Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to the David Knight Show.
As the clock strikes thirteen. You're on Airstrip one. We usher in a
new year. Happy New Year, twenty twenty four. Everyone, Welcome to
the David Night Show for January first, twenty twenty four. I'm Gardner Goldsmith,
getting the opportunity to fill in for David on his last day of vacation.
It's great to be here and welcome you to the new year. We've
got a massive, great, busy, upbeat show for you, and thank
you for being part of a great team of people believing in for you.
Smiles and blessings to all of you in the audience. And yes, I
got all dolled up today. In fact, I've been brought my top hats
to celebrate the new year. Everyone. Thank you so much for being part
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want to send out blessings to you all for a great twenty twenty four.
I hope your year is fruitful and fun and full of love and peace.
Thank you so much for joining us. We've got amazing things planned for the
show today. I can't wait. January first has become one of my favorite
days, partly or almost mostly because I get to watch the Rose Parade,
but now I get to add to it because I get to be with you
today on the pro We've got so much in store. I want to invite
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Let's find out what's going to be on tap for today New Year's Day,
twenty twenty four on the David Night Show. Well, and with our background
of the Dragon that they put out a couple of years ago, and the
Rose Parade. I actually take still shots of the Rose Parade, that's how
much I like it. I lived in Pasadena when I worked at a television
show in Los Angeles, and I just love the Rose Parade. And I've
never even seen it in person, but I walked that street, Colorado Boulevard
many time. Today on the program, I'm going to be taking a look
at the big chapters, the big stories from twenty twenty three in the ongoing
Book of History. New chapters coming in all the time, so we haven't
exactly closed the book, but we close new chapters and start new ones.
We're going to be looking at the war, a big story in Ukraine,
and the war a big story in Gaza. And how is the South African
government in the mix? Well, we'll talk about that. We'll also discuss
the Biden administration slipping out new fascist regulation news. They did it holiday style,
of course, everyone, as they often do going back one hundred and
ten years to when they created the Federal Reserve. They do it when people
aren't paying as much attention to the news. They do it over the holidays.
The holidays, as they might say euphemistically, Christmas time Hanukkah, and
of course Michelle Kwanza, then Governor DeWine from Ohio. Yeah, DeWine is
not delightful in Ohio for parents because he vetoed something a couple days ago that
was a big bill for many parents having to do with transgenderism my friends.
Yes, yes, And whether or not kids would actually be protected, well,
we'll talk about that and the idea of getting protection from an agency of
force like the mafia of the state. We'll also discuss on the border.
In fact, I might move that one up on the border. Off the
bus, Well, we'll talk about this story out of New York City with
Mayor Eric Adams now cracking down on buses coming in from Texas. And we're
going to open that one with a quick story coming out of Boston, just
to make sure that we give fair and balanced coverage to the two Northeastern cities
that seem to be most affected by this. And we'll also talk about monumental
Supreme Court cases. Plus today on the program at ten o'clock, Eric Peters
of Eric Peters Autos will join us. Jason Barker is probably gonna be with
us as well, and Tony Arterburn looks like Tony is gonna try to join
me to start the year off right from wise Wolf gold and silver exchange.
So thanks for joining me, everybody, and please don't forget decency is on
the ballot and what does it get you, Well, it gets you things
like the National Defense Authorization Act, eight hundred and eighty six billion dollars taken
from you and your progeny by a government that's now almost thirty four trillion dollars
in debt and every quarter accruing approximately another trillion in debt servicing. All right,
sorry, it's supposed to be a happy new year. Happy new year,
everybody. Okay, Yeah, the hangover is coming for some people who
have to pay the bill. It also includes a five point two percent pay
raise from members of the million terry who have not been involved in the United
States defense since the end of World War two unconstitutional actions. Remember that serviceman
also includes short term extension of warrantless surveillance of foreign nationals. Yes it does,
Yes it does. And that short term FAISA extension will just continue to
be extended because that's the way the speaker set it up. Yeah, he's
a real Christian. And of course don't forget everybody. It also includes some
very very good stuff like continuing funding for Ukraine and continuing funding for Israel to
blast goosit of pieces where there are estimates of twenty thousand dead. So there
you go. Sorry to give you the harsh news, but yes, we
are going to start with the big stories, as Joe Piscopal might have said.
And so therefore let's go to a theme from Edwin Starr because in my
estimation, and perhaps you have a different view, in my estimation, on
this New Year's Day, twenty twenty four, and of course you two could
have sung a song about it, all is not quiet on New Year's Day.
In fact, all seems to be oriented towards warfare all around the state.
Yeah, yeah, shacking y'all. Listen to Edwin Starr getting into the
beat. Yes he's got the beat, He's got the go gos oh man.
What a fantastic song, and of course a real call out to people
from the sixties generation to try to block what was going on with the United
States pushing Americans over to Vietnam for something that was just a meat grinder,
just terrible stuff. So let me show you what the meat grinder looks like.
In Gaza right now. And here's a story from antiwar dot com.
And by the way, antiwar dot com is now broadcasting with I believe it's
daily updates from Dave to Camp on YouTube. Hopefully YouTube will not just completely
crush them, but they do great work. Here's one from Brett Wilkins,
just to give you an idea of what this is like. Cashing in on
genocide. Israeli firm pitches beachfront real estate in leveled Gaza. Now, this
got a little bit of pushback, but it indicates I think it is indicative
or illustrative of some of the mindset that pervades many of the people in the
major Lukud party in the Knesset and throughout Israeli history. Actually, if we
look at some of the things that have been done to the people in Gaza,
and I've got some history, some information on that that I can provide
to you. Cashing in on genocide, Israeli firm pitches beachfront real estate in
leveled Gaza. A house on the beach is not a dream, reads an
advertisement from a company notorious for building in the occupied West Bank Palestine Defenders this
week. This came out on the twentieth condemned, and this is part of
the anti war blog by the way, so you just click over on their
blog section in their thumbnails in their menu and you'll find it. Palestine Defenders
this week condemned a proposal by an Israeli real estate developer specializing in the construction
of illegal settlements to build beachfront homes for Jewish colonists over the bombed out ruins
of Gaza. A House on the beach is not a dream, reads an
advertisement published by hare Zazahav, an Israeli company notorious for building settlements in the
illegally occupied West Bank, and it drew international attention following last week's practical preparation
for Gaza settlement conference in Tel Aviv. The ad depicts an artist rendering of
luxury homes superimposed over an actual photograph of a Gaza neighborhood destroyed by Israeli attacks.
No, this is not a joke. No, this is not a
drill. The attacks that have killed nearly twenty thousand people, half of them
women and children in the population. We don't know how many exactly killed were
women and children in the five x twenty five mile square mile area of five
mile area, and which has been made that small after decades of encroachment by
the State of Israel. And of course to criticize a state does not mean
that you are criticizing the people living under the power of the state. We
don't conflate the two because I would not want to be associated with the power
ruling over me. I try to oppose it every day with my voice.
And it's of course displaced eighty five percent of the embattled people living there two
point three million, as I mentioned, in an area that's approximately the size
of what they call the tip of New Hampshire near the Canadian border. So
here is the picture, and kudos to Code Pink actually for putting this out
there. Now there's going to be some brutal stuff here. It's all about
war in many facets. For the first forty five minutes or half hour the
program. To give you a quick recap, I've put together a presentation of
video clips for you, and I'd like to get your opinions in rockfin and
rumble Chat and also now invites your opinions on the David Knights Show inside David
Knight's Twitter feed, where the show is being broadcast on Twitter slash X.
Here's more and I'm sorry it's so brutal, but I'm going to give it
to you start of the year. Over one thousand children in Gaza have had
one or both legs amputated since October seventh. This coming from UNISEF United Nations.
So you see what you think of this, International Aid workers, this
is Kyle an'slone. Good job, Kyle. A Happy New Year to you,
Kyle. International aid workers visiting the Gaza strip are relaying the horrific situation
Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians. UNISEF reports over one thousand children have lost
legs. Israel is forcing the two point three million residents of Gaza into increasingly
small areas that lack the ability to accommodate basic needs for survival. Unic spokes
man James Elder said around one thousand children in Gaza have lost one or both
legs. I told journalists in Geneva, every single child is enduring these every
single child isn't during these ten weeks of hell, and not one of them
can escape. So I'd like to show you a little something I put together
for you everyone, and we're going to start things off with George Galloway with
his program The Mote, and I want to give you something that I think
frames and describes exactly why I chose this as the big story from twenty twenty
three, and I think so far it's the big story from twenty twenty four
and it will bleed into of course, the elections in the United States.
Here's George Galloway, the man with the best hats in the business, and
here we go. Was our well received guest on this show, and as
a Scotsman, why shouldn't he join me on guest His guest is Douglas McGregor,
one and all Douglas McGregor, who could have stayed in politics but got
out. Good for him. He's trying to speak for peace. This is
the best of Colonel Douglas McGregor. Take a look. Welcome colonel to the
mother of all talk shows. I'll talk about your new role in a minute.
But as you survey, the headlines of the top people's papers hasn't quite
filtered down to the news they give to the masses yet. But all the
top people's papers, all the top people's for are all now preparing each other
and ultimately they'll have to prepare us the public for a cataclysmic Russian victory in
Ukraine. You predicted this all along. Do you feel vindicated? I feel
better about it if this had ended earlier and fewer Ukrainians and Russians had lost
their lives and what is really a pointless conflict that never needed to happen.
It's true, isn't it that every death since the Ankara initial Draft peace Agreement
has in a sense been a death that our governments, yours and mine,
be a responsibility for because this could all have been over and hundreds of thousands
of people that are dead today would still have been alive. Oh absolutely.
If anything, I would describe this as a Washington vanity project. Lots of
people in Washington, supported by friends in London and some other European capitals,
decided that they had an opportunity to destroy Russia and that they would use Ukraine
for that purpose. And they've been building up to this for many, many
years, not just the eight years before the war broke out, actually even
earlier, which helps to explain the coup that occurred and the installation of the
Zelensky government later on. All of it was fantasy. It made no sense.
All the underlying assumptions were wrong, and the usual suspects, and the
Department of Defense, all of your retired generals and active generals, very few
of whom ever, had any practical military experience, and seldom, if ever,
bothered to study their professions, all jumped on the bandwagon predicting imminent victory
for Ukraine. And everyone lied prolifically and with great convincing rhetoric day after day
that the Russians were awful, they were losing, they had no chance to
win. They still haven't admitted the truth, which is we're looking at roughly
half a million dead Ukrainian soldiers. This evening I heard or retired generals say,
well, perhaps one hundred and twenty five thousand. Well that's a fraction
of what we know has happened. And he's still tried to make the argument
that if we just spend more money and send more equipment, Ukraine will triumph.
In reality, the Russians are advancing deliberately but slowly. I think mister
Putin is looking for a negotiating partner among the European states. He's not interested
in marching to the Polish border. But as I keep telling everyone, if
we're stupid enough to refuse to negotiate, if we won't bring this stupid and
pointless war to an end, not only will we destroy the Ukrainian nation,
but we'll end up moving Russian forces that much further towards the West, which
I thought was the very thing we wanted to avoid. Well, folks,
I have a different opinion. I think they're going to try to maintain some
sort of conflict status, low level conflict status as they see Ukraine partitioned.
And this is exactly what they wanted if they couldn't beat Putin, they wanted
to set up some new form of Iron curtain and turn that bit of Ukraine
that is left after Putin is victorious and Ukraine sues for peace, and they're
going to continue to have some sort of always simmering, always bubbling conflict to
make Russia become it's bogeyman at infinitum. Starting in twenty sixteen, of course,
they really started to push this for no reason whatsoever. And now they're
adding that new chapter as perhaps they closed that chapter of the Ukraine War,
as Douglas McGregor mentions, they're opening up the Gaza chapter new chapters in that
after decades of attacks, and so let's shift over into some very good information
from again George Galloway, this time with Christopher Hedges, and I think he
frames the new side of things over in Gaza with Israel and describes precisely what
all of this is like right now Gaza. Chris, We've both been across
this course many times before, but there's a particular frenzy and scale to the
current slaughter, even by comparison with previous ones. Wouldn't you say? Yes?
It really at this point rivals the massive ethnic cleansing campaigns of nineteen forty
eight and nineteen forty nine, when seven hundred and fifty thousand Palestinians were pushed
from their homes a series of massacres Darius Scene, hundreds of Palestinians killed,
including many women and children. Again another massive ethnic cleansing campaign in nineteen sixty
seven, when Israel seized what was left of independent Palestinian territory about twenty two
percent of Palestinian land in the West Bank and Gaza. It rivals that in
terms of its brutality. The noises out of Jerusalem on the part of the
net In Yahoo government, as well as the long calls for the removal of
Palestinians not only from the West Bank and Gaza, but from inside Israel,
the Palestinians with Israeli citizenship that has been central tenant of many of the senior
ministers in this far right government, the most extreme government in Israel's history.
I don't think the word genocide at this point is inappropriate. Cutting off food,
water, medicine, fuel, hospitals now are on the cusp of some
have already shut down. I mean, this is just absolutely appalling. And
of course what's even more appalling is the complicity of the international community, or
let's call the certainly Washington and Europe. Washington as the Biden administration is vetoed
as you know, the calls for ceasefire, even a pause to get supplies
in. It's really absolutely stunning, and I think it's clear that either all
or part of the Gaza strip will be bombed in a rubble. The northern
area, the area where one point one million Palestinians have had to evacuate,
as being smashed pounded day in and day out. I was in Sarajevo during
the war. We were being hit with about three or four hundred shells a
day, but the numbers of dead and wounded were nothing such as we see
in Gaza, hundreds five hundred a day, seven hundred a day, and
then thousands of wounded. Of course, we have to always remember that half
of the residents in Gaza, roughly two point two two point three million people,
over half of them are children. So it's I'm like, you know,
extremely upset as somebody who spent I spent seven years covering Gaza, months
of my life in Gaza. But I'm also just it's draw dropping on the
part of Washington and European capitals as they sit there and do nothing in front
of this learn. Indeed, if you try and speak out against it,
your censor your attacked as an anti Semite. And I mean, we've gone
from the absurdity of criticizing Israel as a form of anti Semitism to criticizing genocide
as a form of anti Semitism. I think he's absolutely right, and I
have to tell you, you know, as I've mentioned previously, I went
to Boston University. My last name is Goldsmith. Boston University's population is eighty
five percent Jewish students, and I encountered a lot of Zionist, non secular,
nonpracticing, religiously Jewish people there who were very Zionist, nonpracticing Jewish people
who really could care less about their religion but cared more about Israel. And
many of the things that I would hear about the Palestinians were just shocking.
It was amazing while I was there, and of course they thought I was
Jewish, but then after they found out it's an English and Irish name,
I didn't hear that from those people. Again, it was very very strange,
very strange stuff. And I'm seeing this manifested now twenty something years later
or more, and it's stunning. I'm just revisiting that mindset that I saw
so many times, and I'd like to visit some other information for you too
here in the David Knight Show. My name is Gardner Goldsmith. It's good
to have you here, everyone, and I want to give you some information
that oftentimes I've heard conservatives on talk radio say, well, if the if
people are going to say that the Israelis are starving and shutting down the water
of the Palestinians, the Gozens have been in charge. It's their fault.
