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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Vivek Ramaswamy talks national security, China, and Russia with Hugh
"Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College all things Hillsdale at Hillsdale .edu I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there and of course a listen to the Hillsdale dialogues all of them at hugh for Hillsdale .com or just google Apple, iTunes and Hillsdale Welcome back America. I'm Hugh Hewitt inside of Studio North Joined now by Vivek Ramaswamy. Vivek is the author most recently of Woke Inc. inside corporate America's social justice scam He's a graduate of Harvard College of Yale Law School, which is pretty good for a kid from Cincinnati, especially a St. X kid. Very successful biotech investor now runs Strive. Of course He is best known for sustained attacks on woke ideology and for his very surprising 2024 campaign he's in third place if you use the RealClear politics He's in second place if you use some regular polls. Vivek, welcome back. It's good to see you again Good to see you. How are you? I'm great now. I've already told the audience we chatted on Friday You did not want a pre -interview. I want people to know that but I always talk to candidates so that they're not ambushed by me We had a good conversation This is a national security interview Let me begin by saying you're going to the Nixon library on Friday And you're Belinda to give a speech about national security. Why did you pick my favorite presidential library? Well, I think it would commemorated my foreign policy vision Hugh I'm actually gonna really reorient our foreign policy away from the model of liberal hegemony Back to a model of actual I would say protection of the homeland a modern Monroe doctrine But a big part of my strategy is to pull Russia out of its military alliance with China Russia China together outmatched the US in every area of major competition Hypersonic missile capabilities ahead of that of the US a larger nuclear stockpile in Russia's case Naval capabilities in many ways that exceed ours in China's I know that's something we can debate but together they outmatched the US And so what I want to do is the reverse maneuver of what Nixon did in 1972 what did Nixon do he pulled Mao Zedong out of Bresin have led USSR's hands right now I believe Putin is like the new Mao. Did we trust Mao then? No, we did not should we trust Putin now? No, we do not but we can trust each of them not to actually follow their own self -interest And so that's how I plan to end the Ukraine war Do a deal that yes does give Putin concessions but in return for requiring Vladimir Putin to exit his military partnership with China and there are echoes of Nixon's diplomacy in 1972 that I thought the best place to do this was actually at the Nixon presidential library itself And so we'll be going into far greater depth Hugh But that just gives you a sense for why we chose that as the location to do it Well, we can go into great depth here because we're not rushed and I don't want to rush We're gonna play what we don't play on the air today tomorrow on the program so we don't have to rush I want to ask though You're you're going out to Nixon land in Yorba Linda as we approach the 50th anniversary of what I think is Richard Nixon's greatest foreign policy accomplishment The Yom Kippur war is that something with which you're familiar and how he acted there? I Am though that was not part of the inspiration for my actual going to the Nixon library was more the Reverse maneuver with respect to China. That's my case when Israel was on the ropes in 1973 Nixon said send everything that can fly We didn't have a treaty obligation to do so But he did and he saved them from the invasion by the Syrians the Jordanians and the Egyptians How is that different from sending everything that can fly not men not soldiers not women not Marines But weaponry is what Nixon sent to Israel in 73 50 years ago I gather you want to cut that off to Ukraine now if Putin will do a deal.
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Governor DeSantis on the Malign Ambitions of Xi and the CCP
"Me move to China governor Their expansion of their Blue Water Navy is stunning This is my Bible on the Navy to provide and maintain a Navy by Jerry Hendricks Do you think they intend to use that Navy or is it just for show? No, I think I think they tend to use it. I think she is the most ideological Chinese leader since Mao Zedong I think he has more global ambitions than any Chinese leader in our lifetime They have built up a very powerful military not at our level yet But they're getting there and they're in investing in things like artificial intelligence with their defense weapons And so I think that they have designs not just on Taiwan throughout the entire Indo -pacific and of course as we've seen even in our own hemisphere here So we're now in a situation as a country where I don't think the Biden ministration has responded appropriately to that threat I think that they view the Chinese as kind of a friendly competition They've been more deferential lately that ultimately is not going to work ultimately What you respect and what the CCP respects is hard power And so we need to marshal more hard power in the Indo -pacific One of the things that we'll do is and I think you can do this and you know all this stuff through budget Reconciliation given what Biden did I think you can do a multi -year naval buildup Started in that first year in office and go because ultimately that's what we're going to need to do to project the type of power We need to deny China the ability to dominate the Indo -pacific
Between The Lines
"mao zedong" Discussed on Between The Lines
"And one of the prevention workers steps forward and on the front of his jacket, it says police and he said, listen, if you do not comply with the epidemic prevention measures, you will be punished and this punishment it will stick with your family for three generations. And the male in the couple, he looks over. He looks at the guy and he says, thank you, but this is our last generation and slams the door in their face. And this became a viral sensation in China, this idea of the last generation. That's how you say it in China. And this idea of the last generation really chimed with a lot of people because many young Chinese people are actually deciding against having children. So in a recent survey of more than 20,000 people in China, mostly females between the ages of 18 to 31, which was conducted by a local research organization, two thirds of respondents said that they did not desire to have children. And China's fertility rate has massively plummeted. So at the moment, in 2021, China's fertility rate was 1.16, which is well below the 2.1 standard for a stable population as established by the organization for economic cooperation and development the OECD, which puts China's fertility rate amongst the lowest and to the extent those trends continue itself evident that there will be lesser people to support a lot of older people. So back to this story, it's very interesting. It's a form of protest not having children. What are their lives like? And why are they profoundly dissatisfied leaving aside the lockdowns? Yeah, so this is a longer trend than just COVID zero. So at the peak in the summer, China's youth unemployment rate reached 19%. Nearly 20%, I think at its peak, it was 19.9%. So that's a really high rate, obviously. Very high. Yeah. And young people have been suffering for a number of reasons. So the older generation really benefited from this huge uplift of the reform period. So their parents experienced this astronomic economic growth, which touched every corner of China, even rural areas. And they have seen this sort of meteoric rise of the Chinese economy. They've seen high speed rail. They've seen booming cities. They've seen the country in Mao Zedong's phrase really stand up and then the Xi Jinping become a powerful nation that stands down. It's adversaries on the global stage. But for young people, they've only ever really experienced this kind of stronger, more economically developed China. And economic growth is starting to slow. It's no longer in the double digits. It's down to 5%, 4%, which sounds like a lot, right? Coming from a western perspective, but this is significantly less than it has been in the past. And China is an unequal society, so that means that if you're not in the privileged few, you're probably not experiencing these gains. And so what's happened in recent years is there have been a number of memes that have gone viral. The first one is this term called najwan or involution. The idea of kind of spiraling inwards, which is the metaphor that I like to use is it's like wheels spinning in mud. And so lots of young Chinese people feel that no matter how hard they work, they're not going forward. They go through this incredibly intense exam system.
