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Need to Know (30 December 2021) with Joe Olson and Carl Herman

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	This is Jim Fetzer, Madison, Wisconsin, where I'm joined today by Joe Olson from Houston, Texas, and Carl Herman from San Ramon, California.
	We're here to bring you all the news you need to know.
	We begin with the latest results into Ghislaine Maxwell being found guilty on sex trafficking charges.
	Counts brought against her.
	Conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts.
	Guilty.
	Conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
	Guilty.
	Transportation of minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
	Guilty.
	Conspiracy to commit sex trafficking with minors.
	Guilty.
	Sex trafficking of minors.
	Guilty.
	Not guilty on count two.
	Enticement of a minor.
	To travel to engage in illegal sex acts.
	One might have thought that would be the easiest.
	The jurors had requested transcripts of five witness testimonies off two days for Christmas.
	Originally scheduled for two years, but it's done.
	They worked it through.
	They have their verdict.
	The testimony of Jane, who testified how her abuse by Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein began when she was 14, was directly related to counts one through four.
	Each of the non-conspiracy charges contained elements up to four, and if the jury decided just one of them was not satisfied, then she would have been not guilty of the entire charge.
	Maggie Krell, a human rights attorney, former prosecutor, and author of a forthcoming book on sex trafficking, had anticipated a quick verdict.
	In my experience, holiday jurors tend to be decisive, and I don't think this case was overly complicated.
	You don't learn in law school when jurors are coming back.
	Crow is aware of the grooming techniques of potential victims that the prosecution presented.
	That's how grooming works.
	It's a classic technique on predators, totally ubiquitous.
	Here's Sarah Ransom, a victim of Epstein, arriving for the trial of Jess Lane.
	Grouse said even though the Maxwell case involved famous wealthy people and private jacks, in a lot of ways it's a very basic sex trafficking case playing out throughout the country because the techniques are so classic from a trafficker's playbook.
	As a former prosecutor, she knows how dubious a jury can be.
	It only takes one not to agree.
	Finding 12 to agree is a challenge.
	The judge will have to determine what she deserves under these circumstances, some of the charges having a 10-year mandatory minimum.
	Judges tend not to go light on defendants like her.
	Sentencing will be in 2022.
	Joe, your thoughts?
	Yeah, well, she'll get two weeks of community service and retire to Israel like we all know she's going to do.
	Or she'll be Arkansas-ed and they'll find a body double to swap it out.
	So, I got no trust in this system at all.
	The thing that's really absurd is there was hundreds, you know, 500, 1,000 young girls and probably little boys
	that had been victimized by this group over decades.
	And they only managed to bring in four witnesses and only two of them were under age
	when they had the ability to bring in dozens and dozens.
	They brought in none of the hard drives and thumb drives and video evidence that they had
	that they seized at multiple Maxwell and Epstein locations.
	And so none of that material was submitted.
	And what they're going to do is just slap a giant seal on it and say, OK, well, we found a Patsy and a scapegoat.
	And so nothing to see here.
	We're going to seal all the rest of this information for, I don't know, 75 years before anybody finds out what's going on.
	Absolutely assert.
	And today, Alan Dirtbagowich said the woman that's accusing him of having underage sex with her probably committed a whole bunch of sex crimes herself.
	Hint, hint, hint, hint.
	You know?
	Shame the victim, you dirtbag.
	I got no use for that SOB at all.
	constitutional lawyer and he goes out of his way to defend OJ Simpson and then he defended Epstein
	and then he said that you can rely on a 1905 Supreme Court ruling, Jacobson versus Massachusetts
	to have mandatory vaccines of everybody in the country, everybody needs to do it. You take my
	jabs you clown, you're a horrible human being. Carl, your thoughts? Also we have the total amount
	of time in question that we know that Maxwell and Epstein were in business is well over 20 years if
	I'm correct.
	So we have some of the miners involved, we have the handlers involved, but where are the Johns and the Chains?
	That would seem to me the next step to follow up.
	And of course, this is a major cover-up of the Dark Cabal, our aristocratic wannabe masters, so that is a cover-up.
	This is a CYA trial in order to minimize the damage, but we'll see.
	I still am hopeful that we could have a surprise coming up if we were to disclose the list of The people involved and the evidence that the FBI had in hand to contrast it with this non-disclosure to protect the Johns, then that might still be a good thing.
	But as it stands right now, exactly as Joe said, is that this is the most horrible outcome.
	This is just a show to appease and to pretend that we have justice in our system of oligarchs.
	I'm compelled to agree with you both.
	I mean, some of the most famous victims, like Virginia Roberts, who claimed to have had sex with Prince Andrew, and I have no doubt about it, weren't called.
	They don't appear to have had any effort to expose those who were involved in these predatory sexual practices, who would have included A lot of very prominent figures like Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, I surmise, and, of course, Alan Dirkbag Dershowitz, as Joe has put it.
	So it's a sad day that the cover-ups continue for the rich and powerful.
	Meanwhile, the Supreme Court's addressing the Biden-Maxine Band-Aids with a special session, a move not seen for decades.
	On January 7th, I listened to oral arguments in cases brought against Biden's vaccine rules for large employers and health care workers during a special session determining whether they should be implemented or not.
	Clearly not.
	It would be a judgment on the amount of power the federal government can wield in fighting the pandemic.
	There are several cases to be heard.
	A major conflict that is in dispute would be over an emergency occupational safety and health administration rule demanding companies with over 100 workers must get their employers vaccinated or take tests frequently.
	OSHA does not appear to have the authority for that, nor does the government.
	I believe this is going down.
	Multiple business organizations and Republican states contend OSHA overstepped the authority Congress invested in.
	The plaintiffs contend the Biden administration does not have the authority to make such mandates 100% correct from everything I can discern.
	The goal of getting more Americans vaccinated does not allow the executive to use regulatory fiat to achieve a significant social, economic, and political change via the limited emergency power Congress authorized.
	The Supreme Court decided on the hearings after those challenging approach Court Justices Alito and Kavanaugh asking them to interview in disputes with lower courts.
	Biden administration insists it's confident it has legal authority for both.
	Frankly, I don't believe for either.
	Especially, claims Jen Psaki, the press secretary, as the U.S.
	faces a highly transmissible Omicron variant.
	There's nothing in the Constitution about exceptions to the law for the sake of health issues, which traditionally have been up to individuals to make their own decisions.
