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This is Jim Fetzer, Madison, Wisconsin, joined today by Chris Weinert at Fort Myers, Florida.
Carl Herman's in the process of moving to his new abode, bringing you the news you need to know.
CIA backs monsters and radicals to sow global chaos, says a former PSYOPS officer.
The U.S.
has a long history of backing military coups that call a revolution against foreign governments who refuse to bow down to Washington, invading when all else fails.
Counterterrorism expert Scott Bennett, who is a friend of mine, explained why the morality of its proxy forces is not an issue.
The U.S.
military trains mercenaries and terrorists for CIA-run destabilization cooperation around the world, a former U.S.
Army PSYOPS expert says.
On Monday, a major U.S.
daily reported on newly released DoD docs revealing the Pentagon is not screening militants recruited for its proxy force training programs for human rights abuses.
The Congress, which approved 115 mil in 2018 to recruit armed and trained counterterrorism and insurgent forces, has blocked previous efforts to require vetting for involvement in atrocities.
Special Forces trained Ukrainians in guerrilla tactics to employ against Russia prior to the conflict.
Video evidence has since emerged of Ukrainian troops torturing and murdering Russian prisoners of war and civilians.
Scott Bennett told Sputnik there was nothing new about Washington's use of surrogates to destabilize those nations in its sights.
With special law forces who prepare them, are well-trained in multiple weapons systems and battle tactics, fluent in foreign languages, able to function in a variety of terrain, political landscapes, socio-economic environments, and political systems.
They are often trained in psychological warfare, color revolution, political coups, cyber-ops, and other forms of irregular war, reported Bennett.
He added one of their main missions is to identify, recruit, train, deploy, and support local militants for socio-politico-economic disruption to destabilize the government of that nation.
Those black ops are often planned by CIA, executed through U.S.
embassies, regardless of how bloody, criminal, or unconstitutional the mission may be.
The details in the Pentagon Docs released through a FOIA request make perfect sense and fit with standard military and CIA objective strategies and tactics for irregular asymmetric warfare, low-intensity conflict, psychological warfare, information operations, and guerrilla warfare.
Special forces have notoriously been used in the training of armed insurgencies, mercenaries, and contractors employed by Washington for color revolution and civil war and other uprisings seeking to violently overthrow changed governments.
They aim to transform those countries into docile, compliant vassals of the United States, using the allusion to democracy, human rights, liberty, and other hypnotic slogans of political misdirection.
The Army insider said the U.S.
had no qualms about recruiting violent criminals as mercenaries in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and elsewhere, where they are used to create a firestorm of fear, violence, and instability as a form of psychological warfare to coerce a population into surrendering to the U.S.
public regime or dictator, Syria, Libya, and Ukraine being the most recent examples.
Responding to a report by China's Global Times that U.S.
military had even trained members of the neo-Nazi-esque battalion in Ukraine, Bennett said, neither CIA nor DOD apply ethical scrutiny or moral filter to the proxy forces it recruits.
That was not only understandable and to be expected, but is entirely purposeful and designed to be that way.
The CIA intentionally cultivates and targets the most barbaric, ferocious, sociopathic, bloodthirsty, rapist, murderers, torturers, monsters, criminals, blood addicts, and child killers to be mercenaries in various U.S.
irregular warfare ops and government revolutions.
Only the worst people in society are sufficient to exercise the pain, suffering, trauma, and evil on the rest of society to create the chaos the U.S.
needs to overthrow governments and pillage their resources.
That was most apparent in Ukraine, where never before has so much brainwashing occurred to the point where the Ukrainian people are completely lobotomized and hypnotized by the racial, religious, and ethnic bigotry and prejudice against Russians.
And I believe it's happening with these forces coming into the United States now.
Chris, your thoughts?
Sorry, it's muted.
Well, I think if you really look into our military history and study it for what it's truly worth, there's been a group of robber barons and aristocracy that's always played this instability and stability model, this strategy of tension, against the entire landscape of the American demographic.
Sorry, I've got somebody drilling in the air.
Oh, wow.
Sorry, construction going on in the condo.
My bad.
Anyways, I should go somewhere else.
Are you guys okay over there?
You okay, feds?
Yes, you're good.
You're good.
I can hear you.
Sorry.
But anyways, yeah, I was talking about the long history of stability versus instability.
And this group that has basically tried to incite things like the civil rights era on one side after they've enslaved the population that they're supposedly freeing for 100 years before that.
These are the same guys that really justified and came up with the blueprints to put the Red Man in concentration camps.
The ones that were not exterminated, of course.
They used the Army against a lot of these forces in many ways, and more importantly, they used these assets, these civilian, in terms of military strategy, in ways that are pretty unscrupulous, we'll say.
You know, you think about the FBI during the Prohibition era or the COINTELPRO era, things like Operation Chaos or things of the sort.
things that came in after the National Security Act of 47, even the CIA meddling in these things.
The CIA has hired actually mafia personnel to try to assassinate foreign leaders like Castro and many others.
These are the same guys that have also used the deep state skunk works to come up with things like the Phoenix Project, the MKUltra and a Mockingbird initiatives.
Many of the depopulation events stuff that we're seeing, the financial trickery comes from the same group.
So, yeah, there's a lot of money to be made in distracting us into adopting an enemy that shouldn't be and chasing these phantom menaces around while these guys supposedly lead investigations.
Well, we talked about it in the last show.
Remember about the FBI and how many things they've bungled or flat out covered up for?
So I think that there's really a long history of mingling in terms of truth, justice, and quote-unquote, the American way.
And I almost think that if America is going to have a chance, it's got to really nip this in the bud.
This is a very important thing.
And our intelligence agencies are doing some very, very treacherous things quite consistently.
Yeah, and I think that they're doing the same thing with all these migrants coming into the United States.
Yeah.
BLM, Antifa too, Fetz.
