what's going on about it.
No, people are still totally asleep as to where we are right now.
They understand the fraud.
Now they're starting to understand the fraud that happened a year ago, two years ago, three years ago.
But they don't understand the fraud that's going on right now at the World Health Organization.
And that's what's troubling about this.
They don't understand the fraud that's being put into place right now with a CVDC. That is the most direct path, but it's not the only path.
They can do it with biometric surveillance.
They can do it with claiming that they need to cut down on your carbon footprint.
They can do it any number of ways, but the direct path is the CBDC, Central Bank Digital Currencies.
And they don't even have these things in place on a country-by-country basis yet.
But they're already working about how they can unify it into a global digital currency with a global ID. And, of course, that was baked in from the very beginning.
Mark Zuckerberg talking about in his Libra paper, hey, let me do a cryptocurrency for the world, and I'll give you a global digital ID. Well, SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, It's not the actual clearinghouse.
The clearinghouse goes to the Bank of International Settlements.
It's the central bank of central banks.
But SWIFT is a vital part of that.
It's the communications between it.
SWIFT, and by the way, we've kicked the Russians out with the sanctions.
And so the Russians and the Chinese who have been working to get rid of America's power as reserve currency are now in an existential mode.
You know, we've got to do this or they're going to kill us type of thing.
So they really doubled down and accelerated their thing.
So they're moving to get out of the dollar, and many other countries are as well.
Saudi Arabia is moving away from the U.S. They're moving to get away from U.S. influence, U.S. financial domination at warp speed.
And so SWIFT is trying to build a global system that interlinks the CBDCs of various countries, creating a seamless cross-border payment network.
CBDCs are surveillance disguised as money.
More than 100 countries are working on their CBDC projects, as per data from the Atlantic Council.
All these countries have achieved varying levels of progress.
Some have launched their digital currencies, while others are either in the pilot, development, or research phases.
We're very far along in ours.
We haven't rolled it out yet, but of course the people...
They're letting some of these countries like Nigeria...
The Bahamas go first to see how people react so they can plan their psychological war against us and their moves against us.
That's why we haven't jumped into it yet.
We're kind of still, they're still observing how they can manipulate people.
You know, Bahamas, I think was the first one they called it the sand dollar.
Cute. Anyway, yeah, it just doesn't go right through your hands like sand, sifting sand.
Or you could build your society on a foundation of sand.
That's not what the wise man does, is it?
So they said, we don't want to have a lot of walled environments with all these various CBDC projects.
This is where the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, SWIFT, comes in.
SWIFT is trying to build a global system.
By the way, this is CNBC's take on this, of course, cheering it on.
Swift is trying to build a global system that interlinks the CBDCs of various countries.
Swift created a solution that would enable the movement of CBDCs between distributed ledgers and fiat-based systems.
This system was then tested through a 12-week collaborative sandbox environment that began in October 2022.
18 central and commercial banks, including the Bank of France, Bank of Canada, Other ones like UBS, HSBC, Deutsche Bank.
Isn't it interesting that you look at banks like UBS and HSBC and Deutsche Bank.
These are all banks that are very big and financially troubled.
They've been in the headlines for other reasons as well.
Because they're getting ready to reset everything.
And to steal even more money from us.
It's the next step in the script.
The banking failures. Well, you can better believe that they're going to do that.
Because they want to connect everything into a one-world financial system so that you can have one-world governance.
Governance. Well, we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to talk about the specifics of HSBC. Let me tell you, The David Knight Show, you can listen to with your ears.
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Yeah, that's a website.
And Forbes magazine is supposedly a financial trade journal.
And... When you look at their 2023 list, America's best banks.
Well, you see SVC, SVB there.
And with a footnote now on this article, they've done an update.
Editor's note, after this list was published in February 16th, 2023, SVB Financial Group's Silicon Valley Bank collapsed and was placed under FDIC control on March 10th.
Okay, so from February the 16th to March 10th, that's less than a month.
Yeah, Forbes, Forbes magazine.
Somebody pointed out, well, he just added to the list.
The people and the institutions that they've celebrated, from bankman fraud to that young fraudster there, the part of the Forbes 400, the people, the movers and the shakers.
And of course, they are movers and shakers, aren't they?
Rising interest rates were a godsend, said Forbes, back February the 16th, in a vacuum as net interest income among FDIC-insured banks rose 16%.
To $456 billion in the first three quarters.
So they were helped by that interest rate increase, I said.
But that wasn't enough to offset higher loan loss provisions on balance sheets, you know, because of the recession side of this.
Declines in total deposits as a pandemic stimulus spout ran dry and a crash in capital markets revenues.
Total net income for banks overall, said Forbes, as they were looking at the best banks.
Total net income for banks fell 6% in the 12 months that they were talking about there.
And so it's not just Forbes in terms of the best banks, but Forbes also had another list, Forbes Financial All-Stars of 2023, and Silicon Valley Bank also made that list.
And also now has an editor's note.
After this list was published on February the 9th, a week earlier, SVB Financial Group's Silicon Valley Bank collapsed and was placed under FDIC control on March 10th.
So, when you look at Forbes, they put it on the financial all-stars list one month almost exactly before it collapsed.
February 9th to March the 10th.
And three weeks after they put it on the best banks, it collapsed.
This is what it looked like as we got the information on Friday afternoon after the show.
We started seeing this happening.
These are people lining up.
In New York, they called the police because people were trying to get in.
They called the police to keep them safe from people who were coming in.
As they said about the financial all-stars, Forbes said banks make up almost half of the all-stars with 24 companies.
Well, there you go. It's where the money is, right?
Or you hope. Silicon Valley bank run drained $42 billion worth of deposits.
And they said customers withdrew $42 billion, leaving the bank with a negative cash balance of $958 million.
It was a bank run.
It was a bank run by the big tech companies and others.
Peter Thiel was part of this.
Peter Thiel was telling people, hey, you got to get your money out.
He got his money out. A lot of other people got their money out.
Simpsons talked about this, although, I'll tell you, they changed the bank at the beginning, and they changed the sign, as you'll see.
This is the way it was originally in the original Simpsons episode.
First Bank of Springfield, and they went by the initials BS. Because, you know, it is a fractional reserve system.
So they went by the name of BS. And so somebody in this clip that I'm going to play for you changes that from First Bank of Springfield BS to Silicon Valley Bank.
What do you mean the bank is out of money?
Insolvent? You only have enough cash for the next three customers?
Hey, what the hell? Just a second here.
No, no. I don't have your money here.
It's in Bill's house and Fred's house.
Hey, what the hell are you doing with my money in your house, Fred?
Yeah, that's an interesting twist, and it's a wonderful life.
Prior to its collapse, Silicon Valley Bank was the 16th largest bank by assets in the Federal Reserve System as of December 31st, end of the year.
Well, maybe it wasn't Bart Simpson.
Maybe it wasn't even Peter Thiel who was doing that.
Maybe it was the CEO himself.
He sold $3.5 million worth of stocks two weeks before the bank collapsed.
So, he knew. Peter Thiel knew.
Forbes reading public didn't know.
So, I think the CEO is going to have lots of explaining to do to Lucy, I think.
It is pretty amazing to see this.
And I'm sure that he's going to be called into Congress soon.
So they can pretend that they're doing due diligence, and they can question him severely.
He'll be severely questioned over this, and nothing will happen.
So it collapses, and even though the CEO got his money out, 93% of the deposits are not insured.
Well, that's kind of interesting.
93% of the deposits are not insured, but not 93% of the depositeurs, right?
One thing I did not realize was that they had upped the level of protection from FDIC. For $100,000 to $250,000 after 2008.
It had been at $100,000, I think, since it had been created.
I didn't go back and investigate that.
But all my life, I've always heard $100,000.
Not that I had to worry about that.
Many of you have to worry about that either, if any of you.
But I think when you make the distinction that it is about 93% of deposits, you're talking about some of these very big vulture capital firms that are out there and some others as well.
Here's a couple of vultures.
Harry and Meghan, you know, the man formerly known as Prince, stand to lose millions in the collapse of SVB Bank.
One source said, this is a major blow.
They had all of Harry's money in there.
The couple had major money in the deposit at the seized institution.
Their accounts may only be insured up to a maximum of $250,000.
Things are looking really dire for the man formerly known as Prince.
First they were a frog-marched out of Frogmore, and now this!
I don't know. He's made a lot of bad decisions in his life, hasn't he?
Beginning with Megan, at least.
Silicon Valley bank depositors will get all their money, however, say regulators.
Oh. So what's going to happen with this?
Well, the FDIC is a federal corporation.
Actually, the government is a corporation now, I think.
But it's a federally created corporation, and they are required.
To cover $250,000.
But they can pay more if they want.
You know, just voluntarily.
They're saying there's not going to be a taxpayer bailout of this.
Well, we'll see about that.
Because, you know, these billionaires are where the politicians get their money.
How are they going to be bribed?
Who's going to give them the kind of big cash that they've gotten used to?
If the billionaires go out of business.
So, you know, it's not just, you know, this royalty of the, well, former royalty of the man, formerly known as Prince, but the billionaires are the real royalty.
They're going to get their money one way or the other, even if the Federal Reserve has to just, I don't know, make it up somewhere.
You know, this goes back to your fractional banking system.
If you divide the people from real money with a fractional system here, the question is, will there be a remainder of Leftover for us after the division is completed.
The FDIC will be able to complete its resolution of Silicon Valley Bank in a manner that fully protects all depositors, they said.
Depositors will have access to all of their money starting Monday, March the 13th, they said.
No losses will be borne by U.S. taxpayers.
Well, that's nice to know, isn't it?
We can all take comfort in the fact that the FDIC, even though the banking system may be rotten to the core, the FDIC is perfectly healthy, isn't it?
Let's go back to January the 3rd.
2023, when I played this clip for you.
This is an FDIC meeting.
I mentioned this when we were talking about this very thing on Friday with Gerald Slenty before the closure of Silicon Valley Bank.
I said, yeah, you remember those clips where they were talking about having to bail people in and how we don't want the public to really know what's going on and how shaky the system is?
This is January... The third, this is the date that I played it.
It was a little bit before that.
FDIC meeting. I wondered whether there are some market tests of whether you're being heard.
And I think about TLAC. So TLAC should...
Spread should respond to good and bad news about the institutions, and it's really important.
I mean, it's a little bit conflicted, right?
I mean, it's important that people understand they can be mailed in, but you don't want a huge run on the institution.
But, I mean, they're going to be.
And it could be an early warning signal to the FDIC and the primary regulators when these things happen.
And there may be some other Prices, this is similar to what Jay was saying, in the market that you can tell whether people understand who's going to be protected, who isn't going to be protected.
It would be, I think, an interesting study to look at the evolution of market prices in a situation like March of 2020, for example, and see whether people understood what might happen.
Yeah, like March 2020, that other anniversary that we're talking about right now, a three-year anniversary, yeah, something like that happens.
Here's a guy at the Federal Reserve said, you know, people, do they understand that there's going to be bail-ins?
What's a bail-in? That just means that they keep your money.
You know, bail-out is when the government gives money to these people who have acted irresponsibly.
Bail-in means that you get drug into this.
When they act irresponsibly, they take your money.
They seize out of your account.
He said, do people understand this?
Do they understand the bail-in?
Because they're going to be bailed in, he said.
He said, it's going to happen. And we need to have this discussion about who's going to be protected and who isn't.
Well, you know who's going to be protected, don't you?
It's going to be the same people who got richer and richer during the pandemic as they were doing their best to begin the process of taking everything from us.
Those people, the Elon Musks and the Peter Thiels and the Donald Trumps and the Trump Organization and the banks, the bigger banks, they will all be taken care of.
So Biden said the American people and the American businesses can have confidence that their bank deposits will be there when they need them.
Yes, it is a con game, a confidence game.
Here's the other clip.
Where they were talking, and this is also from the same FDIC meeting.
It should be accessible when people need to know, but I don't think you have much hope of reaching a public that doesn't have a professional need to know.
If you don't have a need to know.
I almost think you'd scare the public if you put this out.
Like, why are they telling me this?
Should I be concerned about my bank?
My insurance company doesn't tell me what they're doing with my assets.
They just assume they're going to pay my claim.
I think you've got to think of the unintended consequences of taking a public that has more full faith and confidence in the banking system than maybe people in this room do.
They laughed about that.
They know the FDIC insurance is there.
They know it works. They put their money in.
They're going to get their money out. So there's a select crowd of people that are in the institutional side.
And if they want to understand this, they're going to find a way to understand this.
There's a bunch of law firms representing this room.
There's a bunch of people that will charge them by the hour a lot of money to explain this all to them.
And it's fine. I don't have a problem with that.
And they all have huge staffs.
But I would be careful about the unintended consequences of starting to blast too much of this out in the general public.
Yeah, another thing that is common to these MacGuffins.
Don't tell the public what's going on.
If they knew what was happening with our vaccine, if they knew what was happening with the FDIC, oh, they would come after us, right?
They have more confidence In the FDIC than the people in this room.
And who are the people in that room? The FDIC. They have more confidence in the vaccines than in Fauci than the pharmaceutical companies and the FDA and Fauci have in the vaccines.
We now know that as well.
It's a con game.
It's a con game. And Biden wants you to have full confidence in your bank deposits.
So, in God we trust.
In God we trust. That was the middle of the 20th century when I was growing up.
That's what we trusted in.
Don't trust in the FDIC or the banks or the dollar or the Federal Reserve, any of that stuff.
Signature Bank in New York was closed yesterday by a state regulator.
And it was a crypto-friendly bank, heavily involved in that, shut down by regulators after the collapse of SVB and Silvergate.
Now, these all sound very similar, don't they?
Be wary if you have your money in an institution that starts with the letter S. Now, what you see typically talked about are two bank failures.
There have been three bank failures in less than a week.
