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Thu 5Dec24 UNABRIDGED World War in Syria and the Geopolitics Behind It

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	Music Using free speech to free minds.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Thursday, the 5th of December, year of our Lord 2024.
	Well, I'm back, and I'll tell you what happened when we return, but we're going to begin today by talking about war.
	more.
	Not the Israeli war, not the Ukrainian war, but the Syrian war.
	And why this is so important to the U.S., to Russia.
	Why it could also be the crux of World War III. We're going to begin with that.
	We're also going to talk about the deportation issues.
	How is this going to work out?
	How is it going to be implemented?
	What are the legal fights going to be over nullification, sanctuary cities versus other things?
	And are there better ways to do this than what is being proposed by the Trump administration?
	And of course we will take a look.
	At what is happening with the pardons, it's amazing to me.
	But I said on Monday, I thought it was great news, although it's been portrayed as just the opposite by both the left and the right.
	We'll be right back.
	Well, I want to start by saying thank you to everyone who is concerned.
	And so many people contacted us.
	Many people knew we're concerned.
	I got very sick.
	I got what Karen had last week during Thanksgiving, about five days later.
	Sick as a dog.
	We both were.
	It hurts when I laugh.
	We have stomach muscles that we had never used.
	We did use them at one point in time, I guess, in our life, but hadn't used them for many years.
	And they got a full exercise.
	We were vomiting for a long period of time.
	Couldn't keep anything down for about 14 hours.
	Couldn't sleep for two days.
	It was just amazing.
	So we're back, and praise God that everything is fine, and we thank you for your prayers.
	Let's talk a little bit about what is happening, though, in terms of war and peace.
	There are so many different areas that both Russia, the U.S., China want World War III. It truly is amazing.
	We've got an A-10 warthog.
	Filmed an attack over Syria.
	That's right.
	What are we doing in Syria?
	Well, you know, it's been there for a while.
	Been there under Trump, but nobody wants to give him credit for that.
	Warthog, which does close air support, has been filmed flying low, doing strafing runs over eastern Syria, as fighting has broken out there in the wake of a fall of Aleppo.
	Aleppo?
	Remember Gary Johnson?
	Aleppo?
	Aleppo?
	What is an Aleppo?
	When he was running for president, he was supposed to give credibility to the Libertarian Party because he was a former two-term governor He's also running with an unbelievably liberal rhino, William Weld, out of Massachusetts.
	The two of them, what a joke.
	The Libertarian Party sold its soul for that stuff.
	Anyway, you know, I understand to some degree why he was not focused on that, because really that's not the legitimate purpose of America.
	Except if you're going to stop the American Empire, you need to understand what the American Empire is doing.
	And that was inexcusable.
	That he's running for president.
	That he's unaware of what the U.S. empire was doing.
	Anyways, back at Aleppo again.
	It appears U.S. backed Syrian democratic forces, they say.
	We're going to take a look at just how democratic these forces are.
	What amazing propaganda we're seeing from these people.
	You know, they're al-Qaeda.
	By any other name.
	Al-Qaeda, ISIS, whatever.
	They've got a new name.
	They keep changing their name, but it's the same people.
	They're clashing with pro-Syrian forces, the Syrian army, and allied militias, some of which have been pouring across the border from Iraq.
	There's an excellent article on On LifeSite News, it breaks down all these players, breaks down what the geopolitical motives are as well.
	And we're going to take a look at that.
	But first, let's take a look at what we're now seeing there.
	U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM, has yet to confirm anything.
	One independent geopolitical source writes the U.S. Air Force, A-10.
	Warthog combat jets were purportedly deployed in Syria to conduct airstrikes against Iran-linked militias that entered Syria to fight the rebels that have launched a fresh offensive against Bashar Assad's regime.
	The labels that they use, again, labels are how you win arguments.
	This is one of the reasons why the AP's got its speech rules.
	Don't say pro-life.
	You have to say anti-abortion rights, right?
	You let somebody put the labels there without any question, and they shape the narrative.
	To call these people rebels, to say that they are Iran-linked militias and so forth, you need to question that assumption, and we're going to destroy that assumption here.
	I'm going to show you who these people are.
	Anyway, a Pentagon official has said that at least one airstrike took place in self-defense.
	When you invade a country, what is self-defense?
	What does that mean, right?
	Self-defense is for the people who live in that country, right?
	It's not for us as invaders to claim self-defense.
	And of course, Zero Hedge puts that in air quotes, right?
	And quotes, self-defense.
	I guess some Japanese planes were shot down in Hawaii on Pearl Harbor in self-defense.
	They were shooting back, right?
	Give me a break.
	Fox News Pentagon correspondent has posted footage from there.
	The original source was an analyst who closely watches eastern Syria, the U.S. airstrikes target positions of Iran-backed militias in eastern Syria.
	And here's what that looks like.
	You can clearly see it's a warthog.
	And there's a couple of videos.
	This is the second one showing it coming at it, and then we'll cut back to the first video where you'll see it releasing some ammunition there.
	There it is.
	It's all the fire stuff that's going on.
	Anyway, whatever that is.
	The Pentagon, says Zero Hedge, is perhaps reluctant to comment considering the Trump administration is about to take office.
	And the Pentagon is waging war in Syria, including the deployment of war planes with no congressional debate or approval whatsoever.
	Well, the issue is that Trump knew about this.
	As a matter of fact, you know, Zero Hedge says the Pentagon may be reluctant to comment on this.
	The fact that they're waging war without any official declaration, without any debate.
	And yet, they end their article by saying clearly the Pentagon is now getting more deeply involved in the current regional fighting after having occupied oil and gas areas of northeast Syria for years.
	When did that happen?
	And where was the debate about that?
	That's why I say we always see these reports.
	It's like, oh, well, you know, some soldiers were shelled in an oil field in Syria.
	Well, what are American soldiers doing there?
	They're stealing the oil.
	Pirates.
	That's what Trump was saying.
	Well, we just need to take the oil.
	Go there and take the oil.
	That's an act of war.
	It's piracy as well.
	Is that where the U.S. military is becoming?
	Is that where the Pentagon has become?
	Pirates?
	Yes, it is.
	Pirates and murderers.
	You don't care about anything other than forever wars, and I'm forever sick of this stuff, quite frankly.
	Yeah, who was it that said take the oil?
	That was Trump.
	We've been there for years, they said.
	Oh, let's not get Trump upset about it.
	Trump is not upset about the fact that we go to war with anyone and everyone.
	Nobody cares about that.
	You have, for the longest time, they've argued that their authorization for the use of force that gave them a blanket to do anything that they want, anywhere.
	Including overthrowing governments by starting a war with them, like Syria.
	The authorization for the use of military force after 9-11, they said, gave them a blank check to do whatever they wish.
	And we've had these kind of discussions before.
	We had Leon Panetta, who had been head of the CIA, was then defense secretary.
	And Jeff Sessions, who later became attorney general and didn't do anything to stop any of this stuff either.
	I mean...
	If that's against the law, somewhere in Washington, somebody needs to do something about this, right?
	They could impeach some of these people, but of course neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are going to do it because they're both on board fully with the war party.
	And Leon Panetta was talking about going into Syria.
	And Jeff Sessions said at the time he was a senator.
	And he said, well, you would get our permission first, right?
	You were a senator.
	You know how this works.
	You know what the Constitution requires.
	You weren't not a senator.
	You were a congressman.
	He was a congressman, then CIA, then, you know, defense secretary.
	And he said, well, we'll consult with our allies and the U.N., and we'll let you know what we're going to do.
	And he goes, I can't believe you're saying that.
	You know what the Constitution says.
	You have to get our permission first.
	Well, he didn't, and nobody does anything about that.
	And of course, he didn't do anything as a senator.
	He didn't do anything as Attorney General.
	Trump didn't do anything.
	Obama uses this.
	Trump uses it.
	Biden uses it.
	They've all used it.
	Bush, W. Bush, all of them.
	So, the question is, when they take the oil, the question in my mind is, when they're stealing the oil, where does it go?
	Who gets the money for that?
	Where are they selling that?
	Is this like a black fund that is set up to pay off politicians?
	Is that what's happening?
	I mean, that is a possibility, isn't it?
	Right?
	When we have the level of corruption that we have in our government, isn't it possible this money is being used to pay off the politicians in some kind of a dark fund, a secret fund?
	Or is it being used by the Pentagon and the CIA for some other illegal activity somewhere else as well?
	Probably all of those things.
	You know, we had that with Iran-Contra.
	We were supposed to believe that Iran was the most evil force on Earth because most Americans' understanding of Iran begins with a takeover of the U.S. Embassy.
	It doesn't begin with the overthrow of the Iranian government and the installation of the Shah and that brutal regime that he had with the Slovak, trained by the CIA to brutally oppress, torture, and kill dissidents.
	That's what our government wants to do to us.
	And they're moving towards that.
	That's what the censorship stuff is about.
	That's what the criminalization of speech is about.
	If you can criminalize speech, it's a short hop to coming after any dissidents, just like the CIA trained Iran to do under the Shah.
	You want to know what's coming to our country?
	Take a look at what the CIA, which is a real government, is doing in other countries and showing their puppets what to do.
	That's what they want to do here.
	That's the way they want to govern.
	And if we allow that to happen in our name, That will happen here.
	So you go back to Iran-Contra.
	What was that?
	Well, you know, evil Iran, which Reagan threatened, they had already made a deal with him.
	Bill Casey had made a deal with him before the election.
	You keep those hostages until even after the election and when Reagan has won.
	And don't release him until he takes office.
	And we'll continue to sell you spare parts For the state-of-the-art jets that you have there.
	And then they use that money for an illegal secret war in Central America.
	So where is the money for the oil that we're stealing in Syria going?
	Where is that going?
	Well, the Lifeside article headline is, Why is the U.S. backing rebels who butcher Christians?
	That's right.
	And, you know, we should be concerned about that.
	But, of course, these rebels don't just butcher Christians.
	They also butcher other Muslims as well.
	They've got their own little group, and everybody outside of that group is an infidel and should be killed.
	But Christians especially are in the crosshairs.
	And we've seen this in other places where the U.S. has gone in and occupied.
	I had said many times that friend who was in the military, worked in the Pentagon from high school, and we stayed in touch for a long time.
	And he contacted me after he got out.
	He was working for somebody else, and they were putting together some kind of a publication, a website.
	It was what it was.
	They were going to publish a website in Afghanistan.
	And he contacted me.
	He knew that I'd done some website development, but I hadn't really done much.
	And so I said, well, I'll just pass on the information to a friend of mine that does a lot of website stuff at the time.
	He was doing all of Lifeway Christian Books' websites.
	And so I passed it on to him, and he found out what it was, and he said, I'm not going to bid on that.
	He said, the U.S. is telling its soldiers in Afghanistan they've got to hide their Bibles and can't have any open displays of Christianity.
	He says, I'm not going to support a government like that.
	I'm not going to do a website for a government that does that type of thing.
	I was like, yeah, I agree with you.
	I wouldn't do it either.
	Our government has gone in.
	Our government has been anti-Christian with its own soldiers.
	Just take a look at what happened with the vaccine mandate, for example.
	But they did that with their soldiers when they're in the theater there.
	You've got to suppress all signs of Christianity.
	Of course, when you look at what happened in Iraq, what happened?
	You had Christian communities that have been there for the longest period of time, even under Saddam Hussein.
	Had been their ancient Christian communities completely destroyed in the wake of all that.
	And the people that they put in charge persecuted them.
	Same thing is happening in Syria.
	And so this article from LifeSite News says the long war in Syria which has recently resumed is not only about the fate of Christians in that troubled nation, Nor is it about a new migrant wave which would follow its collapse.
	But it is certainly not about freedom.
	The inclusion of Turkey in the north and the resurgence of the western-backed Takfiri terrorists from Idlib are signs of a great game being played whose resolution may redraw the map of the world.
	And it is very significant when you look at it.
	And of course, it is the kind of geopolitics where Henry Kissinger said, we don't have any permanent allies, we only have permanent interests.
	And of course, those interests of people like Henry Kissinger, of people like our presidents, Republican and Democrat, Those interests don't include any consideration at all of the human cost in any of these places.
	It's about what they want for their empire.
	And it's about how they get power and leverage over other people.
	That's all it's about.
	And they will kill you and use you as cannon fodder just like the people in Ukraine are being used.
	Just like the Russians are being used, as a matter of fact.
	You know, they're talking about the rapid advances, and we'll get to that in Ukraine.
	Oh, look, you know, Putin lost 2,000 soldiers in a day.
	Well, if that is true, so what?
	That's nothing to them, right?
	As Stalin said, the death of a million is a statistic.
	The death of one person is a tragedy.
	Because they don't see these people as persons.
	They have depersoned them.
	Same thing you do with abortion, right?
	It's not a person.
	Same thing they did with slavery.
	Well, slaves are not persons.
	Unborn babies are not persons.
	Soldiers and civilians, in the way of their geopolitics, are not persons either.
	They're expendable.
	Let's see, what was the term that Trump used for the lockdown?
	Non-essential.
	Non-essential.
	It's just collateral damage or whatever, right?
	So, it is a big game.
	As we shall see, he says, whoever backs Bashar al-Assad will have the keys to the future.
	If you think that is a surprising conclusion given the news, that is because the news is part of the campaign.
	So he said, so who are the two sides in this?
	Well, you have Assad, and you have the Russians, Hezbollah, Iran, and its Iraqi militia.
	Then on the other side, we have Turkey, the Syrian National Army, which is a surrogate of Turkey, the U.S., Israel, and what they now call the new label is HTS, formerly Al-Qaeda, formerly ISIS, formerly al-Nusrah, See, a long train of aliases, that's a sign something is wrong.
	The guy that defrauded us when we sold our business, he had a long string of aliases.
	Somebody keeps changing their name, they're up to something, right?
	And so, yeah, it's Al-Qaeda, ISIS, al-Nusra, now it's HTS. Should be a PCR test for that, I think.
	In brief, the U.S., Turkey, and Israel support Islamic terrorists in order to topple Assad as they have armed and used terrorists such as al-Qaeda and ISIS in the past to advance their political agencies.
	And, of course, we've talked about that many times.
	Look, they're giving weapons to ISIS and so forth.
	Assad has been left exposed by his presumed Russian and Iranian allies who are now rushing to his aid, since the operation to oust him has failed.
	Both the U.S. and the Russians wanted Assad gone to be replaced by someone they could control.
	Instead, Assad has outplayed them all, and now whoever wants to win has to back him.
	Moves are being made by both sides to do precisely this right now.
	And here's why.
	They said, Arch Neocon William Crystal, I don't talk about him as much as I do Lindsey Graham, but he's another one of these people like Graham and McCain, has described the anti-Assad fighters as a force for freedom in Syria.
	He said, I hope the Biden administration is doing everything it can to help the anti-Assad fighters in Syria, the anti-Putin Democrats in Georgia, the pro-freedom forces in Iran, and of course, the brave Ukrainian people.
	It was Bill Kristol.
	Well, these people can find conflict everywhere to get us involved in, can't they?
	These rebels, now called HTS, they are labeled as a terrorist group in the UK. But now their media in the UK is referring to them as moderate rebels.
