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You're watching The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | |
| Well, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Welcome to The American Journal. | ||
| I am your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| What a show we have for you today. | ||
| I've been doing a lot of research, and the more I find out about what's going on in Ohio with the train derailment or over Lake Michigan with the UFOs, the more sort of horrifying it all becomes. | ||
| So those are going to be our main two topics here today. | ||
| We're going to get into exactly what's gone on with the train derailment. | ||
| Chemical disaster, Chernobyl-level cover-up going on as we speak. | ||
| And also get to the truth about these mysterious objects being shut down. | ||
| Hmm, what could it possibly be? | ||
| It's probably aliens, if I had to guess. | ||
| When the mainstream media is talking about aliens, you know something else is going on. | ||
| And we'll talk about it. | ||
| Big takeaway, fear not the balloons. | ||
| Fear not. The mysterious balloons. | ||
| They're just balloons. | ||
| There's just so much talk about. | ||
| Harp, hurricane, or earthquakes, rather. | ||
| We have... It's going to be a big show. | ||
| And we'll be joined by Angela McArdle. | ||
| She's the chair of the National Libertarian Party to talk about Rage Against War, the protest that's happening later this week. | ||
| But first, I want to go to this video. | ||
| It's called Earthquake Prediction Revealed from the Red Pilled TV channel on band.video. | ||
| Earthquake Prediction Revealed. | ||
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Here it is. Nearly 20,000 people have been confirmed as dead since the February 6th earthquake in Turkey and Syria, a devastating catastrophe to say the least. | |
| But many have been speculating about the timing of the earthquake, even suggesting that HARP technology was used to trigger the quake using powerful frequencies that can vibrate the earth. | ||
| This technology is real and can certainly be used to create earthquakes. | ||
| However, how did a Dutch seismologist predict the Turkey earthquake three days earlier? | ||
| On February 3rd, Frank Hoogerbeets tweeted, quote, Sooner or later there will be a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in this region, south-central Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon. | ||
| The accompanying photo shows the exact region where the quake took place. | ||
| How did he know that? Is he a part of the New World Order's HAARP operation? | ||
| Apparently, he drew this conclusion by monitoring geometry between celestial bodies, because large objects such as the moon can shift magma beneath the Earth's crust, thus creating an earthquake. | ||
| He also predicted that, quote, This prediction came true as well, not only for the affected region, but all over the world. | ||
| On February 6th, the same day as the Turkey Quake, the strongest earthquake in 40 years hit Buffalo, New York. | ||
| And in Indonesia, an earthquake hit on February 9th, three days later, toppling buildings and killing four people. | ||
| According to seismologist Tyler Metcalf, the big earthquakes in Turkey have likely led to destabilization of fault lines across the world. | ||
| There could be many earthquakes in many areas across the world over the next few to several days. | ||
| His conclusion is based on a research paper published in 2018 titled, Earthquakes can systematically trigger other ones on opposite side of Earth. | ||
| So, are earthquakes going to continue triggering each other one after another until they build into a climaxing megaquake? | ||
| Or is clandestine technology like HAARP being used in an act of weather terrorism, where the consequential earthquakes are just collateral damage from the New World Order's targeted quakes? | ||
| Either way, if you live near a fault line, it's time to prepare yourself for the extremely likely possibility of an earthquake. | ||
| Seismologists aren't the only ones predicting earthquakes. | ||
| As we know from Scripture, widespread earthquakes were predicted by Jesus as a sign of the end of the world. | ||
| For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places. | ||
| All these are the beginning of sorrows. | ||
| This is Brian Wilson with InfoWars.com. | ||
| There you go. Find and share that video at band.video. | ||
| He's not the only one saying it. | ||
| We're not the only one saying this, by the way. | ||
| We've got members of parliament in Romania and some whistleblowers in Japan talking about man-made earthquakes later in the show. | ||
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Stay with us. It's Monday, February 13th, year of our Lord, 2023. | |
| And you're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Welcome to The American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. Anybody catch the game last night? | ||
| It was really fun. We're going to talk about the Super Bowl mostly today. | ||
| That's what we're going to do. We're going to spend most of the time kidding. | ||
| Kidding, of course. We'll mention it. | ||
| But no, there's supposed UFO battles over the skies of Canada and America. | ||
| There's a train derailment that's looking awfully similar to a Chernobyl-level natural disaster of... | ||
| Biblical proportions all man-made, of course. | ||
| We also have the war in Ukraine spiraling out of control, getting worse as the revelation that it was America that blew up the Nord Stream pipeline makes its way to the highest levels of international intrigue. | ||
| We've got earthquakes started by machines. | ||
| It's just... | ||
| Wild across the board. | ||
| We also have videos of old Bill Gates trying to visit London and being surrounded by a mob calling him a murderer. | ||
| So, you know, the awakening is happening. | ||
| The uprising has commenced. | ||
| We'll see where it takes us. | ||
| But yeah, we have just so much to get into. | ||
| We are going to try to get to the bottom of what happened with the train derailment as the cover-up continues and the true scale of the ecological destruction is only just being hinted at now. | ||
| And we're going to tell you what we know about the Rash of UFO combat taking place with jets from the American Air Force over the skies of Lake Michigan, Canada, and Alaska. | ||
| It's going to be an interesting show, folks. | ||
| I'm going to open up the phone lines because as much research as I've done... | ||
| This stuff is a little bit over my head in certain cases. | ||
| So we're going to open up the phone lines specifically for people with professional or expert... | ||
| Insight into these matters. | ||
| So all that and more coming up. | ||
| In fact, I will also be joined by the chair of the National Libertarian Party, Angela McArdle. | ||
| She will be on to promote their peace rally, Rage Against the War Machine, that's taking place in D.C. on February 19th. | ||
| So we're excited to promote and help support that bipartisan attempt at peace rally So let's not waste any more time. | ||
| time let's get right into it here it is your daily dispatch all right here it is folks you Your Daily Dispatch for Monday, the 13th of February, 2023. | ||
| Infowars.com has this headline. | ||
| Watch Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime show. | ||
| Humps, grabs crotch, smells hand. | ||
| Well, that's just gross. | ||
| That's just gross. It was gross and weird, but, you know, whatever. | ||
| It was fine. | ||
| It was fine. I don't know. | ||
| I watched the Super Bowl yesterday. | ||
| It was probably the first football game I've watched this entire year, start to finish. | ||
| It was actually a pretty good game until the last... | ||
| minute or so when it was completely ruined by the refs but I think everybody was watching especially the halftime show just expecting some satanic hellish conflagration to take place just some you wanted it orgy of symbolism yeah I didn't know what I wanted I didn't know what I wanted what we got was I don't know but Kind of weird, kind of bizarre, but also kind of cool. | ||
| I don't know. They're on these floating platforms. | ||
| That was pretty cool. There was no, like, overt insanity. | ||
| It was more just your typical, you know, person dressed as the devil while surrounded by a writhing mass of faceless, sexless beings. | ||
| It was weird. It was all a little bit weird, but... | ||
| I don't know. Who cares? We can look into all the subtle symbology or you can just do something else during halftime. | ||
| Alright, yeah, we'll get into that a little bit more later as well, but it's literally far and away the least important thing we're going to talk about today. | ||
| Meanwhile, from yesterday, the 12th of February, breaking octagonal object shot down over Lake Huron. | ||
| The U.S. military has shot down another unidentified flying object over Michigan on Sunday, the Defense Department announced. | ||
| This really coming at the tail end of a series of Sightings and actual aerial dogfights with floating objects around this country and over Canada. | ||
| Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby delivered a press conference about the downed object around Lake Huron. | ||
| The Pentagon released a statement confirming an F-16 fired an AIM-9X missile to shoot down an airborne flying object at approximately 20,000 feet altitude. | ||
| Again, we'll get into this a little bit more. | ||
| A big takeaway for me, they're balloons. | ||
| They're big balloons. | ||
| My main takeaway, do not fear the balloons. | ||
| Don't be scared of the balloons. | ||
| They're just balloons. | ||
| There's really, I think, one of two options. | ||
| Either There's some sort of attack going on where for the first time they're sending tons of these balloons or there have been these types of balloons over America for a very long time, probably dozens if not hundreds of them, and the Air Force and NORAD and the entire American military just hasn't paid any attention to them because they're balloons. | ||
| But then when they were embarrassed by the Chinese balloon, now they're paying attention to the Object signatures on their radar screens and actually dealing with them rather than just ignoring them completely. | ||
| I think that's the more likely thing and I think when the mainstream media and even the Pentagon are I'm very scarily hinting at the possibility these might be extraterrestrial. | ||
| UFOs? Oh my god, aliens? | ||
| No way. Yeah, no way. | ||
| No, it's not. No, please stop. | ||
| Please, God, for the love of God, don't fall for the alien scam. | ||
| Please, for the love of God, we told you about COVID. We told you about the vaccines. | ||
| We told you about everything. | ||
| Please don't fall for the alien scam. | ||
| Don't Please don't make it that easy for them. | ||
| They're just balloons, folks. | ||
| It's all good. It's not good. | ||
| It is an attack on the American mainland, the heights of which hasn't been seen since the Japanese did it in World War II. So it is a big deal, but they're just balloons, okay? | ||
| Relax. Meanwhile, Russia says NATO should hold an emergency summit over Nord Stream blast. | ||
| NATO should hold an emergency summit to discuss recent findings about September explosions. | ||
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September explosions. | |
| That's a new one. Yeah. | ||
| Was that the September 11th attack? | ||
| It wasn't a terrorist. | ||
| It was the September explosions. | ||
| The springtime explosions. | ||
| Just wild. All right. | ||
| Findings about the September explosions of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, Russian's foreign minister spokesperson Maria Zakharova said late on Saturday. | ||
| Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970, said in a blog post on Wednesday citing an unidentified source that U.S. Navy divers had destroyed the pipelines with explosives on the orders of President Joe Biden. | ||
| Yeah, we'll get into that as well, but brings a lot of other stuff into question. | ||
| As in, did the train derailment and massive chemical explosion, could that possibly have been retaliation for the attack on Russia? | ||
| Could you really blame him if it was? | ||
| Will Joe Biden be impeached for using the military armed forces to perform a terrorist attack and create an ecological disaster against an enemy we are not at war with in a totally clandestine and illegal fashion? | ||
| Maybe that's the line that he crosses and everybody says he's gone too far. | ||
| I mean, he's really pushing the envelope. | ||
| Let's do more than just wag our finger at him, shall we? | ||
| All this, of course, ties in with this next story Paul G. Watson posted on Infowars. | ||
| A French historian says, If I had to guess, I'd say when historians look back, they will have said it began probably 10 years ago, maybe even more. | ||
| Maybe with the 2014 overthrow of the Ukrainian government, maybe with the completely nonsensical and purposeless invasion or attempted overthrow of Assad in Syria. | ||
| Which Russia helped prevent. | ||
| I mean, yeah, we're thoroughly in World War III. It's just undeclared because it's not nations versus nations. | ||
| It's the globalists versus humanity. | ||
| So hope we win. | ||
| Finally, we have this story, and we'll touch back on this in the next segment, show some of the videos going around explaining exactly what's going on here. | ||
| But how's this for a headline, folks? | ||
| After train derailment, Ohio residents are living a plot of a movie they helped make. | ||
| East Palestine, Ohio has been essentially poisoned completely because of the chemical attack that took place there. | ||
| Strangely enough, just last year, a movie filmed there with this exact same plot. | ||
| Exact same plot. | ||
| In the exact same place. | ||
| Just one year ahead. That, folks, is premeditated murder. | ||
| We'll be right back. Alright, welcome back ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Just an incredible number of stories to get to today. | ||
| And I do want to open up phone lines early to take your calls about these because I'm feeling there's a lot of people out there with more knowledge on this than I have and more knowledge than is being allowed to be put out on mainstream media. | ||
| So we're going to start today with the story of the chemical disaster that is unfolding in Ohio. | ||
| We actually covered it last week when it first happened, although then the information on this was incredibly scarce. | ||
| We could tell something was going on, but hadn't gotten the details really. | ||
| Then the whole story exploded, no pun intended, over the weekend. | ||
| To put it, as far as I understand, the train derailed me. | ||
| We can get into how or why it derailed in just a second, but it was filled with what's known as vinyl chloride or vinyl chlorine, which is not polyvinyl chlorine, which is a more stable and less dangerous version of it. | ||
| But the train crashed, and then they blew holes in the side of the train cars and allowed all of it to go into a trench that they dug on the side of... | ||
| The train tracks and then they lit it all on fire. | ||
| Now I talked to a friend of mine who has dealt with this type of thing before chemical spills and what's called environmental remediation and we went through and looked up what the process for environmental remediation is. | ||
| In other words, what you have to do to deal with some sort of chemical spill. | ||
| For example, if a Gas station has some sort of accident or a spill and a bunch of gasoline spills into a river or a creek nearby. | ||
| It is actually kind of insane how much you have to go through. | ||
| They have to test and treat and remediate the soil and the water of the creek and the air around it. | ||
| And they have to hire specific companies that are licensed to perform certain actions to fulfill certain criteria to consider the area remediated. | ||
| When it comes to Vinyl chlorine, and we'll show you in just a second, or vinyl chloride, I can't remember which one it is. | ||
| There is no process of light it on fire and just see what happens. | ||
| I mean, it may be a damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation, where if they didn't light it on fire, it would have just poisoned the waterways and the soil anyway, and by lighting it on fire, they may have mitigated some of the carcinogenic properties of the... | ||
| Or it could mean that all of those chemicals are now airborne and spreading out over an area of hundreds of miles across the American heartland. | ||
