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Michael Flynn
Christ is king.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard. Today we have a very special edition of Human Events Daily for you. We're here live in Washington D.C. we are here at General Flynn's new media Summit. Today is all about independent media. It's all about disrupting the narrative. It's about getting the truth out. And we're so glad that Real America's voice, Human Events Daily are able to be here and to be a part of this great summit because we're meeting with people from all across the spectrum and in fact all across the world in ways that the mainstream media just will not do. This is the force multiplier. This is how you can be a truth aggregator, how you can actually get the facts, spread it out through using social media, using independent networks like Real America's Voice over the top and then going and telling that story.
Lara Logan
Thank you very much General Flynn. So I just came from a summit on the ending the persecution of Christians worldwide. I think that's emblematic of where we stand today is that it's a real indictment on us as journalists that most of the world has no idea that for the past 20 plus years, since the day of 911 there has been a systematic organized campaign to massacre Christians across the isolated rural villages of northern Nigeria. And when it finally comes to light.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek
What does Al Jazeera do?
Lara Logan
And all these other journalists they put out always denying that it's true. And you just like, I'm just like so the last five, six years I spent documenting one masses or after another. I was walking into dinner on a Friday night, I got a picture of a 17 year old, 16, 17 year old girl who was pregnant, having her head hacked off while they had the body out of the baby out of her stomach. And you're going to sit there and tell me that this is Something made up by the right wing. I. Look, I just, I cannot come to you strongly enough and say that we are in an absolute crisis of information. General Funds articulated this with the amazing and wonderful much missed Spoon Cutler in his book said generation warfare, that is the battle for our mind, but we are in battle for our minds and our souls. And when you deny that people are being murdered, you lose your soul. And you know, I just, I see Angela Standing King. She's going to be on the panel later today. But Angela is one of the people that brought me to a basic truth because she saves babies in abortion and she talks about saving children from murder. And I never thought about abortion like that. And so what is so important about that is we as journeys have been derelict in our duty to the truth and and into pursuing the truth regardless of pews and how of we've become instruments of propaganda and God bless independent media and the rise of independent media. But don't there's a price for everything. There's a price for everything. So it's when we dance on the graves of, you know, CNN and the New York Times and shows how they deserve it, we do we ask what fills the void? Because what is filling the void now? You know, what you don't have when you lose your advertising revenue from Big Pharma and you lose the corporations, you lose firsthand journalism. I spent five years in Iraq as the chief foreign first partner for CBS News. That cost how many millions? Millions of dollars? How many over the years? What independent media or out there can afford that now? It's no use. If you're going to put people on the ground, they're not going to tell the truth. So your bureaus mean nothing. I'm not standing in defense of mainstream media. I'm standing in defense of the principles of real journalism and the reality that it takes money. It costs money to do real journalism. It costs money to travel, it costs money to invest in time and in people. And that investment is not happening. And you know, unless you're the one in a million, I don't know. Jamie's does pretty well at it. He's relentless. He does 19,000 different jobs at the same time and somehow manages to run his own organization, fight off homeless lawsuits that you can. Ameldamates had shoes, quite frankly, and I still manage his. He's of independent journalists and yet he's still got to battle the right to even be called a journalist because the New York the beret lady deems him to be a far right activist. Please, please you people belong in the trash giant of history, right? But they. They don't. And I received this amazing woman, Ava here, who I looked at. No, I see her as a vision of what I would like to remember myself has been 20 years ago, when.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek
That was when I was younger and.
Lara Logan
Thinner and, you know, and. And perfect. Because every time she comes out, she just nails and she's brave and she. But what has Ava done? She has consistently, over time, built up a bank of knowledge. There was a tongue in journalists. Had to be. We had to be historians, and we had to be economists. I study economics. I carry English as an extra major. I did a Bachelor of commerce degree. Not because I wanted to know anything about Karl Marx. God guides me. He's like, now in Congo, the. You know, because I have a. I have a shield of protection around, and I had to force myself to go there because I had to understand how money worked, because it was obvious that money and power drive these things that you're seeing when you're standing at the door of a motor and you're 17 years old and you're making friends with the guy running it because you want to know how many bodies there are inside. Because the South African government at the time, when I was a young girl doing this reporting, lied about all of that. So I learned the value of firsthand reporting. And that does not mean. God bless them, I'm sorry, Showing up in Aurora, Colorado, with a small camera going around, asking people if they're a member of the cartel. I mean, that journalist. I'm sorry, put them up against the wall and shoot him in the head and then teach them how to do journalism. Because every person in that building will be killed if they tell you that they're a member of the cartel or that there's cartel there. So that's not what I mean by firsthand journalism.
