Sec. State Blinken: Nordstream Bombing 'Offers Tremendous Opportunity'
While US neocons and mainstream media continue to inexplicably blame Russia for blowing up its own pipeline, US officials continue to signal their motive and the benefit they see from the sabotage. On Friday, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken said at a press conference that blowing up the pipeline presented a "tremendous opportunity" to finally end Europe's dependence on Russian energy imports. Also today: Guess who's personal fortune doubled during Covid?
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Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today is Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this Monday morning?
Doing well, and looking forward to our activities.
Did you have your door open this morning when it was in the low 60s?
But you know, there's a lot of activities, of course.
This first subject we're going to talk about is Blinken, you know, and they sabotage, and that's an ongoing thing.
But actually, there's big news in the financial market today with the British pound going.
And I think there's an emergency meeting today with the Fed trying to sort it out.
Of course, why don't they do the right thing?
Because they don't know the right thing.
There is no right thing.
You know, when you think about it, it's always just change the management.
That's how 20 years we were in Afghanistan, change the management, do something, change the president, get a new general.
But anyway, we're going to start off with this ongoing mess over the pipelines.
And the other day, and you especially expressed how dangerous this can be, one country blowing up the property of another country in a significant way with ulterior motives.
And I don't think I stretch it that far when you punish a nation by cutting off their supply of their oil and sanctions, cutting off their money where they can't buy it.
Actually, that was a big deal starting war with Japan.
When you refused to negotiate with Japan, we just shut off their money.
So those are acts of war.
But this one is a lot more blunt.
And that is, Biden, you know, Blinken, the Secretary of State, caused sabotage attacks on the Nord Stream pipeline.
A tremendous, what, problem?
No!
A tremendous opportunity.
And who would have ever guessed?
And the whole thing is, is we have some quotes here to show exactly what he thinks an opportunity is.
It's so sinister and so wicked in a way.
And really, they work at it and they're still doing a good job right now because the media, right and left, are so strong on painting people who disagree with this.
You know, Trump's been all over the place on this issue, but he's in a dilemma now about when really to oppose it because I don't think he has his heart in it.
But the conditions are such that it's pretty hard for anybody to say that maybe Russia has their point of view and maybe we had some responsibility for ourselves involvement in this and we've identified that quite frequently.
So the propaganda, the point being, the propaganda machine is so powerful.
It's intimidating.
And that is the same time of technique.
It must be the same people that were able to intimidate people in the medical field about COVID, and even get people to lie about it, which we might talk a little about a little later on.
Well, let's put up that first clip because here's what we're talking about.
And this has been around.
This is from Zero Hedge.
Blinken calls sabotage attacks on North Stream Pipelines a tremendous opportunity.
I mean, they're all but admitting it with this, Dr. Paul.
I mean, that's what's so shocking about this.
I mean, it's so blatant.
Unless someone thinks that we're taking this out of context, let's actually listen to that first clip from Aaron Matei, which is a clip from Blinken in his own words with the foreign minister of Canada talking about what a great opportunity blowing up this pipeline is.
I think it's 20 seconds we want to hear of him.
Here we go.
This is also a tremendous opportunity.
It's a tremendous opportunity to, once and for all, remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs.
That's very significant.
You know, this is exactly how neocons think, Dr. Paul.
And as you always point out, they love chaos.
They do think this is an opportunity.
Getting us right to the brink of war and maybe even blowing it up ourselves, not ourselves, but Washington, that's a great opportunity.
That's wonderful.
But this is exactly the opposite of the tool that, if they used it, would prevent war and killing.
And that is from the day this country was started.
The founders understood it very clearly.
If you want to stay out of war, trade with people.
And the more you trade with people, the less likely it is that we'll be killing each other.
But this is exactly the wrong thing they do.
So they destroy trade that could have been very natural.
And it's just this obsession over profits and who's going to make it, who has control of the energy.
And somebody's in the empire business and somebody's in the weapons business.
And it fits their scenario to continue this nonsense.
