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I personally love Thanksgiving - if you've ever read my blog, Paprika Angel you will see my love of food and travel but also the time and energy I have spent preparing this meal for friends and loved ones and sometimes strangers for years.  With minor exception I pull together 10 or more people to feast extravagantly every year, even if my funds are short.  I always have found a way because I love to prepare and feed and make offerings at this time of year from a place of love.  At one of my in person legal educational events last year, my door prize included a Turkey Day kit and the who won it said.  “Oh, I don't celebrate Thanksgiving.” and was offended by my gift.  I stopped in my tracks, not to apologize, but for my naivety and surprise - as some still believe and or are wholly ignorant of what Thanksgiving as a National Holiday is about.  So we are going to go down a little gobbler day history less here to reclaim any misconceptions of Thanksgiving back into the light.  There were no docile aboriginals showing up at some saintly puritan pilgrims' feet offering them maize and turkeys. Our mythological buckled hat pilgrims straight off the Mayflower likely did not sit down at any table anywhere, let alone with the natives of the region we now call New England.   There is however a 1st hand account in a letter form from around that time of the first English settlements of Prospectors (not religious pilgrims but gold hunters seeking riches in the new lands) that a “harvest festival” of sorts occurred over the course of weeks involving the hunting of wild game (deer, wild turkeys, bear) and the sharing of cranberries, gourds and tubers by the local native friendlies.  Likely, the “settlers” were starving to death on their own with no knowledge of what was edible in the inhospitable places they chose to set up camp, and having no supplies from England left over, the aboriginals may have felt sorry for some of them and shown them what to do.  Or for the sake of trading for weapons to gain strength over another nation, they brought the prospectors food.    The original table is a myth taught to school children.  Just as the belief that the original settlors came in the name of religious freedom and that Columbus discovered America.  The actual first settlements in what is now the United States America were all about gold and riches.  The actual first settlement in the United States in St. Augustine - and that was under the guise of saving souls by the Catholic church but it really was about the protection of Spanish gold from South America.  But if there was truly to be a first North American Thanksgiving it would be the priests and Spanish military landing at what is now called St. Augustine and meeting The Timucuans, a truly kind and docile native people of Northeastern Florida, who took immediately to the prayers and symbols of the Catholic priests, and all of them celebrated together the mass and feast of St. Mary at El Nombre Dias (there is still in a cross in the ground today where this happened).  They all prayed together, Timucuan, Spanish sailors and soldiers, Catholic priests - and they offered thanks and praise to god and the great mother, and they shared in a feast of shellfish provided to them by the friendly natives.  But as England and Spain were rivals in the prospecting of North America for gold and riches, this story of a true first Thanksgiving (coming together in gratitude and prayer to the universal force that loves and protects us) is not in the common mythology of the United States.  In fact it is buried in the annuls of Florida history as Florida did not become a state released from Spain until just before the US Civil War.  So, let's move forward in time a bit to when we have a thriving New England after the Revolutionary war when we are an independent nation open to those seeking freedom of religion, opportunity to farm, and asylum from persecution. It was during these times that we have huge influxes of Puritans who had Thanksgiving as a time of prayer.  Entire days devoted only to giving thanks to God for everything in creation.  For a long time this day of prayer and observance was the equivalent of our modern day Christmas celebrations because in puritanical christian practice the giving of gifts and worshiping saints like the Catholics and Lutherans was looked down upon. Puritans were very austere and labeled any festivals as negative, wasteful, and involving satanic invitations.  So instead they prayed and gave thanks and this holy time generally occurred around the beginning of November - the early parts of winter and the late stages of Autumn when it was important to count your blessings and prepare for the meager months ahead by working hard to fill your stores.  Pigs and Poultry would be slaughtered and salted and prepped for winter storage.  So there would be a time of feasting as things that couldn't be stored had to be used up to prevent waste.  It was out of necessity and practicality in a pre-electricity society.   People today can barely imagine going without the internet for a couple of hours let alone not having running water and electricity.  Something we take for granted with the evolution of humanity and technology, is how fragile we are without the  technology tools we have built.   This time of year it was necessary to feast so we did not waste.  The last hurrah before the lean times when people died of exposure and diseases of malnutrition and lack of sanitation. But they still paused to give thanks and pray and embody gratitude.  In Viking society even before our young country of the United States this concept of gratitude, prayer and nourishment was built into the bedrock of the culture (as Vikings were farmers and life was not easy).  You see it in the Rune stones - Fehu translates to cattle which is the rune of abundance and mobile property. Wunjo translates to winning and joy - and it is the rune of gratitude i.e. having/having enough.  And finally Algiz which translates to Elk Sedge or stage is a run of protection, boundaries and prayer because the man who prays and acknowledges what he has is protected by the Gods.   Alright, back to the US and our Thanksgiving story.  I'm writing this on the eve of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election so I think it is poignant in this time of massive emotional divisiveness  to explain  when and how Thanksgiving, the National holiday of gratitude, unity, and celebration of shared blessings came to be. Civil War.  Can you even imagine if war was outside your backdoor?  Cities burning, young men across the entire country dead and maimed by the millions.  Families lost their homes, their means of making any income, there was no usable farmland, just fields of blood.  People are starving and grieving.  Any issue we are facing today, pales in comparison to the aftermath of the United States civil war.  And it was then that the Federal Government and Abraham Lincoln declared the need for a Great Healing.  A coming together to give thanks for what we had been given by God and together as families and a hurting nation.  Gratitude is the foundation upon which the United States was rebuilt upon.   Gratitude is the strong foundation  that allows us to build in spite of the  greatest atrocities and destruction..  This is what saved Holocaust survivors.  And Thanksgiving as a holiday is the core of our nation's gratitude practice and abundance mindset.  It was initiated as a National holiday to create healing and to mend the divide between neighbors, so we could all come together as Americans again.  Not as Northerners nor Southerns, not based in color or creed, or economies, not separated by ideologies , but together, as Americans - united in the spirit of acknowledging blessings  and breaking bread.  Every thought is acted upon.  By you or someone else.  This is a Hermetic principle and a truth of the universe.  How many people today have said death to Trump!  Or Kill Kamala!  Or some version of hate directed at those who hold differing views?   Where are we going with this?  Hate begets Hate and is acted upon.  We can see this in our Nations history.  I bring this up not because I hold any political viewpoint but because I am on the side of humanity, love, unity and reason for us to come together. Let us come together to solve our challenges. Let us come together and hear differing perspectives. Let us find nourishing common ground and stop  playing the blame game.   How do we come together? With the greatest healers of all time - prayer and gratitude.  Gratitude and prayer.  Whatever that looks like to you.  Whatever God, Gods or forces of universality you choose to worship.  Look at your fellow person, your family friends, neighbors, city dwellers, statesman, countrymen and country women.  And give gratitude for this country  of opportunity of freedom and abundance we live in.  War is not at our back door.  Our daughters can go to school.  We have running water and electricity and almost everyone can have a cell phone and access to the Internet.  YES there are problems but we have the technology, the infrastructure, and the resources to fix them!  There is no lack.  Lack is a fiction built by ideologies that come from hurt,shadow and negative ego.  As within so without.  If we are victims internally, we are victims externally.  If we choose abundance and healing internally we will create healing and abundance for ourselves and others externally.   So. this is why Thanksgiving is such a special day and such an opportunity for us all.  It is a day in our collective consciousness dedicated to the GREAT HEALING energy of gratitude.  The power of gratitude is phenomenal. An action of gratitude has a rippling effect on the collective. . Like thoughts attract like thoughts.  By us all coming together in gratitude we can create an enormous  healing force of magnifying love.  We can collectively create a shift in the consciousness to healing—and not just others but ourselves!.   Overcome the divide created by elections and propaganda  language that is made to trigger our most egocentric emotions.  We can be better than the propaganda counsels. We can unite in love.  We can give thanks together in the bounty we have. We can propel humanity  forward by choosing to raise everyone up.  We can forgive the past hurts and grow as a result.  We can truly be a land of opportunity.  We just have to acknowledge in rich and beautiful gratitude everything we already have, and everything gratitude will allow us to create together.   In the true spirit of this misunderstood holiday, I wish you all— including those with differing politics, ideologies, geographies and beliefs— Happy Thanksgiving!    

