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Nov. 25, 2021 - Jim Fetzer
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Need to Know News THANKSGIVING SPECIAL! (25 November 2021) with Joe Olson
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This is Jim Fetzer in Madison, Wisconsin, where on Thanksgiving Day 2021, I'm joined by Joe Olson in Houston, and for a change of pace, we want to talk about a subject that is of enormous importance but very infrequently directly addressed, which has to do with the character and contributions of Western civilization Which has come under attack by very powerful forces who are seeking especially to demonize white people, American culture, science, technology, everything for which the West has been noted for its contributions to humanity.
This was my dear colleague's suggestion for today, so I want to invite Joe to give us a Pricey, an overview.
Your thoughts, my friend.
Yes, okay.
Well, we'll start with probably the origins of Western culture started with the Egyptian culture, and I have spent three weeks touring Egypt, and I've been to England six times, two weeks each time, toured all over England.
I've been to Paris twice, so I've got a little bit of grounding on the Western origins, but also I'm an engineer and I've been highly trained in how things are developed, and so I look at technology from a completely different standpoint.
So we're going to start with the 4,500 year old temples That were in a river valley in the Nile River called Abu Simbel.
It's almost on the Sudan border and Rudyard Kipling said watching the sunrise at Abu Simbel was the most incredible thing he'd ever seen in his life.
Well, here's a guy that's traveled all over the world.
And so, I was really anticipating watching the sunrise, but to put things in context, in the early 60s, Nasser threw out the British and nationalized all of the land that was used for cotton and sugarcane in Egypt, and did the 40 acres and the mule with the Arabs, and the British had built a 100-foot high dam at Aswan, which had controlled river flooding on the Nile very effectively, But he wanted Egypt to be a superpower, so he wanted to build a 200-foot-high dam.
And in order to do that, he needed to have funds, and the West refused to provide it, so the Russians did.
But the Russians didn't provide any funds for relocating monuments which were going to be in the river valley that was going to be flooded.
So the World Heritage Society gathered up a bunch of money.
They managed to Exsume the Abu Simbel Temple, cut it into blocks, move it up on top of a mountaintop, build a metal building, and then suspend the whole inside portion of the building.
It had been carved into the face of the rock, so what Rudyard Kipling had seen in the way of sunrise was probably a mid-morning sunrise coming down the valley walls and lighting the faces of these giant six-story tall statues that are in front of this Monument!
And so I was sitting there waiting to watch it, and the guys sitting next to me were on a different tour boat.
And they said, did you hear the tour guide last night say that these things have been here 4,500 years?
And if you multiply that times 360, you end up with over a million.
And so I'm sitting there watching the sun roll down the face of Abu Simbel, and the faces are being revealed.
And I'm thinking, well, this is a fraction of what Roger and Kipling saw.
But it's still really incredible, and then I'm sitting there looking at these six-story tall statues going, wow, this is really magnificent!
And the statues are looking at me and going, I've seen a million sunrises, you're nothing in the universe!
And I just went, I just went, Jesus Christ, this is incredible!
So, then we went further down Aswan.
First of all, we went Aswan Lake, and they had moved about 30 or 40 Egyptian, Roman, and Grecian monuments that had been in the river valley up to high points, and we When all of the lake docked and you couldn't get close enough to the island so you always had to get in little dinghy boats and go up to the island to see these various monuments.
And the whole time we were on the lake, which was two or three days on Lake Aswan, we never saw a single minnow There was not a single plant that was alive.
So whatever hypothesis he had about, you know, forming a big aquaculture in Lake Aswan never materialized because it was just not conducive.
The water temperatures are too high.
The dissolved oxygen was too low to support plant life.
There was no way you could make the thing work, so bottom line, that was an ecological disaster as well as a historical disaster, but then it also surcharged the sandy soils and started leaching up Acidic salts underneath all of the other monuments, so now all of Luxor and Karnak are having their monuments eaten from the bottom up because of the infiltration of the raised groundwater table, and we'll get to that subject again a little bit later.
So, anyhow, stayed at the Mina Hotel, which is directly across from the pyramids at Giza, and The rooms had tags on them that said Montgomery stayed in this room, Eisenhower stayed in this room, Queen Elizabeth stayed in this room, Churchill stayed in this room.
It was like, oh wow, really historic.
So, you know, that was an interesting little side trip into history.
But then we go a little bit further in history.
The Romans invaded Egypt And when they landed their forces at Alexandra, there were several thousand Romans against a hundred thousand Egyptians, and the queen of Egypt at the time, geez, remind me, Cleopatra, sent her army down, and first her archers sent bronze tip arrows against iron shields and iron armor, and they just bounced off.
