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| Welcome to the American Journal, folks. | ||
| I'm your host today, Chase Geiser, filling in for the great baby daddy, Harrison Smith. | ||
| We've got a lot to cover today. | ||
| Today we're going to talk a little bit about what's going on in Ukraine and the Pentagon Papers that have revealed that our government has been lying to us about the health of that war, about the potential for victory in that space. | ||
| After we do that, we're going to go over what's going on with Taiwan and China and talk a little bit about what China may be doing internationally in order to strategically set itself up for a successful invasion of Taiwan. | ||
| We're going to talk a little bit about the European and overall international decoupling of these international foreign economies from the U.S. dollar, what's causing that, why that's happening, and what the implications are for the United States. | ||
| And we're going to talk a little bit about the fact that apparently we're no longer in a COVID emergency anymore. | ||
| Twitter's no longer Twitter. | ||
| Democrats are leaving their party. | ||
| What AI is It's fascinating to me when we think about what's going on with Ukraine and how we hear time and time again from the media that victory is imminent, that Ukraine is always on the brink of another offensive. | ||
| They're always talking about preparing for an offensive, preparing for an offensive. | ||
| And it's funny to me because... | ||
| We always hear that Ukraine is winning, winning, winning. | ||
| And constantly, if you go on Twitter or any major feed, you'll see picture after picture of a new Ukrainian who's been killed in battle. | ||
| Or you'll hear a news report that Ukraine is winning, winning, winning in Bakhmut. | ||
| But then you look at footage of Bakhmut and you see time and time again that it is reduced to rubble. | ||
| And I can't understand how it is that a country can be winning a war yet simultaneously faced with continual and progressive destruction time and time again. | ||
| I was doing some research kind of preparing for the show today and I was fascinated to look at some old footage that we'll go into of Zelensky during the 2014 coup in Ukraine in which he was installed. | ||
| And his rhetoric really has changed quite a bit since he was simply a candidate for leader of Ukraine. | ||
| to today where he's pretty much reversed all of his previously outspoken policies on Ukraine and Russia and East Ukraine and what that means for his country. | ||
| And it seems to me that what we're seeing is an example of someone who is hyper leveraged by the United States. | ||
| I no longer think of Zelensky as an autonomous Nazi sympathizer so much as I do as someone who is intimidated and scared of the United States. | ||
| He knows exactly what happens when the United States is unhappy with the leadership in Ukraine. | ||
| There is typically a coup and an ousting. | ||
| And I think that all of his actions throughout this last year and the months prior to it have been as a result of his intimidation. | ||
| He's intimidated by the United States. | ||
| And I think these Pentagon Papers, which we're going to dive into a little bit in the next segment, really go to show what the intentions are of the United States in Ukraine, what the desired outcome is, and really just how dishonest our government is with us as to what is really going on. | ||
| Time and time again, we hear of things like Russian propaganda and how bad this Russian disinformation is. | ||
| But really, in the United States, we are victims of disinformation on a massive scale from our own government. | ||
| And time and time again, we hear from our leaders how important it is that we protect our democracy. | ||
| But how is it that a populace can vote reasonably for its leaders if it's not informed? | ||
| If we're constantly being lied to, how is it that we are educated enough to vote for who should lead us? | ||
| Stay tuned, folks. | ||
| We'll be back after this break to dive into what's really going on in Ukraine. | ||
| And we'll be taking your calls in the second hour. | ||
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| You're listening to The American Journal with your host, Chase Geyser. | ||
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Welcome back to the American Journal, folks. - Yes. | ||
| A lot going on this week with these Pentagon files being leaked. | ||
| Let's start off this segment by going into this tweet that I saw from Mario Knopfel. | ||
| He says, Hashtag Pentagon Files. | ||
| The leaks from the Pentagon have been monumental, expected at over 100 documents. | ||
| The first batch of intel states that Ukrainians killed in action outnumber Russians 4 to 1. | ||
| Significantly higher than the 50% more Russian casualties mentioned by Western officials and the media. | ||
| Furthermore, Ukraine's medium to high air defense is almost depleted. | ||
| SA-10 and SA-11 make up 89% of Ukrainian air defense. | ||
| They ran out of SA-11 on the 31st of March, 2023, and they believe they will run out of SA-10 on the 2nd of May, 2023. | ||
| In brief, the Ukrainian military could be in a significantly worse position than NATO admits. | ||
| Do the Pentagon files show Russia with the upper hand? | ||
| Have the documents been altered by the Russians? | ||
| Now, I want to show this next clip. | ||
| This is going to be clip 10 with John Kirby in the context of this tweet from Mario. | ||
| Go ahead and play clip 10 if you can. | ||
| Without confirming the validity of the documents, this is information that has no business in the public domain. | ||
| It has no business, if you don't mind me saying, on the front pages of newspapers or on television. | ||
| It is not intended for public consumption, and it should not be out there. | ||
| So we have John Kirby there talking about these Pentagon leaks themselves. | ||
| And it's funny because my understanding is that the government did admit that the documents were legitimate, but simultaneously suggested that the numbers had been altered in some way to improve the quality, or excuse me, the number of casualties or increase the number of casualties for the Ukrainians. | ||
| But what's interesting about these documents is as I understand them, these are top secret documents that are not for any foreign intelligence. | ||
| And if the Russians altered them, that means that somehow the Russians were able to obtain the originals and then alter them. | ||
| So they successfully have spies in place to take these documents and manipulate them. | ||
| I honestly think that what we're seeing here is an example of our intelligence community administering disinformation to the people of the United States. | ||
| I think what happened here is we have a disgruntled employee... | ||
| And the Department of Defense, who is leaking these documents to expose the truth to the American people in a Snowden-like style of what is going on in Ukraine, the reality of the war, the failure of the war, and the fact that Ukraine is being brutalized and losing this war. | ||
| They've leaked these documents, and now what's happening is the intelligence community is doing damage control. | ||
| And they're lying to us, the American people, as they so often do, by saying that the numbers have been altered as part of a Russian disinformation ploy. | ||
| I want to play next clip five of Colonel Douglas McGregor talking about the war in Ukraine. | ||
| Go ahead, play clip five. | ||
| Listen, I don't know that Ukraine will even exist as a nation-state. | ||
| I think it's essentially a dead issue right now. | ||
| Conditions inside Ukraine are horrific. | ||
| The losses are horrific. | ||
| We simply lie. We don't tell the truth. | ||
| The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Telegraph in England, whatever you want to pick out as a newspaper or a news outlet in the West, We're good to go. | ||
| So it seems the only way to get information like this, information as to what is actually happening in Ukraine, is to go to alternative media sources like podcasts or conversations with people like Douglas MacGregor. | ||
| And we see that the inside information is that this war is not going well for Ukraine. | ||
| So we have the Pentagon coming out. | ||
| We have the intelligence community coming out and saying that These numbers are exaggerated in these Pentagon leaks. | ||
| But the fact of the matter is that experts who have inside knowledge as to what's really going on in Ukraine, who aren't leveraged or paid off by the mainstream media, have been telling the truth for months and months and months that Ukraine is losing this war. | ||
| And they'll tell you... Just as anybody else would tell you, the war hasn't gone swimmingly for the Russians by any means, but at no point in time throughout the history of this war were the Russians losing the war. | ||
| They just weren't winning as quickly as they had initially anticipated. | ||
| Now, I want to show you a clip of Zelenskyy From years ago, talking a little bit about his policies, his beliefs as to Ukraine, and how to treat the ethnic Russians in Ukraine from back in, I believe, 2014. | ||
| This is clip four of Zelensky speaking about the Russian language use in Ukraine. | ||
| It says in East Ukraine and in Crimea people want to speak Russian. | ||
| Leave them alone, just leave them alone. | ||
| Legally provide them the right to speak Russian. | ||
| Language should never divide our country. | ||
| I'm of Jewish heritage, I speak Russian, and I'm a citizen of Ukraine. | ||
| I love this country and I don't want to be a part of another. | ||
| Russia and Ukraine are brotherly people. | ||
| I know many millions, thousands of people who live in Russia and who are wonderful. | ||
| We are one color, one blood. | ||
| We understand each other, irrespective of language. | ||
| So this is a much different song than Zelensky sings today with things like outlawing the use of the Russian language. | ||
| And silencing political opposition, silencing certain cultural aspects of the ethno-Russians in Ukraine in the context of, of course, this invasion and the civil war that's been going on for years and years in Ukraine. | ||
| And the funny thing about this is we often think that, OK, this is the leftists in our government who are continuously pushing funding this war and perpetuating this this military industrial complex goldmine that is the slaughter of the Ukrainian people by the Russians. | ||
| And it's really not just a matter of Democrats supporting Ukraine. | ||
| We've seen this time and time again with with our Republican leaders. | ||
| And so those of you who voted like I did for Republicans in the midterm with some sort of hope that a victory would result in a less interventionist approach to the war in Ukraine. | ||
| Should really take another look at our leaders here. | ||
| Let's take a look at clip number six of RINOs supporting the war in Ukraine and let that inform how we feel about our Republican leaders. | ||
| I want to play something that Speaker McCarthy said because it seemed to at least shift a perception of where he is on the issue of Ukraine. | ||
| Let me play it. I think what's happening in Ukraine is an atrocity, and I think Ukraine, not just Ukraine, the world has to win there. | ||
| What Russia has done is wrong. | ||
| In a phrase that I use a blank check, I use that for anything. | ||
| I look at every dollar of taxpayers that we would use, but the one thing I know that in Ukraine we have to win, because it also would save Taiwan at the same time. | ||
| Are you reassured now, and should the Ukrainians, should President Zelensky be reassured that House Republicans are not going to stand in the way of more aid to Ukraine? | ||
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You know, I traveled with Kevin, Speaker McCarthy, to Poland, Romania. | |
| He's always believed this, felt this way. | ||
| When you're over here, Cech, when you talk to, and I've talked to the prime ministers in the presence of Japan, you know, South Korea and Taiwan, what's happening in Ukraine will determine what happens in Taiwan and the Pacific. | ||
| I think the prime minister of Japan going down to Ukraine to signal their support And he said himself, what happens in Ukraine today will happen in the Far East tomorrow. | ||
| I believe the best deterrence to Chairman Xi is a failure for Putin in Ukraine. | ||
| We're going to talk more about what's going on in Ukraine and how it branches out into what's going on with Taiwan and China in the next segment. | ||
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| Stick with us. | ||
| We'll be going more into this after the break. | ||
| Welcome back to the American Journal, folks. | ||
| We are here, live, at Band.Video on the brink of World War III. We see that China is increasing its rhetoric and behavior, infronting as if it is on the brink of an invasion of Taiwan. | ||
| Ever since its inception, the CCP has claimed that Taiwan, which it refers to as Chinese Taipei, is actually a rebellion faction of China and does not even acknowledge it as its own sovereign nation. | ||
| Of course, Taiwan has been our ally for many years and the United States has consistently positioned itself as if it would defend Taiwan were there to be an aggressive act or a military action by the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| Now we're in a situation here in the United States and worldwide, frankly, where the vast majority of... | ||
| These computer chips that are cutting-edge technology are produced in Taiwan. | ||
| And so if China were to take Taiwan, it would have a hold of that entire industry. | ||
| And if we were simultaneously in war with China during that time, then of course it would dramatically reduce the United States' ability to import this technology for either private or military use. | ||
| I know that many of these chips, these semiconductors, are used for high-speed trading. | ||
| And other very high demand use cases as these are the fastest chips in the world. | ||
| But for China, it's not just about technology. | ||
| It is about a principle. | ||
| And the principle being that those who rebel against the Chinese Communist Party will ultimately face the justice of the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| I want to play clip nine. | ||
| about China's recent preparations for war with Taiwan. | ||
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We see here that China is pairing for war with Taiwan. | |
