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Mark Levin
How Civilian Deaths Are Being Weaponized Against Israel
"Slaughter of civilians in Iran which is ongoing the slaughter civilians in China which is ongoing the slaughter of civilians in Syria which is ongoing and so forth and so on there's something horribly immoral about the American media and how they report with self -righteous indignation their supposed concern for civilian deaths but only the collateral deaths of civilians in in Gaza that is was trying like no other military on the planet to that's certainly not the case with any terrorist group or state like Hamas in Iran among numerous others who slaughter their own civilians in order to stay power and oppose their Islamist ideology and target and slaughter civilians in Israel Yemen and anywhere else where they think they can achieve their Islamist objectives but it's time to face facts America for Marxist the and the Islamists of course with the American media for the Democrat Party for the Biden regime they are using civilian deaths as a weapon against Israel while they ignore all the purposeful targeted and mass slaughter civilians taking in place throughout the globe only Israel faces relentless media attention in condemnation because the media and the Democrat Party and the Biden regime are as anti -Semitic as our colleges and universities and the Islamist front groups funded and networked in our own country that feed them and this data they do not want Israel to defeat Hamas because the Jewish lives in Israel are simply not important enough for the Marxist ideology to reign for the Biden blink in foreign policy
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "The U.S. Military" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"In Friendship Heights at 1131. You're listening to WTOP, Washington's news, traffic and weather station. The WTOP producers desk is wired by IBEW Local 26 where electrical contractors come to grow. Good evening, I'm Ian Crawford. Rich Hunter is our producer. Top story we're following for you tonight comes from Arlington County and that house explosion the in heart of the Blumont neighborhood last night. Arlington County Police identified the man inside the house as 56 26 year old James Yu. They say he was the only person inside the duplex when it exploded. Police say they were called to the home on North Burlington Street around 4 45 yesterday afternoon for the reported gunshots. On scene investigation revealed that a male suspect discharged a flare type gun from the Saturday, officers were called to the home and they residence more than 30 times. Officers attempted to engage with the suspect without success. Friday, a search warrant was ultimately obtained to allow our officers to secure any weapons North Burlington Street. Police say they were called to the home ensure there would be no ongoing threat to the community. That's Arlington County Police Chief Andy Penn. Friday, officers eventually ended up breaking down the front door after a four hour stand -up deploying what police called non -flammable chemical munitions to try and coax you out of the hiding space. The house exploded around 8 30 Saturday the community involved scattering homes and car windows. Injuring several Arlington County Police officers. They only had minor Saturday, the man was hit by a minor injuries. What led to that explosion still under investigation. Arlington County Police say they are looking into several several concerning social media posts that James Yu made and we're learning that Yu is no Friday, James Yu, the man who lived at that night, police say he was the victim of fraud. Yu was an unusual person who had a history of posting paranoid rants on social media. Arlington Washington County Police say they don't know much about him, only that neighbors had complained a couple of times about too much noise coming from his house. the house, Melissa Hernandez lives nearby. She says the house always had the windows covered with paper. It was a house that was known to to be a strange place. Yeah, it was especially for this neighborhood where there's a lot of character and a lot of neighbor interaction and Friday. No one ever saw anyone from that house or you actually never saw him ever know I've never seen him. I would see the car there most times but nothing, nothing ever in or out of the house. In Arlington, Nick Ionelli, WTOP News. 1133 now to the latest in the crisis in the Middle East and there are reports of house -to -house gun battles raging around the southern city of Con Yunis in in tonight. Gaza The New York Times says Israeli forces and Hamas fighters clashed today in some of the heaviest fighting of two the -month -old war. There is great concern that this conflict could quickly spill over into other parts of the region. At this point the conflict is contained to Israel and Gaza that's what Pentagon press Terry, Brigadier General Pat Reiter said today. Now that's not to say that there aren't elements you know in Iraq and Syria that are attempting to exploit the situation as you've seen with these rocket and drone attacks. And Reiter points out, oh by the way it's not the first time these groups have done these sorts of he things, says they're trying to advance a broader objective which is to expel US forces from Iraq and Syria and the reason they want the US out of the region is because of the role the US military is playing in the war, the global war against ISIS which is still underway. That's WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green. The ongoing violence in the Middle East has led to heightened tensions on college campuses and university presidents testified about their response during a congressional hearing this morning. TOP's Mitchell Miller has today on the hill. Before the House hearing, MIT student Talia Khan, who's Jewish, said the situation on her school's campus has left many in fear. An Israeli student whose identity and personal info was sold online for a bounty has not left his dorm room in weeks out of fear due to death threats. Sally Kornbluth, the president of MIT, says she understands the concerns of Jewish students and has to sought address them. We have increased the police presence. Safety has been our primary concern. The presidents of Harvard and Penn join Kornbluth in condemning anti -Semitism, but also noted the difficulties of balancing visa bans on dozens of Israeli settlers who have committed acts of violence in the West Bank. The New Times York reports the action was taken to lessen the chance of wider violence as Israel's war rages in In Gaza. a statement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the new policy that he says targets people who believe to have been involved in undermining peace, security, or stability in the West Bank. US officials are most concerned about a recent surge in attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians, but the new policy would also deny entry to Palestinians who have committed violent acts against Israelis. Under State Department privacy rules, the names of the people who would be designated in coming days will not be made public. It's 1136. Campaign 2024 For a WTOP, younger voters could help determine who the next president will be, but according to a new Harvard poll, it appears less of them are likely to actually vote. Of those 18 to 29 years old, fewer say likely they're to vote this election compared to the last. John de la Volpe is
Mark Levin
Joe Scarborough Is an Absolute Ignoramus
"His government and the jerusalem post articles both of them that i read in the course of the last eighty two hours which were the really the first to break this information italy clear that the information per se got caught caught up in the bureaucracy got caught up in debates within the israeli military the initial information was collected by a woman who wasn't even really a full and so they started to dismiss her she pulls the information together she doesn't have a date the information is the head of intel for israel has already said he is going to and has resigned there's no information whatsoever that this government either bennett rapid and guns or yahoo in his coalition but for some reason bennett lapid and guns escape all scrutiny even though the information was bubbling around during their government a year netanyahu what happened it yet now it ignorance and this tirade about the west bank west they use the term west bank because the more orthodox jews not tend to live in judea and samaria the indigenous homeland of ism they want to take judea and samaria they always have on the left the democrat party and give it to the palestinians to take pressure off of jordan pressure off of egypt with the claim that this would be a two -state solution and the radical left in israel israel agrees with them just as we have our radical left they do too that's led by a hotblock left -wing parties in israel so menachem begging wanted nothing to him and now of course it's net yahoo so listen so listen to this tirade cut to go and let me add that look you at the chaos in the west bank that i lay all at the feet of benjamin netanyahu and policies over the past ten years you see ladies and gentlemen jimmy carter was big new he her daddy kept insisting that quote -unquote the west rid of the palestinians they had their eyes given the west bank which of course when you use that phraseology it shows number one complete ignorance and number two that you obviously hate the state of israel because there is no west bank of jordan anymore they sold it for nineteen years that's it when they took it during the nineteen forty eight war for independence i didn't blame his policies for the attack in plaza but the chaos in the west bank that threatens any peace process moving forward and also threatens another a second front in this war third fight in this war what is he talking about not anytime during this diatribe you'll notice does he blame the palestinian terrorists the iranian terrorists the hezbollah terrorists the p l o it's creation arifats baby a boss who's a terrorist joe scarborough has gone full thomas freeman in full barack obama and he's an ignoramus complete moron but it doesn't matter he talks about net yahoo the way talks about trump this guy has as a serious mental problem he really does go ahead the united states has the right to say if we're going to continue propping up your government if you don't have faith that's right there stop right there the united states is propping up the israeli government how is the united states propping really government joe scarborough wouldn't talk this way about about a genocidal maniac in any part of the world you're propping up the israeli government? let tell me this dumb bastard a little secret in the war for independence the israelis didn't get any help from the united states none other than citizens when they it could illegally sending weapons jews in the united states but it was illegal in the united states the then get support from anybody nobody got it? the british were their enemy nobody
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "the u.s. military" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Was down 80 points. Nasdaq got 44. S &P off by about three. Terror threat concern. I see blinking lights everywhere I turn. Senator loosens up on military promotions. It was pretty much a draw. I mean, they didn't They wanted, we didn't get what we wanted. They wanted, They wanted, we didn't get what we wanted. CBS's Catherine Herridge with details With the Israeli military bearing down on southern Gaza And Hanukkah only days away. The new intelligence report reviewed by CBS News warns of increased threats from foreign terrorist groups. On Capitol Hill, a stark warning from the FBI chief. I've never seen a time where all the threats or so many of the threats are all elevated All at exactly the same time. With the spike in threats since the war began, the intelligence report warns civilian casualties in Gaza, whether real, perceived or falsified, or the increased presence of US military forces in direct support of Israel will likely be exploited by terrorist groups. The Senate approves over 420 military promotions after Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ends a month -long blockade of nominations over a Pentagon abortion policy. However, he's standing firm on holds for some of the highest -ranking military officers. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby says the White House welcomes the promotions but adds, We got to get those four stars confirmed as well because they're leading at the very top leadership level. They're responsible for some very, very strategic issues around the world. We need to see them confirmed as well, just as soon as possible. Tanks fire into southern Gaza. This is Israel Intensify strikes. CBS's Chris Livesay reports from Jerusalem. Israeli Defense Forces announced today that they have entered the center of Khan Yunis. It's that city in the south, the second largest in Gaza, and also believed to be a major command center of Hamas. Of course, it's also home to hundreds of thousands of people. President Biden at a campaign fundraising event outside Boston today referred to a American democracy. Is at risk. Mr Biden stressed that the 2024 election is a big one big and added that if former President Trump was not running, he's not sure that he would be running. election. New York's governor announces a special election will be held on February 13th to fill the US House seat previously held By ousted Republican George Santos on Wall Street today, stocks closed mixed. the Dow fell 80 points. The NASDAQ rose 44 points and the S &P 500 fell three Three points now this. Staples stores provide innovative and services for small business, remote workers and learners, even teachers and parents. Explore more at your Local Staples store 703 on this Tuesday night, December the 5th. We've got 45 degrees right now in Washington rain later low in the mid 30s Mhm. Good evening, everybody. I'm Kyle Cooper. the top local stories were following for you this hour on WTOP breaking
Mark Levin
Guest Host Rich Zeoli Talks COVID and China
"Strong covid likelihood -19 was in fact a bioweapon created by the chinese government and do i think that maybe they had a motivation in unleashing it before the 2020 presidential election damn right i do so think about it trump was going after china and actually holding china accountable he was imposing tariffs on china he was pushing china to stop their currency manipulation stop the intellectual property theft and cut crap the when it came to their encroachment on the south china sea and joe biden worked for them who'd you rather have in the white house huh a guy who's busting your chops or a guy who works for you easy answer in my opinion i mean on the one hand you got a guy who's actually holding you accountable and cracking down and not letting you take over the entire world on the other hand you have a guy who's on your payroll literally joe biden is on china's payroll who are you gonna pick hmm i know tough choice right there right so now the virus is unleashed in the fall of 2019 the world military games china doesn't care if they lose a couple million people they have a population issue like communist all regimes they can't feed their people because communism doesn't work so if they lose a couple people here and there millions it it doesn't matter but they unleash this virus in the world or maybe it was an accident it just walked out of the lab on its own either way do i think there's a motivation behind trying to use this as a way to bring the united states down to its
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "the u.s. military" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"To the latest on the crisis in the Middle East. Israel says its troops are now in Gaza's second largest city as intensified bombardment sends streams of ambulances and cars to hospitals with wounded and dead Palestinians. The military says its forces are in the heart of Khan Yunis which has emerged as the first target in the expanded ground offensive into southern Gaza. Israel says it aims to destroy Hamas. Military officials describe the fighting as the most intense since the ground offensive started more than five weeks ago. Well in the meantime attacks against commercial vessels in the Mediterranean Sea and against US forces in Iraq and Syria are growing. So has this conflict expanded beyond Israel and Gaza. WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green joins us live with the latest JJ. Sean and Anne and I asked Brigadier General Pat Ryder Pentagon spokesman about that very thing at the Pentagon today. What we're focused on is preventing the crisis in Israel as it relates to the conflict between Israel and Hamas from expanding into the broader region. So far It's our assessment that that has been contained Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza. But he did add the Houthis are not the only entities that they're fighting against at this point trying to keep this from expanding. There are other groups in Iraq and in Syria that are trying to make this a bigger and a broader conflict and they're using every opportunity they can find to try to go the US to try to go other entities into this broader war. But he says again at this point it's contained to Israel and to Gaza. Reporting live, JJ Green, WTOP News. JJ, while we The have Houthi rebels they're based in Yemen primarily responsible for the attacks on the commercial vessels in the Mediterranean and the US military vessels as well. So that begs the Brigadier General Ryder said that there is a coalition of the willing that essentially is involved and aged in dealing with these commercial vessel attacks on the Mediterranean which have been perpetrated by the Houthi rebels and he said they're in discussions with them about how to deal with this because it's clear the Houthi rebels which are involved in their own conflict in Yemen are trying to flex they're trying to use every opportunity again that they can find to put their footprint or their stamp on this conflict and to essentially move it in the direction they want it moved in and again have we to remember they're being supported financially and ideologically by Iran these folks that are involved in this coalition are all talking about this and thinking about this and I'm pretty sure they're going to have to end up cracking down on the Houthi rebels sooner than later because the rebels continuing are to expand this on a daily basis. JJ thanks. You're welcome. WTOP national security correspondent JJ Green. Top stories are working on at WTOP. The man suspected of firing flare a gun from his Arlington home before it exploded last night has now been identified as 56 year old James Yoo. Arlington County police say he's dead
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Department of Defense Declares War on Conservatives
"Our military is in bad shape. We are being infiltrated. Our country is being infiltrated by the Marxists to destabilize the country. And you think about the one place that we should really be careful not to allow the capturing from the Marxists is the military. Who fights the wars? Who keeps the country safe? The U .S. dollar is largely based on our ability to win wars, aircraft carriers, missiles. The greatest fighting force the world has ever seen. Now, we've allowed woke elements to come in to the military. The whole trans thing, the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. We've always said, well, you know, it's okay. We have to make it more inclusive. And never once did we ask the question, are we trying to have the military be better at what they're supposed to do? Which is to kill our enemies and win wars quickly and have as few of our own people die. So breaking news story that is extraordinary and it's just yet another piece of evidence of what our military has become. Our military has become a major college campus with missiles. It's a college campus on an aircraft carrier by other words. This last weekend, you know Tyler Boyer, he shows up on our show quite often. RNC committeeman, very mainstream thinker, political strategist, runs Turning Point Action, does a great job. I've been working with Tyler for almost nine years, nine years in January. It's amazing. He started as a entry level employee with us at Turning Point USA. He's a father of three. Really scary guy, right? RNC committeeman for Arizona. He spoke at an event this last weekend in North Dakota. Great American. So I hope if you are in the Dakotas, especially North Dakota, listen carefully. Tyler spoke at a Dakota Patriot rally in Minot. I think I said that right. I never can say it's a tough pronunciation. Minot, North Dakota. You guys can correct me freedom at charliekirk .com. Okay, Minot, North Dakota. And nearby in Minot is an Air Force base, one of the largest Air Force bases in the country. Now mind you, the leadership of our government doesn't really care that the Chinese are buying up land near this Air Force base. But they are worried that the members of the Air Force base might attend a Turning Point Action event. This is breaking news. This is huge stuff, everybody. The leadership, not some sort of low Grundoon. The leadership at the Air Force base in North Dakota sent a text message to service members to warn them of the dangers of being near a downtown rally that featured Tyler Boyer from Turning Point Action. This is from the leadership from the Minot Air Force base. Leaders, please exercise caution if downtown this weekend, reads the text message. Be careful and reach out to anyone with concerns. At issue was the Dakota Patriot rally at the State Fairgrounds in Minot. And the text warned personnel to be cautious because rally goers could be confrontational to military members. What? It also said that their promotions might be put in jeopardy. Listen, leaders, please exercise caution downtown. Please pass along to your team. We got word of an event at Fairgrounds downtown. Its guest speaker is from an alt -right organization called Turning Point Action. Please advise your folks if they are going. This is the U .S. military that is focusing their time on when people that are off duty, whether or not they want to go to a political rally. This is your military that was once led by General Mark Milley says he wants to understand white rage.
