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Biden Hides, Psaki Takes “Vacation” As Afghanistan Falls FULL SHOW 8-16-21

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unidentified		You're watching the American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith.
		Watch live right now at band.video. . . . . . . . . . .
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harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Good morning, ladies and welcome to the show.
		Welcome to American Journal.
		My name is Harrison Smith.
		And my God, folks, the collapse is truly on.
		It is really incredible to see.
		Of course, Afghanistan will be our primary topic for today's program.
		We have a great guest, Alex Newman, in the third hour.
		Your calls as well.
		But first, let's go to this Bowne report.
		Afghanistan falls.
		Biden fails to be found and shared at band.video and infowars.com.
jon bowne ▲ ● ▼		Similar to the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti.
unidentified		That massive 7.2 earthquake leaving hundreds dead.
jon bowne ▲ ● ▼		The Taliban is a force of nature causing tectonic shifts under a crumbling Biden administration.
jon bowne ▲ ● ▼		led by the nose by incompetent Defense Department bigwigs that have mismanaged the effort in Afghanistan from day one, destroying the lives of countless American soldiers.
unidentified		The United States will continue to support consular services, and that includes the processing and operations of the Special Immigrant Visa Program, and will continue to engage in diplomacy with the Afghan government and the Afghan people.
unidentified		Additionally, we will continue our focus on counterterrorism.
jon bowne ▲ ● ▼		Regardless of Biden's half-baked prediction... Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		No, it is not.
unidentified		Why?
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		Because you have the Afghan troops that have 300,000 well-equipped, as well-equipped as any army in the world, and an air force, against something like 75,000 Taliban.
		It is not inevitable.
		I was up in that pass where Osama bin Laden was allegedly escaped or out of harm's way.
		We went for two reasons.
jon bowne ▲ ● ▼		One, two. - In just nine days, the Taliban took control of more than half of Afghanistan's provinces, And as Biden has done when it comes to the border, the economy, and COVID, Biden blamed the Trump administration for the chaos in Afghanistan, while Trump responded to the mischaracterization.
jon bowne ▲ ● ▼		As Biden's globalist mouthpiece, Jen Psaki, revealed just how disconnected this administration is.
jen psaki ▲ ● ▼		The Taliban also has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community.
jon bowne ▲ ● ▼		Anyone with any recollection will recall that the Trump administration bombed the Taliban to the negotiating table as the New York Post recounted after warning Taliban leader Hibatullah Akinzadeh, that he would come back and hit you harder than any country has ever been hit if he welched on the deal.
		Trump made good on his threat and launched punishing airstrikes the first time the Taliban violated the agreement.
		Since then, not a single U.S.
		soldier has died in combat in Afghanistan.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		That they had to kill people in order to put themselves in a little better negotiating position.
		When they did that, they killed 12 people.
		One happened to be a great American soldier.
		And we've hit the Taliban harder in the last four days than they've been hitting over 10 years.
jon bowne ▲ ● ▼		Biden, who has always regarded himself as a foreign policy genius, is now frantically upping the ante, increasing troops from 3,000 to 5,000.
jon bowne ▲ ● ▼		All right, folks, you can find it.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		That full video at band.video, Afghanistan falls, Biden fails by John Bowne.
		And yes, Afghanistan will be our primary topic of discussion here today as we talk about what has occurred in Afghanistan, what brought it about, what could have mitigated the disaster that we're seeing now, as well as a trip back through time to remind ourselves why we're even in Afghanistan in the first place, and probably painting the picture that, well, none of this is by accident.
		Yeah, it's all controlled demolition, as we've seen throughout the world.
		Stay tuned, folks.
		It's going to be a very, very big show, and I hope you're with us.
unidentified		You're tuned in to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith.
		Watch it live right now at band.video.
		I think it's time to blow this thing and get everybody in the stuff together.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
		Welcome to American Journal.
		My name is Harrison Smith.
		You're watching us on bandodvideoinfowars.com.
		Afghanistan in collapse is our primary story for today, but there's a lot of other stuff going on as well.
		We'll get to all of it, your phone calls and my great guest, Alex Newman, all in today's episode of American Journal.
		But first, let's begin as we always do with our daily dispatch.
		Here it is, folks, your daily dispatch for Monday, August 16th, 2021.
		Afghanistan has fallen.
		From Infowars.com, Taliban takes Kabul.
		U.S.-backed Afghan puppet government sent packing.
		The Taliban today have more control over the various provinces of Afghanistan than before the U.S.
		invaded In 2001.
		Additionally, they now have billions of dollars in assets and U.S.
		weaponry that was given to Afghan's puppet government by the U.S.
		A Taliban commander who claimed he spent eight years in Guantanamo Bay said in a triumphant speech from inside the presidential palace in Kabul as the militants declared as an Islamic state of Afghanistan after the country's president joined thousands of Afghan nationals in a mass exodus.
		Taliban fighters stormed the ancient palace on Sunday and demanded a peaceful transfer of power as the capital city descended into chaos with U.S.
		helicopters evacuating diplomats from the embassy in scenes echoing the 1975 fall of Saigon which followed the Vietnam War and we'll show you some of these videos a little bit later in the program.
		Truly Incredible.
		Mind-blowing.
		U.S.
		Apache helicopters clearing the runway so the giant planes can take off.
		Afghans actually clinging to the plane as they take off, falling to their deaths from the plane.
		Thousands of feet above the ground.
		Really horrific stuff and a true disgrace.
		For all of us.
		And a true slap in the face for the veterans that gave their lives for this wholly pointless and detrimental war.
		Joe Biden, meanwhile, remains hidden at Camp David after Afghanistan collapses.
		He might address the nation in the next few days.
		Just a little while, you know.
		His fault he causes this and we'll talk about Trump's plan on exiting Afghanistan and how in order to deny President Trump the glory of bringing this horrific war to an end, Joe Biden decided to change things around a little bit and paved the way for the catastrophe that we're seeing now.
		The president's daily guidance for Monday indicated Biden would remain at Camp David for at least one more day with no public events scheduled.
		Senior administration officials indicated to reporters Sunday evening that Biden might address the country in the next few days.
		Yeah, just a little while.
		Biden has not spoken publicly on Afghanistan since Tuesday after expressing optimism that the leaders of the Afghan government would rally to defend their country.
		Oh, yes, we'll explain all about this later in the program.
		Just know, you know, if there's one thing that the mainstream media will hold Biden's feet to the fire for is trying to end war.
		How dare he try to end this war?
		And now, yes, even the mainstream media is laying the blame squarely at Biden's feet.
		Chaos is unfolding in Afghanistan.
		Here's what you need to know from CNN.
		The Afghan president has fled.
		The US embassy has been evacuated.
		Foreign governments are scrambling to try to get their people out in time.
		And yeah, just total collapse in a matter of days after we've spent $2 trillion, several thousand lives, tens of thousands of civilian deaths.
		And $88 billion funding and equipping the Afghan government, which folded like a deck of cards.
		Clearly botched Biden White House under assault on Afghanistan drawdown.
		Overwhelmed by pleas from those attempting to exit the country safely and the need for expedited visas, the Pentagon announced an emergency deployment of additional troops, soon to total 6,000 on the ground in Afghanistan.
		As the proxies for the Biden administration do a media blitz in an attempt to somehow salvage their reputation from this.
		But no, this is a truly historic event, which will go down in history as one of the greatest catastrophes the last 100 years.
		The question is, will we learn anything from this?
		Will we draw out the correct lessons from this utter debacle?
		Or will we continue to plow on as if Nothing bad happened whatsoever.
		It's nobody's fault.
		Hold nobody to account.
		Punish no one and continue down the road to hell.
		That's what Pelosi wants to do.
		Pelosi praises Biden as Kabul is in chaos, says President should be commended.
		President is to be commended for the clarity of purpose in his statement on Afghanistan and the actions he has taken, Pelosi said in a statement.
		Just incredible.
		Just mind-blowing.
		It's admirable, really.
		Admirable the way Pelosi can just stick to her partisan politics when just failure is overwhelming.
		Really incredible.
	Truly incredible.
	Of course, there's some troubling developments here at home.
	Homeland Security says Americans upset by public health safety measures could be terror threats.
	In advance of the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, the Department of Homeland Security has issued new guidance to local police departments, warning that, among other things, opposition to pandemic-related lockdown policies could constitute a terror threat.
	That's right, folks.
	If you oppose mandated vaccines, if you oppose mask mandates, or if you think the election was fraudulent in 2020, you are a terrorist.
	This isn't coming from some far leftist trash magazine.
	This is coming from the Department of Homeland Security.
	So now you know that opposing the government in their medical tyranny Now labels you a terrorist, which means you're liable to suffer all of the consequences that we argued against since day one of the NDAA and the Patriot Act, meaning you may be indefinitely detained without a charge, without having to face your accuser in court.
	No constitutional liberties apply to you anymore.
	You're a terrorist now.
	Because you don't want to take a mandated vax that's experimental, ineffective, and massively dangerous with huge amounts of side effects.
	It's really incredible.
	You're a terrorist now!
	And that's going to be another main topic of today's program moving forward.
	DHS says extremists against COVID vaccines stole an election post national security threat ahead of 9-11.
	I think maybe we'll have to maybe we'll play like a short clip of That skit that I did of Boy Who Cries Wolf because I was not aware of how incredibly accurate I was in that.
	We'll show you the video of Lester Holt of NBC News basically literally saying exactly what I said as a joke, which is like, yes, there is a terror threat, massively important, very dangerous.
	No, there's no evidence of it whatsoever.
	And this is actually just all a hunch that we're going on.
	Really, it's mind-blowing stuff.
	Fauci also says this.
	Unvaccinated need to, quote, put aside concerns of personal liberty.
	To put aside those concerns of personal liberty, just submit yourself to total subjugation.
	It's an emergency, after all.
	Oh, the Constitution?
	We must maintain the Constitution.
	Personal liberty is of the utmost importance.
	Oh, it's an emergency?
	Never mind.
	Oh, it's an emergency?
	Oh, I didn't realize it was an emergency.
	I guess just get rid of all of our liberties, if it's an emergency.
	Of course.
	Obviously.
	This is what they do.
	Really mind-blowing stuff.
	Oregon legislator tells constituents, quote, we will force vaccines to work, eat, learn.
	Oh, and then claims it was a typo.
	Oops.
unidentified		Oops.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		It was a typo.
		Oopsie daisy.
		I accidentally said what I really thought.
		Oops.
		I actually said what I meant to say.
		But now that Everybody's pushing back on the fact that I'm a tyrannical monster.
		I'm gonna claim it's a typo.
		Yeah, real likely, right?
		Oregon State Representative Lisa Reynolds, a pediatrician, upset both her constituents and Americans across the country when she informed two people that they will not accept COVID vaccine, that the government will force vaccines on all Americans who wish to eat in restaurants, work inside office buildings, or go to school.
		Today she claimed it was a typo.
		Oh, whoops.
unidentified		Whoops.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Whoops.
		It was just an accident.
		It was a mistake.
		Our bad.
		Sorry.
		Yeah, she said, that's fine, really.
		We will force vaccines.
		We will make it a prerequisite, though, for indoor dining, working in the office, and furthering your education.
		Which part of this was the typo?
		Which word was mistyped here?
		I don't... That's fine, really.
		We will force vaccines.
		We will make it a prerequisite.
		Oh, she meant we will not force vaccines.
		We will make it a prerequisite.
		Okay, they're not going to force vaccines, but they will deny you existence if you don't take it.
		See, it was a mistake.
		It was a little accident.
		It was a little typo there.
		Little typo.
		Meanwhile, we have this.
		Dallas ISD to keep mask mandate in place despite Texas Supreme Court ruling.
		Again, this is just the theme.
		We cover it every single day here on American Journal.
		The Texas Supreme Court ruling came out and said, yes, the governor's order that you cannot mandate vaccines is valid.
		It is against the law to mandate vaccines.
		Now, what the law is...
		doesn't matter to these people.
		They're doing it anyway, and they won't be held to account.
		This is just the way the world works now, okay?
		You go to the Supreme Court, you go through all the rigmarole, you get your law passed, and then the government will just ignore it outright and do nothing about it.
		There's no recompense and nothing you can do to redress this blatant violation.
unidentified		All right, welcome back, folks.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Continuing here with your Daily Dispatch, Yes, the Texas Supreme Court has confirmed the governor's order that mask mandates cannot be Carried out in school districts.
		But Dallas I.D.' 's, they're ignoring that.
		Dallas I.D.' 's superintendent said the school district will keep its mask mandate in place despite the Texas Supreme Court ruling that temporarily blocked Dallas County's mask mandate.
		They say they consulted with lawyers and they determined that the stay order issued by the Texas Supreme Court was for Dallas County.
		They didn't mention Dallas I.S.D.
		It's just one of these little legal loopholes that they're going to take advantage of.
		So, you know, we'll just, I guess, continue to try to go through the correct pattern, right?
		Just we'll try to go through the courts and we'll get the order passed.
		Then they'll just ignore it anyway and keep doing what they want because there is no law anymore.
		We've replaced rule of law by rule by man.
		Now some superintendent without the authority to do so explicitly forbidden from doing so by the Supreme Court, we'll just do it anyway and no one will punish him or hold him to account or do anything of the sort.
		Vax pass hits Canada a Tens of thousands march in Montreal against vaccine passports ahead of the September 1st rollout.
