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Speaker 3: you can get the inside political scoop about what's really
Speaker 3: happening in Washington. Roughly three weeks ago, emergency services were
Speaker 3: called to the home of Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell was
Speaker 3: caught by TMZ. Since that time, Senator McConnell has not
Speaker 3: been seen or heard, raising substantial questions about his current
Speaker 3: condition and some even question whether he's still alive. Then,
Speaker 3: on Sunday, his office released a photograph of him with
Speaker 3: his wife, former Transportation and Labor Secretary Elaine Shaw. Of course,
Speaker 3: the conspiracy theorists immediately started to analyze that photo, with
Speaker 3: some claiming not me, but others that it was AI generated.
Speaker 3: But there's a much bigger story here. When he was
Speaker 3: first elected to the United States Senate nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 3: Mitch McConnell was just forty two years old. He began
Speaker 3: serving as the junior Republican Senator from Kentucky in nineteen
Speaker 3: eighty five. McConnell was a single Man at the time,
Speaker 3: having divorced his wife and mother of his three children,
Speaker 3: Sheryl Redman, in nineteen eighty. In order to secure his
Speaker 3: seat in the Senate, McConnell had the tall order of
Speaker 3: defeating incumbent Democrat Senator Walter D. Huddleston. Huddleston had served
Speaker 3: in that position from nineteen seventy three to nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3: McConnell's team ran a controversial series of TV ads featuring
Speaker 3: bloodhounds searching for Huddleston, who had a high absentee record
Speaker 3: and had miss votes while making paid speeches. The ad
Speaker 3: highlighted his absence on key votes on issues like social security,
Speaker 3: the budget, defense, and agriculture. Also highlighted within mcconnald's campaign
Speaker 3: was his strong opinions on national defense. Then, in what
Speaker 3: was dubbed the Upset of nineteen eighty four, mcconnelld defeated
Speaker 3: Huddleston Kentucky in the nineteen eighty four election by just
Speaker 3: over five thousand votes and headed to Washington to embark
Speaker 3: on what has, without any question, been one of the
Speaker 3: most successful political careers in Kentucky state history. McConnell is
Speaker 3: the longest serving Senate leader in the US history, having
Speaker 3: served in that position as the Republican Majority leader from
Speaker 3: two thousand and seven to twenty twenty five. In the
Speaker 3: years preceding his upset victory in State of Kentucky, Mitch
Speaker 3: McConnell took a hardened stance against China, a stance that
Speaker 3: would dramatically shift following the beginning of his relationship with
Speaker 3: his second wife, Elaine Show. In the aftermath of McConnell's
Speaker 3: new relationship with Chao, the Senator radically shifted his viewpoints
Speaker 3: in order to adapt to a softer stance told the
Speaker 3: communist Chinese Party and its many associates, and to squash
Speaker 3: anybody who dared to stand up to China's aggression towards
Speaker 3: the US. Interestingly, McConnell also saw his wealth shift dramatically
Speaker 3: in the years following his election. On taking his seat
Speaker 3: in the US Senate, mcconnald's net worth was minimal. Estimates
Speaker 3: put his total net worth at the time somewhere around
Speaker 3: two hundred thousand dollars. After serving in the US Senate
Speaker 3: for forty one years, Mitch McConnell, according to the latest Violence,
Speaker 3: is now worth an astounding thirty five million dollars. China
Speaker 3: had the ultimate ally now in Mitch McConnell as one
Speaker 3: of the premier leaders in Washington, d C. For the
Speaker 3: better part of two decades twenty years, and which China
Speaker 3: made the enormous strides to level the playing field against
Speaker 3: the United States on the world stage, spreading their influence
Speaker 3: across the globe. Without Mitch McConnell, China wouldn't be the
Speaker 3: nation it is today. Without their clear influence over the
Speaker 3: Kentucky Senator and Republican leader, it's unclear whether they would
Speaker 3: currently be competing with the United States for global influence
Speaker 3: at all. Let's take a deeper look at Mitch McConnell's
Speaker 3: historic flip flop on China and how it has impacted
Speaker 3: our world today. Mcconnald's hardened stance against China began after
Speaker 3: he met Elaine Show. Prior to his relationship with Show,
Speaker 3: Mitch McConnell took his many ardent stands against China for
Speaker 3: several different reasons. As a nineteen nineties approached and George
Speaker 3: HW's presidency took over for the Republicans resurgence under Ronald Reagan,
Speaker 3: China was becoming a very big issue. McConnell supported strict
Speaker 3: sanctions against Tianeman Square the massacre in China, which was
Speaker 3: hardline position. The first legitimate action Mitch McConnell took against
Speaker 3: the Chinese Communist Party as a member of the US
Speaker 3: Senate was in nineteen eighty nine when the Kentucky Senator
Speaker 3: voted in favor of sanctions following the Tianeman Square massacre.
