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A highlight from Growing Unease: Current Administrations Approach to Security and Travel with David Bellavia
"What do you think they're doing with cash, right? What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? Yeah. What do you, it's, this is a state sponsor of terrorism. Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens. America's comeback now. starts right Welcome back Financial Guys podcast. Mike Speraza in studio live today with a guest in the studio. I haven't had this in a long time. Staff Sergeant medal of honor recipient David Bellavia joining me for about a half hour today. David, thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Absolutely. So I'm going to stick based on your background. I'm going to stick with a lot of military stuff today and I want to start, we'll go all the way back to the beginning of the Joe Biden presidency. The Afghanistan withdrawal, in my opinion, did not go very smoothly. I'm sure many people listening agree. What were your overall thoughts of that withdrawal and how it actually ended up happening? I know we lost, you know, sadly lost 13 soldiers in that, in that withdrawal. People say we went off the wrong air base. People say that we shouldn't have gone out in the middle of the summer. There was a lot of different things there. What were your overall thoughts on that? I think it's like the worst day in American history since Market Garden. Just absolutely. And the reason why it was so difficult was it was totally unnecessary. So let's rewind to the Obama trade, Bull Bergdahl and the three first round draft picks. They get Marshall, they get MacArthur and they get Patton that end up the resurgence of the Taliban. These men not just go back to the enemy, they go back to the battlefield. They're in power when the government falls. You have misinformation coming from the White House that the president of Afghanistan is leaving with billions of dollars on his plane, which wasn't true. And then you leave the equipment, the cash. There's no recovery. We're getting reports of sales of American equipment left in Afghanistan in Southeast Asia. We're moving material across the globe. Our children will fight and pay and have to atone for these miscalculations. Let's talk about that. You being in the military and you knowing that area too, why did they just find it the easiest way out to just say, you know, just leave that billion dollar billions of dollars of equipment there and not think, again, if it was me and I'm speaking that someone that's never been in the military, but if it's me and I'm the president, I'm thinking, OK, I don't want to leave all our weaponry there. I don't want to lose any of my men. Number two. And number three, I want to make sure that everybody knows when and how we're getting out of there. And it just felt like poof. One day they said we're getting out of here. Well, it's because the military didn't make any of those decisions. I mean, look, Millie, it can criticize him. You can criticize Secretary of Defense worthy of criticism. However, none of these individuals are making decisions. This is about NGOs on the ground. This is about the State Department. So you've got Bagram Air Base, the equivalent of JFK. You've got Karzai International Airport, the equivalent of Teterboro. Right. Why would you ever do an exfil out of Karzai International Airport? It makes absolutely no sense. It's tactically unsound. But and then you've got all the ISIS -K. We retaliate from the murder of 13 of our bravest and we drop a bomb on a guy delivering water. He's on our payroll and we kill children on that. Then we take out Borat on a tuk tuk driving around like that wasn't even really what was happening. It's just a den of lies. And Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, all the heroes that brought us, you know, the Bergdahl deal, the Iran nuke deal. This is these. They the State Department is running all foreign policy, including what the DOD used to run. Well, that's I was going to say. I mean, I know Biden's the president, but do you blame him at all or is it everybody underneath him that, you know, maybe was giving him bad information? And again, some of these decisions, David, is Biden even involved in some of these decisions? Like, I don't even know anymore. Is he around? Is he paying attention to anything going on? Well, I mean, just from the press conferences, it was apparent he didn't know what was going on. And the great irony is that they actually were predicting that Ukraine was going to be invaded and, you know, no one believed them. So it's like you can't influence your friends. The allies don't trust you. The enemy doesn't respect you. You know, I mean, you've got Ben Rhodes is really proud of this State Department. Susan Rice loves what they're doing. But, you know, again, Americans died. And, you know, and what is the perfect culmination of the adventure in Afghanistan? Looking at your watch at Dover Air Base when bodies are coming home. I mean, nothing could you couldn't ask for a just it's it's a debacle. Yeah. And it's sad that that's that's the leader of our country there. Let's move in. You brought up the Ukraine there. So the Russia Ukraine conflict will get to Zelensky in a minute. He is as we speak in New York City right now. But so Trump's in office. We don't see many of these conflicts or any conflicts actually started under his watch. And then we have the Biden administration come in. And a year later, we have Russia invading Ukraine. Why did this happen and why? Why the timing of February of 2022? So let's go back to when we were fighting ISIS. Trump engaged and destroyed estimated some say 300 members of Wagner forces. But those were Russian nationals. We engaged. We destroyed them. What was the response from Putin? Nothing at all. So what do people in that section of the world, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, what do they respect? They respect power. They respect authority. You're not going to get any respect if you don't engage the enemy when they present themselves. I don't understand the calculus of again, I'm trying hard to figure it out. I don't get it. I don't. You know, Romania and Hungary and Poland, you're letting them unilaterally decide whether or not they want to send reinforcements into Ukraine. That's an act of war. If NATO members engage the enemy, all of NATO is engaged against the enemy. Poland doesn't unilaterally make that decision. Hungary and Romania don't unilaterally make that decision. We can't even articulate what the mission is. And if you look, go to the Institute for the Study of War, there's a plug for them. Check out their overlay from when the battle started, when the war started with Russia. And tell me what success this offensive in Ukraine has produced. I mean, let me ask this question, because I get confused. The answer is nothing. I asked this on Twitter, X, whatever it's called, all the time. What is the end game and how do we get there? Because all I see the answer is, hey, just blank checks. Hey, just write a check. Hey, here's a billion. Hey, here's 20 billion. Hey, here's another 10 billion. I don't actually see a look. I mean, like anything, right? If I write a business plan of what I want to do in 2024, my goal is X. I write down my steps to get X. I don't just write down X and say it's going to happen. I don't really know. And then the answer always is, well, we have to fight. We have to back Ukraine. Okay. But when does that end? Because the Afghanistan war and the war in Iraq lasted 20 years plus, right? And was there a real end to it? I don't know. That's where it gets frustrating for me, Dave, where I'm like, how do we know what the end game is? Do you win or lose? When does that happen? I don't know. I don't know. At least you're thinking about it. And I have fear that our leaders aren't, and that's the problem. So here's what this comes out. You're going to get a negotiated settlement out of Ukraine, right? But you talked about the billions of dollars that we're spending and giving to Ukraine as a blank check. First of all, Zelensky visited Ukrainian soldiers in the United States. Did you know that there were wounded Ukrainian soldiers in the United States? I did not know that. Well, today he visited them. So what's happening there? So that's a cost that no one is putting on the ledger. So now let's look at the blank check that Ukraine is getting. And by the way, I'm pro Ukraine. I want to fight communists all day and night. So let's punch Putin hard in the face. However, you're giving them a blank check and you're giving them munitions. Now here's the problem. We have to replace those munitions. Those munitions were purchased for 20 year global war and terror. And let's be honest, inflation is involved. So what you purchased for $10 is now $17. So you're not just giving them the money. You're giving them the equipment and the munitions that you have to replace yourself at the value of what is valued today. We haven't scratched the surface for the amount of money. CBO absent at the wheel. No one is tracking this. 2024 can't get here fast enough. How does this work, though, when you talk about some of these NATO nations coming together and making decisions, but us not just giving weaponry, giving everything money, whatever we're giving there? Is that not an act of war, too, though, David, at some point? We're continuing to fund Ukraine continuing the war in Ukraine. I mean, that to me seems like we're backing a war. Well, I mean, by the letter of the law and NATO charter, it's not. But here's the problem. It's schizophrenic because we were told that what was an offensive weapon was going to mitigate, you know, that wasn't going to help peace at all. So we went from, I don't know if they should get tracked vehicles to I'm not sure an artillery piece is what they need to high Mars rockets being launched. And let's be honest. I mean, the Ukrainians are I mean, the payload that they're going through, what you would have to have cataclysmic casualty numbers to be able to to the spandex that they're doing on the ground that they need to replace Patriot. If you're going through thirty five Patriot to, you know, missiles, I would expect to at least the C 20 makes that are shot down. They're using them for air artillery. They're using there for indirect fire. I don't know what they're doing, but this is going to end with Don Boss going to Russia. This is going to end with that land chain that Putin wanted through Crimea. And again, our friends in NATO, what are they even doing for Ukraine? What? Look, if you they said that Trump wanted to kill NATO, Biden did it. Right. Biden did it. And now Germany. And so Putin was selling oil at thirty dollars a barrel. What's it at ninety six? Yeah. He's making more money than he did before. And he's financing a war and killing innocent people. You mentioned before, too, and I think this is a good point. Everybody on the left and I'll say the media, the establishment, whoever you want to say, says that if you don't agree with the war in Ukraine, you're like pro Putin. Right. And that's just the most outrageous thing in the world, because I agree with you. I feel for the people of Ukraine. I don't want this for them. I don't want this for innocent people. However, at some point, the world's every every one of the world's problems can't be America's problem when we have a border crisis. And then I think they said yesterday ten thousand people came across. They got, I think, eight thousand of the ten thousand. But you see the numbers day over day. It's a problem. We have crime that's rampant. We have overdoses that are at record numbers. We have we have suicides at record numbers. At some point, we have to maybe just think about ourselves and not everybody else, because if we fall, sadly, I think the world falls at that point. Amen. The thing that I would add is I love the way the Ukraine refugee has been crowbarred into the migrant crisis in the United States. New York leaders from the city to all over Kathy Hochul, the governor of the state of New York, mentioning that, you know, like the Ukrainians in Poland, the the Polish have no intention to keep Ukrainians forever. That's a temporary you know, they're leaving a conflict to return to their country after the conflict is over. Again, this is just we're we're putting a round peg into a square hole and just hammering it away. But but there's no the media. There's you're our destroying military. I go to parents all the time around this country and ask them to give us their sons and daughters to join the military. And the one thing they bring up is Afghanistan. It's not about anything. It's Afghanistan. How are you going to assure us that you're going to maintain your commitment to our son and daughter when you betrayed us in Afghanistan that has lasting effects? And there's not a I'm trying to find a segment of our of our of our nation that's functioning. I don't know what it is. I saw in Chicago, they're going to have municipally owned grocery stores. Maybe that will figure it out there. Yeah, yeah, it's good. Real quick, do you think and we'll finish up on this topic, but do you think that they will we will ever have boots in the ground on Ukraine? I mean, I hope not, because I just don't know what the I mean, look at I'm I'm we're getting ready for China. We're trying to revolutionize everything. I don't know what the what the plan is. I mean, again, if you want to put a base in Ukraine, and you want to make that a sustainment operation going forward, that I here's the point. I don't understand what the inactive ready reserve call up was for. Why are you bringing those troops in the non combat support? Why are they going to Ukraine? What are you building infrastructure there? Here's what I do know. We're talking a minimum of $11 trillion to build Ukraine back. That is cataclysmic amounts of money. There isn't water, electricity, internet, you know, you want to help Ukraine. You're going to Russia is not paying for that if you