Big ones. The system is very shaky.
They don't want the public to know this.
They want to keep this con game going.
It's another thing it has in common with the pandemic MacGuffin.
Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning economist.
They say, yeah, what does that matter?
This is Business Insider again, pushing this narrative.
And what Paul Krugman is saying...
That the problem with SVB, Silicon Valley Bank, he said it could have been called the schmoozing and vibes bank.
He says, but it's probably not another layman moment.
Well, what he's trying to do is move the discussion away from ESG. It was very heavily into ESG. It wasn't just that it was schmoozing and vibes.
He doesn't want you to see how the greenwashing, The green lighting of greenwashing projects was really violating their fiduciary trust.
And that is a key thing that should be understood about this as well.
He says, so what was SVB selling, said Paul Krugman.
As far as I can tell, it was just unusually good at cultivating relationships with Silicon Valley, specifically venture capital firms.
Well, if they were doing things that were based on sound economics, that wouldn't be a problem.
The problem is that these are venture capital firms that are based on the green agenda.
And this has been called out.
We've had multiple state attorneys general who have said, we're going to come after these companies.
That are forgetting about their fiduciary trust and going full into ESG. Why?
Because that is fraud.
If you tell people, hey, I've got this bank or corporation or whatever, we're In it to win and to make money.
You're making a financial investment, and so you're trying to invest in people who are going to act with fiduciary care and try to maximize their financial investment.
Except these people have now, after you've made your investment, they've now changed what they do.
And they see themselves as some kind of a charity or as some kind of an agent of government to push environmentalism.
To push socialism?
If that's going to be what they're about, that is fraud.
And this is a validation of these Republican state attorneys general who have said that this is fraud.
Now, Nancy Pelosi was speaking at South by Southwest in Austin over the weekend.
And she was talking about Silicon Valley Bank.
You know, that's right there in her district.
And she's an expert on what she focused on, which is money and greed.
She's the person who was so famous for insider trading.
And of course, if you want to know who's going to do well financially, you can forget about consulting Kramer, Jim Kramer, or looking and reading at Forbes magazine.
No, you want to look and watch to see what her husband, Paul Pelosi, did.
Follow his investments if you want to get rich, because she knows all about money and greed.
She's almost like a fortune teller.
Yeah. Because she can make a fortune by manipulating the future with her regulatory issues, favoring this one and punishing that one, and she knows which ones are going to go up, which ones are going to go down.
And she's able to train on that.
You know, they put in and everybody was, she was exposed by 60 Minutes back when they used to do reporting.
And everybody was calling it, after she was exposed, as this heinous insider, insider trader, right?
T-R-A-I-T-O-R. Doing the kind of stuff that they tried to send Martha Stewart to jail for.
Actually, Pelosi actually did it.
Martha Stewart, they didn't send her to jail for insider trading.
They sent her to jail supposedly because she lied to the FBI. They found a conflict in something that she said to them.
They sent her to jail for that, not for insider trading.
Nancy Pelosi should have been sent to jail for insider trading.
Most heinous and obvious.
She was able to do it with impunity.
And so people say, wait a minute, this is legal?
We need to stop this.
And so she was Speaker of the House at the time.
She put together the Stock Act.
Everybody else called it the Pelosi Act.
And it made some overtures about how congressmen and their staff...
Could not do insider trading under certain circumstances.
And within about eight or nine months, they'd completely eviscerated it quietly.
Nobody paid any attention to it again.
But I wonder if Paul Pelosi had his money in Silicon Valley Bank.
If he did, he and Nancy are going to get hammered.
But he probably had enough inside information that he didn't have it in there.
So Pelosi talking at South by Southwest interview, she focused on money and greed, her expertise.
She uttered the specific phrase, follow the money and similar versions of it, many times during her interview with a writer from the Atlantic in Austin.
She pointed out that former President Trump had authorized the reduction of certain Dodd-Frank protections that had been instituted following the 2008 financial crisis.
Whether that is so or not, what she doesn't want to talk about is what Gerald Slenty and I were talking about on Friday, the fact that Jimmy Carter, to come after and to harm local banks, allowed interstate banking.
Banking, you know, banks to operate outside of one state.
Prior to that, they had to operate in one state at a time.
That helped to make big banks.
And he also got rid of the usury law.
So they can charge you whatever price they want.
Charge you 30%, 40% on a credit card.
No problem. No problem.
And then Clinton came along.
And started authorizing after these banks had made a lot of money by the new rules of Carter where they could operate across the entire United States instead of state by state.
After they had a lot of cash and they wanted to start merging...
You had Clinton say, yeah, sure, that's fine.
We wound up with five or six banks.
He also got rid of Glass-Steagall Act, which allowed them to invest in speculative investments that had been prohibited after the Great Depression.
And those speculative investments, securitized mortgages and other nonsense like that, along with the fact that you had the big banks that resulted in the crash about 10 years after that.
But then, of course, George W. Bush bailed them out.
Yeah, there's enough blame to go around for both parties because both parties are in this.
But as Breitbart spoke to Ramashwamy, who is running for president, they focused on the green, woke, and broke aspects of SVB, second biggest bank failure in U.S. history.
Roku, for example, some of the whales that are there, Roku, has $487 million in Silicon Valley Bank.
$250,000 of that is insured.
But again, FDIC says they're going to go above and beyond.
Now, if they do that...
Understand, that's going to perhaps harm their ability to provide this for other banks that fail.
But the important thing right now is that they gain your confidence in this con game.
So, as big an ESG bank goes belly up, we see the danger of systemic risk to the whole economy.
That's what happened when bank failures dominoed back in 1929.
Well, we haven't gotten yet to net zero, says Breitbart.
We never will, especially with China still building coal plants.
But we've already had a shock to the system, financially speaking.
Then there's the question of bailing out SVB beyond the FDIC requirements.
As The Washington Post reported on Saturday, quote, has erupted in D.C. over some political fix that could, of course, cost taxpayers many, many billions.
On the other hand, a larger and graver banking crisis could damage the economy and could cost Biden many, many votes.
So what D.C. will do is an unknown unknown.
Well, if he doesn't bail out the billionaires, again, where is he going to get the campaign cash that he needs?
Here's an SVB headline from January the 10th, 2022.
Quote, Silicon Valley Bank commits to $5 billion in sustainable finance and carbon neutral operations to support a healthier planet.
That was their priority.
To kowtow to the global agenda, to push that at all costs.
And they basically fell on the sword for this stuff.
SVB has more to proclaim about ESG if you go to their site.
They said, our corporate philosophy of transparency and accountability guides our reporting on environmental, social, and governance performance with a goal of building trust.
You see, ESG is a con game.
And evolving our policies and disclosures.
We support entrepreneurs and high-growth businesses at the forefront of grifting.
I'm sorry, innovation. Helping to advance solutions that create a more just and sustainable world.
They can't even sustain their own bank.
Our long-standing commitment to innovation combined with our deep experience supporting evolving technologies.
Green grifts.
Enables us to contribute to a healthier planet via the efforts of our clients and ourselves.
So, they're also very proud of their work in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We're building a culture belonging with a global workforce that celebrates greater dimensions of diversity.
So, when you look at it, as a matter of fact, I saw a clip.
I don't have it in the board here.
It's Bill Maurer, and he was...
Talking about Bernie Sanders, he said, you know, Bernie Sanders.
He said, even the people that disagree with him think that he's authentic.
And he says, but even Bernie Sanders doesn't know what equity is.
He says he doesn't know what it is.
Let me tell you something. If that old communist tells you that he doesn't know what equity is, he's lying to you.
He is lying to you.
Look, one of the reasons, what is the definition of equity?
It's not equality.
What do we call stocks?
We call them equities.
What do we call the stock market?
We call it the equity market.
It's ownership, if you will.
Do you have equity in that?
Do you have a vested interest in that?
That is being replaced, you understand, it used to be that equity was something that you worked on.
You got money, and then you bought into it, right?
You bought your place into that with equity.
Now that's not the case, and Bernie Sanders knows it well.
When you talk about socialists and communists, they're all about wealth redistribution.
And so you see that they're talking about stakeholder capitalism, not stockholders.
And that kind of equity is handed out to their friends.
It's handed out to corporations that push ESG. It's handed out to certain ethnic groups as reparations or whatever, right?
Or giving you a preferential treatment, whether you're talking about college entrance or a job or whatever.
That kind of equity is something that is, again, it's handing out opportunities for In a way that is not based on merit.
Handing out when it comes to jobs or when it comes to academics.
It's handing out literal cash based on skin color or presumed skin color.
Again, these people pushing it, most of them are probably as white as I am.
They've got so, I don't know my background.
I don't know if there's any black people in my background or not.
But they don't know how many white people are in their background.
And so it's a scam.
It's a scam. And all this equity stuff, Just a good old dyed-in-the-wool fossil communist like Bernie Sanders knows that that's the way socialism and communism works.
They take everything from everybody and then they hand it out to the people that they want.
They hand out just enough to the mob, but they keep most of it themselves, like Bernie's got multiple multi-million dollar homes stashed around the different places.
That always happens, whether you're talking about Russia, China, Venezuela, or Bernie Sanders.
It always works the same way.
So Rama Swami, I think his first name is pronounced Vivek.
I'm not sure. So I'll just go with his last name.
Running for president. He's announced that he's running for president.
He says, I'm against taxpayer-funded bailouts for ESG Evangelist Silicon Valley Bank.
And I'm against him for any of these banks.
And so is he, as a matter of fact.
He talks about how it's necessary for a market to operate for people to be allowed to fail when they make bad decisions.
He said, for 15 years, the Federal Reserve has been raining money from on high, like manna from heaven.
He said, someone's going to have to have the things to pay for these sins.
He says, that's great.
That's part of how capitalism works.
We can't interfere with this short-termism of bailing out this bank.
It's a mistake. And by the way, Republicans made this mistake in 2008.
It's crony capitalism.
Hank Paulson, under George Bush, he says, I think it was a mistake.
He bailed out Goldman Sachs and others like them.
It is simply crony capitalism because Hank Paulson had been, prior to that, the CEO of Goldman Sachs before bailing them out.
Now, when you go back and you look at the Trump administration, for example, I've talked many times about how he had made noise and thrown out phrases here and there to scare the pharmaceutical industry to death about vaccines.
Well, I don't know. Maybe we ought to look at that.
Maybe there's something. I don't know.
I don't know. And then he invites in RFK Jr.
And immediately after that, during the transition period, you know, just before he takes office in 2016, between the election and his taking office on January the 20th of 2017, he brings in RFK Jr.
immediately. The pharmaceutical lobbyists send millions of dollars to Donald Trump, and he never met with RFK Jr.
anymore, but he put in the CEO of Eli Lilly, perhaps prior to all this stuff, I would say, the most politically connected of all the pharmaceutical cartel.
As a matter of fact, going back to when a lot of the legal foundations were being laid for what they pulled on us in 2020, When George W. Bush was putting together things like the PREP Act in 2005 and so forth, you had a special addendum to these pandemic legal entrapments that they were putting in there at the time that was put in there because of the lobbying by Eli Lilly.
They even called it the Lilly Rider.
That's what they called the amendment.
So Eli Lilly was heavily involved in Washington.
And as a pharmaceutical industry wanted to make sure their interests were protected, they made sure that the CEO of Eli Lilly, Alex Azar, was head of the FDA. And then when you look at Goldman Sachs, as he's pointing out here, Hank Paulson was former CEO of Goldman Sachs.
He goes to work for George W. Bush, and then he's the one who bails out the big banks.
Well, you had not just Steve Mnuchin at the Treasury Department, But you also had Cohen, who was the former CEO of Goldman Sachs that went into the Trump administration.
They gave him, I forget the exact amount, but it was something like $250 million in terms of advanced retirement.
They changed their rules to give him this golden parachute so he could parachute right into the Trump White House.
So Ramashwamy says, but I think we should resist the siren song of bailouts with the Silicon Valley Bank catastrophe.
He said, Silicon Valley Bank is one of the biggest evangelists of DEI and ESG. He said, in fact, just January of last year, barely over a year ago, they made a $5 billion commitment to sustainable finance, that's what I read you about, to actually make for what they call a climate-ready crisis.
Healthier planet, a climate ready.
It doesn't even make any sense.
We're ready for a climate.
He says, well, guess what?
That $5 billion would have served their balance sheet.
How about a healthier balance sheet instead?
Because that's really the only thing that they can do.
But they don't do it. Home Depot founder is also weighing in on this.
Bernie Marcus was on Cavuto.
He said, I can't wait for Biden to get on the speech again and talk about how great the economy is and how it's moving forward and getting stronger by the day.
He says this is an indication that whatever he says is not true.
And maybe the American people will finally wake up And understand that we're living in very tough times.
He says that, in fact, a recession may have already started.
Who knows? But it doesn't look good, he said.
Well, he won't have to wait.
Biden will be speaking today.
He'll be talking about how he's going to make everything fine and your confidence in him should not be shaken.
And you don't have to wait for the recession either, because it already has begun.
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So, could it happen to your bank?
As I said, there's a lot of talk about two banks that have gone under, but it's actually three banks that have gone under.
We've had SVB, Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and also Crypto Friendly Signature Bank has now been shut down by regulators after the collapses at the other two.
And I think there's something to see here, more than is being told by the media.
First of all, what is happening at, I mentioned before that Roku had about $450-something million in SVB. $250,000 of that is insured, but FDIC says they're going to make good on it.
Yeah, because they're too big to fail.
And all these venture capital firms are too big to fail, and on and on.
Some of them are big enough that they can cover their own losses.
Circle, for example, says they're going to cover any shortfall in their USDC reserves, and that created a stablecoin rally.
Now, this is a company that I've not covered before.
I've not seen them before.
It's just they popped up because of this.
It's not something that's on my radar.