Speaker 3: But connell even went so far at that time sponsored
Speaker 3: legislation to allow for China's Most Favored Nation Trading status,
Speaker 3: saying that it should be revoked for its human rights abuses. This,
Speaker 3: by the way, is where Richard Nixon gets a bum rap.
Speaker 3: You see, at the time that Nixon recognized China, China
Speaker 3: was a dirt poor agrarian society with not a non
Speaker 3: formidable military, very little indoor plumbing. The rural areas were
Speaker 3: largely without electricity. It was not until Bill Clinton gave
Speaker 3: China Most Favored Nation Trading status that they would become
Speaker 3: the superpower that they are today. This would of course
Speaker 3: be extended by President George W. Bush when it came
Speaker 3: to China. McConnell at that point showed no allegiance or affiliation.
Speaker 3: His opinions aligned with the harshest of the China critics
Speaker 3: within the Republican Party, and his descent continued until nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety two. Actually, as I was investigating, I was able
Speaker 3: to dig up a Herodage Foundation publication that was released
Speaker 3: by Senator Mitch mcconnald in nineteen ninety two. Within that publication,
Speaker 3: mcconald's makes his position on China and its human rights
Speaker 3: abuses one hundred percent clear. McConnell even called for the
Speaker 3: United States to do anything and everything in order to
Speaker 3: protect Hong Kong from the People's Republic of China. The
Speaker 3: Kentucky senator went so far as to say the United
Speaker 3: States needs to send a clear warning to Beijing that
Speaker 3: they would act if there was any encroachment on Hong
Speaker 3: Kong or Taiwan. Mcconnald spoke out against Chinese government policies
Speaker 3: of censorship, holding political prisoners, and arm sales. McConnell, at
Speaker 3: that time, was the lead sponsor and author of the
Speaker 3: United States Hong Kong Policy Act. It committed the US
Speaker 3: to treating Hong Kong as a separate entity from mainland
Speaker 3: China that was introduced in nineteen ninety one, and he
Speaker 3: pushed it through, warning that post nineteen ninety seven risks
Speaker 3: to Hong Kong's freedom would not be tolerated. Law included monitoring,
Speaker 3: reporting requirements, and tools for the US Senate to respond
Speaker 3: if China eroded Hong Kong's autonomy. Senator had repeatedly cited
Speaker 3: this as a cornerstone of his long standing China policy.
Speaker 3: Fortunately for China, Mitch McConnell's hardened stand against them was
Speaker 3: about to change, seemingly all because of one person. Elaine
Speaker 3: Chao born in Taiwan, March twenty sixth, nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 3: Elaine Choo's background would lead you to believe she's one
Speaker 3: of the most accomplished Asian Americans in the history of
Speaker 3: our country. Chao became the first Asian American to serve
Speaker 3: as a cabinet member when she was named Labor Secretary
Speaker 3: under George W. Bush. She served in that position from
Speaker 3: two thousand and one to two thousand and nine. She
Speaker 3: went on to serve as Transportation Secretary under President Donald
Speaker 3: Trump twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one. Was widely thought
Speaker 3: that former Democrat Congressman Harold Ford would get that position
Speaker 3: until President Trump had a Capitol Hill meeting with Mitch
Speaker 3: McConnell and Elaine Chao locked out with the job. With
Speaker 3: an MBA from Harvard, Elaine Chaos both educated and well connected.
Speaker 3: She's been a member of the Washington DC elite since
Speaker 3: her marriage to Mitch McConnell and his mainstay in Washington
Speaker 3: political circles. It isn't until you exam her deep family
Speaker 3: ties to the Chinese Communist Party that Elaine Choo's vast
Speaker 3: accomplishments began to come into question. You see, Shao's father,
Speaker 3: who has since passed away, was called James C. Cheng Chow.
Speaker 3: He founded Foremost Group, a New York based international shipping company,
Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty four. That company specializes in bulk cargo
Speaker 3: in other words, or coal and so on, and has
Speaker 3: heavy operations tied to China. James was a classmate and
Speaker 3: schoolmate of Xiang Zemin, the former Chinese Communist Party General
Speaker 3: secretary and the President of China from nineteen eighty nine
Speaker 3: to two thousand and three. This personal connection reportedly facilitated
Speaker 3: early business and political access that no one else could
Speaker 3: get today. Foremost is worth nearly one point two billion
Speaker 3: dollars with a fleet of over thirty cargoes nationwide. Angela
Speaker 3: Chow that's Elaine Chow's sister, Elaine Choo being Senator Mitch
Speaker 3: McConnell's wife, served on the board of a subsidiary holding
Speaker 3: company linked to the Chinese Shipbuilding Corporation, a major Chinese
Speaker 3: state owned defense conglomerate central to the People's Liberation Army.