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Find me and the show on social media @DrWilmerLeon on X/Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Our guest Ajamu Baraka is on X/Twitter @ajamubaraka Our Facebook page is www.facebook.com/Drwilmerleonctd   FULL TRANSCRIPT Welcome to the Connecting the Dots podcast with Dr. Wilmer Leon, and I'm Wilmer Leon. Here's the point. We have a tendency to view current events as though they happen in a vacuum, failing to understand the broader historic context in which events take place. During each episode of the podcast, my guest and I have probing, provocative, and discussions that connect the dots between these events and the broader context in which they occur. This enables you to better understand and analyze these events that impact the global village in which we live. On today's episode, the issue before us is the mask is off the hideous connections between Zionism, colonialism, capitalism, and genocide. This is the title of an article in Black Agenda Report, and it's written by the Black Alliance for Peace. It was originally published in or at the Black Alliance for Peace website, which is Black alliance for peace.com. My guest is the chair of the Coordinated Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace and Editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report and the Green Party candidate for Vice President of the United States in 2016. Ajamu Baraka Ajamu, my brother. As always, welcome back. Thank you so much. It's good to be with you once again. So Ajamu, the piece opens as follows. In April, students across the US Empire rose up with campus-based encampments designed to bring attention to the genocide against Palestine and demand that their universities divest from economies engaged in active genocidal campaigns. It came as a little surprise to anyone who has ever read a history book that US universities chose to stand by the Zionist genocide machine and instead attack their own students. Ajamu. There were and are a number of forces applying pressure to the leadership of these institutions to punish these students. Your thoughts on the intersection of genocide of Zionism, capitalism and colonialism and how it's now impacting the higher education of kids across this country? Well, the way we approached it, Dr. Leon, was to in fact, make those connections reflected in that piece. We have always taken the position that colonialism is in fact fascism, that the intervention, the invading of the Americas in 1492 by the Europeans was the beginning of the process in which two things happened. The enrichment of Europe as a consequence of the conquering of the peoples, the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the theft of their lands and the importation of black people to provide free labor. This was a material basis for the rise of capitalism and the European, so-called civilization. This is and was a colonial relationship. The peoples of these various territories that became Jamaica and Haiti and Colombia and Mexico had their wealth stolen from them and transported back to Europe. While the people themselves lacked any kind of human rights. Colonialism is based on a fascistic relationship in which people are terrorized into accepting oppression. It is the ultimate expression of fascistic policy. So we made the connection there. We said that also there are the connections of the other elements that characterize the rise of Europe and the domination of Europe over the last 500 years. This strange conception of patriarchy, which is something that was alien to most parts of the global south. This came on the heels of the imposition of Christian religions and some of the strange ideals regarding the role of men. And so-called women. So this is also part of the process of European domination. And of course all of this is within the context of imperialism and the rise in development of capitalism. So all of these elements have to be understood to be interconnected, and that if we're going to address the issues that are emerging in Palestine, for example, with the European settler colonial project are called Israel, then we have to make sure we understand these historical processes, these connections, these dots that have to be connected. So that's reflected in our piece. So basically all of the talk about civilizational assistance and humanitarian interventions of the responsibility to protect the Europeans divides over the course of decades. What has happened with Gaza is that they have now been exposed. This system has been exposed to what it is, a brutal, hideous system that degrades and dehumanizes human beings. So that was a thrust, the essence of that piece, An incredibly powerful piece at that. And fact in the piece, peace it's written that black Alliance for Peace has consistently asserted that as people rise up against the deepening crisis of capitalism, the veneer of western civilization and enlightenment will fall revealing the naked aggression and violence inherent in capitalism, imperialism, white supremacy and patriarchy. The horror of the colonial Zionist campaign of genocide is that reveal, this reveal of colonial violence is forcing people to rethink the propaganda they have internalized. But the revelation of facts is not the same as drawing correct conclusions. What got me in that paragraph in the first sentence of the second is this whole idea of rethinking the propaganda because one of the things that I've been saying for a very long time is the Zionist narrative. They're losing the argument. They now realize that the covers have been pulled off, they've been exposed, and they are now going to extra judicial and incredibly extreme measures to try to justify, resurrect, defend that narrative. And I think it's important for people to understand in this conversation that this is not an anti-Semitic conversation. This is an anti Zionist conversation and part of their narrative is conflating the two. And the final point is that not all Jews or Zionists, and not all Zionists are Jews, as in Joe Biden saying very clearly, very publicly, I am a Zionist, and Joe Biden isn't Jewish. Joe Biden is Irish Catholic, a Jammu Baraka, You're absolutely right. Zionism is a political philosophy, but a political doctrine, if you will. It is a doctrine that provided the foundation for a political project, which was a project by advanced by Europeans who define themselves as Jewish, but secular Jews who wanted to capitalize on the rise of and consolidation of nationalism in the latter part of the 19th century to in fact create a national state for Jewish people. And so the ideal that of Jewish nationalism was being consolidated, and they decided that they would attempt to build this national home on the land that was under occupation and controlled by European powers that used to be referred to as Palestine. And that process began there. So this was a political project that then culminated and the creation of the Jewish state or Israel in 1948 with the full support of the colonial powers at that time, and even the victorious powers that came out of the Second World War. But that creation of the European of the Zionist state, 1948, came at the expense as always in the colonial projects of the indigenous people. So you have what the Palestinians referred to as a nack bar where several hundred and 50,000 Palestinians were uprooted and basically displaced. Dozens and dozens of Arab villages across the territory of Palestine were conquered by the Israelis and controlled, and that became the contiguous land basis for the birth of Israel. So this process of colonial imposition is something now that's 75 years old. It didn't begin on October the seventh. It began even before 1948. So yes, this is a process and part of the ability of the Zionist to be able to be successful is the connection of this project with European colonialism, with the subtle appeal to European superiority, the notion that they were bringing something new to the So-called Middle East, creating a paradise out of the desert. These are all very important cultural reference points that provided support for the Southern Columbia project, very similar to what we had in the US territory that became the United States America notions of manifest destiny, being connected to the program of God, the white man's burden both in the US and throughout the world to bring civilization. All of these were themes that helped to provide the support for what we see unfolding today, but today is even more naked, Dr. Leon, because what that statement talked about is the fact that all of this was dressed up in these sort of civilizational discussions, that discussions and language coming out of the European Enlightenment notions of human rights and democracy and civilizational advancement. And so the interventions were always framed. Interventions by Europeans were always framed as something that will be helpful to the natives because of course, the people who were being imposed on, they needed to have that imposition because they needed to be able to develop as human societies. And of course they couldn't do that without the Europeans. So this became the justification for this project. And the violence that was at the center of this was also justified too, because it was those bad natives who didn't understand that they were being saved, that resisted colonialism, that needed to be suppressed, that needed to be eliminated. And so at the court center of the Colonial Project has always been violence. In particular the settler colonial projects. When you have settlers who come to a land and their main objective is to control the land, then the people themselves become an impediment. They're not needed. And so they are clear. That's what happened with the march across the US from the east coast to the west where they shot, murdered and raped and plundered from the east coast to the west, establishing what became the United States of America. We see a similar process unfolding with the settler colonialists in Palestine. They took most of the land about 77% of the land in 1948. And now with this invasion of Gaza and the escalation of violence on the West Bank, they are now prepared to finish the project from the river to the sea. They've always been quite clear about that, that they want that land to be exclusively under the control of the European Jewish ethanol state. And to that point, I'm glad you brought up from the river to the sea because that language, that phraseology was originally Zionist phraseology. And I'm bringing that up because this goes back to the whole conversation about the narrative. Now, if I go on a college campus and I say, from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free. Oh, I'm antisemitic. Oh, I'm using language that is disturbing to the sensibilities of the good Jewish students. That's not their language. The Zionist settler colonialists first used that phraseology. And along the lines of propaganda, I just want to point out a couple of things. One is the New York Times a few months ago had an editorial meeting where they decided they were no longer going to use the term occupied territories, for example. Now that's phraseology that came out of the United Nations, and that has been the internationally accepted reference of that space. They are the occupied territories. But now the New York Times has decided or told their writers, they shouldn't really use that. They should stay as far away from using that language as much as possible. One of the reasons being that when you refer to occupied territory, that means you have an occupier and it means you have the occupied. And international law says that the occupied can use any means at their disposal to resist the occupier. It also means that this whole, one of the things that a lot of people love to start these conversations with is Israel has a right to exist. But if you understand that Israel is the occupier, then that position then becomes in question. So that's just this whole idea of all of these Jewish students at Columbia that were under threat and being challenged. I never saw any evidence to support that story. In fact, when you look at the students that are involved in the protests, what you find is there are a lot of American Jewish students that are working with and supporting the Palestinians. For example, she's not a student, but her last name is Klein. I just draw a blank on her first name. I'm sorry. Naomi. Naomi Klein. Naomi Klein is Jewish, and Naomi Klein was one of the featured speakers at the Columbia protest. So they're going back to the narrative. What I think they are finding is they are losing control of the narrative. And you're right, that narrative is very, very important. The use of language is important and the ruling elements understand The ability to define is the ability to control. Exactly. Exactly. And that's why they were very careful, meaning the ruling elements and even framing what was happening on these college campuses as so-called pro-Palestinian efforts. Well, they weren't really pro-Palestinian efforts. They were anti genocide, anti Genocide Efforts. But the idea was to try to implant in the minds of the average reader that these people took not only a political position, but a position that was in alignment with that of Hama. And so this was the basis of the demonization of these students that didn't allow for violence to be directed at them. People has to have to be reminded. There was no violence in any of these encampments. These were peaceful protests, something that theoretically you're supposed to have a right to in fact do, even if those protests can be somewhat disruptive. But how disruptive was it and is it to have some tense put up on open spaces on a college campus? But as you said earlier, as you intro this conversation, there appeared to be decision made at the highest levels that they were not going to tolerate any real opposition on these campuses, and that what they were going to in fact do was to violently suppress those efforts. The encampments of the protests and the violence was imposed on the students by who the representatives of the states, and these were the elite campuses controlled by political elements firmly in alignment with what party, the Democrat party. So this was something that was a partisan effort, not only in terms of support of Israel, but in terms of support for the Biden policy of support for genocide. Well, Wait a minute. When you put this in a partisan context, then how with that understanding, do you explain Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the house, going to Columbia and standing there and challenging the students and spewing a lot of lies? Again, he was right there in front and center talking about, oh, the students have been threatened and all and no such evidence. And folks, I got to keep going back to this because this is so important. No such evidence has been presented. So Mike Johnson, Republican House speaker, he shows up. A whole lot of Republicans have it. So how do you put that in the partisan context? The majority of the ups have taken place on those campuses that are in alignment with the Democrats. So that's a partisan effort in that sense. But the point you're making, and I think is a very important one, is to remind people that the positions of the US state on Israel is in fact a bipartisan position that the Republicans are, even the non Trumpian Republicans are just as adamant in their support for Israel as the Democrats. So this is the nature of this, what I refer to as the growing consolidation of fascism. The popular perception or the popular position is that the main threat of fascist development in the US is coming from the Trumpian, right? As you know, I've been making the counter argument that the driving force of a particular form of US fascism reflecting the new historical conditions, the conditions of today is emanating from the neoliberal, right? That is fascist. But what we see now in the last couple of months in a very dangerous development, and I'm glad you mentioned Mike Johnson, it's what I consider to be now the real consolidation that's happening in the open, if you can see it. Why do you think Mike Johnson's playing this kind of role? We all know that Mike Johnson wouldn't even be the speaker today without the deal that was cut with Democrats to allow him to be able to avoid being displaced by his own caucus. Why was it that the Trumpian forces have been adamant in their opposition to further money, further us public money being sent to Ukraine in support of the Ukrainian proxy war, but then all of a sudden that criticism is muted and Mike Johnson was clearly in alignment with Donald Trump cuts a deal with the Democrats to allow 61 billion to go to Ukraine. I make the argument that not only is this a reflection, not only is this a reflection of the fact that the very powerful elements in the ruling class have decided that there's going to be a second Trump, but it is a reflection of growing open embracement, if you will, between the Trumpian forces and the neoliberal forces, the consolidation of fascism. So this is a very dangerous, I think, dangerous development here in this country. And right now, the most effective opposition to it are the students across the country. And that's very important, very important that people understand that because what the students are involved in, even if they don't define it as such, is really our anti-fascist opposition. I want to just point out a couple of other points that as we've been talking about this narrative, there is this narrative that the United States is involved in backing the Zionist regime in Israel because it's defending democracy. There's nothing democratic about the Zionist state, the settler colonial state of Israel. Palestinians, indigenous Palestinians do not have the same rights as Jews in Israel. There is nothing democratic about Israel. The United States says it's in Ukraine in order to protect democracy. If that's true, then why did the United States go into Ukraine in 2014 and overthrow the democratically elected Lucas Shanko government in the Maan coup in 2014? Folks, look it up. We're not making it up. This is not conspiracy theory. Why did the and put in place right sector Nazis, real Nazis in Ukraine. The United States says it must go into Haiti. Why? To quell unrest and protect democracy. The United States is the one fomenting the unrest. And the United States, the DEA has been proven with Colombian mercenaries, and assassins are the ones that went in and assassinated the Haitian president, Jovi o Moise. I could go on and on and on Jammu. But again, it's the narrative. Exactly, exactly. And that narrative is important because that determines the politics and this collaboration we see of developing this cross party, this bipartisan collaboration is a very, very dangerous development. And the fact that Ukraine is defined as a democracy is dangerous. The fact that the US continues to define itself as a democracy and a champion of human rights while systematically and simultaneously supporting a genocide in Gaza is dangerous. But you know what? Dr. Leon, the obfuscation of us policies by the control of the narrative is now being diminished. That this is what we talk about in terms of the dots being connected and the veneer of civilization and high principles are now being stripped away. We see the naked reality of what this western project has always been, this western colonial capitalist project has always been what we are seeing in Gaza is the most brutal expression of it ever allowed to be exposed to the US population. And what I mean by that, we have to understand that as brutal as we have seen the situation in Gaza, it's not even the most brutal that has developed over the last few years. People have to remember that NATO under the first black president went in and completely destroyed the most prosperous state on the African continent Libya in the process of bombing campaign that took, that occurred over months, and the arming and equipping and support of a bunch of bandits on the ground is estimated between 30 and 50,000 people lost. Their lives were murdered. The difference was that we didn't see that we had to be relying on reports primarily filtered through the western press. So this is an example that is Gaza is an example, a brutal example of what happens, how the colonial project has unfolded, and now people are beginning to rethink everything. This is what we talk about in terms of questioning the propaganda the one is exposed to as part of a so-called educational process. Everything that you have been exposed to in this country is a lie. You have been exposed to a colonial education that was geared to provide support to a interest of a ruling class that doesn't give a damn about ordinary people, really doesn't give a damn about people in the US at all, and certainly does not see a non-European people as worthy of dignity and human rights. That's why you can have a situation like Gaza where they are starving people to death, bombing and killing children and women primarily In hospital And getting away with it in hospital and getting away with it. Yes. You remember when it first started, Dr. Leon, when Al Shifter was first hit with a bomb and it was like global news, and even the Israelis tried to explain it away because in all of these conflicts, the hospitals that have always been allowed to be an oasis, if you will, within the middle of these conflicts, it will seem to be the most egregious war, criminal war crime when you attack a military, attacked a hospital. Okay? People don't seem to understand Dr. Leon, what the Israeli fascists are during today is really kind of unprecedented. They've been allowed to basically attack and dismantle and destroy something like 36 hospitals. There's not a hospital left. When our shifted was first attacked, there's an outcry, but then it died down. What that said to the fascists, Israeli fascists was, we can get away with this. And that's exactly what they did. So this kind of brutality that we are seeing in Gaza is a reflection of the kind of brutality that made the west what it is today. They tried to rationalize the attacking ealing of hospitals by saying Hamas was using the hospitals as terrorist centers. There were tunnels under the hospitals all proven to be false. Again, the narrative, it was a lie. IDF forces would even dress as doctors and male soldiers would disguise themselves as women go into the hospital, kill 15, 20, 30 people then say, oh, they were all Hamas sympathizers. You mentioned the educational process. Going back to what's happening on the college campuses across the country, you mentioned the educational process. Are there elements within the country that are using this campus unrest as the basis for them to undermine education in the United States? Because we know that that higher education in the United States has been under attack by conservative forces for a number of years. Do you see in some of this, the attacks on the presidents of many of these institutions as being an attack on academia? I do, and I see this as the beginning of a more systematic attack. We've already seen cases where administrations are attempting to put in place rules that would in effect make it illegal, or subject students and faculty members to being suspended, expelled, lose their jobs, Lose their funding, lose their government funding, Lose their government funding, just raising certain kinds of questions as it relates primarily to Israel, but also is born in just Israel is really a US foreign policy. So this is again, for me another example of the consolidating fascism here in this country. Now we are really going to see where we are once the students come back in the fall because for our intents and purposes, we're going to see a bit of a petering out of this. And of course the press is going to jump on this as though this is kind of some kind of reflection of the flightiness of students. Well, no, the organizing will be taking place this summer. The real battle is going to unfold probably in the fall. So it remains to be seen what kind of impact this will have. But all of this is reflective of the complete jettison of liberal values at these liberal institutions and liberal philosophy being, again, primarily driven by neoliberals with their liberal allies, that basically, in order for the US empire to maintain its global hegemony, it has to jettison any constraints. And so any concerns about human rights or human dignity on the part of any of their victims or potential victims that has to be ignored now is about the brutal imposition of power in order to maintain hegemony. That's why they have more than 40 nations under economic sanctions. That's why they have strengthened their military command apparatus around the world, including on the African continent. That's why they using their superior military force and political power to intervene once again into Haiti. So this is a dangerous moment and people have to understand how dangerous this moment really is. I want to move on from this because there are a number of things that we also need to cover, but as we start to wrap up this portion of the conversation, and just as another example of how insidious so much of this is, there's a law professor at Bolt Hall, which is the law school at University of California Berkeley. His name is Steven David Dolf Solomon, and he published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, October 15th, 2023. And the piece is entitled, and I just lost my, here we go. Here we go. The piece is entitled, don't Hire My anti-Semitic Law Students. Would your clients want an attorney who condones hatred and monstrous crimes? And this is a little bit about what he wrote. I teach corporate law at the University of California Berkeley, and I'm an advisor to the Jewish Law Students Association. My students are largely engaged and well prepared, and I regularly recommend them to legal employers. But if you don't want to hire people who advocate, hate and practice discrimination, don't hire some of my students. anti-Semitic conduct is nothing new on university campuses, including here at Berkeley. And what he's doing