Circle has a stablecoin that is based on, you know, they base stablecoins on a currency or something like that.
They based it on the dollar.
You get the best of, or the worst of everything, right?
You got a cryptocurrency that's based on the dollar.
But it's private, you know, it's not a surveillance thing, we hope.
And then they put their money...
Silicon Valley Bank.
I got a great idea.
We'll make a stable coin.
We'll base it on the U.S. dollar.
And I know exactly where we can put our money.
So they put $3 billion in there.
3.3 actually.
$3.3 billion cash reserve was being held at Silicon Valley Bank.
Circle Internet Financial said Saturday that it will, quote, cover any shortfall in the assets backing its stablecoin, USDC, in the event that it does not receive the entirety of the $3.3 billion cash user.
So, they have a lot to make up there.
Let's see, $3.3 billion versus $250,000.
The pledge came as crypto traders fretted over the value of USDC, a stable coin meant to be pegged to the U.S. dollar, but which fell in value after the Silicon Valley bank collapse.
Circle was holding $3.3 billion worth of USDC cash backing at the bank when the FDIC seized the assets on Friday.
Circle said it attempted to move its assets out before SVB's collapsed.
Now they're going to have to...
They need to get on the phone with Peter Thiel.
He knew what was happening with this stuff.
You need to get the insider information.
It always pays to have friends, doesn't it?
In crony capitalism and the kind of environment in which we operate now.
And Peter Thiel has some of the most powerful for him.
And they know what's going to happen about everything.
Because, you see, Peter Thiel does data mining for the CIA and these other people.
So I'm sure he knew exactly what was going on.
I wonder what he was doing with money moves for 9-11.
You know, that was a big part of 9-11.
That was a big smoking gun that everybody ignored, wasn't it?
All the people that shorted United the day or so before?
That was a tell. Anyway, they didn't want to investigate that, did they?
A pledge came as crypto traders fretted over the value of this, and so it said Circle Center attempted to move its assets out, but they said that the transactions could settle on Monday, because that's what the FDIC has said.
They said they're going to make everybody good, so the FDIC is going to pony up enough money To make good on this $3.3 billion that Circle's got there, they believe it's going to happen.
But they said, even if it doesn't, we're going to cover it ourselves.
Well, I don't know.
But you see, that's why I was saying before, it's the difference between 93% of deposits versus, you know, 93% of depositors.
There's going to be a lot of small depositors who had less than $250,000.
But, you know, it takes a lot of those small depositors to make up, you know, $3 billion.
However, it's also possible that SVB may not return 100%, he said.
And that any return might take some time as the FDIC issues IOUs, receivership certificates, and advanced dividends to deposit holders.
I would expect that this is what I think would happen.
I would think that somebody's got that much money in there.
They may not get their money just yet.
They'll take care of the small depositors who have less than $250,000.
Probably they'll get their money today.
But I would think that these venture capitalists who have hundreds of millions or billions of dollars in there, they may have to wait a few days.
I mean, come on. Would you expect anything else?
You've probably had a situation where, you know, you sold something, you know, a major asset like a car or a house or something like that, and you've got a check to put into your bank, and it's a lot more than your bank balance is.
I'm sorry, we're going to have to hold this for what?
You know, three or four or five banking days or something.
That's a very common thing. So I would expect that they're going to have to wait a little bit of time.
The value of stablecoin fell as low as 88 cents.
Remember, it's supposed to be pegged to the U.S. dollar in the last 24 hours before rebounding to 97 cents after he said, we've got the cash to cover it, even if the FDIC doesn't cover it.
And so, that's good.
I don't want to see a lot of failures here.
Last Friday, Coinbase paused redemptions of USDC. Said they would reopen Monday when normal banking hours resumed.
Circle holds no USDC reserves with Signature Bank.
Another one that went under.
As of press time, USDC had gotten closer to regaining its peg to the dollar.
It's now up to 99 cents.
And so right there at that stable currency, the U.S. dollar.
DavidKnight.gold. I'll take you to Tony Herman.
Wise Wolf Gold, where you can put it in something that is stable.
Yeah, it looks like gold is constantly fluctuating around, doesn't it?
Only because its value is measured in this ephemeral fiat currency that is floating around all different ways.
And the fiat currency is going up and down based on what they do in terms of creating more of it or changing interest rates.
If you look at gold like I talked about earlier, Last week, sometime, you know, you take a look at the example that Michael Meharry had of somebody buying a fine suit, a tailor-made suit, a spoke suit, and how much that cost in gold at the time.
And you can do that with a lot of different assets, homes and other things like that, because, you know, cars, they didn't have them before the Federal Reserve started messing with us.
But you look at it and you see that, oh, yeah, it's about, actually, the price went down a little bit in terms of gold.
And so that's to be expected because we've had some increases in efficiency in terms of making manufacturing things like suits and stuff like that.
But when you look at it in terms of dollars, you know, it was, I forget how much, it was tens of thousands of dollars.
Compared to that.
Anyway, Al, Silvergate's crypto collapse differed from Silicon Valley Bank's no bailout.
Now, Silvergate is a crypto-friendly company.
CoinDesk dug through Silvergate Bank's filings with U.S. regulators over the past couple of quarters to recreate executives' fast-moving efforts to survive the fierce deposit run.
The exercise shows that, in hindsight, the bank did actually have enough liquidity on hand to satisfy depositors in full and to pay back loans.
Whoa. So what's going on with that?
In the end, however, they did not survive.
But its executives were able to avoid taking government assistance.
And so here was a company that really could have, should have, I guess, survived that they were not in the financially shaky position of SVB. But they were still taken down by a run.
And these runs are coming from Silicon Valley.
Known as the leverage ratio, which fell to 5% at the end of the year from 10% just three months earlier.
So they're watching them closely, and even though they had the money to withstand these runs, they looked at it and said, well, your leverage ratio has dropped from 10% to 5%.
It's too low, so we're just going to shut you down.
They didn't run out of money like SVB did.
The CEO told investors on a conference call January the 17th that the company initially used wholesale funding to satisfy the outflows, but subsequently sold the debt securities to accommodate sustained lower deposit levels and to maintain our highly liquid balance sheet.
So, we have Big Tech now doing runs on the banks And big tech is not a victim in this.
Big tech is actually the instigator in a lot of this stuff, interestingly enough.
And this bank was closed simply because of some ratios, not because they ran out of money like SVB. Now, there are banking regulators issuing statements warning about banks.
And I said at the very beginning of the program, Maybe there's a little bit more to this than, you know, somebody being totally invested in all this greenwashing environmental agenda garbage, the ESG, diversity, inclusivity, equity, and all that.
Maybe there's something more to it.
For Republican senators, since hints of the Obama administration's Operation Chokepoint, Now, we've always talked about Operation Chokepoint as it was mainly focused on coming after gun retailers and gun manufacturers.
Let's purge them.
Let's cancel them out of the financial system.
Let's make sure they can't bank.
Let's make sure they can't take credit cards.
And, of course, we're seeing that being escalated with the credit card codes and things like that.
Discover said they're going to start tracking that.
We just had what appeared to be a win where Visa and MasterCard said, no, we're not going to track this new merchant code that identifies gun stores or people who sell guns.
We're not going to track that.
Do you believe that? They're going to have that information.
That information is in the system.
If they say they're not going to track it, if the government came in, if a law enforcement agency or the FBI came in and said, I would like to see all the transactions for David Knight and look at it, and they could see if I bought something from a gun store or whatever, same thing there.
They're just saying that they're not going to weaponize it yet.
It could still be weaponized by the government.
That information is all still there.
Discover, on the other hand, has said that beginning next month in April that they are going to start tracking that.
A precursor to them denying services because we've already seen some of these gun stores deny services.
So that's Operation Chokepoint.
But it's not just being used against guns, right?
To be used against disfavored industries and against disfavored individuals and against disfavored speech and political opinions and medical opinions and scientific opinions and all the rest of this stuff.
If it's disfavored, they want to choke you out of the financial system.
That's what this is really about. And so, is this something that is happening now?
This is not me saying this.
This is four U.S. senators, led by Bill Haggerty.
They've written a letter to the heads of federal banking regulatory agencies questioning the ideological motivation behind recent regulatory moves in regard to cryptocurrency.
They compared the regulators' policies to the Obama administration's Operation Choke Point.
They addressed Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Now, what do those three have in common?
They're all working to create a CBDC. You look at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and that was at the very beginning of the Biden administration.
That was Saleh Omarova, a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist with a piece of paper to prove it.
She graduated from Lenin University in the Soviet Union while they were still in the Soviet Union.
She wanted to put all of the economy under the direct control of the Federal Reserve with CBDC. That's why he wanted her in As control of the currency.
Because of her paper trail, and because of what she said, how she wanted to use CBDC, she did not get approved.
However, the person they put in still has that same Biden agenda.
And so the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC, these people would like to see a central bank digital currency.
What is their big competition?
As I've said from the beginning, it's crypto.
When you look at what Biden did a year ago when he told all the federal agencies, give me a report in six months, and he broke each of them down into one of four areas of responsibility.
Completely redesigning the financial system.
Coming up with the actual code to do it.
The law enforcement people to coerce us into doing it.
And the fourth category was climate change.
Because it's going to be targeted at cryptocurrencies.
And I'm going to tell you, you can't have cryptocurrencies because they use too much energy.
Forget about all the energy that they're using to do instantaneous biometric surveillance.
Forget about all the energy they're using to store all this information about us, our entire digital history of everybody in the world.
Forget about all that. Forget about all the data mining that they're doing.
Forget about all of the massive processing going on to teach artificial intelligence about us.
Forget about all that.
Oh, we're going to focus on how much energy does cryptocurrency use.
It's always been about cryptocurrency.
But you've got four U.S. senators, led by Bill Haggerty, said, I think the Obama administration is trying to do an operation choke point as well on cryptocurrencies.
And that could be one of the reasons why they pull the plug on this crypto bank that still had the money to pay for the bank runs.
Couldn't cut it down with the bank runs?
All right, we'll go in and we'll find some way that we can, some excuse to shut them down.
I really do believe that's what's happening.
So, will that happen to your bank?
Well, it depends. Is your bank heavily involved in crypto?
They are focused like a laser beam on crypto, no doubt about it.
So, when we look at where this is headed, I'm trying to skip through here, Signature Bank Depositors, as well as SVB, they say, are going to get all their money to stem the crisis, but they, I think, are going to lay this at the feet of a crypto, and I think that they are going to focus on shutting this down.
All right, we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
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enslaved us with debt, and destroyed our purchasing power through inflation.
Yes, it's been a wonderful lie for the bankers.
There are striking parallels in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life to the lies and tricks that real bankers use to create the Federal Reserve.
Human nature doesn't change, and the greedy elite of 1913 and 2013 look and act a lot like Potter, the banker in the movie.
And many Americans are left like George Bailey, staring into the abyss as their dreams collapse and they face financial ruin.
Do we live in a country that looks a lot more like Pottersville than Bedford Falls?
What does Frank Capra's film show us about how we got here and how we can get out?
When the Federal Reserve was created two days before Christmas, a hundred years ago, it was a culmination of six years of fraud, fear, and manipulation.
I've never really seen one, but that's got all the earmarks of being a run.
The Panic of 1907 was used to shape public support for the Fed.
The panic was triggered by rumors that two major banks were about to become insolvent, just as we see in the movie.
George, there is a rumor around town that you've closed your doors.
Is that true? I am going all out to help in this crisis.
I have just guaranteed the bank sufficient funds to meet their needs.
They will close up for a week and then reopen.
Just took over the bank.
I may lose a fortune, but I am willing to guarantee your people, too.
Just tell them to bring their shares over here, and I will pay 50 cents on the dollar.
Boy, you never miss a trick, do you, Potter?
Unfortunately, J.P. Morgan got away with the deception, and was able to shut down competitors and snapped up assets at fire cell prices.
Now, take during the Depression, for instance.
You and I were the only ones that kept our heads.
You saved the building and loan, I saved all the rest.
Yes, well most people say you stole all the rest.
The envious ones say that, George?
The suckers.
Charles Lindbergh, Sr. warned warned people at the time of the creation of the Federal Reserve that it would not stop booming bus cycles, but would actually create them in order to benefit its private owners.
Here's what he said. To cause high prices, all the Federal Reserve Board will do will be to lower the re-discount rate, producing an expansion of credit and a rising stock market.
Then, when businessmen are adjusted to these conditions, it can check prosperity in mid-career by arbitrarily raising the rate of interest.
It can cause a pendulum of a rising and falling market to swing gently back and forth, or cause violent fluctuations by a greater rate variation.
And in either case, it will possess inside information as to the financial conditions and advanced knowledge of the coming change, either up or down.
This is the strangest, most dangerous advantage ever placed in the hands of a special privilege class by any government that ever existed.
The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.
They know in advance when to create panics to their advantage, and they know when to stop panic.
Inflation and deflation work equally well for them when they control the finance.
As we see in the movie, not all lending institutions have the same motivations.
Now you take this loan here to Ernie Bishop, you know, Fella that sits around all day on his brains in his taxi, you know.
I happen to know the bank turned down this loan.
But he comes here, and we're building him a house worth $5,000.
Why? Well, I handled that, Mr.
Potter. You have all the papers there, his salary, insurance.
I can personally vouch for his character.
Friend of yours? Yes, sir.
You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money.
What does that get us?
A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class.
As a former FDIC chair said, all too often the large banks use their models and their algorithms and if you don't fit in their boxes, you don't get the loan.
And Dodd-Frank legislation is tying the hands of small lenders, shutting out buyers and shutting down lenders.
Today there are fewer lenders than at any time the government has kept records.
10,000 banks disappeared between 1984 and 2011.
This town needs this measly one-horse institution, if only to have some place where people can come without crawling the potter.
In the movie, George gets to see what happens to the small town if Potter didn't have competition from credit unions and smaller lenders.
