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March 22, 2025 - Jim Fetzer
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Amish Vax, Epstein Honeypot, AIPAC Rules! Directed Energy Weapons, DOGE, TESLA, NATO,
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Welcome to episode number 119 of Gary King's Inconvenient Truths, where Gary presents stories, video clips, reports I don't know are coming for my spontaneous and unrehearsed response.
Gary, so much going on in the world.
What do you got for me today?
I hope I can keep up with just a little bit of it.
All right, here we go.
We're going to talk.
With one of your favorite girls?
You connect a lot of dots between, like, Israel and media, right?
But do you think that it's just capitalism?
Like, don't you think a lot of times it's just, like, it's just business?
And that's how business works, is that, you know, like, it's one of the side effects of capitalism.
If that were the case, so the reason why this is different is because Israel is actually the exception.
They are the only country that's allowed to lobby.
Americans. Like, everyone else has to register as, you know, a foreign agent under Farah.
Like, with AIPAC or whatever?
Yeah, so AIPAC, the backstory, by the way, before JFK got shot, he was fighting AIPAC.
They were previously called, I'm blanking on this, it was, you can look it up, and he was literally saying, you have to register under the Foreign Act.
Is that true?
Let's look it up.
1,000% true, and you should look it up.
We should fact check that live.
He was fighting with what is today known as APAC, as was renamed AZCPA.
I don't know what that stood for.
In 1959, AZCPA was renamed APAC, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, reflecting a broader membership and mission.
Yeah, so JFK told them that they had to register under FARA.
And so American Zionist Council, that's exactly what it was called.
Okay. American Zionist Council was opposed to a lobby in the United States founded in 1949.
It represented nine nationwide Zionist organizations in matters related to...
See at the bottom there?
In 1962, President...
Look at the last paragraph.
In 1962, yeah.
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby, as a U.S. Attorney General, forced the AZC to register as a foreign agent.
In doing so, they were barred from making monetary contributions to U.S. officials.
Who was barred?
AZC? Yeah, so APAC, for lack of a better term.
They were called AZC back then.
Continue to send out newsletters and hold events with a non-profit tax exemption.
And then what happened was he was shot.
So he literally, like, they were writing him letters.
You can find this.
This is all, like, this is available information.
And he was like, you need to register, you need to register, you need to register.
And then we told you to register.
Why are you not registering?
This makes no sense.
And then he, APAC got lucky because he got shot and killed.
But also you could, like...
So they are the only, the reason I'm bringing this up...
Is not to further conspiracy theories.
They're the only country that's allowed to lobby Americans that are not registered under the FARA Act.
Under the what act?
FARA. So that's like if you're a foreign agent, you have to basically register, your communications are monitored, all of this stuff.
But for whatever reason, Israel is an exception to this.
And the reason is because JFK got shot.
Otherwise, they would have been under this.
So that is the reason that they're allowed to do this.
This, and then of course we're not allowed to read the files, but leading up to his death, he was having arguments with the Prime Minister, Ben-Gurion.
That's a fact, another fact.
He was having heated arguments with Ben-Gurion, and then the problem, yeah, look it up.
JFK. The Foreign Agents Registration Act is a U.S. law that requires people and entities working on behalf of foreign governments to register with the Department of Justice.
So it drives me insane to see these absolute frauds, like when they go, oh, Russia spent a million, or whatever they said.
I remember they came after Lauren Chen, and they're like, there was an idea that Russia spent money, and they'll say something like $26,000, or they spent $3 million and influenced the election.
And all of these people will be taking money from AIPAC, and they're like, oh, well, AIPAC got lucky.
JFK got shot.
But wasn't the Russia story just, that was figured out to be a facade, right?
Right, but when you hear these people in your government saying this, you should know how fraudulent they are because they all are taking money from Israel.
And so it's like, yes, is Israel doing it legally because a president got shot?
Sure. But it's wrong.
A country should not be able to lobby to get what they want and control our congressmen.
And you get to see them flex that muscle, like...
TikTok and things of nature when they are now interfering with our speech and they'll get laws passed really quickly.
It allows literally a foreign country to make decisions in our nation.
Lobbying should just not be allowed full stop.
So instead they go, oh, you're focusing on it because they're Jewish.
No, you're just the only country that's allowed to do it.
I would feel the same way if China, if there was a Chinese lobby that was spending...
Is China allowed to do it?
No, there's no other country that's allowed to do this but Israel.
Okay. Once again, Kansas is...
Hitting the nail on the head, I think that the most important point made there is that if you're registered as a foreign agent, and it's 100% correct,
JFK and Bobby required the American Zionist Council to register as a foreign agent.
You cannot make monetary contribution to American politicians.
She mentioned three mil.
Hell, AIPAC gives that much to an individual congressman.
They all have their handlers.
Thomas Massey is the only one who's refused to have an AIPAC handler to tell him what to do to monitor his position and actions in relation to Israel.
And, of course, this was one of the reasons Jack got whacked.