So then she sent her infantry in, and they came up with their bronze swords, and the Romans' iron swords sliced completely through them.
And she watched a portion of her army being completely decimated by a small group of Romans, and so then she surrendered.
And we know how Mark Anthony and the whole rest of that story ends.
But bottom line, this was probably the first time in history that technology and one single element on the periodic table We're able to completely overthrow a thousand-year-old dynasty.
Absolutely incredible.
Egypt had no access to iron at all.
There was none available domestically.
So anyhow, so then we'll fast forward to developments with the Roman technology.
One of the most incredible things is the Pantheon in Rome.
It's still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome, and we still don't know exactly how the Romans made such incredibly strong concrete, but we're going to get to a little detail about the Pantheon When we get a little bit further along about technologies that are absolutely incredible.
And then we have the Hagi Sophia in Istanbul.
This was an Eastern Orthodox church that was built in 537 A.D.
At the time, it was the world's largest indoor space, and the name Hagia Sophia means holy wisdom.
It was taken over by the Muslims in 1453 and converted to a mosque, but the interesting thing about the Pantheon and Hagia Sophia is that both of them are built in earthquake zones, and We didn't have any ability to calculate earthquake seismic loading on structures until the late 60s when we had computers that were actually able to do that type of analysis.
And here you have two structures that are, you know, one of them 2,000 years old, the other one 1,500 years old, that were able to endure earthquakes with some form of technology that we have yet to understand how they were able to do that.
Then on my return trip from Egypt, we got to go to Notre Dame, which is French for Our Lady.
It was built between 1163 A.D.
and 1260 A.D.
1163 AD and 1260 AD.
Amazingly enough, on April 15th, 2019, Mike Obama was sitting there on a cruise ship
Mike Obama was sitting there on a cruise ship in the Seine with a glass of champagne, watching the building burn.
in the Seine with a glass of champagne watching the building burn.
And I attended the Wood Institute seminars on wood frame construction,
And I attended the Wood Institute seminars on wood frame construction.
And they're always trying to promote the safety and strength in the economy of wood structures.
And one of the things they do is fire testing.
And on heavy timber frame buildings, it is impossible for them to burn
because when they get hot, they form a char surface, which insulates the core of the wood.
And so basically, you can take a wood frame church building, completely burn the roof off of it,
come back, sand down the wood frame, which they call timber frame trusses, and reuse them.
The church at Notre Dame was built with hundreds of year old Native oak that had never been cut and had had 800 years to dry, and it was absolutely impossible for that structure to burn had it not had accelerants coated on it, and then it was complete benign neglect on the part of the French government to not install sprinkler systems, which they could have easily done.
They could have put in a halon system, which is a very effective fire control but because it has freon our ignorant EPA has outlawed a system that was probably the safest fire suppression system and very useful in situations where you have a delicate equipment like computer systems and blah blah blah.
So bottom line is we were we were beaten out of that too.
Now one of the things that I did when I was in London as I went by Canterbury Cathedral, which is where Chaucer did his work, and it was part of the medieval warming period
building boom in Europe, where they built cathedrals all over the place.
They also built a number of incredible castles.
I went to the Ceremony of Keys at the Tower of London, which is an interesting place.
Got to see the crown jewels, and also went to Hever Castle, which is where Anne Boleyn lived, and it was bought later by the Ashtons.
And also went to Arendelle Castle, and Arendelle Castle is right next to Chichester, and Chichester, there's a hotel there called the Ship's Inn, and that's where Churchill and Eisenhower plotted the invasion of Europe on D-Day.
And, you know, it's just interesting to walk down the hall and say this is where the butcher from U.S.
and the butcher from England Who I also went by his home Chartwell.
plotted to destroy 5,000 U.S.
troops as a human sacrifice in a completely needless bloodbath on D-Day.
We had complete air and naval dominance of the area.
We could have peppered the place for weeks before we sent an invasion force in, but they chose to have a blood sacrifice instead.
So leaving Chichester, we were headed back towards London and saw a sign that said Fishbourne Roman Villa, and it was the governor's palace for the Romans who invaded England in 49 A.D.
And we're there for over 400 years, and the way they discovered these ruins in England, if there's a road that's in a straight line, it was designed by the Romans.
Every other road in England is just a paved goat path, and it's normally just a single lane with what they call lay-bys, so you drive for Half a mile and then if traffic's coming from the other direction you find a wide spot in the road and pull over and let one of the other pass because most of their roads are just single lane little cart paths.
It's a ridiculous country to try to navigate anywhere other than the A's.