If it hadn't been for you...
Yeah, if it hadn't been for me, everybody would be a lot better off.
My wife and my kids and my friends.
Look, little fella, go off and haunt somebody else.
Yeah, so you still think killing yourself would make everyone feel happier, eh?
Oh, I don't know. I guess you're right.
I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all.
Pottersville, the only businesses thriving are vice.
People are angry. The town is filled with signs like, keep moving, keep off the grass.
Bert the cop actually shoots at George when he's running away and is no threat to anyone.
Stand back! Everyone is a renter.
No one has a stake.
Now, you're Ernie Bishop, and you live in Bailey Park with your wife and kids.
Look, bud, what's the idea?
I live in a shack in Pottersville.
My wife ran away three years ago and took the kid, and I ain't never seen you before in my life, see?
Private property and everyone having a stake is the antidote to Pottersville.
You're all businessmen here.
Don't it make them better citizens?
Doesn't it make them better customers?
But whether it's the Trans-Pacific Partnership or a global carbon tax, the global elite don't see you as a stakeholder.
They want to turn us all into serfs and treat us like cattle.
Just remember this, Mr.
Potter, that this rabble you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community.
Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?
Anyway, my father didn't think so.
People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle.
Well, in my book, he died a much richer man than you will ever be.
I'm not interested in your book.
I'm talking about the building and loans.
I know very well what you're talking about.
You're talking about something you can't get your fingers on.
Speaking of riches, do you find the salary amounts amusing when Potter tries to buy George off?
Let's look at your side.
Young man, 27, 28, married, making, say, 40 a week.
45. 45.
Forty-five. George, I'll start you out at twenty thousand dollars a year.
Twenty thousand? Twenty thousand dollars a year?
You wouldn't mind living in the nicest house in town, buying your wife a lot of fine clothes, a couple of business trips to New York a year, maybe once in a while Europe.
You wouldn't mind that, would you, George?
Would I? Even if George had saved a lot of his $20,000 salary, would it have bought much a couple of decades later?
By even the government's very conservative estimate of inflation, the dollar has lost 90% of its value since 1947, when the movie was made.
The Fed's deliberate inflation is devastating to anyone trying to accumulate wealth through hard work and saving.
So what is the answer to all the George Baileys out there a hundred years after the government gave control of our money supply to private bankers like Potter?
Well, Potter had more money than he could spend.
But would any of you want to be Potter?
You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money.
Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter.
In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider.
George Bailey finally sees how rich his own life is, as he sees the fruits of relationship, honesty, and compassion.
Hey! Merry Christmas, Mr.
Potter! Happy New Year to you!
In jail! Go on home, they're waiting for you!
And if the public can awaken to the lies of the Federal Reserve, if it could even be audited...
Wow! Hello, Mr.
Bank Examiner! Power!
...it would be a huge step to breaking the chains that enslave all of us.
But ultimately, it is God that changes minds and changes hearts.
God hates oppression, and we can and should confidently pray that he will stop it.
I owe everything to George Bailey.
Help him, dear father.
Joseph, Jesus, and Mary.
Help my friend, Mr.
Bailey. Help my son, George, tonight.
He never thinks about himself, God.
That's why he's in trouble. George is a good guy.
Give him a break, God.
I love him, dear Lord.
Watch over him tonight. Please, God, something's the matter with Daddy.
Please bring Daddy back.
Dear Father in Heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way.
For the Infowars Nightly News, I'm David Knight.
Well, we have another anniversary of this lockdown.
We're now three years into it as we bring in Guy Lumbago.
That's what we used to call him. He used to play his version all the time.
I remember when I was in high school, college, we were just a circle of this.
Anyway, let's take a look at this anniversary.
As we've been talking about the Federal Reserve, and I want to thank Utopian Lobotomy on Rockfin.
Thank you for the tip. And also A. Wootz on Rumble.
Thank you very much for the tip there.
Says, Hi, David. Any chance you could interview Dr.
Alexander Salter again to discuss the economy?
Yeah, I should get him back on. I enjoy talking to him.
He's a sharp economist.
I should get him back on again.
As a matter of fact, one person I've interviewed before, Steve Kirsch, as we're talking about, About the anniversary of the lockdown where our brains have lasting brain damage for a lot of people, as a matter of fact.
Steve Kirsch put this out.
You can see the smirk on his face.
He's flying on an airplane. And if you look at it, you know, most people don't have any masks.
You can see over his shoulder there, there's somebody with a mask that's down under her chin for whatever reason.
And he said, I'm on board a Delta flight right now.
The person sitting next to me in first class.
Refused $100,000 to remove her mask for the entire flight.
See, Steve Kirsch made a lot of money.
He's a multi-millionaire entrepreneur, tech entrepreneur.
He said, this is no joke.
And this was after I explained they don't work.
She works for a pharma company.
And he said, and I started the bidding at $100.
He went from $100 up to $100,000.
I'll pay you this much for it.
I finally got it. It's no use.
I could give her all of my money, tens of millions of dollars or whatever.
She still wouldn't do it. He said, and I pointed out that when she removed the mask to eat and to drink, she could be infected with just one breath.
So she had full disclosure.
Yeah, that's the problem, isn't it?
And that is really what long COVID is.
COVID was psychological warfare.
And the long-lasting effect of this is psychological warfare.
It truly is amazing.
And I just got to say, as I listen to that report, before I go any further, you know, it's kind of interesting.
I did that report 10 years ago.
And you had people talking about, well, what if people don't fit in these boxes that they have you in Boywood?
That's what ESG is all about.
Actually, not ESG so much as it is the diversity, equity, and inclusivity.
But also the fact that 10,000 banks disappeared between 1984 and 2011.
I'd forgotten that statistic.
I just noticed that when I played this again.
It's a wonderful lie.
10,000 banks disappeared between 1984 and 2011.
And that's one of the reasons...
I hope people wake up to this.
You know, what Senator Nicely is doing...
He should...
I don't know. If only these people who, you know, the small bankers as well as the small-minded politicians, if they could only understand where we are right now.
These small bankers are going to be put out of business by this central bank digital currency if they don't do something about it.
And again, as I pointed out, The number of banks per capita in North Dakota, the only place with a publicly owned state bank, is five and a half times what the U.S. average is.
Big difference between them and about 50% more banks than the number two bank in South, number two in terms of the number of banks per people, and that was in South Dakota.
So I had about 50% more in North Dakota.
We could point to many other things, as we did, but, you know, Telling everybody this financial system is really shaky.
And we've got a real crisis here.
We've got a big danger. There's an opportunity for not just Tennessee, but for other states to do the right thing, to start looking after their interests as state governments.
Because, you know, states can go bankrupt as well and have a takeover of their assets by the federal government.
And that can be engineered, and I think it is being engineered.
So states can go belly up, and of course the people of the state going belly up.
Anyway, we'll see what happens.
But let's talk about this three-year anniversary.
There's an article on Freethought Project coming from the Brownstone Institute.
I saw it on Freethought Project because the Brownstone Institute originally wrote this.
18 COVID conspiracy theories that turned out to be facts.
And he says conspiracy facts, but he's a little bit reluctant to go there.
He doesn't really want to call these people, really point them out to be the criminal bad actors that they actually are.
He says, at first, but slowly, but in recent weeks with seemingly gathering pace, two trends have emerged.
Isn't that the way that it goes, right?
How do you go bankrupt?
Well, gradually, then suddenly.
How do these lies get exposed?
Gradually, then suddenly.
He says, on the one hand, many of the core claims behind lockdowns, masks, and vaccines are unraveling, and the prevailing narrative has been on retreat in all three fronts.
But there is still a long way to go, as indicated by the cussed refusal of the Biden administration to let Novak Djokovic play tennis at Indian Wells.
The explosive lockdown files, also in the UK, have blown apart the official narrative.
Why haven't they? The skeptics were right.
But even we did not fully grasp just how venal, evil, and utterly contemptuous of their citizens some of the bastards in charge of our health, lives, livelihood, and children's future were.
Well, money is the root of all lockdowns, isn't it?
And the love of money is the root of all evil.
But the love of money was what made this work.
The love of money was what corrupted the scientists.
It's what corrupted the doctors, and especially the hospitals.
That's where they channeled it out.
That's where they had the money as well as the punishment.
The carrots and the sticks running out through the hospitals.
And then for the general public, we just got sticks.
Sticks from the public health.
They said we didn't really grasp how venal, evil, and utterly contemptuous they were.
Well, I'm afraid I did.
When I go back and I think about these anniversaries and I think about, you know, the fight that I was having on air, even before the lockdown, and the desperation, trying to get people to understand what was going on.
By the summer, by the early summer, it was in June, I was just of despair that we would ever get out of this thing.
But you want to talk about evil, venal, And contemptuous behavior, I saw that with the people I worked with.
I saw that with alternative media.
I saw that from people who had been warning about emergencies being run through FEMA, who had talked about the germ games that had been practiced going back to Dark Winter and 9-11, people who had talked about 9-11.
They took a powder.
Actually, they took the money and ran.
We can sell fear and we can sell food.
We can sell storable food if we sell fear.
And folks, they sold you out.
I'll never forget that.
And it has not been repented of either.
They're not asking for any forgiveness.
I don't feel compelled to give it.
I feel compelled to warn the people who were taken advantage of.
And then it compounded after the election with a stop the sting nonsense.
2020 was quite a year.
Very depressing. When I look back on it, it truly is amazing.
But, you know, I really did not think that we were going to have this thing ever turned back.
And again, even though everybody understood, say everybody, even though it is widely understood now how fraudulent the vaccine was, how fraudulent the lockdowns and the mask and all the rest of this stuff, Just amazing.
At the same time, you know, saying, yeah, we're not wearing the mask, but, oh, by the way, you can buy your InfoWars mask.
And, you know, it just came out in his bankruptcy thing.
I don't remember what the numbers were, but it was unbelievable how much money he made selling masks.
Unbelievable how much money Mike Adams made selling masks, too.
Truly is amazing. Genuine mistakes were a few.
And are forgivable, but most were deliberate distortions of reality, outright falsehoods, a systemic campaign to terrorize people into compliance.
That's right. That's what it was about.
And it was very important for Trump to be there, and it was very important for the alternative media to self-fear about this being a bioweapon coming out of the lab.
It wasn't. We had a strain of flu, and whether that was engineered or not really doesn't matter, because now we can see that it wasn't any big deal.
People were killed by medical malpractice, and I say that with certainty, and absolute certainty.
People who got sick with what they call COVID, We're denied treatment, or they were given, maliciously given, treatment that was as safe and efficacious as mercury and leeches.
It was designed to kill people, these ventilators that Trump threw hissy fits about.
It was designed to kill people.
They killed people by denying them treatment that we know worked, and we knew it worked, and they continued to deny it.
Ivermectin, HCQ, and zinc.
All these different things. They worked, but they were denied to people.
Instead, they told them to go home and wait, and then when they came back, they put them on a ventilator and killed them.
That's what killed people.
That's the pandemic. It's criminal what was done to people.
As he said, a mistake is when you spill coffee or you take the wrong exit ramp off the highway.
A lockdown was a policy pushed hard by politicians and by health chiefs.
And it was a tyrant's playbook of disinformation and lies while attacking and censoring the truth.
So, he says, COVID is now endemic.
Well, it's COVID, what we call a strain of the flu.
And you know what else is endemic?
And that is the corruption of science, of medicine, of hospitals, and the rest of it.
People who have been infected and or vaccinated can still contract and transmit it, we know.
So the vaccines are totally ineffective at what they say they're designed for.
What is, and there's no reason to have mandates, what is important, he says, is to make sure that the right policy lessons are learned so that never again, neither for novel coronavirus nor for any other infectious disease, do we go down the path of public policy.
We see they learned that they can bully us, and it's not over.
I've got to keep telling you, this is not over.
This is why every day I begin the program with how many days it's been since this all began.
Because it's not over.
The emergency order is still there at the federal level.
But even more importantly, they're laying a foundation.
They laid the foundation for this stuff with the Model State Health Emergency Powers Act and other things.
They practiced it.
They put in the legislation back in 2001.
And they've been working on it ever since.
They added other things, like the PrEP Act in 2005, the Bush administration, to give more legal immunity to these vaccine companies in the case of a pandemic, because they'd already done it for childhood vaccines, so they extended it to the pandemic.
And so they're doing that type of thing right now with the WHO. They're putting in rules, international rules, that will allow these unelected, unaccountable international bureaucrats, that's not even based in our country, Allowing them to lock us down at any whim or on the slightest prevarications.
We should be very afraid of that.
We've seen nothing but scientific prevarications for the last three years.
They will do that again.
And they're laying another legal foundation just like they did 20 years before they used it in 2020.
They laid and practiced that foundation.
They're laying this to extend it even further.
They're not going to wait another 20 years because they've already seen how effectively they can bully people in all of this stuff.
So here's his list of 18.
I won't read all of them.
But he said the virus may have originated in the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute.
That's his number one thing. Isn't that sad?
Because that's totally irrelevant.
It really doesn't matter.
Is anybody dying from this stuff?
No. Did anybody ever die from it?
No. They died from medical malpractice.
If it was designed as a bioweapon, they failed.
I said from the very beginning, The weapon was the lockdown.
And the weapon, the lockdown weapon, did originate in China.
And they won't talk about that to the extent that when you look at the absolute silence, if they wanted to talk about the Wuhan lab, well fine, talk about it and get rid of gain of function.
But they don't do that. They talk about it and they use it as a political weapon.
It's Fauci. And it's Fauci and the Democrats.
No, Fauci worked for Trump.
He worked for Ronald Reagan, he worked for the Bushes.
As a matter of fact, it was under Reagan that Fauci got his childhood vaccine legal immunity for the companies.
Look, he's a bipartisan group, and they were all dirty in that.
