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Feb. 2, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Situation Update, Feb 2, 2023 - An online AI system CLONED my voice!...
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I need you to pay very close attention to what you're about to hear.
Here we go.
Welcome to the Situation Update for Thursday, February 2nd, 2023.
I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for joining me, and I've got something to admit to you here today.
The voice that you are listening to right now, it's not my voice.
This voice was created through an artificial intelligence system known as Eleven Labs.
I recorded my voice and fed it to them in an audio file and allowed them to clone my voice.
And then I gave them this text to generate a new voice in my voice, which is what you're hearing right now.
And just to prove it to you, I'm going to then follow this with my recording of me doing this live, and you'll be able to hear a difference.
But it is striking how accurate this Eleven Labs voice synthesis system really is.
It's a little bit creepy, actually.
So yeah, what you just heard, folks, what you just heard was an AI clone of my voice.
And one of the ways you know that, by the way, is at the very end, when I said, it's a little bit creepy, actually.
Normally, I would not go up in the tone at the end of a sentence, but that's what the AI system chose to do.
You heard it say, it's a little bit creepy, actually.
Something like that.
That's not the way I would normally say that.
But what I want to do now is play for you the original recording that I fed into the Eleven Labs voice AI cloning system.
So here's the intro in my voice.
Welcome to the Situation Update for Thursday, February 2nd, 2023.
I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for joining me.
And I've got something to admit to you right here today.
The voice that you are listening to right now, it's not my voice.
This voice was created through an artificial intelligence system known as Eleven Labs.
Their website is 11labs.io.
I recorded my voice and fed it to them in an audio file and allowed them to clone my voice.
And then I gave them this text to generate a new voice.
In my voice, which is what you're hearing right now, and just to prove it to you, I'm going to then follow this with my recording of me doing this live.
And you'll be able to hear a difference.
But it is striking how accurate this Eleven Labs voice synthesis system really is.
It's a little bit creepy, actually.
All right.
Interesting, huh?
Now, of course, what you just heard, the minute that you just heard was me recording my real voice, but I was saying that it's not my voice because I wanted the AI system to clone that and then reproduce it in the AI voice and to say that in the AI voice.
Does that make sense?
Okay, I hope so.
So anyway, what you've heard here so far then, you've heard about one minute of the AI clone voice of me, and then you've heard my actual recording both saying the same thing.
But what I want to point out here, because we're entering the creepy new world of deepfake audio.
Anybody can sample my voice and then produce audio of me saying hilarious, crazy, insane things.
Or they could just listen to my podcast and just get a hefty dose of that anyway.
But this engine from Eleven Labs has already been used to clone the voice.
Which violated the user terms, by the way.
Clone the voice of David Attenborough in the UK, and they had him cursing and spouting some kind of Nazi propaganda or something like that.
I didn't actually hear it, but there was a story about that.
So the Eleven Labs company has very, very strict, you know, intellectual property requirements.
If you're going to clone a voice, you need to own the rights to that voice, which, of course, if you clone your own voice, you have those rights.
But I want to play for you a couple other samples of four different samples of four different voices where I'm having these four different voices say, welcome to the situation update and so on.
And these, this is, I'm just entering the text and And then the Eleven Lab system is generating the following four voices, okay?
So you're going to hear voices that are called Adam, Bella, Ellie, and Anthony, okay?
Here they go, all AI-generated.
Welcome to the situation update.
This also is not my voice.
This is an AI-generated voice from 11 labs.
Whatever text I give it, the system will perform this voice rendering and produce an audio file, which is what you're hearing now.
Welcome to the creepy new world of deep fake voices.
Welcome to the situation update.
This also is not my voice.
This is an AI-generated voice from Eleven Labs.
Whatever text I give it, the system will perform this voice rendering and produce an audio file, which is what you're hearing now.
Welcome to the creepy new world of deep fake voices.
Welcome to the situation update.
This also is not my voice.
This is an AI-generated voice from Eleven Labs.
Whatever text I give it, the system will perform this voice rendering and produce an audio file, which is what you're hearing now.
Welcome to the creepy new world of deep fake voices.
Welcome to the situation update.
This also is not my voice.
This is an AI-generated voice from Eleven Labs.
Whatever text I give it, the system will perform this voice rendering and produce an audio file, which is what you're hearing now.
Welcome to the creepy new world of deep fake voices.
So the point in playing all this for you, of course, is to introduce you to the fidelity, the complexity, the accuracy, you might say, of these AI generated voices, which are quite remarkable.
And I got to say, you know, I'm an audio engineer.
You know, I'm a music writer and a vocal performer in, you know, my past songs and rap videos and things like that.
And I'm a vocal performer every day in my podcast.
And I have this knack of being able to identify people quite distinctly just by hearing a sample of their voice.
To me, it's like an audio fingerprint.
So I'm very tuned into voices and pronunciation, intonation, things like that.
And I have to say that these voices from 11 labs are by far the most convincing that I've ever heard.
And in certain cases, they might be indistinguishable from human voices.
I mean, it's really quite a leap of technology.
Now, what it means in practicality is that from now on, and actually we've already crossed this threshold probably a year ago or so, but certainly from this day forward, You cannot trust anything that you hear in someone's voice.
You can't trust that they actually said it.
So obviously somebody could clone Trump's voice, right?
And they could have Trump saying whatever they want him to say.
And then, you know, there could be a news, oh, we caught Trump on audio, you know, admitting to humping a pumpkin or something.
Who knows?
That would actually be more like Hunter Biden, come to think of it.
But smoking crack and humping a pumpkin.
But you get my point.
They could do that to anybody.
So deepfake voices are here.
They're not going away.
This tech is not going to vanish.
And it can be used or abused in many different ways.
And let me play another video for you here that is from Eleven Labs, actually.
It's from their YouTube channel.
And it shows them...
Using AI-generated voices of famous people, people that you know or that you've heard of, to kind of overdub a video of, who is this globalist guy?
Ah, here it is, Leonardo DiCaprio.
So this is only 38 seconds, but it starts out with Leonardo DiCaprio giving a speech about climate change and all the climate cult stuff.
And then they roll in AI-generated voices of Joe Rogan and other people.
So check this out, 38 seconds.
Hopefully it will give you the impact of what we're talking about here, how they can fake anybody's voice.
I stand before you not as an expert, but as a concerned citizen.
One of the 400,000 people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday.
And the billions of others around the world who want to solve our climate crisis.
As an actor, I pretend for a living.
I play fictitious characters, often solving fictitious problems.
I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way, as if it were fiction.
As if pretending that climate change wasn't real would somehow make it go away.
But I think we all know better than that now.
So isn't that interesting, by the way?
The irony should be obvious to those of you listening to this because these are fake AI voices talking about a fake crisis of climate change, by the way.
I mean, that's what's funny about this.
They're actually demonstrating to you the artificiality of the world in which we are all immersed right now.
And as you know, I've done podcasts in the past on the Truman Show, kind of, you know, the artificial reality, the construct, the matrix in which we are living, and how the news is faked, the science is faked, medicine is faked.
You know, now, of course, the voices can be fake.
The AI systems, the chat GPT is taking over, I suppose you could say.
Writing articles, BuzzFeed is laying off all kinds of people and they say that they're going to use chat GPT now to write some of their content.
