
Episode 4615: Threat To American Agriculture ...
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Brooke Rollins
White House. And we'll be looking at multiple different authorities within the federal government to begin to claw that back. So that's what I'll say about that. Again, I think I answered the second question where we are on farm labor a little bit earlier. But what I will say is that Lori Chavez Durimer is our secretary of labor and the H2A visa program, all of the programs that inure to moving in seasonal ag workers are under Secretary Chavez Durimer. She has been working, working around the clock with her team. I think we'll probably hear a little bit more about this today and the conversations will continue. But I can't underscore enough. There will be no amnesty, the mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation, which again, with 34 million people, able bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly. Thank you.
Kate Goodell
One more question. Hi, thanks for doing this. Kate Goodell with the Washington Post. I'm wondering if you can perhaps spell out some of the specific threats that we're seeing with Chinese farmland at the moment. I also wanted to ask about the legislative efforts and what form the executive action might take and whether you have a timeline.
Brooke Rollins
Well, first on American farmland, I'd love for Peter to add to this and if anyone else would like to as well. When you look at the chart which is behind, by the way, our new deputy secretary, Secretary Steven Vaden started yesterday from the great state of Tennessee, Governor Lee, you can see on this chart the hundreds of thousands. And by the way, this is just China owned. This is not other countries of concern owned such as North Korea, Russia, Iran and others, you can see that a lot of those, the red blocks are actual military faces. And ultimately when we're talking about national security, that is I think the number one concern certainly of this administration is what's happening there as we're looking at the threats that this country is facing. But specifically through agriculture is really, really important. Peter, I don't know if you want to add to that.
Peter Navarro
Thanks for asking that question. If you look at the gradations of threat, that's the most obvious. I mean, how did we let that happen? How did we let that happen? Encyclious Greek word, I think, for like doing nothing. Right. But not during the Trump administration. And I can tell you nothing else happened today. Having Brooke Rollins on that board, give her a hand, that's a big deal. But if you look at the, if you look at the concept here of Unrestricted warfare that I talked a little about earlier. It's not just the idea that you can surveil troop movements, flights, all the things you would worry about just from a pure national security view. But you remember when they arrested the Chinese spies on the Iowa farmland? Y' all remember that? I mean, that was a. That was another turning point in our awareness where they were. So if they're owning the farmland, they have access to all of the. They're going to get the seeds that way, too. And so ultimately, the other thing they want to do is. Which is why they bought small Smithfield foods. I don't know if you know this, But China consumes 50% of the pork in the world. Did you know this? That's astonishing. I think we got the corner on Kentucky Fried Chicken, but they corner the pork. So when they acquire Smithfield's foods and the entire pork chain, it's like that becomes a weapon in and of itself. So the more land they acquire here, the more control they have. And it's a business model. I mean, we're the United States, but they treat us like a colony. They do the same damn thing down in Zambia with tobacco and around all of Africa, they buy land. They bring in Chinese workers to work the land, and then they ship the food back to China, and the people around them starve or pay higher prices. So when you ask us, what's this about? It's about everything. Food security is national security. Thank you.
Senator Roger Marshall
I want to make a comment quick.
Secretary of Agriculture
You don't mind.
Senator Roger Marshall
So to me, the Chinese owning land is just a small, small piece of the puzzle. I'm much more concerned about the food supply down the road here that right now foreign entities own about a fifth of the protein processing between beef and pork. JBS and and Smithfield own about a fifth, maybe a fourth of the protein processing in this entire country. That's just wrong. I think beyond that, it's the intellectual property theft. It's the Chinese scientists that are in our own universities and research that are stealing intellectual property. It wasn't too long ago they were taking rice seeds from my alma mater. The attorney general mentioned something up in Michigan. It's that constant threat. But what really keeps me awake, the real threat to me the biggest, is bioterrorism. If you could imagine a Covid like virus made in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, that could infect all the hogs of the world, but you had an MRNA vaccine that could protect your own hogs. What would that do to our world's food supply? That's what keeps me up. And that's why I'm a big proponent of the work being done at nbat, the National Bio Agro Research Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas as well. I think that's the biggest active threat that I see is bioterrorism.
Stephen K. Bannon
Agreed.
Secretary of Agriculture
I think Senator Marshall really put a nice overview on the different threats, really. You know, American agriculture, I think, is defined as science, technology and innovation. And all those are amazing. It defines agriculture today, but it also leads the way for agriculture over the horizon for the future. But it can be very vulnerable if we don't protect that. And in the past, we haven't provided protections for that. The science, the technology, the innovation that comes out of this great country, out of this essential industry. And I think the fact that today we're declaring that food security is national security, farm security is a part of that. I think this is a great milestone of making sure that we're protecting all, all of that for the future. America needs to. We always want America to be in the lead, no matter what we're talking about. But certainly when it comes to the thing that is probably most essential and that is food and fiber, energy, materials, building, resources, all the things that come off that rural agriculture acreage, we have a duty and responsibility to make sure that those things are secure. So, Secretary, thank you for your leadership and vision on this. Much appreciated.