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Was It OK for Tyre Nichols' Parents to Be at the SOTU?
"A leading up to this, a lot of people ask me, like, do I mind Tyree Nichols? Of course not. Are you kidding me? I lift them up in prayer. My heart goes out to them. And I guess oddly it was that persnickety Bill Maher on his always intriguing program, especially this past Friday, where he spent the last few minutes comparing the current woke mob to mouths, China, to the re-education camps you could find with the ascendancy of Mao Zedong. This is Bill Maher, a died in the world, Trump hating climate cultist pot loving liberal who still had clarity on that. I'm kind of a fan of that man's work. Anyway, though, he was talking about with his guests. Talking about Tyree Nichols parents being in the audience for the State of the Union. And he said it struck him as kind of tragedy porn like just something that was to make a point or to elicit a response or something. And presidents can not invite whoever they want. I think generally it's a good move to show respect to whoever gets that gets that invitation. There certainly was not disrespect or any slight shown to Tyree Nichols parents. I confess I was uncomfortable. And I think what made me uncomfortable is these are people whose hearts have just been ripped out of their chests by what had happened to their son. And hey, listen, nobody forces you to come, although do you really decline that imitation? President calls? And I guess you go. But it was like, I think it's because usually, usually, in the, in the State of the Union gallery, there is joy and appreciation for having been for having been invited.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mao zedong" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Like that. But in China's system right now, Xi Jinping has been calling the tune. One other thing, though, and that is in the last couple of months, we have seen a number of Xi Jinping signature policies be reversed. So that's an indication that there is turmoil at the top of the Chinese political system right now, which means that Xi Jinping very well may decide to lash out in order to deal with his political adversaries. Something that Mao Zedong did on a number of occasions, including the occasions that started the cultural revolution. Well, is that lashing out domestically or I guess I'm asking a fraud question here. Does it include Taiwan? Of course, president Xi would regard that as domestic. Yes. It's certainly includes what we would consider to be external. Because Xi Jinping has made the annexation of Taiwan a test of his personal legitimacy. In the past, we've heard Chinese leaders say that Taiwan must be absorbed into the people's republic. But they were going through the motions. Xi Jinping is not. And right now, see, I think looking at China, which is going through simultaneous crises, he understands that domestic policies have been reversed. So he needs a win and a win of course would be annexation of Taiwan. It would be further humiliation of the United States. Because Xi Jinping actually believes that the as he says, the east is rising in the west is falling. And he believes that ultimately China will rule the world. We may think that his views are ludicrous, but we have failed consistently to take into account what the Chinese in fact think, not what we want them to think. Well, let's go to exactly that point, Gordon, perhaps my last question here is there's a lot of speculation in the west, the president Xi is somewhat chastened because of what happened to zero COVID. His backing of Russia that really endangered his trade relations with Europe. He's had several setbacks here as a practical matter. Is that just wishful thinking of our point? Do you think he feels chastened at all at this point? Well, he's had setbacks, but he is he's not giving up. And I think that he will double down, for instance, he sent his vice foreign minister to Moscow last week, I think. And the readings from that was that China was even more Ardent in its support for the Russian war effort. So although he has obviously been weakened, the point right now is that he's not giving up. And so what should our response be Gordon and your judgment? We have to impose severe costs on China for what it just did. Because we don't do that. We are emboldening the worst elements in the Chinese political system by showing that acts of belligerence work. Now, we've done that over the course of decades by being lax on China. And so in effect, we have created the conditions for the most militant elements in the Chinese political system to grab power. And we can look at 1930s Japan to see what happens when that occurs. A form of moral hazard, perhaps. Thanks so much to Chinese expert, Gordon Chang, coming up, requiring employees to get back into the office
Bloomberg Radio New York
"mao zedong" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Of the stories are 2700 Bloomberg journalists and analysts are working on this morning around the world. It's 5 39 on Wall Street. The following is an editorial from Bloomberg opinion. This editorial was written by the Bloomberg editorial board. This past weekend, protesters across China took to the streets to demand an end to the government's draconian COVID zero policies. Remarkably, some called for president Xi Jinping himself to step down. Although heavy policing has discouraged further demonstrations, the fact that factory workers, students, and urban professionals united around a single demand, should worry authorities Chinese leaders top priority right now should be reopening safely. That means officials must present a more realistic picture of the coronavirus risks, as she will need to set the tone if the shift is to be convincing. At last month's Communist Party Congress, she was hailed as the country's new helmsman, an honorific previously reserved for Mao Zedong. He should now show that he knows how to change course. This editorial was written by the Bloomberg editorial board. For more Bloomberg opinion, please go to Bloomberg dot com slash opinion or OPI and go on the Bloomberg terminal. These has been Bloomberg opinion and Bloomberg opinion editorials can be heard every weekday at this time. Terminal customers can read more at op IN go. Dow futures of 48 points you're listening to Bloomberg daybreak. The Alzheimer's association and the ad council present the story of Tom and Levi. Tom is the smartest man I know. He's been a professor at two major universities, he's been a teacher for over 40 years. One day, he told me that he was having problems in his classes. I think one of the students had asked the question and he didn't remember the answer. I also noticed that he was letting his class out earlier than they were supposed to let out. And he was telling them that he was doing it as a favor to them. But I think in reality he just wanted to give out of there. I was really starting to worry 'cause I saw something was wrong. Levi and I talked about how it would change our lives, but he was there beside me at my love for him was just im. When something feels different, it could be Alzheimer's, now is the time to talk. Visit ALC dot org slash our stories to learn more. A message from the Alzheimer's association and the ad council. What