here is a number of things. One, again, he's conflating opposition to genocide with antisemitism. He is conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism. And when law professors at prestigious institutions such as the University of California, Berkeley Bolt Hall start to write to the law firms that they have influence at, in and or over, don't hire my students because their anti-Semitic conduct is nothing new on university campuses, including here at Berkeley. That's dangerous. Ajamu Baraka. Well, it really is, and it is reflective of a tendency that's unfolding across the country, unfortunately. But you know what? Dr. Leon is really encouraging that so many young people, so many students are prepared to make the sacrifice. They have understood that their positions could have a major impact on their careers. If you'll, we have a few students in the Black Alliance of Peace who have been thrown out of school, people who have just done their dissertation defense, and now that's up in the air because they were suspended and banned from the campus. And they knew this was a possibility when they decided to not only join but also lead some of the protests. And that is encouraging because what is happening is that there is a new kind of sensitivity, new kind of awareness that's being developed primarily with the Generation Z regarding violence and war. And if you think about it, it's understandable that this will be the generation that will finally be sick of conflicts because these are folks, Dr. Lehigh, that have never known anything but war. My son is 22 years old, just graduated from Hampton University this past Sunday. Way to go boy, congratulations and has never known peace in his lifetime. He exactly the 21st century has been a century of conflict, a century of war. And this was basically predicted by the project for a new American century that he was committed to using the US' superior military strength to impose the US on the rest of the planet to make sure that the US was the hegemonic power on the planet with no competitors. And that's exactly what they have been doing, beginning with the invasion of Afghanistan and up to today. And so this generation who for the first time doesn't have any illusions about the so-called American Dream that has seen the normalization of mass shootings, that has seen nothing but war and conflict their entire life, now they're being exposed to the horrors of a livestream. Genocide. And they have finally said, enough is enough. And so that is encouraging, and it's the base of the kind of alternative political organizing that many of us are involved in because unless we are able to build a movement powerful enough to put a break on these maniacs who are making policies today, we are on a fast track to human extension, extension. I mean, you look at what's happening in Ukraine and you connect that to Israel. This is a moment that these young people are beginning to understand is a moment in which if they don't make the pivot from just being concerned with genocide and Gaza, as important as that is to this being a generalized movement against war and for peace and for social transformation, then I think they recognize we all are facing an existential threat. The Black Alliance for Peace closes its peace with, as the masses of African people examine with new eyes the relationship between Zionists and Palestine, what will we conclude? Will we fall for the ploy to scapegoat Benjamin Netanyahu for all of Israel's crimes and then fall back to complacency after he is removed from office? Or will we make the connection between Israel and colonialism? Colonialism and capitalism and capitalism and genocide? I'm glad you mentioned in your piece Benjamin Netanyahu, and will we fall for the ploy to scapegoat him? Because what a lot of people don't really appreciate, as you listen to Joe Biden talk about Benjamin Netanyahu needs to go, and Tony Blinken made reference to that. Folks who really don't understand the dynamics and the intricacies of Israeli politics have to understand if you get rid of Netanyahu, who or what does he get replaced with or by? Because most folks don't understand the compromises that Netanyahu had to make in order to remain in power. And he had to compromise if this is even fathomable, he had to compromise with even more hawkish, more racist, more white supremacist elements within that Zionist society than even Netanyahu is. And he's about as racist as one could think they could get. But when you start talking about Morich and you start talking about Ben, I mean these folks are evil personified. They're fascist. And what is interesting about that analysis you just laid out too, is the fact that it is a ploy. And we've been sort of raising this question or trying to help people to this because what they're trying to do is divert attention away from the settler colonial project itself. Its nature and the policies of Benjamin Nhu. But the Nhu policies are reflection of the Israeli society. Over 80% of Israeli society supported the incursion, the invasion of Gaza. There are people who are criticizing the government for not being tough enough. Okay? So it is the project itself. We all have seen those of us who follow this, the images of the Israelis marching with signs kill all the Arabs, death to Arabs, that society has gone actually mad. They really, And many of them, particularly in the West Bank, are carrying weapons supplied by the United States. And these are rogue bans of settlers that are indiscriminately a attacking indigenous Palestinians and murdering them where they stand. I went to the West Bank in 2014 and I saw with my own eyes those kinds of elements, those kinds of racist elements holding guns, one of the most vicious and dangerous places I've ever seen in my life. Lemme add, many of these people weren't born there. These people are from Brooklyn. These folks are from Brooklyn. Exactly. Americans there you could be a Jewish bus rider, a driver one day, and next week you could be a colonialist carrying an M 16 and able to shoot and kill a Palestinian with impunity. But it's a democracy. No, it can't be. It's a democracy. A jama. Yeah. So this is what is being exposed, and this is why we have the uprising and what they don't seem to understand, Dr. Leon, that is the ruling element. There's no reversal. You see these articles where Democrats would say that in essence, this will blow over and people will recognize that the real threat is Donald Trump, and then you'll come back into the fold and vote for Joe. That ain't happening this time, especially even after all of this where you see that Trump is leading across the country, the turnout for Democrats are not going to be anywhere where it needs to be in order to stem this Trump tie. They have really screwed up on this one, the Democrats. I'm glad you raised that point, because there are a lot of people that don't. What those who make those statements do is they try to personalize the atrocities and they try to personalize the policy instead of understanding its American foreign policy. And so when you look at the policies of Joe Biden and you look at a lot of the policies of Donald Trump, Biden has in many regards, been more Trumpian than Trump. Look at, for example, Exactly like you said, it's the same policy. See the cultural war and all that. These are all the only elements that really differentiate these two parties. Underneath that there is unanimity among the ruling elements. Now, there's real conflicts of interest though, because what Trump represents are those class forces that are national. They are the ones that want a bigger piece of the pie within the us, and they feel oppressed by the globalists, by international capital of finance capital. That really is the hegemonic capitalist sector. And so they're the ones that want expanded opportunities. They're the ones that feel threatened by all of this importation coming into the country from places like China understanding that. And they understand this. It ain't just the Chinese government that's importing consumer goods. It's US corporations who use China as a platform to bring stuff into the us. And so they're saying, you all are killing us. The iPhone killing the iPhone is the perfect example. And so that is part of the tension there. And those are the forces that the Trumpian people face represent. But ideologically, they all are connected to. They all support the continuation of the capitalist system. So there's no contradictions there. It is an intro bourgeois struggle, and people make the mistake of allowing themselves to be pulled into that struggle. We've got to define our objective interests and organize around those interests. And when you do that, basically you recognize that it's the duopoly that has to be smashed, that you don't fall prey to all of these games, people being played, the Biden administration, pretending like they're really taking a position against the net, Yahoo and all this kind of crap. I mean, this is about advancing the interests of the most powerful sectors of capital in this country. Final point on this, final point on this, because we could stay on this for a month. Again, just another element of the hypocrisy. So last week, Joe Biden says, I'm taking a stand. I've drawn a line in the sand, and we're not going to send these. We're going to have a pause on these weapons to Israel. Well, today they announced what a $1 billion weapons package on its way to where? On its way to Israel. This is a money laundering scheme. Folks, your tax dollars are being used to buy and send weapons of genocide to the settler colonial state. And remember, it's not like the money's being sent to Israel. This is a lateral transfer, Martin, from of the US state to the pockets of the military industrial complex for the weapons that then get sent to Israel. Say that again, please. This is a lateral transfer from breach. It Closed in the back pew, Reverend Reverend From the conference, from your money's being stolen, taken from you, sent to the military industrial complex, the defense contractors for weapons that are then sent to Israel to commit crimes in your name. Amen. And another example, the US planned to outsource its imperialism in Haiti to Kenya. This is from MSN. The US has long outsourced meddling in Haiti to global south countries. Recently, Kenya has agreed to take over leading a US backed multinational police intervention there justifying its own stabilization mission with Pan-Africanist rhetoric. And William Ruto, the president of Kenya, is scheduled to meet with Joe Biden in the White House on the 23rd of this month as the first, I think it's 200. So-called police. But these are incredibly, incredibly brutal. These aren't New York. This ain't NYPD. This is not LAPD. No. These are US trained brutal hit squads that they're sending in to Haiti via Kenya at the behest of the United States. It's Kenya military. Kenya Military is a misnomer to refer to these forces just as police. That gives us sort of a milder sort of image. If you'll Innocuous, Innocuous. This is a, they're Going to establish law and order. This is a military invasion that is going to result in hundreds of deaths of Haitians because there will be resistance. They've already said there's going to be resistance. And so to save Haiti, supposedly they have imposed this military invasion. Dr. Leon, as you know, one of the things that really has made Western colonialism so effective has always been its ability to divide people, to have people who are people working with them who actually should be against 'em. So here we have one of the most egregious examples of that in this period, with the Kenyas being recruited to front for us white power. In that article or one of the other articles they talked about, they imply that this was, it didn't have a race component to it, that because these are black intervention of troops coming from Kenya and Jamaica and Grenada, that this is just solidarity. This is Pan-African solidarity, and they're using that term stabilization. This is, but this is the white mans bird. This is white saviorism in blackface. The Power behind this, I call it minstrel diplomacy. It's a black face on white imperialism. Exactly. It's menstrual diplomacy. They might as well just start singing mammy, Who's paying for this? The us? How did you move troops from Kenya all the way over to hay Kenya? Just don't have that capacity. Who Feeds them? Who supports them? Who provides the logistics for them? And anybody who believes that a government and a society that can justify genocide, supporting genocide in Gaza, they then turn around and are supposed to be concerned about black life in Haiti. You got to be a fool. I got a bridge for you to sell. I mean, you've got to ask the right questions, folks. Why is the US involved in this? When has the US been on the right side of history in any question? When has the US really been committed to any kind of humanitarian, anything? So this is another move by the US to strengthen itself in the Caribbean and in our region. When we say our region, we say that we are part of the broader Americas. America isn't just the United States of America. America are all of the nations in the Caribbean and in Central and South America. And we have a campaign, the Black Alliance of Peace, where we say that we support the idea of making this region a zone of peace. And we say the only way we can make this a result of peace, we have to eject the US from this region. One of the things that they love to talk about as it relates to Haiti and the violence in Haiti, all these armed gangs that are roaming the roaming the countryside like feral cats or wolves or whatever. And I haven't heard anybody talk about the weapons that these individuals are carrying. Where do the weapons come from and who pays for the weapons? And here's some very simple data. The average Haitian makes $1,694 in a year, $1,694 in a year. That's $4 and 64 cents a day. A sniper rifle costs about $1,800. Where does a Haitian, who makes $4 and 64 cents a day if he or she's lucky amass the money to buy an $1,800 sniper rifle, a 40 caliber Beretta pistol cost close to a thousand dollars, you make $4 and 64 cents a day. Where are you getting these weapons? How are they getting into the country? We don't hear. It goes back to the adage, don't start nothing. It won't be nothing. If the United States were not behind fanning the flames of this unrest, there wouldn't be any unrest. Ajamu Baraka, You're absolutely right. I mean, this is the importation of these weapons. It's all part of a process. You have different sectors of the Haitian ruling class have basically their own paramilitaries And they control the ports, But they're called gangs here at the us. Right? And the other thing that we have to make sure that we are very clear on all of this activity, the vast majority of this, so-called gang activity is centralized in port nce the capital, you go outside Port Prince, it's relatively normal. They're not roaming the countryside basically. It's a porter prince kind of thing. It's a power kind of thing. Okay? And so you're right. This is the military aspect of the conflict, the struggles among sectors of the ruling class in Haiti, the what we call copy doors who are in a cahoots with the powerful economic sectors outside of Haiti, primarily the us but also the Canadians, and even France. So this is another economic struggle being translated into a armed struggle in Haiti. And quickly talk about, because a lot of people listening to this would ask the question, well, what's behind all of this? Why Haiti? And we know the historic aspects of this in terms of the first successful slave uprising throwing France out of Haiti in the 18 hundreds. We know that story, but connecting the dots in the current context, this is I believe a huge, one of the elements is a preemptive move against China. As the United States continues to try to bait China into a war over Taiwan, the United States realizes that they're going to lose access to their cheaper Chinese labor sources. And there is a lot of labor in Haiti. A lot of, again, folks make $4 and 64 cents a day in Haiti. If you look at where Haiti is located, the United States wants to build a naval base in Haiti as another stopgap measure to protect the Pacific. We know that there's oil, some geologists have estimated there's more oil off the coast of Haiti than there is off the coast of Venezuela. We know about the relationship between Nicaragua and China. China wants to build a Suez type canal through Nicaragua. The United States doesn't want that to happen. So a lot of this has, I believe, to do with preemptive measures that the United States is taking in anticipation of what's happening in other places. Your thoughts, sir? I think you're right. I mean, the geopolitics are quite clear that Haiti is one of the largest countries in the Caribbean, if not the largest. And as you said, it is a haven for cheap labor. There's significant foreign investment taking advantage of that cheap labor right now. It has those potential deposits of oil off the coast and politically is key. We remember the connection that was made between Haiti and Venezuela for a few years. And so making sure that Haiti does not move to The petro project, Petro, Where Venezuela was providing Haiti oil below market rates, so way Below So Haiti could then sell the oil generate revenue for itself. And that was seen as a threat to US imperialism. And so those kind of political connections, they understand what many people and many of your listers may not know. Also, they are very strong currents of progressivism or leftism, if you will, in Haing. And the biggest fear that US has is those forces actually able to take power in Haiti that would transform geopolitics in this region. And so yeah, that's why they are intervening. That's why they have encouraged other countries in the Caribbean to be a part of this, The Bahamas, Jamaica, Grenada, to be part of this, what I call neoliberal Pan-Africanism, because they want to keep Haiti in their pocket. Look, the so-called governing council, they just put in place in order to serve on that governing council, you had to commit of this transitional council. You had to commit to the US intervention. You had to be in alignment with it. If not, you are not going to be allowed to serve on that transitional ruling council. And they talk about elections in Haiti, but they talk about the possibility of elections in 2026. So this is not a democratic intervention. This is not on behalf of the interest of Haiti. This is about the interest of US imperialism. Final question. Talk about this in a broader context of a number of African countries demanding now that the United States militarily leave their countries. Niger has done this. I think Chad is demanding that the United States take its troops out. I think Mali is making a similar request. And reen Jean Pierre, by the way, a Haitian American press secretary for the administration says that Ruto coming from Kenya to the United States, that the United States is going to need African leadership in order to promote the United States interest. I'm paraphrasing, but that's their basic point. So once again, menstrual diplomacy of black face on the racist administrative message. But talk about that quickly, please. In the broader context of African countries demanding that the United States leave their soil militarily First, if the US was really interested in African leadership, it would've listened to African leadership that were trying to bring about a peaceful resolution of the situation in Libya before NATO went in and destroyed that state. So we know that's all BS across the African continent. Yes, particularly in the Sahel region, you have these progressive militaries that have taken power because the civilian institutions have been so weak, and one of the first moves they've been making is to try to authentic sovereignty. What they discovered was you cannot be sovereign if you have foreign military troops in your country and that these troops act like and behave as though it's their country. And you can't be sovereign if you don't control your economy and the resources under your soil. Exactly. And so they've been invited to in fact leave, and they are leaving. The US is still dragging its feet in leisure, but this is catching on. And now with we're have time to talk about what's happening with Senegal, but you have another progressive change where the French are going to probably end up being pushed even out of Senegal. So you have a massive transformation taking place on the African continent in this section of Africa for now. But the model is a model that is now threatening to many of the other Conor leaders on the African continent that real change may be in the works. We may have in fact an authentic Pan-African movement. Finally, once again, Folks, I have to thank my guest brother Ajamu Baraka for joining me today. Brother Baraka, thank you so much. Greatly, greatly appreciate it. My pleasure. My pleasure. Thank you all so much for listening to the Connecting the Dots podcast with me, Dr. Wier Leon. Stay tuned. New episodes every week. Also, please follow and subscribe. Leave a review, share the show, follow us on social media. 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notice to a high level conversation for this disaster comes in and talks about the oil situation in Russia it's so funny how how presidents always resort to know over the last several presidents I recall anyways it's always a female individual who is always that that the talking person for the hip to the president it's like there there needs to be that feminine touch because all of these presidents are our old men who are so out of touch in the way that they actually articulate their conversations but now that's not to say that possess key isn't any good at this at all because she's horrible but it is the say you know maybe you know that that feminine touch is something that that obviously helps them relator message a little bit more clear early so people will listen to it so it's go ahead and see if you're even willing to listen to this woman who wants to tell us some crazy lies about the gas prices and oil prices and Ukraine let's go ahead and see what the White House press secretary had to say about the situation the reason why the price of gas is going up is not because it steps the president has taken they are because Pres. Putin is invading Ukraine and that is creating a great deal of instability the reason why the price of gas is going up is not I almost wanted to make you listen to it twice because it was so ridiculous the fact that she wants to she wants to pen the fact that gas has risen in price in the last year the last year only a year into this presidency that gas is risen 61% over that time 61% at least if the number is correct of the which I saw today to my Nokia didn't really do a whole bunch research into it to see that that was correct but is a 61% missing data fairly fairly credible source of information that I was pulling up from not some crazy member on Instagram so a 61% that gas has risen since the Joe Biden presidency if you go to any of these gas stations to see a bunch of stickers that tell you the story and all you need to know and they go like this I did that and that and there's been some news articles about floating around trying to get people to stop doing this because risk of becoming such an issue because gas business will have to let my guess at an event for my thing today but $30 my tank I got less than 1/4 tank today imagine being a imagine being a highschooler you know you just get your car you work you work a job just that you can have gas money and hang out with your friends also you go to the pump make $10 an hour waiting tables are busing tables whatever you do and now you have you spent $7.07 hours over the weekend working your ass off between school you know after after school is over during the weekend you work you give up your time with your friends and you make $70 after working seven hours which is up for full day for $10 an hour and now you have to put $40 into your tank just to have gotten to work in the first place psych out unbelievable how how far we've come to to how expensive gas is gotten in such a short period of time and that's not to say is not to get a whole lot worse and I'm not in a conception of a country where it's even really as crazy as it is it could be or is going to be so I really do feel for all of you that are in California and in and around the country and places that are are highly much more affected then I am here so I'm grateful for that but to me it's crazy it is unbelievable as you want to stay here and lie to our faces and tell us it has nothing to do with with Biden has nothing to do with with the fact that you know he's basically cutting off our own oil reserves that were not producing oil just like Elon musk said even against the against his own business he tweeted out this last week that we need to increase our oil production in the United States we need to improve upon our production of oil which is the only thing that you could he could have said that was counterintuitive to his business was that we need to increase oil prices he's literally in the business of electric cars and this man is telling us we need to increase oil prices maybe we should listen to him he seems to be the smartest of of them and the only one without a vested interest in doing something should be against us at this point for my understanding is Elon musk shut out to Elam but you on the like basically said hey you guys should hurt my business and help this country because I think that's the right solution because of how bad the situation got in with gas prices and then that's not to say that we shouldn't because we should be cutting off Russia because we haven't even cut off Russian oil supplies were spending over 500,000 gallons are drums drums of oil barrels sorry barrels is how they made the metric for oil for gas so Barros 500 half of million barrels of gas that were purchasing from Russia every single day and they want to talk about you know all these companies that are making a stand like Nike and Disney