Michael Flynn
End in our way, and our golden age has just begun.
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Lara Logan
I mean, we have a dearth. We have forgotten how to mentor. We have forgotten we don't have newsrooms anymore. If I had a nickel every time I was bouncing into my boss's office and told him about a story and he ripped me to shreds in four and a half seconds, you know, because reality intrudes. We have a saying in journalism that never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Whenever you hear, oh, that's a good story, I'm going to do that. You start to investigate and what do you find? It crumbles. And what did I learn? Never be afraid to walk away. Don't stick with it because of belief or ideology or anything else. Journalists are not lawyers. We are going to court and cherry pick evidence to make a case. We're not advocates or campaign on behalf of people. That's not our job. Our job is to do everything we can to find not just part of the truth, but the whole truth. Because something can be true. But if you distort it and you focus on it and you put that out above everything else, you can still be as deceptive and misleading as the people who lie blatantly. It's not hard, it's not easy to find the whole truth. These things take time. Beat reporting is value because you know why? Because when a person truly understands the subject, it's of value to all of us. If I never understood, I'm living in Iraq, I know whether I know Shiite militias, I know Iraqi terrorists, I know the government, I knew soldiers, I know people all across the. All across the country. And yet somehow every US Ambassador or state partner official or military official or, you know, White House official, he came to the country, they wanted to bring that ANA from New York who never spent four and a half seconds in the country. And they open the rape. They open the doors the rape politics. And you think, but why? And it's because they don't want to sit down with someone who knows enough to j them. They don't. They superficial is the death of real journalism. And they use a superficial. It's good in a crisis. The rest of the time, worthless. And when journalists don't have resources behind them, what they do is superficial. What ID Hafatan commenting on things online, superficial, unfortunately, you know, I don't want to do that. But we have created a monster. Independent media is both our salvation and also a monster. And if we don't guard it and protect it and fight for it, and if we don't recognize that there are real principles to real journalism and separate that from opinion, which is completely valid opinion journalism, there's always been opinion pages in newspapers. There's always room for analysis when you take someone. But when you. And I hear people who are not lawyers, and I see judges and lawyers on TV talking about, nobody's going to prison for treason and sedition. And by the way, there's a statute of limitations. I'm like, are you serious? I'm not even a lawyer and I know that's a lie. Allowing people to get away with this nonsense is. I mean, to me it's the equivalent of being a co conspirator in treason and sedition. And we have to hold people accountable for that. You can't take the murderer that's accused of serial being a serial killer and put him up there as if he's an expert when he's talking about his own crimes. Sure, he's an expert because he's guilty. John Brannon. Right. I mean, it's insane. And to allow CBS News to put a guy on there as the deputy head of the CIA and then he retires and then he goes up. You're doing the biggest cover up of one of the most damaging intelligence operations against this country and against this nation, and you're allowing him to go out there like he's some independent neutral analyst is just well informed. It's an outrage. But they get away with it because we allow them to get away with it.
James O'Keefe
Fear no evil. So it's hard to know what that really means unless you've been through it. You can watch the movies, read the books. I know you've been been through it. We were all sitting together at the breakers and it was like everyone of us have been raided by the feds. But I'm a journalist. That's crazy. It continues to be crazy. It's so crazy that if another country did it, our State Department would be issuing sanctions against that country. It's actually hopefully. So there's, there's that part of it. So I've been asked to talk about what independent media is and what my views are on the current situation. I, I second again what you said about money. I don't know if this is a controversial statement to make. I don't know if the commercial imperative is compatible with truth telling. I don't know if the commercial imperative is compatible with investigative journalism. I mean how many at 60 minutes you watched your piece dozens of times where you aired it hundreds of times. And now everything's live. I just started to do live myself. But there's something missing in live. You don't package it. There's no who, what, when or why. There's no concise, succinct presentation of the information. So as a result, our brains are everywhere. There's no discipline. And the discipline of verification is what separates propaganda from journalism. The discipline of verification is what separates journalism from propaganda. And there is no verification of anything.
Jack Posobiec
Why?
James O'Keefe
Because the incentives aren't aligned. The incentives are to make money and to get clicks.
Jack Posobiec
But.