Think about that.
Oh, that's a nice point, Chris.
Europe vocates land to tally costs of Moscow's war in Ukraine with an eye toward future reparations.
Fat chance!
More than 40 nations agree to set up a system to tally the damage Russia is implicated on Ukraine, though, by getting reparations, adding to the international legal challenges the Kremlin is facing.
Have no fear.
Russia will prevail.
This is all for naught.
The Register of Damages, which will allow Ukrainian victims to catalog the harm they've suffered, found a plethora of awards among the 46-nation Council of Europe Summit in Iceland.
Participants discussed details of potential future tribunals where Russia would face charges for waging war.
How about the war crimes committed by Ukraine in the Azov Battalion?
This Reclinic Summit clearly showed Putin has failed with his calculations.
He wanted to divide Europe and has achieved the opposite, said German Chancellor Schaub.
We stand closer together than Europe than ever before, but they're freezing their tails off, they're paying exorbitant prices, their economy's in the trash, and Russia's beating the hell out of all of them.
While leaders were at the Waterside Venue on the far-flung island nation for two days, The U.N.
top court announced it will hold hearings in a case between Russia and Ukraine.
Kiev claimed Moscow discriminated against minority groups in occupied Ukraine in its financing terrorism in the region, when of course the opposite is the case.
Even if Ukraine were to prevail at the international court based in Hague, a ruling would make a whole the millions of Ukrainians whose lives and homes have been torn apart.
In theory, victims might have better luck at the Council of Europe's own court, the European Court of Human Rights, where Moscow is facing thousands of complaints of human rights violations, including three brought by Ukraine.
The Strasbourg-based court in our country, Deponia Breastitution, where Russia's neighbor Georgia has yet been unable to collect for damages inflicted when Moscow invaded in 2008.
Russia, moreover, was expelled from the Council last year in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine as long ago as 2015.
It passed a law allowing it to overrule judgment from that very court.
Neither the court nor the Council has any channel of communication with the Russian authorities.
The damage register is thus seen as a first step toward justice in Ukraine.
Compiling a comprehensive register may be the first step, but it's unclear what else may follow.
Little wonder Ukrainian President Zelensky, addressing the summit from Kiev, reiterated his country's wish for such a court specifically for the prosecution of Russian aggression.
In addition to military aid, another conference topic, his country needs 100% of justice, as there will be no reliable peace without justice.
For Zelensky to be making these statements is simply preposterous, ironic, hypocritical, deceitful.
While international institutions may be bogged down in overcoming legal hurdles to accountability, a group of squatters in Amsterdam has cut through red tape and locked the locks of a 3.5 million Amsterdam home belonging to one of Russia's sanctioned oligarchs.
My goodness!
According to Dutch city rule that an anarchist group who took over the Russian tech billionaire's house in October could remain in the five-story 19th century mansion as long as they didn't annoy the neighbors.
Disgusting!
Meanwhile, Hungary blocks aid to Ukraine over blacklisting of a Hungarian bank.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szeratos said Ukraine won't receive a 543 million troche of aid until it removes Hungary's OTP bank from a blacklist of alleged supporters of Russia's war.
Arguing against the listing, OTP's Ukraine branch said it had drastically reduced its presence in the Russian market.
Cesar said Hungary cannot support the allocation of another half a billion euros from the European Peace Facility for armed transfers.
We will not give it the green light as long as OTP is on this list.
He also observed Kiev is limiting the educational rights of ethnic Hungarians inside Ukraine.
Pointing to a Washington Post report where Zelensky proposed blowing up the Druzeva pipeline, which delivers Russian oil to Hungary and other countries.
If no more oil were to come to Hungary through this pipeline, then Hungary's oil supply would be physically impossible.
Therefore, such a threat is obviously against Hungary's sovereignty.
According to the Post, one of the classified U.S.
dogs leaked, said Zelensky suggested Ukraine should just blow up the pipeline and destroy likely Hungarian Viktor Orban's industry.
The document also said he could just have been expressing rage toward Ungreen and therefore could be making hyperbolic, meaningless threats.
They look real to me.
Chris, your thoughts?
So what I gathered from that article, and maybe I misread it or misinterpreted it, Hungary's actually supporting the Ukraine war, the Ukrainians in this war, right?
They're sending them money, correct?
And in some sort of complex international obligation, it's a stipulation for trade or whatever with oil.
Is this kind of the impression that the article is really great?
I think Hungary's been unenthusiastic about this and they're particularly upset about this bank of theirs being on a list because they don't feel it was warranted and they're going to oppose any more money being sent to Ukraine by Europe.
Until they're off the list.
Yeah.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
No, that's kind of what I gathered, too.
I just want to make sure I had the right thing.
I haven't really looked into this that much the first time I've heard of it.
But yeah, as far as Orban's concerned, they've had a lot of trouble with him as far as getting to fall in line with a lot of the WF, World Health Organization, CDC stuff with COVID and the Vax.
So he's definitely been one to question a lot of the aggression that goes on from NATO, too, in Europe.
And I think that really these are strong-arm tactics that these guys are capitulating to by force that nobody really wants to do.
What they do is just a way to keep the machine moving, so to speak, in terms of their economies, their oil or things like that.
I think you're going to see the petrodollar come crashing down.
And I think you're going to see a lot of countries starting to trade outside of the U.S. dollar in exchange for energy.
So this is going to be one of many steps that is going to take place that is going to put the United States in a very tough spot.
And certainly from this aggression that they're using in place of diplomacy, it is really going to be far more destructive, I think, to the American economy than most of the trade deals these guys have done.
And even to some extent, a lot of the massive debt that they've incurred, obviously, that is terrible.
But I mean, this this is pretty bad, too.
This is really going to put the death blow to the U.S.
petro dollar.