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"And I heard you, I urge you. I'm not telling you not to own a gun. I'm not telling you not to do that. I'm not telling you, not to bear arms, because that's your constitutional right. But I'm telling you, is to get involved legally, get involved in your town hall debates, get involved with your political, state leaders, national leaders, and what I urge you to do is, again, all these things fall back on very basic elementary principles, which are these constitutional principles. In my view, okay? In my view. And they should be upheld. They should be reinforced, and you should fight for them. I'm not saying physically. Or trying to harm, do not harm anything or anyone. Do not deface anybody's property. And yet, you know, it's a little bit of an oxymoron, isn't it? Because you've got a woman sitting as supposedly the vice president that's openly called for these types of things. It's gone a little too far, folks. It's gotten a little bit too far. I mean, I will tell you that there is a controlled opposition so that both sides of the political spectrum are controlled by the same banking machine out of Switzerland. It's based off of the theology, the Jesuit theology, but again, it's not anything new. This is nothing new to the United States. The United States has been living with this for decades. It's just simply coming to a head. And I think that's because people like Donald Trump. People like Alex Jones, people like geder Griffin. For years and years and years, maybe not Trump. But for years, there have been pundits. There have been people speaking out against the corruption in this system. And it was brought forth by Trump because I think Trump vocally just came out and said, hey, hey guys, your media is your media's controlled by a non American entity..
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"Knows, right? Nobody knows how long this is going to take. But if you feel like your voice is not being heard, you need to speak up now. What's the term? You speak up now or forever hold your peace. Here you go. Here's your chance. Do it. So here's a bit of controversy here. And Mao Zedong, look, there's the skull and bones society, which I had mentioned the school and bone inside a seemingly controlled by the Jesuits. Developed by the Jesuits which mean they control the Yale University here's another thing that elihu Yale was a was an agent, a seller, if you will, of the British East Indies company. This is fact. The namesake of Yale came from came from one of the company shareholders developers of the British Cindy's company. The British Cindy's company is the one that brought in the tea. This is why the revolution happened in Boston. No taxation without representation is because the British cities company, bringing in their teeth for king George the third and the bostonians had not. We're not buying this node, no taxation without representation. Representation. Well, craftily, very crafted. This gets back to the hegelian dialectic controlling both sides. Craftily, the British Sunnis company, the City of London, through the British Indies company, controlled George Washington. And financed Washington's army, as they fought against king George army, yet they were financing king George's army, army. So both king George, the third, and George Washington, they were both financed by the same entity. That is the City of London. This is fact. This is what happened, folks. I'm telling you that. And I'm telling you that they got a strong heart and stronghold in the academia through elihu Yale and developing Yale University. It's a British East Indies institution of education. That's what Yale is. It's what it is. It's what it's been. It is what it is. And that society out of Yale, the skull and bones is the Pinnacle of its academic success, success, similar in essence two at the University of Oxford, Oxford and England, the school all saints school..
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"Because Rome had set up in my view, what is the most successful monopoly? Ever created by man. And that is the ability to control your religious beliefs. That is theology. So conspiracy theory is exactly what it is. It's a theology to conspiracy devise a takeover. Of your way of life, all based off of, you're naivety, and your ability and willingness to succumb to someone else's definition of God. Period I mean, that is, in my view, the most successful monopoly ever devised by man. And that is how Rome controls through its Swiss banks now, the global economy, and they're moving in for the kill, which means enslaving everyone. And having the ability to limit what you say, what you read, how you practice religion, and whether you can defend yourself or not. Now, this may not happen within our lifetime, but this is the ultimate goal of this group of theologians. That I define, though, as the society of Jesus, otherwise known as the Jesuits. Establishing 1504, I believe it was by saint ignatius. And I'm just telling you, under Matteo Ricci, have been infiltrating the Chinese culture since 1582. And around the and this is one of the reasons World War II was created. Engineered, theater, ever heard that word theater in regards to military aggression, theater, that there's a design. Hegelian dialectic, you pit two sides, you create a conflict, you create a divide and you let the two of them go out at yet you win, regardless of whether one side wins or not. That's what we have in the United States right now. The Democrats Republicans. It's not about Democrats or Republicans. Democracy comes from Athens, not Rome. Son is the republic's Plato's republic. These are all Athenian principles and philosophical approaches to governance..