So they were widening this major freeway and they hit a water pipe that started bubbling up water and turns out that they were on top of a former Roman palace.
And so they excavated the room out, and overnight it just kept filling up with water, and they started tracing the line back, and there was over 2,000 feet of wooden pipe that was made out of boxelder, which had been set on a lathe board, and then the ends were connected with cast iron couplings that had slip joints and oakum, and it went back to a spring that had been bricked up that nobody even knew was there, And the Romans had running water in their fountains.
The Roman palaces had radiant heating underneath the floors.
They had a fire pit, and they had the flues from the fire pit coming underneath the palace.
So, you know, at 100 AD, you could go to a Roman palace and get running water.
You could walk around barefoot in the middle of winter, In rooms that had nice toasty floors, an incredible level of technology that we had no idea how they did that.
So, then one of our little side trips, we went over to Bath, which is on the western coast of England, and it was a Roman bath, and that was the name for it, but nobody really knew why it had that name.
And they were doing some remodeling to the major cathedral that was in that city in the 1890s and stumbled onto a secret chamber underneath the street that nobody even knew about, and it was a Roman lead-lined bath that still held water.
And it was, there again, a dammed-up hot spring that was naturally supplying water to the Roman bath 2,000 years ago.
Well, how many plumbing jobs have you seen recently that have lasted 2,000 years?
So then we're coming back from there and we're on our way to Bournemouth and we stopped at Stonehenge and interesting but that's actually a recreation of what they think was there that was done by the Historical Society of Britain in order to be a tourist attraction so don't put too much merit in the actual placement of those stones, because it's a recreation of what they think was there.
So, anything in the way of astronomical alignments were based on late 19th century calculations and reconstruction.
So, we leave Stonehenge, and we're headed toward Bournemouth, and the lady I'm with says, oh my god, I really need to have some tea.
Can we just stop at this little town?
And I said, well look, there's a great big Spire's sticking up in the center of town.
Let's go there.
And she goes, oh yeah, that's High Street.
They always have tea shops.
So we pull in in front of this cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral.
I get out, I go, Jesus Christ, you could hide Notre Dame inside this place.
There again, started around 1200, took 50 years of construction to build this giant cathedral.
And we walk in, walk around, but inside was just absolutely gorgeous.
There was a boys choir that was practicing hymns, and they were singing in Latin, so it had a real ethereal tone, and I'm just like being transported through thousands of years of time.
This is over an 800-year-old church, And as we exit the back of the church, we're walking back towards the tea shop because my lady desperately wants some tea, and this guy's standing there in a World War II British uniform with a red beret on.
He goes, I bet you came to see the Magna Carta, didn't you?
And I went, Jesus Christ, what do you mean the Magna Carta?
He goes, we got it right here.
Come on, I'll show you.
So we walk into this little octagonal shaped room and underneath a quarter inch steel plate that's counterweighted and a thin glass cover, there's one of the copies of the Magna Carta.
Now the Magna Carta was signed in 1215 right outside of Windsor Castle at a place called Runnymede.
And the British subjects that forced King John to sign that ordered him to sign 50 copies and distribute them all across England so that everybody knew what the new laws of the world were going to be.
And so I'm sitting there looking at this thing.
It's written in Latin, and it's really tiny scrolls, so it's impossible to read, but there's some of them that are tagged like, uh, women are allowed to own property.
Up until that time, if a woman's husband died, she had no title to property and women were not allowed to be unmarried.
So the first guy that showed up at her door with a bouquet of roses said, you're my new wife.
And she goes, well, I don't know you.
I don't like you.
I don't want to be married too bad.
You're mine and I own all your property.
Absolutely insane.
They also standardized weights and measurements.
So, the Magna Carta was really important.
And he says, you see that little brown spot down in the corner?
And I said, uh, yeah.
He goes, uh, when I was a lad, he said, you could come in here and you could clearly see the wax seal with King John's stamp on it.
And he said, when I went off to war, some missy lifted up the case cover to dust it off.
When she did, it just all fell away.
And I looked at this guy and I said, my God, I'm talking with one of the last witnesses in the world that's seen the original King John's wax seal on the Magna Carta.
There's three remaining copies of the Magna Carta.
They're under lock and key at the British Museum, and they're only exposed to tourists on a very rare basis.
I did go to the British Museum.
I saw the Elgin marbles, which were removed from the Parthenon because they were being used as target practice by the occupying Turks in the early 19th century, and so they brought them back to London for safekeeping, and there's still a big fight going on between Greece and London over that particular issue, but I also got to see the Rosetta Stone, and one day we'll do a little bit of deep dive on the origins of the quote Old Testament and the Hebrew prophets that turns out were Sumerians.