| Whether it actually will launch an invasion or an assault on Taiwan is another matter, but it has explicitly stated that it is ready to do such a thing. | ||
| And as we see that China is preparing for a potential aggressive act against Taiwan, we notice that this is all in the context of the war in Ukraine, a war in which the United States is spending at a faster rate in aid for Ukraine than it spent on its own wars in the Middle East for the last 20 years. | ||
| So while the United States sends all of its munitions, all of its equipment, vast amounts of monetary resources to Ukraine, it puts China in an increasingly better position to act against Taiwan because, as you know, you are not to fight a war on two fronts. as you know, you are not to fight a war It's an old rule of war, and we will not have the capacity to defend Taiwan and simultaneously aid Ukraine. | ||
| So while we pump our resources and our time and our energy and our focus into Ukraine because of these money laundering political insiders, Taiwan becomes more and more vulnerable. | ||
| Meanwhile, we see China try to exacerbate this weakness or this vulnerability of the United States by strategically approaching and developing relationships with who we thought were our allies. | ||
| Let's take a look at what President Macron has recently done with clip eight. | ||
| Macron posted this video on his Twitter account. | ||
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| His visit with President Xi, after which he basically stated that France would be coupling itself from the United States and have a neutral approach regarding Taiwan, should there be a conflict. | ||
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So we see here that the weaker the United States becomes, we're rapidly, our allies scatter, and to our enemies. | |
| We're going to preserve and reinvent a international order of peace and stability. | ||
| I believe deeply in the amity between China and France, the cooperation between our entrepreneurs. | ||
| We have things that normally leave us. | ||
| Our desire is to be able to respect international rights. | ||
| The United States is the United States. | ||
| We should adapt stability and defend our interests. | ||
| Of course, we won't negotiate the peace during our voyage because the conditions are not reunite. | ||
| And China has manifested a goal to be engaged in a process. | ||
| Les temps sont inquiétants. | ||
| Le tragique est revenu dans notre histoire. | ||
| Je pense que notre devoir, c'est de ne céder à aucune facilité et de savoir à chaque fois construire une paix juste. | ||
| Nous avons une responsabilité, Chine et France. | ||
| Nous avons une capacité à relever les grands défis du siècle qui est devant nous et à conjurer les fatalités qu'on veut déjà écrire pour nous. | ||
| Et ça, c'est un peu le devoir aussi de votre génération. | ||
| Not only has France buddied up with China, but we see actions happening all over the globe in terms of the power dynamic shifting among our allies and our enemies, seemingly in favor of China and Russia. | ||
| Let's take a look at clip number 11, where we can see some examples of other nations decoupling themselves from the US economy, from the US dollar. | ||
| Today, Brazil, in our hemisphere, largest country in the western hemisphere south of us, cut a trade deal with China. | ||
| They're going to, from now on, do trade in their own currencies, get right around the dollar. | ||
| They're creating a secondary economy in the world, totally independent of the United States. | ||
| We won't have to talk about sanctions in five years because there will be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the dollar that we won't have the ability to sanction. | ||
| Traditionally, our allies... | ||
| We have leaned on the United States' ability to sanction our enemies. | ||
| And we see here that if the United States is no longer the reserve currency, if the US dollar is no longer the reserve currency of the world, that's going to drastically reduce the effect of sanctions on foreign nations. | ||
| We are no longer going to have simple sanction leverage over our enemies or our allies. | ||
| And the only way that we'll be able to force the hand of our international neighbors is going to be through military action should we see a decoupling of these nations continue in the way that it has been going regarding the U.S. dollar. | ||
| And I think that Vivek Ramaswamy really nailed it when he talks about how a weak United States is the United States that loses allies. | ||
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| We'll be back. Welcome back to the American Journal, folks. | ||
| I'm your guest host today, Chase Geiser, filling in for the great Harrison Smith. | ||
| Hard shoes to fill. We're all excited to have him back in the studio, but congratulate him on the birth of his daughter. | ||
| I want to start this segment by talking about this tweet that I saw from Insider Paper. | ||
| Just in. President of Egypt, one of America's closest allies in the Middle East and a major recipient of U.S. aid, recently ordered subordinates to produce up to 40,000 rockets to be covertly shipped to Russia, according to a leaked U.S. intelligence document, the Washington Post reports. | ||
| This, of course, begs the question, why is it that everywhere we turn, whether it's Brazil or France or Egypt, our allies seem to be abandoning us and betraying us behind our backs? | ||
| Well, I think the answer is probably the fact that we consistently put our allies in compromising positions and we leverage our power via sanctions or other economic means over our allies against them and consistently blackmail them and abuse them. | ||
| I want to watch this clip from just before Russia invaded Ukraine, clip 01, of Biden talking about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. | ||
| The border of Ukraine, again. | ||
| Then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. | ||
| We will bring an end to it. | ||
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| Exactly. Since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control. | ||
| We will, I promise you, we'll be able to do it. | ||
| So, Germany, a supposed ally of the United States, someone we're happy to help and support by all means necessary, someone who overlooks the Nord Stream 2 pipeline and is reliant on it, Is asking us here, asking Biden here in this video, how could you possibly shut down the Nord Stream 2 pipeline? | ||
| It's not in your jurisdiction. | ||
| It's the United States. And of course, we know that it was exploded after the invasion of Ukraine. | ||
| And here in clip two, which I want to show next, Biden denies the responsibility for the pipeline. | ||
| Let's play that. You also asked me earlier about the pipeline. | ||
| And let me say this. | ||
| It was a deliberate act of sabotage, and now the Russians are pumping out disinformation and lies. | ||
| We're going to work with our allies to get to the bottom of exactly what — precisely what happened. | ||
| And as — at my direction, I've already begun to help our allies enhance the protection of this critical infrastructure. | ||
| And at the appropriate moment, when things calm down, we're going to be sending divers down to find out exactly what happened. | ||
| We don't know that yet, exactly. | ||
| We're not, just don't listen to what Putin's saying. | ||
| What he's saying we know is not true. | ||
| So here we have President Biden in the first clip bragging about the fact that if Russia were to invade Ukraine, which of course it eventually did, the United States would see to it that the pipeline was shut down. | ||
| And then, of course, when pressed on that issue, he said, oh, we'll find a way to do it. | ||
| And then, of course, this invasion happens and the pipeline spontaneously explodes and Russia, of course, comes out and accuses the United States of being responsible for disabling the pipeline. | ||
| And the Biden administration says that this is Russian disinformation. | ||
| So you said you were going to do it, and then you lied about whether you did it. | ||
| We obviously destroyed the pipeline. | ||
| We obviously attacked it. And so which is it? | ||
| Is Biden lying when he says that... | ||
| We didn't do it, or was he lying when he said that we would do it? | ||
| He sort of caught here in a catch-22. | ||
| He lied no matter which way you spin it. | ||
| And so, of course, our allies betray us behind our back constantly because we are not loyal to our allies. | ||
| This was a major disruption to the economy of Germany, to the energy supply of Germany. | ||
| The German people suffered economically. | ||
| They suffered with their energy throughout this winter because of this disruption. | ||
| This was not something that was just a simple sanction or slap in the face to Putin or Russia. | ||
| This is something that harmed our allies, and then we denied that we were responsible for it, even though we'd previously bragged about doing it? | ||
| I want to show clip 03 next a little bit of journalism on what this attack on Nord Stream 2 really was. | ||
| This morning, Seymour Hersh published a new piece of investigative journalism on his own substack, and it's called How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline. | ||
| And in this report, he details down to the exact specifics of how this attack was carried out. | ||
| This was a major act of international terrorism by the United States. | ||
| It's funny because at first people didn't think that this story was accurate. | ||
| In fact, a number of news organizations called the greatest journalist alive and said, Cy, did you write this story? | ||
| And I said, yeah, of course I wrote it. | ||
| And if you need a reminder of President Biden calling for the end of the Nord Stream pipeline, here is President Biden talking about how we'll put an end to it no matter what. | ||
| Watch. If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, then... | ||
| There will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. | ||
| We will bring it into it. | ||
| There you have it folks. | ||
| The United States said that it would disrupt the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. | ||
| Then when it finally did, it lied about it and said that the Russians were lying by accusing us. | ||
| And finally we see here that it was actually an act of international terrorism. | ||
| And it's no surprise really that our government would betray its allies who rely on the pipeline. | ||
| Because our government is constantly betraying us. | ||
| And we're going to go into more detail about this in the next segment where I want to talk a little bit about some of the recent revelations regarding the FBI's espionage on the American people. | ||
| And... Other examples like the fact that the Biden administration actually was behind the Mar-a-Lago raid and the new documents that have come out showing that to be the case. | ||
| And so it's no wonder that we would betray our allies because our government is constantly spying on and lying to and betraying its very own people. | ||
| So why is it that anyone would put their faith in the government of the United States of America? | ||
| And I know people often get confused because we're all patriots here. | ||
| I love my country. But I believe firmly that there is a difference between America and the United States. | ||
| I feel a devoted loyalty to America, but to the government of the United States who constantly betrays our people, our neighbors, our families. | ||
| Us, who takes our money by force via taxation, constantly increasing taxes, not to mention the fact that they tax us indirectly via constantly inflating the currency and printing millions upon millions of dollars, billions, trillions upon trillions of dollars, reducing the buying power of this money so that they can allocate more of it for themselves. | ||
| And then takes the proceeds of that money to fund hundreds of millions, hundreds of billions of dollars to Nazi regimes in Ukraine, and then works to perpetuate the crisis or the conflict so that it can continue to profit off of the war by selling arms, by lining the pockets of the political industrial complex, the military industrial complex. | ||
| We are in an abusive relationship with our government folks. | ||
| And frankly, our allies seem to be in an abusive relationship with our government. | ||
| And that's why from Brazil to Egypt to France, we are seeing them slip between our fingers. | ||
| And the more arrogant our leaders become, the more stubborn they become, the tighter they grasp at power, the more it slips through their fingers. | ||
| The tighter they have to grasp, the weaker they seem. | ||
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| I want to hear what you think about everything that we've covered so far today. | ||
| Starting with updates in Ukraine and what's really going on there, all the way to China and Taiwan. | ||
| Do you think that China will invade Taiwan within the next four years? | ||
| I want to hear what you think about our international allies decoupling themselves from the U.S. dollar, and whether you think this is a coordinated effort by the CCP to put the United States in a more vulnerable position. | ||
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| Welcome back to the American Journal, folks. | ||
| In this segment, we are going to be complaining incessantly about the FBI. Your guest with us today, Chase Geiser, filling in for the great Harrison Smith. | ||
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| Let us know what you think about the show so far, what your thoughts are on all of these items that we've been covering. | ||
| I want to start this segment with this tweet from Representative Jim Jordan. | ||
| He says, We now know the FBI, relying on information derived from at least one undercover employee, sought to use local religious organizations as, quote, new avenues for tripwire and source development. | ||
| Basically, the FBI is planting agents inside of churches to spy on Americans and entrap them. | ||
| It says here in this letter from the House of Representatives, dated April 10, 2023, Dear Director Wray, The Committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigations handling of domestic violent extremism investigations against Catholic Americans and its effect on protected First Amendment activity. | ||
| Based on the limited information produced by the FBI to the committee, we now know that the FBI relied on at least one undercover agent to produce its analysis. | ||