And now it is each week.
It seems to be getting a little more dangerous.
That might be today.
There are financial reasons, but this might be today.
This thing is accelerating why the precious metals have skyrocketed so warning.
And they've been sort of dull and nothing was scaring them into anything.
But we have financial problems and the foreign policy and they come together.
And right now, in an unusual manner, it hasn't been this way for a long time.
There's a lot of activity going on on the precious metals right now.
That's interesting.
I should have bought some silver last week.
Well, let's cue up the Biden clip.
We did put that up on Thursday, but it's worth revisiting.
Biden essentially also saying, hey, we're going to knock out that pipeline.
It's not going to be allowed to work.
Let's listen to Biden in his own words here.
Let me answer the first question first.
If Germany, if Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, then there will be no longer a Norse team too.
We will bring an end to it.
But how will you do that?
Exactly.
Since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control.
We will, I promise you, we'll be able to do it.
Again, basically all just all but admit that we've done this over and over again.
But, you know, what's interesting about this is we have this, we have Radek Sikorsky, the former defense minister of Poland, saying, hey, thanks, USA.
Thanks for blowing that up.
So much of this.
But the other thing that's interesting, and let's put up this next clip, because while everyone is, all evidence, including who benefits from it, it's all pointing to the U.S. government.
You have the so-called mainstream media really carrying water for the administration.
This is AP.
They say it means Associated Press.
I say it means absolute propaganda.
Here's what AP says.
The Kremlin and Russian state media are aggressively pushing a baseless conspiracy theory, blaming the United States for damage to the natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in what analysts said is another effort to split the U.S. and its European allies.
So, Dr. Paul, it's a baseless conspiracy theory to suggest that Washington did this, even though Sikorsky, Biden, Blinken, and everyone are basically saying, I did that, I did that.
Most of the time, that type of conversation is behind closed doors.
But he was very blunt, and to say that was not a threat is a daydream.
But then again, you know, the world is not all that equal in the way you dish out the propaganda.
Can you imagine if any Republican, but especially if Trump had said something half as provocative as that?
You know, maybe just sort of it could be, and he qualified it.
He would have been, there would be impeachment number three, you know, if he were still in office.
Yeah.
Peach him number three.
But that is, that is, I'm still, you know, in a way overwhelmed because I know all this stuff goes on.
But the question is, why does he say it?
And some people have an explanation on why he blurts these things out.
But I think he was very serious.
I think that he may be misled, but it wasn't a comment made with permission of his handlers or anything like that.
And I don't even know if they answered back to that.
Sometimes they answer back to him when he says these things.
Yeah, because that was made a few months ago, and they did say, well, he didn't mean that we were going to blow it up.
But he's making such a great point about Trump, because if Trump had blustered and said something like this, we're going to stop that pipeline no matter what, and then it blew up, can you imagine?
All he did is make a phone call to Ukraine and they impeached him over it.
So it just shows, as you said, we talked about before the show, where are the progressive Democrats?
Where are they on this?
They don't seem to be around at all.
And yet I think they're out there.
I think that there's a lot of people there just looking for more information.
And I think that's why we find that our program keeps growing and people will still turn to our program.
Because I think so often a lot of people are thinking those things, but they need, I noticed this in the COVID discussion.
People are thinking these things and finally when somebody blurts it out, you know, this whole thing's crazy.
It seems like there's tremendous support for it.
And I think this is the way it will work.
But we have been hindered propaganda-wise when the left can control the media and the mainstream media does this.
And they've lost a lot of credibility, but they still have a lot of clout.
And a lot of people will follow that.
So we're still seen as the outsiders.
But I think if you put up our views to others' views, and I always think of, wouldn't it be neat to be able to do some polling and never mention that, oh, I'm a Trump supporter, I'm a Republican, or I'm an independent.
Even saying you're a libertarian doesn't make it, you know, libertarianism should be a good neutral spot between this fighting with Republicans and Democrats.
But no, they don't.