And, you know, as far as far as the New World Order seems to be concerned, anybody that questions their agenda or contradicts their narrative, their official narrative is deemed a terrorist.
So, I mean, throwing that word around is pretty, pretty crazy in terms of like a witch hunt tactic or an inquisition tactic.
I think Orban has been on, you know, a lot of the wrong side of criticism, just like Putin and many other people have been to the Middle East as well.
A lot of Middle Easterns have been completely destroyed by the aggression of the Raqqa Kabul and the United States as its proxy.
So I think that really you're seeing this transition.
I think you're going to see China come in and take the place of the United States with more of a quote-unquote velvet glove approach instead of an iron fist, even though they're a communist regime and You know, so that's pretty scary when you're getting business scruples from a third-tier regime like China as far as how to deal with foreign trade.
It's truly a sad state of affairs, in my opinion.
And as far as the Ukraine thing is concerned, the peace, I don't think, is intended by the people that are directing the extermination agendas there.
So really, in terms of justice or any of those key buzzwords that Zelensky's saying, you know, truth, any of these things.
I think if anything like that were to take place, that Zelensky would be quickly out of a job and maybe even out of his mortality, we'll say.
Yeah, this is pretty bad, what's going on here, and the people are being gaslit and inverted in such satanic, occultic ways.
It's truly, truly mind-blowing.
Excellent, excellent.
Yes, Chris, I think you got it right.
Meanwhile, Counterintelligence nightmare in polls and Biden's business dealings.
Republican Representative James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, released an update investigation into Biden family's shady business dealings, revealing millions of dollars for businesses in China and Romania were funneled to members of Biden family through a series of shell companies while Biden was vice president.
According to the memo members of the Biden family, their companies and business associates received more than $10 million from companies owned by foreign nationals in China and Romania from 2009 until Biden left office in 2017, the year I believe he died.
The Oversight Committee is looking into 15 shell companies founded in that era, including Hudson West, Rosemont Seneca, Owosko, and Robinson Walker.
According to the chairman, the Romanian transaction in particular revealed evidence of influence paddling.
Bank records obtained show members of the Biden family received money from a company controlled by corrupt Romanian businessman Gabriel Papavuso around the time then-Vice President Biden was meeting with Romanian leaders in 2014 and 2015.
In September 2015, I met with the Romanian president at the White House to discuss anti-corruption efforts.
Within five weeks, Blanton Enterprises, reportedly owned by the very same guy, Gabriel Palkovic, began transferring money into the bank account of Robinson Walker Shell Company, owned by Biden associate Robinson Walker.
From November 2015 to May 2017, Blanton Enterprises in total transferred over 3 mil.
Walker then transferred 1.038 mil to various members of the Biden family.
The Oversight Committee also provided details about payments they received from China, specifically from Yi Jiaming and his energy company.
During a press conference, Chairman Comer revealed more details that the committee is investigating the President and his family's foreign business dealings, capitalizing on Biden's office, and risking our country's national security.
Former counterintelligence officer John Schindler, in an article in the Washington Examiner, Argues there are serious counterintelligence implications with the Biden family tied to China, according to Comer.
Nine members of the family received payments from foreign-owned businesses, including Hunter, the president's brother James, his wife Sarah, Beau Biden's widow Haley, Hunter's ex-wife Kathleen Buhl, Hunter's current wife Melissa Cohen, along with the grandchildren of Biden.
Chris.
Yeah, it's crazy.
It's almost starting to expose itself for the real theater.
I think that it is and always has been.
You know, it's like the Guelphs and Ghibellines, you know, there's the side A and side B, and I think that they're working in cahoots with each other many times to purge the fighting age male populations, and of course, to dispossess the multitudes and enslave us to these concepts, whether it's religion or nationalism or anything of the sort, political ideologies, things like that.
It's amazing to see what Biden has gotten away with under the guise of public service and the wealth accumulation.
Feinstein and Pelosi are another big ones, too, that have been in business for a long time.
It's scary to see the amount of accumulated wealth and power that these guys have amassed from, like I say, years and decades of public supposed service.
Yeah, I wonder if any of those 87,000 IRS agents are going to look into that.
Yeah, nice, indeed, of course.
The corruption is just so massive.
Meanwhile, State Senate Democrats ask Biden to write a 14th Amendment in order to bypass the GOP on the death limit.
Top aides to Biden and House Speaker McCarthy continue negotiating.
But Democrats in both chambers began pushing for unilateral options that would head off a catastrophic default without the need for talks with Republicans.
Even as Biden and McCarthy expressed some optimism about resolving the debt ceiling standoff before the deadline, which could arrive as early as June 1st, efforts were underway to Put together alternative plans.
Some Democrats circulating a letter for Biden to invoke the 14th Amendment to resolve the standoff without invoking Congress.
Meanwhile, House Democrats are collecting signatures for a discharge petition to move legislation and raise the debt ceiling without any other policy changes.
A long-shot procedural move aimed at bypassing the chamber's Republican leaders.
The Senate letter, signed by five senators so far, reflects growing unease among White House allies over the direction of negotiations on an agreement to gut the deficit and raise the debt limit.
Liberal lawmakers have balked as Biden entertains vetting cuts and new work requirements on a federal aid program fueling interest in a solution that does not require a deal with McCarthy.
The letter reminding Biden of the 14th Amendment says, The validity of the public debt authorized by law shall not be questioned.
Lawmakers may have only days to raise the nation's borrowing limit.
If it isn't raised by the time the Treasury runs out of available cash, the nation risks default, which could probably cause a global economic shock and send the U.S.
into a recession.
Republicans have made it clear they're prepared to hold our entire economy hostage unless you accede to their demand to reduce the deficit on the back of working families.
That is simply unacceptable.
We write to urgently request you prepare to exercise your authority under the 14th Amendment, which would allow the U.S.
and Canada to pay its bills without delay, preventing a global economic catastrophe.