Speaker 3: Angela also had roles tied to Chinese state banks and
Speaker 3: trade promotion groups. Lane Choo's families extremely wealthy and influential
Speaker 3: and serious directies to national security elements within the Chinese
Speaker 3: Communist Party. So when you understand where Elaine Choo come from,
Speaker 3: you'll understand why Mitch McConnell's views have shifted now. It's
Speaker 3: public knowledge that Mitch McConnell was introduced to Elaine Choo
Speaker 3: in the nineteen nineties by a man known as Stu Block.
Speaker 3: Stu Block is a longtime friend of McConnell. Block is
Speaker 3: a DC based lawyer, real estate expert with extreme political influence,
Speaker 3: and an true Washington insider. McConnell and Block reportedly became
Speaker 3: acquainted in the nineteen sixties when McConnell was serving as
Speaker 3: a political AID. Block is married to a woman named
Speaker 3: Julia Chang Bloc, the first Asian American US ambassador that
Speaker 3: was appointed to her post as Ambassador to Nepau by
Speaker 3: President George H. W. Bush. Julia Chang Bloc immigrated to
Speaker 3: the United States at nine years old in the nineteen
Speaker 3: fifties directly from China. Was actually the mentor to Elaine Chow,
Speaker 3: also known as Missus Mitch McConnell. This is how the
Speaker 3: direct connection to McConnell and Show was made. The married
Speaker 3: couple invited macau McConnell and shoot candlelight dinner and well
Speaker 3: the rest is history. What more do we need to
Speaker 3: know about Julia Chang Block. She served as a prominent
Speaker 3: senior role at USAID. That's the organization that's been completely
Speaker 3: exposed by Elon Musk and Doze for siphoning billions of
Speaker 3: dollars in taxpayer funds for ridiculous programs across the globe.
Speaker 3: Chang Block was also the founder of the United States
Speaker 3: China Education Trust, also known as You Set You SAT,
Speaker 3: is a five oh one c three organization based in
Speaker 3: DC that aims to improve bilateral relationships by strengthening mutual
Speaker 3: understanding between the United States and Communist China through education,
Speaker 3: exchanges and leadership programs. That organization has repeatedly attacked President
Speaker 3: Donald Trump's trade policies. On February sixth, nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 3: Mitch McConnell and Aline Shower married, and following the wedding,
Speaker 3: McConnell radically shifted his previously hardline anti China stance to
Speaker 3: adopt a more pro China policy model. Policy model. In
Speaker 3: two thousand, for example, the Senator's supported legislation which gave
Speaker 3: permanent Favored Nation status trotting to China and eventually paved
Speaker 3: the way for the nation to join the World Trade Organization.
Speaker 3: This is what has made China the economic powerhouse and
Speaker 3: the military menace that they are today. This move alone
Speaker 3: is seen as a foundational building block of China's economic
Speaker 3: plan to challenge the United States on the global stage.
Speaker 3: That bill locked in lower tariff rates for China, allowing
Speaker 3: them to pillage and destroy Manu manufacturing in the United
Speaker 3: States and other key industries in the United States. When
Speaker 3: we return or continue with the story of Mitch McConnell
Speaker 3: and how he has empowered our communist Chinese allies, but
Speaker 3: also how he's gotten fabulously wealthy doing so. I'm Roger Stone.
Speaker 3: You're listening to the Stone Zone. Next we'll talk about
Speaker 3: how Mitch McConnell's support for legislation has cost America over
Speaker 3: five million manufacturing jobs, largely due to the conditions created
Speaker 3: by his legislation, with China able to raid US, manufacturing
Speaker 3: companies within our borders struggle to compete and die while
Speaker 3: Mitch McConnell got wealthy. I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to
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Speaker 3: We're back in the Stone Zone, and I'm exposing Senator
Speaker 3: Mitch mcconald's ties to communist China and how it's made
Speaker 3: him a very, very rich man. After marrying Elaine Schao,
Speaker 3: the Senator moved away from his previous attempt to hold
Speaker 3: China accountable for its human rights abuses, and required no
Speaker 3: stipulations for China to restrict torture or political prisoners or
Speaker 3: slave labor, despite the fact that the issue was raised
Speaker 3: repeatedly by his Republican colleagues. When Republicans in Washington first
Speaker 3: confronted President Trump's largely protections trade policies, many of them
Speaker 3: laughed it off. Especially in the beginning. Very few Republicans,
Speaker 3: specifically in the U. S. Senate, supported Trump's rhetoric in general.