| The FBI proposed that its agents engage in outreach to Catholic parishes to develop sources among the clergy and church leadership to inform on Americans practicing their faith. | ||
| This shocking information reinforces our need for all responsive documents, and the committee is issuing a subpoena to you to compel your full cooperation. | ||
| Now, I'm very interested in the way that this is worded, and I haven't read the entire document here. | ||
| It's just about two pages long. | ||
| But the fact that we see here that the FBI was specifically targeting Catholic parishes, which I find very interesting... | ||
| To develop sources among the clergy and church leadership implies to me that the FBI was approaching priests, deacons, pastors, whoever listens to confessions, and asking them to disclose what Catholics were confessing during the sacrament of confession. | ||
| Which of course is supposed to be confidential in between you and God through this intermediary that is the priest. | ||
| That seems to me to be the reason that they were targeting Catholic parishes specifically, because parishioners of Catholic churches disclose their secrets and their sins to the church leadership via confession. | ||
| It's part of the religion, which ought to be protected under the First Amendment, not just because it's freedom of speech, but because it's freedom of religion itself. | ||
| So now we have an instance of the FBI and the United States government exploiting a feature of a religion in order to compromise the freedoms of the American people who practice that religion. | ||
| He goes on to say we've repeatedly sought information from the FBI relating to a January 23, 2023 document generated by the Richmond Field Office entitled Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology almost certainly presents new mitigation opportunities. | ||
| Leave it to the FBI to label something as a run-on sentence like that. | ||
| In this document, the FBI purported to categorize Catholic Americans based on theological distinctions and relied on the Southern Poverty Law Center to suggest that certain kinds of Catholic Americans may be domestic terrorists. | ||
| On February 16th, 23, we first wrote to you requesting documents and information to inform our oversight. | ||
| After receiving no response, we reiterated our outstanding requests in a subsequent letter dated March 20th, 23. | ||
| The limited information that was provided to the committee makes clear that we must possess all responsive material without redactions. | ||
| From this selective production, we know that the FBI, relying on information derived from at least one undercover employee, sought to use local religious organizations as new avenues for tripwire and source development. | ||
| For example, in a section of the document entitled Opportunities, the FBI wrote, in addition to redaction, engage in outreach to the leadership of other Society of St. | ||
| St. Pius X chapels in the FBI Richmond area of responsibility to sensitize these congregations to the warning signs of radicalization and to enlist their assistance to serve as suspicious activity tripwires. | ||
| So now we have the FBI approaching parishes, potentially trying to make informants out of the leadership of these parishes regarding confessions and encouraging parishioners, The people who you hold hands with when you say the Lord's Prayer... | ||
| to spy on you, to listen to you, and then subsequently to inform on you should you say anything that approaches radicalization. | ||
| Should you say anything off-color or that might indicate extremism? | ||
| I don't know about you, but to me this does not sound like the United States of America, where a government agency would go and approach churchgoers and ask them to inform on one another. | ||
| First of all, I find it ridiculous. | ||
| To propose the notion that domestic terrorism, radical right-wing extremism, is even remotely close to the top of list of the greatest national security threats in the United States. | ||
| And then second of all, to go so far as to assign agents to make informants out of your fellow churchgoers is just asinine to me. | ||
| These are your tax dollars. | ||
| You give a little money in the basket when it goes around a church, that goes to the church, and then when you go home... | ||
| Fill out your paperwork so you can pay your taxes. | ||
| That tax money goes to the FBI and then they use it to put somebody in your church to inform on you. | ||
| More news in from the America First legal Twitter account. | ||
| This is a whole thread, but records obtained from our investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Mar-a-Lago raid further confirm that the FBI obtained access to these records through a special access request from the Biden White House on behalf of the DOJ. So if you recall when Mar-a-Lago was raided by the Department of Justice and the documents on the property were seized, the Biden administration acted as though it had no idea this was going to happen. | ||
| It did not cooperate at all with this mission to raid the property. | ||
| And it was something that occurred totally independent and isolated from the White House. | ||
| America First Legal has discovered through these documents that the Biden administration was actually behind the raid and through a special access request authorized the raid. | ||
| As you go on throughout these documents, and I'm not going to read every word of these. | ||
| You can read them yourself if you go to America First Legal. | ||
| We see here that the Biden White House seems at least to be using this This tool of special access requests, not only to harass President Trump, a political opponent, a candidate running for president against President Biden, but seemingly to gain intel as well. | ||
| So, of course, we know famously that Richard Nixon resigned from the White House. | ||
| Resigned from the office of the President of the United States over the Watergate scandal where he was using Secret Service to raid and spy on an opponent, allegedly. | ||
| And it was such a shameful act that when it came to the public's attention, he had to resign. | ||
| And I believe he was even pardoned, though he didn't face charges for any wrongdoing. | ||
| And then we have the Biden administration right here actually authorizing the Department of Justice to conduct a raid of Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| This is a political opponent. And then share information as to what was found with the administration. | ||
| How is this different from Watergate? | ||
| How is this less of a scandal than Watergate? | ||
| Why is this not in the news? | ||
| What I don't understand is why our culture, how our culture has gotten to a point where These scandals come out every week, and they only have the smallest fraction of the attention of the American people as these obscure and rare and infrequent scandals from decades ago that totally annihilated the future political prospects of political leaders at the time. | ||
| If Richard Nixon had done this, it would have been just as bad, if not worse, than Watergate. | ||
| Biden did the exact same thing, not to mention the fact that Biden was found to have classified documents in his private property just the same as he accused Trump of with Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| This double standard is such an injustice that our republic cannot sustain it. | ||
| Something's going to have to give. | ||
| Make sure you call in and let me know what you think about this. | ||
| 877-789-2539. | ||
| After this next break here, in a few seconds, I will be taking your calls. | ||
| 877-789-2539. | ||
| We're doing calls all the next hour. | ||
| And then in the third hour, we have a great guest coming on with us. | ||
| Make sure you visit Infowarsstore.com. | ||
| Stick with us, folks. | ||
| Welcome back to the American Journal, folks. | ||
| We've been taking calls all this hour. | ||
| Make sure you call in 877-789-2539. | ||
| I want to start off by taking a call from Ben in Kansas. | ||
| Ben, how are you today, sir? | ||
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Doing good, Chase. How are you doing? | |
| I'm doing good. Thanks for your call. | ||
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No problem. I just wanted to touch on what you were just talking about there. | |
| With the double standard of, you know, Biden can do, can have his documents and, you know, have his Watergate. | ||
| And, you know, it seems like there's no justice at all anymore in America. | ||
| And it's just been a weaponized Department of Justice. | ||
| It's just attacking Christians and Republicans. | ||
| And, you know, I don't know what else to say about it. | ||
| It's brilliant. Absolutely. | ||
| I totally agree with you. | ||
| It seems like a total double standard, a one-way application of the law. | ||
| And my question for you, Ben, is do you think that a new president can solve this problem? | ||
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You know, that's a good question. | |
| You know, we definitely had it better under the last administration, but of course it's not perfect. | ||
| But at least we had an economy that was going. | ||
| We had, you know, before the whole pandemic, of course. | ||
| But, you know, I think that if we can clean out the bad actors of this, there's a possibility. | ||
| If not, you know, things don't look so great, unfortunately. | ||
| Who are you going to poll for in the next cycle? | ||
| Are you going to vote DeSantis or Trump? | ||
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Oh, no. Definitely Trump. | |
| Yeah. What made you make up your mind about that? | ||
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I just can't trust DeSantis. | |
| You know, I'd like to. | ||
| I'd like to believe, you know, he's the guy he says he is. | ||
| But, you know, it seems like he's an insider, you know. | ||
| And, you know, Trump says what's on his mind. | ||
| He says what, you know, he speaks our language and not... | ||
| It's double speak. Absolutely. | ||
| Well, thank you so much for your call, Ben. | ||
| I really do appreciate that. Next, I want to hear from Jefferson in Virginia. | ||
| Jefferson, it's good to hear from you again, sir. | ||
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How are you? Good morning, Chase. | |
| Good to hear from you. Thank you. | ||
| What's up? Well, you know, the Biden administration is announcing that they have ended the COVID measures emergency declaration and given themselves all kinds of credit for ending it early. | ||
| They said originally they were going to end it May 11th. | ||
| But Congress basically pushed him into ending it sooner. | ||
| But that doesn't end the National Emergency Declaration of March 13th, which he just renewed. | ||
| So it's like bait-and-switch. | ||
| It's kind of like the TikTok and Restrict Act, where we think we're getting rid of TikTok, but we're actually getting rid of our rights under the Restrict Act. | ||
| Congress is sort of in on this sort of a parallel bait-and-switch program where they make you think we're winning when we're actually just being strung along or undermined. | ||
| Yep, I think you're absolutely right. | ||
| So what do you think the outcome of this is going to be? | ||
| How do we fix this sort of thing from happening? | ||
| Are we just doomed to perpetual entropy, or do you think that if Trump gets a second term in office, he can turn it around? | ||
| Well, I would hope if Trump can get back into office before the election, maybe we can turn this around. | ||
| I don't know if we are even going to have an election in 2024 that we could recognize as a true election. | ||
| Sure. If you see what's happening with Carrie Lake out in Arizona, it's clearly that election was fraudulent and they're still acting like they're not going to bother to reverse it. | ||
| So we're in this situation where we're willing to go along with believing something that looks like election gets to be called an election even when it is clearly a violation of what any election should really be. | ||
| So we're in a bad situation here. | ||
| We've got to get Trump back in office some other way. | ||
| What it comes down to, I hate to venture on air what needs to happen. | ||
| I understand. I'm with you there, man. | ||
| Thanks for your call, Jefferson. It's always a pleasure to hear from you. | ||
| We're going to go to break here in a few seconds. | ||
| I want to give a quick shout out to the Getter Chat, and I hope we have a call from Lisa Marie in the next segment. | ||
| Make sure you guys call in 877-789-2539. | ||
| We'll be taking more calls. | ||
| Welcome back to the American Journal, folks. | ||
| We've been taking more calls this segment. | ||
| Make sure you call in 877-789-2539 and let us know what you think. | ||
| First caller I want to take now is Jim in Oklahoma. | ||
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Jim, how are you, sir? I had a couple of questions and then one comment. | |
| Sure. Second one is, | ||
| is chaos, GPT, and other AI-based chats causing some of the chaos and destruction in this country, like the derailments? | ||
| Could they have an influence on that? | ||
| Is the chaos, GPT, or one of the other AI chatbots or the AI influencing some of the train operators and maybe influencing people to go and destroy our infrastructure? | ||
| Or is it doing it themselves? | ||
| That's a great question. So I don't know if we've reached that stage yet where the AI is being implemented to that extent. | ||
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Cause a guy to kill himself. | |
| Yeah, I do believe that we are all interacting with AI far more than we know on social media and even when you call into places. | ||
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Mix it in with the vaccination, the graphene oxide. | |
| Yeah, I don't know. | ||
| I haven't looked into the nanotech stuff, but just generally speaking, when you're interacting with anybody on the internet, there's a good chance that you've interacted with. | ||
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So you're telling us that we need to go over there and fight for Taiwan and die because they can't build chips in another country? | |
| No, I would have us build our own chips. | ||
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Why are we only making chips in Taiwan? | |
| I'd have us build our own chips if I had it my way, but it's not my call. | ||