Being constrained from bribing American congressmen to do his bidding.
And David Ben-Gurion, out of frustration with Jack's unwillingness to allow Israel to develop its own nuclear weapons, resigned in disgust and assigned Mossad to participate in the assassination.
And while there are some who think it was Primarily an Israeli ob, that is untrue.
It originated in Los Angeles in 1960 when Lyndon lost the nomination to JFK and forced himself on the ticket as vice president in order to accede to the presidency when Jack was taken out.
Bobby came by to extend a purely formal, symbolic invitation to run with Jack to LBJ, where JFK had already extended the invitation to Stuart Simon, but gave him overnight to think about it.
He threatened to expose that Jack had Addison's disease, wasn't expected to live a long, healthy life, that...
Among his dalliances had been one with a beautiful woman who turned out to be a spy for East Germany, information provided to him by J. Edgar Hoover, and that if he were not on the ticket, that any alleged slave rebozo sent down by the White House would be dead on arrival because in his position as a powerful majority leader,
he bottled them up.
Jack and Bobby were just...
Dumbfounded. But Lyndon had them boxed in, and they had to accede to his demand.
When one of Lyndon's wealthy backers discovered what had happened, he burst into the Johnson's sweet cursing and swearing because now LBJ would help JFK become the President of the United States.
Bobby Baker took him into a bedroom and explained what they had in mind.
He came out all smiles, saying he thought that was an excellent plan.
Bobby Baker would later declare in public that JFK would not survive his first term and that he would die a violent death.
Lyndon Johnson would send his chief administrative aide, Cliff Carter, Down to Dallas to make sure all the arrangements were in place for the assassination.
Now, all those events were prior to Jack and Bobby insisting the AZC register as a foreign agent, much less his confrontation with David Ben-Gurion, who was the founder and the first Prime Minister of Israel.
So it cannot have been.
That the plot was initiated by Israel.
False. It was Lyndon Johnson who wanted to become president of all the people, where it now appears that he assigned Alan Dulles, whom Jack had retired with fanfare in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco,
where the CIA had deliberately misled him about the Brossbacks.
As a project manager, Edward Dulles came up with an incredibly complex plan.
Eight sponsors, each of whom had their own shooter, were on-the-ground supervisors and coordinators were none other than George Herbert Walker Bush and Edward Lansdale, an Air Force general responsible for conducting assassination worldwide who resigned.
From the Air Force, temporarily, so that if he were caught out in having participated in this, he would not reflect on the Air Force because he was taking the action as an individual citizen, but who appears to have positioned the shooters and determined the sequence of shots.
I've explained this many places, one perhaps especially appropriate.
JFK Special 18 November 2021, which I dedicated to Oliver Stone.
You can find it online.
Just put in Jim Fetzer, JFK Special 18 November 2021.
It should show up, and you'll get an overview of how this was done, who was responsible, and why.
Okay, Dr. Fetzer.
All right, now.
Just in case you were wondering, who's taking money from APAC in your neck of the woods?
All right, Ron Johnson, $347,000.
Tammy Baldwin, $557,000.
Ryan Steele, $153,000.
I'm not sure about this fellow here.
He's actually my congressman.
Oh, yeah?
We approve.
I don't know what that means.
Derek Van Orden, $97,000.
All the way down the line, $63,000.
$29,000.
Looks like some of them can be bought off a little cheaper than others.
Now, over here in Louisiana, if you remember, Steve Scleese ran against him in Congress, but I sure didn't get $1,099 in campaign contributions.
Kennedy, you can see all this for yourself.
A quarter of a million.
Bill Cassidy.
And then Cleo Fields.
He's the biggest crook there's ever been.
It only takes around $7,000 to get him.
And then one quick one here.
I also have a home in Mississippi.
And everyone here in Mississippi.
Roger Wicker.
All the way down to $4,000, and I promise you, they will say every single time that we back Israel on 100%.
So, all right, Dr. Peser.
Yeah, the AIPAC needs to be registered as a foreign agent, but it ain't going to happen because they've run the Congress, and the congressmen are so under their control they would never allow it to happen.
Jack had the right idea and moved aggressively to do it.
And ultimately, because of those actions and a host of others, including threatening to dismantle the CIA, he was taken out.
All right.
On to the next thing.
All right, we're going to pull this one up.
This is a little disturbing to me.
I like the Amish folks.
Alright guys, we're gonna get right into it.
Today we're gonna talk about the Amish and Lawfare.
I'm also gonna share with you guys a little bit of a clip that's been scrubbed from the internet.
I wonder why.
So don't go anywhere.
This one's gonna be hot.
If you guys are following this stuff, the Amish are under attack in New York.
A New York judge has just ruled that they can actually force vaccinate your children without parental consent, period.
I find that very alarming.
The article reads: In a chilling blow to religious freedom, Amish children in New York are now being forced to receive vaccinations against their families' deeply held beliefs under the threat of massive fines and exclusion from their own private schools.