Speaker 3: Hardly end of them supported his rhetoric on tariffs at all.
Speaker 3: Going back to mcconald's two thousand vote on handing China
Speaker 3: guaranteed lower tariffs, President Trump's public displeasure with trade imballasts
Speaker 3: sent a shiver down the st spine of Washington's political establishment.
Speaker 3: The very same senators who voted to lower terriffs for
Speaker 3: nations like China were now seeing Trump rise to the
Speaker 3: top of the Republican field while bashing the very policies
Speaker 3: that they had implemented. Most Republicans kept their distance, with
Speaker 3: a few embracing Trump. McConnell was not one of them.
Speaker 3: Upon his election, Trump began to take a stronger stand
Speaker 3: against nations he viewed as abusers of the American economy,
Speaker 3: nations like China that were allowed through the Washington, DC
Speaker 3: political establishment to essentially gut the manufacturing industry in the
Speaker 3: center of our country. This was bad news for Mitch
Speaker 3: McConnell and his fellow Republican senators who had not passed
Speaker 3: economic legislation based on protecting the people they were elected
Speaker 3: to represent, but based on benefiting the incidians forces within
Speaker 3: their lives looking to exploit American workers. Actually, mcconnolly led
Speaker 3: the rallying cly against Trump's twenty eighteen over tariffs, telling
Speaker 3: the people of Kentucky, quote, I'm not a fan of tariffs,
Speaker 3: and I'm not nervous about what appears to be growing
Speaker 3: trend in the mistry to levy tariffs. This is a
Speaker 3: slippery slope. Beyond his comments in twenty eighteen, McConnell has
Speaker 3: repeatedly rallied both Republicans and Democrats to block Trump's tariff policies,
Speaker 3: even though they have brought billions of dollars into the
Speaker 3: US Treasury. This continued into Trump's comeback second term. After
Speaker 3: the American people sent Donald Trump back to Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: With a its Downdy victory. In twenty twenty four, McConnell
Speaker 3: recharged his anti Trump pro China tariff attacks on America
Speaker 3: upon taking off the second time, President Trump implemented strict
Speaker 3: and sweeping tariffs on communists China. Those tariffs were as
Speaker 3: large as sixty percent were aimed at protecting the American
Speaker 3: workers that Mitch McConnell had allowed it to be rated
Speaker 3: during his two thousand term. This moved by President Trump
Speaker 3: implements strict tariffs on China results in China losing an
Speaker 3: estimated ninety billion dollars of imports for the United States.
Speaker 3: Mitch McConnell wouldn't stand for that. That's why Mitch McConnell
Speaker 3: rallied several Republican centers along with a number of Democrats,
Speaker 3: to vote to remove President Donald Trump's ability to enact tariffs.
Speaker 3: That bill passed fifty one forty seven. China was able
Speaker 3: to evade tariffs and resume his pillaging of the United
Speaker 3: States economy that first kicked off with Mitch McConnell at
Speaker 3: the turn of the century. When asked why he supported
Speaker 3: the measure, McConnell gave false statements claiming that the protectionist
Speaker 3: tariffs implemented by the Trump aministration hurt American consumers and
Speaker 3: not the Chinese officials directly within.
Speaker 1: Mitch mcconald's family.
Speaker 3: So there you have it, the inside story of why
Speaker 3: Mitch McConnell went from being a hardliner when it came
Speaker 3: to human rights and the abuses of China to being
Speaker 3: a rollover for communist China that has made he and
Speaker 3: his family exceedingly rich. You won't hear this kind of
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Speaker 5: People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.
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Speaker 3: Well Mayor Zoran ma'am dumm. He's had a rough couple
Speaker 3: of weeks when he efficiently released his map of New
Speaker 3: York City's imminent enclaves, as it was called. Well, he
Speaker 3: probably purposely left out Little Italy. That immediately brought an
Speaker 3: extraordinary backlash. So his map included Little Palestine, Little Haiti,
Speaker 3: Little Egypt, Little Senegal, Little Yemen, and even Little Poland,
Speaker 3: but it left out Little Italy. The outcry was immediate.