And so for Rand Paul to focus on Fauci and Wuhan and all the rest of this stuff, and for these other people who scared you to death so they could sell you storable food to come back and say, yeah, I was right.
No, you were wrong then. You're wrong now because you're still pushing people away from the real issue, which is the vaccine.
That's the bioweapon.
InfoWard's lied to you in 2020.
They're lying to you in 2023.
So they can say, yeah, I told you it was a bioweapon coming out of the Wuhan lab.
And they're not the only ones.
COVID modeling, he says, was dodgy and dressed up.
Well, the model, which we all know, and we've seen horrific epidemics of things like smallpox, or you look at any kind of outbreak or epidemic that we've had.
Going back to the 1840s, Farr's Law, that's the bell-shaped curve that we were supposed to flatten.
But in the model that was...
You know, talked about with the public and shown to Trump and everything.
The Imperial College of London model.
There was no curve.
There was no curve. It was a straight line.
Every person that got it was going to give it to two and a half other people.
Forever. There was no curve in that.
So lockdowns don't work.
Lockdowns kill, actually.
They make things worse, just as the masks make things worse, just as the vaccines make things worse.
Isn't it interesting that all three of these seminal lies, all three of these pillars of the pandemic, kill people.
They don't save people.
Lockdown kills. Masks make people sicker.
And vaccines kill and sterilize.
School closures are bad policies.
Masks are ineffective.
Infection confers natural immunity.
And look, this is not something we had to learn.
These people who give you their vaccine theory, the whole theory is predicated on training your immune system.
What's going to be better to train your immune system?
Something that is similar?
Or dead?
Or the real living thing?
If you can beat the real living thing.
It's like a fighter pilot, right?
You can have all your simulations you want, but, you know, when the...
Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face, right?
When you get out there and you've done all your simulations in a dogfight and you get in the real thing, that's when you either sink or swim.
They saw that in World War II. Of course, we don't have dogfights anymore except on AI simulators.
But in World War II, people survived a couple of these things.
They didn't really have any simulators that they could do.
They couldn't simulate it too much.
They could practice it a little bit.
With the planes, but, you know, your first fight was really you're just jumping in the deep end.
If you can survive that fight, then you're probably going to make it for a while.
But, look, the whole point, the theory of a vaccine, is that it trains your immune system.
Natural immunity, if that wasn't superior, the vaccines would never work.
Based on their own theory.
It was simply logic. You didn't have to do a study.
You didn't have to wait to get the information.
You knew that from the very beginning if you thought about it.
Anyway, so the vaccines don't stop infection.
They don't stop hospitalization.
They don't stop death. They don't stop transmission.
They don't do anything. Well, actually, they do.
They make you very sick.
They said vaccine harms are real and substantial, but safety signals have all been summarily dismissed and ignored.
mRNA vaccines are not confined to the arm, but they spread rapidly to other parts, especially reproductive organs, especially reproductive organs.
That is where they accumulate the most, outside the spleen, but far more.
It goes to the spleen and to the ovaries more than everywhere else combined, many times more than everywhere else combined.
The harm-benefit of the equation of the vaccines is Is like the disease burden itself, steeply age differentiated.
I disagree with that. I think it is easier to see the harm from the Trump shot genetic code injection warp speed poison bioweapons.
I think it's easier to see that when you are looking at young people who are healthy and athletes and so forth.
Because you can't disguise it.
By saying that it's coexisting conditions, comorbidities, right?
There are no comorbidities.
They were able to create, and I said from the very beginning, I said, look at these, look at the actuarial tables of when people are going to die, and look at what they're telling us in terms of demographic breakdown of this COVID situation.
I said, they're just giving you the actuarial tables.
And we had two weeks' worth of data from Italy showing that people were past life expectancy and had two and a half comorbidities.
They were just lying to you from the very beginning.
But now when it's killing young people and athletes...
That's when, you know, so it is not that it is a greater problem for young people, the vaccines.
It's just they can't lie to you about it.
If it happens now, you know, when people were dying from comorbidities, they said, no, it's COVID. Now that people are dying from the vaccine, they say, no, it's comorbidities in age.
And they're getting away with it.
People like even the Brownstone Institute still don't understand that.
Mandates don't increase vaccine uptake, we learned, and they can fuel cross-vaccine hesitancy.
Well, that's one good thing.
You should be hesitant to take these vaccines.
These things have been an evil poison for a long time, and it's finally waking people up to that, like many people woke up to the evil poison of the government schools to their kids.
Suppression of skeptical and dissenting voices.
Will lessen trust in public health officials, experts in institutions, and possibly also in scientists more generally.
Well, that's been totally accomplished for me a long, long time ago.
But, understand, that doesn't matter if you trust them or not.
Because they have the power to use this.
And as we've seen throughout this, especially places like Australia, you see that there are more than enough willing law enforcement goons, That will just follow the orders, right?
Same as we saw in Nazi Germany, the Nuremberg trial.
Long COVID. Was inflated by using generalized, non-specific symptoms like mild fatigue and weakness.
That sounds very much like the polio thing as well.
Health policy interventions involve policy trade-offs, just like all other policy choices, and cost-benefit analysis is therefore an essential prerequisite, not an optional add-on.
So the last three years, the Brownstone Institute have seen lives lost in the millions.
Tens of millions more yet to be accounted for in the coming years.
Exactly right. People have died.
People are dying from this.
People have been crippled by this.
And yet, you see any politician saying you've got to stop it, the closest they've come is Ron DeSantis saying, well, you know, for young kids, we'll stop it.
But not for other people. It should be banned.
It is a poison.
This is a cult. This is like Kool-Aid and the Jonestown cult.
That's what this is.
Civilized lifestyles were destroyed.
Previously, inviolate freedoms were shredded.
Civil liberties turned into privileges to be granted on the whim of bureaucrats.
Law enforcement officers corrupted into street thugs.
Brutalizing the very people they were sworn to serve and protect.
Businesses were destroyed.
Economies were wrecked.
Bodily integrity was violated.
You still don't hear these abortionists talking about that, do you?
You know, when we look at this, you talk about the precedents that have been put into effect.
I mentioned last week, A woman who was arrested because they believed that she had tuberculosis.
She didn't believe that she had tuberculosis.
But that is unprecedented. We've never done that before.
Never done it before. Tuberculosis has been around us a long time.
Never did we have a government assume that they had the power.
To say, well, I've got a test here, or I think that you've got it, or I've got a doctor who's diagnosed you with a contagious disease, and we're going to lock you up.
See, the tests and the tests are the fundamental thing.
It doesn't even have to be real.
It can be something that is misused, like the PCR test.
Amplify it by 1.1 trillion times, you can find anything there.
And if it isn't a sufficient viral load, you can't transmit that to somebody else.
If it isn't a sufficient viral load, they can't get sick.
But you can find a minuscule amount of anything that you want and use that as an excuse to lock up anybody that you wish.
The lockdown files in the UK are a treasure trove of over 100,000 WhatsApp messages in real time between all the principal policymakers on COVID in England while Matt Hancock was Secretary of Health.
And, um... That was from 2020 to the middle of 2021.
And again, just to recap briefly, Matt Hancock got rid of him in June 2021 because he was this authoritarian tyrant with lockdown and all the rest of the stuff.
And he got caught having an affair with a married woman.
And that hypocrisy cost him his job.
So he hired a ghostwriter to do an autobiography to make him a hero.
He didn't want an autobiography.
He wanted a hagiography.
And he gave her full access to his encrypted WhatsApp messages, 100,000 of them.
She wrote his book for him. And then she violated the nondisclosure agreement that she signed because it's more important for people to understand what a criminal he is and what was done to them.
And that was turned over to a British paper, The Telegraph, and they've been running these things out.
And so the Brownstone Institute says, it offers an unparalleled and gripping window into the amoral, cynical arrogance that was circulating in the corridors of power.
The daily drip feed of revelations in The Telegraph is akin to watching with fascinated horror a slow-motion train wreck.
The files are littered with flippant remarks, mocking comments, and contempt for citizens.
Among the revelations from the Boris Johnson government, the government knew that there was no robust rationale for including children in the Rule of Six.
Where did they get that from?
The rule of six.
Is that from the prisoner?
The number six?
Patrick McGowan? I've got the rule of six.
Or this is how we will rule six.
The rule for six. Anyway, face masks were introduced in secondary schools in England after Johnson was told it was, quote, not worth an argument, unquote, with Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon over the issue, despite England's chief medical officer, Chris Witte, saying that there were, quote, no very strong reasons, unquote, to do so.
In other words, political calculations.
He didn't want to have a fight. With Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland over it.
She wanted it. All right, all right, she wants it.
We'll do it. I don't care what happens to people.
We'll put masks on all the kids because Nicola Sturgeon wants it.
And she would be happy if everybody switched genders as well.
So I guess she'll just do that as well because Nicola Sturgeon wants it.
And we don't want to have a political fight over something that's criminal.
A plan to lift restrictions were dropped after Johnson was told it would be, quote, too far ahead of public opinion.
We've scared these people.
We've scared them really good.
Let's let this run a little bit.
We don't want to pull this back.
They won't really understand.
Still, you've got a lot of people clinging to their masks, like that woman that Steve Kirsch can't bribe with $100,000 to take her mask off on a plane, although she'll take it off to eat and drink.
Consultants were paid over one million pounds a day for more than a year on the totally ineffectual test and trace program.
This actually makes this scheme a massive embezzlement of public funds to line private pockets.
And that's what this was all about.
Follow the money.
That's what it's ultimately about. We now know, says Brownstone, just how much punch drunk on tyranny the political, bureaucratic, scientific, and journalist class were during the pandemic.
They were drunk with power.
The ruling elites, when liberated from democratic accountability and media scrutiny, morphed seamlessly into morally cavalier, inhumane, petty tyrants.
Lockdown skeptics were demonized as dangerous.
Yeah, it was...
Like I said, I was so...
I was so distraught by the summer of 2020.
I remember Father's Day in June.
It was just amazing.
And I wrote a song, a Christian song, to my kids.
And part of it was, I want you to know...
That whatever happens will work for your eternal good.
That you, without fear, know that your Father loves you.
In joy or sorrow, in this rejoice.
That you treasure the fruit that Christ grows within you, whether it is in freedom or in chains.
I didn't think we were ever going to come out of it.
And I'm wondering if we're ever going to come out of it fully.
And I'm wondering when they're going to drop the hammer again on us if we don't pull back the legal lies that are being cemented under us right now.
They're extending this foundation.
They haven't removed these emergency orders.
I'll talk about that in just a second.
But they're still pushing it.
It's amazing. There's seven states that still have a state of emergency, plus the federal government does.
So you had social care minister in the UK, Helen Waterley, told Hancock that stopping visits to care homes by spouses was inhumane.
And it risked the elderly residents just giving up, she said.
But he refused to budge.
More than 40,000 residents of care homes in England died.
Died. They say in here.
Died with COVID. No, they died from malpractice.
They died from psychological abuse.
That's what they died from. It wasn't COVID. COVID didn't do this to us.
Politicians did it to us.
COVID didn't kill anybody.
The hospitals and the doctors killed people with medical malpractice.
Never forget that. Never let them lie to you about that.
That's foundational. He rejected advice in November 2020.
Matt Hancock did.
To shift from 14-day COVID quarantine for people who had been in close contact with anyone infected, you didn't even have to blow a positive PCR test.
Again, this is what the excuse to start tracking people and to say, well, we're going to have a digital ID to do this.
So he resisted or rejected advice to go from 14-day lockup for people who didn't even test positive.
They just knew somebody who knew somebody.
To five days of testing because it would, quote, imply that we were getting it wrong, you see?
They will always make two mistakes rather than admit to one.
That is a good rule of thumb about people in power.
In a discussion on how to ensure the public complied with ever-changing lockdown restrictions, Hancock suggested, quote, we frighten the pants off of everyone.
Yeah, yeah, that's, again, and that's why I say, you know, That's why I damn the people who sold panic to you in March three years ago and who are now telling you, see, we were right.
No, you weren't. You were wrong then.
You're wrong now. You're still pushing fear.
You're still covering for the people who are pushing the real bioweapon.
Cheerleading Trump, of all things.
Unbelievable. At this point, a member of Hancock's team asked if they could lock up Nigel Farage.
After he tweeted a video of himself at a pub in Kent because a troublesome politician was such a thorn in the government side.
Hancock and Case mocked people who were forced to isolate in quarantine hotels.
They joked about returning travelers being locked up in a shoebox.
Case wished that he could, quote, see some of their faces, the people coming out of first class and then being put into a Premier Inn shoebox.
Informed by Hancock that 149 people had entered, quote, quarantine hotels due to their own free will, unquote.
Case replied, hilarious, hilarious.
They're laughing at you.
In the same way that the NSA laughs at you about how they turned the iPhones and all cell phones into Big Brother.
You know, the three slides that Snowden leaked.
In 1984, who would have thought that the iPhone would have, you know, 1984 commercial, Super Bowl commercial, release of the Mac, who would have thought that this would be Big Brother and it shows Steve Jobs holding the phone up?
And then the next one was, and that the zombies, the zombies would line up to pay for it themselves.
So the NSA laughs at you.
Hancock and Case were laughing at people.
Hilarious! We put them in, and of their own free will, of course.
Hancock fought furious internal battles to hog the media limelight.
He preened about his pictures in the media.
He boasted how the pandemic could propel his career into the next league.
Oh, it has, Matt.
You will go down in history.
You'll go down in history.
You'll become a meme in history.
He told other ministers to get heavy with the police, quote unquote, to enforce lockdown restrictions, and then boasted that, quote, the plod got their marching orders, unquote.
They detest these cops who do their bidding.
They have no respect for them, and they deserve no respect.
You know, the people who will do the bidding of people like Matt Hancock and others, They get nothing but scorn and mockery from the people that they lorded over and from the people who sent them out to do it.
