Speaker 1: Stones Well. President Donald Trump gave peace a chance. But
Speaker 1: it was clear from the events of the last forty
Speaker 1: eight hours that the MoU painstakingly negotiated by Vice President j.
Speaker 1: D Vance, Jared Kushner, and Steve Whitkoff to end the
Speaker 1: conflict with Iran lazy tatters. This began when the Iranians
Speaker 1: struck three ships in the Straits of Hormuz, a direct
Speaker 1: violation of that agreement. This came on the heels of
Speaker 1: two other previous infractions, and President Donald Trump authorized strikes
Speaker 1: last night, hard strikes against military targets in Iran, knocking
Speaker 1: out their radar facilities that they were seeking to rebuild,
Speaker 1: knocking out a number of drone storage facilities and other
Speaker 1: hard military targets. Now, some may think that the President
Speaker 1: does not have many options, having bomb very heavily in
Speaker 1: Operation Midnight Hammer, Operation Epic Fury, But in his comments
Speaker 1: I noticed the President mentioned the potential of bombing Carg Island.
Speaker 1: Now Americans would be wise to begin paying very close
Speaker 1: attention to this small, rugged island and the Northern Persian
Speaker 1: Gulf that few could locate on a map only weeks ago.
Speaker 1: That is, of course, Carg Island and it's nothing less
Speaker 1: than the main distribution center for the Islamic Republic of
Speaker 1: Iran's oil. Carg Island stands as one of the most
Speaker 1: consequential strategic locations in the entire Middle East. If Iran's
Speaker 1: regime derives financial oxygen from oil imports, then Carg Island
Speaker 1: is the lungs through which that oxygen flows. At this point,
Speaker 1: most of their exports, almost eighty to ninety percent, are
Speaker 1: going to China. Should anyone doubt the urgency of understanding
Speaker 1: its importance, facts about Carg Island reveal why this isolated
Speaker 1: outpost has become such a critical focus of geopolitical scrutiny.
Speaker 1: So far, the president has only bonbed the periphery of it,
Speaker 1: he has not destroyed the actual facility. Cargo Island is
Speaker 1: a continental limestone island located in the northern Personal Gulf.
Speaker 1: Approximately thirty kilometers it's about eighteen miles off of Iran's coast.
Speaker 1: It sits northwest of the port of Bashir at about
Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty three kilometers that's roughly three hundred
Speaker 1: miles northwest of the Strait of Our Mouse. The tiny
Speaker 1: island measures roughly eight kilometers in length. Four to five
Speaker 1: kilometers in width, covering an area of only six or
Speaker 1: seven square miles. Its rocky limestone terrain, collects, freshwater and
Speaker 1: porest foundations make it one of the few islands in
Speaker 1: the Gulf with national freshwater resources capable of supporting human settlement.
Speaker 1: It's actually perfectly situated for the Islamic Republic of Iron's
Speaker 1: and nefarious purposes. Its population is only about ten thousand residents.
Speaker 1: The island extends Iran's territorial sea claims deeper into the
Speaker 1: Persian Gulf and sits amid some of the most valuable
Speaker 1: oil infrastructure in the region. The economic and strategic importance
Speaker 1: of Carg Island cannot be overstated. Carg Islands serves as
Speaker 1: Iran's primary offshore crude oil export terminal and historically has
Speaker 1: handled about ninety to ninety eight percent of the country's
Speaker 1: crude exports. The island's loading infrastructure is capable exporting roughly
Speaker 1: seven million barrels of oil per day through specialized terminiles.
Speaker 1: Trump referred to them in his remarks as the Pipes
Speaker 1: and Sea Island loading platforms located on the island. Pipelines
Speaker 1: connecting the island directly to mainland oil fields incurs a
Speaker 1: stand as well as underwater reservoirs beneath the golf itself
Speaker 1: make it crucial. The entire complex is operated by the
Speaker 1: national Iranian oil company Crude Blends, which as Iran Heavy,
Speaker 1: Iran Light and for Uzan are loaded onto massive tankers
Speaker 1: at carg before dispatch across global markets. Should anyone be surprised,
Speaker 1: analysts repeatedly described Cargo Island as the main distributed center
Speaker 1: for Iran's oil. Now modern history has been equally dramatic.