negotiate a settlement. So I don't know what the plan is. But I hope we never see boots on the ground. I could guess what the plan is. I won't I won't say for sure. But I could guess that we'll be paying a chunk of that. And I do have one last one. So I did interview Colonel Douglas McGregor a few months back. And he talked about he's a real optimist. But he is really very, very bullish on Ukraine. Yes, very, very optimistic. I'm dropping some all over the place. But he brought up some staggering numbers, though. And even if they're half true, it's a problem. The amount of casualties and wounded soldiers on the Ukrainian side that we're not hearing about the media. I don't know if you agree with some of those numbers or not. But he's saying, I mean, it's people are acting as if this is an even war right now. And it's not even close. First of all, McGregor's a stud. I mean, he's an absolute, you know, that we're glad he's on our side. He's a military mind. I don't know if those numbers are accurate. I could tell you they're juxtaposed to almost everything we're hearing from every institution that we have, including a lot of our intel from Germany and England. But again, I don't know what to believe. So when you don't have when you don't have transparency, when you're not holding regular press conferences, when your Pentagon spokesman is now working in the White House and now you're getting a triple spin. I mean, the U .S. Open double backspin. You've gotten so many spins on the narrative. I don't know what to believe. But if he is even close to what is a segment of truth, you know, then look, Ukraine needs an investigation. There's a lot of investigations. We've got to start on Afghanistan. We were promised that by Speaker McCarthy. We need a hot wash on Afghanistan. And then we need to go to what who is oversighting the money that's going to Ukraine. And what have we got for our return on investment? Yeah, I'm not asking for much. Really, all I'm asking for in this conflict is can we just talk about what the end game is? And to your point, can we get an accounting of where the money's going and what's being spent in a real accounting of it? The Iran deal that just happened last week. First off, the fact that that was negotiated and completed on 11th September to me is just the ultimate slap in the face. But you again, you know more about this than I do. We do a five for five trade. OK, I'm going to use sports analogies. We trade five for five. And then we also approved of six billion dollars that apparently wasn't ours, but it was in a fund that now they can release to Iran. How are we winning on that one? Well, first of all, I was hoping that at least it was a digital transfer. The fact that it went as euros in cash through Qatar. And OK, so what happens the 24 hours after that deal is made? We're now getting issues in the West Bank. We're now hearing about issues in Yemen. We've now got Hezbollah that's reinforced. I mean, look, what do you think they're doing with cash? Right. What deal do you make where someone says, I'll bring a box of money to you? What do you it's this is a state sponsor of terrorism. They haven't changed. By the way, their president is now in New York City addressing the United Nations. This guy's killed 6500 of his own people. He admits to it. He killed the students that revolted and wanted democracy when we did nothing. He killed 5000 of his citizens in 1988. He's killed over 300 Americans. There's no accountability whatsoever. I don't understand what it is about Jake Sullivan and Tony Blinken that believe that Iran is a partner. All you've done 10 years ago, they were refining 10 percent of their oil. And now they're a force. Now they're working with Maduro in Venezuela, and they're a huge part of their members of of the international community. They're in good standing there. I don't get it. Does anyone believe that the Iran nuke deal? Look, we got hit with cruise missiles under Trump in Iraq. How did they have those cruise missiles? Those cruise missiles were illegal under the Obama nuke deal. So how are you refurbishing missiles in two years? Do we believe that their centrifuges have stopped? That they won't have a program if they don't have one already? No, I mean, I guess my question, David, is how I mean, I know that you pay a lot of attention to this stuff, but how do people like in the media not ask these questions? Right. I mean, these are legitimate. I mean, we just traded to I put this on my notes here. This is on the heels of trading a WNBA basketball player for the Merchant of Death like six months ago. Right. I mean, and again, I'm glad Americans are coming back to America. I don't want to sound pessimistic on that. That's great news. But we also I mean, this this stuff just seems like I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. It warrants questions, but nobody seems to care. I'm in the world that if you take hostages, we take hostages. You want to exchange people? We'll exchange people. You know, we definitely have the partners in the area to do that. For whatever reason, this administration, they're they're they're contrarians. They're contrarians to you know, they claim Bush and Cheney are their best friends, yet they just go 180 degrees from that doctrine. I don't know what the Biden doctrine is. I don't know what Bidenonomics is either, but I could tell you that they believe that Iran is a partner. Now, here's another thing. Our envoy to Iran not only is no longer the envoy, he doesn't have a security clearance. Does anyone curious at The New York Times as to what happened to the lead negotiator in Iran that is escorted off a bus, taken into American custody, given a job at Yale or Princeton or wherever he's working now? I've never heard of a person going from top secret classified negotiations to no clearance whatsoever and in the custody of American intelligence community. No one cares. No one cares at all. It's fascinating. And again, for me, I mean, these are big decisions that we're making. And correct me if I'm wrong, but it used to be, you know, maybe we did a two for five deal and then we made the six billion. Now we're like, we're giving stuff away and we're on the losing end. Correct me if I'm wrong, but America was never, you know, America losing. It was always America winning, right? America getting the best of deals. At least McDonald's has a five for five. We didn't even get that. You know what this does though? Honest to God, if you're thinking about traveling overseas, things go sideways, cartel, South America, Mexico, wherever you're going, you have a price in your head now. No one in their right mind is going to bring you back whether it's Haiti or wherever you are, you're worth $1 .25 billion. And thugs and scumbags are going to take advantage of that. I mean, that's a great point too. Do you think about leaving the country? I don't know anymore. That's a little bit concerning. I don't care where you're going, right? That's concerning. This one I just had to bring up because it happened two days ago or yesterday. How do we lose a plane? And I heard that's like a third one in the last six weeks that something like this has happened. How are we losing $80 million planes? Well, they're not $80 million anymore because they've got a new engine and all this other stuff. Look, the F -35 program is a complete disaster. You want to talk about why our allies think we're crazy. We sold them a plane. This program has been around since the early 90s and we've got nothing on return for it. So basically two planes are flying in a buddy team. They're doing training and a guy punches out. We don't even know why he punched out, but that plane could have easily hit a building. It didn't, thank God. But the wingman didn't follow where his buddy went. So what is he doing? He just kind of went on and did his own thing. And now the Marine Corps put a Facebook post like a dog is missing. We're expecting the Ukrainian farmers to carry the F -35 out with their tractors. I don't know what the point of it's wild. Look, stop embarrassing us. Just stop humiliating us. That's all I'm asking. Just be the army and the Marine Corps that we know our men and women are capable of being. Get out of their way. This gender garbage, this social experiment nonsense, stop humiliating our military. That's all I ask. Why can we not get the... I mean, I know why we can't get the answer, but I'm asking this to you. But why can't we, at a press conference at the White House, why can't we say, I want to talk to the guy that was in the other plane, or you can tell us the transcript of what happened when that happened. Talk to the guy who jumped out of the plane. Why did you do that? And again, I'm not trying to put our military on the spot, but these are kind of big questions to ask, right? I mean, if I do something in my business, I have to go face the music on that. Why doesn't everybody have to face music for their decisions or why things are happening? I think it's kind of important. Well, you don't want to talk to generals because they're going to tell you the truth and they won't be generals anymore. True. And you don't want to talk to enlisted people. Because look, I mean, let's be honest. How many people are... Is this a merit -based military anymore? Do we have a meritocracy? Are we promoting people based on pronouns? Go figure. When we're putting politics above military strength, accidents happen. We don't know the facts, but the fact that nobody cares about getting to the bottom of it, the day of the Pentagon paper reporters are gone. Yep. Yep. Let's just talk about the 2024 race quick, and then we will wrap up for today. So your thoughts on the Republican primary so far, I'll stay away from the Democratic side till the very end, but your thoughts on, you know, there's obviously Trump who is now in a, has a huge lead. Ron DeSantis seems to be crumbling underneath himself. Vivek Ramaswamy has jumped up in the polls. Nikki Haley's there. Tim Scott's there. A few others that probably aren't going to get a lot of votes. Chris Christie's the anti -Trump candidate. Mike Pence is, I don't know what Mike Pence is. I'm not really sure. Your thoughts about the whole field so far? I mean, look, it's impressive. They've got a deep bench. There's a lot of diversity. I, you know, none of it matters. Trump is the guy. The more you indict him, the more you empower him. You know, I'd like him to work on his communications a little bit better. You know, but if Trump is Trump, Trump is a Frankenstein monster of Barack Obama. As long as you have that faction, you're going to get, you know, Trump is going to be empowered. I just don't want to see Governor Noem anywhere near the White House. And I, if he's going to pick a running mate, you know, it's hard to find an ally here, you know. But it would be nice to find a governor. I don't want to take anyone from the Senate. I don't want to take anyone from the House with the margins that tight. But I mean, the idea that Governor Noem is being floated right now. I mean, I'd rather take North Dakota. Yeah. A little sled there. You know, it's funny you mentioned that because I saw a lot of that this weekend. I mean, can we just, for lack of a better term, keep it in our pants for about a year and then do what you got to do? It really is. I mean, every time you turn, somebody's doing something idiotic, whether it's Boebert. And again, I say this, David, a lot of people know who you are. A lot more know who you are than they'll ever know who I am. But when you go out in public into a movie theater like that, and I'm going to Boebert, not Noem for a second, you're, you're extremely well known. I don't care if it's dark or if it's as light as it is in the studio right now. What are you thinking? I, you know, she's, she's, she's an embarrassment. She is. She's bad, too. Who would have thought that Marjorie Taylor Greene would have been the, the oasis of the Maryland? I mean, seriously, I, again, you're, you're in Congress every day. You're out in public, you're on the job. You know, at least she wasn't wearing a hoodie, you know, that's all in shorts. She was at least dressed for the occasion, but I, it was, it's wildly embarrassing. Vaping, singing, whatever you're doing. Getting groped. Yes. Who is your VP candidate then? Because I think, you know, you have names thrown around. There's, there's, the vague has been thrown around in there. You know, Byron Donald's has been thrown around in there. Carrie Lake has. I don't know. I love Carrie Lake. I just don't know that Trump needs to go with somebody so divisive there. I think he's got to go with somebody that's, that's firm in their beliefs, but also not maybe going to turn off half the country. Well, you know, it's, it's impossible. One of the, one of the problems with making Trump, you know, the, the enemy of the state that the left has done is that you've really made it difficult for him to even put a cabinet together. You know, I mean, what are you going to do with it? You've got a lot of loyalists out there. You know, the vague is, is I think maybe the most intelligent dynamic candidate we've ever seen run for president, but experience does matter. But you know, I love the way he thinks. I love the movement. I don't know if he would even take the job to be honest with it. I don't think he needs it. But you look at a Tim Scott, I think Tim Scott is, you know, there's a whole lot to his message and I think he's, he's got the experience in the Senate, but honestly, you could literally take the Clint Eastwood chair and, and throw it in there as vice president. I'm going with that because this, this from top to bottom, we have to have seismic change in 24. Do you think he would ever choose Kristi Noem at this point with all that now? Yeah, no one knew Mike Pence was a, was a 24 hour story and then he was the vice president candidate. So who knows? I mean, a lot can happen between now and then, but I just, I don't need, you know, let's just pick people on their merit. Let's pick people that are ready to be the president. Imagine this, imagine picking a vice president that can lead the country. If something happens to a 75 year old president, you know, like Kamala Harris. Yeah. Someone like that.