| So again, we'll get into that and we'll figure out exactly how this happened and what's being done about it on the other side. | ||
| And again, I'll show you some local news clips that tell more of the story that's not being told anywhere else. | ||
| Stay with us. It's the American Journal in Fort Worth. | ||
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| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Chernobyl-level disaster unfolding in Ohio, not being reported very much at all by the mainstream media. | ||
| Certainly not when it happened or for the ensuing several couple days. | ||
| Local media was on it, and we'll show you some of those videos in just a second. | ||
| But first, clip number eight. | ||
| Or no, I'm sorry. Clip number 16. | ||
| This has been going around and I agree it probably is the best video about what's happened in Pennsylvania and Ohio. | ||
| Pretty mind-blowing stuff. | ||
| Let's watch. We've been getting a lot of coverage and the coverage that it has been getting hasn't been very good. | ||
| So let's talk about the trail derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. | ||
| East Palestine is about an hour north of Pittsburgh, almost halfway to Cleveland. | ||
| Norfolk Southern has a rail line that goes right through town, and this derailment happened right on the edge outside of town on the border of PA and Ohio. | ||
| Of the cars that crashed, five of them contained vinyl chloride. | ||
| It's a monomer used to make PVC. Some of the reporting on this has gotten vinyl chloride confused with polyvinyl chloride, the polymer made out of vinyl chloride. | ||
| Now, the reason that this distinction is really important is vinyl chloride is very hazardous and very flammable. | ||
| Polyvinyl chloride is a plastic that's used in, like, everything. | ||
| The other thing about vinyl chloride is that it boils at 8 degrees Fahrenheit, so it's shipped in its liquid form, meaning that when these trains crashed and these started leaking, they weren't just leaking liquid, but they were spewing boiling gas. | ||
| So vinyl chloride is really toxic. | ||
| OSHA has the permissible limit of how much you can be exposed to it during an 8-hour shift as a 1 ppm part per million, average over 8 hours. | ||
| So prior to this, the biggest spill of this chemical was in New Jersey, where one train car and about 23,000 gallons of vinyl chloride were spilled, but it didn't catch on fire. | ||
| Now, this crash in Ohio has five train cars. | ||
| These kinds of tanker cars can carry between 25 and 33,000 gallons. | ||
| Let's call it 250 to 250,000 pounds of vinyl chloride. | ||
| That's per train car, five train cars. | ||
| There's maybe a million pounds of this toxic chemical spilling into the ground and also boiling off into the air. | ||
| But then it caught on fire. | ||
| I think this is where the reporting is really bad, because no one is mentioning what the byproduct of vinyl chloride burning is. | ||
| One of the byproducts of burning vinyl chloride, one of them is hydrogen chloride. | ||
| Hydrogen chloride is really unstable and latches onto water, like just water vapor in the atmosphere, and that turns into hydrochloric acid. | ||
| So right now, government officials, officials from the railroad, both the governor of Pennsylvania and Ohio are calling burning off the million pounds of this stuff a success, but not mentioning that it means that we have hundreds of thousands of pounds of acid in the air, potentially. | ||
| Now, ever since engineering school, I've studied a lot of industrial accidents. | ||
| I just find it really fascinating, and organizations like the Chemical Safety Board, NTSB, and OSHA all have, like, really good reports available to the public. | ||
| I think as a designer, it's really good to learn about mistakes. | ||
| When looking at these kinds of industrial disasters across time, there are a couple things that are pretty universal across all of them. | ||
| One, the responsible party in this case, Norfolk Southern Railway, always plays down the reality of the situation. | ||
| Politicians also just repeat the same lines. | ||
| And then news outlets just repeat the same. | ||
| So all we're hearing is the responsible party's words. | ||
| Yeah, pretty incredible stuff. | ||
| Now that video that's been going around, it's a TikTok that is sort of a compilation of lots of videos from the surrounding area. | ||
| Clip number three, train development in Ohio currently emitting massive amounts of carcinogenic compounds into the air. | ||
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Let's watch. This is not storm clouds! | |
| Look at it! | ||
| This is horrible. | ||
| Ohio cops arrest a national news reporter for reporting the truth. | ||
| That also went down last Friday. | ||
| These are dead fish floating in and around the area. | ||
| The fumes can be deadly if inhaled. | ||
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Officials are claiming that the air and water are safe. | |
| Residents say they can still smell chlorine. | ||
| They've complained about their eyes watering when they go outside. | ||
| And one woman says the noxious air killed her chickens. | ||
| Out of nowhere, he just started coughing really hard and just shut down and went very fast. | ||
| They say the air quality is fine. | ||
| Eggs before the burn and then after. | ||
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This is within 10 miles of East Palestine. | |
| Rail company blocked safety rules before Ohio derailment. | ||
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| So there's a massive, again, unprecedented disaster. | ||
| Now we have two videos to go to from the local news. | ||
| We'll go first to clip number eight here. | ||
| East Palestine residents outside evacuation zone not included in reimbursement payment. | ||
| Yes, the company is already offering reimbursement payment to the people affected within one mile of this many, many miles wide disaster. | ||
| But it comes with a catch. | ||
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Let's watch. One week ago, a devastating train derailment chased residents in East Palestine from their homes. | |
| The image is just incredible of the smoke and fire afterwards. | ||
| But even as residents are allowed to return, many have come back to a toxic mess inside their homes. | ||
| Bree Buckley explains what's next for so many whose lives have been turned upside down. | ||
| We could just smell the chemical smell coming inside our house, outside. | ||
| It's been two days since officials gave the all clear for residents to return to their homes in East Palestine following the fiery train derailment. | ||
| But the effects still linger, with some saying they're left helpless. | ||
| My mattress, my couches, they just smell of the chemicals, my clothes. | ||
| We're in the midst of washing everything right now, trying to get the chemical smell out. | ||
| Regan Parker says she lives just outside the one-mile radius that was established as the evacuation zone, but she's being told by workers at the Norfolk Southern Family Assistance Center that she's also outside the eligibility for any reimbursement or a $1,000 inconvenience fee that's being handed out. | ||
| They basically just told me that because I wasn't in the one-mile evacuation zone, that the best that they could do for me was to have someone come into my house and clean. | ||
| That inconvenience fee really scares us. | ||
| Cleveland lawyer Michael O'Shea is representing a number of East Palestine residents impacted and says he's worried these payments could void any chance for claims down the road. | ||
| We were worried that if someone got that check, took that check for that inconvenience fee, that they would be waiving any future right to make any claims, which are totally impossible to determine at this time. | ||
| As the town grapples with the decision to return home, worried about what could be left behind. | ||
| A lot of people are scared to come home. | ||
| A lot of people haven't came back yet. | ||
| We really just didn't have the funds to stay away from home anymore. | ||
| We did get late word from a Norfolk Southern spokesperson who says accepting any of those payments is not a settlement of any future claim. | ||
| I also asked if they'll consider expanding compensation to residents outside the one-mile radius, but the spokesperson did not address that. | ||
| Russ? Okay, Brie Buckley. | ||
| Thank you. $1,000. | ||
| $1,000 for your trouble. | ||
| Sorry for killing all of your pets and poisoning the land and causing the potential for carcinogenic acid rain over the better part of several states. | ||
| How about $1,000? | ||
| How about a cool $1,000? | ||
| Will you shut up and go away now, please? | ||
| Absolutely wild stuff. | ||
| And again, we're going to get more into this. | ||
| We actually have the cargo manifest of the train itself, and it wasn't just the Vinyl chloride that it was carrying. | ||
| 200-mile radius report for East Palestine Village. | ||
| This is what they say the actual effect of this will be. | ||
| Again, we'll get into it on the other side. | ||
| Let me tell you, folks, it's events like this that I feel... | ||
| An extra level of responsibility to get to the bottom of because obviously the mainstream media is hardly covering this at all. | ||
| It is certainly not being reported with the amount of concern that it should be. | ||
| And so I know people turn to InfoWars because they know that we're not going to sugarcoat anything and we're not going to... | ||
| You know, hold the line for any big corporation or government entity. | ||
| So we'll get to the bottom of this, and we'll open up the phone calls for what you think has been going on in the next segment. | ||
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| All right, folks, we are covering the Ohio train accident. | ||
| If you can call it that, the explosion. | ||
| I mean, I don't even know how to categorize this. | ||
| The chemical disaster that is taking place as we speak in Ohio. | ||
| The seemingly absurd steps that the authorities took to mitigate this disaster. | ||
| And of course the steps that were taken in the first place to allow such a disaster to happen at all. | ||
| I actually have some information about that here. | ||
| Pete Buttigieg's Transportation Department skirting safety standards. | ||
| This, from all places, is from Jacobin, which I don't usually touch with a 10-put pole, but here we are. | ||
| In the aftermath of a fiery Ohio train derailment, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg's department has no plans to reinstate an Obama-era rail safety rule aimed at expanding the use of better braking technology. | ||
| Even though a former federal safety official recently warned Congress that without better brakes, quote, there will be more derailments and more releases of hazardous material. | ||
| Instead, transportation regulators have been considering a rail industry-backed proposal that could weaken existing brake safety rules. | ||
| Most of the nation's freight trains, including the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in Ohio, continue to rely on Civil War-era braking systems. | ||
| Norfolk Southern belongs to a lobby group that successfully pressed Donald Trump to repeal a 2015 rule requiring newer, safer electronic braking systems and some trains transmitting hazardous materials. | ||
| They reported last week. | ||
| But that's not the only instance of government involvement contributing to this disaster. | ||
| Libertarian Party Mises Caucus on Twitter, LP Mises Caucus, says the train derailment in Ohio is currently emitting massive amounts of carcinogenic compounds into the air. | ||
| This alone would be enough to make it interesting, but it seems there's more to the story. | ||
| Nolferk Southern seems to be operating hand-in-hand with the government in this area, going so far as to arrest reporters covering certain details of the incident. | ||
| The company has a strong lobbying presence and has been trickling out preparedness grants to emergency response and nonprofit organizations in the area that they operate, building dependency and increasing local departments' willingness to, quote, play ball with the company in suppressing information. | ||
| They point out how Norfolk has trickled out countless small to medium grants to public and private organizations in their operating areas, slowly building dependency on their funding to support everything from firefighting operations to school supplies and salaries. | ||
| They post some retweets from people who are there on the scene or just pointing out sort of the absurdity of what's going on. | ||
| Of course, socialists are making it a class issue because I guess unfortunately for them, 98% of East Palestine is white, so they can't claim that's because they're black that this is happening. | ||
| So yes, the environmental racism people, very confused as to whether to care about this or not. | ||
| But this is a very interesting one from the Christ-pilled Libertarian. | ||
| Hilarious. He is a Norfolk Southern conductor. | ||
| He says, Norfolk Southern operates hand-in-hand with government all the time. | ||
| They conspired with Congress and Joe Biden to force an end to a labor disagreement in December. | ||
| They've been dangerously negligent with manpower cuts for years. | ||
| This disraelment is the result. | ||
| Exelon has this agreement with local areas where they fund whole positions. | ||
| That answer to both emergency services and the nuclear power plant ensures the information that can be coordinated with the Joint Operations Center prior to reaching the public. | ||
| So again, the information about this coming out has been vetted by the very people that caused the crisis in the first place. | ||
| What exactly caused this derailment? | ||
| Still, as far as I can tell, a bit of a mystery. | ||
| CBS News has this story. | ||
| Video shows sparks and flames well before Ohio train derailment. | ||
| Stunning videos raising the questions for people in East Palestine and Ohio. | ||
| CBS Pittsburgh reports. | ||
| The video was captured the train 20 miles before it reached the site where it derailed. | ||
| It's raising questions about when the crew knew there was a problem. | ||
| The video obtained by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was taken by a security camera at an equipment plant in Salem, Ohio. | ||
| What appears to be sparks and flames can be seen in the video under one of the train cars as it passes the plant. | ||
| The National Transportation Safety Board referenced the video at a news conference last week. | ||
| And of course, we do have to rely heavily on local media in these instances as national media isn't picking up some of the more troubling aspects of this story. | ||
| And we'll go to another local media report here in just a second. | ||
| But here's a story from WKBN, East Palestine, Ohio. | ||
| Three additional chemicals discovered on East Palestine train derailment. | ||
| First News was recently informed of three more chemicals that were on the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine just over a week ago, and we're being told that those chemicals are dangerous. | ||
| Syl Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist, says, quote, we basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open. | ||
| The U.S. EPA has sent a letter to Norfolk Southern stating that ethanol, glycol, monobutyl ether... | ||
| Exylhexylacrylate and isobutylane were also in the rails cars that were derailed, breached, and or on fire. | ||
| Cargiano says that Exylhexylacrylate is especially worrisome. | ||
| He says it's a carcinogen and in contact with it can cause burning and irritation in the skin and eyes. | ||
| Breathing it can irritate the nose and throat and cause coughing and shortness of breath. | ||
| Isobulatane or butylane is known to cause dizziness and drowsiness when inhaled. | ||
| Quote, I was surprised when they quickly told people they can go back home and they said it... | ||
| If they feel like they want their homes tested, they can have them tested. | ||
| I would have far rather they did all the testing, Caggiano said. | ||
| Caggiano said it's possible some of these chemicals could still be present in homes and on objects until you clean them thoroughly. | ||
| And of course, we just saw the video of the girl saying that her house still reeks of chemicals. | ||
| There's a lot of what-ifs, and we're going to be looking at this thing 10, 15, 20 years down the line and wondering, gee, cancer clusters could pop up. | ||
| You know, well, water could go bad, Kageyano said. | ||