Brooke Rollins
Timing is coming very soon. We'll continue to announce further steps to answer your final question. Listen, everyone, thank you so much for being here. It's really, really an honor to have you all here at the People's Department. Abraham Lincoln founded this department in 1862 to ensure that the American farmers and ranchers and rural prosperity, rural way of life was represented here in Washington.
Kate Goodell
So.
Stephen K. Bannon
So thank you.
Brooke Rollins
And everyone can gather over on the right for Coach Tuberville's next workout. All right, thank you guys so much. Thank you.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Joe Allen
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Stephen K. Bannon
The people have had a belly full of it.
Joe Allen
I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything.
Stephen K. Bannon
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Joe Allen
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
Stephen K. Bannon
If that answer is to Save my.
Joe Allen
Country, this country will be saved. War room, here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
Stephen K. Bannon
Tuesday 8July, year of Allure 2025, right there outside the Agriculture Department. Started by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 to ensure food security. Right, for the United States, or at that time, I guess, the north versus the south of the United States versus the Confederacy. Brooke Rollins, the Secretary of Agriculture, a couple of bombshells. Finally, everybody got focused on the Chinese Communist Party as a threat. They're a threat everywhere. They're also a threat to our food supply, to bioterrorism, to buying of land, to the processing of food. Brooke Rollins leading the effort there with Pete Hegseth and Peter Navarro, Kristi Noem, all the major cabinet officials associated with this. And they obviously got a, a sign up by Marco Rubio announcing a whole new program for focusing on the CCP and making sure that they cannot get into our food supply. I'm sure there'll be a lot of executive orders coming off of this ASAP. There's going to be a cabinet meeting at 11. We're going to cover it in its entirety because President Trump, I'm sure, will be breaking news. And for all of you, war room posse and maga, you know, let's not curl up in the fetal position. Let's not get in the mumble tank, right? Let's not, oh my God. It's, you know, he's, he's gonna, you know, go to war in Iran. He's gonna, you know, sucked into Ukraine. He's got amnesty. It's Epstein. Yes, it's all of those and maybe more. That's okay. You're in the fight club. In the fight club. What do we do? We fight. We don't curl the fetal position. We don't suck our thumbs. We don't say, oh, this is so terrible. President Trump, not just President United States, the leader of our movement, he's got pressure on him from all over the globe, from everywhere, including donors and corporations and hedge funds and Putin and Xi and all of it. And of course, last night, dinner with Bibi. Note to Netanyahu, the Nobel Peace Prize. The country that you've put next on your list, Pakistan, for years and decades that you've, you've done this. And quite frankly, Israel is turning into more rapidly an ethno religious state. It is a, Israel is a, is a nation founded on, in a nation for the Jewish people. It's a Jewish state, but kind of the most right wing or conservative, ultra conservative ethnostate. He's turning it into Pakistan. Right. And of course, last night he gives the Nobel Peace Prize note to Netanyahu. You're two weeks late. The Pakistan chief of staff already beat you to the punch. But enjoy your set of steak knives. Let's play the clip. Brooke Rollins dropped a bomb right there. Hat tip to Charlie Kirk. And the Charlie Kirk show shows you the power of the Charlie Kirk show and it shows you the power of real America's voice and it shows you the power of the populist nationalist movement. Let's play Brooke Rollins, just a moment ago.
Brooke Rollins
The first thing I'll say is the president has been unequivocal that there will be no amnesty. And I think that's very, very important. I and the rest, our cabinets certainly support that, effectuate that and make sure that happens every single day. The second thing to your question about mass deportations, the president and I have spoken about that once or twice and he has always been of the mindset that at the end of the day, the promise to America to ensure that we have a 100% American workforce stands. But we must be strategic in how we are implementing the mass deportation so as not to compromise our food supply. Ultimately, the answer on this is automation. Also some reform within the current governing structure. And then also when you think about there are 34 million able bodied adults in our Medicaid program. There are plenty of workers in America, but we just have to make sure we're not compromising today, especially in the context of everything we're thinking about right now. So no amnesty under any circumstances. Mass deportations continue, but in a strategic, strategic and intentional way as we move our workforce toward more automation and toward a 100% American workforce. And ultimately it's the wonderful members of Congress behind me who are taking this on fixing the current immigration system. So thank you so much.