	Moderate rebels.
	They're moderate terrorists.
	Their terrorists are on our side, so they're now moderate.
	We'll show you how moderate they are in just a moment here.
	In 2016, one U.S.-backed anti-Assad group beheaded a child.
	In Aleppo, they're now tearing down Christmas trees.
	Well, it's not just that.
	That's a prelude to coming after all the Christians.
	These head-chopping groups were armed by the U.S. in 2012, following the U.S.-U.K. Operation Odyssey dawn in Libya.
	After that state was collapsed and its leader, Colonel Momar Gaddafi, murdered, the Clinton State Department sent Libyan army weapons to Syria along the Rat Line in order to arm the rebels.
	Now, what they did was they turned Libya into a massive arms bazaar, a market for terrorists.
	That's where they put the stuff out.
	And, of course, as we've talked about this many times, they're now, after the fall of Gaddafi, there's now open slave trading markets there again.
	Yeah, that's right.
	It wasn't just the white Europeans.
	Slavery has always been a part of this and still remains a part of what's going on in Africa with the Muslims, the Arabs.
	They've always been involved in slave trade.
	This is the email that I forgot to put the picture in here.
	Maybe you can find it there.
	The email was sent by Jake Sullivan.
	To Hillary Clinton, years ago.
	Said, Al-Qaeda is on our side in Syria.
	He said to Secretary of State Hillary.
	There you go.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Karen.
	Can you zoom in on that?
	No, you don't know how.
	Okay, that's okay.
	Well, you can see that there.
	And so, it's from Jake Sullivan.
	And says, oh, see the last item.
	AQ is on our side in Syria.
	Otherwise, things have basically turned out as expected.
	So you didn't expect that al-Qaeda was going to be on your side?
	See, it's that kind of stuff there, along with WikiLeaks, another email they exposed about Hillary Clinton, talking about how Gaddafi wanted to set up a gold-backed financial system, That would help Africa, but it would also hurt European and American banks.
	And that's why he had to be taken down.
	That was also shown by WikiLeaks, another Hillary Clinton thing.
	So that's why they wanted to kill the messenger, Julian Assange, and WikiLeaks.
	That's why not just Hillary Clinton, but of course Pompeo as well, Mike Pompeo.
	See, we have a uni government.
	It's called the CIA. The goal was regime change.
	That Libya's regime had changed from stability and success into a place where slaves are sold and Coptic Christians beheaded didn't matter to them.
	What mattered was removal of a leader who refused to bow to Israel, the U.S. proxy in the region.
	Israel has also said that it has effectively supported al-Qaeda.
	Former IDF chief Eisencott admitted in 2019 that Israel had been arming Syrian rebels.
	Foreign policy reported in 2018 that Israel had been arming and funding at least 12 rebel groups in Syria for years.
	And here is a former Mossad spokesman admitting that Israel had been treating wounded Al-Qaeda fighters on its border for humanitarian reasons, he said.
	Okay, you say no preference.
	There have been reports that Israel has been treating wounded Syrian rebel fighters in its hospitals on the border, including fighters from Nusra Front, which is of course the Al-Qaeda proxy in Syria.
	Do those reports worry you that Israel's helping wounded Al-Qaeda aligned fighters?
	As I said before, in a different context, it's always useful also to deal with your enemies in a humane way.
	And I think that when you have people who are wounded and you can deal with them in a humane way, the considerations as to whether to take them in are not simply whether it's politically useful or whether it's politically contributory.
	So it's purely humanitarian, you say.
	So there's no tactical or political strategy?
	I didn't say there's no tactical.
	I said the main consideration...
	The immediate consideration is humane.
	But the tactical issues involved...
	I mean, you know better than me the phrase blowback.
	You don't think there's going to be blowback against Israel if you get into bed with a group like Nusra Front?
	No, I don't think so.
	I don't think there's going to be blowback.
	Why?
	Because I think that, unfortunately, the rules of the game in Syria are such that you can do anything that is not possible to be done anywhere else.
	Yeah, I think people said that in Afghanistan too.
	Would you also treat Hezbollah fighters?
	No.
	Have you not just contradicted what you told me 60 seconds ago, but humanely treating your enemies?
	No, no.
	I think as far as Hezbollah fighters are concerned, with them we have a different account.
	So let me be clear, you would be Al-Qaeda fighters, but not Hezbollah fighters.
	We have a different account with Hezbollah.
	A totally different account.
	Because Hezbollah has carried out the type of actions against us which will preclude us from going into what the Al-Qaeda has done.
	Al-Qaeda, to the best of my recollection, has up to now not attacked Israel.
	They're moderate.
	They're moderate.
	So, you know, that's fine.
	We're going to do things on a humanitarian basis, even if they are terrorists.
	And they're wounded.
	They're combatants.
	They're wounded.
	We're going to do the humanitarian thing.
	Well, what about civilians in Gaza?
	You're going to do the humanitarian thing there?
	We've seen what you do.
	Everybody has seen it.
	The world has seen it.
	Al-Qaeda regarding Gaza is now silent about the genocide that is going on there.
	You know, the humanitarian stuff is there.
	Al-Qaeda hasn't said anything about it with their social media accounts.
	You would think they would say something about it.
	But they don't.
	Yeah, on both sides.
	Both sides.
	They're allied there.
	The so-called moderate rebels in Syria, backed by the U.S. and Israel, they're called takfiris by other Muslims.
	The takfiris believe that Muslims, unlike themselves, are apostates, and they have a habit of beheading people, Christians, other Muslims, Westerners, anybody like that, right?
	Anybody that's outside of their group.
	As a matter of fact, in this article, they've got a 20-plus minute long documentary that they link to.
	The mobilization of these rebels said to be fighting for freedom from Assad is an attempt by the U.S. and Israel to dissolve the one nation on its borders, which is not submitted to the U.S.-Israeli regional rule.
	Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan have all normalized relations with Israel.
	Syria hasn't.
	And yet, Lebanon still attacked in spite of that.
	But it is really, there's other things involved as well.
	There are interests by Turkey.
	There are interests by Russia.
	There are interests by Iran.
	And of course, there is the underlying geopolitical strategy Of gas pipelines that Gerald Slenty and I have talked about for years with Syria.
	Why is this happening, as he said?
	Go to war with these people because they sell peanuts, right?
	It's because there's gas pipelines there.
	And it's the same thing that we're seeing in Europe as well.
	The U.S. is trying to counter Russia, keep them from becoming an economic powerhouse.
	And one of the things that they're doing is to shut down Russia's pipelines as they push forward their pipelines.
	It's really that simple from their geopolitical strategy.
	Turkey has long seen northern Syria as a security zone, quote-unquote, You know, when they created Iran and Iraq after World War II... There had been three large people groups there.
	If you go back to the Bible and you look at the Persians, Babylonians, and the Medes, right?
	Well, the Persians were given Iran.
	The Babylonians were given Iraq.
	But the Medes weren't given anything.
	And so they've been kind of spread out.
	They've been, you know, they're trying to find a homeland out of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey.
	And they've been a problem for all three of them because they don't want to submit to any of those governments.
	They want an independent state.
	So that partitioning has been the basis of a lot of this ongoing struggle there.
	So, the Turks see the Kurds as a threat, and so did Iraq as well.
	You know, we wanted to portray Saddam Hussein as a bad guy, and he was a bad guy.
	But we had given him coordinates and assistance to gas the Kurds at one point in time, when he was our ally, right, before the U.S. turned on him.
	So the Syrian National Army is fighting in Syria now.
	It's actually a Turkish proxy.
	And Erdogan also backs HTS, also known as Al-Qaeda, also known as ISIS, also known as al-Nusra.
	Erdogan wanted the U.S. to intervene on the ground in 2011 and is suspected of staging a gas attack.
	To trigger Obama's red line for intervention.
	And, of course, we've seen that played over and over again.
	That happened twice under Obama.
	And then it happened under Trump.
	And I remember, worked very hard, screaming about it.
	You know, where I used to work, everybody was screaming, don't do it, don't.
	It's a trick.
	They want to draw us in.
	They want boots on the ground in Syria.
	You had Ivanka Trump was publicly hectoring Donald to do something.
	They sent some missiles in and that type of thing.
	But probably that had something to do with the occupation of the oil fields that are there as well.
	So, Assad has retreated back to Damascus.
	Having moved his troops out of the line of contact, he has ceded ground to the point where the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army, their proxy, and the Takfiri, quote-unquote, rebels, the terrorists, are now faced with the prospect of fighting each other.
	And they have a history of doing exactly that.
	If we go back to December of 2023, there was a report by Lindsey Snell.
	And there was also an LA Times article from 2016 showed how Pentagon-backed rebels were fighting CIA-backed rebels.
	Yeah, how about that?
	Assad has withdrawn to consolidate a position he can hold, leaving the field to a fractious enemy known for infighting.
	His army, weakened by two years of Israeli airstrikes, defunded by Iran, cannot win in the field, but it can defend his capital.
	So why do you do this?
	Well, these so-called rebels, the Takfiri, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, ISIS, began destroying Christmas decorations in Aleppo.
	The second city of Syria, as they swept in after Assad's withdrawal.
	There are an estimated 50,000 Christians in Aleppo.
	Before the U.S.-backed war of 2011, there were 200,000 Christians.
	Now it's down to 50 Christians.
	And here's what that looks like.
	This is a Christian church there.
	People meeting in church coming up for Christmas.
	There's a choir doing a program.
	There's everybody there with a little Christmas tree.
	Oh, that's that.
	There's the moderate rebels trying to tear down this Christmas tree that you just saw the kids in front of.
	Isn't that wonderful?
	See, it's not about Santa or anything else.
	This is about how they hate Western values, but especially Christians.
	These are allies.
	These are the moderate headchoppers.
	So, now down to 50,000.
	The Al-Qaeda ISIS terrorists, who have already begun removing all Christmas decorations and beheading captured soldiers.
	Western media are cheering on the terrorists and calling them, by the propaganda term, rebels.
	And of course, they'll probably kill those people that you saw there in that picture as well, if they can find them.
	So, they used to have the largest, that was, they left about 13 years ago, about three-quarters of the Christians that were there.
	And as I said before, we've seen this happen over and over again.
	Why is the U.S. backing people who butcher Christians, and why do they continue to do it everywhere?
	Well, I would say that it's because the U.S. government, the Pentagon, the CIA, serve Satan.
	That's right.
	They serve Satan.
	By their fruit, you will know them.
	By their actions, you will know them.
	They serve Satan.
	Call it the pentagram.
	If this surprises you, consider that the U.S. invasion of Iraq killed over a million historic Christians.
	The Turks, a U.S.-NATO ally, once killed over a million Christians in Armenia.
	And they're still at it.
	I mean, the different groups that are there.
	As a matter of fact, it was a Jewish historian who coined the term genocide over what the Turks did to the Armenian Christians.
	Of course, now the Turks are our allies.
	And nobody talks about what is happening with the Armenians today.
	As J.D. Vance asked in May, he said, why can't the U.S. stop genociding Christians?
	Well, it's because of who we are, who our government is, who they serve.
	And so then that brings us back to what's in it for them, the money, the power.
	That's the way Satan pays his servants, like the U.S. government.
	So Nord Stream is a good example in Germany, but of course there was a pipeline that was running across Syria.
	And that was what triggered this to start with, the geopolitics behind it.
	We don't want Russia.
	Selling gas into a Russian-allied people.
	Selling gas into Europe.
	Either through the Middle East or through the Nord Stream pipeline.
	Russia's other pipeline to Europe is seldom mentioned.
	That's the Turk Stream, and it connects Russian gas to Turkey through the Black Sea.
	Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, and the Balkans rely on this gas supply to function as states.
	And it is described as a Trojan horse for Russian power in Europe.
	You see?
	They don't care what happens to those people in those states.
	We don't care.
	They have to suffer because we can't let Russia prosper by selling them gas.
	That's the geopolitics behind all this.
	Keeping the supply open means that these nations can remain stable, and it gives Russia enormous leverage in Europe.
	Turkish cooperation is crucial, which is one reason for Russia agreeing to Turkish demands and the agreements which settled the 2011 war in Syria.
	If Russia also controls Syria, it has cornered the gas market and secures strategic global influence.
	The Astana format, the 2017 settlement, saw Russia, Turkey, and Iran agree to cooperate over security in Syria after the war, which followed the 2011 attempt for regime change.
	Assad, in recent days, and Russians and Iranian foreign ministers have insisted on returning to the format in order to end the war.
	Turkey has dropped out of this at this point, though.
	So there are shifting allies.
	Again, as Henry Kissinger said, we don't have any permanent allies, only permanent interests.
	Our permanent interest is that we have to be the only power, militarily, economically.
	Russia said it placed S-300 air defense systems in Syria in 2018.
	Following a request from Israel and to Turkish delight, Russia withdrew these in late 2022 despite Assad having already paid for them.
	This left Syrian airspace open for Israeli airstrikes, which have continued to hit Assad's army ever since.
	Russia's move also encouraged Israel, discouraged Israel rather, from sending arms to Ukraine.
	For four years, Russia never once permitted these systems to fire on Israeli military aircraft, which bombarded Iranian militias in Syria.
	Russia was playing a double game, said Herats in May 2020, permitting the weakening of Iran whilst maintaining its own presence there.
	Yeah, there's no good guys in any of this conflict.
	The Russians aren't good.
	The Iranians aren't good.
	The Syrians aren't good.
	But the Syrians are, in this particular case, the ones who have the moral high ground and sense that they're being attacked.
	Why?
	Well, because of resources, because of political power.
	Iran has been funding Assad since 2011, but they stopped in 2019, so they had to demobilize a lot of his troops.
	Then Iran removed many of its elite officers from Syria in February.
	So why did they pull back and leave their ally exposed, both the Russians and the Iranians?
	Well, this writer at LifeSite News says, Russia relies on Turkish cooperation and seeks appeasement of Israel.
	Though Russia wishes to retain its influence in Syria, Assad was still meant to go.
	He has refused to bow to the U.S., to the Turks, to Israel, and has refused to dissolve his remaining army in the latest attempts to destroy his state.
	As the Russians and Iranians appear to have intended.
	So how can he be said to hold the Trump card?
	Well, he says, Syria is not about friendship.
	It's not about freedom.
	It is the site of the great game for world domination.
	Whoever takes Assad's deal wins the game.
	What is this deal?
	Why does it matter?
	Assad is now seeking allies with Gulf states, and key to this is Qatar.
	This could see a gas pipeline from Qatar to Syria built in order to supply Europe with the energy it desperately needs.
	It was described by Assad as the Four Seas Program and was announced in 2009. Although he had started talking about it in 2004. The serialization would reduce Israel to a minor country in a new Syria-led regional power structure.
	Initially involving Turkey, an alternate route could bypass both Turkey and the former plan to link with China.
	Also being sidelined.
	In 2000, Qatar proposed to build this pipeline through Syria to Turkey.
	Assad refused this U.S.-backed initiative, likely because it would hand major influence to the Turks.
	In 2006, the U.S. State Department began funding opposition operations in Syria against Assad, as WikiLeaks revealed.
	His regime was a problem to the U.S. grand strategy to build a pipeline to defeat its rivals.