	The OSHA rule is supposed to go into effect on January 4th.
	Previously, a federal appellate court in Cincinnati ruled in favor of Biden's administration.
	The record establishes COVID continues to spread, mutate, kill, and block the safe return of Americans to their jobs.
	To protect workers, OSHA can and must be able to respond to dangers as they evolve.
	The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services require any facility taking place in Medicare and Medicaid programs must get their employees vaccinated.
	If the rule remains staid during this winter's anticipated surge, hundreds, even thousands of patients may die.
	The Supreme Court decision to hold the hearing is a rare move bypassing regular procedure.
	Joe, your thoughts?
	Yeah, well, it's been the bottom line goal of these people to be able to track us and control our banking and social life totally.
	So there's an interesting 20-minute long video by a guy named Rob Braxman, B-R-A-X-M-A-N, on the International Mobile Equipment ID for QR tracking.
	And once you activate one of those QR apps, you're in the system and they can track you virtually anywhere, anytime.
	And so he's got a really great information on how to avoid that.
	But bottom line is we need to start tapering off totally on our cell phone uses.
	And I only use mine when I absolutely need to.
	And anytime I'm in between travel, I turn it off and put it in a metal cookie can so I don't have to worry about Uh, tracking on that, but here's another thing that came up on a talk show today.
	Woman said she was out walking her dog, and she met this guy, and he came up, talked to her for a few minutes, and was kind of, you know, hinting around, and she wasn't really interested, and she got home, and she got a phone call, and the guy introduced himself as a guy that met you at the dog park, and she went, well, I didn't give you my phone number.
	He goes, Yeah, I know.
	I got it from your dog's tag.
	So apparently, and I just went online and pulled up a site that's white paper, HID, how to choose the proper dog tag, RFID dog tag, and it has the app.
	You must download this app in order for the system to operate.
	Absolutely crazy.
	You know, you have no privacy at all.
	You don't even have the privacy to walk your dog.
	Carl, your thoughts?
	Well, so the Supreme Court curious choice to hear that is unusual, and we'll see what happens.
	I have no ability to predict what that's going to be.
	It could be great.
	It could be just business as usual.
	The Medicare and Medicaid portion of it in that story is that we do know from the raw Medicare data that within two weeks of having received one of those vaccines, Medicare's raw data shows 45,000 dead Americans within two weeks of receiving one of those vaccines.
	So they're not blowing the whistle.
	So on we go with this Emperor's New Clothes conditions until we have some breakthrough event that shatters the illusion that somehow these are something other than population control agenda.
	Yes, yes.
	I think the Constitution needs to be upheld, and if the Supreme Court won't do it, then who?
	Meanwhile, the dad who told Biden, let's go, Brandon, were Biden responded, yeah, in a positive way, not understanding what he was saying, has declared, Trump isn't my president, the election was 100% stolen.
	I thought this guy would shirt up on Fox, probably on Tucker, to kick off his folk hero of the week tour.
	My mistake, he launched a tour on Steve Bannon's war room instead, festooned in a red mega hat.
	Weird, because he allegedly told the Oregonian in an interview he wasn't a Trumper.
	He belatedly discovered in the past 24 hours he's a Trump fan after all.
	Now Trump-loving outpits want to throw him a ticker tape parade for pranking Biden.
	Did he get the hat for Christmas as a gag?
	Nah, of course, he was a Trumper all along.
	No one would choose Bannon's podcast, Stop the Steal, headquarters over Fox.
	To begin there, let's go Brandon Victory Lap unless they were hardcore Megan.
	Either way, the right-wing counter-reaction to the left-wing over-reaction to this guy being a jackal to Biden was inevitable.
	Jared Schmuck tells Steve Bannon, Donald Trump is my president.
	He should be president right now.
	The election was 100% stolen, so I just want to make that clear.
	I, of course, agree 100% with him.
	If he plays his cards right, he might get the same kind of pyrotechnic rockstar introduction at CPAC that Kyle Rittenhouse just received at Turning Point Rally.
	Well, maybe not exactly the same.
	He hasn't killed any liberals.
	He merely owned a very famous one.
	It's clear why righty media has an interest in this story.
	Not clear why the nonpartisan mainstream does.
	What's news?
	Angle to a random guy pranking a president.
	I liked it.
	I liked it.
	Yet the press spent holidays clutching their Burroughs origami and got to the bottom of the mystery, identifying the caller as a 35-year-old father of four.
	Within hours, his name trended on Twitter, with countless news outlets such as Daily Beast and Guardian aggregating the story.
	This is not a press that holds power to account, but a pack of court hagiographers and propagandists who will silence the legitimate reporting of Hunter Biden Profiting off his proximity to the White House while doxing a forklift operator from the Bronx from posting Facebook videos mocking Nancy Pelosi or Reddit users posting pro-Trump gifs.
	The purpose is clear, terrorize the plebeians into silence lest they have the nerve to criticize the people in power.
	CNN has now officially spent more time digging into the background of the guy who said, let's go Brandon to Joe Biden than a guy with openly racist views who moved down the Christmas parade.
	I haven't seen numbers to affirm, but no one would be surprised if it's true.
	Remember how quickly James Hodgkinson's attempted mass murder of Republicans came and went as a matter of media interest a few years ago.
	Ideological motives are interesting to them only to the extent they can be weaponized for partisan gain.
	The biggest casualty of the Let's Go Brandon saga isn't the president or Jared Schmuck, by the way.
	It's Brandon himself, NASCAR driver Brandon Brown, who's having trouble getting endorsements now because corporate America doesn't want to associate with a guy whose claim to fame is inadvertently inspiring a euphemism for F Joe Biden.
	NASCAR's fan base, by the way, must be 95% Republican and the left wouldn't try to punish Brown for a joke he had nothing to do with by organizing a boycott of his advertisers, so what's the downsides to a corporation by sponsoring him?
	If anything, they'd earn goodwill from mega fans by doing that.
	Here's Trump's heir apparent, by the way.
	Don Jr.
	has a knack for that sort of distillation.
	According to Peter Winter, he said this to an audience at Turning Point on December 19th.
	I'd love not to have to participate in cancel culture.
	I'd love that it didn't exist.
	But as long as it does, folks, we better be playing the same game, okay?
	We've been playing t-ball for a half a century.