Stephen K. Bannon
No amnesty, no way. Strategic deportations. And of course, an all American, 100% American workforce. That's our target. This is why we're going to go after the H, we are going after the H1B programs. Now. She said later, labor secretary is working on some H2A because this was the rumor, this is what people's heads were blown up. And I'm not saying they weren't thinking about doing it, but they're going to slide an amnesty into an executive order around H2A's. That is not, at least right now, it's not happening. She said no way. No amnesty. BROOKE Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture couldn't be more adamant about that. Strategic deportations, mass deportations, we'll break that down. Mass deportations now. Amnesty. Never. Let me repeat the mantra. Mass deportations now. Amnesty. Never. Now. When you got 10 million folks, you have to be strategic. I'm 100% down with that. You see him in, you see him in LA right now, let's get up to New York City and let's get up to, let's get up to Chicago. In fact, go to New York City, you'll clean out half of Zorhan's. Zoran, whoever, the Islamic Islamo, fascist, Muslim, communist, Marxist, whatever. He is African American, right? Oh, that was his college. That's how he got into college. Sorry. Not sorry. So we gotta win, folks. Come on. You get in the fight club, you fight, you gotta win. Are the wins permanent? What did Heraclitus tell us? Nothing's permanent. It's all about change. Kind of the father. He gave Newton the idea for calculus. Short break. Back in a moment.
Joe Allen
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Stephen K. Bannon
Okay folks, we had this amazing press conference on food security's national security AG that we started with. We're going to go to the White house here at 11 o' clock for a cabinet meeting. I'm sure President Trump's going to have some things to say, and don't have your head blow up. It's all good. It's all good. You just heard no amnesty, right? A huge executive order signed Dave Walsh was much of what Dave Walsh has been preaching. The gospel of Dave Walsh in this eo. He's up next. Another huge win.
Joe Allen
Teetzel's up.
Stephen K. Bannon
Eric Teetzel over at cra. Oh, by the way, so I'm going to move our guys. Philip Patrick and the team that are in Rio are going to come in this afternoon for kind of a summary. A lot going on there. You heard Bolsonaro's on usa. President Trump dropped a bomb in Brazil on Maurice. Maurice and Lula, particularly the judge about the trial. And Lula has completely mishandled the bricks, which is great. Philip Patrick will be on this afternoon. Birchgold.com take your phone out. 98 Text Bannon that would be me. 989898 all free. The ultimate guide free to investing in gold and precious metals in the age of Trump. Not the ERA Trump. That's a typo. It's the age of Trump. Make sure you do it today. Eric Tetzel joins us from cra. First off, Teetzel, is it like you and you have a receptionist and two other guys. The whole government's infested with CRA people. How many, how many folks? You and Miller, how many folks are actually left at cra?
Eric Teetzel
Nobody I could call to tell me who Heraclitus is. I'll tell you that.
Stephen K. Bannon
A full heckle. I deserve that. Okay, brother. The NDAA folks, you gotta understand, we only give you inside baseball here. The most important thing because we're in appropriations process. And Russ vote, you're gonna have rescissions, pocket rescissions, impoundments. You know, don't lose it over all the cuts not happening in the reconciliation, the many other aspects. Russ Vote and the team over OMB are beavering away on this. The NDAA is the markup that really becomes kind of the policy and really the budget for the Defense Department now reaching a trillion dollars. But and this is going to be hard for this audience to believe, Teetzel, because Hex has been doing such a great job on this. You're telling me it's still got a lot of woke in it. Is that what I'm hearing from cra?
Eric Teetzel
Sir, the trick is to combine what the law says with what the president and Secretary Hegseth have already done through executive action. You gotta shore this stuff up in statute. So the president and Pete have gotten together, issued A bunch of executive orders. Hegseth and his team have implemented that all throughout the department. Things like woke hiring practices, quotas, teaching nonsense at West Point and the other service academies. But until you put it in statute, obviously some future administration can just bring all that stuff back. Not to mention the ways that these guys will use to evade what the President and what the Secretary are trying to do. And the NDAA is the vehicle to put that stuff into law. That's why it's so important.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, so the markup is tomorrow, correct? The Senate markup? Am I correct on this? Okay, so the call to action for the War Room Posse, because they want to go the ramparts. In this one particularly, we got a huge veterans and parents of active duty members, a lot of active duty members, and of course one board member of. Of the U.S. military Academy at West Point and a of said amazing institution.
Joe Allen
Do you have.
Stephen K. Bannon
Can they go to CRA and get something as the talking points when they make the calls, do things. Do you have something set up for us today or get it by this afternoon so people can go to the ramparts?
Eric Teetzel
Absolutely. We appreciate it for this kind of thing. Folks can go to citizensrenewingamerica.com and find all of the information we've got, including model text for amendments that some of the heroes on Sask can drop. I should say that process, they keep it secret, of course, because that's the way things work in Washington. But I am trusting that we have some strong allies on the Armed Services Committee. Tommy Tuberville, Rick Scott, Jim Banks, Eric Schmidt and others who I'm sure are planning to tackle some of this stuff. But if people want to make sure they can go to citizensrenewingamerica.com find that stuff and call those offices, folks, go.
