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March 14, 2023 - The David Knight Show

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14Mar23 Crypto Prohibition at Root of Bank Closures; A "Motherless Child" - Satanic Use of Biotech

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	Using free speech to free minds.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's the 14th of March, year of our Lord, 2023.
	Day 1097 of the continuing emergency.
	Today we're going to take a deeper look at Operation Chokepoint.
	I believe that what we're seeing here, the primary focus in these banks that were shut down, was crypto.
	I believe that's really what it was.
	And we'll talk about why that is, why they're coming after crypto, why they're trying to get legislation in 20 states to essentially outlaw crypto and establish CBDC. We're going to begin with the news.
	Stay with us.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	I think this is what people are missing.
	Yes, Silicon Valley Bank was totally into ESG and the rest of this stuff.
	They made terrible loans.
	Remember that Silvergate was a bank that was focused on crypto.
	And Silver Bank was shut down even though they were fully solvent.
	And we'll talk about why that was the case.
	But I want to begin by talking a little bit about Prohibition.
	Because there really is at the heart of all this stuff, right?
	When you look at prohibited speech, prohibited guns, all the rest of this stuff, they're going to tell you what you can and cannot say.
	And, of course, we have now Mark Kelly, a senator from Arizona, husband of Gabby Giffords, who was a congresswoman who was shot.
	Both of them have been after guns for a very long time.
	But as this stuff was happening, now Mark Kelly says, isn't there something we can do to censor speech that might cause a bank run or something?
	Well, yeah, sure. Just add financial advice to the long list of things that you're not allowed to talk about.
	Because that's the heart of all this.
	And all of this is about prohibition.
	And let me begin by talking about something that I absolutely do not agree with.
	And that is legalizing psychedelic mushrooms.
	I would say not the prohibition of it.
	I'm just saying that prohibition doesn't work.
	I would definitely not recommend that you use psychedelic mushroom.
	That's where Joe Rogan and I disagree.
	Joe Rogan can get $25- $50 million a year on Spotify.
	They won't even allow my program to air there.
	Because, you know, he pushes things like psychedelic mushrooms.
	I think they're very bad for you.
	I think they're horrific. And I also don't think that prohibition is going to stop it.
	And why do I think that?
	Well, because I've been around and alive for 50 years.
	I know what...
	A little bit longer than that.
	I know what America was like before drug prohibition.
	And I know what drug prohibition did.
	And drug prohibition didn't slow down anybody from taking a single drug.
	As a matter of fact, it made it a lot worse.
	I've watched that in my lifetime happen.
	It's not an issue. That's a separate issue as to whether or not alcohol is good for you or marijuana is good for you or psychedelic mushrooms or anything else.
	That's a separate issue from the government trying to prohibit it, trying to use the police as moral police, essentially.
	This is a spiritual issue, if ever there was one.
	Yeah, you can say it's a medical issue, it's an addiction issue, it's a psychological issue.
	It's a spiritual issue, fundamentally.
	Police don't do too well with that.
	They're totally clueless about that anyway.
	And it hasn't worked. Look, whatever you think about it, can we understand that the 50-year experiment has failed?
	The decade-long experiment, or however long it lasted, of alcohol prohibition failed.
	But at least they had respect for the Constitution.
	They had to have a constitutional amendment to have it, and they got rid of it with another constitutional amendment.
	The 18th and 21st Amendments are there as testimony to the unconstitutional, illegal war on drugs that has failed in every pragmatic aspect as well.
	But I'm talking about this Because this is something that is state nullification.
	Vermont is proposing a bill that would legalize psychedelic mushrooms in spite of federal prohibition.
	Now we've already seen this with marijuana.
	First they began with medical marijuana, then they moved to recreational marijuana.
	And regardless of what you think about the substance, the marijuana, recreational use, or medical use, or the mushrooms, don't write me letters about it.
	You're not going to change my mind.
	It's another pharmakia, if ever there was one.
	I mean, it is...
	That's one of the reasons why that term was translated as sorcery in the Bible, because psychedelic drugs were always part of pagan religions, I believe that there is a supernatural world.
	I believe that it does get people in touch with that in a very negative way.
	So just on so many different levels, I am adamantly opposed to its use.
	However, prohibition does not work.
	And what is interesting, I think, is the fact that we have with guns on the right and with drugs on the left, whether you're talking about pot or you're talking about mushrooms or anything else, you have nullification of federal laws.
	And I think that's very important because secession is going to mean war.
	No question about it.
	Our government is even more authoritarian than it was during the Civil War.
	Our government was founded on secession.
	We seceded from Great Britain.
	And yet, you had ambitious people like Lincoln, who made it a bloodbath.
	And that will happen here as well.
	We have other places on Earth where the Scandinavian nations, there's four or five of them, they have, at various times in their history, They have combined together and they've split apart.
	Then they've combined together again in different combinations and everything.
	But they never had a war over it.
	But it'll be a war here if you want to have a national divorce.
	What you want to do is you want to nullify.
	That's the rightful remedy.
	You just nullify.
	Say, well, we've got any commandeering laws and other precedents that have been recognized even by the Supreme Court that And there's no way that they can force the state government to enforce anything.
	And if they send federal agents in to do things that the federal government doesn't have any authority, local people can arrest them.
	Now, it can go the other way as well.
	Even though in California, recreational as well as medical use of pot is allowed, you have the federal government still coming after pot dispensaries.
	Using, by the way, when we talk about cryptocurrency, remember, they've already done this with marijuana dispensaries, where the federal government is trying to choke them out and say, we don't want them doing business with the banks.
	And then they partnered with With a local sheriff's department in San Bernardino, California, and they actually did armored car robberies.
	Yes, the sheriff's department actually robbed armored cars, not once, but three times.
	Third time, the armored car people caught on to it, and the cops didn't get the money.
	And they said, wait a minute, I didn't have more money than this.
	Just stealing it. Just stealing it.
	Armed robbery of an armored car by the police.
	And so now that armored car company goes around that criminal county.
	They don't pass through it.
	And so there's different ways that they can come after this.
	But the rightful way to do this is to just nullify it, issue by issue.
	And that may be difficult to do, but it's already rising up.
	That's why I wanted to begin with this.
	Because I think when we're looking even at the financial issues, even when we look at CBDC and the fact that it is being pushed out and other things are being pushed down, I think we need to understand that the best way to approach this, for the state at least, You know, for us, we have to prepare.
	We have to have things that are outside of the cash that is controlled by the Federal Reserve and the banking system that is controlled by the Federal Reserve.
	But that's one of the reasons why I think it is so positive, this idea of a Tennessee Reserve System, which is essentially a state publicly owned bank.
	Senator Nicely came up with that idea to call it that.
	I think it's brilliant because a lot of local banks We're going to be gone soon.
	Don't understand the threat.
	And they don't understand what a publicly owned state bank like North Dakota does, even though it's been around for 100 years and it's got a long track record.
	And even though that is where local and state banks have thrived, as I pointed out yesterday, between late 1980s and the mid-2000s, you had 10,000 local banks go out of business.
	And so...
	They don't understand that's in their best interest if we set up a different system where they cannot blackmail us.
	And we'll talk about that when we get to the Operation Showpoint.
	Very good example of it being used to take out crypto and at the same time to push in CBDC. This is the push.
	But let's talk about the overall nullification.
	Prohibition and other things.
	So on the left, they want their psychedelic mushrooms and drugs.
	And on the right, people want guns.
	And it's kind of interesting.
	There was a documentary about a decade ago.
	And it was about those two things.
	Being about freedom.
	In the sense that if we could get people to understand the principle, if we could get people on the right to understand that this is the drug problem, and it is a problem, is not what's going to be solved by prohibition.
	If we could get people on the left to understand that violent crime, much of it coming from the drug prohibition, that violent crime is really most of what they're concerned about, the drug cartels shooting it out with each other in Chicago.
	And that's not going to be solved by taking guns away from law-abiding citizens.
	If we could get them to understand the bigger picture.
	And if we could get people to understand the benefit of nullification.
	So you've got Vermont wanting to nullify federal laws against psychedelic mushrooms.
	Ohio bill would nullify most federal gun restrictions.
	And this is something that's happening in a lot of states.
	A bill proposed in the Ohio State House of Representatives would prohibit state and local police.
	From enforcing federal gun regulations, we have seen this over and over again.
	They said, and in this article, they referred to Thomas Jefferson's Kentucky resolutions about nullification, the rightful remedy, he said.
	He set out the correct constitutional relationship between the state and the federal authorities, even naming nullification.
	That's Jefferson's term.
	State refusal to enforce unconstitutional acts of the federal government is the rightful remedy for such tyranny, he said.
	The Commonwealth considers the federal union upon the terms and for the purposes specified in the late compact, that'd be the Constitution, as conducive to the liberty and happiness of the several states.
	That it does now unequivocally declare its attachment to the Union and to that compact, agreeable to its obvious and real intention, and will be among the last to seek its dissolution, that if those who administer the general government be permitted to transgress the limits fixed by that compact,
	the Constitution, By a total disregard to the special delegations of power therein contained, annihilation of the state governments and the erection upon their ruins of a general consolidated government will be the inevitable consequence.
	The principle and the construction contended for by sundry of the state legislatures that the general government Is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it.
	It stops nothing short of despotism, he said.
	If you're going to follow the course that we have for all of my life, the idea that states are merely an administrative subsidiary of the federal government.
	That's not true.
	The federal government was a creature of the states.
	And if we were to take that kind of logic, it would mean ultimately that we are servants of the UN, servants of the WHO, which is what these people like to have happen.
	And the appropriate response to those institutions is to just leave them, because they don't have the authority to raise an army and come after us.
	And of course, Lincoln had to raise an army.
	He didn't have an standing army to come after people.
	But that's not going to happen right now at this point with the UN or the WHO. We should just get out of them.
	But we can't get out of the federal government that easily.
	Nullification is a rightful remedy.
	We have seen legislation introduced here in Tennessee that would say that it is the duty of the state to review every rule from the bureaucracy, every ruling from the judiciary, every executive order from the president, And every law from the Congress, all of those should be examined for constitutionality and nullified if unconstitutional at the state level.
	That is a way to handle this.
	I hope that bill passes.
	I have to get the guy who sponsored it on.
	Since the discretion of those who administer the government and not the Constitution would be the measure of their powers, said Jefferson, that the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction.
	That's exactly what they're trying to do in Tennessee.
	That a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, done under color of law, done under color of constitution, that is the rightful remedy.
	And so I think it's very important that we look at this, because they're coming after us in a number of ways.
	We have to nullify any future pandemic declarations.
	We have to nullify any future emergency orders.
	We have to nullify any public health orders.
	And that includes doing it at the local level if it's something that's coming from the state.
	But the sad thing is that it's gone the other way.
	And what we have is not people looking at this and saying, you know, freedom is the one thing we can't have unless we give it to other people, right?
	The people who are typically Second Amendment supporters are hardcore opponents of drug use, which is fine.
	I fall into that category.
	However, they believe in the efficacy of prohibition.
	And that will be the rope that hangs them as well.
	Conservatives have been slow to recognize the threat that drug prohibition poses to gun rights and to civil liberties in general.
	Not just the Second Amendment, but to the First Amendment and all the rest of this stuff.
	It is a consolidation of power, as Jefferson and the founders know.
	We talk about centralization of power.
	They talked about consolidation of power.
	And so the example that Reason Magazine uses here, Jacob Selim at Reason Magazine, is talking about how conservatives, when they look at the excessive use of force against people, especially when it comes to guns, they will speak out.
	But all you have to do is add a little bit of drugs to the mix, and they get confused.
	Or they tap out.
	Say, I'm not going there.
	I'm not going to have that fine. Do you remember the guy who was Philando Castile?
	He was pulled over because the police officer said, well, your taillights are out.
	You've got a broken taillight.
	But he was really pulling him over because he thought, he said, that he matched the description Somebody who was wanted in a crime.
	And so when the police officer walked up, even though this guy had a license to carry a firearm, even though, as the body camera footage showed, he said, yes, I do have a firearm.
	And, you know, and he was going to give it to the guy or whatever he wanted.
	The guy shot him. The cop shot him.
	And he said when he went up, the thing that really triggered him was he said he smelled the odor of burning marijuana as he approached the white Oldsmobile sedan that he stopped.
	The whiff of weed from the Oldsmobile, writes Reason, Yanez, the police officer, later said, figured in the threat that he perceived from the car's driver, a 32-year-old school cafeteria worker named Philando Castile.
	He fatally shot Castile, who had a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
	A few seconds after learning that he had a gun in the car.
	And so, when you look at the reactions to it, it's very telling that many of the people who support gun rights kind of take a powder when it comes to civil liberties and many other things.
	And as we're looking at this drug war, We now have, and it began with Trump.
	Got to give him credit for this one, too.
	Now, he was the first one saying, we got to invade Mexico, right?
	We got to invade Mexico, and we've got to, and it's kind of interesting to me that people aren't talking about that now.
	Now they're talking about the fact that it's Dan Crenshaw who sponsored this in the House, and Lindsey Graham.
	People were right when they called Dan Crenshaw, I patch McCain.
	He is just like McCain.
	He's taking his place.
	The only problem that McCain and Lindsey Graham had was that they were both in the Senate.
	But now you've got eyepatch McCain in the House, and he can introduce bills in the House, and Lindsey can do it in the Senate.
	It's not a bill, but they're calling for military action against Mexican cartels.
	Let's go have a real war.
	Let's have a real drug war.
	You know, a shoot-em-up drug war.
	Different than the shoot-em-up drug wars that are going on in all of our cities, especially Chicago, right?
	Where the competitors shoot each other on the streets.
	Graham said he agreed with former Attorney General Bill Barr.
	CIA lackey of George H.W. Bush, Bill Barr.
	Again, why?
	Trump was completely owned by the CIA, folks.
	You look at what he did with...
	You look at what he did with the torturer-in-chief, Gina Haspel, put her in charge of the CIA. Bill Barr was there.
	Bill Barr was the hand-picked underling for George H.W. Bush when Bush rebuilt the CIA after the church committee hearings where they were embarrassed about Yeah, yeah, we do assassinations all the time.
	And, of course, the big thing was the fact that they were spying on Americans without a search warrant from the beginning.
	And so was the NSA. And that's why what came out of the church committee hearings was the FISA stuff, which nobody paid any attention to for about 30 years.
	Actually, 40 years.
	And nobody paid any attention to FISA. Everybody just remembered the heart attack guns and the assassination stuff.
	And so to rebuild that agency, they put George H.W. Bush, who had already been part of the CIA, going back to the Cuban Missile Crisis and other things like that, in the Bay of Pigs, George H.W. Bush figured prominently in that.
	A couple of ships, one of them was named after his wife, another one was named after his company, his oil company.
	But, of course, he had nothing to do with it whatsoever.
	But he rebuilt it, and the guy he picked to help him do it was Bill Barr.
	And then when CIA George H.W. Bush became president, he made Bill Barr a very young attorney general.
	And then he came back as attorney general again under Trump.
	Same guy who's pushing the torture-in-chief, Gina Haspel, to the head of the CIA. And so now Trump...
	I wonder where he got this idea.
	Did it come from the CIA? Did it come from Bill Barr?
	Did it come from maybe Steve Pachinic, who used to throw out some scenarios to Tom Clancy for his spy novels?
	There was one, Clear and Present Danger, I think was the name of it, that's based on covert operations, not a full-on military invasion, but covert operations against drug cartels.
	But, you know, Trump talked about it.
	Now you've got Lindsey Graham and you've got I-Patch McCain, Dan Crenshaw talking about it.
	Lindsey said he agreed with former Attorney General Bill Barr, who wants to declare the cartels, quote, foreign terrorist organizations.
	Does that mean we're going to start giving them even more money than we do now?
