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June 25, 2021 - Jim Fetzer
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Need to Know (24 June 2021) with Carl Herman and Joe Olson
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This is Jim Fetzer in Madison, Wisconsin, where I'm very pleased to be joined today by Carl Herman from San Ramon, California, and Joel Olson from Houston, Texas.
We're here to give you all the news you need to know.
Today we begin with a disaster at a massive condo just north of Miami.
The effects were really quite stunning.
It's dominating the news that happened at 1.30 in the morning.
There appear to have been as many as 100 persons who are unaccounted for.
Florida Governor DeSantis told the press to brace for some bad news following the collapse in Surfside early Thursday morning.
The mayor said, we're all just scratching our heads trying to imagine what in the world could have happened.
It looks like an earthquake.
Here are some scenes of partial.
It was not just the center section down here, but this right wing both went down.
First, the center section went down, then the right wing.
Here, it's just beginning, still going on.
Really stunning stuff.
Because Joe's an engineer, Carl, I'm going to begin with Joe.
What the hell happened here?
Well, this looks like typical construction from the early 80s, which is a post-tension, flat slab concrete using what's called roller compacted concrete.
You have a slab that's probably six, generally to eight inches maximum thickness.
And like my structural Instructor told us in our reinforced concrete class, you can take a row of books on a bookshelf, and you can compress from both ends, and you can lift the row of books up.
And if you have a high enough compression, you can actually start putting a load on top of that.
Well, concrete has a real high compressive strength, but a real low tensile strength.
And what happens when you try to use concrete horizontally, it will break because it can't take the tension on the bottom cord.
So the top cord will have compression, the bottom will have tension, and it'll fail.
But by increasing the amount of force that you put on the ends of this row of books, you can actually carry a pretty substantial load.
So that's the hypothesis behind pre-stressed and post-tensioned concrete.
The difference is that pre-stressed, they put the cables under stress and then they pour the concrete around them.
They keep them under stress.
at like 30,000 psi until the concrete cures so that way you have a bonding over the full length of the cable and you also have weather protection.
In a post-tension slab they run hollow tubes through the building similar to a garden hose pipe and then you run steel cable through.
The advantage to that over a static reinforced slab is that a static reinforced slab would require three quarter inch Uh, rebar at about a foot on center each direction in order to form a mesh strong enough to hold the floor.
A post-tension slab you can have a three-quarter inch cable every four feet so you reduce your construction costs in labor and materials substantially.
The problem is that when you're in a coastal environment like that, the clamping ends on those cables would be subject to corrosion over a 40-year period, and they would start decaying and releasing the tension, at which point you have nothing holding the force of those bookends together.
And the photos that I've seen show What looked to be about 15 by 15 square concrete columns on about a 15-foot to maybe 20-foot center with an 8-inch flat slab with no concrete beams running between the columns, which is exactly the type construction and this is exactly the type of failure mode that you can expect from that type of construction over this period of time.
When the steel starts failing, Then it'll fail gradually until you have a sudden failure and that sudden failure then has no support from the adjoining membranes and then the whole building has this spontaneous collapse.
I would expect that this type of failure is going to be inherent in a large number of buildings in the Miami area and probably a large number of buildings built with that construction all along the coastal areas.
That's the second of my questions.
The first is, this is not a steel-reinforced building like the Twin Towers, which is an amalgam of steel and concrete.
This is basically a concrete... We see these kinds of collapses in third-world countries like Pakistan, you know, poured concrete slabs.
You've done a very nice job of delineating what happened.
And what is this going to mean then for a whole lot of structures in Miami?
Are they going to be condemned, Joe?
What are people going to do?
They're paying fabulous prices.
Miami is one of the priciest cities in the country.
Oh, I can't imagine.
You're probably talking three or four hundred dollars a square foot for that type of luxury living.
And, you know, they're going to be a dramatic increase in the structural inspections in this type of building with the post-tension slabs.
I would expect a lot of them to be condemned just because there's no way of forensically checking those buildings.
You can't tear out the outside and inspect and find out what the tension is on those cables.
And over time, the tension, just from the continuous stress, the steel is going to start to yield.
So they have a natural service life of probably 40 years.
And in a corrosive environment, that would accelerate a little bit.
This one, it may have had a little bit of structural defect, but there's no way to overcome the inherent defects of that design in that environment.
And I would say that there's probably a good percentage of the buildings that are built in Miami, particularly in that age period, that are going to have this type of issue going forward.
We'll make it impossible to insure them, number one.
And number two, it's just, you know, enormous burden on the city to have to tear those things down and then come back and rebuild something.
So a genuine tragedy for everybody involved.
I've never supported that type of construction.
I've never supported any form of post-tension, even in any high-rise building.
Carl, this sounds like a canary in the coal mine situation, and the canary died!
Yeah, it does.
It does.
This is the advantage of need-to-know news over the corporate media news where they just said, I'm just scratching our head.
They couldn't go out and find an engineer like Joe to talk to.
So Joe, what we saw, did you see the video of that collapse?
Yes.
I saw the videos, and I saw the grainy stills, and I saw the hypothesis that it was a sinkhole, which is improbable, and I was just reading through the comments at the conservative treehouse, and so far out of 130 comments, they haven't hit anybody with any engineering background, so everything's just, you know.
So what we saw is what there is precedent.
There's a lot of precedence to that type of collapse so that what you're saying would match.
There's been a lot of failures of those buildings during construction.
They have to put up forms underneath the flat slabs and let them cure and sometimes the contractors get ahead of themselves and they decide to go ahead and knock out the support forms so that they can go ahead and pour the next floor and they've had a number of instances where they've had multiple pancake failures of those buildings during construction, but this is the first one I've seen that's had a spontaneous Progressive collapse after it's been in service for 40 years.
But Carl, what's going to happen to rental prices in Miami?
I mean, there's going to be a huge surge in demand and a shortage of supply because all these buildings are going to be condemned.
Well, yes, Miami, not nice.
Miami, not nice.
Yeah, right.
Variation on vice.
Good, good.
Thank you, Joe.
I was delighted that you could join us tonight to discuss this.
A shocking report of the condo collapse.