	Well, they're playing hardball and cheating, right?
	We've turned the other cheek, and I understand, like, the biblical reference, the mentality, but it's gotten us nothing.
	It's gotten us nothing while we've ceded ground on every major institution, dismissing one of Christianity's core principles a week before Christmas on grounds that it's gotten us nothing is a little on the nose even for a Trump, but no one knows who his audience is.
	Junior says a prank call to Biden gave guys like me the greatest Christmas spread ever.
	Call the guy who made the call a hero.
	That was a bit of a left slant, I think, to that reporting, but there it is.
	Joe, your thoughts.
	Yeah, well I'm on the road getting ready to do my holiday end of year traveling and partying, so I don't have access to all of my previous information, but something I wanted to mention is that we've got a really crooked FBI.
	The guy that was in charge of the Wolverine Watchmen kidnapping of Governor Whitmer in Michigan this summer
	got arrested and charged with strangling and beating his wife's head against the headboard
	at their house because he took her to a swinger party and she didn't find anybody she wanted to swing with.
	And so he was mad at her.
	Well, that was in July last summer, and then in September, the FBI wasn't able to cover it up any longer, so they went ahead and fired him.
	Well, over the weekend, another one of the members that was an FBI asset in that same operation, where there was six people that had never met and only had a Facebook group about things that needed to be done to change the country, were morphed into being this a terrorist threat and it turns out there's a group in the
	FBI that is a domestic terrorist set up group and I was listening to a reporter driving in
	on talk radio and I didn't get a chance to copy down her info, but we'll follow up on that
	story next week because apparently she's got a lot of evidence and it will be
	breaking news over the weekend.
	FBI internal group has gone around and stage set a half dozen different domestic terrorist
	things. And we know that goes all the way back at least to Oklahoma City.
	Absolutely crazy.
	Hmm.
	Wow.
	Bizarre.
	Carl?
	Well, with Let's Go Brandon.
	So if you're having the President of the United States taking live calls coming in from the general public, you anticipate and you have like a five seconds delay before things actually go out.
	Over the air!
	So my paying attention to the story, I see a couple things.
	One is that the producers of this show for the President of the United States made a choice to allow Let's Go Brandon over the air.
	That's interesting for me.
	And then, you know, the contrast as well with Kathy Griffin having a decapitated fake head, bloody head of the president of the United States, De Niro saying, fuck President Trump on live TV.
	And there's no outrage there.
	So we're just seeing more and more of this attempt for a one party state that uses corporate media as a weaponized propaganda portion.
	Very nice.
	Very, very nice.
	Well said, Carl.
	Meanwhile, we'll be right back.
	Here we have Stu Peters.
	we want to make clear for people's political voice. Very nice, very, very nice. Well said,
	Carl. Meanwhile, we'll be right back. Here we have a Stu Peters. Let's get a clip of what
	he's reporting here about vaccine death. Karen Kingston is a biotech analyst.
	She's here with us again.
	She's been brave.
	She's been with us for a long time.
	Nothing short of a hero as she continues to bring us patents and documentable information.
	And now she says that there's new evidence that vaccinated parents are increasing the mortality risk for their unvaccinated children.
	There's also evidence, she says, of an absurdly high false positive rate for COVID on the PCR test that virtually everyone is using to check for COVID-19.
	And she joins us now to discuss these two stories.
	The mortality risk for children.
	So you're saying that there is actual documentation, verifiable evidence, that jabbed parents could cause death for their kids.
	Yes, that's correct, Stu.
	There was a new study that was released on November 23rd, so just a few days ago, and it was done out of Israel and New York by several analysts, and it's entitled COVID Vaccination, Age-Stratified, All-Cause Mortality Risk.
	So what I did was I read through it very thoroughly and what they did was they took a look at the VAERS data as well as data in Europe and they put the vaccination rate over mortality risk.
	So I want to show your viewers first The stats that are in that report.
	And I put it together in a chart.
	So, before we get to the shedding onto the children, I just want to show your viewers from the ages of 0 to 17, the vaccine fatality rate.
	So, the incidence of death from the vaccine is 0.004%.
	That is 1 in 25,000.
	That's if you're under the age of 17 and vaccinated.
	Why is that so alarming?
	Because if you take a look at the number of children under the age of 17, Who died from COVID through May 11th of this year.
	And that's before we started doing mass vaccination.
	It was only 282 out of a total population of about 73 million.
	out of a total population of about 73 million.
	So that's a one in 250,000 person risk versus one in 25,000 if you're vaccinated.
	So 10 times more likely to have a serious adverse event Well, to have death.
	It's death.
	10 times more likely to die from these shots than you are to succumb to this so-called virus, this set of symptoms being branded and marketed to make people billionaires.
	That's correct, if you're under the age of 18.
	But I would go a step further.
	All those children who died from COVID did not die from COVID.
	There was another cause of death.
	They had multiple comorbidities and COVID was simply added onto the death certificate.
	So if you're perfectly healthy, it's more of a 1 in 2.5 million chance.
	So if you're under the age of 18, you have 100 times more likely chance of dying from the vaccine than actually from the disease itself.
	So this is very alarming data and it's backed up by the CDC numbers.
	But what I want to read this to you as well.
	So the COVID vaccination age stratified all cause mortality risk.
	What they say here is that when they compare our age-stratified vaccine fatality risk with published age-stratified coronavirus infection rates, it suggests the risk of COVID vaccines and boosters outweigh the benefits in children, young adults, and older adults with low occupational risk or previous coronavirus exposure.
	So, our findings raise important questions about the current COVID mass vaccination strategies.
	And again, that is a really important question because if you take a look at what's going on with the flu or the flu vaccines, if you take a look at the death rates for flu over the years, it's much higher in 2020, 2019, a little bit lower in 2018 and 2017.
	There was no flu this year, and the line that you see for the COVID-19 hospitalizations for children 5 to 11 is lower than the overall flu.
	So why are we vaccinating children?
	And the report goes on to say.
	For the unvaccinated age group 0 to 14, most associations between mortality and vaccination in adults are positive.
	What does this mean?
	It means this tendency for positive correlations increases from the week of vaccination until week 18 after vaccination, then it disappears.
	It indicates indirect adverse effects of adult vaccination on mortality of children ages 0 to 14 first for during the first 18 weeks after vaccination.