James O'Keefe
And you say a lot of crazy shit because that's what your audience wants to hear. That that's not the truth though. So. And I'm not going to give any examples, but you know, I'm talking about. It's your people are just saying crazy because there's money in it. There's no money in what I did. And when you look at the world, which you everyone does because we all run organizations, whether we're NGOs or corporations or LLCs or 516, even 501C3s, which are non for profit enterprises, you have a statement of that. Assets. You have assets and you have something called flyability. And guess what? My liabilities are always going to exceed my assets. So that's a. That's a very difficult challenge. I will second another thing you Said, which is that you have to be. You look at someone like Charlie Kirk, who Jack was extremely close to. I didn't know as deeply, but I knew especially Echo Spark from Project Eritas. Charlie and I became very close. Charlie was there for me when that happened and lifted me up. And, I mean, you have to be a. You know, he wasn't an investigative reporter, but he was an organizational entrepreneur. You have to be a good speaker. You have to be a good fundraiser. You have to be a good chief executive officer. You have to be a good entrepreneur. You have to be not a hypocrite. You have to be a good Christian. You have to be a good father, you have to be a good husband. You have to inspire people. You have to give good public presentation. I mean, no one can do all these things, but that's what you have to do to. To be an independent journalist. If you lap any one of those things, you will fail, in my opinion. And, you know, can they find someone else to do what he does? I don't think so. I suppose they can. They can have a contest for, you know, a couple young guys to go on campuses. The problem is you will not find the ethics. You will find the talent, but you won't find the integrity. And the hardest thing about what I do is to find people with the integrity. It is so. It's such a cliche, isn't it? Ethics and what does any mean? It means that you have no price. You have no price. It's such a hard thing to find. And then to also find someone with the talent, forget about it. One in 100 million, not one in a hundred million. So I think it's a problem that we have all this opinion. I agree that you need opinion, but when there's only opinion, it's toxic. It's radioactive, people. So that's the bad news. Here's the good news, because I am an optimist for reasons I will tell you right now. I just did this story last week about slot, but I went undercover and I wore this ridiculous wig, which was from Amazon. And you might say, why would. How would they not recognize you? Okie. You guys. You guys. You literally said this walking in here. It's like, you don't understand these people. They're not held accountable for anything. And I did that intentionally. I did that intentionally. Number one, I did it because they're so incompetent and corrupt. I wanted to demonstrate that. And number two, I wanted to show you that you can do it, too. What's your excuse? Because I get from every. Well, I'm so famous in Tennessee that I every mom always reckon, well, I'm James o', Keefe, and I still go undercover with the FBI, the State Department, the people on the federal level, and they don't recognize me. So. So when you have it. Excuse, it better be good. Of course, when you actually go into the psychology of it, it's just an. It's. It's an excuse for their own inaction.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek
Thank you. Thank you, General Flynn, for the invitation. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Eva Flaerdinger Brook. I do not expect you to repeat that very long Dutch last name. I'm absolutely honored to be here. And I'm listening, as I'm listening to you, both of you, to Lara, and to you, James. I once aware. Am extremely aware of how different our situation in Europe is. As much as I love hearing you guys talk about how you should do better, how, you know, you should work together.
Lara Logan
Today.
Michael Flynn
You know, they talk about influencers. These are influencers, and they're friends of mine.
Lara Logan
Jack.
Michael Flynn
Where's Jack? Jack, who's done a great job.