Really. After of course, the Israeli government and Benjamin not net Yahoo intentionally
openly more than once have been caught saying they wanted the Gosens in there because
they wanted to have an oppositional force that would not negotiate with them. But
in addition to that, let's look at some of the history about the water
crisis. This coming from nineteen ninety eight. I dug this one up from
the Palestine Israel Journal, a Palestinian perspective on the water crisis. Total water
resources in the Middle East region are made up of two components, surface water
and ground water. The main surface water resource is the Jordan River basin,
with the Sea of Galilee as the major regional water reservoir. It has a
storage capacity of four thousand million cubic meters mcm or about one trillion US gallons
and receives an average annual replenishment of about eight hundred and forty cm so that
be cubic meters. The Yarmac River is also an integral part of the Jordan
River basin. Its headwaters join the Jordan River ten kilometers six point six miles
below the Sea of Galilee six point one miles. Groundwater is the most important
source of freshwater supply in the area very important and consists of the main West
Bank aquifer systems as well as the Gaza Strip aquifer. About six hundred million
cubic meters of the annual rainfall is estimated to infiltrate the soil to replenish the
aquifers, and about forty million cubic meters of rain each year percolates to recharge
the coastal aquifer underlying the Strip. Israel currently has control. This is in
nineteen ninety eight over a major part of the Jordan Basin waters. Israel,
Syria and Jordan abstract four hundred and fifty million cubic meters annually from the Yarmac
River, and Israel siphons a further four hundred and seventy million cubic meters from
the Sea of Galilee. This reduces the downstream Jordan to a fetid trickle.
In Gaza, ground water is the only source of fresh water, with an
estimated potential of sixty five million cubic meters per year at present, though the
aquifer is being over pumped one hundred million cubic meters annually in quantities exceeding the
replenishment rate. Resulting in the gradual invasion of sea water. Following its occupation
of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in nineteen sixty seven, Israel implement
in stringent policies that prevented Palestinians from fully utilizing the West Bank's groundwater. These
included the expropriation of wells belonging to absentee owners. And don't forget, of
course, the Israeli government can make anyone they want and absentee. As we
noted last week, they were holding hundreds of people for over a year without
charge. Those would be called hostages in many areas. So if the Israelis
can use the argument that they are going into Gaza and killing innocent civilians to
rescue hostages, then is it possible that someone could make the argument that the
Gazen authority is also perfectly justified to go in and kill Israeli civilians because they're
skewing hostages that the Israelis have held without trial. Could they use that as
well? Because it's very perverse, and the problem that I see as a
person who lives in the United States and has to pay taxes or else go
to prison here, the problem that I see is that they force all of
us to be implicated in this problem. We either continue to pay to see
people slaughtered and have all sorts of disparate arguments about who is right and who
is wrong in this decades long battle. Once a nation state was established by
Western authorities and land was taken, that they took land to use the active
voice there year after year and killed thousands year after year. I would rather
not have to be part of this. I don't want to be in that
philosophy class where they say you are part of a jungle a jungle tour group
and you are waylaid by a warlord. You have twenty people in the group.
The warlord hands you a gun and tells you and you can't shoot the
warlord for some reason and tells you you must kill one of the other nineteen
or all of them will die. I don't want to be a person who
is put in that situation. I want to be able to refuse without going
to prison. I would have to make a decision to kill, and people
can say, well, you do it under duress. I'm still pulling the
trigger. It's my actions, and a little bit later I'm going to go
through something that Richard Grove. He did a fantastic job last night in Grand
Theft World covering the writings of frenchmen at Tien de la Bote called We'll just
tell you about it real quick here and let me show you where is this
got it here? It is it's the politics of involuntary servitude. And he
wrote it, I think before he was even twenty years old, and it
is about how even when you are under duress, you still have to make
a moral choice and that is difficult. Here is a last bit on this
story about the water. There's a lot here. I will repost this on
my Twitter. I haven't done this yet because I want to phrase this right
when I put this out. In some due to restrictions on water allocations imposed
by Israel, the water situation in Palestine is approaching a critical phase that was
in nineteen ninety eight that hinders economic development and threatens the livelihood of the Palestinian
population. It is clear than an apportionment of water rights between the conflicting parties
should be considered on a more equitable basis. Now, let's get into a
little bit more about what's going on in the Middle East. Here is Max
Bloomentdhal and Aaron Motte of The Gray Zone describing some of the on the ground
situation the news, which is that the government of South Africa has invoked the
Genocide Convention. This is a highly significant there, it is. Thanks for
getting that up. I don't know if you have anything you want to say
about this, Aaron, or what you think about the significance of this invocation.
Well, it's obviously long overdue. It should have happened, you know,
months ago, but it's good it's finally happening now. And of course
it's fitting that it comes from South Africa, which, like Israel, was
once a US client state whose crimes were protected by the US, and South
Africa, having liberated itself from that, knows a lot about apartheid and living
under a supremacist regime. So good for them for taking the leadership, finally
the moral leadership and invoking international law to protect the people of Gaza from this
generosadal regime. And again having and there's another historical overlap here in that Israel
was a key supporter of the apartheid regime in South Africa, especially when the
US wasn't able to provide all the support to the apartheid regime that it wanted
to because of you know, public criticism and oversight. It got Israel to
do the dirty work for it, as is Israel did all around the world
for the US when it needed to evase scrutiny. So really symbolic and important
that South Africa's taking this measure actually fun. Fact, Arn Milton, who
is one of the most famous Masad agents, who ran a studio in Hollywood
called Regent Studios where he employed and mentored the future Israeli Prime Minister. Yeah,
you're Lapede helped South Africa get nuclear technology through the nuclear technology that Israel
obtained. Israel's very very sorry that South Africa is no longer in apartheid state.
They work together very closely. They shared a lot of values in Israel
as anachronistic in history as the last real apartheid state in implementing genocide in order
to preserve its own ethnic purity. So I do want to mention we can
leave it there, but I do want to make sure that because Max offered
such an a powerful punch there that was quite a jab to the Jaw,
I do want to mention a couple things. First, regarding South Africa,
of course I've a long time admired the Zulu tribe there. They did not
join up with the ANC. So obviously, even within the give and take
between the South African apartheid regime which did some terrible things in South Africa and
then what emerged from that, which was the pro collectivist seizure of property ANC.
And of course we know that Nelson Mandela's wife Winnie was an absolute criminal
element. They've got her on video talking about how they were going to necklace
people, which has put tires around people who are tied up, tires filled
with gasoline or kerosene or diesel fuel and then light them on fire and just
kill people. I've actually seen video of it. It's terrible. I mean,
you know, seen video of you know, that sort of thing.
Nowadays, there's so much video available of atrocities that it doesn't mean very much.
But it is not good to see, that's for sure. And I'm
just seeing video, you know, I'm not there on the ground. I
don't experience this sort of thing from family members, losing family members, that
sort of stuff, but it does really bring it home. However, Max
mentioned, you know, their ethnic purity in Israel, and this is something
I want to allow him to embellish on this because there's more here and I
don't want to leave that just hanging there. And of course it's quite a
mixed bag when you look at various powers and policies coming out of South Africa.
But he makes an excellent point there, the last real apartheid state in
implementing genocide in order to preserve its own ethnic purity. That's exactly what's happening
right now. So the moral force of this invocation by South Africa is highly
significant. It's an eighty four page document. It came out like two hours
ago, so I haven't had a chance to I'm probably not going to read
all eighty four pages. It's not going to happen. Yeah, he's he's
a busy dude, but I always admire his excellent, excellent work. Now
I want to turn to Scott Ritter talking about Palestine as well, and he
was on with George Galloway and uh, here's what Scott Ridder said. Of
course, Scott Ritter formerly in the military, former nuclear inspector, and looks
like, you know, some people don't like some of his personal background or
something like that I am not gonna judge him one way or another another,
and even saying that, you know, might make people wonder what's guard talking
about. You know, there was some some some case where evidently like he
was accused of trying to talk to an underage young woman and it was like
a sting operation. Uh, it could have been a setup. I don't
know, but he is just excellent on on this stuff and I don't think
he was ever charged with anything. So I look at it as this guy's
been working in politics for a long time. He's got a lot of enemies.
I don't think they were able to make that thing stick. And I
take him for his words here, So here we go. Oh, then
they withdrew to prepared positions. That's the final act of a raid, their
prepared positions. So he's talking about he's talking about the Hamas fighters. After
October seventh, they went back into the city and that is typical of a
well performed raid. And they went back and now he's talking about the Israeli
response. Oh, then they withdrew to prepared positions. That's the final act
of a raid. Their prepared positions have happened to be underground as they are
wont to be if you want to survive with Israeli air supremacy, et cetera.
And Israel has gone into Gaza knowing that they're not going to close with
and destroy the Hamas enemy through firepower maneuver in classic milllitary terms, that they're
going to instead carry out collective punishment against the citizens of Guys or the innocent
Palestinian people. And they're not even hiding it now. In addition to these
horrific visuals, I mean, you know, raising the flag over a hospital
really look. I come from an organization whose defining moment is characterized by marines
raising the flag on Mount Serbachi. Of the two hundred and fifty marines that
went up that mountain, twenty seven lived. Twenty seven out of two hundred
and fifty. Because it was a real war, a real war, we
earned the right to plant that flag on Mount Serbachi. These Israelis that put
the flag above the Aushifa hospital, they should be ashamed of themselves. I
hope that their pictures are taken, that their faces are recognized and broadcast around
the world. So wherever they go to try and get somebody to buy them
a beer, for being a man, for raising the flag instead people spitting
their face. That's all they deserve if they can walk out of Gaza alive.
Is this battling over yet? Hamas is still there. There's a lot
of fighting, Leve George. I don't want to sound like I'm glorifying more.
I'm not. My ideal solution right now is a ceasefire that brings an
end to this conflict, gets the Israeli troops out of Gaza, gets peacekeeper
troops in Gaza, and gets humanitarian supplies to the people that so desperately need
it, so that the international community can begin the business of talking about how
do we make sure that this never happens again. That should be everybody's priority.
It should have been Israel's priority on October eighth, not to say how
do we exact revenge? But how do we prevent this from happening again?
How do we prevent an October seventh from ever happening again? Because everything that's
transpired since October seventh has turned international opinion away from Israel, and Israel taking
a different stance on October eighth, the stance that said we understand why this
happened, This is painful for us, but we need now to recognize that
the Palestinian people have to have a homeland. The only way to disarm Hamas
is to give the Palestinian people a homeland, and then Hamas loses. It's
right, it's need for militancy, but that's not what Israel's doing. They
claim they're trying to defeat Hamas. But understand this, Hamas isn't just fighters
to be killed. It's an idea. It's an ideology. This area called
the Philadelphia Corda. I want to pause it right there. We'll get back
to more of the gray zone in just a minute, folks, But you
know, one of the things I want to mention there is and again,
hats off. I took off my top Pat a little while ago, but
hats off to the people at the Young Turks Again. You know, I've
never been a massive fan. And by the way, Huxley orwell mentions ask
Gritter about Pat Tillman. Yes, I'd like to investigate that a little bit
more more. But thank you, Thank you Huxy or well Over at Twitter
on the David Knight at Liberty Arrian twitter feed. Appreciate your comments there Huxley,
and I do want to mention I try to remind myself to try to
try to address some of these things in a way that would be skeptical myself
obviously, but also to be open to people that in the past I might
have found maybe I disagree with them a lot, but all of a sudden,
you know, I'm getting some good information. I try to keep the
doors open and at Young Turks. Uh. You know, thank unger Uger
was very good in his debate against uh what's this what's his name from Douglas
Murray from England on the show Uncensored and Uh. He brought up some very
good points about the numbers of deaths and things like that, and Douglas Murray
was just full of of invective. And I won't go through it. You
know, shown it in the past if you want to watch this. I
went through a large segment of it on Thursday on the David Knight Show and
also on Liberty Conspiracy that night at six o'clock, so you can find either
one on Rumble Rockfinn. But I also want to bring up something else,
which is that he mentions the hospital there and you see he gets very fired
up there. He has that sort of you know, he's been in the
military and he recognizes what soldiers are supposed to do or not supposed to do,
that sort of thing. It seems he has this this fire in him
and I want to mention he's absolutely right about that hospital. And not only
that, the folks at the Young Turks have correctly reported. I made sure
I made to know this. In the northern region. There are no hospitals
left in Gaza, and seventy five percent of the hospitals have been destroyed or
they're not working anymore. They were destroyed. The Israelis destroyed them. Not
to use the passive voice, so there's much more everyone. And I want
to take a second here just to turn to the rock fin Chat and welcome
you on this first day of twenty twenty four Denver out of Way. Thank
you for being there. And I know a lot of people say at a
boy out of way or out of way, a way to go, but
thanks for being there. Birdhouse Blues also thank you very much. And I'm
checking on Rumble. According to the streaming system, it says that we are
going out on Rumble, but I'm not able to watch and monitor Rumble right
now. So, Birdhouse, I know that you are often on the Rumble
chat for my show, so I wonder if you are in Rockfin because we
might not be streaming on Rumble. We will see, would I certainly hope
so, because we get so many great viewers there, and one of the
people who is always a great person to have with us is coming in with
us right now for a few minutes because I want to discuss something that I
think could be coming in the future, and it's censorship about things beyond the
jabs, censorship about things beyond the so called elections that we're so honest and
perhaps it might even be Oh, if you are critical of the state of
Israel and you can't be that in Florida because you could get fined. I
want to bring in Jason Barker right now, Jason Barker, Knights of the
Storm. Happy New Year, Jason, how are you hey? Good morning,
Happy New Year. I need to send you a monocle to go with
that top hat. I know, monopoly man, right, Yeah, there
you go. Hi, Mammy, how are you? Absolutely hey? Happy
New Year man, and thank you very much for joining joining me on The
David Night Show. It's good to have you here, my friends. Awesome.
I'm looking forward to this year. You know that we're starting with a
dumpster fully engulfed in flight, so you know, I don't know how they
keep it going with the cost of fuel, but that dumster burning, I
know. I think John Carey is going to be there to rescue us all
from that terrible additive to climate change, right, wink wink, right,
unbelievable. Jason, I specifically am very curious as we start this year.
Last night, Angry Tiger was broadcasting live and you brought up something that you
brought up also on Nights of the Storm on Saturday, and people can check
out Nights of the Storm, why don't you let them know where they can
find you first of all, to the folks who might not be familiar with
you, and when they can find you. Well, if you just go
to the Nights of Thestorm dot com and you go to our little schedule page
or whatever, it's going to tell you when you can find us, what
time, what platforms, and then also yourself, Gardner and other people,
other great people. So that's the easiest way to find out where to watch
us. It's a great sight and the artwork's great. You've got talent,
you got so many different skills, it's awesome. I want to mention right
off the bat that you mentioned something last night on Angry Tiger Show. Chris
is in there to speculate as well, and it is. It is purely
speculation right now, but it's based on a certain amount of information that you
have, things that have happened to you on YouTube. And again, you
know, we know that YouTube has been censorious of channels, but now we're
talking about live chat. Tell us what happened, and I think, you
know, we'll go to the top of the hour and then Eric Peters Peters
will join us. I mean, he'll probably have some opinions, but I'd
love to get your explanation of this and any theories you might have. Tell
folks what happened to you recently? Sure, so, I was watching Tiger's
Show. Uh was I think Thursday or Wednesday? He does the Tiger's Den
and I left a comment in there. He was talking about bombastic reporting.
You know how that makes us look stupid. Yeah, we're trying to get
the truth out there, but we get lumped in with these folks that report
on hollow earth flatter if you know, hey, that may be true.
I don't know, but we can't prove it, you know. So anyway,
I had to comment something to along the lines of you know, you
know Pfizer's killing kids, and you report on that, and then you get
you get censored, like like nobody follows your channel. But then you report
on this bombastic stuff and you get tens of thousands of views, you know,
and they censored it in real time. In other words, what happened
was I hit the go button, you know, make the comment, and
it was great out and only I could see it. So then and I
was out in the garage with my phone at the time. So then I
come back in and I'm sitting here watching on my computer, and two comments
were made under my account that I didn't make, talking about guns, and
in the context of what we were talking about, it's almost like it was
a call to violence. But I didn't make those comments. The scary thing
is that that conversation where I think I was talking to Harps or somebody you
know who Harps is from the chat. Sure, this was comments made on
rock Fin months ago when we were discussing what a good reliable handgun was that
wasn't too expensive and they clipped those. I assume it's AI. It's kind
of monitoring what we're doing and kind of putting that stuff in their back pocket,
and it'll be weaponized against us in the future. So now I know
Chris. Chris Graves speculated that it could potentially be someone who was just trying
to mess with you, But that would require you had two different devices on
two different ISPs, right, So that would require some pretty intense focus on
you, and then it would require a some sort of search that this person
could have done to get old comments from you to put those comments in there.