Miami Dade Rescue tweeted an 80-unit condo, 12-story, experienced a partial collapse.
Unbelievable!
Meanwhile, a BBC journalist aboard the British ship HMS Defender, this is a destroyer, says the vessel made a deliberate move in passing through Russian waters to make a point.
I can't imagine what point it would have been unless it was that the British have gone stark raving mad That very idea is outrageous.
The state broadcaster's defense correspondent, Nathan Beale, noted the ship's crew heard shots, but they were believed to be out of range.
In an audio report, he revealed the ship purposely moved into waters near Crimea, within 12 miles, 19 kilometers of the coast, through what the British called a recognized international shipping lane, but it was through Russian waters.
The Russian Coast Guard had warned the ship not to go into Crimean territorial waters, claiming they are Russian, noting Britain does not recognize the peninsula as Russian, but Ukrainian.
This would be a deliberate move to make a point to Russia.
According to the journalists, increasingly hostile warnings were issued over the radio by the Coast Guard.
If you don't change course, I will fire.
As the HMS Defender left Russian waters, it was followed by two Coast Guard ships and around 20 planes.
Earlier in the day, Russia's Ministry of Defense claimed the country's Navy fired warning shots, which the naval ship ignored.
At 12.06 and 12.08, a Border Patrol shot fired warning shots, the Russian Defense Ministry said, and at 12.19, a Su-24 aircraft performed a warming bombing ahead of the course.
The British maneuver was later blasted by the Defense Ministry as a blatant violation of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Moscow's views were contradicted by London, which claimed no warning shots had been violated.
We got the report right off the bat.
I have no doubt warning shots were fired.
This was completely outrageous.
Here's yet another report.
British destroyer purposefully crossed into Crimea's territorial waters.
Russia says it dropped warning bombs.
Here's what's more interesting here from the editor.
Unclear if warning shots were actually fired or warning bombs dropped.
There's no footage for the bombs.
Firing can be heard, but the official British story is the Russians were conducting gunnery exercises nearby.
In any case, that's not the important thing.
The important thing is that the British Navy intentionally sailed into Crimea's territorial waters, disputing Russia's claim to the peninsula with a military asset.
Imagine the Russian Navy sailing into the territorial waters of the Falkland Islands to make the point of recognizing Argentina's claim to the islands, but not the British.
The British Ministry of Defense claims innocent passage, but that is total nonsense.
Innocent passage is when an equally convenient route outside the territorial waters does not exist.
You do not cross into territorial waters for no reason whatsoever.
Besides, there's nothing innocent about a warship of a hostile military bloc, that would be NATO, sailing into your waters to dispute your claim to your territory.
Will the Russians now make it a point to violate UK's territorial waters?
Very disturbing.
Carl, your thoughts?
Yeah, there's nothing innocent about the UK military.
So for context, we need to keep in mind that the wars with Iraq threatening wars for on Iran and war on Syria, that the UK is a guilty country for wars of aggression, all founded upon lies.
So anything that they say should be regarded as unreliable testimony.
And on its face, just to say, oh, it's just a coincidence that the Russians were firing at something else when They should have been firing at us.
So, it's hard to tell what's going on, but people can be confident to know that the UK, the US, and Israel are ongoingly engaged in these lying maneuvers in order to justify, to pump up a military that is always enacting these wars of aggression.
I think those are great points, Carl.
Joe, your thoughts?
Well, the Crimea has been part of Russia for 300 years so to deny history is a little bit absurd.
And it could be that the UK has the same cyber vulnerabilities with their warships that America has, and Russia was able to overfly with one of their SU Yeah, no, I think that's absolutely true.
knock out the electronic systems and blind one of our destroyers in the Black Sea just a couple
of years ago. So maybe they don't have to drop a bomb on them next time. Maybe they can just make
them go dark. Yeah, no, I think that's absolutely true. The Russian military capability far exceeds
NATO and the U.S. so this is really a bad idea. Meanwhile, white farmers win a fight against
discriminatory criteria for federal COVID releases. This is one of the absurdities
where the Biden administration on the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 directs the Department
of Agriculture to give preferential treatment to businesses owned by women, veterans, and people
who are socially and economically disadvantaged.
The federal law uses critical race theory definition that can only include minority groups.
The court entered the emergency injunction halting payments in the $40 billion program, saying the white farmers were likely to succeed on the merits of their claim.
Given all the laws against discrimination, does no one realize they apply not only to discrimination against blacks and other minorities, but discrimination against whites?
A Texas court likewise temporarily halted a program for restaurateurs under the very same, similar circumstances.
Meanwhile, we have an organization called WILL.
U.S.
District Judge William Geisbach issued a temporary restraining order halting payments in the Loan Forgiveness Program.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, WILL, ...represents 12 farmers and ranchers from Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Oregon, and Kentucky.
Each plaintiff would be eligible for loan forgiveness, but for their race.
Will President and General Counsel Rick Eisenberg said, the court recognized that the federal government's plan to condition and allocate benefits on the basis of race raises grave constitutional concerns and threatens our clients with irreparable harm.
The Biden administration is radically undermining bedrock principles of equality under the law.
We look forward to continuing this litigation, but urge the administration to change course now.
Totally appropriate.
In April 2021, Will fired a lawsuit challenging the unconstitutional racial discrimination in the plan's provision for loan forgiveness based on race.
The law provides billions of dollars of debt relief to socially disadvantaged, but the definition includes explicit racial classifications.
Farmers and ranchers must be black or African American, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Hispanic or Latino, or Asian American or Pacific Islander.
Other farmers, white for example, are ineligible.
This is illegal and unconstitutional.
The U.S.
Constitution forbids discrimination by the federal government against any citizen because of his race.
For the federal government to distribute benefits on the basis of individual racial classifications, the government would have to prove its discriminatory benefit was narrowly tailored and served a compelling government interest which cannot happen here.
In late May, the USDA announced they would begin forgiving loans in June and would do so quickly.
Will moved, therefore, for a preliminary injunction and an immediate temporary restraining order the court granted.
Good work for Will.
Here we have some of the farmers involved.
A dairy farm in Calumet County, Wisconsin.