The Dan Bongino Show
Leftist Health Policies Lead to Tragic Death of Young Girl
"Some military channel whatever it so during the break I tend to read stuff especially in show prepping for the next day I've read an article in the wall street journal I'm gonna cover tomorrow at length I just want to kind of touch on it just briefly here before I get to this little thing again however bad you think the modern left is folks progressives liberals leftist whatever you want to call them I don't care whatever euphemism they use for commies because that's what they are it's worse than you think no Dan I think the worst from no I see it behind the scenes all the time they are a thousand times worse than you think I say it all the time as a tech investor dealing with these people in the tech space as a former candidate for office and an activist however bad you think the left is they're worse there's an article just popped in the journal in the opinion section a few minutes ago it's about a young lady in India very young girl she's and five or so has a rare mitochondrial disease they in the UK they have the National Health Service government -run tyrannical like fascists like health care that's what they have in the United Kingdom there's a girl with this mitochondrial disease and the parents are like hey we would like to travel you know to India to take a shot at maybe extending our young daughter's life because the National Health Service won't won't cover it he told her no you can't do it the girl died Jim's like no yes read the piece they're like no you no can't they're like wait we're just gonna travel it we're not asking the government to pay this hospital in India specializes in this mitochondrial disease excuse me they're willing to treat her for free they're like nah nah she's gonna die I hear gonna die right she died no yes no yes here you want the title of piece I'm gonna cover it tomorrow don't sweat it but title of the piece is home in the letter section now just popped a few minutes ago okay you here Mark Rienzi Britain's NHS NHS excuse me left Indy Gregory to die she's oh she's eight months over receiving medical care in Italy to
History That Doesn't Suck
147: Peacemaking in Paris: The Treaty of Versailles - burst 2
"Today is a story of peacemaking, particularly 1919's of six -month Paris Peace Conference culminating in the Allied Powers Treaty with Germany, the Treaty of Versailles. And it has a lot of moving pieces. We'll start with the U .S. midterm elections of 1918, which could impact the Senate's future choice to ratify this treaty or not. From there, we'll join Woodrow Wilson, who's personally representing the U .S. at the conference, to push his 14 points, especially his League of Nations. But can the idealist American out -navigate Georges Clemenceau, who wants to punish Germany and dismantle its military capabilities? What about the smooth -operating Welsh wizard Britain's David Lloyd George? We'll find out as we hear what their conflicting values and goals yield amid talks of a League of Nations assigning quote -unquote mandates in the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific as Georges and Woodrow's timbers flare over German and French territory. And of course, as we learn what this conference ultimately asks, sorry, demands, that the Germans sign in the Palace of Versailles Hall of
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"the u.s. military" Discussed on WTOP
"The US military accelerates technology when our nation safely remediates and cleans up nuclear waste when the DOD modernizes digital systems when smart and scalable clean energy is essential when unmanned systems require enhanced capabilities Amentum is there creating better outcomes for a safer smarter world Amentum solving what's next learn more at Amentum .com in the minutes ahead Saturday morning midnight hour on WTLP after traffic and weather for you this morning. A new theme at a popular DC Christmas spot he saves Christmas. This is Kyle Cooper WTLP at 1248 traffic and weather the on 8th Ken Burgers in the WTLP traffic center. We've got the one incident working at Fairfax County This is the closure both directions of Richmond Highway at Beacon Hill Road. This is because of the earlier crash in that to pull into and power lines into the roadway. That's an intersection to avoid if you can. Meanwhile in Prince George's County for the continued closure both directions of Maryland 223 northbound and Southbound because of the major accident from late last night between Victoria Drive and Sherwood Drive. No word on when this might be cleared so again try to avoid that disclosure because of the in the long term work zone. Also watch out for the accident reported in Prince George's County northbound BW Parkway at the Capitol Beltway. On the northbound side you find the right shoulder in the off -ramp block along with the right shoulder of the off -ramp lane. Also in PG County 214 St. Barnabas Road both directions utility work is at 28th Avenue. You find the right lane and right shoulder blocked in either direction. Also dealing the earlier crash on southbound DC 295 on the approach to east Capitol Street has cleared. been Also the wreck on the eastbound side of DC 695 at the 11th Street Bridge looks to be all gone well. as There are no major lingering delays on US 50 at 66 over in Virginia Road widening work. The eastbound left outside lane is blocked and then the out loop of the Capitol Beltway in Virginia from just north of 123 to just south of US 50 for the road widening operations. The right central and lane right lane are closed. I'm Ken Berger WTOP traffic. Well we didn't get that much rain it didn't put even a dent in the drought and still with continued dry conditions dry grasses and leaves and these winds increasing. We've got an elevated wildfire
The Dan Bongino Show
The Media Has Lost Its Mind When It Comes to Hamas and Israel
"You know, it's amazing to watch the way the media processes everything that's happening in Israel right now. That terror attack on October 7th, just the most horrific thing that really any country could imagine. 1400 Israelis killed many American citizens among them and just just brutalized by the terror group Hamas. And the media has lost its mind. They have no skepticism whatsoever of claims made by Hamas, but they have tons of skepticism for anything Israel says. Have you noticed The New York Times has a piece up today that says Israeli army takes journalists on controlled visit to Gaza hospital right away. They're trying to prejudice your take on the story. They want you to know that is Israel rigging this story. That's the way The New York Times presents this. Almost 48 hours after entering Gaza's largest medical complex, the Israeli military escorted journalists from The New York Times through a landscape of wartime destruction Thursday night to a stone and concrete shaft on its grounds with a staircase descending into the earth. Evidence had said of a Hamas military facility under the hospital. Sure. Do hospitals normally have stone and concrete shafts with staircases descending into the earth. Underneath them. Is that a normal thing for a hospital? Like, you're curious at all about that. But Colonel Elad Suri, the commander of Israel's 7th Brigade, said Israeli forces fearing booby traps had not ventured down the ...shaft at the hospital, Al -Shifa. He said it had been discovered earlier in the day under a pile of sand on the northern perimeter of the complex. In the darkness, it was unclear where the shaft led or how deep it went, although the military ... had sent a drone down at least several meters. Electrical wiring was visible inside along with a metal staircase. The controlled ... not settle the question of whether Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that rules Gaza, has been using Al -Shifa hospital to hide weapons and command centers as Israel has said. What? So what more evidence do you need? You know, Israel has laid out something that has sort of been widely known in the first place, which is that facilities Hamas uses like schools and hospitals as a means to carry out their terror attacks and then produce human shields to protect the vile military actions that they're taking, terror actions that they're taking. And so Israel says they're doing this from the hospital. We don't believe you, says the New York Times. OK, come with us to the hospital. They take him to the hospital and they say, look, there's the tunnel. Why would there be a tunnel built under this hospital?
The Dan Bongino Show
Let's Get "Unwoke" With Senator Ted Cruz
"Him backing me up when I needed it. He's just a good guy. Welcoming back to the show. Senator Ted Cruz. Senator, thanks for your time. We appreciate it. Dan, great to be with you. Thanks for me having on. You got it. So you got this new book out. I'm looking. It's already a mega bestseller. I'm gonna ask you a bunch of questions about this. It's called Unwoke, folks. Unwoke. How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America. And I want to get to the book in a second, but this question will kind of segue right into it. I you know care as much as I do about our military. It's a passion of yours. I know that I've spoken to you privately it. about Given you wrote this book on moke, it's got to get under your skin that we're decimating our military and getting them away from the mission of defeating our enemy. It's not a cutesy time mission. We have to kill bad guys. That's what the military does. And we're getting into this DEI, which I call DIE for a reason stuff. And you've been up there on the hill, you're hearing of all these stupid, ridiculous justifications from Millie and others. Is there anything we can do to stop this and get them back to which is the real mission? But look, you're exactly right that that the military is to protect this mission to keep Americans safe. And unfortunately, under under Joe Biden, the military has been been more and more their political leadership. They're focused on politics. They're focused on, you know, you've got commanders telling the servicemen and women under under them, they can't use the pronouns he or she they can't use the words mother or father. And as the military gets more woke, fewer and fewer people actually want to sign up to defend this nation. And we've got a recruiting huge problem, because the people who sign up to serve their patriots, they want to fight. don't They want to be treated like wusses. And and unfortunately,
Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
Jo Ann Fawcett on Her Ex-Husband's Imprisonment, UFOs and Government Conspiracy
"Everybody and welcome back if you're just joining me today it's very interesting topic we're talking UFOs I have Joanne Fawcett as my guest and uh her last husband worked for the military and had first -hand knowledge of um working with aliens and uh yeah from other planets from our government and like I said you know I don't know anything is possible right I'm not gonna close my mind off to it you know I had a thought though when I was during the break um do you think that maybe somebody set your ex -husband up because he may have too much he may have too much information so it's you know what I'm saying so it's easy well he's in prison so I know he's gonna believe this guy right you know kind of thing well yeah and part of it was um he's what do I want to say he's he's he's a lone wolf or a lone ranger and he did tend to piss people off along the way yeah so yeah you know if you're in the habit of fighting the elite and new world order people who are trying to control everything and and they happen to be involved with this U of O stuff as well um when you make them mad they they can make you go away or you know I think he's too important to just have killed off even though I'm sure they've tried many times but um so to put him in prison you know they they thought yeah you know if we can get him out of the way then he can't really be fighting us or you know stopping us from doing what we're gonna do so I do I definitely and not everybody believes this but I definitely believe that they um either used this crime as a you know they use this crime as an excuse or as a way to get him out of their hair and it's worked very well he's been in prison almost 40 years so oh wow that is a long time yeah oh my god so all right so let's go back to the UFOs so you were talking about that one species that the government works with and that we have treaties and basically the treaty is we get they give us technology we allow them to take they kidnap humans in 1961 it was different facets of that conference one part of it there's going to be no open communication between civilians and aliens so that's why we don't see them showing up for tea yet okay parts of it was like do we sell them our spaceships are used spaceships for them to use how far can we allow them to go out into space can we continue kidnapping humans can we can we let them weaponize space will we let them defend space you know they're not they're not real I mean the humans leaders know where a lot of the aliens live the aliens don't necessarily like that because number one you mean the aliens that are here on earth live the aliens out in space don't necessarily want us pointing our telescope and saying look they live right there because we make a mess of things look at the planet we've made a mess of our own poor planet and there's so much trash out in space literally they really don't want us going out there and there's vast resources out there so you know they're already mining asteroids and moons and rings and stuff they don't want us fording in on their territory and their commerce so that's that's just one little thing but so the treaties have to do with different different things but you know I know many side treaties also because often you know here's the major treaty but maybe there's side treaties between that government and a specific alien species might be about technology and kidnapping you know quotas and stuff so it just depends because different different species have often worked with different governments you know it's just depending on who's going to make the best deal you know and what I've said before is like on the dark side is if you look at where major terrorism has happened or if certain wars have happened like Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq there's been a lot of UFO activity there and so often the military has to go in and under the disguise of a war is because you're really covering up dealing with alien stuff.
Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
Jo Ann Fawcett Dramatically Changed Her Life Over the Last 20 Years
"Joanne Fawcett dramatically changed her life over the last 20 years, seven marriages, including abuse, divorce, and death, the seventh husband was a former military intelligence officer, an active member of the Mormon church for nearly 30 years, she left it behind to embrace the world of UFOs, elementals, magic, and paranormal, which speak deeply to her soul, through her many struggles, she found her strengths, gifts, and inner power, learning that dreams do come true, she is an international speaker on the topic of UFOs, extraterrestrials, including the military's involvement, her book, Midlife Magic, is the story of her journey, her passion is to teach others about this world of wonder, and today, she is a warrior who proudly carries the title, Wise Woman Crone, I love that, and you can find out more about Joanne if you go to her website, which is dragonhillbooks .net, welcome Joanne, thanks for coming today, I'm excited to talk to you. Thanks for having me, can you hear me okay? Yeah, I can hear you great, you sound great, you sound good to me, wow, so first, seven marriages you're like Liz Taylor, almost, yes, wow, that's so interesting, I can find seven people that I liked enough to even date, I don't even know about Mary, yeah, and then so was it the last, the seventh husband that got you, because he was an intelligent, in the military that got you into the UFOs, yes, exactly, all right, so I'm going to turn the mic over to you, like, why don't you share a little bit about, like, how you got into what you're doing today, and talking about UFOs and extraterrestrials, I totally believe in it, many of the people that listen to my show do, many of my former guests believe in UFOs, you know, so, yeah, tell us about it. Okay, well, and I can't remember, that was part of my bio, but you know, when I was a kid, we watched, I grew up in the 50s and 60s, so we watched Martian movies that were pretty cheesy, and then, yeah, I didn't think anything more about it, and I didn't, you know, I didn't even think about it until much later, I'd had some ghost experiences in my when I met number seven, I was still a member of the Mormon Church, but after I met him, and I started visiting him, and we started talking about other things, and other spiritual things, and stuff, I left the church, so that's, that's a different story, because like, it was no big trauma there, but then, you know, probably years, well, it wasn't right away, but years, I mean, I knew he'd been into the military, eventually, I knew it was military intelligence, and eventually, you know, it probably was a good two or three, or, you know, it was a few years into the relationship, and he gave me something to read, and type up, because he'd written this story about a space mission that he'd been on, and I'm going, what, this is real, and you've been in space, and there's aliens, and this is all real, and yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's funny, because in 2004, he said, oh, there's a, and at the time, I was living in California, and, and he said, oh, there's a UFO conference in the San Francisco barrier, you know, you might want to go, it's like, okay, that sounds like fun, and I went, and I was just going to go for one day, it's like, oh, I need to go back for the second day, because this was all new, and exciting information to me, and then, by the next year, I had enough of his information at my fingertips, so that I could have my own booth at that, that fair, and then I started getting on radio shows, and speaking at conferences, and things, so it, you know, it was, it lasted, well, I was, I was on the speaking circuit until a COVID hit, basically, okay, you know, yeah, and then I've been on a lot of podcasts, and, and I just start, I just did my first in -person speaking thing a couple weeks ago,
Dear Chiefs Podcast
The Often Unseen: The Power of Blogging Through Trauma With Daniela
"I think for both of us, just starting to share our story was like the best sort of healing journey for us, because both for myself and for him, it's that feeling of like, you're not alone. So you started a blog? I started a blog, it was in the height of COVID, everything was shut down. I'm very much an extrovert. I, you know, need to be around my people and my friends and our family. And there was also a time when you couldn't really do much except sort of like reflect. And, and it was funny because, you know, my husband would always say, like, you know, you, you do what you need to do too. Or, you know, if you need to talk to someone, but it was kind of like, when am I going to do that? Like, I am so busy in my head, right? Like, I'm so busy making sure nothing bad happens to you, you know, making sure you're protected and you have everything you need and that the kids are good. Like, I don't have time to do that. Like, is what I felt like saying to him, his well intentioned, you know, take time for yourself too. But yeah, it was COVID, I was feeling extra lonely, I was feeling extra reflective. And, you know, kind of as we said, like, correctional officers are often sort of left out of conversations on top of being spouses. So when I was looking for resources online, and things like that, I found a lot of stuff for military spouses, and also like, police, but some of this, like a lot of the stuff that I was finding, like, it was really dark, like, you know, like their husbands were like, deep into depression and deep into, you know, self medicating. And that hadn't been my experience, thankfully, but I was still dealing with lots of other, you know, trauma responses. And so I didn't really find anywhere where I felt like I fit in to share my story or to share my experiences. So I just started putting words on paper. And then I thought, well, I'm just gonna put it out there to the world. And I remember before I had written probably two or three entries, and before I had published on it, I said to my husband, Do you want to read any of these? Because we had talked here. So he read a couple of them. And it was hard for him to read, because I think that was his first sort of realization that, oh, this is what she's been keeping from me. And I didn't care if one person read it, or 1000 people read it, it just felt good to put it out there. And like, sort of like, self acknowledgement of this is how I've been feeling. And this is what I was doing, you know, that might have been a disservice to myself. Oh, yeah, I started a blog called The Often Unseen, and an Instagram account to go with it. And just slowly, I've just been finding other people who I can connect with and, you know, also build a community so that if someone finds themselves feeling like I was that at least they know, like, there's one person here who, you know, hi, I'm here, come over to my tiny little corner of the internet and find a safe space sort of thing. It takes a lot of courage to share a story of trauma. Having a whole blog about it is very commendable. I don't think that I would be able to put myself out there like that. So I'm in awe of what you're
The Dan Bongino Show
FBI Officials Singled Out Agents Who Were Former Military
"And again, I'll say it again because the show is fair. have I very strong opinions about things, especially police state type activities, because I a was cop and I did not abuse my authority. And I don't understand why other people, if you're going to go in that space, can't control your inclination to do that. I know what happens, you know, as corrupts. I get it, but that doesn't mean I understand it. I never did it. Why can't you just do the right thing? So the story about the FBI potentially targeting members of the military, which again, they strongly deny. And I'm going to, Jim, is there any way you can do this? Do they have a PR branch? I guess you can read the public relations or something. No, I'm serious. Can we reach out? I'd love to. I'd love to get a comment on this story. They'd like to come hear it. There's this woman, Deena Perkins and Jeffrey Veltri, who were accused by Carrie Pickett in the Washington Times, basically of targeting people who served in the Marine Corps or military branches. This is serious charges. If the woman and the guy would like to come on, I'm happy to hear him out. I don't want this story to be true, but this is devastating. I mean, just think about this for a second. If even a shred of this is true, and I'll get into the article in more depth in a second, imagine you're a young man or young woman. You sign up for the Marine Corps, one of the toughest boot camps in the world. The Marines who are at the forefront of any time the world is in conflict, the Marines go out there first. You got expeditionary units, you got reaction forces in the Marine Corps. They're there on the ground doing God's work to preserve freedom all over the world. These guys are badasses. To all the Marines in my audience, I tell you this with respect. Don't take this the wrong way. I envy you. I really do. I don't envy lot a of people. I envy you. My greatest regret in my lifetime is not going in the Marine Corps, because it's a different breed of human. It just is. When I was an instructor in our academy, in my last line of work, I always made the Marines the class presidents, because they were just, they were always on time, looked sharp, and it was their example that kept everyone else in line. I didn't care if you were the CEO of a company. We had a guy in one of the Secret Service classes, went to the San Francisco office. He was a medical doctor. He was a nice guy, but I didn't pick him for class president. We picked the Marines, because they were always five paragraph order types. Bang, bang, bang. You go into Corps, Marine and you find yourself in the FBI, and
The Dan Bongino Show
How Do You Know If You're Living in a Police State?
"State mayor. Police state. How do you know? Well, I can tell you there's a pretty definitive sign in a constitutional republic or a representative democracy of some form. You do not investigate people. You investigate crimes in search of people, correct? People tend to overcomplicate what police a state is. We did a whole movie on it, but we kept it simple. You investigate crimes in a constitutional republic, and then you go and look for the people who did those crimes in a police state. You investigate people and you go and look for crimes. Oh, Miss Perkins attempted to revoke the security clearance of this employee and ordered her investigators to canvas 10 police departments where the employee lived for any allegations of violations of the law. Sounds like they're looking for person a in search of a crime, does it not? Folks, this has to stop. I'm gonna tell you, one of the more kind of devastating moments of my life in this space, and I mean it, I'm not being hyperbolic or overly dramatic dramatic about it is I was in an airport flying up to New York. I think I was doing the five fox or and friend, don't matter, but I'm in the airport and I get a call and a friend of mine says, you're never gonna believe this. He says, people in the Ukrainian embassy were watching your social media stuff, likely on government time, and monitoring your activity because you're exposing all this corruption going on in Ukraine that I was writing about in my last book. I said, no, they said, yeah, we're going to get a, we're going to for you this and you're going to see if they were right. Now folks, the stuff they were watching was public. I'm, you know, they, from what I least know, they at didn't have access to my private emails and things like that or the direct messages. But I got to tell you it was pretty scary stuff. I don't mean frightened, like a coward, like a little puppy. I was, it's frightening in an anxiety producing way that your government simply because you expose their corruption is busy watching what you're tweeting about and not doing their actual government assign work. You're like, where the hell am I living, the Soviet Union? Now in case you think it can't get any worse the police state ladies and gentlemen, it already has You sensing a pattern by the way according to this story about who the FBI was allegedly targeting. Marines, people wear who didn't want a to face mask, people who are skeptical of the vaccine. You sensing how the FBI and the modern turn military DEI wants to go along to get along types and if you're not one of them they want you the hell out as soon as possible. There's nothing the police state likes more than to have compliancy. They want people
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A highlight from Chinese Communist Bitcoin Miners? And Lobbying For Bitcoin Mining W/ Dennis Porter
"Welcome back to the mining pod on this week's show. We're joined by Dennis Porter of the Satoshi Action Group to discuss Bitcoin mining and Politics we're mainly focused on the national security concerns when it comes to Bitcoin mining So we discussed with Dennis about moving into state houses and lobbying on behalf of the Bitcoin mining industry as a note Dennis is throwing a dinner at the end of this week on Friday at the North American blockchain summit Be sure to use promo code mining pod to get 25 % off your ticket. We'll be seeing you down in Fort Worth Do you have dinner plans November 17th? 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Developers and miners are considering and show support by signaling for one of many bits up for consideration activation dot watch Is your mining operation happening ready take control of your own future with the right energy strategy Link coin energy training platform is a tool used by miners to design monitor and seamlessly orchestrate sophisticated energy strategies within electricity markets such as or caught New York and PJM avoid penalties Participate demand response programs and capture hundreds of thousands of dollars per megawatt per year by deploying the right block and index strategy secure your competitive edge at link coin calm Are you a retail or institutional investor interested in Bitcoin mining companies the minor mag brings you free data and analysis from all major Nasdaq listed Bitcoin mining operations to know who stands out check out visualize metrics and data dependent stories at the minor mag Welcome back to the mining pod. Dennis is joining me today. Dennis Porter. Welcome to the show. How are you today? I'm doing excellent. Just coming back from a break. So are ready to dive into a jam -packed week of back -to -back calls Yeah, nice and tan back from your travels, right? Yeah, this is as tan as I get too So it's like, you know, ten days ten days in the Sun and this is as good as it gets So just everyone's prepared for that Are you ready to jump back into the Bitcoin grind or did you like really stop when you were vacationing? I oh, I never really truly fully stopped working the tweets keep coming, huh? Yeah It's an unfortunate byproduct of working in a 24 -7 365 non -stop nascent ever faster moving Industry that is Bitcoin Bitcoin mining when it combines two crazy worlds the one that I work in which is Bitcoin Bitcoin mining side which is the 24 -7 365 thing and then it's the Political realm which is just a total mess all the time. So it's a great combo. Yeah, I remember talking I want to stay sane Yeah, exactly my point. I was about to make you took the words out my mouth I remember talking to you like a year ago about the political side of things I was like, I don't know why anyone would ever want to get in that world at all. You're like, oh, I love it I love the I love the pool. I love being in the midst of it and still today don't get it Probably won't ever but I'm glad there's people like you who care about it And we you know agree on most things when it's firstly when it comes to Bitcoin mining so glad that's there Okay was transition over to Satoshi Action Fund. So you're the president and CEO you founded it. It's been two years Or so, it's a little over a year. We launched in June of last year and I am yeah I'm the president CEO I say CEO and president of Satoshi Action I'm there are two organizations now actually one is Satoshi Action Fund and one is Satoshi Action Education one I'm the CEO of and one of the president of so for simplicity's sake we just say it's all under the Satoshi Action umbrella But yeah, it's been going really really well We've had a ton of success and I'm sure we'll jump into that But I launched that in June of last year and we've been off to the races ever since Yeah, let's go into a little bit and then we have much more talking to show specifically We brought you on to talk about all the recent headlines with like rural Bitcoin mining and like the pushback We had a New York Times article about that there's some stuff in Arkansas going on So we'll get to that probably towards the second half of the show But let's talk about Satoshi Action Fund some wins recently and then maybe like a little more Flushed out what you guys are trying to to work on is like the product if you could say that for I guess a lobbying organization Yeah, yeah I mean it's good and that's that's probably one good area to start though with when it talk what comes talking about Satoshi Action is The one big difference between us and let's say like a lobbying organization or even a trade association Is that we don't we don't actually like do most of the lobbying. In fact, we hire lobbyists and we don't have members We have donors like more or less the premise of Satoshi Action Is that if you believe in the mission that we have pursued which is to make the United States? One of the best places in the world to be a Bitcoin miner or to be a Bitcoin er Then you want to support us if you agree with you know having the opportunity to stay here in America That's thriving off of this new technology versus being forced to move abroad You know that again is why I created Satoshi Action I think it's why people buy buy into the vision and the mission of what we're doing but we're very very structured very very different from from any of these other organizations that you might see out there and Once we launched Satoshi Action, the first thing that we wanted to do was try to go out there and show Right off the bat. What could we do? How could we be successful? How could we show that we can be effective because one of the most dangerous things that you can do with a political organization is You know get out there do all this, you know, make all this noise and then you don't produce any results You can do that a couple times you can even do it for years But eventually people will grow tired and they will move on and they will want to hear from someone else They will want to see someone else produce results There's definitely two the unfortunate part about politics Is there sort of two things you have to do one is you do have to produce results and the other is you have to? market your results market even what you're trying to do so that you can get people to buy into that they should buy into what you're trying to accomplish and fund essentially fund your operation because 100 almost 100 percent aside from our like You know, two three little s19 miners that we have plugged in that were donated to us The vast majority of our money comes from either donations or people that we get to come to our events was essentially a form of a donation So we rely a lot on on our donors to support the work that we do on a constant basis But right away we wanted to make sure that we were proving to our donors that we were having success So we said, okay, what can we do? We we got to the drawing board right away We brought on Eric Peterson who is our current policy director. Who's a wizard on the policy world and We had my two co -founders Mandy and Syria and we sat down we were like, alright, what are we gonna do? We started crafting public policy model policy For the Bitcoin Bitcoin mining space and what that means is that we created sort of like this like, okay here is a Example of a bill you could pass in your state that helps you advance this industry You know what we would do is we'd go in we'd say okay We have this great bill that we wrote up and we think you should pass it It'll really help you and they'll say like, you know, why would you want me to do that? Like we go in we pitch we say okay Bitcoin mining is great for jobs Great for local investment grid stability environmental cleanup the ability to enhance green and renewable energy projects really any energy project But policymakers particularly like when you can help solve some of the problems with green energy And then we win then we give them that bill the most popular of those bills that we did We know we have four of them Two of them have sort of moved or I should say three of them have moved around like have been introduced Or been worked on at the state level So far only one has passed into law