	We're going to treat them like ISIS. Give them more money.
	Give them weapons as well.
	Bar expressed support for a joint resolution proposed by Dan Crenshaw and Michael Waltz, a Republican from Florida, that would authorize the president to use military force against those responsible for trafficking.
	So they can't be bothered to stop the war in Ukraine.
	They can start another one in Mexico, though.
	So anybody that is tainted with fentanyl, Well, we'll come after them.
	If they're carrying out other related activities that cause regional destabilization in the Western Hemisphere, boy, this is the Monroe Doctrine writ large, isn't it?
	I think this could cause destabilization.
	So I think we're going to invade your country here.
	Graham said, I'm going to introduce legislation.
	To make certain Mexican drug cartel foreign terrorist organizations under U.S. law, and I think I meant to say, there's a typo here, that they are declared to be foreign terrorist organizations under U.S. law, and to set the stage to use military force if necessary to protect America from being poisoned by things coming out of Mexico.
	We should strategically strike and take out the Mexican cartels?
	Not the Mexican government or their people.
	Leave them alone.
	You believe that? But the Mexican cartels, which control them all.
	Now, that's not Lindsay. That's Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	Oh, she agrees with that.
	Meanwhile, the Mexican president was surprisingly not very happy about that.
	I'm thrilled to know we've got our finest minds on this.
	Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	She'd like to have a civil war and a war with Mexico at the same time.
	I mean, she's taking us back to the 1850s and 60s all at once.
	It's days of back to the future.
	What's that? Somebody get me Teddy Roosevelt.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	But, yeah, when we look at this, the Mexican president has something to say about that.
	The socialist Obrador has threatened to start a public information campaign in the United States against Republican lawmakers.
	After several have called on the U.S. military to target drug cartels, he said, I would just like to tell them either they changed their treatment of Mexico, Or from today, we will start an information campaign in the United States so that all Mexicans, our fellow countrymen, know about this aggression by Republicans against Mexico.
	So notice that he says Mexicans, his fellow countrymen, who are in the United States.
	And of course...
	They can vote. I got a major.
	You're talking about getting out the vote.
	He can get out the vote.
	He could send millions of people across the border, the open border, to come in and vote.
	So this is not an idle threat.
	And he's not saying, you know, you do this and I'm going to start talking to...
	We're going to run an ad campaign here in Mexico and tell people how bad the United States is.
	No, he says, we're going to run an ad campaign in the U.S. so that our fellow countrymen, our Mexicans in the United States, will know how to vote.
	This actually kind of vaguely reminds me of an experience I had.
	What was that? This was before I had met my wife and I was trying to...
	Is your mic on? Because I'm not hearing you through the system.
	No. Oh, okay.
	All right.
	Go ahead. Kind of like Lena Heldalgo, the county judge in the Houston area.
	Harris County, I think it is.
	Yeah, she's pretty much grew up in other countries and then got groomed by the elite in Ivy League schools and goes straight to head of government in the Houston area.
	Anyway, August Pfluger from Texas.
	I wonder if he's Pflugerville.
	It is spelled the same. P-F-L-U-G-E-R. The kidnapping and murder of American citizens in Matamoros proves that Mexico is a narco state.
	If Mexico can't stop the cartels, then our nation must use any tool in our arsenal to solve it for them.
	Well, that sounds pretty good.
	You've got a pretty good case there, right?
	But I know some other places where you don't have to travel so far.
	Places in the United States, for example, like Chicago, right?
	If Chicago can't stop the cartels, then the United States government must use any tool in our arsenal to solve the problem for Chicago.
	Because we got, you know, there were four people, this is what's kicking this off, is four people who were murdered in Matamoros.
	That's a tragedy, but it's also a tragedy when you have at least a dozen every weekend in Chicago.
	Usually it's several dozen.
	Usually it's four dozen instead of four people killed.
	What is that about?
	It's about drugs. It's the drug war that's happening in Chicago, just like Al Capone.
	They're shooting their competition on the streets.
	It's the gangs that are there.
	So we could say the same thing about that.
	Get me? And, of course, they would love to...
	Let's not talk about this too much, because if they hear this, they would love to militarize all law enforcement, for whatever excuse, inside our country, not just in Mexico.
	The cartels are at war with us, poisoning more than 80,000 Americans with fentanyl every year, said Eyepatch McCain, Danny Crenshaw.
	How many people did Trump poison?
	With the pharmaceutical cartels, Pfizer and Moderna, right?
	Why don't we put them out of business?
	Oh, because just like the CIA is working with these people in Central and South America, we know that from things like crack cocaine and the rest of this stuff, we know it because they tortured and killed, the CIA tortured and killed Enrico Camarada as part of their documentary.
	We had Sheriff Hathaway talking about that.
	He had knowledge of that when he was in the DEA. Now the CIA did that.
	And why the CIA did that.
	Knowingly doing that.
	So you look at that, you look at the crack cocaine epidemic, the CIA and the rest of this stuff.
	I mean, we're...
	We has met the enemy and they is us.
	Or I should say US. USA. USA. It's the federal government.
	The feral government.
	The government that has gone, has reverted to being wild.
	That is no longer tamed.
	That is no longer the companion, the servant, the friend.
	It's like a feral pack of dogs is what it's like.
	So I patch McCain.
	Says it's time we directly target them.
	We got to start treating them like ISIS. Like I said, does he want to arm them now?
	That's what we were doing with ISIS. Giving them arms and material.
	It's just amazing.
	But again, 80,000 people dying from fentanyl, if that were true, I don't know if it is or not.
	If we've got more people than that, far more people were killed with a Trump warp speed.
	But the GOP doesn't care about the GCI. They don't care about the genetic code injection.
	Not at all, no.
	As a matter of fact, you know, it wasn't just the DEA agent who was...
	You go back and you look at Fast and Furious.
	Another one where you had another federal agent or somebody that worked for the government that was killed that blew up in their face.
	That was the Fast and Furious stuff, which New York Times said was a false flag operation by the ATF. But it preceded the Obama administration.
	It went back into the Bush administration.
	It was called Gunwalker.
	And then it became fast and furious.
	What was the point of all of that?
	I remember it well, because I was involved in the fight at the UN. I was covering it for an organization that was fighting, National Association of Gun Rights.
	And they were trying to get through a UN arms trade treaty.
	And the point of the UN arms trade treaty was gun control in the United States, pure and simple.
	It was about small arms.
	We're not worried about sending tanks and planes across the...
	Because they've got a lot of money to pay people in Congress and presidents to make sure their product doesn't get stopped, but it gets promoted going across borders.
	But it was the small arms.
	It was ammunition for the small guns that people would have themselves.
	That's got to be stopped, said the UN. And so the whole purpose of this false flag operation...
	Was for the ATF to transport, to walk, guns across the border into Mexico.
	And then to give them to the drug cartels so then they could then bust them.
	You've seen this over and over again from the FBI, except this is being done for real.
	The FBI usually finds some rubes somewhere and starts having meetings where they gripe about the government and things like that.
	You know what we ought to do? We ought to blow things up.
	Hey, I've got a plan here.
	And so the FBI will pull these people in.
	The FBI will lead the plan.
	The FBI will give them the plan.
	And then the FBI will bust them and declare themselves to be heroes.
	And so that was kind of what the ATF was doing, except the ATF used real stuff and gave it to real criminals, and you had a guy wind up getting killed with that.
	And so that kind of scuttled the UN Arms Trade Treaty.
	In my opinion, what they tried to do was to...
	Pull this thing back and stage the Aurora, Colorado shooting just before they were supposed to have that vote in the UN because it had been so bad.
	The blowback from what happened with Fast and Furious.
	So then that brings us, this is where we're going to make the transition, in my mind at least today, and what's going on with the banks.
	And what's going on with the banks, I think, has more to do Now, understand what happens with the merchant codes.
	You had the New York State Lobbied real hard to get the International Standards Organization, ISO, to come up, you know, give us a number.
	Pick a number, any number, between 1,000 or whatever.
	And we will then assign that number to people who sell guns.
	And so if you are a merchant, you would, you know, now that they've got this code for gun stores, Presumably then, Visa, MasterCard, Discover would ask retailers, do you fit this code?
	What kind of a business are you?
	What kind of stuff do you sell?
	And they want to know that because they're looking at fraud.
	And they have a history where they know that certain types of businesses are more likely to be engaged in fraud.
	I don't know which types of businesses are more likely to be engaged in fraud, but they charge them a higher fee.
	Because of the industry that they're in, they consider the likelihood of fraud to be higher.
	So maybe you can think of something.
	Let's just say it's ice cream, okay?
	It's not ice cream, but let's just say it is.
	So if you are an ice cream vendor, and you got the ice cream vendor ISO code, because you have to give them all this information when you open up your account with Visa, MasterCard, and Discover, And so you tell them, okay, I'm an ice cream vendor. And they say, oh, well, ice cream.
	We have a lot of people who steal credit cards and go buy ice cream.
	And so they charge you more money.
	And that was really the point of this.
	Because the people in New York wanted to use this for a couple of reasons.
	There's a lot of different ways that they can maliciously use this.
	One of them, of course, the real object of all this was to put the gun stores out of business by hook or by crook.
	One way they can do that is to say, well, these people sell guns.
	They're risky. So they ought to be charged more.
	And that's one of the things that they're very upset about.
	But they can also use it to scare people away from going to gun stores.
	Now, Visa and MasterCard, as I pointed out yesterday, have said that they are not going to do this.
	And we're kind of gone long on this segment.
	So I'm going to take a quick break. When we come back, I'm going to tell you what is up with this and why this really folds into all the CBDC and the business closures, the bank closures that have happened the last couple of days.
	We'll be right back. Joe, we've got a problem.
	What? Who are you?
	It's the new mug they're selling at thedavidknightshow.com, right?
	So, basically, a mug is something that holds liquid, right?
	Because basically you can't hold coffee with your hands, right?
	I'm a scat and a name, but anyone tries to mug me, I'm being ready for it.
	You dog-faced pony soldier.
	They say the mug can help patriots drink coffee, then save the world.
	This could be bad for us.
	Save the world, but we owe the world.
	These people, they're supporting free speech with every month they buy.
	Come on. These people, I tell you, well, anyway.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	And the mug is dishwasher safe and microwavable, unlike Biden and Lala Harris.
	But they do think, just like Trump, Trump and Biden and Lala, they all think that you are microwavable safe.
	That's why they can use 5G and they don't have to worry about any of the health effects.
	But of course, that's another story.
	Let's get back to what's going on with the credit card company.
	Visa's outgoing CEO, Al Kelly, said in January, He said, I've heard from everybody.
	I said, I don't think there's a senator or a member of the House or an attorney general of the United States that I haven't heard from about this thing.
	He said, look, guns are allowed in the United States, and we'd fully expect that anybody who wants to buy a gun should be able to buy that gun, provided all the other checks are done.
	On top of that, we're telling them that we don't collect that data on consumers.
	So, if the guy goes into a store...
	And he buys three thermoses and a tent.
	And then if you go in and you buy a rifle and five rounds of ammo, all I know is that you both went into the same gun store.
	He says, I know when you went.
	I know where you went.
	But he said, and I know how much money you spent.
	But I have no idea what you bought.
	And so he says, I don't even know why they're bothering us with this.
	Well, that's a little bit disingenuous.
	Because, again, if you can intimidate people, And scare them and make them think that if they go into a gun store that they're somehow on a list or they're being watched.
	And that's not a theory.
	That has already been done with January the 6th.
	You don't even have to get a geofence warrant.
	The FBI went to Bank of America and said, you know, we'd like to know about the people who were there on January the 6th.
	And Bank of America voluntarily ratted out people, not just the people who were in Washington, D.C., but in three surrounding states.
	They voluntarily gave that list.
	We'll talk more about that coming up, but you understand.
	That what we're talking about here is to try to intimidate people to not go to a gun store.
	That's one way to harm them.
	Another way to harm them is to then come in and say, well, we're going to treat them as if it is a fraudulent transfer.
	The visa guy said, and raised their rates in terms of the charges that they get from using credit cards.
	He said, this is the outgoing Visa CEO, I don't think the code was necessary, but it doesn't matter.
	The code is now in place.
	It's now an international standard.
	And we adopt international standards.
	Understand the purpose of this is to intimidate people.
	The purpose of this is ultimately to close gun stores.
	And I think there is something that can be done about this at the state level.
	Again, what could you do at the state level if you wanted to stop this?
	Well, you could very easily prohibit Visa and MasterCard from doing what they say they're not going to do.
	You could say, you're not going to ask.
	Yeah, you've got this international code.
	But guess what? If you ask anybody about this, We'll consider that to be unlawful discrimination and we'll punish you for that somehow.
	And that's exactly what needs to be done.
	That needs to be done here, needs to be done in every state.
	That's what the gun people should be pushing.
	Right now, you've got to say, because look, they're saying that they're not going to ask that.
	Discover said they are, starting in April.
	And so Visa and MasterCard have had a lot of pushback.
	They're not going to collect that information, but that's just a voluntary thing.
	And you have to prohibit them from getting that information in the first place.
	You have to prohibit them from using that new ISO code.
	That's easy to do, quite frankly.
	It ought to be a slam dunk for any legislator in a Republican state to come up with that.
	Anyway, I'm going to contact some people about that, too.
	Anti-gun activists are now all but blaming credit card companies for any and all future mass shootings, says BearingArms.com.
	This is what the anti-gunners are saying.
	They said it's shameful to hear reports that credit card companies, Visa and MasterCard, have caved to the gun lobby's transparent political ploys.
	If true, Visa and MasterCard are choosing political expediency over American lives, having a dedicated process to flag troubling and suspicious firearm purchases like they already do to detect other fraudulent purchases.
	You see how they make the equivalents there?
	What did I say before? I said, they have these codes primarily.
	What type of business are you in?
	So they can adjust your fees based on the risk, based on the industry that you're involved in.
	What is the likelihood that somebody is going to use a stolen credit card to purchase this type of product?
	That's a fraudulent purpose.
	But the anti-gunners are tying fraudulent purposes to firearm purchases.
	Troubling and suspicious. And as Bearing Arms points out, note that troubling and suspicious are very different from fraudulent.
	A purchase made with a stolen credit card is easy enough to identify.
	Who, on the other hand, defines troubling and suspicious transactions?
	For anti-gunners, that'd be anything as routine as making a purchase of a gun shop.
	What Bearing Arms doesn't see is the fact that they are trying to use this same mechanism that they have for outright fraud, that they're trying to use that to punish gun stores.
	And that's the key.
	And that's why they should be prohibited from getting this.
	It is a kind of red flag in many ways.
	And it is a kind of Operation Chokepoint in many ways.
	It's very clever. It's very devious what the Democrats are doing.
	They've got this little merchant code and they're going to really be weaponizing that.
	He said, it surprised me that none of the anti-gunners, none of them said anything about states like California responding in kind to red state laws.
	That supposedly led to the cold feet on the part of companies like Visa MasterCard.
	He said Gavin Newsom loves to pick culture war fights, and if he's going to go after Walgreens over abortion pills, then it probably won't be long before he demands that credit card companies either implement these codes or face the wrath of lawmakers in Sacramento.
	And we have to do exactly the opposite.
	We have to say, if you implement these codes, you're going to face fines from us.
	That is doable. And it is doable for these people to understand they've got to play by a different set of rules in a different state.
	And so, the theory that this could be misused...
	It's not a conspiracy theory.
	It's already been done. As I said before, Bank of America provided FBI with a huge list of customers who spent money in Washington, D.C. on January the 6th.
	It's essentially like a geofence warrant.
	And they don't have to, again, this goes back to the CIA and the NSA spying on people from their inception.
	Pretending that because this is information, we go to the phone company, and the phone company has got records about who called who when.