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"mao zedong" Discussed on Discussions of Truth
"In the British Isles. And to this day continues to be controlled by Rome. And we see that in the picture of, for instance, during U.S. grand Union Flag, which later changed to what we know as Star-Spangled Banner as the 13 colonies represented by 13 stars. However, maintained the maintenance was that it continued to be controlled. By London, the City of London. So this is what we have today. The 50 stars, unless you're the mayor or whatever her name is in D.C., I can't remember her name at the top I had, but she now wants a 51st start. She wants D.C. to be trained into. Well, okay, so fine. But then where does the new where does the new capital of the country become relocated? Because it needs to be independent of a state. By the design. But again, the Federal Reserve system needs to be completely revamped and abolished because the money needs to be returned back to Americans. And you can start by auditing Fort Knox. Because here's the major problem here in my view, is that there never should have been a release of a gold standard. Again, I mentioned that re mentioning 1971 under Richard Nixon. She never had an abolishment every gold standard. So that means that really what it meant is that you had you had a certificate like JFK inserted into the economy and then you got to set blown up. You had you taken that certificate and you walked into a bank, you could walk on a bank with something in your hand of value either silver, right? And it was silver certificates. On the JFK, same thing that Lincoln was trying to pass. What we've had now is a Fiat currency. You can't walk into a bank. You can't walk back, you can't walk out with anything else. You can't walk out with anything. Okay, maybe we can walk out with coins. You can take a dollar and get four quarters. So there's very little value in those corners. And of course, the World Economic Forum, the Swiss banking system wants to take away those. Those courty want to take away all your metal. So really where is the goal? Because doctor Peter beater was ahead of the import export bank of the JFK was saying in his shows in the early 70s that the Rockefeller had sold all the gold in Fort Knox. At below market value. So they got richer and me and you. Well, I was going to run 71. But people like you, me and you, the American citizens..
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"mao zedong" Discussed on Discussions of Truth
"I have been, but I'm not. The institutionally organizationally, if you will, freedom of religion. So here's a quote by John Adams. And this is why I just get you thinking about what that constant power that constant rule, how they may have infiltrated countries with their theology. Yes. There's something called the liberation theology, which is basically a mask, and I don't mean over your mouse, but a mask, a screen, to infiltrate your society, give you the objective that you can become more free, right? You can spread the wealth, yet that is simply a stealth tactic to control you. That is liberation theology. And that's playing out right now in the United States. It played out under Mao Zedong in China, but here's something that, for instance, one of the founding fathers saw coming. And according to the Gonzaga bulletin dot com and that is Gonzaga bulletin dot com, meaning Gonzaga university and the state of Washington in the northwest of the United States. Here's a quote from John Adams. This is printed on their website. He's the second president of the United States union. I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits. If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth, it is this society. Now, do I know if John Adams said that quote, I don't know that for a fact, I'm going off of Gonzaga bulletin dot com as they have printed it. And I've seen it elsewhere as well, but that's what I'm going off of is the fact that they printed it and it seems that John Adams likely had said something about that. I can tell you that the British East Indies company controlled by the Jesuits. And of course, well, of course, and it's a Ross child convinced it is controlled by the restaurant. But then like I said to you, the Ross drama simply managing money for the Jesuits, which are controlling Vatican at the time and still do. This is 1775. The British East Indies company financed the American Revolution. You can see it in the first flag type in U.S. grand Union Flag. You'll see it right now. U.S. grand Union Flag was the first flag to fly in the Delaware aboard the John Paul Jones USS Alfred. That is the first flag of the union. In it has what looks like and is the union Jack. Because those are three crosses. This is the cross Saint Andrew cross of saint George in cross of Saint Patrick. That's the Vatican..
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"mao zedong" Discussed on Discussions of Truth
"Org is something that I recommend if you want to get involved, contribute to them. They're working with Louie gohmert to get to get legislation passed in D.C. that will uphold your constitutional values online. And one of the targets the main target for my understanding is section two 30. Okay. And of course, what you also seeing there is destruction of your history. You no longer have pride. You have this divide, you have these, you have these, you have these incredibly overwhelmingly high paid. Hollywood actors, right? You have these professional athletes. And all of a sudden they become, they become a voice that we need to be listening to. Why? Because they've made a bunch of money on their real famous. So that means you should be listening to them, right? If you're listening to this and you have a degree at Yale, you're studying at Yale or Stanford or Harvard. You probably disagree with what I just said. Yet, when you turn on media, when you turn on media, it's those voices. You know, it's Samuel L. Jackson being opposed to clarence Thomas, by calling him uncle Thomas. It's Barbara streisand, voicing her opinion about the abortion ruling. So they become they become voices that echo the echo amongst the oi polloi, the holy poly, if you will. The average everyday people, like myself, yet we think that their word is important because they're famous, right? So we have to listen to that. This is a communist tactic that you basically you hear the term sellout. These people become sellouts for money. They sell out. I don't have any money. I don't want any money. I don't care about money. What I care about is freedom. When I care about is being able to voice my opinion, let it be heard. Okay, so let me get into something else now. And there's another book. I'm going to go through a few things here, and then I'm going to tackle and take about ten minutes, ten, 15 minutes, and tackle what I want to talk about, which is communism in the United States. And I want to equate that. So you understand what happened in China, because it's now happening in the U.S., making no mistake..
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"mao zedong" Discussed on Discussions of Truth
"What I was talking about, these southern southern southwest states, Texas, Arizona and Mexico, California that left the Mexican union became their own republics independent republics and then absorbed into the U.S. union after a couple of years. And this was developed after the treaty of Guadalupe, which set the set those states as independents, their lone star states, their individual states, their their own constitutional republics. They stand that way today. And of course, it's the financial mechanism from Europe that they were leaving. And what I'm telling you right now in 2022, it's this communist financial tyranny that is taking over America unless you do something about it. I'm doing something about it and that is educating you and reporting on what I find. So therefore who really controls America. And it is the European bankers. It's just the way it is. The Chinese may be a threat militaristically. But the Chinese, okay, yeah, so you can say, well Ian, you know, Chinese are buying up all this land. They're buying all these buildings. Okay, yeah, it gets to be a muddled mesh. But it always in on the same financial system that the Chinese subservient to. And that's where I'll get into a little bit with the Mao Zedong. Communism does not start in China. Communism is not a Russian invention. Communism is an invention of philosophical invention of government by what we're told Karl Marx out of Germany. That is across the line, undisputed, so the question now is why did the Chinese and why did the Russians adopt communism? And I'll tell you it was because they were forced. Financially. It's a financial mechanism is really what all it is to controlling a government. Okay, so let me tell you, some of the first things that you can look for in America was seeing them all around us. Or the movement to destroy history, take down statues,.