But moving along, next little item on my checklist of wonderful things is St.
Paul's Cathedral.
Now, there had been a cathedral at this location in London For 1,200 years, and it burned down during the 1666 fire and plague of London.
And when London rebuilt, they decided they were going to build the really biggest cathedral in London, and probably still is in all of England.
But anyhow, the architect on that was Christopher Wren, He and a guy named Robert Hooke were some of the dozen founders of the Royal Society in 1861 is when it got its King's Charter.
Since I'm a structural engineer, I was particularly interested in how he was able to support this large dome structure.
And so part of the tour is you go up inside and you get to see the inside which is a dome which is suspended from a triangular wood truss frame which supports the outer dome.
So it actually supports both domes.
And, you know, as a structural engineer, I had to marvel at the level of intricacy that was involved in that particular construction.
And it's an absolutely gorgeous facility.
If you're ever in London, definitely put it on your list of places to go.
Now, the next thing that I would like to talk about is the Eiffel Tower.
When we were staying in Paris, we did have dinner at what's called Saint-Mittor, which is 100 meters, 300 feet above ground level.
There's a restaurant called the Jules Verne Restaurant, which has absolutely stunning views of the Arc de Triomphe and Champs-Élysées and the Seine, and just an absolutely magical place.
If you're ever in Paris, I recommend a meal at the Eiffel Tower.
And, curiously enough, I had also, when I was in New York on one of my visits, I went to the Statue of Liberty, and you might not immediately recognize the link, but the Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States on our centennial from the French, but it wasn't completed and opened until 1886.
It's a quarter-inch, hand-hammered copper exterior, which they made complete life-size wooden forms for, and then they sat there and beat these copper sheets, drilled them, and used copper rivets.
But this was not self-supporting, so inside the Statue of Liberty, is a wrought iron triangular truss frame which was designed by Eiffel before he did the Eiffel Tower.
So as a structural engineer I go to the Statue of Liberty.
You walk up outside and it's up on a three or four story tall pediment and you see your foot and sandals sticking out of the front of the statue and it's like my god this thing is huge!
You could play basketball on her toe and you get inside and you actually get to see that it's It's not quite that big, but once you're inside, you have a set of stairways that goes up, and you get plenty of time as you're walking through the tour.
It took me probably an hour and a half to get from the base up to the crown, and so I got to inspect the structural components of the building, and absolutely incredible!
When Reagan was doing the remodel of it, there was a whole bunch of stuff, because this is a highly corrosive environment right there on the Hudson River, and
with salt spray, and then you have the electrolysis of the copper sheets on the outside, which
when you're inside, it's uninsulated, so you can see the whole entire reverse contour of the Statue
of Liberty as you're walking up the stairs. And so they had to replace certain elements, and
they replaced them, I believe, with Monell.
And so anyhow, there were portions where you could see that that segments of the original wrought iron trusses had been replaced, but the rest of it was remaining.
So very interesting from that standpoint.
And then when you get up to the neck of the Statue of Liberty,
there's two circular stairways that kind of wind against each other.
You go up one stair, and the other one winds around it coming back down.
And you step out into the crown.
You step off on the left side of the crown, and you look out, and the windows that are above her head
look like, you know, they're gigantic.
But when you actually get up there, it's like 3 and 1 4 inch plate glass that's
been there 100 years.
And so it's a little bit stained and weathered.
And so the view out of the crown is pretty reduced.
But it's still very interesting to walk through the crown.
And I don't know many people that even are aware of that level of technology that was in that.
At one time, you could actually go up a stairway inside the arm and walk around inside the torch.
But since that was a one-way passage, the Parks Department closed that off to regular people.
But anyhow, that was a very interesting little bit of information.
And then one of the things that made cathedrals possible all over Europe was the invention of the flying buttress.
And in order to get gigantic glass walls that would light up and inspire people inside the churches, they needed to have thin outside curtain walls, but they weren't able to support the roof loads.
And so they built triangular sections that came off of the wall called flying buttresses that arched down into the ground and helped distribute the roof load and wall loads down into the ground so they could have open space for the glass.
Well, interesting thing as a engineering student, We were introduced to a concept, and I'll put a link to this.
It's mddionline.com.
Measuring residual stress using transparent plastics.
And during the late 60s, I discovered that there were certain types of plastics where you could create a plastic shape, put forces on it, and see where the isobars of the tension and compression were inside those members.
And my A structural professor at the time said, this is really interesting.
Look at what we found about historic structures.