	And they don't have the information about what you talked about, but they can piece it together from that.
	And so they can piece together, you know, well, these people were in this area and that type of...
	And that was...
	They call that PIN numbers.
	So we want a...
	You know, these various numbers here.
	We want you to give us information about all the phone calls that were made from and to this particular phone.
	Right? And so the phone companies would give that to them.
	So people took them to court and the Supreme Court said, well, that data belongs to AT&T. It doesn't belong to the customers.
	And you can't do anything to them about it.
	And under that same rule, you have, they've used social media companies to spy on us, everybody to spy on us, under that same pretense.
	Well, the corporation owns that information, and the corporation can voluntarily give that to us.
	We don't even have to have a search warrant for that.
	And so that's what Bank of America did with this.
	They had that information about the credit card stuff.
	All the FBI had to do was ask them, oh, sure, we'd love to do that.
	We'd love to rat people out at the Bank of American Stasis.
	We'd love to do that.
	And so, how much easier is it going to be for them if you've got this gun flag code on the credit cards as well?
	The FBI attempted to sick its agents on innocent Americans after a major banking corporation, data-mined its own customers, and voluntarily gave the Bureau a list of customers who had made purchases in the Washington, D.C. area around January the 6th riot.
	And so, again, it is the code that is also going to be used for this, and we know how These corporations like.
	They also gave the names of anyone who at any time had previously purchased a weapon.
	Now, how did they know that?
	Because they didn't have the MCC code.
	The one from the merchant's category code is what that is.
	They didn't have that, right?
	So how would they know that somebody had used their card to purchase a weapon?
	There's a lot of data mining that's already going on even without this code here.
	This code is just another weapon.
	And I don't know if they put their data together with the FBI to figure out that somebody was buying a gun.
	Is that how they figured it out?
	Yeah, because theoretically, Bank of America doesn't even know that you're shopping at a gun store at that point in time.
	This is something that just recently came out.
	And so this was a whistleblower who talked about this.
	Bank of America, with no directive from the FBI, data-mined its customer base.
	So this is why the MasterCard and Visa thing is so dangerous.
	It's why it's got to be prohibited at the state level.
	The FBI's Washington office, quote, pushed local offices to open criminal investigations into Americans based solely on financial transactions that Bank of America tracked George Hill.
	Identified himself last month as one of the whistleblowers cooperating with congressional investigators when speaking with John Solomon at Just the News.
	He gave these disclosures to the House Judiciary Committee.
	Hill's testimony confirms the details that the military veteran and former longtime FBI and NSA analyst told John Solomon.
	It also reveals more troubling details.
	He'll explain that around the time of the Capitol riot, Bank of America gave to the FBI a huge list, that's his term, a huge list of people who used its cards, and it's not just in Washington, D.C. It's also in Maryland and in Virginia.
	They had a very, very big list.
	Geofence, you could call it.
	You know, phone companies can do that and did do that.
	And the FBI started coming after people who were in a particular area with their phone.
	And they got Bank of America doing the same thing.
	It elevated to the top of the list those who had ever used a bank card on a weapons purchase.
	Now again, was that information that the FBI had?
	Or did they combine that with Bank of America?
	I don't know how they would know otherwise.
	Anyway, Hill said, the top of the list would have included somebody, for example, who had bought a shotgun in 1999 in Iowa.
	It's the permanent record.
	That's the name of Ed Snowden's book, Permanent Record.
	So if you bought a shotgun in 1999 in Iowa and you used a Bank of America Stasi card with it, And then use a Bank of America Stasi card for a hotel around the time of the riot.
	Well, then they put that together.
	They put you at the top of the list.
	What had you done? Had you done anything?
	Did you hit any cops?
	Did you break any windows?
	Did you go into the Capitol building?
	No. You were in Washington, D.C. You may not have even been at this stupid Trump and Alex Jones event.
	You may not have even been there.
	You may have just, I bought a gun in Iowa in 1999 and I happened to be in Washington, D.C. doing something completely different than the stop the steal nonsense on January the 6th.
	But you go to the top of the list for the FBI. The Washington office then sent the list to field offices across the country.
	And we've had an FBI agent who blew the whistle on that, said, I'm not going to go to these people's houses and harass them over this kind of evidence.
	They said, even though there's no crime that was committed by using a Bank of America Stasi credit card in the district or around the district, The D.C. office then pressured other field offices to open up cases against innocent Americans, said the report. Yeah, we got cases here.
	Cases. I should have done a PCR test.
	Some responses from those offices included, no, we're not going to open up cases based on credit card or debit card activity that took place.
	But the Federalist said that George Hill's deposition Testimony raises another troubling possibility, that one or more of the other 54 local FBI field offices either did comply with the D.C. field office's initial request,
	or later they capitulated when the D.C. office escalated the request up the chain of command, And then the SAC, and that's what happened in Florida with the FBI agent who lost his job because he refused to do that.
	We're going to talk about the banking thing when we come back.
	I've got more information about this choke point thing and what is really going on.
	You know, the twin aspect, right?
	It's just like it was.
	With ivermectin or HCQ, for example.
	We got to shut down and demonize ivermectin and HCQ because we got this thing that's on its way.
	The Trump shot. We got to demonize Bitcoin, Ethereum, whatever, you know, because we got this, maybe not Ethereum, because I might put CBDC on top of that.
	But we got this, you know, we got Bitcoin and these other things, crypto.
	They're evil. And we just see what happened with FTX, right?
	And we got this other thing that's on the way.
	We're working on it right now.
	It's coming at warp speed.
	And it's CBDC. You're
	listening to The David Knight Show.
	Let's talk about Chokepoint.
	I mentioned yesterday that you had four senators write letters to three directors of federal agencies saying, I'm very concerned that there is an Operation Chokepoint type of thing that's being run by crypto.
	And these four senators sent it to Powell, head of the Federal Reserve, and then they sent it to the person who's running the FDIC, as well as the person who's running the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, who's going to be pushing through the CBDC. And the person who's taking the lead on this is Senator Bill Haggerty from Tennessee.
	He said, I'm hearing examples of companies in the crypto space being debanked.
	By U.S. banks who are caving to political pressure from the left.
	If Operation Chokepoint taught us anything, said Senator Haggerty, is that under no circumstances should banks be used as partisan tools to kill legal businesses.
	But we know that that's the way the federal government operates.
	They create a war on drugs.
	They don't have any authority for the war on drugs.
	But if you opt out of that, Based on what your legislature does or based on a referendum or something like that, you're going to legalize something that they've said is prohibited, even though they don't have any authority to do that.
	They've got a lot of different ways to come after you, and primarily coming after you by debanking you, taking you out of the financial system.
	That applies whether you've got a pot store or you've got a podcast, right?
	Because I expect the sheriff to show up and rob me at any moment, you know, just like PayPal or Twitter or something like that.
	I'm sorry, you've had too much to say.
	We've got to take you away here.
	Senator Haggerty also said, make no mistake, Operation Chokepoint 2.0...
	It is an extreme overreach from the banking regulators, and they should expect to hear from Congress soon.
	And he had three other senators join him in that.
	This is not a conspiracy theory.
	It is a conspiracy fact.
	And so they wrote to these, and the article, this was happening, I'm sorry, he put this out on Twitter, February the 17th.
	Things are moving very quickly.
	Right? Three weeks later, you have all this stuff happening with the banks.
	Now, we have had, and you see this, oh, look, we've had, you know, two big banks.
	We've had the, you know, just the last few days, we've had the second largest bank failure in history, and the third largest bank failure in history.
	And then there's another one.
	And I kept thinking, you know, why is it that nobody is talking about Silvergate?
	Because it didn't fail.
	It was shut down. It was shut down by the regulators, not because they didn't have the money.
	They had the money. As a matter of fact, you see articles everywhere saying, well, you know, Silvergate had to shut down, but it's not going to cost the FDIC a penny because they've got enough money to pay everybody.
	It's like, well, why'd you shut them down for?
	Well, you know, their ratios.
	Ratios? What is that?
	It's an arbitrary metric.
	And, you know, it's just like when you apply for a loan.
	And they look at it, and you know this from applying for a home loan, if you've ever done that process.
	I forget what the ratios are, but let's just say something like 20% or 25% of the monthly mortgage payment cannot exceed 20% or 25% of your salary.
	I don't know if that's gross or not.
	I guess that's gross salary.
	I don't remember this stuff.
	We only did this a year ago, and I've already forgotten it.
	It's like Sherlock Holmes said.
	Yes, Watson, I know that.
	And he says, and I'll try to forget it as soon as possible.
	I try to put irrelevant details out of my mind as quickly as possible so I can focus and keep the other stuff.
	So I don't remember if it's 20% or 25%.
	Anyway, let's just say 20%.
	And then they say, and so that's the mortgage payment.
	Can't be more than that. Your ratio can't be more than 20%.
	And then altogether...
	Your total indebtedness cannot exceed, let's say, 40%.
	And that would include things like your car loans and things like that.
	So let's assume that, you know, you meet those ratios and you buy the house.
	And then a little bit of time passes, and let's say that you've got a business or something like that, or you've got a job and your job changes, and now you're not making as much money, or your business changes and you're not making as much money.
	Or maybe you go in and you borrow some more money on a car.
	It takes you up above 40%.
	That's a real possibility because they have been making car loans to people who are subprime, which means that they don't fit the ratios, right?
	So let's say something happens, and now you're over the ratio.
	Now your income has fallen, so now your fixed monthly payment is now above the 20% ratio, or you borrowed some more stuff, and now you owe more than 40% of your monthly income.
	But you haven't missed any payments.
	You've got the money to pay, and you haven't missed anything.
	But the bank comes in and says, well, your ratio's out of whack.
	We're going to take your home.
	It's like, what? That's what happened to Silvergate.
	They were not a single penny is going to come out of FDIC. They had the money to pay everybody.
	But they shut them down anyway because of their ratio.
	And, you know, when you look at the ratio, what do you count?
	I mean, if you're working as an employee, it's pretty simple.
	If you're working for yourself, where do you count the money?
	Where does that come from? That's subjective.
	The ratio is subjective.
	What kind of income is going to be counted?
	That's subjective as well.
	And so that's why they shut down Silvergate.
	It was over crypto.
	And that's why you're seeing them talk about two bank failures instead of three bank failures because Silvergate didn't fail.
	It was shut down.
	And it was shut down because it's crypto.
	And this is Operation Chokepoint 2.0.
	And you better understand what's happening with this because that's a key component in pushing out CBDC. It shows you how quickly CBDC is coming at us.
	So, in the letter that Senator Bill Haggerty of Tennessee and three others wrote to FBI Chair Jerome Powell, FDIC Chair Marty Gruenberg, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Acting Comptroller Michael Hsu, I guess, HSU. Well, they said, they issued, they said, the White House and your agencies.
	have issued heightened supervision that's resulting in unfortunate circumstances for the crypto sector, such as the closing of their bank accounts and the closing of crypto banks, banks that are set up to work with people.
	Senators were referring to the joint statement that was issued by those agencies on January the 3rd, That said in part, quote, issuing or holding as principal crypto assets is highly likely to be inconsistent with safe and sound banking practices.
	So you see, the FDIC, some of these other agencies, or the Federal Reserve, can shut you down if they accuse you of not having safe and sound banking practices, even if you've got all the money that, you know, even if you're fiscally sound.
	If they don't like...
	What you're doing. They can use those labels and shut you down.
	They said, quote, legal permissibility is necessary but not sufficient condition for banking activity.
	And the Biden administration's January roadmap called for agencies to ramp up enforcement.
	So, where are we with Biden and CBDC? March of last year, he told all of the federal agencies, we want you to Look at how you're going to redesign the financial system, how you're going to implement the code for a CVDC, and how you're going to enforce this, and how you're going to sell it with climate change.
	Now, they all got back to him in October, six months later.
	I'm sorry, September, six months later.
	And now they've got their code together.
	They had the code written a long time ago.
	They're doing their pilot programs and their studies and the rest of the stuff.
	But some of these enforcement agencies...
	Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the FDIC. I imagine one of the things that they said was, you know, we've got to change what sound practices are.
	Because, as I pointed out, with climate change, that told you The crypto was the target.
	Because you've had all these different central banks talking about central bank digital currencies.
	They're all talking about the fact that they want to have proof of stake rather than proof of work because proof of work uses too much energy.
	It's going to burn the planet up.
	So they should stop all their activities spying on us and saving all that information and doing all the data mining and training.
	Their artificial intelligence is To mine the data because that uses way more energy than crypto does.
	But anyway, that's the way they're going to sell it.
	And so the climate change told you that crypto was the focus of it.
	And then you conveniently had...
	The Sam Bankman fried FTX failure, which I think was the setup.
	I really do. Especially now.
	And so, that conveniently failed.
	And then they come around, they say, well, you know, it may be permitted for you to deal with crypto.
	Just because it's legal...
	Legally permitted, that is one thing that you definitely must do things that are legally permitted.
	But it's still not sufficient for you to be considered to be a safe bank, even just because it's legal.
	Oh, really? Oh, no.
	We have other conditions, and we're going to ramp up enforcement of this.
	And again, that's what Biden was telling everybody to do.
	And so he's saying ramp up the enforcement.
	The senators wrote in their letter, they said the coordinated behavior seems disturbingly reminiscent of Operation Chokepoint.
	Federal regulators applied pressure on financial institutions to cut off financial services to certain licensed and legally operating industries simply because certain regulators and policy makers disfavored those industries.
	We're seeing that happening with speech and all the rest of the stuff.
	You know, put pressure.
	Hey, I've got a list of people.
	I want you to shut down PayPal, Venmo, right?
	Well, you know, David Knight's not saying anything illegal.
	We got the First Amendment. That's okay.
	Just take his banking account out.
	You understand how this works? Senators posed a number of questions to the regulators.
	They asked whether it is possible for banks to provide services to crypto firms at all under the updated guidance from the Biden administration.
	They know. They know that the Biden administration is setting up to shut down all crypto.
	The Senators are joining a conversation in the crypto community concerning the voluntary liquidation of Silvergate.
	You see that? Voluntary.
	It's probably about as voluntary as the income tax.
	You know, they always tell you it's voluntary.
	What happens if I don't volunteer?
	They said that getting your vaccine was a choice as well.
	You know, if you don't get the vaccine, you get fired.
	You can't travel.
	You can't go to school. You can't do all this.
	But it's your choice. You don't have to do it.
	It's voluntary. It's a voluntary system.
	So, again, not a single dollar is going to be spent out of FDIC for Silvergate because they were solvent.
	They voluntarily shut down from pressure.
	From pressure. They took the CBDC genetic code injection, didn't they?
	Hagerty introduced the Digital Trading Clarity Act in the Senate in October.
	That act would provide a safe harbor for cryptocurrency exchanges from some of the Security and Exchange Commission enforcements.
	Coming up.
	I'm going to talk about the Security and Exchange Commission.
	The Security and Exchange Commission is allowing this bogus company to sell bogus carbon credits.
	I mean, it is. And there's an interesting article from Daily Caller talking about how, well, you know, carbon credits, this company called South Pole selling carbon credits.
	Kind of reminds me of, what was it?
	You had the tulip bulb thing and you had the South Sea Adventure, right?
	Well, this is the South Pole adventure where you can buy carbon credits.
	You can do whatever you want, right?
	It's an indulgence. You just pay them money and they'll plant a tree for you somewhere in Africa, they said, or something like that, okay?
	And now the SEC says, well, wait a minute.
	I think that was fraudulent.
	Not the whole carbon credit scheme, but they didn't actually really plant a tree or something, okay?
	And so that's what SEC... SEC allowed this stuff.
	It's other people who blew the whistle on it.
	The whole thing about carbon credits is all fictitious, but then, you know, on top of that, you've got a fraud.
