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Jan. 13, 2025 - The David Knight Show

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Mon Episode #1,930: Make Panama American Again - the History; Greenland - Is it About Military, Resources or This?

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	a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
	It's the David Knight Show.
	It's the David Knight Show.
	It's Monday, the 13th of January, year of our Lord 2025. Well, today we're going to take a look at a lot of things that are unfolding about these ongoing fires are still going.
	Many of them barely contained, if contained at all.
	We're going to take a look at the water issues, at some people who did it themselves, the DIY people versus the DEI people.
	And climate is at the center of much of this.
	And it is at the center of many other things that are being used to impoverish and enslave us.
	So we're going to talk about what's going on in New York.
	It's not just the congestion pricing.
	They're now moving forward with regulations shutting down restaurants and other things like that.
	They're coming after it in so many different ways.
	But today we're going to begin with what is going on with the Trump mega-ego fantasies.
	Greenland, Panama, and others.
	Did he campaign on this?
	Did he talk about this?
	We're going to talk about the history of the U.S. and Panama.
	And we're going to talk about what's going on in Greenland as well.
	We'll be right back.
	So, yes.
	Oh, to look around to look around at the patch of ground Known as Mother Nature's sieve
	Though it's horrible to visit It's a miserable place to live Yes, and I guess that's a report from Don Jr. and Charlie Kirk.
	They did not go to the most miserable place in Greenland.
	Because we already have a military base there.
	Is this strategic?
	Oh, it's about the minerals.
	Oh, it's about the strategic advantage or anything.
	Or is it just about Trump's ego, quite frankly?
	Do we need to have this, to have a military base?
	We've had a military base there since World War II. Still there.
	We've been able to get minerals that are there as well.
	So what is this really about?
	Is this about the ego to make Greenland the 51st state so that Trump can assure his place in the history books?
	Do we have to pay these people a couple of million dollars?
	That's one of the people who said, look, with all the mineral resources that are there, we could pay each of these 56,000 people that live in Greenland.
	Why do they live there?
	Is it by choice or by birth?
	I suggest that it's probably by birth.
	But we could pay each of these people $2 million and it would still be a bargain.
	Would it?
	And a bargain for whom?
	Can we then turn those resources over to Musk or to Bezos or to Zuckerberg or whoever, right?
	Some friend of Trump's can then get it.
	So we, you know, we always socialize the costs and we privatize the profits, don't we?
	Yeah, maybe that's what it's about.
	Maybe it's not just about Trump's name.
	Maybe it's about Trump and his friends.
	Hey, you know, let's get the taxpayers to pay a couple hundred billion dollars and then we can have access to all this stuff for ourselves.
	Maybe that's what it is.
	Maybe it's just about crass politics and profit, crony capitalism and corruption.
	Maybe that's what it's about.
	Now we're going to take a look at Panama as well.
	But let's begin with Greenland.
	The Greenland Prime Minister says that he's prepared to talk to Trump after his comments about acquiring the territory.
	Yeah, you know, if the price is right.
	It is a horrible place to visit, but a miserable place to live.
	And you might be able to assuage some of that misery.
	If they dropped a few million dollars on you, give these people two million dollars, there won't be anybody left but the military base.
	Head out of there, probably.
	But, yeah, it's all about the growing China threat, isn't it?
	That's what the New York Post says.
	Do they know that we have a military base there?
	It's pretty amazing.
	You know, they act as if we don't even have a military base there.
	This isn't about the U.S. military conquest of old.
	Rather, it is solely about telling Xi hands off.
	That's the 21st century version of the Monroe Doctrine.
	You know, we had a lot of wars in Central and South America, and as Medley Butler said, what were they fought for?
	They were fought for the fruit companies, or whatever the corporations were at the time that wanted to exploit it.
	Now we pay for this with debt.
	You want to talk about national security?
	Well, you know, one of the key things about national security is debt, isn't it?
	And as one individual was talking about it, he said he thought it'd be kind of funny to look at what is happening in Greenland.
	And he said, do they actually have...
	A DEI stuff there.
	And he said he was surprised to find out that they did.
	And we talked to the people that were living there.
	They said, you know, we're here in the base and, you know, it's so cold and it's so dark.
	And there's nowhere to go.
	It's like there's no town there.
	So we can go down to the bowling alley or we can do this or that.
	But to add to those people's misery, they require them to go through DEI training.
	And it was a long article talking about all the nonsense that these people who, again, they're at a military base at the top of the world, and there's nobody around, but they've got to be sensitized to the natives that are there.
	Well, I don't know if they're Eskimos or they're descendants of Vikings or whatever.
	I don't have any idea.
	Frankly, I don't care.
	It's their thing.
	Whatever, that's fine.
	Whatever they want to do, that's fine.
	We don't need to pay them.
	And I thought the most interesting thing about it was the fact that this base, the tool base, or Thule, I don't know how they pronounce it.
	The German pronunciation would be Thule.
	T-H-U-L-E. I don't know where that came from, but they changed it.
	Excuse me.
	They changed it to a name that was the native name for the area.
	So they had to do that, and they did that.
	With Space Force.
	I assume that that name change happened under Trump with Space Force.
	As I pointed out, and as I talked about this before, I said it was, you know, we'd had a military base there when World War II broke out.
	And, you know, it was before we got into World War II. And before Denmark was captured by the Germans.
	They sent some military soldiers up, U.S. military soldiers up to Greenland, but they essentially sheep-dipped them.
	They had them resign their commission so they could go on a volunteer basis, and it's not officially the U.S. Army.
	And then when Denmark was captured and when we declared war with Germany, then they made it official, and we've been there ever since.
	And after World War II and the Cold War began, they said, hey, we should have a base that's closer here for surveillance.
	I don't know if there's any nuclear missiles there.
	I didn't see any mention of that.
	But now they don't really need that military base there, they said, because they've got satellites.
	So we've had a military base there since World War II. And its significance has de-escalated because of the change in technology.
	So I'm not buying this defense argument, but it's being made by the right-wing press everywhere.
	This is an article from The Hill, which is mainstream media, but the conservative media everywhere.
	It's like, you know, under Democrats and under Biden.
	Just as I said in 2020, if Biden wins, it's going to be a war with Russia.
	If Trump wins, it's going to be a war with China.
	We'll have a war with Russia.
	We'll see if Trump can stop that.
	But they want a war with China.
	And so, you know, as we saw with the Democrats, Since 2016, everything that went wrong, it was Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, right?
	Now, the problem with everything is China, China, China, China.
	That's what we're seeing happening here.
	Look, the biggest threats to the United States are the Paris Climate Accord and our debt.
	And he's going to expand the debt and he's going to do nothing about the Paris Climate Accord, I'm assuming, because he didn't do anything about it in his first four years.
	He didn't call the bluff.
	He didn't say you never had a Senate vote on passing this treaty.
	You can't ratify a treaty with the Secretary of State John Kerry and Obama saying we ratified it.
	The two of us, we just did it that way.
	And he pretended that we were in it.
	Well, if we were in it, you have to give him four years' notice to get out.
	So that's why...
	Right after the election, Trump said we're out, and then right after the installation of Biden, he says we're in again, right?
	He played along with that.
	He pretended that we're in it.
	If you're going to pretend that we're in it, if you're going to pretend that carbon is a problem, and Trump is going to pretend that carbon is a problem, because he's got people like Lucky Lutnik and these billionaires who want to build a CO2 carbon capture pipeline across the continent, all these people are going to make a lot of money off of the CO2, And so they're not going to threaten that, and they're not going to threaten the Paris issue either.
	Why?
	They need to have that Paris issue that's going to give them cover for making money off their carbon taxes, off their carbon capture, off of their grand schemes.
	The Republicans have got green, greenwashed projects that are corrupt.
	Crony capitalism as well.
	It's just different people, and it's different types of projects.
	And so none of that stuff is going to change.
	And so we've got James Stavridis, the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, said, it's not a crazy idea to Greenland.
	We could do an awful lot in terms of business investment.
	We could box out the Russians.
	We could box out the Chinese.
	Go look at the big board.
	You got that big B-52 coming right in there over the top.
	These people.
	Are just destroying our country.
	They hate us.
	This is right-wing version of Newsom and Karen Bass in L.A. Both of them are going to burn this country down in different ways.
	It's going to be war with this group or war with that group or this kind of green nonsense or this kind of defense issue.
	No, I'm not buying it.
	Again, Greenland, we've got a military base there.
	They're not even using it.
	They don't care.
	If the military...
	Look, after World War II, we had 10,000 troops there.
	Now we've got 400. Don't tell me that this is important.
	Don't tell me this is of strategic value.
	Everything that you've done for the last several decades says that you're lying.
	And the fact that we've got hypersonic missiles says that you're lying.
	There isn't anything that you're going to do with that.
	And so let's take a look at Panama.
	Again, I said the other last week, I said a friend of mine, Mark Hall, documentarian, he goes to Panama, spends several months out of the year there, and he knows the area, and he's very concerned about what it is that Trump is doing and why he's doing it.
	And he sent me this article at the end of the week last week.
	Got it on Friday.
	Friday was the 10th.
	January the 9th, Thursday, was Martyrs Day in Panama, about a conflict between Panama and the United States.
	Was it about the invasion of Panama by George H.W. Bush?
	No, it wasn't about that one.
	It was about things that happened before that.
	And it's amazing to me that Americans are willing to go to war and do all kinds of stuff because we're so ignorant of history.
	As I've said many times, we've got to go after Iran, right?
	Well, do we realize our history with Iran?
	Do we realize that it was a CIA coup that overthrew a guy who was left-wing, but he was a patriot for his country?
	He said, we're not going to let these oil fields be controlled by foreigners.
	We're going to control them.
	The foreigners didn't like that.
	So the foreigners, just like Smedley Butler, said he was going to war for the...
	Fruit Company, you know, they go to war for the oil companies, you know, with them.
	And they overthrew that government.
	They installed a ruthless dictator, the Shah of Iran.
	The CIA trained his secret police, the Savak.
	I know about that firsthand from students that I met when I was in engineering.
	There were a lot of Iranian students that were there, and they were not happy, and they had to protest with balaclavas over their heads.
	Because our ally would arrest, kill, torture their family members who were still back in Iran.
	But the American understanding of what happened with Iran begins with a takeover of the U.S. Embassy as the Shah was being thrown out.
	They don't understand the decades of repression that were created by the CIA puppet.
	With his trained CIA secret police.
	And when we look at Panama, Americans, myself included, don't really understand the history of Panama.
	And so January the 9th is a national holiday in Panama.
	It is called Martyrs Day, commemorating an outbreak of violence between Panama and the U.S. in 1964. This did not get a lot of press coverage.
	I would have known that.
	If it had gotten a lot of press coverage.
	I've never heard of this before.
	I mean, I was not that old.
	I was only nine years old.
	But my family followed the news pretty closely.
	And the news, I usually listen to two out of the three news broadcasts in the evening.
	They never talked about this.
	So let's talk about this.
	What happened in 1964 that is still to this day a sore point by the Panamanians against the United States?
	There was a confrontation that left four Americans and 22 Panamanians dead in a deeply strained U.S.-Panama relations.
	It marked the beginning of a process that would induce the U.S. to relinquish its rights to the Panama Canal in the decade that followed.
	And it all began, as Life Magazine reported, because there was one vacant flagpole at Balboa High School.
	This is from AmericanHeritage.com.
	The history of U.S. involvement in Panama goes back to the 1850s.
	So we roll back another century before that.
	Americans were heading to the California gold fields.
	1850s.
	Remember the 49ers?
	Right?
	Where did that football team come from?
	They were headed to the gold fields.
	They trekked across the isthmus.
	I'm sorry.
	I can't say that word without thinking of little rascals.
	Do you remember that episode where they're in the classroom and the teacher says they've got to use a sentence with the word that they give them and it was isthmus.
	And one guy says, this must be the place.
	And that's what the gold miners said as well.
	Soon, New York investors were building a lucrative railroad to accommodate the travelers and a riot in 1856 signaled local resentment of the North American encroachment.
	Don't build any railroads here.
	We want to stay in the jungle.
	Hey, do each his own, okay?
	In 1880, President Rutherford Hayes declared his country's intention to build a canal that would be under American control.
	The U.S. intervened militarily in Panama a dozen times during the second half of the 19th century, all leading up to President Theodore Roosevelt's support for an uprising.
	They gave Panama independence from Colombia in 1903. The Americans then used their leverage to conclude a treaty that gave the U.S. control of the 10-mile-wide canal zone in perpetuity and the right to intrude militarily in Panamanian affairs.
	Sovereignty over the zone remained a bone of contention after the U.S. finished building the canal in 1914. Protests in 1955 prompt...
	Let me just stop here.
	They built the Panama Canal in 11 years.
	We can't do anything anymore.
	There was another article, looking at it, I don't think I'll cover it today, but it was about building the San Francisco Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge and how everybody considered that to be an impossible engineering task.
	100 years ago or more.
	What is it about this country?
	How have we slipped into an idiocracy, into a caucus-tocracy, ruled by the worst people?
	Well, it's because it's a kleptocracy as well, ruled by thieves.
	It's amazing how this country has been dumbed down.
	Panama Canal in 11 years, things like the Golden Gate Bridge, can't do that anymore.
	No, we have projects that cost an astronomical sum.
	We couldn't even build the interstate system today.
	Can't even maintain it.
	Have no will to maintain it.
	We've got a government that simply wants to enslave us and to destroy everything, destroy our infrastructure and all the rest of this stuff.
	So we're supposed to follow these people, and we're supposed to follow Trump to Panama, to Greenland, and just start throwing cash out and buying our way back in or something.
	Anyway, protests in 1955. Prompted Eisenhower to make minor concessions to the Panamanians, but he would not relinquish the perpetuity provision of the original treaty.
	After more demonstrations in the late 1950s, the U.S. allowed the Panamanians to fly their flag at one location in the zone.
	President Kennedy, eager to improve relations with Latin America, agreed to talk about the issues of dispute between the countries.
	Any hint of concession, however, worried the ultra-patriotic U.S. citizens who lived and worked in the zone.
	Kennedy's declaration that the U.S. and Panamanian flags should be flown together at all non-military sites prompted Zonian students.
	That's what they call them, Zonians.
	Twilight Zone is what this is.
	Twilight Zone is stupid.
	on both sides really what happened with this um it prompted zonian students with the encouragement of adults to raise the stars and stripes alone outside of valboa high school january the 7th 1964 the teenagers guarded the flag for two days before a group of 200 panamanian students marched from nearby panama intent on raising their own banner during the ensuing scuffle the panamanian flag was torn well there we go
	Now it gets really violent.
	See, this is a stupid way that...
	A lot of wars began.
	Hey, they shot the Archduke of Ferdinand.
	Who knows who he is?
	Who cares who he is, right?
	Oh, look.
	They took one flag down and put up another one.
	And now they've got to fight.
	And now our flag got torn.
	But this is the mentality of Donald Trump and MAGA. And of the Pentagon.
	And of these other people.
	And they've got big weapons.
	They're insane.
	And so are the people on the other side.
	Who cares?
	I don't care who runs the Panama Canal.
	I don't care.
	What's going on in Greenland?
	Neither do you.
	What's the price of eggs right now?
	Are they going to lock us down again?
	Are they going to put masks on us?
	Are they going to create another bioweapon and try to mandate or coerce that?
	Those are the issues that confront us.
	And Trump is out there with his 19th century imperialism?
	What a joke this guy is.
	It's all about how he's going to be remembered in the history books, but it's also how he's going to feather his nest with a lot of money.
	From people who are going to profit from this nonsense.
	We always go and fight and die for politicians and their flags, or for the crony capitalists and their capital.
	So, the Panamanian flag gets torn.
	Now it really gets serious.
	Now we're talking serious.