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"mao zedong" Discussed on Discussions of Truth
"A mechanism of finance that is right now, modulated and regulated out of Switzerland with a Swiss are set up by the Vatican. Controlled by the Vatican. This is what I argue we can disagree. That's up to you. But if the words resonate with you, please buy the book. Please go to my website and do more research. Again, if this resonates with you, if you think it's hogwash and inaccurate, that's your choice. But what I want to get into today, what I want to get into today, and you'll find you'll find that all of these elements, this really these religious freedom elements existed in the 1620s when the Mayflower landed in Plymouth rock. That's what formed this country, right? That's why the country came to be. Was the Protestant aboard the Plymouth rock. They wanted freedom of religion. The freedom to choose and practice their religion peacefully without any type of interference from a government. And that is really what you're struggling with today. When you get down to it, again, this is my view, you can disagree with you. But you have the core element of what's happening today. That is that is it. It's basically a holy war. It is the most successful religion on the planet, in my view, that is simply clamping down at his infiltrated economy. It did that through the skull and bone society out of Yale. And the ability to dictate an established the Federal Reserve system of 1913, which passed under Woodrow Wilson by an act of Congress. Of course all legal, but what it is is a private Central Bank. That means it doesn't represent you, the taxpayer, it's your best interest. It represents those that control the bank. And that is why it's private. So that's the biggest oxymoron of all in the system that we're living today. The Federal Reserve, like Anthony sabatini at a Florida SETI to stay representative Florida, set on my program. He said the Federal Reserve needs to be abolished. It needs to be, it needs to be destroyed and needs to be abolished. And that's exactly your point of Italian. That's the only way, in my view, that this country will ever, you got to return to a gold standard, which was abolished in 1971 on a Richard Nixon. You haven't had a gold standard. And so you simply living off of a Fiat debt based system that's driving you further into debt. It doesn't matter if it's Donald Trump, it doesn't matter if it's Bill Clinton. It doesn't matter that's been Obama, the bushes or buy it. It doesn't matter who the president has been. The country is being driven purposely into.
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"mao zedong" Discussed on Discussions of Truth
"And so I never joined the military. Because I don't believe in the bankers wars. That doesn't mean I don't believe in the constitution. I don't believe in the United States as the best country ever ever developed by man. Because it is. And I will defend this country. But in regards to domestic divides, there's no reason violence should ever be conveyed or act on. Violence is not the answer. And in fact, globally, violence is not the answer. I mean, you know, going to war with somebody is absolutely ridiculous. It's a very weak form of resolution. It just simply is. And I've said that before on my programs. So in regards to a woman's right to terminate the child, the developing childhood stage may be and how that equates to a Boer shit and whatever law that is inside the state that you live, that's up to you. And I think that's up to women. I can voice my opinion, but I simply it's not, it's really not a conversation I want to get involved in because it's so delicate. Most of these conversations are delicate. But again, I'm going to base that off of the premise that I'm a man. I'm not a woman, the child is not grown inside me, the child grows inside the woman. So it's really a battle that the woman will force, I can support one side or the other, but again, it depends on already the groundwork that I laid out in regards to my understanding as to where that creation is and development is. Developing rather. Where that creation is developing along what stage it is. Before, again, from my view, you can insert an argument of murder. Murder is illegal. Period. Dash and apply to any life. Okay, well, what is how do you define life? And so a life in my opinion seems to be where you can take a child or a being, and even though.
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"mao zedong" Discussed on Discussions of Truth
"Thank you, people talking about waiting if you live here in new country. I've been on the floor with my grandmother. And I don't mind putting that to stand in the air. When they're running down a good man to walk in on that side of me. And this is trottier and trachea for discussions of truth. It's been a couple of weeks, folks. Last discussion, I brought to you was Melissa treme. She is a financial analyst out of Ireland that along the lines of Catherine Austin Fitz has long been warning sending a warning shot across the bow if you will, that these this epidemic this plandemic, this pandemic, this global health crisis is nothing more folks than a technological weave into controlling your healthcare at the same time, of course, controlling your economy. All of which is under control, but it's getting a little too close for comfort now. A company now folks on, don't you say, I mean, some of you may agree some of you may disagree. That's up to you, but the sovereignty of the individual human being and body is up to that, being embodied, right? So we've got a very polarized situation on various fronts and in the United States as scotus, if you will, the Supreme Court, just overturned roe V wade. And so the women now are right. There's men and women across the country that are opposed to that saying, it's a violation of my choice because it's my body. Well, that's up to you, because I'm not, I'm not getting involved in that. In that conversation, I really have no opinion. I'm pro choice in that sense. I think depending on the stage and which trimester, the child is being developed, I can see argument in all. I think that once okay, so I'm getting involved. All right, so fine. So.