	So, what it's saying is that when an adult is vaccinated up to that 18 weeks afterwards, there's an increased risk for death for their children for 0 between ages of 0 to 14.
	Meanwhile, White House official statement just coming out here today.
	We're intent on not letting Omicron disrupt work and school for the vaccinated.
	You've done the right thing, and we will get through this.
	For the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.
	That is an official statement at WhiteHouse.gov, ignoring the fact That kids are a hundred times more likely to die from this shot that they want us injecting every living and breathing organism with infants, babies, toddlers, preschoolers, all the way through high school.
	We're going to be watering our houseplants with these shots soon.
	Yeah, that's correct.
	And if they're under the age of 14 and their parents are vaccinated, they're more likely to end up in the hospital.
	And so, I also want to show your viewers, this is a chart from the CDC Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report.
	And what it's showing is hospitalizations of children under the age of 17 with COVID-19.
	From March of last year through August of this year.
	And you can see there's a steady increase that's going on.
	It keeps going up, up, up.
	This is not related to the flu.
	It's not a misdiagnosis of the flu.
	Because flu goes from October to April.
	It should fall off in April.
	But there's a sharp increase again in April.
	So as more and more Americans get vaccinated, adults and children, the hospitalizations for children go up.
	And specifically look at that four and younger.
	That's really high up there as far as hospitalizations with children as COVID-19 vaccinations increase.
	So you say, well no Karen, if you look at infection rate, I'm sure it correlates to infection rate.
	Go to the next slide and I'm showing you straight from the CDC website from November 2nd the infection rates for children for 0 to 4 and 5 to 11.
	It goes like this.
	It's a little roller coaster.
	There's no attribution between infection and hospitalization.
	The only attribution is vaccination of adults.
	and more and more children are getting hospitalized due to shedding.
	And if people are saying, what evidence do you have?
	Again, I've shown this before, go to the August 2015 document from the FDA called
	Design and Analysis of Shedding Studies for Virus-Based Gene Therapies.
	These are gene therapies.
	They are viruses that produce a protein, and that protein can shed onto other people transmitting
	the disease.
	Meanwhile, I got to say those are very disturbing statistics.
	Joe, your thoughts?
	Yeah, well, I didn't sign up to get be an experimental animal and get a lifelong altering therapy, so they can pound sand on that one.
	They know they got a problem because they're starting to roll stuff back worldwide at this point.
	CDC has just said that, well, instead of having 10 days of quarantine, that they're only gonna require you
	to have five because the Omicron apparently can only beat you up for about four and a half days
	and after that, it just drops over.
	And then down in Australia, where Scott Morrison is the dictator of the little prison island down there,
	they've decided that they're gonna expand the amount of things that can send you to quarantine,
	but because they're so benevolent, they're only gonna put you in quarantine
	for one week instead of two.
	So, you know, you wonder how much longer they can keep the wheels on this cart, but it looks to me like we're nearing the end of the COVID collapse.
	Boy, I hope you're right about that, Joe.
	That would be terrific.
	Carl, your thoughts?
	Great story.
	First, with those batches, as we've already covered in the show, about 5% of the total batches have accounted for all of the deaths in the United States.
	And then for that testing, the test isn't testing for COVID-19.
	The CDC admits that the test was designed with generic flu because COVID-19 has never been isolated in a lab.
	And those PCR tests are all removed from emergency use authorization in just a couple of days.
	Tomorrow is the last day that it is authorized for that use.
	So that's a fascinating story and I'll have to take a look at that and include that in a report to my public school teachers of the hypocrisy and the lies, this emperor's new closed condition for our school teachers to go along with this evil agenda.
	Very, very good, Carl.
	Very good.
	Meanwhile, CBS censors a reporter slamming the crushing impact of COVID policies on kids.
	In other words, they're not going to let the explanation reach the public how much they're damaging our children.
	The iconic Sunday morning CBS show Pace the Nation edited out a correspondent's passionate criticism of COVID policies because of the harm they're causing children and teenagers who have a minuscule chance of suffering serious illness or death from the disease.
	Jan Crawford asked seconds before they would have aired on Sunday.
	Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, in a special year-end show with a reporter roundtable, pivoted the discussion, saying, well, I want to get to underreported stories as well.
	Jan Crawford immediately responded, saying her underreported story centered on an issue My kids hear me rant about every day, so I might as well tell you guys.
	It's a crushing impact our COVID policies have had on young kids and children.
	By far the least serious risk of serious illness for kids is COVID.
	A healthy teenager has one in a million chance of getting and dying from it.
	Way lower than, say, dying in a car wreck on a road trip.
	In the Washington, D.C.
	area, you couldn't even go to a playground without cops scurrying, getting, shooing the kids off.
	Tremendous negative impact on kids, and it's been an afterthought.
	She said the mental health of children and teens has taken a turn for the worse, with repercussions lasting for the rest of their lives if future decisions aren't measured and sensible.
	She said the damage could worsen on top of the dreams crushed future learning studded and risk of abuse incurred.
	Very fine.
	The host said, well said and frightening.
	Newsbusters pointed to the video of how the show aired, compared to the full video, that CBS had eliminated her remarks.
	Her criticism of COVID policies came after White House correspondent Wen Jiajian said, we'll see, regarding what will happen with Congress in 2022.
	The show as it aired went to a break, resumed with each reporter skipping Crawford's unreported story.
	A list of more than 400 studies shows COVID-19 lockdown, shelter-in-place policies, school closures, mask and mask mandates have failed to curb virus transmission or reduce deaths while causing unintended harm.
	In an interview with WND earlier, Dr. Robert Malone, the vaccine researcher who invented messenger RNA technology, said fundamentally evil COVID policies will cause deep and profound damage that will endure for decades.
	Meanwhile, the CDC has reduced the COVID quarantine protocol, just as Carl was observing.
	Cut it in half from a 10-day quarantine to only five if you're showing no symptoms.
	The change, they insist, is motivated by science.
	As the CDC states, it's based on what's known about the Omicron variant, which presents very mild symptoms and mimics a simple cold.
	No doubt, it's just a name for a simple cold.
	Unfortunately, it comes after Christmas and likely prevented many families from gathering together this season.
	It's a shame they couldn't have taken the knowledge they've had and publicized the recommendation in a timely fashion.
	Here's a statement they made about it.
	CDC updates and shortens recommended isolation and quarantine period for the general population.