| Kageyano recommends anyone in East Palestine area should get a health checkup. | ||
| Get it on record where your health stands now so that moving forward you'll have documented any effects possibly related to this train derailment. | ||
| The drinking water in particular is a topic of this week. | ||
| Report from the local news there. | ||
| Clip number 18, train derailment aftermath. | ||
| East Palestine residents warned of risk drinking water. | ||
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Let's watch. Tonight, new developments in the aftermath of a toxic train derailment in East Palestine. | |
| Eight days after the fiery crash, the full scope of the disaster is still being realized as neighbors slowly return home. | ||
| There are new concerns tonight about contaminated drinking water. | ||
| Good evening. Thanks so much for joining us. | ||
| I'm Lena Lai. Tonight, here is what we know. | ||
| A contracting group for North Norfolk Southern is going door to door identifying homes with at-risk drinking water wells. | ||
| The worry is that the vinyl chloride that was released into the air is now leaching into the ground and impacting well water. | ||
| It was also a day of cleanup today for many neighbors within ground zero of the derailment. | ||
| The Salvation Army brought in truckloads of cleaning supplies to help. | ||
| And next weekend, a community-wide feast will be held in East Palestine to honor the first responders and firefighters who helped the town through the train disaster. | ||
| And tonight we are hearing firsthand from the crews who were on the ground from the minute that train derailment happened. | ||
| The East Palestine Fire Department and others no doubt saved lives with their quick actions. | ||
| Our Emma Henderson joins us now with a look at how the disaster is still having an impact on them. | ||
| Emma. Lina, the flames may be out, but the consequences of chemicals being spilled and released into the atmosphere are becoming more clear. | ||
| In this case, impacting the small town's fire gear. | ||
| East Palestine Fire Department was on the front lines battling the flames once the train derailed. | ||
| And because of that, they're now seeing the physical and financial toll it took on their gear. | ||
| Fire Chief Keith Drabik has already had to place an order tallying several hundred thousand dollars to make sure his crews have safe, new breathing apparatus. | ||
| Out on top, the rest of the inventory they continue to do, and it's still unclear just how much that final total will be. | ||
| The hose, our gear, our breathing apparatuses, our apparatuses in general, pretty much everything that we have, we're checking with manufacturers on just for the safety of my people. | ||
| Coming up at 11, we'll take a deeper look into the issues the fire department faces, as well as concerns from businesses that had to close in East Palestine. | ||
| All right, Emma, we'll check back with you at 11. | ||
| Thanks so much. So just absolute devastation. | ||
| They're sort of downplaying the effects of this so far, but they won't be able to do that for very long. | ||
| And again, I was hoping to finish up with this topic this hour, but we're going to have to continue it into the second hour because there's still so much more to talk about. | ||
| Some speculation, but really just the information coming out about this from people involved or people just with knowledge of the situation is... | ||
| Pretty devastating. But of course, we're going to have to move on eventually because we still have UFOs to talk about. | ||
| We still have the war in Ukraine to discuss and the effects of the President of the United States carrying out a secret terrorist attack on the Nord Stream pipeline. | ||
| Just total... | ||
| Assault on humanity. | ||
| Whether it's the vaccine or the toxic cloud over your town, whether it's food processing plants just going up in flames or trains going off the rails or airplanes colliding in the middle of the day, it's not looking good for all America moving into the future. | ||
| It looks like our insistence on failure is finally coming to fruition, and we're experiencing the chickens coming home to roost. | ||
| We used to launch people to the moon. | ||
| We used to build rockets and launch people to the moon, and they'd play golf there. | ||
| Do you remember that? | ||
| What's happened in the last 60 years? | ||
| Whatever could it be? | ||
| We probably got more racist. | ||
| I think it's probably climate change and racism, if I had to guess. | ||
| Stupid racist derailing trains. | ||
| We'll be right back to tell you the real issues on the other side. | ||
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You're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | |
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. Second hour of American Journal has begun. | ||
| We're going to continue to talk about this train derailment, Chernobyl-level man-made disaster unfolding in Ohio. | ||
| We're also going to open up the phones for your calls. | ||
| I'd like to request hold off on calls unless you have some sort of professional or expert insight into either the Ohio... | ||
| Disaster or the UFO situation? | ||
| We had a pilot call in from Oklahoma last Friday to discuss the UFO situation. | ||
| It was very... Or no, rather to talk about the near miss of the almost horrific disaster that took place in Austin Airport. | ||
| Just another example of our collapsing infrastructure, human infrastructure as well. | ||
| So everything's going down the tubes. | ||
| Don't know if you've noticed. | ||
| But it was very informative what he was able to tell us from his expertise as a pilot. | ||
| So I'm hoping anybody with either anybody with family in the area, what they've been told, If you're in the area yourself, please call in. | ||
| If you are an environmental remediation specialist, we'd love to hear from you. | ||
| So we're opening up the phone lines now. | ||
| Give us a call if you have some specific insight into this. | ||
| The number to dial is 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| And if you're not an expert and just want to comment on it, just hold off for a second. | ||
| We'll take your calls later in the show. | ||
| But... Please, let's leave the lines open for people who actually understand this. | ||
| Because it's one of the things that's like, I don't know who to talk about this with. | ||
| I don't know. I mean, the government's not going to talk to us. | ||
| The corporations aren't going to talk to us. | ||
| So, I don't personally know any chemical remediation experts in my Rolodex. | ||
| So, we're appealing to you, the American people. | ||
| See what you can come up with. So again, five tankers on the train that overturned last week were carrying liquid vinyl chloride, which is extremely combustible. | ||
| Last Sunday they became unstable and threatened to explode. | ||
| First responders and emergency workers had to vent the tankers, spill the vinyl chloride into a trench, and then burn it off before it turned the train into a bomb. | ||
| Authorities feared that an explosion could send shrapnel up to a mile away, and this derailment came after the apparent or suggested failure of warning systems. | ||
| We have obtained two videos that show preliminary indications of mechanical issues on one of the rail car axles, says Michael Graham, a member of the NTSB. That second video came from a processing plant in Salem a mile down the track. | ||
| In front of that plant is a hotbox detector which scans the temperature of axles as a train passes and sounds an alert if they're overheated. | ||
| The crew did receive an alarm from a wayside detector shortly before derailment indicating a mechanical issue, Graham said. | ||
| Then an emergency brake application initiated. | ||
| The NTBS says there was an alert, but it's not known whether it came from the hotbox detector in Salem or the next one down the track 20 miles away in East Palestine. | ||
| But again, I have to say, on top of the... | ||
| Economic and border, you know, economic collapse or staleness stalemate is taking place under the Biden administration and the, you know, domestic terror nonsense that they're using to destroy any dissident organizations in this country. | ||
| On top of the border crisis and the Ukraine war and the Afghanistan catastrophe... | ||
| The Transportation Administration under Joe Biden has been responsible for disaster after disaster and near disaster after near disaster. | ||
| It seems like not a week passes. | ||
| Between instances where either some massive catastrophe takes place or is just very nearly avoided. | ||
| The trains, the traffic with people being stuck in snowstorms for literally days while they try to clear the roads or the near-miss of passenger airplanes that would have, if not for the lightning-fast reflexes of the pilot, resulted in the death of Probably over 100 people on a Southwest Airlines flight. | ||
| All of these can be traced back to the Transportation Administration and their total failure to focus on anything that's real in favor of fulfilling the demands of leftist agitators who actively root for our destruction. | ||
| They root for it, and now they're getting it. | ||
| We have to pay the price. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. | ||
| We'll be taking your phone calls. | ||
| We already have people calling in with some sort of expertise, knowledge, and the situation unfolding now in Ohio. | ||
| Our train is derailed, spilling not just vinyl chloride, but a number of other very dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere and waterways. | ||
| It's worth pointing out that this took place very close to the Great Lakes, which are one of the world's largest surface freshwater ecosystems. | ||
| 84% of North America's surface freshwater and about 21% of the world's supply of surface freshwater. | ||
| So, yeah, pretty inconvenient. | ||
| To have it be all poisoned now. | ||
| But there you go. | ||
| Again, speculation as to whether this might be retaliation for the Nord Stream pipeline. | ||
| As again, when you see some sort of man-made disaster of biblical scale, you have to ask, was this an accident or was it on purpose? | ||
| I mean, if the American government is willing to blow up an underwater natural gas pipeline and cause an ecological disaster and push us towards war with a nuclear armed superpower, are they not also willing to do this to further their aims? | ||
| I mean, after all, they do seem to be at war with the natural world. | ||
| They are buying farms and shutting them down, killing off all the cows in favor of raising crickets for you to eat. | ||
| They are using the power of the World Economic Forum to lean on national governments to shut down entire swaths of agricultural industry to serve their completely arbitrary demands as to so-called climate change. | ||
| Just complete nonsense. | ||
| It's hard to even discuss it because there's just no logical consistency there. | ||
| So it's like, you know, whether it's being done through government fiat, And demands that you stop growing food or demands or industrial corporate demands that you use GMOs. | ||
| It's like whether the train explodes or the bill passes, either way you're getting poisoned. | ||
| Your water is being poisoned. | ||
| Your food is being poisoned. And there's a lot of speculation as to the occurrence of acid rain in the near future that may very well Just destroy the entire American heartlands. | ||
| I mean, it really is hard to overstate what a big deal this is and how little it's being covered. | ||
| Again, if you have any information on this, please do give us a call. | ||
| 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| Because all I can do, I'm not an expert in any of this, all I can do is try to aggregate news reports and statements from experts on this. | ||
| But I'd love to hear from people who... | ||
| Actually, you know, fully understand environmental remediation or trains. | ||
| If you've ever operated a hazardous material being carried by a train car, I want to hear from you. | ||
| We need expert information here because the only information we're getting from the mainstream media is that vetted by the corporation itself as we laid out earlier. | ||
| So again, give us a call. 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| This was posted on Twitter, just some numbers for you. | ||
| 141 loaded cars, 20 of them hazardous. | ||
| The rest, who knows, probably at least a little bit hazardous. | ||
| 14 carrying vinyl chloride, not the reported 10. | ||
| Each DOT 111 car carries 200,000 pounds of vinyl chloride, I think, which means upwards of 2.8 million pounds of vinyl chloride released were 1,270 tons. | ||
| A little bit different of a number than we heard earlier, which said upwards of a million, but we'll see. | ||
| For comparison, the Bhopal disaster involved only 42 tons of toxic gas. | ||
| That killed 4,000 people and injured 500,000. | ||
| Aaron for a big one. | ||
| UAE Exotic Falconry and Finance, aka Falconry Finance on Twitter, Has been posting some pretty great information about this. | ||
| He puts it this way, or she, I'm not sure who it is. | ||
| Ohio right now, there's a giant cloud of polyvinyl, it's actually just vinyl chloride, and a ton of other bad chemicals. | ||
| The local police blew it up like a beached whale. | ||
| Now megatoxins are Chernobling Ohio as there's a news blackout and the police are beating reporters and camera people and dragging them. | ||
| So that's what's happening. | ||
| That's a great way to put it. | ||
| And again, we have more people talking about this, and I'll report to you stuff that passes. | ||
| For me, the smell tester just makes sense logically consistent with things that I do know. | ||
| But we're getting a lot of this information from amateurs or people who act like they know, but it's really hard to tell, which is why we need experts to call in. | ||
| I see the phone lines are filling up, so we'll go to yours in just a second. | ||
| Gus at TheBottleKate on Twitter talks about another gas that may be a byproduct of the burning of this vinyl chloride. | ||
| He says the first byproduct is phosgene. | ||
| I don't know how to put phosgene, phosgene. | ||
| A colorless gas with the smell of musty hay. | ||
| It was first used as a chemical weapon during the First World War. | ||
| And Faustine's potential rests in the fact that it binds to alveoli in the lungs and causes heart failure. | ||
| It does this in a way that's often too late to detect with the fact that it has decently hard to detect odor and a lack of color. | ||
| When local authorities decided to burn the vinyl chloride, they released huge amounts of the chemical weapon into the air to be sped around not only East Palestine but also the surrounding areas. | ||
| So we now have chemical weapon lingering around places where the authorities have instructed civilians not to evacuate, potentially causing them exposure which could lead to long-term or short-term deadly respiratory effects. | ||
| They claim five days was enough to disperse the immediate area, but local residents beg to differ, citing smells of chlorine and other smells off the air. | ||
| We'll get to the chlorine smell. | ||
| Let's go quickly now. | ||
| We have Tom in Nashville, who's a lawyer, who wants to talk about this. | ||
| Tom, I know there's already been, I believe, a class action lawsuit filed, but what's your take on what's going on in Ohio, Tom? | ||
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Well, it really makes me angry because, and you've stated it very well, but if you put together a risk assessment of this, it is Bhopal's strength and maybe beyond. | |
| It'll go on for years. | ||
| There's no amount of money you can imagine. | ||
| We'll get it done. | ||
| I would say that there are a couple of legal strategies that we need to remember and think about and work on. | ||
| But I would mention that Tom Rents is an Ohio attorney. | ||
| He's working in this area. | ||
| So any of you that know him or work with him or anything, I would love to be in touch with you and help you. | ||
| This is only one of About seven or eight asymmetric wars. | ||
| I've talked to Alex about this in a call. | ||
| But when you think about it, it's very... | ||
| Some people are very focused on how do they deal with this because they're the victims of it. | ||
| On the other hand, you know, across Ohio, Mama Bear's concerned about their kids at school. | ||
| They have their own concerns. | ||
| So we all have... The metaphor I'm thinking about that I just... | ||
| I just thought of this week is that we have formed a potentially very powerful flotilla. | ||