The letter has been signed by Tina Smith of Minnesota, Elizabeth Warren Mass, Edward Markey Mass, Jeff Merkel, Oregon, Bernie Sanders, Vermont.
We met Tuesday to discuss a plan.
More signatures are expected.
With Sheldon Whitehouse on Twitter, calling for the president to invoke the 14th.
Despite growing support among Democrats, any attempt to solve the problem without GOP faces enormous obstacles.
The Biden admin appears eager for a deal with House Republicans.
White House aides think there could be an economic and legal risk to pursuing the 14th Amendment strategy.
It's also unclear whether the discharge process, which is cumbersome, could be completed before the fall.
Majority Leader Schumer also appeared to dismiss unilateral solutions.
Bipartisanship is needed.
It's the only way to go, Schumer said.
Nobody will get everything they want in these discussions.
Optimism around a deal had risen in recent days as McCarthy and Biden delegate top aides to finalize an agreement.
Well, Biden and McCarthy have expressed hope it could be reached before the deadline.
Secretary-Treasury Helen has warned it could come as early as June 1st.
Major differences between the two sides need to be resolved, however, before a deal could be struck.
Before departing for Japan Wednesday, Biden said he's confident a deal can be struck.
America will not default, he said.
It would be catastrophic for the American economy, the American people, if we didn't pay our bills.
To be clear, this negotiation is about the outlines of what the budget will look like, not about whether or not we are going to, in fact, pay our debts.
President Biden?
It's not an option.
If America were to default, nearly 8 million would lose their jobs.
Retirement accounts would be devastated.
We'd fall into a recession.
Party differences haven't stopped Congress from avoiding default before, and they should not now.
Defaulting on the debt is simply not an option.
McCarthy, after Biden's remarks, ought to put the onus on the president.
God forbid you get a Biden default because he ignores the problem, just as he ignored the border.
GOP leaders noticed they'd already passed a bill including an increase in the debt limit, as well as sharp cuts in federal spending, rolled back of green energy programs, and the imposition of work requirements on recipients of benefit programs, among other provisions.
The American people know the House Republicans have done their job to pass reasonable legislation to raise the debt ceiling.
We're waiting on Biden and extreme Democrats to do the same.
The 14th is just one of the ideas Congressional Democrats are exploring.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who previously characterized the discharge petition as a last-ditch effort, endorsed it in a letter to Democrat colleagues, even as he expressed hope a real pathway still exists for a bipartisan solution.
In Jeffrey's letter, he asked all Democrats to make every effort to sign the petition.
It would allow a majority of the House to force a vote on raising the debt ceiling, even if the Republican leadership remains opposed.
It would need 218 signatures.
If all 213 Democrats were to sign on, which is not a given, they'd still need at least five Republicans to buck their party leadership.
Some Democrats say they want to see a negotiation unfold.
They know the details of the legislation will ultimately be attached to the petition before they sign.
Even if that attempt were to succeed in the House, it's unclear whether a clean bill would advance in the Senate.
Republicans have signaled they back McCarthy's move to force spending cuts.
Most legislation requires 60 votes to advance in the Senate, meaning some Republican support would be needed.
We won't support bringing debate to a close on any debate ceiling increase that does not contain substantive spending and budgetary reforms, said Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, who was among the Republicans with McCarthy at his conference.
Chris?
Well, you know, there's a lot of shenanigans going on, so it's a little bit more complicated than just the debt ceiling, in my opinion.
I think that if you think about Congress taking the congressional money and its funding off the books in terms of public oversight with the FAST-E56, even certain members of Congress can't even see what's being funded by Congress.
This is one of many things.
Like I said, the Fed is taking its M1, M2, and M3 money supply data out.
And in many cases over the course of the last few years or manipulated it, they manipulated CPI and inflation.
They certainly have increased 42% in terms of the actual currency supply in less than three years in the last three years.
So that's pretty crazy.
Two and a half years.
42% more currency than it ever made from the Fed.
So there's a printing machine that's going on like crazy there.
And at some point in time, the American people are going to be held accountable for this corruption and this mass extortion and this whole tab that is being foisted on us.
I almost wonder if maybe Biden could take the 13th Amendment in terms of debt slavery and, you know, jubilee us all, maybe mint or print a platinum coin for $32 trillion and hand it to Rothschild and tell him to get bent, but I don't think he has the nuts to do that.
So, yeah, it's another thing, too, is the way these guys interpret the constitutional laws.
It's almost like a parallel universe or an alternative reality in terms of the DNC and their childlike wonder and the way that they can can make certain things sound like other things.
And, you know, interpret something that clearly doesn't seem to make sense as far as any of the topic that they're relating it to.
The 14th Amendment being that, of course.
And I understand, you know, the argument for it.
I just think it's absurd and insane.
But, yeah, these guys, they're consistent with what they do.
And I guess it's par for the course.
Another thing I like to point out is that the the Treasury is going to basically be incurring with the inflated interest rates, you know, being almost double what they were a year ago.
They're going to be incurring more than, I think, one point two trillion in interests alone.
So that is like last year's national defense budget and just interest alone moving forward.
And if they keep kicking the can down the road with this whole thirty two trillion dollar fictional tab that they have for the American taxpayer.
Good.
Very nice.
Meanwhile.
Check this out.
up.
President Biden sent us to help with the paperwork for the Border Patrol.
I think this captures what's going on.
Biden is committing treason on the United States, sabotaging our national security, and of course, it's not the real Joe.
It's just an actor wearing a mask.
Barack Obama more likely than not had pulling the strings on behalf of George Soros and other miscreants who've always wanted America to go down the tube.
Meanwhile, Justice Scorsese speaks out against lockdown and mandates.
Extremely thoughtful.
In a statement today in a case concerning Title 42, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch breaks the painful silence on the topic of lockdowns and mandates, presents the truth with startling clarity.