	Thousands of angry Panamanian citizens took to the streets, forced their way into the zone, and attacked American-owned businesses.
	The Canal Zone police were overwhelmed, and the U.S. Army took over, responding to the violence with tear gas and with rifle fire.
	A 20-year-old student was on his way to a movie, and he stopped to help to evacuate some of the wounded, and he was shot dead.
	Demonstrators attacked the fence of shame, they called it.
	They said in Panama there exists another Berlin Wall.
	They attacked the fence of shame that divided the Canal Zone from the rest of Panama.
	The Colombian ambassador to the Organization of American States pointed to the barrier, and he's the one who said it was another Berlin Wall.
	Panama broke diplomatic relations with the U.S. on January the 10th, the next day.
	Some Panamanians demanded that the U.S. hand over the canal zone immediately.
	Sporadic shooting came from both sides of the border.
	American soldiers trying to eliminate a sniper in an apartment building.
	Instead, shot and killed Rosa Alina Landaco.
	An 11-year-old girl.
	With the Panamanian National Guard unwilling to intervene, the fighting went on for another four days.
	Rioters sacked some Panamanian as well as some American businesses.
	The new U.S. Information Services Library that was part of the Kennedy administration to win the propaganda war in Latin America went up in flames.
	Embassy personnel got sensitive documents and they went up in flames.
	And then they fled, though the embassy was not invaded.
	And so, Life Magazine talked about it, but I said, I've never heard this before in any history.
	And this is coming from AmericanHeritage.com.
	Panamanian president restored diplomatic relations in April.
	After his election, later in 1964, Johnson agreed to talk about an entirely new treaty, he said.
	To delineate U.S. rights in the country.
	After three years of negotiation, a new pact was concluded that would eliminate the perpetuity clause, but opposition inside both countries kept it from being enacted.
	By the 1970s, America's two ocean navy and long-range bombers and missiles had obviated much of the strategic military importance of the canal.
	An operation of the canal was gradually passed to Panamanians.
	And now it's owned by a lot of corporations that are not in China.
	There's a lot of corporations that operate this, and they did this, and we'll talk about who those are.
	But it is geopolitics that is involved in this.
	And yet, just as we saw before, is there a strategic importance to this?
	No.
	You know, it was very important at the time of Theodore Roosevelt to be able to have the Navy go through the Panama Canal.
	It was important to trade, still is important to trade.
	But we now have a Navy, an Atlantic Navy, as well as a Pacific Navy.
	At the speed at which warfare starts, you're not going to have one of them move from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Panama Canal in time to do anything.
	As I pointed out, we've got navies in both.
	We have long-range bombers, but more importantly, we have missiles.
	Trump ought to be worried about hypersonic missiles.
	Instead, he's doing gunboat diplomacy straight out of the 19th century.
	You want to talk about strategic issues?
	You want to talk about geopolitics?
	This doesn't make any sense on either one of those as well.
	The U.S. is the main user of the canal.
	It built and managed it until its transfer, December 31, 1999. In reaction to what Trump has said, Panamanian workers' unions demonstrated last Tuesday in front of the U.S. Embassy, and flags were placed up at the request of the president there.
	So we're back to flags again.
	Wave the flag.
	And Trump is no better, right?
	Wave the flag and put his name on it.
	Trump's threats come just as Panama commemorated on December the 20th.
	This is not the Martyrs Day, December the 9th, but this is December 20th, the 35th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of the country for the capture of Manuel Noriega.
	Strong man, Manuel Noriega.
	That was the moniker that George H.W. Bush wanted to put on.
	Strong man.
	What is a strong man?
	You CIA shill.
	Strong man.
	Yeah, his drug partner that went bad.
	Or maybe it was the alleged, Compromising photos that he had of George H.W. Bush.
	Either way, we talk about the fires, and we talk about people saying, well, there's some kind of directed energy weapons and everything.
	That was the first time I heard any talk about that.
	It was in the Panama Invasion.
	And in it, they showed, there was footage, and that documentary showed Cars that were completely burned, isolated, and everything, you know, here and there, different ones, and people said they just spontaneously burst.
	It wasn't like incoming missiles or anything.
	So I don't know.
	I heard about that.
	That was positive the first time back with the Panama invasion.
	The Panama invasion left between 500 and 4,000 dead.
	How do you get that wide of a count?
	Well, because some of the people just disappeared.
	That was one of the other things that they said about these directed energy weapons that they presumed happened with that.
	But, you know, some people just don't count.
	That would be the response to the Pentagon, I guess.
	They were collateral damage.
	They don't count.
	Trump's thesis on China and the canal may be related to the fact that the Panamanian ports of Balboa and Cristobal are operated by Hutchinson-Wampoa, a firm based in Hong Kong.
	Something that does not affect the Panama Canal Authority, which manages it independently and does not maintain commercial or financial ties.
	Yet Trump's cabinet is made up of anti-China hawks.
	Biden's war with Russia or Trump's war with China.
	Or maybe we get both.
	Trump is sending a message to Latin America that it must align itself with U.S. interests in the face of the seemingly inevitable trade war with China.
	Rule by threat.
	Rule by intimidation.
	Rule by chaos.
	That's what Trump does domestically as well as foreign.
	And so the Wall Street Journal interviewed the Panama Canal CEO. It's a commercial business now, right?
	It's not even about the flags.
	It's a commercial business.
	He says meeting Trump's demand will, quote, lead to chaos.
	Well, it's chaos everywhere he goes.
	The leader of the Panama Canal Authority denied President-elect Trump's claims that China is controlling the vital trade route.
	And he said Trump's suggestion that U.S. ships get preferential rates will, quote, lead to chaos.
	So if you want to help the economy, Maybe what you shouldn't do is push for removal of the debt ceiling for two years.
	If you want to help the economy, maybe you shouldn't lock us down and then put us into debt with one multi-trillion dollar welfare UBI training program after another, which is what Trump did in 2020. And Biden continues with the precedent.
	Maybe you shouldn't swamp us with debt.
	Maybe you ought to get the shackles of this pretend The Panama, no, the Paris Treaty.
	No, no, they want that.
	So they're going to manufacture some other boogeymen that are not the real problem.
	The accusations that China is running the canal are unfounded, said Morales.
	Morales, who is the leader of the Panama Canal Authority, he's the CEO. This was in an interview on Wednesday.
	He said, China has no involvement whatsoever in our operations.
	Rules are rules, and there are no exceptions, he said.
	We cannot discriminate for the Chinese or for the Americans or for anyone else.
	If we were to do so, this would violate the neutrality treaty, it would violate international law, and it would lead to chaos.
	What Trump wants.
	Now, the Wall Street Journal says a Chinese company.
	Well, that's Hong Kong.
	That's the one that is in Hong Kong.
	There's another company that's involved that is in Taiwan.
	They're not Chinese communists, are they?
	There's another one that's in Seattle.
	They might be Chinese communists.
	Or they're a Seattle communist or whatever.
	No, there's a Seattle company that's involved.
	There's a Hong Kong company that's involved.
	There's a Taiwan company that's involved, and the only one that could have any direct ties, really, to the Chinese communists would be Singapore.
	And I'm not saying, because this Hong Kong company, again, China's taking over Hong Kong, gradually.
	There's a possibility that there's some issues with that, but I don't think so.
	They're operating by the laws that are there.
	And what this guy is saying, the guy who operates the Panama Canal, Morales, It's saying that Trump is flat out lying about everything.
	You think?
	I'd be willing to go on the polymarket and put some money down on that, that Trump is lying about everything.
	So a Chinese company, says the Wall Street Journal, has operated two ports on either end of the canal for decades.
	But the canal itself is run by the Panama Canal Authority, a state entity whose board is selected by the Panamanian government.
	Panama's foreign minister said, the sovereignty of our canal is not negotiable.
	It is part of our history of struggle and an irreversible conquest.
	You understand, from the history that I just gave you, how these people see it.
	You want to have sabotage on the canal and close it for everybody?
	Well, that's part of the chaos that could come out of this.
	Trump said Panama was seeking $3 billion to repair the canal and charging American shipping and U.S. Navy vessels higher fees than others for passage.
	Morales said Panama had not requested any U.S. funds to improve the canal, and he wasn't aware of what $3 billion Trump was referring to, because the authority funds repairs through its own revenue.
	He says, why did this come out?
	I don't know anything about $3 billion.
	The Panamanian executive, who's run the Canal Authority since 2019, denied that the authority charges U.S. vessels higher rates.
	2019, who was president then?
	If Trump had a problem with him, if Trump had a problem with the Panama Canal, why didn't he do something in 2019?
	Why now?
	Well, again, did he talk about this when he was a candidate?
	No.
	What is this guy up to, anyway?
	You know, he's constantly being bought off.
	As I pointed out, his inauguration campaign, $170 million.
	And I thought about it after the program, when I was cutting the show.
	I looked at it and was like, wait a minute.
	Yeah, I even mentioned how much money and corruption.
	Was in Washington and how you've got a good metric of it if you just look at the amount of money that is spent on presidential campaigns.
	And I referenced again the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush and Al Gore.
	Al Gore accused Bush of buying the election because Bush spent $100 million.
	And Al Gore only had $70 million.
	The two of them together, $170 million.
	What is Trump raking in on his inauguration parties?
	$170 million.
	Here we are 25 years later, and just for his inauguration party.
	He's got big corporations, you know, like Pfizer and all these tech companies and Amazon.
	They're throwing in massive amounts of cash at Trump.
	Just the victory party.
	It's more than the entire campaign combined of both the Republicans and the Democrats 25 years ago.
	That's the corruption, folks, and that's why you're seeing this kind of stuff.
	That's why you're seeing all of this nonsense.
	We've got to buy Greenland.
	We've got to buy Panama.
	We've got to invade them or whatever.
	That's why you're seeing it.
	Because of the corruption that is there.
	These people who are investing hundreds of millions of dollars are expecting payoffs.
	And the hundreds of billions of dollars.
	Look at Pfizer, right?
	They only gave Trump a million dollars in his inauguration party in 2017, and look at what they got.
	I mean, their sales alone, not counting all the government subsidies and delivering the product and giving them immunity and all the rest of the stuff, their sales alone were tens of billions of dollars.
	I don't even know what the full amount is.
	hesitate to venture a guess because it's all secret and hidden from us so um the sovereignty of our canal is not negotiable if From their perspective, they're looking at it.
	Trump said Panama was seeking $3 billion, but the guy says, I don't know what he's talking about.
	He's been there since 2019. Rates are set by the size and the type of the ship.
	Though the canal also runs auctions for time slots for time-sensitive cargo.
	As he spoke, a Chinese-owned container ship Loaded with thousands of boxes for Amazon and other U.S. retailers, passed through the locks heading for Houston.
	The Chinese are sending most of their ships through because the Chinese are the ones who are manufacturing everything.
	Why are the Chinese manufacturing everything?
	It's because we let them have an advantage.
	We let them have the advantage.
	We ignore their copyright violations.
	We cheer the fact that they've got slave labor, the people that they can enslave to work for us to make cheap garbage that we buy at Walmart.
	And now we give them a monopoly on energy.
	Of course, the ships going through the Panama Canal are going to be Chinese.
	Everything that's being made is going to be Chinese, and nothing is going to change that if Trump doesn't stop the Paris Climate Accord.
	Tolls average about $750,000 per crossing.
	Wow.
	Though they can range between $300,000 and $1 million.
	Morales said they apply to all ships from around the world, and there are no exceptions.
	And so again, what are the companies that run this?
	Hong Kong-based Hutchinson Wampoa won the bidding for two of the leases, and it operates a terminal on each end.
	That's what they're talking about, the Chinese company.
	It was out of Hong Kong, actually.
	The other terminals are operated under long-term leases by PSA Singapore and Seattle-based SSA Marine and Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine.
	Don't buy the lies of Donald Trump.
	He's up to something.
	And he's up to no good.
	We'll take a quick break.
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	We'll be right back.
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	Well, welcome back, Doug.
	Guard Goldsmith, good to see you there, Guard.
	Liberty Conspiracy, he's there every night on Twitter, as well as on Rockfin.
	He says, Trump says if we don't take Greenland, the military base we have there will be in danger.
	That base that is so important, that they reduced it from 10,000 to 400. It's just there because we never leave anywhere.
	I mean, we never shut down any base.
	It's pretty much obsolete, I would say.
	Marky Mark.
	Thank you for the tip.
	It says, Panama was originally a part of Colombia.
	Yep, that's right.
	Thanks to U.S. Machinations, Panama was established for the construction of the canal.
	Exactly right.
	So we're just talking about the history.
	Nobody knows the history.
	Marky Mark does.
	Birdhouse Blues.
	I'm suddenly getting voice messages from my travel agent on Super Saver deals to Panama.
	Act fast.
	You better look into this travel agent.
	They probably don't have your best interest at heart if they want to put you into a hot spot that's there.
	Let's take a look at...
	The other things that are under fire.
	Let's take a look at the water issue as this fire continues to go now a second week.
	There's a lot of different things to look at in terms of how people reacted to this.
	And again, when we talk about the sources of these fires, I think it is too soon to speculate on that.
	I understand what people are saying, but just as we saw in Hawaii, I would like to have some...
	Firefighters weigh in on this.
	Do you see situations where things are left that are not burned?
	I remember seeing articles about, look at this, this whole, and I think it was in California, this whole area was burned down, and the only thing that's remaining is a wooden cross that's in the center of it.
	And they saw that as a sign.
	Now, you know, strange things happen when the winds are swirling around and all the rest of this stuff.
	Who knows what's going on with it.
	But a firefighter, Has contacted Breitbart.
	Blast, a lack of resources, said we could have saved buildings like Caruso did.
	And for those of us who are not in California, a reminder that Caruso was the opponent of Karen Bass for mayor of L.A. And he lost that.
	But he was able, he's a real estate developer, and he was able to save his area.
	Because he took precautions and because he knew what was going to be coming.
	The L.A. firefighter who wished to remain anonymous blasted local leaders who cut funding to fire services.
	He said the lack of personnel and water made fighting the Palisades fire difficult.
	He then said that claims that the ember cast, that is the wind-blown sparks and embers that carry fires to distant points, That the ember cast was too thick to save neighborhoods that were remote from the initial fire but were destroyed.
	He said they were not credible.
	He said we could have deployed ahead of the fire.
	And we didn't have the resources.
	And we could have saved buildings like Rick Caruso did.
	They say that the ember cast was too thick.
	But Palisades didn't have the resources or the water to protect Ralph's, the little grocery store across from the local fire station.
	Again, Caruso is a businessman and developer.
	He managed to save his own Palisades Village Mall by hiring a private firefighting company with its own water tankers.
	There you go, folks.
	There isn't anything that government does that we can't do better on our own.
	This has been the lesson of America.
	This is what America used to be.
	I've talked many times about Alexis de Tocqueville coming to America from socialist France.
	In France, everybody wants the government to do everything, and now we do as well.
	Not only that, but we want the federal government to do everything.
	Not even the local and state government.
	The federal government must fix everything.
	But that's not what built America.
	What built America, what did things, you know, the projects that we were able to construct, was because people did it on their own.
	We had churches who took over and did charity.
	They educated people.
	They ran hospitals.
	They created hospitals.
	We don't do that anymore.
	The government's got to do it all.
	We just sit back and complain if the government doesn't do it.
	We don't ever get off of our duffs and do anything about it.
	But Rick Caruso did.
	As a matter of fact, here is a shot of his mall there that was preserved and some comments from him when he was running.
	In 2022. And they rejected him.
	There he is.
	I can see right now what his problem is.
	He doesn't match the DEI stuff.
	He's a white male.
	Can't have a white male for mayor.
	But look at this.
	There's the tankers with water.
	And there are the buildings that are standing.
	Yeah, look at that.
	How about that?
	Do it yourself.
	Do it yourself firefighting.
	Even the flag's not burnt.