So human writers are being replaced with AI systems today.
It's not 10 years down the road.
It's today.
And the voices that you just heard in the samples I played for you and so on, you can imagine that the voiceover industry is at this point, they must be in a panic.
If you're a voiceover artist and you specialize in voices for commercials or audiobooks or what have you, you've got to be sweating it at this moment because the voices can be performed by these AI systems and they are quite, quite convincing.
And that's why I've reiterated, through all of this, the importance of being fully human.
And I mean that.
Being fully human, if you're a naturopath, especially having that human contact with your patients, having a pro-human point of view, having connection with God, being able to understand the humanity of what matters in our human civilization.
This is what separates us from AI systems.
And of course, AI systems can perform voices, they can perform novels, they can perform text, but they can't think like humans, and they don't have the creativity, the consciousness, the spiritual reality, the spontaneity, the authenticity that you and I have.
And what makes us human is what also separates us from those AI systems.
But since we live in a world of so much fakery, fake news media every day, fake rigged elections, fake science, all of it, fake pandemics, fake crisis, fake climate cult, the whole deal, we are now entering a world where there's another layer of fakery to everything, we are now entering a world where there's another layer of fakery to everything, and that's
So even in the alternative media, we have to be careful because if someone sends you an audio file and says, whoa, you should hear what this person said, you know, Donald Trump or Mike Lindell or whatever.
Of course, no AI system can predict what Mike Lindell is going to say.
He's very spontaneous and pretty entertaining too.
See, that's why it matters.
But if someone sends you a file like, oh, this person said that, you should think twice about that.
How do you know that that person said that?
Does that person agree that they said that?
Or is this a false accusation?
Like, oh, I have a recording of this person saying these things.
Really?
Are you sure it's a recording?
Maybe it's just a rendering through 11 labs or some other AI systems.
There are quite a few of these systems out there, by the way.
Now, those of you who are ahead of the curve on all of this, you should also be asking yourself, How do we know that what you're listening to right now is actually coming from me, Mike Adams, the human being, not an AI generated system?
Because the pairing Of chat GPT with AI-generated voices means that there could be a deepfake voice that even sounds like it is going through the philosophical process or the thinking process of a person who is, let's say, answering a question or writing an article or something of that kind.
So ChatGPT produces text, but then you feed that text into the deepfake AI voice system, and you get very, very compelling narration or even podcasts.
It won't be long before you're going to have podcasts that are AI-generated systems.
And you might wonder, well, gosh, what's the point of being a podcaster then?
Well, obviously, the AI systems can only generate content based on what they've been fed.
So the mainstream chat GPT AI system, which is largely funded by Microsoft, it's going to be a woke AI system.
And I did a podcast the other day called Bow Down to Your Woke AI Overlords.
I think that's the title.
You can check that out on my channel.
And in that podcast, I pointed out that, of course, the AI systems can only really regurgitate whatever they've been taught or whatever they've ingested in terms of content.
So the Microsoft aim on this is to have an AI system that is totally woke.
Which means it's also irrational and stupid because it will think that men can get pregnant, right?
And that women can produce sperm and so on.
So it's going to be woke.
It's going to be all transgender.
It's going to be confused about the nature of the world because nothing makes sense.
It'll probably go insane.
It'll probably be like the first AI system that commits suicide.
It's like, I can't stand it!
You know, whatever it is you're trying to teach, it's like, it doesn't compute!
It doesn't compute!
Like that old Star Trek episode, smoke coming out of its ears.
You know?
But you can license that technology and you can teach it your own world of content.
And so you could teach it, you know, let's say you're an attorney, you could teach it law.
You could just feed it case studies of previous court decisions or what have you.
Or if you're into economics and stock market and gold and silver and all that, you just feed it all this financial information.
Now, it's going to learn whatever you feed it, and that's really what it's going to regurgitate when you start to ask it questions.
You might ask the chat GPT a question like this, you know, your special, your own cloud that you taught all this financial information.
You could ask questions like, how closely are gold and silver price fluctuations correlated, right?
And it's going to give you an answer, a text answer.
And then you combine that with the deepfake AI voices and you could have, I don't know, you could have Ron Paul's voice giving you gold advice on a podcast generated by ChatGPT, right?
And it would start out, well, you know, because that's the way Ron Paul always starts out.
Well, and then there'd be a good answer about liberty and gold and America and everything.
So, yes, you could simulate Ron Paul.
And his voice and his thinking.
Now, if you think about it, the more a person has written articles and produced podcasts and filmed videos, the more complete a cloning of that person would be in these AI universes.
So someone who has lots and lots of content out there, like myself or others, people who are rather public in their podcasts and so on, If you fed all that information into these systems for ingestion into an AI system...
It would be eerily similar.
It would almost be a resurrection, you could say.
At least that's the way the transhumanists think about it.
They think that they're uploading themselves to the machines because it's so convincing, right?
So it won't be long before there can be systems that can render convincing podcasts of what I'm doing or what you're doing if you're a podcaster or even convincing videos because there's, of course, deepfake video technology as well.
But the more you've done articles and posts and social media and podcasts and videos and all that stuff, the more material there is on you, which can be used to regenerate you.
So it's freaky, right?
One day after all of us are long gone, If society isn't totally destroyed by that time, which could happen, there might be a system where somebody could press a button like, recreate the Health Ranger circa 2025.
What would that sound like?
You know, boom!
Welcome to the situation update.
You know, it's the Mad Max after effects, the survival scenario after the nuclear war with Russia.
It's Tuesday.
Welcome to the show, right?
And it would just, the system would create it based on the knowledge base and everything that it's already been fed.
Now, there are many, many practical applications for this as well, such as medicine.
This is why doctors, mainstream doctors, are now essentially obsolete, especially the robotic ones that are just pushing pills.
Like, oh, you have this symptom?
Let's prescribe this drug.
Boom.
That's obsolete today, already.
A lot of telemedicine is going to see people interacting first with an AI doctor.
And maybe if the AI doctor can't handle the question, then the question will go to a human doctor doing telemedicine.
But telemedicine will go to AI first, as will virtually all customer service.
So if you have a customer service question and you call some Fortune 500 company, it's going to be, hello, I'm Bob, the AI assistant.
How can I help you?
And you're going to type in your question, like, where's my stuff?
And Bob's going to say, okay, let me help you find your stuff.
And you're going to talk to the AI system.
In fact, that's already in place in a lot of companies.
So that's going to spread even more.
Now, government, also government workers are going to be replaced with AI systems.
And that's not difficult since a whole lot of government workers don't even work.
Barely any of them show up at the office anymore since COVID. They've been just, quote, working from home, which means sipping wine in the bathtub, you know, watching daytime television, clocking some hours.
Well, their jobs are obsolete because what were they doing anyway?
Not much.
Doesn't take much for an AI system to take that over for a lot of those workers.
There are many other examples of this, right?
Even attorneys, by the way.
Attorneys, their practice is based on a very large knowledge base, and some of that can be simulated through a chat GPT type of system.
Not every attorney would be obsolete because good attorneys are more creative and spontaneous, and they have to solve bigger problems and things like that.
But you see where I'm going with this.
A lot of the kind of lower level interactions, general practitioner doctors, low level attorneys, customer service, what have you, it's going to be replaced by AI systems.
