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U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale On How The Fed Enables Big Government

U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale On How The Fed Enables Big Government

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Flattening Gaza: The Lengthy Mission 00:12:42
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today, we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you this morning.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Doing fine, doing fine.
Good.
Take on a few problems.
They're still fighting in the Middle East, and I think the Ukrainians are still fighting.
But, you know, I think our government's very cautious about this because they need a little fight here and there.
It's good for the economy.
Yeah, they think so.
So they're working on some enemies.
You know, we set a war vessel up against the Chinese straits and aggravating people over there and seeing if the Taiwanese want to be in a war, which they don't, and we shouldn't be.
I see no reason why we are provoking for the next one.
We have enough to do to get rid of all this unnecessary killing.
But every once in a while we find an article and find out that there's other people getting sick and tired of this too.
And this is very good.
But the headline that we got here is an indication that we have a job cut out for ourselves.
The headline is, our job is to flatten Gaza.
No one will stop us.
Who's saying this?
Probably somebody from Israel or something like that.
Flatten Gaza.
And, you know, that means you talk about closing a door, but locking a door.
And even though the fighting has been going on for a long time, there was always this hope that they would talk to each other.
But now it's worse than ever.
But the one side blames 100% on the other side and vice versa.
But it happens that not enough people realize that we have a lot of influence there.
They say, oh, how could we have influence?
I mean, these people hate each other and they're going to keep fighting.
Yeah, but what would it have been like if we had not been involved in the Middle East since World War II or in the last 10 years?
And what would it be like in Ukraine and these different places?
And I think it would be a lot different.
I think things would be better off because what I reject is this whole notion that we should be the policemen on the world.
And, you know, the Hawks aren't bashful about using that term.
Yeah, they will.
You know, we should be the policemen of the world.
So I don't think that's the case because I don't think we could do the job.
And I think it would lead to exactly the opposite of what they're pretending about bringing peace.
I think it'll just bring more aggravation and wars, these international entangling alliances.
And we will keep plugging away because I think we might find one or two things today that says that maybe people are getting fed up with what's going on, just like they got fed up with COVID and that attitude's changed.
So let's hope there's some change in attitude now regarding the senseless continuous wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine.
Yeah, and we saw this new report.
We saw it linked to anti-war.com, so you can easily find it there if you want to read it.
It's a very long report, Dr. Paul.
And the substack is called Dropsight that went and did an extensive study.
In fact, if you can put that first one on, this is the headline.
Our job is to flatten Gaza.
No one will stop us.
Inside one Israeli battalion's year-long mission of destruction.
So this was an investigation into the 749th Combat Engineering Battalion's mission to destroy all the symbols of Gaza's future.
And what they did, Dr. Paul, is they went into the social media posts of every single member of this battalion and did a kind of collection of what they were doing and what they were saying at the time.
And it provides a real snapshot.
Well, obviously, there's a lot of bravado when you're in war, and people say things when they're hyped up and hopped up on God knows what.
However, taken together, now this is a lengthy report.
We're only going to touch on a couple of entries, but taken together, it shows an intent not to simply win the war, but as they say, flatten Gaza.
And I'll go to the next one on this is what it's all about.
Journalists Yunus Tirawi and Sammy Vanderlip have managed to find and archive all the Instagram stories and daily posts shared by the soldiers of one key unit, Israel 749.
They've mapped out the structure of the unit and identified the individual soldiers and officers involved along with their various roles in operations.
They've tracked the activities of each company in the battalion, including what they were doing, when and where as the force shred their way through Gaza.
The mission is nothing less than a systematic, concerted, and deliberate effort to erase the intellectual, cultural, and social future of the Palestinian people.
So this is basically what the report was about.
And there are plenty of entries in it.
I just picked out a couple.
If you can put that next one on.
And it's definitely worth reading this if you have the time.
It's very lengthy.
This is taken from December 2023, blowing up the Al-Azhar University.
I think we covered this at the time, Dr. Paul, when they did this.
In December of 23, Company A of the 749th Battalion was tasked with rigging up the South Gaza City campus of the Al-Azhar University with explosives and detonating them, reducing Gaza's second largest university to rubble.
And here's a quote from the social media of one of the soldiers.