The Charlie Kirk Show
For the Great Reset to Take Hold, the Parent-Child Bond Must Weaken
"We've been talking about this theme for a couple of weeks that in order for the great reset to occur for a globalist vision of humanity to set in, the parental child bond must weaken. That the bond that children have with their parents is all that ties a society together. The Bible has told us this time and time again, the Bible has in the ten commandments. The only commandment that comes to the promise and involves your nation on your mother and father. So I mean, you might live long in the land of which you are in. A parental child bond actually keeps us free. Free from government intervention involvement in authoritarianism. There is no example of communism coming into place where strong families persisted. It does not exist. The phrase mother Russia, for example, came forward because they raised young children to believe their true mother was the Russian government. And Mao Zedong's China may have the Mao's red guard actually incentivizing children to turn their parents in. If they were not properly loyal to Mao's government, in Cuba, children were indoctrinated to believe that their maternal parents were not actually as important as the government body. I could go example after example and Mugabe's Rhodesia, which became Zimbabwe. That in order for these totalitarian experiments to be successful, the family is in the way. This is one of the reasons why we have seen a resurgence and a revival. And an unexpected strengthening of the parents party.
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What Would the Playback Be for Eliminating Large Portions of the Population?
"To eliminate a large portion of the population? What's so incredible to me is how close we are in historical terms, meaning not so far away from the intentional attempt to eliminate entire races of people. This is not just done by the national socialist Workers Party in the 1930s and 1940s in Germany, despicably and evil. But it's also attempt to be done by Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin. If the 20th century told us anything, it told us a couple things as Alexander social needs and famously wrote in the gulag archipelago. He said that all of this was thanks to ideology. Now, Alexander social needs an reflected in the gulag archipelago, which I encourage you to read. He went into a deep reflection saying, what did I personally do that might have contributed to this great evil? It's very profound. And actually, that book was largely responsible for the downfall of the Soviet Union. There's another great book by Victor frankel, which is called man's search for meaning by writing that book he ended up starting a whole new psychological kind of school of thoughts called logo therapy. The will to meaning. Usually you have the will to power the will to pleasure. He says that we as humans have a moral obligation to have a will to meaning. Viktor frankl famously said in man's search for meaning there are only two types of people, the decent. And the indecent. We are so close to the committed and attempted elimination of entire groups of people. Why is it that anytime anyone says that the government might be trying to do that again, they're called a conspiracy theorist and you're not even allowed to talk about it. It's a very
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Virginia Mother Who Survived Chinese Communism Sees Parallels in America
"One one Epic times It's a great resource Virginia mother who survived Mao's cultural revolution Sees parallels in America The communist political movement that devastated China decades ago is unfolding in America warned Xi van fleet A parent turned activists who made national headlines after speaking out against critical race theory at a school board meeting She said when the cultural revolution started I was a first grader She said that all classes ceased at schools and colleges as older students proclaimed themselves Mao Zedong's red guards In bowlen by mouse slogan to rebel as justified the red guards did not hesitate to instigate violence and destruction on everyone and everything they considered counter revolutionary She said with Mao's approval no one could stop them Recalling a story she heard from someone who witnessed the red guards beating to death a man who was deemed an oppressor and exploited for simply being able to withdraw a large sum of money from his bank Don't tell secretary Yellen this The perpetrators face no consequences for the killing since the criminal justice system was already paralyzed Another key figure of the red guards movement was to attack the four olds namely old ideas old culture old customs and old habits To enforce what van fleet described as a cancel culture the red guards would go door to door to search and destroy any item that was connected to the period before the communist takeover of China She said I remember this whole street was just a mess of things destroyed And the people those homeowners howling and crying While the madness and lawlessness of Mao's cultural revolution may sound extreme to Americans van fleet warns that America's following a similar
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Xi Jinping Takes a Page From Mao Zedong's Red Playbook
"Start at the top bill. Let's talk about who now runs the world's largest communist dictatorship who is xi jinping. What do we need to know about him. And what changes he made recently to the constitutional order of that communist state. Xi jinping is the ruling dictator of communist china He assumed that position in two thousand twelve and immediately began to undo many of the reforms that had been taking place under deng xiaoping began after maoz demise in nineteen seventy six Basically these policies have been taken in ended attempt to re communize china. I would describe xi jinping a neo. Maoist he's a his as reported in my book. Deceiving the sky his his His favourite leaders are hitler-stalin. And now and he is working very aggressively to return China to its communist roots almost in the style of north korean totalitarianism. We've seen him go. After the business leaders in china who wielded enormous power by becoming billionaires Many of them have been imprisoned. Some have been killed. Some others have been driven into exile. And this is all part of xi jinping plan to once again make china a dominant world communist
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"mao zedong" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Prosecution and it's been a problem And then China detained two Canadians the two Michaels we call them doesn't really seem like there was much evidence for the detention of those two Canadians for nearly three years now So that's definitely been a problem It easiest things up that that's been resolved The recent Biden sea phone call I think was also positive But each side really has some domestic political problems with relations with the other one I think it will be tough for the Biden administration to change policy very much So maybe a little bit of softening toward China but I don't think they have the space to make a big change And then on the Chinese side you know they've got their own domestic politics So I don't see teaching pain making any big concessions to the U.S. in the lead up to that party Congress in 2022 And David finally you talked about some of the differences between the two countries It's not just political I don't think I think it's fundamental where the U.S. really expected I think when the China government came into WTO that they'd move sort of toward us At this point isn't present Xi and China moving away from us in terms of a state controlled economy rather than something that we would recognize more as a market driven economy Yeah and absolutely the recent tendency has been towards more state intervention It is focused on particular sectors like real estate and the digital economy but actually there's interference in manufacturing too Often that's more positive in a sense that they're trying to subsidize high-tech manufacturing but it's still a kind of government interference So yeah we're getting a more intrusive government I wouldn't believe some of the scare stories that were going back to Mao Zedong's economy That was a totally planned society This is a largely private sector economy still but now it's one where there's a lot more government fingerprints on different types of activities and that seems to be the pattern for the foreseeable future There was always great to talk China with you That's David dollar of the brookings institution Coming up here more turnover at the fed We talk.