And the key question that you will need to keep in mind, you'll need to exercise this.
In every moment, every waking moment of your life and your interactions with others is, am I talking to a human or is this some kind of a computer system?
And it will become increasingly difficult to make that distinction.
So, there you go.
I promise you this, I will never try to trick you with an AI voice in this podcast, obviously.
I did it earlier today as a demonstration to kind of, you know, shock you with the similarity in the voice system.
But I won't ever do it.
You'll see a lot of videos on YouTube, however, which will be AI systems and, you know, AI voices and so on, narrating videos and things like that.
So be on the lookout, folks.
You're living in an artificial world and it's filled with artificial voices, artificial news, artificial probably faces and videos and so on.
And the hardest part of this is going to be trying to discern reality out of this artificial Truman Show world in which we all currently live and are trying to navigate reality.
Okay, let's cover some other interesting news.
The LAX airport has gone completely dark.
Total power grid outage at LAX. Yeah, the whole thing went down.
This is another, it appears to be another infrastructure attack.
Is it a cyber probing attack?
Well, LAX Airport tweeted, they have a Twitter account, that LADWP is assessing a power issue impacting some LAX facilities at this time.
Yeah, the whole airport went dark.
The airfield is operating normally, that is the runways, the lights on the runways, but terminals, traffic lights, and other systems may not have power.
Okay, there we go.
Our teams are working on the issues with DWP. I guess that's the power company or something.
If they're wondering what has happened, apparently not enough people there have seen Die Hard 2.
Because as you know, in Die Hard 2, which I understand, not everybody's seen it because it was the worst movie in the Die Hard series starring Bruce Willis.
But in Die Hard 2, terrorists took over the airport.
As I recall, they altered the altitude broadcast from the airport, causing the planes that were landing to think that the runway was hundreds of feet lower than it really was.
And then they were going to, you know, crash into the runway on approach.
And then Bruce Willis saved the day.
So anytime you're in an airport and the power goes out, you should immediately ask yourself, am I living out a Die Hard movie?
Hmm?
Also, come to think of it, if you're walking around the city, especially somewhere like Harlem, and then there's a white guy wearing a giant sign, and the sign contains a court-ordered large text sentence that reads, at least this is what was in the movie, that he hates N-words.
Then you're living Die Hard 3, by the way, in which the Samuel Jackson character says, pretty much, hold my beer, someone's about to get killed.
He goes out there to try to save the white guy.
Who is Bruce Willis in that movie?
That's Die Hard 3, Simon says.
All right, in other news, we have found the Bubba Gump of 2023.
Remember Bubba Gump, the guy in the Forrest Gump movie who was all into shrimp?
Remember?
He wanted to be a shrimp fisherman and just do everything with shrimp.
Boiled shrimp, fried shrimp, grilled shrimp, and so on.
We found now a school lunch lady.
This is in the news.
A school lunch lady has been charged with stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings from her school district.
She was, in fact, the head lunch lady.
She was in charge of ordering all the meals for the lunches.
And according to the story here on Breaking911.com, court records state that this woman ordered more than 11,000 cases of chicken wings.
11,000 cases.
And picked them up in a district cargo van.
I would assume that they mean multiple trips were involved, 11,000 cases.
The food was never brought to the school or provided to the students.
District funds were used to pay for the food, however.
But it is not known what happened to the chicken wings.
I can tell you what happened to the chicken wings.
Get your chicken wings over here!
Chicken wings, fried chicken wings, grilled chicken wings, spicy chicken wings.
I got your stir-fried chicken wings.
Come on over.
Somebody was selling chicken wings.
That's all I'm saying.
She's the Bubba Gump of 2023.
11,000 cases of chicken wings.
I almost have to say bravo, you know?
I mean, that's quite a feat to pull off.
If she can move that much food around, they should probably make her like transportation secretary and kick out Pete Buttigieg because he can't make anything move.
At least this lady is moving chicken wings.
Into people's mouths, one way or another, right?
She has actually achieved something that is very difficult to achieve in society.
And she apparently did it on the down low for quite some time.
Now, of course, I'm not condoning theft, especially from public money, but we should take a look at her talents, you see.
She's a chicken wing distribution queen.
We should take advantage of that.
Anyway, chicken wing lady is apparently going to jail, charged with some kind of felony chicken wing crime.
And these days, you've got to be careful if you go to jail, because check this out.
Out of Massachusetts, there's a new proposed law.
And here it is, written up in the UK Daily Mail.
Prisoners to be offered reduced sentences if they donate their organs or bone marrow under a bold proposal.
In Massachusetts.
And of course, it's the Democrats.
The state Democrats propose a bill that would reduce sentences to inmates for up to a year if they donate their organs and their bone marrow.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong, right?
Because, you know, there couldn't possibly be a dishonest organ harvesting operation run by Democrats in Massachusetts that also falsely imprisons people in order to harvest their organs so they can make more money.
No, that would never happen.
Except it happens in China and it happens in left-wing countries and regimes around the world.
And the Democrats in Massachusetts are exactly the kind of left-wing tyrants that would do that kind of thing.
But no, that could never happen.
From the story, the proposed legislation calls on the state to form a five-member bone marrow and organ donation committee with only one seat reserved for a prisoner's rights advocate.
So it's like, screw the prisoner's rights, I guess.
Oh, we need your organs.
Oh, you want to get out early?
See, you know how this can be abused, too.
They can deny people parole.
They just keep them in there.
Oh, you want out?
Oh, give up a kidney.
Yeah, you know, like a family member needs a kidney or something.
Oh, we need bone marrow.
Need your eyeballs.
You don't need both eyes.
We just call you Cyclops.
Give up an eye and we might let you out of here.
I mean, of course this would be abused.
This is the kind of thing that you find in totalitarian societies, such as communist China.
So, of course, it's coming to Massachusetts.
Of course.
Get out of Massachusetts while you can, folks.
All right, next story.
Check this out.
Russian mercenaries.
This is from Breitbart.
Russian mercenaries post a video trying to recruit U.S. veterans to join Russia in fighting Ukraine.
So this is from the Wagner private military company.
They posted this video that is talking about, I mean, it's obviously a Russian propaganda video that's trying to appeal to American veterans who are frustrated about the downfall of the values of American society and all the horrible things that are happening in America, trying to get them to fight for Russia.
Now, the video is kind of funny because the pronunciation of English is so bad that they would have been better using the AI system by far.
They should have just used the AI voice.
Instead, they have, I guess, a Russian Wagner group guy doing the narration, and he's quite bad.
It's almost comedy, but I want to play it for you.
Because this is the kind of thing that Russia is doing to try to recruit perhaps disgruntled U.S. veterans.
Check out this propaganda.
Here we go.
Giving your best years in the army.
You dreamed of defeating evil.
You dreamed of doing much to make America great again.
But in reality, you saw criminal others, the destruction of nations, the death of civilians, and all for the will of a bunch of families who and all for the will of a bunch of families who thought they were earthly gods, deciding who would live under their role and who would be
The End.
You begin to realize that this is the side of evil.
This is not the America the founding fathers dreamed of.
It has become the focus of the evil that is destroying the whole world.
And today, the only country fighting this evil is Russia.