	Joe, your thoughts?
	Yeah, well, we've had a horrible news media for a very, very long time.
	It was one of the major objectives of the The Milner Roundtable was to capture the press, which was the only means you had of communication back in 1910 when they first formulated their little process, and they were pretty rapidly able to seize all of the major publications in the United States.
	But then with the advent of radio and then the later advent of television, they've also monopolized those media interests.
	And so you get nothing but propaganda, as Alan Dulles planned with his Operation Mockingbird.
	They just took it domestic with the Dodd-Frank Act, saying, Oh, the Smith-Moult Act, where you're allowed to lie to the American public.
	Couldn't do it in 47 because they found out about Operation Mockingbird, and they said, okay, no, no, no on Americans.
	It's like, oh, okay.
	And then while Obama was acting like a president, he signed, I think it was 2014, the Smith-Moult Act, which is revising that and saying, oh yeah, you can lie to him whenever you want.
	So that's what we get.
	Absolutely worse than we deserve.
	Oh, how right that is.
	Carl, your thoughts?
	Yeah, I have a front row seat on the policies against the children in public schools, and if anybody goes to my Blogspot, Carl B. Herman Blogspot, you can take a look at any of the articles for challenging my school district to see that update.
	We could be close to winning.
	I don't know.
	I do know that John Hopkins University They studied 48,000 healthy children and reported zero deaths from COVID.
	So what we're seeing is a huge disconnect from independent data and anything being science-driven and the policies that are just ridiculous.
	And I hope we are nearing that Emperor's New Clothes moment where the public will look with their own eyes and trust their own eyes.
	Carl, I only wish that should happen.
	Meanwhile, Finland man blows up his Tesla after claiming to face a $22,000 replacement battery bill.
	It appears when the battery goes out, virtually the car is done for.
	He's blown up his Tesla with 66 pounds of dynamite in defiance of the cost of a new battery.
	Tomas Katanian, who lives in Jala Village in South Finland's Keimenlakso, exploded his 2012 Tesla Model S in a former quarry in a video uploaded to YouTube.
	The Tesla Model S cost around $57,400 or $77,400 when it was released.
	The warranty covers battery replacement if the capacity drops below 70%
	within 150,000 miles or eight years of purchase, leaving some owners of the older models facing large repair
	bills.
	A video over eight minutes long shows him and a group of people loading the car with dynamite,
	then placing a dummy with Elon Musk's face on it inside the car. It then explodes into pieces
	amid a rather serene and picturesque scene of snowy mountains. Here it actually is.
	I think given the the length of the video...
	Finnish sisua. Perikä.
	All, all set.
	All set.
	And then they said that they can't do anything about it.
	That the only option is to buy a new battery.
	They are putting us at risk of course.
	The car itself.
	It has 30kg of dynamite.
	And a little bit of...
	All set. All set.
	All set.
	And by...
	Alright!
	Now we're in the bunker, ready to explode.
	How are you feeling?
	I'm feeling great.
	We should be able to make a little bang.
	Be good.
	Thank you.
	I think I'll give you the instructions.
	Then we'll do a countdown.
	You have the instructions, right?
	Then there's no countdown.
	Three, two, one!
	50!
	What to do with your Tesla?
	When I bought the Tesla, the first 1,500 kilometers were nice.
	It was an excellent car.
	Then error codes hit.
	I ordered a tow truck to take my car in for service.
	It was at a Tesla dealer workshop for about a month.
	Finally, I got a call they can't do anything with my car.
	The only option is to change the whole battery cell.
	He didn't reveal the total miles the car's been driven or show proof the bill, but the Epoch Times reached out for comment.
	The cost would be at least 20,000 euros or 20,000, $2,000 and permission to operate as to ask Tesla.
	So I told him I'm coming to pick up the car.
	Now I'm going to explode the whole car because there's no guarantee of anything.
	Tesla's chief executive officer, Elon Musk, who said he'll pay more than $11 billion in taxes this year, is the world's richest person with an estimated net worth of $244.2 billion, according to Forbes.
	Battery issues are not the only problems Tesla vehicle users have encountered.
	Safety issues have also been raised over a number of the vehicle's features, including its autonomous driving ability.
	In August, National Highway Safety Administration opened into a formal probe about its self-driving system following nearly a dozen crashes with parked emergency vehicles, leaving one dead and 17 injured.
	According to the document issued, the investigation was probing 762,000 Tesla vehicles, models Y, X, S, and 3, from model years 2014 to 2031.
	Tesla vehicles, models Y, X, S, and 3, from model years 2014 to 2031.
	That investigation has now been expanded to cover a 12th incident.
	In October, Tesla withdrew its latest version of its autopilot and self-driving DATA software
	just a day after it was released, noting some issues, and said it would roll back to version 10.2.
	While Mustin specifically mentioned what the issues were, he noted Tesla's internal quality insurance had found problems with left turns at traffic lights.
	Regression in some left turns at traffic lights found by internal QA in 10.3.
	Fix in works, probably releasing tomorrow.
	Also involved in replacing cameras in some U.S.-made vehicles after it was made aware of an issue related, again, to faulty autopilot cameras.
	Tesla CEO said no other CEO cares as much about safety as he does.
	He's sold nearly $14 billion worth of Tesla stocks since November.
	The electric car maker is worth about a trillion dollars.
	Joe, your thoughts?
	Yeah, well, he also has no dealer network, so anytime you have a problem with one of your cars, you just have to wait for them to send the one part you're needing, which is why there's an enormous black market for chop shops to steal Teslas just to get common body parts.
	And that's not to mention the batteries.
	The problem with electrical chemical storage batteries, and that's what all of these things are, is that you build up dendrites.
	And just to make sure people understand that I'm not mixing my metaphors here, neurological cells have dendrites, D-E-N-R-I-T-E-S, which is a portion of your nerve cells, but dendrites, with a D, is little whiskers that grow on your anode and cathode because you can't remove all the impurities and so eventually they end up shorting out.
	The life cycle on those things is about 400 recharges, which if you're not discharging more than 30% may extend it out to about a thousand, but it's a gamble at any part.
	And then it's more expensive to clean those damaged lithium batteries and reuse it than it is to go out and dig new lithium at this point.
	And so you have something that's totally environmentally destructive in the process of mining and creating those things, totally environmental destructive in the electrical generation it takes to be able to charge the silly things, impractical for any use Uh, other than limited, you know, golf cart to grocery store drives.