A dairy farm in Crawford County, Wisconsin.
A maple grave farm.
This is corn, soybean, beef cattle in Minnesota.
350 head of beef in South Dakota.
50 acres of corn and soybean in Ohio.
Hog Heaven Farms near Jasper, Missouri.
Corn and soybeans in western Iowa.
Chickens, cattle, sheep, goats in southwestern Arkansas.
Ranchers from northeast Oregon with a hundred head of cattle.
A fourth generation tobacco farmer from Kentucky.
Carl, I just can't believe these people could be so blatantly unconstitutional.
I mean, this is promoting their woke ideology to an extreme.
It's outrageous.
Your thoughts?
Well, I'm liking it because the contrast is getting so extreme.
This polarization is...
Forcing a choice where people are going to take a stand.
And of course, as just exactly as you say, and as the article says, is that this is Orwellian unconstitutional.
This is the opposite of what the United States stands for.
This is the opposite of Dr. King's vision for America.
And the tragic comic joke is that the United States leadership and government is pretending to care about the historically downtrodden when the U.S.
Since World War II, in these lie-started, illegal wars of aggression for democracy, for peace, for freedom, for whatever, have killed about 30 million people around the world.
And the U.S.
pretends to care, as they are the ones who are instilling this global system of debt and poverty around the world.
And we can calculate, just as the Clinton administration, the total number of human beings that have died from preventable poverty, when the same United States has promised to end poverty in global summits for heads of state, two of which I was involved with, the 1990 World Summit for Children and the 1997 Microcredit Summit.
So for these liars and psychopaths to pretend to care Since the Clinton administration, approximately 400 million human beings have died in the most slow-motion, gruesome agony from preventable poverty.
So for these clowns to say that they care is the opposite of reality, and that's how they roll.
And they're upending the Constitution in the process.
This is totally un-American.
I mean, it's so blatant.
Joe, your thoughts?
Yeah, the white American farmers are getting the same treatment that the South Africans are, which is reverse apartheid.
It's absolutely absurd, and it's indefensible, and the whole thing goes back to the Critical race theory, which they're trying to reinforce in every way possible.
And that takes a complete distortion of history.
And I'll tell you what, I mentioned it on our previous program, put it down in the show notes, but I will actually mention the exact title.
This year on May 18th, Veterans Today had an article called Dutch Jews and the White Slave Trade.
It's probably a 10,000 word article.
It's at least a full book chapter.
Yeah, great, great points, both.
research hundreds of footnotes, irrefutable evidence of the way that slavery has existed
on this planet.
And like we've said before, there's 60 million slaves on earth today and their lives don't
matter.
Yeah, great, great points.
Both.
Meanwhile, Americans are fleeing California and New York for Florida and Texas.
Pretty impressive.
Despite the 2020 pandemic, Americans are following similar moving trends as prior years, either to start a new job or to move home, but they are fleeing.
Texas, California to Texas and Idaho, although New York, New Jersey and Illinois are the three states with the most outbound moves.
Others seen a mass exodus include Michigan and Pennsylvania.
The top five inbound states, by contrast, are Idaho, Arizona, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, with Tennessee overtaking South Carolina in comparison to 2019.
The report speculated people might be leaving northeastern states due to the harsh winter's job availability, as many firms are avoiding the region now, and that many northeastern cities have a high cost of living.
Well, there's nothing new about that.
We're seeing crime rates in these cities spiking amid the defund the police movement.
Major cities like L.A., San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York City, and Chicago.
Shootings and homicides have seen uptakes in 2020 in the first six months of 2021.
The most popular destination is now Phoenix.
Next on the list, Houston, then Dallas, Atlanta, and Denver.
With Texas warm climate and low taxes, it's not surprising three of the top 10 destinations are in Texas.
It's fascinating where the movers are explaining what's going on.
Meanwhile, another benefit of Florida is a court there has ruled against the county mask mandate in Alachua County.
The first district court ruled 2-1 to overturn last year's decision by Alachua County Circuit Judge Don Akeem.
The trial court simply looked at the right asserted by Greene too narrowly, relying on the wrong privacy jurisprudence.
The right to be let alone by government does exist in Florida as part of the right to privacy that Florida's Supreme Court has declared to be fundamental.
The Supreme Court has construed this fundamental right so broadly as to include the complete freedom of a person to control his own body.
Under this construction, a person reasonably can expect not to be forced by the government to put something on his own face against his will.
Florida's constitutional right to privacy, therefore, necessarily is implicated by the nature of the county's mask mandate.
The majority set the case back to the lower court for reconsideration.
He added, the right of privacy is fundamental.
Any law that implicates it is presumptively unconstitutional.
The judge also argued the threat of government-sponsored shaming was not an idle one, noting that until recently, the FACE mandate seemed like it might never end.
Gainesville, Florida-based attorney Jeff Childers, who filed the appeal, Last week said the ruling against mass may be the first of its kind in the United States.
It's great vindication, he told the Gainesville Sun.
I've been following this issue closely.
I'm pretty sure this is the first appellate ruling in the entire country against the mass.
I think we have something historic here.
I like that.
I think it's a great ruling.
Carl, your thoughts?
Well, the first article there is an economic squeeze and people are noticing it.
My wife remarked on the inflation she's seeing in the stores.
The website Shadow Stats, run by economist John Williams, Charts inflation from previous definitions because our course our government leaders have altered the definition of inflation so that the political perception of it is that we don't see what's in front of our eyes.
But that article of people moving is that these people are finding that they have to move because of economic circumstances.
For the second article, that is great progress.
That was a two to one vote for those judges.
So it was really just a victory by one vote.
And the legal question is really, are Americans patients of the state?
Do we have to submit to the dictates of government?
And of course, the obvious response that citizens should ask is that, hey, Show me the law for that!
And they won't be able to.
And by the way, for anybody in the audience who wants to get the factual documentation for all factual claims that I make, As a National Board Certified Teacher in Economics, Government, History, also credentialed in Mathematics, go to Carl Herman Blogspot.
In addition, you'll be able to see the updates of the series of articles that I've written, 20 now, with my interactions with our school board and our teachers union.