The statement from the Supreme Court comes as so many other agencies, intellectuals, and journalists are in flat-out denial of what has happened to the country.
Gorsuch, The history of this case illustrates the disruption we've experienced over the last three years in how our laws are made and our freedoms observed.
Since March of 2020, we have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.
Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale.
Governors and local leaders have imposed lockdown orders, forcing people to remain in their homes.
They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private, closed churches, even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on.
They threatened violators not just with civil penalties, but with criminal sanctions, too.
They surveyed church parking lots, recorded license plates, issued notices warning that attendance at even outdoor services satisfying all state social distancing and hygiene requirements could amount to criminal conduct.
They divided cities and neighborhoods into color-coded zones, forced individuals to fight for their freedom in court on emergency timetables, and then changed their color-coded schemes when defeat in court seemed imminent.
Federal executive officials entered the act too, not just with emergency immigration decrees.
They deployed a public health agency to regulate landlord-tenant relations nationwide.
They used a workplace safety agency to issue a vaccination mandate for most working Americans.
They threatened to fire non-compliant employees and warned that service members who refused to vaccinate might face dishonorable discharge and confinement.
Along the way, it seemed federal officials being pressured social media companies to suppress information about pandemic policies with which they disagree.
While executive officials issued new emergency decrees at a furious pace, state legislatures and Congress, the bodies normally responsible for adopting our laws, too often fell silent.
Courts bound to protect our liberties addressed a few, but hardly all, of the intrusions upon them.
In some cases, like this, courts even allowed themselves to be used to perpetrate emergency public health decrees for collateral purposes, itself a form of emergency lawmaking by litigation.
Doubtless, many lessons can be learned from this chapter in our history.
Hopefully, serious efforts will be made to study it.
One lesson might be this.
Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces.
They can lead to a clamor for action, almost any action, as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat.
A leader or expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force.
We do not need to confront a bayonet.
We only need a nudge before we willingly abandon the nicety of requiring laws to be adopted by our legislative representatives and accept rule by decree.
Along the way, we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties, the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes.
We may even cheer on those who ask us to disregard our normal lawmaking processes and forfeit our personal freedoms.
Of course, this is no new story.
Even the ancients warned that democracy can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear.
But maybe we have learned another lesson, too.
The concentration of power in the hands of so few may be efficient and sometimes popular.
But it does not tend towards sound government.
However wise one person or his advisors may be, that is no substitute for the wisdom of the whole of the American people that can be tapped in the legislative process.
Decisions produced by those who indulge no criticism are rarely as good as produced after robust and uncensored debate.
Decisions announced on the fly are rarely as wise as those that come after careful deliberation.
Decisions made by a few often yield unintended consequences that may be avoided when more are consulted.
Autocracies have always suffered these effects.
Maybe, hopefully, we have relearned these lessons, too.
In the 1970s, Congress studied the use of emergency decrees.
It observed that they can allow executive authorities to tap into extraordinary powers.
Congress also observed that emergency degrees have a habit of long outliving the crises that generate them.
Some federal emergency proclamations, Congress noted, had remained in effect for years or decades after the emergency in question had passed.
At the same time, Congress recognized that quick unilateral executive action is sometimes necessary and permitted in our constitutional order.
In an effort to balance these considerations and ensure a more normal operation of our laws and a firmer protection of our liberties, Congress adopted a number of new guardrails in the National Emergencies Act.
Despite that law, the number of declared emergencies has only grown in ensuing years.
It's hard not to wonder whether after nearly half a century and in light of our nation's recent experience, another look is warranted.
It is hard not to wonder, too, whether state legislatures might profitably re-examine the proper scope of emergency executive powers at the state level, at the very least.
One can hope that the judiciary will not soon again allow itself to be part of the problem by permitting litigants to manipulate our docket to perpetuate a decree designed for one emergency to address another.
Make no mistake.
Decisive executive action is sometimes necessary and appropriate.
But if emergency decrees promise to solve some problems, they threaten to generate others.
And ruled by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.
Justice Neil Gorsuch's opinion in Arizona v. Mayorkas marks the culmination of his three-year effort to oppose the COVID regime's erratic vacation of civil liberties, unequal application of law, and political favoritism.
Wow, you know, this is gonna sound like an outrageous claim, but it'll be proven to be true with time.
of COVID to augment their power and strip the citizenry of its rights in defiance of long-standing constitutional principles.
Amen to that.
Chris, your thoughts?
Wow.
You know, this is going to sound like an outrageous claim, but it'll be proven to be true with time.
Walgreens and CVS will have killed more people than Auschwitz.
That's pretty crazy.
This is a Let that sink in, right?
Every corner in every major city, you know, these guys that have put this on, this depopulation tactic, this experiment, this mRNA recombinant, this mass extermination, whatever you want to call it, this mass hysteria.
Think about the amount of money that was put in just in one act, in one COVID emergency relief act.
It was a hundred billion dollars for the COVID vax propaganda.
For every station and the radio and on TV to say safe and effective.
Every talking head in the major mainstream media, safe and effective.
Coming to find out that this thing is absolutely one of the most destructive things you're ever going to see.
And of course people will probably I guess they know that they'll die off before they'll really be able to seek recourse and, you know, seek restitution or at least justice.
So, you know, safety has often been the alibi of tyrants, and this whole thing was done under the illusion of safety and certainly not the provision of it.
And the mandates that they put on, the peer pressure, the segregation of society, you know, by these metrics, the violation of HIPAA, the weaponized Karens, The vaccine passports, the whole thing.
You know, even freezing assets if you think about that.
I think Chase and Citi and even the Canadian government was freezing the assets of people that were resisting the mandates and the forced vaccination things and even the truckers at the border.
Anybody that even talked to them was basically ostracized and blacklisted and their assets frozen.