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "isis" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Cooperate to fight terrorism might seem odd because both have been accused of terrorism themselves. So what is going on with this deal? On this edition of The Hunt with WTOP's national security correspondent JJ Green talks to Dimitri Sotis about it. Iran and Afghanistan are neighbors. And so regardless of what their standing in the world is, regardless of what their ideology is in their factories, they both have terrorism problems. And so what they want to do is to get together to help each state, they are going to take each other other out. And the Islamic State is one of the biggest terrorism problems that they both have. There are terrorist other groups that are active in the region, but that primarily is the main threat. ISIS. Most of the world does not recognize the Taliban as an official government. What is Iran's position? So Iran has not officially recognized the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan, but they're seeking to establish what some call a pragmatic relationship with them. Their shared border is about 600 miles long, and that clearly is really difficult to secure, especially if you have the limited resources that Afghanistan has, and certainly it's kind of tough for Iran to do it too, just based on the other things that occupied they're with. So they feel like they need to engage in some kind of collective security working together to deal with terrorism. Why is this happening now? Concerns about the Islamic State is I think the reason why this is happening now, the Tasmanian news agency, an Iranian news agency that's linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard released a video on the 15th of September claiming that at the West, and that means the US has driven the terrorist group, ISIS, out of Syria Turkey and into northern Afghanistan. And so this is the concern for them because those two countries share a big border and they feel like, Iran does at least, that these terrorists are going to be operating in Afghanistan and that means spillover across the border into Iran. So they like feel this is a good way to combat terrorism even though both of these organizations, the government in Iran and the Taliban have themselves been engaged in what the West has called terrorism. WTOP national security correspondent J .J. Green. It is W -T -O -P. And time to take a quick look at the top stories we're working on for you at W -T -O -P. Some progress is seen as talks continue in Hollywood for the writers strike. Ophelia is losing steam, but we will soon see it will continue to see some of the effects of it. Votes in the house are planned as soon as Tuesday on various bills to avoid a government shutdown. Keep it here for full details on these stories in the minutes ahead. is 2 It -18. Traffic
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Common Are Child Predators? With Victor Marx
"Everybody. Very special hour we have in store with my good friend and mentor, someone who I really consider a spiritual mentor, Victor Marks. Victor, how you doing? Good. Good. Good to be here. Victor is one of the great Americans out there, and Victor has a ministry, All Things Possible, ATP, where I think one of the best ways to summarize what you do is you deliver people from bondage. Yeah. Yeah. Through Jesus Christ to freedom. Yes. But you also, you deliver children who are being sex trafficked. You find pedophiles and you hold them accountable. Yes. So, Victor, tell us a little bit about your story. We've had you on before, but reintroduce yourself to the audience, and there's lots of talk about this. It's a huge topic happening in the country. Yeah, and I'm glad the conversation has increased lately. It really has. Yeah. So, you know, the easiest way to say for people to understand what we do is we set captives free physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We focus on children and women. We best, I think people best learned of us when we were rescuing and recovering women and children from ISIS. And these last eight years, we grew in our reach and effectiveness to Southeast Asia, South America, but, you know, we had to start focusing right here on the U .S. because of the increase of what I would call pedophile activity. Have you seen an increase in the last five years, two years in particular? Yes. I mean, starting from COVID, it's just, it exponentially keeps going up and specifically through the internet. I don't think, I don't think people realize the full wickedness of how much, now we'll say child porn, but the correct terminology is CSAM, which is sexual abuse material. Because they're, they're being raped. There's no consent, consent with an eight -year -old. Yeah, it's an act of rape. Exactly. And, you know, it's, and I give people kind of a bird's eye view. I think last year, 33 million images or videos were transferred on the internet or the dark web of child porn right here in the U .S. And people think, well, if you find out about it, won't they just arrest them? Well, there was just a little over 300 convictions. It's... How many people do you think are involved in 33 million images? Oh, millions. So two to three million. Yeah,
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 115: Part 2: Ric Prado Hunts Osama bin Laden and Leads the CIA Response after 9/11
"Our case is more like what the FBI did, you know, infiltrating the mafia or something like that. We have to maintain a clandestine and secure relationship, but also a very healthy relationship. We have a motto in the business that says you never fall in love with your agent, but you make them think that you're in love with them. You're always stops testing them, you're always double checking, you always put them under surveillance to make sure that they're doing what they say that we're doing, but it is very different because it's a very different goal. We don't work on problems, we work on intelligence. Well let's use that as a good springboard to start moving forward because a lot of your world starts changing, we start talking about the Cold War, you start talking about terrorism starts rearing its head, but at some point you became, worked with Michael Schur and Alex Station, the bin Laden unit. Tell us about that. Yeah, I had just come back from Korea, I had just gotten my GS -15, and I was the head of the Palestinian branch for CTC, our counter -terrorist center, and I got called into the front office by the chief of ops, and he said, look, you know, your name has been raised to be deputy chief of station for this virtual station targeting terrorism. I had never heard of virtual station, we were the first, and talking to my boss I said, well thank you boss, I mean of course I'll, you know, deputy chief of station, hell yeah, but who are we going after? And he said Osama bin Laden. And I said, who? And he goes, exactly. Mike Sawyer, Sawyer was the analyst that had been following this, so he was the chief of station for Alex Station, I was his deputy chief of station, and I was the senior ops officer, we only had two other case officers, the rest were analysts, incredible analysts and targeting officers. And by the way, that's the very same unit that eventually got bin Laden, you know, geo -located and allowed under our authorities for the SEAL team to go shoot him in the face. Excellent. Room temperature was a good result for that, but yeah, and the sad part is too, I did some work with the state department over in Islamabad training their police, their federal investigative agency, special investigative group, and while we were there at that time is about the time they figured bin Laden ended up in Abbottabad, and that's just about 30 clicks north, 30 or 40 clicks north of Islamabad, you know, right under literally everybody's noses. I just, I still have some heartburn over how much cooperation he got from the Pakistani government. Did you have concerns about that or am I just off in left field here? No, the Pakistani government is completely dual purpose. You have people that love us and people that love to kill us, meaning Americans. They're the ones that created the Taliban, for God's sake. The ISI. Their intelligence service literally was the ones that actually helped create the Taliban. So that penetration was always there. We did have, according to people that worked there, I never did, we did have some very good relationships liaison with some Pakistanis, but they were infiltrated from the other side too quite a bit. Yeah, we ended up kicking a couple people out of our training that had, once some tenuous connections came to light, it was like, yeah, I think it spells ISI is what you should have put down as your organization, but what I'm interested in, let's go back to that because that, you know, like you said, bin Laden who, not many people took him seriously. He issued his fatwa, you know, he said, here's what we're going to do. And then we started getting the bombings. We got some bombings of the embassies, right? That's correct. Well, you know, yeah, that is one of the things that set us all off because we had, when bin Laden was still in Khartoum, when we opened up the station, when we started Alex Stationing, and we had recorded intelligence from a very dear friend of mine, a Green Beret legend and CIA legend by the name of Billy Waugh. Billy was the head of security for Black in Khartoum at the time when he was there. He's also the guy that saw and helped arrest, helped capture Carlos the Jackal, the renowned terrorist from the 70s in Europe, but he was the guy in charge of doing surveillance of bin Laden. And he had him, you know, he knew what he was going to have for lunch. He knew what car he drove. He was in the white. He was not concerned because, you know, in Khartoum at the time, it was like a terrorist hotel and he was putting, pouring all kinds of money. So we came up with several plans to kidnap him, to kill him, whatever it took. And the then administration kept saying, well, we don't have enough proof. And our argument was we got overhead from satellites of the kind of training that he's facilitating with former jihadists in these other countries. We're getting all source information from all kinds of different governments that he's extorting money from the Saudis. He's doing this. He's doing that. He's bringing people in from Afghanistan when, you know, the motto of CTC is supposed to This is what we do. And the administration never, ever bought off on that. And what I always tell people is that imagine in 1997 or late 96, early 97, if we would have been able to neutralize bin Laden, the coal, the bombings of our two embassies and maybe even 9 -11 could have been derailed. You know, and I'll give away a little bit of your book here, Chapter 28, where you talk about that. You know, I mean, you just lay it out and I love it. You know, the answer is clear, thanks to the history and hindsight. Those 4 ,000 people killed in one of the U .S. Embassy attacks in Africa will still be alive today. Untraumatized, unscarred by their terrible luck, USS Cole would never have been attacked. The Pentagon would have never been hit by the American Airlines flight. The Twin Towers would still be standing. The 3 ,000 people who died in the World Trade Center still be with us. Families wouldn't be unaffected. I mean, it just goes on and on. It's amazing how much destruction, terrorism, chaos, anarchy he caused, and the point from all of this is that our administration at the time didn't have the cojones to take care of business. That is the bottom line. I mean, you do a very good job explaining that in the book. I really appreciated that. Thank you. I'd say it was definitely a fact. You know, at the time the agency was supporting us. They were carrying our water across the river, but we were definitely not getting the traction there. And a lot of people took that very personal, especially I was Chief of Officer of the Counter -Terrorist Center when 9 -11 happened. So that really stuck in my craw. Well, I can't imagine. Well, and there's an interesting... Some of it, maybe it's a little bit lower, but when the original World Trade Center attacks happened, they tried to bomb them, the idiots, which thankfully they returned the van trying to... They tried to report it stolen. That's how we ended up getting the guys. But one of the things that came out of this, I think that helped them with their future planning is when they were in court, they bring in some of the structural engineers. You come to find out the World Trade Center, the twin towers were designed to withstand the impact of a 737. So then you start... So why are the 757s and 67s targeted? Why? Because unfortunately, you never know what kind of information is going to be used by somebody later. And that's... I don't know if that helped formulate some of his planning, but it's definitely some of the stuff that came out when you find out what they're designed to withstand. And then, like you say, you get... We see... I think part of our failing is we tend to think too short -term. Why would they think like that? That's not the point. You need to think like your adversary. Your adversary doesn't think like you. That's why they win. That's why they're able to pull off a lot of the stuff, because they're thinking differently than us. I want to get into 9 -11 and what you see there. But up until that point, what do you think was the biggest impediment other than political? Was it the way that we had been trained that we didn't really understand Islamic law? We didn't understand what bin Laden... that he really meant the fatwa that he did? Were there some other things that contributed to this other than political? Political is the number one problem that you have. You cannot run operations, military or intelligence, through an optic of politics. It's two different worlds.