	Eat your heart out, Pinua.
	Look at this.
	Everything is in perfect condition.
	Wow.
	Everything on?
	Oh my gosh.
	I've been going around the city talking to...
	Here's Caruso.
	Talking to paramedics.
	2022. Talking to residents.
	And there's a deep concern throughout this city.
	that the paramedics and the firefighters are understaffed because their budget has not been restored from 15 years ago when it was cut back.
	We have fire stations throughout this city that aren't mobilized because they don't have the staffing to do it and it's just wrong.
	My plan as mayor is simple.
	We are going to restore the budget to bring the staffing levels back to give the residents of Los Angeles the service they pay for and deserve.
	And that's the only way a city can be a great city.
	We have to reprioritize our budget in this city to make sure that our residents are safe and they're protected.
	And we can't do that unless we have a fire department that is fully funded and fully staffed.
	Well, that was 2022. And when they had the election, the people in L.A. said, give us Barabbas and DEI. We don't want the guy that knows what the problem is and identifies it.
	No, we don't care about that.
	Let's play DEI games.
	And they've got a woman.
	I'll play this for you later on.
	She makes $750,000.
	And she checks one DEI box after the other.
	But she was in charge of the water.
	Guess what?
	You had one job to do.
	And you didn't do it because you're out there checking DEI boxes.
	As a matter of fact, Mel Gibson was on talking about the fire.
	He lost his home.
	This incompetence is actually deliberate, and we know it is.
	Well, you know, I know they were messing with the water, letting reserves go for one reason or another.
	They've been doing that a while.
	California has a lot of problems that sort of baffle the mind as far as why they do things.
	And then in the events like this, you...
	Sort of like, oh, is it on purpose?
	Which, it's an insane thing to think.
	But one begins to ponder whether or not there is a purpose in mind.
	What could it be, you know?
	Do they want the state empty?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, maybe they just want L.A. empty.
	Maybe they want a smart city there.
	Look, the obvious smoking gun is what these people are doing.
	You can, by negligence, you can deliberately burn things down, right?
	And here we are a week later.
	And these fires are not under control.
	And they're going in new directions as well.
	So yeah, was it deliberate?
	It absolutely was.
	By the way, when she ran, the key thing that she ran on, just like Lala Harris, was abortion.
	I've seen Lala Harris crash and burn because she ran on abortion.
	Prior to that, we saw in Texas, we had, I even forget what her name was.
	We called her, for so long, we called her Abortion Barbie because she was all about abortion.
	And she's this blonde, liberal leftist who ran for governor in Texas, and her entire campaign was, let's kill more babies.
	And so Caruso narrowly lost.
	But as this paper points out, this is actually Breitbart, he won in Pacific Palisades.
	You know, there comes a point in time where you can try to fix things by offering your services and politics and all the rest of the stuff, but when that doesn't work, you've just got to do it yourself.
	Now, when we talk about the fact that she won on a campaign of abortion and DEI, Charlie Kirk was very angry with a lot of people who said, well, this is not God's judgment.
	It is negligence and malpractice and all the rest of this stuff, right?
	And, of course, Charlie Kirk is always going to want to put politics as the ultimate thing.
	But it's not.
	But again, I'm not going to say that, you know, we can look at the story of Job and we can see that his...
	His friends said, well, there must be something that you did to cause this.
	This wouldn't be happening to you if you were a good person.
	Well, bad things do happen, but there are no good persons, right?
	The question is, when we look at something like this, we ought to say, there but for the grace of God go I. Because it isn't, why did this happen to those people?
	But the real question is, why didn't it happen to us?
	And I think in the larger scheme of things, We have to say, why hasn't this happened to America yet?
	When we look at this Holocaust of fire going through Los Angeles, think about World War III that Biden and so many other people are openly courting.
	You want to see the entire country burning like L.A. is burning right now?
	Well, you just keep pushing on Ukraine and these other places, and you'll get that.
	You keep pushing on the Chinese and the Russians and the Ukrainians and, you know, all the rest.
	I mean, it's just...
	But, you know, the bottom line is that why hasn't this happened to some of us?
	You know, sometimes God will bring difficult circumstances into our life in order to chasten us as a parent for something that we did wrong.
	Sometimes it comes in when we haven't done anything wrong, but perhaps God is training us like a marine drill sergeant would train you and put you through, you know, what did I do wrong?
	He's making me march 20 miles with a heavy pack or something.
	That's just training you for what's about to come.
	You're going to be needing those kinds of muscles and skills for what's coming.
	So sometimes it's just God giving us muscles that is happening.
	Sometimes bad things happen to you because you're living in Sodom and Gomorrah, and your house burns along with everybody else's.
	I mean, it's not just that God does destroy things from time to time in judgment.
	He makes that very clear.
	He made it clear to Israel.
	He made it clear with Sodom and Gomorrah.
	And, you know, sometimes bad things happen to you because you vote for an abortionist and a...
	A person who was pushing Sodom and Gomorrah.
	Trying to turn the country into that.
	As of May 2nd, 2024, 86 emergency vehicles were out of commission in L.A. because funds had not been allocated to hire sheet metal workers and mechanics to fix them.
	This included 40 fire engines, 36 ambulances, 10 fire trucks, which are used to carry the equipment like ladders and rescue supplies.
	So you've got fire engines and you've got fire trucks that carry the equipment.
	Captain Chung Ho testified before a budget hearing.
	He said it just makes no sense to have million-dollar fire trucks and engines taken out of service and sidelined because we don't have enough mechanics to keep them running.
	But we've got a lot of DEI bureaucrats, don't we?
	The fire has burned nearly 24,000 acres with only 11% containment as of Sunday morning.
	As a matter of fact, we talk about Mel Gibson.
	This is what his mansion looked like.
	He had, I think it was like an $11 million mansion.
	Very extensive.
	This is what it looks like after the fire.
	What about the rest of the neighborhood, Mel?
	Your neighbors, the people you've lived next to for quite some time, how did they fare?
	Yeah, some of the neighbors really got it hard.
	I know, you know, Ed Harris, the actor.
	It was a real, it was a real, it was completely toasted.
	I've never seen...
	Such a complete burn.
	It's like someone did it on purpose to really destroy every aspect of it.
	Yeah, well again, it was on purpose, what they did, in terms of destroying the infrastructure to fight fires.
	They know they have fires that are there.
	I remember a tornado hit our home when I was in about 3rd or 4th grade.
	And it was very interesting to see the strange things that were there.
	That's why I'm not necessarily going to jump into the I'm not going to rule it out, but I'm not necessarily going to jump into the directed energy weapons thing either.
	Something like a tornado, for example.
	Lots of wind and rain, all this time.
	But the main tornado just jumped from here to there.
	So we had neighbors across the street from us.
	Nothing was done to their house.
	It hit the back of our house and took the back room that was there and completely destroyed it and left the rest of the house alone.
	And took all of those boards from that room and hurled them at my sister's Edsel that was parked in the front yard.
	And then it goes way down the street to the other side of the street, and it's another house.
	And that guy's just like, here, this one, this one, this one.
	Now, we also see some tornadoes that will come in.
	Many times it's at the front of a hurricane, and you'll have just like a wall of tornadoes.
	And that's what happened in Homestead, Florida.
	It just devastated everything.
	But this particular thing, you know, it's going here and there.
	And I remember looking at a palm tree that was twisted just like a straw.
	And seeing another spot where there was a stick that was stuck right into a, like an oak tree.
	Like somebody shot an arrow into it.
	Amazing things happened.
	We had a tornado that came through in Raleigh.
	One of the guys that worked for us at the time, he's working for a different video store.
	And he went to work that morning.
	Karen and I were working late at night after everybody else had gone.
	And so we're there at like 2 o'clock in the morning working.
	And we see all this lightning flashing and all this other kind of stuff.
	And there was a storm.
	But we continued to work.
	We didn't know anything was happening.
	We didn't have the radio on or anything like that.
	We didn't know that the tornado had dropped down about a mile north of where we were.
	And I went through a path of destruction and everything.
	So we work and, you know, we're going home about five or six in the morning and I'm driving and these people are like zooming past us.
	You know, emergency vehicles and all this other.
	And what wasn't so much emergency vehicles, it was just people were driving past us.
	We didn't see any ambulances or anything like that.
	And I said to Karen, I said, boy, these people who get up in the morning.
	We typically work really late at night.
	So these people who are early risers kind of manic, aren't they?
	And we still weren't listening to the radio.
	And so we get to close to where home is.
	And that's when we saw the destruction that was there.
	Fortunately, it didn't hit our house.
	And we figured out what was going on.
	But in that particular tornado, it went down to this strip center that the anchor tenant was Walmart.
	And it was L-shaped.
	Walmart was the main thing.
	And then on a perpendicular return, they had a lot of small shops.
	And so he was there to open up the video store that was there.
	And he said he got out and he walks up and he puts the key in the door to open it.
	And he looks over and there's like a stick that is going through the tempered glass on the side.
	And he thought, that's strange.
	And then he said, and then he looked over to the side, and Walmart was gone.
	Not the most observant person.
	We hired him and found out that he was kind of in a fog most of the time.
	But that's the kind of strange stuff that you would see.
	It just kind of jumps here and there, and that's what Mel Gibson was talking about as well.
	Well, the reservoir in the worst fire-ravaged areas of L.A. had been drained for repairs and the blaze erupted, as I pointed out.
	The 117 million-gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir was undergoing fixes to its torn cover when the horrific Palisades fire broke out.
	And the Department of Water and Power, former manager of that, Well, yeah, water would not have made a difference, he says.
	Do you believe this guy or not, right?
	Is this guy just a politician?
	You know that he's a politician if he was the manager of the Department of Water and Power.
	They don't hire people who are qualified technically necessarily in LA. They hire people who are politicians.
	And he's probably, even though he's left that now, he's probably moved on to something else.
	And it's not about the water pressure.
	It's about the political pressure.
	And he's trying to relieve the political pressure.
	Well, you know, if that was true, then how do we explain Rick Caruso, right?
	You know, as one person says, if Californians keep Newsom and the rest of these people, he'll burn California to the ground.
	So, yeah, you know, we've got the people out there now who are saying, the Democrats are saying, well, this is climate change.
	So, water, that's not going to help for a fire.
	What you're going to have to do is get rid of your car and your heater and your air conditioning and all the rest of this stuff, because that's what the problem is.
	Problem isn't that we don't have any water to fight fires that happen all the time in LA. No, the problem is that you've got a car and you've got to get rid of that.
	That's how crazy these people are.
	And yes, they will burn our country to the ground.
	They want to burn this country to the ground, folks.
	It's not just stupidity.
	It's malevolence.
	This writer, Jennifer Gilardi, says for much of my life in L.A., I was blissfully unaware of politics and people could afford to be.
	She talked about how nice California was.
	She said, and then COVID hit.
	And all of a sudden, I became unblissfully aware that the bad policies of an egomaniacal tyrant have serious devastating consequences.
	And she's not just talking about Trump.
	She's talking about the governor as well.
	California had become unsustainable, both financially and politically.
	Now, she's writing for the Federalists, so she's not going to criticize or lay any blame at all at the feet of Trump for what happened with COVID. She said officials here had some help during COVID. They had the backing of Fauci and many other experts who, for their own personal gain, insisted that the virus was something that it wasn't.
	And yet Trump is still insisting that it's something that it wasn't.
	And Trump is still insisting that his bioweapon was the good thing.
	And Trump gave Fauci a medal.
	News alert, conservative media!
	Fauci got a medal on Trump's last day in office.
	What's the matter with them?
	They're going to burn the country down, too, with that kind of blind, partisan cheerleading.
	Absolutely unwilling to look at the facts and to look at the truth.
	All they look at...
	That's what people want to hear.
	And I'm disgusted by that.
	She said, the blame for the tragedy currently destroying the lives of thousands of people lies at the feet of only one person, though.
	Newsom.
	Well, I don't think so.
	I mean, it's the whole Democrat Party.
	It's Newsom, it's Bass, it's all these other people.
	And it's the people who voted for them.
	Again, they could have had Rick Caruso.
	The guy who, okay, you're not going to let me help with L.A. I'll just...
	Focus on saving my own area that I own.
	She said, Newsom has single-handedly destroyed the state with his Green New Deal policies, his emphasis on environmental, social governance, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
	Of course he has.
	But then you've got people.
	We talked about the water person who was a former water manager.
	He said, if we had more water, it wouldn't have helped at all.
	Maybe if we didn't have somebody like this who is the current water chief and she makes folks $750,000 a year.
	Let me repeat that.
	Three quarters of a million dollars is paid to this person.
	We call it powered by equity and I know that it's been really important for the DWP to put an equity lens on everything.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	And that's the number one thing that attracted me to this role.
	Coming from the communities that I come, seeing what I've seen through my career in utilities and through the military, I've been in the Coast Guard 19 1⁄2 years now, so I've got six more months to qualify for my 20 years, which was my original goal.
	Wow.
	You've got to get a pension because you just can't make it on $750,000.
	Thank you.
	It's important to me that everything we do...
	It's with an equity lens and social justice and making sure that we right the wrongs that we've done in the past from an infrastructure perspective and that we involve the community in that process.
	And this utility is serious about it, is authentic about it.
	And so I'm just super excited to be part of that movement.
	Yeah, her whole career is based on racism.
	And I don't know who this other guy is or what his DEI boxes were that he checked, but he was the former head of the DWP. Now she is.
	Don't tell me that he's not a politician as well.
	Yeah, who are you going to believe?
	This politician or your critical thinking?
	Yeah, water's not important when you're fighting a fire.
	What's really important is race and sexual preferences and the rest of this stuff.
	So what happened a weekend of 2025 is not unique.
	What is unique is the leadership of the state.
	Newsom has failed to manage the conditions properly.
	Brush should have been consistently cleared.
	Control burns and clear the floor and all the rest of the stuff and a sufficient supply of water.
	They don't care about any of this stuff.
	It's just like this guy who was doing nuclear waste for the Biden administration.
	Sam Britton.
	All he cares about is his sexual addictions and where he can steal another suitcase full of unusual women's clothes.
	These people, they're not capable of this because they're distracted and addicted to what it is they're involved in.
	Everyone who lives here knows this.
	Many constituents voted for this.
	In 2014, Californians approved the Proposition 1 Water Storage Investment Program, which allocated $2.7 billion for water storage projects.
	Those projects have largely gone unrealized.
	And the abundance of rain that the state received over the past two years.
	Remember the massive floods?
	Remember how everybody said, you know, we could really use that water if they diverted into the reservoirs or anything.
	They just let it flow into the ocean.
	That abundance of rain over the last two years could have been stored if we had larger reservoirs, but it was wasted.
	Yet Newsom, along with the mayor of L.A., Karen Bass, failed to listen.
	Instead, LA's fire chief was focused on inclusivity and making the fire department more diverse.
	The fire chief, the person in charge of the water that you just saw there, and they're getting paid unbelievable amounts of money.
	And so, you know, when I looked at this stuff, I thought, okay, they're right next to the water.
	Why don't they just grab some ocean water and dump it on the fire as well, right?
	Well, there's a couple of reasons that you don't do that.
	Number one, It's very corrosive to firefighting equipment, and, you know, once you're wearing the equipment, California and L.A. is not going to pay to fix it.
	I mean, they did use a little bit of it.
	They did use a little bit of it, but they did.
	And then the other thing that they said, well, the environmental impact of using seawater.
	And, of course, there is an environmental impact.
	You drop the seawater on plants and other things like that, and it's like salting the earth, right?
	It's going to take it a while to recover.
	It's going to take it a while to recover when it gets burned down, too, isn't it?
	I mean, there's some plants that thrive on that, like slashed pines and stuff like that.
	But for the most part, it's kind of destroying to the vegetation and have it incinerated as well.
	But PBS had a report about this.
