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Need to Know News (6 March 2023) with Carl Herman
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This is Jim Fetzer in Madison, Wisconsin, joined today, I'm delighted to say, by Carl Herman in San Ramon, California.
Chris Weinert, unavailable due to a conflict today.
We are glad to begin with Reports about what's happening, Marjorie Taylor Greene calling out Zelensky for suggesting that American sons and daughters should be sent to fight the war in Ukraine.
She firmly asserted Zelensky should keep his hands off our sons and daughters.
Listen to this.
Here he is.
How ridiculous is that?
is.
The U.S. will have to send their sons and daughters exactly the same way as we are sending their sons and daughters to war, and they will have to fight because it's nature that we're talking about, and they will be dying, God forbid, because it's a horrible thing. and they will be dying, God forbid, because it's a How ridiculous is that?
At CPAC, Marjorie Taylor Greene made a lot of waves.
Gee, the U.S. is...
is never going to give up on the NATO member states, according to Zelensky.
If it happens that Ukraine, due to various opinions and weakening, loses, Russia's going to enter the Baltic states, NATO member states, then the U.S.
will have to send their sons and daughters, exactly the same way we're sending their sons and daughters to war, and they will have to fight.
This is clearly Zelensky's domino theory for Ukraine.
Completely ridiculous.
The blurable for Trump 2024 tweets.
No money to Ukraine and that country needs to find peace, not war.
And while I will look at a camera and directly tell Zelensky you better leave your hands and off our sons and daughters, liberals lashed out to attack her.
Foreign Policy Fools tweeted DailyGhost contributor Aldo Penny Farthington.
CCAP attendees acted like trained SEALs.
I imagine MTG Green tossed some fish after his pro-Putin statement.
How insulting is that?
Democrat strategist Greg Piniello added.
Putin will do everything he can to help Republicans steal the 2024 election.
His agents are in place.
He's spreading misinformation, referring to the disproven conspiracy theory that Trump collided with Russia to steal 2016.
Indeed, we know the Democrats stole 2020.
There's no doubt about it.
Meanwhile, Green observed it's going to force Congress to give the American people an audit according to a new bill she's introducing—exactly what the American people need in order to Ukraine, because we have no idea where all this money is going.
The only border they, the Democrats, care about is Ukraine, not America's southern border.
Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine.
Our country comes first.
They don't care about our border or our people.
Carl, your thoughts?
Well, that's a nice start, and I like it.
The answer to no, hell no, take our hands off our children is a good start, but I would prefer seeing... they're treating it as if it's a legitimate question, and it's not a legitimate question because, beginning in 2014, The Ukraine, with the US, UK, and NATO's blessings, began artillery bombing of the independent-leaning Donbass, killing 14,000 people, and that's what prompted the military invasion by Russia.
The US, the UK, and NATO, and, you know, I can hardly count Zelensky because he's a puppet, rejected the peace terms that would have stopped all this nonsense immediately, and that was Just two terms.
Independence for the Donbass.
Oh yeah, that's what the West always says that they want.
It's freedom!
Freedom!
Democracy!
Except when it interferes with your empire.
And the second term was no NATO for Ukraine, which has been promised from the beginning, but because our leaders are psychopaths and the media is a necessary co-conspirator, For these wars of aggression and crimes against humanity, they're never going to remind the American public.
If the people knew the truth, then these people would be arrested appropriately for illegal wars of aggression, war crimes within those wars and crimes against humanity.
Now that Greg P guy saying that Congresswoman Greene is a Russian agent, she should sue him.
He doesn't have any proof for that.
He's just throwing shit against the wall.
And as for an audit, oh yes, yes, yes, yes, an independent external audit is what we want.
Now, how the government gets around that is that they are required for auditing practices, except the Pentagon, they just ignore it and then they say that they failed the audit.
But we don't want an internal audit.
That's where the agency under audit says, Oh yeah.
We checked our books.
They all add up.
And then we gave our books to somebody else and it added up for them.
No, no, no.
You get an external audit.
Go in and tear the place apart and find out where every fucking dime went.
Very good.
Very good, Carl.
I do agree.
Meanwhile, Blinken lied about an exchange with Lavrov.
U.S.
Secretary of State lied when he claimed he discussed a jailed American citizen during a brief exchange with Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister of Moscow, has insisted.
Blinken revealed he and Lavrov broke briefly on the sidelines at the G20 in India, claiming he raised a wrongful detention of Paul Whelan, a former Marine serving a 16-year term in Russia, for espionage.
Maria Zavarova, however, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, asserted that that was false, that the American counterpart had not brought up Whelan's case.
Zakharova describing Blinken's statement as lies, an example of the astounding behavior of the U.S.
government.
I think she's got it right.
Cleveland, a Canadian-born former Marine, was sentenced to a 16-year term.
He appears to have been caught in the act of spying.
The Biden admin has called on Russia to release him.
The proposal to which Blinken referred matches previous proposals of Washington and Moscow that have gone nowhere.
U.S.
officials try to include Whelan in a prisoner exchange, but instead settle for Brittany Griner, in return for which they release Victor Bout, a major arms dealer from Russia.
Meanwhile, the European Union is belatedly acknowledging it needs to shift to a wartime economy, the problem being that the war is already over.