Yeah, you guys heard that right.
This has been going on since 2019.
It's finally working its way through the courts.
They used a measles case or two back in 2019 to bring this up and to ram it through the courts.
That's why you got to stay tuned for the clip I'm going to share with you.
New York just repealed religious freedoms again.
exemptions from getting the pokey-poke and there are some reports that Amish families and their schools have been fined a hundred and eighteen thousand dollars so far for refusing to comply now this article it says here that the legal experts warn that this ruling sets a dangerous precedent the Amish have based their challenge on Wisconsin versus Yoder from 1972 A Supreme Court case that upheld their right to exempt their children from compulsory high school education on religious grounds.
Second Circuit brushed aside these arguments claiming that the mandatory vaccinations do not fundamentally alter the way of life in the same way.
You gotta be kidding me.
People that are getting this mRNA technology and them, well they're dying suddenly.
And you guys can look up all of the health side effects that have come out of...
The 19 jab.
No autism at all.
Why? Because they're not having their children vaccinated.
There's a perfect correlation between vaccination and autism, Gary.
The more vax, the more autism.
The less vax, the less autism.
Perfect correlation.
And of course, as in the case of smoking, you can try.
To deny a causal connection and claim it's just an incredibly improbable coincidence.
But here it seems very clear the way in which the mercury, for example, that's used as a base in the vaccines does damage to the brain.
So that, you know, the Amish have been a wonderful comparison control group for unvaccinated versus vaccinated.
All the evidence supports your children are healthier, they're more intelligent, they're less prone to problems in life if they remain unvaccinated.
So his points are impeccable.
This is fundamentally altering the Amish way of life by New York, in this case, intervening to violate the religious exemption.
And vaccinate their kids when they're going to induce a whole host of problems that heretofore the Amish community has escaped because of its refusal to be vaxxed.
This is very upsetting, Gary.
Wrong in every possible way.
Very, very troubling.
All right.
Next up is our girl.
She's going to talk about the new department.
It's been about a month since Trump took office, and with the new administration has come a dizzying slew of new executive orders.
Through his actions, Trump has promised to reduce American immigration, strengthen American health, and even end the reign of terror perpetrated against America's citizens by paper straws.
But one of those orders has been making headlines as of late for all the wrong reasons.
I'm, of course, talking about the establishment and implementation of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE for short.
The name DOGE is an apparent wink to the original DOGE internet meme turned cryptocurrency.
Yeah, that's right.
Before Elon set his sights on visiting Mars via SpaceX, he went to the moon, a phrase coined by tech dorks after he promoted the cryptocurrency and its sky.
We definitely want a rocket to reach Uranus.
That's a stretch goal.
To reach Uranus.
Hey man, if you stretched your rocket into Uranus every once in a while, you might just be able to cut back on all those illegitimate children.
Elon achieved his first federal cut by eliminating his own co-leader from the department, politician and promoter of the lazy white American myth Vivek Ramaswamy, will no longer join him in the department's goal of cutting federal spending, deregulating federal agencies,
and using AI technology to increase efficiency in the government.
Ramaswamy says he left to launch a run for Ohio governor, but I'm guessing he came to the realization that if he really wanted to increase efficiency in America, his first order of business would be cutting his own people from customer service positions.
Does he have any idea how much time we waste talking to these people?
Hello, this is Verizon.
How can I help you?
Yeah, hi.
Is this Verizon?
Yeah, I seem to be having problems with my connection.
It's been down all afternoon.
Sorry, could you repeat that?
I'm sorry, one more time.
I really didn't get that.
I'm sorry.
Could you maybe put me through to somebody else?
I'm just having a really hard time with your accent.
Since the Doge's implementation, thousands of government workers have lost their jobs and budget cuts have been made to several federal agencies.
Agencies including the Department of Defense, the NIH, the IRS, NASA, and the Department of Education.
And of course, all those government workers who stayed quiet as mice while those of us in the private sector lost our jobs to Dictator Spike Protein have fin- They finally found their voice, just enough to squeak about how scared they are over the prospect of not being able to feed their families.
People are really scared.
I think that, you know, 12 days ago people knew where their next paycheck was coming from.
They knew how they were gonna pay for their kids' daycare, their medical bills, and then all gone overnight.
Sorry folks, the results of the Doge sniff test are in, and they've determined:
You are not essential.
*Screaming* What?
What? What?
What? What?
*F*ck* Oh!
Oh!
Listen, okay, I get it.
Government workers are a lot like my second camera angle.
They're expensive, they're redundant, and nobody asked for them.
But whenever we voice our concerns with the government about just how many of these parasites there are, all that happens is we get more.
And more.
And more.
Because the bigger the government, the more dependent we become.
And much like a doge, Nobody is willing to bite the hand that feeds them.
So when the federal government promises to eliminate the federal government, I can't help but wonder, what will the federal government replace the federal government with?
In other words, is there a more nefarious agenda?