Stephen K. Bannon
There and let's call. Those are all allies. You know, you got Banks and Tuberville and Schmidt. These are all. And Senator Scott down in Florida. These are all the best of the best. This is a big one. You got to get it now codified. We call this beginning codified because remember these executive orders, just like that whole the film Lincoln. I keep going back to about the Emancipation. The Emancipation Proclamation was only an executive order. It would have been gone at the end of Lincoln's term, his second term, which was obviously he was brutally assassinating the first couple of months, but he was. That's why he wanted to get it codified in this case in an amendment to the Constitution. Okay, brother, the NDA is for 26. We have an urgent problem right now, and here's my fear about this Ukraine situation. We start sending arms, number one, we're ripping stuff out of the Pacific. We are taking away from what should be the center of gravity because it's the western edge of the hemispheric defense. The hemispheric defense pivot is in the central, vast central Pacific that really separates us principally from the Eurasian landmass in the three island chain. We are ripping out Thaad's Patriot missiles one to Israel for the Iran war. But that's over now because President Trump's put that to bed with the end of the 12 Day War. But now Ukraine. And as you saw in the Israel situation, once you give the equipment, the batteries, next thing you know, you're actually in operating air defense. You're bringing the Arleigh Burke class cruisers in for air defense. And the next thing you know, you're a combatant. Once you do that, you're a combatant and then you segue to an offensive capability. Now, President Trump, most sophisticated ended the war. Incredible bravery, boldness, all that. But then you're an offensive combatant. This is what's going to happen in Ukraine. So how do we stop that? I mean, are we not seriously short of our own weapons inventory right now?
Eric Teetzel
Sir, there's no question that we've got to take seriously the need to rebuild our capacity and not just rebuild it from what it was, but rebuild it in a way that is optimized for the challenges that we face in the 21st century. And that's the Indo Pacific. Just as you pointed out. The reason for President Trump's strategic pause on providing defensive weapons to Ukraine, the one that he just changed yesterday, was specifically to do what you mentioned to, to take an accounting and to say, hey, where are we with this? We have to make sure that we can protect ourselves before we take any steps anywhere in the world. And the President obviously felt comfortable with where things currently stand, but he also made some really critical statements about moving forward and the need for Germany in particular to step up and take more of this stuff from there. I think Secretary Hegseth talked about some of these weapons being moved from places like, like Greece, which is not a strategic priority for Ukraine.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay.
Eric Teetzel
And then we've got to pivot to China.
Stephen K. Bannon
And we're going to play this, the China part today, the national security title. I want to have you back on and go through the markup tomorrow. More detail. So where do people get you at cra? You're holding the fort. For all the great team that you forted into the government. And by the way, we would not be getting as many things done as we're getting done if it was not for Russ Vote and the great team he built over at CRA over many years. And Eric Tietzel and a couple handful of other Patriots are holding the fort for us over there. Where do people go?
Eric Teetzel
Well, thank you, Steve. I appreciate you saying that. Let's send folks to citizensrenewingamerica.com for now. They can find us online. I'm at Eric Teetzel. You can find at Wade Miller and all my other awesome colleagues on X as well. Appreciate you.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you, brother. Appreciate you. Okay, go there today. You got your sentence to contact Eric Schmidt. Great. Jim Banks, great. Tuberville, the greatest. I love Tuberville. Said he's going to go down be governor of Alabama and leave the Senate. But you got to do what you got to do. And Rick Stott, super. You got all those things. Grace Chung, Bill Blaster, just go there right now. Save you all the time in the world. Make sure you go to CRA right now. Grace, let's push it out. It's a work day in the war room because you're having results, you're having results. Everybody else is going to curl up in a fetal position, suck their thumb. You're not going to do that here in the war room. We're going to work and we're going to get wins. No amnesty, none, zero the null set at least for this morning. But hey, you take victory begets victory. Talking about victory begets victory. Dave Walsh, President Trump and the energy team, full spectrum energy dominance. Sir, talk to me about the eo. What the gospel you've been preaching here for four years. Sir, where do we stand with the executive order? Explain it to me.