The Dan Bongino Show
Trump: Previous Economic Policy Saved This Economy From Crashing
"Demand jim thinks this was the best part of the interview again this is short but jim thinks if he just put this in a commercial president trump and and stuck to this that this would the be key to reelection you know it's interesting when you do in the interview that you're paying attention obviously because you're thinking you're listening to what they say but you don't get to pay attention passively like people at home where you can really take it in because you're watching the clock you know you're taking notes what are we gonna do we're gonna cut this we're gonna cut that for tomorrow put this in the show jim gets to hear it like that he's doing work too but he thinks this was the best part that if he would stick to put this this in a commercial this would be a ground ball for him for election check this out think of it we rebuilt the we got rid of Isis a hundred percent of the Isis caliphate we did Space Force the largest tax cuts in history the largest regulation cuts in history we built the greatest economy in the history of our country you know built we the greatest economy in the history of our country and by the way this economy that we have it's running on our fumes if we didn't have the economy that we have this economy would be crashing so Depressionville probably because they are grossly incompetent I don't disagree with him if
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 16:00 09-06-2023 16:00
"You pause at that five number because it's the one that we've been all been watching for, especially as you get a lot of corporate bond issuances. We were just talking with Julian Emanuel of Evercore ISI and he was saying, undoubtedly, the flood of corporate bonds coming out is negative for treasuries as investors sell treasuries to make room for all this corporate credit coming on. And that kind of dictates where equities go next for today. It's clearly to the downside. And I was looking at the correlations. I mean, the correlations between treasury yield, the negative inverse correlation, actually probably the deepest that it's been for a good portion of the year here, too. So that's one of the reasons why you're seeing it. But interestingly, Julian Emanuel is saying now that could actually reverse itself as we get deeper into the rest of the year here. Let's take a look at the equity markets right now down for a second day with the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipping by about 200 points or about six tenths of a percent, the S &P 500 down about 31 points or seven tenths of a percent, while the Nasdaq composite is going to close out the day lower by about one percent. And the Russell 2000, which yesterday with the big laggard on a relative basis, a sure outperformer, though still in the red, down by three tenths of a percent. Peeling back the layers of the S &P 500, 207 stocks moving higher today, 296 stocks, Scarlett moving lower on the day. All right. Let's take a look at the sector performances here. And when we split the S &P 500 up into two dozen groups on the downside, you have tech hardware and equipment. That's really Apple dragging things lower auto and components off by one point six percent. That's Tesla. And companies, semiconductor Nvidia dragging that group down one half percent on the upside. No group has gained more than four tenths of one percent consumer durable and apparel gaining four tenths of one percent insurance and food and staples doing a little bit better. All right. Let's take a look at some of the gainers. Didn't have to look too hard to find some green, actually, a lot when it comes to medicine here. Dexcom up six point five percent on the day today. It's a medical device company that makes continuous glucose monitoring systems for people who have diabetes. This is interesting. An analyst from.
The Dan Bongino Show
Jerry Dunleavy: 'Kabul' Describes How Bad Afghanistan Was
"Level of incompetence people falling from planes you have this new book out Kabul you one of the premises in the book is that yeah we saw all this awful stuff people getting beaten and getting whipped going to gays people fought literally falling off of planes it's a not figurative statement you know women and kids being kept out from evacuation but your book says it's even worse than that so give us kind of a it's an inside scoop about how bad it actually wasn't the stuff we didn't see X absolutely but let's talk just about the Abbey Gate I mean to start so the the Biden administration's sort of line is that the Abbey Gate attack was not preventable and basically in our book we kind of lay out how we believe that it very likely was the the first point is that the Isis K terrorist who carried out that deadly suicide attack that killed 13 Americans. His name is Abdul Rahman Al Agri. The Biden administration won't say his name but he was in prison at Bagram when United the States abandoned it in July 2021 and so he was freed by the Taliban on August 15th 2021 and then carried out that terrorist attack on August 26 2021. So the simple fact is that if we had just maintained Bagram which we should have done for about a dozen different reasons including it was more defensible it would have been a much safer place to do an evacuation from we would have had far fewer Americans and Afghan allies left behind I believe if we had kept Bagram but also if we had kept Bagram that prisoner would have just been behind bars rather than the Taliban freeing him and him killing those 13 Americans and we laid out in the book how a there were few other potential opportunities to either stop that bomber or to hit ISIS before the bombing and try to disrupt their attack so that kind of gives you a sense
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Bryan Dean Wright Reveals Why America Is a Joke to Our Enemies
"A woman of color, I am a mom. I am a cisgender millennial who's been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box checking exercise. That's actually a clip from a CIA recruiting video, an open one of public one. What do I got to ask this question, 8 politically, just national security question, Brian. China, what does the Kremlin? What did the mothers in Iran? ISIS, the remnants of ISIS or Pyongyang. What do they think? Let's do a little bit of red teaming exercise. When they see an ad like that, somebody who's professes to have an anxiety disorder proudly talking about it as she is walking in and out of her skiff with a top secret SCI clearance. What do our enemies think of that? Or what do they think when a surveillance device a balloon traverses the whole of the nation scooping up our intelligence? What do they think about America? What do they think about The White House and your former colleagues in the intelligence community? We're not serious. They think that we are not serious. The White House isn't serious. The Intel community isn't serious. We're focused on silly things that have nothing to do with the world and how it works and America trying to continue its exceptional Ness around this wonderful globe of ours, right? So that's what they think. And they think of themselves, hey, we can start getting away with more. Let's keep pushing. Let's see how much more we can get away with. And I think
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
How the Deep State Steers the Nation With Bryan Dean Wright
"See this thing recur again and again in these meetings, whatever the topic was. China, ISIS, what have you. I'd see very senior people. You mentioned the SIS, the senior intelligence service, who talk about a given issue, and never mention the name of the president, or what the president had just said about said issue and what are directions should be. For me, that's one of the definitions of the permanent bureaucracy of the deep state that we have people. Amen. In massive positions of power who think elections are irrelevant, I've been here for 20 years. I'll be here for another 5, ten years. I get to decide the direction of the nation. That's not how it should work, is it? Absolutely not. It's kind of like Fauci when he said, I am the science, right? These guys are saying, I am the Intel. You're listen to me that there are another voices that are relevant. Yeah, look, we used to call that sort of view as something that a traitor would have, right? Back in the 1990s, there was a guy named Aldrich Ames, who was a CIA officer, actually secretly working for the Soviets. He was arrested, the FBI asked him at the time why'd you do it? And he said, because I know what's best for this country's foreign policy. And I'm going to act on it. All right? So there's a guy who spied for the Soviets with this same idea of the world that now his senior officers with the CIA and the NSA and others that you're talking about. That's their view too. Andy, this permeated, not just the intelligence community, but we have guys like Fauci and the CDC at NIH and others who they believe that they know best and they're going to do whatever they want. Irrespective of the fact that that's not how it's supposed to work. So the deep state or the administrative state is real. It's been real for a long time, but it is absolutely metastasized. And that is going to be a huge challenge to fix.
Northwest Newsradio
"isis" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"With you this Monday on America in the morning, 26 after overnight, a U.S. helicopter raid in northeast Syria targeted a senior ISIS leader and planner, one of three ISIS members killed in the attack. The military centcom command identified the leader of Khalid Ahmad Al jaburi, who it is said was responsible for planning a tax in Europe and turkey and developing ISIS leadership network sitcom released a statement saying the death of Al jaburi will temporarily disrupt the organization's ability to plot external attacks. No, U.S. forces were injured in the pre dawn raid. This operation came after U.S. forces captured an Islamic State operative described as an attack facilitator and two of his aides in eastern Syria last week. The House judiciary committee will hold a hearing in New York City today to question the crime fighting record of the democratic prosecutor who indicted Donald Trump. Correspondent Julie Walker reports. The field hearing will examine Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's policies and record Republican chairman Jim Jordan says they've led to an increase in violent crime and a dangerous community for New York City residents. Brag said of Jordan really cared about public safety. He starred in his home state of Ohio, where crime is reportedly higher than in New York. Mayor Eric Adams, backs him. This is not about public safety. We're trending in the right direction. There districts are trending in the wrong direction. Bragg is suing representative Jim Jordan to halt the inquiry that he contends is a transparent campaign to intimidate and attack him over his indictment, a former president Trump, Julie Walker, New York. America in the morning for Monday, April 17th, 2023 is produced by Jeff McKay. Senior producer Kevin Delaney. I'm John trout on the Westwood
The Officer Tatum Show
How the White House Gave Putin a Green Light for Ukraine
"Now, we're talking about a Pakistan here, Chad and before we go, I want to make sure we have you wrap up on that, but I also want to get your take on what's happening in Russia, Ukraine, IRC, Xi Jinping, visiting Russia. This is absolutely insane. All right, so just if you would ramp up what you were talking about as far as Pakistan and the ISI yeah, I mean, just I mean, this is our enemy. This is who we've been fighting for the last 20 years when we fight when we say fight and Taliban. And the truth is, we didn't negotiate with our allies. We didn't negotiate with. We didn't negotiate with the Afghan government. We spent 20 years in place. The only people we talked to when I say we, The White House talk to was the Taliban, our enemy of 20 years, and we left Afghanistan without the consensus of the rest of the world. And we had 2500 troops there. We had 2500 troops and 20 places that can name around the world. We still have 50,000 troops in Japan and 40,000 in Germany and 35,000 in South Korea. This is not how the United States strategical leaves places and it created a catastrophe. And left Americans behind cost American lives left a 100,000 Afghan allies behind and left a 40 million vulnerable Afghans including 20 million women and little girls that we raped and for the rest of their life because of this. And so it's complete tragedy. And the world is watching our enemies are watching, which leads us into why Putin invaded Ukraine because he could. Because of the weakness in our White House and he postured against the imposture and the border with a 100,000 troops. Right. Joe, Joe Biden flinched, moved our U.S. troops out of Ukraine, moved our embassy out of Ukraine, the rest of the NATO partners followed and gave a green light for Putin to come in. And now we're sending a 113 plus $1 billion to Ukraine. None of that money is making it to help those people. It's a complete catastrophe. It's only it's only emboldening Putin and continue doing what he's doing and it's incentivizing people like zelensky who are getting all this money and never in this war because why they're making veins and dollars off of it, including corrupt politics in the United States.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
New Intel on Biden's Disgraceful Withdrawal From Afghanistan
"There is a telling new piece of information concerning Biden's disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan from Kabul. And this, if anything puts to Biden people in an even more deplorable light. In fact, it doesn't make the U.S. Military look very good either. Now a little bit of background just to refresh your memory in July 2021, Joe Biden abandons Afghanistan. He does it by abandoning the Afghan Bagram airfield in the middle of the night. I mean, essentially they just turn the lights out and took off, they didn't even tell the Afghan commander who only found out about the departure two hours after it happened. As we know, the United States left behind all kinds of military equipment, to humvees, uniforms, rations, even all kinds of sports drinks. For the Taliban terrorists who were just downright delighted to find this huge stash of weapons gifted to them. Worth tens of millions of actually perhaps billions. I'm not sure. I don't remember the number now. Now, the Taliban takes over the background air force which by the way is about 30 miles north of Kabul. And if you'll remember, there was an ISIS suicide bomber who murdered 13 U.S. servicemen and women, 6 and a 169 Afghans as well. And this guy was one of the guys at the Taliban released from a prison at the Bagram base. So by abandoning Bagram, we turn it over to the Taliban, they release the guy who turns out to be the suicide bomber. His name is Abdul Rahman. And he sets off this explosive that causes all this carnage. Now our story picks up right here and involves a sergeant, his name is Tyler Vargas Andrews, U.S. Marine Corps sniper, and he was serving in Afghanistan at bad time. Turns out that he spotted the suicide bomber. He recognized that this guy was about to do something bad. He might not have known how many explosives the guy has on him, but he recognized him, he stood out and he requested authority from the U.S. Military to shoot. This is where things take a very bad turn. He says, I requested engagement authority while my team leader was ready. The response, leadership does not have the engagement authority for us. Do not engage.