Speaker 3: The ital American Civil Rights League kind of led the fight,
Speaker 3: and within days, not only did zoram mam Domini back down,
Speaker 3: saying that the list had actually been inherited from his predecessor,
Speaker 3: Mayor Eric Adams, but he would be reissuing it and
Speaker 3: including Little Italy along with other neighborhoods. Now we hear
Speaker 3: that long time left wing activist Anna Maria are Chilla,
Speaker 3: commissioner of New York City's Mayor's Office of International Affairs
Speaker 3: and former co director of the Progressive Working Families Party
Speaker 3: that's the socialist Working Families Party, actually scheduled a meeting
Speaker 3: with Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations, Emir said Iravani,
Speaker 3: amid ongoing hostilities in the Middle East. This was first
Speaker 3: reported by the City Journal, but then also covered by
Speaker 3: The New York Post. The meeting was set for Tuesday,
Speaker 3: the morning of July seventh, at the United Nations Headquarters
Speaker 3: Complex in New York, alongside with two other senior officials
Speaker 3: from Mayor Ma'am Dami's office. According to calier invitations reviewed
Speaker 3: by the City Journal and confirmed by sources, It was
Speaker 3: also ultimately canceled after intervention by Marco Rubio's US State Department. Arceella,
Speaker 3: a government employee in Marazona. Man Domi's administration, has no
Speaker 3: prior diplomatic, foreign policy or international relations experience. Her expertise
Speaker 3: lies solely in domestic grassroots organizing of labor and progressive politics.
Speaker 3: Her appointment to lead Mayor open Mayamdami's Office of International Affairs,
Speaker 3: which is tasked with cultivating relationships with foreign nations, global cities,
Speaker 3: the UN, and New York's consular courses during attention. Given
Speaker 3: her background and progressive activism. US officials learned of the
Speaker 3: planned meeting via Arcella's calendar and moved quickly to shut
Speaker 3: it down, citing a direct conflict with America's current Middle
Speaker 3: Eastern policy. A State Department official told Fox it is
Speaker 3: unconsciable that a New York City official would even consider
Speaker 3: meeting with the Iranian ambassador to the UN, a man
Speaker 3: who consistently works to undermine US interests in Whitewash's regime's
Speaker 3: crimes against the United States are allies in Iran's own citizens.
Speaker 3: Sources indicated that our Chilla's schedule the meeting without permission.
Speaker 3: She was reportedly reprimanded and directed to cancel it, but
Speaker 3: I question whether that's true. More importantly, I believe this
Speaker 3: is a direct violation of the Logan Act. The Logan
Speaker 3: Act does not allow any American citizen to conduct their
Speaker 3: own personal foreign policy. I think this is a clear
Speaker 3: violation of the Act. This isn't the first time the
Speaker 3: State Department has had to intervene. Last month, Anna Marie
Speaker 3: Archilla tried to arrange a meeting between Mayor Zaram Mamdami
Speaker 3: and Colombian President Costavo Petro, who has a record of
Speaker 3: anti Israel rhetoric, including Nazi comparisons and claims that there
Speaker 3: was no Holocaust. That plan was scrapped over at visa issues.
Speaker 3: In the past, the Mayor's Office of International Affairs as
Speaker 3: long state neutral, focusing on best practices with global cities,
Speaker 3: attracting foreign investment to New York, and avoiding political ideology.
Speaker 3: Yet Arceilla hijacked the office to push a political agenda
Speaker 3: and alarming local officials and exposing a self siffering disregard
Speaker 3: for its previous non partisan role. Not to mention federal law,
Speaker 3: Arceilla has prioritized deepening ties with foreign adversaries aligned with
Speaker 3: Mayormandami's progressive worldview. The office reportedly directed staff to emphasize
Speaker 3: engagements reflecting those priorities. I hope that the FBI looks
Speaker 3: closely at this because I believe it is a violation
Speaker 3: of federal law. Not long ago, I wrote about China's
Speaker 3: dominance over critical rare earth minerals and how it has
Speaker 3: transformed those resources into a central national security priority for
Speaker 3: the United States, as dependents on adversarial supply chains now
Speaker 3: oppose an urgent strategic risk that must be reduced before
Speaker 3: it can be weaponized. Throughout history, the greatest powers have
Speaker 3: arisen not simply because they possessed courageous soldiers or in generals,
Speaker 3: but because they secured the resources necessary to sustain their
Speaker 3: civilization during moments of crisis. The Roman Empire depended upon
Speaker 3: grain from Egypt. Great Britain's maritime supremacy rested upon their
Speaker 3: access to coal, iron, and an unrivaled merchant fleet that
Speaker 3: connected every corner of the globe. During the Second World War,
Speaker 3: Franklin Eleanor Roosevelt transformed the United States into the arsenal
Speaker 3: of democracy because America possessed the industrial capacity and raw
Speaker 3: materials necessary for the Allied forces to outproduce the access powers.