On Shabbat, we loaded the mines and I signed off on the shipment with a modification due to the sanctity of Shabbat.
First Master Sergeant David Zoldan, the operational officer of Company A of Israel 749 Battalion, wrote on Facebook on December 20th.
Here's another quote from him.
A few days later, we assembled them and booby-trapped one of Gaza's symbols of the future, Al-Assar University, in the northern part of the city, and blew it up.
It's interesting that he mentions it wasn't we did it because there's terrorists or anything.
We did it to erase a symbol of any future for them.
Yeah, that's philosophic and that is more dangerous than just a border dispute.
I mean, they believe they have to do it.
And that paragraph that you read, I think, is very, very revealing about the mission and the whole thing that they have to do.
And they concluded that statement, they added accurately, no one will stop us.
And I got to thinking, you know, I don't want to be that emphatic.
You know, I'm afraid he's right in writing this.
But I'd like to have added for now because, you know, nothing is forever.
But sometimes there are things that go on a long, long time.
And I think a lot could be done.
But it's something that we'll be talking about today is shifting attitudes and not pretending that, like in the Middle East, it's Palestinians against Israel.
It's more complicated than that.
And there's religious issues involved.
But the big one is entangling alliances all the way back to the United Nations and how NATO and different parts of the world aggravate things.
And those things can be changed.
And if you eliminate, which might come about automatically, is if you eliminate our dollars and our special interest in the military-industrial complex, maybe this will make a possibility that somebody will stop this nonsense.
Maybe they'll want, well, we've already pointed out they're running out of cannon fire.
They can't get anybody to go and commit suicide joining up and fighting in these battles.
Yes.
Well, let's look at a couple more entree entries into this study they did.
Go to the next one if you can.
So on the same, we're cutting into the middle.
This is just another entry.
On the same day, Master Sergeant Ori Fadida, a team officer in the battalion who participated in the operation, posted a video to his Instagram story captioning it, quote, we won't leave a single mouth breathing on the face of the earth.
We were done.
We are done with this neighborhood, as a particular neighborhood in Gaza.
And I'll go to the next one.
What I wonder is, how is Instagram not taking these down?
You can't even say don't wear a mask without getting taken down.
But anyway, so here's another one.
Earlier on December 3rd, Fadida posted a video on his Instagram story depicting the detonation of a home in the Shuya neighborhood.
I can't pronounce them, sorry.
He commented, quote, house by house, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, everything will be erased from you until nothing remains of you.
And they'll do one last one, September 24th.
If you can go to the next one, this is in South Gaza City.
In September, the 749th Battalion was brought back into Gaza, this time mainly positioned in South Gaza City, where the Israeli military had been engaged in a project of rampant destruction and depopulation.
Quote, our job is to flatten Gaza, read the caption on a video posted by a soldier in the D9 company in September and later uploaded to the official D9 company's own Instagram page.
In the video, the unit is in the process of bulldozing several homes in the neighborhood of Zaitown.
The company comment on the post reads, no one will stop us.
Now, that's either an incredibly ill-disciplined military or something is going on here.
But it definitely seems if I was a prosecutor, not that we're fans of international tribunals in any way, shape, or form, but they've kind of condemned themselves.
They're just right out there.
Look.
Well, and I think that's part of what's going to happen.
This stuff, you know, just like in this presidential election, they think, oh, I got the goods.
I will destroy my opponent.
And the people wised up.
It's all negative.
They blow it all.
They say, just another lie.
We don't believe it.
So they undo what they're trying to do.
But I think there's, you know, the people know this exists and there's going to be a lot of killing.
But instead of saying we are going to flatten and kill everybody, it doesn't happen.
You know, somebody's going to maintain, you know, the resistance.
And we'll run out of money.
I wish we would run out of, you know, ridiculous foreign policy and start talking about non-intervention to save our money and save our kids.
But things can change.
Because, you know, the other day when they killed the Palestinian leader, I said, you know, oh, peace in our time.
We killed them.
They've already decided, well, there were nine more people that could replace them, so we killed them too.
But that I just think those are, you know, long-term motivations for building the hatred.
And eventually they will shift.
So I may be just a daydreamer on this, but it is sad.
That is so sad, this article that we're reading, and the determination.
And they all believe they're on God's side, you know, that it's their responsibility.