Regarding the orders that we have been forced to obey, and the question I've had since September has been, hey, the California Emergency Services Act limitations of 60 days of authority, and that it requires beyond control hospitals.
Can you explain to me, given those limitations of the law, how the county has ordering authority on us?
And they've avoided that question throughout, and that drama is ongoing.
And the cost of living index has been so politicized as to exclude the cost of food and of gasoline, which are the two most important factors that affect everyday life.
Joe, your thoughts?
Yeah, the Constitution authorizes the Supreme Court to judge the constitutionality of a law, but it doesn't authorize the Supreme Court to make a remedy for that, anything that they find unconstitutional.
They are required to refer it back to Congress to clarify or correct whatever They describe as being unconstitutional.
The extrapolation of common law to the Supreme Court is absolutely absurd.
It's a British artifact that we should have left when we left the British Union.
We should not have common law and that's what they're extrapolating on the Jacobson versus Massachusetts 1905 decision.
Regarding smallpox inoculations.
Now to be perfectly clear, the smallpox virus could not have been identified until the invention of the electron microscope in 1931.
Any impurities that were in whatever concoction they were trying to mix up to give you as an inoculation could not be identified, quantified, or removed.
So in 1905, they didn't have the technology to offer you a clean, safe, effective vaccine.
And the state of Massachusetts passed a law that said everybody had to be vaccinated.
Jacobson said, I'm not going to get vaccinated.
They said, well, you have to do that or you have to pay a $5 fine.
He said, fine, we'll take the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court ruled yes.
The state has an interest, and they can force you to either take the inoculation or do the punishment.
In this case, you can pay the $5 fine.
And I'm reiterating again, that is the only case in law that we have on this subject, and you should not ever be forced to do any more than a $5 fine until we have proper adjudication of this.
Excellent.
going to be in the courts. It needs to be done through expert witnesses and laws passed
by Congress, which is what our Constitution protected us from.
Excellent, excellent points, Joe. Meanwhile, the Washington Post has hit a critical desperation
level in its latest failed attacks on Ron DeSantis.
This is pretty fascinating.
The latest effort comes from a Washington Post piece featuring the perspective of a 17-year-old Princeton University co-ed who was challenging DeSantis' staunch opposition to critical race theory being taught in Florida's public schools.
Before they got to what Princeton student Uma Menon wrote, Weber made sure to downplay the extent to which CRT is taught as if to suggest the issue were overblown.
Critical race theory is an academic framework for looking at systemic racism.
Those states are banning it from being taught in schools.
Most teachers don't use the term when discussing racism and don't require students read the work of scholars who use that framework.
Manon attended public schools in Florida, graduated in 2020.
One of her senior year teachers taught the New York Times discredited 1619 Project, which would tell you where we're headed.
Early on, she suggested Santa's ban on CRT marks another step taken by conservatives To politicize racial justice, apparently not realizing it was the left, not the right, who made the concept of racial justice political in the first place.
She then claimed, never once did I hear the phrase critical race theory in any of my classrooms.
This made sense, she alleged, given that public school districts in Lake Marion, Ocala, Seminole, and Orange counties have stated critical race theory have never been a part of their curriculum.
For starters, just because someone states something doesn't make it true.
Second, CRT comes in many forms, including teaching about the 1619 Project, and they don't have to be explicitly labeled as critical race theory for us to know the concepts are very similar.
Critical race theory proponents, like most leftists, are very adept at playing semantic word games, which is why we're now seeing code words like diversity, equity, inclusion training, and anti-racism initiative in place of the words critical race theory.
The Santas and Florida Republicans, she continued, for them, critical race theory has become a scapegoat, a buzzword singled out for attack when politicians want to hide their opposition to racial justice.
This is just stupid and ignorant, relying heavily on differing interpretations of what racial justice means.
If racial justice is supposed to mean teaching black Americans to believe they're all victims and to view white Americans as their oppressors simply because they were born white, then yes, DeSantis and other conservative Republican leaders oppose racial justice and are right to do so.
What Florida School Board aims to do by banning educational materials like the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning 1619 Project is to deny and downplay the historical oppression minorities have faced in America, she falsely asserts.
The ban doesn't prevent factual inaccuracy.
Instead, it hides facts that are inconvenient to Florida conservatives.
Last I checked, slavery, the Civil War, the Century Plus fight for civil rights, we are all still being taught by Florida public schools.
So, no, there is no downplaying any historical oppression.
It's a lie CRT opponents repeat often but are never called out.
What may have been the most laughable claims made in the piece?
She wrote, the truth is that anti-racism education teaches children to love each other and imagine a better future where racist political agendas won't win out.
In fact, The opposite is true.
As DeSantis and other prominent critics have observed, CRT teaches white students to hate themselves for being born white, perpetuating white guilt complex liberals lived by and with for decades.
It teaches black students racism is hidden everywhere, Fostering further feelings of resentment and a victimhood mentality very difficult to break until you realize the racism is everywhere claim simply isn't true.
I could go on, but the boy's been made.
No doubt, I'll be accused of attacking a teenager simply for counting the Wabhose hit piece on DeSantis, but so be it.
As Ben Shapiro once infamously said, facts don't care about your feelings, and we should not let the possibility of hurt feelings get in the way of telling the truth and correcting the record where necessary, especially when it comes to matters involving the education of impressionable children.
But you know, political correctness is built on the view that you must not say anything that hurts anyone's feelings, which is why it's become so suffocating of critical thinking.
Carl, your thoughts?
No wonder you're sneezing there, buddy.
You're allergic to it.
Everybody should be.
So the Washington Post, these are the chief criminal cheerleaders for the lifestyle and illegal wars of aggression and for this fraudulent debt scheme that loots trillions from the people.
So again, flip the script on these liars.
Don't listen to anything that they say in their divide-to-conquer tactics.
For CRT, so this is after prompted by the George Floyd false flag, the principal evidence for which is the film evidence of, on a gurney, a legless mannequin being manhandled into the back of the ambulance.