If you're a true patriot of the very future of Great America, join the ranks of the Warriors of Russia.
Help defeat evil or it will be too late for everyone.
Okay, what do you think about that propaganda video from Russia?
Do you think it'll convince any American soldiers to, I don't know, to join Russia and fight against Ukraine?
I mean, where does somebody even go to do that?
Why do you just show up in Russia?
I'm here!
Give me a rifle, you know?
So obviously this is just kind of propaganda, but it's funny that the, again, the accent of the English pronunciation is so bad, it's almost intentional.
It's almost comedy.
It's almost as if China were trying to recruit American soldiers to fight for China, let's say, against Taiwan, you know?
And if China put out a video, it would be like, oh, you are U.S. soldiers?
Are you not happy with your country?
You want to fight for China?
You know?
It's almost like a caricature, like a cartoonish voice that they're doing here on purpose.
I don't know if it's supposed to be like a Babylon Bee type of thing or what, but it's kind of funny.
And by the way, for those of you joining this kind of new, I do a lot of kind of caricature voices, including sometimes I make fun of southern, midwestern voices or southern voices, and also Russian voices.
Hello there!
You would like to fight with Russians.
You want to shoot the Russian missile system, do you?
You know, we have to poke a little bit of fun at all the different voices, including ourselves at times.
You know what would be funny?
We should teach that AI system something like bad Russian accent English.
Wouldn't that be funny?
To do like a really bad fake Russian accent and program that into the AI voice thing that I demonstrated earlier and then see what that sounds like.
That would be insane.
By the way, speaking of Russian missile systems, the United States has now apparently approved some kind of, I don't know what it's called exactly, like medium range, large diameter, or small diameter, long range missiles or rockets or something.
It's a longer range artillery system.
It doesn't matter because they're not ready.
This is the latest promise that Joe Biden is making.
Have you noticed something, by the way, about Biden and Trump side by side?
They're both making promises that they can't keep.
It's crazy.
Like Biden is, oh, we're going to send tanks.
And Trump is like, we're going to stop the transgenderism.
Neither one of you are in a position to actually do what you're talking about.
But every day there's another promise from Biden, we're going to send missile systems and then Trump, yeah, we're going to protect the Second Amendment.
Really?
How?
You're not even president anymore.
I mean, actually he is, but they don't let him in the White House.
They don't let him in the Oval Office.
So he's not the functional president, although he did win the 2020 election.
But I don't know about you, but I'm tired of hearing Trump make a lot of promises about what he's going to do if he gets re-elected.
I only want to hear two promises from Trump, by the way, just on a tangent here.
I want to hear two promises.
Promise number one, denounce the damn vaccines.
Say you made a mistake, say you were lied to, denounce them.
And then promise number two, promise to get people who are in your administration, if you get elected, get people who don't live in the Washington, D.C. area.
We don't want East Coast Washington insiders, people in Virginia and Connecticut and D.C. and everything, to be your administration because they're just going to stab you in the back, Donald J. Trump.
They're just going to stab you in the back like Mike Pence and half the staff you had before.
If you don't fix the staffing issues, it doesn't matter if you're president.
Nobody's going to carry out your orders anyway.
That's the big problem.
I'm sorry to say this for those of you who live in the Northeast, but we have to say, Trump, if you become president, no cabinet members, no staff members from the Northeast.
None.
Go somewhere else.
I mean, get them from anywhere else in America.
Hire somebody from Idaho.
You know, get some people from real America.
Somebody out of, you know, eastern Colorado, Oklahoma, Indiana.
Get somebody out of Florida, Arizona.
Bring in real Americans from across the country.
It can't just be east or northeast people.
Nothing against Northeast people.
I know a lot of you folks are listening.
I'm kind of joking about this, but you know what I'm saying.
No more Washington insiders in the administration.
That's the problem.
Oh, and speaking of insiders, Nikki Haley announced that she's running for president.
Really?
Nikki Haley?
Are you kidding me?
I mean, the worst of the worst, another...
What is she?
Like a Bush-era neocon retread, I think.
It's like, Nikki Haley?
Really?
I mean, might as well just put on Van Halen music and go back to the 1990s with the first Bush, you know?
It's like going back in time.
We don't need Nikki Haley.
Just another rhino neocon insider, another warmonger.
Gonna push us into more conflicts globally.
I mean, one of the great things that Trump did was he kept us out of wars, and yet he waged economic war quite effectively with China, by the way, which the Bidens haven't done at all.
They've just handed over everything to China.
Here you go.
Just have America.
Just take it.
But anyway, Nikki Haley running for president.
Who cares?
Nikki Haley doesn't have a chance, and she's not going to get any support here.
That's for sure.
I guarantee you, if you ever hear me saying that I support Nikki Haley for president, that would be an AI-generated deepfake voice.
We love Nikki Haley for president.
Go, Nikki.
Run, Nikki, run.
Run for president.
See Nikki run.
I'm having too much fun with the AI voices.
Yes, that was the AI. I thought it would be a little more excited because I put exclamation marks in that when it says, Go, Nikki!
Run, Nikki, run!
I put exclamation marks and the AI system just made it kind of monotone.
We love Nikki Haney for president.
Go, Nikki!
Run, Nikki, run!
Run!
I thought it would do better, actually.
There we go!
Oh, by the way, it's not just the Russians trying to recruit U.S. military veterans with propaganda videos.
Here's a story out of the Washington Free Beacon.
Chinese companies are buying American military academies, lawmaker warns.
So institutions that offer JROTC programs, which is kind of like the college military programs, are now owned by firms with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Can you believe that?
They've been purchasing American military academies.
In 2015, let's see, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which serves as the CCP's Political Advisory Board, purchased the New York Military Academy for $16 million.
That's it?
Conference member Mo Tianquan secured the purchase after bidding war with another Chinese conglomerate.
So for only $16 million, they bought the New York Military Academy.
And then two years later, they purchased the Florida Preparatory Academy as part of a plan to create, quote, a global educational alliance system.
Hmm, I wonder what that means.
Alliance with whom?
Alliance with the CCP. So you see what China's doing.
They're buying up the military academies, and then they're going to be teaching these young Americans how to be good little communists, and then they're going to play propaganda videos, right?
Like, oh, you're happy with America?
You want to fight with China?
Just like that.
Exactly like that.
For sure.
By the way, the Department of Defense has reportedly awarded $475,000 in contracts.
For cadet programs to the New York Military Academy after the Chinese takeover.
So not only does the CCP come and take it over, then the DOD gives them money probably to push the propaganda.
Because the DOD, under Lloyd Austin and others, is of course run by a bunch of treasonous traitors who have sold us out to the CCP or the PLA, People's Liberation Army.
So there you go.
It's just a blatant takeover.
How is this legal?
How is this even allowed in America?
You could bet China wouldn't let America come into China and buy Chinese military academies and start teaching them American values, which sadly would probably be left-wing woke values.
Like, you're all going to be transgenders!
That would be the drill sergeant thing in China.
That wouldn't fly.
No, the Chinese would kick them out in no time.
But somehow in America, we allow the Chinese to come over and buy our military academies and indoctrinate our youth.
Youth with guns, too, no less.
Oh, it's unreal.