Russia won.
European Union Industry Chief has said they have to shift to a wartime economic model to meet Kiev's battlefield needs.
But there's not a chance.
Commissioner for Internal Marketing Thierry Bredin discussed plans to bolster arms and ammo to Ukraine, where the EU has previously admitted it cannot keep up with the rate at which Kiev is expending ammunition.
I believe it's time for the European defense industry to move to a wartime model to cater to our defense reduction needs.
We need to ramp up the European defense industry to face the realities of a high-intensity conflict, starting with the question of ammunition.
The unnamed diplomats voice their doubts.
How are we going to pay for this?
Effort to speed delivery and replenish Europe's own domestic stocks of munitions came after the Ukrainian Defense Minister raised pleas for 250,000 artillery shells a month, vastly outpacing any existing EU plan.
In a letter to European defense chiefs, he spoke of the crucial role played by the artillery Claiming Ukrainian troops burn through 110,000 155mm artillery shells every few weeks.
Ukrainian troops are limited by the amount of available military shells.
Need at least 356,400 rounds a month to execute their task.
4,400 rounds a month to execute their task, a whopping 594,000 shells monthly for full capability.
With costs soaring amid growing shortages, 155 millimeter shells in Europe could run as much as 3,300 euros for a single round.
Based on that estimate, the Ammos up by Kiev could cost in excess of €825 million for a single month.
It's hard to trace how many shells Ukraine's been getting, but over the past year the U.S.
alone has provided over a million 155mm artillery rounds.
Carl.
Your thoughts.
So Blinken is the U.S.
Secretary of State and the Secretary of State's office is all foreign affairs.
And that's head up by a person, very powerful political ambitions, usually think Hillary Clinton.
And I like that story that Blinken was busted for lying, virtue signaling, if any of that is true.
And instead, the attention is, again, drawn to the choice to free a transgender basketball player who was busted for two cannabis vape cartridges while attempting to compete, playing basketball in Russia where that is illegal.
Now, the whole illegality of cannabis, I'm going to put a link in the show notes, of the best single paper that I have found and that I contributed to students for close to 20 years in, And that's USC law professor Charles Whitebread's paper on the history.
There isn't any evidence that has ever been submitted to any legislative body, state or federal, that cannabis is harmful.
In any circumstances there have been no documentation before any of the votes criminalizing cannabis and that was a paper to the California judges conference and I do recommend it white bread was a master storyteller.
Oh, the people there, they need to withdraw their consent and demand arrest just like everywhere else because this is an illegitimate government and the place or a place to stand for doing so is the Prima Fascia case.
Prima Fascia again is a very powerful term in Latin.
Goes back to the rules of law, and it means on its face what we're looking at is a lie-started, illegal war of aggression based upon, as I said, for eight years the artillery shelling of the Donbass, merely asking for their independence.
Now, one may ask, well, isn't the UN supposed to be on?
They're captured too, and I'll put another link into my one published paper from the Claremont Colleges that requested me to walk people through that, not because I have anything more than the four International Attorneys books that I read to create this paper, but because my voice is kind of aimed for a teenager's understanding for this.
And a billion dollars a month for the artillery shells, huh?
Well, okay.
That points to the question that we need to have an audit, but in the current membership of Congress, we, again, we're just chatting here about the house burning down, but we do need some kind of a breakthrough.
We do need friends from high places to somehow bust things open.
Otherwise, this slow walk to World War III and then a fast dematerialization under nuclear weapons is what we're looking at.
I think you got it right, Carl.
Not a happy prospect.
Meanwhile, we're given chaotic retreat of Ukrainian forces from Bakhut, bridges blown up, dozens dead, captured, trapped.
This, in my opinion, is a pivotal battle of the war and Ukraine lost.
The retreat from Bakhmut is chaotic.
It wasn't a dead, wounded, captured trap.
The Ukrainians have blown up three bridges to buy time.
A railroad bridge was blown up in the northeast.
A car crossing northwest of Bakhmut was also destroyed.
A bridge connecting the eastern part of the city center was also taken out.
The entrance to the city is closed.
The city of Bakhmut is essentially surrounded.
A founder of the Russian mercenary organization Wagner said in a video that Ukrainian forces only have access to one road leading out of the city, which would have allowed for them to escape.
If before we were faced with a professional Ukrainian army which was fighting against us, today we see more and more elderly people and children.
They fight, but their life in Bakhmut is short, one or two days.
Indeed, I've seen estimates for our lifespan on the front line.
Wagner practically encircled Bakhmut, one load itself left open, previously fighting the AFU Army today more and more older and kids.
Commanders have received orders from Kiev to leave their positions to retreat.
Today, March 2nd, during the night, our unit was ordered to immediately leave Baku and move to a new site of conflict.
It's pointed out in recent days, many Ukrainian officials have argued the Ukrainian army will not defend Bakhmut, a symbol of the Ukrainian resistance in Donetsk, at any cost.
According to military correspondents on the scene, Wagner PMC forces have approached the last road, which is under control.
The raiding parties are already fighting at the center of the city.
The binzers are shrinking from the north, the south, and the east.
By the end of the week, it became clear the encirclement of the sea was inevitable.
Ukrainian forces are being squeezed from the north, the south, and the east.