	Uh, bottom line is, it's the stupidest thing in the world.
	And his company, I haven't checked last year's records, but there was 18 quarters in a row where he only made a profit one quarter.
	So how'd he do that?
	He's just a stock market darling, and it's the same pump-and-dump scam that they do on all the short-selling stuff on Wall Street.
	He's their fair-haired child.
	He gets nothing but grants from states like Nevada to build a battery plant, and states like California to build a mannering plant, and states like Texas to build his SpaceX and his new Tesla plant here.
	So, you know, bottom line is, he's just a high-skill grifter.
	Nice, nice.
	Carl, your thoughts?
	Fog of war, as usual.
	Who really knows what's going on?
	But the idea that one of his automobiles was flying around in space when one of the cameras caught like little rats scurrying around on the car was an interesting part.
	For electric cars, well, first of all, I think the important thing for people to understand is that we have tremendously suppressed technological breakthroughs that if If that was unleashed, then we wouldn't have to talk about any of this stuff.
	I have owned an electric car to commute approximately 40 miles every day for the last nine years.
	A Nissan Leaf, and then another for a three-year lease, another Leaf for three years, and now I have a BMW i3 that is wrapping up on a three-year lease.
	The battery Capacity, in that time, it started out at 90 miles, 120 miles, and now I get between 150 and 170.
	And I love the car, personally, as a commute car.
	It's wonderful.
	It's the fastest accelerating car.
	The pollution is zero coming from the car, and it's absolutely quiet.
	But again, once we are able to win, once we are able to get the truth about technologies, I think we'll have a lot of means for free and abundant energy that will make all of our concerns moot.
	Carl, you're making some really good points.
	It also suggests, given the limited range, that it might be good to have an electric car for local, but you need your gas engine for longer trips.
	It sounds to me that might be in the works.
	Meanwhile, here are six problems with electric cars nobody talks about.
	A favorite topic these days, almost everyone has announced plans to build and sell them.
	Some brands already have them on the market.
	While the electric vehicle is over a century old in concept, the modern electric car is far from it.
	The technology is in development as we speak.
	Unlike internal combustion engines, which have suppressed electrics back in the day because of deficient battery technology, there's a long way to go.
	Electric engines are smaller, more compact, more efficient than existing and even theoretical internal combustion engines, while the batteries are getting better and better.
	The problem today is people do not like waiting.
	It takes a while to charge an electric car, not to mention planning trips.
	People want electric cars today.
	They want them to be at least as great as conventional.
	To be fair, the requirements are entirely reasonable from someone who's asked to pay installments for a few years for an asset that might have a sharp depreciation curve.
	In other words, Unless automakers commit to updating existing electric vehicles they've sold, even EVs found on the market today will be obsolete in less than 10 years.
	That will far exceed the obsolescence of conventional, because the batteries should become exquisite in 2029, while charging times should also be dramatically reduced.
	The resale of such an automobile could become a significant burden for those who own them.
	If anyone wants to buy a 10-year-old electric vehicle, imagine buying a Palm Trejo phone from 2006.
	Go ahead and Google that, which was considered a smart phone at the time.
	It'll probably be awful.
	Battery life will be disastrous if the original unit is used and features and functionality are unimproved since 2006, thus obsolete like an 8-track system in the year 2000.
	Considering their avid advancement, we decided to look from the bright side to think about the worst parts.
	We agree.
	A vehicle that brings no tailpipe emissions is good for the environment, but here we focus on other aspects.
	The hidden and unadvertised bits.
	Manufacturing on multiple continents.
	Complicated shipping requirements.
	Most conventional cars are built with parts sourced close to the factories.
	Many automakers open facilities in other continents to cater to the needs of different markets at lower cost.
	It was, and still is, cheaper to build cars on one continent and sell them exclusively than to use a single facility.
	The situation changes only for exclusive brands, which do not care much about final costs.
	When the first hybrids came, they were criticized for using NIMH batteries.
	Those used metals sourced from mines found in isolated parts of the world.
	The rare substances had to be shipped across the world to be turned into batteries.
	Things have not changed dramatically for electric vehicles, except that automakers have begun making batteries in-house.
	That doesn't mean the shipping chain doesn't lead back to the country far away, and that expensive metals have to be transferred great distances to build batteries for electric cars.
	That is the first.
	Lithium and other rare metals, where do they come from?
	At what cost?
	Electric vehicles need precious metals.
	These lithium batteries rely on technology.
	The most expensive part is called lithium, getting more expensive day by day.
	According to the 2015 Geological Survey, Australia is the world's biggest supplier of lithium, followed by Chile, Argentina, China, and Zimbabwe.
	I would mention, I believe we were in Afghanistan because it has One of the largest lithium deposits in the world, only rivaled by one in Bolivia.
	Like oil, lithium is a finite resource.
	Well, it's not actually like oil, because oil appears to be an unlimited resource, manufactured by the Earth itself, unlike our false belief in fossil fuels, becoming more expensive because of the demands made by automakers.
	Until something better comes along, lithium could become extremely costly.
	The problem with electric cars, lithium is not the only rare metal, by the way.
	Other rare earth metals include dysprosium, lanthanum, neodymium, and pericydium.
	For exemplification, the electric motor needs these and a touch of.
	The old batteries required lanthanum, but the new ones still need some of the rare minerals.
	And the third point, battery recycling.
	The first Prius is almost 20 years old.
	I have a friend who owns one.
	His batteries have not been in service that long.
	They must have been replaced.
	If the advent of electric cars will follow the predictions, we'll have a lot of lithium-ion batteries to recycle in 2024.
	The year 2024 is no typo, because it comes 20 years after the predicted boom of electric vehicles, expected to happen by 2025.
	While lithium-ion batteries can be recycled, and so can the others, we do not have a massive market for those that recycle lithium-based batteries.
	A few companies exist, nobody has stepped out and said, we can take care of them.
	There's a problem here, in other words, of disposing of the batteries.
	Toyota has a collection problem for its own batteries involving giving a new life for the units that used to sit in Prius.
	The cycle can still be improved.
	Here's another.
	Goodbye easy fixes and jumpstart.
	This I think is quite striking.
	Electric vehicles will not bring any of these fixes for their owners except for a flat tire or burnt out light bulb.