| Because the mama bears are in their boat. | ||
| Everybody that lives around this train wreck is in their boat. | ||
| But class action lawsuits are certainly one legal thing that needs to be looked at. | ||
| And I know a way. | ||
| I'd love to talk to Tom Rents, his attorneys, about it. | ||
| I know a way to get past the standing issue. | ||
| I know a way to file a class action lawsuit with a single plaintiff because it's a Rule 23 problem and it takes forever and it's very difficult and then the courts throw you out on a standing issue. | ||
| But that doesn't have to happen if you use agency law as a tool and you can file a single plaintiff class action suit. | ||
| What they need to also look for is injunctions against the railroads, a particular railroad that did this, because it would be devastating to that railroad to find that somehow they're not allowed to go through Ohio or they have to detour routes because it would be devastating to that railroad to find that somehow they're | ||
| And they're going to – all of a sudden, they'll come up with all kinds of money to keep from doing that is one likely episode. | ||
| The other thing that we all have to remember is so important is probably the biggest legal tool or weapon we have, which is jury nullification. | ||
| So that's going to – All of this will play a part in this long risk assessment problem. | ||
| Yeah. Thank you so much for the call, Tom. | ||
| I mean, we don't even know what the effects of this are, so filing a lawsuit now, I mean, I guess, you know, jump off the gun, but I mean... | ||
| Who knows what it's going to take to try to get justice for the people that have been affected by this. | ||
| Alright folks, we do still have a lot of other stuff to talk about. | ||
| I do want to get to the Ukraine war and the UFO nonsense. | ||
| There's still a lot to talk about, but there's still so much to discuss with this Ohio train case. | ||
| We are getting some very interesting calls. | ||
| We got Richard from Texas, Scott from Massachusetts. | ||
| Also, somebody from New Jersey called in. | ||
| They actually owned a remediation company. | ||
| I'd love if you'd call back. | ||
| You dropped for some reason, but I was excited to go to your call. | ||
| So we'll go to the calls in just a moment. | ||
| I do want to return. | ||
| To just some of the Twitter threads that are exposing things about this as well as some of the investigation I was able to do last night into exactly what you're supposed to do with vinyl chloride and just how dangerous it is. | ||
| But returning to this thread by TheBottleKate, at TheBottleKate, aka Gus on Twitter. | ||
| He says the second byproduct of the burn has further long-term implications. | ||
| The byproduct is hydrogen chloride. | ||
| For those of you who don't know, that is a gas. | ||
| When reacting with water, it turns into hydrochloric acid. | ||
| Why is this important? Well, hydrochloric acid is, well, an acid. | ||
| When hydrogen chloride, it turns into hydrochloric acid. | ||
| In the clouds over the region surrounding East Palestine, we could get acid rain. | ||
| It literally acidifies the earth to no longer grow crops or plants. | ||
| When near waterways, it kills local wildlife. | ||
| And when the hydrochloric acid seeps into the soil, it also seeps into the groundwater. | ||
| If it were small concentrations, it might not be a cause for concern. | ||
| But when you have four, 30,000-gallon tankers spill and burn, it turns out to be quite an issue. | ||
| So not only is the air potentiality of a mostly odorless and colorless chemical weapon, but also is susceptible to acid rain and the soil and water acidification. | ||
| But that's not all. | ||
| The boiling point for vinyl chloride is eight degrees Fahrenheit below freezing. | ||
| So when you have vinyl chloride in the air, it surely isn't as bad as phosphine, a chemical weapon. | ||
| Right. | ||
| Well, it can cause all sorts of issues, respiratory issues, et cetera, et cetera. | ||
| And of course people are reporting that their house pets have died, their chickens have died, there are fish dead in the river, and people returning to the area say everything reeks of chlorine to the extent that they have to wash their sofas and things. | ||
| Now this is from the National Cancer Institute at Cancer.gov. | ||
| They talk about vinyl chloride, talking about how common it is. | ||
| They say workers at facilities where vinyl chloride is produced or used may be exposed primarily through inhalation. | ||
| The general population may be exposed by inhaling contaminated air or tobacco smoke. | ||
| In the environment, highest levels of vinyl chloride are found in air around factories that produce vinyl products. | ||
| If the air supply is contaminated, vinyl chloride can enter a household air when the water is used for showering, cooking, or laundry. | ||
| Vinyl chloride exposure is associated with an increased risk of rare cancer in the form of liver cancer as well as primary liver cancer, brain and lung cancers, lymphoma, and leukemia. | ||
| And again, they say the safe level of exposure is one part per million, which I imagine, if you're smelling it, reeking out of your sofas and, you know, other... | ||
| Cloth material is probably more than that. | ||
| This is the vinyl chloride page on the EPA's website at epa.gov, a snapshot from the 19th of January 2017. | ||
| They repeat some of just what we heard, but it is classified as Group A, a human carcinogen. | ||
| Ambient air concentrations of vinyl chloride are generally quite low, with exposure occurring from discharge of exhaust gases from factories that manufacture or process vinyl chloride or evaporation from areas where chemical wastes are stored. | ||
| Drinking water may contain vinyl chloride released from contact with polyvinyl pipes. | ||
| Vinyl chloride is a microbial degradation product of And we can also go through some of the remediation suggestions here. | ||
| And we can go through it, the physical, chemical, biological absorption. | ||
| This is all from the, you know, official suggested way you remediate this environmental damage. | ||
| None of it says blow the whole damn thing up and turn it into a giant mushroom cloud, but that's what they did. | ||
| Let's go out to your phone calls now. | ||
| Richard in Texas, you're an engineering manager with EPA certification. | ||
| What is your take on what we're seeing occur now in Ohio? | ||
| Richard from Texas, you're on the air. | ||
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Yeah, so essentially, I'm responsible for the bulk chemical and gas delivery systems, among other things, at our plant. | |
| I'm the incident commander for the emergency response team. | ||
| I have a RICRA certification, HAZWAPER certification, Homeland Security, Chemical Vulnerability, Terrorism Information Certification and Clearance. | ||
| I've actually remediated three. | ||
| We almost had three excursions at our plant and I was able to stop them. | ||
| Ours were wastewater excursions where Essentially, you know, in a semiconductor plant you have to treat the wastewater before it goes out to the city to be further remediated, but it's a similar thing because you're discharging these chemicals directly out into the environment. | ||
| So essentially what happened here was I think they did the right thing because having an acid byproduct versus a carcinogen would be an ideal outcome. | ||
| A lot of times When you have an excursion like this and you have a carcinogen, that's the worst possible outcome because there's nothing you can do about that. | ||
| But a burn or some dead animals you can deal with, but millions of people with cancer is literally the worst possible outcome. | ||
| So that's not my biggest concern. | ||
| But really, I would say... | ||
| You know, essentially what happens when you know you have a discharge over a certain part per million, you have to contact the local water authority immediately, and you work with the local government, you have to have a response plan that's already pre-written. | ||
| They would have already trained with the local fire department and all that stuff. | ||
| So all this stuff is already in place, and they know what they're going to do. | ||
| But I would say, yeah, keep looking into the secondary chemicals. | ||
| Like, for example, I've seen a couple excursions at big companies like Samsung and stuff where last year they killed off a whole branch of the river here in Texas with a sulfuric acid excursion and they got a huge fine for that. | ||
| But a lot of times they'll try and talk about the least dangerous chemical and they'll put that out in the news because they don't want you to see the other stuff that's going out with it. | ||
| So I would say keep digging into that. | ||
| I'm not an expert in any of these particular chemicals, so I'm not going to speak on that. | ||
| But I would say look and see what else is in there. | ||
| Well, there may be something unusual there. | ||
| But the other issue I wanted to bring up is what a lot of people don't know. | ||
| For example, Intel in Arizona, they actually have a permit to re-inject their wastewater into the aquifer. | ||
| So this may sound like it's a huge deal, and it is. | ||
| Don't get me wrong. But you would not believe what Fortune 500 manufacturing companies are already doing legally to the environment. | ||
| Essentially, their lawyers work with the local governing authority, and they say, you can discharge this much of this, this much of this, this much of this, and if there's a variance. | ||
| A lot of times, you don't even get fined if there's a variance, depending on how bad it is or whatever. | ||
| But, you know, like I said, one of the lawyers at our plant was the lawyer for the Intel plant, and he was telling me about this, and I'm like, how is this legal? | ||
| He's like, yeah, you know, it's just the way it works, you know? | ||
| And, like, essentially, you know, even all the semiconductor plants in Austin, they're discharging stuff like titanium tetrachloride and TEMA. All these things are basically instantly fatal, but they're supposedly... | ||
| You know, in concentrations that are low enough, and that's what I really want people to know, is that all the carcinogens that are used in all these, you know, tech companies, none of those are remediated. | ||
| The only thing you're required by law to remediate is acids and bases. | ||
| So essentially, your wastewater... | ||
| Tell you what, if you don't mind holding on, Rich, I'd love to come back to you. | ||
| This has been a great call. We'll finish up with Richard and go to Scott and John on the other side. | ||
| More calls from people who know what they're talking about. | ||
| We'll be right back. Welcome back, folks. | ||
| We're going to try to finish up the train derailment in this segment with your phone calls. | ||
| We've got Richard in Texas and Scott in Massachusetts. | ||
| Richard, we'll finish up your phone call in just a moment. | ||
| Again, one of the strange wrinkles of this story is that in East Palestine, Ohio, where this train derailment took place... | ||
| A very similar occurrence was filmed last year for a movie called White Noise, and actually some of the residents affected by this real disaster were actually asked to play extras in the fake version of Of a very, very similar disaster in exactly the same area with almost exactly the same outcome. | ||
| Predictive programming, just a good guess, mere coincidence. | ||
| I guess I'll leave that up to you to decide, but it's just yet another... | ||
| Again, this is the movie, but compare what you're seeing in the movie to the images of the actual train derailment. | ||
| It's hard to tell which is which. | ||
| And, I mean, it's just another sort of wild aspect of this. | ||
| Now again, just to reiterate, the tankers threatened to explode. | ||
| First responders and emergency workers had to vent the tankers, spill the vinyl chloride into a trench, and then burn it off before it turned the train into a bomb. | ||
| Authorities feared that an explosion could send shrapnels up to a mile away. | ||
| So I guess the idea is if they didn't burn it off, it very well could. | ||
| Well, if they didn't vent it, it very well could have turned into a size of a small nuclear explosion, completely leveled an area, you know, a mile around the crash site. | ||
| So they had to vent it. | ||
| Once they vented it, then it was poisoning the water and the soil there. | ||
| So they had to light on fire. | ||
| So I guess my question to you, Richard, Richard in Texas, you mentioned this. | ||
| I just want to sort of clarify the answer. | ||
| Do you think this was the best idea to burn it off? | ||
| I mean, obviously it was damned if you do, damned if you don't. | ||
| I guess the... The least of the evils to choose from. | ||
| Still not good, but you think as you have experience in similar matters that they probably made the right choice in lighting it on fire because otherwise it would have been the carcinogenic properties would have been much more of a concern as they seeped into the oil and the groundwater and the crops and everything. | ||
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Do I have that right, Richard? Yeah, I mean, essentially, when you have a disaster, you're trying to have the best outcome. | |
| There is no good outcome. | ||
| So, especially when you have a big company like this, they may have even been in contact with the governor and the local EPA or maybe even the federal EPA. You know, I don't know how big and powerful this company is. | ||
| I work at a fairly small plant compared to some of these gigantic ones, but I've also been at two Fortune 100 manufacturing companies as well. | ||
| Those companies with a lot of juice, their immediate thought, and it's actually their legal requirement, is to mitigate the fine that they'll receive because they have a responsibility for their investors. | ||
| Essentially, they want guidance from the government because they can say, well, you told me to do it. | ||
| Right. Yeah, it makes sense. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. No, absolutely. And of course, we know they're already handing out $1,000 checks to the people, you know, in the exact zone where it happened. | ||
| And people taking these checks are worried that that might mean that they're waiving their ability to sue for this later. | ||
| But yeah, I don't see that being a possibility. | ||
| And the company has said that that's not the case. | ||
| So I wouldn't hesitate to Because after all, if you've got to move and grab all your stuff and rent a van to get out and go rent a hotel, I mean, the company should be paying for that. | ||
| It's their fault all that's happening. Well, thank you very much for that call, Richard. | ||
| Don't hang up. Stay on the line, Richard, because I know Matt wants to ask you a question real quick. | ||
| So don't hang up, Richard, but we are going to move to Scott in Massachusetts. | ||
| Scott, you are a locomotive engineer. | ||
| You want to talk about this hotbox detector investigation that's going on. | ||
| The story's from CBS News where they talk about And again, they don't give a specific answer. | ||
| They don't say, this is what failed and that's why we didn't know. | ||
| It's sort of vague. It says, well, there was a detection, but obviously the alarm didn't go off. | ||
| They're sort of vague about this. | ||
| So I'm very glad you've called in. | ||
| You might be able to shed some light on it. | ||
| What's your take on this train derailment? | ||
| What went wrong here? Any ideas? | ||
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Hey, good morning, Harrison. | |
| Thanks for taking my call. Sure. | ||
| The hotbox detectors, every train crew needs to know where they are on your line, and they go off no matter what. | ||
| They either tell you it's all clear or it will give you an alarm, and you have to take immediate action. | ||
| And those actions depend on the makeup of the train. | ||
| Say if it was a key train, which is 30 or more loaded hazardous material cars, you have to stop immediately. | ||
| But if you're below that threshold, say 29 loaded cars, You simply slow down and wait for the next detector and see what happens. | ||
| I think that's a mistake, but those are the rules that you have to follow. | ||
| So, as far as the NTSB goes, they're always covering up for the railroads. | ||
| As a crew member, it's difficult to get information on any type of accident, but they're always covering it up. | ||
| And to let the public know is even more difficult. | ||