These idiots, look what they're doing.
Boris Johnson.
A vivid description of Johnson by his fired top aide, Dominic Cummings.
He called him an out-of-control shopping trolley, a grocery cart.
Lurching from side to side in a supermarket aisle, depending on who he last talked to.
Does that not describe Donald Trump as well?
They put these idiots in there.
It's not an election, it's a selection.
These people have been custom-selected, the participants, whether you're talking about Trump or you're talking about Biden, they've been custom, or Boris Johnson, they've been custom-selected.
They are as much plods as the cops that they're making fun of.
They weren't following the science, but they were following Hancock's ego and his career ambitions.
Well, the same thing, of course, is true of Fauci.
Far more true of Fauci.
I wish we could get Fauci's stuff, but he's too smart to do that.
Matt Hancock is not all that smart.
So, what was the greatest lie that was told?
Well, there's a sub-stack.
By Elgato Malo.
The greatest lie told during COVID, he said, and the one that they will undoubtedly try to tell again.
So what was that? He said, it's the one lie to rule them all.
The one lie to rule us all.
The truly big lie, constituting a force that's been lost for the trees.
And winds up being reinforced by the very debate about the title.
And that lie is that pandemics are dangerous to modern societies.
They're not. They're not.
Flatten the curve? What curve?
They didn't have a curve in their model.
But as I pointed out, all the deadliest epidemics, they all go through a pattern.
It's a bell-shaped curve.
And it would have gone through that if it had been a new strain of flu.
It would not have been as deadly if people had been allowed to get safe, effective, and cheap treatment.
But that was deliberately withheld from them by the government.
They wanted to lord this over them.
We're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
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Well, let's talk about this from the other side of it.
Some of the people who never followed through with this, but who are now paying the price.
This is a sub-stack from David Zweig.
When a renegade church and a zealous county health department collide.
Santa Clara County, California.
And, of course, it's there in Silicon Valley.
And they impose some of the harshest COVID restrictions in America.
But a church and its members defied them and became the targets of an unprecedented surveillance operation.
We're not just talking about big fines here.
But it's amazing that the county put a surveillance operation against these church members that would be worthy of the Chinese communists.
Coming after Christians or Uyghur Muslims or whatever.
I almost said mushrooms because I've got a story about mushrooms.
Psychedelic ones. But this is a Calvary Chapel church.
Interesting that the Calvary Chapel church is, I don't know if it's a denomination or what it is, but it was the subject of the beginning of that.
Chuck Smith, the Jesus Revolution movie that's out there right now with Kelsey Grammer just crushing everybody else in the box office right now because people are desperate for movies that are uplifting and not just the kind of filth that's being put out by Hollywood all the time.
But again, this is a different kind of Jesus Revolution, isn't it?
This was March the 16th, three days after Trump's announcement on Friday.
It was over that weekend, that Friday the 13th, over the weekend, of course, you had California, you had New York, say, yeah, we're going to do our emergency orders as well.
And then on Monday, the hammer hit.
The hammer hit. And it was all about fear.
And that's why I began the show that Monday, March 16th, 2020.
By talking about World War II, and by talking about the famous sign, keep calm and carry on, they put that out as the Germans were massing on the other side of the English Channel.
They feared that an invasion was coming, and they said keep calm and carry on, and the other sign they put up was because freedom is in peril.
Defend it with all your might. And so I opened that Monday with that.
And Santa Clara opened by locking everybody down with one of the hardest lockdowns anywhere on that Monday.
Along with a half dozen other Bay Area counties, was the first in the nation to announce a shelter-in-place order commanding all citizens to remain at home other than for specific activities that the county deemed to be essential.
There you go. That's it.
Everybody to get from California and New York, okay?
In case you haven't learned that lesson yet.
Things that they deemed to be essential.
Shopping for food, medical care, or, you know, later on, going to casinos.
And it wasn't until mid-October, seven months later, that they began allowing indoor gatherings at churches, provided there was no more than 100 people in the church.
Where did that come from? What's the point of that?
Or that it was no more occupancy than 25% of the facility's capacity.
And everybody had to wear a face mask, and no singing was allowed.
I guess they didn't think the face masks worked?
What was that about? Anyway, no singing allowed.
That was the thing, I think, that really woke people up.
Most places other than Santa Clara, it took a while before they said, all right, all right, you can come, but you can't sing.
It's like, okay.
Then it kind of clicked with a lot of people.
We're taking away our religious liberties.
You know, a lot of people were more than willing to say, well, you know, I've been told that this is a, you know, bioweapon coming out of Wuhan.
I've got it on good authority. Alex Jones says it is.
So I guess I should stay home and wait and see what happens, right?
But then when that didn't happen, they said, all right, you can go back to church a little bit.
You know, we're going to weed it out here.
You've got to spread apart.
You can't have a full occupancy and all the rest of this stuff, but no singing.
It's like, what? Are you getting, you know, no, that's it.
Anyway, San Jose's Cavalry Chapel.
Led by its pastor, Mike McClure, brazenly defied these orders, beginning in May.
Some churches never shut down.
Some churches started figuring it out by May.
A lot of them figured it out by July.
But they were, you know, of the ones who locked down and then figured it out, they came back pretty early.
May 24th, 2020, Pastor McClure stated publicly that he would...
Reopen his church the following week and that he would never close the church again.
I've been told that by many pastors.
Well, they fooled us once.
I will never close my church again.
That's fine. That's fine.
We all, again, I don't fault anybody for closing their churches.
I knew this because I've been reporting on it and watching it for decades.
And I didn't expect these people to get hit with a cold turkey to really understand the history behind it.
Anyway, many congregants were teetering toward despair at the time.
They were suffering greatly from loneliness, depression, crippling anxiety.
The church was their community.
And returning to the normalcy of its rituals, the in-person fellowship was vital for their mental, spiritual, and physical well-being.
So this set off a collision between the openly defiant church and the county that culminated in two lawsuits, one by the church, one by the county.
The one by the church went into federal court in June of 2020, the church against the county.
They claimed the restrictions violated a list of constitutional rights.
The county went to state court.
So the church said, we've got a bill of rights here.
They made a federal case out of it.
The state said, well, we can tell you whatever we want to do in California.
They did that in October 2020.
They came against the church for flagrantly and repeatedly violating public health orders and non-payment of fines.
And here we are. These were done in 2020.
One in June of 2020, the other one in October of 2020.
And these things are still in litigation.
We haven't got a resolution on either one of these yet.
The Health Department went to extraordinary and potentially unlawful lengths to enforce its decrees.
They levied more than $2 million in fines against Calvary Chapel Church there.
And here's the key thing, because we've seen this before.
We've seen big fines against a lot of churches.
But, you know, we're talking about Silicon Valley.
The epicenter of evil.
And so what they did was they said, hey, we can surveil these people.
And that's what's really unique about this and why I'm talking about this particular case.
The multifaceted surveillance program of the church and its members was breathtaking in scope and reminiscent of totalitarian regimes.
This is what they do in China. So they had stakeouts.
They had forced in-person monitoring of prayer groups and other intimate activities.
And then listen to this.
They tracked their cellular phones, did geospatial intelligence.
They put a geofence around the church.
Anybody that goes into this area, we want to know.
And now that's a person of interest, and we're going to start following them to see what else they do, what else we can get on them.
Just amazing what this has given them the ability to do.
Based on what? Fear!
Fear! Just wipe away centuries of hard-earned, recognized guardrails for government that are encoded in our law, in our Constitution.
Just wipe that all away.
The county's public health orders We're applied incongruently to different entities.
In other words, no equal protection of the law.
Its enforcement mechanisms raise important legal and ethical issues about government infringements on citizens' rights, and as you would expect in any tyrannical aspect, their friends walk free.
For their work monitoring and documenting the crimes of some of these church members, several people that they mentioned in this article, and hundreds of others, each law enforcement officer was paid, listen to this, $219 per hour.
That's gone up from 30 pieces of silver, hasn't it?
I don't know, maybe that's an ounce of silver, maybe not.
Anyway, $219 per hour they were paying the cops to act like they were Chinese Stasi.
And so they said the county did not stop there.
That was cops who were doing on-site surveillance.
As if the outside surveillance from stakeouts and from on-site visits, these are people getting paid $219 an hour to go pop into a home prayer meeting or something like that.
If that wasn't enough, then they did the video evidence and on-site visits and all the rest of the stuff.
They used cell phone data to track people on any given day.
Legal documents from a professor at Stanford Law School named Daniel Ho, a research team led by him, was hired to analyze the data for Santa Clara County health officers.
Ho, who has an expertise in statistical inference and quantitative data analysis on public health, explained in his declaration in the lawsuit how the process worked.
The county paid to acquire the data from a firm called SafeGraph, A company that aggregates information from 47 million mobile devices across the U.S. This can be done anywhere.
This is not... You've got private companies who are doing this.
And this is where all this private-public partnership, where the deputized state, as I like to call them, these are the people that give plausible deniability.
Oh, we're not like China.
Remember we talked about that last week, you know?
Paul Charest was talking about artificial intelligence and how China is our enemy and all this stuff.
Oh, we're not like China. Yeah, we have these institutions that push back against it.
Really? Do we? No, we have prohibitions in our constitution.
Really? We do? I haven't noticed them being working at all.
No, what they do is they use private companies.
And that gives them plausible deniability.
I'm not censoring you on social media.
They're doing it because they want to.
No, now we've got the Twitter files.
We've got a bunch of other stuff. We always knew that they were using them as a beard, that they were ultimately the ones who were doing it.
So they put a geofence around Calvary Chapel's property.
should the lawsuit ever get to trial, the county plans to use Ho's analysis of the safe graph data to show that Calvary was an outlier among points of interest in general.
But it's hard to imagine how this information bolsters their case beyond what was already known from the declarations recounting what was observed on the innumerable stakeouts and on-site visits from the cops who were being paid $219 an hour to do it, to spy on people, the Stasi.
So that's the going price of Stasi work, right?
Daniel Ho, by the way, who was the one analyzing the safe graph data, we don't know how much they paid that company, but we know that they paid Daniel Ho $800 an hour.
I remember years ago, we used to play the game of scruples, and I noticed a pattern.
They would ask you, you know, a question.
Will you do this? Will you do that?
All unethical things.
You know, if you get paid this much.
How about if I pay you that much, right?
And keep going up on the amounts.
And that was really what the Game of Scruples was about.
It's kind of what Steve Kirst did to that woman who was on the plane.
Okay, I'll give you $100 if you take the mask off.
Because you know it's not going to help you, right?
And you're going to take it off to eat or drink anyway.
No, no, no. Keeps going until he gets up to $100,000.
She's not going to do it even for that.
When I spoke to Pastor Mike, says David Zweig, when I spoke to him, he confirmed that Calvary's attendance had exploded during the pandemic, roughly matching the numbers from Ho's reports.
He says this isn't even anything of any contention.
All this is going to do is make the county look bad.
There's no question about attendance.
At a certain point, Calvary Chapel began holding two Sunday services because they had grown so much, with close to 1,000 attendees in each service.
He also said that prior to the 2020 lockdown, he had performed between 50 and 100 baptisms a year.
But during the pandemic and continuing to now, he is averaging 1,000 each year.
Anywhere from 10 to 20 times what they had before.
Now that's a Jesus revolution right there.
People are looking for those who have convictions and the courage that comes with real convictions.
This has been both a trial and a blessing because it has sorted out the wheat from the chaff.
Hasn't it? The cavalry attendees that I spoke to were not firebrands or provocateurs.
They were not demanding on March 17, 2020, that barbershops be allowed to give haircuts.
I was. McClure told me the church membership runs the gamut from blue-collar workers to doctors and lawyers, construction contractors, grocery store cashiers.
These are everyday people who, after months of being denied what they felt they needed to thrive, and for some, to survive, They were pushed to act, even though it was against the rules decreed by a county official.
Is this the awakening of a sleeping giant?
Is this something that even though we were lied to or misunderstood, many pastors misunderstood Romans 13?
Is this now the point at which people finally understand where legitimate authority is?
Is this a point where people finally understand The rightful role that the lesser magistrate has to interpose.
Again, that Matt Trewello book, I highly recommend that to anybody.
None of the people I interviewed thought that COVID was a hoax, he said.
Or that the vaccine was a conspiracy by Bill Gates.
Or any other nonsense that has so often been ascribed to anyone who didn't want to follow every COVID rule without question.
Well, it's not nonsense, David.
It actually is true.
And I'd be willing to defend that with you or anybody else.
That is how I knew about all of this stuff.
Because I've been watching it for 20 years.
I don't know when David Zweig got on this beat.
But he's got a lot of catch-up to do.
If he doesn't understand what is really going on here.
And of course there is no indication in here that he understands the roots of this.
Going back to Dark Winter.
Going back to 9-11.
There's no indication that he understands the roots of this.
It is a conspiracy. It's a conspiracy that's been open and practiced in their germ games on an annual basis for over 20 years.
Anyway, he said, no, they didn't have anything.
He said they just had a different risk-benefit calculation than those that were made by the authorities.
And after some time, they felt backed into a corner to the point where they could no longer comply.
I've always said, you know, we talked about Romans 13.
You know, all these people would say, well, you know, Romans 13, you've got to obey the government.
And that was written when Nero was emperor or whatever, right?
And it had people like Tom Friel who said, with Wretched Radio, he said, if the government tells me to put a propeller cap on my head, I'll put a propeller cap on my head.
No. Government doesn't have authority to tell you to do that.
And when the government becomes an agent of evil, you are not required to obey them.
You don't have to obey an evil government.
You don't have to obey a government in an area where a government doesn't have any authority.
And when the government's authority is defined by the Constitution, if they are out of line with that Constitution, they have no authority.
Their authority is based on their oath to uphold the Constitution and to protect the public when they become predators.