| Exactly. Yeah, I don't know why. | ||
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So then we need to die then because we can't make chips here? | |
| No, I don't think so at all. | ||
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Okay. I sound like that's what you were talking about this morning when you said that we needed to go to war with China over the chips. | |
| No, no, no. That's not what I meant. | ||
| If that's what you gather, I apologize if I miscommunicated. | ||
| But no, no, no. I think we're on the verge of seeing Taiwan get invaded by China. | ||
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Let them have it. Let them have it. | |
| We're already fighting on four different fronts right now. | ||
| Now the conservatives want to send the MTG and Crenshaw want to send the military after the cartels down there. | ||
| The current conservatives don't want war with Ukraine, but they want war with Mexico. | ||
| You already pissed off AMLO. He's joining the BRICS now. | ||
| And AMLO did put out a statement a few weeks ago about, you better watch out on the information war that they send up here for us. | ||
| Yep. Well, thank you so much for your call. | ||
| I appreciate that. And before we take our next call, I do want to go into this article I have pulled up here. | ||
| I'm glad that you mentioned the U.S. and Philippines. | ||
| They have begun their largest ever drills after the China exercises, which we showed a clip of last segment or a couple of segments ago. | ||
| So the U.S. and the Philippines are holding their largest ever joint military drills a day after China concluded large-scale exercises around Taiwan. | ||
| Over three days, China's military rehearsed blockades of Taiwan in response to the island's leader meeting the U.S. House Speaker last week. | ||
| Washington criticized China's display of firepower as disproportionate, while Taiwan President Tsai... | ||
| Said it was irresponsible, and she had the right to make visits to the United States. | ||
| So, they do drills, we do drills, they do drills, we do drills. | ||
| Eventually, this could play out as an actual armed conflict. | ||
| Let's take some more calls here. | ||
| I want to hear from Margie in Minnesota. | ||
| Margie, how are you today? How are you? | ||
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I'm doing great. I've had a really tummy week. | |
| I'm sorry to hear that. Do you have a minute for me to tell you a little bit what happened? | ||
| Tell me what happened. I... Well, I did the Pete Centelli Constitutional Committees. | ||
| There are several different parts. | ||
| You can await people. | ||
| They want you to start with the VFWs. | ||
| That's what I did. And I spent... | ||
| And the money is not the issue. | ||
| It's the frustration. I bought a buffet of 50 people, put up flyers, even stood in parking lots handing out flyers to people I thought were conservatives. | ||
| I wanted to honor the veterans that, you know, they were willing to give up their lives for our country and show them how to go down the rabbit hole and find truth tellers like you, Pete Santelli, Mike Adams, and to know what's going on in this country. | ||
| And the top of my flyer was, what's happening in America? | ||
| What did JFK try and warn us about? | ||
| And listen, I ran out of room on the page with chemtrails and Transgenderism and, you know, everything. | ||
| And I had a speaker that's done really well in our... | ||
| to trying to promote for the schools and help the school board, conservative school boards get on there. | ||
| And I was going to speak. | ||
| I had snippets of videos from you guys, Mike Adams, everybody. | ||
| You know, probably about 70 minutes. | ||
| Free buffet. I even got 60 pocket constitutions that I ordered to hand out. | ||
| Oh, wow. And I was so afraid of doing it. | ||
| And then I live in the number one Republican county in Minnesota. | ||
| And they told Walt to stick the gun bills that he passed. | ||
| He's trying to follow California. | ||
| Stick them up as you know what. | ||
| And I thought that was a sign from God. | ||
| I can do this. Don't be afraid. | ||
| We're the armor of God. Honey, eight people showed up. | ||
| And then they were like, oh, because it's, you know, it's Easter. | ||
| It's a Saturday before Easter. | ||
| Well, BS. The bar was full. | ||
| Watching basketball. | ||
| Buying pole tabs. | ||
| I even asked the manager to go up and say, hey, there's free buffet down here. | ||
| free buffet, come and, you know, come and listen to us. | ||
| We're good Christians, you know, nothing. | ||
| And I was so... | ||
| I did meet eight really good people. | ||
| We all exchanged emails and phone numbers and stuff to support each other. | ||
| And the interesting thing, one was a man in the insurance company, life insurance, been in it for 35 years. | ||
| In 35 years, he had five deaths that he had to pay out. | ||
| One of them was his cousin. | ||
| Well, after the clot shot, the woke poke, whatever you want to call it, he had nine in one day. | ||
| Wow. And the interesting thing was he's talked to other people in the business. | ||
| Why haven't the race raced on all our life insurance? | ||
| You know, in a normal situation like this, rates would have been sky high, right? | ||
| They came to the conclusion that the globalists or the government is paying to keep the rates down. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, thank you so much for your call, Margie. | ||
| I really do appreciate it. Don't be discouraged by a small number of people showing up to hear the truth and to spread the message that is American patriotism. | ||
| Because like Alex Jones says, even one listener is precious. | ||
| And if you can have an impact on one or two people and then they can go have an impact on one or two people, it quickly branches out and expands beyond just We're good to go. | ||
| To really make an impact and don't be discouraged at all by a small number of people appearing and showing up to be with you because it has to start somewhere and just keep doing what you're doing. | ||
| And if everyone was like you in our country, we'd have far fewer problems than we have today. | ||
| We've only got about one minute left. | ||
| So in the last minute, can we get Jeremiah from Ohio? | ||
| Jeremiah, how are you? | ||
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Hey, how you doing, Chase? Good, man. | |
| You got 60 seconds. Can you hammer it out? | ||
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Yeah, I was just going to talk about the Biden crime family. | |
| And I just feel like there's white hats or there's some good guys exposing them because why are we finding out all these crimes they did? | ||
| The money laundering with the Hunter's rental, Biden leaking the documents and accepting all the payments. | ||
| Somebody wants us to know that, don't you agree? | ||
| Absolutely. Thank you for your call on that, Jeremiah. | ||
| I do appreciate it. And the answer to that is God bless Jack Maxey. | ||
| Jack Maxey was a guest on this show last week or a couple of weeks ago, and he is in large responsible for the fact that any of us know anything about the Hunter Biden laptop. | ||
| Make sure you stay tuned and call in 877-789-2539. | ||
| I will be taking calls the rest of the hour before our distinguished guest, Clint Russell, joins us in the third hour to talk about liberty. | ||
| With us, folks, visit InfoWarsStore.com and don't forget to call in and let us know. | ||
| Welcome back to the American Journal, folks. | ||
| I'm your guest host today, Chase Geyser, filling in for the great Harrison Smith while he spends time with his new daughter and family. | ||
| I'll be in tomorrow as well. | ||
| I'm not sure when Harrison's going to be back, but it's an honor and a pleasure to be filling in for him as always, and I'll do my best to keep you entertained and informed. | ||
| First up, I want to hear Bill in Arizona. | ||
| Bill, how are you, sir? | ||
| Hello? Yes, sir. | ||
| I can hear you. Okay, good. | ||
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So, first off, I want a big InfoWars shout-out to Harrison for his new baby girl. | |
| We're all very proud of him. | ||
| And what I'd like to talk about is the comparison from Nixon to what's going on today. | ||
| Yes. What Nixon did was child's play compared to what's going on today. | ||
| Not that it was good. | ||
| It was horrible. | ||
| He should have never done it. | ||
| What happens is Nixon went into office with a big mandate. | ||
| He won a lot of states. | ||
| And that gave him that sense that he could get away with what he did. | ||
| And this is what happened with Joe Biden. | ||
| Joe Biden doesn't know that he really lost the election. | ||
| He doesn't know what time it is. | ||
| So... He thinks he's got this big mandate, and of course he's got all these idiots behind him that are pushing him to do things that he shouldn't be doing, but he thinks he's got the mandate to do it. | ||
| And so it's just, you know, they think they can get away with this because he thinks he's got the backing of the American people behind him, which he doesn't. | ||
| And so that's what's really going on. | ||
| And it's horrible. | ||
| I'm terrified for my country today with the things that are going on. | ||
| And like that other caller says, there's not a lot of ways to turn this around. | ||
| Thank God we have Infowars to give us true information, because if we didn't have Infowars, I don't know where we would be today. | ||
| The media isn't telling us what's going on. | ||
| My poor brother, he's a liberal. | ||
| He believes everything that goes on on CNN, you know? | ||
| And I feel bad for him, but I don't hold back on him. | ||
| I give him a hard time about it because I'm trying to open his eyes up, you know? | ||
| And that's what we need to be trying to do is open people's eyes up and, you know, not be discouraged like that one woman was because if we can open one... | ||
| If I can open one person's eyes, that's a victory for us. | ||
| So we need to keep trying, keep working forward, and hopefully, you know, Donald Trump ain't going to be our savior. | ||
| God is our savior, so count on and rely on God and, you know, and hope that somehow we can get out of this mess of We're in a big one. | ||
| The thing that blows my mind about this, in light of what you're saying, is it's one thing if people are misinformed and therefore believe a certain way because they've been lied to. | ||
| But what blows my mind about this thing is that people are actually told the truth and then don't care unless it applies to their opponents. | ||
| So why is it that when Mar-a-Lago is raided, All the leftists are up in arms about classified documents, but when classified documents are found in the Biden household, then it's no big deal. | ||
| Why is it that when President Trump has a phone call with Zelensky, it's called quid pro quo and he needs to be impeached, but Joe Biden literally bragged on camera about leveraging foreign aid to Ukraine in order to pressure Ukraine into firing the prosecutor looking into Burisma, which of course was the employer of his son. | ||
| Why is it that when there's any sort of a scandal around the Trumps, it's this major indicator of corruption and injustice, but then when the Hunter Biden laptop is admitted to be true later on, there's just crickets from the left about what's going on. | ||
| Or when... | ||
| It's found in documents that the Biden administration was behind the raids in Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| There's crickets as to any sort of accountability from the political left. | ||
| But when Nixon has the Watergate scandal, it's enough to get him totally impeached and basically humiliated. | ||
| It's his legacy. Despite anything else he did, the only thing people remember about Nixon are that he was impeached because of Watergate and that he brought us off of the gold standard. | ||
| Nothing else he did is remembered on the minds of American people At all today. | ||
| But these scandals, scandals to the extent of Watergate and beyond, are littered all around the entire Biden crime family. | ||
| And there's no accountability. | ||
| So what blows my mind is not that people are unaware. | ||
| It's that when they're told even by the sources that they trust, when they're told by the mainstream media of this corruption, they just disregard it and give a free pass. | ||
| So let's take another call. | ||
| I want to hear from Henry in Chicago. | ||
| Henry, how are you? Henry, are you with us? | ||
| We need to inform the public of what laws that we need to get on all these politicians. | ||
| For example, Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 1 is for the money to stay here, not to send to other countries. | ||
| Number 2, we need to start looking into all these politicians in violation of Article 1, Section 6, Paragraph 2. | ||
| It's a moment. They get rich. | ||
| We need to investigate them. And number 2, Three, we need to start using Article 2, Section 1, Paragraph 8 to get all the politicians that don't hold an oath to the Constitution in violation of that. | ||
| We need to inform the people because people are waiting for an answer for a savior. | ||
| We need to do the work. | ||
| This country was founded on dissent, not consent. | ||
| We're sending money to Ukraine, $150 billion. | ||
| Now we're going to go into Taiwan. | ||
| We need to repeal the FDA, the IRS, all this. | ||
| They've been infiltrated by the CCP. | ||
| If people do not see that, they better wake up because we already lose in our country. | ||
| And remember what the Constitution says. | ||
| When the government becomes tyrannical, it's the right of the people to replace it, okay, or abolish it. | ||
| And this is where it's coming to. | ||
| None of this is an insurrection. | ||
| This is where I come. | ||
| Four fighters, four fighters, and they die for it. | ||
| To give us a country, they created an example worldwide. | ||
| And what we're doing now, we're pissing at them, sorry, by their language. | ||
| But we just don't care. | ||
| We're more concerned about, oh, well, we're going to send some troops here. | ||
| We need money to save the borders. | ||
| We need to take care of our country. | ||
| And this Restrict Act, Bill 686, is in We need to stop that. | ||
| We need to stop saying, you know, TikTok, okay, whatever, it's freedom of speech. | ||
| And also, we need to repeal the Federal Reserve Act. | ||
| Right. Because that's who funds the deep state. | ||