So let that sink in too.
This is not a hustle file.
This is not something that is done In terms of helping the public safety or the public wheel.
This is something that was done under an emergency act, and it was absolutely a despots wet dream.
Think about the amount of censorship that they put on about anybody that basically put out a counter narrative that even provided reasonable questions.
Even ones that pointed out evidence, people that were victimized by this, absolutely censored.
People that were warning about this, taking the hell down from every major platform on socialist media.
Think about the force multiplication software and the bots that they put in, going after people that were telling this for what it was in real time or even before it happened, like myself and many others.
Think about the social engineering that's been brought on from this.
Yeah.
You know, think about this too, is the medical Stanford experiment that they put on.
Think about all the things that they've done in terms of emergencies that are still enacted today.
The income tax law, perfect example.
Selective service up for a while.
Is selective service still mandated for 18 to 30 whatever?
Selective service is still a thing, right?
It didn't abolish that, right?
Yeah, that's collective service is still a thing, right?
Okay, I wasn't sure if they broke that off or not.
Okay, you got that too.
You got the NDAA.
You got a lot of stuff that's put in under emergency provision.
There is certainly no emergency except for the robber barons to keep the control over the entire world's multitude.
So this that they put on is not a hustle file.
It's not something that was an accident.
This was an agenda.
This was a plan.
And you and I have talked about this too.
The World Bank's population estimate for the 2025 in America was 67 million people.
That's like one in five makes it out alive.
So these guys have had some serious calculations, all cold.
And I don't think this is by any means should be justified as an accident.
This was intentional.
This was an act of war.
Oh, yeah.
Of genocide, really, truly.
I couldn't agree more.
Yes.
Meanwhile, if anyone has any doubts about whether Joe Scarborough were a simpleton or a troll, I think there's not much room for doubt now.
Joe Scarborough dismisses Durham Report.
Complete dud.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough dismissed the Durham report as a complete dud Tuesday, despite the FBI statement acknowledging the special counsel's finding.
This is a guy who got humiliated time and time again.
Trump newspapers and Trump TV network were humiliated following a lot of the sort of the breadcrumbs he's wrinkled around time and time again.
He had nothing to show for it, Scarborough has said, as he introduced New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt.
Now there seemed to be this argument that Republicans want to defund the FBI because they even launched this investigation.
It just seems to be a complete dud, Scarborough added.
Another dud by John Durham.
Special Counsel Durham, of course, released a report on the origin of the FBI investigation of allegations that Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with Russia, finding that the FBI did not and could not corroborate the claims from the now-discredited Steele dossier.
Durham reports that FBI agents abuse of Foreign Surveillance Act FISA, which governs domestic surveillance in the investigation into Trump, citing information from the dossier funded by Hillary's presidential campaign and the DNC through the Perkins-Coy Law Firm.
The FBI acknowledged the findings, even if Joe Scarborough would not, in a statement released Monday.
The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason current FBI leadership has already implemented dozens of corrective actions which have now been in place for some time.
Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented.
MSNBC had former prosecutor Andrew Weissman and disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok on to defend the probe.
The FBI fired Strzok on August 13, 2018, over text to FBI attorney Lisa Page, with whom Strzok had an affair, in which Strzok disparaged then-presidential candidate Trump while investigating the alleged collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia.
In my 23 years in the FBI,
I've not seen a more impactful series of missteps which called into question the entire organization and more thoroughly damaged the reputation of the entire organization than FBI Deputy Director David Bowditch wrote in a draft of a termination letter, meaning Scarborough wants to deny what the FBI has already accepted as having been its own wrongdoing and sought to correct.
Chris?
Wow.
You know, I'm thinking about Strzok and that anti-Trump orgy that he seemed to have going on there, kind of going off on a tangent mentally there, thinking about that one.
You know, I'm waiting for, you know, the national security state to start maybe waterboarding some of these people.
That's still a thing, right?
I mean, we could still do that, right?
To get to national security and all that stuff, right?
Might as well just take some of these guys— I don't think it's ever been legal, Chris, but, you know, why not?
Well, right, right.
Well, I mean, it's just frowned upon.
It's like, you know, finding a strangled dead intern under your desk like Joe Scarborough.
You know, they frown upon that.
But, you know, it's not illegal.
It's a gray area.
You can get away with it if you're one of these guys.
And you and I would be would be thrown into the gallows immediately.
But, you know, these guys, they can laugh about it.
It's fun and games.
You know, and you think about it, he was paired with Micah Brzezinski, Ziggy's daughter.
Wow, as far as trilateral commission and some of the most destructive policies that could ever come to to the human condition have come from that man.
And, you know, I don't want to judge her for the fruits of the father, but I'd have to say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in terms of that.
And Scarborough is absolutely part of this cabal.
Yes, man, a janitor at best.
So, yeah, they keep these Olympic level perverts on the dole and they keep them Olympic-level perverts.
I love that, Chris.
How fitting.
Unbelievable.
and sex parties and indulgences that they have.
And these guys play along, and they pretty much look the other way on the big stuff and, you know, sell the lie when it comes to their desk, and they have to do what they have to do.
Olympic-level perverts.
I love that, Chris.
How fitting.
Unbelievable.
Meanwhile, Patricia Savron, Lee's statue in purgatory, waiting in its fate in Charlottesville.
What has happened here is stunning.
The Charlottesville VA court case of December 21 deciding the fate of the valuable 1924 Shrady-Lentelli-Roberty Lee Equestrian Monument has been postponed.
At present, the bronze statue is sitting in storage at a secret location in an unknown number of pieces.
The plaintiffs, the Travel and Station Battlefield Foundation and the Ratcliffe Foundation say cutting up and melting down the statue was illegal.
They want the city to re-complete and restore the statue or find alternative uses for the bronze, such as turning the pieces into a cannon for the battlefield if it can no longer be reassembled.