	Can desalination be a solution for the drought in Southern California?
	So they're sitting right there with the ocean.
	Well, let's not scoop it up and drop it on things because, you know, it's salt water.
	We don't get things salty.
	Just let it burn.
	And we don't want to get our equipment salty either.
	So what about desalinization?
	Well, California is currently suffering through its worst drought in over 1,200 years, says PBS. And they know this why?
	You should always ask this.
	You should always respond to these kinds of absurd claims like Thomas Sowell said.
	Prove it.
	Prove it.
	And so what if it's true as well, right?
	So prove that this is the worst drought in 1,200 years.
	And so what if it's true?
	They could have still done something about it.
	So you've got nearly empty reservoirs.
	That's not because of the drought.
	That's because they don't care.
	Environmentalists, however, are not in favor of desalinization plants.
	They don't want them.
	What could they possibly have against fresh water?
	Well, the same thing they have against everything that's vital to our life, whether it is electric power or whether it is the kind of food that we want to eat or being able to travel or having clothing or any of that kind of stuff.
	No, no.
	Environmentalists want to shut it all down.
	Environmentalists argue that desalinization plants destroy marine life and harm environments that are already suffering from the effects of climate change.
	I'm so sick of this stuff.
	Desalinization plants are energy-intensive.
	They rely on fuel.
	So they contribute to global warming.
	I can't do anything without these people shutting you down with their fearful fantasies about climate.
	According to a Pacific Institute study, says PBS, desalinization can cost three times as much as projects designed to capture rainwater, most of which currently flows in the Pacific.
	Okay, so if your desalination plant Is too expensive and uses too much energy and it's going to, you know, burn the planet down.
	What are you doing about the reservoirs?
	Oh, yes, that's right.
	You didn't do anything about that either.
	You had $3 billion to do something about it and they didn't do anything about that either.
	Why not?
	Right?
	There's always one excuse after the other.
	The Poseidon water plant was denied approval.
	The largest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere.
	Is Poseidon Waters' Carlsbad desalination plant in Carlsbad, California.
	Produces 50 million gallons of desalinated drinking water a day.
	And over the past 22 years, they have invested $100 million into an effort to build another similar plant in Huntington Beach, California.
	They recently experienced a game-ending defeat, however, when the California Coastal Commission Denied approval for what would have been the final regulatory hurdle for the proposed $1.4 billion Huntington Beach plant.
	They don't want it.
	Because of environmentalism.
	Because of this insanity about climate change.
	Well, we're going to take a break.
	Before we do, I'll read some of these comments here.
	Trump Berger says $750,000 a year to turn off people's water.
	That basically sums it up.
	That's right.
	Thank you for the tip.
	16th King says, I've been listening to you since I was 14, now 28. Well, thank you.
	You truly don't know how many people you've raised and how many lives you have saved just with COVID in January the 6th alone.
	That's really kind.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Blotin.
	Maui and Palisades were most expensive real estate.
	Third is Palm Beach.
	Mm-hmm.
	Wow.
	DG8. Thank you for the tip.
	Says, David, Trump has been silent about freeing the J6ers now.
	Well, actually, no.
	You had yesterday, I think it was, one of the Sunday shows.
	I just saw it yesterday.
	Let's see.
	Do I have the clip of that here?
	I'm not sure that I've got the clip.
	You've got J.D. Vance.
	Oh, really?
	How do we know if they were violent?
	Does it mean that one of these kangaroo courts convicted them of violence?
	I certainly hope that he doesn't set this out for some people like Joe Biggs.
	You know, Joe Biggs made a big deal out of it in the J6 commission.
	Oh, look, here's Joe Biggs, and he's walking into the building through the velvet ropes.
	You know, all the rest of the stuff.
	You better believe that they got footage of everything everywhere.
	They got cameras all over the place.
	So much footage that people can't find everything that they want.
	And so if they had any footage of Joe Biggs beating somebody, you better believe that that would have been featured.
	So Joe Biggs is there in prison.
	I'm just wondering if they're going to say, well, you know, you're part of the Proud Boys, and the Proud Boys are just, you know, a violent group or whatever, so we're not going to pardon you.
	We'll have to.
	Wait and see.
	I think this whole thing has been a betrayal.
	And that's what I said.
	That's why the listener said that.
	He said, you know, I was telling everybody, stay away from January the 6th.
	There's absolutely nothing, nothing that could have ever been accomplished on January the 6th.
	And these people were led into that by Alex Jones and by Donald Trump and meet me over there and all the rest of this stuff.
	And then Trump abandoned them.
	Shame on him for letting these people suffer for four years.
	People who were exercising their constitutional rights to assemble peacefully and redress their grievances.
	I've not heard Trump or anybody talk about their constitutional rights to do that.
	And of course, look, it is Biden, and he doesn't escape from any of this stuff.
	It's his criminal stuff, but Trump knew.
	Trump knew that Biden would do that.
	We all knew that Biden was going to do that.
	And we all knew what was going to, well.
	The people who led them into it, I'll say that, knew.
	I knew.
	Alex knew.
	Trump knew.
	We knew what was going to happen to them.
	And if they went on January 6th, we knew what was going to happen to them after Biden got in.
	And they didn't do anything about it.
	So, now he's promising hell to pay if Israeli hostages are not freed when he takes power.
	That's right.
	How is that America first?
	His cult will excuse it.
	That's right.
	He's more interested.
	And prisoners, hostages in another country.
	We'll see what happens.
	We'll see what happens.
	Trucker Chris, for the win, says, yes, LA, especially East LA, was built in a dry and arid climate at the turn of the 20th century, like 100,000 people lived in LA. Well, who knows?
	Maybe we'll relocate everybody in LA to Greenland.
	Yeah, I mean, it's half the size of what L.A. was at the turn of the century, and they can go up there and burn it down with some Democrats elected.
	Democrats could probably burn down Greenland, you know, even though there's no buildings or trees there.
	They could probably still burn it down somehow.
	Guard Goldsmith, did any of you see how deeply the L.A. mayor is embedded with deep staters?
	After Congress, she hopped onto...
	The Board of the National Endowment for Democracy.
	Yeah, the NAD, as he points out, is the CIA. Yeah, yeah.
	She campaigned.
	I guess people are concerned about some of that, too, because when she campaigned, she made an explicit promise that she was not going to gallivant around the globe.
	She was going to focus on the problems of people in L.A. And, of course, she was in Ghana when all this stuff happened.
	And it was a junket.
	A wasteful, expensive junket is being led by Biden's person for the Office of Management and Budget.
	You know, the people are supposed to be looking at how things are being spent.
	A Syrian girl.
	If they voted for that woman in order to kill more babies, I think they got what they paid for.
	Death and destruction.
	Absolutely right.
	All right, we'll be right back.
	All right.
	All right.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Well, Brian and Deb McCartney, did anyone see the news on Tulsi Warhawk Gabbard?
	She is going for full-on surveillance to get the nomination approved.
	Yeah, she wants to be part of the intelligence agency, so what are you going to do?
	You're going to...
	You're going to push what they want to do, which is to spy on everybody.
	Look, Tulsi Gabbard came from a home where I think her father was a Catholic and her mother was a Hindu or something like that.
	Different religion.
	But when she was getting into politics, she was pro-life.
	And because she wanted to get elected as a Democrat, she became pro-abortion.
	Now, if you're going to flip-flop on issues like that, you don't have any basis.
	I'm not a fan of Tulsi Gabbard.
	And of course, you know, we also see that she's one of the World Economic Forum babes, you know, one of their young leaders and all the rest of this stuff, along with people like Dan Crenshaw.
	I don't trust her at all.
	I don't trust her at all.
	So let's talk, though, about this do-it-yourself stuff.
	I thought this was very interesting, what the Japanese do.
	To protect their homes from fires.
	Have you ever seen a village with automatic fire extinguishing?
	In Shirakawa Village, Japan, ancient thatched houses over 250 years old hide a stunning secret, an automatic sprinkler system.
	When a fire breaks out, 60 sprinklers instantly pop up and spray high-pressure water like a giant fountain, quickly extinguishing the flames.
	The annual test turns into a spectacular water pipe festival, drawing countless visitors to witness the impressive scene.
	Yeah, well, you know, that's one way to do it.
	They got thatched roofs.
	When the Great Fire of London happened, they took out the Globe Theatre, and I got thatched roofs in most of those houses that were there.
	And, you know, first couple of times that Karen and I went to the UK, They didn't have the Globe Theater, but when we went back with our, and those were in the 80s, 1980, because today is our 45th wedding anniversary, and we have absolutely nothing planned to do because we can't get out of our area here because of the snow and the hill, although it may thaw today.
	We went down yesterday to the barn, and we couldn't get the car back up the hill, so we had to walk up the hill in the snow.
	Some point between 1984 and 2001, I don't know when they did it, but they rebuilt the Globe Theater as a replica.
	And I remember seeing all the stuff there about the thatched roofs.
	It really was amazing.
	And it was amazing to see the Globe Theater with its open roof and all the rest of that stuff.
	But yeah, they worked pretty hard to preserve this historical area that's there with the thatched roofs.
	There's all kinds of stuff that you can do if you really care.
	And that's the whole point.
	These people in California don't care.
	They don't care about preserving our society, our infrastructure, our highways, our cars, our way of life.
	They want to attack it and destroy it and burn it down.
	Here's one example, right?
	You hear these, you know, the people who are there with the water department getting paid three quarters of a million dollars to lie to us.
	They say, well, the water wouldn't have helped at all.
	Well, that's absolutely not true.
	In one neighborhood, you had three people, a brain surgeon, his son, and a neighbor.
	And the three of them saved their homes and several other homes that are there while everything else burned.
	How a warrior brain surgeon saved his Malibu street from wildfires and looters.
	This is from the UK Telegraph.
	Chester Griffiths led his son and his neighbor in a marathon standoff against flames and against criminals who are now coming around looting under a hail of burning debris.
	Just like that firefighter said.
	Oh, well, you know, there's just too many embers that are coming in.
	There's a lot of wind and fire is coming in and all the rest of this stuff.
	Well, that's why they kept vigilance there and they stayed there with their water hoses.
	I don't know where he got the water, but this is a guy who is a prepper.
	This brain surgeon is a prepper.
	He knew about the fires.
	And if the government's not going to prep...
	He's going to do it himself.
	Chester Griffiths finished performing brain surgery, climbed into his car, drove across LA to save his beachfront Malibu home from the wildfires.
	It was a scenario the 62-year-old had been preparing for for years.
	He had done the training.
	He had sourced the fire hoses and briefed his son and next-door neighbor about the course of action.
	Now was the time to put it into practice.
	What followed was a daring mission.
	They saw the three men confront the worst inferno in the city's history to successfully protect six homes in their picturesque cul-de-sac.
	All the while, houses around them crumbled into a mess of ash and rubble.
	As the Pacific Palisades fire worsened, swallowing up thousands of homes and leaving trails of smoldering ruins across thousands of acres, the men refused to back down.
	Even as 80 mile an hour hurricane level winds, Brought sheets of embers the size of footballs raining down.
	They continue to fight.
	It's just the will.
	It's a will to do something about it.
	That it was lacking with the government.
	At one point, he said, I started packing up my car.
	And then I decided that I was just not going to let my house burn down no matter what, said his neighbor, Clayton Colbert.
	Armed with N95 masks, fire hoses, and spades, the trio managed to keep the Inferno at bay for four days and five nights.
	They fought.
	It's very much like the Korean grocers, isn't it, in L.A.? You had Daryl Gates, who, shame on him, started SWAT teams.
	He was the police chief in L.A. He began all the SWAT team stuff.
	He began all of this stuff of...
	Armored, militarized police, you know, the armored cars and all the rest of the stuff.
	And what did he do?
	When the riots came to LA, they abandoned everybody and they saved themselves.
	They circled their stuff around the police stations and around the government buildings and let the rest of LA fend for itself.
	And so you had the Korean grocers who got on the roof and kept looters and arsonists away.
	Same type of thing with this guy.
	Ultimately, it's up to you.
	Without a doubt, he said, if we weren't here, none of our houses would be.
	There's not even a 1% chance, said the neighbor, Mr. Colbert, on Friday as he poked his hose up against the smoldering remains of a neighbor's home to stop it from spreading.
	The men's diciest moment came on Wednesday night when the fire barreled toward them from the west, engulfing two of their neighbor's wooden homes and sending them up in flames within 20 minutes.
	First went the house two doors long from Dr. Griffiths as the Inferno made eucalyptus trees explode.
	And again, you know, some of these people explain, well, you know, you got trees that are still standing because of water content or something.
	Well, you know, when the fire is intense enough, the trees just explode.
	It doesn't matter what kind of tree it is, really.
	Anyway, so again, that is an open question still.
	Then the next one went up.
	They said, like a Roman candle.
	Everything was coming this way.
	The fire was coming this way.
	The smoke.
	The embers in the air.
	And the wind was unbelievable.
	I mean, again, 80 mile an hour winds, and it's throwing burning chunks of stuff the size of footballs at you.
	And these guys persisted.
	And then he says, there was also softball-sized pieces on fire that were landing around us.
	It was almost apocalyptic.
	It's like, you see those things coming at you?
	And they land on the ground?
	And so the majority will not go on the house, but the ones that do, you've got to put them out immediately.
	But if no one was here to do that, then they eventually burned the house down.
	We didn't know when it was going to end.
	That was probably the scariest thing.
	The trio responded by jumping on nearby roofs, spraying the flames and using dirt and sand to put out any fires on the ground.
	They got blown over several times, buckling under the power of the 80 mile an hour gusts.
	In terrifying footage, it can be heard.
	Calling the fire department, and he said, we need a water drop.
	A nearby fire crew came to help them fight the blaze, and Dr. Griffiths begged the captain for a water drop, and he said, they're all grounded.
	What about a plane then, a fixed wing, he said.
	Everybody's grounded, they said.
	So he said, I went back upstairs, and I said, we're just going to have to do it ourselves.
	As a matter of fact, you know, when you look at what Caruso did, and here's another picture, a close-up picture of Caruso's development, you've got to do it yourself.
	Or in this particular case, he hired private people.
	Caruso knew that, but he was rejected because they wanted a racist instead.
	But going back to the doctor, he says, We knew that if it really came to it, we could just take the paddle boats out.
	That was our escape route.
	So he said there wasn't any time to be scared.
	So the neighbor said he hasn't slept in days.
	Speaking on Friday, he admitted that he doesn't know what day it is.
	He does know that he was meant to have kidney surgery on January the 10th, which he just discovered was the day that they were interviewing him.
	He had no idea what day it was.
	Just one long thing.
	What was it?
	Four days and five nights, I think it was.
	At some point during the mission, the neighbor, Mr. Colbert's hair, caught fire.
	But he said he's not entirely displeased with the outcome.
	He said, I look like I've got a full head of hair now, don't I? It's great.
	It's all ash.
	Every bone in my body hurts, he adds.
	He was limping across the sand in front of the homes.
	He has never had a problem with his knee, but now it is strapped up in a brace.
	He's been physically taxing on these guys to the extreme, as you can imagine.
	His slower mobility was a challenge when he was forced to chase after looters who had come to raid the remaining homes.
	It was Thursday evening when Colbert saw two men walking down the hill.
	He said, I started screaming at them and they ran.
	He says, and on top of all that, there's these people who are out there trying to steal from you.
	You know, people like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass and the politicians that are out there.
	Because that really is a metaphor, isn't it?
	Aren't they really like the looters that come around after they've set a fire?
	Who knows whether the fire was maybe by arson.
	Dr. Griffiths bought his property in 2005 and his family moved in in 2009. They tried to fireproof it at the time, knowing that there are always fires in the area.
	They built sprinklers into the roof.
	They used cement tiles instead of wood.
	Dr. Griffiths, who is also a doctor to the L.A. Kings hockey team, said if one thing can come from the devastating tragedy, he wants people to get to know their neighbors.