| So when it comes to the hotbox, there's certain rules that the crew needs to follow. | ||
| And I just would need more information about the train, direction of travel, speed, these types of things. | ||
| There's so many factors involved and so many rules that need to be followed that it's difficult. | ||
| To come to a conclusion when all along these people know exactly what's happening and they always cover it up. | ||
| If they can't immediately blame the crew, then they go into cover-up mode. | ||
| Yeah, I'm not surprised by that. | ||
| Somebody who claims to be a Norfolk Southern conductor reiterates sort of what you're saying. | ||
| NS operates hand in hand with the government all the time. | ||
| They conspired with Congress and Joe Biden to force an end to a labor agreement in December. | ||
| They've been dangerously negligent with manpower cuts for years. | ||
| This derailment is the result. | ||
| So he seems to think it was a matter of... | ||
| Like not having enough people on staff, either on the train or monitoring, to adequately provide the safety necessary to prevent this type of accident. | ||
| As an engineer yourself, would you say this is something that's happening across the board, or have you not heard of something like this? | ||
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Oh, I would absolutely agree with that conductor. | |
| You start off in train and engines operations as a conductor, which is the boss of the train. | ||
| And then later on you become an engineer, which is just an operator. | ||
| It's actually a demotion, but you get a raise and pay. | ||
| So it's usually the newer guys that are conductors, and you have to be very quick and quick-witted to be a conductor and to understand the nuances of what's going on in the industry. | ||
| So, yeah, I would agree that there is... | ||
| A huge manpower shortage. | ||
| And it's been going on for years. | ||
| And I've recently just given up on the railroad because I don't want to deal with it anymore. | ||
| Well, that is a shame. | ||
| It's honestly surprising. I gotta say, I... I would love to be a train conductor. | ||
| I think that sounds like the coolest job in the world. | ||
| I don't know how there aren't, you know, more kids growing up. | ||
| You ask a kid, a lot of kids say they want to be train conductors. | ||
| You know, why not follow through with that dream and actually, you know, be a responsible conductor of trains that we need necessarily. | ||
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The idea is far more romantic than the reality of it. | |
| Oh, don't tell me that, Scott. | ||
| I just want to ride the rails. | ||
| I just want to ride the rails across this great country. | ||
| Wow. Well, thank you so much for that call, Scott. | ||
| Very informative. Thank you very much. | ||
| These calls have been exactly what I was hoping we would get. | ||
| So I'm confident now in some of the information that I'm sharing since you guys have helped to confirm it. | ||
| Just continue with this post on Twitter. | ||
| So yeah, thank you so much for the call, Scott. | ||
| I really do appreciate it. | ||
| Conductor here, this may be rumor, but I'll go ahead and read to you anyway. | ||
| He says, the derailment happened as the crew was being notified by a wayside hot wheel detector. | ||
| That's the hot box Scott was talking about. | ||
| There was nothing they could do, he says. | ||
| His source of that, he says, is his buddy who works at that district and knows the guys that were on the train. | ||
| So take that for what it's worth. | ||
| But it seems like... | ||
| There were perhaps multiple failure points that resulted in this utter and total catastrophe. | ||
| And again, we'll keep you up to date as new information comes out. | ||
| On the other side of this break, I'm going to show you a video from a Romanian member of parliament talking about an earthquake machine. | ||
| As well as a Japanese former finance minister also talking about America's earthquake machine. | ||
| Yeah, maybe more real than it sounds. | ||
| We'll be back on the other side. | ||
| This is InfoWars. | ||
| InfoWarsStore.com is how you support this quest for truth. | ||
| Again, folks, we could go on and on about this Ohio train derailment. - And we could go on and on about just vinyl chloride, but that's not the only dangerous chemical that was on the train. | ||
| In fact, if you look at the manifest, which we have, and I posted on my Substack, off-limits news, you can go to harrisonhillsmith.substack.com and find all those stories and do your own reading into this, including some of the official publications from the EPA, | ||
| Again, it'd take too much time to read all of these, but health hazard information, it's just like dizziness, drowsiness, headaches, irritation of the eyes and respiratory tract, acute exposure at extremely high levels, loss of consciousness, lung and kidney irritation. | ||
| It can cause reproductive problems. | ||
| Chronic effects include liver damage and... | ||
| There's a such thing called vinyl chloride disease, which is characterized by your fingers turning white in numbness and discomfort upon exposure. | ||
| It's pretty horrific stuff. | ||
| Reproductive developmental effects. | ||
| Male sexual performance may be affected by vinyl chloride. | ||
| Several epidemiological studies have reported association between vinyl chloride exposure in pregnant women and increased incidence of birth defects. | ||
| I mean, it just goes on and on. | ||
| And of course, there's the rare cancers that it causes as well. | ||
| Just, again, a horrific effect. | ||
| And I know it's times like this. | ||
| I sort of mentioned this earlier. But I always think back to the Las Vegas shooting, October of 2018, right? | ||
| Was that 2017? We had just started to do the InfoWars Live 3 to 5. | ||
| When I started working here, the only show we had was the Alex Jones Show. | ||
| That was it. Owen worked here. | ||
| Dave Knight worked here. I mean, there were a lot of reporters and people working. | ||
| We had the nightly news that was half pre-recorded. | ||
| It was mostly just reports and stuff, but... | ||
| Alex wanted to roll out these live shows like the American Journal and the War Room. | ||
| And so sort of to practice, we started the live three to five back when we were on YouTube. | ||
| And it was sort of a fun, freewheeling kind of thing. | ||
| But it launched right around the same time that the Las Vegas shooting happened. | ||
| And I remember like family members of mine and friends of mine going, I just tuned in to InfoWars for the first time because I really want to know what's going on in Las Vegas. | ||
| And you turn on the media and... | ||
| They're talking about it, but they're clearly not saying everything. | ||
| They're clearly covering stuff up. | ||
| They're clearly trying to turn it to their own agenda, and I'm just not getting the truth. | ||
| I don't know what the truth is. I know I'm not getting it from the mainstream media, so I found myself going to Infowars. | ||
| So I think about that a lot. | ||
| Anytime there's one of these big events where people are looking to the mainstream media and coming up empty, they turn to Infowars because they know that we're going to just tell you everything we know, try to just get it all across the table, leave it up to you to decide what the truth behind it all is. | ||
| But it's nice, and it's also a responsibility, I feel, to cover this stuff when I know that you go to the mainstream media and it'll be a lot of just the same talking points and the same, like, welcome to NPR. A train derailment in Ohio has people asking whether... | ||
| It's being cared about because the victims are white. | ||
| We go to expert anti-white activist, Lucreche LeBaron, and they're just like, thanks, Jannie. | ||
| Of course, it's going to be a typical white people caring about it. | ||
| It's just like, I'm trying to learn about a train derailment, you psychopath. | ||
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| We will be here continuing to tell you all of this information and caring and not a whit about Who wants us to or doesn't want us to talk about this stuff? | ||
| We don't care. Big corporations don't want you to... | ||
| Well, they can go jump in a lake. | ||
| Now, I want to go... I have so many videos to go to. | ||
| I still want to talk about the UFO thing. | ||
| I think first... | ||
| Let's just go to this video. | ||
| This is clip number 11. | ||
| We are going to talk a little bit later about the Romanian MP and the Turkey earthquake. | ||
| I mean, that's a huge video that you absolutely have to see. | ||
| It's just very long. It's over six minutes long. | ||
| So we'll save that for a little bit. | ||
| So in the meantime, I want to show you this video. | ||
| I think this is an important one to discuss as well. | ||
| Clip number 11. It may very well be that the scourge of affirmative action, which has negative impacts on absolutely everybody in the country, those granted affirmative action and those overlooked because of affirmative action, it's just not good for anybody. | ||
| And I think this video sort of tells you why, but it may be going away as more lawsuits are now being put in front of the Supreme Court that Just how one-sided and discriminatory and biased the affirmative action laws are. | ||
| Here's a little breakdown as to the effects of race when it comes to getting into Harvard. | ||
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Let's watch. Who has over a 50% chance of getting into Harvard? | |
| This week, we found out that African-American students who score in the top decile, you can see right here, have over a 50% chance of getting into Harvard. | ||
| If you score even in the ninth decile, you're still over a coin flip at getting in. | ||
| That's over 10 times the regular admission rate. | ||
| And as this brief points out, what's even more striking is that Applicants who are African American here in the fourth decile, where basically if you're Asian American, you have less than a 1% chance of admission. | ||
| They have over a 12% chance of admission, 12.8%, which is still higher than if you were in the top decile academically as an Asian American. | ||
| So, yeah, pretty incredible stuff. | ||
| Again, who is this good for? | ||
| Who does this help? Is it good to send the black student that may be top 10% of his class, may succeed wildly at a state school, but you're going to send him to Harvard, where he probably doesn't actually qualify, right? | ||
| If he was a different race, he would have never gotten in. | ||
| But because he's black, he gets in, he gets there, he's surrounded by people that are More qualified than him is just a fact. | ||
| That's the effect of affirmative action. | ||
| It's not his fault. It's not that he's a stupid person. | ||
| It's just that Harvard is an elite institution that you're supposed to take only the most qualified for. | ||
| So if he's not qualified, he could be qualified, in which case, great. | ||
| Go to Harvard. Fantastic. Well done. | ||
| If he's not, but he goes anyway, he's either setting himself up for failure or he's setting Harvard up for failure. | ||
| You know, the feedback loop of lowering expectations, right? | ||
| Because what happens if you do all this affirmative action to get a lot of black students into Harvard... | ||
| But you do it by lowering the standards when it comes to black students so they have a harder time passing Harvard. | ||
| Do you lower standards in order to have that high passing rate? | ||
| Or are you then accused of racism because while you let in a bunch of black students, the black students aren't passing to the same level? | ||
| So the curriculum must be racist. | ||
| I mean, it's a feedback loop of nonsense that we can just do away with. | ||
| We just don't need it. We just don't need it. | ||
| It's not... It's racist to have academic standards. | ||
| It's just not. Sorry. | ||
| That's just how it is. And it doesn't matter what race you are. | ||
| If you have achieved those standards, you should reap the rewards. | ||
| But if you don't achieve those standards, I don't care what race you are, you probably shouldn't go to Harvard. | ||
| That's just how it is. I shouldn't go to Harvard. | ||
| Like, I'm not capable of doing that. | ||
| So why would I go into debt to go do something that will likely end in failure? | ||
| It just makes no sense whatsoever. | ||
| But this is the way that our... | ||
| I honestly do. | ||
| I can't help but see a connection between, you know, article after article after article, doing things like saying it's time for white men to take a backseat when it comes to air traffic controlling. | ||
| And it's just like, really? Air traffic control? | ||
| Transporting hazardous waste? | ||
| You know, waging war, these are the things that you want to lower your standards on. | ||
| These are the things that you're willing to cut corners just to up the racial percentage that you desire. | ||
| I mean, this is suicidal. This is ridiculous. | ||
| Racial preferences massively boost blacks and Hispanic applicants. | ||
| It's not good for the black or Hispanic applicants either. | ||
| This isn't a thing of race. | ||
| This is a thing of I want to live in a country where a giant car full of poison doesn't explode in my backyard. | ||
| Where I can take a plane flight and know that there's not going to be some diversity hire directing a FedEx plane to... | ||
| T-bone the Southwest flight I'm on. | ||
| I mean, this is just... | ||
| We live in a world that was built by merit, by merit, by a meritocracy, by choosing the best people, no matter who they are, for the job that they best fit. | ||
| And... If you're changing that, if you're altering that, if you're warping that to fit some bizarre social engineering design, we all suffer the consequences of this. | ||
| So I see a direct line between our seemingly increasing inability to just keep things operating and running, keep the electricity on, keep the planes in the air, keep the trains on the track. | ||
| I mean, all of this stuff is... | ||
| Somehow getting more difficult. | ||
| Somehow we just aren't up to the same standards we were before. | ||
| I think maybe the reason for that is the lowering of standards across the board. | ||
| You've got a Baltimore school system. | ||
| 23 high schools, not a single one proficient in math. | ||
| But they're graduating and they're getting degrees and they're probably going to college because diversity after all. | ||
| This is suicidal thinking on a national level. | ||
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It's insane. Alright folks, welcome back. | |
| Third Hour has begun. We'll be joined shortly by Angela McArdle, the chair of the National Libertarian Party. | ||
| Before we do that, I want to play this video. | ||
| It is a woman named Diana Sosowaka. | ||
| She is a Romanian member of parliament. | ||
| And here she is talking about the claim that the earthquake that recently devastated Turkey and Syria was in fact a man-made weapon from the U.S. Let's watch. | ||
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She says, thank you. | |
| The title of my political statement, people had to die and it's not over yet. | ||
| Dear fellow senators, for three years we have been experiencing a real campaign of mass killing worldwide. | ||
| Either through alleged pandemics and the imminent need to inject untested vaccines that kill people. | ||
| Or through wars that reduce the world's population, but rearranges international politics, realigns power. | ||
| We've lived to witness the production of earthquakes on command, which is actually an attack on Turkey by the greatest of the world, who totally disliked being set up by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey. | ||
| Moreover, his position of neutrality and mediator in the Ukrainian-Russian war deeply disturbed them, especially since Turkey is the second great power from a military point of view within NATO. His position to block Sweden's accession to NATO, his speech in Davos, as well as the gesture of leaving in the middle of the press conference defying Schwab — he got up and left while Schwab was talking — do not remain without an echo in the Cold War world of leaders of the world. | ||
| But no one thought that people would have to die, so many people, and in such a terrible way. | ||
| And it's just a warning, because it wasn't the most populated area of Turkey. | ||
| 150 aftershocks of a devastating earthquake, the second larger than the first, without the existence of a center. | ||
| The area is being artificially stimulated. | ||