Dave Walsh
Well, two essentially important releases yesterday, mainly the executive order ending market distorting subsidies for unreliable foreign controlled energy sources. And this gets right at the administration delegating to Secretary of Treasury Besson the ability to get right into IRS 45Y and 45E which the essential subsidies tax subsidies of solar, solar and wind and address those within 45 days. But B, also the unfortunate necessity of addressing this one year 2026 kind of timeout that Joni Ernst, Murkowski and Kennedy pushed forward successfully as an amendment to the to the big beautiful bill that allowed any project beginning in 26 with 5% or more commitment made to it could go on indefinitely for implementation out to 10, 15 years and gather subsidies. So this EO attacks that directly by seeking out to look at wherever construction definitions are circumvented or being manipulated in that year. One, you know, 5% thing to get get the arms around precluding unnecessary extension of incentives to projects beginning in 26. So that's a really key thing. That's terrific. The other was the the study released by the DOE evaluating US grid reliability and security under Chris Wright's efforts. A study that shows very clearly based on the present trajectory of wind, solar and very part time battery storage being installed only over the next period through 2030, that we would have about a 100 times more likely ness of blackouts and brownouts caused by loss of load across the system. Loss of load means not enough power. Not hurricanes, not tornadoes, not storms, not lightning strikes, but loss of load basically having an insufficient quantity of electricity in the system. So they released the study.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, the de Electrification of the United States. Think Dave Walsh gave us a heads up on that. Short break. Walsh is sticking around, but we're going to Geneva to talk about artificial intelligence next.
Joe Allen
There's something happening with our farmland here in the United States that isn't getting enough attention. The Chinese have been buying up hundreds of thousands of acres of U.S. farmland. They're also taking control over critical supply chains. Things like fertilizer, animal feed and farming equipment.
Stephen K. Bannon
Why?
Joe Allen
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Stephen K. Bannon
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Dave Walsh
No, totally. Chris Wright, who's been all over this through his public life, you know we waited I think five months to do the legislative best efforts to deconstruct this stuff. But his report documents very clearly if we stay on the trajectory of wind, solar and battery storage that we're now on, which is about 90% of new capacity installations being that part time intermittent junk, we will be in a place by 2030 with about 100 times more likelihood of brownouts and blackouts from loss of load. Loss of load means not enough power in the system to meet demand. That's a horrendous place for a developed nation to be basically facing 100 times exponentially grown likelihood of brownouts and blackouts from not enough electricity because you've torn out all this stuff that runs full time. Coal, nuclear, not built enough combined cycle gas that runs full time and attempted displacement with stuff that runs five hours a day solar, seven wind and two hours a day battery storage. So Musk is gone. Thank the Lord for now and we've got a EO in place and now the big beautiful bill that kills subsidies by 27 and a study that shows that the enormously deficient electricity supply that this part time stuff has caused the nation in energy security.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, okay, you hang right there. I'm going to come back to you. Axios huge story today on artificial intelligence going like a sith through grass on middle managers. Anybody in the audience maybe know a son or daughter is going to be a middle manager or maybe you're a middle manager. Well guess what? Artificial intelligence is coming for your job. Ford Motor Company CEO gave you a heads up and Axios Day has a really smart piece. I've put it up on Getter. I'm exclusive on Getter. Go up there and check it out today. Either download the app or go to the website. Let's go to Geneva to the AI good United Nations. AI good for the good conference which sends a chill down my spine. We have the power couple of the not anti AI but kind of the reasonable. Hey, we got to think this through. Line of thought here. Line of angle of attack. Nora Bin Laden and our own Joe Allen. Nor can you tee it up. What's the conference like so far?
Kate Goodell
Listen, it's been very very interesting so far. I have to say we had some very good panels, some very good interventions. Starting off with the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union. She did a great job in Teeing up the conference and calling especially for governance of AI, which we've been discussing heavily with Joe. And we also had a quite heavy hitter. We had the Chief Technology Officer of Amazon, Werner Vogels. And that, to me, was particularly interesting because he really zoned in the importance of data. And essentially, through all the lofty words that he's been using, essentially we're talking about mass surveillance and the necessity of just data mining the entire planet through mapping, more specifically using satellites, drones, the Internet of Things and mobile technology, which, you know, and the war room passing on, as I've been talking about for the past few years.
Stephen K. Bannon
Nor it looks like this thing looks like it's massive. How big actually is this conference? I mean, it looks bigger than Davos, cpac, even Charlie Kirk's summit this week. And by the way, if you have not gotten a ticket yet, come to Tampa. It's going to be wild. We're doing shows for two, two, maybe three days live. We're going to have meet and greets with all the Warren posse. Make sure you go there. What is the scale of this thing, ma'? Am?
Kate Goodell
Well, I have to say I was incredibly impressed by Charlie Kirk's event in Phoenix and Fest in terms of the volume and just the organization. But in terms of AI conferences, I don't know, Joe, you've been to quite a few. This is my first one.
J
This one's definitely big. And a ton of robots, which you'll be seeing this evening.
Stephen K. Bannon
What do you mean, a ton of robots? You're scaring me. What do you mean, ton of robots?