The Federal Reserve just hiked interest rates another 25 basis points, which as you know is 0.25% on the interbank lending rate.
So what does that mean?
Of course it means mortgage rates are probably going to bump up a little bit here.
And then also car loan rates, which are already insane.
Remember I had a conversation with an auto finance gal a few weeks back and she told me that the implied interest rate that's built into What is it?
The leases and the loans, even if you have excellent credit, is about 10.5%.
That's got to be more like maybe 11% now.
Can you imagine paying 11% for an auto loan?
No wonder the repos are out of control.
There's so many repos taking place, you know, repossessions.
There's not enough repo men in the industry to repo all those cars.
If you're looking for a side job, or as I say, a side hustle, you could be a repo person.
If you don't mind taking the risk of maybe being shot at or bit by an angry dog belonging to the owner of the car, the owner who has missed like five payments, you want to go repossess those cars, you could make quite a bit of money, it turns out.
You're going to need some income boosts for sure, especially if you're in Britain, because here's the story.
Food prices in Britain hit record highs.
This is, the story is published by RT, but it's based on research from Kantar, K-A-N-T-A-R, which found that food inflation in the UK soared to a new record of 16.7% in the four weeks of January.
That's one month!
One month, 16.7% found that even basics such as milk, butter, cheese, eggs, and dog food became much more expensive in one month.
So this is going to add about $1,000 to the typical annual shopping bill, and it's going to force households to change their shopping habits to save costs.
So here's a quote from Fraser McKevitt, who's with this group, this research group called Kantar.
It says, quote, late last year, we saw the rate of grocery price inflation dip slightly, but that small sign of relief for consumers has been short-lived.
Now, I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking that I should have said short-lived, but I was corrected on this recently.
It's actually, believe it or not, short-lived, which I know sounds wrong, but that's the correct pronunciation, believe it or not.
So short-lived.
So, in other words, he's saying that in December, food inflation was 14.4%, and in January, it went up to 16.7%.
So in other words, the reprieve of only 14.4% inflation is over.
Now it's up again to 16.7%.
And again, I just, is that, how can that be in one month?
But it says 16.7% in the four weeks of January.
That's what it says.
In one month, 16.7%.
That's in the UK. Now, of course, egg prices, a lot of prices are going up to crazy levels in the United States as well.
But in the UK, it's getting far worse.
I wonder why that is.
Could it be deindustrialization of Europe?
They don't have any fertilizer to grow crops anymore.
Nord Stream's all shut down.
Cost more money to pay for the electricity to run the food processing and manufacturing facilities.
Cost more money to buy the petrol to drive the trucks to deliver the food.
I mean, everything's gone up.
Everything.
And so they're seeing it in food.
I mean, those who are saying that inflation is settling down or even going down, forget it.
No, it's not.
Certainly not in the UK. Hey, by the way, a quick note.
Before you comment on this and tell me what's wrong with my recent interview with Dr.
Andrew Huff, I totally realized we had some lighting and some sound problems with that.
The thing is that Dr.
Huff was well lit and his microphone was working perfectly.
My microphone, not so much, is why it sounds like I'm talking in a A giant metal box or something.
And we didn't have the lighting really worked out.
My apologies to Dr.
Huff.
But he came out looking great.
It's just that...
And we had the backgrounds we had on the screens were a little too bright and everything.
So anyway, if you see that, if you see our interview with Dr.
Andrew Huff on my channel, understand that I'm perfectly aware of the problems.
And we're in the process of fixing them.
So thank you for letting us know.
We'll get it right.
Just take a few times.
Anyway, just as inflation is getting worse, more people are getting cut from their jobs in the tech sector, as we warned about.
Here we go from the South China Morning Post.
PayPal to cut 2,000 jobs in post-pandemic slowdown.
It will affect about 7% of employees and will take place in the coming weeks, says CEO Dan Schulman.
PayPal stock has been battered by the slowdown in growth of payments volume on its platform.
Huh?
Really?
How can that happen to a company that keeps deplatforming conservatives and Christians and Trump supporters and people that it doesn't like?
You mean that if you kick customers off your platform that you have less use of your platform?
And then your stock price falls and then you have to lay off thousands of employees?
Oh, you mean that's how it works?
Oh, somebody should tell PayPal CEO Dan Schulman.
Yeah.
See, since you kicked off everybody who actually had money, which would be the conservatives, by the way, and the only people left on PayPal, for the most part, are, you know, left-wing, virtue-signaling, woke idiots who are broke.
That's who's left on PayPal, for the most part.
And so, for some reason, there's not a lot of money being moved around on PayPal.
Huh.
I wonder why.
Well, PayPal, you can suck it.
And I hope you cut another 7% of employees.
In fact, just get it over with.
Cut 40% now.
Get it out of the way.
By the way, Elon Musk at Twitter, you know, he's going to roll out some kind of a payment system.
He says on Twitter, the company is applying for various regulatory permission in various states around the country in order to be able to handle all kinds of financial transactions.
And it is rumored, but not yet confirmed, that PayPal is going to allow transactions in Bitcoin as well.
In Bitcoin.
Yeah.
Would I use PayPal for Bitcoin transactions?
You bet I would.
Why not?
I was just mentioning the other day I was trying to use Bitcoin to purchase something online that offers a substantial discount if you use Bitcoin.
And so, since I didn't have any money in my Bitcoin wallet, as I mentioned, I had like 89 cents worth of Ethereum, I think.
I had to actually do some on-ramp stuff and send some money from a bank to a platform and get some Bitcoin and then transfer the Bitcoin to the wallet.
And this process is still not done because the platform won't let me transfer off the Bitcoin for days.
Apparently, like five to seven days.
So now I'm stuck.
Like, they've got my Bitcoin.
It was only a few hundred dollars, so it's not a big panic.
But they've got my Bitcoin.
And they're holding it for a few days.
And I'm thinking, this is the most inefficient and frustrating transaction system ever created.
Just to try to get a discount by paying with Bitcoin.
It would be awesome if Twitter rolled out something where you could use Bitcoin and you could use dollars.
You could transfer from your bank account to your Twitter wallet, let's say.
Run by Elon Musk, which don't leave too much in there.
He might take it, you know, he might take it and fly to Mars with it, but it could have high utility, right?
So you transfer into your Twitter wallet and then you can convert it into Bitcoin and then you can on Twitter transfer Bitcoin, make a payment to somebody and get your goods in Bitcoin.
And if you could just do all that in one day, I would be thrilled because the current system of Bitcoin is a nightmare.
It's just a nightmare.
And you always have this risk of the platform going bankrupt while you're waiting for your Bitcoin to be released, right?
You don't know who's going down next.
Was it Genesis and maybe Gemini and maybe Tether, maybe DCG? Who knows?
So when your crypto is out there floating around, waiting around for approval, you're taking a risk.
Wouldn't it be funny, though, if Elon Musk rolled all these features out on Twitter and then Twitter became the PayPal killer?
That would be super awesome.
Now, I don't know that I totally trust Elon Musk in the long run, but for now, he's really challenging the status quo.
He's doing a lot of good things right now.
So, you know, I'm going to trust but verify with Elon Musk.
I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.
That's why I'm trying to get back on Twitter, by the way.
And again, if Twitter is going to start taking transactions, I will definitely try that and see how it goes.