And just as so many people in this country, they don't blink an eye because they say that is our moral duty because we are the powerhouse.
We have to be the peacemaker.
We have to police the world or they'll be fighting with each other.
How ridiculous can it get?
Yeah.
Well, you remember a couple of days ago, we showed that video of that residential housing being blown to pieces.
And I put it up on my Twitter X account and said, you know, I said I'm sure there's innocent people, and I'm sure they're all there.
A lot of people wrote back and said, that's totally untrue.
That's totally untrue.
They were told to leave before it was blown up.
So if they didn't, it's their own fault.
So a couple of things wrong with that.
First of all, if they were actually trying to get a Hezbollah guy, why would you tell people to leave?
Because the guy's going to leave too.
On the other hand, do you have the right to blow up an entire neighborhood?
You guys leave.
We're going to blow down your house.
Don't get mad at us.
But anyway, you're going to leave.
It's your fault.
It's your own fault.
Hypocrisy And Embargo 00:10:09
Yeah.
So, but thankfully, there is one person in the house side with some courage, and that's our good friend.
He put up this, he retweeted the blowing up this housing complex yesterday.
And here's his remarks.
And he hits the exact right note.
He's not anti-Israel.
He's not pro-Israel.
He's not anti-Palestine.
He's not pro-Palestine.
He has the right post.
If you put this the right perspective, if you put this up, he makes an absolutely great point.
He said, if Israel insists on destroying civilian targets in Lebanon, let them buy and build their own weapons.
American taxpayers should not be funding this.
Absolutely.
And it went all over Twitter.
I think he's got 5 million views of this statement.
And it's very simple.
You know, truth is not complicated.
It's not complicated.
Here it is.
Two lines, three lines.
And he answered the question.
And yet, there's not very many people who will go along with it because, you know, over our history, and I'm afraid it continues, is people who challenge the military establishment, they can get into trouble.
And just think of the Kennedy family and others, Martin Luther King and all.
When you challenge the militarism, that you can get into big trouble.
And yet, I think this is just great.
And we do see signs that some of the people are starting to say, enough is enough.
We're hoping that we can contribute something to the younger generation.
And I was encouraged.
You know, when I think about it, I spent a lot of time and talked to a lot of young people during the campaigns, presidential campaigns.
And I don't think I ever got anybody standing up and giving me grief.
And, you know, my foreign policy, our foreign policy, the Constitution's foreign policy is mind our own business and avoid this time of stuff.
But these young people, they understood exactly, yeah, it dawned on them.
Well, we'd have to pay for all that stuff.
And what will the results be?
Yeah.
Well, actually, you talk about some good news, and there is some very good news.
And this is a new poll that I saw that just came out.
And it's really interesting because it's the polling company is Data for Progress.
And it's a progressive outfit.
And they did a big survey recently where they talked about a lot of things.
They talked about people's view about Kamala, et cetera, et cetera, blah, blah, blah.
All this kind of thing.
But one of the questions jumped out and I think are extremely important.
This just came out.
In our survey of voters aged 18 to 29, we find that young voters support imposing an arms embargo on Israel by a plus 286 point margin.
Now go to the next one and we'll zoom in a little bit on this actual photo.
And this is incredible for a couple of reasons, Dr. Paul.
So taken together, all of 18 to 29-year-olds surveyed in this Data for Progress survey, you have 55% of them want an arms embargo, either strongly or somewhat support an arms embargo.
But if you go down to the bottom, this is shocking information.
Among Republicans ages 18 to 29, you have 52%, a solid majority of Republican voters of a young age support strongly or somewhat an arms embargo on Israel.
I think you're seeing a massive shift among young conservatives.
The question, I think, really is, is the old guard going to try their best to squash this anti-war vibe.
I want to clarify the word embargo because a lot of people think an embargo, when we put an embargo on it, it means we're going to dictate who does what.
I don't like the word, yeah.
Thomas covered himself quite well on how he described, he said, let them buy and build their own weapons.
So it's our embargo.
It's our position.
It's our taxpayers' money.
It's our military personnel.
You're absolutely right.
I think a difference.
But it's not that we want to impose the embargo if they want to go out and gamble with somebody else.
But who's going to step forward?
Who has weapons?
You're right.