Well, I think that the you know, whether it's a person or
whether it's AI, it's the same thing, and I think AI could do
it a lot more efficiently. And as we're rolling out five G and Starlink
and boasting our AI boosting it up, I think we're going to see more
things like this where people are kind of set up. Yeah, it could
be targeted. Yeah, well, let me let me ask you, Jason,
I should I should ask for my own distinction here. Maybe the audience
is thinking this same thing when we when we're talking AI. I was assuming
AI involved with YouTube and Google and alphabet just to just to mess with people.
Do you mean maybe AI that someone else is using another individual not associated
with the corporation. I don't know. It could be either or but I
know YouTube as part of the whole Google conglomerate. I just find it strange
that the comments that they chose to take that I made in the past and
a completely different context, was from from Rockfin. Yeah. Yeah, that's
a completely different platform. So I think everything's going to get married and integrated.
It could be a government agency, it could be a person using AI.
I don't know, but I don't think anywhere is going to be safe.
Well, Max b on Rockfin says, I saw Jason and Angus talking
about this Saturday, pretty creepy and yeah, absolutely, and Birdhouse boost says,
I think geesebusters experienced the same thing last week. That is strange.
Well, you know, if word starts getting out, then people are going
to start to investigate it, and word is going to start getting out if
this is this continues, So I wonder why it's unless people, you know,
if the corporation is doing this, they're probing, They're they're seeing what
sort of reaction they're getting and if individuals are doing this, they're going to
get caught. So I don't understand. Do you have any thoughts on why
they might be doing this? Uh? Well, I think it's to set
people up. I mean, I was expecting to get a knock on the
door, you know, the next day, saying, hey, why are
you doing a call to violence on online? You know, because they can
they can weaponize your free speech against you for things you actually say. But
what if they can put words in your mouth? Can they do that?
And That's what I'm thinking. And maybe they're kind of testing it out to
see. And I don't know why they picked me. Maybe it's because I
made the Pfiser comment. Yeah, that's what got me kicked off you too
for our channel, right right? Wow, this is absolutely this is strange.
Well I'm glad you got the information out, Jason, And let me
let me just ask you, Jason. You know, as as David knows,
a lot of people were introduced to you because of your great work in
the military to try to work to get people informed about how they could get
exceptions exemptions to the job. Tell people about what you're seeing now with the
jabs and the military, and what the status is for people who are in
there now or the military asking people to come back. Is it still mandatory
for people in the military to have to get the mRNA JAB Can they get
these exceptions these exemptions? Is it still pretty much the way it was when
you left? Or is it that they're not going to be mandating them and
they're asking these people to come back. So, as far as I know,
it's not mandated anymore. It's been repealed. There was an executive order
that they pretty much pull the plug on, but you know, they still
suggest it. You know, they want people to do the right thing,
and so they say the right thing. But the problem is that's that that
particular vaccine. What happens when it's another vaccine, right, you know?
And and I think the people they're not getting the numbers they need right now
because people are a little bit bitter about it. You might get a couple
of people that go back in because you know, they got to feed their
families. We got this massive inflation going on right now, and people may
have gotten out and maybe they couldn't get a good job, so some of
them may go back. But I think it's gonna be like a last resort
thing for them, because you know, we got treated really bad, like
really bad. I'm not just talking about people that got kicked out. It's
like while you were in we got treated bad, right, you know,
like a second class citizen. But there's nothing to stop them from just rolling
out a different vaccine and making that man. Which is again, I've taken
a lot of vaccines in the military, and I didn't have a problem with
it. I kind of would now now that I know more about vaccines.
But it was the fact that it was an mRNA and I knew it was
not good. So that's why, you know, I really dug into that
one. And then I found out about about you know, the using the
hamburger they call them the BLT mice when they spliced baby parts in it.
No, I can't do this. I can't be part of this. Well,
I'm sure it'll be fine in the future. They'll just aerosolize it and
everything would be totally fine for you. You know, they'll put it in
dust in the air, and you know, Jason, the thing that gets
me is I was the same as you you know, as you know,
I had to take hydroxychloroquin in the nineties because I had an elevated immune system,
so I understand what autoimmune diseases are like. You know, I've met
tons of people with loopus. I've met women who have had reactions to silicone
breast implants, the Dow Corning silicone, which they knew in the sixties,
was an adjuvant that would spur up the immune system and cause loopus like symptoms.
They knew it. They knew this stuff. And what I found just
absolutely disturbing was I knew that the mRNA could could inspire transfaction and get into
the cells and start making the body its own machine against itself. So there
was no way I was going to take one of those things. That's exactly
what I thought would happen as well. When you talk about and like David
always says, and like I always say, how do you turn it off?
And if you're constantly making an enemy to fight, it's almost like the
United States government, you know, we're going to create our own enemies to
fight. That's what your body is doing. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
absolutely, Well Jason, Look, I will let you go, but I
want to wish you a Mary Mary happy happy New Year, and let me
just ask you what do you like to do on New Year's Day? As
maybe Bono would sing, is all quiet on New Year's Day? Or what
do you do? It's going to be quiet around here. I'm gonna be
watching these guys. They're building a new shed for me outside, so I'll
be watching them do the work and you know, kind of geeking out on
the heavy equipment. They kind of like this stuff. Oh that's great stuff,
man, And congratulations on doing what you did, and thank you for
doing what you did in the military. I can't you know, I can't
speak for others in the military, but I can speak as a person who
saw a man of principle acting on principle. And I know my dad served
in the Navy. If he were around today, I think he would have
asked me to thank you as well. And he would have stood up in
your presence and approached you. Even though he had a bum hit towards towards
the end of his life, he would have stood up and greeted you at
the door and said thank you, sir. Well, I do want to
say one thing. My friend Zach, he made it. He didn't get
the shot, and you know that support he was my first battle buddy or
my first deployment battle buddy, that he spent time with me downrange and we
talked to each other. And without that support network, there were people in
there who did support me. I don't know if I could have made it,
and I'm glad to hear that he's going to make it. He put
in his retirement paperwork and he's got like maybe a month left and he will
get his retirement and he'd get the shot. So there were people that did
it. I'm not the only one. There were people out there, so
hats off to them and salute to them. Well, hats off to you,
Jason. I've got the hat over there. And it was funny,
Jason. You know, I put the hat on earlier today just to see
if I looked completely ridiculous with the bald head, and and you know it
is. You know, the lighting I keep it and it's a little bit
low here. It's not super super bright. That the screen provides certain lighting
based on whatever screen you're looking at. If you're if you're watching a very
bright screen, then of course you'll be more lit up like this, that
sort of thing. So I had it on. I was like, yeah,
I look like I'm from a Dickens story. But I wanted to do
something special and something fun. And I appreciate everything that you've done, sir,
and my hat is off to you. It's great to know you're here.
And by the way, after I take the hat off, I get
a little red mark there, so maybe it's just my brain burn it up.
I really appreciate everything you've done. Jason Happy twenty twenty four. Brother,
all right, take care of guard event, you got it, Jason
Barker good Man, good Man, and I want to continue with our coverage
of some of what is happening in the Middle East, and so for that,
I want to now turn to more from the Gray Zone, as they
give us some insight into what happens behind the scenes there that sometimes we might
not see, but because there are cameras available now we can't. And of
course this is some heavy stuff. And in a little bit will be hopefully
joined by by Eric Peters. And I see someone's trying to reach me on
my phone, so we'll see whether they're not. Eric Peters can join us.
But here is a little something more from the Gray Zone, this area
called the Philadelphia Corridormember, you probably you know about that Democrat. I remember
back in the day democracy now, they always used to report on Israel's One
of the only networks than reporting on Israel's occupation of this area between Gaza's Rafa
City and the Egyptian side, the Philadelphia Quarter. That's where Rachel Corey was
killed. The bulldozers were taking out all the homes there. That's when they
created that corridor. So if the Israeli military gets there again, they can
trap the Palestinian population there and then and put political pressure on Egypt and say
we're not going to you're all dying. You need to get out to Egypt.
We're only going to let this happen if you take hundreds of thousands of
people. And then they start to drain the sea because they couldn't catch the
fish, and they assume that Hamas will be drained as well, because they
are the people. They're among the people. So the strategy in this three
tiered military assault on Gaza, which has not achieved its objectives yet, the
strategy is genocide, and we need to see it for what it is.
The hospital are key to that because without the hospitals, there's no way of
anyone getting treatment unless they go out to Egypt. You know, Maxim on
your point about Hamasa's fighting capabilities, I'm wondering if you saw this quote from
Guiora Island, who's a retired major general, former head of Visual's Nationalist Curity
Council. He said, from a professional point of view, I must give
credit to their resilience. I cannot see any signs of collapse of the military
abilities of Hamas, nor in their political strength to continue to leave Gaza.
Yeah, that's Jiorailand, who is a former major general, very high ranking
figure in the Israeli military, who's now at the Israeli state sponsored think tank,
the Institute for National Security Studies, And he's the guy who, by
the way, recommended that Israel create not only famine, but spawn disease across
Gaza to force the population to leave. But you know, I mean,
you get candor from these characters, and he is acknowledging that Hamas cannot be
militarily defeated, it can't be confronted head on. But if you understand who
Giora Eland is, I mean, this is someone who's always recommended disproportionate force
against civilians, then you understand he's not calling for an end to the war
or a ceasefire. He's calling for an intensification of the war against civilians.
You know, at the same time, you have this acknowledgment that wasn't present
before among key veterans, like the highest ranking figures in the Israeli military elite,
that the objective of eradicating Hamas or defeating Hamas, as the US and
the Biden administration understand it, is delusional. Here's Dan Halutes, the former
Israeli Army Chief of Staff, former had of the Israeli Air Force. He
says that Israel has lost the war against Hamas and Gozli. He means they've
lost the military war. And he said that the real victory will be the
removal of Netin Yahoo. Who oh, there's a consensus within the Israeli military
intelligence apparatus, the military elite that Netsin Yahoo is at fault for October seventh
and for this failure, and they want him out. Here's one more.
This is Michael Michael Millstein, former senior Israeli intelligence officer, criticizing statements from
Israel leaders that Hamas is at a breaking point. He said, quote,
They've been saying this for a while that Hamas is collapsing, but it's just
not true. Every day we're facing tough battles. Yeah, and the question
is how much longer can Israel go tempting to implement this three tiered plan while
it's taking so many casualties in the Gaza Strip. This is a very casualty
advert society. I always make the point that Israel pioneered UAV unmanned aerial vehicle
drone technology because it could not withstand casualties. This started during the Lebanon invasion.
When it entered the Lebanese Civil War. It disrupts Israeli politics and Israeli
society too much to take hundreds of casualties. They're now well over the one
to sixty mark, and they're hiding casualties. For sure. Many of the
casualties they're hiding are people on the verge of death on Israel, in Israeli
hospitals which have the highest level of technology and are keeping likely hundreds of men
barely alive. We'll pause it right there. Obviously, very terrible stuff to
see, and of course they there are more points to bring up that I
want to discuss in a more philosophical way. When we talk about war,
the idea of warfare percolates to use that term all through philosophy, going back
to people like John Locke. And I'll just mention this now and I'll bring
this up again later in the program here in the David Night Show. I'm
Gardner Goldsmith filling in for David Knight here on this first of twenty twenty four,
and I just want to mention John Locke, in his second Treatise of
Government, tried to arrange what he thought was a logical, syllogistic approach towards
the justification for the state. He is called a natural rights philosopher, but
he actually is not. He actually is coming up with natural rights excuses and
beards for the so called social contract, which is actually a government imposition.
It's not a contract in any way whatsoever in society outside of the state.
Society is the set of bonds and cures, the cultural things that we create
ourselves through voluntary interaction. That's society. Philosophically and in linguistics, government is
or the state. The police is that which requires us to join it.
It's that which is the political entity and forces us to pay for it.
It is involuntary. So if we look at the impositions on society, it
is always understandable and arguable to say that the state is sociopathic. It runs
contrary to that which we can create ourselves through society, and it is always
imposed on us against our will. So Locke tried to come up with a
justification, claiming that if we lived in the so called state of nature,
we would be at each other's throats and we would be in what he called
a state of war against each other. And so he then came up with
his excuse, which was and it was erroneous and erroneous statement. He says,
therefore, people come together to form the state for their mutual protection.
Well, if it is voluntary, it's not a state. That's actually a
business arrangement. We're coming together to form our own arrangement. That's voluntary.
It's not a state. That's an agreement, that's a club, it's whatever.
It's not the state. The state exists when there is someone forced to
pay for it, when there is someone who doesn't want to be part of
it, that is the state. And so he claims that they come together
to stop this state of war where people can pray on each other, perpetual
predation within the state of nature. But what he doesn't understand is from within
the state of nature, we can come up with our own arrangements, and
we often do. We don't necessarily not have rules in the state of nature.
The rules are imposed on us under the state, which means that the
state is perpetual war against us. The state is the very thing that John
Locke claimed the state was there to prevent predation, perpetual predation. I want
to take an opportunity now to give you a little something for the holiday,
last bit of music that I think you might enjoy, and also to bring
up something from David Night a little bit later. But right now I put
together a little something that you might like. And since we're closing off the
holidays here it is Hey no, hell no, hell no, h h
Happy New Year everyone. You know, it's funny looking at the animals there.
I actually I remember a lot of my dreams, and I dreamt that
a carousel cat, which is an African cat that they've domestic and domesticated.
In some cases they actually have a an overabundance of them. They kill a
lot of fowl in Africa that they would rather see alive. I dreamt that
a characal cat had come into our house and was sleeping on my pillow and
was it was wild, but for some reason it got along great with me
and it was playing around with me and stuff, and I thought, oh,
this is terrific. So with those with those dreams in mind, I
just want to bring back the concept that the idea that the state is your
friend is a dream, and the idea that the state when they say Israel
has a right to protect itself, which later on Liberty Conspiracy, i'll play
you some of the vivik Ramashwami argument about that that is an erroneous statement.
No state has any rights, only individuals have rights. So finally, to
round things up, before we were joined by Eric Peters, and it was
my mistake. I didn't send Eric the right link to be able to hook
up up with us on video, and I'll be apologetic to Eric. Thank
you for joining us. Eric. But here is Max Bumenthal talking about the
right for Israel to exist. Oh sorry about that. That's that's Aaron Monte.
By the way. Let me go back because you're not seeing the screen.
Okay, there we go. Yeah, all right, here we go,
well, recognize Israel's so called right to exist. Why should anybody have
to affirm the right to exist of this insane state that is hell bent on
killing everybody that's not in its own ethnic group. It's just such an insane
demand. And that's a demand that guarantees there will never be any peace because
you know, people have the right to exist, there's another right to exist,
especially if their existence is premise on destroying everyone else's existence. And so
Biden is complicit in all this, and they've decided they're gonna just you know,
it doesn't matter to them, even though Biden's approval ratings now are the
lowest of any modern presidency heading into a tough election. That Gallopers put that
out, they don't care that. That's how commitdity is to who ISRAELI dominant?
Yeah, I mean what they don't have. It shows they don't have
a right to exist. I mean, first of all, states, countries,
they don't have rights like individuals do. That's just phony. So Israel's
right to self defense, these are just phony talking points. But when when
they say Israel's right to exist, they don't mean a right to exist,
They mean a right to exist as a Jewish exclusivist apartheid state. The Palestinian
Liberation Organization in nineteen eighty eight, ahead of Sorry in nineteen ninety, ahead
of the Madrid Talks the beginning of the failed and calamitous peace process, recognize
Israel's right to exist, but they would not recognize Israel's right to exist as
a Jewish state. Why because well, just within Israel's nineteen forty eight borders,
to the extent they even exist, there are some one point five to
two million Palestinian citizens who would whose rights would be formally subjugated if the Palestinian
authority, representing its Palestinians before the world, were to recognize Israel as a
so called Jewish state. And then you have it. I believe it there,
folks. And of course the main point there is that then goes to
the personal rights of individuals to defend themselves. The way people conflate we civilians,
us civilians with the state. Even some of the foreign terrorists who have
been caught and have been actually real terrorists, they think the same thing that
the government is by the people for the people of the people, which it
is not. And so I need to make sure that I mentioned that in
so many areas of our lives, the ability to control our own lives has
been taken from us, you know, whether it's communications being run by the
FCC, or its products that you buy, or even the way that those
products are transported, or that even now the cars they're going after our cars,
which actually is a pretty darn good transition for our guest, who has
pulled through despite my earlier error, and should have been with us about ten
o'clock today, but I didn't send them the right link, and so we
get to introduce with a nice theme, a man who can talk about being
on the road all the road again. I just can't wait to get all
the road again. A lovel is making use with friends. I can't wait
to get all the road again. All the road again, go and play.
Thank you, Willie Nelson, And now let's bring in our guest.
He is none other than Eric Peters of Eric Peters Autos, and he is
a very decent man for coming in the way he has Eric. Welcome and
happy New Year. I'm so glad that I get to see you, and
I apologized for messing up on the link earlier, and even night It's okay
at least we were able to fix it between ourselves, unlike that Dodge Dark
that I had to deal with last week. Tell people what you experienced.
This is beautiful. Oh it was incredible. Okay, So you know,
the test car, the car that I was test driving for purposes of reviewing
last week, was a brand new twenty twenty four Dodge Dart. First couple
of days went fine. The third day I went out to drive it and
it wouldn't start. You pushed the star's button and the headlights flashed, and
so my immediate instinctual response was, okay, probably has a dead and or
weak battery. So I go to my toolbox, I get out the old
multimeter and I checked the backattery and sure enough, it's down to nine volts.
For whatever reason. Now it's a brand new car, you'd think it
has a brand new battery. Why is the battery low? But in any
event, the battery is low, and typically with modern computer controlled cars,
if the computer doesn't sense twelve volts at the battery, sometimes it won't even
try to start because the fuel injection won't work without full voltage. So at
any rate, I did what you know, a few years ago would have
been the reasonable thing to do, which is to charge up the battery.
So I hooked it up to my trickle charger and in the process I disconnected
and this is going to become important. I disconnected the negative cable. Okay,
Then when I charged up the battery, it was showing twelve volts.
I put the negative cable back on the battery and the car went berserk.
Lights flashing, alarms clanging, all the lights on the interior dashboard flashing on
and off. Apparently it has some kind of cataleptic response to any interruption of
its voltage. Now, initially I thought, okay, I just need to
know the secret process. Sometimes you have, like on the key you can
push the lock, unlock the panic button in a certain sequence to get the
alarm to shut off. I tied that to no avail. It would not
work. Could not find any procedure in the owner's manual or anywhere else.
So I called up the press fleet company, which then in turn called up
Dodge Engineering, you know, to try to figure out what was wrong with
the miss directly in communication with the manufacturer. And long story short that once
the vehicle has this interruption of current, you lose. You can't fix it.
You have to have it dragged to the dealer. Wow, to get
them to I guess, reboot the computer. And you have to have specialized
equipment in order to do that. So word to the wise, you know,
do not disconnect the battery of a modern computer controlled car unless you're ready
for some pretty serious for your percussions. And then I found out something even
more interesting, And I did not know this. You know, you have
to keep up with things, and even I sometimes don't keep up with things.
So why did the battery have less than twelve volts current to begin with?
New car, new battery? Well, it turns out that the culprit
was probably the second battery. HU. This is not an electric car,
but nonetheless it had two batteries. The main twelve volt starter battery that we're
all familiar with that starts the engine when you push the button or turn the
key. But in addition to that, these new cars that have automated stop
start technology as they market it, the acronym being s ASS, have a
secondary battery that is designed to operate with that system because of those you know,
those repeated stop start cycles. You know that that's hard on a battery,
right, The understanding of the thing is that you know if that is
going to create a power draw. So if that draws enough power from the
battery and the battery hasn't had enough time to recharge from driving, you might
see this reduction in the battery the nin starter batteries voltage and then could put
the car doesn't work. And then when that happens, if you do something
like pull the take the cables off the battery, then you have to have
a car drag to a dealer to get it fixed. That's progress for you.
Huh, oh man, I have to. I want to show people
the website, uh, because I love this. We're speaking with Eric Peters
of Eric Peters Autos. Folks, It's Eric Peters Autos dot com. I'm
Gardner Goldsmith Filion for David Knight, and Eric Peters is with us. And
you had it had to be dragged. When my computer crashes, I called
dose techies and you talk. This is an update a final report about the
issue experience with the new car twenty twenty four Dodge Hornet. I was test
driving. Just a dead battery, just ridiculous, unbelievable, and as you
say, the car had to be flatbedded to the dealer to deal with it.
And that's one of the things when I read your articles. You have
this sly sense of humor about all the absurdities that you see in these designs.
Eric, you have talked before about the scene and the unseen in economics.
Well, here's a really good example of that. Now, what is
the benefit to you and I are anybody who buys one of these cars?
Does the car start any better with all of this technology? I mean I
can get into my twenty two year old truck, you know, and I
turned the key and the engine starts. You know, it doesn't start any
in any way that's inferior to the way the new car starts, and in
many ways it's superior because if it doesn't start, I can disconnect your battery.
I can put a new battery in and the car will start. I
don't have to call a tow truck or roadside assistance to have the thing drag
to a dealership. To have something that's profoundly simple, you know, like
changing a battery handled all a dealership at one hundred dollars an hour. Yeah,
I agree with you, And you know it's interesting, Eric, you
talk about complex integration versus simple integration, and in many in many cases,
when you get complex integration, sometimes you get better efficiency that sort of thing.
But to repair something you want simple integration. You want to be able
to take the pieces out, replace the pieces, get pieces work without having
to wait a month to get a piece in, and not have it be
done through algorithms, every part of which has its own piece, because there's
no way you could do enough research to really even understand how to make it
work. And that's where they're going all the time. And there's another aspect
to this too, you know, it's the question big which is, well,
why, what is the reason for all of this? And the only
reason for it, again is the unseen hand of government, of the regulatory
apparat the only reason that almost all new cars have that ass system I mentioned
earlier, the automated stop start. I don't know whether you've driven a late
model car, but what happens you come to a traffic light. Let's say
the light's are read, The engine shuts off automatically, you know, and
then when you put your foot take your foot off of the brake and put
your foot on the gas pedal. Then the engine restarts so in the course
of your morning commute, the engine might stop start a dozen times or more,
okay, and nobody wants that. Who wants to have that chuck feeling?
And you know when the and as a slight delay, you know in
between light turns green and instead of just you know, going, you have
to wait that little moment for the engine to start before the car can go.
Nobody wants this. Nobody in the market asked for this. So why
do we have it? Why is it not only in cars, but it's
standard in cars. It's not like it's an option. Oh, I think
that's a great idea. I think I'll check that box because I want a
car to do that. The only reason it's the new cars is because of
the pressure that is being brought to bear on the manufacturers of vehicles to reduce
carbon dioxide emissions as they market that, as they prop the antie because you
know, because when the engine is not running, you know, you shut
the car off at a traffic light. It's not about saving gas. This
gas savings is true, but the idea is that if the engine shuts off
at a traffic light, then you know it's at that moment a zero emissions
in terms of carbon dioxide vehicle. So that's one of the effects of the
regulatory apparat that you and I get to feel and pay for. Wow,
you know, Eric, I got the opportunity to tell people a little bit
about something that al Gore is involved with, and he is, he's part
of and in fact he's connected with Google on this thing called Trace that he
puts seed money into this. Google puts seed money into this. It is
an online system to collect data that now is there's a corporation and a number
of corporations, but there's one I wrote about this firm, our CTV.
There's one that has been using basically spyplanes and they want to get up with
the EPA's help, up into satellites to use camera technology and infrared to be
able to detect emissions coming from virtually anything and then report it to the EPA.
And then the EPA without any trial, without any jurisprudence and any way
whatsoever or due process, will just find people for their missions. And they
keep using this canard of the of the so called climate, the carbon so
called emissions. And as you said, they don't just talk about carbon dioxide.
They try to make it sound like soot, Like, oh, it's
carbon that's going out there, Like this is going to destroy the La Basin
which they cleaned up a long time ago. You know, it's just ridiculous
to see this. And they keep putting these electronic devices in the cars that
will measure our output, that will report back. And this is the way
that they're going. And I drew this up on the screen. People could
see me drawing this up. If you could tell us, could you tell
us a little bit about a preview of things to come? This article over
here, and I want to show this on the website, a preview of
things to come at Eric petersautos dot com. Yeah, that's not so much
with regard to emissions, as they put it. This has to do with
behavior. It has to do with the pending Come twenty twenty six federal requirement
that cars have technology embedded in them to deal with impaired driving. You know.
And again it's this sleight of hand. It's this verbiage. In fact,
if you dig into it, it's not that they're going after it's so
called drunk drivers. And never mind whether you've actually been convicted of drunk driving.
They're just going to say that everybody's presumed to be a drunk driver.
In fact, it's about measuring what they call driver performance. That's the actual
terminology that's used. So what does that mean, Well, it means that
any performance that falls outside of the parameters that they consider to be acceptable,
so driving faster than the speed limits, so you know whether you're looking at
the thing that they want you to look at. I was test driving another
car that has elements of this technology. That's something people ought to know is
that the cars that are already in production and that have been in production for
the past several years already have some of the bits and pieces of this technology
embedded in them. For example, this thing called a Browsy driver monitor.
Essentially, the car is looking at your eyes, and if it thinks that
you're not looking straight ahead at all times, this box pops up in the
gauge cluster that says, you know, driver in attention, detected, or
pay more attention, or stop for a coffee break or something like that.
Now, I ride motorcycles, and one of the reasons that I'm still alive
and talking to you right now is that I maintain awareness of what's going on
around me, not just tumnel vision of what's in front of me. So
I'll glance st left, and I'll glance to the right, and I'll look
in my review mirror, or you know, look, I'm just trying to
keep aware of what's around me, right right. That's kept me from wrecking
a car too. But yet when I drive these cars, I get this
constant cereal pop up about how I'm drowsy and distracted because my eyes are not
looking tumbel visions straight ahead. Now, as annoying as that is, what's
going to happen come twenty twenty six and going forward is that, in addition
to annoying you, it's going to punish you. And that punishment will probably
come in one of two forms. Either the car itself will somehow deactivate or
maybe it will go into gimp mode and you'll be limping along the side of
the road at five miles an hour or more. Probably because the car is
connected and it's connected to the government, the insurance mafia, you will get
hit with a fine or a done every time you do something that falls outside
of the parameters of what they say is safe driving. And we've seen previously
this with the insurance companies that will say that we'll give you a discount if
you plug Thistle Jungle into your OBD port in the car. You know,
And what they're doing is every single time that you change lanes too abruptly,
you accelerate to aggressively, things of that nature, you find that your insurance
premium has gone up. That's the model. That's what they're going to do.
It doesn't matter that you don't wreck, that you never have an accident,
that you have a perfect driving record. I've got a thirty year record
of not having wrecked a car. You know, they'll say, they'll say,
or your habits show that you're unsafe, and so we have to raise
your rates accordingly. You know, it reminds me of in a way,
it reminds me of the into assert extremes Brazil. And you know, by
Terry Gillian, what a brilliant, brilliant film just you know how they controlled
the heating systems and it shows the ninja black market heating AAV repair man coming
in in the middle of the night to repair the guy's heating system because it
won't stop. And it's all run by some interior organization. And I worked
at the New Hampshire Community College system for a while. And in the springtime,
you know, you're coming from the colder days, but you can get
some warmer days, and so you want to be able to definitely regulate that
temperaure because it's going to get too hot for the students. They're going to
get tired. And it was just incredibly hot. And I asked someone else,
I said, where's the thermostat. Why can't we do something? And
they said, oh, no, the temperature for this building. I said
yeah. They said that's controlled from the central building in the capital of the
state, in conquered New Hampshire, five miles away. And I was like,
what this. Yeah, we can't control the temperature in this building.
I was like, that is Terry Gilliamville. That's insane. And to bring
it back home when you have a person a person sort of thing, my
dad and I were driving along. My dad was driving once. Eric,
you remind me of a little little anecdote from from my childhood, and my
dad, you know, we're on these really bad roads and he would dodge
potholes to save the undercarriage of the Toyota. You know, for a while
we had a Renault at the torsion bar suspension. That was very interesting,
and so, you know, he would dodge the potholes, make it sort
of a game. He gets pulled over and then he says, uh,
sir, I noticed you were driving erratically. And he says, he goes,
have you been drinking? And I'm I'm with the guy. I was
like. My dad says no, you know, I was just dodging the
potholes. And then the police officer, to his credit, said oh,
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry about that. Yeah, the roads are
terrible. I'm really sorry about that, and then he went on his way.
You've got assist now that is building up all these errors within programming and
systems permanently attached to the cars. You can't get rid of these things.
Yes and fits all. You know, the story that you just told very
similar. In my area, the roads are often terrible. I live in
a rural area, so it's common for people to straddle the center line because
that way, you know, you don't hit these bumps all the time and
destroy the undercarriage of your car and your suspension, your tires. But the
technology is one size fits all, you know, and it's the size of
the government says that you'll fit into period, you know, and it's part
of this effort to manage and control and micro control absolutely everything that we do.
I was listening to a new story of the day that bears on this.
It had something to do with North Korea, and the North Korean government
has issued its plan, you know, for the next year apparently, and
that's what we're talking about. There's always a central plan controlled by central planners.
You and I apparently are unfit to plan our own affairs. Everybody,
you know, has to be has to be sort of compressed together and then
sluiced and directed in a path that is decided by the central planners. And
nobody seems to ever question, well, who are these people? I mean,
how is it that these people somehow have acquired the power and in some
sense, you know, the moral acquiescence of people that Okay, yeah,
sure, you know, I'm here just to do what you tell me to
do, and I'm waiting tell me what to do, tell me how to
behave. It's amazing. I'm so glad you brought up the Seinfeld thing.
That was one of the one of the things I picked up from Gilbert Godfried
because He used to do a terrific Seinfeld impression and he was the first person
I ever I ever heard do these Seinfeld? Who are these people? You
know, it's the classic Seinfeld Seinfeld line. And Eric, I want to
mention kudos to you also, by the way, for putting the picture of
the Kawisaki over there. You mentioned you ride bikes, and when I was
a kid, it was Hondas and Kawisaki motorbikes, you know, out there
in the dirt and chase each other around and stuff. And my friends had
those things. I was always on the back dragging my sneakers, putting up
dust, dust and stuff so the guys behind us couldn't see. I was
like, we're getting chased by the cops. Come on, you know.
We would have races and stuff and it was a lot of fun. And
also on this subject, you know, you talk about the drowsy driver thing
and stuff. You mentioned here. Eric over at Eric Peters Auto's Everybody and
follow him at Libertarian car G Libertarian car g on Twitter slash x. You
mentioned here you say about two thirds of the way down. You say,
for instance, almost all cars sold in twenty twenty three and twenty four have
a system that can tell whether you have used a turn signal before making a
lane change. That will proceed to correct your attempt to change lanes if you
haven't signal first, by electronically trying to steer the car back into the lane
you're trying to leave for the one adjacent. And I think you and David
had touched on this. It is just scary to think about. And then
with these speed controller things that they're going to put on various trucks that they
want to have, that's going to be even more dangerous because trucks are going
to be side by side with each other and they're not. They're going to
have a really hard time passing each other. There's two aspects to this that
I think are interesting. The first one is just the mindlessness of it.
Instead of being mindful. You know, some people think, well, you
should signal every time you turn, but that is mindless. I think it's
far more. I think it's more beneficial in sound to be aware of your
driving environment. If there is a car you know, you're driving forward,
there's a car up ahead or adjacent to of course, it makes sense to
signal your intentions, but it makes no sense at all to signal your intentions
if you're clearly the only car on the road and you're out in the middle
of nowhere, just because you're supposed to Pavlovian style, like a dog,
be trained to do this, this signaling, and that somehow, you know,
alleviates you the responsibility of being aware of your driving environment. There's that
aspect of it, and there's another aspect of it, and it's it goes
to these unanticipated consequences that these central planners always neglect to plan for. It's
all well and good to turn your signal when you have a planned lane change,
you want a plan to move into the next line. What if a
kid runs out in front of your car, an unplanned event, you know,
and you move the steering wheel to get out of this to not hit
the kid. But now the car is trying to fight you to get back
in the lane that you're trying to steer out of. And I'm amazed that
there hasn't been more mayhem caused by this. You know, I'm a man,
and I've got decent hand strength, but I could just see an older
person, let's say, or a woman with small hands, you know,
holding that steering wheel and all of a sudden steering wheel jerkch and if you've
experienced it, that's what it feels like. The steering wheel will jerk in
the opposite direction and it can be really unnerving and unsettling. And it's exactly
the sort of thing that they used to teach kids not to do in drivers
that they would tell you know, if a wheel drops off, like if
you're driving down the road and the right side wheel drops off the road and
you know the car will feel like it's going to go off the road.
The last thing you want to do is jerk the wheel hard. You want
to try to maintain the car's directional stability and ease back into the road.
Well, this this countermans all of that, and it's being done by electronics
and programming. It's unbelievable, you know, Eric, you bring up so
many good points and I don't know how you know, I asked you once
before. You write so much and they're always fascinating, fascinating topics. And
how often do you shoot video? Do you think each week? Because now
you're providing video and people can find you on rumble as well, tell people
how they can find you. On Rumble, and you often embed these videos
inside your articles, right, you know, I'm embarrassed Dent. I don't
really know what my handle is. I think it might be ethyologist on rumbled.
But if you go to most of my articles, there'll be a video
in it, and you can you can find it that way. But I
try to do a video of every new car that I test drive, and
I often do monologues while I'm driving a car about things that seem to me
to be important to talk about. Well, how about we hit on this
one, Eric, this is another good one. Automotive dissonance. And you
have the picture of the woman with the Pinto. Keep off my rear,
I'm explosive, great Michigan license plate car, probably built in Michigan, the
Pinto. The Pinto became, of course synonymous with rear rear engine explosion,
our rear rear gas tank explosion. And can you give people some information about
that and why it comes to mind when you're thinking about evs nowadays? Sure?
Well, there was a big hullabaloo back in the seventies. Ford made
the Pinto, which was an economy car, and they made millions of these
things. Well, the initial run of them had a poorly designed gas tank
filler neck. The fillert the filler on the car was mounted on the side
of the car and then it went to the gas tank, which was you
know, inside behind the backseat area underneath the car. Anyway, if the
car was hit very hard in the rear, the impact could she the filler
neck away from the tank, and that could cause gas to spill out,
and if there was a spark resulting from say metal to metal contact, that
could trigger a fire. And there was a recall when there was a big
hullabaloo about that, even though relatively speaking, millions of pinto is a handful
of fires, and it wasn't an inherent defect. It was just a not
particularly good design which was corrected, and once it was corrected, it was
no longer a problem. So we've got that on the one hand, and
then we juxtapose that with these evs that can catch fire just sitting still,
not being hit, parked outside, parked in your garage, on a container
ship. And that's because there is an inherent built in problem with lithium ion
batteries that can't be fixed. They have an inherent built in tendency to automatically
spontaneously combust The difference with the Pinto was you had to have a spark in
addition to the gas leaking in order for there to be a fire, and
you had to have an outside physical force, such as an impact, in
order to trigger that cascading chain of events. So it was rather improbable that
you were going to be burned to death in a penzil very very slight chance
of that if I am, I mistaken Eric, And because I was small
when they did these things, I think they had some of this on NBC
News. Didn't They have to put flares into the back of was it the
Pinto or was it a different car to actually make the bus it on camera?
They tried to do something that there was something called GM pickups I believe,
with what was called the side saddle. Fuel tank was mounted in a
particular part of the frame where it was vulnerable to impact. The problem was
they were trying to create this gore story and they would keep hitting the thing
and it wouldn't blow up. So they actually had to put a flare there
to cause the fire. And that's the point. Gasoline is combustible, but
it's actually unlikely to burn if you can just spill it and pour it on
the ground. Every one of us has done that. When you go to
a gas station, you fill your car up, and sometimes when you pull
the filler out, there's some gas that drips. It almost never catches fire
because you have to have a spark, so you almost have to be deliberately
stupid in order for there to be a gas fire. With these evs on
every hand, you can be the most responsible person in the world. You
drive your EV home and you park it in your driveway or in your garage,
and it just spontaneously catches fire. And you linked to a story from
Eric Peters Auto's dot com. Everybody you link to a story from Automotive News
from April twenty eighth. Kurt nagel Wright's main headline vehicle that caught fire at
Chrysler Tech Center was EV prototype, and then the subhead EV related fires have
erupted at two of the Detroit three automakers in recent weeks. GM's Factory zero
reported a fire last week. And this is one of the things that,
in addition to the weight factor inside public garages now or even private garages,
if they don't handle these things properly. I'm very worried about parking, even
in any enclosed area or nearby outside any eb because they could just start up
and just burst into flames. Yeah, these aren't just prototypes either. A
couple of place. It was a month, maybe two, three months.
I lose track of time. Uh, some forward lightnings that had been held
at a storage lot after they left the assembly line. In other words,
these were finished vehicles. These were ready to be shipped out to dealers.
There was a fire there. You know, this is not an uncommon occurrence,
and it will become a more common occurrence because of compounding factors. You
know, an electric vehicle doesn't just catch fire potentially when it's sitting still,
if it's struck. You know, if the battery case is damaged and damages
the battery, that can cause a fire. If and I went to this
in my article, if it gets wet a particularly with salt water, you
know, as in the aftermath of a flood, as in Florida, the
number of because the salt water gets into the there's a vent on top of
the battery, and if the water gets into that vent, that salt water
then causes the thermal runaway the short circuit and the thing goes up in smoke,
you know. And we haven't even gotten into the effect of time and
mileage and use you know, over time. This is a car. It's
not something actually that sits at a desk at home, you know, like
a laptop or a computer. This is a car that is subjected to extremes
of heat and cold. It hits potholes, you know, and it wears
out over time. So we could expect to see even more of these fis.
And to the point of the article, it's just it's interesting because it
points out the motives of the government and it's feigned concern for our safety.
You know. This is a demonstrable, inherent risk that cannot be corrected,
at least not without changing fundamentally the type of battery chemistry that's used in electric
vehicles. It cannot be dealt with. It It is going to inhere in
the vehicle, and it's a risk that the government is imposing on you by
force. Whereas in the case of this pinto you know, where there's a
very slight risk potentially if a series of events happened, that the car might
catch fire, if you got hit behind from behind it, you know,
by somebody driving very fast. There was a huge you and cry and we
must recall all these Pintos. You know, there's a massive class action lawsuit.
But in this case, apparently, don't worry about it. It's fine,
everything's good. I love your line here. But no Pinto ever caught
fire while parked, right, and yeah, you you nail it, Eric,
And you know, the thing that that really gets me is that so
many journalists are willing to cover up this stuff. Like we saw that report
from Automotive News and they tried to stress that they were there were prototypes.
Well, this is not necessarily the case. As you say, this is
happening all over the place. And that point that you bring up is the
wear and tear. We're just as you say, we're just talking about potholes.
Eventually they are going to be cracks that appear, and condensation is going
to get inside those systems, and once that condensation gets in there, those
batteries are gone and the fires, the fire potential just skyrockets. As you
said, you know, with the salt water they came into Florida during some
of the hurricane into Georgia as well. Just terrible terrible stuff that people saw.
They can't put these fires out. They it's just it's insane. It's
absolutely we're underwater. I think I've got some videos in that article where you
can see, I mean literally the car like somebody was trying to back up
their boat I guess at a at a boat ramp and lost control of the
car goes in the water. I think it was a Tesla Model wide along
with the gull wings. Anyway, it is completely submerged and it's still on
fire. Unbelievable. Here's let's uh, let's do this here and we'll see
there might be an AD that pops up. This is one of many videos
that is embedded in this piece at Eric peters autos dot com. And Eric,
thanks again. I really appreciate it. You're you're a trooper and uh
you know seeing that email that doesn't have the link in it and saying how
am I going to get on the show. Well, maybe it's like magic.
We'll have the pixie dust just like the uh, well we'll use carbon
and that will do it, right. But let's yeah, let's show this
one. There might be an ad, but we'll see. Take a look
at this right here, this is why state and local EFFAC are warning you
not to drive electric vehicles impacted by storm surge and to park it away from
your home. And this is what's left of an electric car that ignited as
is being towed in Panela's park today. Fire crew said it was parked in
a lot that was flooded during Hurricane Italia. Ten Tampa Bay anchor Joshua Doors
verifies what makes evs and saltwater such a dangerous combination. These electric vehicles,
when they get saltwater intrusion, can catch on fire and those are very difficult
fires to put out. That was Governor Desantras's warning just days ago ahead of
Hurricane Adalia, and several local agencies have issued similar warnings here like this one.
So let's verify what makes electric vehicles so vulnerable to not just flood water,
but salt water. Here are our sources, including FEMA, the US
Fire Administration, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. According to NITZA,
residual salt within an EV's lithium ion battery or battery components can form conductive bridges
that can lead to short circuit and self heating of the battery, causing a
fire, but when a damaged lithium ion battery can ignite, that varies widely.
After Hurricane Eden last year, there were at least a dozen reports of
eves that had been submerged or partially submerged in saltwater, igniting weeks after the
fact. And considering Florida now has the second most registered evs in the country,
it is becoming a growing concern for first responders because these fires they also
burn a lot hotter. Traditional car fires burn around fifteen hundred degrees, where
an electric vehicle battery fire can burn close to five thousand degrees. With your
verify, I'm Josh said Orlin, all right, Josh, that's really good
information there. If you see something you'd like as to verify, you can
email your questions to us verify it. How about they verify the fact that
most everybody should know that ions are involved with the conduction of electricscy It's like,
oh salt, duh. They need somebody to you know, I should
I shouldn't say that. You know, maybe some people are young people just
learning about the conductivity of salt water, but I mean plase salt ions.
There you go. There's another aspect of this too, and it's another one
of these evy Catch twenty two's. I harp on this a lot because I
think it's important to harp on it. In order to make an ev practical
at all, you have to use these so called fast chargers. You know,
otherwise you're literally going to spend all day waiting for the thing to recover
any kind of a charge. Well, the fast charger increases the fire rist
because you're talking about conduiting an enormous amount of voltage into this battery, and
that creates heat in the process, and that's why these things often catch fire
while they are hooked up to these fast chargers. And then there's another issue.
In order to limit or mitigate the potential fire damage, you can only
charge one of these things up to eighty percent of its capacity at a fast
charger. And they never tell you that, They never explain that. They
always talk about the fast charger. Oh, you can be on your way
in thirty minutes. Well yeah, maybe, but you'll be twenty percent shy
of a full tank. So I mean, you know, it's like,
so you already start out with not much range in one of these things.
Now you get twenty percent less range, and so now you're gonna have to
fast charge again and more regularly. You see how the cycle works. Yeah,
yeah, the risk of fire. And also you increase the you decrease
the life of the battery by subjecting it to constant heavy discharging and then fast
charging cycles. And that's not my opinion. You can actually read that,
in fact in my latest article from a Tesla, but it's right there on
the screen. Car tells you, you know, avoid depleting the battery excessively
and avoid subjecting it to repeated fast charging sessions. Man, this is just
incredible and you've got this. I love this January first, what a way
to start the year. Check it out. Would you buy this car?
And you have the clip there thirty two percent of range lost in seven years,
you say. A man buys a Tesla and says, we never get
what was promised. We get way less. He refers to the range advertised
by the manufacturer of his battery powered device, a twenty seventeen model X Tesla's
advertising has proved seriously false. He did not get what he paid for.
In other words, yet the man is not angry that he has arguably been
what's the appropriate phrase ripped off by Tesla. How would you describe it if
the vehicle you bought was advertised as being capable of taking you forty miles on
a gallon of gas and it only went thirty two miles, or about twenty
percent less than advertised. How dare you deal with math? This is the
typical disparity in advertising versus actual range when it comes to battery powered vehicles.
So let's talk about this hunting class action suit. Eric. Yeah, that
goes back a few years ago and Hundai had some advertising where it touted that
its vehicles I think it was his entire lineup got better than forty miles per
gallon, and there was some quibbling in there. It wasn't maybe perhaps as
accurate because they were referring to the highway rather than the city number, and
they were I guess the implication was that they averaged forty miles an hour,
when in fact they really didn't. They averaged I don't know, thirty two
something like that. Anyway, it was it was a difference that was far
less significant than the disparity in the ev between the touted range and the actual
range that you get. And there there was a recall and a massive lawsuit
directed against Hyundai because people were angry. Understandably, you know, you buy
the vehicle and it says it can do this, and the government affirms that
it can do this, and then you buy it and you find out,
well, no, it can't. And maybe part of the reason you bought
it was because you expected it to do what they said it was going to
do and it didn't. But somehow evs get it pass it. You know,
everybody concedes this point. Now, you know that the EV even under
the ideal circumstances, typically will get ten twenty percent less range than what is
indicated. And if the conditions are anything less than optimal, if it's very
cold out, if it's very hot out, you know, you're using accessories
and the thermal management system is having to try to keep the battery warm or
try to prevent it from getting too hot. And if you drive any faster
than a crawl, basically you know, gimp it along, you know,
like you have an eggshell and egg the accelerator pedal, your range will will
be much less than that. And somehow there isn't a class action lawsuit.
Somehow it's apologized for and rationalized this whole article. I mean, it took
me a few hours to even be able to prepare to write for it because
I was just so brain numbed by this guy. This guy did a video
in which he talked about the fact that his vehicle that he bought, his
twenty seventeen Tesla, that he bought after seven years, it now gets thirty
two percent less range than it did when it was new, and he estimates
that it's value. He paid one hundred thousand dollars for this thing, and
now he estimates it's worth about twenty five thousand dollars. And you know,
you'd think he would be like, you know, I really feel stupid about
it having bought this vehicle. I would never buy another vehicle like this.
Instead, he goes on and on about how wonderful it is and how he's
ready to buy another one. And it reminds they continue to catch COVID,
but they keep getting their boosters. Yes, exactly, exactly. My brain
hurts thinking about this mindset. You just got punched in the face. Why
are you continuing to put your face in front of the fist punch back?
For God's sake, It's just insane. The whole thing, at least rhetorically
address the problems, address reality. It's a new year. Let's start off
with a new Year's resolution. Don't be a dupe. How about that.
I've been trying to plumb this, and I think like in the case of
this individual, clearly he's very affluent. If you look at some of his
other videos, Yeah, he talks about selling one of his houses, and
if you look at the house, the house looks like it's got to be
at least a couple million dollars. And he seems like he's not a bad
guy. From what I can tell. He seems like he's a nice enough
guy. But I think this this let them eat cake aspect of people who
are very, very affluent. You know, if you're somebody who lives in
a million dollar house, you can afford a toy like one hundred thousand dollars
electric car, right, you know, he probably has multiple cars. He
probably has other cars that aren't electric. And maybe for them it just doesn't
register, you know, like they live in this entirely different economic realm and
world than we do. And for them, you know, maybe this is
oh, it's just fun, it's great, you know, just like having
my this guy's got a you know, some kind of like Olympic style swimming
pool in this backyard too. Doesn't everybody have one of those? Oh man,
it's just unbelievable. It's absolutely crazy. Boy. Eric, Look,
as we as we start off the new year, I want to welcome people
to go to Eric peters Otto's dot com and I want to just ask you
a little bit more on the abstract sort of thing. You know, as
I was closing off that segment about Israel Gaza, you know, very very
brutal information, and of course we're all implicated in this, I brought up
some philosophy, you know, Like I was in the lecture hall and I
was, you know, hanging out with the students. Okay, let one
of the students get up there, you know, do their comments and we'll
take some comments from the rock finchat that sort of thing. And I talked
about how John Locke used to, you know, he made up his so
called natural rights argument, which really was just a beard to hide what he
really was doing, which was I'm going to force the state and the majority
rule or whatever, the constitutional representative democracy sort of thing, whatever it is,
the state is going to impose its will on you. It's not real
self governance, which is you governing yourself and coming up with your own arrangements.
You will be excluded if you're a jerk. You'll be sued in private
adjudication systems that sort of thing. If you're a jerk, and no one
will want to deal with you, just like the old British common law system
was it was operated. But this idea that Locke had when he said,
man in the state of nature is just can't trust each other. And men
will be in perpetual states of war. And when a man initiates a state
of war against you, you have the right to defend yourself, that sort
of thing. And so he said, states are instituted among men, as
Jefferson paraphrased as if all the men agree. So now the state is legitimate
for the guy who didn't like, Hey, I don't want to be part
of your club. No, sorry, we have welcomed you into our club.
Now pay your dues. I don't want this. Oh we're protecting you.
No, you're forcing me to pay for something I don't want. What
if I don't want it? In this much? You know this sort of
thing you notice a language. They used that term instituted as if it's just
sort of a happenstance. Yes, it's imposed, it is yes, yes,
again the flour use of language rather than using the they use the passive
voice rather than the active voice, which is, governments are imposed on people.
That is the only way a government exists is by imposing on someone.
And so what I think is interesting is, as I mentioned earlier, philosophically,
logically, in any word, in any sort of way that someone can
look at it. The government itself, which is purported to stop this state
of war of man against man, which might not exist if we're actually able
to leave each other alone. And if someone does do that, then we
can create our own private systems of protection to say, Okay, I'm going
to work with this group of people voluntarily to protect ourselves. The state says,
no, you can't do that yourself all the way you want to do
it, because we're going to extract a certain portion of your money to give
you protection. So really, the state is the state of war, and
it is perpetual war against you. If you don't like it, just try
not paying for it. Sometime you'll find out what the war is, and
this goes towards the roads, This goes towards all the ways they keep metastasizing
this cancer of the state making decisions for us about the products we're going to
buy, whether their appliances or cars or anything. And I have an article
from MRCTV that's coming out today about the new mountain of announcements of appliance regulations
that the Department of Energy. Jennifer Grand Holmes Gang, which of course she
made a bunch of money off of that company, Protera, when they gave
her stock options, they brought her back, they brought her onto the board.
After she was governor of Michigan. She got about six million dollars to
go to Protera that was given a GM from the Feds during the Obama administration.
That went to Protera. Then pro Tara brought her on their board after
she left the governorship, and then when she left the board, they gave
her stock options that she traded in just a few months before they announced bankruptcy.
So she made almost two million dollars and she's still the head of this
unconstitutional Department of Energy. It's mind blowing, it's absolutely flabbergasting. But they
do all these things, they take away our opportunities, and yet people use
this soft language and they don't say what's going on. You're being ripped off
and it's a state of war against you, and it always. As an
anarchist, voluntarist, libertarian Christian, I have to say, the state is
always at war with people, and they have to recognize this. I hope
they will. Well, not only are they at war, but it's institutionalized
and legalized. And that's an important point to make, in that you don't
have a right in this paradigm to defend yourself against the defradations of the state
that is defined as criminal somehow if you simply wish to be left alone.
There's also another aspect that I think is interesting, and it's this utopian press
premise that the status will bring out. They'll point to the supposed brutish state
of nature if we didn't have government, while people would be at each other's
throats, there would be chaos. Everybody would be would be trying to take
everybody else's things and killing Rubert and so on. But at least you can
defend yourself, first of all, and secondly, I think you you know
you would have you wouldn't have this institutionalized, systematized violence that we're stuck with.
Now, Yeah, there might be some violence, but it wouldn't be
a structure that you have to cowtow to. And if you don't cowtow to
it, then somehow, by some weird leisure to remain, you're the criminal.
You know, my stuff. You know, I could prevent somebody else
from taking what I've earned. It's mine, and that makes me a criminal
somehow, And you know, Eric, it also goes towards the platonic idiocy
of who watches the watchers? You know, if you are incapable of making
legitimate decisions about yourself, and only the state has legitimate power for the policing
and things like that, then how can the state derive legitimacy from supposedly deriving
its power from people who inherently, individually are illegitimate in making their own decisions.
Sure so it makes us censorious, you know, And that now you're
thinking, and that's dangerous. And the other thing is we've got that,
you know, just on a purely practical level, we have got the I
mean, it's inarguable how incompetent these people are, you know, who presume
to assume the power to manage us on the premise that we are too ignorant
and selfish and shortsighted and so on to competently handle our own affairs, as
if they are. Look at the mess that they have made of the world,
of everything, you know, the catastrophic mess that they've made of everything.
I don't think we could possibly do any worse. In fact, that's
literally true. You and I as individuals, even if we were of the
worst sort imaginable, there's only so much damage that you and I can do
as an individual. A state, on the other hand, can damage tens
of millions, if not hundreds of millions of lives. Absolutely, the adoption
of this legal authority is just it's ridiculous. And I do want to bring
up again. Some people, and many libertarians will do this. They'll say,
well, there's no constitutional authority for that, And I just have to
remind people I never signed the Constitution. It has no authority over me.
And it's an absolutely important point. It's a philosophical moral point to stress Eric
on that point. This is something I was going to bring up later in
the program, but it actually has something to do with on the road again.
And since we're here on the first of the year twenty twenty four with
Eric Peters, everybody on the David Knight Show. Before we turn to the
Rock fin and Rumble questions and we are streaming on Rumble, which is great.
I did a double check while we were doing a few things here.
I want to bring this up if I can. Eric. This is a
piece that I have over at my Sunday News Assembly on Substack. Oh take
it on. Yeah. We got the prisoner declared on mutual of course,
because he just wanted to be left alone. He wouldn't count to what the
government on the island demanded of him. But in this Sunday News Assembly I
have a piece that at first blush might strike some people as being very obvious.
Well, you know, clearly some ne'ir Dwells who got involved with sabotage.
They messed around with and as you can see is probably some light streaming
on my face here as I get it up on the screen. They messed
around with a road sign that how dare you mess around with a road sign?
Those are things out there for public information about you know, driving and
things that need to be used. That sort of thing drivers need to get
this information. It's very important. But what I pointed out here was it
actually opens up a thought process to something that's much bigger. And I think
this is down towards the end of my sub stack. It's number twenty two.
In fact, I thought we only had twenty one stories. I besides
of this, twenty one stories, twenty one Jump Street. But here it
is. It says after hate group's message appeared on roadside sign, city says
it won't tolerate bigotry and hatred. So evidently they're called the Patriot Front and
they were, you know, putting up finest Patriotfront dot us. I was
unaware of the Patriot Front. Maybe I had heard about them somewhere. Maybe
a news story or two might have mentioned the Patriot Front. I don't know.
I just don't know about them. The message was just, I guess,
just the Patriot Front. It wasn't something that was necessarily offensive to people.
But again, offence is in the eye of the beholder, just like
boot Beauty is, like the Twilight Zone episode which they shot with such incredible
alacrity. But as I brought this up, I'd like to read this to
you. This sort of paraphrases things in a nice quick bundle. I said,
finally, we have this a story that, beneath the surface asks many
questions about how it's at all possible to operate state run systems. If,
as the Anti Defamation League claims, and of course they often claim things that
aren't true. If as the ADEL claims, this is offensive to some this
organization, Yet people have a supposed right to freedom of speech in an abstract
sense. We'll get to the constitutional level in a moment someday. Then how
can the state run system take money from all these people of various feelings and
opinions, cut out the free speech of some in this public, tax funded
system, and still claim that it allows for free speech. This sign is
funded with tax cash, So why can't everyone who wants to use the tax
funded sign say that he or she has a claim on what the sign will
say. Perhaps no one can be excluded from such a system if, of
course they're paying taxes. Of course, the government bill try to restrict,
and it runs into arguments from people as to how the government property will actually
be run. This sign, regardless of its original intent for highway use,
is a perfect example of the ethical problem the state creates, and it's unmanageable,
it's intractable. It's what do you think about that? Well? As
Well said, and it also goes in the opposite direction, and that you
know, we're forced to provide funds for the propagation I'm paraphrasing Jefferson here of
ideas that we find repellent. And I can think a few things that are
more tyrannical than that. You know, we're taxed to provide, for example,
the government school books that present a point of view that we may not
like. And you know, it's even more just now that they've come out
with this this like the LBGTQ plus stuff, the propagandization of children about sexual
topics and schools. If you're, for example, troubled by abortion, you
know you're compelled to help finance these things through the taxes that you pay,
right, right, right and absolutely right. Worse in a way, in
my opinion, than being denied an opportunity to express your point of view being
made to pay for it, absolutely You know, Eric, the thing that
struck struck me when I was I'm maybe eleven years old. I was starting
to get aware of this stuff, and I would say, why is it
that people are getting upset about the minutia of the overall thing that should be
upsetting them, the fact that they're getting their money taken from them to be
pulled into this system. Why isn't that the first prima fage a blush of
offense? And you don't need to go any further than that, you know,
I mean, it's simple. I think probably because the system has been
designed in such a way as to prevent that question from even a rising.
You know, you ask that snatches kids up by march at kindergarten age,
and you know, as a Jesuit would say, you know, give me,
you know, give me a kid for the first ten years. I
think it is, and he'll be mine for life. You know, if
you can, you can stymy the development of the critical faculty. You know,
in the olden days, the Romans talked about the trivium, you know,
which was teaching a child to think, to have that critical ability,
that capacity to reason, and then you teach them particular things, but first
you teach them how to think, not what to think. The government system
is exactly the opposite. It imparts what to think, not how to think,
and a lot of people I think just they developed this habit of roat,
you know, because that's what the system encourages. You are expected to
assimilate certain information that's provided to you, and then you regurgitate this information,
and that's how you get good grades. Right, So yeah, you proceed
along with the path, and you go even to the point where you get
to college, and even in highly specialized academic disciplines. It's not that these
are dumb people. They're just trained, almost like a seal, to be
very good at assimilating information and regurgitating information, not necessarily to think. You
know, a really good example of this during the event that was called the
pandemic, you had medical doctors, and these are obviously not dumb people.
You know, you can't be a dummy and get through medical school. But
still, you know, the critical faculty seem to have been short circuited.
They were unable to evaluate the information and then respond to it in a way
that contradicted what they had been told. Is the dog mud that they must
repeat. I flashed that photograph of our friend who seems to be very happy
getting ripped off and of course being fooled into the climate canard. I think,
and you know, Eric, it's it's really cool when I was in
touch with Travis and David and so on, and David gave me a ring
last night and wasn't able to connect and text to me, and you know,
was thanking me doing the show and everything. I'm just so grateful over
the past year. And I actually hadn't planned to bring this up, but
I was just realizing, like, wow, it's been a year. It's
been absolutely awesome to chat with you. And the work you do at Eric
Peters Daughters is just it's fun, and it's also really really informative and absolutely
breaking breakneck pace breaking news. And of course I hope people will check out
what they can buy at Eric Peters Autos to lend you a hand, and
they can always, you know, submit a donation that sort of thing.
You do great great stuff, and they can find you at Libertarian Car g
on X. And let's go back to the website and show that off again
real quick, and then I'll give you a little something for the new year
again from Willie to say farewell, there's our friend having a great time in
his car. And if they go down a little further on the website,
they'll see some of the great items that they can get at the store right
there at the BA Cap great stuff. I love it and I've got a
black one, but I want to get the gray one. Got to get
them, got to get them. Eric awesome stuff. So Eric, as
we go, any final thoughts for the new year, and you know the
David Knight, David Knight team and audience and stuff like that. I'll turn
a rock fan. Get any questions you want in for Eric or compliments to
Eric, anything like that. Let me know. Harps is watching from Australia,
of course, where the roads are straight and flat in most areas unless
you're out maybe in Toowoomba or something like that. But Harp's nice to have
you there. Little John is there as well, And yeah, feel free
to put your comments in there, Jason Barcas says, when you are not
wearing a Trivium T shirt. Yes, is there a band named Trivium?
I wonder if there is one. Yeah, we'll find out, but yeah,
the Trivium. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that because I was gonna
teach with a private school this winter but ended up not doing that, taking
little time to take take away from teaching and one of the key things for
them is teaching of the trivium. It's absolutely essential, and there's no possible
way that even a public school system can approach teaching the trivium because they have
seized the opportunity of the parents to pull away from what is important for the
student, and so the public school system is always deciding for people and then
immediately removes the ability to be able to teach people how to think. It's
it's pretty scary stuff and harp says nice s k s Eric. Oh,
yeah, you recognized it. Mine. Mine's a check model. Actually you
might see the grenade launcher attachment on it. Yeah, let's put you in
the full screen there, Hold on a second, I'm gonna put you in
the full screen. Okay, and see. Okay, let's see if I
can hold Let's see. How's that? Oh, now I'm gonna get slatted
for sure. Probably that's the Uh, this is the grenade attachment that that
came with these. I do not have a grenade to go with it,
though, and it's it's chiefly for display purposes only. Hey, guard me
still there. Jason would like to know Eric what your daily driver is.
Okay, Well, I have several. I've got a two thousand and two
Nissan Frontier pickup, which I esteem and love very much because it does not
have any advanced driver assistance technology. And when I need to replace the battery,
I don't need to have a flatbed and do a dealer to get it
done either. Yeah. I've also got a bunch of motorcycles, and when
the weather's nice, I have my old muscle car that I take out every
once in a while, the Great Pumpkin, my seventy six Pontiact trans Am.
That's awesome. That is awesome. You know, I think about some
of those cars, the muscle cars and stuff, and that gets me thinking
about, you know, cars that I might have seen a canniball run or
that sort of thing. And then you always I always hear about the General
Lee. I wonder how many copies of the General Lee they had, you
know, because they were always pulling stunts and if some of them, I
mean they just they bashed those things up so much it was absolutely crazy.
You know, mo part people know about this. They trashed an astounding number
of sixty nine Dodge chargers because you know, every time you watch the car
jump, you know, you could see they cut the scene when the car
lands because that's the frame bent. And it's tragic the way they destroyed those
cars. But you know, back in the day, you know, when
the Duke's Hazard was what I think it came out in like nineteen seventy nine,
I guess, yeah. I think at that time, the Charger was
just an old car, right, I mean, it wasn't this highly desirable
relic of the beforetime that it is. Unfortunately those cars are gone. And
the same with Smoking the Bandit. They trashed a bunch of transcends in filming
that the famous jump over the pond that was the end of that trans amd.
It's crazy, It's absolutely crazy. All I could think of is,
you know, watching stunts when I was a kid, wanting to be a
stunt driver, glad that I'm not a stunt driver, and just loving watching
you know, bash up derby things. And as you mentioned that charger,
you know, the charger by that time, most of the chargers that were
around were you know, seven ten years old. They were beater cars and
they weren't considered, as you say, the highly collectible before times vehicles.
And I love watching those things now and I never even watched that show when
I was a kid because we couldn't get CBS in on the on the antennas
very well, was always, you know, the ant parade, so we
couldn't see anything, you know, and one of the one of the aspects
of it we all know about this. It's really just despicable, is the
way the left has tried to frame the show The Dukes of Haaszard Is somehow
being a racist show because the car had the Confederate battle flag on the roof,
and of course it was the far this thing from that, but they
try to they try to make that association. It's very important for them to
do that because if the topic gets discussed at any depth, you find out
that what the states of the Southern Confederacy were trying to do is essentially the
same thing that the American colonies did do successfully, which was to secede from
a union that they didn't want to be part of. Oh, now,
come on, what are you talking about. It's government by the people,
for the people and of the people. It's not in any way imposed.
It's we and you will be part of it. Actually, one of my
favorite articles by the great writer and with hl Menkin is one. It's a
very short article that he in which he dissects the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln,
and he describes it and un paraphrasing here as one of the most stupendous
pieces of poetry and dissembling that has ever been produced ever, you know.
And when she talks about the people of the people, by the people,
and for the people shall not perish from this earth. I mean, the
whole point this slow that occurred was to do exactly the opposite, to prevent
the states of the Southern Confederacy from establishing a government of their people by their
people. Perfectly stated. That is so true, Eric, And as a
guy who had to play Abraham Lincoln in fourth grade and recite the Gettysburg Address
on the bi centennial, I don't know how many times for different audiences all
around the town. And I had and in fact, it's funny that I
have. I had a hat similar to this, similar to this hat.
I had my stove pipe hat and I think this is the this is the
way that it goes. And I had a fake beard that looped around my
ears with elastic bands and it went down like this, and I had to
do that stupid address over and over and over again because I was the tall
kid. You know, it's some interesting stuff about Lincoln. Hitler admired him
greatly. Yes, if you read there's a section in moncof where Hitler talks
about Lincoln and how he consolidated the central government of the United States and turned
what had been largely independent states in the old school sense, as in independent
countries into essentially administrative districts controlled by a centralized authority, which is exactly what
he did, Yes, exactly exactly. And now David is the one who
brought it up to my attention about how Italy, which had been you know,
city states for so so long around that same time, so consolidation into
the nation state. All around the world, there was this tendency to see
things consolidating into the nation states and the growth of these larger hegemonic areas.
And we can see this now. And you know, my brother went to
Washington and Lee University for law school, and it was until he was there
he had not been aware of the sense of the people in the South and
how they really understand that their push for independence was utterly crushed by a evil
person named Abraham Lincoln, and that really opens a lot of eyes when you
find out. And again I'll recommend Tom de Lorenzo's book The Real Lincoln.
Anybody who's interested in this topic should read. He's written several books on the
topic, and he's a fantastic scholar, and in addition to that, he's
a great storyteller too. Oh yeah, this is really really top shelf and
it's a good read as well as being an educational read. Absolutely well,
Eric, thank you so much, Happy New Year, and thanks again coming
in a little bit after time that was promised. I'm glad we were able
to bring you in. It's so great to have you here. I'll give
you at a little something for going away. This will be of course,
I could play cards by Gary Newman, but I'll do that on my show.
We'll do it on Liberty Conspiracy. Right now, we'll go with something
a little more universally accepted. Again, a little Willie Nelson here he comes.
Gotta get the volume up here. There we go all the road again.
I just can't wait to get all the again, my friend, can't
wait to get all the road to get Eric. Thank you, Thank you,
my friend, and thank you for a great year of being a stalwart
buddy, a good man and a real defender of freedom and a great friend
to the David Night Show. Thanks. Likewise, I'm looking forward hopefully to
a better year this year. I I tip my cap to you, my
friend, and then this is no Abraham Lincoln right here. I think of
this as a man out on the out on the town. I'm a highly
sophisticated man about town. Thanks. Eric, We'll talk to you again soon.
I really appreciate it. You got it, buddy, Take care well.
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Let's talk about an issue that I think might be pertinent. And you'll see
this on the backside of MRC TV. I'll show you the backside inside.
And I don't know whether this piece has been published, but this could be
a little preview for you. So let's go with a little more music,
one and all from none other than Al Stewart. On the Border, great
stuff, what a great, great song Spanish Civil War. Here the ing
boats going guns as across the Spanish when the ghost sounds the clowns, boats
and silver on the oh man, oh man. I love that song.
And again one of my favorite portions of the song is when he says,
in the village where I grew up, nothing seems the same. It's just
the patterns that remain an empty shell. And maybe that happens to some people
over time. Not sure. But first we're going to turn to a place
where I went to college, Boston University, as I say, Boston,
and how some people are using the term happy Woo Year when it comes to
the issue of immigration. Here is the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wou,
the same woman who had her party where she only invited people, as she
said, of color, and then when they got caught doing that for their
holiday party, they apologized without apologizing, saying, oh, sorry, we
didn't mean to send that invitation out to people who might be oh, I
don't know, Caucasian skinned or something like that. Sorry about that, You're
not invited. So here's Michelle Wu talking about immigration, and she makes some
points that I think would be very agreeable. Many people would find this,
they'd be in agreement to say, absolutely. But the problem is that she
kind of misleads about the way that this central planning government immigration system from the
FEDS over to and on down to the States is being managed. Here we
go, Every person of a human being has the legal right to come to
the United States and seek asylum or shelter, and those policies have been in
place for a long time. But when the review of that individual's particular situation
and the then decision to allow the pathway to say and or work authorization that
comes along with that, and that process is so drawn out. People are
stuck. They are looking to work, looking to contribute, looking to be
in a safe democracy where they can raise their families. And we at the
city level are now dealing with many of the impacts of the processes having people
fall through the cracks at the federal level. So we're working very closely with
the state. This is affecting spilities across the Commonwealth to be able to trioge
the situation, to create temporary housing so that families can get settled. Every
person, every human being, right, she's got to use that term triage.
So I heard I hear from a lot of leftists, which is bureaucracy
has got to look at this and we'll get back to you on it.
We're triaging. I love that we're triaging. It makes us sound sophisticated.
Okay, you sophist, go for it. But the other thing about it
is that wouldn't that be wonderful if that's actually what going on. First,
one of the big misapprehensions, misnomers or erroneous assumptions she promulgates is that,
first, I don't get paid for my move, and she is neglecting to
mention that the governor of the state of Massachusetts more heally declared an emergency,
which kicked in a Ducaccas era statute in Massachusetts that allows the state to take
tax money from other people to pay for migrants to live in hotels, get
medical and food care, and get lawyers because you know they're here to work.
Now if someone wants to move for work, I, as a libertarian,
voluntarist and anarchist, I will point out again that because government does not
allow us to express our own valuation in a free market, nothing government says.
Anyone can claim nothing government does, can anyone say has any value.
No one can say what government does is good because no one is allowed to
determine good. All the way up the chain. The politicians are taking money,
they're not using their own so they're not deciding for themselves what is good
or bad and risking their own earnings, and the people are going to go
to jail. They're doing it under duress. So the actual concept of good
is completely removed from everything. Everything the state does, the state in its
generic form, in its normative sense. So that's just an impossibility to claim
that so that then applies to the borders. As I said with Al Stewart's
theme, you can't actually say that where the government places a border wall is
where anyone wanted the border wall. We don't know. We just don't know.
Valuation has been removed. Any critical analysis of this comes up to this
conclusion. It's impossible to reach any other conclusion. And logically it's just not
possible because subjective valuation is destroyed by the state's coercion, by their assumption of
the legal authority to use aggressive violence. It's everything's done by threats. And
if you want to see what people actually want, then you have to allow
for private property and people to put up their own fences on their private property.
Then that shows that somebody actually wants a border there. That's all right.
Now. The other thing about this is again, the government doesn't subsidize
my life. Do they subsidize your life when you want to move? No?
Do they create temporary housing for you when you want to move, No,
of course not. The central authority is something that now they're not only
saying that, well, Massachusetts is a sanctuary state, in Boston's a sanctuary
city, whatever the city might be san Francisco wherever it might be right and
the leftists New York, for example, the leftists are claiming, well,
you know, we're still in favor of migrants. You saw that. I
put up another screen here. It just flashed on my face. So let's
show this. We're still in favor of the SANCTU sanctuary city comic approach or
a label and the system behind it, which is that the Feds will move
people to these places. But the system that we have right now, according
to people like Michelle Wou and mayor of Boston and happy Woo Year and are
you with me Michelle Wu as Steely Dan would say, and more heally and
others like Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, or Governor Hokeal
of New York it's all well, now there's an emergency, so do you
want any more migrants? Well, we want money and power to be able
to handle the migrants. So let's look at this one. I mentioned this
Friday on Liberty Conspiracy and here it is. This is on the back side
of MRCTV. It should be coming out soon. I don't know whether it's
been published yet, but here's the headline. New York City mayor issues executive
order targeting migrant buses with seizure. We're not talking brain seizures either. My
hat would hold that in. Here's some more. Perhaps due to the daily
barrage of stories revealing vast immigration disputes in the US, many Americans might feel
twisted darkly ironic satisfaction seeing one of the highest profile proponents of so called sanctuary
cities and unchecked immigration appear month by month to be changing his proverbial tune.
Indeed, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Democrat, seems to be growing
more averse to unlimited immigration, and on December twenty seventh, the Big Hancho
of the Big Apple once more went high profile, announcing his issuance of an
executive order that appears to be part of a showy game of chicken with Texas
Governor Greg Abbott, Republican. That looks like another desperate attempt to get the
thirty four trillion dollars in debt FEDS to hand his city more cash, and
and which risks easy challenge on constitutional grounds. Adams and this, I'm trying
to warn some of the people who might be conservatives who are saying, oh,
I'm getting satisfaction out of this well. Adams is targeting chartered buses from
Texas, which may or may not carry migrants put on those buses by agents
of the Lone Star government under orders by Abbot and the New York City Mayor.
Said quote, Today, I'm announcing an executive order requiring charter buses.
In fact, why don't we go with this? Just last week, fourteen
buses arrived in a single day, the most ever recorded by officials at our
intake center. We are in close contact with other cities and state leaders across
the country who are seeing a similar increase in arrivals to better coordinate these arrivals.
Today, I'm announcing an executive order requiring charter buses transporting migrants, those
often contracted by the state of Texas, to provide thirty two hour notice in
advance of their arrival into New York City. All Right, we'll posit right
there and continue, I wrote. If the buses failed to comply, Adams
has declared it a Class B misdemeanor that could result in fines and or the
impounding of the violating buses. On a practical level, Adams's executive order easily
can be circumvented, as Leah Barkucas reports for Town Hall after Chicago Mayor Brandon
Johnson Let's Go Brandon Democrat instituted a similar gestapo like edict last month, bus
drivers simply changed their destinations. Quote. Bus operators in Chicago have gone around
the new rules by dropping illegal border crossers off in suburbs, and Governor Abbott
has also flown them to the city instead, I wrote. Additionally, charter
buses from Texas can stop outside the city or state of New York and allow
new buses from other states to take the passengers to New York City. Adams's
claim to be able to issue simply issue an order also seems to be completely
decoupled from any mayoral responsibilities the city, state, or federal statutes and constitutions
might allow. Likewise, any decent lawyer will have a field day pointing out
the numerous ways in which Adams's plan flouts nearly half the Bill of Rights.
Regardless, Adams added, to make sure we have sufficient staffing, We're also
requiring that these charter buses arrive only between eight thirty am and twelve pm Monday
through Friday, and only drop off passengers at one spot unless directed otherwise by
New York City Emergency Management end quote, which is about as moral, constitutional,
and practically enforceable as commanding uber drivers to not pick up people outside those
morning hours and telling drivers and riders where they may and may not disembark.
And those listening or reading with me, you're probably aware that government agents continually
try to do that, which is immoral and of course massively unconstitutional, because
they have to know where you're going, and they have no reason to wonder
where you're going, They have no warrant, where are they going? How
do they know? And of course I wrote, as end wokeness posted,
And by the way, my impression of the mayor might have taken that information
and sort of couched it underneath. The impression made it a more difficult to
absorb. So I'll just mention again. They're requiring charter busses that arrive they
arrive only between eight thirty am and twelve pm, and that they drop off
passengers at one spot. So I said, as endwokeness posted on December twenty
ninth, bus drivers and passengers aren't paying Adams any heed quote. Two days
ago, New York Mayor Adams Eric Adams signed an executive order to curb the
flow of migrant buses from Texas. For the second night in a row,
buses from Texas are defying his order, and we can check out the Twitter
feed on that one, and you can see here is the video. Oh
my goodness, what's this? This is video provided by Viral News New York
City and here. Now, I'm curious as to where they're going. And
of course there's the perpetual question of where did they get the money to make
their moves? How is it that they just had backpacks. Where did they
get the money for food and shelter and toiletries and things like that as they
traveled typically through Panama up from Guatemala. Who's paying for all that? I
don't know. It's very strange, I said. Regardless of Adam's lack of
forethought and stunning lack of enforcement capacity, there are deeper points to take away
from this, as noted his claim to have the power to command that people
driving buses that are entering from other states, Well, it implies Adam's assumption
that he can disregard the Fourth Amendment and demand papers please of anyone driving a
bus into the city Clearly his tactic is reminiscent of a totalitarian state, and
it might prompt a few freedom backers to wonder how American cities and states got
to the point where, without judge issued public warrants, police agents of government
can demand IDs, demand license permission, slips, stop and frisk people,
as they tried in New York a few years ago, contrary to the Fourth
Amendment, and prohibit business operation without a trial or accusation of a crime against
other people. If you're doing something that the state prohibits, just because the
state prohibits it, that's not a crime against people. Those all are not
only contrary to the Fourth Amendment, all of those things are contrary to the
Fifth, sixth, and eighth Amendments. We're talking jurisprudence before a jury of
your peers, a speedy trial, the ability to be able to address your
accusers, and the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. If they're going to
take away licenses without a trial, that is punishment. How can you be
punished unless you've been tried, I said, Adams doesn't seem concerned with the
Constitution. Admittedly, the Biden administration's lack of border enforcement can inspire feelings of
anger and frustration among those who see a bankrupt US government, adding human burdens
to welfareism, police needs, and other day to day factors in the operation
of the nation and the various states. But despite it appearing to be minutie,
a close reading of the US Constitution during these explosive times. This explosive
time also allows us to see a peculiar difference between what the FEDS are allowed
to do for immigration policing in Texas versus what the Constitution might be claimed to
grant for the FEDS to do in New York. So I mentioned this previously
on David Show. I'll bring it up again because it's a perennial subject here
with the borders. Article one, Section nine of the Constitution is the only
portion of the US Constitution that might be misinterpreted as pertaining to migration, but
it only applies to the original thirteen states and really focuses on the importation of
slaves. Reading quote, the migration or importation of such persons as any of
the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by
the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a
tax or duty may be imposed on such importation not exceeding ten dollars for each
person. And I'll just quickly show you here. You'll be to see the
hyperlink for my story right there, which goes to this is constitution annotated from
the Congress itself, and it says here, of course, it is restrictions
on the slave trade. So that's what the government itself acknowledges. They don't
even acknowledge any power over migration or immigration from foreign people coming from other countries.