Apparently in a video meeting, the Charlottesville City Council decided to give the statue to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center to melt down, which was possibly undemocratic and not legally binding.
Here's the statue as it was being removed.
The statue, of course, was one of many as a form of reconciliation between the North and the South.
Its removal is an insult to both sides.
A person connected to the Monument Fund, which in refined litigation support explains, The trial was postponed April 20, 2023, after the Virginia Supreme Court clarifies a very recent ruling in another case called the Berry decision, which has a bearing on part of this.
In summary, Berry ruled that everything every Virginia locality did in 2021, if they met in virtual session rather than in person, was invalid.
The open government law required them to meet in person.
Charlottesville City Council met by video, not in person.
When it voted in 2021 to give the Lee Monument to the Jefferson School African American Center to be melted down.
We asked the judge to revisit a previous ruling that dismissed FOIA, and he did.
So that is back in the case.
But the consequence of coming back is he gave the defendants a continuance so they can prepare to respond.
We don't know when the Supreme Court will rule, so we don't know when the trial will be rescheduled.
It should be noted that Jefferson School has deep pockets to fight this case.
Major donors to the million-dollar Lee statue meltdown project called Swords to Plowshares include George Soros, Elizabeth Breen, and City Taxpayer Money, which alone totals nearly a mil.
While Andrea Douglas, executive director of the Jefferson School, characterized the goal of the project to turn the Lee bronze ingots into a new sculpture for healing the community, the price tag is far greater than a newly commissioned bronze.
Another current Virginia court case involves a Confederate monument from 1876 to 1881 designed by architect Charles E. Cassell, which was partially forcibly bowled down in Portsmouth June 10, 2020.
Our police chief, Angela Green, charged those involved a total of 19 individuals, including State Senator Louise Lucas, with two felony charges, a conspiracy to commit a felony, and injury to a monument in excess of $1,000.
Portsmouth's monument was damaged during the process.
We saw Chris Green, a protester who was standing near the monument, seriously injured and hospitalized when part of his statue was pulled down on his head.
Here you see the monument itself.
The monument was erected for the Confederate dead of Portsmouth and Norfolk County by the Ladies Memorial Aid Association, founded in 1866.
It had already been scheduled to be moved legally to the nearby Cedar Grove Cemetery, but that didn't satisfy Senator Lucas and several local NAACP officers.
They went ahead with a protest and risky takedown.
The protesters violently decapitated some of the white bronze alloy Confederate soldiers with a sledgehammer, as well as pulling one down.
The protesters damaged the monument so much, a decision was made by the City Council to remove the remaining obelisk and generic figures, which are now in storage at an undisclosed location.
Charges were later dismissed by an activist Richmond judge November 16, 2020.
One week later, Senator Lucas's daughter, the Portsmouth Vice Mayor and City Council Member Lisa Lucas-Berg, was charged with misdemeanors by a local resident for demanding Chief Greenby fired.
Her actions were apparently contrary to the town code, where an elected official cannot call for the removal of the police chief.
Lucas Burke's activism had an effect.
Police Chief Angela Greene was soon thereafter terminated.
She is currently police chief in Lexington, Virginia.
Chief Greene said on the phone December 2, 2022, I can't speak about the case because it's being appealed.
Previously, Chief Greene testified she was merely following her oath of office to uphold Virginia law.
Chief Greene's lawyer, Thomas Polchon, Jr., recently explained, Chief Greene filed a wrongful termination and defamation lawsuit in relation to her termination.
The trial court dismissed the case without providing reasoning.
This has been appealed to the Court of Appeals of Virginia.
Briefs have been filed.
The parties are awaiting scheduling of oral argument.
Both the Charlottesville and Portsmouth court cases feature politicians and bureaucrats following their own agendas.
In Portsmouth, they also have little regard for public safety.
Given the unpredictable Virginia courts, it will be interesting to see their decisions.
Chris.
Got you.
Chris, you're coming.
I think a lot of that stuff is part of the damnation memoria business model that they put out in Rome where they basically erase a lot of culture and history.
And basically, in the course of doing that, you can rewrite history and controlling the past, you can control the present and the future.
So, yeah, these people that are behind these agendas are certainly not idiots.
I think that they have a long plan here.
Yeah, Chris, I do agree with that as well.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama, destroyed after revealing what keeps him up at night.
He calls for confiscating guns from law-abiding Americans.
No surprise there.
Former President Obama was ridiculed by Americans after he revealed during an interview what keeps him up at night and calls for gun confiscation.
He was interviewed by far-left CBS News journalist Nate Burleson, a former NFL player.
Burleson opened the conversation asking Obama what needs to be done about gun violence in America.
Obama Respond talking about how proponents of firearm confiscation need to engage with gun rights advocates.
Part of that work has to be done not just in those communities that already want to do something about gun violence.
We also have to actively reach out to communities where gun ownership is an important tradition.
Rosa responded, whining about how guns are as common as garden tools in certain communities, as though that were a bad thing.
Obama agreed and said America needs to do something about the flood of military-grade weapons on the street.
Which, of course, the Founding Fathers wanted every American to be a citizen-soldier and to have not just military style or grade weapons, but military weapons themselves.
The interview took a darker turn when Merlson asked Obama about his radical solution to guns in America.
Obama replied, In Australia, you had one mass shooting 50 years ago and they said, we're not doing that anymore.
That is normally how would you expect a society to respond when your children are at risk.
And right there you see an encapsulation of the motivation behind Sandy Hook.
They wanted to have a stage, a child shooting and take our guns.
They were counting on us to give up our guns.
Immediately following a 1996 mass shooting, Australia confiscated 650,000 firearms from law-abiding owners.
Obama wants lawmakers to run roughshod over the Constitution and do the same right here in the U.S.A.