	He said, we were only able to do this because we were a tight-knit community.
	You see?
	That's the thing.
	Whenever we talk about prepping, that's one of the things that preppers understand.
	You've got to have community as well.
	That's one thing in Jack Lawson's book, CivilDefenseManual.com, Community.
	Creating that community.
	And, again, he's still out of stock on that book.
	He should sell a lot of them when he gets them back in stock.
	It's an excellent book.
	And, by the way, you can – he's got a free chapter about water.
	And, of course, not the quantities that you're going to need to put out a fire, but drinking water and how to keep it there.
	You can see that at CivilDefenseManual.com.
	He says, This whole thing is a tragedy.
	Beyond apocalyptic proportions, I'm so sad.
	I'm very sad for everyone that is so impacted, their families, their lives, their livelihoods, their history, all going.
	It's cataclysmic for those people.
	I don't know what to say.
	Evidently, Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass don't know what to say either because they've pretty much been silent.
	Not my fault.
	It's somebody else's fault.
	It's not my fault.
	But anyway, that's the prepper that's there.
	He says, I'm happy that it turned out okay for us, but it may not have happened.
	I made a video on the first night of our home recording memories in each room.
	A neighbor was one of the handfuls whose home was saved by these three men.
	She said she felt survivor's guilt.
	Because her home is still standing.
	But she runs a non-profit foundation, and she's determined, she said, to turn all this horror into something that is really good.
	Well, in terms of the looting, I guess that's one of the things that really amazes me.
	As people are suffering, you have these predators who come in.
	And then you also have the copycat arsonists.
	We don't know if this was started by an arsonist, but we do know there were many copycat arsonists as well.
	In one particular case, They arrested a person for looting who was dressed as a firefighter.
	The sheriff's department there has arrested 29 people so far in conjunction with criminal activity, looting, for example.
	He says, when I was out there in the Malibu area, said the sheriff, I saw a gentleman that looked like a firefighter, and I asked him if he was okay because he was sitting down.
	I didn't realize that he had handcuffs on.
	He said, we're turning him over to the L.A. Police Department because he was dressed like a fireman, and he wasn't a fireman.
	He just got caught burglarizing a home.
	So those are issues that our frontline deputies and police officers are dealing with.
	Karen was talking about it.
	I mentioned the fact that her brother's house burned down while he was in Austin.
	For Travis's wedding.
	Lightning struck it in the wee hours of the morning.
	Nobody realized it until it was really going.
	And it took him a while to get back.
	And the interesting thing, I thought, was that the Virginia Beach police had people guarding his home, which I thought was really amazing.
	I've never known police to do that type of thing.
	You know, they're typically not about doing security duty or anything, but they were guarding his home until he got back.
	And, yeah, he was able to go through the—it was completely demolished, but he was able to find his wife's jewelry that was in a safe box that they had and a couple of other things like that that looters would have gotten if the police hadn't guarded it.
	So the sheriff said, we have people go to all ends to be able to do what it is that they want to do to exploit victims of this tragedy.
	Well, you know, you might also, besides the looters who are dressed as firemen, you might want to look at the politicians that are dressed and covered in green slogans and DEI bigotry.
	Meanwhile, in terms of people taking this on themselves, LA millionaires shelled out $2,000 per hour for private firefighters, they said.
	And if they could afford it, it was probably a good deal.
	I don't know how much it costs for Caruso to protect his property, but who knows how many hundreds of millions of dollars, maybe billions, I don't know, that he had that was spared there.
	Private fire protection companies often contract with state and local governments to help battle wildfires, but in recent years, California's fire firms have begun offering on-call services.
	Why?
	Because you can't partner with a local government that's not interested in fighting fires.
	If you want to fight fires, you can contract yourself out.
	And, of course, you can make a lot more money, too.
	They're ready to show up with their own water, with trucks, with hoses, with fire-quenching chemicals, and with other industrial-grade equipment.
	Some outfits are charging $2,000 an hour for their services.
	Chris Dunn, owner of Covered Six.
	That's funny.
	Like, watch your six, watch your back, you know?
	Told the news outlet that his phone had been ringing off the hook as the Hollywood elite jockey for his services.
	But, you know, for the rest of us, Newsom is going to burn it down, people like him, while they loot our pockets.
	That's, you know, for protection money.
	It's a protection racket.
	That's what government is.
	Well, this is...
	One person, in terms of looting, this is one story.
	We had the report about the person that was, the local neighbors saw him with a blowtorch.
	He said, yeah, I was just lighting a cigarette, you know.
	And they tackled him and bound him up and turned him over to the police.
	Chased people away.
	There's some people who are active in the area who stayed behind, and they're reporting that we need help.
	And we think this latest crackdown is helpful, but we go around the streets, there's no one here, and anyone can come up here and get stuff, so we need help.
	I've been hearing reports of large groups of people that are coming out of vans, like sprinter vans and cargo vans, that is obviously well-coordinated.
	What are the items that you're hearing that they're going after?
	Purses, watches, anything they could basically get their hands on.
	Yeah, well, I pressed the one about looting.
	I meant to do the one about letting the arsonist go free.
	So, you know, some of the police have apprehended some of these people.
	They're organized.
	They got sprinter vans and some Mercedes to go loot Beverly Hills or whatever.
	But here's what happened with that arsonist.
	The neighbors said, he's starting a fire here.
	They responded, they interviewed this suspect.
	After the interview and additional investigative steps, looking at some additional evidence that was present, they made the determination that there was not enough probable cause to arrest this person on arson or suspicion of arson, and therefore this person was arrested on a felony probation violation.
	This investigation...
	Yeah, there you go.
	Oh, this investigation is ongoing, right?
	Felony violation.
	He barely spoke English.
	He was speaking Spanish.
	We don't want to have a situation where it's kind of like the Nashville tranny shooter and how they zealously guarded that manifesto.
	We don't want to have an illegal alien as an arsonist, just like they don't want to have a tranny as a killer.
	That's what I think is going on with all that.
	Who are you going to believe?
	Are you going to believe the police or are you going to believe all the people in the neighborhood?
	Who saw him lighting these fires.
	And again, he may not have been the source of the Kenneth fire.
	When I looked at that, I said, well, that's a pretty big fire.
	I don't know if he was the one who started that big fire, but it doesn't matter.
	If you're an arsonist, you're an arsonist.
	Even if you're a copycat arsonist.
	A reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle observed one home that was outfitted with water sprayers continually drenching the roof as specialists stood by all night.
	Watching for flare-ups.
	Again, you know, Japan got it built in, even.
	Other firms spray the landscape with fire retardant and cocoon trees and bushes in thick, fireproof material.
	So, one guy, millionaire real estate investor Keith Wasserman, ignited a blaze of outrage when he put out a call for someone to connect with him, to connect him, rather, with private firefighters to save his house in Pacific Palisades.
	He says, does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades?
	Need to act fast here.
	All neighbors' houses are burning.
	I will pay any amount.
	Thank you, he said.
	And people are angry at him.
	These people, these leftists in L.A., get angry with him.
	Not with a person who's making $750,000 to manage the water and doesn't do it.
	They don't get angry with the DEI or the Green Meanies or any of these other people.
	One person comes back and says, so you're suggesting that potentially life-saving resources should be diverted to save your house because you're rich while thousands of people try to evacuate?
	Well, no, that's actually not what he's doing.
	You know, he's got the resources and, you know, more power to him if he can stop it, is what I say, because the government isn't going to do anything.
	Direct your anger at them.
	Well, when we return, we're going to take a look at the real culprits that are here.
	The people who are really burning the country down and getting away with it.
	People who are the real arsonists.
	The DEI and the climate people.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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	And now, The David Knight Show.
	Well, it's a comment from John Basiglione.
	I think, well, I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing your name.
	I think the first time was maybe right.
	But it is an amazing comment from John.
	He said, I've personally seen infighting between Cal Fire We waited two hours to launch.
	We sat in our C-130 for about two hours and stood around in the command post for two more hours, waiting until they quit fighting over who had overall command of the aerial assets.
	And then it was too dark.
	Wow.
	That reminds me of that story of the person in western North Carolina, the helicopter pilot who went in.
	And he had a small helicopter and a seat for one other passenger.
	And so he found a couple there.
	Their house had collapsed, an elderly couple, and they were walking back.
	And he lands the helicopter.
	He leaves his son there.
	He takes the lady back.
	And when he lands, this local fire chief comes out.
	And gets all over him.
	Says, I'm going to have you arrested and all of a sudden, you know, threatening him.
	And scared him.
	So he said, well, I'm still going to go back and get my son.
	He was very upset when he told the story that he didn't just go back and get the man as well.
	He left the man there, told him what had happened, but left him there.
	And the man's thinking, what is going on?
	You know, it didn't make any sense.
	And there were some people that were there, some rescue workers that had come from another state.
	And I said, you know.
	Don't worry about that.
	Eventually, he went back and he did more stuff of that.
	But it's, you know, it's that kind of, I'm in charge here.
	And it truly is amazing.
	Jerry Alitalo.
	And this is a story that I've seen, and I've not, I should have covered this, but I didn't.
	So thank you for reminding me of this.
	A one-billionaire couple owns almost all the water in California.
	In 1994, the Resnicks.
	Secretly seized control of California's public water supply, and now their companies use 150 billion, with a B, gallons each year.
	That is, you know, what was it, 117 million gallons in that one reservoir that's saying, hey, if we had that, we could have put a dent in this fire or whatever, could have stopped it.
	They get 150 billion, a thousand of those reservoirs they're using up.
	That's how incredible that is.
	The Resnick family are the largest agricultural owners in California.
	Their farms use more water than all the homes in LA combined.
	Stealth Patriot, thank you very much for the tip.
	He writes, a North American Union is the new world order, UN Agenda 21, unless Trump doesn't.
	Unless Trump does it.
	And then it's patriotic nationalism.
	Freedom Cities.
	And Liberty Coffin Apartments for everybody.
	That's absolutely right.
	And people are not, you know, people are not looking at this.
	That's what Trump is for.
	Trump is for chaos, and he's for putting people to sleep.
	You know, just like they know that.
	They know that when a Republican gets elected, Republicans stop buying guns.
	And when Trump gets elected, you know, people like Alex are telling him, hey, it's 4D chess or 5D chess or 6D chess.
	Audi, Modern Retro Radio, good to see you there.
	He says, in fact, one out of every three arson fires is started by an actively employed firefighter.
	Yeah, that's true.
	And so they've got a fascination with fires.
	That's why they went into it in the first place.
	But there's also the aspect that I talk about with the FBI, you know.
	More than one out of every three terrorist events, more than that, far more than that, Are started and run by the FBI. Because then they can be the heroes for stopping it, right?
	And that's also a factor in these firefighters who are arsonists.
	McGowan fan, me too, says Malibu has a community emergency response team.
	Residents fight fires, stockpile, and distribute relief supplies, supply generators, and maintain emergency ham radio and satellite communication systems.
	Well, that's really good.
	That's really what is necessary.
	I've got one more section I want to talk a little bit about the DEI aspects of this a little bit more.
	AP News is heavily ratioed for blaming the Palisades fire on climate change.
	That's right.
	Got to do more destruction to the infrastructure.
	Got to ban more things that we use.
	And, of course, none of that is true.
	Climate change contributed to a week of wild weather.
	That upended life in the United States was the title of an associated propaganda, the AP, so-called Associated Press.
	Melinda Walling was the one who wrote the article.
	She uses pronouns she and her.
	She failed to mention arson reports and the alarming mismanagement of city fire resources by radical far-left Democrats in power, including the L.A. mayor and the California governor.
	Climate change, she said.
	Laid the groundwork for California's megafires.
	No, no, not at all.
	It was active neglect, not even passive neglect, but active neglect.
	Removing resources away.
	That is definitely what is going on, regardless of how it started.
	That has kept it going.
	And I would say that, you know, regardless of whether they find it was active arsonists or whatever, it was this kind of active sabotage of the infrastructure that is really the big arson factor.
	This writer for the AP failed to mention in her coverage that the Palisades fire spread so quickly because of the Pacific Palisades Reservoir.
	Again, 117 million, but as people just pointed out, the Resnick family has 150 billion gallons of water each year.
	More than a thousand times.
	On top of this, she failed to mention the very existence of the countless arson reports.
	I just played for you the one where they freed the arsonist.
	Again, who are you going to believe?
	Are you going to believe the community or are you going to believe the cops and Karen Bass who were standing there at that press conference?
	You know, political purposes.
	Because there's political implications.
	Depending on who it was that set the fire, and they don't want to talk about that.
	One person says, is climate change, is that why they're catching people setting fires all over the place on purpose?
	You disingenuous hacks.
	Said a person named Mindy Robinson.
	Well, if you want a picture of a disingenuous hack, you can do no better than Senator Markey.
	This is sent to me by Sam.
	Thank you, Sam.
	Markey's TDS meltdown.
	The LA fires are climate disaster that was stoked by Trump.
	Well, let's pull out a little bit from the bipartisan cheerleading and competition that's there.
	This guy, Markey, back in 2012, when Obama was president and Lisa Jackson was the EPA head, Markey was a congressman.
	And he had a dog and pony show where he brought in Lisa Jackson, who was subsequently, I think, fired because it came out that she was using an alias.
	You know, like we've seen Biden using an alias and all these other people.
	But she was one of the first ones using an alias and secret emails to violate rules.
	But anyway, Lisa Jackson, Obama's EPA administrator, and then-Congressman Markey had a dog and pony show.
	Where they were trying to convince everybody, what would be done eight years later, that COVID is killing more people than cancer and heart attack.
	They were saying that about fine particulate matter, which is what you get with any kind of a fire.
	If you burn wood or whatever, if you've got a barbecue grill, they wanted to ban the barbecue grills and all this stuff, as they were doing that on Capitol Hill.
	And he had this little dialogue that he had worked out in advance, you could tell, with Lisa Jackson, because he stepped on some of her lines.
	And they had to back up and do it again, right?
	Didn't rehearse it enough.
	And she said, I'm not talking about people getting sick, Congressman Markey.
	I'm talking about people dying.
	And more people dying of this than of cancer and heart attacks.
	Well, at the time that was happening, the EPA and Research Triangle Park, where I was, The EPA had run ads to hook people up, and I've talked about this many times, I'm sure you've heard it, to hook people up directly to diesel exhaust.
	They'd taken the carbon monoxide out so they wouldn't kill people right off.
	But they were looking for people who had respiratory issues, heart issues, and they were exposing them to 72 times what the EPA said was allowable.
	And they had a couple of people get sick, but guess what?
	Even at 72 times, they only had two people, when they screened for people who had respiratory and heart issues, only two people had to be taken to the hospital.
	But, you know, the group that I was working with at the time found that.
	Malloy found that, and it was, I'll never forget that.
	Markey, what a show!
	And they rewarded him by making him a senator.
	That's the kind of people that move ahead.
	Alex Epstein says, a solution to dangers how to control wildfires in California is addressing the root cause, excess fuel load.
	We're not talking about fossil fuels.
	We're talking about dead trees that fall and are not removed.
	And as I've said many, many times, my uncle who was a forestry professor 50 years ago was talking about this.
	And Travis and I went to Oregon.
	We interviewed a firefighter there who had lost everything.
	We were there as part of what was going on with Lavoie Finnecum and the standoff of Malheur.
	But we met this guy because he knew about it.
	We were interviewing him.
	him but then he showed us how neglect and malicious mismanagement by the forestry service had caused an out-of-control fire that came in and destroyed the lumber that he had on his property he was a lumberjack and ready to retire because private land was the only place where you could get some of this stuff done and the government was regulating everything out of out of existence i I mean, the lumber mills that they had around there were all rusted,
	And he said, nobody is here except for federal employees and retirees who have a source of income outside this area.