Engineered units for the 24th and 93rd Mechanized Brigades began blowing up bridges.
By destroying railway and road bridges, they wanted to slow the advance of the Russian forces.
Another reason was fear on the Ukrainian side that the arsenals of several large formations of the armed forces of Ukraine would fall into the hands of the Russians.
Here we have some visuals blowing up the bridges.
Here's another across the canal.
Meanwhile, to escape from the city, the AFU had one road left.
The assault group from the Wagner continued to attack in all directions from the north.
Moving forward.
Carl.
Blown up bridges, huh?
Well, to paraphrase Tacitus, who attempted to alert his good citizens for the parasitic psychopathy of their government, formerly known as virtuous, they left a desert and they call it peace.
Well, let's see if there's anything more that I really need to say, except, you know, this is getting down to the endgame and it keeps Zelensky said he was going to defend Baku at all costs, but he's obviously reversed himself, and in my judgment, the war is lost.
it may descend into a chaos or the false flag attempt for a nuclear exchange.
Zelensky said he was going to defend Bakut at all costs, but he's obviously reversed himself.
And in my judgment, the war is lost.
Meanwhile, Weinstein and Vetterman has finalization may spell trouble for the Democrats. .
Senate Democrats have slack room for error after Senator Feinstein announced hospitalized for shingles in Vetterman's ongoing treatment for clinical depression.
Thursday, Feinstein, 89, was hospitalized with the virus and won't return until later this month, while Vetterman, 53, Hospitalize a Walter Reed to treat clinical depression.
Two other senators were missing votes this week.
Jeff Merkel of Oregon and Mike Crispo from Indiana.
Merkley said he's in Oregon to deal with family matters, while Crapo reportedly is suffering from illness.
Because of those absences, the Senate is deadlocked at 48-48, with Kamala Harris vice president casting the breaking votes.
With no timetable for either Fetterman or Weinstein's return, some analysts say the Democrats could have problems.
The Senate voted this week 49-48 in favor of one of Biden's judicial picks, Margaret Guzman, and then 49-48 to confirm Mauricio Martinez-Zorguen as a federal judge.
Slim majorities are always challenging, but especially in today's Senate.
Said Sarah Binder, a political science professor at George Washington University.
There are not many legislative measures on tab in the Senate, but Democrats will feel the pinch of a tied Senate whenever they try to confirm a controversial nominee.
In an interview, strategist Doug Heiss said, The danger of having such a small majority is one or two illnesses can bring things to a halt.
The White House has been aggressive and effective on judicial nominees, but that's all on hold for now.
Feinstein, who is the oldest member of the Senate, confirmed, I was diagnosed over February with a case of shingles.
I've been hospitalized and receiving treatment in San Francisco.
Last month, a longtime Democrat confirmed she would not be seeking re-election for the seat she's held since the 1990s.
Several Democrats, including Adam Schiff and Katie Porter, have announced their bids for her seat.
As for Federman, the timeline for return is even less clear.
Days before his hospitalization, he sought medical attention after feeling lightheaded, just months after suffering a stroke.
Monday, a spokesman issued a statement saying he's on a path to recovery.
We don't have a lot of update, folks, but since there's no real news except John is doing well, working with the wonderful doctors, remains on a path to recovery.
We understand the intense interest in John's status and appreciate the flood of well wishes.
Before his latest stay in the hospital, Vetterman voted in the Senate to confirm three judicial nominees.
But, clearly, all that is on hold.
Carl, your thoughts?
Well, it's kind of a tragicomic process to affirm judges, because what?
What are you going to do?
Are you going to get more judges like the ones who refuse to hear any cases for the election fraud of 2020 and 2022, finding bullshit reasons to throw all those cases out of court?
You want to get a judge like the ones who have presided over Jim's trials for Jim, correctly and accurately pointing out that among a hundred or so game-ending facts regarding Sandy Hook, one of the death certificates, and I say one because there were like four of them out there, provided by one of the fathers of one of the alleged child victims of Sandy Hook was inauthentic.
It failed to meet the definition of a death certificate, and that judge just allowed that case to roll over.
And if Jim would have to pay, then that would be a sharp hit on anybody questioning the official narrative, no matter what strength of evidence that you have.
So for Feinstein and Fetterman, I like the attention drawn to Fetterman, as always, of how that guy could have won an election.
It's But this is just more intrigue within the stories, and we'll see what develops with what they may try to do in the Senate in the meantime.
Carl, again, I think you're on it.
Meanwhile, we'll be right back.
Check this out.
Colonel McGregor, I know we don't directly have U.S.
military boots on the ground yet.
And Ukraine is essentially leaning heavily on U.S.
military intel.
But is Zelensky a good wartime leader?
Meaning, does he have good generals and colonels around him?
Or is he just a former sitcom actor relying heavily on the United States and NATO?
Well, I think the last point is accurate, but he was recruited by this oligarch Kolomoisky, who is also the man that has funded these neo-Nazi units that have been guilty of terrible crimes against captured Russian troops and civilians and are still committing crimes every day in Ukraine, threatening and murdering people that do not or will not support Zelensky and his regime.
Zelensky himself was picked because he was an actor and he's done a brilliant job of acting.