Speaker 3: Today's battlefield extends far beyond aircraft carriers, missiles, and satellites.
Speaker 3: It reaches deep beneath the Earth's surface, where relatively be
Speaker 3: ascure collection of minerals has become every bit as strategically
Speaker 3: valuable as oil was during the twentieth century. The nation
Speaker 3: that controls these materials will enjoy an enormous advantage in
Speaker 3: military power, artificial intelligence, aerospace engineering, semiconductor manufacturing, quantum computer,
Speaker 3: and advanced industrial production. Every American and understandably asks why
Speaker 3: the United States can't simply mine everything it needs within
Speaker 3: its own border, while the answer lies in the combination
Speaker 3: of geology, economics, infrastructure, and Frankly time, Although America possesses
Speaker 3: significant deposits of certain critical minerals, many of those reserves
Speaker 3: remain commercially undeveloped or they're difficult to extract economically, or
Speaker 3: they lack the processing infrastructure necessary to transferm iron ore
Speaker 3: into materials suitable for advancing manufacturing. Opening and modern mind
Speaker 3: frequently requires years of environmental reviews, permitting, engineering, financing, and
Speaker 3: construction before a single shipment reaches an American factory. Even then,
Speaker 3: the United States often lacks sufficient domestic defining capacity, forcing
Speaker 3: raw materials to be processed overseas before they can be
Speaker 3: incorporated into military equipment or commercial products. Simply put, America
Speaker 3: currently consumes far more strategic materials than it can produce
Speaker 3: and refine on its own. That reality demands a practical
Speaker 3: strategy rooted in diversification rather than just wishful thinking. This
Speaker 3: is precisely why, for example, recent efforts to secure access
Speaker 3: to Kazakhstan's enormous tungsten deposits deserves our consideration. Tungsten is
Speaker 3: not a household world yet is one of the most
Speaker 3: strategically indispensable metals on Earth. Derived from the Swedish phrase
Speaker 3: meeting heavy stone, tungsten possesses the highest melting point of
Speaker 3: any pure metal, exceeding sixty one hundred degrees fahrenheit. It's
Speaker 3: extraordinarily dense, its remarkabill be hard, and it is exceptionally
Speaker 3: resistant to heat, wear, and deformation. Those extraordinary physical characteristics
Speaker 3: make tungsten irreplaceable in countless military and industrial applications. It's
Speaker 3: used in armour piercing, ammunition, missile guidance systems, hypersonic weapons,
Speaker 3: jet engine turbine blades, rocket nozzles, spacecraft components, advanced military tools,
Speaker 3: semiconductor manufacturing equipment, mining machinery, and position, and precision industrial
Speaker 3: cutting instruments. If steel formed the backbone of the Industrial revolution,
Speaker 3: tungsten has become one of the most indispensable skeletal structures
Speaker 3: supporting the technological revolution of the modern age. Yet today
Speaker 3: American has a shortage of tungsten. The strategic importance of
Speaker 3: tungsten extends well beyond military hardware. Every sophisticated manufacturing economy
Speaker 3: relies upon tungsten to produce the machinery that builds other machinery.
Speaker 3: You see. High precision cutting tools capable of shaping hardened steel, titanium,
Speaker 3: and aerospace alloys depends upon tungsten carbide because few other
Speaker 3: materials can withstand the tremendous friction and temperatures generated during
Speaker 3: modern manufacturing, semiconductor fabrication facilities use tungsten in integrated circuits
Speaker 3: and advanced chip production, energy exploration, medical imaging, equipment, aviation, telecommunications,
Speaker 3: and countless other industries rely upon tungsten's unique physical properties.