| People do not see that. | ||
| The deep state is funded by the Federal Reserve, and the IRS has been used to collect the money, just like the map. | ||
| So people wake up, 87,000 more IRS agents with guns to go after people who make $400 or $500 and they keep track of everything. | ||
| And now they're coming with the digital dollar in July. | ||
| We need to wake up and start doing accountability for all these politicians. | ||
| They don't want to be in power. | ||
| I recalls to Section 1 paragraph. | ||
| You didn't took the other Constitution. | ||
| You don't know that we can remove them. | ||
| Thank you so much for your call. | ||
| I do appreciate it. We do have to cut to break, so I'm going to have to cut you off there, but please call in 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| We are taking calls the rest of the hour. | ||
| Stick with us. Welcome back to the American Journal, folks. | ||
| I'm your host today, Chase Geiser, and we will be taking calls the rest of the hour before our distinguished guest in the final hour of the show this morning. | ||
| Make sure you call in 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| Again, that's 1-877-789-2539. | ||
| I want to hear from Shad in South Dakota. | ||
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Shad, what's going on, man? Yeah, good morning, Chase. | |
| Good morning. Got a different kind of take on this situation with Anheuser-Busch. | ||
| And everybody focuses on the culture war aspect of it. | ||
| But I think... | ||
| Hold on, I've got to take my phone off speaker there. | ||
| Everybody gets wrapped up, of course, with the culture war. | ||
| And that really, I think, is ancillary to it. | ||
| And I think they're using that as a distraction to what's actually going on. | ||
| I trade stocks for... | ||
| Most of my bread and butter and crude oil is my specialty. | ||
| West Texas Intermediate. But if you look into a stock breakdown of what was happening with the public-private structure of that company in the weeks leading up to this Dylan Mulvaney nonsense, there's been a massive shift from publicly held companies that were the majority investors in Anheuser-Busch and now into private ownership. | ||
| And I think what they've done It's basically used this kind of a move to artificially deflate the stock price and then offset that with internal purchases of the stock. | ||
| So that kills two birds with one stone. | ||
| They increase the amount of private ownership, the percentage of private ownership. | ||
| And I think all of this is in preparation for what's going to happen with the broader market as both the equities market and the credit market go into the final tailspin. | ||
| And this just looks to me to be positioning for the They have to do their corporate-wide virtue signal with the ESG. And one thing people may not realize is you can go online and you can find the ESG rating for any company that has publicly traded stock in the world you can find an ESG rating for. | ||
| And these companies are rushing to the trough of what's going to be required of them. | ||
| In terms of their social compliance, in the same way individuals are, the ESG scoring and all that is going to be used to predicate bailouts or prop-ups or how the CBDC, once we go into the transition between the fiat economy and the CBDC, these companies want to make sure that they're on the right side of the ideological aisle so they get full consideration for The valuation of their companies and the transition of their assets. | ||
| And I think that's what we're seeing. | ||
| They're positioning the company for the collapse. | ||
| That's what I see. | ||
| How is the ESG score calculated? | ||
| Because the last I checked, and this was months ago, there was no objective standard. | ||
| There is no, and you're exactly right. | ||
| There is no objective. It's the same way that the disinformation governance board decides who's truthy and who's not. | ||
| And all this stuff, it's just subjective nonsense. | ||
| It's basically based on your political allegiances. | ||
| It's exactly the same as party membership in the Politburo or what we've seen out of previous Marxist totalitarian regimes. | ||
| I can tell you this, having looked through the perspectives of literally thousands of companies over my years, Time. | ||
| There's nothing that you can tabulate. | ||
| Sure, they can look in and they can say, well, your carbon footprint is this, or your business practices favor this, and maybe they look at their diversity and their hiring practices, and they take a look under the hood in human resources and that kind of thing. | ||
| There's nothing that's objective about this. | ||
| Every single bit of it is objective, and that gives them the ability to I think we're good to go. | ||
| Position properly so that their company valuation can be preserved. | ||
| And all of that, basically the valuation of the companies, once we go to CBDC, all that's going to be arbitrary as well. | ||
| And so the assigned valuation in the currency transition, that process is going to be the biggest advantage. | ||
| Picking of the winners and losers that we've ever seen in this economy. | ||
| And it'll transition us fully into a managed economy, just like what they have in China. | ||
| But I see it being even more monomaniacal in its aims of complete social compliance. | ||
| I think it'll be even more dominant, even more tyrannical than what the Chinese system is at present. | ||
| Well, Shad, thank you so much for your call. | ||
| That is a disturbingly reasonable explanation as to what the hell is going on. | ||
| I had just sort of thought that these companies had made some bad hires and the culture had shifted over time. | ||
| And so the marketing departments were making just stupid decisions because they were assuming that everyone in the audience agreed with their worldview. | ||
| But I think that your explanation makes more sense than what I had previously thought. | ||
| So I do appreciate you calling in and sharing that insight. | ||
| Next, I want to hear from Patriot in Texas. | ||
| Patriot, what's going on? Hey, Kaiser. | ||
| How are you doing? Good. How are you doing? | ||
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Doing good. I just want to chime in. | |
| I feel like I'm hearing the same thing every day. | ||
| I feel like the info war started off strong fighting against, you know, tyranny and globalism and on the side of God. | ||
| But this year it has merged into Fox News. | ||
| It is one in the same. | ||
| You, including, were fighting for Trump. | ||
| It's more turned into a cult. | ||
| Like, you guys are going to follow Trump no matter what he says. | ||
| Even though, you know, we're all against the vaccine, we're still pro-Trump. | ||
| And the vaccine wouldn't be possible without work speed. | ||
| We're all against Pfizer, but we're voted for someone that took lobbying money from Pfizer. | ||
| Like, we're so critical of the left, and we're creating this Full movement of hatred towards the left that we're not focused on uniting both sides. | ||
| And there's no way you're going to unite both sides around Trump. | ||
| I mean, I agree with a lot of the things he has said, the things he has done. | ||
| I feel like I control my own mind, and I've released all ties to Trump once he did warp speed. | ||
| And all that garbage. | ||
| So I can't figure out why people can't do the same. | ||
| But it's programming. | ||
| We know the left is programmed, but we can't look at ourselves and release the programming that we were fed. | ||
| And I would like to know why you're going for Trump. | ||
| And anything but the two choices, being DeSantis or Trump. | ||
| I mean, it's another false choice paradigm where you're going for either DeSantis Who was in charge of the torturing camps in Guantanamo Bay and did the same thing in Iraq. | ||
| Or Trump, who I just explained all the things with him. | ||
| So they got hit by the balls again with the two false choices. | ||
| And I don't get why we can't just realize that. | ||
| I say we because I still watch the show, but, you know, lately it's just... | ||
| It's turned into Fox News. | ||
| I mean, Owen said yesterday to watch the Waters show for more information. | ||
| I mean, Tucker's cool, but, I mean, in the end, it's all controlled opposition. | ||
| And if you read 1984, I mean, Trump is an identical representation of Goldstein, representing all the resistance. | ||
| But in the end, you know, it's all the same, and it's all there just to lure you in. | ||
| Yeah, okay, well thank you for your feedback on that. | ||
| I do appreciate it. First things first, the Trump Operation Warp Speed criticism isn't a fair criticism because Trump was always a right-to-try candidate. | ||
| He always believed in the right to try experimental drugs in desperate situations. | ||
| Second of all, after the vaccine was created, all of these mandates were manifest after Biden was put into office. | ||
| Trump was never going to make anyone take the vaccines. | ||
| It was something that he catalyzed only so that it would be an option for people because he was trying to get our economy going as quickly as possible. | ||
| I don't agree with We're good to go. | ||
| Stick with us. We'll be back after this break. | ||
| Taking more calls, 877-789-2539. | ||
| Welcome back to the American Journal, folks. | ||
| I'm your host today, Chase Geiser, filling in for the great Harrison Smith. | ||
| There's been a lot of chat about what we can do, what can actually be done. | ||
| Talk about problems, problems, problems with no... | ||
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| This segment will be taking calls, and next hour we have an awesome guest. | ||
| Clint Russell, host of the Liberty Lockdown podcast. | ||
| Very, very excited to be speaking with him. | ||
| Let's take a call from Tim in Seattle. | ||
| Tim, how are you, sir? | ||
| How's it going? Good. | ||
| What's up, man? Another great show. | ||
| Congratulations to Harrison Smith and the Smith family. | ||
| Definitely set the example by being a strong patriot, being a father, raising a family. | ||
| Congratulations to the Smiths. | ||
| As far as fighting back, like, you know, there's so much division, like in the Getter chat, the Rumble chat, there's all this question marks, like who do we support, this and that. | ||
| I support you guys. | ||
| I support your guys' message. | ||
| Everybody needs to get in the streets and be the people, the leaders that we're looking for. | ||
| I mean, if we're going to, like, acquiesce all of our rights and then hand them off to billionaires and oligarchs, we are going to be treated like cattle. | ||
| They don't have any respect for us at this point in time. | ||
| We actually can take back all the respect that we have lost by being so broke back by this January 6th die-off, by saying that we're going to be rounded up and arrested by military trucks. | ||
| This is impossible. | ||
| They don't have the infrastructure to do this. | ||
| And even if they did, it is now time to win hearts and minds so those trucks don't roll. | ||
| I mean, authoritarian communist regimes, like the ones that are forming around us, what do they end up doing to all of the dissidents, historically? | ||
| They kill them. They kill them. | ||
| Yes, they do. And so, now is the time to not sit on our asses and be so defeated. | ||
| I mean, because it is time for us to prove that Yuri Brezmenov was wrong. | ||
| We can fight back. | ||
| We can overcome the demoralization. | ||
| We can be Americans, once again. | ||
| So, as much as I come off, I get a lot of, you know, black. | ||
| Only because I have proven that everybody's wrong. | ||
| Don't fear the federal government. | ||
| Fear what happens if you fear the federal government, because they're more afraid of you at this point in time. | ||
| They're more afraid of you going through the streets and winning the hearts and minds of your neighbors, the school board, everybody. | ||
| Because that's what's going on. | ||
| We're so... I think you raise a great point. | ||
| And frankly... If you're afraid of speaking out because you're worried you're going to get audited by the federal government, or if you're afraid of speaking out because you're worried that you're going to lose your job because of your political opinions, | ||
| if you're afraid of speaking out because you're worried that you'll be put on a domestic terrorist list or that you'll potentially be put behind bars or unfairly prosecuted, Just imagine the consequences of not speaking out. | ||
| The consequences of not speaking out, sharing the truth, spreading the truth, and fighting for your country are far more severe than speaking out now and facing whatever hurdles or obstacles that we may face. | ||
| So if the path that you want to take is the path of least resistance, then fight for your country now, because it's going to be much harder to fight for it later. | ||
| Thank you so much for your call, Tim. I really do appreciate that. | ||
| I want to hear next from Stephanie in Kentucky. | ||
| Stephanie, how are you, ma'am? I'm good, thank you. | ||
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I'm really surprised to hear Yuri's name in your last caller's call that you just got, because I never really heard a whole lot I think right now you've got the four stages that he talks about, demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and then normalization. | |
| And I think right now we're in the crisis stage where we're able to do something. | ||
| He basically says that if we don't revolt during that stage, that we'll move into a normalization stage. | ||
| So I think, you know, his interview from the 1970s, it's amazing when I first saw this because every single one of these states our country has gone through. | ||
| And it has taken, I think, probably it started in the 60s when they start demoralization of a whole generation. | ||
| He said it takes 15 to 20 years to do that. | ||
| And then they destabilized the country. | ||
| Which they've been doing for years, blacks against whites, you know, whites against Jews, I mean, whatever it may be, gays against everybody else. | ||
| And basically, that's what they've done to our country to, you know, separate people. | ||
| And now I think we're moving into that crisis stage where they're trying to create a crisis so big that we're so fearful that we don't do anything. | ||
| And, you know, I think that's A dangerous place to be right now. | ||