So until we get that settled and straightened out, we can't trust anything from what we see from George Floyd and we need to question the
political motivations for the policies thereafter. Now, CRT is right, is that there are corrupt
police. When I taught in central Los Angeles in the so-called hard to staff schools where I've
had now seven of my students in the challenged low-income areas where I choose to teach, I've
had seven of my students killed in the course of my career. And when I was teaching in LA,
the students told me absolutely the cops protect the big drug deals.
They protect them.
So that is indicative of corrupt police departments, corrupt cities, corrupt governors, corrupt national governments.
And we need to flip the script to get to the heart of those crimes, which, again, The Washington Post is complicit to hide in war and money.
And with those drug deals, then you got to go into the CIA and the poppy fields in Afghanistan, and you could even consider the nickname of President Bush Senior of Poppy.
Indeed.
Joe, your thoughts?
Yeah, if you buy into the white supremacist dog whistle gaslight astroturf meme that they've been pushing for six and a half months about the Capitol, then today you should rejoice because the Department of Justice got their first conviction.
They put a woman on three years of probation with 120 hours of community service and a $500 fine because she was in the Capitol for about 10 minutes and she walked in one door, walked through the lobby and walked out the other door.
So thank God we're being protected from those white supremacists.
It's absolutely absurd.
Hone every racial wedge issue you possibly can and divide us as many ways as possible because that's the only way they're going to conquer us.
And I'm sorry, it's going to fail spectacularly.
I think you got it.
I think you got it right, but boy, they're going full hog for it.
Meanwhile, woke ideology mimics precursors to totalitarian slaughter.
I introduced this earlier in the week, but it's worth reviewing the tenets because they explain what's going on here.
Some of the core tenets of the woke ideology spreading around the country mimic ideas to justify many of the most horrendous atrocities of the past century.
A recently released documentary exploring the topic, Better Left Unsaid, concludes that the self-identified radical left endorses four fundamental truths they hold to be self-evident, tenets that have been used to justify and incite many of the worst massacres of the 20th century.
The first of the four claims is, the world is best viewed through a group oppression narrative lens.
The woke ideology is based on a set of quasi-Marxist theories that divide society into oppressors and the oppressed, based on characteristics such as race, sex, class, and sexual proclivities.
Sound familiar?
Woke is sometimes used interchangeably with critical race theory, one of the more prominent ideologies operating within this framework.
The second claim is that evidence of oppression is the inequality between groups.
If the designated oppressed group is on average worse in some regard than the designated oppressor group, that's taken as virtually unassailable proof of opposition, of oppression.
The third claim is peaceful dialogue and understanding between the groups is impossible, since the dominant group's strategy is to retain its power.
Woke theorists have posited that the oppressed have a uniquely valuable perspective on reality, unavailable to the oppressors.
Meanwhile, they say whiteness or white heteropatriarchy can't help but try to maintain its hegemony or dominance, even if it does things that benefit members of other groups.
Such as by abolishing slavery or giving women and blacks the right to vote.
It's still done out of self-interest and in order to further entrench its institutions and norms and thus ensure the privilege of its members.
Proponents of the ideology engage in dialogue between themselves but with everyone else the communication is supposed to flow in one direction only, that of acceptance of their views.
Any challenge to the ideology is labeled as self-serving or even as an assault on the oppressed.
Finally, The ideology, at least implicitly, acknowledges that because of the above, violence is justified to eradicate the inequalities.
From my experience, they, to the extent they can be grouped together to call them they, tend to advocate for violence against those oppressing and equate it to laudatory behavior.
Hence, Panchinazzi, author of the documentary, Kurt, Jim Ingle told the Epoch Times, I have a catalog of tweets, written statements, and videos of people, ranging from students to professors, explicitly calling for violence and downplaying the violence of those on the left when compared to the right, not because of intensity or frequency of such violence, but because of the so-called nobility or nobleness of the extreme left's position.
I think these are so important to understand what's going on.
I wanted to repeat them here.
Carl, further thoughts?
Yeah, it's a great story and a great idea for people to consider.
So, again, flipping the script.
What would it look like if we flipped the script with those four talking points?
So, first, one of the strategies of our opponents is to keep us afraid.
Fear will keep people from being able to critically think.
Now, those four steps.
So, one, there are oppressors.
Okay, let's take that for granted.
It's a 0.01% of a class that has ruled us for hundreds of years.
Two, inequality.
Yeah, I think so.
We go back to that data point of 400 million killed since the Clinton administration from preventable poverty.
I think that's inequality.
I did a story almost 10 years ago now that Project Censored, running through dozens of universities and hosted by Cal State University at Sonoma, found a story that I've Pointed to and documented as one of their top three for the year, and that was that the leading corporations, the leading rich people, have around 21 trillion dollars stored away in these tax haven shell company banks in the Caribbean.
So inequality, yeah, yeah, we got that, but that's the 0.01 percent, that's not some white supremacist.
No dialogue is possible.
Yeah, I'd be with that.
Two UN summits for heads of state that I was involved in.
You can't really talk to them.
They promise everything and then they do nothing.
And then that last step for violence, nah, we don't have to be violent.
We just need to have them put under arrest for these obvious ongoing crimes centered in war, looting, and lying.
Project Censored has been an acute disappointment to me.
They not only didn't report on the banning of Nobody Died at Sandy Hook in 2015, which was by far the most important form of censorship the entire year, but to the best of my knowledge, they have also not reported on the banning of five more books at Moonrock Books.
About the Boston bombing, Orlando and Dallas, Charlottesville, Parkland, even the moon landing because of its chapters about the Holocaust.
They ought to be out there banging the drum, and I've heard nothing but silence.
Joe, your thoughts?
Yeah, with Project Censored, I've become too radical for them.
They have distanced themselves from my work since.
Joe?
There's only two systems of social organization.
Either you have property rights, free speech, and rule by informed consent, or you do not.
There is no difference between communism, fascism, Marxism, Nazism, progressivism, or socialism.
Those are all rebranded feudalism.
So, bottom line is, You either you either have a functional system and no place no country is going to stay in any of those intermediate stages, because they're all roadmap to the same exact end goal which is feudalism.
You're not going to occupy the middle ground.
You have two polarities.
And the trick that The Economist played was to say that fascism and Nazism were right-wing, so they could marginalize you and keep you in the socialist center, which is absolutely insane.