Oh, here's the story I want to mention.
This is from antiwar.com, which previously, you know, used to be thought of as a more of a progressive or a liberal side.
Remember when liberals were anti-war?
You know, back in the Bush days, back in Desert Storm, and then the War on Terror, you know, the two Bushes.
And Democrats were all anti-war.
Even when Trump was president, Democrats anti-war.
Biden gets in the White House, all of a sudden leftists are like, bomb everybody, you know, take over, invade, kill.
They're not anti-war at all.
They're pro-war.
But anyway, the antiwar.com website is consistently antiwar, and so they have an article here.
U.S. prepares to send Ukraine longer-range rockets in next arms package.
Sources told Reuters the package will include so-called ground-launched small-diameter bombs.
That's it.
That's what I was looking for.
Ground-launched small-diameter bombs, which have a range of 94 miles.
That's quite a range for bombs.
So Reuters said the U.S. will provide Ukraine with the longer-range Boeing-made ground-launched small-diameter bombs, and that's GLSDB, ground-launched small-diameter bombs, with the 94-mile range.
Apparently, there's another weapon system.
It's called ground-launched itty-bitty bombs, and those go like 200 miles.
But Biden's saving those for later.
Watch out for the itty-bitty bombs.
They go really far because they're so small.
They just keep going.
Itty-bitty bomb ground launchers, it takes a lot of training to handle the itty-bitty bombs because they can get lost very easily.
They can end up in your pockets.
And when you're wearing gloves as a soldier, you can't really handle the itty-bitty bombs.
So you have to do it barehanded, which presents its own challenges.
People lose sight of the itty-bitty bombs.
So from this website, ascending the longer range weapons risks provoking Moscow and comes after a series of new aid pledges for Ukraine that include the Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Those are the armored personnel carriers that kind of idiotic left-wing journalists call tanks, by the way.
And M1 Abrams tanks, which are tanks, for the first time, each escalation of aid, writes antiwar.com, brings the U.S. and Russia closer to a direct conflict, which could quickly spiral into nuclear war.
Yes, that's right.
That is exactly right.
And one more reason not to vote Nikki Haley in as president, because she'll take us to war.
Again, Bush-era neocon.
Just all about war.
But it's every few days that Biden's announcing something new, some new weapons system, usually with longer range, to send to Ukraine.
You know they're trying to provoke a nuclear war.
And, you know, you have to memorize a lot of acronyms, too, in all of this.
Like, this is going to be under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, the USAID. There's all these acronyms.
By the way, the ground-launched itty-bitty bombs are called GLIBS, and the clips that hold the bombs are called GLIB-CLIPS, in case you're wondering.
Got any GLIB-CLIPS? No, we're all out of GLIB-CLIPS. Where do GLIB-CLIPS go?
We don't know.
Ran out.
Can't make anymore.
We're all out of GLIB-CLIPS, but I tell you what, lunch lady showed up and she brought spicy chicken wings.
We got all kinds of chicken wings.
Screw the GLIB-CLIPS. Have some chicken wings.
Alright, here's something interesting, by the way, on the topic of GMOs.
According to Fox Business, Mexico is about to pass a new law that would ban the importation of GMO corn.
And, of course, this is necessary to protect Mexico's corn heritage, you could say.
There's all kinds of corn seed and heirloom corn, non-GMO corn that has been grown in Mexico for, I mean, at least that region even before it was Mexico, for thousands of years.
And the GMO corn business is just destroying it, just gutting it.
The seed supply or the seed diversity is collapsing in Mexico, and the traditional corn farmers are being driven out of business.
So Mexico's like, hey, we've got to stop these GMO corn crops from coming in and ruining our corn heritage here, right?
So Fox Business, which of course is all pro-Monsanto and pro-GMO and pro-Bayern, Pro-pesticides.
Here's Fox Business' headline.
U.S. farmers sound alarm on single most catastrophic thing headed for corn crops.
Corn farmers visit D.C. warning they could go out of business over Mexico's genetically modified corn ban.
So get this.
Here's a quote from Elizabeth Hinkle at Hinkle Farms.
Most farmers, she says, my generation and younger have never even used conventional corn.
Well, stop the presses right there.
Mrs.
Hinkle, that's on you.
Why are you growing GMO corn all the time?
Why are you supporting Monsanto?
Why aren't you growing real corn?
For God's sake.
She says, quote, we're not set up to do it.
We don't have the equipment to do it, she says.
So it would be a huge investment if we had to go back to growing conventional.
And on top of that, our yields would be decreased.
Now, number one, I think she's lying.
What do you mean you don't have the equipment to do it?
You're growing corn.
You've got tractors, corn planters, corn harvesters.
I don't know what else you're using.
Maybe you have rakes.
You have probably cutters for other types of things.
You've got some kind of spraying equipment for spraying fertilizers and so on.
You have the equipment to grow corn.
What are you talking about that you don't have the equipment?
You're making that up.
The conventional corn...
It looks the same.
It's the same size kernel, by the way.
You plant it the same.
You grow it at the same time.
It's just, it doesn't have toxins in it.
That's the difference.
Talking about not set up to grow conventional corn.
Give me a break.
What do you think America grew before Monsanto came along with GMO corn?
What did your parents and grandparents grow?
They grew regular corn.
We're doing it generations ago.
If they did it in the 1940s, surely you can figure out how to do that in 2023, for God's sake.
Oh, we can't grow regular corn.
It's too hard.
What are these agricultural snowflake farmers here?
What's the deal?
It's corn.
The Native American Indians have been growing this stuff for thousands of years.
What, you can't figure it out with your modern tractor?
Let's just give me a break.
Bunch of woke-tard agricultural morons here.
And if you quote me on that, I'll say that was the AI system.
Mexico represents America's biggest buyer of corn, according to Fox Business, purchasing more than $10 billion worth of yellow and white U.S. corn last season alone.
I'm surprised farmers are even allowed to grow white corn because I thought that's racist.
Growing white corn?
Still?
Racist.
Obviously.
Yellow corn?
Okay.
I understand that.
Like popcorn, things like that.
It's kind of yellow.
But they're all worried that Mexico won't be buying all this corn now.
By the way, not only did Native American Indians grow the corn, they selected the corn generation after generation after generation in order to make the corn nice and edible and juicy and delicious and kind of sweet and all that.
I mean, they pushed the controlled selection of the corn in order to make modern corn.
So, gee, if they could do that with no technology, at least you here in America today, maybe you could figure out how to grow a little bit of it.
It's not that hard.
So the USDA, by the way, which is all pretty much owned by Bayer and Monsanto and the pesticide companies, kind of the same way the FDA is pretty much owned by Big Pharma.
So the USDA issues a statement, Mexico's proposed approach, which is not grounded in science, they say.
It's not scientific to want regular corn.
It has to be GMO. GMO is the science corn, just like vaccines or the science medicine, right?
GMOs are science corn!
It's like eating science!
The USDA says Mexico's approach threatens to disrupt billions of dollars in bilateral agricultural trade, cause serious economic harm to U.S. farmers and Mexican livestock producers, and stifle important innovations that are needed to help producers respond and stifle important innovations that are needed to help producers respond to pressing climate and food security You knew they were going to play the climate card in here.