which is a very big accomplishment but not to say only one but yeah I'm pretty yeah, it's pretty big deal Yeah, just one. It's just one of dates. So yeah so in then, um that bill ended up being called our right to mine bill initially originally was called the Digital Protection Act and then it transformed into becoming the rights mind bill and essentially that bill just protects Bitcoin miners from various forms of discrimination We saw real -time discrimination taking place across the country and we created real -time protections for that form of discrimination And we ended up being able to pass that bill into law in two states, Arkansas and Montana in fact in Montana is one of the states where Two things happen one. We actually saw some of the discrimination taking place where I don't know if you heard of the Missoula County there Where they changed the zoning laws and they like went drove a twenty million dollar bank when mining operation completely bankrupt because of it so Completely wiped them out all because they were concerned about things that were not true about Bitcoin mining, you know environmental concerns Oftentimes we see at the local level not necessarily in Montana But a big one is a concern is around Chinese mining particularly CCP mining I should say not Chinese owned but just that they're concerned that the CCP controls them So we saw real -time discrimination taking place in Montana We solved that problem the other problem. The other thing we discovered while we're there that we learned is That we can add things to this bill And we'll get into sort of like where we got to from that point But it was an important moment in the history of Satoshi action We added in a ban on any additional taxes on Bitcoin when uses a form of payment Which is critical because in the state of Montana, you know If you let's say you sell me a car like they'll tax that like peer -to -peer transaction Let's tax it like right off the top. So if I just sell you some Bitcoin or pay you in Bitcoin They would do the same thing. They'd be like, oh are we you owe us a tax for that? So we banned that which was great. And um, yeah, we'll talk about a little later but that was our big initial success huge success a small tear came down my eye when I When I passed my first bill into law Eric was like, you know done 10 ,000 times So he didn't he didn't really care as much but it was it was a big moment But I was like, we've done it. We've done it, you know, like he was like, ah Alright now I'm time for the next one right? So yeah right to mine. How'd you guys come up with that? It's like a very it's very catchy right and it's hard to argue against that Yeah, I don't know. I just can't use Brilliant top ahead. Okay, I came up with it sent it to I sent it to someone and said hey You should call this right to mine. I didn't even we didn't publicize it a really large news account I said hey just call it right to mine. That makes more sense. Yeah, and they did and then it just took off. Yes It was interesting for sure it's very amenable in a good way Okay, so you guys have passed some bills you're creating like this donor network to be able to to move it forward You've told me about a few wins here. I want to hear about some of like the obstacles which you already kind of alluded to so and we'll get to that later in the show the discrimination which we're seeing pop up right now, whether it be Chinese Bitcoin miners who are being Unfairly maligned for being associated with the CCP or not. And then also just like other Bitcoin miners who are unwelcome in certain areas But to the obstacles, what are some things that you've sort of like learned about why you come through this process creating Satoshi Action Fund and moving forward into these different these different State houses to lobby on behalf of Bitcoin Yeah, I would say that an overarching theme to the work that we do is that Things can go wrong very quickly and can be can be unrecoverable. They can be recoverable, but they can also be unrecoverable You know politics is very much like the real world so when real -world actions occur, there will be Consequences or there will be you know, either good or bad, right? You'll have good things or bad things happen because of real -world actions I'll give an example of a positive real -world example that Leads to us to do where we are today having a lot of success and that is the current consistent worry and fear around central bank digital currencies, so for some reason Which I definitely am aware of I Can't share too much on the story but definitely aware of a lot of Americans became very very concerned around central bank digital currencies and so Eventually, what happened was you had governors across the country including Governor Noem and Governor DeSantis eventually Working to ban central bank digital currencies at the state level There was this big huge kerfuffle around it and everyone was like doing everything they could to like stake their claim Literally Governor Noem took out like a steel Stamp of like a veto stamp and was like like stamped it into the bill. Like it was very it was very cool Actually, I loved it. Um so all of a sudden this like firestorm picks up where central bank digital currencies become this thing that Generally, I would say conservatives are against or Republicans are against but like really really opposed to like hyper opposed to it more so than I have seen anything in the The crypto space broadly I would I would consider CC central bank digital currencies to sort of be adjacent to the to the crypto space and because of that fervent Fear and concern around central bank digital currencies we've actually been able to use it as an effective way to demonstrate the value of Bitcoin because What happened was initially when they said Oh central bank digital currencies are a problem people started to say oh Well Bitcoin is a digital currency Is that also going to have the same problems as a CBDC and of course, we know we started education right away No These things are like way way different and then we just started to realize that it was best to classify them as polar opposites because they literally are like one is You know authoritarian sort of at least you when used on the retail level go ahead Yeah, send a CBDC between a bank or an institution. I don't I don't care at all force it on individuals In the United States without proper regular regulations and regulatory frameworks and then all of a sudden you have something that could be used in a way that you know is Sort of unimaginable to some extent to manipulate human behavior. So We started saying okay, these things are opposite and now when we're going into these states and we're saying okay, you should pass this bill It's pro Bitcoin. Also, it's anti CBDC people are like, oh hell yeah, let's go like we want to pass that bill So that's what that's one positive example of like how real -world things have had a really positive impact on what we're doing There's a lot of headwinds around creating or doing anything that you can to oppose CBDCs and so and as we pitch Bitcoin Bitcoin mining and You know all of our digital asset policy where there's always that thought in mind of how can we tie this into? Concerns around CBDCs which are valid and are linked We are not making some sort of leap here Bitcoin and CBDCs couldn't possibly be more more polar opposite. Gotcha Tell tell me about the some other stories Involving I have one video in mind of you going to Montana and speaking in front of Yeah, and there was someone before you who was just like going off and like kind of rabid It was good. And then you came in after and like kind of calmly presented some is Counter information this typically how the process is? Because I just think you are basically working in like the Parks and Rec version of Bitcoin. You have to like go deal like these Officials and like they don't know anything about it and they're like China bad Bitcoin bad That's that's my understanding every time I see this which is a really unfair characterization of it, but it's also it's stuck in my mind So lay it on yeah. No, it's it's you got you got it. You nailed it, right? Is the funnest example of Just how wild that can be out there So we go and we are getting ready to testify and every time we testify You know Especially because it's around Bitcoin mining we do get some sort of pushback usually at the local level typically from environmental groups Which is unfortunate because there's so much. I mean everybody knows in the mining space There are so many benefits from the methane component to balancing renewables to balancing the grid there's so many benefits that the You know Bitcoin mining space can offer to those that have come from even staunchly environmental the staunchly environmental realm so Needless to say there was two Opponents strong opponents to the bill one was a gal from an environmental group. She didn't get too out of control but the second guy he was a young a young gentleman from from Montana not originally and he worked at UCLA and he Was very opposed to Bitcoin and he started to go on this like speech like this really long drawn -out like monologue and Eventually at one point he says that that Montana will will like Die on the cross of Bitcoin essentially, right? It'll burn on the cross of Bitcoin I can't remember the exact word he uses but it's like very extreme very dramatic and Then he goes on to say that people are dying because of Bitcoin mine houses. I wish the camera was on me There's these cameras in every single Hearing room generally speaking every state Capital building when you're testifying in front of these hearings like they have cameras just like DC but obviously a lot lower tech But I just remember when he said that people are dying because of it He was so people are dying because of Bitcoin. He was so serious about it I just remember looking down my notes and just my face looked looking up at him was like So confused and I just wish the camera would have caught it because it would have been a perfectly it would have been a meme Like forever, but yeah, fortunately, there's a lot of great policymakers out there and actually, you know sometimes you love to rag on these guys, but You know, they do a good job a lot of these guys. They do a good job one guy asks him he says You know, he tries to run out actually that's part of the stories and this is important part of the story So let me backtrack so he finishes his speech. He tries to leave right away, which you don't do never do very rude tries to leave And as he gets to the door one of the people was like hey before you go even you usually we do questions at the End let's have you do some questions right now. We want to be able to talk to you a little bit Bring him back up to the podium He's like now son You made some pretty egregious claims there around Bitcoin mining Do you have anything to back up the statement that Bitcoin mining is killing people and the guy just is like well I don't have it here with me, but I can I can get it to you and He just like this this guy just is like, I mean you gotta remember this you see you sell a guy's like 22 years old he's a kid. Yeah Great great on him though. Great. Love the love the getting active at a young age, but he's just like son if You're gonna come in here and make egregious claims. You better have something to back it up and The kid just was like so upset like cuz he just got he's gave this great speech And he wanted to just walk out like drop the mic and walk out So he just blew him up I was anyways, it was it was definitely the most entertaining moments in the entire history of my experience And it's only been a year and a half So I I'm really looking forward to other stories that I can tell in the future Please catalog all these because I just like very Specifically remember watching that entire video and laughing pretty hard because it was it was pretty funny Okay, let's keep diving into this a little bit more. What have you been seeing in a lobbying front? That's been sort of helpful that you would encourage other people to look at we've had the call lines We've had the emails. We've had people going speaking to people I Think for the Bitcoin community we can all take like a breather and be like a lot of what we've been doing has not been working What has been working to speak with these people in state houses who need to learn about Bitcoin because Bitcoin's coming their backyard What has been working from your year and a half of doing this actively and putting boots on the ground? The things that have helped the most are Well, first of all getting clear of FTX collapse. I mean that is this is what I just tweeted this out yesterday. It's like I Still can't believe that we passed two bills into law in the middle of that collapse and it was a very testy time in the space so getting clear of FTX is Only gonna help us the other is just the way we Approach the conversation around Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining the way we pitch it is that we really focus on the benefits We do not talk about the technical side We do not try to explain how Bitcoin or Bitcoin mining works We give a very brief overview if they want more information Of course, we will dive deeper with them and we are very good at doing that you always have to be ready for those questions, but It's very important to just keep it as simple as possible Most of these policymakers have not made up their minds at all about any of this stuff They hear it in the news over there. They're their nephews trading crypto You know, like they're it's like they've got stuff all over the place, you know, you got some hardline anti -crypto anti -bitcoin Democrats You know, you've got some vocal Republicans, but they're not really like hardline yet. Like there's just not a lot of like really built -in statements or viewpoints on this on this technology and So what we do is we just go in and we say okay like Out of everything you've heard a lot of some of it is true some of it is not but most importantly what we're here to do is try to explain to you the value of Bitcoin mining for your state so we pitch Bitcoin mining and we it's a five benefits I mentioned earlier it can bring jobs local investment great stability Environmental cleanup and the ability to enhance green and renewable energy projects and out of those five No one ever says anything bad about it But out of those five usually a policy maker will say oh What kind of jobs does it make or like, you know, oh I I didn't know it could clean up the environment it's like an instant like gateway to being able to have a conversation about something they care about because usually you're hitting on something there like if it's not the economy if It's not the environment if it's not energy like at the local state level like those topics are huge Because the vast majority of energy policy is set at the state level. The vast majority of job creation is done at the state level And then a lot of this these like sort of decisions around how much green energy they're going to be building done at the state Level a lot of environmental stuff done in the state level Yeah, DC throws around big pockets big buckets of money at everybody and they certainly have regulations But a lot of these decisions are made by local state policymakers And so they care if they care a lot about these issues probably themselves, but also their voters care a lot about those issues Particularly the jobs one comes up a lot because we we know in the mining space that we create a lot of rule And jobs and jobs and economically depressed zones where it's very difficult to create jobs nearly impossible to create like long -lasting jobs So the moment you say oh we create jobs in rural areas. They're like boom the brain turns on like well How do you do that? Because that's really important to me As an example in New Hampshire, we've I've been there a few times now In the there's an area called the North Country. There's like no jobs It's a whole thing like they call it jobs for the North Country is like one of their pitches So when we go there and we talk about Bitcoin mining, we're like jobs for the North Country jobs for the North Country It's because it's true and it's something they care a lot about so that yeah, that's that's generally how we pitch it We do not talk about Too much about Bitcoin in the past We haven't talked too much about Bitcoin to the extent that it's like oh you're gonna need this because it's good as hedge for inflation or XYZ like we sort of stay away from that and focus on things that Like mining that we know will deliver value now, we've expanded our policy. We've expanded the way that we that we talk about it But we haven't gone into this new legislative cycle yet So yeah, that was all done everything that we just talked about that we've done and that we have done It was done in early 2023. We prep for it in early 20 or in late 2022 Now we are prepping for 2024 in late 2023 So we got we sort of have an idea of where things are gonna go and what we're gonna do and we're in a really Great position. In fact, we could be active in up to 20 states we probably won't be active in that many but we have the opportunity to be active in up to 20 states and as a Form of context we only introduced law or excuse me introduced policy in seven states, so we were only able to actually convince seven states to Try to pass our bills Whereas like this cycle, I think that number will be closer to like 10 or 15 only seven states That sounds like a lot of airline miles to me so it can be yeah. Yeah, this seems seems like a lot of work Okay, so we got a lot of that laid out Let's go and talk about some of the more aggressive headlines We've seen recently and we're speaking about the New York Times article that dropped to believe a week ago for listeners Check out that in the show notes will include that I think we also talked about the news roundup last week Essentially, there's a Cheyenne Wyoming based Bitcoin miner They are owned and operated by a Chinese national group that has some ties according to the New York Times to the Chinese Communist Party essentially the story boiled down to Microsoft is near this plant it's Bitcoin mining plant the US government has a missile siloed nearby an Air Force base nearby and Microsoft is worried that this Bitcoin mining base could be used for foreign intelligence reasons Then we also have the story down in Arkansas, which we'll get down to in a second But let's start with this first one this this thing with Chinese nationalist groups Bitcoin mining obviously to to you and I is more of an energy game and it's very simple, right? It's just like plugging machine. Let it hash I'm gonna collect some Bitcoin and then there's those five benefits you talked about to outsiders though. They're not thinking about that They're thinking about all these people coming into rural areas and even foreign investment Has that been a struggle when you've been talking to lobbyists groups or talking to people in state houses have they brought this up to you? Yeah, definitely it's um, it's a major concern I would say Most Americans like average American especially rural Americans care a lot about the encroachment of the CCP on on the United States from from a physical perspective so like from a geographical perspective they don't like the idea of a CCP owned controlled or even highly influenced business You know being next to them and then definitely not being in and around me sort of military installations I believe the location in Cheyenne is near a Also, is that the one that's also near a nuclear plant or a nuclear missile site as well? So yeah, something like that Yeah, so I share the concern like that I think the premise is like Do you want foreign adversaries to be in and around any sort of? Military installation any sort of critical infrastructure You know generally I like my stance is like I'm very like pro people coming here starting their businesses You know trying to accomplish the American dream, but at the same time We also have to be concerned about whether or not those businesses have strong links to You know the CCP or you know A lot of people care a lot about also like Russian oligarchs and their ability to influence America American politics American infrastructure you know the big argument today is that the electrical infrastructure is a critical part of national security and That we need to be doing everything we can to protect it and I agree I think that's important all of those things are important that we should we should keep an eye on them The the thing that I don't like is when the New York Times tried to spin this article as if like Bitcoin mining was some sort of like really powerful tool in the hands of the CCP like next to these sites I don't think it really matters what business was there.
Mark Levin
You Think Trump Is Like Hitler? What About These U.S. Presidents?