		Thousands of outraged citizens gathered in the streets of Montreal on Saturday to protest the coming implementation of a vaccine passport system that's set to roll out on September 1st.
		Absolutely massive crowds there in Montreal.
		Of course, the Montreal newspaper reports hundreds of people, hundreds of terrorists gather to protest the very important and good vaccine mandate.
		But no, that's tens of thousands, that's possibly hundreds of thousands.
		Of course, This was in Montreal.
		We also had massive showings in New York City, in Oklahoma.
		We'll show you some videos from that.
		LA, a massive anti-vax protest that was attacked by Antifa because nothing says anarchy, nothing says like we're against the state than actually attacking people on behalf of the state for refusing to bow to tyrannical orders from the state.
		Really just Clown world out there, but it is good to see a lot of people standing up for this.
		We'll show you the videos as well as some interviews a little bit later of some info warriors who helped to spearhead this movement in Oklahoma and elsewhere.
		Meanwhile, Google whistleblower says Google News altered its algorithm against President Trump.
		This is Zach Voorhees in his new book called Google Leaks, a whistleblower expose of big tech suppression.
		He investigates how big tech suppresses views that go against mainstream narrative.
		During his career as a software developer, he worked for both YouTube and Google, but resigned after learning of the suppression of conservative voices.
		The book's description reads, it's clear that Google was attempting nothing less than a seamless rewrite of the functioning code of reality that many would not be allowed to participate in.
		I think that's a very accurate description of exactly what's going on.
		They're literally trying to rewrite the code of reality.
		As Alex Jones has pointed out for a very long time, if you can get enough information, you can predict the future.
		If you can predict the future, you can change the future by changing the inputs of information into the larger population.
		It's the true info war, and these are the nuclear weapons that they're using to obliterate the rest of us.
		Federal Judge Orders Biden to Continue Trump's Extremely Effective Remain-in-Mexico Policy.
		On his first day in office, Joe Biden fired the opening shot in his quest to obliterate the southern border by ending the Trump-era Migration Protection Protocols program, which keeps migrants in Mexico as they await a hearing.
		The move signaled to the rest of the world it was a free-for-all to come to the U.S.
		That had begun, and they've been coming in record numbers ever since.
		Over 210,000 invaders were encountered in the month of July alone.
		The Attorney General of Texas and Missouri, Ken Paxton and Eric Schmidt, weren't going to let that happen without a fight.
		They filed an official lawsuit against the Biden regime in April and have finally gotten a decision.
		On Friday, U.S.
		District Judge Matthew Kaczmarek of the Northern District of Texas ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the extremely effective Remain in Mexico program that was instrumental in securing the border under Trump.
		The judge also mandated the DHS provide a more detailed monthly report that includes the number of aliens expelled, the total numbers of encounters, the number of applicants, among other data.
		Of course they have a week to respond.
		Borderless Joe's partner in crime, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, was also named in the lawsuit.
		He was recently caught in leaked audio talking about the invasion and admitting the abysmal state of the border, calling it unsustainable.
		Mind-blowing stuff that this again.
		We just have to fight.
		Let's fight through the courts like they just issue completely blatantly illegal laws And we like fight through the courts try to get it done, and they'll probably ignore this anyway, right?
		They'll probably just they have a week to file an emergency response, but they'll probably just continue to do this anyway It's everything they're doing is in blatant violation of long established American laws Why they would stop now is anybody's guess they're not going to they're gonna continue to keep our border open They're gonna continue to Flood us with the foreigners as they continue to actively promote the destruction of our native population.
		Wow, truly incredible stuff.
		Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine urges people to use terms like chest feeding and human milk feeding individuals in their never-ending attempt to dehumanize and bastardize our very existence.
		The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Has released an almost comically absurd statement calling for people to use terms that are more inclusive for trans people while discussing this act of motherhood.
		In a table of suggested terms, the ABM listed father's milk as a serious term as well as gestational parent for mother.
		Do we even need to explain this?
		They're anti-human, folks!
		They're...
		Anti-human.
		That's all there is to it.
		The ABM said they were responding to calls from the World Health Organization and the United Nations to change the language in order to avoid violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people.
		I can sum up all of these terms.
		Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex.
		Non-procreative.
		That's what these people are.
		Non-procreative.
	But no.
	We're going to act like men, I guess.
	Can milk babies.
	There's one.
	At times you can do it right now.
	Just... I won't go too far into that.
	I think we all get...
	What the hell's going on here?
	What a dumpster fire!
	This is the story from Gateway Pundit.
	SnopesFunder was writing plagiarized reports under a fake name, and he spent thousands in company money on a pricey hooker.
	The founder of the far-left internet website Snopes, which brags of being the moral compass for what is honest reporting on the internet, allegedly embezzled and spent nearly $100,000 on prostitutes during his divorce, but that's not the newest claim.
	The newest claim is that he is Well, a plagiarist and a fraud, apparently.
	Yeah, really incredible.
	Long presented himself as an arbiter of truth online, a bulwark in the fight against rumors and fake news, but he's been lying on the site's tens of millions of readers.
	A BuzzFeed News investigation has found out that between 2015 and 2019, Mickelson wrote and published dozens of articles containing material plagiarized from news outlets such as The Guardian and the LA Times.
	Oh, dear.
	Oh, no.
	We go to Snopes on this.
	Snopes reports it's false.
	It's false.
	No, they say, well, yes, he did do all of those things.
	Snopes is good.
	Therefore, the claims is false.
	That's that's how Snopes works.
	It's like we investigate the claims and everything they said was correct.
	But we assume that the reason they're saying this is because of this other thing.
	And this is false.
	Therefore, the claim is rated as false.
	It's all nonsense.
	It's all.
	Black magic trickery.
	And in case you need another reason not to trust it, there you have it.
	Apple announces limits to their child sex abuse image scanning system after privacy backlash.
	Apple on August 13th provided new details of how its planned child sexual abuse material detection system would work, outlining a range of privacy-preserving limits following backlash that the software would introduce a backdoor that threatens user privacy protections.
	It's like, yeah, there's this assumption that the software would introduce a backdoor that threatens user privacy protection.
	Well, what is the, what is the C-STEM?
	Well, it's a backdoor that allows them to look at all of your pictures before they're even uploaded to the internet.
	Why, you would think that would give people a backdoor.
	Eh, it's anybody's business.
	And here we have a new tradition, Meme of the Day!
	Here it is, the Meme of the Day is from Chris Emerson.
	We have The Gay, which of course stands for the Globalist American Empire, losing 1-0 to Afghanistan.
	Darn it, the gay loses again.
unidentified		You're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith.
		Watch it live right now at band.video.
		Welcome back, folks.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		A truly historic weekend it has been.
		One that will go down in history and not in a positive way.
		No, it's a real tragedy, actually.
		A real tragedy.
		And actually, we're going to open up the phone line today, and our question of the day is essentially, what is the biggest tragedy of the Afghan war?
		And if you want to call in and share your ideas, it's 1-877-789-2539.
		It's 1-877-789-2539.
		Give us a call at American Journal, 1-877-789-2539.
		Tell us what you think the biggest tragedy of the Afghan war truly is.
		Because, you know, we can talk about the $2 trillion that we've spent.
		We can talk about the $88 billion that we spent exclusively to arm and train the Afghan government.
		All of that money, all of that good, all of those goods, all that equipment went essentially into the hands of terrorists and our enemies.
		President Joe Biden creating the most well-armed and well-funded terrorist organization in the history of mankind.
		But the money pales in comparison to the lives, not just the thousands of American lives that have been lost.
		in this fruitless pointless and really just total failure of a war but also the hundreds of thousands of civilian lives that have been lost in all of this and it's been completely pointless and unnecessary since the very beginning and obviously the way I'd phrase this is uh to the veterans out there that fought in Afghanistan I'm sorry that they did this to you.
		I'm sorry that they sent you to fight and die and lose arms and legs and eyes in a completely pointless waste of human life and excellence.
		Terrific, really.
		So we're going to get into that.
		We're going to take your calls, and we're going to do a breakdown as to how this actually began, how the war actually began, why we're there in the first place, why we're still there to this day, as well as how President Trump would have left and what that may have looked like if President Biden didn't decide to pull the rug out from underneath everybody.
		But first, I'm going to play this video.
		It's the latest by Paul Joseph Watson.
		Here it is.
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		Likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.
unidentified		.
		you you Thank you.
		Uh-oh.
paul joseph watson ▲ ● ▼		It appears as though a bunch of austere scholars have put Afghanistan back on the road to peace.
		Two decades and one trillion dollars later, it took the Taliban just over a week to take it all back.
		This after Biden repeatedly assured us that the fighting force that survived 20 years in the crosshairs of the world's most well-funded military wasn't going to retake Afghanistan.
unidentified		Is a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		No, it is not.
		Because you have, the Afghan troops have 300,000.
		Well equipped, as well as equipped as any army in the world.
paul joseph watson ▲ ● ▼		As good as any army in the world?
		F***ing Toy Story Lego army would have put up more resistance.
		But rest assured, we can trust a guy who gets lost in bushes to safely evacuate Americans from Kabul.
unidentified		This is not a full evacuation.
unidentified		Really?
paul joseph watson ▲ ● ▼		Kinda looks like what?
		January 2021.
		America is back!
		August 2021.
unidentified		Taliban, please don't touch the embassy, we'll pay you.
paul joseph watson ▲ ● ▼		But don't blame the National Security Establishment, because to be fair, how could they ever have seen it coming?
		Deep state mouthpieces really aren't taking it too well.
		Take Jennifer Caffarella, for example.
		National Security Fellow at the Institute for the Study of War, a major US think tank.
		It's a very dark day in Afghanistan.
		Take care of yourself.
unidentified		It might require avoiding the news.
paul joseph watson ▲ ● ▼		Even that can be excruciating, I know.
unidentified		We can and should bear witness, but it does not require self-harm.
		Triggering PTSD symptoms or new trauma does not help Afghans.
		My DMs are open.
paul joseph watson ▲ ● ▼		Big Cope.
		She then urges everyone not to share images or links to images that are likely to cause trauma, such as the fall of Kabul or anything Saigon-like.
		Imagine devoting your entire career to cheerleading for war, death and destruction.
		Then when it doesn't quite go your way, crying on Twitter about it.
unidentified		No, please don't show me the pictures!
paul joseph watson ▲ ● ▼		75,000 dead civilians, two decades of US troops coming home in body bags, sacrificing America's global reputation on the blood-soaked altar of the military-industrial complex.
		That didn't seem to faze them, but the Taliban, being successful in presiding over a fiery but mostly peaceful transfer of power, No!
		Stop!
		Can't handle it!
		This b**** has the nerve to complain about PTSD over seeing some tweets, having campaigned for invasions that crippled an entire generation of young men with debilitating, life-ruining, actual PTSD.
		This national security establishment created the Taliban in the first place, exploited 9-11 as a false pretext to invade Afghanistan, Bin Laden wasn't even in Afghanistan.
		Stayed there for 10 years after the death of Bin Laden for no other apparent f***ing reason than protecting the CIA's control of the opium trade.
unidentified		Why are American troops now helping Afghan farmers grow that opium?
paul joseph watson ▲ ● ▼		Turned the place into a hellhole failed narco state.
		And when it all collapses into dust, they turn around and say, oh no, don't watch the news!
		The Taliban is banning the corona vaccine in each new territory that it reconquers.
		Oh no.
		Quick, send the troops back in.
		But hey, at least they wore masks.
		Surely there's still time to stop the Taliban with some kind of stern hashtag campaign.
		Surely we can fight back with some kind of Instagram influencer infographic explain-a-thon.
		Come to think of it, I know the perfect candidate.
unidentified		One sec.
		Democracy's calling.
		Hi, my name is Cooper and this is a day in my life as a White House intern.
		We did a job.
		Hey everyone!
paul joseph watson ▲ ● ▼		You mean to say the LGBT flag won't be flying over the Kabul embassy?
		Quick, time to blame the Taliban for another terror attack that was actually carried out by one of America's most loyal allies.
		Maybe if we paint the trans colours on some GPS guided missiles, then the Taliban might listen.
		Time to send working class British and American kids back I mean, surely it's worth it, just so Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris can feel good about the treatment of women in Kandahar.
		Time to feed another generation into the meat grinder, just so Tony Blair can pat himself on the back because a school got built.
		Time to assuage our colonial guilt by throwing open our borders to cells of jihadist migrants because muwammins rights and sh**.
		Time to create another generation of PTSD plagued suicide victims so neolibs and neocons can virtue signal about bringing universal suffrage to the Middle East.
unidentified		So would you believe in the democratic vote though?
unidentified		So would people be allowed to vote in women politicians?
paul joseph watson ▲ ● ▼		Afghan women forced from banking jobs as Taliban take control.
		Oh no, not the precious banking jobs!
		Time for another invasion.
		And where's the resistance to the Taliban from the Afghans themselves?
		Bit rude to show such a lack of appreciation for the 7,000 bombs we've been dropping on their country every single year.
		The Pope has called for peace in Afghanistan.
		Yeah, thanks for that stunning contribution, Francis.
		Now get ready to start washing more feet, because Afghanistan's crisis will soon be Europe's, too.
		I really don't see what the problem is.
		Now, once again, we get to enjoy the wonderful diversity that hundreds of thousands more refugees will bring to the continent.