That's an unfortunate word choice, and we wouldn't support an embargo.
They can buy them from Tanzania if they want to, but just not from us.
And that goes, I think that, I mean, I think that's always been your position, if I'm not in.
I know it is, actually.
It's not just Israel.
No one should be able to buy our weapons.
We should develop weapons to protect the U.S. You know, we shouldn't socialize the cost of developing weapon systems and then privatize the profits of selling them overseas.
And at the beginning, when I started thinking about this, I was no, how do you do it?
If somebody's making rifles in our country, are you going to say that they can't sell them to a foreigner?
No, it isn't so much.
The way I draw the line is if any weapon has been developed by taxpayers' money, that the people have invested in that and that they have something to say about what they're going to do with those weapons.
Yeah, yeah.
I think it's a sensible position.
Well, we'll see.
Now, there's a lot going on with that.
And I think I do sense that the tide is turning a little bit in public opinion.
But I don't know if, are you ready to move on to the second story?
You have some more.
Let's talk about it, Mike.
Yeah, yeah.
I do want to, if I can find this last one, maybe I can't find it.
Let's move on to North Korea.
Put this next one on.
So this is just an article to introduce the topic.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has now said there is evidence of North Korean troops in Russia.
Now, remember yesterday he said, no, we can't find any.
We don't know that there are any.
Well, someone must have probably sent him a memo.
And he says, there is evidence there are DPRK troops in Russia, Austin told reporters in Italy.
What exactly are they doing?
It's left to be seen.
These are things that we need to sort out.
So that's the key up.
Well, U.S. Rep Mike Turner was not happy at all about this, Dr. Paul.
And we don't know if there are troops there.
We don't know what they're doing.
But, and Mark Turner, who is he?
He's just some guy from Ohio.
No, he's very powerful.
He's the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
And I think he's on Hask, the Armed Services, and I think he's on GOP reform.
Put this next up.
He put a tweet out about this, and Dr. Paul, he is furious.
He is angry.
Go to the next one if you can.
So here's what he said.
Representative Mike Turner from Ohio.
Now that Secretary Austin has finally acknowledged that North Korean troops in Russia are in Russia preparing to enter the conflict with Ukraine, the Biden-Harris administration must make it clear to North Korea that North Korean troops entering this conflict are a red line for America.
You know what I wanted to do after that, finished that sentence.
I wanted to say, conflict a red line for the United States, and we'll do the same.
So we'll red line it and keep our troops at home.
Well, here's the irony, and you tweeted this out before the show, I know, so you already have this on your mind.
So it's a red line if North Korea happens to send some troops or some troops happen to volunteer.
We don't know if it's true or not.
Whatever they're doing, then we're digging holes.
Who knows?
That is a red line.
But put this next one up.
This is not a red line.
Here is a JPEG of, if you can get that next one, all U.S. military bases abroad.
There's a couple of North Koreans wandering in the middle of the world.
And that's when I came up with the word hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy.
I think there's a little bit of hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy there.
You know, when these people that I'm talking about, the people in our country that have a lot of power and control of the purse and foreign policy, which I think they're a minority, but they have the biggest megaphones and they have the media supporting them.
But a lot of them do it because they believe it's in their image.
You've got to be tough.
And I would say over the years, that's been good to be tough.
You know, America first and this sort of thing.
People like that.
So they do it for image effort.
But what they don't talk about, which we talk about, and say, well, if it's an image that we don't like, we can criticize that.
But what about the secondary effect of the escalation?
When we do those kind of things, is it going to escalate in the map you showed?
Why wouldn't there be a gang out there just itching to do us harm?
And, you know, in generality, I say, we keep doing stuff over there.
You know, it just might come here.
And it's already done a little bit of that.
And there's a lot because in finances and a dollar and we've built up a lot of enemies, but we still have a lot of power.
We have a lot of wealth.
The dollar is still strong compared to the others.
So it's not going to happen right now, but this course won't last.
But we have to work very hard on, well, what would you do about it?
If you don't have a Fed printing the money to fight a war, what if we're invaded?
Then what are you going to do?
Oh, I'd do what Kennedy did, bring our troops home and send Khrushchev Chump, you know, have an agreement or something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Well, I think we've about exhausted things.