were pulling their products from from Russia how much business did you actually do there in the first place but ill making this this stand for further virtue signaling and in the Elon musk is doing the exact opposite is saying make me lose money and help these people out because they need right I cannot imagine how clear how squarely it's gonna get when gas is five dollars go in and held that it would probably be initially if they did cut off the rational supply but again it comes down to the fact that we have oil reserves there's literally a swipe of a pen in our gas prices will go down to a manageable amount that the under the 60 I literally remember paying less than a dollar under Trump less than a dollar a gallon under trump and now here we are three dollars and that that was because I was at Kroger and they have the little thing I scout like you 40 $0.30 off I would never happen today never happen today it's crazy so in and then she wants to rub your face in it and tell you that it's not our fault it's this bad bad man's fault that you have to pay the money even though those stickers that I did that stickers existed far before Ukraine somebody's a slap one of those I did that stickers on her for head and in drive that point home that it hasn't absolutely nothing to do with Russia or this war isn't done two weeks they think you're so stupid that you can't read a funking calendar and realize that you know the two weeks that that this this war has really been going on that your gas prices have been rising we all know that wasn't the case right though stickers have been around almost on three months and because that's immediately when gas prices started rising a swipe of a pen that's all he has to do so I thought that was interesting and it just tells you how much of a liar she is no she's literally just up there mimicking lies and Indians talking in circles and not answering questions the entire time to move on in and move on again to set another great point that Elon musk said this week again shout out Elon musk where basically this the Wi-Fi in Ukraine went down and you know infrastructure probably attacks from Russia right and so their Wi-Fi through their Internet went down they had no access to Internet and so there was a public outcry to Elon musk save us Elon musk give us our Internet's back allow us to be on YouTube at least if organ it be hearing gunshots outside and so Elon musk being the saint that he is says okay I will send*link it is on its way basically and said that he was he was doing it to help and so he sent out*link the like in the saw these pictures of these trucks of the starling trucks that were sent out to have these on the what they were but basically receiving signals from the Starling system which of you know a starling is I'm pretty sure I don't have in research a lot but I'm pretty sure for my understanding of what I've heard in the past it's like basically a satellite-based Wi-Fi so that any time in the world he can turn on Internet for us even if there's an attack on our infrastructure like there was in this Ukraine situation with my son so they said the law must help us save us please give us our Internet's back and Elon musk came in and in turns the turns the no Wi-Fi into wine I'm in it into into Wi-Fi him and now they were able to get Internet again and I'm sure there's a lot more reasons other than YouTube right or some very serious legitimate reasons like contacting your family and I don't know GP like the guess UPS is a run on Wi-Fi but but you see what I'm saying this probably very many legitimate religious reasons for country to need Wi-Fi so very nice of you on musk to just give this darling program basement which has not been used in in this way in the past to Ukraine which is really really considerate of him now comes in the wilderness where within a week of him setting out these starlike satellite links and giving them what they wanted the Internet's they asked him which I'll just call Elon musk here he says and this was on 5 March today Starling has been told by some governments in parentheses not Ukraine to block Russian news sources we will not do this unless at gunpoint sorry to be a free-speech absolution nest boom Buchan drop the Mike Elon musk hundred percent agree on it is is is unbelievable that somebody and they know who is by probably is our government in all these out you know the these welcome governments the UK that the you know the EU system the United States that are asking him to not to to block the information of Russian news sources because of propaganda so so in that light should every single and in and I also saw another information that CNN literally pulled out of Russia and has no news that is publishing in Russia because a new law was passed based on it it's a criminal charge to disseminate fake news intentionally interesting interesting right so it so not only do they want the ability to shove out as much propaganda as they want to you the citizens to eat up like cotton candy at the fair but they also want to control debt when other people have access to information right they want to control Elon musk and in all of Ukrainian citizens having access to the Russian new sources and he said no whole if it is speech wins good speech wins that's how you are that's that's the true answer to all of us writers there's no reason that any words or anything or any idea should be banned right and that's how you know that the situation is not about words anymore it's like we used to think it was I used to think it was crazy that the FTC would would block you for forcing a swear word right they would like they would charge you money for saying a certain word with your mouth sound with your mouth if you are disseminating your information across radio channels and those types of things movies TV is all that you can do certain things and so it was it was that it was basically the whole the whole reasoning behind that and the way that we see it now with Instagram as the instrument does not charge you does not does not ban you does not shadow ban you for saying words because I bleep out the words that have something to do with co-fed or vaccinations or Pfizer or any of these these specific hot button topics that are going to be red flags raised by these algorithms and even if you bleep out the word it's not about the word is not about the sound it's about the concept it's about the thought is up from their perspective about the that that thought spreading and again you probably heard this before the only way to combat bad thoughts is with good thoughts into big open legitimate honest debate Ms. Lily only way to to make good good concepts win write it if if you only give your opinion and you don't allow anybody else to have an opinion about your opinion then your opinion wins and that's the point all they want to do is because if you can control the flow of information you control reality rights like the 1984 quote he who controls the past controls the future and he who controls the present controls the past so if you own the new sources and you owned the ability to disseminate the information decide which are which will prevail in which ideas will not prevail and will be siphoned stifled stipend assignment word siphoned she's stifled then you control what is looked at as the past because those news articles are not just written for today the written first six months from now and six years from now so that when you go back and look at what happened on January 6 every news article says it was it insurrection and that was purposeful not for the moment because they know that you knew what happened they still know that you and you know what happened but they want to control the narrative so that when the history books look back at the situation in 10 1550 years it's looked at as the January 6 insurrection of the Trump campaign right like that's the whole point is controlling the narrative of today so you control the narrative of of of how today is perceived tomorrow so that you can then controlled the way that it's looked at in the future in the way that we drive our reality moving forward so good on the lawn musk for protecting the that good speech should prevail and even if there is a Russian new source who wants to save some bull ship is not true and just like I did that entire podcast showing you how so much propaganda is being circulated and was not true was good information right if I can do if I can express my thoughts and tell you that these things are not true in a way that makes sense and then show you and point to the video games that they pulled the footage from then maybe that's the concept that will win right and that's that's what makes the most sense to me so good on you Elon musk I like that term free speech absolution next absolutist absolution is absolutist free speech absolutist is what he said so shut out Elon musk great great job standing up for freedom of speech so the next synchronicity is a concept basically the newer thing that were seeing and talking about the corporate entities that are engaging in this war so this is what it says is breaking news MasterCard and Visa have suspended all operations in Russia so if you've heard about this basically banks and in the end you know what is at the star not the starling we just talked about that but that there's a certain type of finding all the financial systems all the financial systems have basically rid themselves of Russia if they're in some way related to these will countries like the EU or or the United States or the you know who are on the side of of that that we are looking at from the from the lens of our mainstream media and so you see a big huge financial companies and even seizing yachts from from these billionaire Russian oligarchs and so in this situation what happened was these that the MasterCard and Visa have both suspended all operations in China basically what they're trying to do is just plummet their economy to nothing so that Putin comes crawling to to the United States into Ukraine saying were done were done it's over the deep state wins pray and I get I don't think it's right in the situation and take a proper site I don't think that there is a right side here that's my perspective on this truly is a whole shift on the propaganda coming out I think every can tell you that they have the right answer especially if they have a vested interest like these governments but I don't think there's a right side sit back and watch the show you should not be taking a side in this war it is not our war to fight unless and it is if you understand you know where word with it it's a war by proxy like we talked about again last week and if you have a listen the last week's podcast you need to because is truly eye-opening to what's going on here when you read the entire speech of food and basically all but declaring war on the United States instead of Ukraine but anyways in this situation MasterCard and Visa have debate took it upon themselves and if you understand what the United States.has done them but Putin has talked about all the time that super effective and in fighting wars without sending troops is sanctions right is financial sanctions is taking away your money and making it difficult for you to operate your nation at the same level in these companies these corporations like Visa and MasterCard are now taking it upon themselves to engage in these warlike activities to make decisions that will then prompt movement closer to war or further away from more which is not the place of all these corporations should not be engaging in these these sanctions these financial the political conversations because the last booking person on earth I want poking Putin with a stick his woke ass banking billionaire CEOs who have a vested interest again and probably sent a bunch of pocket money into the that the economy and the stock market or barbarism in the Hunter Biden's you know index fund that they invested all their money in the Hunter Biden index fund and so now they have to protect their assets so that they put a bunch of money into Ukraine probably knowing that this there and win this war and on the other side of them winning this war is good to be a thriving economy consider taking video probably shorting the stock of Russia at this point in their financial institutions and they can move that meat meter further so if you think this is about wilderness is not the thing is about being on the right side of history it is not just like everything else that's going on in this war it's about money so the login do we want these financial banking institution CEOs doing the same actions that our president is doing in hopes an impossibility of inciting a further war and escalating a further intuited to even if it does what they wanted to do what if it back to pollutant far enough against the corner to where he starts swinging on you and I swinging on these financial institutions swinging on the United States we don't want that is not your place to decide what happens in this war Visa and MasterCard and so I asked the audience when Instagram NASA today so we'll see how many people have even responded to you but I asked do we really want virtue signaling woke bank CEOs being the one who is pressuring the man demanding prudent who is threatening to use nuclear warfare in a reaction and escalation to the United States America directly saying that and within days these banks take upon themselves to take military action the same level of military action the binds taken in this financial sanctions and so I asked that and so far we have of you know several hundred people who have seen it hundred and 35 people have voted for this is not a good idea in only eight people are for I support this which I would be interested to hear the opinions of those who support that is interesting to me I just don't see how you can justify that wire these banking institutions and has this been a thing of the past does this happen before were these financial banking institutions decide to in the end in sight further escalation at wartime literal wartime where this command is threatening one of the world's most powerful nuclear powers and ever in history in your poking him with a stick while he has his back against the wall probably not the move so here's the statement so MasterCard and Visa have suspended all operations in Russia Visa and MasterCard Cards account for 74% of card payment transactions in Russia while in a statement visa set effective immediately visa will work hard with clients and partners within Russia cease all visa transactions over the coming days once complete all transactions initiated with visa cards issued in Russia will no longer work outside of the country in any visa cards issued by financial institutions outside of Russia will no longer work within the Russian Federation we are compelled to act following Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the unacceptable events that we have witnessed said all Al Kelly chairman and chief exec CEO of a visa we regret the impact this will have undervalued colleagues and on the client partners merchants and cardholders we serve in Russia this war in the ongoing threat to peace and stability demand we respond in line with our values so 74% of financial transactions in Russia and in and in week two it's amazing to me how any time that but that during the state of the union address Biden addressed Ukraine he talked about the Ukrainian people you never talked about Zelinski he talked about the Ukrainian any time that he referenced Russia he referenced Putin he never talked about he never once mentioned this once he never the words Russian citizens Russia Russian people never came out of his mouth because he has to dehumanize them and he has to put them in a box with the rest of of of this prudent pipe right and so who is this really can affect it's getting a crush that the middle and lower class citizens in Russia and again about taking a side in the war I just say you shouldn't be taking a side in the were either visa or MasterCard you should not be provoking and further inciting this war you should not be to be taking a political especially if your worldwide entity if you have so much money being passed around in your business for Russia specifically you should not be doing this to the citizens it makes no sense and now you have to know to if you are a part of a and were seeing this just more and more recently I did an entire podcast on this the cashless society it is not your money the second you handed over to the banks even with that beautiful plastic card or even metal cart these days right even with that still not your money so do with that would you please it's probably finding a way to enter into this crypto currency society you I have like this dystopian view of the of the future like almost like a with the show mad Max movie mad Max but a type of it of understanding alike you understand that there is likely there is these dystopian type futuristic movies were where there are those the back alley currencies that in in the government currencies and people tend to only use that you know and and that's bitcoin and that's the you know US dollar at this point is is we we may get to a point in the future with the government does not accept any of these crypto currencies but all of the transactions that are happening at an individual level are happening in that way to avoid having to do with the government I know when you have companies like Visa and MasterCard that are now taking it upon themselves to decide a position in war within and against countries that they do business in to the citizens who they've profited off of for how many decades and now you're in a swipe that from underneath them and make it so that what they they don't have access to to to spend their money crazy now let's go ahead and and and leech our ears a little bit because were not were not to be furthering the conversation about Ukraine at this point I just thought those were some interesting points to update with you guys but in an interesting topic that's come up recently and if you're in the combat sports community I train jujitsu myself I have for many years since I was in the military but Cain Velasquez Cain Velasquez was charged with attempted murder and he is a older he was the heyday of the UFC basically world champion came Alaska's very very famous name within the UFC has been charged with attempted murder has also been charged with shooting a motor vehicle install the fire or assault with a deadly weapon and willfully discharging a firearm to a vehicle and carrying a loaded firearm with the intent to commit a felony if found guilty of attempted murder Velasquez faces a minimum of 20 years and up to life in prison the police investigation revealed that Velasquez rammed his Ford F2 50 into the side of the Silverado in front of all of them front of witnesses he then follow the Silverado and fired two gunshots one of them which struck one of the men in the arm five casings total were found at the scene Velasquez was later identified by police as the shooter Velasquez was a reps arrested without incident in the 40 caliber semi automatic semi automatic handgun yet yeah of course at semi automatic you dummies was found in his vehicle two casings in and of ammunition were also on the vehicle Velasquez was arrested Monday after allegedly shooting a mammal targeting another man accused of molesting his child possibly 100 times the sad tragedy is that Mr. Velazquez chose to take the law into his own hands endangering the public and everyone in the truck Santa Clara County district attorney's this act of violence also causes more pain-and-suffering to his family now if you go to Tom the boss at time the boss on Facebook he is selling T-shirts and all the profits go to this legal fund that's actually a at the MMA uncensored_Instagram's but okay Velasquez basically had a a man which molested one of his family members over 100 times and he like a boss like everyone thinks they would do in the situation every father at least says that they would do this I hope you would believe that you would do this in the situation as I know sure as hell I would have found a way to whom to react in some manner now I don't know if it would been doing all this in the middle of the day probably wasn't the move when you're in that heat of the moment I can imagine the rage that this man was feeling and if you don't know about Kay Velasquez this man's UFC name his name and he will see was Kane the ax murderer Velasquez so maybe not the person whose family you want to fark with if there UFC MMA pro career title was the ax murderer so basically he ran his truck into this person's car and then shot and fired his 40 at this Carswell and the two of those shots want to hitting the passenger not the original man that he was shooting superset superset all around and it's true this is gonna cause much much pain and suffering for the family and so shout out you know shout out make a lot of shots to apparently chose to gain glasses because you know he's going to probably end up serving a lot of time for this unfortunately and in an imperfect world that he would not be and then there is no talks of the man who actually molested his family member 100 times getting any sort of trouble hello so really sad really really difficult to deal with and and from the perspective of somebody who is a father in and can imagine the rage that this man was feeling at this time I feel for him in and as I say this he sitting in a cold cell with just his thoughts and probably still fuming at the fact that he missed as I would be the thought run through my so that is just an a really tragic tragic topic that has come up recently in communities and I'm a part of and Cain Velasquez I hope you find some really good legal counsel to deal with this and ends up only spending a minimum amount of time and hopefully the judge realizes that this man had had with only have found himself reacting this way if he found himself in the situation because being a very capable man of violence himself he has never acted in this way that we know of set so let's move on to what that what were going to talk about for the rest of this podcast year which is going to be so basically what were gonna do here's were to walk through a few little clips that peaked my interest is weak in this first one piqued my interest the most if if you don't know true Jordan Peterson is Jordan Peterson was a Harvard professor who taught personality at Harvard and prior to that I believe he and he was a professor at the University of Toronto and he speaks on religion he's a philosopher he's a very intelligent man he's a he's a behavioral psychologist and is is a great great resource to listen to and if you see that book right there and right there those are great books that you can read that he wrote himself 12 rules for life and he base those books off of 42 quick one sentence principles that he believed would help you live a better life and organize it in there very really quick fundamental very sweet and short just prompts for you to think through I thought to be a good conversation for us to have today just kind of in a wash ourselves of all this craziness that's happening in the world and think about some good things and some good ways and some positive things that you can focus in on your life even through that the victory craziness of humanities reality right now so give the first thing that piqued my interest in what kind of got me in this frame of mind this week was this video it was on the real on Instagram and it basically talks about you know the way that you should perceive your time with your children if you not apparent disperse this pertains to YouTube because is not just about your children it's about the things that are most precious to you in life right and when you become apparent inherently that becomes your children but but you can attach the same principle in your life to your father and your mother your mother your family your grandparents your nieces or nephews and not just people with things write those things that your passion about that that there there true like lifeblood right that the things that are the important things within your life so let's watch this clip and see what he has to say Onyx I think it will be an interesting conversation to have you have a a baby say it's you can't believe it and you can't believe that you're gonna be able to figure out what to do with this thing like it's like it's the most public anything you've ever had and no one has help you figure out how to do it so you're stuck and then like three months later it's like you can't really imagine what life would be like without that baby and then it sort of like this goes on forever that's how it feels safe but it doesn't write you a little kids for four years and if you miss it it's done that's it so you want to know that you know lots of things in life you don't get to do more than once now if obviously can have more than one child but all I'm saying is that period between zero and 4015 do something about it that's really it's like a peak experience life and isn't much of your life it will because you think the middle is a long time it's not down long and four years goes by so fast he can't believe it and if you miss it it's gone so you miss it at your peril and you don't get it back and that's not I know what with your career you miss opportunities you fall behind this happens to women a lot it's part of the reason for the pay gap it is really hard on women and although no one knows what to do about it so and I would also say well you talk to each other try to minimize your your financial requirements to the degree that you can see if there's other ways that you can generate income what and do you come to a consensual solution and try not to torture yourself with guilt with whatever you come up with but do remember because you know you've got financial responsibilities and often you need two incomes and there's is no easy way of dealing with it and for women it often seems that no matter what they do it's wrong right they stay home with the kids it's wrong if they go to work it's wrong if they do both control it and I am like I'm not