		Can't wait for that.
		A diplomat in Kabul told Politico, when the numbers are high enough, nothing can stop them, not even tanks.
		Great, so everything that happened after the 2015 influx, the mass molestation in Cologne, soaring violent crime and sexual assaults, multiple mass casualty terror attacks, is at risk of happening once again.
		Refugees, welcome!
		You're starting to think that maybe, just maybe, we should never have got involved with any of these conflicts in the first place.
unidentified		It's our belief that one day Mujahideen will have victory and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world.
paul joseph watson ▲ ● ▼		France, Holland, Germany and other countries have announced a halt on the deportation of Afghan refugees whose asylum claims were rejected.
		The kind of upstanding citizens who were defended by refugees welcome activists like Ellen Ersson, the Swedish woman who stopped a plane to prevent the deportation of one such individual.
		Now granted, the migrant she attempted to save may have been convicted for trying to strangle his wife and kids with an electrical cord, but surely he was just the exception that proves the rule.
		Many of these migrants have already been arriving on England's south coast in record numbers for months thanks to Britain giving them a de facto taxi service and putting them up in four-star hotels.
		Well, time to cancel those Hilton reservations because it looks like it's gonna be a busy end to the summer.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		American Journal will be right back, folks.
		Man, he's funny.
		Welcome back, folks.
		Our question of the day, what is the biggest tragedy of the U.S.-Afghanistan war?
		You can respond on Twitter at Voice Americana by following and responding to the post there, or by giving us a call, the phone number to dial, 1-877-789-2539.
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		Give us a call here at American Journal today to tell us what is the biggest tragedy of the U.S.-Afghanistan war.
		And we have a few people who have already called in and want to talk about this.
		So we'll go to you in just a little bit here.
		But let's go over again just how we got to where we are now and what has brought about this truly stunning reversal of fortunes and total collapse of the Afghan government, meaning that now the Taliban controls more places than they did before we went in 20 plus years ago in 2001.
		Well, Trump has called for Biden to resign in disgrace over the Afghanistan pullout disaster.
		This story from Infowars.com.
		Former President Trump issued in a Sunday statement, said for him to resign in disgrace, saying, quote, it's time for Joe Biden to resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen in Afghanistan, along with the tremendous surge in COVID, the border catastrophe, the destruction of energy independence and our crippled economy.
		Truly an incredible litany of failures in just six months for this president.
		He goes on to say, what Joe Biden has done with Afghanistan is legendary.
		It will go down as one of the greatest defeats in American history.
		Even Obama's Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, said as much.
		He ran out of Afghanistan.
		Instead of following the plan that the Trump administration left for him, a plan that protected our people and our property and ensured the Taliban would never dream of taking our embassy and providing a base for new attacks against America, the withdrawal would be guided by facts on the ground.
		Say what you want about the Afghanistan war.
		Say what you want about President Trump.
		All I know is the Taliban would not be doing what they're doing now if Trump was in office.
		He just wouldn't allow it.
		And you just know that he wouldn't.
		That might mean more troops there, which we'd be against.
		But the fact is that the country wouldn't have fallen.
		You wouldn't have had thousands of people now rushing the airport in a desperate attempt to flee the onslaught, flee the certain death that awaits them should they fail to escape.
		Truly incredible stuff.
		Where's Joe?
		Republicans claim the president is taking a vacation at Camp David.
		Biden sent out a statement on Saturday afternoon on the unfolding events where he announced 5000 troops to be deployed to help with the evacuations.
		But he also blamed Donald Trump for the disastrous withdrawal.
		Now, Donald Trump actually negotiated a withdrawal with the Taliban for May of this year.
		Now, we couldn't give President Trump the.
		You know, props for that.
		We can't let him take credit for getting us out of Afghanistan.
		So Joe Biden decided to pull the rug out from underneath the Taliban, essentially, and decided just to change things up the last minute, completely scuttling the talks that were had that actually theoretically would have kept the Taliban pinned in for at least a little while longer.
		But all of this is really just icing on the cake.
		The cake itself is an unwinnable war that was unwinnable from the beginning.
		It was never meant to be won, but we'll get to that a little bit later.
		Meanwhile, the leader of the Taliban is on Twitter.
		Barbaric, murderous savages spreading extremist hate does not contravene Twitter's terms of service, apparently.
		Frankly, I'm glad.
		And this is one of those times where, again, you see truly the hypocrisy or the failure of liberal leftist censorship ideology in the sense that Don't you want your enemies to be able to tell you what they're doing?
		Don't you want to hear from the people that you are afraid of, that are attacking, that are bad people?
		I'm glad that the Taliban is on Twitter.
		I want to know what they're saying to each other.
		I want to know what their announcements are.
		Right?
		This is...
		Doesn't make any sense, I guess, to liberals, because to them it's all about, you know, destroying the ability to speak freely.
		Unless, of course, you're the leader of the Taliban.
		President of the United States, kick him off, leader of the Taliban, verified account.
		That's how this works.
		The White House Twitter account apparently outs intelligence officials and locations with a post showing Afghan security briefing.
		A White House tweet showing President Joe Biden appearing to be on top of the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan may have inadvertently revealed the faces and locations of intelligence agents.
		And this picture by itself is really pretty pathetic and sad.
		It's him sitting and having a Zoom call.
		He's all alone, massive boardroom, and it's just old.
		doddering dementia patient Joe there, apparently helming the world's militaries as they oversee the total collapse of their entire decrepit structure.
		The picture showed other meeting participants on a large screen, including CIA officials and three men at the, quote, Doha station.
		Richard Grinnell, former acting director of national intelligence for the Trump administration, called out the apparent blunder, tweeting, who took this picture outing intel officers?
	Dear God.
	Other people saying, is the public supposed to see the faces of CIA agents and are we supposed to?
	Know that there's a Doha station.
	But here's the thing, it might not even be a picture of what they claim it is in the first place.
	The White House tweet may have been meant to portray Biden as actively involved in the evacuation from Afghanistan amid criticisms he was silent and on vacation while the Taliban was recapturing the country and triggering a rushed evacuation of American allies from Kabul.
	But the thing is that some eagle-eyed commenters have suggested the photos might not even be recent, pointing to the time difference between London and Moscow on the clocks in the conference room.
	The current difference is two hours, while the clocks in the conference room show a three-hour difference.
	This would have been possible only before March 28th, when the clocks in the UK were moved forward by an hour.
	So the speculation is this photo is either from May of this year before the time change or maybe the clocks are just wrong.
	Minor detail, time zones when you're dealing with the international situations.
	It's been a total disaster for the Biden administration.
	But Jen Psaki is taking the week off.
	White House spokesperson taking the week off and not even replying to emails.
	Questions sent to Psaki are being met with an auto reply saying she'll be out of the office through August 22nd.
	I will be out of the office August 15th through August 22nd, the auto reply email being sent to reporters reads.
	Just total failure, total collapse, total invalid presidential administration.
	I mean, it's not even a legitimate administration, but the way they're acting delegitimizes any claims of legitimacy they would have had.
	In the worst press conference in history, Joe Biden in July said Afghanistan would be no Vietnam.
	He held what's going to go down as the most devastating press conference in US history, saying that nothing that has now happened would ever happen.
	Let's go now to clip number 10.
	Here's Biden on July 8th of this year, assuring us quite confidently, Taliban will never take over Afghanistan after we remove the US troops.
	What a ridiculous conspiracy theory that is.
	Let's roll the tape.
	Is the takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		No, it is not.
unidentified		Why?
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		Because you have the Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped, as well-equipped as any army in the world, and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban.
		75,000 Taliban.
		It is not inevitable.
unidentified		Mr. President, thank you very much.
unidentified		Your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse.
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		That is not true.
unidentified		Can you please clarify what they have told you about whether that will happen or not?
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		That is not true.
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		They did not reach that conclusion.
unidentified		So what is the level of confidence that they have that it will not collapse?
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		The Afghan government and leadership has to come together.
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		They clearly have the capacity to sustain the government in place.
unidentified		And do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam with some people feeling... None whatsoever.
joe biden ▲ ● ▼		Zero.
		What you had is you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy.
		Six, if I'm not mistaken.
		The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army.
		They're not remotely comparable in terms of capability.
		Incredible.
		There's going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.
		It is not at all comfortable.
		So the question now is, where do they go from here?
		That the jury is still out.
		But the likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Incredible.
		It would be nice to have it be more like Saigon.
		If it was just embassy being evacuated, that's not what's happening.
		No, it's thousands of people actually being fired on by the U.S. so we can clear the runway in an attempt to escape.
		The scenes coming out of Kabul are just utterly devastating and far worse than even the most, you know, Worst naysayers even claimed.
		But you know, this reminds me of COVID, reminds me of so much other stuff that now you can look back and say, wow, we were just trying our best and maybe we made some bad decisions, but we're working with the information that we had.
		It's untrue when you can show video of people saying, here's what's going to happen.
		And then the people in charge saying, no, that's not going to happen.
		And then it happens.
		We knew this was going to happen.
		Everybody knew this was going to happen.
		This was an inevitable result of what was going to happen.
		They were lying to you.
		They weren't wrong.
		They were lying to you.
		I'm going to show you some more clips here on the other side of Secretary of State Blinken on that same day, or rather the day before, July 7th, saying, I don't think it's going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.
		It's like they even, they even get the days right.
		Like this, that's what happened.
		That's what happened.
		Between Friday and Monday, the Taliban took over the country, just like Anthony Blinken assured us that would never happen.
		Incredible stuff.
		So we'll show you more videos of that and just incredibly shocking videos of people attempting to flee from the Kabul airport by literally clinging onto the side of airplanes.
		We'll get to your calls as well.
		Second Hour begins momentarily.
		Stay with us, folks.
unidentified		You're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith.
		Watch it live right now at band.video.
		All right, welcome back, folks.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		We're going to continue on this topic of Afghanistan here and out to your phone calls momentarily.
		Patrick in Boston, Alex in Pittsburgh, B in Minnesota, Manuel in Colorado.
		We'll get to all of you and more.
		Stay tuned.
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		We just heard from President Biden on July 8th assuring us that Taliban will not take over Afghanistan, that the Afghanistan Army is the most well-equipped and well-trained in the world, And 300,000 of them versus 75,000 Taliban.
		It's ridiculous.
		Meanwhile, the people that actually know are saying, actually, they're saying it's going to collapse as soon as you guys leave.
		No, no.
		Ignore them.
		Ignore the facts.
		Ignore the reality of the situation.
		And just continue bullheadedly destroying everything.
		Essentially, so let's now go to Secretary of State Blinken on July 7th saying, I don't think it's going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.
		Clip number 30, which spoiler alert, it's exactly what happened from Friday till today.
		That's when this occurred.
		Wow.
		It really was that fast.
		Incredible, isn't it?
		Here's Anthony Blinken being wrong in July.
unidentified		I don't think that the fact that our forces are withdrawing.
		One, we're not withdrawing.
		We're staying.
		The embassy is staying.
		Our programs are staying.
		We're working to make sure that other partners stay.
		We're building all of that up.
		And whatever happens in Afghanistan, if there is a significant deterioration, insecurity, that could well happen.
		We've discussed this before.
		I don't think it's going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Wrong, wrong, it did.
		It literally did.
		These are the people running our country.
		Let's go now to a more recent clip here.
		This is the Biden administration on just August 13th.
		So let's see, it's the 16th today, isn't it?
		Yeah, it's the 16th today.
		So three days ago, here's the Biden administration claiming everything is fine.
		Kabul is not under imminent threat.
		No reason to flee.
		We're still strong.
		Taliban, not a threat at all.
		Three days ago, folks, here it is.
unidentified		Yes, it is.
		Yeah, it is.
		It is.
		old assessment every day.
		I don't want to do that.
		But Kabul is not right now in an imminent threat environment.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yes, it is.
		It is.
		Maybe General Milley focusing too much on studying white rage He's looking at what's happening in the Taliban right now.
		It's Taliban just swarming over military installations as the people that we funded to the tune of 88 billion dollars simply hand their weapons over and run away or maybe join the Taliban.
		He's watching this happen.
		He's going, did white rage cause this?
		I don't understand.
		I don't understand how white rage can activate the Taliban in Afghanistan.
		Something doesn't add up here.
		Maybe you're a failure.
		Maybe you're a disgrace.
		Maybe you don't know what you're doing, and now people are dying because of it by the thousands.
		Incredible.
		Just mind-blowingly awful, all of this stuff.
		And we have so many videos of people just going absolutely insane.
		We'll go to some of these.
		Let's go to... Let's just go to clip number three here.
		Afghanis trying to board the plane as it's taking off.
		Clip number three.
		So you see massive jumbo jets, C-17s there.
		Clamor on.
		There's another one of there as actually as it's taxing down the runway preparing to take off swarmed by hundreds of Afghanis who are attempting to clamor onto it.
		And here you can see sort of at the back on this ledge.
		They're literally sitting on it like it's a bus like like they're taking a bus somewhere.
		If you if you freeze you actually see people sitting on the plane that's about to take off on their cell phones.
		Like as if it's just a bus they're gonna take somewhere it's horrific like it's it's really it's really not funny It's actually mind-blowing Let's go now to clip number six people holding on to airplanes as they take off from Afghanistan plunging to their deaths This is a graphic ...image but here you see the plane taking off and if you actually look closely enough you can actually see people falling off of the plane.