Speaker 3: Remove tungsten from the global economy, and the intricate machinery
Speaker 3: of advanced civilization begins to seize, like an engine deprived
Speaker 3: of lubricating oil. It's one of those rare materials whose
Speaker 3: importance far exceeds public warewareness. But now you know. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: Communist China recognized tungsten's strategic value decades before much of
Speaker 3: the Western world awakened to this danger. Though patient planning,
Speaker 3: state subsidies, acquisitions, and relentless industrial expansion, Beijing now controls
Speaker 3: about eighty percent of the global tungsten production, while simultaneously
Speaker 3: dominating large portions of the processing infrastructure necessary to convert
Speaker 3: raw ore into finished products. This strategy was either accidental,
Speaker 3: neither accidental, nor purposely purely commercial. It reflects a sophisticated
Speaker 3: understanding by the Chinese that controlling indispensable resources creates leverage
Speaker 3: over nations whose industries cannot function without them. A country
Speaker 3: need not fire or missile. If it can instead interrupt
Speaker 3: the supply of materials required to manufacture missiles in the
Speaker 3: first place. Economic coercion, carefully applied, can often achieve objectives
Speaker 3: that conventional warfare cannot. Tungsten represents only one piece of
Speaker 3: a much larger strategic mosaic rare. Earth elements such as neodereum, dioprossium, terebrubium,
Speaker 3: phase DM, and yaddolium enable the powerful permanent magnets found
Speaker 3: in advanced fighter aircraft, submarines, guided missiles, radar systems, robotics,
Speaker 3: and official inferience. Gallium and germanium remain indispensable for semiconductors
Speaker 3: and infrared centers, as well as fiber optic communications and
Speaker 3: sophisticated military electronics. Antimony strength and specialized munition and military
Speaker 3: air laws. Neobium enhances aerospace components capable with standing extraordinary stress.
Speaker 3: Tantalum prevents advanced electronic its systems to function under extreme conditions.
Speaker 3: We also need lithium, cobol, graphite, nickel, and manganese. All
Speaker 3: of these form the backbone of modern modern battery technology
Speaker 3: that powers everything from military drones to energy storage systems.
Speaker 3: Individual in these names may seem esotera. You probably haven't
Speaker 3: heard of most of them, but collectively they constitute the
Speaker 3: periodic table upon which America's military superiority and technological leadership
Speaker 3: increasingly depend. Lithium deserves particular emphasis because it's become the
Speaker 3: petroleum of the electrified era. Every serious discussion involving electric vehicles,
Speaker 3: grid scale battery storage, portable electronics, artificial intelligence, infrastructure, autonomous systems,
Speaker 3: and military energy resilience inevitably returns to a discussion of lithium.
Speaker 3: Yet the United States remains heavily dependent upon because domestic
Speaker 3: production cannot presently satisfy projected demand. Argentina, Chile, and Australia
Speaker 3: possess some of the world's richest lithium reserves, while Canada
Speaker 3: and Brazil continue expanding their own production. Developing America's own
Speaker 3: deposits remains essential, but even optimistic projections acknowledge that domestic
Speaker 3: mining alone cannot satisfy near term requirements. Until American production
Speaker 3: becomes operational, strategic partnerships with trusted allies remain indispensable, and
Speaker 3: that has been the aim of the Trump administration. The
Speaker 3: emerging partnerships with countries such as Kazakhstan, Canada, Australia, Chile,
Speaker 3: Argentina and Brazil should therefore be understood not as evidence
Speaker 3: of weakness, but as an example of strategic realism. During
Speaker 3: the Second World War, the Allied victory depends upon an
Speaker 3: intricate international network supplying aluminum, crowmina, manganese, rubber, copper, and cottleass,
Speaker 3: or other strategic materials. No serious historian argues that America
Speaker 3: should have attempted complete economic isolation while fighting a global war.
Speaker 3: The same principle applies today. Diversifying supply chains among trusted
Speaker 3: allies reduces the risk that any hostile power can strangle
Speaker 3: America's industrial based through economic coercion. Joe Biden did nothing
Speaker 3: about this. President Donald Trump has a number of specific
Speaker 3: initiatives to catch up in the war for strategic rare
Speaker 3: earth minerals. Now you have it. I know you haven't
Speaker 3: heard of most of them, but you understand that the
Speaker 3: Chinese Communist Party has demonstrated its willingness to employ export
Speaker 3: controls as an instrument of geo political leverage. Restrictions involving
Speaker 3: rare earth elements and other strategic materials have disrupted manufacturing,
Speaker 3: delayed production, schedules, increased costs, and reminded policy makers that
Speaker 3: economic warfare has become an intra part of the fight
Speaker 3: with China. I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to the Stone Zone,
Speaker 3: and we'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
Speaker 5: Roger Stone, who's the very, very one of the smartest
Speaker 5: political minds.
Speaker 6: Rogerston was persecuted.
Speaker 5: People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: You're re entering the Stone Zone, and I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Roger Stone. I must admit I have some trepidation about
Speaker 3: election integrity in the twenty twenty six upcoming election. Trump
Speaker 3: administration's just dis Apartment announced now that it will send
Speaker 3: federal election monitors to fifteen years dictions in six states
Speaker 3: during the upcoming twenty twenty six primaries. Sistant Attorney General
Speaker 3: for Civil Rights r. Meet Dillon addressed the decision in
Speaker 3: early July, describing the deployment of election monitors as part
Speaker 3: of the Justice Department's longstanding efforts to ensure compliance with
Speaker 3: federal voting laws and protect election integrities. Democrats immediately, of course,
Speaker 3: said that this was an effort to suppress the vote.