Behind DOGE.
To answer this question, we must first find the source of the proposal.
The DOGE is nothing more than a renaming of RAGE, or Retire All Government Employees, proposed by Curtis Yarvin, a Jewish-American computer scientist and political theorist who's earned himself some very influential followers.
Those followers include tech bro billionaire Peter Thiel and the VP whose career he bankrolled, There's this guy, Curtis Yarvin, who's written about some of these things.
And so one is to basically accept that this entire thing is going to fall in on itself, right?
And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be preserved.
And then when the inevitable collapse of the country comes, ensure that conservatives are able to sort of help.
You know, build back the country.
The vice president is such a fan of Yarvin's that he often praises and parrots his ideas.
Ideas like hollowing out the federal government and replacing it with a system called patchwork.
Smaller governments that would be run by tech corporations.
Basic idea of patchwork, according to Yarvin, is that as the crappy governments we inherited from history are smashed, they should be replaced by a global spiderweb of tens, even hundreds of thousands of- I
think? Now the funny- The funny thing about all this is that neither the left or the right seem to see this
as the predictable next step in a centuries-old plan.
The right believe we've entered a new dawn in the fight for freedom, and the left still believe that 15-minute cities are just good urban planning.
What's even funnier is that while the right is basking in the prospect of de-browning America, the left Have become the new conspiracy theorists.
They're even touting all the same talking points from lessons they missed in early 2020.
Talking points like, we didn't elect this guy, so why is he telling us what to do?
And oh no, they're taking away our free speech.
And my personal favorite, I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I'm pretty sure there's a group of elite billionaires who are fighting for world domination.
This year's gonna be so much fun.
Okay. She is spectacular, Gary.
I love her.
I could listen to her all day.
She is so smart.
She's completely brilliant.
She dissects these issues.
She presents them in such an entertaining yet informative fashion.
And for today, I be treated.
To two of my favorite women on planet Earth, Candace Owens, and what's her face?
I just love it, Gary.
I love it.
Everything she had to say was absolutely spot on.
And we ignore her message to our own peril.
Fabulous clip, Gary.
I recommend you watch it again.
All right.
Yeah, I know how to push your buttons with what's your face and Candace.
All right.
Next one here.
A little small.
For one year, I have watched Israel burn children alive.
You don't care about veterans.
You don't care about American values.
You are destroying this country.
Shame on all of you.
May God give you the moral courage.
May God give you the moral courage to do the right thing!
May God give you your hearts!
Please! Please!
Shame on you!
We need veterans from California all the way to New York to stand against what we are witnessing right now.
Your voice is so powerful.
There we go.
That was wonderful!
Wonderful! Stunning!
That was marvelous!
I was trying to discern her rank.
She might have been a captain, as was I in the Marine Corps, but that was magnificent.
Her denunciation was completely appropriate.
But AIPAC runs our Congress.
This is falling on deaf ears.
But to speak out like that, what an act of integrity and moral courage.
I salute her.
We need men.
Who have the balls she presented there.
I am impressed, Gary.
That was fabulous.
Wonderful. 100% endorse her.
Stand with her.
Yes. And what happens?
She's the one who gets thrown out of the room.
Of course.
All right.
Here we go.
This is DC Dave.
APOC handler is now at the door.
Reminding him of who he's working for.
He might want to look the other way.
But he can't do it when he's in their pay.
He lives on dirty money.
It's like a bribe.
Such a shame in our democracy.
That he's not looking for you and me.
Money that's been made from who knows what.
A system working at its best.
It's not.
It's not.
But politicians, they all have their needs.
And they will never bite the hand that feeds.
So they take dirty money.
It's like a bribe.
Such a shame in our democracy.
That they're not working for you and me.
The Kennedy's tried to fix the problem.
you
They said that we should call a spade a spade A decision that's good for one foreign country Shouldn't always be the one that's made But
there are honest efforts went nowhere And we're left with shabby hair Corrupted to our very core And dragged along through wars of war As they trade dirty
money It's like a bribe Such a shame in our democracy Back then I'm working for you and me Dirty money, a rotten game Now our
best days are past Dirty money, such a shame That our fine system couldn't last Dirty money, such a shame That our
fine system couldn't last Dirty money, such a shame That our fine system couldn't last Dirty money, such a shame that our fine system couldn't last Dirty money, such a shame
Dirty money, such a shame Dirty money, such a shame
D.C. Dave.
Well, D.C. Dave, I know you have exchanged occasional correspondence for 10 or 15 years.
I admire the guy beyond words.
And what an appropriate message to convey to the American people.
Look at the staggering sums.
Key players like Joe Biden over 11 mil.
Paul Harris close to six.
Mitch McConnell, a staggering son.
They know how to play the game.
They know how the game is played.
And of course, if bribery won't do it, blackmail will.
Thus we have Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, declaring that before the Jeffrey Epstein files can be released to the American people, they have to be redacted to protect Israeli national security.