And I think that would reveal sort of an anonymous type of polling where you present the case and even the issue on various issues and say, what do you think should do?
I think we'd win overwhelmingly if it were presented in an objective fashion.
Nato's Influence on Industry Budgets00:07:03
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to put this one up.
It's a little bit long, but this is a real answer.
Caitlin Johnson, of course, is one of the few good progressives that are left that have an abandoned ship.
She stayed with the anti-war cause.
But she wrote an article, How to Defeat Putin, and it's tongue-in-cheek, and it's a fascinating article, and we did put it up on the Ron Paul Institute today.
But this is a long piece that points out.
So she's answering AP saying that it's a baseless conspiracy theory.
And she points out both Biden and Victoria Newland explicitly said Nord Stream II will be brought to an end.
DC insiders on record saying they want Europeans to be more dependent on North American energy.
Germans have been angrily demanding an end to U.S.-led sanctions on Russia.
We know that because we've talked about that as well.
U.S. naval forces were recently conducting unmanned underwater vehicle drills right where the pipelines were attacked.
Unmanned underwater vehicles have been found carrying explosive charges near Russian pipelines in the past.
Poland literally just inaugurated a gas pipeline that will transport gas from Norway through Denmark in the Baltic Sea.
The U.S. helicopters were recorded traveling between the two blast points and along the Nord Stream II pipeline shortly before the explosions.
And the U.S. Empire has explicitly stated policy of ensuring that no powers could challenge its global hegemony, including Europe, and that the CIA has a known history of blowing up gas pipelines, Russian gas pipelines.
You say, come on, that's ridiculous.
That's not true.
Well, this was making the rounds over the internet over the weekend.
But on this next one, this is from the Telegraph back in 2004.
CIA plot led to huge blast in Siberian gas pipeline.
Now it was declassified in 2004, but it was a project, Dr. Paul, in the summer of 1982 where we can put on that next to a clip, and this is from that same article.
A CIA operation to sabotage Soviet industry by duping Moscow into stealing a booby-trapped software was spectacularly successful when it triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian gas pipeline.
So the CIA has done it before.
The U.S. government's done it before.
They said they're going to do it now if it happens.
We had ships in the area, drones in the area.
There have been explosive-laden drones that were found near the pipelines.
But it's a conspiracy theory if you suggest that Washington might have done it.
Well, there's a lot of suspects in this one.
But are they going to admit to it is a big, big thing?
You know, I want to expand a little bit on that because of the opportunity things.
And who has this provided an opportunity for?
We've already mentioned a whole lot.
But here's an article that's pretty blunted, too.
You know, this whole thing of Biden, what he said, and this happening and transpiring, and then pretending that, well, we didn't have anything to do with this, that sort of thing.
But no, this is one because we've talked about the military-industrial complex for a little while.
Now, this one doesn't state U.S. congressmen, which are part of the problem of obviously.
It's NATO, but we're NATO, and that's when this really accelerated with NATO pulling off that coup in 2014.
And yet, not long after this, people started talking about the opportunity.
Like, where's this conspiracy?
It's hardly a conspiracy because it's so out in the open.
So if this works, that's sad for us because the evidence is so clear.
But, you know, when it's wishy-washing and say, you're speculating too much.
I don't know.
I don't think what we've said today is much speculation.
And we've quoted what people have been saying.
But no, there's an article now that says that NATO is one of those people that thought there was some opportunity here.
Now we find out there's a major coordination, which they've always had some, working with the weapons industry to ramp up production.
That's NATO going to the weapons industry.
Yeah, I mean, we know that they deal with congressmen because that's where ultimately the money comes.
But no, NATO, NATO is working all the corners here, which is probably by our permission.
Oh, well, people are getting antsy.
You know, they're getting tired of taking money away from our border patrols and having it all sent to Ukraine, which they are continuing to do even as we speak.
They're sending more and more money.
And here, they said that they're behind on weapons.
They're short now.
So they have to build more.