		They've held on to the plane as it's taking off and are now falling to their deaths.
		That's how desperate they are to flee from the wave of death that the Taliban is bringing to them.
		Just horrific failure on all fronts from the gay administration.
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harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Welcome back, folks.
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		Now, we can keep talking about the Afghanistan war and the failure of the Biden administration and the embarrassment.
		And I mean, there's a lot of fodder here.
		You've got Politico reporting that Kamala Harris took just taking credit for this.
		She's like, I was the last one in the decision making process.
		Like we could talk about all that.
		That's what everybody else is talking about.
		We're going to go a little bit deeper.
		We're going to go.
		into some documents that exposes that everything that led us into Afghanistan was a lie.
		From the very beginning, the entire impetus of starting the war was a lie.
		The continuation of the war was based on lies.
		And the entire purpose of the war was always, essentially, I think, to do this.
		I mean, there's different speculation about this, but I don't think personally it's a coincidence that we're leaving and allowing China to simply take over by proxy.
		You know, Afghanistan has precious metals, incredible reserves of things like lithium and vital components for computer parts, incredibly valuable stuff.
		None of it's been mined.
		None of it has been extracted.
		None of it has actually gone to serve the Afghan people or the American people.
	Could be a good reason for going to war.
	You want to get those vital materials that are absolutely necessary as we enter into a more global and technological world.
	Would be something we'd want to deny to our enemies like China.
	Always sort of a reason why we're in Afghanistan, that is always on top of the list, but we never extracted anything.
	Nothing was ever mined.
	Nothing was ever taken.
	And I'll read you articles where they're like, it's because Afghanistan doesn't have a culture of mining.
	No culture of mining.
	Well, we could go in there and mine.
	How about all the people that are now out of work in Alabama?
	They're protesting BlackRock because BlackRock's not letting them mine coal.
	Why don't we set up little towns in Afghanistan where American miners can take their expertise and their know-how and their culture of mining and can actually extract the incredibly valuable resources from Afghanistan, make some money, actually put these materials to work and give the Afghanistan people a little something back so they actually put these materials to work and give the Afghanistan people a little something back so they can rebuild and not We could have done that.
	We didn't, though.
	But China will be moving forward.
	China will certainly be doing that.
	And that's exactly what China will be doing.
	They'll be making deals with Taliban and sending in thousands of Chinese people to set up camps in order to extract the wealth and resources from Afghanistan while empowering nobody but the Taliban and the Chinese, leaving the regular Afghanis to their poverty.
	So that's what's going to happen in the future.
	And if you don't think that's by design, then you haven't been paying attention.
	Let's now go out to one of our regular callers, Patrick in Boston, who is a Navy veteran and wants to sound off on the idiocy of this entire debacle and really the entire war in Afghanistan.
	Thanks so much for calling in, Patrick.
	You were on the air, sir.
patty in boston ▲ ● ▼		Buddy, I gotta tell you, this is the most disgusting, I mean, I've gotta say, the most embarrassing day that I can remember in recent American history.
		And it's because not only did we start an idiotic war that we never should have been involved in, but now we're leaving in a completely embarrassing way.
		So we're just going to throw good money after bad.
		And I, I can't imagine a more stupid, but I seriously look, I voted for Joe Biden.
		I would like to choke his brains out right now.
		I really would.
		I would like, this is just disgusting.
		And, and I feel like me and you probably agree on this.
unidentified		This is a complete disaster.
patty in boston ▲ ● ▼		Like, I mean, what could be worse?
patty in boston ▲ ● ▼		What could possibly be worse?
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
patty in boston ▲ ● ▼		It's a ridiculous situation.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		What is the worst part to you, Patrick, that we got people trying to flee that can't flee, that are trapped there?
		Is it the fact that we gave literally hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons and high-tech jets and helicopters, essentially handed them over to the Taliban?
		You know, that's the question of the day here.
		What's the what's the worst part of this travesty?
		I completely agree with you.
		It's absolutely outrageous.
		And one of the things and sorry, but you got me going off here.
		One of the things that frustrates me is people are like, well, you wanted to be out.
		You know, I think Adam Kissinger said like, well, Rand Paul was one of the foremost people saying we should withdraw from Afghanistan.
		This is like, you know, you call an exterminator because you got a rat problem.
		They burn your house down and go, well, I thought you wanted to deal with the rat problem.
		I mean, we don't want to be in Afghanistan.
		But the way that they're doing this is not just Going to prolong the war, but it's making everything that the war was actually fought for reverse, and now we're empowering our enemies?
		I mean, just keep going, Patrick.
		The floor is yours.
patty in boston ▲ ● ▼		In my opinion, it didn't matter how long we stayed because no matter how long we stayed, the Taliban was going to take over the country eventually, right?
		So they were going to start beheading women and kicking, you know, people's heads off like soccer balls.
		I mean, this was going to be the thing that they were going to do.
		But we didn't have to do it this way.
		We didn't have to do it in such a cuck kind of situation.
		Like, this is what we've done right now.
		We've cucked ourselves.
		We have cucked ourselves.
		And it's disgusting, and it's revolting, and I really wish we could take it back.
		And I seriously want to go and punch the president right in his jaw.
		I mean, it's disgusting.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Tell us, you're a veteran of the Navy.
		I'm not sure if you ever saw Any service around Afghanistan or anything?
		But just as a veteran, I know I've got a lot of stories here about veterans that are just going, what did we waste our lives for?
		What did we waste our limbs for?
		What did we waste all of this for?
		Just as a veteran, how does that inform how you see the situation playing out now?
patty in boston ▲ ● ▼		Almost immediately.
		I remember sitting in the operations officer's stateroom during 9-11, during the actual attack.
		And we both looked at it and we were like, oh my word, what the hell?
		And so we both volunteered.
unidentified		I was in the Gulf during the Iraq war.
patty in boston ▲ ● ▼		But I didn't get to go to Afghanistan.
		But my father-in-law did.
		He went as a normal human being and came back as a crazy person.
		It has affected my family in a serious way.
		And I just really wish, it's not like we could take it back and figure out, okay, well, we're not gonna, you know, we're not gonna make this mistake.
		But we didn't have to end it this way.
		I mean, Jesus Christ, we could end it in a way that made sense.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, in a way that had honor, in a way that made it at least in some way worth it.
		I so appreciate your call, Patrick, and I appreciate your anger.
		All right, folks, welcome back.
		You know, there's so much other stuff to talk about today other than Afghanistan that really needs to be discussed.
		I hope we'll get to some of that.
		But of course, Afghanistan is the big story.
		And that's people are calling in about.
		So we'll go to your calls momentarily.
		I do want to take a brief moment because there's so much talk.
		I mean, obviously, the vaccine mandates the incredible showing of patriotism in the anti-vax protest that we saw in places like Oklahoma, New York, L.A., Montreal, even Marseille in Paris and France.
		So.
		Just stuff all over the place.
		We have video of Jimmy Fallon, the crowd cheering, the fact that white people are Dying out.
		A lot of stuff to talk about and discuss.
		Unfortunately, some of these topics might have to wait until tomorrow, even though they are of the utmost importance.
		We're going to continue to talk about Afghanistan here in today's program, but I do want to take a quick moment to play video number one, because yesterday, August 15th, was an anniversary.
		A hallmark decision that has led to fallout the likes of which nobody perhaps could have predicted, and is the root issue of so, so many problems that we face right now.
		50 years ago, yesterday, on August 15th, 1971, President Nixon suspended the convertibility of the US dollar into gold.
		was the 50-year anniversary of the death of the gold standard and all of the chaos, manipulation, and fiat deception that has occurred since then.
		So I'd like to play a brief video here, then out to your phone calls.
		But here's a video documenting President Nixon, 1971, 50 years ago, today, eliminating the gold standard.
unidentified		The strength of a nation's currency is based on the strength of that nation's economy.
		And the American economy is by far the strongest in the world.
		Thank you.
		Accordingly, I have directed the Secretary of the Treasury to take the action necessary to defend the dollar against the speculators.
		I have directed Secretary Connolly to suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets, except in amounts and conditions determined to be in the interest of monetary stability and in the best interest of the United States.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yes, folks, and with that act, with that fiat declaration, the gold standard was eliminated.
		A temporary measure, of course.
		Here we see GDP versus earnings.
		Income growth.
		True wages.
		Inflation.
		U.S.
		trade balance.
		All of these graphs showing a distinct split.
		Wealth inequality massively spiking.
		Black income growth.
		Completely leveling out at that time.
		Personal savings rate collapsing.
		All of these starting a very identifiable trend downward beginning in 1971.
		Household essential prices, in other words, How expensive it is just to live your normal life.
		Even the incarceration rate explodes beginning in 1971.
		The divorce rate, as well, 1971.
		All of these charts are from the website WTF Happened in 1971, where they document how almost every aspect of the collapse of capitalism that we're seeing, there's the Consumer Price Index, can be traced back to this event in 1971.
		of removing ourselves from the gold standard.
		What the F happened in 1971?
		There's the website.
		And again, you know, you just, it's one of those things, you know, kind of like the bar graphs of Joe Biden's election.
		It doesn't take a genius.
		You don't have to have expertise in mathematics to be able to look at a graph and see a distinct split from a ongoing trend to a new set of trends.
		You can identify exactly when and where that happened.
		It turns out 1971 was the crux of so many of the economic disasters that we've seen in the intervening five decades.
		Half a century of worthless money.
		Half a century of fiat control.
		There it is.
		Growth and productivity and hourly compensation rate is one of the most egregious and obvious examples.
		And you can see from 1948 to 1972, they are rising hand-in-hand, one-to-one, a total clone of each other, these two lines, one demarking productivity, the other compensation, with a distinct, obvious, and unprecedented break at 1971.
		So again, as we talk about Afghanistan moving on today, just remember a lot of other stuff going on.
		There are a lot of other problems deeply entrenched in our society that go undiscussed.
		The gold standard being left behind in 1971 being a major one of these.
		Truly incredible.
		Let's go now to Alex in Pittsburgh.
		He wants to talk about the Afghanistan war, saying we've been there forever.
		Yeah, it was time to come home.
		Just maybe not coming home like this.
		Thanks for calling in, Alex.
		You're on the air.
unidentified		Hey, Harrison, thanks so much for taking my call.
		I love your show.
		It's a beacon of light in the mopey world, I call it.
		And I got a quick comment for Patrick.
		He got to get out of that hopey, changey, libtard mindset.
		Game over, man.
		Demo rats, they jumped that shark a long time ago.
		He used to snap out of it.
		Be an independent.
		Anything's better than them.
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		We need it more than ever right now.
		But the worst part about the Afghanistan war?
		As far as I can remember, I tied in with the Desert Storm, Operation Desert Storm.
		Been going on since 1991, and I was in first grade.
		I'm 37 now.
		There's no end in sight, and people just got to call it out for what it is.
		It's a fraud.
		We never should have been there, and that's all it is.
		That's all I want to say.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I completely agree.
		And yes, this is just the expansion of our typical foreign policy.
		And I thank you so much for the call, Alex.
		That was a professional phone call right there.
		Calls in.
		He greets us.
		Compliments me.
		Always a bonus.
		He responds to a previous caller.
		He plugs the store and makes his point.
		Top notch caller.
		Thanks for that, Alex.
		I do appreciate it.
		And I share your concerns and your point.
		It was time to get out.
		And yet Afghanistan is just a symbol, a metaphor, a living embodiment of the failures of America over the last 40 years or so.
		You do a good job.
		Yeah, this whole Afghanistan should have never happened.
		It was time to get out.
		We were going to get out one way or another.
		should have gone.
		Thanks for calling in.
		B, you're on the air.
unidentified		Good morning, Harrison.
		You do a good job.
		Yeah, this whole Afghanistan should have never happened.
		It was time to get out.
		We were going to get out one way or another.
		The Taliban was going to end up taking it back over.
		It just it underscores the whole lie of 9-11.
		Our government, Israel, working together to do what they did and then to try to take over the Middle East, which they failed at miserably.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they absolutely have.
		I appreciate you bringing up 9-11 because we're going to talk about that in the next segment.
		And we're also going to talk about, you know, I thought it was interesting, you had General Oh shoot, I'm blanking on his name right now.
		General Wesley Clark come out and say, you know, revealed to everybody that we're going to take out seven countries in five years.
		He listed Afghanistan, or I'm sorry, he listed Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.
		Afghanistan not in that list.
		Afghanistan not in that list.
		So what plans did the globalists have for Afghanistan other than the Middle East?
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harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the program.
		We'll go to your phone calls shortly.
		Let's talk about Afghanistan, the war that we've been waging there for 20 years, the cost that.
		We've paid and the excuses that led us into this Prolonged debacle.
		Well, of course, you know, the official reason was to get Osama bin Laden.
		After all, he did 9-11, of course, and so we have to get him.
		So let's go ahead and invade Afghanistan for 20 years.
		Didn't make a lot of sense, especially considering the fact that the Taliban were actually funded by the CIA as a proxy army to prevent Soviet incursions into that country mere half decade before that.
		Of course, we had to get Osama Bin Laden, who actually ended up being in Pakistan, right?
		So if that's even true, probably isn't the case anyway.
		So all this was predicated on a lie, obviously, and all of it used the fear and anger and spirit.