	And why wouldn't they think that they could get away with a fraud like this?
	There's only certain people that are allowed to pull these types of frauds.
	You can stack too many frauds on top of the other one, or they cancel everything out.
	But, again...
	The SEC is not worried about these fictitious carbon credit things, but they do want to shut down crypto.
	Crypto is now having to scour the globe for banks to replace the ones that have been taken out.
	Now, SV, it was Signature Bank.
	Again, people are distracting.
	Oh, Signature Bank did some stuff to Trump.
	So there you go. There's the Trump karma and all the rest of the stuff.
	Look, Signature Bank.
	It was a very big bank in terms of crypto.
	That's what's going on.
	Everything in the world is not about Trump, fortunately.
	No, Signature Bank was heavily involved in it.
	Silvergate was heavily involved in it.
	SVB had involvement in it as well.
	Crypto is now, the people in crypto are now looking to, where can we go bank?
	Crypto hedge fund executive.
	Marco Lim spent Monday racing to open bank accounts in Hong Kong after the sudden collapse of three U.S. lenders.
	He said the two biggest crypto-friendly banks are now gone.
	See? Signature and Silvergate.
	They also had many crypto clients.
	And they're going to be liquidated.
	I've been through too many of these crises, he said.
	The loss of Silvergate and Signature...
	Is particularly grievous for digital assets as the two operated real-time, seven-day-a-week payments network for the crypto industry.
	See, that's why this happened.
	They're doing 24-7 and doing crypto stuff.
	They shut them down.
	They didn't keep bankers' hours.
	Aiding the flow of money to and from the sector.
	Many crypto firms are now combing for banks outside of the U.S. Why is that?
	Because they know, just like these senators, that the Biden administration is going to, by hook or by crook, shut down crypto.
	They'll do it gradually.
	They'll do it, as Fauci said, do it from the inside out.
	Do it with chaos and disruption, you know, shutting down some banks and having FTX exposed as a fraud.
	We all knew it was a fraud.
	But we had to shut it down right at this point in time.
	And then we go in and we shut down some of these other banks.
	And then we do it iteratively, incrementally, incrementally with infringements, razor cuts on what we're doing.
	So many crypto firms are now coming for banks outside the U.S. with lenders in Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates among those in the spotlight.
	This tilt away from America had already begun due to the growing regulatory heat in America after the implosion of FTX. The U.S. isn't as accommodative as it was toward crypto, said Richard Galvin, co-founder at a fund manager, Digital Asset Capital Management.
	It makes sense. To diversify across jurisdictional grounds.
	So this is another thing that we don't need to have anymore.
	We don't need to have energy. We don't need to have manufacturing.
	We don't need to have a crypto industry to make money.
	We don't need to just offshore all that stuff.
	Let other people have it, but they don't want to let us have it either.
	So Barney Frank, again, you see the people who want to play the left-right Republican-Democrat game and say, oh, look at Barney Frank.
	He was... He was on the board of this bank that failed, Signature.
	And that's true.
	And they say, well, you know, it was...
	Elizabeth Warren says, no, it was Trump's fault.
	Because Trump changed the Dodd-Frank, that's Barney Frank, the Dodd-Frank bill.
	And so that's why this all happened.
	I talked about that yesterday. I said, well, that's not why this happened.
	The reason we got the kind of banking consolidation we do is because of things that were done by Clinton and by Carter especially.
	Getting rid of the prohibitions on banks operating between states, operating on a national level.
	That was something Carter took away.
	Took away the usury laws.
	Clinton took away the, started setting up the big, okaying the merger, the big merger for Bank of America, you know, the Stasi Bank.
	And then took down Glass-Steagall so they could engage in speculative investments.
	But Barney Frank was on the signature board at the time and he was a proponent in 2018 when this was changed in the Trump administration.
	He was a proponent of raising the asset threshold from 50 billion to 100 billion where they would come under greater scrutiny.
	So they had different tiers and different amount of scrutiny based on the size of your assets.
	That's what changed under Trump.
	It wasn't anything other than that.
	Elizabeth Warren, wrong as usual.
	But I think she knows what's going on as well.
	Because she's been a part of this Operation Choke Point as well.
	Congress ended up changing the framework so the banks would be eligible for greater scrutiny once they reached $100 billion in asset.
	So Frank said on Sunday that he didn't think changing the threshold had any impact.
	He said, I think if it hadn't been for FTX and the extreme nervousness about crypto, this would not have happened, even to SVB or to us, that signature bank.
	Warren, however, is holding these two banks up as reason why Congress and regulators should reverse any light-touch bank supervision.
	Well, what about Silvergate?
	They didn't fail.
	And they don't need a bailout.
	And they're all crypto.
	That's the common threat.
	Again, they're misdirecting you.
	And they're also using the FTX sign.
	Is the U.S. coming for crypto?
	And all these things have happened in just the last couple of weeks or just last week, a couple of days before this happened.
	This is an article from CryptoNews.net that came out on the 7th of March.
	I remember it was the 10th that, you know, they started shutting these banks down over the weekend.
	In this CryptoNews article, are they coming for crypto?
	Biden's White House, the Federal Reserve, The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC, and the Department of Justice, you see?
	These are the people that were tasked, you know, the Federal Reserve had the issue of redesigning the financial system.
	Department of Justice was on the enforcement side, things like that.
	FDIC would be on the enforcement side as well.
	So they are, alongside influential members of Congress, they're all in cahoots, hell-bent on yoinking cryptos, fiat access to suffocate the industry once and for all.
	That's the theory. Posited by longtime crypto supporter and venture capitalist Nick Carter.
	His post, Operation Chokepoint 2.0, is underway, and crypto is in its crosshairs.
	It outlines a string of bearish headlines, which, when you add them up, seem to indicate a concerted, government-backed effort.
	What would be another name for that?
	A conspiracy.
	A concerted, government-backed effort.
	It'd be a conspiracy.
	The silence to pull these out.
	To discourage traditional finance institutions from servicing the crypto industry.
	A letter to Silvergate, again from Senators Roger Marshall, Elizabeth Warren, and John Kennedy.
	Preceded its rival, Signature, halving, cutting in half, the total value of crypto-related deposits in December.
	And even then, they shut it down.
	So with FTX going out of business, they send a letter.
	Elizabeth Warren and Republican John Kennedy is on this as well.
	Who's the one who came out and said...
	Well, I can't say what's going on here with these UFOs, but if I was you, I'd lock my door tonight.
	And you better lock your door tonight, too, if you have any crypto, because John Kennedy is going to be snooping around your house.
	Anyway, so, you know, they sent letters to intimidate all the businesses that were dealing with crypto.
	And so Signature cut in half.
	What they were doing in terms of that back in December.
	And then it's elevated.
	Then in January, you had the joint statement from the FDIC that I talked about, the Federal Reserve and the OCC, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, strongly discouraged, quote unquote, Banks from supporting crypto.
	Even plans for a crypto-native company to control its own fiat destiny have all but unraveled at the hands of the U.S. government, as the Fed formally denied CryptoBank Custodia, formerly known as Avanti, application to join the Federal Reserve System in late January.
	That application had been processing for two years, and they finally denied it.
	Custodia appealed it, and they denied the appeal as well.
	Ring-fencing U.S. crypto, that is to separate it from sorely needed banking rails, echoes the Department of Justice's Operation Chokepoint from last decade, said Nick Carter.
	Sometime in 2013, the Department of Justice came out with an eerily familiar goal, by way of red tape, to cut off undesirable business sectors from the banking system.
	And gun retailers and gun manufacturers were one of the front ones up there.
	See how this all ties together?
	The credit card codes and all the rest of this stuff.
	The ones with a risky reputation for money laundering and fraud and predominantly payday lenders, but also guns.
	Operation Chokepoint has had a demonstrable chilling effect on Congress, said one person from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
	Most such banks cannot afford the extra supervision that comes with a chokepoint subpoena.
	So many times they'll just shut down.
	Perhaps that's what happened to Silvergate.
	So when suspiciously choke pointy headlines crop up, like Bybit suspending U.S. dollar deposits, or Circle ceasing automated clearinghouse payments.
	You see, even if SVB, Silicon Valley Bank, even if they weren't dealing directly in crypto, Circle, add $3.3 billion in there.
	So, to shut down SVB might have been really coming after Circle.
	And then to kick out headlines with everybody saying, oh, well, the banking system is shaky.
	It's all going to fail. Oh, and then they've cut down two more of these things.
	And everybody's looking at the interest rates and the interplay between inflation and recession and all the rest of this stuff.
	And everybody is focused on that when the real target...
	I believe. I really do believe it.
	It's crypto. And crypto's the target.
	Because they want to push out CBDC. So, at this point, there's no tangible evidence of a government conspiracy, writes Crypto News.
	But, whether they're all in it together may be moot.
	U.S. lawmakers, regulators, and assorted agencies are noticeably staunch In opposing crypto, their individual efforts could very well outweigh the potential sum of their efforts and some sweeping secret government mission.
	They're not making much of a secret of their opposition anyway.
	There's a consensus in the Biden administration, said Nick Carter, and among the bank regulators that crypto should be marginalized.
	So it's possible the House could ask questions about overreach here, the House under the control of the Republicans.
	And so here's kind of a quick timeline that was put together today.
	By the Cato Institute, Cato.org, about this move against crypto, this operation checkpoint.
	So December 6th, you've got Senators Elizabeth Warren, John Kennedy, Roger Marshall calling out Silvergate, and again, just forced to close, even though they had all the money, for providing services to FTX. December 7th, Signature Bank announced that they were going to shut down cryptocurrency deposit acceptance.
	Right? We've had it. You know, they tapped out.
	And then you had on January the 3rd, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, OCC, talking about that joint statement that was put out.
	On January the 9th, you had Metropolitan Commercial Bank announced, we're shutting down our cryptocurrencies.
	On January the 27th, The Federal Reserve denied Custodia Bank's application, the ones that wanted to have a focus on digital assets.
	January the 27th, same day, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City denied Custodia's bank application for a master account.
	The Federal Reserve also issued a policy statement to discourage banks from holding or issuing cryptocurrencies the same day they denied that.
	The very same day, all this happening on January the 27th, the White House National Economic Council issues a policy statement to discourage banks from interacting with cryptocurrency.
	So, again, Federal Reserve, the White House, all of them are saying, don't do it, don't do it.
	And some of them are getting the message and voluntarily shutting things down.
	Silvergate Signature did it, and it didn't help them anyway.
	February 2nd, I'll cut down half of it, I should say.
	February 2nd, the Department of Justice announced an investigation into Silvergate Bank because of FTX. And again, they had all the money to pay all the depositors.
	They did not do anything other than supposedly fail a reserve test or a ratio test.
	The New York Department of Financial Services on February the 13th orders Paxos to halt the issuance of stablecoin.
	February the 14th, Elizabeth Warren Labels shapeshift a decentralized exchange, a money laundering haven, she said.
	February the 16th, the FDIC releases a report that notes that the FDIC has identified 136 federally insured banks that, quote, had ongoing or planned crypto asset related activities.
	These people have crypto activities.
	They're either going to shut this stuff down or we're going to shut them down.
	You see? They're targeting them, obviously.
	February the 23rd, the FDIC, OCC and Federal Reserve, joint statement to discourage banks again from encouraging in cryptocurrency due to safety and soundness.
	How many of these have we had?
	I mean, we're only talking about a timeframe here that's just a couple of months.
	And look at how many times and how many different ways the Federal Reserve, other institutions being driven by the Biden administration and say, don't do crypto, don't do crypto, and some of them tapping out already.
	February 23rd, the Federal Reserve Board denies custodians' request for reconsideration.
	And so it's pretty clear, I think, what is happening with all of this.
	And as this article with the Cato Institute says, Quoting Senator Haggerty, he said, this really feels reminiscent of Operation Chokepoint.
	And they said, Cato Institute said, reminiscent is the right word.
	More evidence will need to be secured through Freedom of Information Act requests.
	The scrutiny could be in response to complaints after FTX appeared to have defrauded its users.
	Except that maybe FTX was designed to take down the crypto industry.
	Anyway, or rather than going after cryptocurrency broadly, perhaps it's an effort to save face and to distance themselves because they took donations from FTX. Either way, said Cato, there is another issue that needs more scrutiny here.
	And that is the discretionary and arbitrary powers of regulators.
	You see what's going on here?
	Have we had a debate in the Senate and the House over whether or not we ought to outlaw crypto?
	No. No such thing.
	This is all being done by rules.
	Rules by agencies.
	Rules by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
	Rules by the private corporation of the Federal Reserve.
	Rules by an executive branch office, the office of the comptroller of the currency.
	These are rules coming from the bureaucracy under the executive branch at the orders of the Biden administration.
	This is a problem.
	This is regulation without representation.
	These people are making what is essentially law without any input except for a protest from four senators, but they don't even bother.
	Anymore to go through the legal process is just like Trump's gun control, the bump stock stuff.
	Well, I can do executive, I can do gun control by executive order and I can use the ATF. You know, I'll issue the thing and I'll have the ATF do it.
	Well, this is what Biden is doing on the monetary side.
	He's issuing the directive to these organizations and they're running with it.
	They're coming up with rules to prohibit and to shut down banks that are still solvent to So, Cato says, this is the issue.
	We're talking about financial stability or some other vague mandates.
	This is the issue.
	And so, they're changing the rules very, very quickly.
	And here's the example. I'll just say one more thing and then we'll go on to another topic.
	This is, there was an interview that Tucker did with Kristi Noem, Republican governor out of South Dakota.
	And there was a bill that was introduced and it was actually passed.
	It was passed by the South Dakota legislature.
	Now, if she's a Republican, I don't know if the South Dakota legislature is a Republican or Democrat, but they passed the bill.
	She vetoed it.
	The bill would classify central bank digital currency, CBDC, as money.
	And at the same time, it would exclude private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
	You understand? Same thing we've been seeing for the last three years.
	That is going to be prohibited.
	You can't say that.
	You must say this.
	You can't buy that. You must buy this.
	You can't have this medicine.
	We're going to force you to take this medicine.
	Same thing. And here's the worrying thing.
	20 other states have legislation just like this.
	To declare that CBDC is money and to prohibit Bitcoin or any private cryptocurrencies.
	She said on Tucker, she said, I vetoed a bill that, I'm sorry, she said this on Twitter.
	I vetoed a bill that changes the definition of viable digital currency, she said.
	It's not going to be as obvious.
	It's just going to be a vague definition, you know, like the way they redefine vaccines, the way they redefine women, the way they redefine everything.
	It's just we're going to redefine money now, right?
	That's a tactic. And you say, well, are you talking about, is that what you're talking about, CBDC? Well, I'm just redefining money.
	You know, they redefined immunity.
	They redefined what vaccines were.
	They redefined what was going to be included in different areas.
	And they did that months before COVID. Even anything happened in China.
	Anybody even started talking about things that were happening in China.
	They knew. It was a plan.
	And Trump signed it.
	The bill, which is sold as an update to the guidelines of the Universal Commercial Code, backed by all of our financial institutions, she said, it defines money as, quote, a medium of exchange that is currently authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government.
	It makes money. And that's the other thing they didn't talk about.
	Something that's defined by foreign government.
	You see, this allows them to create a global CBDC. You know, it's a foreign government.
	And that's going to be money now.
	But not anything that is private, like Bitcoin.
	It could be any kind of fiat currency, whether it is American or whether it is foreign.
	That will be your money now, but not crypto.
	It also expressly excludes decentralized digital assets known as cryptocurrencies.
	As money, it would make them more difficult to use, she said.
	And it would put South Dakota citizens at risk.
	All right, we're going to take a quick break.
	We'll be right back. Analyzing
	The Globalist Next Move.