AP News Radio
US defense secretary makes unannounced visit to Baghdad, then Erbil
"Defense secretary Lloyd Austin has visited Iraqi Kurdistan after an unannounced visit to Baghdad. Austin reached the Kurdistan region, where he held talks in erbil, with the region's president natcher van Barzani. In the meeting Barzani discussed U.S. support to the Kurdistan region in the war against ISIS and terrorism, according to Kurdistan media, the Austrian visit comes to stays before the 20th anniversary of the U.S. led invasion that ousted Salam Hussein, Austin had earlier visited the Iraqi capital, where he vowed to continue the fight against the extremists until their defeated, despite their defeat in Iraq in 2017, IS militants and their sleeper cells are still launching attacks in the country, as well as in neighboring Syria. I'm Charles De Ledesma.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Jennifer Horn and Sebastian Unpack the Wuhan Lab Leak
"Doctor Michael farzan from Scripps and doctor Robert Gary from tulane told Doctor Fauci on his emergency call in January of 2020 when he was scrambling soon after learning that the NIH was funding the lab, they both said that it was likely from the lab. Both scientists changed their tunes days later in the media and then both scientists received $9 million subsequent and funding from the NIH. It's a no brainer that it came from the lab. I mean, at this point, it's impossible to acquire any more information. And if you did, it would only be affirmative. Even if you take politics out of it, Jen. This is such a sea change because usually and I've been there. I've testified multiple times before Congress on ISIS and jihadism. In the past, it's just been, you know, they come in, they prance for the cameras so they can tell their constituents at home. They ask the question of somebody from The White House. This time, this was actually meaningful. This is a congressional hearing that was substantive Jan. It was, and we've learned so much. And how many people, I was reminded about Jon Stewart, some of the other comedians who found themselves canceled president Trump, who was called a racist, a xenophobe for calling out the fact that the lab leak carried the lab leak is the working theory here that this is what we've known all along and stunning to me that now people are actually asking questions. So what happens? Do we get a refund from the government? Do we get our Twitter accounts back? Do we get our lives back? Do we get our kids education back? Because it seems that we received a lot of bad information and it's all what they wanted to tell us. It almost, I hate to be conspiratorial, but felt like a test run in some respects for how much government control we could possibly take, especially in big blue states and big blue cities like the one I live in. And now for all of this real information to come out, it's great that it's here, but how much pain punishment, how much did we lose because of all of this?
The Eric Metaxas Show
Alex McFarland on the ONE Force That Can Preserve Order in the West
"Talking to my friend Alex McFarland, who has written many books and we've talked about them, but reprise what you just said at the end of that segment to kind of tee up our talking about it because it's a very dramatic and yet, unfortunately, I think true statement. Well, Eric, thanks for having me on. The future of the west and our homeland America is being fought over by two juggernauts, really the iron fist of terrorism or the iron fist of statism. And there is one force and one force alone sufficient to hold it bay, these forces of Marxism, a police state, rights for no one, but the state, or terrorism, and we become just this dystopia ISIS whomever, the one force that can really preserve order is the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's why I tell my atheist Friends, and I have many. I say, look, all of you, aphis, you want to be an atheist, go for it, but you really have a vested interest in the preservation of Christianity, because the things that we all love and take for granted, liberty, prosperity, stability. Those are three great things in a culture freedom, prosperity, stability, those are the byproducts of Christianity in a culture.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
How Bad Is the Assault on Gender? Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Explains
"Bad is the assault against gender as we know it, what men are what women are, you're fighting it with your policies from the office of the lieutenant governor. How serious is the assault from the radicals? Well, you know, it's very serious. It is very serious. When you look and you see people who have who have the audacity to sit in front of kindergartners and discuss adult topics like being non binary and to discuss these adult topics and again, there's nothing wrong with adults discussing these things amongst themselves amongst other adults, but when you present these things to children, we're starting on dangerous ISIS skating on dangerous thin ice here. And I don't believe that it was the results will be good, but people are actually there to actually very bold. Here in my office, when we presented some of the pornographic materials that are president in our school libraries and a recommended reading for minor children. When we showed those images at that press conference to the news cameras, those news media outlets blurred out those images when they presented it on their newscast. So I believe we're at a very bad place right now and we need to take a step back and realize if you want to have conversations about gender fluidity or about being non binary or any of those associated topics. Those are topics for adult people to have in their own private space.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Seb Welcomes Self-Described 'Gonzo Journalist' Ami Horowitz
"Horowitz. Welcome back to America first. It's always a pleasure. How are you, my friend? It's good. I apart from you telling me before we came on air that I'm not allowed to say happy new year to you. Well, we can say happy new year to you because happy new year, army. Well, happy new year to you. You happy now. You happy you made me do it. As long as your mother is happy. We have so much to discuss. It's been far too long since you've been on the show. I'm so glad to have you on one on one. But let's stop for a moment. Can you walk us through that amazing experience of you on one of the most famous universities in America, if not the world, with two flags, one of ISIS, Islamic state, and one of Israel. Can you tell us the kinds of responses you got from the young men and women on campus in California? Yeah, that was an incredible experience. And I would even say that was the video that kind of pushed me in the direction of exposure of the hard left. Because the social experiment and what I began with was hidden cameras, right? So don't know they're being filmed. And in the first part of the video, I flew the ISIS flag. And to make sure they knew what the ISIS flag was, I was in fact chanting, let's kill for ISIS, come fight for ISIS. I represent ISIS. Let's kill Americans together. And I got one of two responses. Either nothing, or I got support, including from somebody who looked like a professor. And a bunch of students. Now, of course, one would think, well, you know, it's Berkeley, they're kind of used to crazy people. So, you know, maybe they were just kind of going for a day and say, here's another crazy person. So the second part of the experiment was when I went back the next day with hidden cameras again and I flew the Israeli flag. But instead of getting people simply ignoring me or even supporting me, I got invective thrown down for me from the moment I unfurl the flag,
The Eric Metaxas Show
Mighty Oaks Foundation's Chad Robichaux on New Book, 'Saving Aziz'
"Is brand new, saving Aziz. How the mission to help one became a calling for thousands to rescue thousands from the Taliban. Okay, most people listening don't know anything about this. What is the story? Well, the story is President Biden made the announcement immediately after he took office. He was going to do a full withdrawal of the United States military from the 20 year occupation of Afghanistan. I immediately had a problem with that and I think anybody understands the military did. A lot of your listeners may not agree with me at first, but if you hear me out, we should never have withdrew from Afghanistan. I'm not a warmonger. My family's been at war for a long time. If we get void war, we don't want to be there. But saying that the military had been a 20 year war and it was endless war is just not true. We had in 2018, we shifted from a conventional kinetic war with that Taliban and shifted to supporting advisory role with the Afghan national army and Afghan national police, participating with the entire international community to fight the Taliban in the mountains of Afghanistan and not in the west, not here in America. And it was working. This is the most strategic place in the globe between Iraq, Iran Russia and China, and it wasn't ours to give up. It belonged to the international community. It blowing to the Afghan government that we spent 20 years putting in place. And we didn't negotiate with our NATO partners. The international community or the Afghan government, we only negotiate the Taliban and we gave that country up to our enemies, not just the Taliban, but China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, ISI. And so I knew that was going to be catastrophic for national security and global security, but also knew that it would be catastrophic for our allies. And once they one more thing in that though, but when I say that we should have stayed there, historically, if you look at the history of how United States have been successful, a post war, we keep contingent forces in different areas strategically to prevent us from going back to war. Germany, we still have 40,000 troops since World War II. Japan, we have 80,000 troops since World War II in South Korea. We still have 35,000 troops since the Korea war. That strategy has worked for us, so do a full and complete withdrawal without leaving that only 2500 troops in a small contingent force in Afghanistan was a catastrophic era and I
The Dan Bongino Show
Sen. Rand Paul: Legislation Will Be Proposed Following Twitter Files
"That they deputize people at Twitter and work with them through back channels to interfere and yet another election is horrifying on multiple levels not only the violation of the constitution but our election integrity just the horrifying story Your thoughts on the Twitter files We have legislation that all introduce shortly after the new year when we come back into session And my legislation will make it illegal explicitly illegal for the FBI Homeland Security or for any other agency to meet with publishers of information and influence or try to collude with them to censor speech This is awful Remember how everybody got so angry about the ministry of truth and that crazy woman that Biden wanted to appoint If we fought that and defeated it but lo and behold when the guys came to the committee from the government they said we can't believe you're so hot and heavy on this We've been doing this since 9 11 This is what my father talked about with the Patriot Act that 9 11 and the Patriot Act would not be just using as terrorists It would be an excuse to be used against American citizens since 9 11 They have been policing speech They've just upped their game We've got to stop them If someone's recruiting people for ISIS by all means go after that But if you're saying mass don't work or vaccines are dangerous for adolescent males and you're showing wine that's not the business of government But we have to prevent these meetings The FBI and this group called sisa are meeting weekly with the social media companies and basically you're right They've become surrogate sensors They were using private industry to do their censorship but they were influencing and colluding the calls restrictions on speech It is the illegal and the First Amendment But we're going to introduce a statute that will make it explicitly illegal
The Dan Bongino Show
Kyle Seraphin: How the FBI Currently Classifies Terrorism Cases
"Was this about funding reclassifying a lot of domestic terror cases and using kind of J 6 As a way to get more funding or do you think it's ideological or is it sadly is it both Well here's what's funny The FBI has certain mandates that they have to fulfill There are funded mandates where Congress gives certain amount of dollars and says go do this with this money And then there's unfunded mandates where they tell them to do something and the FBI has to figure out how to do it And one of the funded mandates that the FBI has is terrorist investigations That's the reason why a lot of the money since 9 11 has been thrown into the FBI into the counter terrorism division But there are two branches of the tree of counter terrorism one is domestic right now which is obviously the favorable branch at the moment And the other is international but international is where the money comes in or at least a big chunk of it comes in from Congress And so what's really wild is I'm hearing from my buddies who work counter terrorism that they're getting briefed They have to go through their domestic terrorism cases and look for any connection to international terrorism So they're going to go and look at the so called white supremacists or whatever they've got January 6th people that were getting rowdy in the capitol and see if they can make a tie that they were in the same online forum or like the same post that someone in ISIS did because the FBI is looking to lose not gain but lose significant amount of their funding from Congress to the tune of a couple $100 million The number I heard was 300 million And the extent the unit chief out from the international terrorism division to go to the field office is to try to get these guys to find a connection from their domestic terrorist investigations because they've overdone them this year to try to tie them back to international terrorism so they don't lose that all with money which I think is kind of wild but it tells you that it's probably more ideological based