J
Not necessarily an army of robots that will come and attack, although if they did, they would get rid of the globalists in Geneva first. So that might be a good thing. But no, there are a ton of roboticists here demonstrating their wares. So you've got social robots, you've got exoskeletons, you've got robots that are intended for kind of what they call biotherapeutic purposes, meaning that you basically pet a stuffed baby seal that coos back at you and then you've got tons of drones. So, like I say, we've got tons of footage that we're showing tonight, a number of exclusive interviews that are just accumulating. But yes, Steve, this is a massive, massive event. And the UN element is, you can. The globalist sort of tone as to where they want AI governance to go is very strong. Basically, it's like if the Biden regime had remained in power and turned over to. To Kamala. That's the sort of vibe we're talking about here, AI that is beneficial to all, and everybody wants that. But again and again and again, AI that is inclusive, which is to say AI that is not racist, sexist, or homophobic. So basically the antithesis of the Peter Thiel or Elon Musk sort of approach.
Kate Goodell
And to Joe's point, the Sustainable development goals, the 17 sustainable development goals of the UN, are very much front and center, since this is a UN AI conference. And so you have trained AI robots or applications that essentially have been developed to brainwash people into learning about the Sustainable Development Goals. Joe did a great interview with one.
J
Guy, and Nor subjected herself to the process. She's not really been the same since. Steve.
Kate Goodell
It still didn't manage to convince me.
Stephen K. Bannon
Nor, here's my concern. I got a bunch, and I'm gonna get back to the AI qua AI in a second. But all of these things that you have covered for us over the years, right? UNESCO, World Health Organization, sustainability, you know, what was it? Agenda 2030, all of this, are they going to use AI as a. As a arc that connects it all and try to backdoor everything that we've stopped? Right? Everything we stopped, at least temporarily stopped. Are they going to use AI as a way to backdoor all of that, ma'?
Joe Allen
Am?
Kate Goodell
Absolutely. And, you know, coming back to Amazon cto, Werner Vogels, he said a key sentence. He said, no data, no AI. So it's these two components together. The fact that they have developed all of this technology in order to amass this immeasurable amount of data, and now they've developed the tool in order to be able to analyze and use this data. This is really the acceleration that is taking place right now that will enable them to implement this total mass surveillance digital infrastructure in which we are essentially prisoners.
J
If I could just add to that, too, Steve, you know, in the spirit of diversity, they did invite Meredith Whitaker, the CEO, the president of Signal, and she came out swinging against all of the excessive surveillance and data privacy violations. So it has been, in that sense, a balanced sort of lineup so far.
Stephen K. Bannon
No, no, but hang on, hang on, hang on. Full stop. Norris picked it up. This is the reason we stopped the moratorium. This is my whole concern with Elmo, what Elmo did in his. The whole Doge thing, and for the fanboys, I hope you see what this guy's really like. Now, not that I'm one to rub somebody's nose in it, but I'm going to rub your nose in it. My biggest problem with Elmo And Doge was what he was doing in the US Government with the most valuable data sets ever. Nor, please repeat what the chief technology officer of Amazon, one of the biggest oligarchs oligarchy is around said. No data, no AI. What does he mean by that?
Kate Goodell
Well, both go hand in hand, right? If your goal, as it is for these tech oligarchs is to completely control and centralize power, they're going to build the tools in order to reach that very specific objective. And data is the new gold mine. This is, this is what we've been witnessing the last few years with social media, with all of these, these tech companies, even our banks. You remember this very seminal or, you know, key advertisement by HSBC and how data is basically the next currency. This is, this is the time we're living in by now. And whatever we do, whatever. If you own a smartphone, essentially, you are feeding this machine that is being used against us, that is being weaponized against us.
Stephen K. Bannon
It's, yeah, machine learning, folks. This is what it is. Particularly remember in the convergence to the singularity, and this is why the robots being there are so important. You have regenerative robotics, you have crispr, you have quantum computing, you have advanced chip design, but kind of the lead sled dog is artificial intelligence to artificial general intelligence, data to AI. This is why it's called machine learning. The machine learns off data. Data is oxygen. It's mother's milk. That's why what data sets Elmo got of your information is something that I have been behind the scenes going absolutely nuts on because the CTO just gave it up. This is what accelerationists are doing. It's this great grab in the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, that advance on AI. It's a land grab now for data, right? It's like all these services coming to war room now and saying, hey, look, we've really reviewed over the last couple of years and it's okay to, it's okay to, you know, to be there.
Joe Allen
All, every.
Stephen K. Bannon
Everything out there wants the data. They want the data because that's the new gold, that's the new platinum. That's what they build the, the AI engines off of. That's how the AI engines get smarter, right? And that's how they know how to do more. Joe, hang on for a second. Hang on. I'm gonna hold you guys through the break. I want you to get back into the conference and get more interviews. And Joe, I want you to torture Norm or by having sit through some of yours with the, with the AI, but this is what the accelerationists want to do. The land, the accelerationist, the biggest thing they're doing now is the land grab on data. That's what we have to make very sure our own government and the Trump administration is not having the tech bros lead us down a primrose path to our own destruction. Short break.