Well, what does Israeli national security have to do with Epstein?
Unless Epstein was actually working for Israel.
I'm convinced he was in fact a Mossad agent so that they were capable of controlling Those politicians, they couldn't bribe by means of blackmail if they could use the honeypot of underage girls as a lure to attract them to little St. James Island in the Caribbean,
also known as Lolita Island, where his plane was known as the Lolita Express, where Bill Clinton, among others, made as many as 26 flights.
I mean, Gary's disgusting.
The corruption, the way in which Israel has played the United States, has managed to insinuate itself into our government.
Thus, there's those who refer to us as the United States of America or as the United States of Israel.
I think both capture the concept that applies to America today.
Sad to say.
I agree.
Speaking of honeypot...
Of course, it's a book that came out some years ago.
Now, Jeffrey Epstein is dead.
Now, Ghislaine Maxwell, there are reports she's in Paris.
You maintain that it was your employer, Robert Maxwell, owner of the Daily Mirror.
You say that he was an Israeli agent, and...
As was his daughter.
He was not my employer.
I would like to correct that.
We worked together with him.
And you say that his daughter Ghislaine also, though, worked for Israel.
And it was Robert Maxwell who introduced Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell way before the 1990s, as mainstream media is reporting.
Correct. Mr. Epstein was introduced to Ms. Maxwell probably sometime in the'80s.
And Mr. Maxwell also thought he might be introducing a fellow to date his daughter.
He tried to do a favor to his daughter, to find her a shidduch, as they say in Hebrew, a match.
Okay, and that didn't really quite work out.
I suppose what the most alarming allegations that you've been making are that the entire Epstein operation was a honey trap operation to entrap politicians, policymakers, celebrities, people in the media, basically,
to become Israel's assets.
Correct. It became basically an intelligence operation to entrap different politicians around them.
Okay. Yeah, absolutely right.
You got reported from RT, formerly Russia, today.
Spot on.
This is a guy who knows what he's talking about.
I like it, Gary.
What a wonderful sequence.
To follow the points I was making with further confirmation, Gary, this is a wonderful, sensational sequence you put together today, my friend.
All right.
I try, and as I always say, I don't hit a home run every time, but I do swing at the ball.
The person who's watching, who just heard you say, Donald Trump is not standing up for Ukraine.
What do you say to the person who says, well, I don't care about Ukraine.
I want Donald Trump to stand up for America.
What do you say to them?
I don't know where you got that.
I mean, I don't have time for it.
Yes, but we hear it.
We hear it.
Here's the thing.
Where did you grow up?
Did you grow up in a place where you thought the Russians were the good guys?
What part of America did you grow up in where they taught you the Russians were the good guys and our allies were the bad guys?
That's the flip here, that we need to continue to remind people.
The Russians are the bad guys.
They're raping women.
They're killing children.
They're bombing cities.
The Ukrainians are the noble good guys.
Some ways they're more American than we are over the last couple of years.
And we must stand with them in the same way we stood with the allies in World War II and since this country was founded.
This is not just about Ukraine.
This is about the core and the integrity of American values.
And that's what he's also betraying.
Not just Ukraine.
He's betraying...
Okay. What rubbish!
This is, I think, Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC, one of my wife's favorite anchors.
Talking about the guy who's got it all inverted, Russia is the good guy.
Ukraine is the bad guy.
You want to know who's raping women, killing children?
It's Ukrainians, for crying out loud.
It's not the Russians.
They've been kind and gentle.
Vladimir Putin has explained this because Kiev was historically the capital of Russia, that there are many Russians living in Ukraine, that they have wanted to preserve as much as possible the infrastructure and the integrity of the nation while being forced to go to war to intervene against what was going to be an all-out slaughter of the ethnic Russians,
the Russian speaker, the Russian-friendly Population of the Donbass.
From the time of the coup in Kiev in 2014, where Victoria Nuland used $5 billion American taxpayer dollars to engineer and overthrow the government because the president was a Russia-friendly guy and replaced him with a Western stooge of whom Zelensky is a successor.
The Kiev forces have been launching artillery attacks into the Donbass.
By the time of the Russian intervention with his special military operation, he'd already killed some 2,000 of the Donbass population.
And Putin had received reports they were about to launch an all-out slaughter that would be comparable to what the Israelis have been doing in Gaza.
They were going to do a genocide of the Donbass.
So Russia intervened to prevent that from happening, to protect the population of the Donbass.
And of course now we have no less than five old blacks in the Crimea that have, under international law through referenda, joined Russia.
Mark my words, Russia will not give up that territory.
Russia has prevailed in the war.
Russia has suffered relatively minor losses, up to 100,000 to 150,000 killed compared to over a million on the Ukrainian side.
Zelensky is a total puppet, a shill, a phony, a fraud, utterly unscrupulous.
Pocketing immense sums of money that we have sent over there, selling off weapons we've sent, even to the cartels in Mexico, where they now have anti-tank Javelin missiles that were sent to Ukraine to fight against the Russians they sold off to make a profit to the cartels.