KGO 810
"isis" Discussed on KGO 810
"The borderland with Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. The borderland, certainly with all those regions that are identified as Baluchistan, which is an interior part of Pakistan, so we look at this larger landscape and ask what is the transnational threat? What is the threat to the region? And now we come to Isis, the Islamic state, forming the chorus and province, which is why, for reasons having to do with the Pentagon's love of acronyms. They've named it Isis K. We've always known it was Isis. And it's been a player in these last years as a provocateur and murder incorporated, however, in the closing days of Afghanistan and the U. S and NATO and I sap Isis K or Isis was often mentioned by national leadership. The puzzle is what Isis and where and how does it operate? We need to start with the facts as we understand them built. The US launched a drone attack on Isis organizer that was explained at the time. Of the terror attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport. We now have convincing reporting from several sources. I'm looking at The New York Times that that attack was not successful. Yes. So the Islamic Islamic State Khorasan province real quick. It's a it formed from elements of the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban disaffected members, someone that were upset by the Taliban lying about Mullah Omar's death. Also some of this guest smattering of Al Qaeda fighters in the region. Um and some of these people individuals were With, you know, attracted to the Islamic state's more aggressive efforts to establish and declare the caliphate so they've been afford in the side for the Taliban for years, but the Taliban largely defeated them. 2019. They took away their last strongholds in Nangahar, but still continued to operate as a terrorist group. Then you had the suicide attack outside of Kabul airport that the Islamic state claimed And executed and Um, so the U. S decides that it's going to try and on its the waning days going to target al Qaida's network and in one particular strike in Kabul, it kills they target with they I think I'm pretty convinced here that what we saw here is what the U. S military is to call a, uh, A, uh, signature strike. This is where they're picking up information from, you know, based on patterns and someone suspected of being a member, but not necessarily having identification. This is how the US launched a lot of strikes against the The Taliban and Connie Network, you know Qaida and other various groups inside Pakistan, But it's extremely that might be one thing in remote tribal areas, but extremely difficult, dangerous to do inside of a city like Kabul, with more than 4.5, or five million people. Um, I'm almost certain that this is what happened in this strike. They thought And if you the New York Times that I strongly suggest, go find that video and watch it. It is very convincing that this that the U. S. Targeted and killed an individual who worked for an aid organization. Um, that containers that they claimed were filled with explosives. Look to be like, Look to be water jugs. You're watching them carrying them out of the house, and he has three large water cans in each hand. And you know they're clearly empty if they were filled with explosives, or even if they were filled with water. He'd be dragging those two things you'd be carrying one at a time. So, yeah, you know, and what is interesting is the Islamic state. It's it's been the United Nations reported that they could. Connie Network has used the Islamic state as a cutout at times to conduct high profile strikes in Kabul. This was before the fall of Afghanistan and they've done this in order to, uh, weaken the Afghan government to create instability and security. While the Taliban doesn't have to do things like kill civilians, killed his ER and conduct attacks on signature on significant civilian targets. I'm not saying that this is what happened here outside the airport, But I do think it's pretty, um uh, that the Taliban are able to conduct this type of attack, and yet the Taliban has been able to parade its forces around Afghanistan. Since the fall of Kabul and we haven't heard from the Islamic state, says Tom. What is the connection or not? Between Isis course and province and Al Qaeda, especially Al Qaeda in operating in the borderland region. Do we have an understanding of how these two groups work with each other? Well. Isis initially entered the region by picking off disaffected Al Qaeda and Taliban commanders. There was a group of nine guys who were working. Both are up the Taliban Al Qaeda, originally who formed the first iteration of Isis, which has evolved since then. But Isis came into the scene, basically as a competitor to reject the legitimacy of the Taliban's proto government. At the time it's all about was raising was fighting alongside Al Qaeda to raise resurrect Islamic enter Afghanistan. Isis rejected that and said that only their caliphate was the only legitimate game in town. And so therefore the two sides were at loggerheads and fought off and over the last several years. There is some reporting that Isis, however, that Connie Network, which is an integral part of the Taliban, and also closely allied with Al Qaeda, was using ice and sells to basically conduct conduct attacks that they didn't want to claim responsibility for basically for plausible deniability as part of their own political game, and, you know, built tweeted out a scene from a Taliban military parade, and he's been watching In his video video footage. All across Afghanistan. He made a very out point. Isn't it interesting that Isis was able to get a suicide bomber through a Taliban security checkpoint outside the airport in Kabul? Yet Isis can't get any suicide bombers to attack these Taliban military parades or any other Taliban targets. Isn't that interesting? It does speak to sort of the confluence here on the ground and the uncertainty and ambiguity. The Isis attacks that I recall Tom were directed at secular targets. You know they they aimed at here, for example, or people who were not Uh, not their version, their unusual version of Islam. But there is also the suggestion that Al Qaeda or the Taliban or someone has used the miss cutouts. Do we have a clear understanding of what Isis believes is the enemy or not, or they for hire, or are we talking about the possibility of false flag operations within the Islamic camera? Look overall, Isis remains opposed to Taliban Al Qaeda and to fight. Um often, I mean, they'll Qaeda. The nicest have a global rivalry..
Bro History
"isis" Discussed on Bro History
"I mean the progress doesn't seem big now. But i mean they essentially demilitarize parts of the border. And you know they had a photo shoots in now they Had a joint. I think the hockey team in the winter olympics. Yeah so i mean. It doesn't seem seems small but they didn't make a lot of progress. Yeah and now they should be trying to build on that progress now even if it means like okay. We're at the tweet. Kim jong unlike a world leader. Whatever we're already matches back a little bit or already potential. Been cropped vaso. What's what's the big problem with that. Like what's the other option is just continue the status quo where you have this guy who can launch nukes into space if he wanted to and A very poverty population. And you know. There's no military solution to north korea. Even without their nukes they still have south. Korea held hostage with their conventional artillery. That they have on the dmz so it would be hoop them to You know try to get a deal. Back on table and deal could have happened. If it wasn't for john bolton and the neoconservatives that's right we'll in in right now. So that's like i guess. Try something new. Let's see what we can do. All right. I'm tired as hell same pack. This went up all right. Thanks everyone for listening to another episode of bro history It's been a long day. If you like to show make sure you rate and review the podcast on that is the number one way to support our show and Come listen to us next week piece..
Bro History
"isis" Discussed on Bro History
"There's one more story you wanted to cover right the. Yeah yeah. i'll make this one quake because this is interesting kind of recap. We haven't talked about North korea in a while. So i thought. I'd bring this up because this hit my radar Just this. I think it was like last week. But north korea apparently turned on one of those reactors again the nuclear reactors so report came out and annual report by the un's atomic watchdog. And it said that north korea apparently has restarted a nuclear reactor. That is believed to be producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. Yea we're gonna start this one up again so barely recently. Since early july this year there have been some increased signs of use specifically. They've been able to notice through satellite imagery Like these This young yongbyon facility which the nuclear facility there were discharging a bunch of cooling water Which apparently has to do with increased activity in nuclear production at these facilities. And i don't think i need to say this but obviously turning on a nuclear reactor could mean the ability to produce more nukes. And that's what the un atomic watchdog is basically warning us about their also Some interesting report In in this report that said that there was indications of mining activities at iranian mine Implant at pyongsung and That activity was also coupled with some additional activity that they spotted at a facility in gangs on that is evidently a it's a suspected covert enrichment facility And so all these scientists are you know Postulating at this point That north korea currently has the capacity to produce materials for four to six bombs a year. And obviously take that with a grain of salt because the intelligence is sparse. That don't have people on the ground or anything like that. And they're literally just looking at them with satellites. But on monday on monday To the report and they said that this quote underscores the urgent need for dialogue and diplomacy..
Bro History
"isis" Discussed on Bro History
"Friday saturday and sunday and also they throw him a bone and they said okay. You can also play an hour at the same time for me to nine on any public holiday and when i read this unlike. Wow that's fucking crazy. But then i learned that. Apparently they've already had similar restrictions. They just tightened it up so previously china had limited the length of time that like people under eighteen can play video games too One and a half hours on any day and three hours on holidays until twenty nineteen. I mean excuse me under the twenty nineteen rules so apparently since twenty nineteen kids from age of zero to eighteen could only play video games for one hour day An hour and a half a day. Monday through saturday mother through sunday and they can get three hours on holidays. And i didn't even know this. And i i'm of not surprised but also it's kind of fucking weird you know. And and apparently these restrictions are supposed to apply to any device like including phone games And they're trying some weird shit to get this done. So apparently gaming companies will be barred from providing services any kind of gaming services to miners in any form outside of those hours and those gaming companies are required to ensure that they have this. I don't really understand it very well. But it's called real name verification systems where they can verify that you know who they are and whether or not they can play and at what time can they play. I guess reason why. I'm talking about this is like you know. Why does it matter. If chinese kids can play video games or not and obviously the answer is money either. The chinese games market is expected to generate something like forty five billion dollars in revenue in two thousand twenty one. And that's more than the united states. So this news is obviously creating a gaming related stock plummet. And i'm obviously not a financial adviser but maybe it might be time to buy some cheap stocks Some some interesting ones. One tack investment company called process. They own a twenty nine percent stake in the chinese. Social media and gaming company called. ten cent They were down one point. Four five percent on monday While other gaming companies like ubisoft and embrace her group both fell over two percent and then another chinese listed company net fell over six percent so lot of money bleeding dry. I'm i think it's crazy And my only question here is how the hell they can pull it off. Yeah how would they track that. I mean i. Evidently they're they're going to force gaming companies to say like if you want games in our country you have to put these like named verification systems in place like age verification is just kinda like.