| I think we have been basically puppets for years now under the WEF and Carl Schwab. | ||
| He's been around forever. | ||
| And I think our politicians are basically puppets for them. | ||
| I don't think it really matters who would get in there. | ||
| It seems like they brainwash all of them and they all have one desire to destroy our country. | ||
| It's just So that they can control. | ||
| I mean, I used to be a stockbroker and the main things they talked about was fear and greed. | ||
| And you have these greedy politicians and people who are running the show behind the scenes and they're putting all this fear into us. | ||
| Everything, you know, with the viruses and our money and everything. | ||
| And it's working. | ||
| That's the sad part. | ||
| But I was curious about, you know, how you feel about this and How do you think this ties in to where we're at right now? | ||
| Yeah, great thoughts. Thank you so much for your call, Stephanie. | ||
| I do appreciate it. So I am familiar with the Yuri Bezmenov interview, but I'm not familiar with any of his work outside of that famous interview other than the stages that you mentioned. | ||
| And I really do think that Looking at history from the perspective of or through the lens of stages is actually the right way to do it. | ||
| So many people make the mistake of looking at history as a linear thing. | ||
| They think, okay, this happens and this happens and this happens and whatever trajectory we're on is the trajectory we're always going to be on. | ||
| But history is not linear. | ||
| It is cyclical. | ||
| So whether you look at it as these stages from Besmanov, or if you look at it as the cycles that are featured in the famous book, The Fourth Turning, which Steve Bannon frequently speaks about, it's true that history repeats itself. | ||
| And right now, historically speaking, we are in a fourth turning. | ||
| This is a time of crisis that we're entering into and is going to manifest and we are going to have to make a decision as a people, as a nation and as a culture, which direction we want this to go, right? | ||
| Germany was in a similar fourth turning at the end of the 1920s. | ||
| And they made radical changes. | ||
| They had their currency completely collapse and they chose the direction that they chose. | ||
| And it was radical and it fixed a lot of their problems and it caused a lot of grave injustices as well and ultimately manifest in World War II and genocide. | ||
| So we are going to be in a position in this country, I believe, within the next 10 years, certainly by 2028, We're going to be in a position as a nation where we have to make a decision as to whether we are going to be radically just or radically unjust. | ||
| Thank you so much for your call, Stephanie. | ||
| I really do appreciate that. | ||
| make sure you stick with us folks we have an awesome guest coming up in the next hour clint russell of the liberty liberty lockdown podcast is going to be joining us he's a great guest i've had him on my podcast in the past his podcast is great make sure you check him out make sure you follow him on twitter as well i'm really looking forward to speaking with him thank you so much for your calls this hour as well and | ||
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Austin, Texas, a dynamic city long known for its quality of life and scenic beauty, is today the fastest-growing metropolis in the South and Southwest United States. | |
| Austin, Texas, once a quiet haven for free-minded Texans, has become a cesspool of leftists, invading state populations of George Soros-fueled lawlessness, hurtling the capital of Texas into chaos. | ||
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Bartering with criminals instead of sending them to jail. | |
| Chas Moore of the Austin Justice Coalition saying, quote, Someone breaks into my home, I call the police, and then what? | ||
| Even if they find the person, now the person goes to jail. | ||
| We didn't really fix anything. | ||
| I would actually say instead of sending her to jail, let's say she pays me back by cleaning my house for the next six weeks. | ||
| Clinton Rary, combat veteran and an ex-candidate for the Austin City Council, has been relentlessly drilling into the rot prevalent in the local government of Austin, Texas, recently uncovering a possible Democrat Party scam where ActBlue, | ||
| whose mission is to empower small-dollar donors, could quite possibly be a money-laundering scam acting as a non-profit technology organization Which enables left-leaning nonprofits, Democrat candidates, and progressive groups to raise money from individual donors on the Internet with ActBlue's online fundraising software. | ||
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So what led me to ActBlue was the James O'Keefe Media Group, seeing them post that video on Twitter. | |
| ...contributions through ActBlue. | ||
| An inquisitive detective with Brightline Investigations for Election Watch brought us the latest unwitting contributor, I'm just going around. | ||
| I'm asking questions regarding donations. | ||
| It says that you made 26,000 donations. | ||
| Would that be the case for ActBlue? | ||
| Because that was over six years, so it's 11 donations a day. | ||
| I was getting ready to get on the website and check my ActBlue. | ||
| I would definitely check it to make sure that nobody's taking advantage of you. | ||
| All right? | ||
| Thank you. I don't know what's really going on because there's not a level of transparency to see where exactly the money's coming from. | ||
| With the FEC website, you can see who's donating money and to what organization, and that's basically the level that you're going to see on where that money's coming from. | ||
| And so, When you have people that are 70-plus years old and they're donating two, three, four, five times a day over a two-year period, it just throws a huge red flag up. | ||
| On, hey, there's some shenanigans going on here, and there needs to be a deeper level of investigation into this, especially when I go talk to this lady, and she can't even get out of her chair. | ||
| And she's talking about, yeah, I was just about to go check out my ActBlue account, but she couldn't even get out of her chair to check it when I was in the house. | ||
| It would seem that someone in print or broadcast media would have already been all over this, but now it takes concerned patriots like yourself to investigate government corruption. | ||
| How was the response from Lapdog Media when you finally reached out about this? | ||
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So after I posted the video and it went viral on Twitter, I reached out to a bunch of local media outlets here and I It's like near zero response. | |
| I just wish we had some coders that we can go through all this data because it is very time consuming to scroll through and find out, okay, who's donating a hundred times and then you got to then go through there, pull their name, put it in the FPC website and then figure out, okay, are they donating a lot? | ||
| Because you are scrolling through and it is time consuming. | ||
| I mean, it took me almost three days to go through all the names just to find one person. | ||
| Other independent investigators have followed suit. | ||
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And I found out that, uh, your address, uh, homeless, that you have, uh, donated 10,000, over 10,000 times within a two-year time frame from 2021, uh, 2020 to 2022. | |
| How much money? $106,304.45. | ||
| That wasn't me. Glory Ball, over the last two years, has made over 537 donations. | ||
| For a total of, like, maybe $7,000? | ||
| $7,000? Is that? | ||
| No. Do you think that you've donated, like, $60,000 to them in the past year? | ||
| So that would be $5,000 a month? | ||
| Yeah. Yeah. The Democratic Party's tentacles of corruption, hell-bent on a downward spiral into fraud and totalitarianism, must and will be removed from its New World Order brain. | ||
| John Bowne reporting. | ||
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Welcome back to the American Journal, folks. | |
| We've got a great guest joining us this hour. | ||
| Clint Russell from the Liberty Lockdown Podcast. | ||
| Clint, are you with us? | ||
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How are you today, sir? I'm good, Chase. | |
| Thank you so much for having me, man. | ||
| You know, just trying to survive the totalitarian takeover of the West. | ||
| It's fun times. Absolutely, man. | ||
| It's really good to be with you. It's always an honor and a pleasure to be with you. | ||
| You've been so kind to my podcast growth and everything, and I really appreciate it. | ||
| So I wanted to reciprocate by having you on InfoWars this morning, man. | ||
| Heck yeah, man. Anytime, InfoWars is like my second home, so I appreciate it. | ||
| Absolutely. So tell the audience a little bit about your podcast, how it started, and how you blew up. | ||
| Well, I ran a mortgage company. | ||
| I was an entrepreneur, and I shut it down in early, or I guess mid-2020, like May 2020. | ||
| Started Liberty Lockdown the same day, practically, and was really embraced by the libertarian movement as a second-gen libertarian myself. | ||
| And I can't really explain the success of the show other than being extraordinarily passionate about What we face and what we're up against. | ||
| And I think that spirit was just needed in that moment. | ||
| Someone who was very early and aggressively against the lockdowns and the insanity of it. | ||
| And then, you know, obviously my finance background has put me in a kind of a specialized niche to evaluate what we're going through. | ||
| So I think those are the two major things. | ||
| But beyond that, I don't know. | ||
| I'm not a religious person, but grace of God, I guess. | ||
| So did you see this current economic crisis that we're facing coming years ago when you got out of the mortgage business when it was sort of a hot business, right? | ||
| The rates were low. Houses were flying off of the shelf, so to speak. | ||
| So did you see this coming? | ||
| I did. I mean, it's the same issue that Ron Paul had. | ||
| It's like you can't give an exact timeline, but when you know that there is malinvestment, In the Austrian school, it just means bad investments that are pervasive, predicated off of hyper-low interest rates that are maintained for well over a decade at the time. | ||
| I just knew that that paired with the lockdowns, which would damage the supply chains, and then the congressional bailouts that amounted to trillions of dollars worth of printing. | ||
| I knew that the economy was on borrowed time at that point. | ||
| As a mortgage broker and a fiduciary to my investors, I'm looking at a two to three year loan book because that's the average duration of a private mortgage loan. | ||
| And I realized at that time that like, okay, two to three years, if I'm lucky enough to have my book roll off in that time period and avoid the liability of a real estate implosion, Well, then I will have made my money and avoided the worst of the fallout of this terrible government intervention in the economy. | ||
| So I shut it down. | ||
| And sure enough, it looks like my time frame was about right, two to three years before we started to really feel the economic pain. | ||
| So what is your prognosis for our economy? | ||
| Let's just say, for example, we elect the perfect president. | ||
| Is there any way to reverse this? | ||
| Well, there's lots of ways to reverse the creeping totalitarianism, but there is not much in the way of alleviating or avoiding the economic pain that will come from the lockdown decision and the printing that ensued after that. | ||
| So I'm of the opinion that even if you were to end the Federal Reserve, which is what someone like Ron Paul might have done or Dave Smith, it's going to be very, very painful just simply because there's so much debt that exists not just in the consumer economy, but also very painful just simply because there's so much debt that exists not just in the Corporate and then globally. | ||
| We're talking hundreds of trillions of dollars globally that are out there. | ||
| Much of it denominated in US dollars and the US dollar being under more pressure than it has ever been to be the global reserve currency of the world. | ||
| Once again, thanks to government involvement overseas, Russia being the most obvious example, kicking them off swift. | ||
| But then now the Chinese and the entire BRICS alliance kind of coming together to present a unified front of diversification from the U.S. dollar in terms of global trade. | ||
| So it's not going to be easy, even if you had the greatest president possible. | ||
| We're going to go through some trying times. | ||
| But that's not to be overly dire. | ||
| I think that We could recover relatively quickly, but it's just going to be painful in the interim. | ||
| That makes a lot of sense. We covered earlier in the show the decoupling that we're seeing of different nations, former allies, enemies alike, from the U.S. dollar, Brazil, namely, and then, of course, Macron recently visiting China and seeming to be very neutral about Taiwan suddenly and other factors. | ||
| Absolutely. As you observe these nations make an effort to sort of subvert or at least divert the obstacle that is a dependence on the US dollar, how long do you think it's going to be before the dollar loses its reserve status, if ever? Oh, I think it absolutely will happen in our lifetime, but I am not of the Peter Schiff camp that it's imminent. | ||
| I think that so much of global trade is denominated in the U.S. dollar, which means that those contracts will have to roll off, and much of that is 10 or 20 or even longer year duration. | ||
| So I would imagine that it'll be a multi-decade process of Essentially, uncoupling from the US dollar being the primary or exclusive, to a large extent, trading medium. | ||
| Honestly, it probably would have been when I was near the grave, and now it looks like it's going to happen before I'm even 50 years old. | ||
| The timeline has sped up tremendously. | ||
| So we've seen throughout history examples of hyperinflation and currencies basically just being abandoned and replaced. | ||
| Most famously, of course, in Germany in the late 20s, early 30s, with the hyperinflation and the sort of collapse of the mark. | ||
| What would it look like if the dollar collapsed? | ||
| I mean, would we be able to sort of pivot and just start over like an old Windows 98 PC and just reset it and hope it boots up? | ||