Is there any depth of understanding?
Of course not.
Now, whether or not his officers are any good, that's very much open to dispute.
After all, most of these people, when they were finally selected, they spent a lot of time being trained and educated by us.
You know, one of the things that worried me from the very beginning was this light infantry-centric mentality in the U.S.
and British armies.
And the reason I worried about it was that I was afraid that tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers would be lost in urban areas.
Because the Russians aren't fools, in most cases they're not going to bother digging people out of these areas.
They'll simply laid siege to them, which is exactly what happened in a place like Mariupol.
And thousands of good Ukrainian troops were lost because they were simply captured, ultimately, or slowly ground into bits.
But I think there was a lot of bad thinking and bad tactical advice.
And under the circumstances, I think the Ukrainians did the best job that they could.
But the point is, I don't think we can really evaluate it in great detail because it's always a mix.
You're always going to have some people at the top who are good and some who are not.
And right now, the people that are retained and being trusted by Zelensky are the yes men, the people who unconditionally do whatever he tells them to do.
And remember, he's got this neo-Nazi force inside the country, ensuring that people obey his orders.
Now, as far as the manpower goes, The NATO military manpower has increased dramatically.
We have good sources that suggest there are at least 20,000 Polish soldiers in Ukrainian uniform, and the Russians listen to Polish spoken on the radios and in combat all the time.
You have to add to those some unknown number of mercenaries, many of whom are former U.S.
soldiers, and then you have people that are there as quote-unquote contractors.
You know, this is an Austrian colonel pointed out in an interview quite recently.
I think his name is Liesner, something like that.
He said, if I take my uniform off tomorrow and I put on the Ukrainian uniform, then I'm no longer a member of NATO and serving in the Austrian army.
I'm fighting for Ukraine.
Well, good luck with that, because if he's captured by the Russians, they can execute him.
He has no protection under the Geneva Convention.
None of these foreigners in Ukrainian uniform or nondescript uniform will be safe.
Then we have lots of people on the ground that are operating, as you point out, as extensions of our intelligence surveillance reconnaissance community.
The Ukrainians have the benefit of some of the best information and intelligence in the world that we transmit immediately.
The problem for the Ukrainians is they can't always act on it.
Thank you for that.
Carl, let me say, I think that what's fascinating is in spite of all the assistance NATO has provided, in spite of all the buildups in 2014 under the cover of the Minsk Agreement, Russia has still handily defeated Ukraine.
I think there's just no room for doubt about it.
Your further thoughts?
Yeah, well, first I'd like to clarify that not only is Zelensky a former sitcom actor, but a former playing piano with his penis actor who has also been authorized and has outlawed any oppositional media in Ukraine.
And any oppositional political voices, let alone a political candidate.
So this is a dictatorial government.
And the people of Ukraine know this.
They feel this.
They're not motivated to fight.
They're motivated to retreat.
And the people in the east, in the Donbass, who has suffered 14,000 deaths via the US, UK, and NATO artillery bombardment for eight years, they are highly motivated To remove the Ukrainian government.
And there may be more going on behind the scenes.
This is the fog of war, and about the only thing that you can be sure of is that the information that we have is going to be tainted.
I like Colonel McGregor.
Kind of reminds me of Gore Vidal.
Very well spoken, very level-headed, and it seems as if whatever it is that's going on I think you got it exactly right, Carl, exactly right.
to be terminated for this aspect of this conflict.
Whatever is real, whatever is a show, it looks like the Russian forces are going to declare victory over major areas of land, and it wouldn't surprise me if the Ukrainian military would entirely collapse.
I think you got it exactly right, Carl, exactly right.
Meanwhile, what's the real reason the EPA isn't willing to test for toxins in East Palestine?
This comes from the Daily Kos, the reader-supported news, which is a left-wing, but is making some good points.
The agency is familiar with dioxins, having researched its adverse effects, and if they test the stoil in East Palestine, they will find it.
The decision to release and burn five tanker cars of vinyl chloride and other chemicals at a 38-car derailment in Ohio unleashed a gigantic cloud full of particulates enveloping surrounding neighborhoods and farms.
It's well-documented burning chlorinated chemicals Like vinyl chloride will generate dioxin, a name given to a group of persistent and very toxic chemicals sharing a common chemical structure.
They are commonly found as contaminates in Agent Orange and at Love Canal, Time Beach, Missouri as well, sites of tragic environmental catastrophes in U.S.
history.
Dioxin is not deliberately manufactured, but is the unintended byproduct of industrial processes that use or burn chlorine.
It's also produced when chemicals like vinyl chloride are burned, as occurred in East Palestine.
The organization for which I work, the Center for Health and Environmental Justice, has worked with communities affected by dioxin for over 40 years.
We've seen the impact in communities from Love Canal in Time Beach to Pensacola.
Now we ask, why isn't the EPA testing for dioxins in East Palestine?
Are dioxins present in the soil downwind from the site of the event?
At a town hall meeting, people talked about what it was like when the black cloud reached their property.
One who lived 15 miles away described ash material from the fire settling on her property another three miles away.
How the black cloud completely smothered his property.
They were asking, is it safe for my kids to play in the yard?
Is it safe to grow a garden?
What is going to happen to my farm animals?