"Come back but that's not what he did this time he moved them deep Central and South America with the United States military most of you don't know even about this unless you've listened to this show in the past see when hitler franklin roosevelt rounded up a hundred twenty thousand Americans most of whom were citizens took their homes away from their properties away from them forcibly move them to ten different internment camps nine of which are in the midwest because they were Japanese because FDR had a at a severe prejudice against japanese long before world war ii long before he was president was he hitler joe biden today on the southern border is allowing fentanyl to come into this country and kill a hundred thousand Americans a year he's allowing criminals to come in potentially terrorist to come in the inhumanity that's going on in that southern border the border is almost unspeakable to little kids and they used to jump on Trump about cages cages what's going on today? Is that Hitler? Is Biden Hitler? Is Biden Hitler? Thank Trump uses the word vermin and he's hitler you The Democrat party and their media are telling you if he's elected we're going to lose our democracy he's going to turn the Justice Department against his political enemies first of all that's exactly what's happened today secondly he will get more resistance than you can imagine of out that Department of Justice the Democrat party owns the Department of Justice but that aside it's funny how they don't call real Hitlerians Hitler many of whom are in their own business journalism journalism but you can get away with saying anything about Trump he used that word vermin no no that's Hitler and in my book Unfreedom of
Mark Levin
Ron DeSantis Weighs in on Nikki Haley's Gubernatorial Record
"Bring it up if she does bring it up she's very defensive about it what do you make of that well look mark at the end of the day are you somebody that's producing results or are you just in office to bide time and my view was I sat when I down at the desk in the state capitol when I first took office as governor I looked around the office said I don't know what SOB is going to succeed me but they're not going to have anything to do because I'm taking all the meat off the bone I'm I'm not gonna waste any time I'm gonna get all this stuff I promised done and I've done that everything I promised I would do I have delivered on and these are very consequential things as you mentioned I think somebody like Nikki she's Haley running away from her record as governor because her main task as governor she saw it was to recruit investment from the Chinese Communist Party into South China she was the number one ranked governor at bringing in China into her state when she was governor and she actually South Carolina gave away mill land to the CCP five miles away from a military base for them to do a business venture there and that was very consistent she went to China with the World Economic Forum back in the day she took other junkets there and this was something she wrote a love letter to the ambassador when she was governor saying what a great friend China was so that's just that's very consistent that was her world view that was what she did now she's trying to say she's a completely different person on all that and she's trying to trying to run away from it she's also never gotten involved in fight a and actually fought on behalf of conservatives and won me for example we've lot of done different things in Florida like protect girls and women from having boys and men go into their bathrooms and locker rooms when she was governor of South Carolina she killed a bill that was being proposed that would have provided those protections and so this is just a pattern with kind of how she does things doesn't stand up when it matters is basically catering to the more liberal Republican donor class. now this Republican donor class is interesting because I was watching one billionaire on TV And it was bizarre sometimes I wonder how these guys get to be billionaires But that's but just me governor anyway first he said he supported Trump then he supported then he supported Tim Scott now he's supporting Nikki Haley isn't that kind of bizarre I mean do these billionaire donors not all them but these these what is it it's the the flavor of the day or they all now all the ruling class corporatists are they now and I'm I'm yes this gonna suggest is the case the ruling class rhino corporatists are now betting on Nikki Haley a lot of them are no well I think there's a couple things one I think the fact that a guy like me I'm not just
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from John Di Domenico (Encore)
"Lots of channels. Nothing to watch. Especially if you're searching for the truth. It's time to interrupt your regularly scheduled programs with something actually worth watching. Salem News Channel. Straightforward, unfiltered, with in -depth insight and analysis from the greatest collection of conservative minds. Like Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Sebastian Gorka, and more. Find truth. Watch 24 -7 on SNC .TV and on Local Now, Channel 525. Folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit LegacyPMInvestments .com. That's LegacyPMInvestments .com. Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Did you ever see the movie The Blob starring Steve McQueen? The blood curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his seed because The Blob was supposed to eat him. But he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. Eric Metaxas! Hey there, folks. In case you were not aware, Albin Sadar has written a book and the title is Obvious. No, really, it's obvious. Albin, could you back me up on this? The title is Obvious. Yeah, I'm holding a copy of the book right here, and it says Obvious, so it must be Obvious. Obviously, the title is literally Obvious. Yeah. If you read the book, if you see the cover of the book, the title is Obvious. Who's on first? Literally, who? His name is who? Okay, so in the book, every chapter is super short, and you say these things that are Obvious, but that need to be restated. By the way, you've got blurbs from everybody. You have a forward by the great author, Eric Metaxas. I don't know how you got him. I don't even know. Is he still living? I always confuse him with James Michener. I'm sorry. But anyway, on the back of the book, you have a quote from George Orwell, and it says, We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. So this book is filled with truth. Every chapter is the statement of some obvious truth, which needs restating. So what which one should we focus on? How about the one the title? What is it? Who made you boss? Yeah. Who died? Who died and made you boss. And by the way, that George Orwell quote, he says, It's obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. I couldn't find any in my sphere of influence, so I just wrote it myself. So there you go. I hear you. I hear you. But the chapter. Yeah, I did want to focus on is is the one called Who Died and Made You Boss. I got to explain that actually the title is supposed to be in quotes, but it's not. The editor left it out, but it's in quote. It would be in quotes is because when we were children in the playground, if you're playing a game, a tag or something, then suddenly somebody changed the rules so that they could win the game. Somebody in our group would always say, Who died and made you boss? And of course, people. Yeah. Yeah. Who did? But we're living in a world nowadays that people say you can't call that woman a woman. She's could be a this or that or they and and and we have to stand there and say, wait a minute, who died and made you boss? Who are you? Who comes up with these things? Why do we have to listen to you? I'm going to listen to, you know, the almighty, because I believe in him. And he said male, female. He didn't say they, them, theirs, whoever. So who died and made you boss? I explain all that and talk about some fun stuff with some fun cartoons. Some of this stuff. What I find funny about it is it is like it's stunningly obvious. And yet we don't see it. I mean, the idea that we would go along when somebody says you can't say this, you can't say that's good. And we go, OK, or oh, oh, yeah, yeah. Simply saying, excuse me, no, no, you don't get to decide five minutes ago that there are 37 genders. I don't know who you think you are, but you don't get to decide that this simple little pushback of that, of stating the obvious that you don't you don't have authority over me. I answer to God and sorry, but I don't I don't need to listen to you. That's a simple truth, but we need to restate it. And obviously you restate it in the book titled Obvious. What do you want to say more about that? Well, I want to mention other things that that are obvious. What I begin with the chapters called Basically God Exists. And I talk about how to me it's obvious that God exists. I get one of my favorite little examples is in there and I end with the stolen election because to me that was so obvious. I'm sitting there saying, doesn't anybody else see this? What I love is that I got a I got a meme in here or a graphic in here from the Babylon Bee. They gave me permission to use it. And the title is it's one of their articles says White House announces all conspiracy theories are true, except for the one about the Biden stealing the 2020 election. And I thought, say, great. They nailed it because I had a couple I had a cartoon that said basically the same thing. But then when I saw it in the Babylon Bee, I said, I think they're going to say it better than I do. Now, I have a bunch of little cartoon characters in there and a lot of the artwork is my own. I must admit. And if you think the cartoon is of me, it's actually not. It's of Simon de Hundert, who is my alter ego that I write with at American Thinker sometimes because I've written an American thing. This stream looks a lot like you, Alvin. I'm just I'm just here to I'm just being honest. I'm just stating the obvious that Simon de Hundert, because there are these cute little cartoons that you have done in here. And it looks like it could be you. I'm just saying it could be. I'm not saying it is. Look, I'm not going to go out on a limb. I'm not going to swear in a Bible or take a polygraph. I'm just saying that's my opinion. It could be you. Yeah. Or not. Too much. Yes. Too much hair. I don't want to offend anybody. And only four fingers. There's a lot of funny stuff in the book. For example, there's a little cartoon here. I want to make sure I read this one because this is I like this one particularly. But it's a little cute, cute. It's it's it's your little drawing of the guy who could be you. But the quote says if Hitler were alive today with the left, call him Trump 2 .0. That's very clever and loaded, loaded with gems like that. It's also loaded with a lot of serious stuff. Oh, oh, my goodness. Yeah. One of my favorite things and one of my favorite chapters is and this is like a little parable. I tell is, is I draw a picture of a guy stealing a television set and the little parables about the stolen TV. A guy comes home. He goes into his living room. Somebody stolen his TV. So he runs next door to his neighbor and he says, hey, did you see anything? Somebody stole my TV. But while he's running over to his neighbor's house, he looks through his neighbor's window and he sees his TV on his neighbor's wall. So he grabs the beat cop. There's a policeman coming down the street. He says to the policeman, look, we have to go in this. My neighbor stole my TV. And the policeman knocks on the door. Did you steal his TV? And the guy says, no, I didn't steal his TV. And I said, policeman, let's go in and look. I'll show it to you. It's right there on the wall. The guy says, no, I'm not going to let you in here because I'm telling you right now, I did not steal that guy's TV. And the policeman looks at the other guy who accused the neighbor and he says to him like, well, that's good enough for me. If he says he didn't do it, then he didn't do it. So when the left tells you they didn't steal the 2020 election, that should be good enough for all of us. They didn't spend four years looking into Trump. You and I know, I mean, this is a horrible thing when you know something is true and people say, oh, no, no, no, no, it's not true. Or even worse when they say, well, you can't even talk about that. When you tell me I can't talk about something, that's when I get mad because patriots have died. Patriots have died so that we could be free and we could speak our minds in this country. You don't even have to be right. So it's one thing to say, oh, you're wrong. It's nothing to say, oh, you can't talk about that. We need to be just to speak the truth, to state the obvious, which you do in every chapter of this book is to be doing spiritual warfare. This is how we fight back by stating the obvious. And the fact that the election was stolen, not only is that true, but it should make everyone in America furious because what could be more despicable than people stealing an election from the American people, not from Donald Trump, from the American people? And so you have the guts in this book to talk about that. It does the crazy thing out. And again, this is the whole point of the book is like, you don't need to be some kind of a genius to figure out that it was stolen like it is obvious. That's why the title of the book is obvious, because everything you talk about is obvious. You're not making some arcane argument that maybe no, you know, for quacks like a duck. I'm sorry, but it's probably a duck. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That example after the book had come out, I said, oh, I wish I would have used the example of the duck, you know, walks like a duck, waddles like a duck, has feathers like the duck, goes to the bathroom like the duck, hangs out with other ducks. It's most likely a duck. Okay. And when the election was stolen, it was the New York Times that had to declare Biden the winner after like three days of a how come all this stuff coming in. Okay. I came up with probably that day. I came up with a dozen things that said this proves it. It was stolen. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, the book is obvious. The title of the book is obvious by Albin Saydar. Get a copy. Obvious by Albin Saydar. For 10 years, Patriot Mobile has been America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. And when I say only, trust me, they're the only one. Glenn and the team have been great supporters of this show, which is why I'm proud to partner with them. 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Veteran on the Move
A highlight from Meet Chicago Northwest with Mario Farfan
"Army veteran Mario Farfan is the account executive of meek Chicago Northwest an organization that is bringing Conferences and meetings to the northwest Chicago suburbs coming up next on veteran on the move Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that Jop trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success And now your host Joe crane Service isn't just what Navy Federal Credit Union does It's who they are That's why Navy Federal created tools to help you earn and save more learn more at Navy federal org slash join Hey today, we're talking with army veteran Mario Farfan from meek Chicago Northwest Mario welcome to the show We're looking forward to hearing which good things you're doing up there in Chicagoland So before we talk about all that takes back to us what you did in the army Yeah, absolutely. Thank you, Joe. Thank you for inviting me here today Excited to be on your podcast to share my story a little bit So, uh, well, I joined our military right at the high school literally after the graduation party the next day I was in the car with the with the recruiter Headed to all the preparation and in the other paperwork administrative stuff. So that was 19 night August 1994 I ride the South Carolina for Jackson for basic training Awesome, and you're looking through your bio your parents were Guatemalan immigrants, right? Yes. Yes, they were going from Guatemala to Chicago I came here after a long wait a wait time back in the 70s and They started their their journey in Chicago in Chicago the west side of Chicago actually humble park And that's where I was born But then they ended up moving closer to the north side And I speak in street corners because I'm from that era in Chicago is something about Chicago I know you I know you from Kansas City you mentioned as we talked earlier So we grew up on Winnipeg and Broadway, which is essentially the north side. They call it Edgewater now Back in the in the early 80s a very different area there that it is now a lot of Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees And immigrants that came after the Vietnam War. I did not know this Obviously as I got older I went back and there's a digging around how I grew up Why was there so many, you know different ethnicities? So I yes, I grew up in Chicago border ways in Chicago, correct? Yes, and so Tell us a little bit about some of the things you did while you're in the army Yeah, so I was I chose my MLS was 94 Bravo back then I think it's changed 92 golf now, which is a cook essentially my thinking a 17 year old person getting Advice from many different people that weren't an army They were like Mario choose a job that it's gonna you know, not be too strenuous or dangerous So you're not gonna so I wasn't gonna be an infantry or Airborne Ranger. I knew that right away So I decided that you know, and I was interested in cooking my mother She you know love to cook so I said to myself it would be something interesting to venture in So I was a I was a cook in the military Definitely had a lot of friends because we were out in the field You know, we had the nice kitchen trailer set up with hot coffee and grill and all my military friends had to eat those MRE So they were like, hey Mario, you know, hook me up with something hot stuff like that So I definitely gained a lot of friends which was pretty cool because I started doing networking back then. I just didn't know it Yeah, great experience. So talk about your transition out of the army. Was it something you're expecting to come on quick? Were you prepared unprepared? I would say I was policy. I'm prepared to be honest So I got out on night 99. I was in Germany my last stop At the time so it was more of a pressure to stay in. That's what I remember the most It was a lot of fear a lot of you know, high pressure to stay in like what are you gonna do? So then life is not great You know stay here, you know, you can retire which I know many people do I know many people Friends that I have still they retired in Germany. They ended up just living to staying there, but my family at the time Was going through a struggle financially and I felt like I need to come home and just be back with them and support them as much as I could so I They gave me my paperwork and I was on my own. Basically. I got back to Chicago, which is very difficult right because Chicago Back, this is like 1999 2000. So just trying to you know, figure all of it out It's a lot right because it's benefits. There's paperwork. There's things that we just don't know about and I'll be honest the last Ten twenty years. I'm learning more and more, right? I Know too recently. There's just many benefits of veterans have that. We just don't know about especially when it comes to entrepreneur small business Something that I want to mention in in 2015 I started a Hispanic chamber out here in the suburbs and part of that was just thinking about how to look out for you know Hispanic business owners So now I'm thinking about better veteran business owners because I do run into them Hispanic or non -hispanic and they talk to me and say you know what? We we need better resources for our for our veteran business owners that are either starting a business On the middle of their business or just trying to figure out how to take their business to the next level So I'm always thinking about that. I'm always thinking about that. I am I am on me Chicago Northwest. That's my full -time job So so that that I'm able to incorporate it because I am I still continue to meet People from from that walk of life and as a veteran myself, I didn't have my own business, right? But If I had that information, who knows right 20 years ago Whatever 24 years ago who knows what would have happened to me when I came back, but I did what most veterans do I enrolled in college right away. It just tried to get out there in civilian life I began a 20 20 year career in banking. That's what I ended up doing so But so yes, I was a banker Assistant manager branch manager for 15 years and a regional manager up to a business banker So I did all facets of banking retail banking when it comes to helping small businesses and that's where I end in my career and and And then I decided to take a another a different Turn in my career into the what I'm doing now with me Chicago Northwest is you know working with us so still working with businesses right because associations nonprofits Diversity clubs sports clubs. Those are all businesses, right? So now all we do now in Chicago, Northwest we talk to them We we bring we try to invite them nationally, right or even internationally to the Northwest suburbs They come out and see what we have to offer so they can have the conferences the conventions or their meetings here. So That was a long answer. I know Back to what you said if I just one of five my transition If I had to rate it, I'll probably give it a one or two. It was it was it wasn't it was not great Yeah, it was not great. So sounds like you ultimately landed Well now I don't I'm not real familiar with the Chicago suburbs But is the Northwest Chicago suburbs primarily Hispanic or have a heavily Hispanic influence or I know she says something about you were targeting more Hispanic Since you're probably fluent in Spanish targeting the Spanish business network Yeah, great question so Chicago in itself state of Illinois itself has a large Hispanic population in itself city Chicago obviously is the largest city which is a heavy heavy Hispanic presence in the suburbs is starting to change, right? You have also an Asian presence Middle Eastern Indian presence, so it's starting to change very very a lot of Backgrounds and cultures Polish as well are out here in the suburbs It's all a mix but I would say definitely in the last 10 20 years the suburbs people have migrated Either to work out here in the suburbs to live out here go to school out here Public schools is a challenge, right? I I went to public schools. So hey, I made it I mean, I made it but it's not it's not easy Joe. I'll tell you that especially when I grew up in the 80s was definitely not easy, but So the answer to that would be yeah Yes, the the suburbs are being more diverse across not just Hispanic so the reason I started the Hispanic Chamber Joe because there's this Hispanic chamber in the city downtown on most people that live in the suburbs don't want to travel You know, it could be an hour for traffic an hour into the city just to go get resources and help So I figured why not have something here for them where they can go and get resources Find out about grants or how to start a business or get the paperwork in order So that's kind of how why I started to need I need that I saw in the suburbs in the middle Which wasn't there awesome? 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History Unplugged Podcast
"the u.s. military" Discussed on History Unplugged Podcast
"But saint Clair ended up bankrupt and died basically in poverty all he did for the rest of his life essentially was to run an in a store where he could provide food and equipment for settlers moving west. Fortunately out of this, the military does learn its lesson and realizes they need major reform because their current structure doesn't work. They can't just put together a bunch of regulars and then watch the command structure melt away in the wilderness and then have the feats like this. What sort of reforms happen after this? Well, president Washington selected Anthony lane to do what harmer and saint Clair had been unable to do. But Wayne took command of his army called he called it the allegiant of the United States, but he took command on the one proviso that he would only react or correspond or take orders from either the Secretary of War or the president directly. No congratulated interference, no interference from governors, no other politicians had to say in anything. To make it even better, he was allowed to recruit his army of all three year troops, but spent the first two years training them to what to expect in a wilderness campaign. So when he came to fort Washington and the Cincinnati area in 1794, his campaign was to direct opposite of what saint Clair had done. He had a functioning supply line. He had trained troops. He had officers with experience, which, by the way, almost every officer who survived saint Clair's defeat, signed up again to go back with Anthony wait. Even after everything they'd experienced, because they wanted revenge, and they wanted to finish the job they'd been hired to do. So Wayne had an RE that harbor and saint Clair should have had if the government had had enough money if the government had made wiser choices as far as commanders and for a number of other reasons. Well, despite this being what some called the worst military defeat in American history and despite many more troops dying than at Custer's last stand, this event isn't remembered very well. It was remembered for a while, Teddy Roosevelt wrote an article about it. I think in the 1890s. But most people don't know about Sinclair's failure. So why do you think it was forgotten? And what do you hope that readers shake away from your book?