being smart about the nuns rough man but not but having said all that I would say again got little kids for four years don't miss you will regret so I have three children and again the sun about having children it's about having things are precious to you in understanding the value of those things and how there's a certain percentage to those things because if you take that for your concept and it's true I have a five-year-old I have a one-year-old and I have a two month three month or-year-old and in so it's interesting having all of those different perspectives and then seeing that if you taken into that you know perspective of of four years that's 25% every birthday you you've gone through 25% of the time that you're going to have with your child as as a baby is or is a real child is as a just it's it's so even hard to hard to describe it is just that pure bliss of having you know my daughters five now and she starts to talk back and she has you know what she has her own built personality that is that you know she's she's sassy and she's funny and you know she does it sometimes doesn't have manners at dinner you know that she has her own things that you have to deal with and in that that's usually not the case for my 234 even and so that's what he's discussing there just like that pure bliss of that childlike pure like toddlers almost childhood where everything is just new to them an exciting and fun than in positive for the most part and so 25% per per birthday and what that made me kinda break it down to is you can even break that down into a you know you could do this on a very large sense in your own life even if you just okay your life from a very high level perspective and see your whole life and then in every day works out to be like .00003% of your life if you live to be 85 years old 365 years or three or 65 days a year every day is like .70's and then the three as I 365 under the mat so but but it so you can do that so that really huge extent and in the that even brings value but but you can even break it down to it even more specific way in and looking at you know I was thinking of it in the sense like how many times in my going to be sitting playing with my daughter and in building Legos right how many times a mega to be in that moment where I'm sitting with them and be able to pull from that moment and in and be and in that specific scenario that I'm in at that moment and because you… For it's four times a year to be sitting there specifically doing that one task with them when they're in a positive mood for nothing else is affecting them for time so every time that you do that is 25% 25% of that one of the greatest moments of your life that you could ever imagine is gone and so that's like if you look at spirituality and the way the people view you know enlightenment is the term that's used in like Buddhism and Hinduism in and in and all that means is like consistent presence at all times and being there in the moment when he was so that you can identify the moments that are the true positive things in life that you that you live for write those moments were your laughing are you dancing with your child in the kitchen when music playing or or you're with your spouse and then you have your you know your wedding day or at any of these things are these these impact for moments I guess the wedding is a big one right is everybody's generally very present for the wedding day bits that the ones that can get away from you and so without that that to me like really put not only just my child's life into perspective but also my own life and perspective in the things that the with the way that I perceive life in every given moment and if you look at it from Mike and analytical may be a more like logistical or or analytical in the way that my brain works and some people but if if you look at it from the sense that everything has a percentage if you break it down to a category gory right and in if you do that every moment you should try to be more present for an in and be at least give yourself an opportunity to be there for for that moment right I think that's an important way to look to look at these things and into take that little idea and expanded into almost every facet of your life because everything becomes more like pure they give becomes a better taste of that stake right as an analogy so let's go ahead and let's run to this list I think will be some interesting little quick prompts that we can talk about in the in some conversations that will surround these 42 rules for life that ended up being extracted into his book of tendril so the very first one this was originally like 2000 I don't even know the low long time ago before he was far before anybody knew who Jordan Peterson was he had he wrote this out on core Q Laura Q you ARA if you recall it's a probably not as popular today but used to be this like Web search website where you would go on to it and eat you could ask questions for people and interesting people would answer and it would be voted on who had the best answer in the best answer would rise of top and so obvious in this case summary asked in a what what what would be some rules that you would layout and so Jordan Peterson wrote this out in the end it's some really interesting very quick snippets one off little sentences of rules that you should take in the consideration so I am just going to just rattle these off really quick and and maybe it prompts something in you and makes us have a quick conversation about it but I think the really interesting quick little ideas that you can take into your week and hopefully draw something positive out of it so the first one is tell the truth or at least don't lie the second one and there's probably a reason or reason why he actually put these within a specific numerical order was probably a reason why telling the truth is above all the most important of these rules the next one says do not do things that you hate act so that you can tell the truth about how you act and comes back to the truth right much easier to tell the truth if you follow through on the things that you believe are the right thing to do because if you thought you did the right thing you have no reason to lie so so it obviously is in some sort of numerical order because I make the most sense to me some five norms are number four is pursue what is meaningful not what is expedient actual number five is if if you have to choose be the one who does things instead of the one who is seen to do things interesting number six pay attention while he seems very vague rights like easy easy and concept is just pay attention okay I guess that would help yeah I'm assume that the person you are listening to might know something that you need to know listen to them hard enough so that they will share with you plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationships be careful who you share good news with now that's an interesting one right it is that there is several reasons that you kind of have to safeguard those things right it's even idea thing like the what you have to when you when great things happen in your life you you don't you have to be understanding that it's great for you and in in who you share that too is going to reflect not only what that experience is so so you're only looking at it from the way that if I share this idea of what happens in my life to somebody else then there going to see what I see and see it as being what would I see it as which is great and amazing and so you have an expectation going into that what you're hoping to receive back or what what type of attention or or reaction or or you know would acceptance whatever that is from the individual and when when you share that you don't get the same reaction that you're expecting maybe because that's just a direct reflection of what's going on in their life because you don't no even the lens that they're looking at it through from their end right so so and you don't want that to taint the way that you view your your good news or good idea or you know things like that so interesting be careful who you share bad news with obviously in the same respect make at least one thing better every single place that you go number 13 is imagine who you could be in the name single-mindedly at that number 14 do not allow yourself to become arrogant or resentful and again that's like easy to say like pay attention to say yeah don't be arrogant don't be resentful but then things happen in life right things come up and and and you have a reason to be arrogant or feel that you you have a justified reason to be arrogant average there's never a reason to be arrogant or feel like you have more so probably a justified reason resentful right resentful if I were easier by terrible things happen in your life and you can you can very easily feel resentful for those things number 15 try to make one room in your house as beautiful as possible number 16 compare yourself to who you were yesterday not to sue to who someone else is today will have different timelines right is that there is everybody works in cycles you know there's some people who come from a lot of money in the family and then maybe they have a mediocre business idea or mediocre no work ethic but they they get that higher yield earlier in life because of that the status that they came into it with and maybe you gotta work a little harder so focus on who you are in and again that probably comes from that original one which was think of who your ideal self is in the name to be that person every day if old memory still make you cry write them down carefully and completely that's an interesting one from an actionable perspective if memories still make you cry write them down carefully in completely I member this is like this is almost like a behavioral psychologist format of dealing with trauma to so that makes sense to me that he would he would deftly say that so the next one is maintain your connections with people nest number 19 number 20 do not do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or artistic achievement 21 treat yourself as if you are someone that you are responsible for helping and that's really interesting one that I think has a lot of meaning that you can extract from an inch and sometimes we neglect our own selves like if you if you are responsible for your child may be you make them brush their teeth every night because yeah that that's my duty to look after this child maybe if you have a child in their sick you have them take medicine or you do take care of them in the way or you have a parent who's who's elderly and then you hit do what you can to make sure they get the nutrients because they don't generally eat as well as they would on their own and if you treated yourself the way that you treated those people that you felt the need to take care of than your life would be of little bit better because maybe you would brush her teeth every night or maybe you and the nutrients and in the proper foods right because everybody super careful about it when they have their first child and in their feeding that childlike very very adamant about the nutritional value of the things that they give that child meanwhile that's probably drinking a bunch a bunch of uncial booze him and Eden Gino's at the same time right the next one says December 23 I'm sorry number 22 as someone to do a small favor for you so that he or she can ask you to do one in the future number 23 is make friends with people who want the best for you 24 do not try to rescue someone who does not want to be rescued to field a failed venture right no sense and then spending the time yourself because other to do a second and to where there and be very careful when about rescuing someone who does nothing well done is insignificant number 27 set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world number 28 dress like the person you want to be number 29 the precise in your speech sight words matter right we talked about that with the truth diverse like fake thing is words matter right being precise in your speech means that when when you are talking about things you're you're creating it at every given moment the same way that somebody else is from a computing coding perspective like every code that you write is is creating a further reality within that framework that you are operating within this same thing with speech like every time you say something you're putting something out into the world and there will be an effective direct effect right that the butterfly effect even if a butterfly flaps its wings and on the what is was the adage that in China tsunami can happen in California right that everything that is done everything that is set everything has an effect so being precise in the what you say and in giving yourself a pause sometimes before you say next one is stand up straight with your shoulders back and there's a whole thing behind that too is like that is the Jordan Peterson lobster gainers has to do with hierarchal structures and and the the amount of I believe like testosterone that was produced in your body as a result of specifically just standing up in a way that seems and feels confident to you it is important so that was number 30 number 31 don't avoid something frightening if it stands in your way and don't do unnecessarily dangerous things and say I'm have been accused of at a time to do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them right and I think that's that's is like if you're apparent that such a powerful thing to understand do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them because you should have to enjoy your time with your child and if you enjoy your time with your child you can be passionate and that relationship Raven to give yourself more you're gonna be more present right psycho that I like to to to play with my daughter in the way that I want to play I enjoyed building Legos with her LA I like to watch shows with her that I like watching and so we find like happy mediums that makes me want to do those things more because if every time in my I hang out with my daughter she wants to I don't know dress dress me up in and paint my nails I I might not want to do that very often and so you find things that are mutually engaging in positive and when you do that you use tend to decide more often to do those things and so find not only things that you want to do with your child that are exciting for you whether it's like boardgames or you know going outside for hikes or playing a sport with them or go it whatever it is that you enjoy doing find out what what those things are that are mutual in and do them more and find out what things you don't like doing them doing and in make those less because if you don't want to be around her child because they're super annoying hadn't been done and that's not good either right you there's a there's a purpose that that that's written and it's written in the so that you learn that that the way that you engage with people in the settings that you put yourself in either determines and am I going to be engaged for my knocking to be engaged so I think that's important do not transform your wife into a mate written that's an interesting concept Ray this is interesting coming from our generation like I think were a generation will remove from that hopefully at some point Without was that the general dynamic of the household that I lived in was the no full-time father and in the mother who is a stay-at-home mom and which is important and you heard that from the Jordan Peterson video before is like anything a woman does this is wrong at this point you can't go to work full-time because that you know you should be home with the kids in the if your home with the kids you should be out do you know everything is wrong so it's it's a difficult thing to wrestle with but not turning your wife into a maid like you that you should be equals because if you're not willing to do those things on a daily basis and I think I'm pretty good at this in my relationship I think my wife for the attest to that that that's like that that should that you it's a mutual I mean I just want my house clean I want things picked up and I wanted I participate in making the message so should probably participate in cleaning up after that and and and making your wife the maid this is a little bit degrading I think like you know I received pigeon do not hide unwanted things in the fog that's interesting notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated read something written by someone great that's important I think books are like books are really interesting in the way that we gathered there very few people I think I will on one with the percentages of people who actually legitimately read great writings like philosophical like I'm remedy a couple things right now I am reading a man's search for meaning and I'm also reading Walden in the woods by David Thoreau in so there is dirt dirt written the what the book does is it is even more so than a podcast dictate takes you out of your brain that takes you out of your normal consciousness to your normal streams of thought and inputs literally implant somebody else's framework of of language the way that they speak the way that they write there their reality the way they view the world and allows you to took to transplant that into your brain momentarily so that you can experience life in the in literally a whole new way if it's somebody who's great at writing rates it's what I'm reading Walden in the woods there certain parts of the books that it's a very deep book and some of it is not innocent but but some of it really is and in its written like the 1800 so it was it's it's a little difficult to but but once you get into that person allow that person into your mind long enough the way that you read that like stream of consciousness just becomes much more like you don't you don't recognize it when you first pick up a book like that you you tend to visit site work for your brain to took to start to understand their concepts but when you do it it's like that something really cool happens something like really magical Lycan in a in a cheesy sense but like they do happens when you can actually take that person's perception to reality their language there there there's thought patterns in their speech patterns and implant them into your brain for however long reading that's white when you if you sit down to read you should really be reading for enough you can carve out 1/2 hour at least to read if you sit on reefer five minutes is hard to get deep into that especially for reading something thick like that but I think that's an important note and those are both really to get really good books I think that the man's search for meaning is something that's been written brought up several times and in very in intelligent people's podcasting I remember hearing about it from Lex Friedman I believe is the person I heard about a man's search for meaning and it's a very daunting first-person experience of the philosophical perspective of somebody who is in the Holocaust and in specifically Auschwitz and him trying to not only survive he in and that's a big part of what I've read so far to start reading the last couple days but it is a big part of it so far as is not he's not is a says you can read a lot of accounts of the horrific things that happened in Auschwitz but the account that I want to give you is how I found meaning in that moment in and made myself better from it and so is an interesting philosophical conversations running up and so find a book that you can find that site heavy enough for you to to want to dive into and find somebody who you want to give that space to your brains like when you read the ship book it's a hoax is like if you get for it like it is our hundred and 20 pages into a ship book and you're like me on this just doesn't vibe with the way that I think that's that's not fun so the book but if you can find so many whose great that that really does fit that you know what you're looking for that surrounding that it's it's a really meaningful thing to have so read a damn book you heathens anyways how do When you encounter one on the street not dedicate that that's that's the one I cannot agree with Jordan I'm absolute I'm absolutely not putting cats and not not a cat I don't I can get I do not get I'm sorry People I'm a dog person I have I have a golden retriever and a dioxin can't do it sorry guys can't do the Thing you know Cantu the cathing so you're wrong Jordan Peterson I will die will not be the one putting it Don't let bullies get away with it human that's a good one that's a very good one do not let bullies get away with it I was talking about this with my wife and in kind of the way the like how to parent it's an interesting conversation that you can have surrounding that is like you you have to be the one who gives your children boundaries in in the in the way that you can just cuddle your child through every everything that they do if you're doing something that's annoying they should know that it's annoying so that when they go into the world and they truly start annoying people that that they're knocking to find somebody who is you know I am never gonna do or say anything to my child that would intentionally hurt their feelings let alone physically harmed them ever my entire life I could never imagine somebody who could do that but there are people out there who are physically violent and there are people out there who are capable of that MM will do so on a dime and will do so without cause even and so you have to realize that and in and so you have to give them that you know a certain amount of boundaries in a safe setting that's not to say that there's any like aggressive parenting is obvious they are wrong we learn that and you never touch your child or hit your child do you know obviously but it's you know but there's still a reason that you should be Stern with them in the way that you teach them right and that's the same thing Dilip always get away with that of some's gonna treat you negatively or or or talk down to you for something or or or specifically try to harm you you should know how to defend yourself and so that comes down to know also putting yourself in a position prior to that to be competent enough to confront boys when they present themselves right not only just having the idea that you need not look good let them get away with it you know whether that's you know getting into a self-defense class or getting into better shape or you know whatever that is for you and to me it's given the damn jujitsu class but I digress but also for your children because you can position them in away from a very young age to not let boys get away with it and to make them confident enough to approach a bully when there is one because many people have their children not engage in any conflict in their entire life's and so when it arises they have no idea how to deal with it is do not bother children when they are skateboarding I like that one that's a good one says write a letter to the government if you see something that needs fixing and propose a solution in man that's a really interesting idea, if you actually feel like there's a legitimate issue with our government write a damn letter and do something about it and also propose a better solution like one of these rules I think that's a pretty profound and it seems so silly like that that is profound that you should write a letter and propose a solution but if you if you feel like there's something wrong with this oil through this gas thing right I feel like there's obviously a reason that there they're lying to you about that but hey I don't know I haven't dive deep enough into that situation took to write a letter and propose a solution to this gas rising or this Ukraine situation or that you know it's like that that's a truly you know use our governmental system for what it is there is a purpose for remember that you do not yet know what you do not yet know is more important than what you already know in any given time rightly any given time should be having the idea that you always be smarter tomorrow than you were yesterday be grateful in spite of your suffering be grateful and spite of your suffering as is always going to be suffering gratitude is a choice right like that the suffering is what happens to you in gratitude is what you decide to have despite that right so despite all of the ship is going on the world right now despite some of the craziness that maybe is happening in your personal life or at work a grateful grateful for the things you have be grateful for the reality that you were given and choose who you believe would be the most ideal self I think that was a powerful one and every day and try to be that person I think that's it that's a good way to to look at it so hello Hope you guys enjoyed our conversation just some some quick little little bit lighter than the usual conversation that we have but I think it's important to step back and intake some of these high-level ideas that could maybe one of those things stuck for you and then you can sit and think about that and and kind of extracted and find a way to implement it and if one of you does that as a result of this know that's pretty cool to me so thanks for listening I appreciate your time if you could go ahead and hit 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know I don't know man like that I don't know how to really approach this so I'm getting to a point in our like you know there's there's enough here's to the other be really cool to be able to start making something of it and be appreciative of any input you guys so don't know exactly the way of the direction of Inigo as of right now it's free everything's free you get all of it unpaid no ads just made here sitting talking to you asking you to you know listen to be more by pressing a button oh yeah were in a figure that out so if you got any suggestions for me I'll I want to do something that is not intrusive at all from a user perspective so I be really interested to hear other than that I hope you guys have a great week thank you so much for listening I appreciate you so much and welcome to the revolution have a great week