	And now, The David Knight Show.
	you you Let's talk a little bit about eminent domain.
	Something that I generally don't support.
	There's a few cases where they would use it for infrastructure, that type of thing.
	We've got to build a road. We're going to take you home.
	Central to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
	They needed to build an intergalactic space highway, so Earth had to be destroyed.
	You know, that type of thing. But North Carolina...
	Not too far from where we used to live in North Carolina.
	This is in Chatham County, Travis.
	They have...
	There's a Vietnamese electric car company.
	Because, you know, it's not too hard to make electric cars.
	Anybody can make them. Electric cars, by the way, are going to be like the IBM PCs and the Microsoft DOS machines.
	You know, you wind up having a situation where...
	You know, Bill Gates stole the software from digital research, CPM software.
	Even, they didn't even bother to change the syntax, the command line interpreter didn't bother to, still called it BIOS, all the rest of this stuff.
	And they all used Intel microprocessors and, you know, IBM started doing it, but everybody realized, hey, we can do that stuff too.
	It's pretty simple. You wound up pretty soon having computers that were made by everybody.
	Became something of a commodity.
	Same thing is going to happen with the electric cars, except for the fact that there's not going to be enough electricity.
	So the whole point is to have a few people that none of them actually even want to sell cars.
	They want to sell mobility.
	They want you to rent by the ride any of your transportation.
	But that's just a side part of this.
	Because the state of North Carolina, and they have a Democrat governor, a Republican legislature, and they all agree on one thing.
	They love big corporations.
	And they really despise small businesses, individuals, and even in this particular case, an historic church building.
	And so just as we saw in Connecticut...
	We had the case, if you remember this, going back a few years ago.
	Kello versus New London.
	Do you remember that case? It's the first time you had a jurisdiction come in and say, we're going to take private land and we're not going to use it for a public purpose, you know, like a road or something.
	We're going to give it, we're going to take your private land so that another private developer can come in and put it to a better use according to the way we feel about it.
	I always thought that was one of the most outrageous things.
	It was approved by the Supreme Court.
	Now, this is another one of these bad decisions by the Supreme Court.
	It needs to go like Roe.
	We've got a long list of Supreme Court decisions that need to go like Roe into the trash can.
	But that was what they did.
	And then things got even worse.
	With a Keystone Pipeline.
	And I've said many times, I said, look, I'm all in favor of using oil.
	And I think that transporting oil by pipeline is one of the most cost-effective and safest ways that you can do it.
	I mean, put it on a ship. If you don't put it on a pipeline and send it to the U.S., It's going to be put on a ship and sent to China.
	What happens when that ship sinks?
	Well, we've seen that type of thing happen with the Exxon Valdez and other things like that.
	It is much better to have a pipeline.
	If they've got a leak, then you can fix that leak more easily than you can fix some catastrophe with a train derailing or a ship sinking or something like that.
	But the problem I had with the Keystone Pipeline Was the fact that they took the Kello versus New London decision where we're going to take your property for private use and that was what they were doing with that.
	And even worse, they gave eminent domain powers to the corporation.
	Wherever you want to put your pipeline, you can just take anything that's in your way.
	So farms that have been in the family for many generations, they just took them.
	And it was a foreign corporation that was doing it.
	It's a Canadian corporation running that.
	So you've got a Canadian, a foreign corporation, Coming in with the powers of eminent domain to confiscate property from people.
	I had a big problem with that, with the Keystone Pipeline.
	So that brings us to the North Carolina story.
	Last year they announced that this Vietnamese electric car company, it's called VinFast, Would build a factory in North Carolina to manufacture both electric cars and batteries.
	Then last week, the company said it won't be able to get in production until 2025, rather than the initial start date of summer next year, 2024.
	North Carolina government has pledged to use eminent domain to evict multiple homeowners, businesses, and even a historic church.
	The governor there, Roy Cooper, Democrat, announced the deal in March of last year.
	He called the project transformative, said it'd bring a lot of good jobs to our state because, you know, people who are small businesses, they don't create jobs.
	It's only the big businesses. And that, of course, is an absolute total lie.
	That is always the lie that they use to give money to their friends, whether they're going to build a sports stadium or whether they're going to build a battery factory or something like that.
	They always say, well, you know, this is going to create jobs.
	Everybody knows small business creates more jobs than big business.
	And yet they keep using that lie for some reason because they get away with it.
	So, the financial press.
	It was marveling that a Democrat and a Republican General Assembly could come together and strike a deal to give away money to a big corporation.
	Who knew they could do that kind of thing?
	Because that's something that they both agree on.
	They both agree that they want to give away your money to big corporations.
	There's no disagreement about the U.N. Party on that, is there?
	So while it was only founded in 2017, this is a company that is only six years old.
	They have the backing of Vietnam's wealthiest citizen, you know, the Vietnamese version of Elon Musk.
	They've been valued somewhere between $20 billion and $60 billion.
	For the North Carolina factory, the company pledged to spend $4 billion and create 7,500 jobs within five years.
	We've seen this type of thing happen many times before.
	In exchange, the state promised incentives totaling $1.2 billion.
	Including $450 million to preparation, $400 million from Chatham County, and a $316 million grant over 32 years in which the company is reimbursed for the state income tax money that its employees pay.
	But taxpayer money isn't the only thing the state is giving away.
	The Department of Transportation is planning big roadway improvements.
	Those plans would require displacing a total of 27 homes, 5 businesses, and a Baptist church, Mary Oaks Baptist Church, which has stood on this spot since 1888.
	They call it Mary Oaks because it's got some big oak trees that are there.
	I see a lot of people save the trees.
	They don't care about the church building.
	But, you know, that should offend everybody, right?
	We've got to have those trees to save us from CO2. While multiple concepts were considered for the transportation improvements needed for this site, they said none of these will avoid the relocation of the church.
	And so, when we look at this, besides this corruption, this crony capitalism, all the rest of this stuff, just remember that when you go back and you look at the Kello versus New London, Connecticut case, where the Supreme Court said, yeah, the city can take this and give it to another individual, who was that company?
	Pfizer. Pfizer was that company.
	And Pfizer decided that they weren't going to build.
	And we've seen this type of thing happen over and over again.
	We've seen, as a matter of fact, there was one of these things that, during the Trump administration, oh yeah, they're going to come in, they're going to, billions of dollars, we brokered this deal, did the press coverage Foreign corporations are going to come in and spend billions of dollars.
	They had the governor and the president there, and then the company backed out of it and decided that they weren't going to do it.
	Same thing happened with Pfizer and this precedent-setting Supreme Court decision of New London and Kello.
	So the interesting thing with this is whether or not this is even going to be built.
	I mean, this is a brand-new company.
	They could easily renege on this.
	While we're on the topic of EVs, I mentioned this once before briefly, they're getting rid of AM radios and electric vehicles.
	Because, you know, you may have had this type of situation happen in your car before.
	Sometimes, if everything is, I used to have this happen, I'm trying to listen to a classical music station, the music volume can get really, really low.
	And, you know, it's not compressed like pop music or something like that.
	And they have the full dynamic range there, and so you're cranking it up.
	As you crank it up to the maximum and you're accelerating, you hear electrical cross noise, you know, from the alternator or whatever.
	As you're going up and down, you hear that coming through the radio.
	Well, that's a big-time issue.
	With the electric motors on these electric cars.
	And so Tesla and Ford and some other ones are saying, we're not going to put an AM radio in it because there's just too much noise and people are complaining about the noise.
	And of course they could shield the motors, but they'd prefer not to.
	Uh, so, um, cause that's going to be extra, extra money.
	Remember, uh, the exploding Ford Pintos, you know, that was like, uh, you know, $20, $30 part that they could have put in to keep that from happening.
	We said, we're not going to do that. We're going to sell millions of these things.
	That's going to cost us tens of millions of dollars to, to put that in, let the, you know, we'd rather pay the lawsuits of the people who die in the car crashes.
	So, definitely, they're not going to spend any money to isolate this.
	They're just going to remove the AM radio.
	AM radio, of course, is really where conservative talk is based, off of AM radio.
	But the people who are having a big problem with this and writing letters to Pete Buttigieg are FEMA. FEMA says, hey, don't take these things out.
	We've got a lot of stations, and we've set this thing up over the years.
	We've got 75 radio stations, high-power radio stations, AM radio stations around the country, equipped with backup communications and generators to allow them to continue broadcasting information to the public during an emergency.
	And they're broadcasting this.
	This is very different than people, you know, when you have something that is a massive disaster like 9-11 or something.
	Everybody gets on their cell phone. They're trying to talk to each other.
	They can't get through in some cases because it's overwhelming the network with traffic.
	That's not the case with broadcast.
	You have an infinite number of people listening to that signal.
	And so they've already spent a lot of time with radio stations, backup communications, backup generators to keep them going and to keep information flowing out there.
	So FEMA is saying we want to make sure that these AM radios stay in.
	And so Ford has said it's taking it out of all the newer 2023 model year F-150 Lightning electric trucks and all the rest of these things.
	We'll see what happens with that.
	I thought that was an interesting aside.
	By the way, as they're banning cars in the EU, And Germany and Italy have pulled back.
	Italy, I don't know if it was, I don't remember, was it Ferrari or Lamborghini?
	And then also Porsche, they said, hey, we've got this special e-fuel.
	It's made using electricity from windmills.
	And we take carbon dioxide and we, you know, Do our magic stuff to it.
	And then we turn it into an e-fuel.
	And of course, you know, when you burn it, it creates carbon dioxide and all the imaginary unicorn farts that they're worried about.
	But it started with unicorn farts and it ends with unicorn farts.
	So it's a net zero. Nope, can't do it, they said.
	They want to ban cars so badly they won't do that.
	Which is basically what all of this stuff about carbon credits is all really about as well.
	But they want to ban that, and Spain is very disappointed, very upset about that.
	So you can't just say that you want to opt out of this.
	That's going to set a very bad precedent.
	We have to have an all-powerful European Union.
	So before we have our guest come on, we've got a great guest we're going to talk about.
	And I should have plugged this earlier because I know a lot of people are going to want to hear this.
	This is a guy who is going to be putting together some seminars to teach you a lot of very wise things about growing your own food.
	And creating a community at the same time.
	And if you're a Christian, having that as a way to share the gospel with people.
	I think it's going to be an excellent interview because he's got some great things to talk about in terms of growing your own food.
	So he's going to be coming up at the top of the hour.
	So before we go to him, let me just talk a little bit more about this climate stuff here.
	We have a lot of people who are now going to Duluth, Minnesota.
	It is so cold up there.
	These are the climate refugees, the crazy people from California, who think the world is going to melt.
	But these people actually believe it, unlike Obama and the Clintons and stuff, who are buying property, oceanfront property, that all their maps show.
	Oh, everything's going to melt up.
	Polar ice caps are going to melt and you're going to be underwater.
	Ah, we don't believe that. Go buy the multi-million.
	Well, these people really believe it.
	These are the true believers, and they're acting on their faith, on their green faith, Hundreds of like-minded residents have gone from California, Colorado, New Mexico, because, you know, it's going to be just too hot there, to climate-proof Duluth.
	They said, surfing is just like surfing in Southern California, as long as you ignore the icicles on your wetsuit.
	So these climate migrants are moving away.
	And I think this is a very positive sign.
	I would like for them all to move away from us.
	They can all go to Duluth, Minnesota, and wait for the coming warming apocalypse.
	In the second half of the 20th century, Duluth's population fell off a cliff, but now there's been this massive exodus going up there.
	Real estate agents in Duluth say that nearly every out-of-town client is now mentioning concerns about rising temperatures and natural disasters.
	And even though they've got water there, it's landlocked water, so they don't have to worry about the effect of the melting ice caps.
	Real estate and climate change cannot be separated, they said.
	Well, good, because maybe, you know, I wonder...
	I've got a bridge that I'd like to sell some of these people.
	I'm talking about selling real estate like this.
	I know about it.
	But these are the true believers, unlike Obama, the hypocrite, who doesn't believe any of this stuff.
	And when you look at Greta Thunberg, she's had to now delete another one of her end-of-the-world tweets.
	A 2018 tweet.
	In which she shared a warning that climate change, quote, will wipe out all of humanity unless fossil fuels are abolished by 2023.
	So, now, she said, quoting a top climate scientist.
	We don't know who the top climate scientist was.
	But she did have a link.
	To a story or to the organization that no longer exists where this top climate scientist is working or writing or something like that.
	But she said, climate change will wipe out all humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.
	So, is it fossil fuels that have to be wiped out over the next five years?
	Or is it humanity?
	Did she miss that? Regardless, we know that...
	One failed prophecy after the other by these prophets of doom.
	And RT has got some of them here.
	Inconvenient Truth from 2006, you had Al Gore declaring that melting polar ice caps would lead to hundreds of millions of people being made refugees by...
	2013, 10 years ago.
	Didn't happen, did it?
	And then they put the...
	I thought this was kind of funny. RT put this in and said, Paul Ehrlich claimed in the 1970s that rising temperatures would cause mass starvation in the UK by the year 2000.
	Well, actually, they got that wrong.
	In the 1970s, Paul Ehrlich was pushing a global ice age.
	And he was saying we were going to have a famine in the 1980s.
	But in the 1980s, he switched sides and he went to global warming.
	But he always had the idea that he wanted to kill everybody.
	We had too many people.
	They've got to die. So this gets us to the carbon credits, which I really wanted to get into before we finish, before we get our guests here.
	The SEC staff consulted with a green financial firm accused of selling, quote, fictitious carbon credits.
	How do you tell the real carbon credits from the fictitious ones?
	I would like to ask that to Daily Caller.
	That's an interesting headline.
	And they treat this as if this was somehow fraud, but the idea of carbon credits is not fraud.
	The idea of climate change is not fraud.
	That's the odd way that Daily Caller reported this stuff.
	So SEC officials met with representatives of a Swiss climate firm that is now under fire for allegedly selling fictitious carbon credits to discuss climate regulations.
	Millions of dollars worth of carbon credits issued by the Swiss firm called South Pole.
	These people aren't Santa Claus.
	Yeah, you...
	They know who is good and who is bad, and you can buy your indulgence from them.
	So South Pole. South Pole could not be reliably tied back to actual greenhouse gas reduction.
	As if any of these things could be, according to a report by a Dutch investigative journalist.
	And so SEC officials met with representatives of South Pole in January of 2022, and the company was cited multiple times in proposed rulemakings issued by the agency two months later.
	So SEC doesn't have a problem with that.
	What they have a problem with are banks that are selling, you know, dealing with people with crypto.
	I don't know. We'll shut you down.
	But anybody wants to come up with a method whereby you can get indulgences for your unicorn farts.
	You know, you come to these people and say, wait a minute, I paid you millions of dollars for my skyhook.
	Where is it? Well, skyhooks don't exist.
	There's no such thing.
	SEC officials met with a representative of the South Pole.
	I wonder if this is from Penguin Press or something.
	Anyway, January 2022 to discuss how the SEC might estimate the cost companies would face if they were made to include data related to their greenhouse gas emissions and their regular financial disclosures.
	So they're so deferential to this company.
	You know, we know that what you're doing is of the utmost importance and you are going to save the world.
	But would it be too much of an imposition if we had to ask you for some data in your financial disclosures?
	This imaginary scheme that people are paying you for?
	The company is an international powerhouse.
	It has clients such as Gucci and Volkswagen.
	They may have sold millions of dollars worth of carbon credits on the promise of environmental protection efforts that never actually occurred.
	Well, here's the thing, Daily Caller.
	The environmental threats never actually occurred either.
	They're supposed to protect you from.
	And as I've said before, these little carbon credits that go back to, it reminds me of the indulgences that were being sold in order to build the St.
	Peter's Basilica, right?
	And again, in Germany, they would go and say, well, you know, and not just Germany, but everywhere.