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"They had a surveyor who had never been there before. He surveyed the route up until a large swamp that they had to maneuver around after they got around the swamp. They found an Indian trail that led them in the general direction of where they thought tiki onga would be, so they followed the Indian trail and actually camped across the Indian trail on the eve of the battle, saint Clair assumed he was like within 15 miles of the Miami towns at, but he was actually 55 miles away. So it was that scientific calculation on where he was going. It was simply guesswork because no one in the American army had ever been in that portion of the country before, when they set their camp on the night of November 3rd. It was in what saint Clair called an hollow oblong, which to us is like a rectangle. I don't know why he called it that, but that's what he insisted on. There were two lines of infantry back to back with the ends closed off by the cavalry, and a company of riflemen. Everything else was inside the camp, so it was not a good spot, but it was probably the best available at the time. The Kentucky militia had gone farther along the road and they were some 203 hundred yards beyond the main camp, sort of as an outpost of some sort. But that's exactly where the problem was, because on the morning of November 4th, the Indians overwhelmed the Kentucky camp, the kentuckians, who survived, raced back through saint Clair's camp and upset his formations, almost tried to go through the entire thing, but they were stopped on the far side. So the Indians followed them up in gradually surrounded the entire American camp, and then it became a battle of stupidity versus smart people. The stupidity was that the soldiers fired volleys at Indians hidden behind trees and behind logs or stumps or whatever they could find as shelter, while the Indians who were the elite in wilderness fighting would take their time, fire, only when they had a good target because they carried virtually all their ammunition with them. It didn't want to expend it hastily. So the battle itself hinges more or less on the artillery which fired at the Indians behind cover, never did much damage to the Indians because it was found later that the range of the cannon was off because the cannons had all been tilted up in the fired over the heads of the Indians. Meanwhile the Indians are picking off the officers first and then the other men assigned to the artillery. Right, it sounds like a reverse version of what happens in early stages of the Revolutionary War when
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"Scott here with another episode of the history unplugged podcast. The U.S. Military has suffered a number of disastrous defeats in its nearly two and a half century history. The first battle will run in the Civil War, numerous battles during the war of 1812, and Custer's last stand. Well, one of the worst defeats is also one that's completely forgotten. That was Arthur saint Clair's 1791 battle against Native Americans in the northwest territories, where three times as many died and what happens in Custer's fight of 1876. It was the greatest proportional loss by any American army in the nation's history. After three hours of fighting, over 600 corpses littered an area about three and a half football fields laid end to end. This was the first major crisis of George Washington's presidency. Today's guest is Alan gaff, author of field of corpses, Arthur saint Clair in the death of the American army. Known as the battle of the
History That Doesn't Suck
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"American history tellers is a podcast from wondery that explores the events and people who shaped our collective history. Their newest season looks at the insurrection of Aaron Burr, a founding father who fought valiantly for the revolution, and would later become the highest ranking American official ever charged with treason. We got to know Aaron Burr a bit during that deadly duel of his with Alexander Hamilton in episode 22 of HTTPS, but the rabbit hole. That is this founding father's fall from grace goes so much deeper. Did he try to create his own little empire out west? Well, from his infamous duel to his western treason charged exploits, this season of American history tellers has it all, and better yet it's narrated by my friend and podcasting colleague, Lindsey, not the U.S. senator Graham. Lindsey could read the phonebook and keep your rapt attention. I promise you'll enjoy his voice and storytelling. Follow American history tellers wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen, ad free on the Amazon music or wondery app. Across several episodes, we've dined with the nation's political elite at delmonico's New York City. James Blaine from Maine. The rough rider president TR. You remember these dinners. We could almost taste their decadent dining. Last night, I actually did taste decadent dining. Thanks to Omaha steaks. Picture this with me, a butcher's cut fillet mignon cooked to a perfect juicy tender medium rare, such quality. I would have cried bitter tears, had someone sacrilege this cut with some sort of sauce. Flash frozen to keep the freshness, the steak experts at Omaha steaks delivered this right to my door. And right now, with their semiannual sale, everything on their website, incredible air chilled chicken, juicy burgers and steaks ocean fresh seafood and decadent desserts is 50% off. Plus, when you go to Omaha steaks dot com and use promo code HT DS at checkout, you'll get an additional 30 bucks off your order. Visit Omaha steaks dot com and use code HTTPS at checkout to get an additional $30 off when you shop their semiannual sale today. A minimum order
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"Origin, soon to cross the Mediterranean to join the war in Europe. Hence, it's the perfect target. At 6 O 8 a.m., the gobbins 6 inch guns opened fire on feeling Bill. Shells damaged the railway station. They blow up a magazine. Other buildings around the harbor suffer damage as well, while French coastal batteries answer in kind. The action is only ten minutes and fails to strike French troops or transports, but the admiral is satisfied. This will do for now. The mighty battle cruiser steams off to rendezvous with the one other German warship in the Mediterranean. A light cruiser called the SMS breslau, which just hit the Algerian port city of bone. Yes, this was a coordinated attack. All the admiral's idea. The two German ships are now steaming east to the Italian island of Sicily. That's about 500 miles, though. So as we travel, let me give you the full details on admiral Wilhelm souchon situation. At two 35 a.m. this morning, Berlin instructed him to head to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. See, two days ago, on August 2nd, the German and Ottoman Empire signed a secret treaty. But it's only a defensive alliance against Russia and the Ottomans aren't rushing into war. Thus, Berlin hopes that the protective presence of the all powerful SMS goeben in Constantinople's waters might encourage their new ally to take action. But Wilhelm was already so close to French North Africa that he decided to carry out his pre planned attack there first. With that done, he's ready to leave this two vessel squadron to the Ottoman capital. They'll need to refuel for this long voyage, hence the stop at Sicily, but additionally, the admiral must also be mindful of another new challenge. Now that war has broken out. Enemy vessels. It's now ten 34 a.m.. The goblins crew spice two gray masses on the distant horizon. It soon clear that their British battlecruisers. The indomitable and indefatigable. Damn it. Admiral wonders if his nation is at war with Britain yet. Well, better safe than sorry. To battle stations. The British and German ships charge right at each other. They're soon passing, but neither fires. Nor salutes. Then the two powerful British warships turn about. Do they intend to strike? No. Britain's first lord of the admiralty Winston Churchill has ordered these two bowel cruisers to shadow the govern. But the German admiral doesn't know that, and he isn't about to risk his crew, especially as the HMS Dublin joins the chase. Wilhelm pushes his stokers to fire the goblins already imperfect boilers as hotly as they can for hours on end. Incredibly, they managed to outrun pursuing British and lose them in the mist that night. The next morning, August 5th the goeben makes it to Sicily's port city of Messina. But Wilhelm receives a cult greeting. Though part of the triple alliance with Germany, Italy has cited German aggression and declared neutrality. Therefore, this is no longer a friendly port. Officials give the 50 something admiral 24 hours to depart. He loads as much desperately needed coal as possible, but it's not enough. He arranges for a coal carrying cargo ship, a Collier, to meet the breslau somewhere at sea. It's now 11 a.m., August 6th. Soon departing Sicily, the admiral receives a message from the German naval staff. At present time, your call Constantinople, not yet possible for various reasons. Further word from Berlin also informs him that the austro-hungarian navy won't help yet either. Meanwhile, Britain has declared war. In other words, Wilhelm's friendless heartless and low on fuel in a hostile sea. Seeing no other options, the admiral decides to lead his two vessel squadron to the Ottoman capital anyway. He'll just hope the unwelcoming situation changes before he arrives. Nearly the moment the German vessels enter international waters. Britain's light cruiser for HMS Gloucester is on the tail. Day gives weight at night and for a while, four British armored cruisers joined the hunt, but back off before the sun rises on August 8th. Not the gloss itself, and at one 35 p.m., one of her 6 inch guns fires at the breslin. The German vessel answers in kind to salvos. This it seems is enough. The Gloucester backs off. Confusion overtakes the British navy in the Mediterranean for 24 hours, as war with Austria Hungary becomes official. Meanwhile, the German vessels steam into the Aegean, where, on August 9th, they gratefully meet with the Collier and take on coal. But still, they must make it to Constantinople. They're picking up British radio signals. That means they're pursuing hunting foe isn't far behind. It's now the afternoon of August 10th. The goeben and breslau maintain 18 knots as a steam into the dardanelles. The German crew takes note of the Ottoman Empire's Crescent bearing banners fluttering above the historic forts on either side of the Europe and Asia dividing straight. But the Germans still don't know what's going on diplomatically. Are they welcome here? The German warships come to a stop. They and the Ottoman forts train their guns on one another. Two Ottoman destroyers are soon steaming toward them. The admiral wonders will he and his men die here? Will they be turned away to meet their debts by British guns? It's neither. The two Ottoman vessels signal that they are here to escort the Germans through the mine laden strait. Relief washes over the German crews. Perhaps they have friends in Constantinople, after all.
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"Origin, soon to cross the Mediterranean to join the war in Europe. Hence, it's the perfect target. At 6 O 8 a.m., the gobbins 6 inch guns opened fire on feeling Bill. Shells damaged the railway station. They blow up a magazine. Other buildings around the harbor suffer damage as well, while French coastal batteries answer in kind. The action is only ten minutes and fails to strike French troops or transports, but the admiral is satisfied. This will do for now. The mighty battle cruiser steams off to rendezvous with the one other German warship in the Mediterranean. A light cruiser called the SMS breslau, which just hit the Algerian port city of bone. Yes, this was a coordinated attack. All the admiral's idea. The two German ships are now steaming east to the Italian island of Sicily. That's about 500 miles, though. So as we travel, let me give you the full details on admiral Wilhelm souchon situation. At two 35 a.m. this morning, Berlin instructed him to head to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. See, two days ago, on August 2nd, the German and Ottoman Empire signed a secret treaty. But it's only a defensive alliance against Russia and the Ottomans aren't rushing into war. Thus, Berlin hopes that the protective presence of the all powerful SMS goeben in Constantinople's waters might encourage their new ally to take action. But Wilhelm was already so close to French North Africa that he decided to carry out his pre planned attack there first. With that done, he's ready to leave this two vessel squadron to the Ottoman capital. They'll need to refuel for this long voyage, hence the stop at Sicily, but additionally, the admiral must also be mindful of another new challenge. Now that war has broken out. Enemy vessels. It's now ten 34 a.m.. The goblins crew spice two gray masses on the distant horizon. It soon clear that their British battlecruisers. The indomitable and indefatigable. Damn it. Admiral wonders if his nation is at war with Britain yet. Well, better safe than sorry. To battle stations. The British and German ships charge right at each other. They're soon passing, but neither fires. Nor salutes. Then the two powerful British warships turn about. Do they intend to strike? No. Britain's first lord of the admiralty Winston Churchill has ordered these two bowel cruisers to shadow the govern. But the German admiral doesn't know that, and he isn't about to risk his crew, especially as the HMS Dublin joins the chase. Wilhelm pushes his stokers to fire the goblins already imperfect boilers as hotly as they can for hours on end. Incredibly, they managed to outrun pursuing British and lose them in the mist that night. The next morning, August 5th the goeben makes it to Sicily's port city of Messina. But Wilhelm receives a cult greeting. Though part of the triple alliance with Germany, Italy has cited German aggression and declared neutrality. Therefore, this is no longer a friendly port. Officials give the 50 something admiral 24 hours to depart. He loads as much desperately needed coal as possible, but it's not enough. He arranges for a coal carrying cargo ship, a Collier, to meet the breslau somewhere at sea. It's now 11 a.m., August 6th. Soon departing Sicily, the admiral receives a message from the German naval staff. At present time, your call Constantinople, not yet possible for various reasons. Further word from Berlin also informs him that the austro-hungarian navy won't help yet either. Meanwhile, Britain has declared war. In other words, Wilhelm's friendless heartless and low on fuel in a hostile sea. Seeing no other options, the admiral decides to lead his two vessel squadron to the Ottoman capital anyway. He'll just hope the unwelcoming situation changes before he arrives. Nearly the moment the German vessels enter international waters. Britain's light cruiser for HMS Gloucester is on the tail. Day gives weight at night and for a while, four British armored cruisers joined the hunt, but back off before the sun rises on August 8th. Not the gloss itself, and at one 35 p.m., one of her 6 inch guns fires at the breslin. The German vessel answers in kind to salvos. This it seems is enough. The Gloucester backs off. Confusion overtakes the British navy in the Mediterranean for 24 hours, as war with Austria Hungary becomes official. Meanwhile, the German vessels steam into the Aegean, where, on August 9th, they gratefully meet with the Collier and take on coal. But still, they must make it to Constantinople. They're picking up British radio signals. That means they're pursuing hunting foe isn't far behind. It's now the afternoon of August 10th. The goeben and breslau maintain 18 knots as a steam into the dardanelles. The German crew takes note of the Ottoman Empire's Crescent bearing banners fluttering above the historic forts on either side of the Europe and Asia dividing straight. But the Germans still don't know what's going on diplomatically. Are they welcome here? The German warships come to a stop. They and the Ottoman forts train their guns on one another. Two Ottoman destroyers are soon steaming toward them. The admiral wonders will he and his men die here? Will they be turned away to meet their debts by British guns? It's neither. The two Ottoman vessels signal that they are here to escort the Germans through the mine laden strait. Relief washes over the German crews. Perhaps they have friends in Constantinople, after all.