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Have you noticed that no popular hero gets to retire or just ride off into the sunset? Sure, because Harrison Ford needs to make bank, but it seems indicative of an overall problem of not letting people just be old. The Presidents of the United States America. "Back Porch." The Presidents of the United States of America. PopLlama/Columbia, 1995.Young, Neil. "Old Man." Harvest. Reprise, 1972. 

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DONALD TRUMP IS BACK PAVING THE ROAD FOR THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES... President Trump is scheduled to SPEAK at CPAC 2021 for the FIRST TIME since LEAVING office! TRUMP is BACK and READY to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!... America Divided is sponsored by My Patriot Supply, get 20% OFF Today! - https://www.PrepareWithAmericaDivided.com Join our Telegram here https://t.me/AmericaDividedShow

Happy New Year!!! This week Mitch talks about what he likes about the "Buss It" Challenge, Why so many "people" hate Stacey Abrams, and the elephant in the country, Treasonous Terrorists trying to overthrow the Government of The United States America. Contact me: IG @Thehoodlovesmepodcast Twitter @Mitchelbrown_ Music Selection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8oGIRxH4MI --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mitch-brown/support

Looking back at Trump; Biden to win In this special episode Geraldine and Eliza look back at the Trump era and discuss how it's changed America. In the Financial Times newspaper, the venerable commentator Martin Wolf articulates why this election matters to those outside the United States: America is the repository of western values. Thus democracy must thrive in the US in order for it to shine globally. Tune in for some commentary and analysis about foreign policy and about the power of money and greed to influence political parties. And...the final tips and predictions. Thanks for listening! Join the conversation at the Facebook page "Long Distance Callers" or email us at ldcpodcast1@gmail.com US global role at stake in this election – Martin Wolf – Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/61e731be-dc67-476a-bdd8-eab4e4d34007 The US electoral system is a shambles. They could learn a lot from Australia – Bob Carr – The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/29/the-us-electoral-system-is-a-shambles-they-could-learn-a-lot-from-australia 'There's only so much time left': Bruce Springsteen on life, love and voting out Trump – David Leser – The Good Weekend https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/theres-only-so-much-time-left-bruce-springsteen-on-life-love-and-voting-out-trump-20201031-p55ubd.html Hacks on Tap (podcast) https://www.hacksontap.com

The Presidential election is right around the corner. With it is the fate of the United States America. What would happen if Joe Biden wins? How about when Donald Trump wins? Picking up from the previous episode’s discussion, Bill Stierle and Tom take us into the second part of the worst-case scenario that could happen depending on the election’s result, particularly between the election day and January 20th 2021. They brainstorm the possible things that could happen and what each side would do or say regarding the results. They also tap into what is going to happen across multiple levels—from national to state. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Purchasing Truth Community today:billstierle.comLinkedInFacebookYouTube

From protecting the President of the United States America as a member of the Secret Service, to Nickelback and Shinedown, John Guarnieri join us on the show to talk about his experiences!

The recent killing of two African American men at the hands of white police has raised questions about policing across the United States. Were these the actions of a few rogue officers or something more sinister? This is the story of slavery, race and policing in the United States America.

The recent killing of two African American men at the hands of white police has raised questions about policing across the United States. Were these the actions of a few rogue officers or something more sinister? This is the story of slavery, race and policing in the United States America.

This week I bumped into Sihle Khumalo. Sihle is a mother, a wife, a black women in America, a South African and is currently working in the front lines of Covid-19 in the USA as healthcare worker. In this episode Sihle and I discuss what its really like being on the front lines of Covid especially in the epicenter which is the USA. We also then front into the topic of being black in America and the parallels of being black in SA & America and this time due to Covid, we decided to change our deep approach slightly (to get a better sense of how people are feeling) by asking rapid fire questions in the form of 1 word questions and answers. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed interviewing Sihle.Remember to stay safe, healthy, and legendary. I Bumped Into Team

"Our political reform movement's singular goal is to dramatically transform our dysfunctional partisan democracy of extremism into a functional democracy driven by innovative and term-limited political leaders. Unlike the duopoly, our aims are not to move the direction of the country Left or Right, but Forward. We want to create a revitalized, world-leading United States: America 2.0." Thus begins the Alliance Party's manifesto. During this episode, Jim Rex, the Alliance Party's National Chair, and Jonathan Etheridge, one of the Alliance Party's “At-Large” members, discusses the manifesto and explains its relevance and importance in today's political environment. Our country is suddenly faced with multiple challenges, from a soaring federal debt, to a pandemic-induced depression-era unemployment rate, to a health crisis, and, tragically, to long-standing racial tensions that have boiled over into our streets. Truly, a vision of an “America 2.0” is desperately needed in this challenging time, and the Alliance Party's manifesto will help lead us back to the America we were destined to be all along. This is a podcast you won't want to miss!