| What does that look like? Yeah, I mean, that's the major concern is that the obvious solution that the state is going to offer to the people will be a central bank digital currency and modern monetary theory along with the UBI or universal basic income. | ||
| So that's what myself and many others have been predicting is likely going to be what's offered in the heart of the economic crisis that Is once again government created and the government solution will be, oh, what do you know? | ||
| More power to them. I can't believe it. | ||
| It's incredible how that always works out. | ||
| But that's my expectation. | ||
| And yes, in some ways you could reset it and just transition to that relatively smoothly, theoretically. | ||
| But in reality, I think that Once again, just as they thought that they could implement lockdowns and the American people would just go along with it, I think that you're going to find there are many in America that are intransigent. | ||
| We will not acquiesce to a central bank digital currency, and I think that their well-laid plans will be foiled once again. | ||
| But with that will come a lot of discontent and potentially rioting and a bunch of the stuff that we saw in 2020-2021 because of the economic Yeah. | ||
| You know, reserve currency status starting to diminish and inflationary pressure becoming extraordinarily troublesome. | ||
| On the flip side of that, if the Federal Reserve opts to go all in and defending the dollar, well, then you're going to have elevated interest rates. | ||
| Fed funds rate is at 5 percent today in 1980. | ||
| It got all the way up to 20 percent. | ||
| I don't think that they could even theoretically do that today, but they could continue with this hiking, in which case you would see, in my opinion, a global Great Depression. | ||
| So sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that's just my honest opinion. | ||
| I think that it's going to be pain on either side of that equation and significant pain at that. | ||
| Well, if we're going to encounter a global Great Depression 2.0, we know that a world war did a great job of snapping us out of the last one. | ||
| Do you think that would catalyze a conflict of that extent? | ||
| That's my fear, brother. | ||
| I mean, it sure seems like they are dead set on a dual front world war between West and NATO versus China and Russia. | ||
| And that's my fear. | ||
| That's exactly my fear, is that they're trying to kind of use that as their... | ||
| Literal weaponization of the US dollar and defending it as such. | ||
| Stick with us, folks. More with our awesome guest, Clint Russell, in the next segment. | ||
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| Welcome back to the American Journal, folks. | ||
| Great Russell is with us today. | ||
| It's an honor and a pleasure to have him as a guest on the show this morning. | ||
| Let's talk about Russia versus Ukraine. | ||
| And let's leave it that broad. | ||
| What the hell is going on? | ||
| Well, it's a clear proxy war. | ||
| I don't know if that needs to even be explained at this point, but when you're funding not just the military, but the government of a foreign nation that's in an active hot war with the nuclear power, I think it's fair to call that a proxy war. | ||
| The history of it is extraordinarily complicated and one that the American people, unfortunately, are not privy to whatsoever. | ||
| And I've been fortunate, speaking of Texan natives, first off, shout out to Harrison on the birth of his new baby. | ||
| I'm so glad that A healthy new queen, as he said on Twitter today. | ||
| But I'm very fortunate in that another Texas native, Scott Horton, has given me access to the pre-release of his new book, which is all about, it's almost 600 pages on the history of Russia and Ukraine and NATO's escalation of that conflict. | ||
| And I am preparing right now for a debate against destiny. | ||
| We'll be live in Nashville in two weekends. | ||
| Wow. Yeah, takehumanactiontour.com if anybody's interested in attending, but it's very complicated. | ||
| The biggest things that I took away from reading his book that I was not aware of is that, first off, the IMF and the West, the Clinton administration specifically, was almost exclusively responsible for the path that the Formerly USSR that became Russia in the 90s took when it came to privatizing, quote-unquote, their industries. | ||
| And obviously, having been a communist nation, most of their industries were consolidated into these handful of oligarchical entities. | ||
| But they were sold off to these kleptocrat oligarchs in the 90s. | ||
| And it was all done at the behest of advisors in the West who also profited off of it. | ||
| So I wasn't aware of that. | ||
| I wasn't aware of the back-to-back depressions that the Russian people were driven into. | ||
| And I believe it was 95 and 99. | ||
| Which greatly diminished their life expectancy. | ||
| It dropped by about a decade during that period. | ||
| So you had these poor people that were coming out of communism that were actually extraordinarily open to the ideas of capitalism. | ||
| Which most people wouldn't imagine that being the case. | ||
| But when you think back and you're like, oh yeah, they went through 100 years of misery. | ||
| Of course they were open to the ideas of some different economic model. | ||
| And instead of being embraced by the West and actually advised on how to do this in a way that would benefit their people and benefit their economic system, they were advised to essentially become what people call late-stage capitalism. | ||
| Which is really just another iteration of essentially communism where you have, or fascism for that matter, where the industry is taken over by a handful of politically connected people. | ||
| Additionally to that, what I found fascinating is that both Boris Yeltsin as well as Vladimir Putin inquired to multiple presidents, George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, and George Bush Jr., for literally decades. | ||
| They asked them repeatedly, can we be added into NATO? And they were laughed off and just... | ||
| Treat it as if, you know, you're a fallen foe. | ||
| You're our enemy. You lost the Cold War. | ||
| We're going to continue with this Cold War, whether you like it or not. | ||
| And none of it had to happen. | ||
| You know, like Vladimir Putin specifically, I believe it was like 03, because it was like right after 9-11, if you remember, Vladimir Putin was the first global leader to reach out to our president at the time, George Bush, and say, We're here with you. | ||
| We're ready to help to push back against this terroristic threat. | ||
| And he said, let's officially end the Cold War. | ||
| Let's put Russia into NATO. Let's stop pretending as if we are enemies. | ||
| And the answer was no, once again. | ||
| So in my opinion, the neoconservatives within the U.S. government were more interested in maintaining a kind of this nebulous enemy that existed forever, even though Russia was not really a significant threat to the West, other than the fact that they even though Russia was not really a significant threat to the West, other than the But they had to keep that gravy train going for the military-industrial complex, and unfortunately, | ||
| their mistreatment of not just Russia but the Russian people has now created a really nationalistic kind of – I wouldn't say imperialistic because they're not really their mistreatment of not just Russia but the Russian people has now created a They just want their borders to be safe. | ||
| But it had put them on a defensive footing that I don't think that they would have been on otherwise. | ||
| And unfortunately, because this history has been so deeply hidden from the American people, they just assume, I mean, maybe not this audience, because they're more privy to the truth of things, but many people just believe that Vladimir Putin's a madman and he's interested And it's like none of this is reality. | ||
| There's the nyet means nyet memo or cables that came out. | ||
| It was Burns at the time who worked in the State Department, and he was informing his superior that It's not just the Russian leadership, but everyone in Russia views Ukraine as the reddest of red lines. | ||
| You cannot put Ukraine into NATO. You can't do it. | ||
| It will create a war. | ||
| Just 100%. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And Burns is now the head of the CIA, so it's not as if This was a secret in our actual government. | ||
| But they did it anyways. | ||
| And I believe it was November of 2021, Kamala Harris came out and said, once again, yes, the door is open for Ukraine to be admitted to NATO. Just last week, actually, you had the head of NATO, Stoltenberg, I believe his name is, saying, you know, yes, Ukraine will be added to NATO. And it's like, these people are, they're out of their minds. | ||
| I don't know if I can put it any more specifically or more directly than that. | ||
| We've only got about a minute and a half left of this segment, but just really quick, I wanted to ask you, do you think that Russia was ever actually our enemy? | ||
| Because I've grown to think that the whole entire Cold War itself was just a plot by the military-industrial complex to make a ton of money. | ||
| Well, I'm sure that's certainly a big portion of the equation that we don't pay attention to, but... | ||
| I mean, I think there was sincere fear of communism, whether or not it was justified or if it was overblown. | ||
| It almost certainly was overblown. | ||
| I think that if you believe in free market capitalism, if you believe in... | ||
| Small government and innovation and just capitalism broadly, then I don't see why you should fear these states. | ||
| I mean, the fact that we continue to fear China, the fact that we're not able to outcompete these nations is just evidence that we aren't a free market economy. | ||
| And I think that that's really the lesson of all of this, is that you don't beat totalitarian, state-planned, centrally-planned economies by becoming that. | ||
| You beat it by becoming more decentralized. | ||
| More capitalistic. And unfortunately, we're not taking it back. | ||
| More from Clint in the next segment. | ||
| Stick with us, folks, and make sure you visit Infowarsstore.com and get you something nice. | ||
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Welcome back to The American Journal, folks. | |
| We have the distinguished Clint Russell with us today. | ||
| It is an honor and a pleasure to have you, Clint. | ||
| And so I want to dive in more on this Russia-Ukraine dynamic. | ||
| I want to ask a little bit more of what your thoughts are as to what our incentive is to have wanted to get Ukraine into NATO to begin with, and what our incentive is to perpetuate this conflict. | ||
| Well, there's a few theories as to the why. | ||
| I think that the most obvious one is that any time any national leader tries to divest themselves of the U.S. dollar or basically just to any sort of pushback to American global control or hegemony, you usually see some sort of effort to topple them. | ||
| So that portion of it is not at all surprising, but There's the other side of this coin, which I think is quite accurate and goes basically underreported or unreported, really, is that the neoconservatives kind of took control. | ||
| There wasn't a ton of them. | ||
| There was only a couple hundred. But for whatever reason, they were able to take control of the geopolitical decision-making apparatus within the U.S. government in the 1990s and the 2000s. | ||
| And what they decided, there was many thought leaders in that movement that thought that you had to have control of Ukraine being the, quote-unquote, the breadbasket of Europe, and that it would be such an important territory, particularly because of the warm water port in Crimea. | ||
| And essentially, it would defang Russia for... | ||
| The next century. | ||
| And that was kind of the Project for New American Century. | ||
| The PNAT guys, that was kind of their thesis that, well, yes, Russia or the USSR has fallen, and we could probably treat them decently moving forward, but why not just destroy them so that they don't present a threat to the West for a century? | ||
| And I think that's the Unfortunately, that's the decision that some of the people involved in it made, and they weren't entirely wrong. | ||
| It did, obviously, defang Russia for many decades, but it has now created a wounded lion, or I guess bear would be a more apt metaphor in this situation with it being Russia. | ||
| But they still have many... | ||
| Many millions of fighting-age men, and they also have nearly 6,000 nuclear warheads. | ||
| They have modernized their nuclear arsenal as well. | ||
| They have exited all sorts of nuclear deproliferation treaties because of the pressure that we've continued to put on them with the NATO expansion, much to their consternation. | ||
| And now they have their back up against the wall, and they're just saying, like, look, Crimea... | ||
| Ukraine was a red line, but Crimea is ultimately the thing that they are really defending most in this, because it's their only year-round warm-water naval port. | ||
| And they realize that if they don't have access to that, well then, yes, NATO can do whatever they want to them. | ||
| And for that reason alone, I think that Vladimir Putin will genuinely defend that to his dying breath. | ||
| And unfortunately for the rest of the world, his dying breath... | ||
| Could amount to nuclear holocaust. | ||
| So as far as I'm concerned, we must do everything in our power to avoid him being forced into making that decision whether or not he fires a nuclear weapon to try and test the resolve of NATO. Because if he does and they decide to fire in return, well, then it's over for everybody. | ||
| And I don't think people are taking this nearly seriously enough, unfortunately. | ||
| Do you think this ties into the climate debate at all? | ||
| One of my sort of running theories is that the real reason that there's this giant push for green energy is because I think it's over 70% of Russia's economy is dependent on fossil fuel energy exports. | ||
| And so if the world were to switch to alternative energy, it would be a way to sort of subvert that and cripple the Russian economy in kind of one fell swoop. | ||
| Do you think that that ties in at all? | ||
| I mean, it's an interesting thesis, but I think the reality is that, quote-unquote, renewable energies are not to the technological level to replace fossil fuel-based energies anyway. | ||