And he goes, first of all, this is a section of the Pantheon's roof and walls.
And he said, you'll notice how the top of this dome curves down, and then there's like a mound along the edge of it.
And he said, nobody could figure out what they did that for.
Everybody just thought it was a decorative feature.
He said, but when you place these plastics and you put the stress loads from gravity and from wind and from earthquakes on it, it turns out if you did not have that hump, these structures would collapse.
And I'm sitting there going, my God, 2,000 years ago, the Romans knew that you could build an unreinforced concrete dome, and if you had a rim around the edge of it, you could keep it from falling down.
This is really amazing!
And then he said, and then look at what we found out about flying buttresses.
He said the flying buttress comes down and it has a hump on the top of the, an arch on the bottom so that sunlight could pass through and reduce the wind load coming into the side of the church, but there's a hump on the top of it.
He said if you cut that hump off and you put the stress loads on, These things fall down, and I'm going, Jesus Christ!
There was some level of technology available to the 12th century cathedral builders that we didn't actually have the concept of until the late 60s, and I don't know today that we even still quantified it.
So, I want to say that Western culture has done absolutely wonderful things for this world, and we're going to get into a few more of those.
One of the things that I did when I was over there was started studying about the greatest civil engineer in the history of the world that you've never heard of.
Ismard Kingdom Brunel, and he only lived to be like 45 years old, but one of his first outstanding achievements was the Tim's Tunnel, which goes underneath the river.
He got a patent for an underground shield for tunneling in 1814, and in 1825 he started a tunnel that goes from the south side to the north side of the Tim's River.
It's 1,300 feet long, It's 75 feet below grade.
Twice during the construction, the river broke through and flooded it.
They managed to patch the river, pump it out, and rebuild it.
And what he did is he had screw jacks that would put cutting into the clay soil, people would hand dig out the clay soil,
and then they'd put multi-layers of brick arch across that. It was originally intended to
have horse carts go down a circular ramp on both sides and deliver goods from one side of
London to the other without having to go across the river by boat.
But that was quickly supplanted by trains going back and forth and that tunnel, which was opened in 1843, is still used by the London Underground today.
And he created the greatest number of railroads, the greatest number of bridges, the Paddington Station has a statue to Mr. Brunel, and I went to Paddington Station, and I couldn't find where the statue was.
It's about a 10-foot high bronze statue, and I asked one of the guards, and they go, oh, I don't know where it is.
It's around here somewhere, and then finally somebody said, oh, it's over there, and they had an unused siding, and it was sitting there probably A decade's worth of dust and debris sitting on top of this tarnished statue of one of the greatest engineers in the history of the world.
And I walked over and I looked at Burnell's statue and I went, this is absolutely shameful.
And so then, when I was in engineering school, they had been using, and we discussed this in one of our meetings on 9-1-1, they had developed the first method of quantifying structural
loads through a building with the Hardy-Cross method in 1932s when it was adopted by the
American Society of Civil Engineers, but it was a really complicated process of using
simultaneous linear equations going from the top of the building down and then you had to do it on every
axis of the building. So if the building wasn't completely square, then you had to do separate load
calculations on each one of the frame members and it's really tedious. It was virtually
impossible to do. The World Trade Center buildings were just done on a estimate of what those
loads were.
Which meant that they overestimated it, but in the late 60s, they came up with computer programs that could solve those, and at that point, we were able to use computers to input the seismic loads, which are P primary waves, S secondary waves, and L surface waves that were previously impossible to calculate.
So, we didn't even have the ability to do seismic structural So, you have to really marvel at all the things in this world that were built by our ancestors, and I really admire the things that these people did, and I think it's time that we recognize
The amount of work and effort that went into all this stuff.
Interesting little side note, Robert Hooke is virtually unknown to people outside of the core science group.
He's known for Hooke's Law, but he's also the one who created Boyle's Law.
Boyle was his lord benefactor, and he was very wealthy, but when it came time to explain how Boyle's Law worked,
he had to have Robert Hooke get up and explain it to him.
Robert Hooke was the secretary for the Royal Society for 30 years,
and he was hated by Isaac Newton.
And Newton came in and defamed the only known photo of him, and then also destroyed hundreds of records
that were part of the Royal Society because it had Hooke's name on it as secretary.
So a very nefarious person, but by the same token, a very gifted person.
He was a student at Cambridge when the plague hit in 1666, and everybody says there's never been a lockdown of healthy populations.
Well, that's incorrect, because when the plague hit, they didn't know what was causing it, but they knew that if people traveled, it could be spread.