And that's why I have a big beef with The Economist.
If you read, like I've read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Four times, cover to cover, just because over a decade, you remember the ending, but you forget what happened in between.
And it's like, how did they pull this off?
And I could see the exact parallels under Big Bush, under Clinton, under Obama.
It's like, you're seeing history repeat itself, because they've got the same end goal, and they've got the same playbook.
And it's absolutely absurd.
We need to restore the principles that this country was built on, and then expand them worldwide.
Those are fantastic points.
Joe, I want you to elaborate on them in your final thoughts, I hope.
We'll be back in a moment.
Meanwhile, COVID-19 adverse drug reactions.
15,472 dead, 1,654,407 other adverse reactions.
15,472 dead, 1,654,407 other adverse reactions. This is from the European database of suspected
adverse drug reaction reports for Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Janssen. There was a time when a tiny
fraction of those kinds of adverse reports would have led to pulling the vaccine off of the market.
But it's not happening.
We now return.
Get this.
Instead, the government's promoting all kinds of vaccine incentives.
Bright Horizon, free childcare.
Kindercare, free childcare.
Learning Care Group, free childcare.
YMCA, free childcare.
Lyft, free rides.
Uber, free rides.
Rewards you get from Acme.
10% off your purchase after vaccination.
Albertson.
10% off your purchase after vaccination.
BLK will boost the profile of users.
Bumble.
Premium content.
Cars.
10% off your purchase.
Chispa will boost the profile.
CVS.
Sweepstakes to free and free cruises.
Tickets to Super Bowl cash prizes.
DoorDash, $2 million in gift cards.
Drop Technologies, $50 in points to the first 10,000.
Hagen, 10% off.
Hinge, premium content.
Jewel Osco, 10% off.
Krispy Kreme, free donut.
Kroger, sweepstakes to win a million.
Major League Basketball, free tickets in June.
Major League Soccer, 30% discount.
Match, premium content, Microsoft, thousands of Xbox,
NASCAR, sweepstakes, including Daytona 500 tickets, NFL, 25% discount on merchandise and a chance to win
50 tickets to the Super Bowl, Pavilions, 10% off,
Randalls, 10% off, Safeway, 10% off,
Shaw's, 10% off, Spotify, sweepstakes to win tickets
to independent music venues, Star Market, 10% off,
Target, 5% off, Tinder, premium content,
TomTom, 10% off, United Airlines, your shot to fly sweepstakes
for mileage bus members to win a year of free flights, a round trip for two in any class of service,
United Supermarkets, 10% off, Vitamin Shoppe, a free healthy snack or beverage,
Wands, 10% off, employees of these companies are also eligible
for additional vaccination support, Abbott, four hours of paid time off,
Accenture, paid time off, Aflac, four hours of paid time off,
Albertson, $100, Aldi, four hours.
Allstate, paid time.
Amazon, $80.
American Airlines, extra vacation.
Amtrak, two hours paid off.
Anthem, credit toward medical premiums.
Anon, paid off.
It's just outrageous, outrageous, outrageous.
It goes on and on and on.
This list is for informational purposes only.
Should not be inferred as an endorsement by CDC, HHS, or the product services or companies listed.
If your nationwide company is offering an incentive or paid time off and it's not listed here, contact us.
And my understanding is, in fact, that the government is paying for all these benefits.
Now, what would you take for a shot that Sherry Tenpenny has described as a perfectly designed killing machine?
Would a donut suffice, Carl?
Yeah, it's absolutely crazy.
And I hope that there has been intervention or we have friends in high places.
Otherwise, that is really a kill shot that we're witnessing.
Joe, great comments.
And you're absolutely right that what we receive in education is a bunch of bullshit terminology, just all excuses to herd people into this one party dictatorial control.
And the shots are designed to cull the work animals and to create human beings or to Transform human beings into GMO work animals for the elite, who will manipulate and propagandize us to, in attempt, for us to willingly accept that role as servants.
For the data of the deaths and the injuries, so if you combine the European database with the VAERS in the United States, that's roughly 20,000 dead.
And they acknowledge, those organizations, that they only receive 1 to 10% of the data So that means the actual dead in Europe and the United States is 200,000 to 2 million.
The injuries, if we assume, I'm not sure what the bears are, but if we just round it off at about 2 million, And that would mean that we're actually looking at about 20 to 200 million injured by the vaccine, according to the official data, and 200 million, to put that into context, the entire population of the United States is a little more than 300 million.
Yeah, and they're leaving the product on the market available.
They're still using it.
This is just incredible.
Joe, your thoughts?
You know, one of the groups that got incentive was the pilots for British Airways were given several days of extra pay.
And so they've had 80% of their pilots vaccinated.
They had four heart attacks within a week that were all fatal.
So now they're rethinking and they're thinking, well, maybe we shouldn't have our pilots flying at all, which is going to do wonderful things for their business plan.
But InfoWars has a guy that Keeps interviewing this woman who calls herself Doctor, and her last name's Ruby, and she has a degree in economics, but she likes to extrapolate into everything else in the way of physics and medicine.
So she was claiming that when you're on an airplane, you're in a pressurized cabin, and that means that it's harder for your blood to be forced back and forth.
And I was going, Jesus, does this woman not understand something about pressure?
Let me explain it to you.
Denver, 5,000 feet above sea level.
The air pressure in Denver is 12 psi.
Sea level is 14.7.
The cabin pressure inside a commercial airline is maintained at 8,000 foot elevation pressures, which is 10.9 psi.
So you are actually in a hypobaric chamber, and look that up on Wikipedia.
One of the very first symptoms that you get in a hypobaric chamber is hypoxia, which is going to amplify anything you have in the way of a blood disorder and clotting.
So it's going to be A short period of time before anybody who's been vaccinated is not going to be able to fly because they don't want to have to land the plane every time somebody has a heart attack on the plane and they're going to lose most of their flight crews and their ground staff and their and their pilots.
So basically we're witnessing the absolute stripping of the jet age from humanity.
We'll no longer have that freedom because it's part of our carbon footweight anyway and so Private jets will be able to operate for the elite, but everybody else is gonna be grounded.