	And what follows, say some, was the Arab Spring color revolution, which came to Syria in 2011, and the long war that we are seeing reignited today.
	U.S. forces remain stationed at the U.S. Conoco gas field in northern Syria, whose pipeline was blown up by Iranian militias in October 2023. If this pipeline gets built, it could cut the Chinese Belt and Road in half, and it would destroy Russian influence.
	This depends on where its pipeline ends and whether it includes or excludes Iran, Russia, and Turkey.
	So everybody is fighting over the route of this pipeline, and who is going to control it by having it go through their country.
	This is what it's about.
	It's all about the so-called fossil fuels.
	And because, as Bill Maher pointed out to Jane Fonda, who is wrong about everything.
	Everything.
	He says, you really are clueless.
	You're naive if you think fossil fuels are going to go away.
	They're not going to go away.
	There's no alternative to that.
	It's going to be there one way or the other.
	That's why they're fighting these wars.
	It tells you everything that you need to know.
	About how they, why if they say that we've got to stop the use of fossil fuels?
	Why if the U.S. military says, well, we've got to figure out how we're going to electrify everything.
	Why is it that they're still fighting over this with all these wars?
	Because they don't believe what they're telling you.
	You shouldn't believe it, but they don't believe it.
	And that's demonstrable by the wars that they're fighting.
	They know that it is going to be vital.
	They know that it is going to be the basis of power.
	Look, all they're doing with this so-called climate nonsense is taking economic power away from the U.S. and from Europe and handing it to China.
	And India, giving them an advantage in terms of manufacturing that will make it uneconomical and impossible, really, to have any manufacturing happening in Europe.
	This has already happened in Britain.
	Germany is going down the tubes as well over making it expensive for them to use so-called fossil fuels.
	Gas, oil, coal, that type of thing.
	All the factories are shutting down.
	Car companies won't be able to compete.
	And now China is putting an embargo on rare-earth minerals as well to the U.S. So these natural resources That's the real world.
	You know, we're so caught up in digital this and digital that that we don't see the real world.
	And all of this stuff about climate change, clearly these people are not worried about it.
	I mean, they're using massive amounts of, creating massive amounts of carbon emissions and so forth, explosions.
	We don't talk about global warming.
	It's not just a thermonuclear war that they're not concerned about.
	They're not concerned about all their bombs and missiles and space rockets and all the rest of the stuff, just like the elites when they fly from one of these climate conferences to the other.
	It's absolute total hypocrisy.
	They don't believe a word of it, and neither should you.
	All of this, what is happening in Syria, as well as what is happening in our societies, as well as what's happening in Europe, is all about restructuring power and giving them everything.
	And nothing for anybody else, not even for the people in their quote-unquote own countries.
	They don't see this as their country.
	It's only about them.
	They care nothing about America, the American government.
	So, if the pipeline gets built, it also has issues for China, the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as Russian influence and so forth.
	This was talked about in 2016 by RFK Jr., but Gerald Slenty and I were talking about it long before that.
	This polemic blamed the CIA, who began its meddling in Syria in 1949, of course.
	We're all over the place.
	As a matter of fact, if you go back, I've talked many times about Riley Ace of Spies.
	I'm talking about Sigmund Riley, who was the guy that in Fleming patterned James Bond after.
	He was legendary, the way he could infiltrate places.
	During World War I, he infiltrated the German High Command and so forth, you know, because he spoke fluent, many, many languages fluently.
	But the beginning of that series, he's involved in helping the British establish dominance over petroleum-based products, BP and that type of thing.
	It's always been the center of military power as well as economic power.
	That's where the energy is coming from.
	That's where the energy is going to come from.
	So once the economic space between Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran becomes integrated, said Assad back in 2009, we would link the Mediterranean Caspian Black Sea and the Persian Gulf.
	We aren't just important in the Middle East.
	Once we link these four seas, we become the unavoidable intersection of the whole world and investment and transport and more.
	You see, he was setting himself up with these things as kind of a crossroads of all of this.
	So, again, that's a vision that he published at that point in time, but it went all the way back to 2004. The post-war settlement after Ukraine is most likely to result in a renewal of Russian gas supplies to Europe.
	Germany and its satellites will die without cheap, reliable energy.
	Well, I don't know.
	That seems to be the plan, though, right?
	The plan is to kill the European economies and countries, to kill Germany, to kill Britain, to kill the U.S., all the rest of them.
	The German government has already dissolved over the economic crisis that they created over their support for the Ukraine war.
	The French government looks likely to do the same.
	Putin's thesis, by the way, was written on the subject of mineral and raw materials resources and the development strategy for the Russian economy.
	He understands...
	That minerals and natural resources are at the crux of power.
	And that's what he's been focused on.
	If Assad builds this gas line without Putin, Russian influence in Europe melts away.
	The only long-term options for Europe are now Russian gas or Qatari gas.
	And this makes Assad the kingmaker.
	His move could undermine BRICS and Russian geostrategic leverage in Europe and could handicap the Chinese grand strategy.
	This is the reason that no one cares where the Christians get butchered en masse.
	This is the reason the people likely to butcher them are being styled as freedom fighters by people like William Crystal.
	Whoever controls Syria can dictate the fate of the world.
	This is a site of the real world war.
	The one which will decide who rules the near future.
	Whoever controls Syria wins the game.
	With Assad impossible to dislodge for now, this means whoever backs him will sweep the board.
	For this reason, the Russians sacked their general in Syria and replaced him.
	Russian air and drone support has intensified now, striking hard against the so-called rebel positions.
	Iran has also renewed support at this late stage, with Iranian-backed militia arriving, including from Iraq.
	In a final series of startling twists, the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates have offered to lift sanctions on Assad if he pivots away from Iran.
	This would likely normalize relations with Qatar.
	Again, it's going to be the Russian or Qatari gas.
	The former chief of staff of the Israeli army said in 2013 and 2017 that it is in Israel's interest if Assad stays in power.
	Herb Kynan, an Israeli analyst close to every Israeli prime minister for the last 24 years, said it carries significant risks to Israel and Israel's concerns that the rebel attack's failure may now empower Iran and Syria.
	Assad may pivot to the U.S. He may shake hands with Trump in the new year.
	It may seem unthinkable that Assad would switch sides, but this would guarantee the survival of Syria and the only regime capable and willing to offer any protection to Christians at all.
	Yeah.
	Not our allies and not us.
	We're charged.
	We're not going to.
	We care nothing about any people.
	Not even our own.
	And certainly not about Christians in Syria.
	If this happens, Russian global power is defeated on the brink of a hard-fought victory.
	The Chinese global trade network would be cut in two, and this could revive the U.S. global empire.
	The nations of the Gulf making overtures to BRICS would realign with the U.S. once more.
	And of course, that is at the front of mind with Trump.
	He's Talking about 100% tariffs, and we'll get to that later, for the BRICS nations.
	He's determined that he's going to bully people into supporting the U.S. dollar.
	Evidently, he's learned nothing at all, right?
	Does he realize that it was the bullying that undermined the dollar in the first place?
	But he's going to double down on the bullying.
	Well, you better start using the U.S. dollar.
	What are you going to do?
	This is the most remarkable power struggle in recent history.
	Its significance dwarfs any other conflict on Earth.
	Its resolution will decide not only the fate of nations, the region, but also who dominates the world for decades to come.
	Because it's about energy as well.
	Syria's long war is the undeclared world war.
	As usual at this level, the human cost is never counted, and there are no friends, only interests.
	It is being played out now behind a smokescreen of propaganda and lies because public opinion is manufactured by those who have the power to do so.
	All that matters to all of these state-level actors, whether you're talking about America or Russia, there's no difference in them because all they care about is winning their geopolitical objectives.
	And they don't care how that's accomplished.
	They don't care who pays the ultimate price.
	And so as this is happening, Russia has accused Ukraine of supporting Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Syria.
	Well, of course.
	Because Ukraine is a U.S. puppet.
	And we are fighting Ukraine, the U.S. government, NATO. We're on the side of the Nazis in Ukraine.
	And al-Qaeda, ISIS, al-Nusrah, and this latest HTS. Are we with the baddies?
	Yeah, we are.
	We really are.
	It's absolutely amazing.
	They're all allies of the Pentagon.
	We're allied with the Nazis.
	We're allied with the al-Qaeda terrorists.
	Before you take a break...
	Jason Barker says, the A-10 Warthog, very low-tech and highly effective.
	A gun with wings, basically.
	Yeah.
	My brother, who is recently retired, senior master chief, said they were taking them out of inventory.
	Yeah, of course.
	Of course, they've got to have something that's fancy.
	They need to be able to retrofit it with all kinds of electronics.
	Yeah.
	That sucks.
	He says they're very resilient as well.
	My brother said people would come back with so many holes that the pilots couldn't believe they could still fly and land them.
	I know.
	I've read that many times.
	These things fly low.
	They're taking lots of hits all the time, and they just keep going.
	And it's one of the reasons, you know, we've abandoned that approach.
	Russia and others have kept that.
	Of course, the real ace in the hole for Russia is high-tech now, hypersonic.
	But still, you know, this is one of the things with asymmetric warfare.
	It isn't necessarily the complicated and expensive equipment that gives you the edge.
	That's being able to do stuff cheaply.
	That's why the drones are so important now.
	Dougalug says they have a titanium bathtub around the pilot.
	There you go.
	12 June 1776. Thank you very much.
	I appreciate that.
	It says, Welcome back.
	Hope all is on the mend.
	We refute all of Satan's servants.
	Yes.
	Thank you so much.
	Appreciate that.
	North American House Hippo.
	It says, the only pipeline that needs to be destroyed is the one that runs between the Federal Reserve and Tel Aviv.
	That's a major pipeline right there.
	Denver, Attaway.
	All these countries, as it happens, are all members of the Belt and Road Initiative, and all of them.
	How could this suggest that we're being shown one reality to hide another?
	Yeah.
	That's the other thing, too.
	There are so many agendas within other agendas.
	There's so much misdirection and all the rest of this.
	When I think of misdirection, and we're going to get this later as well, all this stuff about the lab leak, that is one of the biggest misdirection campaigns I've ever seen.
	And to me, that is a major red flag, wherever that is coming from.
	And it has come from Rand Paul.
	It's come from RFK Jr. That's what makes me very skeptical about what he might do.
	Now, the possibility, and I've seen this put out there as well, insiders are saying that there's rumors that Trump doesn't think that RFK Jr. is going to get past confirmation.
	He might just be using him.
	I've always said that.
	I've said, you know, he used him before I'd help him get elected.
	He did it this time as well.
	He's going a little bit further this time.
	I think that would suit him just fine for RFK Jr. not to get elected because he's going to do more than anybody else that Trump would consider to put in to push back against the vaccine agenda.
	Nevertheless, he's still misdirecting people away from the COVID thing.
	And perhaps...
	That was something he had to do in order to be considered by Trump.
	Rand Paul has done that from the very beginning.
	He never came after Fauci for the poison vaccine, the real bioweapon.
	He was always about gain-of-function and gain-of-function alone.
	And if you're going to only criticize the gain-of-function lab boondoggle and reckless behavior, but you're not going to talk about the bioweapon, then it is a red herring.
	It is to distract people.
	Atomic Dog.
	Help!
	David Knight finally fixes me on it by liking the video, sharing on social media, and subscribing.
	Thank you so much.
	I appreciate that.
	Let's go, David.
	I appreciate that.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, I've got a little bit more I want to talk about with war and peace with what is happening in Ukraine.
	We're going to do an update on that.
	So we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.
	As soon as I can find this.
	Well, I don't see it there.
	We'll do this one.
	Well, I have another comment here.
	This is from Retech Weird.
	I don't believe Russia wants World War III. They're under attack.
	Regime change wanted by the U.S., they won't just roll over.
	Syria's under regime change attack also.
	I believe that the U.S. is the aggressor in all of these things.
	And I don't believe that the Russians are as naive as the Americans are, because they had massive casualties within living memory during World War II, the millions of people that died there.
	Americans just think that we're exceptional.
	We're never going to have to suffer the consequences of wars, not even wars that we began.
	And I have a real problem with American exceptionalism.
	Because you see, when you talk about American exceptionalism, when you talk about Israeli exceptionalism, well, that means that they got exceptions to morality, to basic morality.
	And no, you don't.
	You don't have exceptions to that.
	Because ultimately, it is God who decides who's going to pay the price.
	You know, God can use, and has, we've seen, use different countries for his purposes of judgment or whatever.
	He used the Babylonians against Israel at one point in time, but he also said, I'm going to hold them responsible for what they did at the same time.
	In other words, he allows them to come into power for his purposes or whatever, but he also still holds them accountable for what they do.
	But let's talk about what's going on with Ukraine.
	Desertion is threatening to starve Ukraine's forces.
	At a crucial time in its war with Russia, they say some take medical leave and never return.
	Some are haunted by the traumas of war and demoralized by bleak prospects for victory.
	They know that it is impossible now.
	Others clash with commanders and refuse to carry out orders, sometimes in the middle of firefights.
	But although Moscow has been dealing with desertion as well, Ukrainians going AWOL have laid bare deeply rooted problems bedeviling their military in how Kiev is maintaining the war.
	From the flawed mobilization drive, to the overstretching, to the hollowing out of frontline units, it comes as the U.S. urges Ukraine to draft more troops.
	See, there's never enough people being fed into the war machine for these monsters like Lindsey Graham, Bill Kristol, and many others, right?
	Marco Rubio would be another one.
	If Trump is a peace president, why is he putting Marco Rubio in the position of Secretary of State?
	Ask yourself that.
	But it's never enough.
	They're going to fight them to the last Ukrainian.
	And honest people said that at the very beginning.
	You had neutral military observers out of India talking about that.
	And, of course, you had Scott Ritter and you had Douglas McGregor talking about it.
	I always want to call him Douglas MacArthur.
	But Douglas McGregor talking about that.
	You know, it was not possible.
	As Salenti has used the example, it'd be like the U.S. going to war with Mexico.
	There's no way that Mexico's going to win.
	Just because of the relative size of the two countries, their economy, and all the rest of this stuff, militarily, there's no way that Ukraine can win.
	And the people are seeing this, and yet the U.S. is demanding, you know, we'll give you more weapons, but you've got to provide the people.
	So they're going around and they're kidnapping, hijacking, Shanghai-ing people, drafting them that way.
	The Russians are doing the same thing.
	The Russian people don't like the war there either.
	Zelensky, Putin, don't care.
	Don't care about their own people.
	And I played the clip for you going back to 2016. Where Lindsey Graham was there nervously fidgeting with his hands as he's telling a bunch of troops who look like they aren't really buying it.
	2016, next year we're going to go on offensive against Putin.
	We've got to get Putin out.
	And they're like, you can imagine, and their minds are saying, is this guy nuts?
	We're going to get Putin out?
	And look at how many times larger their population of their country is.
	And McCain was right there at the time, just before he died.
	He's now gone on to his reward.
	More than 100,000 soldiers have been charged under Ukraine's desertion laws since Russia invaded in February 2022, according to the General Prosecutor's Office in Ukraine.
	Nearly half have gone AWOL in the last year alone.
	It's a staggeringly high number by any measure, as there was an estimated 300,000 Ukrainian soldiers engaged in combat before the mobilization drive began.