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"mao zedong" Discussed on The Erick Erickson Show
"George soros a man who has advocated. This country for woke kness who has funded prosecutors would let people out of jail. George soros recognizes the problem with china. George soros is upbringing and background. Make hymns deeply deeply worried about and hesitant to embrace autocratic regimes. He has viewed his dabbling. In american politics as liberalism and progressivism. And that being good i think at some point george soros who's going to open up his is it realize. Oh my gosh. I've just fostered a authoritarian regime. I thought that the the social liberal constructs of the united states i was fostering are people who would actually embrace a social liberal world order. In fact it's the social liberals who embrace autocracy it's the social liberals who embraced communism soros is is the scales are probably gonna fall off. His is one day and realized he built that. But i think we should probably pay attention to george soros. Would he realizes. American companies going into china propping up the chinese regime or bad and i think we probably should embrace his idea legislation power. The sec to limit the flow of funds to china. I think we need to do that. I think we need to encourage american companies to get china. We need to encourage apple to move to brazil. Moved india fully to taiwan moved to south korea. Get out of china. It is not good that american companies american entertainment venues the like or striking alliances with a communist regime that wants to be global superpower against the united states that what's dr love in his ruthless and once in actually does operate concentration camps and persecute christians and muslims and jews. But the almighty dollar is alluring to these capitalist enterprises and lenin and stalin and mao zedong analogies ping have all said the capitalist would sabotage themselves and it appears to be working with george soros in the wall street journal editorial page the most conservative editorial page of the country stands up and says hey. We need to stop people from sending money to china. We probably need to listen to him and see if we can find some ground with him against china because china wants to destroy us all. I wouldn't say i'm my share. Stop but i kind of amateur snob. Y'all i sit for three hours for radio. And then all the writing and stuff i do. I'm in my chair in my office. A lot and i bought one of those super expensive. Herman miller chairs and traded it in for my x. Chair the moment. I sat down and it began to.
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Who Was Karl Marx, and What Were His Philosophies?
"With glance at Karl. Marx's curriculum vitae says a lot economist philosopher journalist sociologist political theorist historian. Add to that socialist communist in the original meaning of the word and revolutionary and. That's just a start. Karl Heinrich Marx was one of the most respected minds of the nineteenth century. His meditations on how societies work and how they should work have informed and challenged humans for more than one hundred and fifty years. Yet to the uninitiated marks may be only a bushy mugged symbol of revolution the father of communism the hater of capitalism. He's considered by many especially in the West as the man whose ideas spurred authoritarian communist regimes in Russia China and beyond that again is selling the man short. Because it's not entirely right in his book Karl Marx. A nineteenth century life author. Jonathan Sperber wrote viewed positively. Marks is a far seeing profit social and economic developments an advocate of the emancipatory transformation of state and society from a negative point. Marks is one of those most responsible for the pernicious and features of the modern world. If nothing else marks was a keen observer of the human condition he was deep finger with bold ideas about how to make life better we spoke with Lawrence Talmon who teaches a course on marks and philosophy at the University of Chicago and is the CO author of a chapter on Marx and Marxism in the rootlets. Handbook of philosophy and Relativism domine said Marx himself was first and foremost kind of scientist. He was a student of reality but he himself struggled throughout the course of his career. How exactly to put his ideas to politics. It's important to note that despite his one time lofty standing in what was then the Soviet Union marks was born in tier in the Kingdom of Prussia in eighteen eighteen. That's what's now known. As the Rheinland area of western Germany. After the failed German Revolution of Eighteen. Forty eight marks fled to London where he eventually died in eighteen eighty three. He's buried beneath a large tomb in London's highgate cemetery. Inscribed with the words workers of all lands unite but marks grew up privileged the son of well off and liberal parents in an ancient town that had been racked for decades before his birth by Warren Revolution that upheaval cultural religious and political shaped his parents and was a big part of young. Marx's upbringing later marks attended universities studying law and philosophy where he became engaged to and later married a Prussian baroness it was well studied philosophy and law that marks introduced the works of German Philosopher Yard Ville Helm Friedrich. Hegel whose ideas he used to later. Form his take on Communism Marx began a career. As journalists early twenties writing for radical newspapers in Cologne and Paris the route he consorted with other liberal minded philosophers and by his mid twenties met and collaborated with one of the major influences in his life. Friedrich Engels it was angles who convinced marks that societies working class would be the instrument to fuel revolutions and bring about a more fair and just society in eighteen forty eight the to published a pamphlet. That would be the basis for a new political movement. The communist manifesto in eighteen eighty three after Marx's death engels summed up the main idea in the communist manifesto like this quote that economic production and the structure of society of every stoorikhel epoch necessarily arising therefrom constitute the foundation for the political and intellectual history of that epoch the consequently ever since the dissolution of the primeval communal ownership of land. All history has been a history of class struggles of struggles between exploited and exploiting between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social evolution. That this struggle however has now reached a stage where the exploited and oppressed class. The proletariat can no longer emancipate itself from the class which exploits and oppresses it. The bourgeoisie without at the same time forever. Freeing the whole of society exploitation oppression and class struggles domine explained marks was always concerned to understand the real underlying causes of social phenomenon the events and institutions that kind of shape the social world marks wanted to kind of dig down beneath the appearances and see what was really going on early on in his career. He thought that the best arena to do that in was philosophy and then as time went on he transitioned more into the social sciences. What's most important about marks is that he very much had a kind of engineering mentality about society he wanted to know. What makes it work? And how if we want to change it do we change it. What are the levers that we have to pull? Marx's eighteen forty seven economics work capital a critique of political economy a takedown of capitalism that decried the exploitation of the working class crystallized debate one that continues today between the West's ruling social and economic theory capitalism and Marx's idea of communism too many. It's a fight that hits rich versus poor bourgeoisie versus proletariate ruling class versus workers. And it's even more than that to those who debate it. It's right versus wrong. An argument about the