The Declaration of Independence got it right.
It is the right and the duty of the people to alter, to resist, to abolish that government if necessary.
And that especially applies for Christians.
You should understand where your position is in this.
We are law-abiding people, she said, and it was hard to think that people would think that we didn't care about them and that we were being defiant and disrespectful of them.
Why would you think that, ma'am?
That's Katie Truman. Why would Katie Truman think that?
Because she was deliberately lied to by people who put together a psychological plan.
I mean, Yale had war-gamed this out.
They had like 12 different points.
Well, you're going to be disrespectful of other people.
You are defying people in authority.
These are people who are scientists, and they know, and all the rest of this stuff.
And it's unloving to do this.
And that was sold to them.
And a very deliberate propaganda campaign through a lot of big-name pastors like Al Mohler and Franklin Graham.
And you had people like Curtis Chang, who was given tremendous amounts of money to teach these pastors.
Robert Jeffries is another one of them.
He did a video with him. Curtis Chang and Robert Jeffries, a big Trump-supporting pastor.
He trained them on how to gaslight.
He took the talking points from the Yale study, the PSYOP study, and he used that and gave that to these pastors to use against the people who trusted them.
You want to talk about Matt Hancock?
You talk about some of these pastors who are lying to people.
Oh, it's like a moonshot.
Yeah, it was like a moonshot.
As fake as it can be, in my opinion.
Anyway. She said, we couldn't understand, however, how banning indoor gatherings at a church made sense when casinos were open.
Yeah. Yeah.
So, Dr.
James Alexander asked, where are the Woodward and the Bernstein's of the pandemic?
Well, I'll tell you where they are.
They're gagged.
They're hidden. They're fired.
They're deplatformed by social media.
They're deplatformed by banks and PayPal and other places.
That's where they are. They're silenced.
I tell you, I look at this stuff and people say, well, you know, just because Twitter is lying to people about your content, just because they're hiding the stuff, that's not censorship.
It is censorship.
It's an even more insidious form of censorship.
Because people clearly understand when somebody's been kicked off a platform.
If they just flush all your stuff down and hide all your stuff, I think that shadow banning and those types of lies are even more insidious.
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We've got a couple of comments and tips on Rumble.
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And on Rumble, we have Donald Dumpster.
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He says, if you love the COVID shots, Donald Dumpster said on March 30th, you can thank me.
I'm the father of the vaccine.
Remember that when you think of 2024.
Absolutely. Absolutely.
Remember it. He took credit for it until he began this campaign.
And then he finally started listening to the advice of people, told them to shut up about it.
That's how dense he is.
He really is. I mean, it's like Boris Johnson, you know, loose shopping cart in the store.
We've got an update, but before we do that, Travis, let me just say one more thing.
We talked about what happened in the churches and stuff.
Let's make this a little bit more personal.
The guy who designed the Millennial Falcon for Star Wars, the original one, is a toy designer.
Hall of Fame toy designer.
His name is Mark Boudreaux.
He is being killed by this COVID malpractice that's been put in.
And I can say that in the same way, That COVID did not lock us down.
COVID did not destroy the economy.
The politicians did.
COVID didn't kill people.
The doctors and the hospitals did with malpractice.
And here's what this looks like in his particular case.
With his wife, Judy is his only advocate.
Boudreaux is fighting a battle for his life.
He was caught in an ultimate catch-22 of medical protocols.
They began with a trip on February the 5th, 2022, to the emergency room where he tested positive for COVID. Why?
Well, because they've been incentivized to test everybody.
If you get somebody who tests positive for COVID, you get a 20% bonus on everything that you do for them.
So even as Handy, EMS, you can find him on Substack, iHandy.
As he wrote to me throughout the years he's been sending me stuff, he said, yeah, we had a guy coming in, he's suffering a major heart attack.
They didn't give him anything in the hospital until after they'd shunted him over to the side and tested him for COVID. And you know why that is.
It's the money coming through CMS, through Medicare and Medicaid, 20% bonus for everything they do to him.
So, the guy who designed, Mark Boudreaux, who designed the Millennial Falcon, he goes on February the 5th, last year.
He tested positive for more than a year since.
The Cincinnati native remains on the same ventilator that he was placed on last February.
And there's a horrific picture of him.
He's just a skeleton now.
They get pictures of what he looked like before.
David Peters, a staff attorney, With Pacific Justice Institute, which his wife has gotten a hold of.
This is a case of medical kidnapping.
For the money! For the money!
I barely have words to describe this atrocity, he told the Epoch Times.
The lawyer, David Peters, said he reviewed the details of Boudreaux's case after learning how long he had been on a mechanical ventilator.
Remember how the Trumpster, Benedict Donald, remember how upset he was?
When GM just didn't, you know, it's not enough to just stop making cars.
We want you to start making ventilators.
You didn't make ventilators as fast as I want you to, you know.
He demanded it. He demanded it.
And, of course, we now know that it was Kushner who was pushing that stuff through.
Kushner was pushing through CBDC from early days on as well.
Anyway, appears to contradict every healthcare standard when it comes to ventilator use.
Highlighted by a sea of medical records that, at the very least, raise the question of why there were no attempts to wean Boudreaux off of the ventilator.
Because they're making money.
Follow the money. It's all about the money.
Dr. Charles Thurston, a retired emergency room doctor who runs a non-profit advocacy organization for patients, called it, quote, an unexplainable failure.
It's the money.
It's the money.
Anyway, he said a review of his medical record shows a sore lack of treatment for the virus that landed him on a ventilator.
You see? It was never...
People were given drugs.
They were given ventilators.
And again, Handy said, you know, last week I told you, and he's got it on his substack.
They told him from the very beginning, don't give anybody CPR. Don't do this, don't do that.
You know, use this thing where you move their legs and try to make them breathe by, you know, grabbing hold of their heels and moving.
Stay away from their face. And he said Dr.
Bean was ahead of his time.
He shows Bean doing a foot pump on this person who's on the floor instead of doing a CPR. It's ridiculous what they did.
It's not unexplainable.
It's something that should be unforgivable in terms of these people should have their medical licenses pulled for malpractice.
That's why you really have malpractice lawsuits.
You don't want people who criminally do something that is evil, knowingly doing something that is evil, or somebody who's just so stupid that they do the wrong things and they could hurt other people.
You got to stop them from practicing.
That's the point. Of a malpractice lawsuit, besides trying to get some compensation for some of the people.
But he said they didn't give him any treatment at all for what they said he had.
Having been given only steroids initially, and then later a battery of antibiotics to treat bouts of pneumonia that he developed from having a breathing tube stuck down his throat.
See, these things are killing people.
They deny him treatment, and they put him on things that kill you.
This is what COVID, quote-unquote, COVID did to us.
It's medical malpractice is what we have seen for three years.
That's what you can chalk those deaths up to.
Worse yet, the very ventilator intended to save his life has caused such destruction to his lungs that doctors have told his wife that he needs a lung transplant.
But guess what? He doesn't qualify for it.
Because they have injured him so much that he doesn't meet the minimum standard criteria to be eligible for it.
Under national transplant protocols, patients must be able to walk a certain distance, ranging anywhere from 100 feet to 450 feet, or to be able to complete what is often called the six-minute walk in order to be considered eligible.
According to his wife, he can barely sit up alone.
Let alone walk.
She said she is praying for a miracle.
Well, that's about the only thing that is going to happen.
He was able to write on a pad, I want to live.
Well, where is the emergency still going?
We are here now on 1,096 days, three years of a national emergency.
And we still have seven states in a state of public health emergency declaration.
These seven are not magnificent.
They are despicable.
Here are the seven states that still have a state of emergency.
Rhode Island and Delaware.
No surprise there.
Illinois, Colorado, and New Mexico.
None of those are really a surprise.
You would kind of expect that from these liberal Democrat-controlled governments.
Here's the two surprises here.
Georgia, controlled all by Republicans, Republican legislature, Republican governor.
They still have a public health emergency declaration there.
And the same for Texas.
Texas. Greg Abbott.
Yeah, way to go, Greg.
One of the first people to put in surveillance, to spend money for surveillance anyway.
I don't know if he got anything from it.
$300 million he gave to this little shell corporation.
The guy had no credentials.
He had no office.
He was up in Frisco, Texas.
He gave $300 million, and all of a sudden...
People on both sides of the political aisle are saying, what's going on with this?
That was at the very beginning of the pandemic.
Where did he get that money from? Oh, yeah, from Benedict Donald, who kept the money flowing.
And a lot of people were questioning that.
You know, is this for real?
And then they just shut up about it.
I guess they were paid off as well.
So California ended there.
See, California doesn't have a state of emergency anymore.
But Texas does.
And Georgia does. What's going on there?
California ended theirs on February 28th.
It says, since March 2020, this statewide emergency declaration in California has given Governor Newsom the power to suspend or change laws in California in order to fight the spread of COVID. That's what KQED in California says.
And that really is true.
And I said this, and I was attacked for saying this from the very beginning.
It was like the first week of March, you had Daily Beast running an article with Southern Poverty Law Center attacking me for calling it medical martial law.
It is medical martial law.
If the governor can say, well, I've got to do whatever I can, I've got a state emergency, I can change laws, I can suspend laws, I can do anything I want, that's martial law.
Based on supposed medicine.
Most of the pandemic-related orders that Newsom has issued since March of 2020, almost 600 of them.
Think about it. 600 edicts.
That's a pretty big dictator.
You know, you talk about executive orders.
600 of them through all this stuff.
Most of them had been lifted before he lifted the state of emergency February 28th this year, just a couple weeks ago.
In January...
The White House announced that the federal state of emergency will end in May 11th.
Well, if you believe them, it will.
And why did he do that?
He did that because you had some Republicans in the House say, we're going to end it now.
No, no, no, let's keep it in there.
I will end it. And why did he justify this?
The money. We've got to wait another two months.
Why? Not because, you know, he's already said, on air, pandemic is over.
No, it's about the money.
Show me the money! That's right.
Let's show you the money here. The end of these national emergencies will have big effects on nationwide funding.
Funding. For what they have created this criminal grifting class of pseudo doctors and hospitals.
Follow the money. As I said before, and I had people yelling and screaming at me for the last three years, Trump didn't do it!
Trump didn't do it! I said, the buck stops with him, and the buck started with him.
He funded this.
He is the producer of this, not just of the vaccines.
You know, the producer, when you got a movie, the producer is the guy who provides the money.
The person who actually, you know, you got a script writer, you got a director who puts it all together and directs it all, that's Fauci, right?
CIA wrote the script with their germ games.
Trump was the producer using government money for this.
Giving people like Gavin Newsom so much money that they went from having, you know, they were on the ropes financially, then they went to having this massive surplus.
California has recently enacted several laws that force insurers to keep covering COVID care, even after the state and federal states' emergencies wind down.
The White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, Ashish Jha, has promised COVID vaccines will remain free in the U.S., We've got to keep killing people.
That's the real bioweapon, folks.
Forget about Wuhan. Meanwhile, another law in California requires insurers to not only keep covering the cost of COVID therapeutic treatments like Paxlovid, but also keep reimbursing their members for the costs of up to eight over-the-counter COVID tests every month.
Why? Because that's their ticket to keep this thing going.
COVID tests.
Oh, cases. We've got a case here, right?
COVID busters.
We're willing to believe you, right?
So... A year ago, the notice to continue this, and of course, these just keep coming.
We've had one anniversary after the other, and the one that was out there on February the 18th from the Biden White House, on March the 13th, 2020, he said, by Proclamation 9994, the President, and he doesn't mention him by name, he won't say President Trump,
but he says, the President declared a national emergency concerning the coronavirus disease, Well, he got that part of it right, but not in the way that they're telling you.
So, when we look at this, what happens when it all ends?
Well, again, it's all about the money.
And if you look at kft.org, They said, what happens when this ends?
It's going to be implications for insurance coverage, for costs, for all the rest of this stuff.
This is all about the money.
Listen to it. Coverage, cost, payment for testing, treatments, vaccines, Medicare, Medicaid coverage, federal matching rates, telehealth, Medicaid and CHIP flexibilities, Medicare payment, coverage flexibilities, private insurance coverage flexibilities, access to medical countermeasures such as vaccines, tests, treatments, Liability immunity to administer these medical countermeasures.
It was a war.
It is a war.
It is an ongoing war.
And it is a war over money.
Every one of those things.
Money. Money.
That's what I say. If you look at these financial meltdowns and all the rest of this stuff, it really is about the money.
And it's about a digital enslavement.
Both CBD and the idea of having a global ID, which they started bringing in with a vaccine passport and all the rest of this stuff, they're both tickets to a digital enslavement.
It begins with money.
It ends with money.
It ends with a digital slavery.
It ends with wireless prisons.
Okay, when we come back, we're going to give you an update as to what is being talked about with the banks.
Unlike most revolutions, where the people rise against a real economic oppression, in our case here in Boston, we are fighting for purely an abstract principle.
It is, however, not nearly so abstract as the young gentleman supposes.
The issue involved here is one of monopoly.
Today, the British government will monopolize the sale of tea in our country.
Tomorrow it will be something else.
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All right. And we have – has Biden held his meeting yet, Travis?
Has he outspoken to the public?
Is that where this is coming from? I don't know.
Okay. What have we got?
From the top of the grudge from Bloomberg, we've got U.S. regional banks remain under pressure as First Republic sinks.
It says turmoil continue to engulf shares in banks as investors rush to reduce exposure to the banking industry after seeing equity stakes wiped out of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
Yeah, there were already lines forming and a lot of issues with First Republic.
And so that was happening.
So that would be the fourth one of these big banks to have happen.
Because most of them are only talking about two of them.
But again, when you look at this, it seems to be runs being conducted, you know, not by Bart Simpson.
Ha, ha, ha. Doing a whispering campaign.