	We got a holy day here, and you can't work on a holy day.
	Okay, well, and we got another holy day, and we got another one, and another one, and another one, and they wound up to the point where the You know, if you didn't buy an indulgence from them to be open on a holy day, which we now call holidays, if you didn't pay an indulgence to be open on that holiday, you would basically not be open.
	You wouldn't be able to open enough to have a living.
	So people paid the indulgences.
	That's what this is about. This is a big shakedown for the green religion.
	South Pole manages the world's largest portfolio of carbon projects, allows companies to offset their greenhouse gas emissions by investing in projects that reduce carbon emissions elsewhere, allowing them to meet their carbon emission targets without changing their business model.
	Indulgences. So, now these people have been hoisted by their own petard or their own skyhook.
	They were built on the well-established recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures.
	And that task force has close personal and business connections with the U.S. Treasury Department.
	And with Michael Bloomberg.
	Yes, Mr. Climate Control, Gun Control Billionaire.
	Look, it's all just a grift.
	The point is to force you to pay for new designs that don't work.
	We've got to rush into these things and we've got to do it at warp speed.
	And it's all to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
	Isn't this something we've seen time and again?
	So the company argued that its project was independently verified by climate standards firm, Vera.
	Vera is also facing allegations that some 90% of its rainforest offset credits did not translate into actual carbon reductions.
	And the SEC said, Doesn't want to talk about it.
	Look, why are they even...
	Why is Daily Caller even talking about this?
	It's fraud-packed on top of fraud.
	These people are getting exactly what they paid for.
	Meanwhile, we have a giant seaweed blob.
	The blob. That is twice the width of the United States taking aim at the Gulf Coast of Florida, where I used to live.
	Kind of reminded me of that old movie, The Blob with Steve McQueen, right?
	It's the first thing he was ever in.
	Anyway, this blob is now 5,000 miles wide, so large that it can be seen from space.
	And it's a blob of seaweed, sargassum blooms.
	It's nothing new, but it's bigger than it's been before.
	A thick mat of algae drifting, a potential providing habitat for marine life, and absorbing carbon dioxide.
	So who could complain about this?
	Well, the problem is, as it's decomposing and you're getting bacteria, getting red tides, causing dead fish to wash up, and then, of course, as the stuff is so large, and as it decays, it starts putting off a toxic gas that hydrogen sulfide, which is not toxic, but it creates respiratory issues for people who are breathing it.
	They said, following the Following the big blooms in 2018, they had thousands of people going to clinics with breathing problems.
	And they said, I'm having breathing problems and I don't even have any sargassum around here.
	As far back as we have records, sargassum has been a part of the ecosystem, but now it's much bigger.
	What we would have thought was a major bloom five years ago is now no longer even a blimp.
	So I guess maybe what they could do, maybe they could pay somebody to plant a tree in Africa.
	I'm sure that that would take care of it.
	Or maybe they could just eat it.
	I'm sure that Bill Gates could find a way.
	He's got this massive chunk of seaweed that's 5,000 miles long.
	I'm sure that he's going to want us to eat that pretty soon.
	He's now admitting that going to vegetarianism will not save the planet.
	Well, he's not actually admitting that.
	That's the headline. What he's actually saying is that he can't get enough people.
	To go vegetarian.
	To save the planet. And they're still pushing again this whole idea.
	That we've got to get rid of meat and dairy and other things like that.
	By the way, while we're talking about this and before we bring our guest in.
	You remember a couple weeks ago I had an interview.
	A very good interview.
	We were talking about raw milk.
	And I thought it was interesting that Thomas Massey is going to be introducing a bill to get the FDA off the backs of people who are trying to sell raw milk.
	Here's what he has to say. So here we are in the 118th Congress.
	I can't wait to reintroduce some of my best bills.
	One of them, I call it pasteurization without representation.
	This is the raw milk bill.
	You know, there was never a law passed by Congress to ban raw milk.
	It was the result of a lawsuit in the 80s that the FDA took it upon themselves to just condemn all fresh milk.
	And so the federal government has been raiding farmers who have been so audacious as to sell products straight from the cow to somebody across state lines.
	My bill is simple.
	If you sell raw milk from a state that's legal into a state where it's legal, I either know state laws against it, then the feds won't come raid your farm.
	Seems pretty simple to me.
	But it ticked off a lot of the milk lobbyists up here.
	And they said I would be responsible for death and carnage in the United States by enabling more people to drink raw milk.
	Well, my wife texted me that day and she said, I never realized the lactose lobby was this intolerant.
	He's my congressman.
	Of all the congressmen, he's, you know, I used to say that about Ron Paul.
	He would be the guy who would vote against the war or whatever, the spending.
	He'd be the only one in Congress.
	And Thomas Massey's found himself in that situation many times.
	He had Trump get very angry with him.
	We've got to get rid of that guy. We're going to primary him out.
	How dare him vote against my massive stimulus bill?
	That type of thing. He's not afraid of going alone.
	And he's got a good sense of humor, as you heard there.
	I'm surprised that he didn't do that.
	A little announcement there with some white on his lip, you know.
	Got raw milk.
	But I love what he had to say.
	You know, pasteurization without representation.
	But what he was saying overall, if you heard what he was saying, that's what I was talking about earlier.
	Regulation without representation.
	Bypassing Congress.
	And bypassing Congress in order to shut down crypto, for example.
	We're going to take a break, and when we come back, we're going to talk with our guest about raising real food, not seaweed, not Impossible Burgers, or any of the rest of that stuff.
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	And our guest joining us now is Noah Sanders.
	And he has, I think, something that all of you are going to be very interested in.
	His site is redeemingthedirt.regfox.com.
	And he's talking about farming.
	And he's also talking about pulling community together, and even talking about sharing God's gift of the early spring, showing God and the growing of this food.
	But he's got a lot of details.
	There's going to be some seminars that are going to be coming up.
	He's got April training, May training, and we'll talk about that, where you can go there and get hands-on experience in doing a lot of these things.
	It is something I think is incredibly valuable, something that I look at with jealousy of the people who are able to do this type of thing.
	I come from a different background where this is all new to me, and so we're trying to get our family up into the foundations for farming.
	That is the name of his training, his foundations for farming.
	Joining us now is Noah Sanders.
	Thank you for joining us, Noah.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate you having me on the show today.
	Let's talk a little bit about some of the things that you cover, talking about scaling up for homestead-level food security.
	What do people need to do?
	Because that's what a lot of people are looking at.
	Food security, people are very concerned about that.
	A lot of uncertainty, but it's better to be able to grow your own than to stash it, I think, and get better quality stuff as well.
	Talk a little bit about what people need to think about for food security.
	Yeah, so in the US, we have, you know, kind of a generational disconnect now from a lot of that connection with the land.
	Historically, God's provided, you know, an amazing way that you can put seeds in the ground and they'll produce food without any huge complex industrial, you know, economic system and throughout history.
	That tends to be what people always revert to, whether it's in World War II at the Victory Gardens.
	You had that in the Civil War in the South here.
	You had people have to go back and learn how to grow flax and make their own linen all the way back in the Revolutionary War.
	It's the only way that we were able to separate from Great Britain.
	So food has always been linked to And I think it's encouraging to realize that this is something that has been, when times are good, people tend to move to other disciplines from agriculture, tend to get disconnected from the soil, and then have to rediscover that.
	It's not unique to our generation.
	It may be we have unique circumstances because of our technological situation, but it's something that's had to be done over and over again.
	And I think the biggest key for all of us And trying to get back to improving some of the food security in our own areas is to be willing to do what God loves to see, which is to be faithful with little first before we try to do everything.
	And a lot of people get burned out trying to do that.
	So that's what we really focus on with Foundations for Farming is teaching people the basics of success so that they don't burn themselves out trying to do too much too fast to underestimate how much...
	Skill it takes to grow food.
	Yeah, and I've talked to people in the past and said that's the rookie mistake, is that you go out and you try to grow all your food simultaneously at the same time.
	You've got to pick something, and you've got to start with that, pick something that's simple.
	So what is simple? What do you tell people to start with?
	Yeah, so we kind of break it down to three different levels of agriculture.
	One is, you know, growing some of your own food successfully.
	That's like your first, you know, thing.
	And normally that's a garden is the best place to start with that.
	The next level up is what we would call a homestead where you're trying to actually grow a lot of your own food, you know, maybe a larger percentage.
	And that is more of a lifestyle commitment.
	Like you're really going to have to make some sacrifices to do that.
	In terms of maybe where you live and how free you are to travel.
	And then the third is where you're actually getting other people to pay you to grow food for them.
	And that's when it's actually like a business venture.
	A lot of people, we try to, you know, we get right into farming when to start a business.
	And anybody can learn to farm, but it's kind of like I love to play the fiddle or the violin.
	And anybody can learn to play one.
	But you don't quit your job tomorrow and buy a violin and a how-to-play-violin book and expect to make a living, right?
	There is a learning curve.
	Yeah. How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
	Practice, right? Right.
	And a lot of mistakes.
	That's right. And that's where starting small is nice because it's a whole lot easier to make a mistake where you lose half your chickens if you have only 10 than if you have 100.
	Yeah, that's right.
	And as you talked about that lifestyle choices, you've got a lot of farm animals.
	If you go real big with a homestead, that's going to tie you down on that homestead, taking care of those chickens, taking care of cows.
	Our first dip into this was chickens, and we've lost...
	You know, a couple dozen, two different times, to predators that were there.
	And that is our biggest concern.
	Other than that, we were doing great.
	We liked the chickens. They liked us, and they gave us lots of eggs.
	But, you know, we had some predators in Texas who loved the chickens even more than we did.
	Yeah. So that was our big issue.
	But we're getting ready to try to do some gardening.
	But when you talk about just starting to get into it with a garden, what type of things would you recommend that people do to start out in a garden?
	Yeah, so we really take the approach of trying to understand that a lot of us, when we get started, in this day and age of information, some of our biggest challenges is an overwhelm of information.
	You know, you go on YouTube and you try to be like, what's the best way to grow a tomato plant?
	And you get inundated with all these conflicting ideas of what's the best way to do that.
	And I faced that same situation when I started farming was it wasn't as simple as, you know, when I used to do some blacksmithing.
	And there wasn't a whole lot of controversy on how to make a knife or how to make a nail.
	But you ask people how to grow a tomato plant or raise a chicken.
	And there's some real, you know, different battling perspectives, which really boils down to worldview.
	Whether you view that nature has all the answers or you view that science and man has all the answers.
	And those impact the way that you view life and the way that you make decisions about how life should or shouldn't be treated.
	And so as Christians, I think it's important for us as we come to the land, not only just to say, well, practically, how can we make a success of this?
	But we've always really said it starts with the heart of us recognizing that to become the greatest farmer requires the greatest humility.
	And the farmer that I learned from the most is a guy from Zimbabwe, Africa named Brian Oldrieff, who founded Foundations for Farming.
	And he actually was a failing farmer who was losing money in Rhodesia in the early 1980s on their farm.
	And so he finally got to a point that he just went to the woods where everything was growing perfectly fine without all the plowing and the fertilizer and everything that he was trying to do in his field.
	And he just asked God because he saw in Romans 120 where it says that God's eternal attributes are clearly displayed through what has been made.
	And he said, show me how to farm God.
	And he just felt like God showed him two simple principles that were different than what he had been doing.
	And one was that there was no regular deep inversion plowing in natural creation.
	And secondly, that there was always this beautiful blanket of mulch covering the ground that protects the soil.
	So he just applied those two simple principles to his farm on a small scale first, and then they implemented over the entire thing.
	And they were so profitable and successful that at their height, he was managing the second largest privately owned farm in Africa.
	Right. And then if you know the story of Zimbabwe, the white farmers lost all the land.
	And so the Foundations for Farming kind of was born out of some of these white farmers who loved Jesus saying, if a man takes away your tunic, you let him have your cloak as well.
	So how do we apply that?
	If a man steals our farm, let's teach him how to farm.
	So they took the principles they had learned on a large scale and brought it down and began teaching it to the last, least, and the lost.
	And that's really had a huge impact in the poor.
	And so for us, when we teach people about approaching gardening, we build it on three heart attributes of Christ.
	The foundation of Foundations for Farming is Jesus Christ, and it's his humility, his faithfulness, and his unselfishness that he displayed when he came.
	So we display the humility by saying, like Jesus said, I only do what I see my father doing.
	So when we face any problem, we look at creation, we say, well, what does my father do?
	How did he design it to work?
	And then when faithfulness, recognizing that we've got to reflect who God is and the way that we do things, and we do that by doing things on time to a high standard with minimal waste, And then with joy, because that faithfulness is what God adds to to produce a profit.
	And then the unselfishness comes into play when we realize that the land God's given us is not just ours to do it for our own, you know, selves and our own benefit, but we want to be able to use that to bless others and to teach others and to pass along what we've learned so that the skill of growing food can be a community thing, not just an individual thing.
	Boy, that's fascinating. And, you know, that is an example we've seen over and over again.
	People copying what God has done in creation.
	You know, you take a look at Velcro, for example, right?
	They look at stickers and things like that.
	And copying his design, his aerodynamic design, in terms of airplanes or in terms of even submarines, looking at how he's done the contours, that is really interesting, very interesting.
	And what you began with, saying, you know, you can go to YouTube and you can get all these different perspectives on stuff.
	Part of that, you know, you can, the old phrase for that is analysis paralysis.
	You can do so much analysis that you actually paralyze yourself from actually getting anything done.
	And so I think that's an important thing as well, to have somebody who has a system that they know works and just follow that system without trying to pull this stuff together ad hoc.
	But talk a little bit about what happened when they had their land taken away.
	So what did they do to the people there in the local areas?
	White farmers had their land taken away.
	What did they do?
	How did they engage the people there in Zimbabwe?
	Yeah, so it actually started a little bit before he had his land taken away.
	He felt like God was like, I gave you this simple system of minimal tillage and using a mulch, not just so that you could be a successful farmer, but so that you could share with the village across the river here.
	And so they began to go in and share.
	They would take a farmer and they would plant a field for him and show, you know, hey, just take care of this and you can compare it with your plowed plot and see how much better it is.
	When they came back at the end of the season, they began to realize that every year they would have neglected the field and not taken care of it.
	And what they found eventually is that because they were selecting one person, they were creating jealousy and the neighbors would have the witch doctor come and curse the field and then the family would be too scared to come and work in it.
	So they realized it wasn't just a technology issue.
	There was also a spiritual element that you've got to address when you come to looking at some of these broken situations.
	And there's also we want to share with everybody and invest in people who are faithful with it.
	So that's kind of what they began doing is just having right now they have a model farm there in Zimbabwe where they apply these principles.
	Right now they have a model farm there in Zimbabwe where they apply these principles and then they bring in the kind of the forgotten communities, the last, the least, the lost, which is where God loves to start, you know, in rebuilding a nation.
	And they invest in those people, not only in farming, but in stewardship in general.
	Foundations for Farming, we're ministry partners with Crown Financial Ministries, which focuses on stewardship of money because we're teaching stewardship of the land.
	So when we bring these communities in and they're discipled in faith, farming, family, and finance, then they're sent back as a community.
	They really have a huge impact.
	A lot of times when they've seen the trainers and the love they have for them and they hear the gospel, many of them, you know, will put their faith in Christ and start a church when they go back.
	And so recently they've developed a very simple model of growing food called Fumvudza.
	But it's basically a small plot that's about one sixth of an acre where you can grow, where they grow corn, which is the primary staple crop that they have there in Zimbabwe and much of sub-Saharan Africa.
	And it allows a family for $50 worth of inputs to grow enough food to feed themselves for a year.
	Wow. And most people are trying to grow five acres of corn over there and they can't feed themselves.