With more than 33 million people claiming unemployment insurance in the past six weeks, 75,000 reported dead of COVID, 1.3 million reported infected with the disease and an unprecedented social crisis that now has 1 in 5 mothers of young children fearing they will be unable to provide their children with the food they need, the U.S. faces its worst domestic crisis since the Civil War. The government we have is actively seeking to deny the truth, undermine our institutions and cash in on the disaster. We discuss how we can respond with an exceptional panel including Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), former Obama WH official and practicing physician Dr. Kavita Patel, Ed Luce of the Financial Times and Ryan Goodman, editor of "Just Security" and professor at NYU Law School.It is a shocking moment and a vital conversation. Join us.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With more than 33 million people claiming unemployment insurance in the past six weeks, 75,000 reported dead of COVID, 1.3 million reported infected with the disease and an unprecedented social crisis that now has 1 in 5 mothers of young children fearing they will be unable to provide their children with the food they need, the U.S. faces its worst domestic crisis since the Civil War. The government we have is actively seeking to deny the truth, undermine our institutions and cash in on the disaster. We discuss how we can respond with an exceptional panel including Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), former Obama WH official and practicing physician Dr. Kavita Patel, Ed Luce of the Financial Times and Ryan Goodman, editor of "Just Security" and professor at NYU Law School.It is a shocking moment and a vital conversation. Join us. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We live in the United States of America that requires structured everything. The reason the United States America is so great and the top superpower in the world is because of freedom and the constant yearning I’ve been unstructured. Soccer needs to be less structured in order for development to truly happen. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coachcameron/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coachcameron/support

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Israel has made two air strikes this past month against missile installations in Iraq. It is stunning proof of the extent of cooperation between Iraq and Iran. The United States is working to keep the Strait of Hormuz safe from Iranian aggression and is asking for help from European nations. This week, Germany said it favors a Hormuz mission, but it won’t do it with America. The Federal Reserve just lowered interest rates, typically a move intended to stimulate a recessionary economy. It’s a troubling sign that it’s doing so while America’s economy has a lot of positive indicators. We also talk about China amassing forces at the border with Hong Kong, Germans angry over a murder perpetrated by a migrant, Donald Trump hinting at a crackdown against Antifa, and archaeological proof of a Philistine city from the time of King David. Links [0:41] Israel Strikes Iraq (9 minutes) “Israel Preemptively Strikes Iranian Missiles in Iraq” [10:02] Germany Won’t Help U.S. in Hormuz (10 minutes) “Germany Refuses to Work With U.S. in Hormuz” The King of the South [19:41] Chinese Authoritarianism (5 minutes) “Hong Kong—the End of Freedom Begins” [24:50] Fed Lowers Interest Rates (8 minutes) “A Suggestion for Correcting the Economy” “When Will the Dollar Collapse?” “Building Toward a World Catastrophe” from Isaiah’s End-Time Vision [33:37] Migrant Murders in Germany (6 minutes) “Migrant Murders Spark Outrage in Germany” “Germany—A New King Is Imminent” A Strong German Leader Is Imminent [40:16] The War on Antifa Terror (8 minutes) “Antifa Wants to Destroy the United States” “America’s Coming Civil War” [47:58] Russian Revolution? (5 minutes) The Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia’ [52:48] Archaeological Proof of Goliath’s Gath (3 minutes) “Goliath’s City Is More Than Myth”

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says, "America was never that great." Radicals believe this nonsense, and they also try to use it to politically help them. What did the world look like before the United States? America is a beacon of hope for the world. And we have it better than almost everyone who has ever walked on planet earth. Pointing out some historical problems with Cuomo's comments. If America is as terrible as the radical Left tells us, why do we need open borders? After all, who would want to come here? John Brennan security clearance revoked.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says, "America was never that great." Radicals believe this nonsense, and they also try to use it to politically help them. What did the world look like before the United States? America is a beacon of hope for the world. And we have it better than almost everyone who has ever walked on planet earth. Pointing out some historical problems with Cuomo's comments. If America is as terrible as the radical Left tells us, why do we need open borders? After all, who would want to come here? John Brennan security clearance revoked.

Rewind from 2014 Independence Day Celebration!Host: James Walton"I Am Liberty"American Preppers Radio aka Prepper Broadcasting! Wednesdays 9:00pm/Est 8:00pm/Ct 6:00pm/PtLive Listen and Chat go HERE! To celebrate the birth of the United States America properly we must make sure that we do so with a combination of history, celebration, hilarity and serious talk about what America is and what it will become if we stay on this set of tracks. It's important to celebrate this day and understand the sacrifices that were made for the greatest nation in history that has done more for the, world far and away, than any other.Plan on some fresh new talk with yours truly about all those things that impressed me during the revolution and the birth of this nation. There will be some sound from passed shows that I think you will all enjoy. We will definitely pay our respects to those who fought and died and built this nation.... Read More HERE!Visit in our chat room HERE!Tags: I Am Liberty, Prepper Broadcasting

Rewind from 2014 Independence Day Celebration! Host: James Walton"I Am Liberty" American Preppers Radio aka Prepper Broadcasting!  Wednesdays 9:00pm/Est 8:00pm/Ct 6:00pm/Pt Live Listen and Chat go HERE!  To celebrate the birth of the United States America properly we must make sure that we do so with a combination of history, celebration, hilarity and serious talk about what America is and what it will become if we stay on this set of tracks. It's important to celebrate this day and understand the sacrifices that were made for the greatest nation in history that has done more for the, world far and away, than any other. Plan on some fresh new talk with yours truly about all those things that impressed me during the revolution and the birth of this nation. There will be some sound from passed shows that I think you will all enjoy. We will definitely pay our respects to those who fought and died and built this nation.... Read More HERE! Visit in our chat room HERE! Tags: I Am Liberty, Prepper Broadcasting