Speaker 1: Carg Island was briefly occupied by British forces in eighteen
Speaker 1: thirty eight. Oil discoveries in the twentieth century transforms little
Speaker 1: island into the most important petroleum export facilities in the
Speaker 1: world by the nineteen seventies. During the Iran Iraq War
Speaker 1: between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty eight, the island was
Speaker 1: repeatedly bombed by the Iraqi forces, attempting then to cripple
Speaker 1: Iran's oil exports. Much of the infrastructure was damaged, but
Speaker 1: later rebuilt in the nineteen nineties. Following the Iranian Revolution
Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy nine, the island's oil infrastructure was nationalized
Speaker 1: by the Iotolas regime and incorporated into the state run
Speaker 1: petroleum mapparatus. It still exists. Meanwhile, nearby Karku Islands its
Speaker 1: northeast of kark and also plays kind of a supporting
Speaker 1: role in the export of crude oil cargo operations. Also
Speaker 1: not far away stands another sensitive strategic location, the Bushir
Speaker 1: Nuclear Power Plant, adding another layer of geopolitical sensitivity to
Speaker 1: the region. The modern energy system. Carg Island functions as
Speaker 1: a massive storage and loading complex, capable of loading tens
Speaker 1: of millions of barrels of crude into large tankers. Estimates
Speaker 1: say the storage capacity ranges between twenty millions to thirty
Speaker 1: million barrels a day, depending on operational configurations. Yes, tankers
Speaker 1: line up to load crude shipments that then travel across
Speaker 1: international markets. That oil today largely goes to China. Previously
Speaker 1: around was an exporter to Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Russia. Today,
Speaker 1: about ninety to ninety eight percent of the oil leaving
Speaker 1: Carg Islands going to China. The present has made it
Speaker 1: very clear that he doesn't wish to bomb carg Island.
Speaker 1: He'd like to keep the infrastructure in place for a
Speaker 1: post regime government. But he implied very heavily that it
Speaker 1: is a possibility, and that is I think his whole
Speaker 1: card if they push him too far. Meanwhile, America is
Speaker 1: back at war and we pray for a swift end
Speaker 1: to this conflict. But the President, I think today's remarks
Speaker 1: at the NATO conference kind of revealed the possibility of
Speaker 1: a bombing of carg Island. So where are the Democrats today?
Speaker 1: They're all in on giant government. They've embraced state power
Speaker 1: like a jealous lover. Democrats are running this year on
Speaker 1: a final push for single payer health care, promising a
Speaker 1: long last to give our central government full power over
Speaker 1: body and a fifth of the economy. As Graham Platner
Speaker 1: does in Maine. They always link free childcare to free healthcare,
Speaker 1: So add the cost of the free program for the
Speaker 1: cost of free healthcare. A million quality center learning centers
Speaker 1: like the ones in Minnesota bloom, controlling medicine and childcare.
Speaker 1: Democrats also planned to control all other major industries. New
Speaker 1: York City Mayor Zore Mamdami, who is today the moral
Speaker 1: and intellectual leader of the party. In a moment when
Speaker 1: all the national politicians are about as smart as Maisie
Speaker 1: Harano or his appealing as Amy Klobashar has said explicitly
Speaker 1: that his goal is to seize the means of production
Speaker 1: there it is. They're not kidding. One of Mamdami's allies,
Speaker 1: the congressional candidate Claire Valdez, actually says she wants to
Speaker 1: nationalize the airline industry, turning United and Delta an American,
Speaker 1: and Jet Blue in Southwest into the federal government airways.
Speaker 1: Acting on the opposition to private property controlled by its owners. Mandami,
Speaker 1: of course, recently instituted a rent freeze in New York City,
Speaker 1: covering both one year and two year leases for people
Speaker 1: living in about one million rent stabilized apartments, which makes
Speaker 1: up about twenty seven percent of the overall housing stock
Speaker 1: across New York City's five boroughs. Housing prices are to
Speaker 1: be set by government, where you live and how much
Speaker 1: you pay for it should be a government program. According
Speaker 1: to the Democrats, this transition to government managed housing will
Speaker 1: intensify in a hurry. Ma'am Dami's detailed housing plans centers
Speaker 1: on the promise of putting the public sector in the
Speaker 1: driver's seat, opposing private industry. Democrats oppose the private wealth
Speaker 1: it produces. In the People's Republic of California, a proposed
Speaker 1: tax on the net worth of billionaires quickly drifting downward.
Speaker 1: A July second essay from I Spoke of Yesterday by
Speaker 1: California Congressman Rocanna, a spectacularly cynical Silicon Valley Democrat, called
Speaker 1: for a dramatic expansion of federal welfare programs on the
Speaker 1: backs of a federal tax that has to reach all fortunes.
Speaker 1: Fifty million dollars and up. Wealth is for government, you see.
Speaker 1: It has to be transferred into the hands of centralized
Speaker 1: power to give the masses their free programs. In his
Speaker 1: distasteful speech on Independence Day, ma'am Domi depicted in America
Speaker 1: defined by terror, oppression, and an oligarchic theft. We see
Speaker 1: the wealthiest country the history of the world, one where
Speaker 1: children go sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers
Speaker 1: for more, he said. We see monopolies that dominate every
Speaker 1: industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see matched agents
Speaker 1: terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before
Speaker 1: spiriting them away in arm marked vans. Of course, none
Speaker 1: of that means anything at all. Monopolies dominate every industry.
Speaker 1: How many airlines can you choose from? Again? How many
Speaker 1: competing companies offer you gas for your car? How many
Speaker 1: kinds of breakfast cereal can you buy from? How many
Speaker 1: different grocery stores? Jomy wasn't trying to describe America. He
Speaker 1: was trying to demonize a demagogue to depict a nation
Speaker 1: of private industry as something dark, cruel, and dangerous. He
Speaker 1: was trying to sell massive government power as kindness, fixing
Speaker 1: all the faked up plutocratic domination. This is where the
Speaker 1: Democrats are. They're all in on giant, big government. They're
Speaker 1: highly opposed to private property, private enterprise, and yes, private lives.
Speaker 1: They've embrace state power. It's a dismal gang of brutally
Speaker 1: stupid adult children who made a living as shameless grifters.
Speaker 1: By warning you that Donald Trump is an inspiring dictator
Speaker 1: who urged to implement authoritarianism. They keep inventing fake panics
Speaker 1: to sell that idiocy. While Trump eliminates whole government agencies
Speaker 1: and sharp reduces the size of the federal workforce, Trump
Speaker 1: isn't going far enough as far as I'm concerned, and
Speaker 1: congression Republicans are trailblazers in the art of uselessness. Federal
Speaker 1: deaficites persist, and the crisis of federal deafy is just
Speaker 1: getting worse. But Trump is the only present in your
Speaker 1: lifetime or mine who's work to make the federal government
Speaker 1: smaller and less powerful in any practical way, and only
Speaker 1: idiots and con artists pretend to think he's an authoritarian.
Speaker 1: You can have Trump, or you can have Mayam Dami
Speaker 1: Area Democrats who explicitly intend to confiscate private wealth, seize
Speaker 1: the means of production, and runs society directly and forcedly
Speaker 1: through the instrument of government power. The fools who warn
Speaker 1: you that you have to vote for Democrats to save
Speaker 1: us from Trump's authoritarianism are trying to herd you into
Speaker 1: real authoritarianism. Anyone who's still pretending this isn't the actual
Speaker 1: choice by now has transitioned from being a shameless clown
Speaker 1: to being a real danger. The tediousness of the Bulkwark
Speaker 1: style never trump Ism and the National Reviews infantile socialists
Speaker 1: worshiping coprophilia is becoming something else entirely. It's time to choose.
Speaker 1: It's time to remember the choice that other people make
Speaker 1: that choice is between authoritarian and freedom, is between big
Speaker 1: government and a government by the people. I'm Roger Stones
Speaker 1: listening to the Stone Zone. Thanks for joining us. Whatever
Speaker 1: you do, don't go away, because we'll be right back
Speaker 1: with more politics on the other side. Welcome back into
Speaker 1: the Stone Zone. We have breaking news. Let me read
Speaker 1: it directly from NBC. Graham Platner, the controversial candidate for
Speaker 1: the US Senate and Maine, announced only minutes ago that
Speaker 1: he's ending his US Senate campaign, capping a chaotic few
Speaker 1: days of uncertainty and Democrat in fighting, leaving the Democrat
Speaker 1: Party without a candidate in the vitally important main Senate
Speaker 1: race this fall. The announcement by the populist progressive candidate
Speaker 1: came after a woman he dated accused him of sexual
Speaker 1: assault back in twenty twenty one, causing his support to
Speaker 1: hemorrhage even among top Democratic allies, who sended their endorsements
Speaker 1: and called on him to drop out once again. This
Speaker 1: is off of NBC. In a video message posted on
Speaker 1: x A, Platner denied the allegation's false, but said they
Speaker 1: have placed an immense amount of weight on him as
Speaker 1: he is only until July thirteenth. To decide whether to
Speaker 1: continue his candacy. He said if he continued, he loses
Speaker 1: his ability to fundraise, access voter data, or run a campaign.
Speaker 1: What comes next needs to come from the people, needs
Speaker 1: to come from the people of Maine. It has to
Speaker 1: be open, transparent, and democratic. He needs to be reflecting
Speaker 1: the whale the values of the people that built this movement.
Speaker 1: He goes on to say, we believe for the movement
Speaker 1: to continue, it cannot be made for that reason way,
Speaker 1: meaning he is suspending his campaign operations. Platner said, we're
Speaker 1: not doing because the allegations. We're doing it because the
Speaker 1: structures are being taken away from us by those in power. Now.
Speaker 1: The main Democrat party has the option to replace Platner
Speaker 1: on the ballot by July twenty seventh. That's the deadline
Speaker 1: set by state law year how the party will go
Speaker 1: about selecting a candidate in that compressed time frame. Maine
Speaker 1: already jocking to be the candidate to face Republican Susan's Collins,
Speaker 1: a good friend of mine, who's seeking her sixth, sixth
Speaker 1: year term. Earlier on Wednesday, the state party said it
Speaker 1: had decided to hold a nominated convention to pick a
Speaker 1: replacement candidate and plans to announce a full timeline shortly.
Speaker 1: So this was thought by many to be the Democrat's
Speaker 1: best chance in the country for a pickup. Susan Collins
Speaker 1: was thought to be an endangered Republican incumbent, and then
Speaker 1: Graham Plattner, the guy with the Nazi tattoo in a
Speaker 1: strange history, surfaced as a candidate. Actually, the sitting Democrat
Speaker 1: governor Maine, who was originally thought to be the likely candidate,
Speaker 1: dropped out of that race. Platner's exit came after Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer and the Democrat National Party warned and know certain
Speaker 1: terms that they will not invest in the main Senate
Speaker 1: race if Platner remained on the ballot. So within hours
Speaker 1: of Political First reporting the allegations by the ex girlfriend
Speaker 1: on Monday, Senator List Warren, who had visited, made a
Speaker 1: campaign for platform, called for him to drop, as did
Speaker 1: Congressman Roecanna, calling the allegations serious and credible. Ruben Colego,
Speaker 1: himself of no paragon of future, also called for Platnir
Speaker 1: to drop off. Even Bernie Sanders weighed in, although Platner
Speaker 1: had cited Sanders as his political load stock. So this
Speaker 1: is a shocking but important development. It's difficult situation for
Speaker 1: the main Democratic Party because party operators don't have enough
Speaker 1: time for a full primary campaign. Many may see it
Speaker 1: as a lifeline to find a less flawed dominie with
Speaker 1: a fighting chance to defeating Collins, who was again first
Speaker 1: elected nineteen ninet last one re election in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Democrats need a net gain of four seats to capture
Speaker 1: control of the Senate this fall. Apart from Maine in
Speaker 1: North Carolina, all their opportunities come in states at President
Speaker 1: Trump carried by double digits in twenty twenty four, of
Speaker 1: those being Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas. Big blokes of
Speaker 1: the Democrats, I'm Roger Stone, listening to the Stone Zone
Speaker 1: and will be right back. Welcome back into the Stone Zone.
Speaker 1: The significance of this Democrat car crash in Maine, in
Speaker 1: which their Senate candidate, Graham Plattner has withdrawn from the race,
Speaker 1: cannot be underestimated. Democrats need a net gain of four
Speaker 1: seats to capture control the Senate this ball. Other than
Speaker 1: Maine and North Carolina, all their opportunities come in states
Speaker 1: at President Donald Trump carried by double digits in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Again those are Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas.
Speaker 1: Maine was actually the only blue leaning state with the
Speaker 1: Republican Senator Plattner, who was a marine veteran and an
Speaker 1: oyster farmer, actually won the Democrat primary back on June
Speaker 1: ninth after two term Democrat Governor Janet Mills. The Democrat
Speaker 1: establishment's preferred candidate, failed to gain traction and the Radical
Speaker 1: Progressive was able to win the contest after she quit,
Speaker 1: So this is a significant setback for the Democrats in
Speaker 1: their Senate bid. There are many political mysteries from twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen that still have the power to set the Internet
Speaker 1: on fire, like the unsolved murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.
Speaker 1: The official theory is that the twenty seven year old
Speaker 1: was shot near his DC home during a botched robbery.
Speaker 1: His family has rejected all claims that he was somehow
Speaker 1: connected to Wicki Lakes or murdered because of his work
Speaker 1: at the DNC, and they have continued to claim that
Speaker 1: he was the victim of a robbery gone wrong, but
Speaker 1: his wallet, his watch, and his jewelry, as well as
Speaker 1: his cash and credit cards were still intact. Questions never
Speaker 1: went away, mostly because so many details surrounding that case
Speaker 1: were sketchy and made no sense. Seth Race was killed
Speaker 1: less than two weeks before Wiki Leaks began publishing thousands
Speaker 1: of internal Democrat National Committee emails that literally rocked the
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen election and exposed the Democrats bitter and hippocratic
Speaker 1: internal struggle which they had to change their party rules
Speaker 1: to guarantee that Hillary Clinton would defeat Bernie Sanders, who
Speaker 1: wasn't even a Democrat a year before he had run
Speaker 1: for the Democrat nomination. As a result, a theory emerged
Speaker 1: the emails Wiki Leaks released hadn't come from Russia, but
Speaker 1: came from someone inside the DNC. In fact, it was
Speaker 1: in my trial that the FBI was forced to admit
Speaker 1: that they had never actually inspected the computer servers of
Speaker 1: the Democrat National Committee. The underlying theory of my federal trial,
Speaker 1: in which I was accused falsely of lying under oath
Speaker 1: to cover up Russian collusion that we now know categorically
Speaker 1: never existed. There was never evident any evidence produced at
Speaker 1: my trial of an actual online hack. In fact, the
Speaker 1: judge refused to allow me to introduce forensic evidence or
Speaker 1: expert testimony, which I could have proved that there was
Speaker 1: never any online hack. This idea that the WikiLeaks releases
Speaker 1: came from someone inside the DNC was tied to Seth
Speaker 1: richards day. Many beliefs of this day that he was
Speaker 1: the insider who leaked the emails after his candidate, Bernie
Speaker 1: Sanders was ousted by Hillary. Now there's never been any
Speaker 1: public proof of that claim, and some people who know
Speaker 1: Seth claim that he wasn't a disgruntled Bernie Burrow. But then,
Speaker 1: of course Julia Sange entered the conversation, things got a
Speaker 1: lot more curious. Assane did something then that he never does.
Speaker 1: He spoke out about a source. He publicly denied that
Speaker 1: the Russian government or any other state actor was his source. Again,
Speaker 1: neither at my trial or any place else did Robert
Speaker 1: Muller and his gang of thugs produce any evidence to
Speaker 1: the contrary. But then, in a twenty sixteen interview about
Speaker 1: the dangers faced by Wiki League's sources, Assange unexpectedly brought
Speaker 1: off Seth Rich's murder. When the interviewer asked Rich whether
Speaker 1: Rich had been a source. Assage fell back on Wiki
Speaker 1: League's policy of refusing to identify sources, but then offered
Speaker 1: a twenty thousand dollars reward for information leading to the
Speaker 1: conviction of Rich's murder, which only ignited the theories tenfold. Now,
Speaker 1: nearly a decade later, a new claim has surfaced, and
Speaker 1: it's confirmed that the FBI will have some very serious
Speaker 1: explaining to do. Attorney and former journalist Ty Clevenger, man
Speaker 1: from whom I have enormous respect, has spent must have
Speaker 1: the last decade fighting a federal government for records related
Speaker 1: to Seth Rich's death. Clevenger took to X with the
Speaker 1: bombshell post. He said the government attorney has now told
Speaker 1: him that several hundred pages connected to Seth Rich may
Speaker 1: have been discovered inside a hide room at the FBI headquarters.
Speaker 1: This story is pretty explosive, especially since last year Fox
Speaker 1: News reported that cash Pttel and his team had located
Speaker 1: a secret, secure room inside the J. Edgar Hoover Building
Speaker 1: where they found computer drives and thousands of pages stored
Speaker 1: in burn bags, which are used for classified material that's
Speaker 1: supposed to be destroyed. According to those news reports, some
Speaker 1: of the records were reportedly connected to the FBI's Crossfire
Speaker 1: Hurricane investigation, so perhaps Seth was part of that mission.
Speaker 1: Clevenger is honest about what he knows and what he
Speaker 1: doesn't know. So this isn't by any means done deal,
Speaker 1: not by any stretch, but it could be something big.
Speaker 1: He hasn't, of course, received documents, doesn't know whether they
Speaker 1: what they contain, and doesn't know if the FBI will
Speaker 1: release any of them. As it stands right now, he's
Speaker 1: just reporting what he says a government attorney has told him. However,
Speaker 1: there's a bigger fight going on about records related to
Speaker 1: the Seth Rich case. See. At first, the FBI told
Speaker 1: Clevenger it couldn't find any records related to Rich, but
Speaker 1: later court proceedings proved the bureau had records and assorted
Speaker 1: material connected to Seth's work laptop and an image of
Speaker 1: his personal laptop, a DVD, and a tape drive. They
Speaker 1: all previously denied having any of those. Later, a federal
Speaker 1: court ruled the FBI improperably withheld that material and ordered
Speaker 1: the bureau to provide additional information about what it had.
Speaker 1: So this is a story that we are going to
Speaker 1: be watching very carefully. One thing is for sure. The
Speaker 1: FBI's handling of the records is no longer a conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1: The Bureau once said it couldn't find anything related to
Speaker 1: seth Rich. Court proceedings now proved that that was a lie.
Speaker 1: Now it's time for Trump's FBI set the record straight
Speaker 1: and be as transparent as possible. Because the mystery surrounding
Speaker 1: Sethrich's case has gone on for about a decade. His
Speaker 1: killer was never caught. Juliannassans raised a lot of questions
Speaker 1: that have never answered. So did my trial, where the
Speaker 1: government claimed repeatedly to have proof of a Russian act
Speaker 1: but produced none, and none has been produced since that.
Speaker 1: Time is time for the truth. Meanwhile, the Southern Poverty
Speaker 1: Law Center is back in federal court, pleading not guilty
Speaker 1: to eleven of criminal counts in a superseding indictment that
Speaker 1: has ripped the veil off of one of the far
Speaker 1: left's most powerful activist organizations. Federal prosecutors alleged that the
Speaker 1: Southern Poverty Law Center defrauded donors by secretly funding millions
Speaker 1: of dollars to informants embedded inside racist and extremist groups
Speaker 1: the organization publicly claimed to oppose. Reminds me something that
Speaker 1: a veteran FBI agent once told me. He said, if
Speaker 1: there were ten people at a klu Klux Klan meeting,
Speaker 1: none of them would be government informants. One would be
Speaker 1: an actual clansman. The indictment says that four million dollars
Speaker 1: in donor money was moved through fake entities with names
Speaker 1: like the Rare Books Warehouse and the Tech Writers Group,
Speaker 1: eventually reaching individuals tied to groups including the klu Klux Klan,
Speaker 1: the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance. Prosecutors now further
Speaker 1: alleged some funds were used for materials connected to cross
Speaker 1: burnings and clan robes. One informant legedly helped organize the
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. It became
Speaker 1: so very controversial. So what the Southern Poverty Law Center
Speaker 1: was doing was creating and funding these right wing extremist
Speaker 1: groups so they could go out and raise millions of
Speaker 1: dollars to fight the very right wing extremist groups that
Speaker 1: they were funding and abedded. That's a fraud. Southern Property
Speaker 1: Law Center of course, denies all wrongdoing following the charges
Speaker 1: politically motivating, claiming its informant program helped prevent violence and
Speaker 1: assist law enforcement. But I believe that's just a cover
Speaker 1: in actuality. The Southern Poverty Law Center was stoking the
Speaker 1: flames of racism so they could gain power, money, and
Speaker 1: prestige from allegedly fighting back against it. They've made millions
Speaker 1: of dollars based on a lie. Southern Poverty Law Center
Speaker 1: was never a civil rights group. It's been a scam
Speaker 1: since its inception. It was, i would say, victimizing little
Speaker 1: old ladies for their twenty five dollars checks. It was
Speaker 1: a partisan smear machine, smearing mainstream conservatives, evangelical Christians, religious
Speaker 1: liberty groups, immigration control advocates, and free speech organizations, including
Speaker 1: people like me as extremists. The FBI cut times with
Speaker 1: the Southern Poverty Law Center in twenty twenty five after
Speaker 1: backlash over its so called hate map, which listed near
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred groups and turning including Turning Point USA. As
Speaker 1: my good friend Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Southern Propty Law
Speaker 1: Centers claimed to be a watchdog for all these years.
Speaker 1: Now federal prosecutors are finally cutting through their scam and
Speaker 1: exposing it to the American people. The Southern Property Law
Speaker 1: Center must pay for the damage they caused for the
Speaker 1: fabric of our country. Not surprisingly, Ukrainian President of Volo
Speaker 1: Damyer Zelensky arrived at the NATO summit and ankor with
Speaker 1: the same tired demand bring Ukraine into NATO, no matter
Speaker 1: the cost, no matter the risk, no matter how close
Speaker 1: it drags the West towards the direct war with the
Speaker 1: nuclear armed Zelenski once again claiming Ukraine belongs in NATO,
Speaker 1: arguing that his country's battlefield experience and drone capabilities should
Speaker 1: make it part of the alliance's collective defense. Now, if
Speaker 1: I pointed out here in the Stozone multiple times, when
Speaker 1: East and West Germany were united and the Russians agreed
Speaker 1: to that, we signed an agreement with the Russians called
Speaker 1: the Budapest Memorandum, in which we specifically agreed not to
Speaker 1: push Ukraine into NATO. We would then reinforce that in
Speaker 1: a second treaty, the Men's Accords. So when Joe Biden
Speaker 1: sought to push Ukraine into NATO, he was in violation
Speaker 1: of both those agreements. And that was the line in
Speaker 1: the sand for the Russians. As Vladimir Putin made clear
Speaker 1: many times. Now, people here will say, oh, Stone, you're
Speaker 1: a russophobe, you're a Russian agent, so on Look, my
Speaker 1: family was mowed down by Russian tanks in Budapest in
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty six. But I also understand that we had
Speaker 1: agreed in two treaties not to push Ukraine into NATO,
Speaker 1: and then we did so. This was the work of
Speaker 1: Joe Biden and Anthony Blincoln, standing among Western leaders including
Speaker 1: President Trump. Zelenski, an ankor, once again claimed that Ukraine
Speaker 1: belongs in NATO, arguing that his country's battle experience they
Speaker 1: should make it part of their defense. That argument is
Speaker 1: exactly the problem. Ukraine is already tied to Western weapons, intelligence, satellites,
Speaker 1: and funding. Making that arrangement official would not strengthen NATO
Speaker 1: would turn a proxy war into a potential world war.
Speaker 1: NATO has already provoked Russia by expanding beyond its bounds
Speaker 1: and vitolating its word. Adding Ukraine to the organization would
Speaker 1: put Russia's back against the wall, and the consequences could
Speaker 1: be dire for mankind. Zelenski also boasted about Ukraine's drone
Speaker 1: strike capability while admitting that Europe must urgently build more
Speaker 1: anti ballistic missile systems to counter Russia. So in other words,
Speaker 1: he wants credit for military strength while asking the wester
Speaker 1: for even more protection, more weapons, and of course more money.
Speaker 1: Vintage Zelensky. Moscow, meanwhile, is now openly describing the conflict
Speaker 1: as a real war, citing Western involvement from Washington, Berlin,
Speaker 1: Paris and other capitals. Russia's central demand remains unchanged. Ukraine
Speaker 1: must permanently have been in NATO ambitions, Yet Selenski keeps
Speaker 1: pretending NATO membership is realistic, responsitive, imminent, or even in
Speaker 1: keeping with the agreement signed by the United States. It
Speaker 1: is not. In my view, it is delusional. European leaders
Speaker 1: know the truth, even if they won't say it plainly.
Speaker 1: Fast Tracking Ukraine into NATO would force Americans and europe
Speaker 1: to defend every inch of Ukraine as Alliance territory. Zelensky
Speaker 1: has proven that he does not care about the Ukrainian people.
Speaker 1: It is not about democracy. He has postponed any elections
Speaker 1: because he knows if elections were held well, he would lose.
Speaker 1: His delusions have said thousands of men, now younger men
Speaker 1: to premature death. Lynsky will be lucky if he's not
Speaker 1: dragged into the streets, are brought to justice publicly and
Speaker 1: brutally when all the nonsense comes to an end, that
Speaker 1: is how unpopular he is among his own people. It
Speaker 1: goes to the larger question, of course, whether NATO has
Speaker 1: outlived its usefulness. I could understand the purposes of NATO
Speaker 1: and the immediate aftermath of World War Two, when Europe
Speaker 1: was essentially decimated and America was still economically relatively strong,
Speaker 1: then I could understand why we paid for the defense
Speaker 1: of the NATO countries. But during Donald Trump's first term,
Speaker 1: he kept a vow that he had made as early
Speaker 1: as nineteen eighty eight there was time for our NATO
Speaker 1: allies to pay their fair share. During Trump's first term,
Speaker 1: he collected six hundred and fifty million dollars from our
Speaker 1: NATO allies who were delinquent in paying for their own defense.
Speaker 1: And now a new poll confirms that Americans are growing
Speaker 1: increasingly distrustful of the NATO alliance. According to reporting by Politico,
Speaker 1: only forty three percent of Americans believed European NATO members
Speaker 1: would actually come to the aid of the United States
Speaker 1: for America were attacked foreign adversary. That's a devastating number
Speaker 1: for an alliance built on Article five. So called mutual
Speaker 1: defense guarantee. I mean for decades American taxpayers that poured
Speaker 1: trillions into NATO underwriting europe security while too many European
Speaker 1: aates neglected their own defense. Now, after years of lectures
Speaker 1: from arrogant globalist bureaucrats and Brussels, the American people are
Speaker 1: asking the obvious question, why are we still paying to
Speaker 1: protect countries that may not protect us? We saw this
Speaker 1: recently in our assault in Iran, where countries like Italy
Speaker 1: would not allow us to use our bases, or Germany
Speaker 1: or France, or would not support our efforts in that war.