| Geological weapons have existed for a long time, being used so far without causing too many casualties, probably for experiments. | ||
| Now it has been put into practice. | ||
| If we look carefully at the map of Turkey, we will see that it is furrowed by gas and oil pipelines, this being actually one of the goals. | ||
| But 10 seconds before the occurrence of the so-called earthquake, the Turks closed these. | ||
| In addition, 24 hours before the earthquake, 10 countries withdrew their ambassadors from Turkey. | ||
| Five days before its occurrence, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a travel warning for Romanians. | ||
| Although there was no danger, as did other countries. | ||
| By killing people, they served their interests. | ||
| The map shown on all television channels showed that there was no epicenter but a line with thousands. | ||
| The Turkish Secret Services are investigating a possible criminal intervention. | ||
| We did an involvement of another state in triggering the first earthquake. | ||
| What followed later being a chain reaction after the destabilization of tectonic plates in the region. | ||
| It is very clear that President Erdogan was punished for his courage, dignity and honor for his closeness with the Russian Federation. | ||
| In fact, a position of neutrality and mediation for peace In addition, it is desired to divert people's attention from Ukraine, where representatives of many countries have already begun to shout against the despotism—and I'm sorry, this video is cut off, it's not us doing that, that's just the video—as if he is ruling the world and somebody is obliged to send weapons and participate in his war. | ||
| In a war, he sacrificed his own people and destroyed his entire country. | ||
| Anyone who speaks of peace is put on the pole of infamy and attacked from all sides. | ||
| This is what happened in Romania when I started the unique initiative Neutrality for Romania. | ||
| The peace, they all rushed at me. | ||
| Although now, after one year of war, almost all of them say everything that I said and supported from the beginning, claiming now they are the... | ||
| Speakers of truth, plagiarist Pharisees, Judas, because of you, people who have died and continue to die, you all have stained your hands with the blood of millions of people killed for the interest of some madmen. | ||
| And we'll put this full video up on band.video. | ||
| We're going to upload this full video on band.video. | ||
| We'll try to find a version where you can actually see the lower lines of dialogue there of the stories at Gateway Pundit. | ||
| Everything from the earthquake to the vaccine program to the war in Ukraine, it's all part of the same plot, for the same people, for the same purposes. | ||
| Total enslavement and destruction, depopulation, dehumanization. | ||
| What we've been telling you this whole time, it's a war. | ||
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I thank you very much. | |
| The political declaration is titled, It was necessary to die people and it was not finished yet. | ||
| Dear friends, Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? | ||
| So help you God? Let the record show that the witnesses all entered in the affirmative. | ||
| The fired, treasonous clowns of Twitter faced the truth and their accusers at a Republican majority House oversight committee. | ||
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I did not act unlawfully or otherwise inappropriately in any manner with respect to Hunter Biden's laptop. | |
| While I was at Twitter, the company never lost sight of its deep commitment to promoting and defending free expression around the world. | ||
| In nearly eight years at Twitter, I worked in and led a division called Trust and Safety. | ||
| The gray area of this work, though, is when Trust and Safety teams have to make decisions about so-called lawful but awful material. | ||
| Content that may be legal in many jurisdictions but isn't something most people would want to experience. | ||
| Unrestricted free speech, paradoxically, results in less speech, not more. | ||
| It was our job in trust and safety to try to strike an appropriate balance. | ||
| Every day, we had to decide whether a particular piece of content equated to yelling fire in a crowded theater. | ||
| Well, Mr. Roth, did you write this tweet? | ||
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I regret the language that I used in some of my former tweets, but yes, I did post that. | |
| Yes, that person in the pink hat is clearly a bigger threat to your brand of feminism than actual Nazis in the White House. | ||
| Mr. Roth, do you think all conservatives are Nazis? | ||
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Certainly not, sir. Did Ms. | |
| Gaddy or any other lawyer at Twitter ever tell you to take down that tweet? | ||
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No, Twitter did not have a practice of restricting employees sharing their personal viewpoints on the service. | |
| Twitter placed ads from U.S. companies, including Amazon, Disney, McDonald's, and on the Twitter accounts of the Taliban news organization and their spokespersons and their senior leaders. | ||
| Ms. Gaddy, did Twitter make money off placed ads on Taliban Twitter accounts? | ||
| On August 26, 2021, when 13 U.S. men and women died in a suicide bombing. | ||
| I have no knowledge of this matter. | ||
| Unexpectedly, the hearing experienced a dubious power outage. | ||
| When order out of chaos had been restored, Democrats rallied to essentially protect their donor class cabal in Silicon Valley, no matter the damage or violation it represented towards the republic. | ||
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We should be talking about the threats to our democracy. | |
| That's the real threat, not an old article that seemingly couldn't reach the viewership it sought through its own platform to disparage and attempt to skew the election in favor of a twice impeached former president who lost a secure and fair election. | ||
| You stated that Donald Trump described his own tweets as little missiles. | ||
| Why did that stick in your mind? | ||
| Yes, the quote that you're referring to, I don't remember exactly what news article that it was in, but it was a news article that I had read in which the former president said that he liked to send out his tweets like little missiles. | ||
| To me, that sounded exactly like weaponization of a platform in his own words, and yet Twitter was not concerned. | ||
| Free speech is about the government limiting speech about the public. | ||
| My governor, Ron DeSantis, is doing that right now. | ||
| I have a venue in my district that he's revoking the liquor license of, trying to close because they had a drag show. | ||
| They want the ability to inject this again. | ||
| So they've dragged a social media platform here in Congress. | ||
| They're weaponizing the use of this committee. | ||
| So that they can do it again. | ||
| We could be talking about abortion rights, civil rights, voting rights, but instead we're talking about Hunter Biden's half-fake laptop story. | ||
| While Republicans bore down on the ugly truth, uncovering layers of manipulation by a deep state unleashing its control over American free speech. | ||
| The reason that we've had this hearing is because the laptop has been... | ||
| Mislabeled by many in the mainstream media as being Russian disinformation. | ||
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Apparently the views of a Stanford doctor are disinformation to you people. | |
| So my first question this morning of Ms. | ||
| Gatti, may I ask of you, where did you go to medical school? | ||
| I did not go to medical school. | ||
| I'm sorry. I did not go to medical school. | ||
| That's what I thought. You, ladies and gentlemen, interfered with the United States of America 2020 presidential election knowingly and willingly. | ||
| That's the bad news. | ||
| It's gonna get worse because this is the investigation part. | ||
| Later comes the arrest part. | ||
| As the questioning continued, the ex-executives gradually revealed that either they were lying to Congress, which could land them each up to five years in prison, or the real culprits behind the scenes had not yet been called as witnesses. | ||
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Who advocated for the removal of the New York Post story? | |
| The company's decision to treat it as a violation. | ||
| Mr. Roth, who at the company actually went over your recommendation? | ||
| Because you're pretty high up. Who overrode you? | ||
| The decision was communicated to me by my direct supervisor. | ||
| Who was that person? Her name was Del Harvey. | ||
| Mr. Matt Taibbi, a respected reporter who published much of the Twitter files, said, quote, Twitter's contact with FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary. | ||
| Now I want to better understand why he would suggest that. | ||
| Mr. Roth, while at Twitter, how many meetings did you have with the FBI? I couldn't say for sure, but I would say... | ||
| More than 10? That's a reasonable estimate. | ||
| More than 20? I couldn't say for sure. | ||
| And as CNN and others celebrated the Democrats' position, it became abundantly clear that there is no end in sight for the Democrats' and Mockingbird Media's campaign of learned helplessness foisted upon the American people. | ||
| Republican Representative Anna Luna's Smackdown rewarded her with a sloppy propaganda hit piece hastily thrown together by the Mockingbird Media CIA hub, The Washington Post. | ||
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Their undertone of their article was incredibly racist. | |
| They tried to undercut my Hispanic heritage. | ||
| They even spoke to my mother and didn't report a lot of what she was posting. | ||
| So the Washington Post is compost, and they should do better. | ||
| Can you explain to me why the federal government would ever have interest in communicating through JIRA, mind you, a private cloud server, with social media companies without oversight to censor American voices? | ||
| I want to let you know that this is a violation of the First Amendment. | ||
| And the federal government is colluding with social media companies to censor Americans. | ||
| A screenshot behind me, which is an example of one of thousands, shows on November 3, 2020, that you, Mr. | ||
| Roth, a Twitter employee, were exchanging communications on JIRA, a private cloud server, with SISA, NASS, NASED, and Alex Stamos, who now works at Stanford and is a former security officer at Facebook, to remove a posting. Do you now remember communicating on a private cloud server to remove a posting? | ||
| I wouldn't agree with the characterization that this... | ||
| I don't care if you agree. This is your stuff. | ||
| Yes or no, did you communicate with a private entity, the government agency, on a private cloud server, yes or no? | ||
| The question was if I... Yes or no. | ||
| Yeah, I'm on time. Yes or no. | ||
| Ma'am, I don't believe I can give you a yes or no. | ||
| Well, I'm going to tell you right now that you did, and we have proof of it. | ||
| Mr. Chairman, point of order... | ||
| Yeah, I just want to call to the attention of the chair and members that we're getting awfully close to witness intimidation. | ||
| What is the committee's policy around threatening a witness? | ||
| Around the rules of decorum, can we agree that threatening a witness comes close to broaching general decorum? | ||
| It does broach general decorum of the committee. | ||
| With all due respect, Mr. | ||
| Ocasio-Cortez, we don't agree that there was any witness threatening. | ||
| Meanwhile, a myriad of websites suspiciously went down simultaneously on the day of this Twitter hearing. | ||
| Was it possible that somewhere someone was very nervous and that a blow had been struck against the hull of the New World Order? | ||
| John Bowne reporting. | ||
| All right, folks, that is called the Tyrannical Twitter Clown Show, and it's available on band.video, the latest from John Bowne. | ||
| I am joined now in studio by Angela McArdle. | ||
| She is the chair of the National Libertarian Party, and we're going to be discussing the rage against the war machine. | ||
| It's a coalition of groups coming together to oppose not just the Ukraine war, but all wars, but specifically the Ukraine war. | ||
| It's an anti-war rally that will be taking place in Washington, D.C. on February 19th. | ||
| I hope anybody that can goes and joins and speaks up and, you know, shares their voice and lets the establishment know we are not in favor of endless, nonsensical, purposeless war or any war for that matter. | ||
| So I'm very excited to talk to Angela McArdle on the other side, chair of the National Libertarian Party. | ||
| We'll be right back, folks. This is the American Journal, Infowars.com, Bandai video. | ||
| Share that link now. Angela, we'll talk on the other side about this rage against the war machine. | ||
| I'm ready to rage, personally. | ||
| Alright, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is the American Journal. I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Angela McArdle is my guest. | ||
| In studio with me, chair of the National Libertarian Party. | ||
| She currently serves as the chair of the National Libertarian Party and is a two-time candidate for California's 34th Congressional District. | ||
| She's here with us today to talk about a peace rally taking place in Washington, D.C. this Sunday, February 19th, with Rage Against the War Machine Coalition. | ||
| You can Visit her website at AngelaMcArdle.com or her Twitter at Angela4LNCChair. | ||
| The website for the event is RageAgainstWar.com. | ||
| That's RageAgainstWar.com this Sunday, February 19th in Washington, D.C. Welcome to the program, Angela. | ||
| Thanks for having me. I'm very excited to have you. | ||
| I'm very excited about this event. | ||
| This is exciting. Tell us about what this is going to be, who's speaking at it, and everything about Rage Against the War Machine. | ||
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So this is an issue coalition event between the Libertarian Party and the People's Party, which is a lesser known working class populist party that was sort of born out of the failed Bernie Sanders campaign. | |
| So that's a whole other rabbit hole. | ||
| But we have joined forces. | ||
| We put aside our economic differences and we have said enough is enough. | ||
| We've got to push back against the military industrial complex and the American war machine, specifically on this war in Ukraine, but pretty much on all wars and say, you know, not one more penny towards war in Ukraine. | ||
| No more funding wars abroad overseas. | ||
| No more expanding American militarism, especially when the dollar is being inflated and people are suffering here at home. | ||
| And it's just wrong. | ||
| We don't want to see drone strikes. | ||
| We don't want to see weapons. We don't want to see troops on the ground in other countries. | ||
| American military should only be for defense. | ||
| So we have joined forces. | ||
| We're putting together this huge rally on February 19th, President's Day weekend. | ||
| It'll be, I believe, the one-year anniversary of this horrendous conflict over there. | ||
| Yeah. We want to see the United States pull out. | ||
| We would love to see the United States pull out of NATO too. | ||
| Yeah, wouldn't that be something? | ||
| I think this is great. Actually, I first heard about this from Jimmy Dore, who's like a total socialist guy. | ||
| But if there's one thing that we can all come together on, I would hope it would be peace. | ||
| I think this is a beautiful thing. | ||
| People from both sides of the aisle, really both ends of the spectrum, coming together and saying we can all agree Enough war. | ||
| Enough is enough. We can end this. | ||
| Ron Paul is speaking there. | ||
| I know Jimmy Dore is speaking there. Tulsi Gabbard, Dennis Kucinich. | ||
| I mean, this really is a coalition. | ||
| Tell us about what it took to build this coalition and why everybody was so willing to work with people they would otherwise probably want nothing to do with. | ||
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Sure. Well, I think that there are some smart, intelligent people out there who are bothered by the threat of nuclear war. | |
| That's really what it comes down to. | ||
| Nuclear war, bad. | ||
| So we put aside our differences, and honestly, we found a lot of things that we have in common. | ||
| So I think it really begins with... | ||
| Exploring what shared values you have. | ||
| You know, we all, we disagree on how we want to get there maybe, but we want to see a prosperous, safe future for our children. | ||
| We want people to be able to have that. | ||
| And so what's the biggest threat right now? | ||
| Even worse than domestic policy at home, it's the threat of nuclear war. | ||
| So we want to do what we can to get our government out of it. | ||
| Let Russia and Ukraine sort it out. | ||
| It is none of our business. | ||
| Absolutely. And if we do have to be involved, we don't have to be sending weapons. | ||
| We don't have to be sending troops, which we know there already are. | ||
| We've read stories where they say, well, they have Ukraine uniforms, but there are NATO troops on the ground there. | ||
| And, I mean, we're getting increasingly involved in this. | ||
| Now you have the Nord Stream pipeline explosion with the revelation that that was for certain, according to Seymour Hersh, a U.S. terrorist attack. | ||
| I mean, the people in power clearly want this war. | ||
| I don't think the... The average person on the street really does. | ||
| I don't know. Do you think they just don't understand what they're supporting when they have the Ukraine flag, that sort of thing? | ||
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I think it's I support the current thing. | |
| Right. It's current thingism. | ||
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That's a demographic. Yeah. It's a demographic. | |
| And I think that it takes courage to speak out against this. | ||
| And it takes, you know, a little bit of mental stamina to look into it. | ||
| And I think people are really disincentivized to even explore this issue because if you are willing to look into it, that means you have to wrestle mentally with the consequences of understanding what's going on. | ||
| And then you have to be confronted by people who disagree with you every single day. | ||
| And it's a mental burden. | ||
| And so some of us are willing to bear that mental burden and be truth seekers and some of us are not. | ||
| So what I want to do is I want to be the vanguard in this anti-war movement. | ||
| We want to reignite it. | ||
| We want to come out with fire and gumption. | ||
| We want to be the piss and vinegar people so that everyone else can come along too and not feel afraid. | ||
| We're going to be the vanguard in the anti-war movement. | ||
| You know, I'm just, I'm looking here at the picture of Ron Paul, because of course he'll be speaking there, and you know, his number one thing is being against war, and I remember, you know, one of his slogans when he ran for president was, peace is popular. | ||
| I mean, it's really hard to disagree with peace. | ||
| Everybody wants peace. | ||
| How you get there might deviate from one person to the other, but... | ||
| Who doesn't want an end to the war? | ||
| And when it comes to Ukraine, they haven't even pretended to give us a reason as to why we should be involved. | ||
| It's basically just a mandate now. | ||
| They say, we're in war in Ukraine and you have to support it, and if you don't, you're a white supremacist, or whatever excuse they use. | ||
| I mean, it's almost like they just don't care anymore about what the Americans... | ||
| They at least used to pretend and try to gin up the American people. | ||
| Now they just do it. The days go to war. | ||
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There's nothing we can do. There's a lot of pieces to this one, right? | |
| So there was the 2014 coup in Ukraine that the United States was involved in, and people have the memory of a goldfish. | ||
| No one can remember it, but it's there. | ||
| Even a boring, bland Wikipedia article will tell you that we had some involvement in that. | ||
| And there's this weird Russiagate thing that happened in 2016. | ||
| I remember something about that. | ||
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Right. You must... At a certain point, it behooves you to say, hmm, I wonder if all of this animosity towards Russia and all this weirdness is somehow related. | |
| Why don't we look into this? | ||
| The Hunter Biden stuff, it's all part of the same stew. | ||
| Yeah, of course. We always point out the first impeachment of Donald Trump was when he started looking in. | ||
| To what was going on in Ukraine. | ||
| He got too close to exposing it. | ||
| And they were willing to go so far as to impeach a sitting president for daring to even ask questions about this. | ||
| So again, you've got Jimmy Dore, Tulsi Gabbard, Dennis Kucinich, Andrew Napolitano, Jill Stein. | ||
| I mean, really across the board here. | ||
| Again, I think this is an exciting thing. | ||
| And I think it starts with this. | ||
| Where else do you think this coalition could go? | ||
| I mean, once you stop the war, what's next? | ||
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There's going to be a day of lobbying and sit-ins for Congress, for different Congress people. | |
| We won't say who. | ||
| We won't say, you know. Don't give them forewarning. | ||
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Yeah, but that'll be happening on Tuesday. | |
| And we are definitely going to be exploring other issues and different ways to speak out against war. | ||
| I believe there is a bill that's been sponsored right now by Matt Gaetz. | ||
| So we're going to be talking about that and seeing if we can advance that. | ||
| Something to end the war in Ukraine there. | ||
| Excellent. And of course, even without our input and our protesting this, you've got stories like this. | ||
| Army sees safety, not wokeness, as top recruiting obstacles. | ||
| This, of course, pointing out to the fact that the U.S. Army can't get recruits anymore. | ||
| Nobody wants to go fight because nobody believes in what they're fighting for. | ||
| And I think that's sort of what they're admitting here. | ||
| And, I mean, this is a major problem. | ||
| These pointless wars, these endless wars, these hugely destructive and hugely expensive wars that they don't even bother to tell us or, like, justify to us why we should support this. | ||
| I think it's a beautiful thing and I'm so glad it's... | ||
| Hopefully it's not too little too late. | ||
| It's like this has got to just be the beginning. | ||
| It's the Rage Against the War Machine anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., February 19th. | ||
| That's this Sunday. And we still have a lot to talk about with you because I want to talk about the takeover of the Libertarian Party. | ||
| Is it okay to call it a takeover? | ||
| Oh, yeah. Okay, good. All right. The friendly takeover, I think you characterized? | ||
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It was friendly. It was a friendly takeover. | |
| It was Jesus take the wheel. Okay, good. | ||
| It wasn't a hostile capturing of the party. | ||
| It was a peaceful transition. | ||
| A great reset, you might call it. | ||
| Oh, by the way, fans of this show know Gerald Salente. | ||
| He will be a special guest speaker as well. | ||
| The Rage Against War Machine. | ||
| So if you want to see him, here's the demands from the coalition. | ||
| One, not one more penny for war in Ukraine. | ||
| Two, negotiate peace. Three, stop war inflation. | ||
| Four, disband NATO. Five, global nuclear de-escalation. | ||
| Six, slash the Pentagon budget. | ||
| Seven, abolish the CIA and military industrial deep state. | ||
| I'm going to circle that one. Because I love it. | ||
| Abolish war and empire. Restore civil liberties. | ||
| Free Julian Assange. | ||
| Always, always want to keep that on our mind, too. | ||
| Not let that fall to the wayside. | ||
| So more on the other side about the Rage Against the War Machine rally this Sunday in Washington, D.C., February 19th. | ||
| Hope everybody can make it out there. | ||
| Also, more about the Libertarian Caucus and others. | ||
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What if the American people knew in the depths of their hearts that war is nothing more than a racket? | |
| What if we learned that war has not only killed innocent people overseas, but has eroded our civil liberties and our privacy at home? | ||
| What if we acknowledge that nation-building does not work? | ||
| And if we want to win hearts and minds, we can achieve this without the use of violence. | ||
| What if I were to tell you that there's another way, a way of peace, a way of freedom, a way of prosperity and friendship among all peoples through diplomacy and open dialogue? | ||
| We the people have the power to stop this machine. | ||
| We could demand an end to the wars that have dragged on for decades and an end to the military-industrial complex that profits from death and destruction. | ||
| We could call for foreign policy based on mutual respect. | ||
| Join us at the Lincoln Memorial at 12.30 p.m. | ||
| on Sunday, February 19th on the anniversary of the Ukraine War and President's Day weekend to rage against the war machine. | ||
| After the rally, we'll march to the White House and deliver our demands. | ||
| What if our voices could make the difference? | ||
| What happens if my concerns are completely unfounded? | ||
| Nothing. But what happens if my concerns are justified and ignored? | ||
| Nothing good. | ||
| RageAgainstWar.com. RageAgainstWar.com. | ||
| RageAgainstTheWarMachine. The rally will be held this Sunday, February 19th in Washington, D.C. I wish I could be there. | ||
| I hope that you, if you're hearing this and are able, can make it yourself. | ||
| It's a coalition. I am here with Angela McArdle. | ||
| She is the chair of the Libertarian Party National Convention. | ||
| I want to get this right. I don't want to call you something you're not. | ||
| Yeah, chair of the National Libertarian Party, and of course, I'm just so interested in this coalition aspect of it. | ||
| The idea that you have socialists and libertarians typically, you know, are going to be at odds constantly, but here we can come together, we can get peace, and what is more important than stopping war? | ||
| And I know we want to talk about the takeover of the Libertarian Party and I would love to touch on your time in California and all that stuff. | ||
| But before we move to some of that, is there anything else anybody needs to know about this Rage Against the War Machine rally and the coalition that you guys are building? | ||
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Yes, absolutely. So the rally itself is from 1230 to 330 at the Lincoln Memorial. | |
| And after that, there's going to be a march from there to the White House, not the Capitol building. | ||
| Fool me once, yes. | ||
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And there will be additional speakers there. | |
| And I just want to go on the record to say Ray Epps is not invited. | ||
| Okay, good. No very epsos allowed. | ||
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Anyone invites you inside the White House, do not go. | |
| Stay outside. You know, that's actually another aspect of this. | ||
| I feel like there has been a real fear for people on the right of gathering together in any sort of rally, especially in Washington, D.C. And it's a, you know... | ||
| If they can get you to shut yourself down, then their job is done. | ||
| I mean, that's the best conclusion for them because then they don't have to shut you down. | ||
| You just silence yourself. | ||
| So I'm so glad you guys are bucking that trend and just coming out in force to stand up against the war. | ||
| Is that something that y'all took into account? | ||
| You must have. Oh yeah, absolutely. | ||
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It's really important for them to see us. | |
| They need to see that people are upset about it and that we're willing to go out and fundraise and put this event together and be there. | ||
| And it's a risk, but it's a calculated risk and we think that it's a risk worth taking. | ||
| And you still have the First Amendment. | ||
| We all still have the First Amendment. | ||
| As much as they want to pretend we don't, this is our constitutional right to protest, especially something as egregious and pointless and wasteful as the Ukrainian war. | ||
| I mean, my God. And, you know, I was just walking through the building. | ||
| One of the TVs that we have was on Fox News, and they're already, because of the hot air balloons or whatever's floating above Lake Michigan, they're already pushing for a new war with China. | ||
| I don't like China. | ||
| I would like to see China sort of opposed on some level. | ||
| But they're already getting their next big war lined up. | ||
| I mean, if we don't stop this Ukraine war, who knows where it spirals into? | ||
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We don't want to do that. | |
| You know, China has a very large standing army. | ||
| There's no reason for us to be picking fights with them. | ||
| That's the downfall. | ||
| That's how countries reach their downfall is when they start trying to pick wars with what they view as competing powers. | ||
| I mean, the reality is that China is not actually doing very well financially. | ||
| Their One Belt, One Road endeavor, which was very colossal and impressive and kind of awe-inspiring and frightening, has actually been a bit of a financial quagmire. | ||
| And so we shouldn't fear them. | ||
| I don't like communism. | ||
| Keep it, please, way over there. | ||
| Keep it far away from me, but I don't need to go to war with them. | ||
| Absolutely. And that was... | ||
| I haven't gotten to talk as much about the balloons today because we were talking about the Ohio stuff. | ||
| But my big takeaway from it is just like, they want you fearful. | ||
| They want you checking online, going, oh no, a new object has been spotted. | ||
| Okay, they shot it down. Oh my God, you know. | ||
| Well, what's that? Is that one in the air right there? | ||
| Oh, that's just a cloud, right? I mean, they love the fear. | ||
| The fear overrides the ability to use logic. | ||
| They're pushing for war. | ||
| So, you know, if the... | ||
| If you know nothing else about the balloons, my big takeaway is fear not the balloons. | ||
| Don't worry. Don't go to war because some balloons are floating over your airspace. | ||
| It's ridiculous, but obviously that's what they're pushing for. | ||
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Definitely. The balloon issue is sort of like we all know something is amiss. | |
| Something is wrong and we can't quite put our finger on it. | ||
| But that's enough for me to be suspicious of it and to not get too riled up over it. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, we learned this lesson with COVID as well, right? | ||
| Before the mainstream media ever talked about COVID, we were over here going, hey, there's something going on in China you might want to pay attention to. | ||
| And they're like, shut up, racist, right? | ||
| It's like nonsense. But then all of a sudden, I mean, it was like a flip of a switch. | ||
| Everybody was not just scared. | ||
| I mean, they were terrified of COVID and willing to let anything happen. | ||
| We know now, like, articles from the World Economic Forum were saying, yes, we were really amazed at what we got away with during the COVID pandemic. | ||
| We had no idea people would be so willing to give up their, you know, rights and all this stuff. | ||
| And I just, I can see it happening again. | ||
| And whatever we can do to not let that fear impulse take over and give the people in power the excuse they need to do things that you would never let them do anyway. | ||
| Again, you know, we're sort of jumping from topic, but all these are combined and intertwined and it's something I think all Americans can oppose. | ||
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It is. And some of the people who have been so incredibly helpful with planning our rally in D.C. are the people who put together the Defeat the Mandates rally last year. | |
| We've found a lot of common ground. | ||
| We've found that we're all distrustful of government, especially the federal government. | ||
| We are all able to kind of see things as they are, call BS, and rally and organize against them. | ||
| That's great. And of course, you know, it was probably really, unfortunately for the people in power, the COVID mandate rallies were probably a little bit of a training ground for some of these people. | ||
| They learned how to organize. They learned how to get big groups together. | ||
| Now taking that and using it against war, what a beautiful and powerful thing. | ||
| Again, just touching on the coalition aspect. | ||