Burleson later asked him a softball question about the issues that most concern him.
His response was asinine.
Burleson, post-presidency.
What keeps you up at night, Obama?
The thing I'm most worried about is the degree to which we've now had a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media.
When I was coming up, you had three TV stations, and people were getting a similar sense of what's true and what isn't, what's real and what was not today.
What I'm most concerned about is the fact that because of the splintering of the media, we almost occupy different realities.
Now people will say, well, that didn't happen, or I don't believe that.
Well, he does like his lecturing.
Americans mocked the disgraced former president in epic style.
First, his answer on guns.
Is he volunteering to help collect them?
I would love to see how that works out for him, proud elephant wrote.
I'm always just Secret Service Protection Detail First and All, still refuse.
General Gen X wrote, well, he does like his lecturing.
He's more than welcome to move there if he's so in love with their government, meaning Australian.
Pam Bible wrote, "Come and take 'em," said Ann.
And his Divided Media answer says, the most coddled president ever, with a press corps that served his admin on bended knees, Tosca Austin writes.
We almost occupy different realities.
He is definitely working on that, said Cranky Vance.
Chris, your thoughts?
Yeah, I honestly think, with the benefit of hindsight, that much of the popular support of Obama was some sort of a manufacturing consent type of PSYOP, and I think that a lot of it was done with forced multiplication software and stuff like HPGary that Barrett Brown talked about, and he got locked up for saying.
Yeah, I think it's interesting that the drone strike president, the guy that indiscriminately killed black and brown people that were of, I guess, maybe the same religion as him if he's a Muslim.
And if not, then, you know, like, I guess, like people to himself, just absolutely indiscriminately drone striking them, taking them out and without any sort of process, due process whatsoever.
Here he is talking about his worst fear is American people having guns.
I think that most of the plunder come from the Obama administration in terms of giving this corporate oligarchy, this World Economic Forum, New World Order group, a lot of money that was subsidized by the Fed and the U.S. technology.
taxpayer came from many of the Obama initiatives as well.
Think about the fast and furious.
What does he plan on, like, taking our guns and redistributing to, like, people down South or Central American citizens in place of American citizens, I guess?
I don't know.
gun redistribution, like wealth redistribution or whatever.
You know, these guys, they put this bleeding heart bullshit out there, but it has no praxis at all in terms of reality or legitimacy.
It is certainly a control tactic, a depopulation and disarmament tactic, if you ask me.
And, you know, I think that people are onto that, and I think that should probably be a big motive for his fear that he's talking about with Burleson.
Good, good.
Good.
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This is such B.S.
it boggles the mind.
If the Lee statue bothers them, why not remove the UVA rotunda in Monticello, since all that is via Thomas Jefferson, who was a slave owner.
I lived in Charlottesville for almost 20 years and had several businesses.
Having left in 98 to care for my mother, I returned in 2017.
The entire psyche had changed from what was once a wonderful college town with character and characters to a high-tech, yippy hellhole that had priced out long-time residents and driven property prices and taxes through the roof.
The corridor known as West Main Street between UVA and the Downtown Mall was now strewn with empty townhomes the average Charlottesvillian could not touch.
The Downtown Pedestrian Mall had over 75 restaurants now, and all those restaurants that had been there from the beginning were going under.
A town the size of Charlottesville just could not support that number of eating establishments.
Places like the Port Square Tavern and Tastings, a wine store, both owned by a friend, Bill Curtis, were going under.
I had created the first real coffeehouse back in the 70s, the Roasted Bean, and now there are about 50 around town.
Robert E. Lee statue, 2017, meaning it was a good thing.
What's going on is an atrocity.
Chris, your final thoughts?
Well, you know, it's almost like maybe the small business is something that these guys decided to take down because they couldn't have mom-and-pop shops anymore or restaurants or whatever.
I don't know for what reason, COVID or whatever the thing was.
You know, it's really part of destroying this part of our culture and commerce in this way.
By economic sorcery and predatory lending and compound interest and fractional reserve banking, these guys can really give the thumbs up and thumbs down to who lives and who dies, whether you can do business or have the mark of the beast or whether you're Yeah, yeah, yeah.
fringe as a mom and pop shop and not collaborating with it.
It's almost like a forced collaboration that is being put on in this economic eugenics program.
And I think that, that, that there is a group behind it that cannot even be criticized, can't even be mentioned and then legally you go to jail if you say their name.
So what a perfect crime for these guys, huh?
Yeah.
Chris, thanks for your excellent commentary show after show.
I got to say, Neil Gorsuch had it absolutely right.
We have a Constitution for good reason, and it applies in times thick and thin, good, bad, fair weather and foul.
The idea that you can simply run roughshod over our constitutional rights because you're in a state of emergency.
Just defies common sense and proper understanding of the role of government.
Gorsuch is a sound constitutional thinker.
I'm very impressed with everything he had to say.
And it puts a lie to the Anthony Fauci and the role he was given here to dictate life in America.
Fauci, I believe, will turn out to be responsible for more deaths than all of our foreign enemies combined.
Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Mussolini.
Put them all together, they're not going to touch Anthony Fauci.
We have to have learned something from this.
But the Democrats are running roughshod over the Constitution again by allowing millions upon millions of migrants to come into the country.
We don't have the housing.
We don't have the money.
We don't have the resources.
They're planning to replace taxpaying Americans by this monstrous horde, and it's taking place before our very eyes.
I encourage you, they may be coming to your neighborhood.
If you're incapable of defending yourself, you cannot count on the police.
They are being diverted, they're being misled, they're being abused.
The military, the government, is working against us.
If you are capable, acquire weapons and learn how to use them and stock up on supplies at least a couple of months in duration.
You may find your life depends upon it.
Meanwhile, spend as much time as you can with your family, your friends, the people you love and care about.
We do not know how much time we have left.
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