	They have shut everything down.
	And they burned down his private forest that he was keeping.
	That's what he had invested his money in as a retirement plan.
	And we talked to him at great length about the detailed specifics about the massive The Palmer
	Drought Index, Shows only a slight increase in California drought since 1900. Historical evidence shows us that prior to man-made CO2 emissions, California experienced regular mega droughts that could last over a century.
	The modern era has been very lush by comparison, he said.
	The root cause of today's wildfires is terrible forest management.
	You see, the root cause of all this stuff is bad management.
	The fires that are going to happen, naturally, intensify and get worse because there's no forestry management.
	And then as they intensify and get worse, because there's no fire control management, and there's no water management, and everybody is fighting over who's got jurisdiction over the airplane.
	It never ends.
	But that's where the problem is.
	The problem is that we have a malicious and non-functioning government, and yet as we see this, Everybody wants all the problems to be solved by the government.
	And they want all the problems to be solved by the government at the highest level.
	That is doubly insane.
	Because the more you centralize things, the more you're going to have things fall through the gap.
	He said, it's terrible forest management.
	Policymakers have prevented controlled burns, debris clearing and logging, jacking up the fuel load.
	To incredibly dangerous levels.
	They used to allow people to go into the forest and cut down standing dead trees.
	And we would use that for lumber.
	But no, we can't do that.
	We've even got the insanity that Bill Gates wants us to not plant trees now.
	First, we had to pay an indulgence to use energy.
	We're going to put in these carbon taxes, and then some billionaire somewhere is going to promise to plant some trees.
	Now Bill Gates wants to stop that, and he wants to stop the trees.
	Because even though they absorb CO2, which is not a problem, CO2 is not a problem to start with, but they're a source of that.
	And he says if you leave them out there, well, they're going to outgas the CO2. Well, don't leave them out there.
	Don't leave them out there and let a fire happen.
	Bring them in.
	Make furniture and houses out of them.
	The path forward is simple.
	Focus on the main cause, he says.
	Focus on force management.
	Which is totally within our control.
	Stop pretending that lowering CO2 levels would bring about some fire-free paradise.
	And that it is even possible near term.
	Stop mandating unreliables.
	That's unreliable energy.
	Tom McClintock also commented on the Wall Street Journal.
	He said the left blames this on a changing climate.
	We can find a more likely culprit in the state's recent extreme environmental and social policies.
	He said an environmentalist leftist promised that laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act, the Wilderness Act, the Endangered Species Act, that these would protect and improve the environment.
	Fifty years later, we're entitled to ask, how's it going?
	Yeah, how's all that climate alarmism going, right?
	Between 2012 and 2021, we lost a quarter of California's forest land to wildfires.
	A UCLA study estimated that California's 2020 fires released twice as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as had been prevented by the previous 18 years of primarily government-enforced restrictions.
	You see, Because of wars, because of forest fires, that their neglect causes and intensifies all of this stuff about CO2 that's released.
	It doesn't count when it's their war.
	It doesn't count when it's their forest fires and their neglect.
	It doesn't count when it's Elon Musk's rocket ships or their private jets.
	It only counts when it's your stuff.
	Fire, he says, is a condition of nature, but how we deal with it is our choice.
	The tragedy in Southern California is a result of decades of self-destructive policies made by foolish politicians and the foolish people who vote for them.
	I showed you a picture of the woman who was talking.
	$750,000 salary.
	She's in charge of the water.
	She doesn't care about the water.
	She cares about DEI politics and all the rest of this stuff.
	And then we have a $300,000 per year diversity chief.
	Diversity chief who says, hey, if somebody gets into a fire and a woman can't carry this person out, That's his problem.
	You want to see somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you.
	It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.
	Is she strong enough to do this?
	Or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire, which my response is, he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.
	Only 5% of working firefighters and women.
	Oh, there you go.
	You know, I know that when the neighborhood's burning down, it's important to me that the people who show up look like me.
	I don't care if they're green, if they can put the fire out, okay?
	That's what she's saying.
	That's the important thing.
	The important thing is that we play these racist games, and they are racist games.
	She makes $300,000 a year.
	And she says, hey, if one of our women, you know, we've only got 5% of the force is women.
	Well, let's hire more women.
	A problem that you can't carry somebody out of a burning building?
	Well, hey, if a guy's in a burning building, that's his fault.
	That's his problem.
	Yeah, that's the attitude of everybody in this Democrat-run disaster.
	That's what it is.
	California is a state of disaster because they elected these types of people.
	They elected people who appoint people like her.
	Hey, if you're in a fire, that's your problem.
	In a video defending their DEI practices, that person's name was Christine Larson.
	She heads the Equity and Human Resources Bureau.
	See, she is your problem, L.A. People like her.
	You're having to carry her around.
	And she was pretty heavy, actually.
	But, no, the fact that you have to carry her policies around, that's the issue.
	And that you've got to pay her $300,000 a year.
	So yeah, if I can't carry somebody out, or the women that I want to hire can't carry them out, well, that's this guy's problem.
	He's in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.
	You know, don't you know not to be in a fire?
	You need to fire her.
	It's absolutely amazing.
	Yeah, she's in the wrong place, quite frankly.
	But you know, It's interesting.
	Didn't we hear that same thing from Laura Loomer about the vaccines?
	That's your fault if you took the vaccine.
	I knew better than that.
	That's your fault.
	That's on you.
	Well, hey, you know, you're in a fire and one of these women firefighters can't get you.
	That's your fault.
	You shouldn't have been in the fire.
	And you shouldn't have taken that vaccine that Trump was pushing to everybody, says Laura Loomer.
	Yeah, that's it.
	And you know, when we look at this and what is happening, The obsession that Trump has with Greenland and Panama and all the rest of these stuff.
	Somebody put this up and said, just a reminder of what's going on in western North Carolina.
	Covered in snow.
	People don't have any place to live.
	And even after the Amish have come in and built some wooden buildings for them, the local people came in, the local bureaucrats came in and kicked them out of their home.
	And to this kind of weather, low temperatures, snow, all the rest of the stuff, we've already had at least one person die from exposure.
	And guess what?
	The government only cares about its rules.
	Just like John was saying about the government arguing over who has the authority to direct the planes.
	They argued for four hours, and then when they got finished, it was too late for them to do anything about it.
	Because it was too dark.
	But that's it, yeah.
	Meanwhile, in western North Carolina, which Trump doesn't care about.
	He wants to, let's see, rename the Gulf of Mexico.
	He wants to reclaim Panama.
	He wants to buy Greenland with your money and then turn it over to his pals.
	That's what it's all about, isn't it?
	Atomic Dog says, Tucker Carlson said he personally knows Senator Markey and he's a good man.
	Tucker.
	I personally know where you're coming from, pal.
	You're not a good man in terms of the lies that you...
	He shut down people who are showing the truth about 9-11.
	You want to tell me that...
	You want to talk about the melting point?
	Yeah, I'd like to talk about that.
	I'd like to show you a video here.
	No, you can't show that video.
	And now he comes back and he says, you know, you can't work if you question Building 7. Well, was that why you lie to people, Tucker?
	Is that why you kept quiet and lied to people about the vaccine?
	He's supposedly surprised when he finds out the stuff that's in the vaccines and when he finds out information about vaccines that everybody knew.
	The fact that they were using aborted babies.
	Doesn't he know that that was what so many people had religious objections to?
	He just completely turned that off.
	He didn't care.
	Of course he didn't care.
	He was being paid by Pfizer.
	He didn't care about.
	People's objections to any of that stuff.
	Yeah, I tell you what, it's just amazing.
	Audi, modernretroradio.com.
	He says, I think the establishment knows that Bill Gates is a bad bargaining chip.
	Now they're putting all their hopes into Musk.
	I agree.
	His reputation is already showing signs of trouble.
	Matthew Ronson says she certainly won't put herself into a position of danger in her job.
	Yeah, it was her job.
	Her job is promoting racism.
	And sexism.
	That's what she promotes, and she gets paid very well to do that.
	Well, we're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
	Here's a little song I wrote.
	You might want to hear it in your pod.
	You know nothing.
	And be happy.
	Ain't got no cash, ain't got no car, but 24 booster shots in your arm.
	Oh, nothing.
	Be happy.
	You can't even buy shit in the store because of your low social credit score.
	Oh, nothing.
	Be happy.
	happy you'll own nothing And be happy.
	Be happy and eat some bugs.
	They're doing what?
	In the place they named after me?
	Good thing I have the David Knight Show to keep me informed on the plots of these traitors.
	Making sense.
	Common again.
	This is The David Knight Show.
	Well, you know, it is worldwide that we have this climate agenda, all doing the same thing, just like they did with COVID. That MacGuffin, both of these MacGuffins, global.
	In Queensland, Australia, where it is now summertime, the electric company is going around shutting off people's air conditioning.
	Over 8,000 homes had the air conditioning shut off due to climate policies.
	And this is as it was approaching 100-degree weather because these people bought into the smart thermostats that the power company had there.
	They knew that they were engineering an infrastructure that was insufficient to capacity, so they want to go around and shut down your power, right?
	And so they know that they've got a shortage, and they also know that things are getting really expensive because these renewables not only Are unreliable, but they're also very expensive.
	So they use that.
	They use that.
	They tell people, we'll save, you'll save $400 if you let us, we'll give you a $400 rebate on your power bill.
	This is one type of thing.
	If you sign up for these smart thermostats, and that's why they call them smart, because they take advantage of dumb people.
	Who are going to do something like that.
	So, 8,300 homes on a sweltering day last month, part of the net zero plan.
	On December 8th, when temperatures in Australia reached as high as 97 degrees Fahrenheit, 8,300 homes found their air conditioning cooling mechanisms disabled by the power company.
	Result of climate policies that restrict coal-sourced energy in favor of wind and solar power energy.
	So again, they know they're going to have to ration it, and even more so than with money.
	They're very expensive, but they're going to have to just shut it down because it's not going to be able to keep up with demand.
	We've never had this in my lifetime until we started this net zero stuff.
	And folks, zero is where they want to take us.
	We will have nothing, but we'll not be happy.
	This is the fifth time the energy company has withheld air conditioning from residents last year.
	And so the smart meter is cutting off your power is no longer a conspiracy theory.
	It is already here.
	Well, that was what it was always about.
	The Queensland government reached into people's homes to take control of 170,000 air conditioners in the last two months.
	Wind, solar, and the demonization of coal.
	It's destroying our once-reliable power supply, turning Australia into a third-world country.
	Bingo!
	Everything is about turning the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Europe into the third world.
	That's what this is about.
	That's one aspect of population control because, look, it's not just about your lifestyle.
	If you take away cheap, available energy, it doesn't just affect our lifestyle and our quality of life.
	It also affects the quantity of life.
	Many studies have shown that having to pay too much for energy actually shortens people's lives.
	And we can see that as we look at what is happening in the UK and other places here.
	Okay, so while it's summer in Australia, and they're shutting down the air conditioning, and we've talked about that in the past as well.
	That's going to kill people.
	And Florida.
	When the power was taken out by hurricanes, you had a lot of people die that were in nursing homes because they didn't have any air conditioning.
	They're going to kill people with that.
	And they're going to kill people in Europe who are in cold climates because they can't afford to have power.
	Here's an example out of the UK, which has gone absolutely bonkers about net zero.
	It was bad enough under the conservatives, but it has gone hyperbolic under the Labor Party.
	It's minus 3 degrees centigrade.
	That's 26 degrees Fahrenheit.
	But I can't afford to put the heating on because of Rachel Reeves, a retired school teacher.
	Rachel Reeves would be the person who is the energy manager or whatever in the UK. She's in charge of the policy there.
	Telegraph profiled a 72-year-old retired teacher who...
	Because of the policies, the labor government is now forced to choose between warmth and survival.
	They said Britain has faced freezing temperatures this week, with some regions falling into the low minus 20 degrees centigrade.
	That would be minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit.
	Yet millions of pensioners are in the same position as this lady here, Ms. M, E-M-M. An estimated 10 million retirees have been left without winter fuel allowance after the government announced only those in receipt of pension credit would qualify.
	Ms. M only just misses out on the 200-pound mark she makes just over that.
	She said she's really scared to turn on the heating and she can't afford a big bill.
	She receives the full new state pension, which is £221.20 a week.
	It's just £3 above the cutoff for winter fuel allowance.
	So they said, we're going to cut it off for people who are making, you know, you have to make £200 per week or less, and we'll give you some assistance with your energy bill.
	But she makes £3 too much.
	And so she has to pay the full amount herself, and she can't afford it.
	She said in 2023 she lost her life savings after being targeted online.
	That's one of the things, be careful about that, you know, scams, and that's the thing that concerns me about all the crypto stuff.
	She lost a staggering 200,000 pounds.
	She said this money was supposed to give me some comfort, and to pay for a few small luxuries in my retirement is completely gone, and now the government has cruelly taken away The winter fuel allowance, and I'm forced to scrimp and scrape to survive with no savings to fall back on.
	Half the people in her position are going to bed earlier to avoid putting the heating on, or they have started skipping meals in order to save energy, said a survey by Charity Independent Age found.
	She lives off of her state pension, which goes almost entirely to bills and food.
	She's forced to search for bargains to live off of reduced items.
	She says, I don't buy any luxuries or comforts.
	But they're destroying her because of this fantasy.
	They're destroying her life because of this fantasy about net zero.
	Can't have any CO2 anymore.
	Let's starve and freeze to death or have them die of heat stroke elderly people who can't afford any of this stuff.
	These are heartless...
	We're scheming criminals that are running our government, whether you're talking about the United States or California, or whether you're talking about the UK or Australia.
	It's the same thing everywhere.
	Same thing everywhere, just like with COVID. All of this CO2 stuff is a MacGuffin designed to kill us.
	The U.S. is crippling itself with climate change regulations, but China is not.
	This is an article from the Epoch Times.
	Sorry, Pentagon.
	Military-Industrial Complex, Trump, all of you.
	Our worst enemy is not China, but you.
	You are our worst enemy.
	We has met the enemy, and they is U.S., as in U.S. government.
	Pogo said, they is us.
	But it's the U.S. government.
	It's our worst enemy.
	Because they're the ones who are doing this to us.
	They're the ones who are leaving the Paris Climate Accord in there.
	And again, if you want to compete with China, stop that Paris Climate Accord.
	Stop this net zero stuff.
	China doesn't care.
	That's the elephant in the room for this MacGuffin.
	Of course, the elephant in the room for the COVID stuff was Trump and the vaccine stuff.
	But look, the elephant in the room for the climate MacGuffin is the Paris Climate Accord.
	Maintaining a strong military requires a strong economy, says the Epoch Times.
	Unfortunately, many policymakers have bought into an extreme regulatory agenda driven by ideology that doesn't make any sense scientifically or economically that is harming both our economy and our military.
	And it is also Trump who's bought into this.
	Here in the United States, climate change-driven policies and mandates are being rolled out.
	They also claim that man-caused climate change is negatively impacting gross domestic product.
	Look.
	These are bold lies.
	They are the ones who are coming after the poor, destroying the lives of poor people and elderly people.
	They're the ones who are destroying our economy, and it's their net zero.
	And yet what they're saying is, no, it's climate change that's doing all this.
	No, it's the same way they said, well, COVID is doing this to us.
	No, it was your policy in reaction.
	To a non-problem.
	And it's their reaction and their policies in reaction to a non-climate MacGuffin.
	Just like it was their policies and their reactions that locked us down and did all that harm.
	Their vaccines and all the rest is based on a COVID MacGuffin.
	The climate MacGuffin, same thing.
	All this horrible stuff that's happening to you.
	Oh, that's because of COVID. Or that's because of climate change.
	It's like, no.
	It's because of you.
	It's because of the things that you're doing.
	And you claim that you have to do it because of whatever the MacGuffin is at the moment.