Joe Allen
What if he had the brightest mind.
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Stephen K. Bannon
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J
You know, Steve, it's interesting. There is a total acknowledgment of all the downsides, including among many of the speakers here, the possibility of existential risk of possibility of total human extinction. You had Marc Benioff of Salesforce, oddly enough, suddenly pivoting, talking about how, no, this won't lead to automation and replacement. This will lead to augmentation and enhancement. I don't think that everyone here shares that point of view. It's all over the board. But most people seem to acknowledge that the three big threats, human atrophy, human replacement and possibly human extinction, that that's at least on the table. And so the solutions they're offering, again, it's differing across. You've got Meredith Whitaker of Signal, you've got Roman Yampolski, you have a number of people who are not towing the sort of globalist liberal line, but most of the people here are saying the solutions we need are some kind of global standards or global regulation inclusivity in left liberal and nor.
Kate Goodell
Yeah. And to that point, Steve, what is really interesting with the fact that we are here in Geneva is that they are seeking to rebrand Geneva as the main hub for this standardization because of the fact that Geneva is already, you know, this, this capital of the world when it comes to these international globalist institutions. And they're calling, they're calling for Geneva to kind of pivot and use this crisis in which we find ourselves in, in which Geneva finds itself and the globalist institutions find themselves in, you know, with the cuts, the budget cuts, etc. For the UN, for the WHO that we've been seeing the past few months, especially since the Trump administration came in this past January. And so they're trying to position Geneva as this new leading tech hub and they're even calling it, believe it or not, Trust Valley. They want to brand Geneva as Trust Valley. I tell you, you couldn't make this up. Just like I for good. Is so ironic. Geneva with all the like in Switzerland, with all these sleazy people working here, all of the hidden money, all of the corruption. Geneva all of a sudden is branding itself as Trust Valley. Can you believe it?
Stephen K. Bannon
Steve, let me give you a. Yeah. Breaking news from the Washington Post just coming across. An imposter has been impersonating Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, sending AI generated voice and text messages to three foreign minister, a US Governor, Governor and a US Member of Congress, per a cable obtained by the Washington Post. And I'm quoting now from The Washington Post, U.S. authorities do not know who is behind the string of impersonation attempts, but they believe the culprit is likely attempting to manipulate powerful government officials with the goal of gaining access to information or accounts. According to a cable sent by Rubio's office, the State Department employees. Folks, that's what I just told you about Home Tide Lock. This technology is so powerful, it's changing the world minute by minute that you're living in. And this is why we have Noor Bin Laden and Joe Allen both at this conference day, guys, nor start with you social media so people can follow you through the day. And Joe, you also will have you back on the evening show. But where do people follow you throughout the day?
Kate Goodell
Steve, I just want to say one thing. This is incredibly, incredibly important, what you just brought up and incredibly dangerous. And it ties in with the threat, the threat of misinformation and disinformation. You know, that was the number one risk, global risk, by the World Economic Forum. You know that you do this risk report every year and they're going to use this technology and these deep fakes as the perfect excuse, as the perfect Trojan horse in order to crack down on our freedoms and our freedom of speech. This is coming right down the pipeline. As for my details, normanladen.subsac.com and at.
J
Joe@Joebot XYZ and also, Steve, speaking of name recognition and facial recognition, we have Rashid from France. He's in finance. He is not necessarily of your political persuasion, but has tremendous respects. Just hello. Absolutely. Steve, hello. I think you're a king maker. I might not agree with everything you say. You're definitely a kingmaker. And I'm very much impressed by your vision and your strategy. And I wish we had the same kind of people in Europe. That's all I need to say.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you. Thank you, brother.
Joe Allen
Welcome.
Stephen K. Bannon
Appreciate you. I'm just a grundoon. I'm just a hammerhead Mick yelling to a microphone. Guys, we'll see you this afternoon.
Joe Allen
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Stephen K. Bannon
From Geneva, the engine room of the globalist. Remember all that's where the UN really does their dirty work and the Chinese Communist Party all over it. We started with a press conference.
Joe Allen
Brooke Rollins and the team.
Stephen K. Bannon
National security. Food security is national security.
Joe Allen
Run the CCP out of here. A cabinet meeting with President Trump will be next.
Stephen K. Bannon
Next. Don't know when it's going to start. Supposed to be 11, but you know how it rolls.
Joe Allen
Stick around.
Stephen K. Bannon
Two minute break. Back with Chris Hoare. In a moment.