President Donald Trump Addresses the World Economic Forum President Trump speech in Davos, Switzerland Transcript 00-00 Thank You class very much it's a 00-01 privilege to be here at this forum we're 00-03 leaders in business science art 00-06 diplomacy and world affairs have 00-08 gathered for many many years to discuss 00-12 how we can advance prosperity security 00-15 and peace I'm here today to represent 00-18 the interests of the American people and 00-20 to affirm America's friendship and 00-23 partnership in building a better world 00-26 like all nations represented at this 00-30 great forum America hopes for a future 00-33 in which everyone can prosper and every 00-36 child can grow up free from violence 00-38 poverty and fear over the past year we 00-43 have made extraordinary strides in the 00-46 u.s. we're lifting up forgotten 00-49 communities creating exciting new 00-51 opportunities and helping every American 00-53 find their path to the American dream 00-56 the dream of a great job a safe home and 01-00 a better life for their children after 01-03 years of stagnation the United States is 01-07 once again experiencing strong economic 01-11 growth the stock market is smashing one 01-15 record after another and has added more 01-18 than seven trillion dollars in new 01-21 wealth since my election consumer 01-24 confidence business confidence and 01-27 manufacturing confidence are the highest 01-30 they have been in many decades since my 01-34 election we've created 2.4 million jobs 01-38 and that number is going up very very 01-42 substantially small business optimism is 01-46 at an all-time high 01-47 new unemployment claims are near the 01-50 lowest we've seen in almost half a 01-53 century african-american unemployment 01-56 has reached the lowest rate ever 01-58 recorded in the United States and so has 02-02 unemployment among Hispanic Americans 02-07 the world is witnessing the resurgence 02-10 of a strong and 02-12 prosperous America I'm here to deliver a 02-16 simple message there has never been a 02-18 better time to hire to build to invest 02-22 and to grow in the United States America 02-25 is open for business and we are 02-28 competitive once again the American 02-31 economy is by far the largest in the 02-34 world and we've just enacted the most 02-37 significant tax cuts and reform in 02-40 American history 02-42 we've massively cut taxes for the middle 02-45 class and small businesses to let 02-47 working families keep more of their 02-50 hard-earned money we lowered our 02-54 corporate tax rate from 35% all the way 02-57 down to 21% as a result millions of 03-02 workers have received tax cut bonuses 03-04 from their employers in amounts as large 03-07 as $3,000 the tax cut bill is expected 03-12 to raise the average Americans household 03-15 income by more than four thousand 03-17 dollars the world's largest company 03-20 Apple announced it plans to bring 245 03-24 billion dollars in overseas profits home 03-28 to America their total investment into 03-31 the United States economy will be more 03-33 than three hundred and fifty billion 03-36 dollars over the next five years now is 03-39 the perfect time to bring your business 03-42 your jobs and your investments to the 03-46 United States this is especially true 03-49 because we have undertaken the most 03-51 extensive regulatory reduction ever 03-55 conceived regulation is stealth taxation 04-01 the u.s. like many other countries 04-05 unelected bureaucrats and we have 04-08 believe me we have them all over the 04-11 place and they've imposed crushing and 04-13 anti business and anti worker 04-15 regulations on our citizens with no vote 04-19 no legislative debate and no real 04-22 accountability 04-24 in America those days are over I pledged 04-28 to eliminate two unnecessary regulations 04-32 for everyone new regulation we have 04-36 succeeded beyond our highest 04-39 expectations instead of two for one 04-43 we have cut 22 burdensome regulations 04-47 for every one new rule we are freeing 04-52 our businesses and workers so they can 04-54 thrive and flourish as never before we 04-58 are creating an environment that 05-00 attracts capital invites investment and 05-03 rewards production America is the place 05-07 to do business 05-09 so come to America where you can 05-11 innovate create and build I believe in 05-16 America as president of the United 05-19 States I will always put America first 05-23 just like the leaders of other countries 05-27 should put their country first also but 05-32 America first does not mean America 05-36 alone when the United States grows so 05-40 does the world American prosperity has 05-43 created countless jobs all around the 05-46 globe and the drive for excellence 05-49 creativity and innovation in the US has 05-52 led to important discoveries that help 05-55 people everywhere live more prosperous 05-58 and far healthier lives as the United 06-03 States pursues domestic reforms to 06-06 unleash jobs and growth we are also 06-08 working to reform the international 06-11 trading system so that it promotes 06-14 broadly shared prosperity and rewards to 06-16 those who play by the rules we cannot 06-21 have free and open trade if some 06-25 countries exploit the system at the 06-27 expense of others 06-30 we support free trade but it needs to be 06-34 fair and it needs to be reciprocal 06-38 because in the end unfair trade 06-41 undermines us all the United States will 06-45 no longer turn a blind eye to unfair 06-48 economic practices including massive 06-51 intellectual property theft industrial 06-54 subsidies and pervasive state-led 06-57 economic planning these and other 07-01 predatory behaviors are distorting the 07-04 global markets and harming businesses 07-07 and workers not just in the US but 07-09 around that low just like we expect the 07-13 leaders of other countries to protect 07-15 their interests as president the United 07-19 States I will always protect the 07-21 interests of our country our companies 07-24 and our workers we will enforce our 07-28 trade laws and restore integrity to our 07-31 trading system only by insisting on fair 07-34 and reciprocal trade can we create a 07-37 system that works not just for the US 07-41 but for all nations as I have said the 07-45 United States is prepared to negotiate 07-48 mutually beneficial bilateral trade 07-51 agreements with all countries this will 07-54 include the countries in TPP which are 07-57 very important we have agreements with 08-00 several to them already we would 08-03 consider negotiating with the rest 08-05 either individually or perhaps as a 08-08 group if it is in the interests of all 08-13 my administration is also taking swift 08-17 action in other ways to restore American 08-20 confidence and independence we are 08-23 lifting self-imposed restrictions on 08-27 energy production to provide affordable 08-29 power to our citizens and businesses and 08-31 to promote energy security for our 08-35 friends all around the world no country 08-38 should be held hostage to a single 08-41 provider of 08-42 energy America is roaring back and now 08-47 is the time to invest in the future of 08-49 America we have dramatically cut taxes 08-53 to make America competitive we are 08-56 eliminating burdensome regulations at a 08-59 record pace we are reforming the 09-02 bureaucracy to make it lean responsive 09-05 and accountable and we are ensuring our 09-08 laws are enforced fairly we have the 09-13 best colleges and universities in the 09-15 world and we have the best workers in 09-17 the world energy is abundant and 09-20 affordable there has never been a better 09-22 time to do business in America we are 09-25 also making historic investments in the 09-29 American military because we cannot have 09-31 prosperity without security to make the 09-34 world safer from rogue regimes terrorism 09-37 and revisionist powers we are asking our 09-40 friends and allies to invest in their 09-43 own defenses and to meet their financial 09-46 obligations our common security requires 09-51 everyone to contribute their fair share 09-54 my administration is proud to have led 09-57 historic efforts at the United Nations 09-59 Security Council and all around the 10-02 world to unite all civilized nations in 10-05 our campaign of maximum pressure to de 10-09 nuke the Korean Peninsula we continue to 10-15 call on partners to confront Iran 10-17 support for terrorists and block Iran's 10-19 path to a nuclear weapon we're also 10-23 working with allies and partners to 10-24 destroy jihadist terrorist organizations 10-27 such as Isis and very successfully so 10-30 the United States is leading a very 10-34 broad coalition to deny terrorists 10-36 control of their territory and 10-38 populations to cut off their funding and 10-41 to discredit their wicked ideology I am 10-45 pleased to report that the coalition to 10-48 defeat Isis has retaken almost 100 10-51 percent of the territory once held by 10-54 these killers 10-56 in Iraq and Syria there is still more 11-00 fighting and work to be done and to 11-04 consolidate our games we are committed 11-08 to ensuring that Afghanistan never again 11-11 becomes a safe haven for terrorists who 11-14 want to commit mass murder to our 11-17 civilian populations I want to thank 11-20 those nations represented here today 11-22 that have joined in these crucial 11-25 efforts you are not just securing your 11-28 own citizens but saving lives and 11-30 restoring hope for millions and millions 11-34 of people when it comes to terrorism we 11-38 will do whatever is necessary to protect 11-41 our nation we will defend our citizens 11-44 and our borders we are also securing our 11-47 immigration system as a matter of both 11-49 national and Economic Security America 11-54 is a cutting-edge economy what our 11-58 immigration system is stuck in the past 12-01 we must replace our current system of 12-04 extended family chain migration with a 12-07 merit-based system of admissions that 12-10 selects new arrivals based on their 12-13 ability to contribute to our economy to 12-16 support themselves financially and to 12-19 strengthen our country in rebuilding 12-22 America we are also fully committed to 12-25 developing our workforce we are lifting 12-28 people from dependence to independence 12-31 because we know the single best 12-34 anti-poverty program is a very simple 12-38 and very beautiful paycheck to be 12-42 successful that is not enough to invest 12-45 in our economy we must invest in our 12-48 people when people are forgotten the 12-52 world becomes fractured only by hearing 12-56 and responding to the voices of the 12-59 Forgotten can we create a bright future 13-02 that is truly shared by all the nation's 13-06 greatness is more than the sum of its 13-08 production 13-09 and nation's greatness is the sum of its 13-13 citizens the values pride love devotion 13-18 and character of the people who call 13-20 that nation home from my first 13-24 international g7 summit to the g20 to 13-28 the UN General Assembly to APEC to the 13-32 World Trade Organization and today at 13-34 the World Economic Forum my 13-37 administration has not only been present 13-39 but has driven our message that we are 13-42 all stronger when free sovereign nations 13-46 cooperate toward shared goals and they 13-49 cooperate toward shared dreams 13-53 represented in this room are some of the 13-55 remarkable citizens from all over the 13-57 world 13-58 you are national leaders business Titans 14-02 industry giants and many of the 14-04 brightest minds in many fields each of 14-07 you has the power to change hearts 14-11 transform lives and shape your country's 14-15 destinies with this power comes an 14-17 obligation however a duty of loyalty to 14-21 the people workers and customers who 14-23 have made you who you are 14-25 so together let us resolve to use our 14-29 power our resources and our voices not 14-33 just for ourselves but for our people to 14-37 lift their burdens to raise their hopes 14-40 and to empower their dreams to protect 14-43 their families their communities their 14-45 histories and their futures that's what 14-48 we're doing in America and the results 14-52 are totally unmistakable it's why new 14-56 businesses and investment are flooding 14-58 in it's why our unemployment rate is the 15-02 lowest it's been in so many decades it's 15-05 why America's future has never been 15-08 brighter today I am fighting all of you 15-11 to become part of this incredible future 15-13 we are building together thank you to 15-17 our hosts thank you to the leaders and 15-19 innovators in the audience 15-21 but most importantly thank you to all of 15-24 the hard-working men and women who do 15-26 their duty each and every day making 15-29 this a better world for everyone 15-32 together let us send our love and our 15-36 gratitude to make them because they 15-40 really make our countries run they make 15-44 our countries great thank you and god 15-48 bless you all 15-49 thank you very much 15-51 [Applause] 16-20 thank you very much 16-21 Thank You mr. president for this 16-24 inspiring speech as it is tradition it's 16-28 a form I will ask you one or two 16-31 questions and my first question is why 16-35 is the tax reform why has it been for 16-39 such a high priority for your 16-42 administration well first of all class I 16-44 want to congratulate you this is an 16-46 incredible group of people we had dinner 16-48 last night with about 15 leaders of 16-51 Industry none of whom I knew but all of 16-55 whom I've read about for years and it 16-57 was truly an incredible group and I 17-00 think I have 15 new friends so this has 17-02 been really great what you've done and 17-04 putting it together the Economic Forum 17-06 the tax reform was a dream of a lot of a 17-12 lot of people over many years but they 17-14 weren't able to get it done many people 17-16 tried and Ronald Reagan was really the 17-19 last to make a meaningful cut and reform 17-21 and ours is cutting and reforming we 17-24 emphasize cut but the reform is probably 17-28 almost as important we've wanted to do 17-30 it it is very tough politically to do it 17-34 hard to believe that would be but it is 17-36 very very tough that's why it hasn't 17-37 been done in close to 40 years and once 17-41 we got it going it was going and the big 17-45 and and I wouldn't say a total surprise 17-46 but one of the big things that happened 17-49 and took place is AT&T; and some others 17-53 came out very early and they said they 17-55 were going to pay thousands and 17-57 thousands of dollars to people that work 18-00 for their companies and you have three 18-02 hundred thousand four hundred thousand 18-03 five hundred thousand people working for 18-05 these companies and all of a sudden it 18-08 became like a big waterfall a big 18-10 beautiful waterfall where so many 18-13 companies are doing it and even today 18-15 they just announced many more but every 18-17 day they announce more and more and now 18-19 it's a fight for who's going to give the 18-20 most it started at a thousand now we 18-22 have them up to 3,000 18-24 this is something that we didn't 18-26 anticipate oftentimes in business things 18-28 happen that you don't anticipate usually 18-32 that's a bad thing but this was a good 18-35 thing this came out of nowhere nobody 18-37 ever thought of this as a possibility 18-40 even twe it wasn't in the equation we 18-42 waited we said wait'll February 1st when 18-45 the checks start coming in and people 18-47 Klaus have a lot more money in their 18-50 paycheck because it's not just a little 18-51 money there's a lot of money for people 18-53 making a living doing whatever they may 18-56 be doing and we really thought February 18-58 1st it was going to kick in and 19-00 everybody was going to be well we 19-01 haven't even gotten there yet and it's 19-04 kicked in and it's had a incredible 19-06 impact on the stock market and the stock 19-08 prices we've set 84 records since my 19-12 election record stock market prices 19-15 meaning we hit new highs 84 different 19-19 times out of a one year period and 19-22 that's a great thing and in all fairness 19-25 that was done before we passed the tax 19-28 cuts and tax reform so what happened is 19-32 really something special then as you 19-34 know and as I just said Apple came in 19-36 with 350 billion dollars and I tell you 19-39 I spoke with Tim Cook I said Tim I will 19-42 never consider this whole great run that 19-47 we've made complete until you start 19-50 building plants in the US and I will 19-53 tell you this moved up very 19-54 substantially but when I heard 350 I 19-57 thought he was talking I thought they 19-59 were talking three hundred and fifty 20-01 million dollars and by the way that's a 20-03 nice sized plant not the greatest but 20-06 not bad 20-06 and they said no sir it's three hundred 20-09 and fifty billion dollars I said that is 20-13 something well we have tremendous 20-15 amounts of money including my newfound 20-17 friends from last night great companies 20-20 they're all investing when one of the 20-23 gentlemen said he's putting in two 20-25 billion dollars because of the tax cuts 20-27 I said to myself wow he's actually the 20-30 cheap one in the group because they're 20-32 putting in massive numbers of billions 20-34 of dollars so 20-36 I think you have a brand-new United 20-39 States you have a United States who are 20-41 people from all over the world are 20-43 looking to come in and invest and 20-45 there's just nothing like what's 20-48 happening and I just want to finish by I 20-51 have a group of people that have been so 20-53 outs I have a whole lot of them so I 20-55 won't introduce cousin Ellen self at 20-56 least half of them but I've had a group 20-59 of people that work so hard on this and 21-01 other things and we're really doing we 21-04 had a great first year so successful in 21-07 so many different ways and there's a 21-09 tremendous spirit when you look at all 21-11 of the different charts and polls and 21-14 you see as an example African American 21-17 unemployment at the historic low that's 21-21 never it's never had a period of time 21-23 like this 21-24 same with Hispanic women at a 17-year 21-27 low it's it's very heartwarming to see 21-30 but there's a tremendous spirit in the 21-33 United States I would say it's a spirit 21-35 like I have never witnessed before I've 21-37 been here for a while I have never 21-39 witnessed the spirit that our country 21-42 has right now so I just want to thank 21-44 you all and all of those that are 21-46 pouring billions of dollars into our 21-49 country or ten dollars into our country 21-51 we thank you very much Thank You mr. 21-54 president I well I will ask you maybe a 21-57 personal question but before doing so it 22-01 sounds very interesting 22-02 Akinori I didn't know about this one I 22-04 would like to acknowledge the strong 22-07 presence of your cabinet members yes who 22-11 tremendously contributed to the 22-13 discussions good it's a loss I would 22-16 like to do that that's no Steven Wilbur 22-21 Gary Robert even my general and my 22-27 various other generals you know we're 22-30 making our military protection a little 22-32 bit better for us too so thank you very 22-35 much does everybody understand that I 22-36 think so thank you all for being all why 22-40 I may be personal question would be 22-45 what experience from your past have been 22-50 most useful in preparing you for the 22-54 presidency well being a businessman has 22-57 been a great experience for me I've 22-59 loved it I've always loved business I've 23-02 always been good at building things and 23-04 I've always been very successful at 23-05 making money I'd buy things that would 23-07 fail 23-08 that would be failures and I turn them 23-10 around and try and get them for the 23-12 right price and then I turned them 23-13 around make them successful and I've 23-15 been good at it and that takes a certain 23-17 ability and you know historically I 23-19 guess there's never really been a 23-21 businessman or businessperson elected 23-25 presidents always been a general or a 23-26 politician throughout history it's 23-29 always been a general you had to be a 23-31 general but mostly it was politicians 23-34 you'd never have a businessman and then 23-35 in all fairness I was saying to Klaus 23-37 last night had the opposing party to me 23-41 won some of whom you backed some of the 23-45 people in the room instead of being up 23-47 almost 50% the stock market is up since 23-51 my election almost 50 percent rather 23-54 than that I believe the stock market 23-56 from that level the initial level would 23-58 have been down close to 50% that's where 24-01 we were heading I really believe that 24-02 because they were going to put on 24-04 massive new regulations you couldn't 24-06 breathe that was choking our country to 24-07 death and I was able to see that Klaus 24-10 as a businessperson the other thing is 24-12 I've always seemed to get for whatever 24-14 reason a disproportionate amount of 24-16 press or media and not my whole life 24-22 somebody will explain someday why but 24-24 I've always gotten a lot and as a 24-27 businessman I was always treated really 24-29 well by the press you know the numbers 24-30 speak and things happen but I've always 24-32 really had a very good press and it was 24-35 until I became a politician that I 24-38 realized how nasty how mean how vicious 24-41 and how fake the press can be as the 24-44 cameras start going off in the back 24-48 but but overall I'm in the bottom line 24-51 somebody said well they couldn't have 24-53 been that bad because here we are were 24-54 president and I think we're doing a 24-56 really great job with my team I have a 24-58 team of just tremendous people and I 25-02 think we're doing a very special job and 25-04 I really believe it was time and it was 25-07 time to do that job because I don't 25-09 think the United States would have done 25-12 very well if it went through four or 25-14 eight more years of regulation and 25-17 really a very anti business group of 25-20 people we have a very pro-business group 25-23 we have regulations cut to a level in 25-26 the history of our country class this 25-29 was reported recently in one year we've 25-32 cut more regulations in my 25-33 administration than any other 25-36 Administration in for eight or sixteen 25-39 years in the one case we've cut more 25-41 regulations in one year and we have a 25-43 ways to go 25-44 I mean we're probably 50% done and we're 25-47 going to have regulation there's nothing 25-49 wrong with rules and regulations you 25-51 need them but we've cut more than any 25-56 administration ever in the history of 25-58 our country and we still have a ways to 26-00 go so I think between that and the 26-02 tremendous tax cuts we've really done 26-05 something and one other thing I said and 26-06 I saw it last night was some of the 26-08 leaders and the business people I think 26-12 I've been a cheerleader for our country 26-14 and everybody representing a company or 26-17 a country has to be a cheerleader or no 26-20 matter what you do it's just not going 26-22 to work and the reason I'm a cheerleader 26-24 is because it's easy because I love our 26-27 country and I think we're just doing 26-31 really well and we look forward to 26-33 seeing you in America special place and 26-37 where you are is a special place also 26-39 thank you all very much I appreciate it 26-41 thank you 26-44 thank you very much mr. president for 26-48 being with us sir World Economic Forum 26-52 community who is assembled here will be 26-55 certainly and I quote you from the last 26-58 piece of your remarks will be suddenly 27-01 be amongst a hard-working man and women 27-05 who do serve duty each and every day 27-09 making this world a better place for 27-12 everyone thank you very much thank you 27-15 thank you very much everybody thank you 27-17 [Applause]  

REFLECTION QUOTES “When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.” ~Albert Gore, Jr. (1948-present) 45th Vice President of the United States “America is the exemplification of what I call the project of modernity. That project is the attempt to produce a people who believe that they should have no story except the story that they choose…That is what Americans mean by ‘freedom.'” ~Stanley Hauerwas, noted American intellectual and professor at Duke University “If you feel it is imperative to fill all your needs, and if these needs are contradictory or in conflict with those of others, or simply unfillable, then frustration inevitably follows. …[S]elf-fulfillment means having a career and marriage and children and sexual freedom and autonomy and being liberal and having money and choosing non-conformity and insisting social justice and enjoying city life and country living and simplicity and graciousness and reading and good friends and on and on. The individual is not truly fulfilled by becoming ever more autonomous. Indeed, to move too far in this direction is to risk psychosis, the ultimate form of autonomy. The injunction that to find one's self, one must lose one's self, contains the truth any seeker of self-fulfillment needs to grasp.” ~Daniel Yankelovich, “New Rules in American Life: Searching for Self-Fulfillment in a World Turned Upside Down,” Psychology Today (April, 1981) “The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.” ~George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950), Irish playwright “The secret to freedom from enslaving patters of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God's greatness and to be moved by it—moved to tears and moved to laughter—moved by who God is and what He has done for you.” ~Tim Keller, pastor in New York City SERMON PASSAGE Acts 19:21-41 (NASB) 21 Now after these things were finished, Paul purposed in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.” 22 And having sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while. 23 About that time there occurred no small disturbance concerning the Way. 24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen; 25 these he gathered together with the workmen of similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business. 26 You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that gods made with hands are no gods at all. 27 Not only is there danger that this trade of ours fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be regarded as worthless and that she whom all of Asia and the world worship will even be dethroned from her magnificence.” 28 When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” 29 The city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's traveling companions from Macedonia. 30 And when Paul wanted to go into the assembly, the disciples would not let him. 31 Also some of the Asiarchs who were friends of his sent to him and repeatedly urged him not to venture into the theater. 32 So then, some were shouting one thing and some another, for the assembly was in confusion and the majority did not know for what reason they had come together. 33 Some of the crowd concluded it was Alexander, since the Jews had put him forward; and having motioned with his hand, Alexander was intending to make a defense to the assembly. 34 But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a single outcry arose from them all as they shouted for about two hours, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” 35 After quieting the crowd, the town clerk *said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image which fell down from heaven? 36 So, since these are undeniable facts, you ought to keep calm and to do nothing rash. 37 For you have brought these men here who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess. 38 So then, if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint against any man, the courts are in session and proconsuls are available; let them bring charges against one another. 39 But if you want anything beyond this, it shall be settled in the lawful assembly. 40 For indeed we are in danger of being accused of a riot in connection with today's events, since there is no real cause for it, and in this connection we will be unable to account for this disorderly gathering.” 41 After saying this he dismissed the assembly.

Why has The United States America become so thin skinned. No Guns No foul language. No acting like a guy.

Will talks with political scientist Brian Smentkowski, an Associate Professor at the University of Idaho. He's the co-author of Misreading the Bill of Rights: Top Ten Myths Concerning Your Rights and Liberties ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1440832331?pf_rd_p=1cac67ce-697a-47be-b2f5-9ae91aab54f2&pf_rd_r=CS6P3DX5JNT47VBPYGA1 ) with Craig Freeman and Kirby Goidel. Topics Will & Brian discuss include: * The top myths Americans hold regarding the Bill of Rights * Whether a Bill of Rights is necessary for democracy * Our changing understanding of religion in the United States * America's paradoxical view of security * How a free press and an informed citizenry impacts democracy * The differences between punishment and torture *Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible*. If you're interested in supporting the show, go to patreon.com/politicsguys ( https://www.patreon.com/politicsguys ) or politicsguys.com/support ( http://www.politicsguys.com/support ). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy