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WGN Radio
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"Weekday mornings at 6 is bob Serra time. It also may be breakfast time. But definitely listening time. All right, America, welcome back. It's rich Valdez Valdez with an S, by the way, aunt rich valdes on all of the social media and China has axed its travel tracking app in its latest easing of COVID policies because they're rolling back their zero COVID policy after a bunch of chaos that sparked and there had been protests all over the place because people were sick and tired of the authoritarian regime telling them what they can do. And again, they tell them what they can do most of the time, but I think it was obscene what we'd seen in recent weeks. So that's interesting. And China's always into something. And we're going to pivot to China, but I want to remind you guys that our guest is lieutenant colonel Anthony schafer. Tony schafer was the national security adviser on the Trump 2020 campaign. He's also president at the London center for policy, colonel, welcome back. Hey, rich. I enjoy being on with you. Thanks for having me. Thank you, sir. You're a wealth of information, and you sound terrific at 11 o'clock at night, so we love that. What's the cigars? Hey, there you go. The cigars do it. So I want to talk about China, right? So you got China and there's a lot of things in, you know, it's always there's always a lot to discuss with China. But I know that they've eased their policy. When I hear China easing a policy or asking their travel tracking app. And this is like an hour ago on CNBC. I don't believe it. Call me a skeptic. I think that's like for today, and then tomorrow they'll repackage it and sell it different way. Because they don't give up, do they? No, they don't. And I think this is one of the things that the American public doesn't fully understand. The Chinese people are surveilled constantly. They have the surveillance state. And so to your point, if they shut off one thing, they're picking up picking up and doing the same thing somewhere else. So I don't believe for a minute they're backing off. For rich, I think they're responding actually to a number of internal challenges they're facing right now. You mentioned the protests. They're going through and they're spend massive protests and a lot of the urban areas. People are literally tired of being welded shut inside their apartments. And not only that, there's a house burning to death. And burning to death. So not only that, they have a huge economic issue related to housing. One of the things the Chinese government has been trying to do is when you've got billions of people, you're trying to house them. So a lot of the financial challenges that they face internally are also really rising up. You've had corporations who have basically what Sam bankman fried did at the global scale. You've had internal challenges similar to that where corporations would take people's money. They would promise them a new apartment or condo and they would reinvest that and lose it and then never build a condo and they have whole cities halfway built. So G is not only facing the COVID backlash. He's facing economic challenges which could just crash the entire Chinese economy. So while many of us are worried about Taiwan, their internal challenges are huge factors and what that government is trying to do to maintain essentially a form of totalitarian power over the people. And let's face it. If you've got a 1 billion people upset, that government, no matter how totalitarian it is, may well eventually find itself in distress. From your lips to God's ears. Yes. Right. Turtle, I'd like for you. We have about a minute and a half left. I don't want to rush you. But I don't want to lose the opportunity for you to tell people about the work that you're doing at the London center, fund and center for policy research and how they could follow you and keep up with this work that you're doing. So just on the center dot org spelled our way and we do a lot of education on the various issues we're talking about tonight. We just did this thing with Steve Hatfield, doctor Steve Hatfield, who's our virologist. And we talked about the COVID issue from soup to nuts about the issues relating to the vaccine, the origins. And we just did a series of things relating to Chinese strategy with midnight John Kim, former commandant of the war college and Gordon Chang, one of our senior fellows. So I think people would be impressed with the depth that we go into. But we make it understandable. We try to actually talk to people like people talk, not like academics talk. And as you know, rich, I'm a retired spy. I'm not really an academic. I pretend to be one is my latest covering. So I was going to say that earlier. You're an intelligence guy, but you put it better. Yes. Former spy works so much better. That's right. But yes, I can check us out and obviously if they enjoy our conversation tonight, they can always find more content on our thought to action podcasts, which are located on our website. Outstanding. Well, I really do hope that you'll join us as frequently as you can and often because you guys have your finger on the pulse of a lot of what's going on and I love to get your perspective, your intelligence background, national security background. I think really gives a different light to a lot of international geopolitical stuff that we're talking about. So colonel
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"World of national news, off to Nancy, lions, we go. She is in D.C., hey nets. Thanks, Carol. Voters are going to the polls all across the country today, but more than 44.2 million people have already voted in these 2022 midterms. Outpacing the last comparable election, that's according to data compiled by the U.S. elections project at the university of Florida by comparison for the 2018 midterms, about 39.1 million people voted before election day either in person or by mail. Because of all the early voting, we still might not know the results of some tight congressional races for days. So those mail in and absentee ballots are counted. Julie Norman with university college London center on U.S. politics says it's important for both Republicans and Democrats that today's vote run smoothly. There's over 300 election deniers on the ballot today in both state and federal offices. We knew that many will probably be in office of tomorrow. There might be some challenges. And I think many of us are just watching that closely. President Biden and the Democrats have warned that democracy is on the ballot. University college London's Julie Norman says it's not clear whether that message has broken through the concerns about inflation and the economy. While some voters are weighing in on the number of TV ads for candidates, this Republican voter says she found most of them confusing. Unless you read and you go back and read people's policies
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Race down there. This is balance of power on Bloomberg television and on radio. From the Bloomberg 99 one studio in Washington, I'm Nancy Lyons, Bloomberg ballots of power with David west and continues in a moment, but first, here are the day's top headlines. Voters are going to the polls all across the country today, but more than 44.2 million people have already voted in these 2020 20, 2022 midterms outpacing the last comparable election. That's according to data compiled by the U.S. elections project at the university of Florida by comparison for the 2018 midterms about 39.1 million people voted before election day, either in person or by mail. And because of all the early voting, we still might not know the results of some tight congressional races for days. That's so those mail in and absentee ballots are counted. Julie Norman with university college London center on U.S. politics says it's important for both Republicans and Democrats that today's vote run smoothly. There's over 300 election deniers on the ballot today in both state and federal offices, we knew that many will probably be in office of tomorrow. There might be some challenges and I think many of us are just watching that closely. President Biden and the Democrats have warned democracy is on the ballot today. University college London's Julie Norman says it's not clear whether that message is broken through the concerns about inflation and the economy. While some voters are weighing in on the number of TV ads for candidates, this Republican voter says she found most of them confusing. Unless you read and you go back and read people's policies and what they stand for, you can't follow those commercials. The total cost of state and federal elections this year is projected by cracker open secrets to be close to $17 billion the most expensive race is the one in Pennsylvania for the Senate with the Georgia Senate race not far behind. Nicole
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"Co director of the university college London center on U.S. politics. Julie, thanks for joining us. Firstly, how big a role did roads and his group have in January the 6th? Sure. Well, there were obviously many people involved in January 6th, but what this trial is looking at for roads and his associates is actually seditious conspiracy. So not only their actions on that day. But even more so, their actions leading up to it. Were they part of an ongoing plot and actual plan to go to the capitol to try and oppose the transfer of presidential power. So much of this trial is going to focus on the months before when they were recruiting, training, and conspiring to allegedly use force on January 6th. And how serious are the charges the groups now facing? Well, they are quite serious and that is one reason why this trial is getting so much attention. This is the highest level criminal charge that we've seen so far in over 800 arrests that we've seen around January 6th. And so just to conspiracy, it's a pretty specific crime in U.S. law. It's a conspiring to overthrow or destroy by force the U.S. government or prevent or delay the execution of any U.S. law. So it has a max sentence of about 20 years in prison. It does stop short of treason, which is waging war against the government. So it's not one of our highest crimes against the state, but it's one of the highest. And so it's taken quite seriously. And for anyone who might not have heard of the group, how and why was it founded by Rhodes who himself is a former U.S. Army paratrooper and a Yale law school graduate, so it's someone who on paper seems pretty highly educated. That's so true Vincent. And the oath keepers is an interesting group. They are a far right militia group. They were founded by roads himself back and I think 2009. So during the Tea Party movement in the U.S. of people remember that. And what's so interesting about this group is roads formed it, really with the aim of recruiting former and current military veterans or law enforcement officials and the idea was that they would swear an oath to sort of disobey on unconstitutional orders from the state or from the government. So he himself has a military background as you noted several of the other associates who are also part of this who are also charged in this trial also have military background. So that's one of the reasons why this group is so interesting but also so concerning because of the potential pull or reach that they have in the security services themselves. And how big a test will this be for the Justice Department and its prosecutors? Certainly, this is a big case because of the charges, but also just a big case for what it means for justice. The Justice Department really needs a win here. This is such a central charge. And it's very key to their central assertion. And I think that of the January 6th committee also that this attack posed such a threat to American democracy. So getting convictions in this case is really key for just underlining the seriousness of January 6th and the threats to the U.S. that were endemic within it. And rose's legal team have been complaining about getting a fair trial. How hard is the jury selection going to be? Yeah, so we saw it starting yesterday and some of the jurors themselves have been or potential jurors themselves have been very clear that they can not be impartial about this. Many have likened it to 9 11 in terms of how they see it as such a traumatic event for the nation if not for themselves personally. Obviously it's an event that everyone saw and is aware of and probably had many emotions to that day. So I think just the jury selection itself was probably going to take a little while. But with that said, there have been numerous other jury based trials around January 6th for other lesser crimes, and they have been able to find impartial juries for those. So it's certainly not impossible. And just a final question to you. The talk here is that they spent weeks planning this that there was a lot of coordination. There has been some suggestion that the Trump administration itself was coordinating with people on January 6th. Is there any credible link between the administration and the oath keepers and what's Donald Trump and the maga movements response been to this trial? Yeah, that is something that, again, will be interesting to see how it plays out in the trial, because in fact, the main defense for the oath keepers and their lawyers has been that they were essentially waiting for Trump's orders that day that they actually went to potentially follow his orders to quell unrest from his point of view. And so they are framing their defense in terms of being very much in the service of Trump, if you will. Again, whether that will actually come out in the proceedings and that would be interesting to see, again, some of their correspondence dates back months before Trump started organizing for January 6 to some of that might be tricky, but as we know Trump was certainly egging on the big lie from very early on himself. So it'll be interesting to see if they can draw this direct connections or not. Julie, thank you very much. That was Julie Norman. You're listening to the briefing on monocle 24.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"The U.S. judge has ordered investigators to release a redacted version of court papers that convinced him to authorize a search of Donald Trump's Florida home. The FBI search was part of a probe into the mishandling of documents and this could reveal new details about the inquiry. Julie Norman is the co director of university college London center on U.S. politics. She joins me on the line now. Julie, what has the judge said, why did the Department of Justice oppose the move? Sure. So what we know is when the rate on Mar-a-Lago happened, it was made possible by a search warrant that was approved by the judge. And the warrant was essentially made possible by this affidavit, which has a lot more details about the investigation and what justice was looking for. So there has been appeals from everyone from news agencies like The Washington Post and The New York Times to conservative judicial watch groups calling for this affidavit this more detailed document to be released. Justice has said that this would compromise their investigation. It would make it difficult to get witnesses to come forward, et cetera. So the so to speak compromise that was settled on was that it redacted version of this affidavit would be released by noon U.S. time post time today. So it's unclear exactly what will be left in for the public to see. Is expected to be the heavily redacted to protect the investigation and to protect witnesses within it. But the judge still said, look, there's a public interest for people to know as much as possible about what's going on in this investigation because it's so unprecedented. Now, we recently spoke to Jason Miller, who was Trump's 2016 campaign spokesperson, he told us about the rights view of the FBI raid and why the Department of Justice should be more forthcoming. Let's have a listen to that. I think that many Americans have become so numb to investigations that they just are starting to assume. That's what one does to their political opponents. I don't like that. I don't think that's good for the country. I don't think it's good regardless of who we're talking about, whoever's in office. I very much worry that this is a trend because again, you know it's going to happen when Republicans take over Congress in the beginning of next year. Day one, they'll be investigating Joe Biden, Hunter Biden. And then the spiral is going to continue. So I think that Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's attorney general, really should have thought through this a little bit better and realized what kind of chaos he's leading America toward by setting an FBI agents over a document retention thing. Now, when you said, what if there's something illegal that they find? Okay. Then I think the DoJ has a responsibility for such a historic rate of this nature to make clear. Here's exactly what the tip was. Here's what we were expecting to find. And if we did find it, because Americans deserve to know that their law enforcement, that the legal system is operating on the up and up. That was Jason Miller speaking to us earlier on monocle 24. What would be your reaction to that, Julie? We're sure. I think a couple of things can be true here. On the one hand, there is obviously the ideas that no one is above the law and that includes president's former presidents who need to be investigated as such when there is an implication of criminal activity. With that said, this will have very large political implications, even if something is not politically motivated, its implications can still be quite political. And I think Merrick Garland knew that quite clearly when they pursued this. But with that said, again, Republicans and Democrats alike, I think, are trying to look for as much transparency around this as possible because of those political implications. And it's true that the documents are themselves probably not going to come to light. I mean, the whole reason this is a case is because they're top secret classified documents that are not supposed to be in personal possessions. So I agree that we probably won't actually know that much, but at the same time, there is a public interest again across the aisle across political perspectives, to be as transparent about it. For this case, in particular, but also for the respective institutions moving forward because this would become something that could become quite regular if this was a precedent that was set of investigating presidents or former presidents. And I mean, that's echoed in The New York Times today. There's a very powerful opinion piece in which the questions posed that in deciding how Trump should be held accountable under the law, it's necessary to consider not just whether criminal prosecution would be warranted, but whether it would be wise. I mean, could it inflame his support of it? Could it lead perhaps even to violence? Well, that's exactly right. And I think that's one of the considerations that certainly justice must be considering given the political moment and temperature in the United States right now. And it's very true that, again, even in the long term, if there is legal implications around this for Trump somewhere down the line that may be the case. But the reality is in that the short term, the investigation already has bumped up Trump. It has put him back in the headlines exactly where he wants to be. It's put him in the center of the GOP conversation that's made him a central figure going into the fall midterm season. So it's already galvanized Trump and his supporters, even without any being known about what's going on around it. I'm just the investigation itself Trump is using to his own advantage and especially what he has always doubled down on the center the seeds mentality of the deep state coming after him and whatnot. This fits very much in that narrative one is looking to is if one is looking to that. I mean, do you think it's made him more likely to run? I would say it has certainly probably not dampened his efforts at all. I mean, even before this, I think most of us assume that he probably would and it was probably more a question of when then if. But I do believe that this event and again, unless it's unless there's some kind of criminal proceeding like very swiftly, which I think is very doubtful. If anything, we'll just make him double down on his intentions to run and will likely increase his chances of being successful at least at least in the nomination process. I mean, do you think do you think a trial if it's viewed as illegitimate by his supporters and those who believe his lies? Some of whom have just recently been reelected. Could that undermine confidence in the rule of law? I think it definitely could. And this is why all of this is so tricky right now. And it's a very difficult balancing act for Garland because as you said on the one hand, we have this respect for the tradition of the institutions that you need to hold someone accountable no matter what the possible fallout might be. But at the same time that fallout might be very serious in the short term, obviously risks of further polarization or even political violence. But in the mid to longer term, right, even just a complete lack of trust in the Justice Department in the government in judicial proceedings of this kind in any way, shape or form. So I think that's why there's a lot of interest across the board for trying to have this whole process be as transparent as possible to try and prevent those more negative scary kind of outcomes from coming to Paris. How does this weigh up against doing nothing? Sure, I mean, I think that is something that is not really an option anymore.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"To back to the European family and move that is important to all of the population in Ukraine. A long-term objective that makes sense in this war against Russia, which is among other things, is also the war for values of future for independence and freedom of choosing your own future and future for your children. So this has been taken very enthusiastically. And I think the everyone in Ukraine now expects the government to move quickly on the path of the EU integration and continue with the reforms necessary to make us bring us closer to the EU, notwithstanding the ongoing war. So okay, thank you very much indeed. That was the former Ukrainian minister Sergei petukhov. Now, here's monocle 24 color a Bello with the day's other news headlines. Thanks, Georgina. China's president Xi Jinping has sworn in the former police chief John Lee as Hong Kong's new chief executive. It's Z's first trip outside Mainland China since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and it comes as the city marks 25 years since the end of British rule. Yard lapid has become Israel's interim prime minister after taking over from Naftali Bennett after just one year. Mister lapid, who is the head of a centrist party, will lead the country as it heads towards elections in November. It will be Israel's 5th national contest in four years. And today's monochromatic is taking a closer look at how Canadians are celebrating Canada day. It comes as the population begins the process of rethinking the nation's birthday in a bit to incorporate indigenous communities. You can find out more at monocle dot com slash minute. Those are the days headlines, back to you, Georgina. Thanks very much, Carl utter. Now, katangi Brown at Jackson became the first black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court when she was sworn in yesterday. The 9 member court is split between 6 Republican appointed justices and three picked by Democrats, all three of the liberal minority are now women. Julie Norman is the co director of university college London center on U.S. politics and she joins me on the line now. Julie, does the appointment of katangi Brown Jackson change the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court in any significant way? Well, hello, Georgina. And well, it is a certainly momentous day in a certainly news public confirmation. This won't actually change the ideological makeup of the court. So it essentially katangi Brown Jackson is replacing one of the current more liberal leading justices. One who she actually clerked for in the past. So he is retiring. She has been now confirmed and now sworn into that spot. So we can still probably expect to see a lot of 6 three decisions moving forward because ideological balance will say the same. I mean, this is a really challenging time for U.S. justice three very controversial decisions handed down recently. And I wondered if we could have a look at them separately and ask how, if at all, they could be diluted, rolled back or even defied. Let's begin with abortion rights because we've seen significant pushback from organizations and individuals on the whole roe versus wade reversal. How are advocates of women's rights able to choose autonomy over their own bodies fighting back? Yeah, so obviously the rovers made reverse service probably the biggest news item coming out of the court this last week. It obviously had momentous talks about American women. It does not, of course, make abortion illegal. It's simply pushes it back to the states. So what we're seeing is a sort of a sorting, if you will, in the United States, between state legislatures that are working to affirm the right to abortion and to facilitate that and those that are working to restrict or eliminate the ability to have an abortion. So there are a number of states where so called trigger laws have already gone into place. And I expect that we will start seeing next is summit challenges to some of those laws because many of them are vague in their wording, especially in terms of what can be done for women's health and for saving a woman's life. So there's a lot that is quite murky for medical providers right now. And I expect that we'll start seeing cases that are building on this to start defining what exactly is allowed at different states and possibly getting back up with the Supreme Court level again. But in the meantime, yeah, we just see a lot of activists in the meantime trying to help women in states where the procedure has been banned or restricted to make sure they get access either by mail or with safe transport to other states. And then we come to gun control in New York. What's the detail on this? And how is that being challenged? Yeah, so this was a decision that rolled back a almost 100 year standing law that essentially prohibited concealed weapons in New York unless you had a special permit. You had to say that you had a reason to want to carry a concealed weapon. And essentially the court said this is goes against the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms and is too onerous and that people should just be able to carry when they want. So this is a kind of, it seems a bit counterintuitive because the court usually airs in response of states making their own laws, legislating rather than court decisions. But this is one we're on the Second Amendment. They do tend to read it quite literally with the bearing arms kind of wording. But I do expect, again, we'll see a lot of mobilization around that. But the decision, the way the decision is written, I think it's going to be hard to roll this one back. And so there's probably going to be other kinds of embassies from gun safety advocates, but this will be a tough one for them to work around. And then there's the decision to limit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Surely this will be challenged. Yes, it will, but it's a tricky one again because it's not just about climate or about the EPA. The ruling is really about trying to prevent the agencies that are under the executive branch, so essentially under the president's jurisdiction from making regulations that they think should be decided by Congress through legislation..
Monocle 24: The Briefing
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"Continue to Washington, D.C., U.S. Supreme Court Justice clarence Thomas has been taken to hospital with an infection just a day before the senator to begin a confirmation hearings for a new member of the court. Mister Thomas who is 73 is the longest serving member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Julie Norman is co director of university college London center on U.S. policy and she joins me now. Welcome to Monaco for Julie, mister Thomas is the longest serving member of the U.S. Supreme Court how much more can you tell us about him? Well, clarence Thomas is indeed the longest serving and also the second oldest Supreme Court Justice after justice Breyer, who is retiring later this year. He's currently 73 years old. He's one of the most conservative members of the court as well. And one of two black members to ever sit on the court. He was nominated to replace thurgood Marshall back in 1991 and was nominated by the first George Bush. So he's certainly been a very central part of the court over these past several decades and will likely continue to be. It's expected that he'll recover and return to the court within the next few days. At the same time, the United States may soon get to the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee will today begin confirmation hearing for Brown Jackson, how much can you tell about the tell us about her? Yes, so ketanji Brown Jackson was of course Biden's nominee to replace Breyer, who is retiring. A very strong resume, a graduate of both Harvard Law and Harvard undergrad. She actually was a Supreme Court clerk for justice Breyer, who is retiring. And she served as a public defender and also for 9 years on the federal bench, including in the D.C. circuit court, the appellate level. So she comes with a very strong resume, has been meeting with, I think, about 44 members of the Senate so far and all the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. So she'll be going to the nomination, I think, pretty strong, especially the fact that her confirmation would not tilt the balance of the court, the way the court is right now, 6 three. This is not as contentious of a confirmation as those that would split the court in a different direction than it already is. So you think the confirmation process is going to be rather smooth. I think she will, it will be smoother relative to our past several nomination processes in the U.S. with that said she will face some tough questions from most of the Republican members of the committee. Some have suggested that she soft on crime pretty much based on her past as a public defender. With that said, she has endorsements from police groups, family background and law enforcement. So we'll likely emphasize that. She also hasn't committed outright to opposing expanding the Supreme Court, which is something that I think she'll get pressed on by some conservative members. And as usual should be asked about her judicial philosophy, which of course there's just differences between liberals and conservatives on that. So we can express some tough questioning, but at the end of the day, it's likely that this confirmation will get through. There's also some symbolic importance over there we should remember that in his election campaign, Joe Biden promised to get everyone represented. How important is it for him that miss Jackson indeed becomes a member of the Supreme Court? A word is indeed very important. Biden made that campaign promise a pretty early in the primaries in South Carolina, committing to nominate just not only a more diverse court member, but specifically a black woman. So he is following through on that pledge. That's something that means a lot to a lot of people in the party. But I think it's important to underscore, again, that can tanji Brown Jackson's credentials regardless of race or gender would put her very high up in any kind of anyone's list. And so this is quite historic, but it's also an extremely qualified person that's coming before the committee this week. And when will we know that for sure what is the time frame for those confirmation hearings? So the Senate Judiciary Committee will carry on this week for the next four days. Those are pretty intense days packed with a lot of questioning from different parties. And then they will most likely vote later next week at the committee level and then we'll probably vote at the whole Senate level the week following that first week of April. That was Julie Norman from university college London U.S. politics. Thank you very much for joining us today. You are listening to the briefing on monocle 24. 1224 here in London 8 24 a.m. if you are listening in Washington, D.C., it's time now for the latest installment of our French election series. Here is the Paris based journalist and whether the French have finally fallen in love with their incumbent leader emerald Macron. Good news, hardly makes it onto the front page. Especially in France. A study published on March the 17th by the UFC and independent think tank, which assesses public policies and their impact on the economy. Has not made the headlines. And yet, it's conclusions are pure dynamite. Between the end of 2017 and the end of 2021, an employment in France decreased according to the French newspaper, the Mont in a spectacular way to reach 7.4%. When.
WGN Radio
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"8 6 6 5 O 5 four 6 two 6 and we seem to have everyone back on our phone lines which by the way we'll be getting a thorough checking out And we will not allow this is a totally unacceptable level of performance to continue Our guest is with us retired army lieutenant colonel Tony schaefer at president of the London center for policy research online at London center dot org by the way and here's a call from Steve in San Jose California good evening Steve Hey Jimbo I've got three points that'll take about 35 seconds If you could bear with me I think extremely extremely important One is our inability to wean our addiction off of corporate profits and cheap goods will lead to the financing of our destruction in regards to China Point number two Nixon Kissinger Did our country a very disservice when they opened up China They should have done it with Mexico and Latin America They should have gone down there And the third point is our debt and the Marxist Democratic Party is not operating in our national interest I would give.
The Larry Elder Show
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"Larry oda here, the sage from south central, the prince of pico union. The Tsar of common sense, the great elder ski. Don't Lorenzo. Welcome to the program no Victor crabs allowed because we've got a country to save. So let's get her Tito. Do you want to play up? Triple 8 9 7 one SAG triple 8 9 7 one 7 two four three I am Larry elder we are relief after dot com studio. Reward is now up to a quarter $1 million for the UCLA graduate student who was stabbed to death at a high in furniture store here in California. When we're talking about what other countries do regarding mail in voting and the co owner of the Golden State Warriors, the NBA basketball team, billionaire, says he couldn't give a rip about the Uighurs, the oppression of the Uighurs. Now, whenever I watch Chuck Schumer pull out the race card, as he's done regarding this Voting Rights Act, which he apparently feels is so important that our very republic is threatened although he calls it a democracy. Whenever I think about that, I'm reminded of my interview I had with J ham neck about young Chuck Schumer and his racist scheme to get rid of blacks out of a neighborhood in New York. Not been telling you about my next guest for months. He wrote a piece almost 11 years ago called race to the top, which appeared in the American spectator. We have it up on Larry elder dot com. He's a senior fellow at the London center for policy research. Please welcome to the program J ham neck, Jay. We haven't talked yet. We haven't talked in years. Nice to talk to you. Yes, yes. That was back when we were both young fellows. That's right. What does that make me maybe an hour? Where are you station? Are you in London? Well, the London center for policy research is named after doctor Herbert London, who's the head of the center. So everyone, the kind of people I want to fool into thinking I'm in London, I don't correct them. Well, Jay, when we talk years ago, we talked about this article that I mentioned called race to the top that you wrote in January of 2006 for the American spectator. And you told about an incident, a political meeting that you went to with your dad. Tell us about it. Well, this was a formative and transformative moment for me. It's solidified my political engagement. I was just a fly on the wall essentially. I was 16, 17, something like that. My father got invited to this meeting. It wasn't that politically active, but he was a prominent figure. And this was in the flatbush section of Brooklyn. And they were introducing Charles Schumer to us and I think this is before he ran for Congress. He was becoming a state assembly person. So they were introducing and they were trying to sell them to us. It was not a very impressive figure. I must say it was whiny nasal didn't seem to have much confidence. And they were trying to put him forward and sell them on the basis and unfortunately all the assumptions that went into this are horrible, but they put a photo on the basis that he's going to get to blacks if you know the flapper section it tends to be a white section of single-family homes and for whatever reason over the years it evolved in that way. But there's a cluster of apartment houses on the other UK where black's resided. And frankly, they were not violent. It wasn't any kind of class is going on in the streets. There was no fear. If there was a problem, I didn't detect a problem. I lived there, but so I had a problem with it. It would have only been on a strictly racist type of basis. And.
The Pig Wrestlers
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"To it might be tempted to like adopt titled dopey seduced by an in brackets fragile. Close brackets big ideas in reality in the best. Anti-israeli big ideas the tend to start out small. Google was patriotic. Yeah what's it called stockpile pile. No it was about crowd back. Rub even better lovely terrible name. It's like finding out the boundaries have really full name to store with surveyed has used to be called on a friday because that's what they've practiced so with matt's we'd be talking about this equity for influence idea or influenced equity idea. Okay and the simple premise. Is that the influence. Our economy is based being paid a cut revenue to promote something. And it's not very long term. It's not very london center and the the the real prize is using your help. Somebody build that brand and that's a long term thing but you're hoping that see should get a long-term ruled and though is the equity. Is that thing. And so we'll be talking about this in. And what a great n- agency. That does this. And i like to take my time on naming things in the current favorite name and it's because mccormack started. Img on a handshake and in a cove purse covert world. The appropriate morton thing to do. Fist-bump is much better name. And i'm not just saying 'cause you because it's your idea. But generally that versus backrub. Give me fist-bump any day and you can have fun with fist-bump as well you can even go live with abstract and the other f. b. funny but yeah no something you max are planning on doing so very early stages The only thing we're planning on doing. But i think there's there's a kernel of strengthen the idea and you know there's definitely an industry there that needs this from from both sides startup brattin's growing through like google and facebook. Ads is not A long-lasting say. And i was reading a all about ugly drinks and how they utilize their thirty thousand social media audience to build the brand. We're thinking max. Got one point. Seven million followers. Yeah we could help these brands of the back of that with long term partnerships. Like william shatner did with priceline and of walkers crisps and kevin bacon in the end of the most famously michael jordan and neck ostensibly nyc. Is the house. That michael yes. They were in the image innovative but he took it to another level If you've watched that documentary loss starts on netflix about chicago chicago. Bulls and michael jordan and those championships. But there's a reason why. Michael jordan was better than everybody else. And there's a reason why these influences have influence in the audience their fans and followers love them for a reason. So max in.
WMAL 630AM
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"Very thrilled to have Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer with us as well. Tony Shaper, of course, a CIA trained intelligence operations officer. Who had his own boots on the ground in Afghanistan in the early days of that conflict, he's not the president of the London Center for Policy Research, Tony Good morning to you Always going to talk to you. Hey, Larry. Always great to join you. Thanks for having me By the way, I want to tell you he is the creator and producer Tony is of National Geographic Series chain of command. And that really comes into play here. Tony is great series. By the way, I remember it vividly. Because we have a real concern about the chain of command here with this mark Milley story, don't we? Well, that's the whole issue. Uh, the details we're learning are very troubling, obviously, very we don't know what is completely fact and what may be a bit of embellishment, but the core issue is very serious. And just your audience is smarter than the average bear and the chairman of Joint Chiefs essentially is the senior adviser to the president, United States for military operations in military issues. He's not technically in the chain of command. That's one of the grand ironies of our current setup. But if it's true if what we're told is true. Mhm honor. About the eighth of January, Mark Milley took it upon himself to remove a sitting president of the United States from the chain of command. And and if that's true, and let me be very clear, if that's true, that is considered legally a coup because the moment you break that chain of command you insert yourself you removed. The civilian leadership and that's the key here. The Pentagon is run by civilian leadership. The moment you remove them put yourself in place. You created a situation where you technically violated not only your oath of office But you've moved the ball across the finish line to full blown like removal of the president, United States from his position of authority, so this is very serious. Obviously, given your you know, high level experience at the Pentagon, you might be able to speak to this. Do you read into at all the fact that we haven't heard a denial from General Milley? I mean, is this if this were to be just the patently false story is this something that the Pentagon would wade into? Or or is it what it fall under the typical pattern? Of the Pentagon thought of seeing out of the fray. Well. He emailed another former chairman of the Joint Chiefs last night and recommended that he recommend to Mark Milley to get ahead of this and make a comment. I think he's he needs to get ahead of this. So, um, no matter how you cut it, Uh, Millie is going to have to address these allegations. These are far too serious for anyone to just kind of sit back and hope it passes and I don't think this will remember During this period of time. We're talking about great tumult within the nation. All the issues going on with six January issue. You had Nancy Pelosi, uh out publicly, speaking about her trying to intercede to force the military to bend to her will There's issues relating to China. This China thing is very troubling because as we know the Taiwan has been, uh, one of the desire the Republic of China, which is the non communist China, Taiwan has been, uh, a prize that the People's Republic of China the Chinese communists want to obtain and one of the credible areas of reporting right now is that one of our allies, the British five eyes Was monitoring Chinese leadership and Larry Remember here that we're not the only ones who have concerns about China. So imagine their surprise when the chairman of the joint Chiefs again I don't know this for a fact yet when they have the chairman of the joint Chiefs, telling the Chinese hey, if we if I'm directed attack you guys because you're doing something against Taiwan. Don't worry, I'm going to tell you about it. Think about that, And I think that's something we have to address. By the way for everybody who's like like, Well, if you don't know if it's true, why are you speculating? Folks. This is Bob Woodward's book that's been printed in Washington Post fact. Okay, so as far as the left is as far as NBC and MSNBC in Washington Post this, in fact, were the ones who are giving Millie the benefit of the doubt here, Okay, But I've got to say, Tony shape. I don't think I've ever said this in the many years that we've known each other, but I think you might be understating the severity of this because this goes well beyond just removing President Trump is the duly elected commander in chief, the civilian oversight of the military from the chain of command because he Remove him from the chain of command. By talking to our foreign adversary. One would argue the greatest military threat to world peace, the People's Liberation Army in China. I mean, you're right. He's subverted the chain of command. But he also promised our enemy that he'd give they give him a heads up on an attack. That itself is problematic, to say the least. I'm trying to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. I mean, look, I've reached out to his office before and actually offered him a platform to explain some of his, uh, less than favorable decisions just saying So. Let me let me say this very clearly as as someone who has served The set of orders that Millie apparently gave the day that he issued this plus. The phone call issued by the intercepted by the Allies should, uh, result and if it's true, it may be clear because we are giving benefited out. If it's true, it should result in immediate removal and prosecution under the MJ. For a number of articles to include. Technically I'm going to say this and I'm making trouble treason because the moment you tip your hand to an adversary who is likely to to use that information for their benefit. You kind of become the 21st century Benedict Arnold, and it's It's sad point. And so the other thing here, there's a movie out there about this, Larry, you've probably seen it seven days in May. And I recommend that people go see that they could understand kind of the importance of all this, but in my judgment, he is Mark Mellie because of that judgments on Afghanistan, which we've talked about the whole Bagram issue, And now this He's completely disgraced the uniform and at this point, he's damaged that office and I've known a few of those men have been in that position. He is permanently damaged that office by the fact that there may always be doubt about the loyalty of the man in that office if he chose if he chooses to act politically, rather than to support the oath of office and the Constitution. There's reporting out there this morning and Axios that suggest that so far, General Milley has been waiting to respond to criticism about his handling or his his recommendations that he gave in the course of the Afghanistan withdrawal until his congressional hearing on September 28th. How do you think that he you know, Like, what kind of scrutiny do you think he's going to face during that hearing? And do you think it would be a wise strategy for him to wait to respond to this story in that setting as well? No, he can't wait. This is something that again As Larry said, This is Bob Woodward. Bob is very thorough in his reporting again. I think he takes things in may shape them a certain way, even though there's a factual basis to him, But again, even if you just give the Miller the benefit of the doubt regarding was there some level of embellishment you cannot really embellish. Telling your chain of command to take an oath to you to remove the president that needs to be addressed immediately, and I think there's no way around it. He's going to have to address this the fourth well before his testimony, by the way, I just want and Tony shapers always good to talk to you about matters like this. I have a vivid memory of talking to you about the Stanley McChrystal affair. Generally, Crystal was removed from his job as commander of the Afghan forces because it was reported that he had made snide comments about President Obama. And by the way, ironically, then Vice President Biden he was making jokes and that a reporter overheard and then published in Rolling Stone, and he was removed from his command. I mean, if that's the precedent here, Tony, Uh it sounds like you're saying at the very least, Millie should resign or you're saying Actually, this rises to the level of court martial..
KLIF 570 AM
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"I f I'm talking with Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer. He is the president of the London Center for Policy Research, Former intelligence operative. Also New York Times Best selling author. We're talking about things happening around the world that I don't think they're getting their due right now, For example, what's going on in Cuba? You finally have some people protesting that regime. That's now what 62 years old. Oh, that's a long time. Oh, so Yeah, honey, I think the thing about Cubans, we missed it. One of the things that I think notable is that over the past 20 years we've seen de Munition. Of our ability to actually detect and be prepared to deal with circumstance that in this case is actually favorable, uh, in the Obama and in the administration actually tried to say it was covid related. Wish we all know was a complete Also, so I think we need to pay attention and encourage people of Cuba to move forward and another place that this is kind of happening is Iran, the green movement, there is also trying to call for a every removal of its totalitarian theocracy. That holds people back as well. So I think we should be a lot more aggressive and helping those who want to help himself to be free from totalitarian states. I would thoroughly enjoy in Iran. Watching the grandchildren of the idiots who put the Ayatollahs in power knocked him out of power. I think that would be great. Yeah, one of the grand grand ironies. I think that's it. I mean, it should be American sag in Hong Kong in Cuba. Uh, you know, I'm in touch with a number of dissidents. Iranians. Who support you know, and they're Persians, by the way early that the that the Iranians are Persians, not even Arabs, and they they have been there You are longing to be free to be watched it. And so I think the perfect storm is coming to that country very soon. I think Cuba you're seeing similar things where people are set up what being controlled their lives being controlled. And I don't think Hong Kong is going to go east into that dark night as the PRC the people public, China continues to put pressure on importing it into the people's Republic. Well, Tony, let's talk about China because to me, they're the biggest concern. They have a billion and a half people over there. They have a dictator. Uh, that doesn't seem to be hesitant to tell his press agents to talk about taking over Taiwan, and I'm wondering what the future is going to be. Are. Are you going to have nations from around the world fight for Taiwan? I'd like to see that surprise questions that we don't know. At this point, I believe based on the demonstrated, uh, failures of the Joe Biden foreign policy, plus the perceived weakness. I think the Chinese may well move on Taiwan before next year. Uh, there has been talk of that the fact that the Chinese have made very clear early that their desires to return what they believe that their legal boundaries, which is the main dynasty, they believe their laws are older than ours. They have every right to re intinusa eight themselves. That's what they're doing. It's almost that they're more nationalistic than they are Communistic. So if you take that into account of their actions Recognize communism simply, uh the current governance being used to rule their their ability to manage their population and that they want to expand after old old Borders, Then you understand better what they're trying to do. And I think they've definitely see the Obama the trying to slip. The Biden administration has your administration is too weak. We're too unwilling to do and challenge them and their records. Well, you know, the concern, too, is that they have built up an economy of sorts. I've referred to it as a facade many times, because I You know, we can't trust the numbers. They're telling us, but they do have some economic power. And my concern is they're using that economic power to build their military so they'll be able to do this. Absolutely. They have taken the money they've made from us and re investigating their own national security. But to your point you have a great point. There's two weaknesses They have first. Food. They have to maintain a billion plus people's worth of food. There's a huge competition Eri for fish in the Pacific Ocean. That's one of the things I see. Coming up in conflict very quickly. You got Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, almost, you know, competing for a limited resource, and the second thing is internal to the the The Chinese people possible water. This is not well known, but your point about their economy. They depend they spend as much money on maintaining and finding possible sources of water for their population. Every year, as I do on all their national security, I'm not doing their defense. These are huge vulnerabilities that I believe we should be reminding them of not not to mention the fact that they get all their oil through the ball off the straits or if we so chose, we could destroy their ability to run your economy by the fact they have no more than 22 weeks of oil on hand, any given time. This is Tony Shaffer with us that we're talking about What's happening around the world? I don't think it's getting its due. Right now. I I have great concern about China because it seems like almost on a weekly basis. I'll find a news story about some kind of alleged that I put this in air quotes, super weapon that they have created the sub killer, the carrier killer, the space weapon there on the moon, etcetera, etcetera. They seem to be the Superman doing all these things, but I know that's not probably accurate. So they are actually doing a development Look, they bought an old Russian aircraft carrier renamed. It gets a new paint on it early, and they're now a force projector. It is true. It's true and they development things are now trying to go after and develops in space based weapons. These are all absolutely true. What are they, Superman? No, Uh, there's still about 20 to 25 years behind us regarding overall technology and their ability to protect force. But that said they haven't they? They've made it very clear. Look, I've spoken to Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs about this, uh, in his own direct conversations with their generals. They've told him personally that their intention is to dominate the Pacific Ram. So while they're not there, they are telegraphing that they plan to do it and they will continue to pursue developing the super weapons that they don't quite hard yet. Is that something we have to inject ourselves into to stop that from happening? I think it's one of the things that it's very difficult to do any is stop technology from being proliferated that let's look at Internet digital stuff. You know, that's one of the things that makes cyber operations most difficult. You cannot classify basic physics or an understanding of zeros and ones or, you know more metallurgy better is all these things that go into it. That I just saw it. So eventually, with enough effort, almost money, we'll figure it out and they'll develop it. But at this point, because we do have better technology, better innovation. Very heart of it, So it's always important to maintain our edge in innovation, but They're very deliberate and their attempts the target steel and otherwise procure that that knowledge and expertise to develop in their own weapons. 30 seconds left. Tony this is that something? I point out all the time. It seems like anything they come up where they stole They do. Look when I was a young lieutenant, I'm one of my first operational assignments here in Washington. We would we would monitor the Chinese intelligence folks and their wives. Going to trade shows and collecting information so absolutely, I've recommended very several times We need to re implement our operational security programs from the Cold War to stop the loss of technology to China. Alright. This is retired Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer. He.
KLIF 570 AM
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"70 K. L I f I'm Talking with Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer. He is the president of the London Center for Policy Research, Former intelligence operative. Also New York Times Best selling author. We're talking about things happening around the world. I don't think are getting their due right now. For example, what's going on in Cuba? You finally have some people protesting that regime. That's now what 62 years old. Oh, that's a long time. Oh, so Yeah, honey, I think the thing about Cubans, we missed it. One of the things that I think notable is that over the past 20 years we've seen de Munition. Of our ability to actually detect and be prepared to deal with circumstance that in this case is actually favorable. Uh, the Obama and in the administration actually tried to say it was Cobain related, which we all know is complete. All sorts, So I think we need to pay attention and encourage people of Cuba to move forward and another place that this is kind of happening is Iran, the green movement there is also trying to call for a removal of its totalitarian theocracy. That holds people back as well. So I think we should be a lot more aggressive and helping those who want to help themselves to be free from totalitarian states. I would thoroughly enjoy in Iran. Watching the grandchildren of the idiots who put the Ayatollahs in power. Knock him out of power. I think that would be great. Yeah, I want to be grand grand ironies. I think that's it. I mean, you see the American sag in Hong Kong and Cuba. Uh, you know, I'm in touch with a number of dissidents. Iranians. Who support you know, and they're Persians. By the way early that day that the Iranians are Persians, not even Arabs, and they they have been there You are longing to be free to be watched her And so I think the perfect storm is coming to that country very soon. I think Cuba you're seeing similar things where people are set up with being controlled their lives being controlled. And I don't think Hong Kong is going to go easily into that dark night as the PRC the people public, China continues to put pressure on importing it into the people's Republic. Well, Tony, let's talk about China because to me, they're the biggest concern. They have a billion and a half people over there. They have a dictator. Uh, that doesn't seem to be hesitant to tell his press agents to talk about taking over Taiwan and I'm wondering what the future is going to be. Are. Are you going to have nations from around the world fight for Taiwan? I'd like to see that at the questions that we don't know at this point, I believe based on the demonstrated, uh, failures of the Joe Biden foreign policy Plus that perceived weakness. I think the Chinese may well move on Taiwan before next year that has been talked about. The time that the Chinese have made very clear early that their desires to return to what they believe is their legal boundaries, which is the main dynasty. They believe their laws are older than ours. They they have every right to re intinusa it themselves. That's what they're doing. It's almost more that they're more nationalistic than they are Communistic. So if if you take that into account of their actions Recognize communism simply, uh the current governance being used to rule their their ability to to manage their population and that they want to expand after old old Borders, Then you understand better what they're trying to do. And I can definitely see the Obama league trying to slip Divide administration as your administration is too weak or too unwilling to do anything to challenge them and their records. Well, you know, the concern, too, is that they have built up an economy of sorts. I've referred to it as a facade many times, because I you know, we can't trust the numbers. They're telling us. But They do have some economic power. And my concern is they're using that economic power to build their military, so they'll be able to do this. Absolutely. They've taken the money they've made from us and reinvested in their own national security, But to your point Have a great point. There's two weaknesses. They have first food. They have to maintain a billion plus people's worth of food. There's a huge competition Eri for fish in the Pacific Ocean. That's one of the things I see. Coming up in conflict very quickly. You got Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, All you know, competing for a limited resource, and the second thing is internal to the the The Chinese people possible water. This is not well known, but to your point about their economy. They depend they spend as much money on maintaining and finding possible sources of water for their population. Every year as I do on all of their national security, I'm not doing their defense. So these huge vulnerabilities that I believe we should be reminding them of not not to mention the fact that they get all their oil through the Malacca Straits. Where if we so chose, we could destroy their ability to run your economy by the fact they have no more than 22 weeks of oil on hand, any given time. This is Tony Shaffer with us that we're talking about What's happening around the world? I don't think it's getting its due. Right now. I have great concern about China because it seems like almost on a weekly basis. I'll find a news story about some kind of alleged that I put this in air quotes, super weapon that they have created the sub killer, the carrier killer, the space weapon there on the moon, etcetera, etcetera. They seem to be the Superman doing all these things, but I know that's not probably accurate. So they are actually doing a development Look, they bought an old Russian aircraft carrier renamed. It puts a new paint on it early, and they're now a force projector. It is true. It's true, and they've developed month things they're now trying to go after and develops in space based weapons. These are all absolutely true. What are they? Superman? No, there's still about 20 to 25 years behind us regarding overall technology and their ability to project force. What that said they hadn't They? They've made it very clear. Look, I've spoken to Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs about this, uh, in his own direct conversations with their generals. They've told him personally that their intention is to dominate the Pacific Ram. So while they're not there, they are telegraphing that they plan to do it and they will continue to pursue developing these super weapons that they don't quite have yet. Is that something we have to inject ourselves into to stop that from happening? I think it's one of the things that it's very difficult to do. Ernie is stop technology from being proliferated that let's check the Internet digital stuff. You know, That's one of the things that make cyber operations most difficult. You can now classified basic physics or an understanding of zeros and ones. Or, you know, metallurgy. Better all these things that go into it that you saw it. So eventually, with enough effort, almost money, they'll figure it out and they'll develop it. But at this point, because we do have better technology, better innovation. Very ahead of it, So it's always important to maintain our edge in innovation, but They're very deliberate and their attempts the target steel and otherwise procure that that knowledge and expertise to develop in their own weapons. Alright, 30 seconds left. Tony, This is something I point out all the time. It seems like anything they come up where they stole They do. Look when I was a young lieutenant, I'm one of my first operational assignments here in Washington. We would we would monitor the Chinese intelligence folks and their wives. Going to trade shows and collecting information so absolutely, I've recommended very several times We need to re implement our operation Security programs from the Cold War to stop the loss of technology to China. Alright. This is retired Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer. He is a retired D O d Intelligence operative also is the president of the London Center for Policy Research. Check out his book operation Dark heart, Tony, as always. 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WMAL 630AM
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"Update with 7 37. We're joined by Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaeffer. He is the author of Operation Dark Heart, President of the London Center for Policy Research. And, Of course, the co host of the thought to Action Podcast at the London Center, Tony Good morning. They were always great joining Thanks for having me story breaking late Friday. I A E. A inspectors in Iran said to find evidence of possible nuclear weapons work. Diplomats telling The Wall Street Journal, the U. N agency seeking explanations for radioactive materials found in locations where Tehran blocked access last year. That's an interesting challenge for the Biden administration. Yeah, zero through this in detail, one of the things that a lot of us believed from Day one in the original agreement rapist that the Iranians never actually disclosed all their locations of nuclear weapons work. I think this is more evidence of that. And secondly, the fact is that there were a number of agreements that the Iranians broke even after we left the agreement under the Trump administration. So I think there's been a number of bad acts which radiance have shown on. It really does put the Biden administration and difficult position because all indications are from other actions. They're looking to get kind of right back in the middle of the the the agreed upon framework of the nuclear program and remember, I think the audience please remember this. This was never a program designed from vent. I ran from gaining nuclear weapons. It was simply to prevent it for 10 years of his to delay it, and I think it's clear that the Iranians have moved forward on this plus a zoo. You know the there's evidence they wanted. Take the hussy who's an Iranian backed group in Yemen off the terror watch list. This is something peas Iran, and they renewed recently without any negotiation, or there's something that we're to renew the new start treaty regarding US and the Russians and talk about Being pro Putin. There's nothing more proof pro Putin wreck that just simply appeasing the Russians by renewing a treaty, which I would argue that has long since moved, You know from usefulness, since the world has changed a lot since we've agreed upon that. Interesting that the Obama Biden team put that 10 year term on the nuclear deal kicking the can down the highway. I wonder if they expected that they would be back in power about the time that that deal ran out, they'd have to deal with again. Let's turn to glad time. You know, I was gonna say that the whole idea I believe was that they didn't want to have it on the Obama watch, and this may change the dynamics of it. By the fact that the Iranians, I don't think we're going to wait for 10 years. I'm just saying, I think this is gonna be a real challenge right in the first year of the abiding administration, and I want to follow up on your mention of Yemen and the Ruthie's and explain the relationship of Saudi Arabia their campaign in Yemen. And Iran in the hooches, and I know you're getting a little bit into the weeds here, but we will be hearing more about this story. So put it in layman's terms, so the Biden administration wants to stop all support for the Saudis. And the counterinsurgency effort that the Saudis have been engaged in in Yemen. Now, what's ironic here is that the Saudis are trying to actually support the U. N backed government of our own. Damon think about this for a second that the excuse they're given as well as a lot of violence. Well, there's a lot of violence and war. There's no doubt What's interesting here is that the Saudis in us up, tell the my administration or trying to support the legitimate government as designated by the U. N the food he had been a rubble group just gained Maura Maura traction because it's been directly supported, and some would say, even augmented by technical, modern technology weapons missiles. By the Iranians. So again, this move by the Biden administration to essentially remove the Houthi from our enemies list is, um or another indication that they're appeasing that already appeasing Iran. And do you see anything that we're asking in return? At this point, If we were to get back into the nuclear deal, it may be a little bit early, but I haven't heard about any any pressure on Iran from the Bible administration. Zero. There's no pressure and everything. I've seen everything nobody talk to. There's no pressure. It's all appeasement wanted to turn to a story that was in the Huffington Post that I thought was interesting. And the headline on it. A digital dragnet is coming for the U. S. Capitol insurrectionists and this whole notion of social media. And even we heard a report that the Bank of America had been giving credit card information to the feds of people that had made charges in Washington hotels. Around January 6th flying in and out of Washington around January 6th just this whole notion of the digital footprint that we all leave in our daily lives. So this was a significant big brother like, Yeah. I think the bank you mentioned provided over 200 records to our people's records to the FBI. One was interviewed two turned out to be nothing, but it's dangerous that they did that. And this other thing regarding this Elektronik dragnet. It's what was interesting records. They didn't do this for any other outbreak of terror or, you know, real damage to property and people on TIFA. BLM. None of this happened to them. So and I, by the way, I also resent this idea that this continued media thing calling it insurrections these people, more evil. They were stupid. They did what BLM and Antifa did. They broke into government spaces and did things to be disruptive. But nobody's been charged insurrection so far that I've seen but yes, former president president but this is where we have to make sure that you have probable cause and you use it in such a way. That's fair because at this point it appears That there's an over, uh, a super heavy handedness going after this group, but these techniques which were clearly available Have never been used in Portland and Seattle. Always places what? You've seen these violent riots, so someone's got to examine this. I think a third independent party has to do some sort of review because again we have. We're in a very dangerous, slippery slope right now of government authoritarianism. Unitarians Becoming something that could be used arbitrarily is a political tool by whoever's in charge is it's not a good thing. And I know that's one of the topics on your latest podcast spot to action that can be found at London center dot or g'kar. Tony Shaffer. Thank you, as always. Thank you make you bet. 7 45 Saturday morning update KT. McFarland is next, but first to check the traffic and weather and Michelle Murray's in the W. E Mail Traffic Center on the Baltimore Washington Parkway North bound just after 1 75 and just that people still find some accident activity in the left lane that is causing a brief delay there. No issues reported on 95 from the Beltway out towards Calverton and Laurel. And so far, traffic is moving at speed on the Beltway throughout Maryland and Virginia, though you may still find the work zone on the interlude between River Road in the spur along the left side of the roadway. So.
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"london center" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaffer joins us each week. He is the president of the London Center for Policy Research. The author of Operation Dark Hearts, Tony. Good morning. Morning. Great to be on. Thanks for having me. You bet. Well, we've seen the images of the National Guard members apparently asked to leave the capital. They were sent to a parking garage under the Capitol. My understanding is there Are very few power outlets there. So you can imagine if people needed to recharge cellphones, an impossibility and my also my understanding is that there are two portable toilets within range. How did that happen? And what does that mean? I mean, are you hearing similar stories about that? You know, it's all true, and nobody's denied it and look Leadership starts to top. This is essentially the way the Biden administration. It's as framed allowed to be framed its attitude regarding service members. Now let me is their commander in chief man shape. Let me be very clear on this. Where they were placed was completely inappropriate both by the fact that it was not livable. I don't like anybody would have sticked stuff stuck people, especially thousands of people in those confined spaces. On a two this point, I'm reading an article saying that 200 members now have Kobe So you sick people in an environment like that degrade their new systems. And of course you're going to have this s O first off. It wasn't healthy. We now see that. Secondly, they weren't prepared. Record. Their job is to be there for security to be prepared to act. They were prepared to act. There was no order, no discipline. There's places they could have stuck them actually said Yes, they would. Larry O'Connor, you know, within short walking distance reason walking distance was union station that could have stuck Asking your train cars or other things which were heated sleepers that could have actually been there available for these people. Tomo recover, be prepared to act. So this this goes beyond the pale. This tells me that they were being treated like essentially window dressing for the inauguration. The moment that the act of having this event is done After all the Selfies with all the members of Congress, Mrs X recorded one of the articles I read. These people were discarded. Um, this has been a theme of the left for decades. I've talked him that members who worked for the Clinton administration for who worked for the Obama administration, and there's a unifying theme that seems to that. Members of the military are simply not recognized as being important enough to take after him. I'm sorry. The the doctor and I'm using air quotes here. Dr. Joe Biden Cookie fiasco yesterday was horrible. The idea that you could take a photo op, huh? Yeah. I mean, it's just that was a Zay said in my tweet If this is akin to the 1990. Saddam was saying, patting a child on the head hostage moments like Yeah, These people are going to sit there and take your cookies because they have to This is this is not a good optic and I recognized and I admire both Rick Descents Governor two Santas. And governor Abbott pulling their troops out. And, supposedly now, Rick, they want to keep up to 7000 members of the guard in the see through March. So you know, I do a lot of, you know, work on threat. I don't see any legitimate reason to maintain that level of strength in Washington at this point time, so there's a lot of things really wrong with this whole situation. You know, during the Trump administration, we heard the calls to bring our troops home from Afghanistan and the Mideast that now we're hearing calls to bring our troops home from Washington. D C by governors around the country, right? Unbelievable. All right. The investigation of the riots at the Capitol report from John Solomon adjust, the news says. The offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell won't say whether the congressional leaders were briefed on potential violence ahead of the January 6th riot at the Capitol. Or whether they weighed in on requesting help from the National Guard to bolster Capitol security. Just the news reached out to both offices, and they have not gotten a comment back. Does that tell you what it tells me? They of course again. My direct knowledge tells me that there were specific assessments. Now let me be very clear on this. There were assessments, not threat warnings on what could happen big difference, but something notable. They're more specific warnings. By analysts say. Okay, we think this is going to happen. This could happen. These are the things you should do on. So those reports did go in. And yeah, I They were briefed, and they simply failed to act or do not believe that you act so the culpability here is indeed with that level of leadership. On the hill. And I don't know why. You know, now that you see, think about geography of this, Rick now, you know. Oh, my goodness. We're gonna have all these thousands of troops for all these months. They wouldn't do it before. Why Why wouldn't they? So this is going to be something of a mystery that needs to get me getting gotten to the bottom of and I just I simply do not believe the narrative. I don't think we can trust the mainstream narrative media to report inaccurate narrative. They were given those warnings. They chose to disregard that the capital, the chief of police for Capitol Hill, his recommendations to bring in additional troops will find out. I think eventually why that was So on Tuesday, the day before the inauguration, there was a release of more documents about the Russia probe. And, of course that was lost in the inaugural coverage. But from what's been released over the past week or two, what more information do we have? And what conclusions do you drop? What is it? There's nothing really groundbreaking new right now. At this point, there's a syriza of guests. Official documents, which continue to fill in the details of how crossfire hurricane was, was planned, executed and maintained even after January, 20th 2017 on President Trump was in office and I've talked to several members of the media, a couple members of the FBI, and there's still a belief that there's a good possibility of four individuals. Being prosecuted because of some of the very egregious the departures from procedure I've which I call the illegal acts, a source I can tell these people acted deliberately to utilize official Official mechanisms of government for purposes of the political outcome, which is illegal, so we'll see what happens. But I think it's just I recommend people just go if they're skeptical, just go read for themselves. I think they'll see a lot of direct evidence. Plus what's not been talked about lately records to Carter Page lawsuit that continues to move on Carter and I think we'll be prevailed and his suit against the government for the vice abuse. Who knows? Maybe a few other things, which pop up over the next few weeks on this as well, You know, one thing I mentioned earlier this morning, and that was as president Trump was leaving. Joint base Andrews and he was still president Trump at that time, the CNN reporters and anchors are making fun of the crowd size at joint base. Andrews and nobody came up to say good bye to the president. Well, it is on a military base. You can't get on very highly secured military base. When when you're moving the president And in response to what I said earlier this morning, got an email and it's from a lady who said that a friend of hers went. They had problems at the gate. And this is not to criticize any security joint base, Andrews because obviously they have to protect the president..
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"But I don't believe for a minute that the whole story that the virus started in the market move on is was ever true. Well, it's interesting that Mike Pompeo would do this as he is leaving that position with the incoming Biden administration. From what you know of the people who are coming into the administration that will be dealing with China. What's your sense of how aggressively they may push China on this? Yeah, We've been doing analysis on this and We don't think it's gonna be a great deal of aggressive. Anything against China. Tony Blank in the inbound security of state has never had a history of being really strong on China. Uh, you know the way Austin to become SEC def. I think he because the Pentagon seems to have been maintaining a clear understanding of the China threat. I think there's a good chance of Pentagon will continue in its current friend of clearly identifying Chinese threats, but that's you know, that's about the only bright spot I see. Otherwise, it may be a return to the Obama appeasement policy. By the way that you know the Obama ministrations not unique. The Bush administration Clint Administration Has been administration after administration, which is essentially seen China's a benign kind of misguided country. That just you know, can get his act together. Joe Biden said as much earlier this campaign so I don't see I don't see any real. A accountability being they put forth by the Biden administration. And I know at the London Center for Policy Research. You have a new podcast. And update the topics every week or so. What's up on the latest agenda? Well, yes. What were you talking about? Gordon Chang and I just did a couple of deep, detailed podcast regarding China and the issues relating to both what the Trump Administration did well regarding China and what we have concerns about regarding going forward. So it Z. Auto action. It's on the listener, Dr Orgy website our YouTube channel and look for that here very soon. We're done. I just did the interviews yesterday and will be up and we do it really deep dive on all this all the China issue, and I think everybody will learn a great deal from him. Lieutenant Colonel Tony Shaper. That's London center dot org's Tony Thank you so much. I can correct KT. McFarland is on deck but first, Michelle Murray's in the W E Mail traffic.
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"This'd is this Saturday morning Update on W m A l We are at 7 36, and we're joined by Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaper. He is the president of the London Center for Policy Research and Is also the author of Operation Dark Heart, Tony. Good Morning. Hey, Good morning, Rick. Great to be on. Thanks for having me. Alright, good to have you with us now. During the holiday week we dispatched B 52 bombers over Iran and Iran responded by saying it was a pretext for war. And then there was some disturbing news this morning. That's being associate ID being reported by The Associated Press about some developments with the Iranian Nuclear program. And if you could run down what we're hearing this morning and what it means, so the Iranians have essential leaked a memo saying they're going to the continue to expect end and they're making her program to include raising the enrichment levels. 20%, which is not quite weapons grade, but getting much closer. Let's talk about doing in a place called proto, which is also by chance of character in the Star Wars universe, which is bizarre, But it is also the name of the town. The facility where they're doing this in Iran, and what we know based on their own admission is that they feel that this is broken a big finger on the trigger. This is their bellicose language, not ours. Talking about how they feel obligated to cook will continue develop their nuclear program and direction of essentially creating use these enrichments for purposes of weaponization. So it's Zumba that President Trump has talked about the Iranians want to do. And I think that's reason. Last week we saw the uptick in military action, the show of force. We did to make sure that they understood that there's things like this, that the United States air going to be very reluctant to accept and then anything else they may do regarding terrorist actions or the provocative actions within the region. So that's That's kind of a situation is visit at this moment. And we're just about on the one year anniversary of the death of General Sulamani when we took him out last year. Typically, we were concerned about retaliatory actions they terrorists seemed to Take anniversaries and kind of work with anniversaries. We concerned about any possible initiation from Iran on that. Absolutely. I think that's another reason for the show of force, You know, B 50 two's in the region and other things that we've done to raise our military posture there and after right after the event after the ceremony attack while he was in Iraq, not in Iran, Iran during the attack, that's where anyone is supposed to be there. There was concern right after that there would be a service of attacks and terror incidents from by the Iranians it has not did not happen with that said there's always a dip possibility. They may be planning something now. So at this point, I think the United States posture allied as much higher than normal in the region, anticipation of them attempting something. And what would you tell somebody on the Biden transition team on the national Security side? What would you warn them right now about Iran? Well, it's clear that the Iranians have very isn't very clear goal of establishing a nuclear weapons program. One that I would argue they've never stepped away from even when they signed on to the quote unquote Iran Nuclear deal, Esso. I think the Vibe administration would do well to continue the president Trump effort to seek Bilateral agreements with the Iranians. Having I'm sorry with the Israelis and our Arab allies and make sure that the Iranians air continued to be observed readily for purposes of Nuclear program, and I'll say this is going to get me in trouble. But I think we shouldn't continue to encourage that. The true democracy movement, the green movement within Iran, I would argue record a democracy run by Persian people aversion people would be a lot less act apt to be a question to to Redl competitors. You're working on something at the London center that I think very important, and people may not kind of realize what's going on here. You're working on avatars and avatar means a lot of different things to a lot of different people and primarily the film. But what does it mean for us and what you're working on? So Yeah, Ambassador and Cooper, one of our board members on your fellow just working with us on a number of issues relating to technology. Now you may think this is a bit weird, but we're looking at bulk power at look. Electromagnetic pulse and how our entire society right now is linked to the Internet. Everything is digitized. And when you look at digitization one step further. You start looking at the fact that he bei Amazon. All these large corporations collect huge amounts of data on every individual and they use this Rick for purposes of Creating essentially a virtual you would have it. Or if you will, that they maintain. They use that avatar to get you to, you know, to buy things If you're talking about lyric, Haven's caverns, your technology over here is the next thing. You know you're getting ads for literary caverns on your phone. People do this all the time. But what we don't understand is what Data, what they what they actually have and what they use with that used for that beyond simply trying to market to you. And this is what we're concerned about. The Europeans have much better laws regarding the requirement of disclosure of information they have these big corporations have on you and are concerned. Very simple is this If the company's air creating copies of you virtual copies. Why don't you know why don't we have access to whatever that Davis and there's a lot of this gets buried in those user agreements. We all sign inadvertently when we signed up to things, but the problem is, if we still don't know we don't know what could be done. By a foreign adversary or a month domestic adversary If they want to use these avatars to not market to you, but manipulation to use psychological operations standard psychological operations on you. This is something we're gonna be looking at as of London center this coming here, So we have like HIPPA laws to protect medical information, And that's that's a different element. But at the same time there are privacy laws. Out there. What would it take? And A T. This point is, is the barn door really open? And would it matter at this point, even if they did crack down? Well, I think it's more about what they have and how they use it again..
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UK's Johnson dismisses anti-vaxxers as 'nuts'
"Johnson, Johnson, dismissing dismissing campaigners campaigners seeking seeking to to oppose oppose vaccinations vaccinations Thie Thie anti anti vaxxers, describing them as nuts. Johnson asked a staff at a London medical center today what they thought of anti vaccine while adding quote. Is all these anti Baxter's. Now they're nuts. They're all nuts. Johnson was touring the East London Centre to promote a campaign for flu vaccinations. I had a winter, the anti Vax movement, fueled by a now discredited article in The medical journal Lancet by Andrew Wakefield, which alleged the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine were linked autism. That article later retracted Wakefield. I ended up losing his medical license. Take us with you.
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Coronavirus: Ibuprofen tested as a treatment
"Now we know there are many scientists all around the world working on a vaccine for corona virus and we also know there is no single proven treatment for it so there will be a loss of interest in news that a U. K. clinical trial is looking at whether ibuprofen could work the anti inflammatory drug which has shown great promise in initial tests on animals will be administered to those with breathing difficulties that speak to professor metalsmith who is director of king's college London center for invasive therapeutics that's one of the bodies working on the trial welcome to the program I'm sorry but just getting you to outline for us whiny should be there were fears that ibuprofen could actually be detrimental in the treatment for corona virus hi good afternoon yes there were some initial concerns raised we have concerns rise from from the French health ministry and there was an article published as well which which really laid out the theoretical concerns and you know it it is important to consider however what happens afterwards was that there was a review of the evidence including a review of studies that looked at earlier infectious diseases like birds I'm the first Sauls was what is the current head that make and they concluded there was no evidence that this drug could increase the chance of an infection taking hold was sind symptoms and this yeah there are statements released from the World Health Organization the European medicines agency and also the U. K. commercial medicines also released a statement saying that there's no evidence of of home here okay so tell us then walked there is that suggests that type of pricing could reduce inflammation and in the lungs trolls so well there's no there's no evidence of home in order to demonstrate benefit we have to do a trial so why do we think that this trial is important well I'll be pricing has been suggested as a treatment for the respiratory distress that you can get with carpet nineteen disease for a long time in fact prescription dress distress in general but can come from other infections and other lung diseases as well coming all the way back to the nineteen eighties and this is mostly in animal models now they're all concerns with all of your preference side effects you know it's not super tolerated drug if for example you have ulcers we don't risk of gastric bleeding so this particular formulation on record from where you sit is a lot safer and you also have a better buyer distribution in the body so it can enter the immune system S. as well and in the animal models which of my struggles of acute respiratory distress syndrome the survival in the months goes up dramatically when a given this unique formulation of ibuprofen okay I'm what I'm what that will do it would be a formulation be given once it's established that you have covert nineteen Sir do you know this is this is very important so this is not something that's going to prevent you from getting the disease a toll and in fact this is specifically targeted at certain symptoms which we think are in the mid disease stage so we're really looking at patients who are hospitalized and the way they would receive the drug is actually very simple to just be in capsules is warm truck so we're all used to argue pricing is not like that but it's toward drug okay well we wish you all the best with the at the trial professor Mifsud messa a director of king's college London center for innovative therapeutics one of the bodies working on that U. K. trial
BBC Newshour
Coronavirus: Ibuprofen tested as treatment to reduce COVID-19 symptoms
"Now we know there are many scientists all around the world working on a vaccine for corona virus and we also know there is no single proven treatment for it so there will be a loss of interest in news that a U. K. clinical trial is looking at whether ibuprofen could work the anti inflammatory drug which has shown great promise in initial tests on animals will be administered to those with breathing difficulties that speak to professor metalsmith who is director of king's college London center for invasive therapeutics that's one of the bodies working on the trial welcome to the program I'm sorry but just getting you to outline for us whiny should be there were fears that ibuprofen could actually be detrimental in the treatment for corona virus hi good afternoon yes there were some initial concerns raised we have concerns rise from from the French health ministry and there was an article published as well which which really laid out the theoretical concerns and you know it it is important to consider however what happens afterwards was that there was a review of the evidence including a review of studies that looked at earlier infectious diseases like birds I'm the first Sauls was what is the current head that make and they concluded there was no evidence that this drug could increase the chance of an infection taking hold was sind symptoms and this yeah there are statements released from the World Health Organization the European medicines agency and also the U. K. commercial medicines also released a statement saying that there's no evidence of of home here okay so tell us then walked there is that suggests that type of pricing could reduce inflammation and in the lungs trolls so well there's no there's no evidence of home in order to demonstrate benefit we have to do a trial so why do we think that this trial is important well I'll be pricing has been suggested as a treatment for the respiratory distress that you can get with carpet nineteen disease for a long time in fact prescription dress distress in general but can come from other infections and other lung diseases as well coming all the way back to the nineteen eighties and this is mostly in animal models now they're all concerns with all of your preference side effects you know it's not super tolerated drug if for example you have ulcers we don't risk of gastric bleeding so this particular formulation on record from where you sit is a lot safer and you also have a better buyer distribution in the body so it can enter the immune system S. as well and in the animal models which of my struggles of acute respiratory distress syndrome the survival in the months goes up dramatically when a given this unique formulation of ibuprofen okay I'm what I'm what that will do it would be a formulation be given once it's established that you have covert nineteen Sir do you know this is this is very important so this is not something that's going to prevent you from getting the disease a toll and in fact this is specifically targeted at certain symptoms which we think are in the mid disease stage so we're really looking at patients who are hospitalized and the way they would receive the drug is actually very simple to just be in capsules is warm truck so we're all used to argue pricing is not like that but it's toward drug okay well we wish you all the best with the at the trial professor Mifsud messa a director of king's college London center for innovative therapeutics one of the bodies working on that U. K. trial to see if I'd be profane can be amongst the treatments being given for patients
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UK doctors to trial ibuprofen in COVID-19 patients with breathing difficulties
"Now now we we know know there there are are many many scientists scientists all all around around the the world world working working on on a a vaccine vaccine for for corona corona virus virus and and we we also also know know there there is is no no single single proven proven treatment treatment for for it it so so there there will will be be a a loss loss of of interest interest in in news news that that a a U. U. K. K. clinical clinical trial trial is is looking looking at at whether whether ibuprofen ibuprofen could could work work the the anti anti inflammatory inflammatory drug drug which which has has shown shown great great promise promise in in initial initial tests tests on on animals animals will will be be administered administered to to those those with with breathing breathing difficulties difficulties that that speak speak to to professor professor metalsmith metalsmith who who is is director director of of king's king's college college London London center center for for invasive invasive therapeutics therapeutics that's that's one one of of the the bodies bodies working working on on the the trial trial welcome welcome to to the the program program I'm I'm sorry sorry but but just just getting getting you you to to outline outline for for us us whiny whiny should should be be there there were were fears fears that that ibuprofen ibuprofen could could actually actually be be detrimental detrimental in in the the treatment treatment for for corona corona virus virus hi hi good good afternoon afternoon yes yes there there were were some some initial initial concerns concerns raised raised we we have have concerns concerns rise rise from from from from the the French French health health ministry ministry and and there there was was an an article article published published as as well well which which which which really really laid laid out out the the theoretical theoretical concerns concerns and and you you know know it it it it is is important important to to consider consider however however what what happens happens afterwards afterwards was was that that there there was was a a review review of of the the evidence evidence including including a a review review of of studies studies that that looked looked at at earlier earlier infectious infectious diseases diseases like like birds birds I'm I'm the the first first Sauls Sauls was was what what is is the the current current head head that that make make and and they they concluded concluded there there was was no no evidence evidence that that this this drug drug could could increase increase the the chance chance of of an an infection infection taking taking hold hold was was sind sind symptoms symptoms and and this this yeah yeah there there are are statements statements released released from from the the World World Health Health Organization Organization the the European European medicines medicines agency agency and and also also the the U. 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U. K. K. trial trial to see if I'd be profane can be amongst the treatments being given for patients who are suffering with credit nineteen