| Has there been any friction at all or has it just been, you know, all sunshine and rainbows because you all go, hey... | ||
| We're fighting war here, so let's leave all this stuff out. | ||
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There has been some friction. | |
| There have been speakers who don't necessarily get along with each other. | ||
| There have been sponsors that were frustrated by some of the speakers. | ||
| There's been some drama, but I think considering this is a national issue coalition with groups that would normally want nothing to do with each other, it's been incredible. | ||
| It's been easier organizing with some of these groups than it has been organizing internally within the Libertarian Party. | ||
| That's so funny. Will you expand on that? | ||
| Because I think that's hilarious. You're dealing with people that you should just be, you know, butting heads with and arguing, but it's actually easier than dealing with some of the internal libertarian stuff. | ||
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What do you mean by that? Well, so in May of last year, we had a takeover of the Libertarian Party. | |
| So I'm the new chairman, and we got a new board in as well, like a clean sweep. | ||
| And we took it from what we would consider beltway libertarians, people who just want to tope the line, popular opinion. | ||
| They don't want to make waves. They certainly don't want to make electoral progress. | ||
| Right. And they don't want to speak out against vaccine mandates, for example. | ||
| They never spoke out against the lockdowns. | ||
| That was what inspired me to run. | ||
| That's so strange. Yeah. | ||
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It makes no sense. It doesn't make any sense. | |
| I consider them people who are just kind of mad at their dad. | ||
| Democrats, but they don't want to vote with the same party that their dad did. | ||
| So they became libertarian. | ||
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Yeah, we ended up with it. They're contrarian, but not libertarian. | |
| Right, right. And, you know, I think because of those types of people, libertarianism has gotten a bad rap the last couple of years. | ||
| So I'm glad. It seems like you guys are sort of taking it back to what I remember being under Ron Paul, forthright, strong, standing up for rights and not sort of just, hey, do whatever you want and we're the party of, like, smoking weed and getting abortions and stuff. | ||
| Like, wow, I don't like that so much. | ||
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Absolutely. We took the abortion plank out of the platform, so that is no longer an issue that people can fight over. | |
| People can literally just make up their own minds about it. | ||
| You can be pro-life and be in the party. | ||
| We removed the bigotry is irrational and repugnant plank, too. | ||
| So you don't have to worry about people calling you a bigot. | ||
| And again, that's so great. | ||
| And we're going to touch back on that on the other side. | ||
| We'll be right back. Angela McArdle. | ||
| She is the chair of the National Libertarian Party. | ||
| AngelaMcArdle.com. | ||
| Angela4LNCchair on Twitter. | ||
| And the website for the rally this Sunday is RageAgainstWar.com. | ||
| RageAgainstWar.com. | ||
| Jimmy Dore, Ron Paul, just a huge number of speakers standing up against war. | ||
| We'll be right back. All right, folks, still so much to talk about with Angela McArdle. | ||
| She is in studio as my guest chair of the National Libertarian Party, AngelaMcArdle.com, Angela for LNC chair on Twitter, and the website for the rally this week in the peace rally, Rage Against the War Machine. | ||
| You can find it at RageAgainstWar.com this Sunday, February 19th. | ||
| Very exciting stuff. We left off a little bit. | ||
| Talking a little bit, hinting at your takeover of the Libertarian Party. | ||
| Tell us more about how this came about and how this is changing the landscape for Libertarianism into the future. | ||
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Sure. So in 2017, I ran for Congress as a Libertarian, and it was an interesting experience. | |
| You know, it didn't do very well. | ||
| It didn't come in last, though. 27 candidates running for Congress. | ||
| For Congress. What a circus. | ||
| And afterwards, I kind of thought, well, you know, like that was interesting. | ||
| I wish the party was more organized. | ||
| I wish that it didn't seem very like Ron Paul friendly. | ||
| It's kind of weird. I just kind of was wondering what's going on. | ||
| And shortly after that, another person named Michael Heiss kind of appeared... | ||
| With the same complaints, and he said, we're organizing something called the Mises Caucus. | ||
| And it was basically a continuation of the Ron Paul Revolution, but this time within the Libertarian Party, with a focus on economic literacy, you know, pushing back against mainstream narratives, engaging in the culture in a meaningful way. | ||
| And I thought, dude, that's for me. | ||
| Like, I am on board. | ||
| And so I joined, like, very soon after it began. | ||
| And we organized for about five years, and it took us, you know, every... | ||
| Every year, inch by inch, we clawed our way to leadership and just took it over from the beltway regime libertarians, as we call them, people who are desperate for mainstream acceptance. | ||
| And that was one of the things I didn't realize about this, that it had been such a long time coming, five years, and then it was just last year that I guess y'all reached critical mass, that you had enough support within the party to actually stage the takeover. | ||
| So what are some of the primary differences between the old regime and the new regime? | ||
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So, we're not afraid to speak out against vaccine mandates. | |
| That's a great start, yeah. | ||
| Again, it's like you're a libertarian. | ||
| How are you not against the government putting things in your body without your permission? | ||
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Like, it's so basic. It is basic. | |
| We're not afraid to engage in issue coalitions and put ourselves out there and be maybe vulnerable according to, you know, to mainstream media attacks. | ||
| I feel like if you're getting attacked by the mainstream media, you're doing the right thing. | ||
| So I'm willing to go there. | ||
| We're more courageous. | ||
| We are also much more friendly to people who are socially conservative. | ||
| There's been that really bad stereotype that libertarians are just Republicans who smoke weed or they're Democrats who are pro-gun. | ||
| We are authentically libertarian. | ||
| You know, we're followers of Ron Paul, Ludwig von Mises, so on and so forth. | ||
| And we want the party to reflect that, you know, in our social media, in our activism, everything that we do. | ||
| I think it's super exciting to see because I would love to see the Libertarian Party and Libertarian candidates as a viable third-party option, you know, really shaking things up. | ||
| Because, you know, I said on the show, like at my heart, I am Libertarian, but over the recent past with the other, you know, the former... | ||
| Party in power, they really weren't reflective of what I believe, which is that liberty is the most important thing, but that also means that you have responsibility to maintain that liberty. | ||
| Liberty is not a license to do anything, it's an obligation to do the right thing, and I think that's been missing, so it's fantastic to see people like yourself. | ||
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We really want to draw a distinction between libertarianism and libertinism, which is just, oh, go do whatever you want, no accountability, no one can tell you what to do. | |
| In a libertarian society, you've got to have accountability, you've got to have responsibility, because that should be the key to holding things together, not government coercion. | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. And of course, we were talking a little bit during the break about just the... | ||
| We want to oppose war in Ukraine. | ||
| We also don't want to be subjects of war by our own army as well. | ||
| And we both see this happening. | ||
| I pointed to this story a little bit earlier. | ||
| They say, Army sees safety, not wokeness, as top recruiting obstacles. | ||
| There's some hilarious quotes in this where they're just like, Kids these days don't want to die. | ||
| You know, it's just like, that's not new. | ||
| Nobody's ever wanted to die. | ||
| It's just in the past, people believed there was something higher to fight for and a virtue in standing and giving your life for your country. | ||
| But that's not the case anymore. | ||
| So, you know, so what's going to happen to the army, do you think? | ||
| I mean, it's just going to be filled with, I think, woke activists and people from other countries. | ||
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I mean, this is insane. Yeah, this is an interesting position we find ourselves in where I'm cheering for Gen Z's nihilism. | |
| Right. So that less woke people join the military. | ||
| My concern is that the military does seem to be actively courting the woke population. | ||
| And those are the kinds of people who I think are mentally unstable, emotionally unbalanced, willing to do anything and everything mainstream media says. | ||
| They'll take any shot. | ||
| They'll follow any directive. | ||
| And then you want to put a gun in those people's hands and give them an order to do something that's morally unconscionable. | ||
| They will absolutely do it. | ||
| That's my concern. I think that's so brilliant. | ||
| And you said that during the break, and I really hadn't thought of it that way because it's sort of our instinct to see the wokeness in the army and just sort of laugh at it and just go, gee, look at what these clowns are doing. | ||
| But it's actually a very dangerous thing, and you pointed that out, and I think you're exactly right. | ||
| These people are fanatics, really, in their heart, and they're going to be run by fanatics, and they themselves are going to be fanatics, and they're not going to... | ||
| Give a damn about what's in the Constitution. | ||
| When they're given orders to fight the American people, they're going to do it. | ||
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Think about Joe Biden's hormone-injected, vaccine-injected, fanatical National Guard coming to a rally like the one I'm holding. | |
| That is a really frightening thought. | ||
| Yeah, and especially after the COVID mandates, they kicked out anybody who refused to take those. | ||
| I mean, they did this purge where they're like, if you have the Gadsden flag, you're a domestic terrorist, and we're going to have to question you about your intentions. | ||
| I mean, they have purged the army of a lot of the people that would have stood up against unconstitutional orders. | ||
| Who are you going to be left with? | ||
| Rule followers with automatic guns. | ||
| I mean, this is an incredibly dangerous situation that's building as we speak. | ||
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We've seen the same push in law enforcement, too. | |
| That was a big thing that happened in Los Angeles County. | ||
| The sheriffs went after any sheriff who did not take the vaccine. | ||
| L.A. County Board of Supervisors went after them aggressively. | ||
| It's completely insane. | ||
| Of course, I think it starts a feedback loop when it comes to law enforcement because you're getting less qualified people who are probably more likely to jump off the gun and cause violence. | ||
| And the criminals are going to start being more violent to the cops. | ||
| I mean, all of this stuff seems like a feedback loop that just makes absolutely everything worse. | ||
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Absolutely. And then who will go and join law enforcement? | |
| Maybe former military. | ||
| Yeah, and the bullies and everybody. | ||
| I mean, it's just absolutely insane. | ||
| And, of course, you know, there's so much stuff going on, it's almost impossible to like, okay, what do we fight today? | ||
| Because we're being attacked on all sides. | ||
| But I really do think that if we can... | ||
| If there's one, like, message you could spread to the American people, I think, to oppose the Ukraine war and tell them the truth about the Ukraine war, that this isn't, you know, the righteous freedom fighters standing up against a big, bad, evil empire, it's much more complicated than that. | ||
| I'm not even saying it's the opposite. | ||
| It's just, it's complicated. | ||
| It's convoluted. | ||
| America caused a lot of this. | ||
| Our elites are benefiting from this. | ||
| It's depleting our reserves. | ||
| If we actually do have to go to war with somebody, we're going to be out of luck. | ||
| I mean, I really can't say enough about the damage that the Ukraine war is doing to us, to our reputation overseas. | ||
| I mean, it goes on and on. We've got to stop this. | ||
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Yeah. At some point, we need to ask ourselves, are we the baddies? | |
| Yeah, exactly. We really do. | ||
| I think the answer is a resounding yes, but of course, it's not us. | ||
| It doesn't reflect us. It doesn't really, I don't think, reflect what the American people want other than the American people that have been programmed by the It's the military industrial complex, and we need to have a reckoning in this country. | ||
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We need to separate corporatism from our military. | |
| We need to separate corporations from government. | ||
| We need to start really calling it out for what it is. | ||
| We're seeing other people enriched at the expense of Ukrainians and people living in the Donbass who've been shelled for many, many years. | ||
| We're separatists. It's none of our business where they want to go. | ||
| If they want to have Russia as our government, if they want to have Ukraine as our government, we should not be the ones to decide. | ||
| Even if we find their choices unpalatable, it's just really not up to us. | ||
| You know, I would even be in favor of American intervention if it was for the purpose of peace. | ||
| If it was America coming in and going, all right, you two, hold on. | ||
| We're going to talk this out. | ||
| We're not letting war happen. | ||
| But that's obviously not the case. | ||
| Instead, it's here's ammo, here's warplanes, here's escalation. | ||
| I mean, it's just... It's completely insane. | ||
| I think we need to stand up against this. | ||
| I think this is a brilliant way to start. | ||
| And again, the most important thing about this to me is the coalition aspect, is that this is not a right or left thing. | ||
| This is a human thing. | ||
| You should not be in favor of war. | ||
| And if we have to have war, it should be well-defined. | ||
| There should be a purpose that we can achieve so it's not endless. | ||
| I mean, this is the type of stuff that I don't care if you're socialist, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, we should all be able to come together on this. | ||
| And that's really what they don't want. | ||
| And that's the last thing they want. | ||
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Absolutely. Yeah, we would like to see unconstitutional wars ended. | |
| We want to see Congress forced to declare war. | ||
| We want to see the president really stripped of that power. | ||
| It should be a decision that's made out in the open and in front of the eyes of the public. | ||
| And we're hoping that we can make a difference with this rally. | ||
| I really think you can, especially with the people that you have going from Tulsi Gabbard to Ron Paul to Supreme from Wu-Tang. | ||
| I mean, Jimmy Dore, I mean, this is a major movement, and I really, I pray that it has the desired effect, and I really think it's at least a major step in the right direction. | ||
| So, again, I wish I could be there. | ||
| I hope that you can be there. | ||
| If you're hearing this right now and you're anywhere near Washington, D.C., or have a free weekend this weekend, go to the Rage Against the War Machine rally. | ||
| It's February 19th, 1232-330, starting at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., February 19th. | ||
| Againstwar.com is where you find it. | ||
| Thank you so much for joining me, Angela. | ||
| Thank you for having me. Let's talk about things. | ||
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