Not by Mr. Potter, but by somebody else who's trying to get control of everything in the world.
And that's the Silicon Valley of billionaires and venture capitalists.
And, of course, as I said before, four Republican senators said, this is looking to me like Operation Chugpoint being applied not to gun stores, but to crypto as an attack.
Anything else you got? I don't know where this is from.
Biden says banking system is safe after Silicon Valley Bank collapse.
So, words of wisdom from him.
President Biden on Monday said the banking system is safe as he stressed steps taken to limit the fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and shore up a confidence financial system.
Thanks to the quick action of my administration over the past few days, Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe.
He acted at warp speed.
I don't even know what that looks like.
Quick action from Biden, and everything is safe.
And again, we don't want you to lose any confidence in this con game, so just trust Biden.
Well, we'll leave it at that.
We'll see what happens, but...
Uh, again, you know, money is what you hold.
You want to go cash.
You want to go something that is anonymous, that is private.
And again, if you go to davidknight.gold, that'll take you to Tony Arterburn's Wise Wolf even has it set up so that you can save a little bit each month, right?
You can set aside just a little bit each month as a way to provide for your future.
Let's change over from the banking fraud and the pandemic MacGuffin, and let's talk about what's going on with abortion, because that's also a big part of this, isn't it?
Now, this is a big population, depopulation move.
Let's kill a bunch of people.
Let's sterilize a bunch of people.
And, of course, this has been going on for quite some time.
It's very broad. I really enjoyed seeing this article on LifeSite News, the positive side of this.
A Kentucky grandmother, Meets her great-great-great-granddaughter.
Wow. Maydell Taylor Hawkins.
98 years old.
A picture of her.
Right there. Let's go up and show the picture.
Holding her newborn great-great-granddaughter.
Who was born in February.
In the picture, which they don't show.
They're focused and close on that.
In the picture...
The 98-year-old woman is flanked by female descendants, each the mother of the next.
According to Fox News, Hawkins has 106 grandchildren, 222 great-grandchildren, 234 great-great-grandchildren, and 37 great-great-great-grandchildren in total.
Isn't that amazing? See, that's what they don't want us to have.
And if you go back and you look at people, that's why, you know, Angela Davis is just devastated to find that she is descendant from some of the Puritans.
You know, if you stay here long enough, people would have very large families and, you know, really fanned out.
But that's what they've been able to stop with us now, isn't it?
It is interesting to see that many generations that close.
You know, on the other extreme of that, I remember an article that I read back in the 90s, I think it was.
It was either the late 80s or the early 90s.
And it was the grandson of John Tyler, who was still alive and he was only in his 70s.
And, which is really amazing because, you know, President Tyler was the early 1800s.
I forget the exact date when he was president.
You know, Tippy Canoe and Tyler too, that type of thing.
But his, the guy who was president, President Tyler, didn't have any kids until he was in his late 70s.
And then one of his kids didn't have any kids until he was in his late 70s.
And this guy was in his late 70s.
And the interesting thing about it was he looked exactly like President Tyler from, I don't know, the 1820s or something.
Something like that.
It was truly amazing to see how much he looked like.
I saw that once. Of course, this would never be allowed today.
But again, it was also back in the early 90s, I think it was.
They found, in Cold Spring Harbor, they found the uniform and remains, the skeleton remains, of a Confederate soldier who died in that battle in the swamp.
And so they gave him a burial in the Confederate cemetery that was in downtown Raleigh.
And they had a bunch of Civil War reenactors and all the rest of the stuff.
And so I went down there to see it, because I like history.
And, you know, they recreated a period funeral and all that kind of stuff and a burial.
And one of the people who spoke there was descended from Jeb Stuart.
He was like a great-grandson or something like that.
He was an engineer, and he came down from Virginia, and I was just amazed.
I mean, he had a beard, you know, but it wasn't as long as you see Jeb Stewart.
I was amazed. He was a spitting image of Jeb Stewart.
It was truly amazing. Anyway, to look at this and to see this all compressed, Six Living Generations.
Because she's 98 years old and she got married when she was only 16, according to her family.
She married the late Bill Taylor in 1940 when she was only 16.
Her husband was then 50 years old and a widower.
He had a large family.
He already had 10 kids.
He needed somebody to help with it.
Kind of like Sound of Music or something, right?
So she played the part of Julie Andrews in that, I guess.
His wife had died having twins at home.
He worked on the railroad.
He had to get back to work. He needed somebody to take care of the kids, said a member of the family.
And they said, of course, a lot of women married real young back then, but now we don't.
We have children later in our life, so the families are not that big.
Stop and think about the many different ways they have been able to work on us for depopulation.
Well, you want to wait until later if you have kids at all.
And then you have difficulty having kids, right?
Or you don't want kids at all, right?
You just focus on yourself.
If that doesn't work, they've got things they put in the food, things they put in the vaccines, and all the rest of this.
It's truly amazing when you look at it.
Societal, psychological, spiritual.
Chemical, physical, all these different things.
Depopulation. It truly is a satanic agenda.
Because that has always been Satan's purpose.
It is to destroy humanity.
She took care of everybody, said the family member.
I've never heard my mom say anything about hearing her complain.
She would often say, hard work is what keeps you going.
She made a difference in a lot of lives, didn't she?
Never underestimate The importance of our roles that God has given us, even if they seem humble, they can be amazingly important.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world, and that's why they want your kids at the earliest possible age.
In the United States, birth rates have been on a steady decline, dropping by 20%.
Over the last 15 years and reaching their lowest point ever in 2021 at only 56 births per 1,000 women.
And yet, it's not enough.
They want more abortions.
And so you have Kathy Hochul and you have Gavin Newsom and you have Joe Biden.
They're all furious about About the fact that people won't be able to buy drugs over the counter without an examination to have an abortion.
See, they don't care about women's health.
The whole reason that that was banned was because of how dangerous this is if you use an abortifacient pill and you are, you know, further along in your pregnancy.
It can cause women to bleed to death or die, and they're typically, to give somebody a pill without an examination, send them home to take it, it's bad enough to take it at home.
Abby Johnson talked about that.
She was working for Planned Parenthood at the time, and she took an abortion pill.
She had had an examination, all the rest of the stuff, nearly killed her.
She's suffering by herself, didn't have anybody on the floor of her home.
They don't care about women's health.
Hochul promises consequences if the drugstores don't sell abortion pills.
They're demanding that they sell abortion pills.
Just as they demanded, you can't have ivermectin, you can't have HCQ, zinc, all the rest of the stuff.
You can't have that. You will have the vaccine.
And you will have the abortion pills provided.
She said pharmacies are the new battleground.
She said she will go to the mat to protect every inch of Of abortion rights.
There's no right to kill.
There's no right to kill.
We have the right to life.
We have the right to many things, but not the right to kill another human being.
And that's the issue here.
So she threatened the Walgreens Corporation, claiming that if drugstore chain pulled the abortion drug Mephistopheles from pharmacy shelves in New York, there would be consequences, quote-unquote.
So they're in a tug-of-war.
Walgreens is in the middle.
I don't feel any sympathy for them.
They pushed, like all the rest of these drugstores, they pushed the bioweapon shots.
The drugstore chain's decision occurred after 20 Republican state attorneys general sent the company a letter warning that using the mail to distribute abortion pills throughout the U.S. may be a violation of U.S. law.
No, it definitely is.
If you read the letter of the law, it is a violation of that law.
But of course, when it comes to the bioweapon vaccines or when it comes to abortion or whatever, we don't really care what the law says.
So Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who has led the effort, insisted that he and his GOP colleagues will use every tool at our disposal to uphold the law.
New York's law is simple, she said.
On the other hand, so here they are, caught between the Republicans who say, under federal law, you cannot send this through the mail.
And I've read that law to you.
It says that explicitly.
Fox News, by the way, does not show you the law that says that.
So I didn't go back and get it.
Anyway, but I wish I had.
But I've read that last week.
It's very explicit. Meanwhile, in New York, they say abortion is legal and protected as a fundamental right under state law.
There are no legal barriers to dispensing mephistopheles in New York pharmacies.
I still prefer that to the drug name because that's what we're talking about here.
It is satanic. We have to do this, she said, because basically pharmacies have become the new battleground ever since women's rights were stripped in the overturning of Roe v.
Wade last June. No, women's rights were stripped when they started mandating masks and social distancing and lockdown and especially the vaccines, violating your real bodily integrity.
How is it that they can't Talk about that.
You see, there is no question that that was about your body.
There is a, you know, what they're disputing is that the baby is an individual.
And of course, the baby always has different DNA. The baby usually, half the time, I should say, not usually, but half the time, the baby has a different sex, gender.
Of course, they're confused about that as well.
But it is not your body.
Somebody else.
Texas sues the Biden administration over the pharmacy mandate to dispense abortion drugs.
The Biden administration is now also trying to force pharmacies to do this.
And they're trying to do it by withholding Medicare and Medicaid funds.
You see, Trump bribed hospitals to do the COVID lockdowns and all the rest of this stuff with Medicare and Medicaid funds.
Trump bribed them.
Biden blackmails them.
Biden said, if you don't get all of your doctors and nurses vaccinated, we're going to cut that money from you.
That's just push-pull.
And that's what I said when people were talking about the 2020 election.
They said, you better hope that Trump gets in because if Trump doesn't get in, Biden is going to mandate these things.
I said, no difference either way.
Trump created them.
But I said, Trump is going to do it by rewarding people here.
He will bribe people.
He will do it through private corporations.
He'll still do the same thing.
He developed this. He's proud of it.
He just won't hold this as a weapon against people like Biden will.
And I said, I think it'll be more obvious to people and create more resistance when Biden tries to do it directly.
And so that's what Biden is doing now.
He's going to use the economic weapon.
This is the way they always do it.
Give money to them or take money away to get their way.
HHS guidance, which involved roughly 60,000 U.S. retail pharmacies, claims that That federal anti-discrimination law requires pharmacies to provide these laws, these drugs.
No, it doesn't.
That is clearly a lie.
And so it'll be interesting to see how this goes out.
But, of course, you've got a lot of diehard people like Jane Fonda, who is not fond of babies.
She had this to say on The View as they were totally outraged.
That women who had not had an examination, who did not know the size of the baby, who did not know the health threat that it would cause to the women, that they can't go in and self-medicate and kill their baby with a pill.
We're not going back. I don't care what the laws are.
We're not going back.
That's Jane Fonda, in case you don't recognize her after all the plastic surgery in years.
That's the activist. That's Jane speaking.
And she probably will get a Nobel Prize very soon.
But it's the truth. It is the truth. We're not going to do it.
Besides marching and protesting, what else do you suggest?
Well, it doesn't happen overnight.
It's not a miraculous...
What did you say?
Murder. She's kidding.
Wait a second. She's just kidding.
Don't say that. Oh, you don't know.
They'll pick up on that and just rub it in.
Yeah, that's the worst. She's just kidding.
That's Lily Tomlin. Can you believe it?
Yeah, so she says, well, no, not really.
Not really kidding about murder.
There's this article from Zero Hedge Points.
Good old Hanoi Jane is at it again.
She has a rather vicious history of calling for the death of people that she disagrees with.
Part of her activism in Vietnam included her arguments that American POWs held by the Viet Cong be tried and executed for war crimes.
And she hasn't aged too well, but especially Lily Tomlin.
I tell you what, the years and the plastic surgery...
Have not been kind to the two of them.
Death does not become them.
Do you remember that movie? Anyway, Fonda later apologized for their marks, saying that they were made in jest, and she was using hyperbole to make a point.
So what was the point that she was making?
I mean, it is murder.
It is murder. You're killing a baby in the case of these women.
No limitations whatsoever.
I mean, we just had a listener...
Whose grandchild was born at a very, very early age.
Far less than what they had determined was the age of iBility back under Roe v.
Wade. Asked for prayer.
Many of you prayed and told us last week the baby survived.
Like one pound.
And it survived. We're talking about murder here.
So what is more likely that Jane Fonda said the quiet part out loud, the part which leftist activists often discuss on social media but rarely on mainstream TV? Yeah, well, California is cutting ties with Walgreens as well over them saying, well, you know, since we're being sued by all these different state attorneys general, maybe we don't want to do that.
And on Monday...
Newsom asserted this was last Monday.
California won't be doing business with Walgreens.
I'm sure that'll put them under. Or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women's lives at risk.
Look, again, the lives of women who are given this abortifacient, let's just call it, The people who are given a Mephistopheles pill without an examination, their lives are in danger.
It's just that simple. And again, he's trying to financially blackmail him.
Look, Walgreens is going to face a lot more danger from 20 states...
We're going to sue them for violating the law.
There's not that much that's being purchased by California that's going to hurt them.
But I want to finish up with this real quickly.
An abortionist who is now turned pro-life doctor says that killing a baby is never necessary to save the mother's life.
Never necessary.
He said you have cases like ectopic pregnancies and things like that.
He said those were done before Roe v.
Wade. Yeah. Removing the baby that has no chance to survive and a threat to the mother's life.
And mothers who were going to be taking chemotherapy, that would kill the baby.
They make that decision. Some mothers will decide to forego the chemotherapy and have the baby anyway.
But that is a decision for them to make.
He said before Roe v. Wade, those were being done.
He said after Roe v.
Wade, those were being done.
He said they're being done after the recent Supreme Court decision as well.
He said that was never the case.
But he's now founded a pro-life, faith-based medical practice to help women.
After a spiritual awakening, he realized abortion was not achieving freedom, health, or happiness for women.
And he attests that for the severe and life-threatening complications that women can face during pregnancy, he said intentional feticide And he goes through a lot of different conditions to discuss that.
He said, abortion advocates want you to think these cases are compromised in a post-Roe America situation.
Bundled up in the wrongly dubbed rights that they are fighting for in order to keep abortion on demand.
Well, thank you for joining us.
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