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Release Date: July 8, 2025
Host: WarRoom.org (Stephen K. Bannon)
In Episode 4615 of Bannon’s War Room, titled "Threat To American Agriculture," host Stephen K. Bannon delves deep into the multifaceted threats facing American agriculture today. The episode features insightful discussions with key government officials, including Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, Senator Roger Marshall, and prominent figures like Peter Navarro and Dave Walsh. This comprehensive analysis highlights the intersection of national security, foreign influence, and the future of American farming.
The episode opens with Secretary Brooke Rollins addressing concerns about foreign ownership of American farmland. She underscores the administration's commitment to protecting national interests:
"[...] there will be no amnesty, the mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation"
— Brooke Rollins [00:00]
Peter Navarro, a senior economic advisor, elaborates on the gravity of Chinese investments:
"China consumes 50% of the pork in the world. When they acquire Smithfield Foods and the entire pork chain, it becomes a weapon in and of itself."
— Peter Navarro [02:17]
Navarro draws parallels between Chinese land acquisitions in the U.S. and similar moves in Zambia and Africa, emphasizing a modern form of colonialism aimed at controlling critical supply chains.
Senator Roger Marshall expands the conversation to encompass broader concerns beyond just land ownership:
"Foreign entities own about a fifth of the protein processing in this entire country. That's just wrong. Intellectual property theft and bioterrorism are the real threats."
— Senator Roger Marshall [04:45]
He highlights the vulnerability of the U.S. food supply to potential Chinese bioterrorism, such as engineered viruses targeting livestock. Marshall praises the National Bio Agro Research Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, as a crucial asset in safeguarding agricultural integrity.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins reinforces the administration’s stance:
"Food security is national security. We have a duty and responsibility to make sure that our resources are secure for the future."
— Brooke Rollins [06:05]
She emphasizes the importance of science, technology, and innovation in protecting American agriculture from foreign threats.
A central theme of the episode is the administration's firm stance against amnesty and the strategic deportation of undocumented workers to protect the agricultural workforce.
Brooke Rollins reiterates:
"No amnesty under any circumstances. Mass deportations continue, but in a strategic and intentional way as we move our workforce toward more automation and toward a 100% American workforce."
— Brooke Rollins [11:48]
Stephen K. Bannon emphasizes this policy, stating:
"No amnesty, no way. Strategic deportations. And of course, an all American, 100% American workforce. That's our target."
— Stephen K. Bannon [13:06]
The discussion highlights the administration's plan to reduce reliance on foreign labor through automation and bolster American participation in the agricultural sector.
The episode delves into the legislative and executive measures being taken to address these agricultural threats. Eric Teetzel from Citizens Renewing America (CRA) discusses the importance of codifying executive actions into law through the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA):
"The NDAA is the vehicle to put that stuff into law. That's why it's so important."
— Eric Teetzel [19:49]
Dave Walsh details recent executive orders targeting energy subsidies that indirectly impact agricultural sustainability:
"The executive order ends market-distorting subsidies for unreliable foreign-controlled energy sources and addresses the preclusion of unnecessary extensions of incentives to projects beginning in 2026."
— Dave Walsh [26:07]
These actions aim to stabilize the agricultural sector by ensuring energy reliability and safeguarding against foreign economic manipulation.
The episode briefly touches upon the global economic shifts discussed at the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Joe Allen explains the consortium's objective to replace the U.S. dollar with their own currencies, potentially destabilizing the dollar's value:
"The Rio Reset in July marks a pivotal moment when BRICS objectives move decisively from a theoretical possibility towards inevitable reality."
— Joe Allen [15:00]
While this topic is secondary to the primary focus on agriculture, it underscores the broader geopolitical challenges facing American economic stability.
Senator Roger Marshall raises alarms about bioterrorism as a critical threat to food security:
"If you could imagine a COVID-like virus made in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, that could infect all the hogs of the world, but you had an mRNA vaccine that could protect your own hogs. What would that do to our world's food supply?"
— Senator Roger Marshall [04:47]
This scenario exemplifies the potential for foreign interference to disrupt global food systems, positioning food security as an extension of national security.
Episode 4615 of Bannon’s War Room presents a compelling narrative on the intertwined challenges of national security, foreign economic influence, and the sustainability of American agriculture. Leaders like Brooke Rollins and Senator Roger Marshall underscore the urgent need to protect U.S. farmland from foreign ownership, particularly by the Chinese, to ensure food and economic security. The administration’s strategies focus on eliminating amnesty, enforcing strategic deportations, and advancing automation to create a resilient, American-centric agricultural workforce. Additionally, legislative measures and executive actions are being mobilized to fortify these efforts against a backdrop of global economic shifts and emerging threats like bioterrorism.
This episode serves as a critical reminder of the vulnerabilities within America's agricultural framework and the proactive measures necessary to safeguard it against both domestic and international threats.
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