And so, and actually the word quarantine is from the previous Italian Principle of forcing incoming merchant ships and traveling ships to quarantine at sea for 40 days, which is what quarantine means, is 40 days before disembarking.
Their sailors are their passengers, and that way you could see who was sick, and if they didn't die, then you could let them enter your country.
So they quarantined all of England for 18 months.
Since he wasn't able to continue his college studies, he went to his mom's house, went up in the attic, and created his own experiments for mechanics and Light and gravity.
And so, bottom line, he invented all of his own stuff.
He is the one who created the reflector telescope.
He ground his own lenses.
He ground his own lenses for his light experiments.
If you read his Principia Scientific, it's a 400 page long book written in Latin and It's still the best textbook you could get for a freshman student in physics in college because it's just absolutely state-of-the-art and he developed all of that as a late teen and early 20s kid.
He was so afraid of his groundbreaking work that he had two copies published,
and he put them at the Royal Society to get peer review.
And one of the people that reviewed it was from Germany, Lipsitch, and he came over and went,
huh, this seems really interesting.
And so he basically stole Isaac Newton's experiments and calculations for calculus, went back to Germany,
made a minor revision in the integral sign, and claimed to have been the one that created calculus,
which is just another gigantic lie on the part of the establishment.
I've written three articles about the Royal Society that are at Canada Free Press.
They're pretty interesting, and for a while, Nullius Inverba, I believe, is the Latin term for it, but that's their motto, and for a long time, if you googled Nullius and Verba, my title at Canada Free Press came up before their title at the Royal Society, which I thought was kind of funny.
So, bottom line is, we have a culture that's being demeaned unnecessarily.
We've created virtually everything the white Christian Western civilization has created virtually everything that exists in the modern world that makes modern life possible, and yet we're being constantly demonized, and nobody's talking about the positive things that we have done for humanity, and I think that's absolutely disgusting.
So that's why today I didn't want to talk about, you know, the The politicization of absolutely everything, and the racialization, and the sexualization, and the demonization, and everything that we have to do in the way of discussing current events.
I wanted to do a little bit of historical perspective on things that I, as an engineer, actually witnessed and can put things in context in a way that other travelers may have not noticed, and certainly a lot of historians haven't noticed.
And there's a That was quite a tour de force.
perspective on the part of architectural and engineering review material as well.
So that's why I wanted to cover that. That was quite a tour de force. I myself have been to
England seven times, Paris twice, once as a kid on a bicycle tour, later with my wife as an adult.
I've been to Greece, Athens, the Parthenon.
You just made a masterful review of some highlights in the history of civilization, I would observe, We also have the marvelous technological developments, the Wright brothers in aircraft, Edison, electric light.
We have Henry Ford and the mass reduction of the automobile, a host of ingredients that have made modern life possible.
I'd welcome any further reflections you'd have on modern American society.
And I would add, by the way, It seems to me that this move for a Green New Deal is really going to be catastrophic in undermining the ability of Americans to exercise what's known as effective freedom, to be able to do things they want to do, such as by having the mobility to transport themselves from point A to point B. If we're restricted to
Electric cars, for example, rather than gasoline automobiles, there's going to be a stunning diminution in the range of activities in which Americans can participate.
And I think that not only are these efforts scientifically ill-founded based upon gross misconceptions and a failure to understand the nature of The phenomena they claim to be threatening to life on Earth, including, of course, the crucial role of CO2, which, as you yourself have observed on other occasions, actually has the effect of cooling the planet in four different dimensions.
It's indispensable to sustaining life on Earth, where plants and trees convert CO2 into oxygen in order for Well, actually, there were 75 patents issued for electric lights prior to Edison getting his patent, and he's often credited with being the first one to use a tungsten element.
Actually, he used a carbon element, and the tungsten was invented by a Hungarian.
In 1814, so there's a lot of misinformation on that.
Quick overview, Edison was absolutely a genius.
He got his first invention when he was a teenager.
I think he was like 14.
He'd been selling newspapers at the local rail station.
He dropped out of school at like fifth or sixth grade because he just he was bored to tears with it, like many are.
And so the information on the stock exchange, he figured out how to do the teletype.
Which is where it punches little buttons and little holes in a sheet of paper.
And he was able to do his own stock report and started selling his own stock report newspaper at the train station.
And next thing you know, he got a patent on the Pelletype.
And that was his first patent.
And I think he was like 14 at that point.
And then he went on, he did the mimeograph.
Phonograph, the first motion picture projector and motion picture cameras.
A very prolific inventor, but to say that he invented the light bulb, it was actually first demonstrated by Humphrey Davies at the Royal Society in 1802.
1802 had a carbon arc light, which was used the chemical battery.