best path to a perfect society. But that of course is very simplistic and doesn't get Marx's thinking right the Allman said above all else the association the people have with marks is that he some Utopian Pie in the sky dreaming a perfect world that is free of all the nastiness we live in now really that couldn't be further from the truth. Marks had a kind of engineering mindset. He was probably of all the major figures in the history of political thought the most practical the most realistic he was the most concerned with what is really possible. In the real world what marks to find as communism boiled down society that produces goods only for human need not for profit and in which there is no master slave royalty peasants owner worker relationship and therefore no need to overthrow. Anybody certainly clashes with the materialism of capitalism. But it's a long way from what many today see is communism to after the Russian revolution of nineteen seventeen and later under Joseph Stalin's reign some of Marx's ideas along with those of Ladimir Lennon were used to build a new empire. Millions were killed along the way similarly millions died in China under the rule of Mao. Zedong's Communist Party domine acknowledged. It's hard to even talk about what marks out of communism without dragging in all the weight from Soviet Russia and Communist China and obviously a lot of people hold marks responsible for that or -tarian rules like Stalin's and malls were not what Marx had in. Mind it's important to note too. That Marx did not hate capitalism. He actually saw some virtue in the system. He saw it as a necessary precursor to communism and he envisioned some of the technological challenges automation unseating workers for example. That are true today. Domine explained marks was very impressed with the kind of progressive character of capitalism by forcing people from all different walks of life into the same workplaces capitalism. Kind of breaks down. The old divides between communities and so things like race and gender religion. Divide people less. The more people are forced to see each other as equals in the workplace. Marks recognized marveled at the economical and technical growth the capitalism begets and saw it as an improvement from previous societies. Later in life. Domin says mark suggested that a growth capitalism might be a way to move toward communism instead of all out revolution but he still saw communism with no master slave dynamic as the end goal in that way and in others. Marx's idea of communism was far from the atrocities that have been committed in the name of communism elsewhere and his ideas are still perhaps strangely many a beacon and a search for a better way of life in that this practical and deep thinker of the nineteenth century still has relevance in today's world. Dahlman said marks was so committed to giving a kind of rational criticism of everything not just the enemy but to himself in everything he was willing to criticize the old modes of life and show how capitalism kind of improved on them but he was also willing to criticize capitalism and show how we could foresee improvement coming in the future. That is still hopeful vision.
Why It Matters
Exporting Authoritarianism
"I will relate that interesting story. The president of Kazakhstan actually visited a company called hike. Vision is another one that provides surveillance technology visit their office in China and he saw how with one. Click on a person's face. You could get that person's school history work history financial situation. Wow and wait for it. How did this person spend his or her leisure time? So where did this person go to have fun? Did you go to the movies? Did you stop by the bank to go to the post office where you hang out with friends? Did you participate in a protest and his reaction after seeing all of this was we need this technology. That's not where I thought the story was going. This is probably not the first time you're hearing about China's surveillance technology and that's because it gets a lot of coverage it's like a Black Mirror episode. It gives us visions of a dystopia in future but this technology and the eagerness of some countries to begin implementing. It is only a small part of a much bigger story about China through its belt and road initiative China's in the process of building and funding infrastructure projects across the globe and loaning vast sums of money in the developing world. Some observers argued that as it does this. China is also exporting its authoritarian model of government and eroding democratic norms. That many of us take for granted others say that China is simply taking business opportunities where it sees them and providing countries with an alternative to a global order that has gone unchallenged for decades. The debate comes down to one question. How will we choose to view China as they pour money into hospitals ports and roads around the World I'm Gabrielle? Sierra and this is why it matters today is China exporting authoritarianism. I think the most important thing to understand about China's foreign policy over the past ten years or so is that it really has been transformed. This is Elizabeth Economy. She's a senior fellow and director for Asia. Studies here at the council. She's also a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution beginning in about two thousand and eight with global financial crisis China's hosting the Olympics. These are really moments that defined in the minds of many Chinese leaders that China was rising. Chinese have many goals for these Olympics. One of them was to announce to the world. The China is back after two hundred years. China's economy has grown faster than that of any other major country. The Asian giant has now grown into one of the most important export markets for manufacturers from all over. The world is a period of historic change in China. There haven't been many periods in history as fascinating as this so there was a real sense within China for the first time that they had always expected that at some point China was going to surpass the United States but maybe that time was coming sooner than they anticipated. But what really has changed the game on the ground has been Xi Jinping everything for Xi Jinping is under the mantra of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and it is a call for reclaiming a much greater degree of centrality for China on the global stage. Xi Jinping became China's president in two thousand thirteen some observers have called him the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. Look I think there are any number of objectives and we can find them all and Xi Jinping's writings and speeches but fundamentally what I think. Xi Jinping attempting to do is simply to make the world safer authoritarianism. Teaching is a dictator but dictators. Still have to answer to domestic constituents. This is Jessica. Chance Weiss associate professor of government at Cornell and a leading expert on Chinese politics. She has a different take on China's expansion. One that sees it as being less offensive and more defensive. China's concerned about a whole lot of different risks. Some of them domestic others ones. That emanate from abroad sparks. That might start the prairie fire and bring down the Chinese government and might take units overriding purpose is to continue to make the world safe for the Chinese Communist Party to strive at home. So this is a world that safe for autocracy to coexist alongside democracy in the international space. So it's not been as ideological I think and it's foreign policy is some admitted. It out to be so. China is trying to find a way to sort of fit in with a world. That might not be comfortable with its model of government tried to make space for its form of government to be regarded as one that can continue to exist that is legitimate than democracy isn't the only form of government so to speak and so this has made it easier for other authoritarian states to survive