I did find the one thing that I did want to mention, so I'll kind of use it as my closing statement.
Now, we've been critical of Trump.
We've said good things about Trump.
We are concerned that the neocons are going to weasel their way back into his administration, and we're worried that he's not strong enough to stop them.
Trump Wins: Shift Occurs 00:03:07
But we've also been critical of Harris.
And in fact, we don't really need to do much because she had a town hall with Anderson Cooper, and you saw part of it too.
It was a train wreck.
It was unbelievably bad.
I actually felt sorry for her because it was so bad.
But here's one thing that she did say.
You talk about people who are concerned about this expanding war having no home.
So Anderson said something like, well, what would you tell a potential Democrat Party voter who, because of your administration's position on Gaza, has been allowing these atrocities to continue, has been allowing this genocide, and they just think they're not going to vote now.
What would you say to them?
And here's what she said.
Here's a quote.
I don't know anyone who has seen the images who would not have strong feelings, much less those who have relatives who have been killed.
I also do know that many people who care about this issue care about bringing down the price of groceries.
Is that a word Salad said?
Maybe that's why she's talking about groceries.
On the one hand, there's all these atrocities.
And she said, yeah, people are worried about that.
Anyways.
You know, if this continues and let's say that Trump wins and he wins easily, I think you can pinpoint it that the shift has already occurred.
And, you know, it's shifting now.
CNN will ask her a question and follow up a little bit.
And then she just goes on and on.
And there was one time she went on and on.
Maybe it was that interview.
And she went on for a minute or two, never said a word.
And she said, well, she said, the reporter said, she said all that in one sentence.
No pauses.
But no, I think the big shift occurred when they decided to impeach or get rid of and have a coup and kick out their elected leader, you know, and take him out of his position as Biden.
And that has left, you know, we haven't heard so much from Pelosi since then.
So this was went over at the top, but that was a sign the Democrats weren't going to put up with it.
But did anybody ask him, well, what is your replacement?
Oh, Kamala Harris, she is really good.
We'll have lots of laughs.
So she likes to laugh.
So you'll see that.
And I think, and now this has shifted to reporters that aren't blindfolded.
You know, they will ask her a decent question.
They say, and they'll push her and they say, well, you never answered the question.
What would you do differently?
You wouldn't do anything differently.
See, they followed up on that because the news got so much against these people who were just trying to pander her.
So if that persists and Trump loses, Trump wins wholeheartedly, I would say it started when they kicked out Biden.
Young Minds Reshaping Obligation 00:02:31
Yeah, even though we didn't need him.
Well, let's hope if Trump wins, he does listen to those young people who are increasingly anti-war on the conservative side.
I think that's the trend to watch.
Well, maybe when it gets closer to that, after Trump wins, that we ought to see if they want to have their issues broadcast to find out if they qualify as non-interventionist foreign policy people.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And that would be a good way to save money, too.
Yeah, exactly.
Over to you, Donald.
I'm done.
Over you, Dr. Paul.
And I want to thank our viewers for tuning in today.
And I think that in spite of all the bad news, we like this idea that young people, that's encouraging.
We talk about the next generation.
And I was very encouraged and not disheartened when I met a lot of young people over two presidential campaigns.
And everybody said, why are you wasting your time?
You know you're not going to be president.
Yes, but we may touch a couple people who will follow up and carry the message.
And that's where I've been very impressed with how many young people have.
And now the fact that people, even young in high school and college now, are thinking in terms of not automatically supporting all the wars and all the spending.
So we need to thank all the people who have accepted that position and put in an effort.
I would often say in my speeches that if a light bulb goes on and you say, yes, we think that that position of non-intervention, mind our own business, is a good position.
So if that is the case, if you come away saying, I understand what it means now, how important it is, I think you have an obligation.
You say, are you going to hide it?
You don't have to do it, of course, but I think morally and individually, if you have latched on to an idea that you are convinced and you can present this in a way that is non-offensive, I think you have an obligation.
But the one thing Leonard Reid always said and influenced me: he says, the one thing is, if you're well informed on an issue like non-intervention and foreign policy, believe me, if it's for peace and prosperity and saving lives, people will finally wake up and seek you out and say, hey, will you talk to us about that?
And that's what's so encouraging with so many young people now talking about a sensible foreign policy.
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