	So a third of them have gone, half of them in the last year.
	And they said the actual number may be much higher.
	One lawmaker with knowledge of military matters estimated it could be as high as 200,000.
	You know, not a third, but two-thirds of them deserted.
	As a matter of fact, that helps to explain why we have this graphic here.
	This is put up by Russia.
	Showing the rapid advance of Russia and how the lines with Ukraine are just simply collapsing.
	Look at this.
	And this is just in the last two or three months.
	And as Russia is moving in, the West likes to say, well, you know, they lost 2,000 troops.
	Again, even if that is true, That means nothing to a country that is the size of Russia.
	It means nothing to them, just as it meant nothing to the Union when you had the winning victor, the winning general, Ulysses Grant.
	His entire program He said, well, we've got more soldiers than they do.
	Let's just wear them out.
	And as they characterized it, they said it was simply murder.
	Just kept driving them in, driving them, because we've got more soldiers than they do.
	And that's what Russia's doing at this point in time.
	And when you look at 2,000 people, yeah, that's a lot.
	But again, go back to the American Civil War.
	A battle that had 2,000 casualties was a small skirmish.
	It really was.
	You look at Antietam, what was it, 23,000 or something like that, that died in that battle?
	And then you look at Gettysburg over three days, over 50,000 casualties there.
	And this was in a country that had, on the southern side, They had a population of about 9 million.
	And when you cut that down by the fact that, well, the soldiers are going to be fighting all male.
	They don't have female soldiers, so cut it in half.
	And then you can reduce it some more because there are very few non-white, non-slave fighters.
	There were some who fought for the Confederacy.
	But, you know, when you look at the casualty figures that they had at the end of the war, we're supposed to believe that there was exactly the same number of people that died on the north and south side, 300,000 each.
	Yeah, you believe that?
	That's exactly the same number?
	Again, that's the kind of stuff.
	They wanted the war to end.
	They didn't want to keep things going, so they just, okay, we both suffered the same amount.
	But proportionally, it was much higher.
	And if you go back and look at the kind of casualties that they took and normalize it to today's population, you're talking about 25, 30 million people being killed.
	Most of them young males.
	So, would Russia continue to do this?
	Again, this is a country that lost millions of people in World War II in living memory.
	Do they care about 2000?
	No.
	Does Putin care at all?
	No.
	He's like Grant.
	He doesn't care at all about what it takes to you or just the cannon fodder for their agenda.
	Okay.
	Many deserters don't return after being granted medical leave.
	Bone-tired by the constancy of war, they are psychologically and emotionally scarred.
	They feel guilt about being unable to summon the will to fight.
	Anger over how the war effort is being led.
	And frustration that it seems unwinnable.
	Well, we've seen that as well, haven't we?
	With many people with Vietnam, right?
	Frustrated at how it's being managed, mismanaged.
	As well as the physical and emotional injuries.
	Being quiet about a huge problem only harms our country, said one of the few soldiers to speak publicly about his choice to desert.
	Another said he initially left his infantry unit with permission because he needed surgery.
	But by the time his leave was up, he couldn't bring himself to return.
	He still has nightmares about his comrades that he saw get killed.
	He said the best way to explain it...
	Is imagining that you're sitting under incoming fire, and from the Russian side, it's 50 shells coming toward you, while from our side, it's just one.
	Then you see how your friends are getting torn to pieces, and you realize at any second, it can happen to you.
	Yeah, all they need is another pep talk from Lindsey Graham.
	He said, meanwhile, Ukrainian soldiers, 10 kilometers or 6 miles away, order you on the radio, go on, brace yourself, everything will be fine, he said.
	Yeah, sounds like Lindsay.
	If there's no end to military service, he said it turns into a prison, and it becomes psychologically hard to find reasons to defend this country.
	Well, again, you saw those lines collapsing there.
	What good is it going to do to keep sending weapons there if there's no soldiers to use them?
	And this is why the U.S., the U.K., France, and others are saying, now we're going to start firing the missiles ourselves, long-range missiles, into Russia.
	Because this has failed.
	They don't have the will or the people to fight anymore.
	And you can put in conventional weapons, but there's not going to be anybody there to use them.
	This is why they are going with the long-range missiles into Russia.
	And they are flirting with disaster.
	Flirting with a nuclear war.
	Headline from two weeks ago, Ukraine front could collapse as Russian gains accelerate, experts warm.
	This is Zero Hedge, and they've got headlines from four weeks ago, two weeks ago, a week ago, all these saying the same thing.
	Moscow's forces have seized around 2,700 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory so far this year, compared with just 465 square kilometers in the whole of 2023, a near six-fold increase.
	A defense researcher at King's College London suggested that the BBC there was a possibility the Ukrainian Eastern Front might actually collapse, quote-unquote, if Russia continued to advance at pace.
	And so this is why you see the biggest tell is Zelensky talking about peace.
	Zelensky talking about peace as well as them firing these long-range missiles.
	But again, the game-changer is this hypersonic thing.
	Will they just ignore that and continue on?
	Zelensky said over the weekend that he seeks an early end to the war with Russia, adding that Ukraine could take occupied land later through diplomacy if Kiev's NATO membership is certain.
	That's what he's saying.
	He wants a new Cold War because he knows he's lost the hot war.
	And he's hoping that if he gets in there with NATO... That they can gradually claim that back.
	Russia could see itself in such a position as to not need negotiations at this point.
	With Russia winning on the battlefield in the East and this tragic war of attrition, the Kremlin is unlikely to want to give up anything at all.
	And so it's down to the point where they're talking about, you have ABC News.
	Doing an article about Ukraine's, quote, witches of buka.
	Witches of buka.
	I didn't use alliteration.
	Anyway, they're not just resorting now to women.
	You know, we talked about this, was it, I don't know how long ago it was, maybe a year ago, where they started recruiting elderly men.
	They started going after really young men, right?
	People outside of the range of the militia, you know.
	The militia traditionally included people up to, able-bodied people up to the age of 60 or whatever.
	They were going for much older people.
	But now they're going for women.
	And they're not even going for young women.
	These are elderly women.
	When you talk about, and this was said at the very beginning, going to fight them to the last Ukrainian.
	That's what this looks like.
	Now they're going after older women, and one of the women that they talked to, Tatyana, said that her husband and her brother have both been killed in the war, that her nephew has been reported missing.
	She said, my whole world was destroyed.
	She's 41. She is volunteering with a group.
	She said it gives her an outlet to channel her rage.
	We'll save some of your anger for people like Lindsey Graham, Zelensky, NATO, the U.S. about this.
	Yeah, you should be angry at the Russians for resorting to this.
	But, of course, there was a shelling of eastern Ukraine by Kiev, shelling their own country.
	For eight years before this kicked off with Russia.
	Where is the outrage over that?
	It's always about where they pick the starting point, you know?
	Again, going back to climate change.
	Well, we're going to say things are warming up based on, we're going to pick this as the starting point, right?
	So we can set up a trend here.
	That's the kind of stuff they always do.
	NATO chief warns Trump of dire threats to the U.S. over the peace deal in Ukraine.
	It's already started.
	And who is this NATO chief?
	This is Mark Ruta.
	Mark Ruda of the Netherlands, who was thrown out of being prime minister because he was trying to starve his own people by shutting down the farms.
	Remember that?
	First of all, he hates his nation.
	He opens up the borders.
	But then he tried, the thing that really kicked him over the edge was he tried to starve his own people by shutting down the farms.
	The most productive farms in Europe, in the Netherlands.
	And he wanted to eradicate them for the globalists.
	If he's willing to starve his own people, what else is he willing to do?
	He's willing to kill them.
	He's willing to let his own people die in a war.
	These are the kinds of people, and Trump is, you know, being lectured by him.
	He's now the head of NATO. That's who they want in NATO. And you look at the corruption of NATO. It's NATO that's pushing this stuff, but of course it's the U.S. that is driving NATO. And these other European heads, they're part of it.
	It's primarily the U.S. But even going back to Operation Gladio, you know, doing terrorist attacks in Europe.
	Kidnapping and killing prime ministers that they didn't like politically in Europe and Italy.
	This is what NATO has always been about.
	So, the U.S. may face a dire threat if it strikes a peace deal for Russia and Ukraine, said NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta.
	He told that to Trump.
	Well, you know, the reality is that these people...
	They will never give up.
	And they absolutely loathe and despise their own people.
	Mark Ruda is the poster child for that.
	You know, I talked, when we last did the program on, I guess it was on Monday, I talked about the fact that our weapon systems are so complicated, unlike the warthog that they now want to get rid of.
	Our weapon systems have become so hopelessly complicated that They took the littoral ship, which was a complete failure because it had guns that were too expensive to fire.
	It cost about a million dollars a round, and it was there for shallow water, land support of troops.
	But it cost about a million dollars a round to fire, so they said, well, we can't do that.
	They spent all this money on a stealth ship, And now they said, well, you know, we could fire hypersonic missiles, so let's keep this program going.
	Only eight and a half billion dollars per ship, so let's keep it going.
	And we could fire the hypersonic missiles, except we don't have any hypersonic missiles.
	Well, we might have some in two or three years.
	In two or three years, we're fixing to have some that'll be half as fast as the Russian missiles are today.
	That's our half-fast Pentagon that's there.
	So, you know, one of the things I laughed about is I said, okay, so this is all electric.
	So this has got batteries, and we were joking about it.
	I had listeners saying, well, how long is it going to take to charge this thing?
	Okay.
	Well, as it is with all electric stuff, and of course, it might not have been the climate thing.
	They say, well, with it being electric, it's really quiet because it's got electric motors and stuff like that.
	Well, it turns out that it's got a turbine generator that runs on gas that has to run through Syria or somewhere like that, right?
	So it runs, again, on fossil fuel.
	And so when I looked this up, because I was curious about, okay, it's an all-electric engine.
	How does this work?
	Well, it's got a Rolls-Royce MT-30 gas turbine.
	And when you look it up, you see all these very impressive power statistics that it generates.
	The gas turbine is a primary power source, driving Curtis Wright electric generators.
	The all-electric propulsion system eliminates the traditional need for diesel engines and reduction gears, reducing the ship's acoustic signature, and increasing available power for weapon systems.
	And then the very first thing they talk about is how this thing failed.
	They got this great idea for this gas turbine, and it's so powerful, and it's so state-of-the-art, and it's so unreliable and expensive.
	Notably, the USS Michael Mansour suffered damage to one of its MT-30 gas turbine blades during sea trials requiring replacement.
	And I remember that.
	When he went out on his maiden voyage, they had to tow the thing back.
	Highlighting the importance of reliable and robust turbine design.
	Okay.
	Or maybe highlighting the importance of doing it cheaply and economically and not trying to out-tech everybody else with this.
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	He said, the only thing that the American government is exceptional at is perpetual war and tyranny.
	And boy, are they.
	It truly is amazing.
	We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
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	Well, I haven't covered...
	I've gotten pretty far behind on emails.
	This is from Jay and Jessica, who live here in Tennessee.
	And he heard me talking about the flock systems, and he got...
	Interested in getting some answers from the local government, from city council.
	And guess what?
	He got stonewalled.
	Everything is secret.
	This is something that has been really infuriating to me.
	The fact that since World War II, oh, everything is national.
	I can't tell you.
	It's a secret.
	National security, right?
	Well, that began at the top.
	And that rot has filtered down to city councils for things like this.
	Surveillance of citizens, and you're not allowed to know.
	I can't say anything about it, right?
	Our government desires to keep everything secret from us while they demand to know everything about us, and that's exactly what this surveillance system is about.
	But thanks to Jay, because he took this on, and he contacted people about it, and, you know, we're starting to see some really ugly things here in the government in Tennessee.
	We just had...
	Just had a state senator who was arrested drunk.
	It's made national news.
	Did you see that?
	Video footage of him as he's doing his sobriety test.
	And he's standing there and he's pissed his pants.
	I mean, it's pretty obvious.
	He's standing there and it's like, this is, we're supposed to respect the people in office, right?
	This is why character matters, folks.
	So then the city council.
	Jay writes back and goes, Man, these crooks.
	A city council member told me that the Flock Raven Surveillance is a two-year contract with funding from a program from Bill Lee.
	Bill Lee, our Republican governor, who wants international toll roads and all this other kind of stuff.
	This is the reason why they get people like Frank Nicely out.
	And that came with a lot of big money from leftist organizations, out-of-state money.
	He ran for office.
	This guy who replaced him, Jesse Seals.
	He ran for office with the most dishonest, shallow smear campaign I've ever seen from any politician.
	I've seen a lot of them.
	It's the worst one I've ever seen.
	He said absolutely nothing about himself.
	Not anything.
	Didn't try to make a case for himself.
	A person of any accomplishment.
	Gave no biographical information.
	Talked about no issues.
	Again, it's the worst thing I've ever seen.
	And of course, they focused on Senator Nicely.
	Because he had introduced a bill to keep out-of-state money out of politics here in Tennessee, among other things.
	He'd done a lot of good things.
	And there wasn't enough support from his fellow Republicans to get that through.
	And so they came after the guy who introduced the bill.
	But getting back to the flock stuff...
	Got money from Bill Lee for this.
	If, after the two-year contract, they decided that the shot spotter system didn't show a net positive result, they would end the program.
	He says, that's total BS. I open records, requested records for how effective it has been so far.
	Originally, the police department told me the request for my records was within guidelines.
	Now they're considering all of my requests as requests for information and not requests for records.
	He says, what's the difference?
	There isn't any difference.
	This is, again, it's Orwellian.
	It's Kafkaesque, isn't it?
	Definitely doesn't make me feel.
	It's a very transparent system that they're trying to put up, and it's not just the shot spotter, like they say.
	I can literally see the cameras and the IR lighting on a few of them, and he sent me pictures of them.
	And he says, just for context, in the future, he said, this is what I said.
	I'm requesting access to records related to the use and the outcomes of the flock safety and shot spotter system in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
	Specifically, he gave them dates.
	He said the total number of incidents I'd like to see systems that were involved in alerting or providing evidence.
	Details of any incidents providing key evidence that led to arrests.
	The number of cases stemming from these incidents that resulted in criminal convictions.
	Any statistical analysis or summary reports related to the effectiveness of flock safety and the shot spotter systems in aiding criminal investigations.
	And so...
	He's very thorough about this.
	This is the kind of information that if they are telling the truth, that they want to look at these things to see if they are effective, then can we see how they have worked since we're paying for them, right?
	And it's not about that, of course.
	There's license plate readers and other things like that.
	And he took pictures of it, sent it to the council and said, look at this.
	We know that this is not simply a shot spotter system.
	And as I reported before, this is happening everywhere, folks.
	This is not just Tennessee.
	This Flock thing, this is a company that, you know, when Tierney comes to us...
	It will come to us in a public-private partnership.
	And this is a good example of it.
	This is a company that has grown very rapidly.
	They get federal grants or state grants or whatever for this stuff at the local community.
	They lobby the police department and say, this is going to be a great new toy.
	You want to have this thing.
	But then they are running a database that is not local.
	It's not state.
	It's not even just national.
	It is international.
	They're setting themselves up to be a global surveillance system, and they are all over the place.
	They're in small towns in Tennessee, which is why I was talking about it.
	He says, not only do they hide the information from a record request, they directly lie to me about the fact that there are license plate reader cameras involved.
	They keep telling me it's strictly for gunshot detection, and they've been telling me that for months.
	Now most council members won't even respond to me.
	Yes, top secret is national security.
	Not about your security.
	It's about their job security.
	And it's about the security state, the police state, their surveillance state.
	That's what this is all really about.
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	David, I have a homework project for you.
	Why did Trump pardon Edward J. DeBartolo, Jr., former 49ers owner and Youngstown, Ohio mafia guy?
	Well, that's a name I've not seen before, so yeah, I have to do some homework on that.
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	Marky Mark, thank you for the tip.
	It says, gas turbines are very reliable.
	the ge power ships of uh lm 2500 power ships of 29 nations unlike steam which takes many hours to raise gas turbine engines can go for cold iron to full speed in a matter of minutes the problem is though is that just like with the f-35 they push these things beyond the limit right When I was talking about the F-35 engine, it wasn't like it was some new design or something.
	It's just that as they started adding on all kinds of bells and whistles and electronic gadgets and all the rest of the stuff, first of all, they had insufficient cooling for those gadgets themselves, but they also needed a lot more power.
	So they started running the engine.
	At a thousand degrees higher than other engines on similar planes.
	And guess what?
	They got failures.
	And I suspect that's the same thing that is happening with this.
	But my point was, was that it was not at a lithium battery...
	It wasn't that stupid, okay?
	It was not a lithium battery ship.
	But it was a gas generator.
	And when you look at the specs that they're putting out, they're talking about how it's generating the stuff.
	They're bragging about the quantity of power that it's doing.
	So I imagine it's the same type of thing that they did with the F-35 engine.
	They take what is basically a reliable design.
	And they stretch it to 110 or 150% of what it's capable of doing, and they create failures on it.
	But the reality is that it did fail, that it is not reliable.
	And we continue to see that.
	From everything they do.
	They overcharge and then they overrun these things as well.
	It's kind of a cost overrun when they run it at too high of a temperature.
	Do we have Tony yet?
	Okay.
	Well, I'm going to continue on with the emails then.
	Raw milk and dandridge.
	This is from a listener.
	So I was looking at the raw milk directory in East Tennessee because my dad and I are considered moving there.
	You might have mentioned shopping at this farm in the past show a couple of years ago.
	I didn't.
	We do have a local dairy that we go to.
	It's not raw, but it is pasteurized.
	But it's not homogenized.
	And it's a lot creamier.
	It's part of the reason that they homogenize the milk is so they can skim off more cream.
	And so when you look at the color of it, it is...
	It's definitely not pure white.
	It's more of a cream color because it's got more cream in it.
	But yeah, raw milk is good.
	I'll just mention this to anybody that doesn't know about it.
	It's called Safe Haven Dairy Goats in Dandridge, Tennessee.
	So they have goat milk, but they say they also have the A2 milk, which is really good.
	And so we'll have to look into that as well.
	And then this was sent to me, talking about a reporting system for Whistler, for my son who's been injured.
	It's not the VAERS, but it is the FAERS, F-A-E-R-S. This was something I was not aware of.
	They sent me a link to it, an article that was done by Dr. Tenpenny on her substack.
	And she's talking about the fact this is another place that you can report vaccine injuries and things like that, but any kind of injury.
	This goes back to 1969. The FDA established what they called the Spontaneous Reporting System.
	Then in 1997, they changed the tech on it and changed the name, the FDA Adverse Events Reporting System, FAERS. So this is not run...
	By the CDC, this is run by the FDA. The interesting thing about this, it's voluntary, it's self-reporting, and it can be made by manufacturers, healthcare professionals, patients, families, and caregivers.
	And if a manufacturer receives a report from a healthcare professional or from a consumer, they are required by FDA regulations to report it to the FDA. So, that's worth doing.
	If it makes them do a report, it's definitely worth doing.
	The worst scenario is for these people to be able to continually harm others and to just dismiss it as, well, you know, somebody's always going to be harmed by some of the stuff we do.
	Well, maybe that's not the way that we ought to run, right?
	It ought to be first, do no harm.
	As a matter of fact, that came up with Supreme Court arguments about the Tennessee law against chemically mutilating and sterilizing minors over this transgender stuff.
	That was argued before the Supreme Court, and I hope we have a chance to get to that later.
	And in the discussion, Sotomayor had the audacity to say, well, anybody can be injured by anything, even by aspirin or whatever.
	Not at all equivalent.
	Not at all equivalent to this.
	When you have drugs that are injuring people by the hundreds of thousands, where do you get off saying, well, you know, it's still rare, right?
	That's just criminal.
	And we all know what it is.
	And we know that this is not at all like aspirin.
	You're taking young children who do not have the ability to consent to so many things or the judgment to consent to these things, and you are going to sterilize and mutilate them with these chemicals that were used to sterilize rape offenders.
	David Icke, on the same page as I am exactly.
	About this lab leak stuff.
	And he commented about a video from Robert Redfield.
	He said, this is classic misdirection.
	First of all, Redfield headed the CDC for the first year of so-called COVID. And he promoted the hoax.
	And second, there has never been a COVID virus, which is why it doesn't infect bats or humans.
	It came from a China lab story.
	It is a blood red herring.
	Exactly is.
	And again, you know, that's a red herring.
	They would take a smelly red herring, smelly fish, and they would drag it across the trail of a fox, the people who were against fox hunting, to throw the hounds off of the scent.
	And that's exactly what this is.
	You know, I've agreed with David Icke.
	He's been spot on with this stuff from the very, very beginning.
	And I remember the conflict that I had with Mike Adams began.
	Because he was very angry at David Icke for coming on at the very beginning of this and saying what I was saying, which is, there's not any pandemic.
	And so Mike Adams had been the guy with a hair on fire to sell the storable food and all the rest of the stuff from the very beginning.
	And when David Icke came on, he was furious and started talking about how he was the only person who knows anything about science.
	It's like, well, what is his degree?
	And of course, Mike Adams tells you that he almost went to, I think it was MIT or something, but he didn't.
	He doesn't tell you where he went or what.
	Science degree he got.
	He had a near-MIT experience, which is like a near-death experience.
	You didn't die.
	But he had a near-MIT experience.
	And so on the basis of that, not on where he went or what degree he got, he's going to lecture us about science.
	But anyway, we got into it with that publicly.
	And it began with David Icke.
	And this is what David Icke is talking about.
	Robert Redfield's red herring about the lab.
	The thing that bothered me the most about it, if you take COVID-19, that my people of a different point of view, a spillover, are saying went from a bat to humans, and now is one of the most infectious human viruses.
	I'm saying it went from a bat to the laboratory, And then into humans for infection.
	If you take that virus right now and you ask the question, can it infect bats?
	The answer is it hardly can infect bats.
	This guy is disgusting, isn't he?
	If this is a bat virus...
	How'd that happen?
	And I'll tell you how it happened when they put in the furin cleavage site.
	There's Russell Brandt.
	Who, again, has a lot of signatures in it that make you suspect that this was manipulated in the laboratory.
	When they put in that furin cleavage site, it changed the receptor of the COVID virus.
	This is total BS, furin cleavage site.
	So it no longer likes the bat receptor, but it loves the human receptor.
	Yeah.
	So I would argue with my colleagues that, you know, they're...
	I heard that term used so much.
	I won't mention any other names besides Mike Adams, but I had people, I had one guy who came on and said that's like, okay, never having him on again.
	Well, it's got this fern cleavage site and it's got like a special hook that, you know, is designed for humans and all the rest of this kind of stuff.
	Then why hasn't it even been isolated, right?
	If you haven't isolated this thing, how can you tell us all this stuff about the fern cleavage site and all the rest of the stuff?
	You haven't isolated it.
	Over 200 requests.
	Showed that nobody ever isolated this thing.
	And yet they want to tell us about all of the details as if they can see it under a microscope.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's nothing but a lie.
	And let me tell you, the people who are pushing this stuff, it's absolute misdirection.
	Rand Paul is one of the people pushing this stuff.
	Rand Paul knows better.
	Rand Paul is a physician.
	And yet all he would ever talk about is, well, you know, if I've had this, I don't need to get the vaccine mandate, do I? And then what about that lab, Dr. Fauci?
	He's coming after Fauci, right?
	Saving Trump's behind.
	And that's what this is all about.
	And that's one of the reasons why I think RFK Jr. wrote that book.
	To make himself acceptable.
	Well, we're not going to come after the vaccine as the bioweapon.
	So we'll see.
	I think Trump...
	You know, is playing a game.
	I think he thinks that RFK Jr. is not going to pass, and they can make sure that doesn't happen if they don't want that to happen.
	He can quietly tell some of the people, you know, just find some other things that you don't like about him and shut him down.
	They can keep him from going in and doing anything with any of this stuff.
	But the reality is it's just becoming a little bit too obvious, isn't it?
	They have to misdirect us, and they have to misdirect us to the lab.
	Because when we look at all of the things, they've been characterizing, mischaracterizing the damage done by the jab.
	They've been blaming it on the virus and on long COVID and all the rest of the stuff for the longest time.
	Take a look at what this doctor in Australia says.
	When he starts talking about the vaccine deaths, this guy chokes up and starts to cry.
	Australia has administered more than 60 million doses of these vaccines to over 20 million people.
	Australia's governmental health authorities have chosen not to monitor new or emerging cancer trends following the widespread use of these vaccines.
	It is troubling that the Department of Health has not made data on cancer trends post vaccination publicly available.
	It is their responsibility to do so.
	This is a critical gap in public health oversight.
	Given the massive contamination levels of rogue residual DNA in the Australian vials, we must expect an ongoing rise in cancers and other genetic disorders in Australia.
	This issue is a potential long-term health crisis waiting to happen.
	This matter must be taken seriously by every Australian.
	We must advocate for immediate public health responses.
	We need our health authorities to begin monitoring these trends.
	This is where he chokes up.
	Thank you.
	Without immediate action, we risk leaving Australians vulnerable to a wave of preventable diseases that may devastate families and strain our health care system.
	Thank you.
	Well, you know, some people have consciences and they're driven out by the system.
	They're driven out of the media.
	They're driven out of medical practice.
	You know, we just had another reported death here.
	This is fully vaccinated Fox News.
	Dr. Kelly Powers, who survived an on-air heart attack, dies from turbo cancer.
	You know, one of the things that you, you can't see the fern cleavage site.
	That's total BS. If you can't isolate the virus, you can't tell us about all these, you know, special, there's a special little area on it that we've seen as well.
	You haven't even, you haven't even isolated the virus.
	You don't know anything about it.
	You made up this sequence that you're looking for, and then you look, you magnify everything by 1.1 trillion times to find that.
	Anyway.
	You can't see that, but you certainly can see the contamination in these vials.
	And you can also see the fact that it is killing the killer T cells as well, which is what Dr. Ryan Cole saw in the spring of 2021. And he said, we're going to have a massive increase in fast-acting cancers and cancers that come back.
	Because this is destroying your key defense against cancer.
	We've all got cancer to some degree or the other.
	And it's the killer T-cells that are our defense against it.
	So they can see the killer T-cells disappearing.
	They can see the contamination in these vials, the contamination of things that are carcinogenic.
	But they want you to look at the lab.
	The lab BS. And then you have Dr. William Makis, who is, I've interviewed him in the past.
	He's being persecuted.
	He's an oncologist.
	And he's talking about this cancer issue as well.
	So, Australia, Canada, here's Dr. Makis.
	The good people.
	Again, being driven out.
	I am extremely thankful, especially for my American followers, subscribers, cancer patients, neurological patients.
	You've given me such tremendous support over the last few years.
	You've given me and my family a lot of hope.
	You've really given me a new life, a new purpose, and you've made it possible for me to continue.
	About 70 to 75% of my followers, subscribers are from the United States.
	So God bless you all and God bless you for all your support.
	Things are still very dire here in Canada.
	Doctors are still being persecuted viciously.
	I'm being currently persecuted by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and some very vicious, corrupt Alberta Health Services lawyers.
	They're all working together to have me thrown in prison for 83 days.
	Dear that, Danielle Smith.
	In fact, Premier Danielle Smith wants to be the first politician in Canada to imprison a doctor since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
	This happened to Dr. Simone Gold in the United States when she was imprisoned for a time under false pretenses, of course, as it always is.
	Wouldn't it be amazing If RFK Jr's team at the HHS hired all the persecuted Canadian doctors and put us into positions where we can actually make a difference and make America healthy again, I think that would be fantastic.
	Hire all the persecuted Canadian doctors and scientists and we'll do our best.
	We'll work very hard.
	And you'll have the best of Canada because there's not a single politician in Canada Who is supporting any of us?
	We are in communist Canada.
	We're in pretty bad shape here.
	So once again, I'm extremely thankful for all my followers, all my supporters, all my cancer patients and other patients, but especially those from the United States.
	You've made all the difference in the world.
	God bless you all, and God bless America.
	Have an amazing day.
	And of course, that's Dr. Makis.
	He's in Canada, Substack.
	You can find him there.
	But I thought it was amazing.
	Daniel Smith.
	How many times are we going to see politicians that we had hoped that they would do something, turn on us, and do exactly the opposite?
	Daniel Smith, wanting to lock him up there in Alberta.
	And of course, Alberta was the place where they were jailing the pastors left and right.
	And when I talked to the lawyers that were defending the charter rights there of some of these pastors, they said, yeah, it's actually worse here in conservative Alberta than it is in some of the typically liberal provinces.
	And he said, it's really strange.
	And here we have Danielle Smith, who appeared to be against the lockdown and supportive of the resistance and stuff.
	Now she is trying to lock him up.
	Over and over again, we see this betrayal.
	We can dream.
	We can dream that, you know, RFK Jr. would get in and that he would do the right thing.
	Those are two consecutive dreams.
	I would like to see some people with integrity like Dr. Makis.
	In those positions, but just like Danielle Smith, we don't really know what's going to happen with RFK Jr., even if he'll get in.
	And if he gets in, will he turn as well?
	We just have to wait and see.
	This was also sent to me about another vaccine bill that's just been introduced in Michigan.
	That's from a listener, Michael.
	And this truly is...
	Some amazingly bad legislation.
	2023, they put in a quote-unquote digital process that forced parents to unknowingly input theirs and their children's private health info.
	It violated privacy laws.
	They found as they investigated this, that this has been happening for a decade.
	That they've been violating the medical privacy laws there.
	They don't care.
	But now they've got a new bill, 6205 in Michigan, that forced parents to attend one-sided lectures without really having the true cost-benefits explained to them about vaccines.
	And they would be compelling the speech of doctors to give them this one-sided lecture.
	And they would also be forcing the parents to sign a document saying that we understand by refusing this vaccine that we are endangering our child and other children as well.
	What happens when you are guilty of child endangerment?
	Well, they take your child away from you.
	This is a signed confession saying, take my child away from me over the vaccines.
	And we've seen this type of thing happen, and I forget what state it was in.
	Do you remember that divorce situation?
	And this was something that was covered by Children's Health Defense.
	It was horrific what happened.