And we're going to have to deal with them now using our own weapons against us.
Gary, it's just outrageous.
I don't know who that shill was, but that guy had it 100% reversed.
Clearly had his head where the sun does not shine.
I despise people like that.
Just phonies and frauds, liars, deceivers, cheaters.
Really repulsive.
Great clip, Gary, for what it illustrates here in very...
Start terms.
Okay, this is about directed energy weapons.
I'm still working on the video for my tune from last week.
ABL has demonstrated all of the key technologies needed to bring a new generation of weaponry to warfighters.
High power weapon systems testing is the next step.
All airframe modifications are complete.
And the plane has logged over 500 flight hours of operational testing, involving over 100 sorties.
This is by far the fastest airplane that two people can hop into, get the checklist done, and crank up and ready to go as long as the weapons system is ready.
Once it's airborne, both pilots can fly the airplane.
They can taxi it.
They can bolt takes off.
Either pilot can do everything 100% the way the other pilot can.
And the pilot flying, the pilot not flying, just...
It does what he doesn't do.
They dovetail beautifully.
We go up into what's known as the upper left hand of the envelope.
We're very high and very slow and it is a very stable, very responsible airplane even at that portion of the envelope.
ABL's modified hangar and test facility provides support for high power laser testing and for potential early capability deployments.
This world-class facility at Edwards Air Force Base.
is where the high-power coil laser is being integrated on board the aircraft, the final step in assembling the weapon system.
The high-energy laser's power and runtime have been demonstrated, and components have been fully refurbished.
Laser integration into the aircraft will be followed by activation and high-power lazing tests on the ground and in flight, leading to the shoot-down of a threat ballistic missile in 2009.
This requires focusing the lethal beam at extended ranges precisely on target on a very short timeline.
It is here that a speed of light directed energy weapon provides unique advantages, countering the missile threat during its vulnerable boost phase and providing track information and cueing to other elements.
ABL is a force multiplier for the entire ballistic missile defense system.
In 2007, ABL successfully demonstrated one of its most challenging tasks, illuminating, tracking, and propagating an atmospherically compensated beam against a distant target.
For this test, a simulated missile, along with an exhaust plume emulator, was inscribed on the fuselage of an aircraft, free flying at a distance from ABL that is typical of the engagement range for a missile threat.
The system demonstrated that it could illuminate the target with a low power track illuminator laser, TIL.
The return of the TIL beam off the target is then used to achieve a high precision track and the rapid designation of an aim point for the high power laser.
Once precision track of the target is established, the beacon illuminator laser or bill measures the wavefront distortion caused by the intervening atmosphere.
Corrections are applied to the high-power beam optics, which in an actual engagement would result in more than lethal energy deposited on the target.
Repeated multiple times with a substitute low-power laser at the same wavelength as the larger chemical laser, each engagement required only seconds.
Had the high-power laser been on board, a missile threat would have been stopped cold, suffering catastrophic damage.
With the high-power laser tested on the ground, and the beam control and battle management systems tested in the air, ABL is now on a single high-power integration path, culminating in a missile shoot-down.
It is a source of great pride for me, and it's a source of confidence that I have that we can actually do this job.
Now all we have to do is get to the goal of that shoot-down.
And when that occurs, I guarantee you the support for this program will be unstoppable, because you will have demonstrated a revolutionary capability in warfare that will change not only missile defense, but will change many other facets of how we fight and win wars.
So, when people ask me about the Airborne Laser Program, I tell them,"There's one bet I would never, ever take." And that's a bet against your ability to meet a challenge and overcome it.
ABL's key technologies have been demonstrated, segment-level risks have been retired, and preparation for high-power testing is underway.
AVL's Speed of Light Weapon System will transform the warfighter's job of protecting our homeland, friends, and allies.
Thank you.
Yeah, I wonder who those friends and allies might be.
Okay, Dr. Petscher.
Well, Gary, this video is 10 to 15 years old.
It does correctly depict the capabilities of these airborne laser systems against ballistic missiles, at least conventional ballistic missiles,
whether It's capable of dealing with hypersonic is a whole other question.
But I would also observe Russia has been aware of these developments.
Russia is very clever in not revealing even a fraction of the systems it has to conduct warfare in combat.
And I'll say I have to surmise Russia has satellite-borne systems that can take out these airborne laser systems, where I have long been convinced that the United States was placing,
perhaps, too great confidence in its ability to combat the Russian missile system with these airborne laser defenses.
We're going to find out, Gary.
Sad to say, While Trump came in promising he was going to resolve the Ukraine war virtually overnight, he's now standing clearly with Zelensky.
He's even having Zelensky turn his energy sources over to the U.S. so if Russia retaliates against them, they're attacking American targets.
He squandered the opportunity to work out better relations with Russia.
He's been even more Thuggish in dealing with Iran, threatening them again, when Iran is not going to succumb to threats.