	But when they're done, they do it what we call God's way by looking at God's creation and copying his nature in the way we manage it.
	It's amazing to see that.
	And the government actually came and asked them to teach into all the agritechs, and they taught it down into the communities.
	And they they had achieved a food security for the first time since their collapse in 2008, two years ago, by applying this with a hoe, just this simple principle and simple technique.
	And but it started by Brian Oldrick originally went to the top, the president, you know, the minister of agriculture and tried to sell them on the idea.
	They wouldn't listen.
	But then he said, well, God's upside down kingdom.
	Let's go to the poorest of the poor first.
	And it was actually those people when the poorest of the poor were the only people in the nation feeding themselves with enough extra to sell that that's what got the government's attention.
	And then they you know, then Pharaoh came calling and asked them to teach it into the into the public sector.
	And I think that's an important thing for us as the church to remember is that when Jesus came, he didn't go to the rich, the powerful, the educated.
	He went to simple, ordinary people and he turned the world upside down that way.
	And that means that all of us in whatever sphere of influence we're in can have an impact.
	And, you know, in our nation.
	That's wonderful. That is a real grassroots movement.
	It is! You know, they're helping themselves by helping others in the long term.
	They're helping themselves. They would be starving and people would be fighting over food.
	And so they're showing people how to grow not just their own food, but to grow their independence and to grow their community and to grow their dependence on God.
	I mean, that's just the perfect way to do this.
	It's wonderful to hear about that.
	So they have, how do they, since they lost their farm, How did they survive financially?
	Teaching other people to do it, did they take a share of what the other people were doing?
	Is that how they financially made it through?
	It has been different for every person.
	You know, a lot of what the farmers told me there is that when the, you know, there were about 5,000 white farmers, I think, that employed about a million people in Zimbabwe.
	And when they got their land taken away, you know, you have three choices.
	You can either fight, and those who did died, or you can flee, which is what most of them did, or you can stay and forgive.
	And only a few of them chose to do that.
	And so that's what some of my friends did.
	There's been times that the team, which right now the teams there that are training are mostly black African Zimbabweans who are really taking this on because it's Foundations for Farming.
	We have really a discipleship multiplication kind of model of ministry.
	It's not an organizational, you know, top-down kind of thing.
	And so they're really the ones rolling it out.
	And there have been seasons where they've continued to come to work even though there was no money.
	You know, just because they were willing to serve.
	Because over there, when you have a debauched currency and they keep having high inflation and stuff, you know, it's just very famous for that.
	Yeah, right. They're going through it again.
	And yet they just said, you know what, it really helps you.
	To invest your treasure in heaven.
	because there was one of my good friends over there and he said that he invests he and his wife invested in several retirement funds you know really worked hard their whole life to do that and when they went to cash those in it took them out to lunch barely without any drinks you know and but it really the freedom then that they have to just serve and the heart change that they said that for them as being very prideful culture that they were before self-made farmers
	And the heart change that they said that for them as being very prideful culture that they were before self-made farmers, this one farmer friend of mine said he kind of got it backwards.
	they this one farmer friend of mine said he kind of got it backwards he said he he thought he loved his workers and his people he took a good you know good care of them and all that the people that worked for him in his business that they have to just serve.
	He said he thought he loved his workers and his people.
	He took good care of them and all that, the people that worked for him in his business.
	But he said, God told us to rule the land and love the people.
	And he said he actually realized later that he loved the land and ruled the people.
	And it took losing his farm to get that heart change that he said he was worth losing his arm over.
	Wow.
	That's amazing.
	But that's the way that God works, right?
	He takes the stuff away from us so that it opens our eyes, resets our priorities.
	And I love the fact that this, you know, what they're doing and what you're doing here, you're doing the, trying to do the same thing here.
	And, uh, and we certainly do need it.
	And, uh, it'd be good for people to start preparing before something really catastrophic happens here.
	But the thing that I think is really key is the fact that you're not just trying to come in and help them materially.
	You're looking at the whole picture, as you talked about, you know, family, creating a strong family, your faith, your finances, as well as the farm.
	That is the key thing.
	You're dressing all of this together instead of just focusing on one little aspect of it, and I think that is so important.
	Yeah, it is. And I think that's, you know, as the church, what people are looking for in the world is hope.
	And the hope is not just in some nugget of information, you know, that we can share with them.
	But it's in a life, a personal life, that is experiencing transformation in the same struggles that everybody else is dealing with.
	And that we are then just passing it along to others.
	And unfortunately, for me, I'm really passionate about agriculture because I feel like agriculture and creation stewardship is an element of what we've been given stewardship of as the church that we've kind of neglected and we haven't addressed.
	Right. And if we fail to recognize the battleground that it is, the spiritual...
	Like, either Jesus is going to have, you know, rule and reign over it, or the enemy is.
	And when the enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy, we shouldn't be surprised when we've abdicated and we've failed to, you know, bring the principles of Scripture to bear on how should we view this as Christians.
	How should we not just say, well, what's permissible...
	A lot of the farmers in the U.S. are Christians, but I've realized that many of us are not reflecting our own fate in the way that we farm.
	Not on purpose, but just because we haven't evaluated it, and there's a lot of Problems that we don't want necessarily, whether it's poor health or unsustainability or lack of profitability, but it all kind of boils back to if we aren't experiencing increase or profit or abundance in an area in our life, and not in a prosperity gospel sense, but there's this principle of if you're faithful with little, God will add to you, right?
	And as you measure, he'll measure to you.
	So if we're losing money, if we're losing health, if we're losing our kids, if we're losing all these things, maybe we're saying, maybe God's telling me I'm not being faithful because he keeps taking away from me.
	And maybe I need to reevaluate, you know, whether what is like I was reading the other day.
	If we want to shine his lights in Ephesians, it says we need to find out what pleases the Lord.
	And as farmers, we're never going to do everything perfect because we live in a fallen world and we all have different starting points.
	But are we asking the question, when I go out to take care of my lettuce plants, when I go to raise a chicken, when I go to do whatever I'm going to do, am I trying to find out what pleases the Lord so that I can grow in that?
	And then... Not only do I get vegetables from my garden, but I also get to experience more of Him in the process, which is the real reward at the end of the day.
	That's right. Yeah, I think we can apply that lesson whatever we do for a living.
	We've seen with technology and everything that's there, we're constantly being moved in a direction where we're more obsessed with the The technology that we're using, we don't see the bigger picture of things.
	And I think that that can happen even to farmers, much more so to people who are not farmers, who are working on, you know, outside of, you know...
	It's God's direct creation.
	We're working many different levels away from it.
	And I really do think that that is a key part of what we're...
	I certainly know that the people that I know that have started homesteading and working on farms are some of the happiest people I have seen, especially because they're doing it themselves, they're working with their hands, they're seeing God's Creation and what they're doing.
	And so I think that is...
	And tell us a little bit about this training sessions that you've got.
	What do these things look like? You've got one a month that is happening.
	How long does it last?
	And give us a little bit of detail about what that looks like.
	Yeah, so our family, we spent 13 years running a small-scale market farm where we sold kind of organic vegetables and meat and eggs.
	And then a couple years ago, after some of the things that we've learned, we really felt like God had kind of given it to us to be able to equip the church.
	To be more faithful in, you know, agriculture.
	So one of the things that we've done in trying to take some of what we've learned from Foundations for Farming and implement it here in the United States is we're trying to develop some very simple tools, very simple kind of recipes for people to be able to get started on a good foundation if they're going to get, you know, start growing some of their own food.
	So our tool for that with gardening is what we call the Wellwater Garden Project.
	And that's a very simple 20-foot by 20-foot garden that teaches all the principles of observing God's creation, of good management, of sharing genuinely your faith in the way that you do it intentionally.
	And it's kind of a paint-by-the-numbers thing.
	Here's how you space your crops.
	Here's how you put in your bed.
	Here's how you take care of them.
	Because not everybody needs to be an expert in every area.
	God's called each of us to different domains.
	I'm not a self-defense expert, but I love learning from somebody who is so that I can be adequately prepared for whatever responsibilities I have in that.
	So I kind of feel the same thing with agriculture.
	You don't have to be a chef.
	To cook lasagna.
	You just need to have a good lasagna recipe and how to follow it.
	Doesn't mean it's the only lasagna recipe or the best lasagna in the world, but it does help more people to be able to share around their community the joy of making and eating lasagna.
	So that's what the Well Water Garden Project is.
	And we've got some free PDF at thewellwatergardenproject.org that people can download to be able to walk through and plant their own.
	And then our trainings in particular, we are focused on helping impact as many people as possible to grow some of their own food by training trainers.
	So we really are encouraging every family who grows a garden to pray that God would bring two people a year for you to teach how to grow their own garden using yours and your experience so far.
	And at that rate of multiplication, you would have a million gardens starting from one in 10 years.
	So when we look at how many millions of people around the world are on the verge of real food insecurity, it's really normal everyday people being faithful to do what Jesus said, not just do good works, do what Jesus said.
	But it says, blessed are everyone who practices and teaches these commands.
	And I think the commands of Jesus apply even how we grow food in our own backyard.
	And that's what the training that we do in April and May is a training for trainers.
	So it is equipping people to plant a garden, to follow, you know, to learn the whole process that we teach of, like you said, a simple system, and then also how to go back and teach people in their own community and to do it even if they have no agricultural experience.
	And of course, that's one of the, you know, one of the best ways to learn something is to teach it to others as well.
	So it really drives it home to you if you know it well enough to teach it to somebody else and if you're watching them try to do it.
	You talk about how, let's give a couple of samples of the type of things that you're talking about.
	Eight simple questions to create an easy but effective garden plan.
	What type of questions?
	Yeah, so planning, we always tell people, is, you know, daunting to some people, and it's like what everybody else sometimes lean on too heavily, but planning is just a part of faithfulness because it's trying to answer ahead of time the questions that you're going to have to ask anyways, right?
	There's a lot of questions when you plant a garden.
	Where are you going to plant stuff? What are you going to plant?
	plant?
	When are you going to plant it?
	So planning is trying to answer those questions ahead of time so that when you're actually in the moment, you don't have as many decisions to make.
	So we've kind of boiled it down to four questions about the garden itself and then four questions about the crops that you're going to grow.
	So the four questions about your garden is, why are you planting it?
	Because the motive behind it is really important.
	Who is this for?
	Why is this?
	Is this food security?
	Is this just nutrition?
	Is this for beauty?
	Is this to teach somebody else?
	that's going to determine how you design your garden.
	The second is, who's going to take care of the garden?
	A garden is just a reflection of the gardener, so you can't have a garden without a gardener, and you need to make sure you match the garden with the labor and the skill level that you have at your disposal to take care of it.
	Mm-hmm. Then the fourth, the third is where will you put it?
	And then what are your space, you know, space limitations and those kind of things?
	And what's your site? And then how big will it be based on, you know, some of the previous questions?
	Mm-hmm. Then the last four questions, once you've got your garden in and you've got a good site and you've got a good foundation for that is, who are you growing the food for?
	When I was growing for market, a big part of our success was knowing how to identify what our customers value because you can be a really good farmer and gardener and if you grow something that at the end of the day was a 100% successful crop and yielded a huge harvest, but nobody wants it, You haven't added value to anybody's life, right?
	So overproduction is the worst form of waste.
	So identify who it is you're growing for and make sure that you're not growing something that you're going to drop off or they're going to harvest and be like, I don't care about this.
	I had a friend of mine who was trying to serve a community with a garden and he realized nobody cared about the food at this point in time, right?
	And he grew flowers again the next year and it was one of the biggest, most popular things in the community because everybody wanted flowers.
	Yeah. Because he was able to identify better what it is that that garden was for.
	And then, based on who it's for, what are you going to plant?
	That's the second of the four questions.
	And then, where will you plant each of your crops?
	And that has to do with rotations and organization of the garden.
	We give tools and help people understand how to lay that out simply.
	And then, there's just the scheduling.
	When are you going to plant it? And for me, I have a calendar.
	You can see on my back wall here.
	And I just write down, once I get all this planned, I'll just write down, this week I'm planting spinach.
	And I can look at the way all the questions I've answered.
	I know the spinach goes here, and this is how much I'm planting, because this is how much we need.
	And here's the spacing it's going to be, and I just go do it.
	And it's a whole lot of fun, because there's not a whole lot of stressful questions to answer once I actually get out into the garden.
	That's great. You mentioned the thing that was a fundamental insight was that he could do the planting without any plowing, without any tilling.
	So how does that work?
	What do you do instead of that?
	How do you get the seeds in the ground?
	Yes. Well, it's amazing.
	All the plants that we see growing out here that's not part of my garden in Alabama, they grew without any plowing or any fertilizer or any chemical sprays or any of that, and they look a whole lot better than most of my stuff.
	So God already has in place an amazing natural fertility system, and the plowing and tilling that we tend to see today...
	Is different than what, like when the Bible talks about plowing, their plows were more like a pointed, you know, you talk about you beat your plows into, you know, your plows into swords and your, you know, it's just, it wasn't like this huge thing.
	Yeah, I can't remember. There's one verse where it goes one way and one where it goes the other.
	And so it was just, it opens up the ground and scratches it where it's minimally disturbing it.
	Just like the birds do or, you know, when an animal goes and roots up in the forest, a seed that's laying on top of the leaves will get in touch with the dirt and that seed to soil contact, that's all it needs to grow.
	And what we often share with people is we go out and we just show, we look in depth, in depth, Natural creation and the soil and look that natural soil has life in it.
	It has an amazing system of microbes that are continuously fertilizing the plants.
	It has strata.
	It functions in layers.
	It has a continuous application of organic matter on the top.
	And all these amazing things that, yeah, it's not sin necessarily if you plow it, but what we're doing is we're destroying that natural fertilizer factory that's in place, and we have to come in with a lot of synthetic fertilizers and kind of overcome that.
	So the simple method is all we do is when we're putting in our garden is we say, how can we remove the weeds initially without disturbing the soil as much as possible?
	So we'll do that by either just cutting them off right at the surface, kind of like you'd remove sod, or we'll smother it.
	You ever left something out in the lawn too long?
	Yeah. The grass is dead, right?
	And then we'll add compost on top of that and mulch on top of that, and then the worms and the bugs come in, and they make the structure of the soil kind of like a loaf of bread or a slice of bread.
	It's got air. It feels firm, right?
	It doesn't feel fine, but it's got...
	Up to 70% air in it.
	It will wick moisture up and keep it near the roots of the plants.
	It's stable so it doesn't wash away.
	It's got plenty of channels for the microbes to do their things in.
	What we tend to do is plant in flour, just straight flour, you know, that's pulverized.
	And it seems loose and nice, but it actually ends up being more of a growing medium that we have to inject fertilizer into and becomes more and more dead over time.
	So it's...
	A very simple system that is incredibly effective, even here in our Alabama red clay soil that seems like you would have to break it up and plow it to be able to grow things, and you don't.
	It's amazing. It really is counterintuitive.
	Every time I do it, I'm like, this should not work, but it does.
	That's really interesting. How do you keep the birds from eating the seed that you put out, or do you just put out more seed knowing that they're going to?
	What do you do about that?
	Well, we do cover the seed up, and we teach people that, you know, From understanding a biblical worldview, a biblical worldview is just knowing the story that we live in, right, of history.
	We live in a world that was intended to be one way.
	God had it intended.
	We turned away from that way and decided to do it our own way, so it broke stuff.
	And so then now we live in this broken world that Jesus came, and he...
	way for our hearts to be restored to God.
	And then for some of those, that heart to then apply a degree of redemption to creation currently.
	But we're still in the midst of this broken world looking forward to the ultimate like restoration of anything.
	So we're not going to have the Garden of Eden.
	Eden right now.
	We're still going to deal with death, decay, disease, disorder, all that kind of stuff.