Speaker 1: We saw how few countries helped us to try to
Speaker 1: destroy terrorism in Iran. There's no reason to think it
Speaker 1: would be any different if we attack faced attacks on
Speaker 1: our own shores. President Trump, my opinion, is right to
Speaker 1: challenge the arrangement. He's repeatedly warned that America carries the
Speaker 1: burden while Europe enjoys the benefits. Even now, NATO officials
Speaker 1: talk about Europe taking over more of its own defense.
Speaker 1: Let's hope they can go back to the status quo
Speaker 1: as soon as President Trump is out of the office,
Speaker 1: But perhaps not. They're not serious about self reliance. They
Speaker 1: want a free ride to continue. The answer is not
Speaker 1: another spending target, another summit, or another promise from Europe.
Speaker 1: The answer is independence. The United States of America should
Speaker 1: leave NATO completely, bring our troops home, secure our own border,
Speaker 1: build our own military, and stop treating American tax payers
Speaker 1: like the words security blanket. I'm Roger Stone. To listen
Speaker 1: to the Stone Zone and we'll be right back. Welcome
Speaker 1: back into the Stone Zone. Well, the family of George
Speaker 1: Soros is once again showing America what elite power really
Speaker 1: looks like up close. George Soros and his sons Alex
Speaker 1: and Gregory have reportedly purchased eighteen plots of land on
Speaker 1: Shelter Island, a quiet Hampton's community of roughly eight thousand acres.
Speaker 1: According to The New York Post, that buying spree now
Speaker 1: makes the Sorows family the island's largest private landowner, and
Speaker 1: some residents are not happy about it. Local sphere, the
Speaker 1: billionaire's family arrival drive up costs, reshaped the community and
Speaker 1: push ordinary residents aside. Not to mention the weird rituals
Speaker 1: that may be going on in there. The residents of
Speaker 1: the Hamptons have already seen what happens when ultra wealthy
Speaker 1: outsiders move in with their lawyers, contractors, cameras, and political muscle.
Speaker 1: Residents say local workers, including plumbers and maize, have been
Speaker 1: required to sign non disclosure agreements before working on the
Speaker 1: Soros properties. Surveillance cameras have reportedly appeared on local streets,
Speaker 1: raising privacy concerns in a small island community accessible only
Speaker 1: by boat. In one case, the family allegedly bought multiple
Speaker 1: homes along a single road and sought permission to install
Speaker 1: a fence that would block access from other residents. Locals
Speaker 1: say that construction projects have already disrupted the island space,
Speaker 1: including planes for one of the largest swimming pools on
Speaker 1: Long Eye of them. At a recent town board meeting,
Speaker 1: resident Steve Lennox warned that locals cannot keep up with
Speaker 1: the legal firepower of millionaires who seem to be able
Speaker 1: to build whatever they want. The behavior of the liberal
Speaker 1: elits is always hypocritical. They peach equality, but everything in
Speaker 1: sight buy it, wallllet off, and leave working families to
Speaker 1: deal with the consequences. What they really want is power,
Speaker 1: more for them and less for the commoners who they
Speaker 1: in truth deeply despise. Meanwhile, and this is not at
Speaker 1: all surprising, but the task force set up by Vice
Speaker 1: President jd Vance says it has uncovered a staggering explosion
Speaker 1: in suspicious Medicare claims. The Vice President's Anti fraud task
Speaker 1: Force now says that Medicare claims for tissue and ordered
Speaker 1: transplant related products skyrocketed from two hundred million in twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen to fourteen point four billion in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: massive seventy one thousand percent increase in just six years.
Speaker 1: Jd Vance and the CMS ADMINISTERRA or Doctor Member Oz
Speaker 1: says agency identified forty two hundred suspicious claims totally two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty four million through May alone. So I'm
Speaker 1: counting on the Vice President, who I'm increasingly impressed with,
Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of this. We're going to
Speaker 1: have another Minnesota type fraud. This is just the tip
Speaker 1: of the iceberg. Anyone who thinks this won't be an
Speaker 1: issue in the twenty twenty six midterm elections really doesn't
Speaker 1: understand American politics. Thanks for joining us today in the
Speaker 1: stone zone. Until tomorrow, God bless you, and God speeding