Bro History
"isis" Discussed on Bro History
"They're also saying that this could be record breaking famine and it really makes me wonder like how this might compare to the situation because obviously yemen is arguably one of the worst famines he you know in decades themselves but in the past The government has been denying that it was blocking aid to the tigray region. But it did say that it was concerned about security which i read that as a dog whistle for a blockade right or concerned about security. But we're definitely not doing a blockade A spokesperson for the government said that the number of checkpoints between the regions has actually been reduced. But what's interesting is that inside of tigray itself. The ability to move stuff around has been getting better but the problem is that they're not able to get new trucks into the region so there's a lot of logistics a lot of bureaucracy there basically turning into this this into like a defacto blockade and a lot of these aid workers that are working in the tigray region. Say that they need like something like one hundred trucks with provisions to come into tigray every single day in order to keep up but not a single truck has gotten through since late august so this is turning into a bit of a problem because bentley a lot of these agencies in the tigray region have run out of food to distribute in most of the areas in the tigray and when people get hungry. That's when violence escalates. Bso so there's a lot of conflict that's happening right here in and the the longer the t gray area region is is being blockaded in isn't allowed to get you know these these foodstuffs and these medicines the more conflict this is going to create you know in this in this ten month long conflict that were already seen. I can't help but think like if feels kind of like yemen. Do you see those parallels. Henry are they not lettings aden or they're denying that so they're denying it for sure But they're saying some suspicious she had like i mentioned..
Bro History
"isis" Discussed on Bro History
"I mean yeah. That's a really good question. And it seems like it like their backers are who's propping him up seems to switch a couple times too so it's a little complicated it's It's very complicated. The way that i kind of always seen it is that these really violent militant groups at take power and ceased power. They start fighting each other because they're kind of like rival drug cartels try to control their territory But i think goes deeper than just that. I think a lot of it is just they know where their money comes from right and within those ranks. No there's there's people kind of directing them to do to do things so let me try like boil it down to a couple of sentences on what i think is k. Is now that you've told nail about it and you can correct me where i'm wrong. So there they start off as these just regular people in that correspond area. Stretching across the different states the euro talk that's afghantistan and pakistan and other places and The pakistani government gets all spooked about things like bangladesh. Said they start creating all these madrid sassi's but then they go and attack them for some reason and then those people flee to afghanistan as refugees kind of and then those people actually ended up being not all refugees but like also some hardliner crazy people and they formed their own. Little group called isis k. They put up the flags and all that other stuff and and now they're kind of like welcomed by the afghan people who were there because they re the afghan people that were there didn't like the taliban but then but then they became their isis. And they do crazy shit. So i guess they don't like them anymore and now the taliban is fighting them because also you know these guys are like on their turf so to speak my getting the basics of this right there are a lot of pakistani refugees.
Bro History
"isis" Discussed on Bro History
"Sources claimed expected their proteges to fight against the pakistani government it also sole role for them to fight or at least stand as a bulwark against the afghan taliban. See fall innis. Yeah they're kind of trying to play the play the same group the other way. I was reading your favorite publication mood of alabama. Okay and they were saying well you know. the ss basically the cia. So since the end. Es had a relationship with these hardliners before they must be responsible for the the bombing during the evacuation. Leave it up to moon of alabama to tied together points. That shouldn't be tied. I mean. I mean hey i mean at a very confident. That's not true. Well out of every hundred things that they say about one of them turns out to be right so maybe this one might be that one who knows they say some pretty weird shit though so This goes on to say how You know split started to emerge in ranks. t t p Following their leader's death and these militants they ended up turning to their local warlords But all right. I'm gonna read again. The chain of command with a t t p center as well as relations with local afghan taliban were strained by the increasingly predatory behavior of these militants to regularly engage in money extortion kidnappings in ransom taking charting and both afghans and pakistanis. They was messages to actual or presumed bridge sympathizers of the afghan taliban and of the t. t. p. in pakistan pakistani and afghan house asking them for huge amounts of money if the recipients failed to heed that requests they'll be threatened. I'm not gonna read the entire report but there's this huge section on like you know they were just engaging in a lot of extortion criminal activity so layer doing things like setting up checkpoints kidnapping people All the rancid bunny like all this really just kinda thuggish brutish thought that was going on in afghanistan for sounds like everything madhur tells about in the last yasser yeah they also appear to be prepping preparing for a major battle transporting huge shipments of weapons from thiru valley in the khyber khyber agency with unprecedented quantity and frequency this coincided with a new wave of Families from arriving from the khyber agency and north wasserstein in part this was triggered by the pakistani army operation. Khyber one which started in october two thousand fourteen in a subsequent operation khyber to which started in march..
Bro History
"isis" Discussed on Bro History
"The team working on this mission is jokingly known as the taliban air force as negotiators close in on their deal in doha officers. Repurpose tools owned against the taliban reaper. Drones ended intelligence complex with nearly two decades of practice spying on afghan guerrillas unwilling to communicate directly with the taliban commanders the task force work to divine where in-house old foes needed help by listening to their communications Taliban units on the ground appeared willing to take the help waiting to assault islamic state positions until they heard and saw the explosions of bombs and health. Eire's say see where this has gone. Yeah so there's this kind of not talking to each other but they're definitely were during sink their sinked up in a both both parties. Know exactly what's going on. It's kinda like when to animals like you know that fart necessarily like the same and you know the like one of the animals does a thing in the other animals like are not gonna eat you. Because i know that you're gonna help me eat something else and they kinda like work together. But they can't obviously talk to each other you know it's like now those Those fish that like clean other fish. Or like the yeah. Exactly it's the you know the little sucky things go in the whale sharks. Yeah that's what i was talking about. Yeah we're like the cnn enemies and the clown fish. There's a lot of stuff in the that. does this stuff all right. The cone our operations may offer a glimpse of what lies ahead for the united states in afghanistan. The outsourcing of what has been a core us military mission fighting the islamic state and al qaeda conan veterans. I spoke with seen realistic about the calculus seeing this as necessary to keeping. Us troops out of harm's way. I don't think americans should be on the ground and firefight but taliban and we need somebody fighting isis. So i don't see a problem with it. That doesn't mean i wanna break bread with them said jason dempsey a retired army. Lieutenant colonel. Who fought in cone are in two thousand nine emotionally. It's hard partly because we spent nearly twenty years conflating al qaeda the taliban but the cow taliban strike the united states on nine eleven. Okay so it's a little bit of a a little bit of backtracking year. Right they're like. Hey hey we were. We're only helping the taliban because we're there helping us kill isis and we really hate isis. And a don't don't worry about that whole twenty years ago. We were saying that al qaeda and the taliban were the same thing that that was a thing. The here's the thing about this isis k group. I don't really know how much of the information about. These guys is really reliable. No they were founded sometime between two thousand fourteen in two thousand fifteen by disaffected pakistani taliban so some pakistani taliban commanders broke away from the t t p after the..
Bro History
"isis" Discussed on Bro History
"And he's like hey is everybody. Okay and mike. Yeah why what do you mean. He's like the fucking storm and then my other friend posted this video of his street. And it's just like this fucking river of water like covering the street. And i grew up in that area and and you know i can tell immediately how bad it was and then my brother stetson starts enemy some pictures literally. He lives near like one of those water runoff. Where the rain water runs off a little canal or dyke or whatever they call them and that thing totally over flooded where the water level was above like standard sedan. Car level like there was just the very tip of a car. You can see his car. His wife's car got swept away. It's like gone. it was. They found it like a block and a half away Which was nuts. Totally told his basements totally flooded but they had a lot of their stuff in in In like plastic buckets and stuff like that and Yeah i mean even. My mom was text me today this morning. She was like. I was trying to get the work and like literally. Everything's a river. She can even go to work Super wild and meanwhile i'm sitting here none-the-wiser not even realizing that that like all those catastrophes happening which is is crazy. I feel pretty emblematic of the last year. That i've spent in this apartment building which basically sucks me into what's going on in the outside world. Well that was basically me during hurricane. Sandy yep me too letter that one also so hurricane sandy. I had just moved to manhattan just out of college and I lived in the upper side. The upper east side was like the only place that was really spared major damage in the city or in the new york area of the upper side. And there's some other neighborhoods in manhattan. That really didn't get hit too hard. But it was quite a pleasurable week off. And i feel really bad about saying that because i know a lot of people i mean. There's a lot of people who passed away sat right and tragically but a lot of my friends. They were living in shit because they were you know. Most of my friends are from block island and lost power for a couple of weeks. There were standing in line at starbucks charge. Their phones people were eating and killing each other over gas. Just it was just totally crazy. People with each other over gas we survived. So that's all that matters. Were able to podcast and other day. We're able to podcast another day so I guess There's a lot to talk about today. First and foremost the response that we got from last episode with matthew. Hoh has been excellent. If you guys haven't listened to that episode yet go back and listen to it because it's really important. I guess they continue on the topic of afghanistan which we largely spoke about the The failures in the systemic lying in the national security state. You know everyone was lying about it. But i guess there's so much skepticism that's going on right now that no one really wants to take anything at face value so isis k. Here we you heard that word. Yep here we go isis k. It sounds kind of like a new co variant or serial. Actually i did think cereal. The first time. I heard it like ice. Special take came to margaret k this..