	The two parents had moved to—oh, it was in Tennessee, I remember now.
	They had moved from an urban area, they'd moved to Tennessee, and— They were having a divorce, and the judge found out they were homeschooling their kids, and both of them were against vaccines, and the judge found that out, and he said, I think that's child abuse.
	And he said, I'll tell you right now, whichever parent says they'll vaccinate their child, I'll give that parent custody of the child right now.
	You'll walk out of here right now with custody.
	And so, you know, she had conferred with her lawyer who had already kind of set this thing up.
	She made it, I'll do it.
	You got custody of the kids.
	Had three kids.
	So they take the kids, all three of them, the oldest daughter, the daughter and then two younger sons.
	The daughter, the physician, tried to catch up all of the vaccines.
	What an absurd thing.
	As I said before, that doctor needs to be sued for malpractice.
	She seriously injured the two boys.
	She split it up for the daughter because the daughter had had reactions.
	But she gave, I think it was something like, 18 vaccines all at once.
	To the two boys, both of them went into intensive care immediately.
	And the youngest one was there for several days.
	One of them was there for like a day or so.
	The other one was there for like four or five days and came out so severely affected by autism that now he can't even go to the bathroom.
	He has to have his diapers changed by his father, who wound up getting the kids because the mother then left and abandoned the children.
	Well, what in the world is that doctor doing trying to catch that up?
	We look at the vaccine schedule.
	The way they get to 70 vaccines through your childhood is by giving these same shots to you over and over and over and over again.
	So she must have just kept hitting them with the same shot over and over again.
	It's one of the most egregious malpractice.
	And of course, everybody knows that the kid got autism from the vaccines, but we're supposed to believe that autism from vaccines doesn't ever happen.
	Well, there's your example right there.
	And why?
	Because of how many vaccines were given all at once at an early age.
	And that's what they're doing to kids all the time.
	It's criminal.
	It's beyond criminal.
	It's demonic.
	And anyway, so she left, and the father is still having to pay child support even though the mother is gone, and even though he's got the children, and even though he's got to provide care for this young boy 24-7, 365. She's disappeared, but he still has to pay child support to the state of Tennessee.
	And they're keeping the money because they don't know where she is.
	You talk about abuse.
	And so now Michigan wants to play that same game, give you a one-sided lecture, compel the speech of the doctor, and then compel the parents to sign a statement saying, if I don't get the vaccines, I'm endangering my child and other children.
	People in Michigan need to pay attention to that.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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	Well, welcome back.
	This was also sent to me by my listener, Jonathan.
	He said, Ironically, the best sheriff in the U.S. is in the county next to Sheriff Chad.
	He says it's Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County.
	Of course, this is the guy that I've played this clip many times.
	So, just chill out.
	Drink your 7-Up.
	Eat a moon pie.
	Quit murdering people.
	He's had a lot of great quotes.
	Other things like, so if somebody's looting, you just shoot them and please empty your gun because we don't want to have to deal with them.
	But yeah, and of course, it's interesting.
	We'll get to Chad later.
	Chad withdrew.
	And then Trump comes back and says, he didn't quit.
	I got rid of him.
	Won't even allow the guy to bow out gracefully.
	Yeah, he was a Democrat.
	And this is the issue.
	Why would he do that?
	When you look at Matt Gaetz, you could say, okay, well, he would pick Matt Gaetz because Matt Gaetz is a strong ally, and it was going to be difficult to get Matt Gaetz confirmed, but he could certainly virtue signal to his base with Matt Gaetz and things like that.
	Look, you know, I'm putting in the kinds of people that you want.
	He didn't do any vetting on Chad.
	I mean, it's pretty obvious that these people are not being vetted, or they're being vetted by people who don't have the same values that Trump does, or supposedly has, or that MAGA has, right?
	Yeah, who knows what Trump's values are on this stuff anyway.
	But, no, it is absolutely, you know...
	When you look at this Chad Chronister thing, this guy was so wrong on everything that you have to ask yourself, why?
	Except, as I said, he was perfect for the DEA because the DEA is wrong on everything.
	It's a criminal, quote-unquote, law enforcement operation.
	That's based on unconstitutional prohibition.
	Why do we have the 18th and 21st Amendment in the Constitution?
	It's because the government doesn't have any right to ban anything.
	Alcohol, marijuana, anything.
	It doesn't have that authority.
	It needs a constitutional amendment to do that.
	Everything that DEA does is unconstitutional and unlawful.
	So why wouldn't you have somebody like Chad Chronister running?
	That's what I said.
	I said, he's perfect for this position.
	He has no respect for the Bill of Rights.
	The Constitution or the rule of law, he's perfect for it.
	But, of course, Trump got a lot of flack for it, so now he's saying, well, I fired him.
	He didn't pull out and so forth.
	Maybe so, but the guy was also a big Democrat supporter.
	Evidently, whoever vetted him didn't realize that.
	I bet he's a real big Democrat supporter now after Trump has publicly humiliated him, which is what Trump always does.
	He does that to his wives.
	Why wouldn't he do it to the people that he's picked for job positions?
	And then we have this from Jason Barker, a really nice note from Jason.
	Nights of the Storm and Foxhole Report does Nights of the Storm with Angry Tiger.
	And it was good to see him on with both of them on with Guard last week when we were on vacation.
	Well, Karen was sick, but that wasn't the plan.
	Anyway, he said there's been a lot of talk in the chat over the past couple of days because replays instead of live stuff.
	So he said, I suspect Karen is still ill.
	Travis is out of town.
	Yeah, Travis, they had some issues with the baby as well.
	So it's been really difficult this last week.
	The baby, they had to take the baby to the doctor.
	There was a hole in his heart.
	But that's something that evidently they've got some very sensitive equipment now because there's a lot of that being reported.
	And the doctor said it's a minor thing should go away within a year or so.
	So we're thankful for the answer to prayer about that.
	But yeah, Travis was kind of out of pocket and everything, but it was me being sick that caused that to go down.
	But anyway, he said, but I want to share something with you.
	He said, one of your listeners has a wife who's been battling cancer.
	He's a regular in the Rockfin chat, and we always pray for the family.
	Well, it turns out that she has overcome it, and it is all looking good.
	And I wanted to not just let it go, but I wanted to pat everyone on the back for the thoughts and the prayers.
	He said, we really should take the time to also give thanks and to praise God for His awesome healing power and His grace.
	I think sometimes we forget to do that when he helps us through the struggles.
	He said, I know you've been through many struggles over the past several years, that your audience has been praying for your family.
	I think it's time that we take a moment to thank God for all that he has done.
	I say this because he really has done a lot in my life, and Jason's, and I have sometimes lapsed in thanking him.
	That is so true, and we were just talking about this the other day with Whistler.
	How we have seen God answer amazing prayers.
	Just the fact that we have our two sons was an answer to prayer.
	We had been married for 13 years, and we had tried everything to have kids and tried everything to adopt.
	Nothing was working.
	And we came from different religious backgrounds, and we had pushed that to the back.
	And Karen asked if we could pray, and we did.
	And she had never heard somebody ask God directly for something in a prayer.
	And what happened was that we had, at that time...
	Right as we prayed, that was when Travis was conceived in another state.
	There's absolutely no way that there's anything psychosomatic about that.
	There's no placebo effect.
	There's no coincidence to that.
	And at the same time, she became sick.
	And it took a couple of months for them to figure out what was happening with Karen, but when they did, that led to what the physical problem was that was keeping us from having kids.
	and so what wound up happening was that we found out about Travis about a month before he was born and we already had the paperwork because we tried so many times to adopt and we found out about it was an open adoption we found out through her brother who's a chiropractor in Virginia Beach and he knew a lawyer that did adoptions and And her brother didn't know that we had been trying to adopt for so long.
	And so all of a sudden, you know, we get approved.
	And because the parents, the people who were set up for this open adoption that were going to be the adoptive parents backed out at the last minute.
	And so they were looking to say, well, what do we do now?
	And so, you know, we had our paperwork and bingo, it was right there.
	All of these things happened all at once.
	You could not make a coincidence out of it.
	And then we found out as we brought him home that Karen was a month pregnant as well.
	She couldn't change his diaper.
	She kept getting sick.
	But anyway, when you look at things like that, as I told Wusser, I said, you as I told Wusser, I said, you never know how you never know how God's going to use things like that.
	And it wasn't, you know, it was a kindness.
	It was a mercy, a grace.
	But it was also something where God showed us his presence.
	And how he is not at a distance.
	And so, Jason said, struggles are part of growing.
	Like a steel blade being heated to what they call the critical temperature, then quenched in oil, causes the steel to become very strong.
	We need to reflect on how the struggles have helped to build us into strong warriors that we are today.
	It would not be possible without challenges.
	And that's true in things that we found later.
	You know, we had, after we became Christians, we had We had situations with the sale of our business that we wanted to get out of because we're Christians, and then things went really bad with that.
	And we had difficult financial times.
	But that was the kind of struggle that, again, God showed us how we would have a situation where we were up against it financially, and all of a sudden, at the last minute, the money would come in.
	And it'd be just enough And so, there was something to learn with that.
	C.S. Lewis put it another way.
	I like Jason's example there.
	C.S. Lewis talked about how the pain that we suffer in life many times, the trials that we go through.
	It's like a sculptor chipping away at a marble statue, removing everything that is not the image that he wants.
	And I think that is true as well.
	He said, anyway, this message is more about my journey, but I thought I would share, and I wanted to let you know I'm always praying for you and your family as well.
	Thank you.
	So, yeah, again, we give God the glory for that.
	Well, I'm going to take a break, and I've got a new Christmas song here.
	It's probably the only one that we're going to be able to do this year because of all the Sickness that we've had and the way it's put us behind.
	But I wanted to do something that was kind of nostalgic.
	I used to play in big bands from early high school through college and things like that.
	You know, typical orchestration, five saxes and four trombones and five trumpets typically in a rhythm section, that type of thing.
	And I always enjoyed that.
	And I really miss playing sax, so I was looking to do something with a sax-soli section.
	And I thought, well, while I'm doing something nostalgic, I'll kind of do an old-fashioned arrangement of that.
	Because some of the stuff that we did was kind of big band.
	If you go back to the To the 70s when I was doing this stuff, you know, we were only a couple decades away from the big bands and all of our parents, you know, were around listening to that kind of music or music teachers.
	Many of them played professionally in big bands when they were in college and, you know, getting their degrees and things like that.
	And...
	And it was everywhere.
	I mean, you know, the Tonight Show band, Doc Severinsen and others that were there, you would hear that all the time.
	And so it's kind of in that style.
	And I got to play with some of these guys as well.
	We had a concert series that we did when I was in college.
	We had a really good brass section, really good trumpets.
	And so the college brought in, we did a...
	A series of concerts.
	We had Don Ellis.
	We had Maynard Ferguson.
	And we had, I forget his name now, but the guy that is the most, the puffy cheeks, the, what's that?
	Yeah, thank you.
	How could I draw a blank?
	I'm getting old now.
	How could I draw a blank on Dizzy Gillespie, one of the most iconic trumpet players ever?
	But, you know, all of them, very different styles.
	Dizzy Gillespie was kind of a bebop, and Maynard Ferguson was this really high, screeching trumpet player.
	It was very interesting to see him as well, because he illustrated...
	I mean, he was known for playing at super high register, a very powerful trumpet player, and being able to do it for a very long, sustained time.
	And so he was iconic in that way, in the same way that Dizzy Gillespie was iconic because his cheeks would puff out and his neck would puff out when he played, and the bell of his trumpet was bent up at like a 45-degree angle because he would lean down when he played.
	And...
	And then, of course, Don Ellis was famous for doing really, really strange time meters.
	And so we had concerts with them.
	They were featured soloists, and we backed them up, and that was fun.
	But the one concert that I remember that was even more significant than that was when I was in high school.
	They did a series of concerts.
	They had Harry James, and he was kind of commercial.
	He wasn't all that impressive, and he was older.
	But Buddy Rich came, and Buddy Rich was in his prime.
	And I'm not a drummer, or particularly into drum, but it was amazing.
	His entire band was amazing.
	And I was there in the band room, and I got to watch these guys warm up and interact with each other.
	And then they did the concert, and he split it.
	He took a break, because he had to take a break.
	He was working so incredibly hard.
	Unbelievable, the physical intensity.
	Of Buddy Rich and how good he was.
	And he knew all of these charts by heart.
	He would sit there and he'd just kind of start playing on the drums and then he would shout out a number to the band and he would kind of look around as they're pulling the thing up and then he would kick into it.
	And he knew to accent every key part and he knew exactly how to kick it off.
	And as soon as that song stopped, he went right back into it, just started doing a riff, you know, and thinking around.
	Number 475. They started doing the next one.
	And so he was just soaking wet.
	And he had to take a shower.
	That was part of the thing.
	You've got to have access to a shower and everything.
	So he'd take a shower at the break and then complete change of clothes and come out fresh and do it again and completely sweat it out.
	It was incredible how good that band was.
	They were so incredibly tight.
	But anyway, to say all of that, Just as kind of a nostalgic thing for the Home for the Holidays.
	It's kind of an old style song.
	And here it is.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
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	Thank you.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Well, that was a lot of fun to do.
	Change from doing orchestra stuff.
	And a really nice, one of the other things too, was a really nice flugelhorn that was very expressive.
	North American house hippo.
	Last year, a cousin died.
	My mom died.
	Three other cousins, all brothers, living in different parts of Canada, came down with the same heart ailment.
	Just a coinkydinky, I'm sure.
	Yeah, it's not a coincidence, is it?
	It's such a shame.
	You know, the blood on the hands of these politicians.
	It is no wonder that they are pushing this lab leak thing so much.
	They're going to have to, you know, misdirect people, have a scapegoat to blame it on, because otherwise people are going to come after them with the guillotines.
	Spencer DeLong, thank you for the tip.
	He says, not much, but consider this another contribution to the Miata Fund.
	Well, thank you very much.
	High Boost.
	David, Sheriff Chad is the son-in-law of that 49ers owner, Edward DeBartolo Jr. Well, how about that?
	Well, that explains it.
	Now we know.
	He actually did vet him, didn't he?
	Oh, yeah.
	But I fired him.
	I fired him.
	No, you fired.
	Handy.
	David, whenever I take kids to the ER for fever, seizure, RSV, flu, etc., 100% of the time the nurse asks if they can give the flu and or RSV jab during the visit.
	And the kid is already sick.
	That's why we took Karen in.
	She's obviously having a stomach issue, no fever, no flu symptoms or anything like that.
	And they said, well, we need to give you a COVID test.
	I was like, no, you don't.
	She's stuck to her conscience.
	I'm not taking a COVID test.
	Well, then there's limitations as to what we can do for you.
	And it's like, yeah, well, I don't want any of that stuff.
	Anything that you're going to give me for flu or for COVID. I want to give her a flu test and a COVID test.
	And it's like, no, no, you're not going to do that.
	And so then I started telling him about Whistler.
	And then he was afraid to give her any antibodies.
	Because I just kind of unloaded on him about, let me tell you about phloxans.
	And he goes, oh, wow, yeah.
	Yeah, it's a pretty strong antibiotic.
	It's like, well, that's not what I would say about it.
	He says, usually it affects tendons.