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"And <Speech_Male> <Silence> <Speech_Music_Male> <Speech_Male> the American public <Speech_Male> to start scrutinizing <Speech_Male> U.S. surveillance <Speech_Male> of its airspace <Speech_Male> more closely. <Silence> <Speech_Male> Experts say <Speech_Male> norad was <Speech_Male> previously <Speech_Male> focusing on spotting <Speech_Male> fast moving <Speech_Male> objects. That's <Speech_Male> generated a lot of <Speech_Male> heat. 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"Why the military keeps spotting so many unidentified flying objects. And then, shooting them down. By Sonia Mansour. In the first two weeks of February, the U.S. Air Force has shot down four flying objects that have intruded on the skies over North America, the deployment of force is unprecedented for the U.S. during peacetime, leveraging some of the U.S. Military's most advanced fighter planes, surveillance tools, and expensive air to air missiles. The first object shot down was an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon that the Biden administration says was part of a years long scheme to spy on nations across the earth, but so far, officials have been much less clear what the other objects are. One shot down over Alaska, February 10th, was described as a car sized object that did not appear to have a propulsion source. One downed over Canada the next day was described as cylindrical, potentially a balloon, but smaller than the Chinese balloon. That balloon, which was publicly spotted over Montana, February 1st, and carried sensors capable of spying on conversations on the ground, revealed an entirely new class of threat to U.S. airspace. Experts say two things are happening as a result. First, the North American aerospace defense command, or norad, and other agencies tasked with watching for airborne incursions, have recalibrated their detection methods to pick up smaller, slower moving objects that they weren't previously paying attention to. Second, the military decided that shooting these objects out of the sky and collecting the wreckage is one sure way to quickly learn where they're coming from, and what threat they pose. We need to get a better sense of what these things are, and whether or not they're worth engaging with, says, Ian Williams, deputy director of CSIS missile defense project. Either way, it's unlikely that using sidewinder air to air missiles at about $400,000 a pop fired from $150 million F-22 stealth fighters will be an economical response in the long term. If this is something we're going to start doing on the regular, we may want to look for more cost effective ways. Williams sass. Why are we spotting more flying objects? First, it's probably not aliens, experts agree The White House and intelligence officials at echoed this point. Unidentified flying object in this case means just that. An object that is flying and has not been identified. The U.S. has released some details about the four, but it's still not clear what all of them are, or where they came from. On February 10th and F-22 shot down a car sized object at 40,000 feet over Alaska that officials said had no obvious propulsion. White House spokesperson, John Kirby, said its origins were unclear. The Pentagon had said it could be a potential risk to civilian air traffic. On February 11th, a U.S.
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"Resonates so greatly in my work all right. So here's the thing. I those pageants the zulu queen all of that. I feel like. I have those same gut level memories on the one hand. I feel excited. That the notion of juneteenth. The possibilities of it celebration expanding. There's another part of me. That's like you know what this is ours. Could we just keep it. Y'all just go some other place. What are we meant to do with how important really was an is to build internally at the same time that we want to share our history and our culture more broadly. I have a similar feeling. You know there's so much. I wanna protect about it. I think is the film right greg. At ten towards them you not try to portray Stories and characters authentically as possible and that was what was so important for me and miss juneteenth to really focus on the details in the specificity of that particular world. you know. i'm from fort worth at grew up commemorating juneteenth as a child to now. It has a different meaning. I think for me as an adult you know as a kid was more about the celebration in the centerpiece of it was missing teeth pageant. And that's what. I really look forward to every year. But for me not really is about You know commemorating and i don't have all the answers but i could just say that you know i feel like it is something that i wanna protect. Also think it's important for us to focus on The specificity of that particular day you know. We're honoring the enslaved people in texas. Who who didn't find out they were free until two and a half years. You know late and i think it's important to keep that in the focus so one of the things i love about the specificity. The details of your film is the mother daughter relationship in the film. I'm the mother of daughters and the daughter of mother and so the that tension. That's part of it. Can you talk to us a little bit about sort of those aspects of pride of tradition of educational scholarship. That are all part of the miss juneteenth practice. Absolutely you know it's interesting. 'cause i really focused on Turquoise the lead characters really based on the women in my life in the community in my family you know in myself end but most especially you know my mom As she really you know. I've watched her Because she was a single woman for much of my life and i watched her navigate her own drains while juggling raising children. You know and down there. Was this sense of grit. You know the sense of determination you know also saw her in the women in my community carry themselves with grace and something that i really really wanted to bring to. The film you know are also was Exploring like this theme of juneteenth and what delayed freedom For turquoise as the character but really. I apply that to each character in the film that idea of delayed freedom that is that is the tension with juneteenth right that we are celebrating freedom. But it's also always feel like should we put in question mark or an exclamation point when we say happy juneteenth. 'cause it's also about marking having been lied to for two years about being free. Get absolutely i mean you know. I i i stay happy juneteenth at times but also hesitate when i say it. And that's what i meant. When i say you know i really am as an adult. You know focused on commemorating. It was interesting because last year in dune teeth in the midst of a pandemic right I'm so used to every year being able to connect with the community. You know it's like a family we get to see folks. We haven't seen you know for on time and on the community really does come together in. Obviously we couldn't do that in twenty twenty so you know it was quiet. You know commemoration for june that year for me. It's a particular indeed. It's part of the joy of of vaccinations is being able to come together again. In just a few moments so tell me something about what is beautiful about black folk in a space the miss juneteenth pageants what what actually does it feel and smell and sound like to you when you close your eyes and think about it i made home will be about it now. But they're in. You know what i was. You know trying to bring to this film. Melissa was the sense of joy in the sense of community. And you know coming together in this community. That i grew up in particular. You know i'm in texas black community you know there's this sense of. There's i can smell food when i think about a barbecue. There's blues music. And you know it's altea generational and i can hear children laugh and so it's just it's joy. It makes me smile when i think about it. Godfrey people screen writer and director of the film. Miss june teeth. If you haven't seen a check it out thank you for joining me channing. And as always we want to hear from you. What are you doing to commemorate this year. Give us a call at eight. Seven seven eight six nine eight two five three or record your message at eight seven. Seven eight six nine eight two five three or you can also a voice to take away collars at g mail dot com. Okay folks. that's our show for today and we hope that you enjoyed it now. Also hope you're staying cool out there. Thanks as always for listening. I'm melissa harris. Perry infanta and this is the takeaway..
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"All have any capacity or power to do. Oh yes we do. we provide oversight to usda I i've always believed in in making sure that we bring the stakeholders the table because of folks like mr right out here Where the rubber meets the road there working day by day. And they're the ones who I think realistically can provide information to us. That's helpful so you know we. It is clear That we do handle the oversight And including north carolina anti and we've got to make sure that We take the advice of people who actually know this business and yes. Restructuring can't keep things as they are just because they've been it's been these particular things have been in existence for for for many many years and just because it you know you always have to go back and revisit and revise and especially if things aren't working certainly. They've not been working for our black farmers. So yeah i would support that and I think a game. We probably need to have a follow up hearing and have some discussion about it. But we don't have to just have a hearing discuss it but i do think As a game we we have the oversight and we there many things. I think that we can do in terms of holding Folks accountable putting pressure with pressure needs to be good. Now i wanted to also just ask you briefly about the legal argument here because after the american rescue plan was passed back in march you actually cited a nineteen ninety five supreme court decision and defended the ability of congress to act on the basis of race to remedy these effects of discrimination. Can you walk us through that. Just a bit here. Well you know. I think racist something that people don't wanna talk about but There's a lot blowing one. That shouldn't be an again. I think we have to historically Discrimination has existed. It's still there inequities Ah president The win win the lawsuit. The ruling poses a question. How are we going to rectify these decades of discrimination and inequities when the law justified. That discrimination but they won't actively work to correct. And i think we have to hold them accountable do that. And that's where i think the congress can come into into play here. We've got a lot of work to do And i think we you know we can't let up and just let this continue to go because we'll never get problem. But i think with all the discussion that we're having today with so many things going on We're gonna have to race has got to be a part of it. People need to get upset and angry about it. it is real and we have to be A realistic about it and try to understand it more. And that's where. I think the education is gonna have to come into play congresswoman. Atoms represents north carolina's twelfth congressional district. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you melissa Keep up the good work. I'm melissa harris. Perry vega and who remembers this moment at our new miss america s. That was the night with vanessa. Williams became miss america. Nine hundred eighty four. The first black woman to wear the crown. I was ten. I still remember how proud of my family and friends were love vanessa. And we still do but she was not the first black beauty queen black folk have long traditions of crowding our own queens from the queen of zulu waving mardi gras revelers. As she passes the queens of historically black colleges and universities profiled each year ebony magazine even jet beauties of the week are queens of a sort and in many southern towns the most coveted titles for young black women is miss juneteenth filmmaker chen and godfrey people's captured the culture the drama the expense and the expense of tradition in her twenty twenty film. Miss jim tepe. June t is our holiday where we recognize when the slaves of texas finally found out. They were free to long years. After lincoln's emancipation proclamation of eighteen sixty three the date was june nineteen eighteen sixty five now known as june team. So you see ladies not only. Will you represent your beautiful cells. That our history as well. So what does it mean to wear crowned that represents your own beautiful self and the history of the people here to help us answer. That question is chatting godfrey people's screenwriter and director of the film. Miss juneteenth channing. Welcome to the takeaway. I'm melissa. What a joy to be here with you feel. This does kind of give you that feeling. Like i don't know how this could not feel joyful so tell me about the pageants in fort worth texas. That you grew up attending yeah. It was so interesting. Because i was listening to your introduction that included miss america and i think for me Miss juneteenth always felt like my own version of miss america. It was you know really special to me because i think As a young girls seeing all those young black women on stage you know. I've felt like there's a line in the film is as i felt like they were floating. You know or something like that. Look i miss holding myself. That's gonna felt like me if that like you know. Seeing all these young black women flowed across the stage and they had this sense of like hope and wonder on their faces. And you know. I know now that it was confidence building for me It was young women of every shape size you know a variety of skin tones hair textures. And you know as an adult. I realized how special that was. It makes perfect sense that it.
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"Even marital status. Last tuesday president biden announced his plan to address the us childcare crisis for both people who need childcare as well as the people who provide it. Biden's proposal includes a twenty five billion dollar emergency stabilization fund that would help childcare centers that are hit hard by the pandemic stay afloat as well as provide things like ppe and other resources. The plan also provides fifteen billion dollars to low income families that need help affording childcare for more on managing the childcare crisis. We're facing lee austin director of the center. For the study of child care employment at uc berkeley. Welcome to the show. Hi thanks for having me so my call for a national childcare system Would you say that that's kind of what we need. Or am i off base there. You are totally on based video. Absolutely we need so it. I mean to me the issue is one that really presents. A question of inequity within the child care system. What is our national childcare picture. Look like right. now leah. Well you've you've really nailed it and talking about inequity. We don't have a comprehensive national childcare strategy right now I mean really. The default strategy is to leave it to most families to figure it out And so we have a system that was really resourced and really quite a frail system before the pandemic and what the pandemic has done to the child. That child care system is really just you know in many ways. Bring the system to its knees. It's a system that was not working well for most parents and children Access was limited. Many people still didn't have access to childcare From a parent's perspective. It's it's costly expensive and on the other side when we look at the people who are providing the services. most of whom are women almost half of whom are women of color and in states like my home state of california or in new york. Most of the women providing services are women of color This is a workforce that is consistently among the lowest paid occupation in every state in this country So it's really been a broken system and and the pandemic has just put more and more pressure on the system without the resources that are necessary. Let's talk a little bit about what the pre pandemic patrick looked like I was not in the childcare world before the pandemic started i've now Become apparent. And so i'm much more aware of the limitations. But what are we talking about when it comes to childcare. We're talking in person in home. Oh payers at daycare was the patchwork like prior and about how much were americans spending on childcare while the path was really all of those things and what time for you to be entering a parenthood and trying to So you know. Parents are trying to put together childcare in whatever ways they can In our work at the center i work with. We tend to focus on the formal childcare system but even that is complicated and is delivered in many different ways so you do have. People who will of course are accessing individual providers but many are utilizing center based childcare. Many are utilizing i'm home-based or family childcare. These are People again mostly women who are operating businesses out of their home You know group group childcare and you know parents are footing. The bill for childcare in this country about sixty percent of of childcare is paid for by parents to the tune of forty plus billion dollars a year with the federal government in in state local government paying a little bit through some public pre k. Programs head start might be the people most here about head start program and some childcare subsidies but that really touches a small segment of the population of children of families who need it And those programs with few exceptions are not funded at a level that really brings the the level of quality of care and services that Children need and that support providers In the workforce for just enough resources to make sure that the women doing this work or paid living wages. You know there's really high levels of economic insecurity and we see a lot of variation you know with In a workforce that struggling as a whole They're real racial disparities. In terms of who's working where earning you know being paid which wages with Black women in particular being paid the lowest wages Among the educators doing this work and the pandemic shutdown a lot of our childcare options it has the pandemic has really Again just brought this the stint to its knees and many programs have shut down Because they simply could not afford to operate one thing. That's been interesting as we're talking across the country about reopening and you know schools developing reopening plans. And what is this going to look like the child care system for the most part has actually remained open. There were very few places in the country that closed childcare when schools and everything else was closing and that actually put more pressure childcare as a schools were closed in parents. Were really desperate or options. So you know this is a system and again a you know women who have been operating since day one of of the pandemic But what's happened is number one. There weren't enough resources before the pandemic and it's just become harder as you know. Many many parents weren't showing up with their children for childcare. So without the loss of revenue into programs it's become more expensive to deliver childcare because you have the operating with smaller groups. You have higher costs for cleaning and and all of these things not make it much more expensive to operate. Le- let's talk about What this pandemic has meant for people who need childcare We know record number of women have been pushed out of the workforce And some of that is because they don't have the child care that they need that's right and just to return to to one point that's connected to that Before the break we lost over one hundred and fifty thousand childcare jobs since the start of the pandemic and so what that has translated to. Is you know losing as many as four and a half million childcare spaces that could potentially be a permanent loss of up spaces and options for children in their families and there was not enough childcare a pre pandemic so this is certainly exacerbating A very difficult situation. And you're right that this is impacting parents. Particularly women Again we've we've known for decades that a lack of childcare either because it's just not even available to you or because it's too costly.