Bro History
"isis" Discussed on Bro History
"But since then we've like invested billions of dollars into the levy systems in louisiana and other places and apparently seems has worked out pretty well against bigger storm But here's looking forward to that trillion dollar infrastructure program. Were probably gonna need it here. In the northeast eat did kill some people though not underscore that the numbers keep going up to. It's really sad. It's something like fifty. People die between virginia new england. Twelve of them were in new york city and actually twenty three in new jersey alone Including four people in a basement apartment in my hometown of elizabeth new jersey which was nuts so i want to hear your story like what you know. How how you weathered the storm. And then i'll tell you until you my much more boring but funny story well. My kitchen flooded so what happened. Was my kitchen flooded. I did not even really harsh on the third floor. I'm on the third floor. My kitchen flooded but not because the water rose to the third floor. It's because the rain It just pulverized through our roof. Because i live four story on the third floor before story of afford story of a four-storey nand somehow the rain was getting into the apartment above me. And there's like massive leakage going in from the apartment above me down to my apartment so i hear my fiance scream like oh no mouse or something. I walk in there and then you're just water dripping everywhere just like it's like if someone turnoff faucet so i'm basically like taking pots and pans and i'm trying to catch the water and i'm literally taking his water and i'm pouring it into our sink so it's like i'm gonna sinking boat and i do that. I'm doing this for like two and a half hours almost three hours. Cheese display catching his water. I have like maybe like ten pots. Because there's leaks everywhere. I live in an old apartment and like a million towels on the floor. Disa- soak up as much water as i can. It was crazy. That's nuts man. I mean at the very least you know like totally flooded like like some of the folks that were in like these basement apartments and stuff. Oh yeah it was just in my kitchen. So i mean if you're going to pick a place to flood might as well be there might as well be either the kitchen bathroom. I hit my bedroom or our living space and all my office or like over latronic appliances and that would be. That'd be no. But i mean the only damage that i have is that you never just going to have to have someone paint over. All the warped painting probably put some drywall The clog up these holes but really wasn't that big of a deal. We did so much. Mitigation like water. Mitigation that we were able to get out of it without major damage. It just took all night of like he. That's annoying plugging these holes up and catching catchiness water with pots and pans. It was it was interesting. But i gotta show you these videos that ridiculous i'd love to see them But speaking of videos. I actually got a couple of my on my boring but funny story was that i'm actually in a newer building and on the sixth floor. So you. I was in almost no danger of flooding whatsoever and I mean i knew that there was a storm. Come in Obviously knew that it was raining and a news raining hard. But you know cutting my little ivory tower. That i'm sitting here. I had no idea how bad it was didn't have the news on all day. I was working until pretty late that day. And you know around eight o'clock. At night i get a text message from my brother Like an in a thread with a bunch of my buddies from new jersey..
The Sean Hannity Show
"isis" Discussed on The Sean Hannity Show
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Podcast RadioViajera
"isis" Discussed on Podcast RadioViajera
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Podcast RadioViajera
"isis" Discussed on Podcast RadioViajera
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News Radio WGOW
"isis" Discussed on News Radio WGOW
"Health care companies, But my day job is running a small private practice and internal medicine. Okay, Let's talk about the American Islamic form for democracy. What is it? What do you do? So after 9 11, a group of us said, you know, listen, a lot of the Muslims being asked to speak on behalf of our community. Our apologists for Islamism there apologists for the Muslim Brotherhood. And really don't want to take seriously what the root causes of the cancer cells that are al Qaida. And ultimately, later in 2013, we saw Isis and others. And these are not just sort of spontaneous things that come out of nowhere. They are a byproduct of a component within our faith that needs significant reform, which is the theocratic component and As an American that loves this country and loves the Constitution. I realized that our founding fathers went the same process and fighting against theocracy. So we formed the American Islamic form for democracy and the belief that Americanism Is the best antidote Islamism or political Islam and political Islam is the belief that if you look in Iran under the home a n'est Egypt when it was run by the Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey being run now by Erdogan and the a K P Islamist. It's a political system that has a party whose platform is based on Islamic law, Sharia That is stuck in the 13th century, and they don't believe in the separation of mosque and state. They believe that clerics should be legislators should get the inspiration for lost from the Koran on Lee. So you know in the West, we have sources of law that not only include the Old Testament Bible but also common law and Reason, another things and in political Islam. The Koran is the only source. It's not a source of law. It's the only source of their constitution. Inside Arabia is the Koran. And ultimately, our premise that the Americans plummet form for democracy is that you will never defeat radical Islam until the concept of the Islamic state identity. With its legal system is defeated. And just as our first Amendment has an establishment clause that prevents the church from ultimately establishing itself through our government. Similarly, until Islam is able to have Muslims articulate and establishment clause and defeat the political Islamists of the Brotherhood of the Khomeini as of Islamic Republic's Wherever they may be. We're going to continue to steam or radicalization. Okay, that says about as clearly as it can be, And I'm sure like every other religious organization, not everybody subscribes. But lots of people agree, at least in part. And it's important to us to know that attitude exists among a great many of the Muslims in America, and you can't speak for everybody because you aren't everybody. Everybody's different, but Thank you for that. Okay, Judy. Let's talk about some some of the more current issues going on ours today. This is Colonel de Guillemin. Frontlines of freedom, and we're talking with Dr Judy Gasser. We were talking a little bit about what's going on in China that I'm not sure I pronounce this right. Urgh, you Muslims. They're being enslaved in a genocide going on over there. You talk about the really is? Yeah, Absolutely. So, you know, our our foundation really looks at What's happening around the world and tries to help shape bleeding thoughts domestically and globally, based on a lens of liberty, lens of freedom and against political ist aplomb. But also looking at solutions. And, you know, I think you and I will talk in a bit about Europe. But right now, when you look at China It's interesting that a lot of Dictatorships, totalitarian regimes like we see in Russia or elsewhere will use the radicalization of Muslims and these radical groups that exist as excuses. In which to wipe up population. The Muslims themselves will do that. Assad did that with the My family's from Syria and Assad claim that he was wiping out Isis when in fact, it took the United States the wipe out Isis, not Assad. He didn't care about Isis. You used that as an excuse to wipe out half for the Syrian population..
Weird AF News
"isis" Discussed on Weird AF News
"Indicted on one felony count of indecent exposure and lewdness for the indecent which allegedly occurred inside a sleep number store at the mall at rockingham park. Oh hold on a second this. This is salem new hampshire. How it doesn't say that. He's a florida man. But he was up in. Salem new hampshire doing this. 'cause i remember the mall at rockingham park. I used to go there as a kid. It was the coolest mall around I'm sure they have. Cooler malls do eat people even go to malls anymore. I feel like that's not happening. The seventy five year. Old florida man. What was he doing up there. Well obviously trying to find somebody to touch his genitals. He's thinking to himself. Where where could i get someone to touch my genitals. Oh yeah the sales people mattress stores. They'll fall for this. All i can do is show my genitals and asked if you'd like to try it out with me. This is sure to work. And if it doesn't. I'm seventy five years old. I'll just say hey i'm an old man. I don't know what i'm doing. I expose myself sometimes. what can i do. I'm an old man. Let me tell you something. You're you're way far from florida. Mr eric jacobson okay. Maybe this no one will bat an eye in florida if you show your genitalia at a mattress store but in new hampshire. This is gonna make headline news now. According to these. Salem new hampshire police affidavit the female sales associate told investigators that mr jacobs came into the store looking for a mattress. Here's a quote from the officer. During the conversations jacobs would climb in and out of beds when jacobs did this. He would slowly in exaggerating spread. Open legs jacobs was reportedly wearing very short running shorts and no underwear allegedly exposing his genitals while making these legs spreading movements on the mattress in front of the sales pitch. This was his plan. You know if. I wear short shorts. And then i asked them if they wouldn't mind if i roll around on the mattress a little bit and you know give it the old tryout next thing you know they're going to see my you know what's and once the lady see what i'm rocking down there. If this guy is seventy five years old. So i'm guessing that as he rolled around on the bed his balls just kind of slipped all the way down to his kneecaps right. I'm sorry guys who are over seventy but we know the situation down there okay. It's not pretty. It's not pretty. What's going on down there. You need a little bit of a lifting tuck now. The police asked this saleswoman to elaborate on her description of the movements that mr jacobs was engaging in on the mattress and she explained that mr jacobs would quote pick his leg up and lift his knee high and spread his legs open to get in and out of the bed. The store worker also told the police that she felt uncomfortable during this interaction. Yeah no shit. You felt uncomfortable. It was a seventy five year old set of balls in front of your face. You're just trying to sell matches. This guy's rolling around a jacobs. Did this behavior several times during their interaction. The police say jacobs asked what the best number for sex was of the bed because they have sleep. Number's yeah what's the best sleep number for sex. What do you think. would you be doing it with me about it. Hey i'm seventy five. But i can still make it work lady once you try and roll around on his bed with me. Are we in florida. No sir. I don't know how you got up into new hampshire. Jacobs told the police that he was at the store shopping for a mattress for his. Rv it all comes full circle. This guy's trying to buy matches of course he lives in an rv. And he's in florida. And you wanna be in new hampshire in february january. Because it's just a lovely up there just inundated with snow in your rv. Are you stupid jacobs. This is the worst time to be in new hampshire. Wow what a dummy. He's clearly running from the law. Check his forehead for a tattoo of florida. Mr jacobs also stated he lived in florida would be heading home the next morning following a going away party thrown by his family. The is really pleased that you're gonna leave like finally we don't have to see his balls anymore. Can you believe this short-sea war. Did you see what he were at christmas with those short shorts. wow according to the authorities. The indictment was elevated to a felony on this character because he was previously convicted of open and gross lewdness for some similar conduct in concord massachusetts in nineteen ninety-three. This guy's been showing his balls for twenty years at an age where we do not want to see your balls sir. Thanks again for being here for an episode of weird news. A florida friday episode specifically. And thank you for sending me florida articles. Those that did. I got a lot of them. They were great. It was difficult to choose. 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Weird AF News
"isis" Discussed on Weird AF News
"Clayton kagan age. Twenty eight was arrested on charges of dui alcohol or drugs and dui damage to property. According to the county sheriff's office online booking records according to the deputies kagi was detained after crashing his vehicle in that lovely place called punta gorda deputies observed this guy keggi walking near the crash site with with scuba goggles and scuba hood. I assume that's the the thing you pull over your head. But that's it no other scuba gear. Authorities had seen scuba suit and what appeared to be twisted tea cans in the car which was abandoned with. Its airbags deployed. I love this this guy. I'm wondering if he was driving with the scuba goggles on and maybe that's why he crashed. Nah nah it was probably the alcohol. The maybe this guy just likes to give wasted put on his scuba gear drive around town. That could be a thing that he does there he goes again. This guy larry and punta gorda. I don't know he likes to drink a bunch of booze and then put a scuba gear on and drive around. It's a miracle he hasn't crashed there. He goes okay. There he goes. Oh he's on the ground. He thinks he's swimming while he's really drunk. Khakis blood alcohol level was reported. Guess what it was reported as guys. I'm gonna tell you right now. The the level in florida for impaired driving otherwise known as the level is point. Zero one eight. Can you guess what khakis blood alcohol level was. School boo boo dean down doomed. Point one eight. You are absolutely right. He was way over the limit Yes he was at the put on your scuba gear that you have in your trunk alcohol level at that point and if you think that's something you should see him drop acid and where his astronaut outfit you like podcasts. You're listening to my podcast. Maybe thought yourself. I'd like to make a podcast too difficult. No not with anchor. Anchor has free creation tools. That allow you to record. And edit your podcast from your phone.