He's been attacking the magnificent Houthis in Yemen, which are the only nation that's declared war against Israel.
If he thinks additional bombing campaigns by the U.S. are going to do the job, he's sadly mistaken.
The Houthis have been under bombing for over a decade and it hasn't brought about the intended result.
Saudi Arabia even had to arrange a ceasefire of truce with the Houthis because they could not defeat them even though they were attacking them repeatedly with American and British planes and bombs.
Trump will be no more successful.
But his exaggerated rhetoric It's causing the United States standing in the world.
His threats against Iran and his now wholehearted support for the genocide in Gaza is completely despicable.
I've been forced to repudiate Trump in terms of his foreign policy, and I'm not 100% convinced we're going to get what we deserve in terms of domestic either.
So while it would have been preposterous for the Democrats to remain in power given all they were doing to destroy America, we had to have a Trump restoration of American values.
I'm sorry to say, he's showing a greater allegiance to Israel than he is to the United States, so that I'm far from alone in suggesting He's actually out to make Israel great again,
not America.
And believe me, it breaks my heart to say it.
Yeah, we're going to keep on until everyone realizes that.
All right, here's another Trump clip.
Are you going to make that policy, U.S. policy, that the U.S. wouldn't defend NATO countries that don't pay?
Well, I think it's common sense, right?
If they don't pay, I'm not going to defend them.
No, I'm not going to defend them.
I got into a lot of heat when I said that.
You said, oh, he's violating NATO.
And you know, the biggest problem I have with NATO, I really, you know, I mean, I know the guys very well.
They're friends of mine.
But if the United States was in trouble and we called them, we said, we got a problem, France.
We got a problem, a couple of others I won't mention.
Do you think they're going to come and protect us?
They're supposed to.
I'm not so sure.
You know, with Japan, we have a deal, which is a very interesting one.
And I love Japan.
We have a great relationship with Japan.
But we have an interesting deal with Japan that we have to protect them, but they don't have to protect us.
You know that?
That's the way the deal reads.
We have to protect Japan.
And by the way, they make a fortune with us economically.
There's another case.
But we have to protect Japan.
But under no circumstances do they have to protect us.
I actually ask, who makes these deals?
Well, here, this is Trump at his best.
I mean, I got to compliment the guy when he deserved praise.
Everything he was saying, they were totally appropriate.
NATO's been getting a free ride from the U.S. Using us and our vast expenditures to defend them while not even making their minimal 2% GDP contribution.
Trump wanted to jack it up to five.
They don't want to do it.
They want to keep piggybacking off of the U.S. And now, of course, when there was a period where Trump was refusing to provide weapons and intel to Ukraine, Europe panicked.
And you had Macron, the president of France, talking about creating a nuclear umbrella for Europe by means of French nukes, which turned out to be absurd because under French law,
French nukes can only be used to defend France.
And you got the Keir Sturmer from the UK all in to defend Ukraine.
It ain't gonna happen.
They don't have the capabilities.
Russia could take them out in a matter of hours, Gary.
Even minutes.
Less than an hour.
Russia could destroy NATO and obliterate the United States.
I mean, it's crazy.
Trump, I'm sorry to say, seemed to be living in the past in the delusion that the United States is the most powerful.
Military nation on Earth.
We are not.
Russia is the most powerful military nation on Earth.
And we damn well better face up to the fact because our survival as a nation depends upon it.
Gary, I'm very, very troubled.
I like this guy in so many ways.
I voted for him three times.
I've been a staunch supporter.
But when he goes off the rails, I'm gonna call him out.
And all this stuff for Israel, and now Ukraine, and threatening Iran is far over the cliff.
He's gonna take us as a nation into a nuclear war, and most of us are not gonna survive.
I'm sorry to say, it looks to me as though that's the most likely legacy of...
The presidency of Donald J. Trump.
Okay, almost to the end of the show.
Orleans, a usually festive Mardi Gras parade, turning sour as the crowd spots some Tesla Cybertruck.
Onlookers booing, jeering, and pelting the vehicles with beads usually tossed at revel.
Just the latest sign of backlash to Elon Musk's central role in the Trump administration, now affecting his car company and those who buy his cars.
Recent protests erupting outside Tesla dealerships in Manhattan, Boston, and Tucson, Arizona, calling for a boycott.
This is a protest against Trump and Musk, mainly because they're trying to take from the poor to pass a tax relief, they call it.
For the wealthy.
And even an alleged arson attack targeting Tesla charging stations under investigation in Massachusetts.
At the same time, posts on social media from people who say they're trying to sell their Tesla because they don't want to be associated with Musk.
Including star musician Sheryl Crow waving goodbye to her toad Tesla.
I don't like Elon Musk.
NBC affiliate Nine News in Denver reporting on a dirt parking lot full of Teslas and speaking to another woman who sold hers.
He doesn't care about people.
He has no empathy whatsoever.
So he can be the richest man in the world, but I'm not going to help contribute to that.