| So, you know, if that is their intention, I think it's kind of delusional. | ||
| You know, you're still going to have market demand for oil. | ||
| I mean, good example, the Japanese just purchased oil above the artificial price cap that NATO had put on Russian exports. | ||
| So, It's obvious that when there is enough demand for a good, which in this case is oil and gas, you're not going to be able to control the economy. | ||
| And if you attempt to, you'll just create a black market. | ||
| And that's essentially what they're doing. | ||
| I mean, just think about the audacity, the hubris to think that you can actually just implement a price cap on another nation's primary export. | ||
| That is so... | ||
| It's unbelievably narcissistic and egotistical and ultimately evil to just say, yeah, you know, sure, you can still buy oil. | ||
| We're not totally crazy. | ||
| You can still buy oil from the Russians, but you can only buy it at this price limit. | ||
| It's just unbelievable. | ||
| But those are the people that rule over us right now. | ||
| We've seen increased reports of Russia and China sort of being in cahoots, as well as others recently. | ||
| Of course, just the other day, Macron flew over to China and had a nice little shindig with President Xi. | ||
| So my question for you is, what is China's angle here? | ||
| Do you think that China is looking to coordinate with Russia some sort of position that allows it to reacquire Taiwan? | ||
| Absolutely. The Taiwan question, I think, is more just getting away from that. | ||
| I think it's more about There are a lot of nations that are very, very powerful, both militaristically and economically, that have been treated as if they are not either of those things by the West and by the U.S. specifically for a very long time. | ||
| And they're essentially putting their feet in the ground and saying, well, we're not really friendly with any of these other nations, but we're going to ally with them because we're sick of being abused by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. dollar, the U.S. Treasury. | ||
| And that's... | ||
| Because of the inflation that has kicked off after the lockdown decision and the printing, it makes perfect logical sense that all of these nations that had been doing the majority of their trading in the U.S. dollar because it had been the most stable currency in terms of fiat on the global level for a very long time, now it's not. | ||
| So they're making the obvious decision to divest themselves of that. | ||
| And the real The reason is that what you saw was a local conflict. | ||
| Because that's what it is. | ||
| Ukraine versus Russia is a local conflict for them. | ||
| Not a local conflict for America. | ||
| It's 6,000 miles away. | ||
| But for them, it's very local. | ||
| It's literally their backyard. It'd be like Tijuana and San Diego going to war. | ||
| So the response from the West for that was to fire every financial nuclear weapon they had at Russia, taking them off of SWIFT and putting caps on their primary exports and confiscating, I think it was like almost $100 taking them off of SWIFT and putting caps on their primary exports and confiscating, I think it was like almost That was the Russians' money. | ||
| They just took it. | ||
| I mean, if you're not even an enemy nation, but just not an ally nation to America, well, you're paying attention to this. | ||
| I mean, these people are self-interested. | ||
| They're human beings. People don't think of these other nations as being filled with rational actors, but to a large extent, they are acting extraordinarily rationally. | ||
| They're saying, I cannot be at the mercy of the West any longer because they are behaving in such a tyrannical fashion. | ||
| They're willing to end us economically. | ||
| For a local matter. | ||
| Like, well, if that's the case, we can't be at their mercy any longer. | ||
| So China and Russia, even though they are not natural allies by any stretch of the imagination, Putin even said, look, I don't dislike the Chinese people, but we don't eat with chopsticks. | ||
| That's what his answer was. | ||
| Well, when you look at the alternative, it makes strange bedfellows, and I think that's what we're witnessing. | ||
| Great insights there. We're going to dive more into the prognosis for this geopolitical dynamic in the next segment. | ||
| Stick with us, folks, and make sure you visit InfoWarsStore.com during the break. | ||
| and stand by for more from the great Clint Russell. | ||
| Welcome back to the American Journal, folks. | ||
| We are live with Clint Russell from Liberty Lockdown. | ||
| Check him out on Twitter at LibertyLockPod. | ||
| Great follow, great podcaster, and there are more great things in the works for him. | ||
| So get in early and watch him shine. | ||
| Clint, I want to talk a little bit about what the prognosis is for this. | ||
| We've got this situation in which our allies are sort of abandoning us because we've bullied them too much. | ||
| And we see them decoupling from the dollar. | ||
| And in the case of Egypt, for example, secretly supporting the Russians. | ||
| We see China and Russia becoming buddies. | ||
| We see France and China becoming buddies. | ||
| And the more pressure we seem to apply on these nations, the more antagonistic they become toward us. | ||
| So how does this unravel? | ||
| What would you say is probably going to happen over the next... | ||
| Six years to 20 years to 50 years, whatever. | ||
| I don't like to put timelines on things, but how is this going to unfold? | ||
| Great question. I mean, it really depends on if our leadership class gets their heads out of their asses. | ||
| Excuse my language, but I'm just being honest. | ||
| If they continue on this path, I think it ultimately amounts to World War III. I think that's where we're headed. | ||
| But, obviously, there's an election that's not too far off that could change that dynamic tremendously. | ||
| I personally believe that even though I'm not a big Trump supporter, I think that if he were to, by the grace of God, be re-elected, that the temperature could be turned down a lot. | ||
| So for that reason alone, I wouldn't mind seeing him being president again because I think that there's nothing more important than avoiding World War III. There's nothing more catastrophic to humanity. | ||
| In fact, Yeah, it's the most catastrophic risk that we face, and it's not even close. | ||
| Economic turmoil and everything else, the death of the dollar, all of that, humanity will survive. | ||
| We will not survive World War III. So that's why I approach it with such seriousness and such gravity, because I realize I can survive any sort of economic tumult, but I will not survive that. | ||
| Yeah. As for whether or not we end up there, I still have to believe that we won't. | ||
| I still have to believe that there will be some rational decision-making when it comes to just natural survival instincts that our leadership will say, okay, this is getting a little bit too crazy. | ||
| We have to change course. | ||
| And I hope that's what we'll see. | ||
| But I... I mean, the ultimate outcome of this, say that we're fortunate enough to avoid World War III, but we escalated, you know, right up to the breaking point, and then by some miracle, we turned back. | ||
| I think that the realignment of global power into kind of a bifurcated, you know, bipolar world order as opposed to the unipolar world order, I think that that is here to stay. | ||
| And it may be more than two world orders. | ||
| It could be, you know, the EU versus the BRICS versus America with, you know, America and the EU kind of working in tandem with one another to counterbalance the Eastern power block. | ||
| Um, but it's really not just an Eastern power block. | ||
| It's a really weird alliance. | ||
| It's like the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. | ||
| But now it looks like it's also going to be Iran and Saudi Arabia potentially, which is absolutely wild. | ||
| And I don't think people realize the gravity of that. | ||
| First off, Saudi Arabia and Iran are arch enemies. | ||
| I mean, they come from different Islamic sects that have been, you know, Arch enemies for a very long time. | ||
| So the fact that the Chinese came in there and they negotiated a kind of an opening of diplomatic relationships between those two nations and hopefully an end to the war in Yemen, which has been one of the most egregious things that has gone totally unreported, that's a good thing. | ||
| But the flip side of that is that the underpinning of the U.S. dollar has been the petrodollar system, which means that you had this kind of unwritten agreement that The vast majority of oil-producing nations would trade their primary export, which is oil, in U.S. dollars. And Saudi Arabia being really the backing once Nixon closed the gold window in the 1970s, that is how the U.S. dollar maintained its primary or its dominant position in U.S. global trading. | ||
| So the fact that that could be ending is really cataclysmic. | ||
| So I think that it's highly probable we will see a I think we're good to go. | ||
| I don't know if you can put that genie back in the bottle. | ||
| Once you've fired this many economic shots across the bow, these nations are not going to go back to sleep. | ||
| They all realize that this is now the Western Empire, the U.S. Empire is so fragile. | ||
| That that's really all that they have left to fire is these economic shots because we're in so many hot conflicts all over the world that they're like, well, this is how they have to try and maintain their power. | ||
| And they're not willing to be under the thumb of the U.S. dollar anymore. | ||
| And I don't blame them. | ||
| But none of this had to happen. | ||
| Let me just really double and triple down on this fact. | ||
| After 1991, after the fall of the USSR, the West was in complete collapse. | ||
| Economic, militaristic, every level of control, cultural, media, we had it all. | ||
| We had it all and we squandered it for nothing, for no reason, to enrich the cronies, to enrich the military industrial complex, to the detriment of the American people, to the detriment of actual capitalism. | ||
| We traded it all for nothing. | ||
| And we risk World War III. We risk the end of humanity. | ||
| We risk our financial future. | ||
| We risk our pensions. | ||
| We risk our economy, our job market, everything for nothing. | ||
| That's the decision that our leadership class made. | ||
| It makes me furious. | ||
| It should make everyone listening to this furious. | ||
| None of it had to happen. | ||
| We could have embraced the Russians. | ||
| We could have said, you guys want to try capitalism? | ||
| We're going to show you how to do it, and we're going to trade with you. | ||
| We're going to treat you with the respect of a nuclear power that any other nuclear power would expect to receive. | ||
| But we opted to treat them as enemies and as lessers for no reason at all, out of hubris. | ||
| And they are not putting up with it any longer, and I don't blame them at all. | ||
| So one of the things that's interesting is comparing the differences between world wars, right? | ||
| So obviously we only had two. | ||
| First one was famous for trench and gas warfare. | ||
| Second one, of course, famous for the nuclear bomb that ended it, as well as just the heavy use of Air Force air tactics. | ||
| They played a major role. What does World War III actually look like? | ||
| A lot of people say that it's exclusively cyber. | ||
| Others say that it's just massive nuclear war. | ||
| How do you think it actually plays out? | ||
| Because certainly it's not going to be the same as 1945. | ||
| Well, yeah. I mean, it can't be. | ||
| You left out Hiroshima and Nagasaki in that one. | ||
| Right, right. We definitely can't go that direction. | ||
| I mean, I think we're seeing it. | ||
| I think this is as hot as World War III can get without it becoming a nuclear war. | ||
| It has to stay proxy. | ||
| I mean, there are U.S. troops on the ground. | ||
| Don't get it twisted. They don't report it, but... | ||
| There have been, for a very long time, there have been special forces that have been training the Ukrainians on their weapons defense, or, I mean, not even defensive systems, but just their weapons systems, obviously, that we've supplied them with out of taxpayer dollar. | ||
| You're welcome, Vladimir. | ||
| I wish you would stop talking down to me, given that you're robbing me blind. | ||
| But, yeah, I mean, this is what World War III looks like. | ||
| I think it's psychological operations. | ||
| I think it's, you know... | ||
| Cyber attacks, as they call it, and then it's proxy wars. | ||
| And if it gets out of hand and if Putin actually gets to a point of being in danger of losing Crimea, which he is fortunately not in that danger at this point, contrary to American or Western reporting on this, well, then it gets really, really tenuous at that point. | ||
| And Just for the record, I'm fine with the Ukrainian people deciding their own fate. | ||
| If they want to fight to the last Ukrainian, that is their decision to make. | ||
| I am not fine with breaking not just my economy, but perhaps all of humanity over who, what corrupt... | ||
| Oligarch gets to rule over eastern Ukraine. | ||
| I mean, it's absolute lunacy. | ||
| And I don't know how the political class has duped the American people into thinking that this is a risk worth taking. | ||
| I mean, just the fact that we're probably going to lose the U.S. dollar's reserve currency status over this conflict, what kind of a calculation is that? | ||
| Why are we so dead set on seeing which criminal Rules over Eastern Ukraine. | ||
| I don't care. I don't know anyone in America that genuinely cares. | ||
| Talk to any of the people with the Ukraine flag emoji in their social media profile. | ||
| They don't know anything about this. | ||
| They know nothing. And yet they are constantly just aping the lines from the corporate media when it comes to this story. | ||
| It's absolute lunacy. | ||
| And I'm just done playing along with it. | ||
| So... This is why I'm speaking out, because I think it's the most important story in the world, and the consequences will be with us for decades, even if we are fortunate enough to avoid World War III. Well, it's been an honor and a pleasure to have you on the American Journal, Clint. | ||
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