These are important questions deserving to be answered.
But As of today, there are no clear answers.
Why?
Because no one's done any testing for dioxin anywhere in East Palestine.
No one.
It appears the EPA is uninterested in testing for dioxins, as though dioxins were no big deal.
This, however, makes no sense.
Testing for dioxin should have been one of the first things to conduct, especially in the era once the decision was made to burn the vinyl chloride.
There's no question dioxin were formed.
They would have formed in a particulate matter, the black soot in the cloud, clearly visible at the time of the burn.
The question now becomes How much is in the soil where people live in and around East Palestine?
Without testing, no one will know.
It's important because the adverse effects of sodium with exposure to dioxins.
It can cause cancer, reproductive damage, developmental problems, type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease, infertility in adults, impairment in the immune system, and skin lesions.
The EPA is very familiar with dioxins.
For more than 25 years, it evaluated and assessed the risks posed by exposure.
They published multiple reports on health effects caused by dioxins.
An inventory of dioxin sources.
Spent a lot of time studying dioxins.
So why is EPA unwilling to test for dioxins in the soil now?
My guess is because they know they will find it.
And if they find it, they'll have to address the many questions people are asking.
It will not be easy to interpret the results of testing for dioxin in soil, but who avoid testing is irresponsible.
EPA's mission is to protect human health and the environment.
Clearly, the situation in East Palestine is where the EPA should follow its mission and do right by the people who live there.
EPA must test the soil in East Palestine for dioxin.
Those who live there need to know, so they can make informed decisions about their future.
Carl, your thoughts?
Well, that's a nice article.
It's in the right direction.
It's kind of like Congresswoman Greene saying, no, we shouldn't send Americans.
And this guy is saying, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I wonder why they haven't tested.
That seems irresponsible.
No, it's criminal, pal.
It is criminal.
So you have Governor DeWine who ordered that those toxins be ignited.
And the claim was, oh, yeah, that's because it's going to help.
Well that's interesting.
How come this guy who claims to be a relative expert isn't pointing out the most important fact, which is all the documentation within the U.S.
and the global most authoritative agencies say, oh no, you never burn it.
Because that would be the opposite of what you, that would disperse the poison to the widest possible area.
You don't burn it, you contain it and then you remove it.
So Governor DeWine needs to be faced with those sharp questions for the documentation, for the reasoning.
What was the advice given to burn it?
Who gave that advice based upon what documentation?
And then how do you counter all that other documentation that has been collected forever Yeah, Carl, once again, I do 100% agree.
should be contained and removed.
That's the part that we need to get into.
We need to get into these conversations for criminality, and that's going to be here for elections, for COVID, for the war, etc., etc.
Yeah, Carl, once again, I do 100% agree.
Meanwhile, profiting off of death and suffering is the American way.
Surprise, surprise, what David Starr reminds us of where we've come from.
The arms industry and the U.F.
government have now practically merged.
The U.S.
imperial foreign policy has been evident since day one, but especially starting with the Gilded Age and the arrogant doctrine of Manifest Destiny of the mid-19th century, the imperial cause continues through the decades leading up to today.
And now the arms industry and the government have a reciprocal relationship.
Consequently, many members of Congress have grown rich off war and death.
The Russian-Ukraine conflict has presented the latest opportunity for profiteering.
The arms industry is making big bucks.
Policies fueling the conflict with the selling of an array of weaponry.
Politicians have bought stock in the industry before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Nothing like perfect timing.
Here, the author even attacks Marjorie Taylor Greene for investing in Lockheed Martin the day before the invasion.
The amount was small, between $1,000 and $1,000 and $15,000 compared to some investors, but Green could not resist.
She has opposed giving military aid to Ukraine.
So, by this token, she contradicted herself.
I do not believe it shows she has no sense of principles, however, nor that it was a cynical move on her part.
But she did write, for his weak business to our leaders.
Tragically, America's foreign policy over the last 20 years has been more for corporate profit than for America's security and our own national interest.
First, the U.S.
as an empire has made money off of war and military intervention worldwide for decades.
Second, It is not far-fetched to question her concern for U.S.
security and national interest when she probably sees this all as a justification to use the military for imperial debacles.
In February, she tweeted, Warren, rumors of war are profitable and convenient.
She's not the only politician who's invested in the arms industry by far.
As of 2020, 51 members of Congress and their spouses own between $2.3 and $5.8 million worth of stock in Boeing and other major defense contractors.
There are many with investments who are part of committees that decide funding for defense contractors and weapons procurement.
Subcommittees decide the allocation of funds.
The arms industry has given campaign funds to both Republicans and Democrats.
Open Secrets published a list of top contributors during 2021 and 2022.
Here are the top ten.
Totals to both parties.
Lockheed Martin, $3 million plus.
Colsicorp, $2.5 million roughly.
Northrop Grumman, Over 2 mil.
Raytheon, over 2 mil.
General Dynamics, over 2 mil.
General Atomic, approximately 2 mil.
L3Harris, less than 2 mil.
Enduro Industries, over a mil.
Lidos, over a mil.
Members of the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee are especially targeted Here are the amounts of campaign contributions going to both Democrats and Republicans on the committees.
Republicans, 5.6 plus mil.
Democrats, 4.4 plus mil.