	And so we go to New York City.
	As I talked about, they have their congestion pricing, as this article says.
	Can their congestion pricing survive 2025?
	That is the key test because if it survives, then you're going to see all of these cities jumping into this.
	And what is this about?
	This is not about helping congestion.
	If they wanted to help congestion, they could do things with the infrastructure.
	But they don't.
	They don't build more roads.
	They don't build them elevated or whatever.
	This is simply about taking away automobiles.
	And, you know, Trump could do some good here because he says, well, I'm not going to let him do that.
	I'm going to block that.
	Well, we'll see what happens with it.
	But what he could wind up doing...
	Is serious damage to federalism.
	I'm not about the federal government coming in and throwing their weight around and saying, since I'm paying for this, I get to tell you what to do.
	But you see, the interesting thing is that MAGA is not going to look at that.
	That's exactly what Trump did with COVID. He bribed all the governors.
	He paid the public health people.
	And I said, you know, Trump's not doing it.
	It's the bad Democrat governors.
	Keep completely ignoring even.
	The Republican governors like Brad Little in Idaho or Mike DeWine in Ohio, many, many, many of them, all of them actually involved in it to one degree or the other, even including people like DeSantis, who was one of the first ones to start pulling back on some of the lockdown stuff.
	The fact that he did it.
	He was paid.
	He was bribed, just like the hospitals were paid and bribed by Trump.
	And then, of course, Biden comes in with his coercion.
	He said, well, we didn't mandate anything.
	We just coerced it.
	We told people that we're going to take away the money if you don't do what we say.
	Trump is doing here with congestion pricing.
	And even though I don't like the congestion pricing, and I understand that this is about banning private automobiles and doing exactly what Sadiq Khan has done in London, the reality is that we don't want our lives to be run out of the executive office with executive orders.
	And that's what we're talking about here.
	And that's what the money aspect is.
	But, you know, if he stops the congestion pricing, Regardless of the precedence that it sets for federalism, the MAGA people are going to cheer him.
	No.
	He needs to attack not New York's congestion pricing as much as he needs to attack the source of it.
	He needs to attack the foundation of it.
	He needs to attack the Paris Climate Non-Treaty that was never voted in by the Senate.
	He pretended that it was there.
	Now, New York City is not just...
	Coming after the congestion problem, you know, Salenti will come on and talk about how bad things are.
	There has become a ghost town in many regards in terms of nightlife and everything.
	We're going to see all the restaurants go out now.
	This is round two of coming after the restaurants.
	First of all, it's going to be virtually impossible for people to get into New York unless you want to spend a tremendous amount of money.
	They will reduce the congestion pricing on the evenings and things like that.
	But look at how they're attacking the restaurants, and we've...
	Seen this on the horizon as well, just like we've seen the congestion pricing on the horizon.
	New York City restaurants are flipping out over a new charbroil rule that would force them to cut emissions by 75%.
	You see, the restaurants that survived the COVID MacGuffin are now going to be taken out with a climate MacGuffin.
	One guy at a restaurant says, stop messing with my burgers.
	When are we going to tell them to stop this stuff?
	The city's environmental cops could force restaurants that use charbroilers to cut their smoky emissions by 75% or to figure out a new way to cook meat and fish.
	And again, this goes back to the same lies that were being told about fine particulate matter as they were exposing people to 72 times the amount that the EPA said was legit.
	It goes back to that.
	It's been going on for quite some time.
	That was 2012, so that's 13 years ago.
	And they were talking at the time about how they were going to get rid of barbecue grills.
	You like to grill outside?
	We'll forget about that if these people have their way.
	Restaurants that charbroil more than 875 pounds of meat per week would be barred from operating unless they install an emissions control device to curb pollutants if their charbroilers were installed before May 6, 2016. They will not be allowed to add any additional ones.
	They didn't get it grandfathered in.
	This is being done by the state EPA, the Department of Environmental Protection.
	So people are getting knifed in the subway, says one of those restaurant owners.
	He owns Junior's Restaurant.
	His name is Alan Rosen.
	He said, so people are getting knifed in the subway and they're worried about charbroilers?
	When are we going to get back to reality?
	Well, not as long as these people are there.
	And not as long as we've got things like the Paris Climate Accord.
	Industry sources estimate that as many as 200 restaurants could be affected by the new rule from the Department of Environmental Protection.
	Get rid of it.
	We're going to either kill the EPA or it's going to kill us, folks.
	It's just that simple.
	And that goes for the state equivalents of it as well.
	Thousands of dollars in costs associated with upgrading their exhaust.
	You know, while the California Democrats are burning down houses, You've got the New York Democrats who don't want you cooking meat.
	The latest move follows a similar crackdown on wood and coal oven pizzerias.
	Remember that?
	But smoking mad restauranteurs like Rosen say government overreach and the nanny state shouldn't turn them into the nanny steak.
	He said, we grill with an open flame.
	We've been doing this for almost 75 years.
	This is absolutely ridiculous.
	This is a government that's gone haywire.
	This should not be on anybody's radar, he said.
	Well, he's absolutely right.
	Popular steakhouses are in the crosshairs for the proposed requirement, which is likely to go into effect later this year.
	Empire Steakhouse, which has three locations in Manhattan, could be forced to upgrade their exhaust systems out of Stafford.
	Burger King advertises that it flame broils its meats, but a source familiar with the requirement said the fast food giant's cookers already comply with the emissions rule.
	Well, I don't know.
	I wonder.
	Maybe in New York they're using a chemical perfume or something for that.
	Whistler used to love Burger King because you could smell them, you know, in the neighborhood.
	You could always smell, you could see the smoke and you could smell it.
	Shame on them.
	They must be burning the planet down.
	No.
	But I remember a few years ago, they came out with a cologne that smelled like charbroiled burgers.
	And we were going to buy it for them as a joke, but they sold out immediately.
	But who knows?
	Maybe they're not charbroiling anymore because of the environmental things.
	Maybe they're just sprinkling this perfume on their burgers.
	I wouldn't put it past them.
	Popular charbroilers are larger than grills and can cook more substantial quantities of food at one time.
	They operate by using a gas flame, and food industry sources say they provide quicker and more consistent heat, allowing the temperature to be more easily controlled than grills.
	They also burn a lot of particulate matter.
	Absolute nonsense.
	Absolute nonsense.
	Or as the cows would say, it's utterly ridiculous.
	We support cleaner air, said Executive Director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance.
	We support cleaner air, but we have to understand that these emission upgrades are very expensive, and so we need money from the state.
	You see, this is why you see these trade organizations are always allied with the politics, and all they want, just give me some money and I'll do it, right?
	Give me some money.
	I don't care.
	We need to get some money for us, and then we'll shut down all the food and the charbroilers and all the rest of this stuff.
	The Green Edict comes after Governor Huckleberry, as Gerald Slenty calls it, and Albany lawmakers ban the use of gas stoves in most new housing construction, requiring buildings to go all electric.
	The Department of Environmental Protection in New York will hold a public hearing.
	This is the way this works.
	This is not a law that's been passed by the elected representatives in the state of New York and signed by the governor.
	No.
	This will be this out-of-control EPA, state EPA, that is going to have public hearings and people can write to them about whether or not they like this new rule and then they'll decide what they want to do.
	They don't have to listen to you.
	They don't have to listen to you at the hearings, and they don't have to read your letters.
	The edict will take effect six months after it's finalized.
	So they go through this process and pretend that they care, and then they'll do whatever they wish.
	I've spoken many times about Michael Mann.
	I call him Michael Manure, because he's the guy who came up with a hockey stick fantasy that Al Gore used to such effect in his Inconvenient Truth or Convenient Lie.
	What was the name of his documentary?
	Anyway, Michael Mann has gone around suing people, suing people, very litigious, suing people who question his lies about the hockey stick.
	And he tried that with National Review, and National Review has beat him in court.
	Unfortunately for National Review, they paid over a million dollars in legal fees, and they're not even going to be able to recover half of their legal fees.
	But he's going to have to pay $500,000.
	So that's something.
	And again, I was with a group that was, you know, before I went to Infowars, I was with a group that was trying to pry out of his cold, dead hands the data that he used as the basis of public research paid for by the state of Virginia at a Virginia university.
	And they wanted to see his data because he was part of ClimateGate.
	For the most part, out of the UK, the University of East Anglia.
	But he was involved in it as well.
	And they were passing emails back and forth to each other.
	Our models don't work.
	We've got to hide the decline.
	How can we do it?
	Let's do a game with tree rings and all the rest of this stuff.
	And so his work had been published.
	He was paid to do that work while he was working at a public university.
	The work was published and it was used to craft public policy about this kind of stuff.
	But we were not allowed to see his data.
	That's not science.
	A real scientist has to show the data.
	The data has to be scrutinized.
	His results have to be verified.
	But he went to the mat to hide that data and he won.
	Well, in the National Review lawsuit, because remember, he won a lawsuit against Mark Stein, who exposed his lies.
	And Mark Stein has got a big lawsuit against him.
	Mark Stein is appealing that lawsuit.
	national review said for more than eight years michael man michael manure to me harassed national review through litigation over a blog post until eventually the first amendment brought an end to his attack this week a court in our nation's capital see that's one of the reasons why they didn't get the full amount is It's because it was in Washington, D.C. Now, that's the other thing that he does.
	He chooses his jurisdiction to make sure he's going to get the kangaroo court to do what he wants.
	But a court in our nation's capital ordered Michael manure.
	To pay National Review $530,000 worth of attorney's fees and costs, and to do so within 30 days.
	It is time for him to get out his checkbook and to sign on the dotted line.
	This restitution is welcome, even though it's incomplete.
	As was made clear during the discovery process, Mann's explicitly stated intention was to use a major lawsuit, This is a guy, again, they got his emails during the discovery process.
	You know, he's emailing people about how to cover up for their lying models that don't work and all the rest of the stuff, and then was able to cover up the data.
	Happily, man failed in this endeavor, but while all is well that ends well, his failure exacted costs nevertheless.
	2012 and 2019, with the courts inexplicably refusing to apply legal provisions ostensibly designed to prevent frivolous lawsuits such as his, National Review was forced to spend a considerable amount of time and money defending ourselves against his malicious, meritless suit.
	Unfortunately for them, they had the money to fight him.
	You know, most people don't have the deep pockets to win.
	Man's behavior throughout has been appalling, but now he must pay up.
	Actually, science to which man is supposed to be devoted, says the Daily Caller, inevitably involves disagreements, of course.
	Real science is never settled.
	It is always debated and it is always, you always go back and challenge the assumptions that are conventional wisdom.
	If you're not doing that, you're not doing science.
	So Daily Caller says, science always involves disagreement, yet man proved incapable of handling dissent.
	Instead of engaging in debate, he sued us for defamation and for the infliction of emotional distress.
	That was actually a quote from National Review.
	but that was on Daily Caller.
	Again, it involves data as well.
	But he was able to get away with that previously.
	National Review's editors wrote that they sought a million dollars, which still would be less than they spent defending themselves against the man ordeal.
	The hockey stick purports to show that global temperatures have increased significantly in recent decades relative to preceding centuries.
	Though it has been attacked by critics and skeptics who allege that men and others manipulated data, which we're not allowed to see, a preferred outcome for this model.
	He was found by jury, rather, I'm sorry, Mark Stein, found by jury to have defamed man.
	Stein is now on the hook for a million dollars.
	So, even though they spent more than a million dollars defending themselves against his attack, anybody who questions.
	His so-called science.
	Aren't you tired of this?
	I'm so tired of people like Fauci and Michael Manure being able to say, I am science and don't you dare question me.
	Well, Mark Stein did.
	He got a million dollars.
	And then Michael Manure tries to go after National Review and they spent more than a million dollars on legal fees, but they were only able to get $500,000.
	And I think that had to do with the jurisdiction.
	I absolutely believe that.
	Well, I want to play for you.
	What the real danger is.
	You know, we talk about the politicians that are out there and how dangerous and craven they are.
	And yet, there are all these people who are trolling James Wood and other people saying, well, here you go.
	You deny climate change, but now you are suffering from it.
	Well, the real issue is the herd effect, the herd mentality.
	And I said this all through the COVID stuff.
	I said, yeah, these people want to talk about herd immunity.
	No, we're talking about a herd mentality.
	This is an interesting experiment that was done, and you won't believe.
	This is not the ASH experiment, although it's kind of similar, you know, where they would show the lines that had different links, and they would have one test subject who would be there and wasn't in on it, but everybody else in the group was.
	And they would raise their hands to indicate an answer so that everybody, you know, the test subject could see what everybody else was doing.
	And even when it was something that was very simply and obviously not true, and they would all do it after a while, the majority of people would go along with them.
	Here's another experiment that is kind of like this, but even more amazing at how they extended it.
	Again, this is the herd mentality.
	That is the real issue.
	This is how we wind up with the people like Michael Mann and Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass ruling over us.
	To answer that question, we set up a hidden camera experiment to see if this woman would stand up at the sound of this tone simply because everyone else is.
	You might be thinking you'd never go along with this.
	or would you after just three beats and without knowing why she's doing it this woman is now conforming perfectly to the group But what happens if we take the group away?
	Elaine, please.
	Now, everybody is leaving the waiting room.
	They had a huge number of people.
	They're all leaving the waiting room.
	They're going to leave her there by herself to see if she will keep up with us.
	Watch what happens.
	Okay, now she's alone.
	The crowd is gone and nobody is watching her, except our hidden cameras.
	What do you think she'll do?
	She's now conforming to the rules of the group without them even being there.
	Now, watch what happens when we introduce another outsider who doesn't know the rules.
	Have a seat and they'll be out in just a couple minutes.
	Thanks so much.
	Think she'll teach the new guy what to do?
	laughs We kept the cameras rolling as more unsuspecting patients arrived.
	Now, none of these people are in on the joke, but this one person who got trained is now training other people.
	That's kind of like the way social media works, isn't it?
	And slowly but surely, what began as a random rule for this woman has now become the social norm for everyone in this waiting room.
	Here to explain what's going on in their brains is Jonah Berger of the University of Pennsylvania.
	This sort of internalized form of herd behavior is part of what we call social learning.
	Starting at a very early age, when we see members of our group perform a task, our brains literally reward us for following in their footsteps.
	When I saw everybody stand up, I felt like I needed to join them.
	Otherwise, I'm like excluded.
	Once I decided to go with it, then I felt much more comfortable.
	Conformity is how we become socialized, but it can also cause us to develop bad habits or repeat past wrongs.
	And it's why even this rebel, who wasn't standing for any of this nonsense, eventually joined the ranks.
	And the only thing more shocking than seeing how easily conformity affects the way you act is that similar forces are subconsciously shaping the way you think Yeah, yeah.
	That was sent to us by a listener, NNS. What a great experiment that was.
	So, how are you feeling about masks right now?
	Don't let them do it to you.
	Always.
	Do not comply.
	Always.
	Never give up on your critical thinking.
	You know, they want to say, conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theorists.
	Well, there's another CT. Critical thinking.
	Yeah, be critical of what they're telling you.
	We're going to take a break before we do.
	A couple of comments here.
	Birdhouse Blues.
	Whistler did a great job on the new AI video segments.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, he's working on a couple more as well.
	Thank you.
	I'll pass it on to him and I'm really happy with what he's done.
	He has done a great job.
	Fidget Guy says $880 per month.
	Same as Social Security benefits for my 75-year-old mother.
	Not even enough to live.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Yeah, it's what they do.
	You know, it's tax you can't escape, and they don't pay anything back, and you don't have any vested interest in it.
	You know, if it was a private pension, you would.
	But again, how do you make that transition over to it?
	Well, I think it's pretty simple, quite frankly, and people have talked about it.
	You continue your obligation, as meager as it is, of the Social Security stuff.
	A lot of people criticized Ayn Rand because she took Social Security and said, I paid into all my life.