		Summoned by the events of 9-11 to encourage America to wage this war without thinking about the consequences or what our purpose of going there was or how we would get out of it eventually.
		None of that was considered because after all, this is an emergency, so we have to do this, of course.
		Well, let's go over what really happened.
		We actually have this from the Corbett Report, absolutely fantastic organization.
		Their episode 345 is called The Secret Lie That Started the Afghan War and they do an excellent job of breaking down the timeline of exactly how we went to war and how we got the rest of the Western world into it as well.
		They say this, just one day after 9-11, while the toxic dust was still settling on Ground Zero, the North Atlantic Council, NATO's decision-making body, met to discuss NATO's response to the attacks.
		NATO Secretary General Lord Robinson says, on September the 12th, the North Atlantic Council met again in response to the appalling attacks perpetrated yesterday against the United States of America.
		The council agreed that if it is determined that this attack was directed from abroad against the United States, it shall be regarded as an action covered by Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, which states that an armed attack against one or more of the allies in Europe or in North America shall be considered an attack against them all.
		Article 5 of the Washington Treaty stipulates that in the events of attacks falling within its purview, each ally will assist the party that has been attacked by taking such actions as deemed necessary.
		The Washington Treaty, more formally known as the North Atlantic Treaty, is the founding document of NATO.
		Consisting of 14 documents, it lays out the obligations of the signatory nations to their fellow NATO members.
		So, they essentially, there on the day after 9-11, have activated Article 5, which states that all countries in NATO are obligated to help carry out attacks you know, against the enemies of America.
		The North Atlantic Council discussed the invocation of Article 5 on September 12, 2001.
		It's no small matter.
		It had never been invoked in the history of NATO up to that point.
		And its invocation would commit NATO forces to whatever the U.S. launched in the wake of the 9-11 attacks.
		On October 2, 2001, the U.S. government...
		government's official answer to that question was provided by Frank Taylor.
		In other words, the question, how do you know this was perpetrated from abroad?
		How do you know who to target for this?
		Well, on October 2nd, a few weeks after September 11th, Ambassador Frank Taylor, the United States Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, briefed the North Atlantic Council on al-Qaeda's alleged connection of events to 9-11.
		Lord Robinson, talking about this event, said, the facts are clear and compelling.
		The information presented points conclusively to Al Qaeda role in the September 11 attacks.
		And just like that, NATO members were committed to an operation in Afghanistan that sees their troops remaining in this country, in that country to this very day.
		So what information did Ambassador Taylor present in that briefing?
		Well, the 9-11 Commission, which would go on to deliver the official government conspiracy theory of 9-11 in 2004, had still not even been established.
		So how did they know?
		Well, the mistranslated tape that the Pentagon would later falsely label the Osama bin Laden confession tape had still not magically been discovered in a random house in Jalalabad.
		So what was it based on?
		What evidence were they presenting to justify the attacks against al-Qaeda?
		Well, it's classified.
		They couldn't tell you.
		So for nearly a decade, the U.S.
		government's evidence that al-Qaeda had directed the 9-11 attacks, the very evidence that was used to launch the war in Afghanistan in particular, and America's war on terror in general, was forbidden to the public, hidden behind a cloud of official secrecy.
		But then in 2009, Intel Wire quietly posted a document online with the title, Secret Post-9-11 Briefing to World Leaders.
		The document is the U.S.
		State Department cable addressed to the American embassies and NATO countries and American allies around the world under the subject line, September 11th, Working Together to Fight the Plague of Global Terrorism in the Case Against Al-Qaeda.
		The cable was dated October 1st, 2001, the day before Ambassador Taylor's meeting with the North Atlantic Council and instructs its recipients to brief their host country's governments on the information linking the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, Osama bin Laden, and the Taliban regime to the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon crash of United Airlines Flight 93.
		Largely unnoticed until earlier this year.
		Crucially, if unsurprisingly, the document presents absolutely no proof of evidence establishing a link between Al-Qaeda and 9-11.
		So we know they had this pre-planned.
		They found the passports of the people involved.
		By the time the day of September 11th was over, they were already blaming Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden and saying that this was a conclusive answer solution.
		This is who it was.
		No need to ask any more questions.
		Ignore the still redacted pages of the 9-11 commission report that actually lays the blame at the feet of Saudi Arabia.
		They wanted to invade Afghanistan.
		Why?
		Why did they want to invade Afghanistan?
		Well, there are many reasons.
		Of course, it is the graveyard of empires.
		And we originally got involved in Afghanistan several decades ago when the Soviet Union was attempting to get involved and we were actually funding the Taliban to resist the Soviet Union.
		Then in 1977, 1997 rather, just four years before the NATO invasion, former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote that, quote, for America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia.
	Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how Long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.
	Specifically, Brzezinski pinpointed Afghanistan and its neighbors, an area he called the Eurasian Balkans, as the most geopolitically significant region to control for its gas and oil reserves and mineral deposits.
	He argued that some form of extended American military intervention in the region would be necessary, warning that the global consensus on its foreign policy imperatives would be impossible except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct That's right, they wanted to go into Afghanistan anyway to maintain global control by controlling the mineral deposits there in Afghanistan.
	They just needed the excuse that 9-11 happily provided them.
	Then why didn't we actually tap these mineral reserves?
	As I mentioned, why didn't we send Americans into Afghanistan to build colonies and to extract the mineral wealth in order to enrich the Afghanistan people, pay for the war efforts perhaps, and maintain control over those mineral deposits that were the geopolitical impetus to get us into Afghanistan in the first place?
	Because we didn't.
	We did not do that.
	U.S.
	identifies vast mineral riches in Afghanistan.
	This story from 2010, New York Times.
	Natural resources were supposed to make Afghanistan rich.
	Here's what's happening to them.
	Well, they're not being extracted.
	And they say in this article, they just don't have a culture of mining.
	But General David Petraeus says there's stunning potential here.
	For this.
	Now, we didn't do any of that.
	None of it was extracted.
	None of it was made to enrich the Afghan people.
	Afghans' mineral resources are a lost opportunity and a threat, according to TheDiplomat.com.
	Torn by four decades of war and desperate poverty, Afghanistan is believed to be sitting on one of the richest troves of minerals in the world.
	The value of these resources has been roughly estimated between $1 and $3 trillion, and yet none of it has been extracted.
	It will be.
	It will be extracted now by China.
	This is the purpose, right?
	Honestly, it seems like we invaded Afghanistan to prevent Russia from getting a foothold on there.
	And the war was sort of a placeholder, just keeping everything going until we could leave and let China come in, partner with the Taliban, extract resources without concern for the regular Afghani people.
	That's what it seems like to me.
	Again, from Al Jazeera, why is Afghanistan unable to extract its vast mineral wealth?
	Well, because I guess we just don't want them to.
	I don't know.
	I mean, that's how it is.
	So what does this all go back to?
	Why have we been there for 20 years?
	Why have we not extracted any of the wealth that supposedly would give us a reason for going there?
	Why did Zbigniew Brzezinski and the New World Order want to invade Afghanistan?
	Why did they claim to have proof that it was Osama bin Laden and that he was hiding in Afghanistan in order to justify their invasion?
	Why, once we realized he was not there, did we not get out immediately?
	Why was Pakistan holding Osama in the first place?
	All of this answered and more on the other side.
unidentified		All right, welcome back, folks. - Yes.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		The question that we're asking is why were we in Afghanistan?
		Why were we there for 20 years?
		Why was our attempt to get out so such an utter Blatant, horrific failure.
		These are the questions that we're asking, and I have answers to all of these, in fact.
		And it's a strange path I took to get to these answers, in fact.
		Very strange, very strange indeed.
		And perhaps they illuminate some of what's going on here.
		So what were we doing in Afghanistan?
		What we were doing in Afghanistan can be summed up with a single word, counterinsurgency.
		We were engaged in counterinsurgency.
		What does that mean?
		Counterinsurgency is the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces, like the Taliban, for example.
		The Oxford English Dictionary defines counterinsurgency as a military or political action against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionaries and considered war by a state against a non-state adversary.
		Insurgency and counterinsurgency campaigns have been waged since ancient history.
		But recently, there was a bit of a change.
		In fact, in 2006, December of 2006, the entire aim of counterinsurgency was changed here in America.
		It was changed with a document called FM324.
		It was the new COIN document, COIN or counterinsurgency doctrine, which was published in December 2006 near the height of the Civil War in Iraq.
		Though American forces have been in the lead in counterinsurgency efforts since our 2003 invasion, the violence in Iraq was escalating in 2006 to the point that catastrophe seemed imminent.
		So they decided to change the entire concept of what counterinsurgency would be.
		So, they published FM324.
		The coin approach codified in FM324 has proven itself seriously flawed and must be fundamentally reconsidered, according to this article from smallwarsjournal.com from 2013.
		They say, whether we like it or not, our experience indicates that deploying U.S.
		combat units to preserve the power of foreign governments against domestic insurgents is a fool's errand.
		War outcomes will most likely be unfavorable and our heavy combat casualties and enormous dollar expenditures will be unredeemed.
		What a prophetic view into the future, this published eight years ago.
		From a strategic perspective, they say, therefore, FM324 hypothesis must be rejected as improbable and perhaps impossible.
		In other words, instead of sending, and I'll just sum it up like this.
		Well, first I'll read this.
		It says, unfortunately, we have yet to find a formula that allows U.S.
		military forces to take the lead role in a foreign counterinsurgency in a so-called host country and create the conditions necessary for achieving our war aims.
		All of our recent experiences with COIN overseas have failed.
		So in other words, instead of the traditional concept of war, where you go in, you invade, you perhaps overthrow the regime that your enemy's with, you Keep a force there to occupy the territory until you can set up a friendly government.
		That's the way wars have been fought and waged in modernity for all of time.
		That was changed in 2006 to allow for continuous occupation of foreign governments by American soldiers so that these places can act as puppet regimes but never fully get on their feet.
		See, this is the recipe.
		Like, this is the recipe for endless war.
		FM 324, the counterinsurgency manual.
		They say this, the neoclassical framework that underpins the FM 324 is based on political science about the revolutionary insurgencies of the Cold War.
		This classical school of Cold War era counterinsurgency focused on defeating communist and anti-colonial insurgencies by strengthening weak governments that are seen by a critical mass of people in the host nation as illegitimate.
		Exactly what's going on in Afghanistan.
		You have a propped up puppet regime that was totally weak, did not have the will or ability to stand up against the insurgency that's coming from its own borders, from within its own borders.
		So it's a fool's errand, right?
		We're propping up a government that is rejected outright by the majority of the people in that government.
		If we're not there to continually prop up and protect this government, then it collapses.
		And that's exactly what we're seeing now.
		And this is a result of FM324 and the complete realignment of counterinsurgency tactics as discussed or as carried out by the U.S. military.
		So one of the people who was a architect of this recreation of the counterinsurgency movement was a man named David Kilcolan.
		In the Three Pillars of Counterinsurgency, Dr. David Kilcullen, the Chief Strategist of the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism in the U.S.
		State Department in 2006, described a framework for interagency cooperation in counterinsurgency operation.
		His pillars, security, political, and economic, support the overarching goal of control but are based on information.
		Kilcullen considers the three pillars to be of equal importance.
		And here you see the three pillars of counterinsurgency.
		Now, if you go to Dr. David Kilcullen on Wikipedia here, you can see that he, in February 2005, 2006, when he was helping to redesign this counterinsurgency method, he was a coordinator for counterterrorism at the U.S.
		State Department.
		And he was also the advisor to General David Petraeus, and he was a senior fellow at the Center for the New American Security.
		Well, what is the Center for the New American Security?
		Well, this is the organization that promoted FM-324, that helped to bring about the change of our warfighting, you know, what the goals of warfighting even are as a nation.
		Center for New American Security was a massive pusher in this, and it was actually established in 2007, specialized in United States national security issues.
		It focused on terrorism and irregular warfare, the emergence of Asia as a global power center, and national security implications of natural resource consumption, in other words, climate change.
		Former Secretary of State James Steinberg called CNAS, quote, an indispensable feature on the Washington landscape.
		So in other words, this organization was helping to dictate our military policy.
		Who was this organization?
		Well, it was people like Michelle Flournoy and Kurt Campbell, who formerly served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Pacific Affairs.
	But it also had, of course, David Kilcullen and FM-324, which was pushed forward by David Petraeus, General David Petraeus.
	Research and initiatives.
	CNAS has released extensive reports on terrorism, irregular warfare, and regional security challenges.
	Before joining CNAS, John Nagel served as an active duty officer in both the Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
	He was then part of the team that wrote FM324, the Army's counterinsurgency field manual that transformed the ways the war in Iraq and Afghanistan were conducted.
	Since joining CNAS as a fellow and a president, he's continued to delve into counterinsurgency.
	So CNAS was the one who put this forward.
	They were the ones who helped to promote this.
	All the people involved were the people that wrote FM324 and helped to redesign our entire warfighting aims.
	CNAS is relatively small, with around 30 employees and a budget of only $6 million.
	But the organization's top donors include Northrop Grumman, Aerospace Systems, the Open Society Foundation, that's George Soros' organization, the Airbus Group, the Boeing Company, Chevron Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Raytheon Company, and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representation Office, BAE Systems, BP America, and ExxonMobil Corporation.