Total, 10 plus mil.
Compared to other sectors, the arms industry gives less money, but it's among the most powerful and influential, interfering in politics.
The largest U.S.
company is Lockheed Martin in Bethesda, with annual revenues of $67 billion in 2021.
Lockheed's a major player in the arms industry.
It is called a global security and aerospace company.
The one could question its role in global security, considering the U.S.
foreign policy agenda.
As Jeffrey Sinclair has put it, Lockheed Martin stands almost alone.
It not only serves as an agent of U.S.
foreign policy for the Pentagon and the CIA, but also helps to shape it.
The reciprocal relationship between government and the arms industry has resulted in former Lockheed associates being part of government.
and former government officials being part of Lockheed.
Norman Mineta and Otto Reich, for example, were both previously employed by Lockheed as lobbyists.
On the reverse side, B.C.
Aldridge, Jr., former of the DoD, was on Lockheed's corporate board.
The U.S.
is the biggest arms dealer in the world.
It's held that top spot for 28 of the past 30 years, wrote William Hartung in Counterpunch.
It's bad for so many of the rest of us.
Wow, it's good news for Lockheed Martin, especially those who suffer from the use of those armed by militaries in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, the Philippines, and the UAE.
He also provided the example of the substantial aid the U.S.
gives to Israel, such that the Israeli military relies on U.S.
planes, bombs, and missiles.
Washington's support goes back for decades.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has also got into the military trough.
During the Obama admin, Saudi Arabia received $115 billion in arms offers.
But after it leaded to Saudi strikes on civilian targets in Yemen, Obama foreign policy officials had doubts about supporting the Saudi coalition's war.
In June of 2018, the ACLU revealed that Trump planned to have the U.S.
withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Jamil Dakwar, Director of its Human Rights Program claimed Trump is leading a concerted aggressive effort to violate basic human rights of those who are most in need of protection, while at the same time undermining the legitimacy of international bodies in charge of holding governments accountable.
According to the author, Trump did not care about violating human rights, but wanted to make sweet deals with countries instead.
Private contractors have tried to prop up a better image of themselves, doing television ads to show they produce high-tech weapons to provide security.
Are they working for the public?
Of course not.
The company exists only to enrich its owners and to appease its backers in the DoD.
Lockheed Martin does not serve the working class.
It is, in fact, our enemy.
In the capitalist system, a corporation like Lockheed made profits by building bombs and technology, using imperialist wars to kill workers abroad.
This is all in service of its bottom-line profits.
So, it can be accurately said, the U.S.
stands as a supreme terrorist power in accord with the Nuremberg Principle for having produced both conventional and unconventional weapons of mass destruction and using them for blackmail, Military blockade and wars of aggression in ways similar to or even surpassing those used in Hitlerite Germany.
Sounds too far-fetched?
Explore the topic and reveal inconvenient truths.
Carl.
Well, for the arms.
The arms, the weapons, of course, they're necessary because the United States is not a limited government Operating under a constitutional republic and then honoring inalienable rights as a just retired AP U.S.
government teacher.
The most accurate description of the U.S.
government is a lying, looting, illegal, rogue state empire and I wrote a document series on that.
I'll provide the link.
In the show notes, and we can quantify the damages that the U.S.
has had of this global gangster empire.
They annually kill millions, harm billions, and loot trillions.
And just since World War II, the U.S.
has had over 200 military interventions that have killed over 30 million worldwide.
This is gangster empire.
The rest of the world knows it.
When you poll the rest of the world, who's the most dangerous nation in the U.S., wins those polls by more than two to one over the next one.
Now for the Pentagon, you know, they admit they failed their audits.
They admit that they lost tens of trillions of dollars, which means they say, oh yeah, we received the money.
We don't have it now.
But we don't know where it went.
That's why you need to have an external audit for these people.
And then you got to remember on 9-11, it was the budget analyst's offices that were hit, killing the people who were in charge of trying to find out what happened to the money.
So that's a message on a different light of don't ask, don't tell about the money.
Now, the money in elections.
You gotta get rid of that, of course.
You know, people virtue signal about that, but Congress never does anything about it, so you gotta wonder when that's off the plate, because that money in the elections, they're buying candidates, obviously.
They're not helping get a message out.
If you wanted to get the message out, then you give everybody a website, and You encourage debates and you put a channel on that and you have people, you have questions and people will respond to those questions.
You get your information online and then let them go at it with debates but that isn't how it works because the name of the game is not democracy, the name of the game is control.
We do have a left and a right arm of this one lying, looting, Orwellian, psychopathic, parasitic empire and they just pretend to be against each other And, you know, if you put your black hat on and you were operating this type of a control system for a government, yeah, sure, let a few genuine rebels in there, as long as they're not too dangerous.
Now, so far, Ms.
Green has been playing well enough to not be a threat, but then you get Dennis Kucinich, who actually filed impeachment charges for Bush and Cheney.
What happened to him?
Oh, well, his own party threw him under the bus, allowed his district to be gerrymandered so that Dennis didn't have a district anymore.
Or, you know, if you really want to get dangerous, then you're going to end up with a bullet to the head like the Kennedys.
Now, you know, the American people, we still need this breakthrough because I myself, I have relatives.