But don't you think it's wonderful that the president of Ukraine is very grateful?
Oh, yeah, right.
Isn't that sad anymore?
It's almost like he's taking charge.
I want this now.
Yeah, he's the thug taking your Halloween candy or something.
Well, let's do that next clip.
I think you put up the this is from the Libertarian Institute, the article that Dr. Paul is referring to.
This is here.
This is, and let's go, this is from the article.
Let's do the next one.
Here he is meeting with people at Lockheed.
He says, so since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, members of NATO have sent tens of billions in arms to Ukraine.
On Wednesday, that's this last Wednesday, the White House announced a new $1.1 billion arms transfer to Kiev.
Washington has led all donors by a significant margin, giving over $65 billion to Ukraine in just over seven months.
This money can be given away without congressional approval because he has a blanket authorization to use the $40 billion in aid that was passed in May.
So this is a quote from the article, and they point out this is what Biden said back in May.
He said, he was at Lockheed Martin's plant and he said, this fight is not going to be cheap.
I want to remake a point that we talked about the other day, and that is comparing what we've sent, and you've mentioned this, it's total now, I think, close to $67 billion that we've sent.
And that's bigger than the entire budget for Russia.
Yeah, the whole military budget.
Yeah, they're all in the middle of the T3.
But it's those Russians that are 100%.
But Russia deserves a bit of evaluation and criticism as well as far as I'm concerned.
But you shouldn't do it outside of the fact that if you dwell only on their infractions and not even mention what we have pointed out, where this thing really got started, you know, and it's been going on even a long time before 2014, ever since World War II ended, we've been misleading Russia.
Republicans Miss $60B Opportunity?00:09:00
And it's still hard to grasp the idea that Republicans now, who believe that they're entitled to take back both houses of Congress, that Republicans, by and large, are not challenging this massive giveaway of $60 billion, you know, while we're in a recession.
It seems like it would be a great point to make.
Well, let's move on because this is something that had us scratching our heads over the weekend, Dr. Paul.
And this is from the Epoch Times.
Put on that next clip if you can.
Exclusive, FDA is withholding autopsy reports on people who died after getting their COVID-19 vaccines, the EPOC Times says.
They put out a freedom of information request to the FDA, Dr. Paul, and they asked for more of the information from the autopsies of these people who died after their shots.
And the FDA, we can put on that next clip, this is from the article, the FDA declined to release any reports, even redacted copies.
They cited federal law, which enables agencies to withhold information if the agency, quote, reasonably foresees that disclosure would harm an interest protected by an exemption.
They're claiming that, oh, we can't release this data because it's person medical privacy involved.
But that is undermined by this next clip, if you can put it up from the article as well.
Kim Witsack, a drug safety advocate who advises the FDA as part of the Psychopharmologic Drugs Advisory Committee, said that the reports could be released with personal information blacked out.
She said the personal information could easily be redacted without losing the potential learnings from the autopsy, she told the Epic Times, who has appealed their refusal under FOIA to release the information.
What are they trying to hide, Dr. Paul?
You know, it is so clear what they're doing because specifically they say if they have COVID, that has to be the or a cause of the death or to totally ignore it is what they want.
They want to just don't put it on type of thing.
But we said that from the very beginning because there was so much distortion.
But especially now, especially if people have died from the vaccine, you know, those reports that you alluded to, that's such a distortion and such a shame too.
But you know, this whole thing about the medical privacy, that just gets to me about the joke it is because, you know, the Medical Privacy Act, when that was passed, we're going to protect your record.
Yeah, the federal government gets every single piece of medication given.
Everything goes to Washington in a computer.
I used to think that, you know, good.
They'll screw it up.
They don't even can't keep track.
The trouble is the computers keep getting better and better, and they keep track about everything.
So they started off with a finance.
But can you imagine this whole thing that they're going to be the arbiter of what information is released?
And when you think of it, well, why would you have the FBI when, oh, the FBI is supposed to help us make sure that it's kept secret.