	So in other words, The idea that counterinsurgencies should be American soldiers on the ground in foreign countries helping to prop up unpopular governments that could not stand on their own, in other words, paving the way for endless warfare to take place in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, the failure of which we are now seeing play out in Afghanistan, was all brought about by an organization that was headed by David Petraeus.
	Weapons manufacturers, oil companies, George Soros, and a bunch of other politicians in here on the Wikipedia.
	You can see Hillary Clinton giving speeches and all sorts of other people giving speeches.
	Now, the reason I found out about CNAS, the reason I went down this rabbit hole originally a little while ago, was because I was looking up the biography of none other than the author of the lockstep document From the Rockefeller Foundation.
	So the lockstep document funded by the Rockefeller Foundation was actually created and the study was put forward and written by Peter Schwartz, who was the founder of Global Business Network.
	Peter Schwartz is a board member.
	On CNAS, on the center of the new American security.
	Peter Schwartz now, of course, works for Salesforce.
	Salesforce is Mark Benioff's organization.
	Mark Benioff, owner of Time Magazine and supporter of The Great Reset and a dedicated follower of Klaus Schwab.
	All of these people are intimately intertwined with each other.
	None of this is an accident.
	So you've got CNAS, which has everybody from Salesforce, Marc Benioff, Peter Schwartz, Klaus Schwab, like, they're all...
	A part of all of this.
	They're the ones that dictated our policy in Afghanistan and Iraq.
	The policy that has allowed for endless warfare.
	The policy, the failure of which is now evident in Afghanistan as the organization that we propped up, the government that we propped up, fails entirely.
	It's all intertwined and it was all brought about by FM-324 at the behest of the Center for the New American Security, which is run by weapons manufacturers Globalist organizations like the Open Society, Open Society Foundation, as well as all of the people who are also putting on the Great Reset.
	Isn't that incredible?
	Now you know.
	Now you know why we've been in Afghanistan for so long.
	Now you know why we completely failed in our attempts there after two trillion dollars and thousands of American lives and tens or hundreds of thousands of Afghani lives destroyed.
	Because of these people's machinations.
	the very same people that are now implementing the Great Reset and telling you to get lockstep or be destroyed.
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harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, third hour of American Journal, and we'll be welcoming Alex Newman, journalist, as a special guest this hour, but I did some math.
		Against my will, against my better judgment, I did some math this weekend.
		Just wondering, what else we could have bought?
		What else we could have gotten?
		Obviously the big tragedy of Afghanistan are the deaths, the maiming, the PTSD, the lifelong conditions that many of our veterans are dealing with.
		It's hard to overstate the amount of destruction that the war in Afghanistan has created, and of course for the people of Afghanistan and the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians who have died.
		That's the real cost, but in terms of monetary cost, it has been the most expensive And we've ever embarked on as a country, as far as I'm concerned, $2 trillion.
		And we have absolutely nothing to show for it.
		And $2 trillion in and of itself, mind boggling amount of money.
		That's $100 billion a year for 20 years.
		I can't even do that math.
		I can't even imagine what you could buy with $100 billion a year.
		And we break that down.
		How many millions of dollars a day is that we're spending in Afghanistan to get nothing, of course.
		Right.
		So let's take a smaller chunk.
		Let's take a smaller bite.
		OK, let's just take just this is just a tiny, tiny little little fraction of the true cost of Afghanistan.
		Let's just take the $88 billion that we spent to fund and equip the Afghan army.
		That's what we spent here from Politico.
		The $88 billion gamble on the Afghan armsy that's going up in smoke.
		$88 billion to train and equip Afghanistan's army because this You can't even say, well, at least we got something for it.
		Well, at least we got a little, maybe it was too much, but hey, at least we got a little bit.
		No, no.
		We got nothing from this.
		This $88 billion has essentially just been transferred into the Taliban's account.
		All of the weapons that we bought, all of the helicopters and planes and everything else has been Wholesale distributed to the Taliban at this point and now they're posting pictures of them capturing billions and billions of dollars worth of weapons, just piles of weapons.
		Being photographed, being captured by the Taliban.
		So this is what we've given to them.
		So $88 billion.
		We hear a lot of things these days about billions of dollars and you can kind of forget exactly how much that is.
		So I just searched a few things.
		So here's one thing.
		The Mars rover, the entire establishment that created the Mars rover, meaning the building of the rover, the scientists, the rockets that launched it, the trip to Mars, the sending the signal back.
		Everything that it took to send the rover to Mars, to send a piece of technology that we can communicate with to the face of another planet so it could travel around and take pictures and collect samples for years, cost $2.7 billion.
		$2.7 billion.
		That's like, what was that, less than a week worth of funds that we poured into Afghanistan?
		Incredible, right?
		There you go.
		Curiosity cost $3.2 billion.
		Perseverance cost $2.9 billion.
		Mars Reserver cost $1.7 billion.
		So we could have like, I don't know, 45.
		Not just the rover, the entire thing, the entire mission.
		So maybe like manned mission to Mars, we could have had that, but instead we have nothing, right?
		So we have nothing.
		And again, there's just the 88 billion just in weapons and equipment to the Afghanistan government.
		We could have bought Greenland for $42 billion.
		Remember Trump wanted to buy Greenland?
		$42 billion is the estimate that they're saying for Greenland.
		We could have gotten two Greenlands.
		We could have gotten Greenland and Iceland for $88 billion.
		Okay, literally, we could bought Greenland outright, no war.
		Okay.
		Free internet for everybody in the U.S.
		would cost about $80 billion.
		The Three Gorges Dam, massive, biggest, you know, industrial project in the history of the world, $37 billion.
		Could have gotten two of those, two Three Gorges Dams.
		How about the world's longest bridge?
		China just built that, $20 billion.
		We could have had four of those.
		We could have built a bridge from Philadelphia to New York without a single stop for the money that we spent just to arm and equip the Taliban.
		I'm gonna get some more numbers on the other side, because it gets better.
unidentified		You're tuned in to the American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith.
unidentified		Watch it live right now at band.video.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Alright folks, uh, we could have bought Greenland twice outright.
		We could have paid for free internet for everybody in the country.
		That's a one-time payment where everybody in the country would have free broadband internet, even the people that don't have internet now.
		Uh, even the people that don't have broadband and are stuck with, like, satellite.
		Like, we could have wired up every household in America for 80 billion dollars.
		We could have bought two copies of the Three Gorges Dam in China.
		We could have had millions, maybe one on one side of the country, one side of the other, hydroelectric power for the rest of time, and we would have built it well and not used the shortcuts that Chinese use, so it probably wouldn't collapse in the way that it's doing now.
		We just could have had, you know, millions and millions and millions of watts of electricity generated strictly through water power, you know.
		So in case you're worried about climate change or whatever, so...
		Could have had two of those.
		Could have taken millions of people off the power grid and away from non-renewable resources.
		World's longest bridge that China just built, they built that for 20 billion, so literally we could have four of those.
		I think the bridge was about 32 miles long.
		So four of those would be, what, 120 miles, 130-something miles bridge.
		It's just unbelievably huge infrastructure projects.
		Like, unimaginable what you could have bought with the money.
		That was just a very, very, very small portion of what was totally spent in Afghanistan, just the amount of money I'm talking about that has now been basically given over to the Taliban.
		We got nothing for it.
		This was the money that we paid to train and equip the Afghanistan armies.
		So let's put it in those terms.
		Let's put it in terms of guns and ammunition and that sort of stuff, because after all, that's what the Taliban is finding right now is fields full of aircraft and helicopters and guns, and they're just stealing outright.
		So I wanted to know if Harrison Smith was president and enacted the Guns for Everyone program, how many guns could I buy for the American people for $88 billion?
		I did the math.
		A Glock handgun is $500.
		So if we gave a Glock handgun to every 20 to 24-year-old in America, that would cost $10 billion.
		We gave an assault rifle to every 25 to 34-year-old in America, that would cost $32 billion.
		If we gave an Uzi submarine gun to every 35 to 44-year-old in America, that would be $45 billion.
		That'd leave us an extra billion dollars left over for ammo.
		So you could literally buy a gun, either a handgun, an assault rifle, or an Uzi machine gun for every single man and woman in America from the ages 18 through 45 for $88 billion.
		through 45 for $88 billion.
		That's just unimaginable how much money we spent and we've got absolutely nothing for it.
		And the equivalent of that type of arms, every single man, woman and child from 18 to 45 in America having a brand new gun has now been given over to the Taliban.
		Just to give you an idea of the amount, sheer amount of just money that we spent in Afghanistan.
		That's the math I did.
		And with that, I would like to welcome my guest, Alex Newman.
		Alex Newman is an international journalist, educator, author, and consultant.
		He's the founder of the Liberty Sentinel and currently serves as a senior editor of The New American.
		In addition to being a regular contributor, you can find him online at thenewamerican.com, libertysentinel.org.
		His YouTube is New American Video and his Twitter is AlexNewman underscore J-O-U.
		Thank you so much for coming on, Alex.
unidentified		It's a pleasure to be with you.
unidentified		Thank you very much for having me.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, very happy to have you.
		Obviously, the topic of the day is Afghanistan.
		Obviously, you're an expert in all sorts of stuff.
		What's your take on the current breakdown of the Afghanistan war?
unidentified		Well, I mean, as you pointed out, we know that this is a disaster of massive proportions, an incredible amount of money.
		I've said right from the very beginning that invading and occupying other people's countries was an incredibly dumb idea.
		I've been warning for over a decade that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires, and it has struck once again.
		But I think the real thing to understand here, It goes much deeper, and it's the same thing that we've seen in virtually every war in which the United States government has participated since World War II.
		At every step of the way, we are advancing totalitarianism, we are discrediting freedom, and we are moving the ball forward for the New World Order, One World Government agenda.
		We've seen that over and over again.
		We saw it with Vietnam.
		We saw it with the Bay of Pigs invasion, where the U.S.
		government deliberately set those guys up to fail so that the communists could have an overwhelming victory.
		And other than the Taliban, the real big winners of Afghanistan, it's going to be the global communist movement, in particular, communist China.
		They're walking out of there with trillions of dollars worth of minerals, worth of contracts.
		So the communist Chinese are laughing all the way to the bank.
		The Russians are laughing all the way to the bank.
		America is further in debt, more discredited than ever before.
		And I believe it's engineered, Harrison.
		I believe that this is exactly the outcome that they wanted.
		And it will be used to move the globalist agenda further down the field.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I can't help but to agree with you.
		I I mean, we're seeing now that China is basically announcing that they're going to say the Taliban is a legitimate government and they're going to work with them.
		And I've been, you know, pointing out how we basically did nothing to extract any resources from Afghanistan whatsoever, even though that was, at least on the higher levels, one of the reasons that the people in charge wanted to get in was because of these minerals.
		So, I mean, am I right in thinking that sort of the Afghan war was just like a holding pattern?
		For the New World Order so we could wait until China could get in the place just to take over and actually extract these resources and go in in a colonial fashion.
unidentified		I think that's exactly what's going on, Harrison.
		And one of the things that I think a lot of Americans still struggle to understand about the New World Order is that they want China, at least nominally, at the helm.
		And if you go back far enough in history, you see this clearly.
		The globalists from the Council on Foreign Relations, including Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense George Marshall, handed that great nation over to the communists on a silver platter.
		At every step of the way, they built it up from a poor, backwater, terrible communist system that obviously could not produce wealth into a global superpower.
		You had David Rockefeller go over there in the early 70s and talk about in the New York Times how it was the greatest social experiment in human history.
		You could read that.
		It was published in 1973 in the New York Times.
		George Soros, just about 10 years ago, said the Communist China should own the New World Order in the same way that the U.S. government owned the current World Order.
		And we have Bill Gates.
		I mean, all the globalist technocratic elites are buddy-buddy with China.
		So when you think about what the New World Order system is going to look like, think China.
		When you think of who is going to be at least nominally at the helm of it, think Beijing.
		And now this massive victory for them in Afghanistan makes them come out smelling like a rose.
		Now they can further their Silk Road.
		Basically, all roads will lead to Beijing.
		They've been working on this for many years now with help, incidentally, from the United States, from the United Nations, et cetera.
		So this is like handing them a treasure trove on a silver platter while destroying our own economy, saddling us with ever more debt.
		China, other than the Taliban, is really the biggest winner out of this fiasco.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		You know, I completely agree.
		Very well said.
		And, you know, earlier in the show, I was talking about the Center for the New American Security, which was one of the organizations at the forefront, you know, funded by all these weapons manufacturers.
		And they were the ones that really pushed the changing of the idea of counterinsurgency and how you combat insurgencies, really paving the way for the forever wars that we're facing.
		And I noticed while I was, you know, revisiting this Wikipedia article about them, That one of their primary concerns was emergence of Asia as a global power center.
		So it's the same people that were promoting, you know, basically what the, you know, military theories that keep us in forever wars are the same people that are promoting Asia as a center of power.
		I mean, they're all in it together and it's pretty obvious to see the direction all of this is going, isn't it?
unidentified		That's exactly right.
		And you know another key part of this global operation is to take down the United States.
		They've been saying for over a decade.
		I mean I've been writing about this for a decade.
		They've been saying openly we're moving toward a multipolar world order.
		We're going to have to have a global currency where the U.S.
		dollar isn't their global reserve currency anymore.
		All of this is accelerating that process.
		You can't have a system like the American system that is based on biblical ideas, like the idea that God created us all equally, God gave everybody individual rights.