It's horrible.
Absolutely horrible.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
And Joe, you think this is part of a deliberate plan?
Oh, absolutely.
Everything's deliberate.
You know when you've got one goal and that goal is to have a feudal society with only 500 million people and 900 and I mean 490 million of those are going to be slaves and the rest of them are going to be police and lieutenants.
Then obviously you've got to do a lot of extermination and this is just collateral damage.
They'll take out everything on the way out because then you don't have those income streams, you don't have those employment opportunities, you don't have those advanced career advancements, you have no future to look forward to, so you can just sit around in your little cave and live in a virtual reality environment.
See, it occurred to me that maybe the death of the pilots and thereby the destruction of the airline industry was an unintended consequence, but you're implying the opposite.
imagination and you need to wake up and you need to get actively involved in fighting against it
every way you possibly can. See it occurred to me that maybe the death of the pilots and thereby
the destruction of the airline industry was an unintended consequence but you're implying the
opposite is part and parcel of the global agenda.
Absolutely.
Carbon footprint.
We're gonna knock out the jets.
Unreal.
Unreal.
Meanwhile...
The largest U.S.
healthcare union will fight mandatory COVID vaccines.
I'm impressed by this.
The president of the largest union of healthcare workers says the organization will fight against companies requiring mandatory vaccines.
George Gresham, president of the 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, describing itself as the largest healthcare union in the country, said hospital systems don't have the right to mandate vaccines for employees.
The union based in New York also represents hundreds of thousands of nurses and caregivers in New Jersey, Florida, Washington, Maryland, and Massachusetts.
Whether there's a legal challenge we can make or whether it's just a pure organizational challenge we can make, we're not going to just give it.
Earlier in June, New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York mandated its employees be vaccinated against the CCP virus, coming as other hospital systems have done the same.
The union president said he's vaccinated against the virus, has encouraged union members to get vaccinated.
However, The workers have the right to make the decision about their
own health and met with New York Presbyterian Chief Executive Steve Corwin to discuss unvaccinated
union members concerned about the company's policy. It's not just the union that's
opposed mandatory shots. The New York State Nurses Association has released a statement opposing
vaccine mandates. NYSNA strongly opposes the mandatory vaccination of health care providers for
COVID-19 as a condition of employment or as a state or federal mandate.
According to a memo, New York Presbyterian informed his workers it would require them to get at least their first COVID vaccine shot by September 1.
We care for sick people, some critically so, every day, and we're responsible for their safety.
The stakes in this matter are high, and the evidence is clear that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is the most important and responsible action we can take.
And yet, look at all the evidence we've seen that contradicts that claim.
Gresham's comments came after employees at Houston Methodist challenged the system's vaccine requirement, rejected by a judge several weeks ago.
A Houston Methodist spokesperson has since told the Epoch Times 153 employees were fired on June 22nd or had quit during the previous two-week period.
Meanwhile, the CDC finds more cases of heart inflammation than expected in vaccinating young males.
Who shouldn't be required to take any of these anyway?
More than 1,200 cases of heart inflammation in adolescents and young adults following Pfizer or Moderna vaccinations have been reported to health authorities, according to the CDC.
The bulk of the reports submitted to the VAERS, the massive reporting system we've been discussing, dealt with myocarditis or pericarditis experienced after a second dose of the messenger RNA-based COVID vaccines.
Of the 1,226 reports of post-vaccination heart inflammation, a jump from less than 100, 827 were from myocarditis or pericarditis after dose 2, another 267 after the first.
Most of the cases were seen after the Pfizer, the others after the Moderna.
Continuing a trend, the majority of the patients were male.
About 40% were 29 years old or younger.
Of 323 cases meeting the CDC case definition, 309 were hospitalized, 9 remain hospitalized.
For males between the ages of 12 to 17, the expected number of cases following dose 1 using a 21-day window was 2 to 21.
The observed incidence was 32 through June 11.
For males between the ages of 18 and 24, the expected number using the same parameters was 3 to 34, but the observed incident was actually 47.
So it's clearly higher than expected.
It does appear the mRNA vaccine may be a trigger for myocarditis, said Dr. Matthew Oster, a pediatric cardiologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Dr. Grace Lee, co-chair of the COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Technical Work Group, later said, data available today suggests likely association of myocarditis with mRNA vaccine in adolescents and young people.
Pfizer and Moderna did not immediately return requests for comments.
Surprise, surprise.
Carl, your thoughts?
First, that story with the unions, my experience with the teachers unions, that they are dirty.
Over 10 years ago, I contacted the California Teachers Association, and one of their tenets for existing is to fully fund education.
And I called them up in Sacramento and said, hey, you know, I'd like to talk to you about published research to fully fund education with monetary reform and public banking.
And I gave him the pitch and I said, if we had public banking instead of private banking to the too-big-to-fail banks, if credit became public instead of private, a 5% mortgage, if we had a state bank in California, a 5% mortgage and a 5% credit card, Would abundantly fund all revenue streams of public programs in California with no need for any other tax.
So could I talk to somebody about this?
And CTA bounced me around and they eventually had to admit that even though they say they exist to fully fund education, they don't actually have anybody to talk to anybody about that.
They can't field any actual solutions.
That was over 10 years ago.
And I tried again, I think two years ago, just to check to see if anything had upgraded and I got the exact same response.
So a union saying that they're fighting for something?
Really?
We'll see if anything comes from that or whether that's just posturing.
And for the CDC to claim data, again, We need to flip the script and for people to recognize that these are serial liars.
The CDC, they are the participants in this whole national scam by taking Neil Ferguson of Imperial College's data, whose history of projections have been spectacularly off for fear-mongering and projections of death.
And then, you know, that was before Neil himself violated his own health protocols by having an extramarital affair in the midst of the lockdown and being shamed and
fired. Although, you know, I don't remember if he actually said that the extramarital affair
included him and his partner wearing masks, so maybe he was trying to honor those. He wasn't social
distancing from his mistress?
I don't think so. I don't think so. I think that was the big story.