	But we will, there is a beautiful picture of that redemption when we come and apply that.
	So part of our job as gardeners, once we plant the garden is we've got, I always teach you, there's three P's that you've got to do once you plant your garden.
	You've got to provide for it.
	So that means, you know, maybe it's support, maybe it's water, like a trellis to grow up, or you have to water it.
	You've got to maybe add some extra fertility through some more compost or a chicken manure tea or something to give it.
	And then the second P is you've got to protect it.
	There's all sorts of things that want to, you know, threaten your garden.
	And so I've got a fence around mine.
	I've got some frost cover on it right now.
	I've got to watch for the bugs.
	I've got to watch for all sorts of things because the reality is a lot of us are growing vegetables that are not native to the climates we live in.
	So they require a little extra babying because they're from the Mediterranean near somewhere.
	And then the third P is you got to pick it.
	Got to make sure you get out there and take care of it.
	But as far as the birds go, we cover the seed up so that we make sure that they can't actually see that.
	But we also expect, when I was doing my market garden, if I can get 70% of what I plant to harvest, then that's a good, you know, I'm always factoring in that 30% margin of just some things aren't going to make it, and that's okay.
	And that's part of the process of humility.
	That's great. You have wellwateredgarden.org.
	Is that correct? That's the website?
	Yeah, that's the resource, the free resource where people can download that.
	And then redeemingthedirt.com is where people can go to learn more about the trainings if they want to get equipped in that resource more in-depth and actually learn to teach people in their own communities.
	Because we really need an army That's right.
	I really want to focus in this season of time that we have of equipping as many people to be in these communities to say, I can serve you.
	I'm not in the same boat you are.
	I've started with my family and I'm here with what I have to serve you.
	It's so easy to fall into this mentality of protect ourselves from the poor and the people who might not have anything in those kind of situations.
	But in Psalms 41, it actually says, if you make a plan for the poor, or if you consider the poor, God will protect you from your enemies, provide you in the land in times of trouble, deliver you from your sickbed.
	All the things that we as preppers sometimes are trying to attain, God said, I'll take care of those if you have a heart for the poor.
	If you use what I've given you to share with the same people who were in the boat you were just a little while ago before Jesus started helping you in these areas.
	And I think that's the DNA that I want to equip the church with so that we are in a position to really have an army of harvesters for the harvest, both of people that want to return to stewarding the land well and rebuilding our local economies, but also that then are hungry for hope spiritually when what they've normally but also that then are hungry for hope spiritually when what they've normally been hoping in It's so true. And if you look at what the plan is, the plan is to isolate us.
	The plan is to shut us down and to have us all, you know, in our fed whatever they want to feed us in our own little cubicle, small micro apartment or something like that.
	They don't want us meeting together.
	They don't want us going to church.
	I think this is the perfect counter example to that.
	Teaching people how to, you know, understand how to provide food for themselves, building a community, building faith in each other.
	I think it is the perfect counterbalance to everything they've been trying to push and are going to try to push against us.
	That is one of the ways that you've got to push back in terms of building a community, building things up from the grassroots level.
	And it ultimately is going to be the food.
	I mean, we can talk about people storing all types of things to protect themselves and to be able to barter with, and all that is important.
	But you've got to have that food, and at the same time, you're building a community.
	I think it's a great plan.
	Tell us a little bit about why thewellwateredgarden.org.
	Is there something specific about the way that you're setting that up, or is that just the title that you came up with in terms of taking care of the garden?
	No, I love that question.
	The well-water garden comes, that term is not really referring to the way we irrigate the garden or anything.
	It really refers to the heart behind the garden, which comes from Isaiah 58, which that whole part of Isaiah 58 is where the nation of Israel is saying, you know, God, we're having all these problems and you're not blessing us.
	It's like you're not hearing us and we're rending our clothes and fasting and doing all these religious things.
	You know, why don't you hear us and heal our land?
	And he basically comes back and says, the fast that I'm looking for is that you clothe the naked, that you feed the hungry, that you have a heart for the poor.
	You have the same heart that I have for others to show that you belong to me and that you care about me.
	And he says, if you do that, then one of the things that he promises is that we'll be like a well-watered garden in an arid place, like this beautiful, vibrant example of life, of light in the midst of darkness.
	And that's the heart we really want to have behind the Well-Watered Garden Project is where it's really an others-centered motive for planting a garden.
	This is not a fear-based self-preservation idea, but it's an idea that if I'm faithful and if I share with others, God will then be the one that provides for me.
	And at the end of the day, that's our only hope, right, in all these kind of things, because everything's out of our control much more than we think.
	And we want to be in a position where God says, I will add to you if you're faithful.
	I will add to you if you're generous.
	And if you have if you prioritize what I prioritize, which is the last, the least in the loss, because that's really recognizing that's all of us without Jesus.
	And as we experience that hope and change, if we're really experiencing it, then we'll want to pass that on to other people.
	And so the idea of that well-watered garden is really referring back to that heart based in Isaiah 58.
	I really love that. And, of course, we saw that with the farmers that began all this stuff in Zimbabwe.
	What a different approach than you would expect, right?
	Rather than fighting it or running from it, okay, you're going to take the land?
	Let me show you how to grow food on it.
	So we can all eat.
	That's just amazing to me.
	But it is really the heart of Christ and the heart of God.
	And I love what they did.
	I love what you're doing with this stuff.
	I'm anxious to see your wellwateredgarden.org website.
	I really do appreciate what you're doing, Noah.
	Thank you so much. And people can find out about...
	And I'll just give people a couple of bullet points that are here because I think it's very important.
	We didn't talk a lot about a lot of the specifics there, but you did mention the eight simple questions about creating an effective garden plan.
	And, of course, there'd be a lot more detail in that with the seminars.
	Clear a spot for your garden without plowing or tilling.
	Make thermal compost and natural organic fertilizers.
	Because that's a key thing.
	That's one of the things that everybody is, you know...
	When they're trying to put the farmers out of business in the Netherlands, they're actually turning fertilizer into contraband.
	It's like, you know, they're just trying to smuggle drugs across here.
	We don't want your fertilizer in here.
	That's the way they shut the farmers down.
	And so, you know, making your own.
	Lay out garden beds with a simple system.
	Allows for an ease of management, space for a variety of crops, plant seeds or transplants with a simple spacing system.
	Easy to follow, easy to remember.
	Care faithfully for your garden with three simple tasks.
	Train others what you've learned.
	All this stuff. As well as alternative off-grid energy and backyard chickens.
	Give us a tip for protecting our chickens.
	Well, I have, yeah, I could probably write a book on how chickens can die because there's a lot of different ways that they can do that.
	But no, just a really good fence, a really good shelter, a really good dog.
	There's a lot of different ways that you can, you know, provide physical or, you know, biological ways to protect those chickens.
	But a lot of this just has to do with go out, and when you have a problem, God sometimes gets our attention through these things because he wants us to come back and ask him.
	There were some one more story.
	Some guys in Africa were in a village situation.
	They had been trained by my friend Brian Oldreve on how to put in a garden and some plots.
	And one of the questions he had taught them is, you know, to ask God when they faced a challenge, you know, to say, what does my father do?
	And they had the problem of elephants getting into their garden.
	That would be hard.
	Yeah, like you can't even build a fence for that kind of thing.
	Right.
	And so they just said, all right, well, we'll just, Brian taught us to pray and ask God, so we'll just ask God.
	Well, God showed them that elephants don't go near their own manure, so they went and collected some elephant manure, put it around their field, and they had no more problems with elephants.
	Wow. So sometimes, you know, it's just that's why I say to become the greatest farmer requires the greatest humility because, you know, Joel Salatin is one of the greatest recent modern-day livestock innovators, and he is always like, how does God design things?
	Brian Oldrieve went back.
	He got to a point of, I don't know how to do it.
	How do you do it, Lord? And like you said, in so many other areas, but most of the time, you know how it is.
	I'd rather go to my phone.
	Then stop and pray.
	There's just this spiritual block because it requires a humiliation of degrees for us to say, I don't know it, and ask God.
	But if we can learn to do that, God is just waiting.
	He's the master farmer. He has the solution to every problem, and he is ready to share that with us.
	And if we knew, personally, the best farmer in the entire world, and he said, you can call me up any time, why wouldn't we do so, right?
	And we do have that.
	And that's... Those kind of testimonies is then what gives us the opportunity when we share with other people about our own garden, that we can point back to that experience, where it's not just a, oh, by the way, let me tell you about Jesus.
	But it's like, I was at my wit's end, and then I asked, and the Lord showed me this.
	And then it's genuine.
	Yeah, that's amazing. I've seen pictures of elephants just for fun pushing down trees.
	I mean, there's not anything that you're going to do to stop an elephant, but they don't like their own excrement.
	That's interesting. That's great.
	I love that story and the other stories, and I love what you're doing, Noah.
	And again, people can find this at redeemingthedirt.com.
	That's where you can find out about the training sessions.
	They have them coming up on a regular basis.
	If you want to start building your community, think of a better way to do it than to help other people to grow food and to all the other aspects of this.
	And of course, you have the free site at wellwateredgarden.org.
	Thank you so much, Noah. Great talking.
	Yeah. Can I share with you one more resource for your students is redeemingthedirtacademy.com is a free online training platform where it has a community and training videos and all that.
	If people want to get a sneak peek and go ahead and get started in some of the material...
	We have hundreds and hundreds of farmers and gardeners and homesteaders from all over the world that love Jesus and love farming and gardening on there, sharing resources, learning together.
	And if anybody wants to really get plugged in that community, they can go to redeemandtheerodeacademy.com and sign up for free.
	That'd be great. Okay, super.
	Yeah, we'll definitely check that out in our family.
	Thank you so much. You know, I really do appreciate what you're doing.
	It is a real blessing to see something that is positive like this.
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	I feel like a motherless child.
	Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
	Sometimes I feel...
	Yeah, we were just talking about the natural order of things, but we have scientists who are just focused...
	On creating the unnatural order of things.
	Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
	Well, they're working on creating motherless children.
	Scientists have created motherless mice.
	You know, to pave the way for gay men to have children.
	This is kind of like the fraudulent carbon credits here.
	I mean, we get one level after the other away from what is real.
	So, mice with no biological mother, they take skin cells from a male mouse and turn it into an egg.
	So, by being able to do this, and of course this is now what your government is interested in.
	Your government is going to spend lots of money for this type of research so that homosexual men can have children.
	That's how technology is being used.
	This is what it's good for.
	And it's not just that.
	I mean, you look at everything that is being done now with technology.
	I went into engineering because I like technology.
	But look at what has happened.
	This is... The military-industrial complex and academic complex that Eisenhower talked about, he said the government is taking over, research is taking over the universities, and look at what it's doing.
	Look at what the universities have become.
	Look at what the research is focused on.
	Artificial autonomous killing machines, what the military and the government want.
	It is a nightmare scenario.
	It seems like everything they use technology for anymore is for this.
	It's not to serve us. It's not to make things better.
	We have the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the Francis Crick Institute in London, one of the two guys who discovered DNA, but rejected the god who designed it, obviously.
	They said, well, obviously there's an intelligent design here, but it can't be the God of the Bible, said Crick and Watson.
	So they talked about their idea of panspermia.
	Oh, we were... Aliens must have come here and designed us and everything that's living.
	And so... They said it could ultimately pave the way for homosexual men to have children related to both parents.
	In 2018, this Japanese researcher produced 12 mice, derived solely from male parents, born, however, with breathing difficulties and did not survive for long.
	But this time, they did 600 implants, and they produced only 7 mice.
	All seven of those appear to grow up healthy and have children of their own.
	So purely in terms of technology, it will be possible in humans even in 10 years, said the scientist.
	That's not a question just for the scientific program, he said, but it's also a question for society.
	And, of course, that was what Michael Crichton was trying to get across to people in Jurassic Park.
	You know, he has a character played by Jeff Goldblum say, you know, just because we can do it doesn't mean that we should do it.
	You know, we need to have a decision about what we're doing with this stuff because the technology is outpacing our judgment of what we want to do with things.
	And they said for the time being, scientists have not been able to cut females entirely out of the reproduction equation.
	A surrogate mother will have to carry the all-male embryo.
	But they said they're also working on artificial wombs, and Israeli researchers say that they had successfully gestated hundreds of baby mice and such devices going back to 2021.
	So again, this is how your government...
	Wants to spend your money.
	What they want to focus on. Making weapons of war.
	Making weapons of mass depopulation.
	Making genetically modified humans and all the rest of this stuff.
	So, the good news is, as we look at this kind of Christian persecution, we've now had a little bit of a pullback in the UK. The individual who was convicted of misgendering an individual, they convicted him of a crime.
	And then they reported him to the police as being a terrorist, even.
	Well, now on appeal, the appeal court has now reversed that.
	The appeal court said misgendering somebody by calling a man a man.
	Now, that's not misgendering.
	It says, you know, it says, I'm a man, but I want to be a woman.
	No, you're a man. Well, that's hateful.
	They said that may be misgendering.
	That may be an insult, but that is not a criminal offense.
	So finally, they found somebody with some sense still left.
	And the judicial system, but that's not going to last for long.
	Why? Because we've got people who are currently being trained in this kind of thing.
	The zeitgeist of the culture is to worship this LGBT fantasy.
	In the United Kingdom, societies got to the point of arresting and charging Christians who declined to call a man a woman just because he's wearing a dress.
	So again, it's not enough to show words, said the court.
	It's not enough to show the words were insulting and that somebody was distressed.
	Hurt feelings are not a crime.
	I would like to show that decision to the legislators who introduced this bill in Florida to make anti-Semitism a hate crime and a felony.
	We have to get to the point where we don't punish what we perceive to be somebody's hate.
	Prior to the arrest This street preacher had also been assaulted, abused, and had his belongings stolen.
	While he was preaching, he was subsequently convicted, made to pay costs of £620, forced to do 80 hours of community service despite there being no legal obligation to use a trans person's preferred pronouns in the UK. It is believed that Dave is the first street preacher to be convicted for such an offense and to be reported as a potential terrorist.
	He said, I think people could have been offended, but that is not my intention.
	Well, the problem is, is that Jesus told us that he was an offense.
	He told us that the good news would be offensive to people.
	Why is it? Why do we call it good news, and yet we understand it's going to be an offense?
	Well, for a couple of reasons.
	A lot of people... Need to know the bad news about where they stand with God before they can really comprehend and appreciate the good news.
	So that means we talk about people's sin.
	Nobody wants to talk about their sin.
	Nobody wants to talk about the fact that they are completely unable to do any good that is going to erase that They don't want to take charity.
	I saw this firsthand when I was speaking against Hillary Clinton's attempted takeover of the healthcare system.
	I got up at one point and the thing that set the Democrat audience there off was when I used the term charity.
	Oh, they hated that.
	Well, charity simply means love.
	But it means giving something to somebody that they cannot provide for for themselves.
	That hurts their pride. So it hurts their pride to realize that they can't provide this stuff for themselves, that you can't make up for the wrongs that you have done.
	Christ did that.
	But you have to understand that you've done things that are wrong.
	All of those things are offensive.
	And then, of course, the key thing that is offensive is Christ's claims of exclusivity, the fact that he's not the way only, but the only way.
	And so we understand the culture is going to be at war with us.
	We understand that our government is going to be creating these monstrosities.
	And so it takes us back to the basic roots that we saw with talking to Noah.
	Go back and reclaim your basic roots.
	Go back and reclaim your relationships with your family, your relationship with God.
	That is the thing that is going to take you through all of this.
	That will be the rock underneath your feet.
	Thank you for listening. Let me tell you, The David Knight Show, you can listen to with your ears.
	You can even watch it by using your eyes.
	In fact, if you can hear me, that means you're listening to The David Knight Show right now.
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