		The purpose of government is to protect those rights.
		Those rights include life, liberty, property, the right to defend those rights.
		You can't have a system like that as the global superpower with those ideals at its foundation because you can't have a totalitarian, diabolical new world order with that kind of system.
		So bringing the United States down in a major way has been a crucial part of the I mean, after World War Two, the global GDP, more than half of it was coming out of the United States.
		We were producing everything for everyone.
		You couldn't have that kind of system and still hope to create this one world order with totalitarianism at its core.
		So discrediting the United States, bankrupting the United States, undermining every key institution of the United States, putting Biden in there to kind of manage this decline, to put a face on this This pathetic fiasco that we're seeing now.
		This was all part of the plan.
		It is all part of the plan.
		And you'll see that the world order that's going to emerge after this is going to look very different.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Controlled demolition.
		More on the other side.
		Alright, welcome back.
		Ladies and gentlemen, my guest is Alex Newman, international journalist.
		You can find his website TheNewAmerican.com or LibertySentinel.org.
		His YouTube is The New American Video and his Twitter is at AlexNewman underscore J-O-U.
		And you were making some really great points there at the end of the last segment, Alex, about The way that America has sort of been used, abused, and is now being tossed aside.
		Essentially, as a bastion of freedom following World War II, it was that freedom and that capitalism that allowed us to make a lot of money and gain a lot of power and really exert a lot of force around the world.
		That force was sort of co-opted by people who don't have our best interests in mind in order to exert power and make changes and shape the world that they want to shape.
		And now that they've used our power and our wealth, they're essentially attempting to destroy us as they move on to create China as the center of power.
		Can you expand on that a little bit more and just talk about how this has sort of been the plan the entire time?
		And when we see people like Bill Gates or George Soros or people from BlackRock, Larry Fink, and all these people saying, well, China is the new center of power, they're not just saying that that that's a natural occurrence.
		They're the ones actually putting this in motion.
		They're the ones who have given all the power to China.
		Now they're looking around going, oh, well, China's in charge now.
		Goodbye, America.
		We've used you.
		We've abused you.
		Thanks for all the wealth that freedom created.
		Now we're going to destroy your freedom because we got what we wanted.
		Can you expand on that, sir?
unidentified		Perfect, perfect summary right there, Harrison.
		I couldn't have said it better myself.
		That's exactly what has happened here.
		The totalitarian establishment in the United States centered around the Council on Foreign Relations, which is, of course, part of a broader international operation, bringing in the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Bilderbergs, the skull and bones and all these other criminals.
		They deliberately set up the controlled demolition of the United States, the engineered rise of communist China, really using American technology, now American weaponry, American military secrets that came through the Clinton administration.
		And now we're in the final stages of this, where it's now being openly acknowledged that China will run the world internationally.
		America is a has been and we see this very clearly at the United Nations.
		I've explored the United Nations in depth for well over a decade.
		My entire career as a journalist.
		I've been going to their summits for well over a decade on climate on sustainable development.
		And it was obvious to me, even when I first started doing this back in 2009 when I got out of journalism school, that this was what the stage was being set for.
		The U.S. economy was being destroyed through these climate agreements and negotiations and restrictions.
		Meanwhile, Communist China was building coal-fired power plants and expanding its economy and its manufacturing, basically in perfect proportion as the United States was being shut down.
		proportion as the United States was being shut down.
		So now we see this very clearly, even in the specialized agencies of the U.N.
		So now we see this very clearly, even in the specialized agencies of the UN.
		You have, to give you a sense of how lopsided this is, Communist China and actual members of the Communist Party of China, Chinese nationals, run about one-third of all the specialized UN agencies, including all the significant ones, like the ones that are going to run the internet, the ones that run aviation, and so on. like the ones that are going to run the internet, Meanwhile, the United States, an American, runs just one of these agencies, the Rather Useless World Food Program.
		That gives you a sense of how lopsided this is.
		And now we're at the point where China has joined, the I shouldn't call it China.
		We're really talking about this group of mass murdering gangsters that rose to power with assistance from the globalists in the West.
		They are now openly telling us this.
		They've now allied with the G77, which is 133 other governments.
		And they've come out and said explicitly, we want a world government under the United Nations with the UN General Assembly as an emblem of global sovereignty.
		We've got to displace the U.S. dollar and move toward a one-world global currency.
		And that is now what is taking place right now.
		And this disaster in Afghanistan, I think, is a perfect symbolic tool that will be used for generations in the textbooks, in the history classes, to kind of solidify this trend that has been engineered.
		Now, the students won't be told that this was engineered.
		They'll say it was the natural process.
		Freedom clearly doesn't work.
		Look at what those dumb Americans did with this so-called freedom.
		Meanwhile, this glorious totalitarian system that they tried in China worked really well, and that's what we should use worldwide.
		That's what's coming, and that's what they're going to use all this for.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
		I got so many different, you know, branching paths we can take from what you just said.
		I mean, first of all, just the idea that China's running all of these UN organizations, while America, I think, still funds like a third to a half of the UN.
		So we're still paying it, but China's the one that runs it, right?
unidentified		That's exactly right.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		And then, of course, you know, It is a true conspiracy.
		You know, we talk about conspiracy theories, but this is a true conspiracy and we can actually point to the people and the organizations that are helping to bring this about with the obvious conclusion in place.
		And of course, you know, again, you just look at the UN and China and they'll say America is racist.
		Meanwhile, they're...
		Allying with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
		So everything they're saying is completely hypocritical and nonsensical and whatever it takes to gain power.
		I mean, just where do we go with this?
		Because I guess let's just focus on the conspiracy because you listed a number of organizations there, the center or the CFR rather, the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, you know, the George Soros Open Society Foundation that creates the Center for New American Security.
		I mean, this is a true conspiracy, is it not?
unidentified		Yes, it is, under the classical definition of the term.
		See, a lot of people have now been so brainwashed by the fake media, they don't understand what a conspiracy actually means.
		To break it down for people out there, if you open up any dictionary, a conspiracy is two or more people working in secret for illegal, immoral, wicked purposes.
		This is the classic definition of a conspiracy.
		The only way you might argue, well, this isn't quite a conspiracy, is because when you read their books, when you read their speeches that they give behind closed doors.
		They're pretty open about this.
		I'll give you a perfect example.
		David Rockefeller in his own memoirs talked about how he was, and I'm quoting him here, conspiring with a secret cabal against the best interests of the United States to build a one world order, a political, a globally integrated political and economic system.
		He says he's proud of that.
		This is in his own memoirs.
		So you could look at that and say, well, a conspiracy requires secrecy.
		And here this guy is bragging about it.
		But as far as your average American is concerned, who watches the fake media, who watches CNN or Fox News, they're clueless.
		And so in a very real sense, this is a conspiracy.
		The Justice Department charges people with conspiracy every day.
		And this is the very definition of a conspiracy, a secret plan worked on by more than two people to accomplish not just illegal, immoral purposes, but absolutely diabolical plans.
		I'm talking destruction, slavery, genocide, basically the enslavement of planet Earth.
		That's their agenda.
		Now, whether they'll succeed or not, I can't say, but they're certainly making a lot of progress.
		And this fiasco in Afghanistan will be a major feather in their cap.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I could not agree more.
		And, you know, I put out on Twitter the other day, kind of joking, I said, the biggest threat we face comes from tyranny deniers.
		Of course, we're always called climate deniers or vax deniers or whatever.
		Well, they're denying tyranny.
		And really, I started thinking about it.
		I started realizing, OK, there's either two beliefs.
		Either you believe there's a conspiracy and a cabal of, you know, people working in the shadows, but they're good and they they're working for the benefit of humanity and they're working together just to help everybody.
		Or you believe that they're working together to gain Their power themselves.
		But I mean, everybody acknowledges that there are these shadowy, you know, cabals of people working together.
		It's just whether you believe they're good or they're bad at this point, right?
unidentified		That's exactly right.
		And you know, to be clear, they have convinced a lot of naive dupes, people who think they're so well educated because they got a PhD in political science.
		They've convinced a lot of naive people who believe that they are well-meaning that global government is a good idea.
		And I remember, I went to university, they pounded this into our head.
		The reason we have war is because we have nation states, because we have religion.
		So if we could just get rid of nations, if we could just get rid of religions and all be part of one big happy family, then everything would be peace and kumbaya.
		We could proceed to this wonderful new human evolution where decisions will be made by scientists and experts rather than silly voters who don't know what.
		There's a lot of people who legitimately believe this.
		I would argue that they're totally insane.
		They're totally misguided.
		They're completely deceived.
		But there are a lot of people who don't think of themselves necessarily as evil conspirators who are pushing this agenda.
		They think they're doing something good for humanity.
		Of course, they're very wrong.
		Many people have been very wrong about very important things.
		A lot of the people who are working with the Nazis thought they were doing great things.
		A lot of people who work with the Communist Party of China think they're doing great things.
		It doesn't change the fact the fact that they're doing evil, that they're betraying their own country, and that they're setting up this planet for an absolute disaster.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Could have said it better myself.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		We'll be right back with Alex Newman talking about the global social credit score to come.
unidentified		You're tuned in to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith.
unidentified		Watch it live right now at band.video.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
		If you're watching us on band.video and FortWars.com, you probably heard during the break there a commercial we've been playing recently where Alex is talking about being the man in the arena.
		I like to think I'm a man in the arena, and my guest is certainly a man firmly in the arena.
		Really doing incredible work fighting back against the New World Order globalist takeover.
		His name is Alex Newman.
		The website is thenewamerican.com, libertysentinel.org.
		You can find him on YouTube at The New American Video or on Twitter at AlexNewman underscore J-O-U.
		Now, Mr. Newman, you brought up a very important thing in the last couple segments, which is the ultimate goal of replacing the U.S.
		dollar as the reserve currency.
		Now, we did a little segment earlier today where we talked about That yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the destruction of the gold standard.
		So for the last 50 years, the American dollar has been a fiat currency, but it's also been the world reserve currency.
		But essentially, the powers that be are now working their machinations in the shadows to undo that and to replace the dollar with some sort of other currency, probably a digital one, which will really help to facilitate the oncoming Yeah, thank you, Harrison.
		Again, appreciate you having me.
		And they are actually telling us what's coming.
		They're putting out press releases.
		Now, it's true you won't read about it in your local fake newspaper.
		worldwide once they achieve this.
		We hope to expand on what you see coming up in the monetary world.
unidentified		Yeah, thank you, Harrison.
		Again, appreciate you having me.
		And they are actually telling us what's coming.
		They're putting out press releases.
		Now, it's true you won't read about it in your local fake newspaper.
		You won't hear about it on Fox News or CNN or any of the fake networks.
		But they're being very clear about where this is going.
		The International Monetary Fund is, right as we speak, Harrison, preparing to issue $650 billion worth of what they call special drawing rights.
		Special drawing rights is kind of their proto-global currency, and once they manage to implode the dollar, we will move full-blown to this SDR as the new global currency.
		Now, you probably won't go to the grocery store and pay with SDRs, at least not in the immediate future.
		But what's going to happen at the beginning of this is as the dollar collapses, we will move toward the SDR in international payments.
		Right now, you need to use the U.S.
		dollar if you want to buy oil on most international markets.
		You use the U.S.
		dollar to settle international exchanges and transactions.
		But as we move further into this, as the U.S.
		economy is deliberately destroyed, as the value of the U.S.
		dollar is deliberately destroyed through massive printing, through massive spending through no-win wars in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and Libya and take your pick.
		They're going to move us into this new paradigm.
		Now, the SDR, they've been talking about it as a global currency for many, many years.
		This $650 billion issuance that they're preparing for is larger than all of the previous SDR issuances in history, right?
		They're literally creating more SDRs right now than they have created in all of history combined.
		And so this is just the beginning.
		And this will basically be the equivalent of what the Federal Reserve does, but at the international level.
		So what happens when they create SDRs?
		They basically siphon some of your savings.
		If you have savings in your safe, in your bank, under your mattress, whatever it is, as they create these SDRs, it's basically just printing money.
		And so what happens, they give these SDRs to their member governments, the United States, China, basically all the governments of the world in proportion to how much they own in shares in the IMF.
		And then these governments can turn it into U.S. dollars and they can bring it to the United States and buy land.
		They can buy companies.
		They can buy food.
		They can buy whatever they want with these SDRs.
		So it is already quantitative easing at the global level, and this is going to lay the foundation for the global currency.
		They've been saying it openly for clear back to 1980s, right, when The Economist magazine did the welcome to the world currency issue where they had a phoenix rising up from the ashes of the U.S. dollar.
		It was the SDR.
		That's what they're moving toward.
		He's talking about this, Harrison, unfortunately, except, you know, the IMF, which is putting out press releases and a few articles that I've written for the Epoch Times and the New American and my own website, so.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, I admit, one of the places that I fall short in knowledge is the economy, to be honest with you.
		I'm not good with money.
		I don't understand it.
		It all seems like black magic witchcraft as far as I'm concerned.
		So I'm glad we have somebody like yourself on who actually understands this stuff and can explain it to blockheads like myself, which I assume at least some of our audience feels the way I do.
		So explain to me, like I'm Fiverr, explain to me how I as an American will experience this going forward.
		I mean, you know, what do we expect to see?
		I mean, is this just going to be an aspect of inflation?