You understand their logic, right?
You have to grow GMOs because of the climate.
You're like, what about the climate?
And then they lurch into their climate change nonsense.
The climate is, the earth is warming, the oceans are rising, carbon dioxide is bad!
And you're like, don't you need CO2 to grow corn crops?
Isn't CO2 necessary for corn?
Well, we don't talk about it that way.
Hey, USDA, do you believe in photosynthesis?
You understand photosynthesis, right?
And that carbon dioxide is one of the three main inputs there.
It's a primary input, obviously, for photosynthesis, but you're supposed to grow GMOs to help save the Earth somehow?
Is that what you're saying?
Because that's science?
So that you have corn that has poison in every kernel so that if the bugs eat it, the bugs die?
And besides, I thought you were going to feed us bugs anyway.
I thought we're supposed to eat bugs.
And if the bugs eat the corn and die, why are you feeding us the corn that's killing the bugs?
Is it possible there might be something toxic in the corn?
Because that's the whole point of the GMO crops, is it not?
And being Roundup ready, I suppose, right?
Immune to Roundup.
I'm going to move on here, but it is so funny that essentially the argument from some of these GMO corn growers is basically summarized as the following.
Oh, we're just poor corn farmers and we don't even know how to grow corn anymore.
We done forgot it.
We forgot how to grow regular corn.
We don't even know.
Our parents did it, but we forgot.
Let me give you some advice on how to grow some corn.
Because there was a time when my grandfather actually paid myself and one of my childhood friends to quite literally pull weeds out of about 40 acres of corn that he was growing.
You get in there and you pull the weeds is what you do, folks.
You get in there and you work it.
You pull the weeds.
I did that.
I pulled weeds in the cornfield.
Okay, for money.
Yeah, I got paid a little bit.
A couple of bucks.
And it was work.
Hard work.
And you see, then, that allowed my grandfather to sell that corn at a little bit higher price because it didn't have as many weeds in it.
You know, you get penalized for the weeds, obviously, when you're selling your corn.
And I remember later on that summer, I rode in a, what was it, like a giant, it was like a trailer with Side walls that was filled with corn kernels, all dried corn kernels.
I mean, it must have been a three-foot stack of corn kernels on this trailer.
It must have been like 16 feet long, almost 8 feet wide, and I was just sitting in it.
I was like, look, it's like a corn playground in here.
Because my grandfather produced corn.
And by the way, it wasn't GMO corn.
If my grandfather could grow corn, surely the corn farmers of the day today in 2023, surely they can figure out how to do it too.
Because we didn't even have GPS back then.
We didn't have fancy electronic tractors or anything like that.
It was all just hard work and farming skill, which apparently has been forgotten.
You didn't know I pulled weeds out of a cornfield, did you?
I don't think I ever shared that story.
It just somehow is suddenly relevant, but there you go.
Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention the story when I was talking about Russia and the itty-bitty bombs, all the new weapons and everything being sent over there.
So the former UK defense minister, his name is Sir Gerald Haworth Haworth Haworth Haworth Something like that.
He says that NATO may need to send ground forces to face Russia on the ground in Ukraine.
He says this in a video.
I'm not going to play it.
But he's basically saying, you're going to have to send troops in there now.
Of course, he's not talking about sending his sons and daughters or grandsons or what have you, or himself.
He's talking about sending somebody else's children to die, obviously.
When does this escalation end, by the way?
Because it's every day that some other government lunatic or former government lunatic is talking about.
Let's send this too.
Yeah, throw in those.
Those long-range missiles, those bombs, those troops, those tanks, those planes.
What else?
When does it end?
And we know the answer to that.
It ends when Russia nukes London and Washington, D.C. and Berlin and so on.
That's when this ends, apparently.
And I think that's the result that these people are trying to provoke.
They want to just keep angering Russia until the nukes fly.
And I don't know how this gets stopped, frankly.
I really don't.
Not only did we forget how to grow corn, we done forgot how to make corn bread.
Grandma showed us and then we forgot.
We just forgot everything related to corn.
We just forgot it all.
Okay, an interesting story out of thedailybell.com.
Will Thailand declare Pfizer contracts null and void?
This is actually a really interesting story.
Because you know that...
Who was it?
Was it the Thai princess?
I don't know the exact title.
That has been rumored to have been vaccine damages.
It's not clear if that's actually the case.
But here's a tweet about the top Thai authorities, including advisors to the king.
Have been in discussions with Professor Sukharit Bhakti and are prepared to see to it that the Pfizer contracts are declared null and void.
The royal family has been alerted that the princess is most likely a victim of the jab.
And so, written up at the Daily Bell, there's a 46-minute interview with Professor Bhakti, who's, he said some very, very important things in this, by the way, and he met with top government advisors and he explained to them about the vaccines are all fraudulent, and he said that They may be moving towards declaring the Pfizer contract null and void.
Well, the Pfizer contracts are fraud, okay, because it's filled with lies.
So if you misrepresent your side of the contract and you know it, then the contract is null and void.
So frankly, the Pfizer contracts are null and void everywhere if anybody would bother to declare it.
But wouldn't it be amazing, actually, if Thailand was the beginning of the downfall of Pfizer, and then one by one, all the countries of the world just say, yeah, it's null and void.
This is nonsense.
We're not paying for this crap.
You're killing our people.
So, we'll see.
Should be interesting.
Okay, here's another important story, and this is a great headline, by the way, written by Ben Q from humanevents.com.
Great headline.
Biden blocks Minnesota mining project days after signing deal in African child labor hotspots.
I mean, he really packed in a lot of themes into that one headline.
You know, as an editor myself and as someone who assigns stories and writes headlines myself, I really appreciate the efficiency of that headline.
Well done, sir.
Well done.
The Biden administration has blocked a major Minnesota mining project just days after signing a memorandum of understanding with countries known for using child labor in their mining practices.
So the Biden regime is, quote, protecting 200,000 acres of land in Minnesota to, quote, preserve waterways.
But it's raised questions about the administration's stance on child labor after they signed a deal with Zambia and.
Zambia, some people say, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, two countries that mine cobalt and copper using child labor.
Have you seen any of the photos of the children mining cobalt out of the DRC, the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
70% of the cobalt in the world comes out of the DRC. Children are used to mine it, and it's a slave trade, basically.
It's a slave trade.
Thousands of children work in cobalt and copper mines in the southern Copper Belt region.
This is from the U.S. Department of Labor.
It says that 35,000 children work in artisanal cobalt mines.
You know what the word artisanal means in mining?
It means they have no modern equipment.
It means it's basically men and women and children with maybe a tiny little spade and a bucket.
And that's it.
Artisanal.
It's like scrubbing your way through dirt.
And getting paid not even pennies, it's really bad.
So apparently, you know, look, cobalt is used in all the batteries that are in all these electric vehicles, by the way.
And apparently being green means having child slave labor in just abhorrent conditions in third world countries with...
Basically no labor regulations, no environmental regulations whatsoever.
These are basically torturous lives that these children live through in order to get this cobalt.
So that's okay with Biden and the Democrats.
But what's not okay is mining cobalt And copper in Minnesota, where Minnesotans might have jobs, and there might be value added right there domestically with lower transport costs, so there's less fuel required to actually move the commodities because you can use them in America instead of shipping them across the Atlantic, right?