And so he was able to light up a completely dark room for the Royal Society using something
besides a candle and a lamp.
So that's pretty incredible.
Other thing is that people credit Marconi.
Marconi stole the patents from Tesla.
Tesla had four patents sitting in the US Patent Office for over four years.
They got Marconi to steal a patent and operate a unichannel signal in England, which was
completely useless.
If you're broadcasting over every possible frequency, you've got number one, have a real
short range and number two, you have real reduced content.
It was a stolen Russian patent.
Marconi was a minor nobility in London and the wealthy are very famous for trying to
to select their own to be the new inventors.
So anyhow, they selected Marconi.
He went on to form the Edison Radio Company, along with Edison, who at that point had been completely compromised by the power elite in New York.
Edison at one time had 10,000 employees, and so in order to keep a company of that scale going, he had to constantly cater to whatever whims were of Rockefeller and JPMorgan and Carnegie and whoever else the other front companies were for Rothschild at that time.
So bottom line is Edison sold his name to what's called Radio Corporation of America, better known as RCA, who went on to monopolize the radio Broadcast and receiving equipment companies, as well as the broadcasting networks, where that way they could control all the news through Rockefeller front companies.
Rockefeller also funded Alex Bell's theft of Antonio Misi's telephone patent, which was submitted to the Patent Office in 1862, stolen by the Rockefeller front company In 1876.
So, we've been completely lied to about the history of this world.
Another great inventor was Westinghouse, who at age 16 got his first patent for a steam-driven turbine, which at the time nobody needed a steam-driven turbine.
So, then he got his second patent, and I believe he was 22 at the time, for air brakes.
Up until that time, the only way they had of stopping a steam engine Was to reverse the flow through the steam engine and that meant you had steel wheels or the only thing that was stopping the train were the wheels on the locomotive so train accidents were just incredible and movement of trains had to be really slow if you were going to have to be stopping and starting so
He developed air brakes, got a patent for that, and the monopoly of steel and coal, which I believe was Carnegie and J.P.
Morgan at the time, but it could have also been Rockefeller, said, well, we want to buy your patent, and he goes, no, my dad owns a machine shop.
We can manufacture these things, and I want to sell my own patent and be an entrepreneur, and they went, Oh, okay.
Well, tell you what we'll do.
We'll finance you, and then we'll get a contract that you will provide within a certain period of time, the X number of units.
And so, Wessinghouse agreed to it.
They defaulted on shipping him the coal to run his forges and the steel to be able to
manufacture the parts.
And so basically they bankrupted his company and then stole his patents from him, a pattern
which they have used repeatedly to steal intellectual property from everybody with a brain in the
world.
They stole 400 patents from Tesla.
They stole 200 patents from Westinghouse.
They stole all 1,000 patents from Edison.
Basically, we have a bunch of patent thieves that are running out of the City of London who've hijacked all of Western culture and lied to us consistently about how these things were developed and who the actual creators were.
Absolutely shameful and that's why today I wanted to open the discussion with the positive things that western civilization has provided to us and recognition of the forces of evil that have been constantly misdirecting us and are currently trying to create a civil war and completely destroy us.
These are the most evil nefarious people in the history of the planet and we need to rise up against them and one of the ways we rise up is being Being proud of the actual heritage that we have and look forward to a world where we're not manipulated and exploited by these parasites and we're able to invest in humanity the way it should be.
Over a hundred articles on global warming, green energy, and peak oil.
Been interviewed on Coast to Coast AM five times.
You can read my collection of information.
Just google my name and you'll have plenty of stuff to keep you busy.
But bottom line is, there is absolutely no way that carbon dioxide warms the planet.
It is not a toxin.
Your body has 500 parts per million of carbon dioxide in your blood, and if it has any more less than that, you can't balance your blood pH.
You get hypo or hyper So, it's absolutely safe.
U.S.
submarines operate for six to nine months at a time with 8,000 parts per million of carbon dioxide inside the submarine because it's too difficult to scrub it.
You inhale 400 parts per million, you exhale 40,000 parts per million.
If you don't, you're dead.
So, you know, bottom line is carbon dioxide is beneficial to the planet.
It's a life-giving gas and it doesn't need to be demonized by these people who've manipulated and completely controlled the science debate.
Green energies are absolutely Net energy loser.
It takes more energy to create photocells, windmills, and biofuels than you ever get out of them.
So anybody that's trying to tell you that you're going to end up having a sustainable green economy hasn't done the cost flow economic analysis on all of the mining, refining, processing, and distributing, and then recycling of the waste that goes into all of these phony baloney green Uh, saviors.