		Or is this just a downward tumble where the dollar just loses value at such a rate that suddenly we're looking around for something to save us?
		And here comes the SDR, you know, digital currency, just, you know, the solution to the problem that they caused.
		Just on a personal or individual level, how are we going to see this play out?
unidentified		Yeah, very good question, Harrison.
		I think it's going to affect Americans worse than anybody.
		Because right now, the U.S.
		dollar has been the global reserve currency.
		As you mentioned, we went off the gold standard back in 1971 under Nixon.
		And then, there you go, get ready for world currency so the viewers who are watching on screen can see The Economist magazine back in 1988.
		1988.
		So what's going to happen here?
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		They actually highlight that in 1980, they put this article out or this cover out from The Economist.
		And what's the date on it?
		2018.
		Let's say 2018.
		So they almost got it down to the year.
		Back in 1980, they actually knew down to the year when this would take place.
		Interesting.
unidentified		Yep.
		And they've got, we look at the Biden administration right now, Go back about 10 years to the Obama administration.
		The Communist Chinese put out a report through their central bank, the People's Bank of China, and they said, look, we need to move away from the dollar as a global reserve currency.
		We should use an international reserve asset like the special drawing right from the IMF.
		And so they asked Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury under the Obama regime, who, of course, didn't pay his taxes and blamed it on TurboTax.
		So they asked him, what do you think about this Chinese proposal to move toward a world currency and stop using the dollar in international exchange?
		And incredibly, I mean, jaws were on the floor when he said this.
		He's sitting at the Council on Foreign Relations.
		He says, we're actually quite open to that idea.
		Mind blowing.
		And so what will this look like for an average American?
		Well, it's going to hurt Americans more than anybody else, especially in the short term.
		Because what will happen if the dollar, I really should say, when the dollar ceases to be the international reserve currency, you're going to have a flood of U.S.
		dollars coming back to the United States, buying up anything that's not nailed down.
		So basically a supply and demand curve.
		I teach economics to high school students.
		It's one of the many things that I do through Freedom Project Academy.
		So you have a supply and demand curve, and where they meet, that's the price.
		So right now, you have a high global demand for dollars because anytime you want to do international exchanges, anytime you want to buy oil, you need to do that in dollars.
		And right now, central banks and governments keep a big part of their reserves in U.S.
		dollars because the dollar is the global reserve currency.
		Well, what happens when the dollar loses that status?
		So we have on the one hand, the supply side is just out of control.
		The Federal Reserve is printing currency like it's going out of style.
		We're doing trillion-dollar infrastructure plan, $3.5 trillion spending plan.
		They could not spend money faster if they tried.
		At least it's hard to imagine how they could.
		So on the supply side, the supply of U.S. dollars is out of control.
		Right now, there's a global demand built in.
		So a lot of this inflation that we would be seeing, a lot of this expansion of the currency supply, instead of translating immediately into higher prices, is being absorbed by foreigners because this is being stockpiled in central banks, governments, it's being used in international trade, etc.
		by foreigners because this is being stockpiled in central banks, governments, it's being used in international trade, etc.
		But what happens when that built-in demand ceases because the dollar is no longer the U.S., the global reserve currency?
		But what happens when that built-in demand ceases because the dollar is no longer the global reserve currency?
		Well, all that currency comes flooding back.
		Well, all that currency comes flooding back.
		The demand for the U.S. dollar evaporates, and we end up in a situation very much like Zimbabwe.
		The demand for the U.S. dollar evaporates, and we end up in a situation very much like Zimbabwe.
		You have massive surplus of currency being created.
		You have no demand for that currency.
		In fact, everybody's trying to get rid of it as quickly as they can because they know it's going to be worth less tomorrow.
		What happens?
		If you have savings in U.S. dollars, you're in big trouble.
		If you are on a fixed income, you're in huge trouble, right, because your prices of everything are going to be going through, especially of imported goods.
		It's going to be a catastrophe for average Americans if we just want to say it bluntly, and I would urge everybody to get prepared for it.
		Look at what happened in Zimbabwe.
		Look at what happened in Venezuela.
		Look at what happened in Hungary.
		Look at what happened in the Weimar Republic when the currency collapsed and prepare your finances accordingly.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Wow, well, I understood that, and I didn't like it.
		I didn't like what I just heard.
		I think I'll be buying gold and silver when we get out, or maybe bitcoin.
		I mean, I guess we'll get into that in the next segment, how to prepare yourself against this, because, yeah, it does seem like just another aspect of this controlled demolition that we're experiencing on every level of society, from the economic to the personal and interpersonal.
		It's really incredible stuff.
		I really rue the day that we're gonna see like trillion dollar bills that you find from places like Zimbabwe where it's like here's a bill for a hundred trillion dollars because our money is literally worth nothing now or stories as you point out from like the Weimar Republic bringing wheelbarrows full of cash just to try to buy some bread and stave off starvation for another day.
		Very troublesome world ahead but we'll be breaking it down in even greater detail on the other side with Alex Newman, TheNewAmerican.com.
alex jones ▲ ● ▼		I want to talk about M4 Wars philosophy.
		Because it didn't come out of a book.
		It didn't come off the back of a cereal box.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Welcome back, folks.
		My guest, Alex Newman, is helping to break down for me the oncoming economic destruction of the U.S.
		dollar and, well, the U.S.
		economy as a whole.
		You can find his work at thenewamerican.com, where he's just released a new article combating critical race theory, which is just yet another one of these topics that is of the utmost importance.
		But I want to stick to this monetary topic for now because, and I try to tell people this all the time, people think that A lot of what's going on, like, you wonder, like, well, why would they do that?
		Why would the powers that be put this in place?
		And a lot of people's answer, a lot of people on the socialist side of things, they say, well, it's all about money.
		They just are trying to make money and they just want money and they're greedy.
		My position has always been they have all the money.
		Print the money.
		They pull the money out of thin air.
		They type the money into a keyboard and it appears in their bank account.
		They have all the money.
		So money to them is a tool.
		Money to them is a very effective weapon that they can wield against you.
		But they don't do things to make money.
		They make money and then they use that money to control you.
		So what do you think about that, Mr. Newman?
		And is Bitcoin or gold or silver actually going to be a hedge against the oncoming economic warfare that's going to be waged against us?
unidentified		Well, thank you, Harrison.
		As far as the motivation, I think it goes much deeper than just money.
		You know, the Bible does teach that the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, and that's true.
		People do horrific things because they love money so much, and that is very much the case with these globalists.
		That is very much the case with a lot of the people who are involved in this evil, but it's also much deeper than that.
		I think, you know, I don't really I mean, you can see bits and pieces of it, but you can't understand fully what's going on unless you understand that it is part of a diabolical agenda.
		These people are literally wicked, right?
		They're literally evil.
		And I think a lot of people struggle to understand that.
		A lot of people struggle to understand that there are such evil people in the world, you know, because normal people think, well, I wouldn't want to murder people.
		I wouldn't want to enslave people.
		I wouldn't want to loot humanity.
		And so then, well, you know, other people must not either.
		But that's a mistaken notion.
		It's actually a massive mistake and it actually leads people astray.
		I think what these people really are obsessed with now is power for its own sake and also being able to basically lord it over humanity.
		They also have it in their mind.
		And when you understand that this is a satanic agenda, it makes much more sense.
		Like why, for example, would they be so obsessed with eliminating so many people, right?
		If you read their own papers, if you listen to their own speeches, they are absolutely obsessed with getting the population of humans down to a more manageable number.
		Now, why would they be so obsessed with that?
		Well, I think the reason why is very clear.
		It is a satanic agenda to create this one world system, and it's much more than money.
		You're exactly right.
		As for gold and silver, You know, it's a good question.
		I think if the market were allowed to operate on its own, there's no question that gold and silver would do very well.
		Right now, we know these markets are incredibly manipulated.
		I believe the prices have been suppressed for a very long time.
		They're going to continue to be suppressed.
		There's also a complicating factor here.
		here.
		We actually saw this way back in the early 1900s, about the 1933, when FDR issued an executive order confiscating everybody's gold.
		And I think we were naive to think that, well, now we're more modern and we're more advanced.
		And so they won't do that this time around.
		I think that would be silly.
		There is a very real chance that they would try to steal our gold and our silver.
		And so we need to keep that in mind as well.
		I own gold and silver, to be clear.
		But I I think there is a very real risk that the government will try to dispossess. - Yes.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, and what about Bitcoin?
		Because Bitcoin is the other solution off of this.
		In the video we played a little bit earlier about what happened in 1971, you know, that was by a Bitcoin promoter that says, you know, this is the solution to the fiat currency problem that we're facing.
		Is it?
unidentified		Well, you know, that's an interesting question.
		I really don't know what to make of Bitcoin.
		I suspect that there's a lot more that meets the eye to this, I believe.
		That the establishment at some level has a chance in this.
		I do believe over the long term, there's a real chance that this goes down to literally zero.
		I mean, it's not based on, and a lot of people get mad at me when I say that, but really Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, they're not based on anything, right?
		If they did a cyber pandemic, as Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum has proposed multiple times, You know, how are you going to get your Bitcoin off of your computers?
		Right?
		How are you going to transact them over the internet?
		And yeah, presumably that would come back up.
		I mean, they need the internet of things and so on, you know, to properly manage it.
		Heard.
		But I don't know.
		I'm very skeptical.
		And to be clear, I have some cryptocurrencies.
		I'm not a huge portfolio.
		I, I, one time I had hundreds of Bitcoin from the government and some others really interfered in that.
		I won't get into details, but, um, I'm skeptical of that as well.
		I do believe that land, real estate, if you can prevent the government from stealing it, would be a very good way to work.
		But a lot depends on how bad things get.
		I mean, right now, we've seen they just waved a magic wand that says that you don't have to pay rent anymore because of the virus.
		I mean, imagine all the small real estate people were all in little apartment blocks, four or eight units.
		What are they supposed to do now?
patty in boston ▲ ● ▼		They've still got to pay their mortgages.
patty in boston ▲ ● ▼		They've still got to pay their taxes.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you're in would basically mean you're essentially just always renting your land from the government.
		Yeah, there's so this is the plan they want for us, right?
		I own nothing have no privacy life's never been better and here.
		We're just sort of enumerating the actual processes that they're going to go through to bring this about so Let's just sort of zoom out here.
		Obviously, you cover a ton of amazing stuff at thenewamerican.com, libertycentinel.org.
		Your YouTube is The New American Video, and people can follow you on Twitter at Alex Newman underscore J-O-U.
		Here in the last few minutes that we have, zooming out a little bit, you have great stories about critical race theory, combating that.
		And it all has to do with the purposeful and directed destruction and collapse of the American system in order to bring us down because we're the biggest impediment to their global system.
		So just quickly, what's on the forefront of your mind other than the monetary policy in Afghanistan?
		What are you focusing on there at the New American as the most imminent threat to us?
unidentified		Well, you know, I just got back from Lindell's election symposium in South Dakota, and I think the voter fraud is one of the key issues.
		I do not believe Biden was legitimately elected, and I don't believe anybody who's got some common sense believes that.
		But on a more significant level, I've been very focused on education for years, because ultimately, even if we do end up restoring election integrity, if they brainwash, if they successfully brainwash 75% of our children, which is about how many American children are in government brainwash camps right now that identify as schools, they're going to win legitimate elections in the future.
		They're weaponizing our children against us, against our churches, against our country, against our families.
		It's a catastrophe that's unfolding now in real time.
		They've already got multiple generations of Americans.
		They've dumbed us down, sexualized us, destroyed our morality, our value system, and now they're moving in for the kill shot.
		They're now literally brainwashing children to be Marxists, a cannon fodder in the war against their own nation, against their own society.
		So I think that is the largest and most significant danger that we're facing, Harrison, and I think it's the one It runs through all the others.
		They could have never done the things that they're doing to us right now if they had not been able to dump down and indoctrinate the overwhelming majority of America's children through the public school system.
		So right now, I've been working really hard to try to pull as many kids out of government brainwash camps as possible.
		We're making a lot of progress, quite ironically, thanks to COVID in part, but we need to continue increasing the numbers of children in a safe sanctuary.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that has been amazing.
		An amazing effect of COVID is the amount of, I think, homeschools in certain places are up 50%.
		You know, more than double there.
		It's amazing.
		That's incredible.
		So there are people pushing back.
		It's really great to see.
		And of course, with all the trouble that we see coming down the pipe, everything from the borders to the war in Afghanistan, to the, you know, the immigration, the collapse of the economy, the crime going up, the sexualization, as you point out, It's a full-on attack.
		The good news is we're aware, we're prepared, we've been prepared for years and years to fight this information war on the grounds that we need to fight them on, which is here and now, the battlefield of the American mind.
		Truly incredible stuff.
		I want to thank you so much for coming on, Mr. Newman.
		Alex Newman is my guest.
		The website TheNewAmerican.com.
		The website, his other website is libertysentinel.org.
		His YouTube is The New American Video.
		And his Twitter is at Alex Newman underscore J-O-U.
		We'll have to have you on again very soon, sir.
		I've really, really appreciated our conversation here today.
unidentified		Thank you so much, Harrison.
unidentified		Appreciate it.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Thank you.
		Alex Newman, ladies and gentlemen.
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unidentified		Hey, Alex.
unidentified		Thanks for taking my call.
alex jones ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
unidentified		Quick plug, real quick.
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