	And it's like, yeah, like the rest of your life?
	Son of a gun.
	M. Sellers, those are the biggest miracles when he shows up with the smallest of detail to bless you.
	That's right.
	Guard Goldsmith, good to see you there, Guard.
	Liberty Conspiracy.
	He said, Buddy was incredible.
	My cousin took lessons from him.
	We got to see him around 1981. He was like a historian, a wild man.
	Your cousin took lessons from Buddy Rich?
	That's amazing!
	It's amazing.
	Yeah, he really was.
	If you get a chance, if you really know about Buddy Rich, look up some of the videos on YouTube.
	He truly is amazing.
	And John Madison, Buddy Rich couldn't read music.
	He had it all memorized anyway.
	That's okay.
	You know, some of the best musicians don't read music.
	A lot of times you overthink stuff, right?
	And...
	You know, I had to...
	I started out playing piano, then moved to musical instruments.
	I had to get away from some of that stuff, I could think.
	You know, it really does limit you in some ways, reading the music.
	And especially playing piano, you start thinking vertically in terms of chords and things like that.
	You don't really think linearly in terms of chord progressions or in terms of interweaving melodic lines.
	And so, yeah, it's a good thing in some respects, but it can also be a limiting thing.
	Jason Barker says this is really nice.
	I guess that was about the video.
	Well, thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	Brian Deb McCartney.
	I love the old video, too.
	Yeah, that was the thing.
	I wanted to get something that was nostalgic, mid-20th century.
	Because, again, like I said, that's really where that music...
	it carried on into the 70s.
	You know, when I was performing in college and working and stuff, we would do Chicago and Blood, Sweat, and Tears and stuff like that, and Maynard-Ferkinson.
	We had a Maynard-Ferkinson chart when we were playing at Busch Gardens, and we had – that's an interesting story because, again, we wrote our own – wrote the charts.
	You know, we had – Let's see, there was two saxes, three trumpets, and two trombones, and then a rhythm section when we played at Busch Gardens.
	And so one of the guys, not me, did a cover of Maynard Ferguson's Living in the Past that we played there.
	And after that set, a guy comes up and he goes, well, that was really cool.
	He goes, where'd you get that Maynard Ferguson chart?
	And the guy said, well, that was John.
	He did that on his own.
	And he goes...
	I wrote that.
	I'm the guy who wrote that.
	And so, you know, John went from being really complimented to being, oh, am I going to get sued or something for this?
	But he just wanted to know if somebody was publishing that.
	I had the same thing happen to me with the band director at the University of Tampa I did.
	It was a Tell Me a Bedtime Story by Herbie Hancock I did for the band.
	And before we played it, he said, I just saw that for sale.
	And I said, no, really?
	I said, I spent so much time doing that because I did parts for everybody in the band.
	I said, I spent so much time doing that.
	I was really bummed out about it.
	He goes, no, I was just testing you to see if you hadn't bought it.
	I was like, son of a gun.
	You don't think that I could do that?
	I spent a lot of time on that, but anyway.
	Audi, Modern Retro Radio.
	Buddy Rich was very funny.
	That's right, his Tonight Show appearances.
	Scroll it up there, Karen.
	His Tonight Show appearances, he said, always a hoot.
	Yeah, they were a hoot.
	And he also did martial arts as well, you know.
	And he was also...
	One of these high achievers who would have personality conflicts with people in his band, too, from what I've heard as well.
	He had a big fight with Dusty Springfield.
	He really hated her for some reason.
	Which I liked her work, but he didn't like her at all.
	He really hated her.
	KWD-68.
	Everything once used to strive for beauty.
	Music used to be beautiful, but now ugly is a thing.
	Yeah, it is.
	And the auto-tuning stuff.
	It sounds like chipmunk things.
	I remember when I heard it on a commercial once, I thought, what's the matter with those people?
	Can anybody do any music for them?
	And I found out that that's...
	Yeah, I just don't listen to any of the new pop stuff.
	I found out that's kind of the thing, anyway.
	But let's talk a little bit about...
	The deportation stuff.
	We have the British Labour Prime Minister, Starmer, admitted, openly admitted, that open borders were an experiment.
	That's his term.
	Open borders experiment that was imposed by, again, his term, design, has failed as white natives are set to become a minority by 2050. This is a story from winepressnews.com.
	He blames it on the Tory government.
	Except they did it as well.
	See, it's a uniparty system there.
	Just like the other things.
	Just like the climate stuff.
	Just like the COVID lockdown.
	The open border great replacement.
	The Great Britain great replacement.
	This is all a globalist agenda.
	And it doesn't matter whether you are labor or whether you're conservative Tory in the UK or whether you're Trump or whether you're Trudeau, they're all doing the same thing.
	Isn't that interesting?
	Yeah, yeah.
	So he said, this happened by design, not by accident.
	Policies were reformed.
	Global Britain, he said, remember that slogan.
	That is what they meant.
	A policy with no support.
	Well, that's unforgivable, said Keir Starmer.
	Well, what's he going to do about it?
	As they point out in this article, he's not doing anything about it.
	But why is he blaming the Tories for this?
	Well, because people are getting angry about it.
	And these two uni parties are not going to do anything about it.
	But maybe the people can do something about it.
	Maybe a new political party can do something about it.
	And they do have that option, unlike us.
	They can have a new political party, the Reform Party, Nigel Farage, who knows?
	They might do something about it.
	But they both want to not only replace Great Britain with a great replacement, but they also want to de-industrialize Great Britain, and they have accomplished that already.
	You're looking at the white natives in Britain becoming a minority by 2050. They've already de-industrialized the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
	Using one of the other scams, conservative governments of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak allowed in unprecedented levels of immigration following Brexit by refusing to put an annual cap on immigration resulting in nearly one million migrants arriving last year alone.
	The open borders agenda imposed on the country predates Tory rule, however.
	Prior to the labor governments of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, the UK had net migration in the tens of thousands.
	However, under Blair, this guy, premier globalist, warmonger, all the rest of this, under Blair, It soared into the hundreds of thousands per year.
	In 2009, former Blair advisor Andrew Nether claimed that this was a deliberate policy to transform Britain into a multicultural society and to, quote, rub the right's nose in diversity, unquote.
	The mass migration policies of both labor and conservative governments have had a radical impact on the demographic makeup of the UK, with a 2021 census finding that less than three-quarters of the population, 74.4%, identify as a member of indigenous ethnic groups of the British Isles.
	That would be either English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish, or British.
	Only 74%.
	I guess this is why, you know, they show you with the Google thing.
	They, you know, show me a Scotsman from 1700, and they come up with everything but white, right?
	This is compared to 80% in 2011 and 87.5% in 2001. So in 20 years, it goes from 87.5% white ethnic groups, original British, down to 74%.
	The native white British population could become a minority in their own country by 2050. Since the Blair administration, the UK has seen more immigration than we had the whole period from the Norman Conquest to the Second World War.
	Said one person's leading demographer there.
	He said, if the government continues on the same course...
	People in the country 30 years ago were overwhelmingly the descendants of people here a thousand years ago, but that's not going to be the case in the middle of the century.
	He pointed to the example of former British colony Singapore, which strictly controls immigration.
	It's a choice.
	What we do as a country, what we want as a country, and does that manage to get expressed and implemented by our politicians?
	It seems quite clear to me that those two things are not the same.
	The country wants one thing, the politicians are not prepared to follow them.
	That's their agenda.
	They're not accountable to us anymore.
	He said, noting the related issue of declining birth rates, he said, cutting immigration must be accompanied with pro-natalist policies to encourage the native population to have more children, to mitigate the financial impacts of a declining population.
	It doesn't matter to them, though.
	He said, that's not what they want.
	They want to make sure that there is no unified culture.
	You think of the culture as a family, just like they want to split each individual family up.
	In the same way they want to divide and conquer us with different ethnic groups, They want to make sure there's no cohesive resistance against what they want to do.
	That's why they're doing this in every single country throughout Europe and throughout America.
	Starmer said the Starmer government has refused to commit to an annual cap on immigration, which critics have argued is necessary to stem the massive influx of foreigners into the country.
	So he's going to complain about it.
	He's going to point the finger at the other party, which is what we always see the politicians do.
	As they refuse to do anything about it themselves.
	Starmer's comments were an implicit admission of the much derided Great Replacement Theory.
	Well, it's not a theory, is it?
	It's an agenda.
	And so, the real aim of these mass migration policies are motivated by economics, with leaders seeing their populations as little more than interchangeable cogs.
	Which can be changed out with little consequence to bolster GDP. It's not even that.
	Yeah, they don't have any respect for us.
	They use us as cannon fodder for their wars.
	But they see us as a threat if we are a cohesive group so we have to be divided.
	And they also see us as slaves.
	And so, a homogenous culture is a threat to them.
	A sense of belonging, even, to whether, you know, in America we used to have the melting pot, and people would take, would look at American values and things like that.
	They don't even want that.
	They've got to destroy that.
	They've got to destroy, not only, you know, bring in people who, in mass numbers, so that they will not assimilate, But they also need to destroy the very idea of America as well.
	And America is more than an idea.
	It was a reality that they seek to shut down.
	So when we look at deportation, what is going to happen with that?
	And is that the right way to proceed?
	Now, even the liberal Ninth Circuit Court has ruled in favor of federal deportation.
	Which I guess is surprising only because it's a Ninth Circuit Court.
	The law is pretty clear that under the Constitution, this is a power that belongs to the federal government.
	I've said that before.
	When we talk about sanctuary cities, you can have a sanctuary city for the Second Amendment, but you can't have a sanctuary city for illegal immigration because the Second Amendment is supported by the Constitution and the illegal immigration is not, and that's a federal function.
	The federal government has the authority to deport foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally over the objection of local authorities, set a panel of three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, unanimously.
	The issue is a 2019, April 2019, executive order issued by King County Executive, which directed county officials to prohibit fixed base operations on a county airfield near Seattle from servicing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement which directed county officials to prohibit fixed base operations on a county airfield near Seattle from servicing U.S.
	The airport's located next to a major ICE Seattle base of operations.
	The Trump administration at the time sued, arguing that the order violated the Supremacy Clause's intergovernmental immunity doctrine and a World War II-era Instrument of Transfer Agreement, allowing the federal government to use the airport in King County.
	The Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the district court's summary judgment that the order violated the Supremacy Clause and Instrument of Transfer Agreement, saying, So, over six years this unfolded.
	Sorry, five years, 2019. King County is a so-called sanctuary county.
	And you also have a Democrat Senator, Padilla, out of California, saying that there's no obligation for California officials to assist Trump's deportations.
	Well, he's actually correct.
	He may not like what he's doing, but that's called the non-commandeering issue.
	So what I said, this is a back-and-forth issue between legitimate federal powers and nullification.
	And so if the federal government, you can't interfere with them doing that.
	And so that's what this other case is about.
	They said, no, we're going to tell you that you can't do this, even though you've already got a couple of different agreements and we've got the Constitution as well that says that we're going to do deportation.
	But if they come in and say, well, we want local law enforcement to work with us and to assist us in this, they can't commandeer.
	And that's also a Supreme Court decision as well.
	Supporting the idea that the federal government cannot commandeer people for doing what they want to do.
	We've seen that used in Tennessee, for example, against Biden's gun control regulations for pistol braces.
	Well, I'm going to do gun control by executive order.
	And they said, well, first of all, we're going to say that pistol braces are legal in Tennessee.
	And secondly, we're going to say that if there's a federal law that conflicts with that, then that is not enforceable in Tennessee.
	And it's very well established that you can't force local law enforcement to assist the federal law enforcement.
	So this was Senator Alex Padilla, I guess is the way he pronounced the last name.
	He was on Face the Nation on Sunday, and he was asked by Major Garrett, he said, Tom Homan has said any law enforcement who don't cooperate will be prosecuted under federal law.
	He says, how's this going to be resolved?
	Well, I can tell you how that's going to be resolved.
	Tom Homan's going to fail.
	And I think that's, you know, again, there's an appropriate way to handle this, and we'll talk about that.
	But a lot of the stuff that's being talked about by Tom Homan and by Trump is destined to failure, and rightfully so.
	Because a lot of the things that they're talking about are not only authoritarian, but they're unconstitutional.
	So he said there's an important distinction here.
	He said, let the federal government do what the federal government's job is.
	But he said, have state and local officials do the state and local officials' job.
	There doesn't have to be a conflict unless that's what Trump wants.
	And Garrett said, well, the governor has called a special session...
	Will some of that money also be set aside to protect migrants and undocumented immigrants in California as they seek to either get legal advice or continued legal financial backing to support their efforts to stay within California and the U.S.? And so that's the way these battle lines are going to shape up.
	They cannot be compelled to participate in this, but they can also give legal assistance to people who want to challenge this.
	Now, they don't have any justification to oppose deportation, and I think they will fail unless they can get some liberal judges.
	Democrat mayors are saying that they're going to use police, however, to obstruct Trump's deportation of illegals.
	Now, see, this is another nuance here.
	They don't have to cooperate.
	There's the non-cooption thing.
	But to obstruct what the federal government has a legitimate constitutional duty and right to do, again, this is nullification wrongfully applied.
	And there's a danger in that as well.
	Two issues that Democrats might care about more than the national legalization of abortion is blocking the passage of voter ID laws and blocking the mass deportation of illegal immigrants.
	This is Zero Hedge's take on it.
	Democrats have been pushing for a sweeping amnesty for illegals for years.
	If they'd won the 2024 election by a comfortable margin, it's a certainty that an amnesty would have been at the top of their priority list.
	The majority of Americans want deportations.
	And of course, why is that?
	It's because Biden has laid the Hegelian promise there, problem there, right?
	Problem solution.
	He has escalated this problem to the extent that you've now got Republicans, many of the MAGA people, just out of their mind anything else.
	To get rid of these massive numbers of people that have been brought in.
	And they don't see the danger of a weaponized border, the danger of digital and biometric ID, and all these other issues that are out there.
	They're ready to fall for that.
	They're ready to adopt these solutions that they would otherwise oppose because they're so fixated on this problem.
	Denver Mayor Mike Johnston claims the deportation of illegals is unconstitutional.
	It is not.
	He says that he's willing to go to jail to prevent deportations.
	And of course, Tom Homan says, well, we agree.
	He wants to go to jail for that, and I'm willing to send him to jail for that.
	But still, the issue is national ID. The issue is having to have federal permission to have a job.
	That's what E-Verify is.
	And you see all of this stuff being pushed by Republicans.
	It's absolutely crazy.
	It's another way to get people focused on just like they did with the fear of the pandemic.
	So...
	The conservatives are ready to go to war over this, and it's a very dangerous situation.
	The mayor of Tucson, Arizona, is now vowing to work with local police to resist Trump's mass deportation plans.
	Can't wait to see this moron arrested, says Drew Hernandez.
	Well, again, this is not the solution.
	The welfare magnet is pulling people in.
	And if we get rid of that welfare magnet, or as Eric Peters put it, defund, don't deport the migrants.
	We don't want to, you know, this is, again, a Hegelian path to hell that they have set us up to be suckers about.
	Holman says, I'll do contract non-enforcement immigration work so I have the agents to send more to sanctuaries.