	Your days are over.
	People don't work on modern cars because they've become too complicated, but offering someone a jipped start will not happen with electric vehicles.
	This means those vehicles will have to be more reliable than conventional.
	What happens with an unlucky owner who's out of warranty and has a significant powertrain malfunction, with conventional cars saying it can be fixed in most workshops at reasonable rates?
	However, no self-governing service unit knows how to fix electric motors of automated grade.
	Most do not have the tools.
	So instead of guiding your car fix, they'll politely send you off to the dealer.
	You may decide to blow it up instead.
	No adventures into remote areas for you either.
	That's another problem.
	Remember the Land Rover Camel Trophy.
	The picture and footage of those adventures have brought profound respect for the brand for many people.
	The Land Rovers could have everything that was thrown at them, and Big Jerry can solve the problem of fuel.
	Some people have managed to drive electric vehicles from one point to another, embarking on thrilling adventures none of the trips has targeted remote areas.
	We don't expect that to happen anytime soon.
	In other words, electric cars won't bring you the complete death of the conventional, not in remote areas, possibly not where the climate is unfriendly.
	The same applies to hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles.
	Another point.
	Renewable electricity and hydrogen, please.
	Roses are wonderful, but they have thorns.
	They can be removed, but you must be careful.
	The same goes for electric cars and even hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
	No tailpipe emissions from those two categories, but electric power usually comes from non-renewable sources.
	Governments are now focusing on obtaining green energy, but progress is slow.
	If you live in a house instead of an apartment building, you can get solar panels.
	An electric vehicle could be charged from them, but they're not cheap, and those needed to power cars are not on the low side of the price scale.
	You may think hydrogen is the best way forward.
	Well, not exactly.
	Large-scale manufacturing of hydrogen extracts the gas from methane, generating carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.
	A tad ironic, right?
	Fortunately, both of these problems have theoretical fixes, but they need a significant volume of potential customers to be implemented, along with government subsidies and support.
	Joe, your thoughts?
	Electric vehicles, are they the future?
	Like I mentioned earlier, one of the things they used to stabilize lithium batteries, which were flaming everywhere, laptops and Teslas all over the planet, is to put in cobalt, which is an extremely rare mineral, which is also, you know, another limiting factor on the expansion of the electric car market, in addition to all the other problems we've mentioned.
	The real problem with electricity And a storage battery like that is that you have energy density, and the average Tesla, I think, weighs about 4,400 pounds, and half of that weight is the battery weight.
	Okay, well, when you take your car into the filling station, and you put 20 gallons of gasoline in, you put in at six pounds per gallon, you put in 120 pounds, and it took you 10 minutes.
	Well, if you've got a 2200 pound battery and you have to recharge it and it takes you 30 minutes or an hour to be able to go the same 400 miles that you could do in less than 10 minutes.
	How are you going to do your cross-country traveling?
	And that's even if you can find a charging station with the proper electrical plug-in because there's no standardization on those and Teslas are different than most of the other manufacturers.
	So The whole thing is just the most half-baked, forced option that the elitists want us to have, because there again, you got something that's easy for them to control.
	Every one of those Teslas has a tracking device on it, and it can be shut down instantly.
	The same thing as the OnStar garbage with GM.
	Do not get that kind of technology.
	You don't need it.
	It sounds like it creates more problems than it solves.
	Carl, your thoughts?
	Yeah, again, the biggest observation that I have for this is that we're in a hopeless condition where we're controlled by parasites that are adamantly opposed to any real technological breakthrough that would free humanity.
	So we're left scrambling with what we can discern in this fog of a different type of war.
	One of the points is that I think it's helpful to bring up Both with cars and with everything, is that the masters of this planet, the evil that has captured humanity, doesn't have a really good long-term vision for sustainable life on this planet, including the problem of recycling old things.
	Cars, whatever.
	If we were really, if we were in charge, the good people with the good ideas coming to the front, then we would have a whole game plan set up of, well, what do you do over the lifetime of this project for the greatest sustainability for resources and the beauty of the planet?
	But we don't have that.
	And again, we're talking about what we're really interested in for A transportation vehicle or the whole spectrum of transportation in the biggest view of transportation.
	I'm most excited by the evacuated tube transport technology, which is you just have like.
	Like the BART trains here in the Bay Area.
	But that's in a tube, but you suck the air out of the tube, which eliminates all of the air resistance, which means with just the force of one finger, you can move that car along.
	You have magnets facing at the opposite polarities, so that you have this floating car in a tube, and those tests have shown up to 3,000 miles an hour.
	And I would suggest we already have that technology in the deep underground military bases.
	Anti-gravity technology should be coming up, and then that'll be a whole other interesting application for what we can do.
	But none of this is going to happen unless the human beings grow up enough to demand the arrest of the current evil leaders on the planet.
	Once we do that, and the release of this hidden suppressed technologies, then it'll be really exciting on this planet.
	Joe, your thoughts about what Carl's talking about here?
	And I just think this whole Green New Deal has been misconceived, poorly thought out, not well planned.
	It would be a catastrophe for planet Earth.
	Tell me your thoughts.
	Well, it's one thing to make a evacuated tube on a small scale, but to get one where you have doors that open and close, and people can get in and out, and you can seal against the side of the tube, and the tube doesn't collapse when you suck the air out of it, the whole thing just becomes so preposterous that that's not the proper way of solving the problem.
	So, you know, I don't see that as being some giant technological godsend.
	But other than that, MAGLEVs definitely work and that's where you use the reverse polarity like he's talking about to lift the things off the track so you don't actually have wheels that are touching.
	And MAGLEV trains over at China are going 150 miles an hour on a daily basis.
	So that's a proven technology that we have no operating systems like that in the United States at all.
	They've also got them in Japan.
	Well, trying to do away with gasoline engines on the ground that CO2 is pollutant is simply absurd, scientifically illiterate, economically catastrophic.
	Meanwhile, we want to hear from you.
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	Here's a letter from Patty passing about Rockefeller Center, how things stand in Midtown Manhattan.
	Yesterday, I went to Saks Fifth Avenue to exchange a gift.
	The store and Rockefeller Center area were moderately busy.
	Normally, this area is mobbed during the holiday season.
	Anyone coming from the suburbs or outtown will be greeted by the most lush, huge pine tree.
	Larger and fuller than any of recent memory is already reported.