And then also, the planet has been producing hydrocarbons, and they exist throughout the universe, but the planet's been producing hydrocarbons for over a billion years before the first single-cell life form came.
So, we have a resource that's being created underneath our feet by the fission of 800,000 cubic miles of uranium, 1.2 million cubic miles of thorium, and the Bridgman effect on everything that's in the metallic series under more than 40 miles of crushed pressure from the gravity of the earth.
So, bottom line is, if we're not capturing and using these hydrocarbons, they end up being an environmental pollutant.
They go on and on about methane.
Methane has a specific gravity of 0.43.
You can fill a balloon with methane.
It'll float just like if you put in hydrogen or helium.
It's lighter than air, and it comes out of the ground absolutely everywhere.
In the atmosphere, it's like 1.7 parts per 1,700 parts per billion, which they use that number without people realizing what a billion is, but when you actually convert it, that's 1.7 parts per million.
The only two absorption bands it has are outside of the outgoing long wave radiation from the Earth, so it can't capture the radiant heat being radiated by the Earth and cast it back at us.
So the only thing you can do is reduce incoming radiation from the sun, which cools the Earth.
Virtually everything that happens in the atmosphere cools the Earth by day and reduces the rapid infrared radiation of the Earth at night, which keeps us warmer at night, which makes this a habitable planet.
Let me just add, Joe, the idea of destroying the gas and oil industry and the use of coal when it turns out that oil is actually produced by the planet Earth, that it's not a fossil fuel at all, and it's virtually unlimited in its quantity of availability.
This all seems to me a way to reduce civilization on Earth to a very primitive stage.
In other words, moving backwards very, very fast with tremendous adverse effects on life on Earth.
Well, the core group that's been misdirecting our planet for centuries has a triad of philosophical points that are incorrect.
One of them is Malthus, that the population increases exponentially and technology only increases geometrically, so therefore you have to have periodic plagues and Wars and famines and pestilence and all the four horses of the apocalypse have to be done to keep humans under control, and so that's one of their elements.
The next thing is Darwinism, where they said it's only the survival of the fittest.
Well, obviously, those who can lie and steal the most are the fittest, and they're the ones who should be allowed to dictate who else is allowed to live on their planet.
Which is really absurd.
And then the other one is the nihilist.
And that is that there's no right or wrong.
There's no perfect reference frame for looking at world.
Everything is a spectrum.
And so, you know, you can be one of a hundred genders if that's what you want to be.
And bottom line is these are the three philosophical underpinnings for the fascists that actually rule the world.
And it's time that they were completely exposed.
deposed and we could turn this into the Eden that it should be.
And petroleum is probably not infinite.
What it is, is it's being produced on a daily basis.
So if we could limit our use to what the daily production is of the planet, then yes, we would have a sustainable energy source for at least a billion years.
Because if you look at the half-life of uranium and thorium, Those are, you know, 30,000, 30, I mean 3 billion years so bottom line is both of those energy sources are going to be continuing to produce hydrocarbons, and then they're available for other uses, although I'm a very opposed to light water reactor uranium plants because
You end up having a problem of the gamma rays inside the plant decomposing the materials that the plant's constructed with, and so you end up with a plant that's radioactive for a hundred thousand years after you shut it down, which is incomprehensible.
You end up with a fuel waste that's impossible to deal with for over a hundred thousand years.
You have a problem of mining, refining, and shipping uranium, which is still a very dangerous thing to have in a terrorist-laden environment.
So, I'm very opposed to light water reactors, although we should be spending an enormous amount of energy on fusion, and then also there's various ways of using thorium salt reactors, which it would be beneficial for long-term use.
Joe, you had a marvelous idea of having this conversation today on Thanksgiving of 2021.
I'm really glad.
I thought this was just fascinating, and I'm sure everyone who watches this unusual episode of Need to Know will appreciate that you're providing a whole lot of information they truly do need to know.
So I cannot thank you enough, my friend, on this Thanksgiving day.
Final thoughts?
Yes, let's be thankful for the world that the good Lord gave us and that all of our Christian ancestors worked so hard to be able to share with us.
And that's what we need to do moving forward.
We need to unite as a human brotherhood and we need to overthrow all of these divisive forces that are at work against us having a wonderful planet and the life, the beautiful life that we're supposed to live.
On behalf of myself, Jim Fetzer here in Madison and Joe Olson in Houston, we wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Spend as much time as you can with your friends and loved ones for all the reasons I've emphasized so many times before.
Joe is offering here a lot of very important scientific and historical observations that ultimately make a tremendous difference to the future of this planet.
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