It's very important to keep this in mind. And then I brought up
this little bit here. I said, there's a lot to learn from the
current immigration conflagration. Now they cut a little bit out here whereas I mentioned,
Texas is supposed to be up to Texas because it's not one of the
original thirteen states. The Texas Constitution has a Bureau of Immigration in it.
And they cut this out for brevity, obviously, because it was over a
thousand worlds wards long. So this is ready to go out, if it
hasn't already gone out. The editor has seen it and done some work on
it already. I can see there's a lot to learn in the current immigration
conflagration a lot of legal scholarship that lets one see what the founders intended and
how utterly screwed up the current look to DC for answers is. But in
a world where after being so overtly pro open borders, people like Adams now
grandstand and even call on the federal government to hand them more money to handle
the crisis, it's important to see how and why this problem exists. Biden's
mismanagement of the immigration matter might be intentional, but the reliance on federal answers
for what is supposed to be a state issue is not going to see long
term security, and moves like Adams will simply see more erosion of the Bill
of Rights. So let me know your thoughts inside Rockfin and Rumble everybody on
this January first, and thank you so much for donating. I really appreciate
it. Wow, I see Harps and dougalug thank you both so much.
Hey, I appreciate that I thought they were going to complement even show.
Harp says, great job, Guard, Happy new year everyone, Thank you
Harp so much. And dougle Luck says Happy new year, everybody, Thank
you Guard. Well, thank you, and it's nice to be able to
say hello, even wearing my silly top hat. I want to turn with
one more piece of information for you to that idea of big things coming in
the new year. So while we have the opportunity, I'm going to just
do this, give us a little new theme. Perhaps we'll do how about
we go with what's coming in Oh, I don't know. Maybe how about
we look at what's coming in the Supreme Court. For that, we need
a very important, very important theme. You know it, you gotta love
it. It's coming to us from old Time TV from a creator named Earl
Stanley Gardner. I don't know if we were related or not, but let's
hear from you know it. It's time for the Perry Mason theme. Oh
my, yes, okay, Well, I want to give you a quick
recap. And also, since their work for the Media Research Center MRCTV,
and of course they try to cover left wing bias, I'll also be able
to give you a maybe a taste of some of the things that the pop
media find to be the important stories and some of the stories that they don't
think are that important. So let's turn now to Newsweek, as they have
the Supreme Court's biggest twenty twenty four decisions. You might notice that there's something
pretty darn big missing from this, especially if you're familiar with the Great Barrington
Declaration or RFK Junior's Children's Health Defense. Here they have Sean O'Driscoll's piece.
The Supreme Court is to pronounce key decisions on twenty twenty four. They're going
to pronounce them, ranging on issues ranging from gun control to presidential immunity.
The justices will also decide otherwise known as split infinity. Also will decide on
the court's first abortion case since they overturn Roe v. Wade in twenty twenty
two. Here are some of the key cases. The United States versus Rahimi,
The story of Zaki Rahimi pushes gun rights to the very edge of what
courts will tolerate. The Justices are to decide whether a federal law prohibiting people
who are under a domestic violence civil restraining order from possessing firearms is constitutional under
the Second Amendment. Let me see restriction, Person's out of jail? Oh
no answers, No thanks, Let's go to lunch again. That was a
quick one. Yeah, and again it goes towards the idea that if someone
is too dangerous to put out on the streets, therefore you're going to restrict
and so called restrict his right to keep and bear arms. Then why is
that person released to the streets. Why is that person on the road.
Again, as Willie Nelson might say, maybe you want to keep that person
in prison. Simply put, if the person is deemed safe enough to go
on the streets and not be inside a prison, and shows you the mismanagement
system of the prison, then oh, and by the way, when prisoners
escaped the prison, is the state held liable for what the prisoners might do
to people? No, if a private system, say, let's say they're
supposed to be holding onto dogs and a rabid dog gets out, they will
be held liable, right absolutely, And so we have here Zaki Rahimi.
The Zaki Rahimi case also pertains to Hunter Biden, and it's the nineteen sixty
eight so called Gun Control Act. And he was, as they say,
an alleged small time Texas marijuana and cocaine dealer. He was assaulting his girlfriend
when he fired a shot at an onlooker. According to a Solicitor General petition
to the Supreme Court. His girlfriend fled in the commotion, and he phoned
her and threatened to shoot her if she told anyone about what happened. In
February twenty twenty, the Texas State Court granted her a restraining order which prevented
him from owning a shotgun. Well, it didn't prevent him. It just
told him he shouldn't. It didn't prevent him at all. Many people who
have had restraining orders against people, women in particular, have gone to get
firearms, but the waiting period has left them vulnerable. They couldn't get their
firearms legally, but the guys with the restraining orders still got their firearms and
they killed them. This has happened. This is real. I wrote about
it in my book Free R Die. This really happened. So the idea
that they won't get their hands on guns runs against the very idea that criminally
minded people will get firearms if it's in their best interest as they see it.
That's why the black market exists. That's why alcohol prohibition didn't work.
That's why drug prohibition doesn't work. That's why prohibition against prostitution doesn't work.
It doesn't mean one has to promote it. And support it and actually say
that it is moral in any way to engage in prostitution. But I don't
have anything to do with it, and I'm not going to tax my neighbor
to create a police force to stop other people from engaging it because I'm not
part of their decision process. That's up to them and their own morals and
their own souls. And if I'm going to take somebody else's money, that
means I'm stealing. It doesn't matter how many people say that it's okay and
give it their their their what would you call that their standard? There they
strike their standard again on it of okay, you know, they hit it
with their approved stamp of approval. No, so the guy had this against
him. He had a restraining order, just like they had in the nineteen
sixty eight Gun Control Act. They say drug users, not someone who might
be intoxicated, that someone might want to disarm immediately on the spot, but
so called drug users. And that's where Hunter Biden comes in. So there's
that story. Now we also got another one, which is a fairly big
one, Cargill versus Garland. What might this be? This case is one
that will decide how far a government agency can extend its powers and could have
major implications for several branches of government, including the so called Chevron standard,
where they give deference to so called regulatory agencies if various courts, especially beneath
the Supreme Court, find that the agencies were working in what they could assume
to be their purview as granted by Congress, even when they're unconstitutional agencies.
They never question the constitutionality of the agencies. They just look at whether or
not, well, now that the agency has been created, isn't operating under
what the Congress said it can do? Well? Here is a situation where
the ATF under the Chevron decision. And similarly, they've got another case with
fishermen who are challenging the ability of the federal government to force them to pay
for so called phish counters. That's not this case, but it's very close
to it. And there's another case that I'll talk about which has to do
with that. But in this case we'll talk about the ATF. But in
the fishermen's case, which I won't show you on the screen, they've got
a regulatory agency that already imposes fish counters on their boats who sleep with them
housing of these of these state agents, much like housing of soldiers, which
is supposed to be prohibited by the federal government. And the counters count the
fish. They literally count the fish. Originally, when I started to report
on this for MRCTV, I thought it was a machine or something which would
be ridiculous. It's not a machine. It's people. Now the Feds want
the fishermen to pay the seven hundred dollars to eight hundred dollars a day that
these guys get in salary from you, the taxpayers, even if you're not
eating fish. The whole system is blatantly corrupt and unconstitutional. It's mafiaism.
So now here's this story about this Supreme Court case, as they say here
Cargil versus Garland. This is a case that will decide how far a government
agency can extend its powers and could have major implications for several branches of government.
The Supreme Court will rule whether a government agency can ban bump stocks,
which are attached to a semi automatic to enable it to fire bullets more rapidly.
Well, semi automatic is just a gun that on one pole of the
trigger it just fires. It's not semi automatic. It's just one shot,
one pole, that's all. And the bump stock allows the recoil to bring
that trigger back up against your finger more rapidly so that it can fire almost
like an automatic. Okay, So again the question is, thanks to Donald
Trump, whether or not a so called regulatory agency can do this. But
there are other big ones that I want to mention to you. So here
is this one. This one is a big one that is in the appeals
court and I'm waiting to see if this goes to this Supreme court. Court
revives doctor's lawsuits saying FDA overstepped its authority with anti ivermectin campaign. A federal
appeals court in New Orleans has revived a lawsuit by three doctors who say the
Food and Drug Administration overstepped its authority. Oh no, this is the one
that I'm talking about. This is up in the Supreme Court. This is
the Missouri v. Biden and this is the combined Missouri v. Biden RFK
Junior Children's Health Defense case, which is Jay Batikaria and others from the Great
Barrington Declaration and other doctors who said that this got in the way of their
profession. They lost jobs, and they want compensation from the Feds, and
they have been harmed by the Feds. It's a very very important story,
and I hope that people will recognize that the federal government engaged in censorship.
And I've got more on Missouri v. Biden over here. This is the
Supreme Court when it agreed to hear it in October. This is from the
Voloch so called conspiracy at Reason. And here is the order from merthyv.
Missouri. The application for stay is granted, So what happens until the Supreme
Court comes out with its decision. They granted the federal government, certain branches
of it, like the FDA, the ability to continue to promulgate falsehoods and
lies on social media and to call for social media to pull down various posts
about things like the JAB even though we have been proven correct. We knew
we were correct the whole time, and the government just continues to engage in
more propaganda. And Justice Alito, with whom Justice Thomas and Justice Gorsuch join,
dissented from the grant of application for a stay until the Court hears it
coming up this session and they will decide on it. So right now the
stay is in place, stopping and in junction against the federal government's so called
actions so the government can continue to take its actions and writes just to alido.
This case concerns what two lower courts found to be a coordinated campaign by
high level federal officials to suppress the expression of disfavored views on important public issues.
To prevent the continuation of this campaign, these officials were enjoined from either
coercing social media companies to engage in such censorship or cajoling them. Today,
however, a majority of the court, without undertaking a full review I paraphrase
their apologies a full review of the record and without any explanation, suspends the
effect of that injunction until the court completes its review of this case, an
event that may not occur until late in the spring of next year. Our
new year government's censorship of private speech is antithetical to our democratic form of government.
It's not democratic, guys, and therefore today's decision is highly disturbing in
this case. This case began when two states, Missouri and Louisiana, and
various private parties filed suit that would be people at the Great Barrington Declaration and
see Children's Health Health Defense PhD filed suit alleging that popular social media companies had
either blocked their use of the company's platforms or had downgraded their posts on a
host of controversial subjects, including COVID nineteen, lablee theory, pandemic lockdowns,
masks information and so on, and the Hunter Biden laptop theory. Now,
the final bit I want to give to you before we go. Everybody has
to do with the regulatory state, and MRCTV just released this one. Typical,
typically tyrannical Biden administration slips out a of regulations over the holidays, So
get ready, everybody. I'll discuss this more tonight on Liberty Conspiracy at six
on Rumbel and Rockfin Little plug there, of course, as tyrants so often
do. On December twenty ninth, the Biden administration quietly slid out a slow
news holiday hidden announcement of many more regulations it is imposing on your market choices
of home appliances. And to add insult to injury, it's all for their
religion like claim to be preventing Colliesque. That's the Hindu goddess Colliesque demigod anthropogenic
climate change from destroying the world. It's a false religion backed by fake claims
of science and false claims of savings that they're imposing on you. Merry Christmas,
Happy New Year. Indeed, as American families gather for the holidays,
the Biden Administration of Energy DOE, under slick smarmy, enriched by stock options
received from Palsy corporations, DOE head Jennifer Granholm and her cult released the Song
of Khalie. Nick Pope reports that's a reference to the Dan Simmons novel By
the way. Nick Pope reports on it for Daily Caller. The Department of
Energy DOE finalized or proposed a bevy of regulatory actions cracking down on numerous appliances
on Friday. So it's like I said, we haven't closed the book for
just writing new chapters in the ongoing book of the Fight for Freedom. The
DOE proposed new rules designed to promote so called energy efficient commercial fans and blowers,
and also finalized energy efficiency standards for refrigerators and freezers, the agency announced
on Friday. The regulatory actions are the latest in a string of moves by
the Biden administration intended to phase out a host of fossil fuel powered appliances and
replace them on the market with more energy efficients so called and often electric equivalents.
End quote. I suspect that you too might be wondering where their vaunted
US Constitution hides the so called authority for the Feds to create a DOE let
alone tell private makers of appliances what they can and cannot offer you to freely
purchase or leave on the showroom floor. Perhaps you also might be scratching your
head over the easy way elitist bureaucrats and politicians claim to define for us what
is efficient. Well, you'd better extend the sentiment to silent of silent night
to your potential protestations about those matters, because, of course, the mandates
are for your own good, so be silent. They're for your own good
to stop their magic monster of anthropogenic climate change. And if you should question
either their mandates or their faulty claims of science, you are an apostate to
the new religion. And if you want an idea of what is targeted,
even as you see how efficient the tax fed writers of DOE are, here
is the subhead of their announcement. Quote DOE proposes new rule for energy efficient
commercial fans and blowers and finalizers refrigerator and freezer standards with strong industry and stakeholder
support bolstering Biden Harris administration efforts to strengthen outdated efficiency standards to save Americans approximately
one trillion dollars over thirty years. And I wrote and now that she has
pocketed almost two million dollars in stock options given to her by an electric vehicle
bus company that she helped get fed money when she was governor of Michigan.
That company just filed for bankruptcy just after she got to sell her stock.
DOE head Jennifer grand Holme has some holiday cheer to force on you in all
its propagandistic glory quote. Today's announcement is a testament to the Biden Harris Administration's
commitment to lowering utility costs for working families, which is helping to simultaneously strengthen
energy independence and combat the climate crisis. Secretary of Energy Jennifer grant Home said
of her agency's actions, DOE will continue to move quickly in twenty twenty four,
together with industry partners and stakeholders to update and strengthen outdated energy efficiency standards,
which is critical to innovation, more consumer options and healthier communities. And
so folks, as we start twenty twenty four, I'll leave you with this
little comment from the MRCTV piece to you to her, just some items for
us to remember. Curiously, all her cozy fascist terms like partners and stakeholders
and standards are warmed over populist problem and we've got working families, consumer options
and healthier communities. Those are under this paradigm, defined and controlled by the
government, and they represent favoritism and force. The government uses terms such as
regulation and rule and standards as replacements for the term state threats and to cloud
their moves to push around makers, sellers, and buyers who have their own
goals and their own calculations about what is of efficient and about their own freedom
to be left the heck alone. They employed this rhetoric so regardless of ethics,
regardless of economics, being fueled by the freedom of consumers and sellers to
show their preferences and inspire suppliers to keep reducing costs and improving their products in
order to beat other suppliers. Granting Grand Holme seems to think she knows best
rather than choice. She imposes mandates and she makes threats. Well, everywan,
thank you so much for joining me. I've had a great time filling
in for David, and I hope you had a great time watching the show
or parts of the show while I got to fill in for David. And
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David Knight and all. Whether you're feeling like the blue or bluegrass, APS
Radio has you covered. Check out a wide variety of channels on our app
at apsradio dot com. You're listening to the David Knight Show. I'm delighted
to present something born from my love for music in the Christmas season. Christmas
Night is a perfect companiment for anything from family gatherings the moments of peaceful reflection.
I hope us to provide a fresh take the soundtrack of Christmas. This
collection of twenty instrumental songs brings new life to timeless Christmas classics, with original
orchestrations alongside lesser known, yet equally enchanting carols. For the listeners of The
David Night Show, this is more than music as part of our shared journey.
Christmas Night is available at the Davidnightshow dot com. May it bring a
little extra joy and peace to your Christmas season. Thank you for your unwavering
support and for joining me in this new musical adventure. Merry Christmas to all
and all a good Christmas Night.