	The dormant at Olympic Tower opposite St.
	Patrick's unleashes frustrations about the area he loves so well.
	He said, I'm disgusted with the mandates, the masks, forced vaccinations, and the crazy behavior from people who go along with everything.
	As you can see, I'm outside and I have my mask pulled down.
	But look all around you, you see people walking around, going from this building with their mask pulled up.
	That makes no sense.
	They're outside!
	The doorman raved on.
	I've seen all kinds of insanity and fear because of the pandemic and mandates.
	There's a Japanese young guy who lives here.
	I've barely seen him in two years.
	When he goes out, he won't touch anything.
	He's always masked up.
	The other day, I saw a woman by herself in her own car driving with the windows up and masked.
	You can't get any crazier than that.
	He continued, my daughter, who's 27 years old and works around here, was just forced to get a booster.
	They would have fired her.
	It really upset me, but there was nothing she could do.
	I told him to have her read the day's Dr. Mercola article about supplements to take after being vaccinated.
	He let loose about Biden and the expression demented puppet.
	Then he let off steam about de Blasio, the worst mayor in New York City history.
	I said, more corruption, more corrupt than any.
	What about the billion dollars for his wife's charity?
	No one knows where it went.
	He went on.
	His mandates have ruined the city.
	Walking around here, there are so many stores that have closed and they won't be coming back.
	I added, they closed Prime Burger, the locals' favorite down the block and still empty years ago.
	Never put anything in there either.
	He continued, that was terrible.
	Such a great place.
	We had more people a couple of weeks ago in this area.
	Then they announced more restrictions with Omicron and that made people afraid.
	So they're staying home now.
	The doorman had to get a package for a resident, so I looked next door at the remodeled Olympic Tower public area.
	It was a great space with replicas of the Elgin marbles that were excellent plaster cast models.
	Gone!
	And the space is sterile looking like a factory interior with harsh lighting.
	The doorman thought there's a chance Eric Adams will be better for the city.
	I agree.
	At least he's nicer.
	Meanwhile, here we have this year's tree at Rockefeller Center before the lighting ceremony.
	But even what should be the greatest nation on earth is turning into catastrophe.
	Meanwhile, if you want to check out false flags and conspiracies, go to December 11th and 12th on my blog, jamesfetcher.org.
	Check it out.
	24 presentations right there at your fingertips.
	Meanwhile, remember, 1% control the world, 4% are their pappas, 90% are asleep, 5% know and try to wake the 90%, but 1% is a 4% to prevent the 5% from waking up the 90%.
	Meanwhile, final thoughts.
	a 1% is a 4% to prevent the 5% from waking up the 90%.
	Meanwhile, final thoughts, Joe.
	Yes, well, tomorrow Jim and I are gonna be discussing the global warming thing that you may have mentioned
	up earlier, which is another one of the legs of this.
	...totalitarian regime.
	I've got several colleagues that we're going to be talking about their papers.
	One of them is Dr. Pierre Latour, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Four Known Ways Carbon Dioxide Cools Earth's Climate.
	And another one is Dr. Arthur Batturo from the University of Maryland, who's got interesting information on the thermal hayline system on the Atlantic Merdonal overturning circulation, which is actually what is melting all the Arctic sea ice, and it melts it due to changes in volcanism, so we'll be discussing that, and then also because of the changes in the salinity, and what happens is when you melt off the Arctic ice cap, you get 10% that was
	...absorbed by the ice and the water underneath it in 90% reflection, and once you melt the ice off, then you get a 94% absorption in the Arctic sea ice, but it has absolutely nothing to do with CO2, which is, remember kids, only one out of 10,000 parts in the atmosphere, and humans is only 12...
	0.12% of that 110,000.
	That's how ridiculously stupid that is.
	To succeed the pandemic scam, we have the climate change scam coming right behind it.
	Carl, your final thoughts?
	Well, with that doorman talking about jobs not coming back, yeah, that's true.
	This is the end of an era, one way or another, and we're working to have it be a truthful end of the corrupt era.
	So that conversation with the doorman is just the admission that we're looking at corrupt leaders, corrupt mayors, governors, presidents, but we still have this emperor's new clothes condition that we need to have people Breakthrough to the next level that if they're corrupt, they need to be arrested.
	This is criminal behavior.
	And if you go to any of these shows on my blogspot and look at the context section, I provide abundant documentation that the quantification of the crimes of these so-called leaders, these Orwellian leaders, is annually killing millions, harming billions, and looting trillions.
	But there's nothing we can do on this side of the Emperor's New Clothes moment except continue to go ahead and point and ask people to look up and use their own eyes.
	I do encourage our audience members to be responsible for at least one area of life that is important to you and I would recommend three where you are prepared to be able to deliver to people Enough to be able to explain, document, and prove the crimes that do demand the arrests for these people, and the possibility of what we can build once we get these parasites off of the human condition.
	We can have a literal Star Trek future, and that is very promising.
	If we don't do that, then we're just going to be pulled down into the muck of These parasites who want to cull and control us as a personalized slave-like race to them.
	Well, my special thanks to Joe Olson from Houston and Carl Herman from San Ramon, California.
	I'm becoming increasingly angry with Donald Trump for allowing all this to happen.
	He let himself be played.
	The Neil Ferguson model of us predicting over 2 million American deaths was a fantasy.
	500,000 Brits.
	He allowed Tony the Rat Fauci to manipulate him to lock down the nation.
	We should have just Gritted our teeth, lived it through.
	You don't quarantine healthy people, you quarantine the sick!
	And as we know, this is a virus so lethal, you have to be tested to know you have it.
	The situation is absurd, and I'm very, very sorry to say, very stressed out, that Donald Trump appears to have been the linchpin in destroying the American economy.
	I have wanted to give him every benefit of the doubt, every break in the book.
	When you look at the catastrophe that's befallen the United States, the dormant conversation only being a tiny glimpse at the effects, the jobs that aren't coming back, the stores that are closed forever, you begin to appreciate the full dimensions of what has befallen the United States.
	It's tragic.
	And I'm very sorry to say Trump appears to be a prime mover with responsibility galore for what's happened to the United States.
	I want to thank you all.
	Hope you'll have a wonderful weekend.
	There's lots of football to be played, including Wisconsin tonight with Arizona State, where I'm predicting 35 to 14 Badgers go.

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