	Darn right I'm going to take whatever little bit they give you back.
	But you continue providing for that.
	You don't have to say, well, it's only going to come from the Ponzi scheme funds because they've got a lot of stuff that they're paying out of the Social Security pool.
	They're paying for general welfare things out of that.
	It's not just retirement benefits.
	But you allow people to start putting money away in a private pension as well.
	That's the other thing that they should allow people to do.
	GDP330 says, man is a lying POS who turned off the air conditioning at his infamous hearing back in the 80s to sell his lies.
	I didn't know that he turned off the air conditioning.
	But I agree with the first part of that.
	He is a lying POS. Absolutely.
	He is quite a piece of work.
	And he is a, I guess that S sounds like science.
	Is that what that's about?
	But he's not doing any science, actually.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	Says, want to be successful in life?
	Observe the masses and do exactly the opposite.
	Absolutely right.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	Some can quickly adapt and override common sense and reality.
	Some already live in a virtual world, and just getting people to wake from it takes real effort.
	Yes, it does.
	That's what this show is about.
	We've been trying to wake people up to this stuff, and wake people up to the deception that's being done as well.
	You know, people who, like Alex did with a vaccine.
	It's just sugar water.
	You know, Gates has got the bad stuff.
	And, you know, you can take a little bit of mercury and aluminum.
	That's no problem.
	Yet he'd spent 20 years telling people that mercury and aluminum in vaccines was causing autism.
	But now, you know, for Trump, you can take it.
	No problem.
	Yeah, watch out for people like that.
	This is from listeners here.
	This is from Will.
	He said it's going to be a real task rebuilding in L.A. Yeah, you know, when we look at how they are making sure that we own nothing and they're going to shut us down, part of it is what we also see with cars.
	You know, Eric Peters and I talk about that every time.
	Look at how they have made cars unaffordable.
	You know, the cost of needless...
	Regulations in terms of homes and all the rest of the stuff.
	Yeah, it's nice to have that sort of thing.
	But, you know, sometimes it's good if you can just have a pinto to get around.
	That's what Karen had when she was in college, you know.
	And that thing was so flimsy.
	It was no wonder that it caught fire when they got hit from the back.
	The trunk, I remember, lower the trunk, and it was a small trunk.
	You know, a very small trunk.
	And when you slam that thing, it would vibrate like an aluminum pan, you know.
	Because there was no structure at all to that thing.
	No air conditioning and rubber mats.
	Carpeting at that point in time was a luxury in the early 70s.
	And it was a stick shift.
	She learned how to drive a stick shift from the very beginning.
	Of course, in those days, that didn't mean that somebody couldn't steal your car, because somebody did steal that car, fortunately for Karen, and burned it up, and she was able to move on to something else.
	Before the car itself burned her up.
	But you should be able to have the flexibility to buy things.
	Look, when we look at the code, for example, there in western North Carolina, as I talked about before, the local officials came in and kicked people out of these wooden homes that the Amish had built for them quickly to get them out of the cold.
	No, you're going to go into housing that we control.
	We control.
	Just like we're going to kick people out of the cars and you're going to use the transportation that we control or that our crony capitalist friends like Elon Musk control.
	That's their objective.
	They want us to have anything and they do it in the name of safety.
	You know, we've got to keep you safe.
	We've got to keep you safe from COVID. We've got to keep you safe from climate change.
	We've got to keep you safe from a car crash or this or that or, you know, a fire.
	Well, look at all the homes that burn down.
	But, you know, they're saying, well, we're going to kick you out because you don't have any plumbing or electrical.
	Well, we all want to have plumbing or electrical, but wouldn't it be nice if we had the option to live in a home that didn't have plumbing or electrical?
	Do we absolutely have to have that?
	No, we don't.
	But they were kicking these people out because there hadn't been plumbing or electrical yet.
	So he says these homes were built many years ago.
	Their foundations no longer meet code.
	The crooked code police and the bureaucrats and homeowners are trying to rebuild.
	They're fighting a losing battle.
	Sounds like another land grab for government.
	Many of the multi-million dollar homes on the ocean side of the Pacific Coast Highway are gone.
	The fire jumped the highway, which has never happened in the past.
	I don't think that they'll ever be rebuilt.
	And he says it'll be interesting to see what FEMA does.
	Here in Western North Carolina, where Will is, he said, we consider FEMA worthless, a deterrent to recovery.
	They have been all through this.
	And the key is, as he said, we must all pray for those who have lost everything.
	I absolutely agree with it.
	And when we look at, this is from Adam, he says, what happens to zoo birds when they test positive for bird flu?
	Do they go in and slaughter all the rare birds that are so expensive?
	No, they don't.
	They let them ride it out.
	If they get sick, they're not all going to die.
	But if they go onto a chicken farm, they're going to kill every last one of them, even if there's millions of them, even if none of the birds died, even if they're not sick and they get a PCR test.
	Magnify this thing by an astronomical amount.
	If they get a positive on that, they kill all of the chickens.
	So why did the chicken cross the road?
	Oh, just to sneak into the zoo disguised as an illegal Salvadoran gang member, he says.
	That's pretty true.
	We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	Welcome back.
	We've got a comment here from Three Little Birds.
	He said, be careful, don't get bird flu.
	Those building codes come from the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
	International building codes should be banned in the U.S. I agree.
	I agree.
	As he points out, that's what's kicking people out of these small homes.
	I thought this was interesting.
	Let's talk a little bit about money.
	The UK has just announced a commemorative coin to commemorate George Orwell's 1984. Look at this coin here.
	So it's set up, it says George Orwell.
	And it looks like an eye.
	And in the center of the eye, where the pupil would be, it says, Big Brother is watching you.
	And it's got a camera there in the pupil of the eye.
	What are they trying to tell us?
	Isn't it interesting that, you know, the people, this is the Mint.
	Maybe the Mint is trying to warn people and try to encourage them to get physical money and cash rather than going digital on the cash, right?
	That's a great collector's coin.
	The other thing that I thought was interesting about this is that it has a face value of two pounds, and yet they're going to sell it for $17.50.
	What does that tell you?
	When you sell it for nine times the face value, what does that tell you about the fiat currency and everything that's coming out of these central banks?
	But, you know, that is the key.
	So many times you see, every time you see an article where they're talking about Bitcoin, what do they do?
	They always have the Bitcoin symbol and they put it on a gold coin.
	Well, Bitcoin is not a coin.
	And it's not gold.
	And if you think that you've got any privacy on the blockchain, You need to grab one of these commemorative coins from the Royal Mint to remind you that if you're not using cash, and that's everything else, if you're not using cash, Big Brother is watching you.
	Using credit card, anything, of all the cryptos, you know, Monero, PirateCoin, one or two others, keep that private.
	But most of them don't.
	Most of them don't.
	As a matter of fact, I think they should use that Orwell.
	Oh my, just a reminder that the blockchain is public for people who want to see this, and the government wants to see that.
	So yeah, davidknight.gold will take you to Tony Ardobin.
	You can get gold and silver there.
	You can start to accumulate it gradually, and that's a good way to do it.
	And who knows what's going to happen?
	Look, a lot of people have invested in Bitcoin.
	A lot of people have made some money off of it, but it's a very volatile thing.
	And digital currency is not private and will not be private unless you get something like Monero or something like that.
	But Bitcoin is still visible to all of them, just as everything else that you do through the banking system is visible.
	Only cash and metals are going to give you any privacy.
	Is the Bitcoin bull run ending?
	Analysts say the metrics don't point to a market peak yet.
	Bitcoin's recent price was near $92,000 or short term, said one.
	Said it is just noise that is happening.
	General investment sentiment was further deterred on January the 9th after the U.S. Department of Justice greenlit the sale of 69,000 Bitcoin, worth over $6.5 billion.
	There is a political move behind this.
	You know, they're talking about, well, what's going to happen to the price of Bitcoin?
	I think this is something that the Biden administration is doing this.
	They're at war with all crypto, especially with Bitcoin.
	And I think that they don't want Trump to have this Bitcoin to be able to put it in a reserve.
	Remember when we talk about that, you know, he can't force the Federal Reserve to do a Bitcoin reserve.
	As a matter of fact, it's not even legal for them to do it.
	They don't even have the option to do that.
	But people were saying, well, he can take what has been confiscated by the Department of Justice and he could begin a reserve with that.
	Well, Biden just took care of that.
	Or the Biden administration.
	Biden doesn't know what he's doing.
	He's like, what day is this?
	The 30-day moving average of the taker buy and sell ratio indicated sell-side dominance for the first time since March of 2024 when Bitcoin peaked at about $74,000.
	That's pretty amazing.
	People say, oh, look at how low the price is now, $92,000.
	It was $74,000 in March.
	But gold has also done very well as well.
	As I say, every dip is an opportunity in preparation for a massive rally that is coming.
	That's also true of gold.
	As a matter of fact, as we pointed out last week, the deficit's not going anywhere except up.
	And the buying of gold by the Chinese central bank is going up as well.
	And so, the BRICS people, you got Eduardo Saboya, head of the BRICS Summit that's going to be held in Rio de Janeiro this year in July, brushed off recent threats from incoming U.S. President Donald Trump to impose a 100% tariff on BRICS nations if they undercut the dollar.
	And see, this is another thing that is a harbinger of chaos and disruption.
	Yeah, Biden weaponized the dollar.
	That's what's...
	Created a lot of this BRICS move and everything was the weaponization of the dollar and of our financial system.
	And Trump is going to do the same thing in a different way.
	But it's still going to be about weaponization.
	People have taken the, they're attacking the strengths of the U.S. economy by doing that.
	This guy in Brazil says, well, we want to increase trade between us.
	We want to increase investment.
	We want to reduce transaction costs.
	There's a discussion about the use of local currencies and transactions, but this is not in an impositional way.
	Well, it is on Trump.
	He's going to impose things on people left and right.
	He said, BRICS countries are holders of dollar reserves, but we do have to diversify the options so that economic actors can decide and have the possibility of making more transactions.
	Does this in an impositional way.
	It is going to actually work against it.
	I'm reminded of the line from Star Trek where Princess Leia says, you know, you squeeze, hardly you squeeze.
	You know, they're going to come through your fingers.
	This is a paraphrase.
	They're going to come through your fingers like water, right?
	And that's the way it's going to be with Trump, just like it was with Biden.
	They try to squeeze people.
	And it's like trying to squeeze a handful of water.
	The BRICS block has increasingly emerged as a counterweight to the West, but Soboya said its members do not want their ties to deteriorate.
	He said BRICS members are not anti-something or anti-West.
	On the contrary, after the 2008 crisis, the large developed economies sought the collaboration of BRICS countries in the effort to relaunch the world economy.
	In English, he said, BRICS denotes a desire to build something.
	Bricks countries come to build.
	They do not come to worsen things.
	Yeah, do you want to build with bricks or do you want to build with paper?
	I want to build with metal instead of paper.
	Zero Hedge points out, oil and gold have surged.
	Bonds and stocks have purged.
	That's the way they sum up the last few days here.
	And then one last article here about money.
	Remember the guy who...
	Threw away, by mistake, he threw away a disk drive that had his codes and stuff for Bitcoin.
	And this is the early, early days.
	He had a bunch of Bitcoin.
	He's in IT. He's a programmer.
	An IT engineer is what they say.
	So he was experimenting with Bitcoin.
	He had quite a bit of it.
	And the way the disk drive didn't realize what he had lost.
	And so he has spent over a decade trying to get a British jurisdiction to help him to recover this stuff.
	And what he has on that disk drive is worth $750 million.
	And he promised to share it with the jurisdiction.
	He said, just let me go through the landfill.
	And I've got a pretty good idea of where it is.
	He's narrowed it down.
	The landfill holds 1.4 million tons of waste, but he and people who've worked with him, because they also want to get a piece of this, said that they claim to have pinpointed the hard drive's location to a 100,000 ton section.
	So from 1.4 million down to 100,000 tons.
	And so he wants them to allow him to excavate the landfill.
	But the local people there don't want it.
	Not the local people, but the local government there.
	He supposedly has 8,000 Bitcoins that now be equivalent to 750 million.
	His name is James Howells, not James Thurston Howell III, but he was independently wealthy, independent of Bitcoin, and he got stuck on an island.
	Well, this guy's gotten stuck by an intransigent, Local government and a judge.
	He offered to share the treasure with the local community.
	And he demanded, when they said no, now that this is, he demanded 495 million pounds in compensation from the Newport City Council if they continued to block his search.
	And so the judge has ruled that there were no reasonable grounds for this.
	And that they can block his search.
	And why are they blocking his search if he's going to give them some money?
	Well, first of all, they're not going to get it.
	The community can get it.
	They don't care.
	I have a feeling that they don't want to see somebody have money that's not them.
	But this is the reason that they give.
	And this could be it.
	They said, we can't allow him to excavate any of the landfill, the garbage, because of environmental concerns.
	In the same way that environmental concerns are going to impoverish us all, they're keeping this guy from a fortune, and they're keeping us from a fortune, individually and collectively.
	These environmental concerns are bankrupting us by design.
	He said he had assembled a team of experts for the recovery effort that engaged in repeated negotiations with the council, but the local authority has maintained that the excavation was impossible due to environmental regulations.
	And so he came back and he said, well, then...
	You pay me the money if you're not going to let me get that out.
	The judge threw that out.
	So this has effectively ended his hopes of retrieving this lost fortune.
	Isn't that amazing?
	But it is so much like what government does all the time.
	Highboost says, Bitcoin is going to fall like the GameStop stock did.
	Yeah, it's concerning.
	I don't know.
	I'm not going to say that it's going to fold.
	I don't know, but it's too speculative for me to participate.
	I will forego the rollercoaster ride.
	As the saying goes, bears get rich, bulls get rich, pigs go broke.
	If you go for everything by playing really risky stuff, there's going to be a price to pay.
	Babylon Bee had a headline that I thought summed up the Jimmy Carter Funeral.
	They said, a song at the funeral comforts everyone by telling them that there's no heaven, that religion is a lie, and that everything is ultimately meaningless.
	That was in reference to the Jimmy Carter funeral where they had, was it, well, I'm not sure what the names were of the performers now, a couple of country and western performers who had done this at his wife's funeral.
	They had sung Imagine.
	And it truly was strange to see these people at a funeral, say, yeah, just imagine that there's no heaven above us, no hell below us, and all the rest of this stuff.
	And then they start panning around and showing the politicians that are sitting there.
	So imagine there's no countries and nothing to kill or die for, you know, like the flag or something like that, that they're fighting over in Panama.
	And all these politicians are sitting there.
	It truly was crazy.
	I had not noticed that.
	Until a listener last week pointed that out.
	And let's see.
	It was, was it Garth Brooks?
	No, this is their op-ed piece.
	But, you know, a lot of people have talked about that.
	A dark performance of John Lennon's Imagine.
	I think all of his, all the performances of Imagine are dark.
	It has to do with the lyrics.
	Oh, here it is.
	Garth Brooks.
	And Tricia Yearwood sang it.
	And they had done that once before at his wife's funeral.
	A nihilistic, hopeless exercise.
	And yet this guy that we are supposed to believe is a Sunday school teacher told people, just go for it.
	You know, if you look at a woman and you lust after her, you've already committed adultery, so just go for it.
	And apply that same standard to a murder as well.
	But as we look at this, just a reminder that the issues that we face here in this time, we are not without hope.
	And we have something that is far more powerful than any of these weapons that are formed against us, and that is prayer.
	You know, we have, as Christians, we have a rock that we can lean on in difficult times, and I hope that the people in California, I don't know about the stars, there's some Christians who are stars, but I hope that the people who are there, I hope they have that comfort.
	Because if you lean on government, you're going to find that it is nothing, it's going to break, a stick that will break and pierce your hand.
	Thanks for joining us.
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	But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
	That is what we have in common.
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