Such sweet, honest people, a young family, but they're working for Lockheed Martin and their job is to improve the guidance systems of the drones to kill people ever more effectively.
Now, I don't know really how they feel about it.
I'm not going to press them with questions or they're on my wife's side of the family.
But wow, that's the situation that we're at of this empire and it will continue to destroy until it breaks apart.
Excellent.
Excellent commentary, Carl.
Very, very nice.
Meanwhile, Discover is going to start tracking your gun purchases beginning in April.
Discover will become the first credit card issuer to track gun purchases made by its cardholders.
Breitbart Noted back on September 11, 2022, that Visa had caved to pressure from gun control groups and New York Democrats agreeing to flag gun and ammo purchases with a new sales category.
The AB Observe MasterCard and other majors have also agreed to flag gun sales.
On March 2nd, the Independent Journal Review reported Discover will be the first among credit card companies to attract gun sales.
Anyone using a Discover card to make a purchase in a gun store with a purchase track beginning in April.
There are over 55 million Discover cards in use.
So a lot of information on gun purchases can be gathered via that one company.
Reuters pointed out that Discover Financial Services was ahead of Visa and MasterCard in February 2023.
That Discover would allow its network to track purchases at gun retailers come April, making it the first among its peers to publicly give a date for moving ahead with the initiative.
Discover told Reuters, we remain focused on protecting and supporting lawful purchases on our network while protecting the privacy of cardholders.
The Code for Tracking Gun Purchases was approved by the International Organization for Standardization in September of 2022.
The decision to use the new merchant category code is eventually left up to users in the industry.
Meanwhile, this is significant, especially because it was published back in 2015, before transgenderism became a political hot potato, and therefore, in my opinion, It offers more objective and reliable information.
Get this.
Johns Hopkins psychiatrist.
Transgender is a mental disorder?
Sex change?
Biologically impossible.
Dr. Barbara McHugh, former psychiatrist in chief for Johns Hopkins, currently Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said, Transgenderism is a medical disorder, a mental disorder, that merits treatment, and that sex change is biologically impossible, where those that promote sex reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.
McHugh, the author of six books and 125 peer-reviewed articles, made his remarks in a commentary in the Wall Street Journal, where he explained, Transgender surgery is not the solution for people who suffer a disorder of assumption.
The notion their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature has signed to them biologically.
He also reported on a new study showing the suicide rate among transgenders who had reassignment surgery is 20 times higher than the rate among non-transgender people.
He noted studies from Vanderbilt and Bartman Clinic in London expressing transgender feelings, but for whom 70 to 80% spontaneously lost those feelings.
The Obama admin, Hollywood, and major media, like time, promote transgenderism as normal.
McHugh observed, these policy makers and media are doing no favors to the public of the transgendered by treating their confusion as a right in need of defending, rather than a mental disorder deserving understanding.
This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects.
First, the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken.
It does not correspond to physical reality.
Second, it can lead to grim psychological outcomes.
The transgendered person disorder He reported, is in the person's assumption that they are different than the physical reality of their body, their maleness or femaleness as assigned by nature.
It is a disorder similar to that of dangerously thin people who suffer from anorexia, look in the mirror and believe they are overweight.
The assumption one's gender is only in the mind, regardless of anatomical reality, has led some transgender to push for social acceptance in affirmation of their own.
Here we have a Spanish model, Lucia Hedria, posing in 2020.
She turns out to be the second transgender woman to run for the Miss World crown.
The second transgender woman.
The former Hopkins chief of psychiatry also warned against enabling or encouraging subgroups of the transgender, such as young people, who are susceptible to suggestion from everything-is-normal sex education and school diversity counselors who, like cult leaders,
May encourage them to distance themselves from their families and offer advice on rebutting arguments against having transgender surgery.
He reported, too, there are misguided doctors who, working with the very young, who seem to imitate the opposite sex, And will administer puberty-delaying hormones to render later sex-chain surgeries less onerous, even though the drugs stunt children's growth and risk causing sterility.
Such action comes close to child abuse, said McHugh.
Given close to 80% of those kids will abandon their confusion and grow naturally into adult life if left untreated.
Sex change is biologically impossible.
People who undergo sex reassignment surgery do not change from men to women, or vice versa.
Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women.
Claiming this is a civil rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.
Carl, your thoughts?
On the first story, so Discover is going to collaborate with the criminals and they claim that they need to Well, anybody who would take a step back from that would say withdraw your cooperation from the ATF, the FBI, and the CIA because, you know, and the U.S.
government, because the U.S.
help probe gun-related crimes.
Well, anybody who would take a step back from that would say withdraw your cooperation from the ATF, the FBI, and the CIA, because, you know, and then the US government, 'cause the US government, they use guns for war murders at 30 million since World War II.
And then you got the FBI and the CIA participating in the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK.
So this is all that we're ever going to get from these psychopaths is virtually signaling that all they want to do is help as they disarm us and put us in pods and tell us you got to eat bugs and you got to have a 15-minute transportation area and it just goes on and on.
Oh, and you got to take a knee When you're ordered.
And then you got to take your shots, of course.
And you have to get your certificates from the state universities.
And you have to have all your shots to get those certificates.
It just goes on and on.