But those selling might have trouble getting much in return.
Used car website CarGurus reporting that the average price of used Teslas has crashed from about $67,000 in 2022 to under $30,000 this month.
Not much more than your run-of-the-mill used car.
That could just be due to loads of Tesla leases coming to an end.
Or it might have something to do with Musk's association with Trump.
I think the answer is it's too early to tell.
It definitely is polarizing in both directions, whether it's GM or Hyundai, Kia, they're starting to put a lot more EVs into the marketplace.
So that's going to continue to create competition for Tesla.
Tesla's stock price is also getting hammered this year, more than the broader market.
Dropping around 35% since President Trump took office, with Musk at his side.
But beyond Musk's politics, there are global factors at work, spooking the markets on Tesla.
Softening demand in major foreign markets like China, which announced today that Tesla shipments are down about 50% in February from the month before.
And sales are down in Europe, too, where Musk's support for far-right parties has provoked some anger.
But a global rise in nationalism might be at work, too.
There is a broader movement afoot globally where patriotic consumers, whether they're Chinese buyers or European buyers, there's an inward look at trying to really shield and protect your own brands,
your own markets, and this is where we are now.
We reached out to Tesla for comment on the protests and its stock decline.
We did not immediately hear back.
Musk, meanwhile, brushing off his critics.
That the revolution might actually succeed.
That we could restore power to the people instead of power to the bureaucracy.
To be clear, Tesla's stock is still above where it was the day before Donald Trump was elected last November.
But there's no doubt that the apparent backlash to Elon Musk is going global.
A Tesla dealership in the French city of Toulouse, also hit by an alleged arson attack that authorities say completely destroyed eight cars.
A sign, perhaps, that Tesla's supercharged growth may be running out of juice.
David Noriega is joining us now.
Okay, so when we talk about car companies, one of the things we talk about are those tariffs that President Trump has put in place.
Some automakers are concerned about that.
What's the vibe from Tesla?
Yeah, Hallie, so other automakers, more older automakers, stand to be affected by those tariffs more than Tesla, because they've gotten used over the last 30 years or so to the North American integrated market that resulted from NAFTA.
Tesla's a little bit more removed from that way of doing things, but of course they're still plugged into these cross-border supply chains, and they of course will be affected by those tariffs.
Musk, however, projects bullishness on how his political activity will affect his businesses.
He says the same thing about EV tax credits going away, for example.
Tesla, and that is the big question here, this slump facing his businesses, is it the beginning of a longer downturn, or is it something temporary that his companies are going to bounce back from?
We don't really know yet, Hallie.
It'll take some time to find out.
Thanks for watching.
Stay updated about breaking news and top stories on the NBC News.
Hey, Dr. Fetzer.
Well. An economic boycott is.
One thing, a way to express political opposition in a non-violent passion, the whole divestment, you know, business with Israel for genocide is something I support 100%.
When it comes to violence, destroying the cars, the charging stations, all that, that's crossed the line.
That's not just violating the law.
Undermining the principles of democracy.
No one ought to be proud of destroying Teslas on the lot.
That's disgusting.
And I, therefore, would encourage those fringe Democrats who want to contemplate doing things like that, remember, that's turning yourself into a vandal.
Felonies. You're going to be prosecuted and sent to prison.
And I dare say, Trump's not going to be kind and gentle about this.
Pambandi's not going to let this go.
This is not something that's going to become acceptable, form a political protest.
I think some of these miscreants are going to be found out and subjected to indictments, trials, and punishment, which I expect to be rather severe.
So I say adhere to the principles of the Constitution.
Peaceful political protest.
Don't commit criminal acts of violence.
Out of frustration because your gravy train has been cut off, because USAID has been shut down, because being paid endless sums of money for not doing any work at all or doing work contrary to the interests of America is over.
I'm not happy with the Democrats responding like children by throwing temper tantrums that entail violent acts.
Cease and desist for your own good and that of the nation.
Okay, I've got two more screenshots and we're out of here.
We hardly ever use screenshots.
But Dr. Fester, I'm going to be putting you in at least consideration for the Guinness Book of World Records for eating the biggest brownie.
Hey, Drago, that's a big brownie now right there.
And I can attest.
You ate it all.
Very wonderful.
You had a great series today.
I compliment you once again.
Okay, I have one more.
This is Michael Ivey.
It's just a screenshot.
And tell me what you think about this one.
And we'll be out of here.
What do you think there?
Snow White.
Yeah, I love that.
The whole Snow White thing has fallen flat.
It's been a complete flop, a woke version.
Bird flu, mRNA, yes, that's their next move.
They're going to inoculate food stock.
You know, pigs, animals, chickens, anything we consume as human beings are still out to kill us all, Gary.
Be wary.
Don't let your guard down.
Stay safe.
And survive and thrive.
You've got it.
All right.
And give Ian Truce, number 119.
We'll see you next week.
Thanks again for being on the show, Dr. Petzer.
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