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"Better mass out to everybody else. President biden has rolled out some national mask mandates How confident are you in those. And do you think that those are going to help. More americans get onboard with wearing masks. Absolutely i think it will help in the sense that when you have federal support for something like this It starts to enter. Just the general american dialogue and mass may start to be seen as a tool to protect us rather than as a political tool that divides us So i do think that it'll help. I know the mandate is for federal grounds and also for certain travel situations but we really people be masking. All higher situations anywhere was indoor crowding and even within your own home. If you've had an exposure or somebody does have symptoms. And you're concerned dr koran at the early early stages of the pandemic we were getting We are being told that we should not purchase and ninety five masks. Are there enough and ninety five masks now for americans to purchase who are not healthcare workers. Or should we Stay away from those will. This applies very fragmented around the country. So in the hospital. I work in boston. We don't seem to have any sort of supply issue there you know. We can use an and ninety five per shift and refine in other parts of the country. I'm seeing. they're still recommendations for healthcare workers to not even be using a ninety five mass unless they're doing specifically in aerosol generating procedure. I use ninety five's with any covert patient that i'm taking care of and we know that over the last year there is a lot of investigative work done to see what had gone wrong with the supply chain and one of the issues was the trump administration employed the defense production act but they never really did it to the extent that was needed so there was never enough supply. They didn't distribute either. They just kind of left it up to states to figure out what we're going to have to leave their doctor koran but hopefully people will heed the advice and mask up. Dr koran is an internal medicine.
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By now most americans know that wearing a mask is still one of the best ways to prevent the spread of the corona virus but the guidance around what kind of mask people should wear shifting as new and more contagious variants of the corona virus. Make their way to the united states public. Health officials are calling for people to wear masks that offer even more protection dr abroad. Koran is an internal medicine physician at brigham and women's hospital global health researcher at harvard. Medical school dr koran. Thanks for joining me. Thanks to Happy to be on. So i have this huge mass collection silk cotton with synthetics. Like what are cloth masks nobre sufficient. You know that's the question on everybody's mind now and i think of it a little bit less than I think with less in terms of sufficient versus are they the best protection that we can get. So we've known for about since the start of the epidemic now that this Virus transmits via both droplets and aerosols. And we know that the latter are smaller particles that kind of float around in the air and they are most relevant in terms of indoor crowding. Which more and more of us find ourselves in many frontline workers have had to be throughout the year and yet only in the healthcare setting are wearing the best protection. We can which are ninety five masks which really still trout. Ninety five percent of these dodger grown. We've heard a lot about the ninety five but we also are hearing about something called a k n ninety five which one is better are the same and ninety five are hard to come by sometimes absolutely k. and ninety five referred to master actually certified in china. there's also k f ninety four's which are from south korea in europe the us f f p. Two's these are all more or less equivalent. The problem is that the supply chain can be a little bit tricky because our some counterfeit mass that are on On the market that are dead of come in over the over the year. How do we know is something is counterfeit because if it's labeled with a company that we know that's one of my big questions when i'm ordering maths now how do we know it's legit. Yeah no exactly. It's a great question. So there is a list on the cdc website where they actually have companies that have had problems with counterfeits. So there's a way for you to check the can ninety five that you bought go to the cdc website and see if yours is on the list of ones that has had counterfeit issues. And if is doesn't mean that the one you own is not real just means you may have to touch base with the company. Some of them have Batches that the with their certification code. That's specific to the company to help with this problem. But dr karan. That's a lot of work for people who are trying to get mass like here in new york. People are selling them on the street. Should we trust those there. You're right. I mean it is and it shouldn't be this way right. It should not be just left to the american people to figure this out on their own. I mean mass on the best interventions. We have this is an emergency. Were in the middle of a pandemic This really should be taken out by the cdc in our public health agencies in our government to make sure that americans don't have to go doing this. Legwork themselves dr crunch. Where can people by masks over. Should they be buying masks to make sure they're legitimate. Is it okay to buy from places like amazon. Well that is a question. That's a little bit tricky because it even on amazon the quality of different mass is going to be variable. There are some people that have sort of been independently testing mass. There's an agency. Tm which is going to be coming out very soon with actually a number of measurements of different master on the market that they have done There should be more coverage around. This just spoke with some of the members of that team Yesterday and so. I'm i'm hopeful for that But i don't know that. Cdc or any of the other agencies are officially working on this themselves. You mentioned testing masks. Is there something that people can do to test their own masks to see how protective it is. Yeah well one thing. That is definitely testable right off. The bat is the fit of the mass We know that fit actually is a very big component of the ultimate protection that you get a poorly fitting mask even if it has good filtration material may not provide you with the same level of protection that a good fitting mask would would provide you with so a couple things you can do is to see how much leakage you have. When you're breathing out do you feel a lot of air coming out of the sides of your mask So that's one thing that i regularly do. And there are some companies that are working specifically on this problem with mask braces fixed. The mask is one of those. And i try to sample yesterday and it significantly improved the fit of my mask and i'm wondering also you know. A lot of folks have gotten masks made for them. You know some of the first mass. That i had were handmade by people. I knew Should we not assume that homemade masks are enough or should we be double masking. Y- that's a great question so in terms of Enough a mask is better than no mask that there's no debate about. You should be wearing something now if you have a cloth mask. One thing that you could do is Wear a surgical mask. And then we're the cloth mask over that and make sure that the cloth mask has a very tight fit so that the cloth mask can help improve. The fit of your surgical mask A couple of doctors and scientists actually looked into this and found that could actually Be a stopgap solution until we get.
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"Or soldier reactions points. They show what about you. What are you seeing that are. It's causing this uptick in a white supremacist ideology. I agree with george. I don't. I don't know that i would market as an uptick. It's always been present. I would say though that there is a transnational movement that is accelerating the white nationalist movement. So that's true as we experienced globally push-back to multiculturalism and immigration and migration. We're finding those connections globally so some of those things may be picked up as service members or are stationed in other areas of the world but it is a phenomenon that that has existed at least in in the us armed forces. Since the beginning. So i should be clear that what. I'm talking about an uptick. I'm referring back to the military times. Poll where a third of active duty respondents said they'd witnessed examples of white supremacy in the military And that's a twenty two percent increase from two thousand nineteen. So i was just curious about why we're seeing that. Is it more awareness to your point. Lisa yeah i do. I do think it's a greater sensitivity to what is what what are symbols of of white supremacy or white nationalism. I think that as a country we're becoming better versed in and discussing these things. It's safer to discuss these things. I would also note that. Under the former presidents administration there was an emboldened emboldening of amongst the white nationalist movement. That made it okay to be more kind of out with who you were and what you believed so so. I think it's something that's happening on. Both sides folks who who lean towards that ideology fell Kind of a new freedom in expressing themselves and that might be expressed through line the confederate flag or you know tat showing sharing and showing their tattoos that affiliate them with white supremacy in some kind of way and then as i say a a greater sensitivity on the part of people acknowledging that it exists george. You mentioned that the majority of the people who are going to witness or experience this are lower ranking military members Particularly those of color. What about the role that leadership can play in either facilitating or preventing this. Yes the united states. Military is a microcosm of the larger society. So whatever ideologies exist in society Whatever belief systems are there they are going to be represented to some degree in the force at large the military counts on and puts a great deal of emphasis on is command and leadership to militate against Those ideologies and beliefs systems the military is very good at bringing people in from every walk of life economic strategy every racial and ethnic group and bringing them together and putting them around this thing called the mission that becomes a focal point. And and it's hoped that that mission focus combined with good leadership will minimize these sorts of issues. But the leadership has to recognize when there are indicators and they have to act on those indicators and and that's not always done george we just talked about the history of white supremacy. But why did it take an insurrection for people to notice The fact that one in five people in that insurrection had military ties. that's actually the nature of this issue. it it's a hard issue. It's a distressing issue. And there's not a lot of attention on it outside of these very public Events that are embarrassing that that mobilize congress to ask questions that mobilize organizations like the southern poverty law center in the anti-defamation league to To get involved in in exert pressure of those types of groups very capable of exerting you testified about white supremacy in the military In congress last year. What were your thoughts i mean. Did you get a sense that this was an issue that lawmakers were going to take seriously and do you expect that that is going to change. I do i was. I was very encouraged by The responses of subcommittee on military personnel that. We spoke with Last year they were Very concerned about the research that the southern poverty law center shared with them. And i agree with george that it takes that there's There needs to be a sense of urgency right that that that is maintained at all times and it requires a digital once a real commitment on the on the part of command leadership. But i'm glad that you mentioned the role and responsibility of congress in its their role to kind of push military leadership to make it an issue that that is front and center. But i would say that the subcommittee members were very concerned and seemed not to know at all kind of the this existed. As a problem. I do want to mention something that we discussed during the testimony that The part of the the national defense authorization act last year included Provision that ass military leadership to actively seek out in investigate white nationalist extremism. I would point out that the senate struck that that phrase white nationalisms from the nda. In there and i think that i raise this. Because i think that that's part of the issue When when military leader spoke after Community folks like the southern poverty law center in the l. presented about the Our our position on the issue military leadership followed and really seem to want to reject Calling out white. Nationalism as a as a particular form of Domestic terrorism that that they would seek to root out at believed that what our country has gone through over the last year especially in the aftermath of the murder of mr floyd that we began to See and recognize. It says george says these kind of horrific events happen in in in in peaks our attention. I was burying courage. Sorry at least. I just wanna get one one thing and because i i wanna make sure that we don't lose the focus on something george said earlier which is the fact that it's service men and women of color particularly those who are lower ranking. Who are more likely to witness this George how or how do you recommend service members of color. Who are witnessing this. Who are maybe perhaps being intimidated by this Respond what should they do one of the good things about the united states military all branches of the services. There are multiple avenues of for soldiers to address such things course. We put an inordinate amount of emphasis on the chain of command so going to their superiors Beginning at the noncommissioned officer level is always the first step but you have the inspector general you have access to chaplains. You have the opportunity to write congressional inquiries and and even white house inquiries There are so many avenues That are attuned to this. Even if it's Suspected extremism there military criminal investigative office in cis or i or are avenues of reporting. So there's plenty of places To address this issue there are lots of avenues for.
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"Nearly one in five people who've been charged in the attack on the capital this month our current or former military members that's according to an npr analysis one in five a staggering percentage. But one that's in line with the deep history of white supremacy and racism in the us armed forces which stretches to the present and has only grown in recent years for example in early twenty twenty more than a third of duty respondents to a military times poll said they'd witnessed examples of white supremacy and racist ideologies in the military. That's up twenty two percent from twenty nine nineteen now. The defense department says it's reviewing its policies around domestic extremists and for lloyd. J austin confirmed last week by the senate as the nation's first black pentagon chief it's a top priority. The job of the department of defense is to keep america safe from our enemies. But we can't do that. If some of those enemies lie within our own ranks and this is not something that we can be passive on. This is something i think. We have to be active on and we have to lean into it and make sure that That we're doing right things to create the right climate. As the biden administration hopes austin will usher in an era of change for the us military. We're gonna take a look back at the history that got us to this point. What our government and military leaders really need to do to root out violent racist hate groups from our armed forces. Dr george reid is a retired army. Colonel and the dean of the school of public affairs at the university of colorado colorado springs and lisa brooks is the chief of staff for the southern poverty law center george lisa. Thanks for being with me. The kittens pleasure to beer in case for much for having us we show. We're going to start with you. Where does the history of white supremacy in the us military start in your view. It's a great question It really starts at the beginning. I mean we have to remember that we started with a segregated arm- armed forces right. It wasn't until president truman. In nineteen forty eight desegregated our armed forces so segregated army certainly is indicative of white supremacy and white supremacist culture. I think it's important to note too. That the armed forces desegregated prior to the supreme court ruling in brown board. It so we have the military has really a a tradition and they could be proud of in terms of leading the country away from our white supremacist history and the organization that you are with the southern poverty law center. Lucia did try to get the department of defense to address white supremacy Within its rank as far back as the nineteen eighties. What was the response from the department. Back then yes. The southern poverty law center. This is is this long. Been an issue for us back in nineteen eighty six. We sent a letter to secretary weinberger and he was very receptive and issued a directive that called to reject servicemembers that actively participated in white supremacist groups or neo nazi groups. The the issue there though was that he tried to frame it that white supremacist views were inconsistent with military values which they are however it still allowed for active duty personnel to kinda behave and passive and active ways that connected them to white supremacy so so it was more about their active participation. Not so much about kind of their leanings. Or their or their ideology not that we want to keep people from exercising their their their first amendment rights but the military needed to go a little bit further but that directive was very important again. We contacted dod in nineteen ninety. Four in two thousand six and by the time we got to two thousand six. The secretary of defense chew was in that position at the time and he really dismissed report as inaccurate misleading alarmists. Despite the fact that we had documentation of extremist actively participating across the armed forces so but it hasn't stopped The southern poverty law center from ringing the bell as recent as last year we spoke to an armed services committee At the house capitol hill about the infiltration the continued infiltration of white supremacists in the military. George we're gonna turn to you. You are a retired member of the armed forces as well as someone who's investigating White supremacy within the military. What patterns have you found. So far well. The policy pattern is episodic Leash mentioned typically the pattern. Is that when there is a very large public embarrassing event and scandal. There is a flurry of activity. Around policy and policy change and then in between there is a long period of silence in relative inactivity. So much of the pressure to make change. Whether it's policy change comes from the outside from organizations like the espn see the anti-defamation league and others I interested in this started in nineteen ninety five when there was a classic hate crime that took place when three white soldiers assigned to the second airborne. Division murdered an african american couple in the nearby town faithful north carolina. It was a tragedy shocking. And as secretary austin mentioned in his confirmation hearings we woke up one morning to find racist in our midst. It would that incident. That was the wakeup call. Did you yourself witnessed that kind of hate during your own time in the military george. You know what's interesting about this is there. There is a phenomenon that the people that are going to see. This inexperienced are likely to be a members of the armed services in the junior enlisted ranks. I was an officer and at the time of the nineteen ninety five murders. I was a lieutenant colonel. So i was the least likely group of people to actually see an experience at but through my activities and command of criminal investigation command unit. We did see it because we looked for it. We investigated murder. We didn't investigate extremism but in the course of investigating murder we found twenty two soldiers that were part of a racist subculture most of the neo nazi ideology and most of them were dealt with through administrative measures Commanders when asked both of you a similar question about where this is coming from georgia. I have a I'm curious here because we've been at war as a country for two decades In the middle east many of our Have done multiple tours of duty. I'm wondering if that has factored into what makes white. Supremacist ideology so appealing to folks. Are they coming back and feeling on moored are they coming back to the country and feeling unsupported or are there. Other reasons that are leading to this uptick in white supremacist ideology. Yes i wouldn't necessarily draw a connection to the operational tempo that the emphasis has been in this problem. It's been around for a long time. And the i mean. Just think about it. The the ku klux klan was essentially a veterans organization. A confederate veterans organization led by nathan bedford. Forrest a confederate general who later disavowed the organization but nonetheless. The history goes back independent of any particular deployments.