They're used in the opposite way.
I mean, the FBA doesn't protect us.
The FBI is a participant in what's going on there.
And this whole mess with Russia turning out there's a case going on right now in a court trying to get to the bottom of this on who participated with what.
And the job is to distort it, the information.
And it's sort of like the commissions of Washington.
The commissions are never there to get to the bottom of it and get to the truth.
The commissions there are always to cover up a real conspiracy and evil or somebody's mistakes which were dumb mistakes.
But the commissions, whether it's assassinations or 9-11 or any of these things, it's there to cover up.
Well, it does smack of corruption, the fact that they won't release this data of people who died after the shots.
It really leads people to wonder what do they have to hide.
But speaking of corruption, Dr. Paul, you know, millions and millions of Americans and people worldwide suffered under the COVID lockdowns, under the reach of government, the authoritarianism.
They suffered in their pocketbooks.
Small businesses suffered, went under.
People lost their life savings.
They lost their jobs.
There's one person, Dr. Paul, however, who did pretty well during COVID.
Let's put this next one on.
This is from Fox News.
I know it's going to shock you, Dr. Paul, so hold on.
Fauci and his wife's net worth increased by $5 million during the pandemic, analysis fines.
So, Fauci got even richer during COVID.
I can't believe it.
You know what?
I better call my son.
Ask him if he knows what's happened.
How are we going to stop this?
But he's been on top of this all the time.
And you know what?
I don't think it's explicitly listed here, but it's sort of these royalties things from drug companies.
There was one thing here where he was getting money from a sort of an educational group.
And I kept thinking, that is exactly where Bill Gates probably sends his money.
You know, it's a non-governmental association.
So he was the editor of a magazine on the board, which meant he did absolutely nothing.
And he got $100,000 just putting his name down there.
Why did I get a job like that?
I'll do it.
It's amazing.
But hopefully, this, now here's another one.
Where are the people that used to call themselves progressives?
Why aren't they doing this?
But they've lost their way, except for the few we know.
And, you know, this is just a horrible thing because, you know, the but it gets, you know, you always look for an opportunity in alliance.
So I think the people are still out there.
They might have to rally around, you know, an independent libertarian approach to it rather than depending on the Republicans or the Democrats to do it.
They can do it.
They're pretty good when you're on the outside and you want to get control of the power.
Then they're pretty good.
But it doesn't take long afterwards for all of a sudden to have excuses on why they can't get anything passed.
Oh, that would be a tough vote.
I can't vote against that.
Can't vote against the flood insurance.
Well, I'm going to close out, Dr. Paul.
I think we've probably exhausted everything.
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Very good.
You know, I'm going to follow up on the bombing incidents where so many Biden and others say this is an opportunity in the arms manufacturer.
Walter Block's Vision for Peace and Prosperity00:01:46
This is an opportunity.
And I want to say I agree.
It is an opportunity.
But it's not only an opportunity to make things worse and the people who cause these problems to have an opportunity to do more harm.
It's an opportunity for us to wake up and encourage our potential allies in the progressive community and say and look at what's going on here.
It is an opportunity to present the cases of personal liberty, property rights, and minimal government and fiscal responsibility.
And so the COVID thing, how horrible that was, but it was an awakening for a lot of people.
And I still think they're awake and we'll find out how they do on the voting.
But yes, it's an opportunity.
But I tell you what, I don't think they are reading it correctly by saying this was a tremendous opportunity because now it means that we can blame Russia for it.
After all the confessions, they had pre-confession time by using it up.
Well, if there's ever a bombing over there, or if the Russians take one more step into Ukraine and Besses around, they don't behave, we will take care of it.
And reassured the interviewer, yes, we can take care and take care of that line.
And they see an opportunity to do more harm.
I see what's going on, whether it's economically speaking or in foreign policy, an opportunity to present our case because I am so positive on the benefits from peace and prosperity.
And that is what we're going to continue to do to continue for peace and prosperity for everyone.
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