	Holman says, So he's saying, I'm going to take all the paperwork stuff and everything, so I've got all of my uniformed weapon-bearing agents that I can use.
	He wants to have a war.
	And it's not just there.
	He's also talking about having a war with the drug cartels in Mexico as well.
	And the conservatives, like Breitbart, love it.
	They call him a czar.
	Borders are Tom Homan, and they actually capitalized the term czar.
	We don't want to have any Caesars here, folks.
	I'm disgusted.
	And it's amazing that the conservatives love this title of czar so much.
	You know, the first czar we had was William Bennett, the drug czar.
	It's part of the drug war.
	So, anyway, Tom Homan was on with Hannity.
	Ooh, just by the way...
	Like a $25 million mansion in Florida.
	I guess he paid cash for it.
	That's what, you know, when you go along with the vaccine company, the pharmaceutical companies and That's, I guess, your payoff.
	That's part of the Faustian bargain you make.
	My plan is, he said, said Holman, I've been very vocal about this.
	We're going to contract as much work out as we can, work that doesn't require a badge and a gun because I need badges and guns on the street to do the deportation operation.
	So when it comes to driving a bus, a transportation, whether it's ground or air, whether it's processing, whether it's other administrative duties, contract that work out because right now we've got badges and guns doing that work.
	And if these sanctuary states and cities keep pushing back, I'll have the extra resources to double manpower in those sanctuary cities.
	Because if we can't arrest the bad guy in jail with one agent, it means I've got to send in a whole team out into the field to find this person.
	And for officer safety reasons, we need a whole team, rather than just one person.
	Well, again, if he's going to do it without, he's talking about doing it without co-opting the people there.
	And the only possible conflict is going to be if some of these Democrats decide they're going to try to use law enforcement to try to stop them, which they don't have the authority to do.
	The Washington Post, I'm sorry, this is Tribune News, said, you know, Trump made these mass deportation threats in his first term and they fizzled.
	And so none of this stuff may happen.
	This all just may be red meat for the base.
	So the head of Eastern San Jose Immigrant Rights Nonprofit.
	Folks, that's an oxymoron.
	Immigrants have no right to come to this country.
	There's no right to immigrate anywhere in the Constitution, and there is no human right to do that either.
	That's basically a trespass.
	There's no right to steal welfare.
	And that's, again, we go back to the way the left always likes to portray this stuff, right?
	The idea that there is a, they say, well, it's positive rights.
	That's the way Barack Obama put it.
	He said you have positive rights.
	You have a right to, you know, immigration.
	You've got a right to housing, a right to welfare, a right to be given all these things by the government, right?
	That needs to be provided to you.
	Well, that has to be provided at somebody else's expense.
	And so they have to Take from somebody else in order to give to you.
	That's not a right.
	That's just redistribution.
	He says, you know, I know the Constitution is about negative rights.
	There's nothing negative at all about the Bill of Rights.
	It's very positive.
	It's saying that we have these rights because of our identity as human beings.
	Equal in the sight of God in terms of basic rights.
	Not equal in terms of ability.
	But equal in terms of the way that we should be treated by the government.
	And there's nothing negative about that.
	But he looks at it from a status standpoint, and he says, well, because that prohibits the federal government from doing certain things, that's negative.
	And when the government hands out, when the government steals stuff from people and hands it out to other people, that's positive.
	So, yeah, an immigrant's right thing.
	Well, they talk in this long article about how This was something that a lot of people were afraid of.
	But, of course, they knew that they were gaming the system.
	They knew that they were here illegally, or why would they be afraid?
	In other words, they knew that they didn't have a right, and they weren't in the right to be here illegally.
	So, where does the right come in?
	And so the problem is when Trump starts talking about using the military, when he starts talking about the types of things that he loves, which is, you know, I'm going to do this with an executive order.
	I'm going to do it with the military.
	I'm going to do it in an authoritarian way.
	Again, they said this is a disruption to the daily lives of millions of families, and this is real.
	Well, what about the disruption of taxes?
	For schools and welfare.
	Is that a disruption to the life of Americans that are here?
	I've said for the longest time it's the American dream versus dreamers when we look at how much has to be spent on building schools for people who come here expecting a free education.
	An operation to remove an estimated 11 to 13 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., which Trump says he will start on day one, seems to be a Herculean task.
	And it seems to me to be impossible, because you think about that, that means they'd have to be deporting 1,500 people a day, every day, for four years.
	You think it's going to happen?
	You would, you know, for 12 million people, take the midpoint, that 11 to 13 million, 12 million people, that's going to be, if he's going to do that, that's going to be 8,200 people a day, every day, for four years.
	I think Trump is pulling some people's legs here.
	As a matter of fact, when you look at how many people are deported, the U.S. has never deported more than 237,000 in a single year.
	Not 11 to 13 million.
	And that peak did not happen under Trump.
	That happened under Obama.
	From 9-11, that is the peak that we've had there, during Trump's first term, deportations from ICE peaked in 2018 at 96,000.
	Okay, so now he's going to...
	And he's going to tell us that he's going to do, from $96,000, they're going to go to like $3 million or so for four years?
	You think that's going to happen?
	30 times what he did before?
	I don't think that's going to happen.
	So, again, they could start with people with criminal records.
	They could also look at undocumented workers.
	But...
	If you defund the welfare state, that is the key thing.
	And that's what really needs to be focused on.
	But nowhere do Trump or the GOP or the Democrats or anybody who's talking about this, nobody mentions the welfare situation.
	As a matter of fact, not even the libertarians.
	When you look at Reason Magazine, They said the math on mass deportations just doesn't add up.
	They said it's a bunch of flawed calculations and overlooked benefits.
	They said there's a lot of economic benefits to the immigrants being here.
	And again, this is a standard line from the business community, right?
	The same people that told us, by the way, when we outsourced our manufacturing to China and other places.
	They said it'd be great.
	You know, we'll have slave labor in the other countries and we'll all be so much better off, right?
	Well, it didn't work out that way with NAFTA and all the rest of this stuff, and they're absolutely wrong about this.
	They're going back and forth taking issue with a report from the Manhattan Institute that found that the influx of illegal immigrants since 2021 will add $1.1 trillion in federal debt over the lifetime of the immigrants, and that mass deportations would significantly reduce the national debt over the long run.
	It's not even about the money.
	But, of course, the conservatives and libertarians will make it first and foremost and only about the money.
	But the guy says, well, I identified nine methodological problems in the Manhattan Institute's model.
	They said, start with taxes.
	They assume that the immigrants won't increase tax revenues from businesses at all.
	This is obviously incorrect.
	Not only are many immigrants business owners, but businesses only hire workers because those workers will increase profits that will be taxed.
	How naive do you have to be?
	I mean, if these people are here flagrantly violating, are they all going to be taxpayers now?
	They're going to come here and now they're going to fill out all their tax forms and do everything all on time, even the businesses.
	And when we look at a lot of the illegal immigration for, let's say, agricultural workers, farm workers, A lot of times these people have been exploited by the people that bring them in because they say, you know, we're going to not give you this and not give you that, and if you complain about it, we're going to turn you into ICE. They can be blackmailed over their immigration status.
	They can be exploited over that by the people who hire them.
	There's a lot of stuff that's going off the books.
	One of the key reasons why the businesses want to bring in illegal immigrants is because they immediately save the 15.2% for the payroll taxes and things like that.
	So that gives them an immediate edge to Americans who would be on the books.
	When they pay illegals who come here again, the very first thing that they're doing is flaunting the laws.
	They're not going to be compliant taxpayers in this.
	And so one of the key things that they miss in all this, which is absolutely stunning, was they miss the cost of education.
	And so they said, when they look at the cost of education, they also state illegal immigrants will claim Social Security and Medicare at the same rate as the average immigrant, even though they are legally prohibited from obtaining those programs.
	You don't think that they still get them?
	But the key benefit that they get is going to be education, and not even the college education, which in many states they're given in-state tuition, subsidized tuition, at any state that they want to go to.
	Whereas Americans only get that in the state that their parents have lived in and paid taxes in.
	But it's the education costs K-12 that are the really big ones.
	So they said the true cost of mass deportation, if they ignore education and all these other things, playing fast and loose with it, then they claim that...
	It's going to be that it actually makes us money to have massive illegal immigrants here.
	Again, these are the same people that sold you NAFTA on a benefits basis.
	Now, the reality is that if you look at the educational costs, they're massive.
	Just in Denver alone, they have spent $350 million on migrants.
	That's about $7,900 per foreign national in Denver.
	The Common Sense Institute, a nonpartisan research organization, again, just looking at the dollars and cents here.
	Reason's analysis is completely flawed, and Manhattan Institute's analysis isn't complete either.
	The sum equates to 8% of the city's budget.
	8% they're spending on illegal immigrants.
	The mayor there, Johnston, who is saying, well, I'm going to go to jail, and Tom Homan says, well, I'll send him to jail, that type of thing.
	He's already slashed city services to house and feed those migrants.
	So, you see, the people here who are already on welfare, the Americans who are on welfare, are getting their services cut so they can take care of the migrants.
	And it's become 8% of the budget in Denver.
	Wow.
	Cuts include reducing services at recreation centers, stopping the planting of spring flower beds, which we could do, while the city tapped into a contingency fund to pay for the spiraling costs.
	The $356 million spent on migrants was, the bulk of it, was spent through education.
	This is why reasons analysis doesn't hold up, and why this is the key part of the welfare program, especially for illegals.
	Well, they can't get welfare or whatever.
	Well, you can get people to cheat on it, but the key thing is the education is there for everybody.
	And we saw this in Texas, building school after school, filled mostly with illegal immigrants.
	And it's like, how are we going to pay the taxes for this stuff?
	I said, the dreamers are going to be the end of the American dream.
	The bulk of the $356 million is on education.
	Denver is a sanctuary city, meaning that it does not enforce immigration law, nor does the city cooperate with ICE. 45,000 migrants have arrived in Denver since December of 2022. 16,000 migrant students enrolling in Denver Metro Schools.
	The total cost to Denver Metro Schools related to new migrant students is $228 million annually, which would equate to 1-2% of the total state education budget.
	Not the Denver budget, but all of Colorado, 1-2% of it.
	The per-student cost of instruction is $14,000 per year.
	And that's available to illegal immigrants.
	Johnston is known for his generous support for illegal immigrants, promised to use the city's police department, physically oppose any enforcement of this stuff.
	It's absolute insanity.
	But let me skip ahead here, because I'm running out of time, to talk about what really could be done.
	And it was really, I thought, when I saw this from Wayne Allen Root, I rarely agree with Wayne Allen Root on anything.
	He's one of the worst Trump sycophants out there.
	He says, President Trump, here's how to make mass deportation great again.
	And in spite of his rhetoric, he does hit on some important points.
	And I was surprised to find out that his very first point is to get rid of welfare.
	Everybody seems to know that, right?
	If you stop and think about it.
	And yet nobody will do anything about it.
	He says, this is the Great Replacement Plan.
	This is the Cloward and Piven Plan.
	Of course, Cloward and Piven is based on welfare.
	He says, we're going to overwhelm and collapse the American economic system by bringing in people on welfare, foreign citizens, unlimited, and then we can rebuild our socialist utopia.
	So, well, first day, President Trump must announce the end of welfare.
	The end of food stamps, the end of free health care, and all other government handouts for illegal aliens.
	He said it's going to be very difficult and expensive to round up 20 million illegal aliens.
	He's going with 20 million, not with the 12 or so million that other people had.
	He said, by ending all forms of welfare, food stamps, and government handouts, many millions of illegals will choose to voluntarily leave.
	Not all of them, but enough to make our job a lot easier.
	Well, there you go.
	See, that's the key thing right there.
	Get rid of the drain that is there, especially on the schools.
	Get rid of the criminals, and that's not millions of criminals.
	There's a lot of them that have come in, but get rid of the criminals and get rid of the welfare stuff, and you're mostly there.
	Secondly, to solve the issue for the need of more ICE agents, Trump should immediately terminate the $80 billion of budget for 80,000 new IRS agents.
	Then convert all that money and manpower to ICE agents.
	See, this is where I lose Wayne Allen Root.
	It's authoritarian.
	Yes, you should get rid of the 80,000 IRS agents, but don't replace them with ICE agents.
	Third, ask all cities and states to declare who is officially a sanctuary city or state.
	And then he said, then we know all the traitors who need to be rounded up and rested for treason and insurrection.
	No, no.
	But the next thing he said was, we could cut off all federal funding to those sanctuary cities.
	You see, the same guy who's saying it's not Trump's fault what happened with the pandemic is now saying, well, you know, here's how we get people to do what we want.
	We bribe or blackmail them with federal money.
	That's sort of what I've always said.
	And, of course, Trump understands that as well.
	He's talked about that in other aspects.
	And so, you know, when you look at this, the solution doesn't have to be authoritarian.
	There's many things that could be done that would not involve prison camps, not involve national IDs for everybody, not involve biometric and surveillance and drones and electronic no man's land at the border.
	Nobody in their right mind wants that, but because of what Biden has done, Most conservatives are not in their right mind right now.
	That's the crucial thing.
	And then again, he keeps going down the authoritarian path.
	He says, finally, no one ever learns a lesson until the guilty parties are severely punished.
	At this point, we're proof of success in red states.
	He says, focus on the red states.
	Let everybody run to the blue states.
	Don't give them any money and so forth.
	He says if Democrat politicians and government bureaucrats will still refuse to cooperate, then this is the real insurrection.
	Indite them, arrest them, charge them with dereliction of duty, an abandonment of citizens, an insurrection and treason.
	Yeah, again, the guy is off his rocker.
	But he eventually does get off his rocker, even though he begins with a welfare system, right?
	Stop the welfare, deport the criminals, and you're going to be well on the way to getting this thing fixed.
	But they have a different set of objectives.
	They don't want this problem to go away.
	They want to use this problem to advance the police state and the surveillance state.
	That's the bottom line.
	High Boost says, David, I think they're playing with fire with the deportation thing.
	That's how you start a civil war.
	I agree.
	This military on the street stuff, you know, Rand Paul has come out, rightfully so, against that.
	That is a very, very bad idea.
	But again, they have hyped this problem so much that conservatives, the MAGA conservatives, Are ready to do anything, just as you see with Wayne Allyn Root.
	Let's use this to arrest people and put our opponents in jail, that type of thing.
	Audi, modernretroradio.com says, when Trump starts using the military to carry out his migration agenda, it will commence the beginning of a perpetual military presence on American soil.
	I agree.
	And this is the problem.
	Trump has been used, will be used, as a precedent setter.
	Audi says also, the migrants aren't the real target.
	We are.
	We the people.
	Yeah.
	KWD68, take away the illegals freebies.
	They'll just drive the new cars they bought back home.
	Ralph Hinkley, starve the illegals out.
	Why should we pay for their plane tickets?
	No employment, no freebies, problem solved.
	In the welfare.
	I agree.
	And of course, you know, it's not a...
	It's not a hyperbole to say to buy new cars.
	People have talked about that.
	I see these people who don't speak English and they've got all these free stuff at the grocery store and they go out and they put it in a brand new car that I can't afford to have.
	That's the reality of what's happening.
	Well, we didn't have Tony on today.
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