Speaker 3: These monitors will examine polling place operations, including language access
Speaker 3: for voters who needed and accommodations for people with disabilities,
Speaker 3: while ensuring that ineligible voters do not cancel out the
Speaker 3: votes of eligible citizens. Dylan posted a video on social
Speaker 3: media now sending The Department of Justices Civil Rights Division
Speaker 3: is sending election monitors to jurisdictions in Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
Speaker 3: New Hampshire, and Virginia now. In recent cycles, the Department
Speaker 3: deployed monitors in nine jurisdictions for the twenty twenty two
Speaker 3: primaryies and in twenty seven jurisdictions for the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four general election, with a program expected to expand further
Speaker 3: ahead of November twenty twenty six midterms. In other words,
Speaker 3: no announcements for the midterms have yet been made. This
Speaker 3: type of oversight is nothing new. Federal election monitoring has
Speaker 3: existed for over a century remains a long standing bipartisan
Speaker 3: function of the Department of Justice. So nor the Democrats
Speaker 3: screaming that this is somewhow about suppressing the vote. The
Speaker 3: move coincided with nationwide Department of Justice letters warning election
Speaker 3: officials of potential criminal liability for our election officials who
Speaker 3: knowingly allow non citizen voting or failing to maintain accurate
Speaker 3: voting blows ag Dillon called the monitoring a standard procedure
Speaker 3: focused on jurisdictions with recent history of issues, and gave
Speaker 3: officials five days to respond. This type of oversight is
Speaker 3: once again nothing new. Federal election oversight has existed for
Speaker 3: over a century remains a long standing bipartisan function of
Speaker 3: the Department, regardless of which party is in power. For decades,
Speaker 3: both Republicans and Democratic administrations sent federal monitors to polling
Speaker 3: places to enforce key laws such as the Voting Rights
Speaker 3: Act the time, in alliance with other Department of Justice actions.
Speaker 3: The same day, Department sent letter to election officials in
Speaker 3: fifty states warning them of the potential criminal liability if
Speaker 3: they knowingly kept non citizens on the voting rules or
Speaker 3: allowed them to vote in our elections. Deputy Attorney General
Speaker 3: Dillon stress the keeping voter roles accurate is critically important
Speaker 3: to protecting the core principles that every American citizens vote
Speaker 3: must count and count equally. Some deployments are joining particular attention,
Speaker 3: for example, in Michigan or the Department of Justice plans
Speaker 3: to send observers to Detroit, Lancing, and East Lansing ahead
Speaker 3: of the August fourth, twenty twenty sixth primary. Letters to
Speaker 3: local officials cited issues observed in the twenty twenty four election,
Speaker 3: including shortages of personal ballots and malefactioning voting machines and
Speaker 3: some selected precincts. Michigan's has pushed back strongly, with Detroit
Speaker 3: City Clerk Janis Winfrey calling the allegations false and dismissing
Speaker 3: them as a pretext for extra scrutiny. That's the last
Speaker 3: thing they want on election day, folks, scrutiny. Attorney Deputy
Speaker 3: Attorney General Dillions stated, Unfortunately, some leaders in Michigan, including
Speaker 3: the Attorney General and the governor, have pushed backed against
Speaker 3: our entirely legal efforts. But to be clear, both Republican
Speaker 3: and Democratic administrations have sent monitors to Michigan in the
Speaker 3: past and other jexturrei addictions, and we will do so again.
Speaker 3: This is a proper exercise of our oversight and enforcement
Speaker 3: responsibilities and important federal statutes, including the National Voter Registration Act,
Speaker 3: the Voting Rights Act, and the Civil Rights Act of
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty. This aligns with the Department of Justices broader
Speaker 3: lawsuits and demands for voter role data from numerous states,
Speaker 3: along with strong emphasis on stopping illegal aliens from voting
Speaker 3: in our nation's elections, a top priority for the Trump administration.
Speaker 3: Critics on the left, of course, say the moves are
Speaker 3: part of intamation or partisan targeting. While most Americans see
Speaker 3: why this is necessary enforcement, I say bravo to the
Speaker 3: Department of Justice and their efforts to make sure that
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty six elections are both clean and honest.
Speaker 3: I'm Roger Stone. I want to thank you for listening
Speaker 3: to the Stone Zone. Until tomorrow, God bless you and godspeed.
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