Yeah, it gets crazier and crazier. Now, West Point has decided that they're going to stigmatize half
of their cadet class because they're vaccine hesitant, and so they're forcing them to stay
in tents outside during the heat of the summer, which, you know, we're going to lose an entire
graduating class of cadets, and maybe that'll wake up a few more people.
So, bottom line is, we don't have more than a six-month run time before the absolute catastrophic events start unfolding, and then it'll be absolutely irrefutable.
So, if you can just hold out and not get jabbed for the next six months, then we're going to end up being the victors.
Surprising thing that you sent me another lead on, which I hope we get to discuss, is Razmutan says 55% of the people in the country support audits on the election.
So maybe we've turned the corner and it won't take too long before we can get everybody to agree that we've had phony baloney elections for at least the last 20 years, probably the last 100, and that we deserve a legitimate constitutional government that we've fought and paid for over and over and over, and it's time for the real American Revolution.
Yeah, I think you make great points.
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Jim, when I last wrote, the Press TV website was still broadcasting in Sweden.
I just checked, and the website's no longer broadcasting here, apparently shut down by the US government.
However, Press TV IR is still broadcasting here, the same website that's been censored.
This means that .com websites have been taken over, but not the websites in the country code Irandomain.ir.
Since the U.S.
government controls all the Internet, I'm wondering why they've not shut down .ir websites used by Press TV.
Although their censorship is an assault on freedom of speech and human rights, they have decided to show some restraint.
I wonder why.
What are they up to?
Warm regards, Paul.
Meanwhile, President Trump was gung-ho wild about introducing the new of untested vaccines.
His Time Warp program showed us clearly that he was under somebody else's orders.
A highly compromised individual like Trump was obviously beholden to a number of stronger ideologies.
Sure, he was also rabid about his support for Israel and would have been just fine with total genocide of the Palestinians.
It's just my opinion.
But Trump was a very, very emasculated Presidente.
He talked big, but I've long felt he was a mental midget.
If he was as rich as he said, he'd have gladly shown his records to the Southern District Legal Beagles, but he didn't.
The Russian Jew oligarchs use his properties and vehicles for money laundering.
It's well documented.
Trump is a loser.
Bring on Ron DeSantis.
Meanwhile, a censored 2009 report where Jesse Ventura was interviewing Dr. Rima Laibao, who explained that there was going to be a global pandemic and they were going to use vaccinations to take control of the world to trigger depopulation by means of vaccines.
She, by the way, was married to Major General Albert Stubblebine, who is in charge of U.S.
military intelligence and with whom I did an interview, where he not only confirmed all of the points I made about the faking of each of the four 9-11 crash sites, but added further reasons why I was correct.
Meanwhile, here are the books they banned.
Sandy Hook, Boston Bombing, Moon Landing, Orlando, Dallas, Charlottesville, Parkland, They're not available for Amazon.com.
You can, however, still find them at moonrockbooks.com.
Don't miss it!
Final thoughts.
Carl, yours.
Yeah, I do want to encourage people to stand strong in facts and faith, whatever serves you best to stay in this war for the victory.
The Arizona audit promises to be done by the end of the week, which means that they have counted the ballots, that they have examined all of the paper to see if that paper is consistent with the official paper stock for those ballots, and then they're going to have to issue their report.
And there were 20 states that visited Arizona to be able to see exactly what they're doing, and I hope that that will replicate across the country.
You do have the ongoing work of the apes to cut out the legs from the hedgies with their naked short sails of AMC.
And if people want to educate themselves on kind of the shenanigans that goes on with Wall Street, The movie The Big Short has Hollywood's A-list of actors, although I see them differently now, too, to be able to show everything of the key points for how Wall Street rigs the economy to loot trillions of dollars from We the People to their rigged casino profits.
They do everything but call it criminal, which is what it is.
It's criminal fraud.
So I'm still optimistic that what we're seeing is, I hope, the close of the show.
And I say so because I'm 95% this is all a white hat operation because of all of the evidence that this presidency that we're seeing from Biden, that he is an actor.
The presidency is fake.
The White House is actually closed.
And there's an abundant body of proof that I can't go into here, but we've covered in previous shows.
So I think also that we've all witnessed the need for the show with our own family, friends, and co-workers having no ability to discern the facts that we point to and just fall right in line.
So I hope that we're working out and at the same time I'm taking all the actions that I can imagine to be able to expose this totalitarian regime and to contrast it with the natural rights that we are promised to be guaranteed under the U.S.
Constitution.
Joe, your final thoughts?
Yeah, I would recommend that people read two articles by Matt Tabahi.
He was a journalist at Mother Jones, or excuse me, Rolling Stone.
He was a journalist at Rolling Stone for several years.
He wrote one article called The Great American Bubble Machine, and then he wrote another one called The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital on Willard the Bane Capital Bandit. Those are two really great articles.
And then also I would recommend that everybody put gab.com on their daily breeding list.
The owner of Gab is a guy named Andy Torba and today at 2.26 his wife delivered him a son named Samuel who's six pounds.
I want to say congratulations to Andrew and thank you so much for Gab.com and the other website I would like to recommend is the Conservative Treehouse and recently today as a matter of fact they've got an article on how Nancy Pelosi is trying to stage another pantomime on the January 6th event so that they can carry it into the 2022 election cycle.
And they did a great article yesterday on the Chief of Staff Millie and what a turncoat rotten SOB he is.
They've got complete documentation on their stuff.
Two really good websites I'd like to recommend to people.
Well, thank you, Joe from Houston and Carl from San Ramon.
I think they're doing a splendid job of offering expert commentary.
We know most of the deaths, or at least a very large percentage, from the vaccinations are caused by blood clots.
I therefore recommend an aspirin regimen in Russia, they conducted an autopsy on a COVID patient, even though the World Health Organization did not want them to do so, discovered he had died from blood clots, changed their regimen, and sent 14,000 patients home the same day.
You've heard the saying, take two aspirin and call me in the morning.
Well, you may not need to, but I guarantee you ought to take at least one and check out other alternatives, such as HGQ and Ivermectin.
Meanwhile, spend as much time as you can with your friends, family, and loved ones, because none of us know how much time we have left.
Thank you for joining us today.
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