So, Dr. McHugh.
Huh.
Well, this guy is 84 this year.
He's still at his position.
He probably has some interesting stories to tell of how it's been going the last eight years since he came to that position.
And God bless that guy.
That's 2014, huh?
Well I know for sure what didn't happen in 2015 or 2016.
He was not awarded a Medal of Freedom put on him by then First Lady Big Mike Obama.
That didn't happen.
And then, as far as it goes, you know, as a retired high school teacher, I was requested by students to be the GSA advisor, the Gay-Straight Alliance, which I accepted, and asked the students, why would you want me to have an advisor?
I'm happy to do it, but why?
And the students correctly discerned.
They said, Mr. Herman, You will protect us.
And they are right.
But it just makes me wonder how much of this influence is from the forced vaccinations.
What are we shooting these kids up with?
What kind of poisons are in the food or in the air or in the water?
So until we straighten out and get rid of these obvious criminals, then we have no chance of finding out where we actually stand And how much of this is being imposed on our children and then how much just may be a bell curve distribution where you really do get feminized males or more masculine females.
Of course, I think that that makes sense on a bell curve distribution wherever people are on that distribution.
Everybody has gifts and talents that is part of the wonderful beauty of diversity where we get more than we can anticipate or predict on any of our own.
Very nice.
Very nice, Carl.
Well done assuming that role, by the way.
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About Candace Owens, Beverly writes.
Need to know, 3-2.
Listeners comment about Candace Owens.
I agree with Brian.
Owens is better than nothing.
Unfortunately, most conservative black bloggers move from the CNN plantation to the Fox News plantation.
They're on point in calling out the race hustlers.
But they parrot Fox News with regard to foreign policy.
With few exceptions.
I know of only one who does not.
They pledge allegiance to Israel and hate Cuba and Venezuela, for example.
When Russia began its special ops against Ukraine, most black conservative bloggers spouted anti-Russia, anti-Putin rhetoric, just like Fox and CNN.
Today, most of them have softened their stance, only because Fox has done the same in a chorus.
They are rabid pro-lifers.
Again, these black bloggers regurgitate conservative talking points about all the black babies being aborted.
Black conservative bloggers know better, but feel the need to keep this false narrative alive, perhaps to cement their conservative creed.
They know what's going on with black masses, and abortion is way down on the list of black people's problems.
The babies who grow up to become teens and adults who terrorize the citizenry with crime are the bigger threat, coming from Beverly, who herself is black.
Meanwhile, final thoughts.
Carl, yours.
Well, thank you, Beverly, and all of our audience members.
It is you who we are educating here, not the audience that most needs it, not the Normies, not the sheeple.
We are empowering you for our voices.
Should we have such a breakthrough that will require you to have a broad background and to be able to point to objective data and that basically It's going to be that you were right all along.
Now, I do feel inspired to make a prediction and I can say that everything I thought would occur has been false in the past.
I look at the progression of events and I look to myself and say, gee, something's going to break.
So, but instead, all we've gotten is this steady, steady stream of drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, which is very encouraging for all of the information that we have right now.
Just to kind of take an account of the ledger, is that we have an abundant of evidence now, especially more recently.
To be able to nail Fauci for lying, to push a false narrative.
We have the UK former health minister busted with his own text, his own messages, to ramp up the fear and to be able to roll out variants at will.
So we have enough in the public domain and we're still looking for a breakthrough.
And if I wanted to have some poetic justice and what feels about right, given we see that things are about to break, the Ukraine war is about to end, we're about to enter into some new revelation with that, something is happening with COVID, something could happen with the Bidens, with the laptop, with election fraud, and it's the coming of spring in a few weeks.
So I think that by the coming of spring, we will be in a new season, both figuratively and literally.
So between now and then, I think we're going to have one of those Black Swan events happening, or a series of them.
One is going to be some form of a financial market collapse.
Now, this is only going to be on paper, because what's real is our labor and our resources, and nothing will happen to that.
It's just this fraudulent, debt-based, tragic comic.
Escalating exponential debt system that is going to go and I think we're going to have some resolution in Ukraine.
We need to have breathing room for people to take a step back and to assess where they're at and having this.
Paper, phony baloney, psychopathic monetary system collapse and the Ukraine off the table, I think we're going to have an unimaginably great spring opening up just this month.
Well, Carl, thanks for all those excellent comments throughout today.
Much appreciated.
I do believe Vladimir Putin has won a great victory for humanity and against the New World Order in Ukraine.
No less an eminence than Jacob Rothschild has declared that Putin is an enemy of the New World Order and that the New World Order cannot proceed without Ukraine.
So be it.
Unfortunately, as Karl de Blas were not out of the woods.
The astronomical debt structure of the American economy suggests we may be on the verge of a collapse.
And if we collapse, I fear we're going to have an all-out war right here in the United States where resources, roving gangs, tribes, cities are going to become uninhabitable.
It's going to split out to the suburbs.
I'm worried what is yet to come.
So while I'm Enthralled by Putin having achieved what I regard as a great victory for humanity.
We're not out of the woods yet.
Brace yourself.
Be prepared.
I fear dark times lie ahead.
Meanwhile, spend as much time as you can with your friends and people you love and care about.
We do not know how much time we have left.
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