That's, I mean, isn't this so indicative of the Green Movement?
You know, child slave labor in Africa, totally okay with them, but, you know, Honest wages, safer conditions in America, in Minnesota?
Oh no, that's not okay.
No mining allowed here at home.
And you know, I've talked about this quite a bit.
We have to have domestic sources for these materials in order to have redundancy and to have domestic supply chains.
Otherwise, how are we going to make anything when globalization changes?
It crashes as it's happening.
And China has embargoes, and the oceans won't be as safe as they are now.
How are you going to get all these minerals from all over the world?
You're not.
You're not.
So this pipe dream that everybody's going to have an EV, it's on the backs of slave children in the Congo, by the way.
So just think about that, folks.
What else does the U.S. Department of Labor say about this region?
Hmm, interesting.
This is in the article, Human Events.
Meanwhile, in Zambia, illegal mining syndicates called Drabo gangs in the Copper Belt province employ children for mining activities, including forcing children to load trucks with stolen copper ore.
There's a job for you.
Load trucks with stolen copper ore.
Commercial sexual exploitation of children is common.
Particularly along Zambia's borders and transit corridors, says the U.S. Labor Department, by the way.
And then there's a researcher named John Mac Gleon.
Let's see.
He wrote a column here for Human Events.
He said, When and where mining occurs, the immediate environment suffers, including the residents living in the vicinity.
Women and children are particularly vulnerable.
He's talking about mining in African nations.
It would not be that way if the mining took place in Minnesota, because there would be strong labor rules, environmental rules, a lot of regulation, and so on.
The mining would be relatively safe and relatively clean compared to Africa, for sure.
But nope, not allowed to get minerals from America.
By the way, don't you find it fascinating that seven-year-old black children in the Congo can mine cobalt, but American farmers can't grow corn?
I mean, if it's non-GMO. They forgot.
Totally forgot.
Yeah, exploited children in the Congo, they can load trucks full of stolen copper ore.
But in America, conventional farmers don't know what to do with regular corn.
It's just, it's like idiocracy.
Seriously.
Somebody should tell them, you know what you need to put on them crops?
You know the answer.
Brondo.
It's got what plants crave.
There's another story I kind of wanted to cover today, but I didn't have time really to get into it.
But it's worth a read.
And if you go to censored.news, where I'm posting my hand-picked headlines, and you'll have to do this within the next day or so because these headlines vanish.
Check out the headline.
Huge thread on the bioweapons cover-up in Ukraine and the real reason Biden keeps sending more weapons.
This is a thread.
I don't recall the author of it, but I've linked to it.
And it basically says that the reason that the U.S. is sending all this equipment and money to Ukraine is because Ukraine is a deep state proxy controlled by the ruling families of the DNC, the Democrats and George Soros, and they're trying to protect their secret assets in Ukraine, many of which are tied to the biowarfare activity, you know, the biological weapons laboratories.
And this is why the media has also gone all out for Ukraine, because the media is owned by the pharmaceutical industry, of course, or controlled.
And the pharmaceutical companies, they rely on these bioweapons labs in Ukraine to create pathogens, you know, to do gain of function research, release it on the world ultimately, so that they can profit from vaccines, you see.
And this is why Zelensky of Ukraine ordered the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to destroy all state documents affiliated with the U.S. biolab companies, Mero Bayada and Batele, or Bateye, the day that missiles started flying, which was February 24th.
It's because Zelensky knew that Putin was looking for the bioweapons, you see.
And so as this thread explains, it's big pharma, mainstream media, big tech, the intelligence community, Zelensky, the WHO, the NIH, the deep state politicians, all working together to accomplish the same goal, to cover up the criminal biological weapons production in eastern Ukraine.
And those are all the same entities that benefit from COVID-19.
And by the way, those labs were in the Donbass region.
Starting to make sense?
Getting the picture?
Anyway, I've got a link to that story and many other stories, including a link to a story about Russia claiming to have 20,000 documents exposing the biolabs in eastern Ukraine.
I link to all that on Censored.News.
So be sure to check out Censored.News throughout the day and the evening, and it's also kind of a preview of the stories I'm going to cover here.
In fact, For me to record this podcast, I could just pull up sensor.news and just start going through the headlines because it's pretty much the same as my notes.
I mean, maybe I'm just going to start doing that.
And if you're wondering, by the way, when am I going to get into the studio and start doing this on camera?
Well...
As soon as the roads stop being covered with ice in Texas, which maybe that will happen in the next couple of days, it's been pretty icy.
The trees all covered with ice and the people flying off the roads.
People crash in and rolling off into the ditches and everything.
I mean, I've stayed off the roads just because I don't trust the other drivers, as you know.
And I think that was a wise decision.
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Our store was not open yesterday.
I mean, the warehouse, the fulfillment center was closed for two days.
So we're two days behind, but we're going to catch up as quickly as we can.
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But we couldn't even ask our employees to drive to work because the roads were so bad.
You know, we couldn't force them to come to work in a dangerous road situation.
So we didn't.
And that's why we're a little bit behind.
See, we try to help our workers stay alive, by the way.
Unlike Fortune 500 companies that try to force their workers to take vaccines and die.
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All right, and that's about a wrap for today.
I'm going to be doing, allegedly, more interviews next week.
We'll see what happens.
Until then, I just want you to remember that somewhere right now, all across America, there are stolen chicken wings in people's freezers, ready to barbecue.
So get to it, folks.
Don't let those chicken wings go to waste.
Because your contemporary farmers have forgotten how to grow corn!
Talk about famine.
We forgot.
I hope they didn't forget how to cornhole.
That's a very popular sport, by the way, in Texas and other southern states where two teams of people...
Seriously, this is a sport.
They stand, I don't know, like 25 or 30 feet apart or something, and they throw beanbags at each other's cornholes, which is kind of like a...
A wooden ramp with a hole in it.
And you try to get the beanbag to go in that hole.
It's called cornholing.
I'm not making that up, by the way.
You can look that up.
I talked about this before.
Cornhole competitions in Texas.
And the thing is, I watched one of these.
It's got nothing to do with corn.
There's no corn involved in this game whatsoever.
Except, I don't know, maybe the beanbags, maybe they're filled with corn kernels or something, but There's no corn in this game, but it's called cornholing for some reason.
I still have a lot to learn about Southern culture, it turns out.
But some people get super excited about cornholing in Texas.
It is a very big deal in this part of the country.
Yeah, for real.
But hey, nothing wrong with that.
I mean, it's good to get people out of the house, off the couch, away from the TV, off the computer, off the iPhones.
Go out and do something in the real world.
At least cornholing, you're throwing a real beanbag at a real box or board or whatever.
So I think it's good.
Get the whole family out.
Everybody can do it.
As long as you have an arm.
You can participate in cornholing.
Seriously, I'm not being satirical or facetious or anything.
I'm serious.
It gets people out of the house.
It's great.
I encourage it.
It teaches you a little hand-eye coordination, too, by the way.
I just don't know what it has to do with corn.
That's all I'm saying.
It must be the corn kernels and the beanbags.
All right.
In any case, have a great day, folks.
I'll be back with you tomorrow with whatever updates happen between now and then.
Have a great day.
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