Libby Evans
You.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek
Know, you should work together. There is too much opinion. It's great you have so much standards, so many standards for yourselves. But we in Europe, man, we have a lot of work to do to even get to that point still. I'm from the Netherlands, so I'm from a very small country in Europe, and I'm sorry if I get a bit technical here, but I'll just sketch out our media landscape for you for a second so you understand our situation. We don't have not even one media outlet that pretends to be right white. Not one. So there's no. There's no Fox News. Right? We don't have institutional media. We don't have legacy media that even pretend to represent their rights from the center. It doesn't exist. So go figure what our legacy media landscape looks like, and then think about how important Gavriel's independent media voices in our countries really is. And that process is also going way too slow because we don't have Lara, we don't have a James o'. Keeffe, we don't have a Jack de Sovic. If we did, the situation wouldn't be as dire as the one that we are in today. And now, I, personally, I'm on X and I'm on Instagram. And it's funny, because listening to you guys, I realized that I have never called myself a journalist, haven't ever called myself a journalist because I never have called a journalist by the people who call themselves journalists. Even though I think I hope I have more objective reporting and I do more objective reporting than they ever will. I also think that at this point I might have more reach and influence than they combined do, especially online. Yet again, I call myself a political commentator because I do openly voice my opinions. Instead, you know, I actually do. And I acknowledge that. I say, look, this is my analysis of the situation. And my analysis of the situation in Europe is, is that we are heading for utter and total destruction. Europe as we know it, and Europe as we have known it for centuries on end is coming to a rapid end. We look at mass migration. That's one of the subjects that I focus most on in my recording because it is underreported. The statistics are skewed. The consequences of mass migration, impoverishments, culture of decay, they're lied about, they're hidden. Even though we can all tell with our own eyes. Those are the things that I try to bring to the forefront. And of course that requires opinion, that requires saying this is not good, even though you would think that it's obvious for everyone, but it's not. And the problem that we face in Europe, of course, is that we have many different cultural identities, we have many different languages, many different countries. That's something that we cherish, that's something that we're proud of. But it makes working together and it makes pointing out the similar issues that we are dealing with difficult. When it comes to these types of cases. The rapes, the assaults, the murders that you are hearing about in Europe as a result of mass immigration, they're happening on a daily basis, but they are not collected by the legacy media. They were not even rigging about. And so what I try to do is highlight as often as I can what is happening. And I truly feel like a broken record talking about these cases day in, day out. Rape of a 60 year old girl there, murder of a 17 year old boy there, even just bad assaults, right? They usually don't even get published. So I try to focus on that, I try to give these people names, I try to let people look, this is a systemic issue, this is not incidental and this is all by design because we are still at that point, we are still at the point where I have to tell people that over and over again. And so this is for us, I think one of the biggest challenges when it comes to independent media is that we, of course we unite, but we also have to fight back. Against the institutions that try to silence us. Because again, allow me to go back to my small country for a moment. The Netherlands, we don't have freedom of speech the way that you do. We don't have a First Amendment. I'm sure his health don't have a second Amendment. We have criminal codes that make it illegal to offend groups. So if I say something that is offensive to a group, which is weird, right, is how do you offend the group? How can a judge decide on behalf of a group that they are all collectively offended? Well, they do it. They do it on the basis, of course, of sex. They do it on the basis of race. They do it on the basis of sexual preference, religion. And people actually get convicted for those types of hate crimes.
James O'Keefe
Right?
Eva Vlaardingerbroek
Hate speech. And so speaking about the cases that I just mentioned to you, the rapes, the assaults, the connection between mass immigration and crime, the sacrificing of our children on the altar of mass migration, that is and can be qualified as illegal hate speech. And you can get sent to jail for it. That's our situation. So to tie this all back to independent media, without X, which is the platform that I use most, we wouldn't even hear about half of these stories. Half this. Even an optimistic estimate, I would say. So that's where we are. The independent journalists of Europe are on X. That's the only place where we can voice our opinions somewhat safely. But even X is being targeted by the European Union with the Digital Services Act. I don't want to bore you with all of the details of that, but it's a censorship act. And it's a censorship act that is now official law in all European countries designed by unelected bureaucrats. We don't have sovereignty. We. Our democracy is an illusion. It does not function. A supranational organization decides for us what our laws are and what we are allowed and not allowed to say. So once again want to instill in you the urgency of the situation in Europe and how much you look to you in America and how much we need your help to get this message out there. Because we're fighting many monsters at the same time. And that's why I'm very thankful to be here. Thank you so much.
Jack Posobiec
So a couple weeks ago, I went on CNN for the first time and I. I never thought I'd be in a situation where CNN would be ever allowing me to sort of talk about me enough and all of us, but. And Jack.
Michael Flynn
Where's Jack? Where's Jack? Where is he?
Libby Evans
Jack?
Michael Flynn
I Want to see you. Great job, Jack.
Libby Evans
Thank you.
Michael Flynn
What a job you do. You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who've been getting pulled as.
Jack Posobiec
Never thought I'd have the opportunity to be on. And of course, it was in the wake of, of Charlie's murder. And the reporter, field journalist who came on, not one of the anchors, she was fine, totally fine, by the way. And there was a question that they asked me. And you know, when you go into one of these, these interviews with anyone, with any outlet, with any journalism platform, you have to think, well, who am I speaking to? Right? Because all of the audiences are bifurcated now and trifurcated and quadricated because there's no one single monoculture, mono audience like, like Lara. When you were on CBS, you could, you know, 60 Minutes used to set the tone for everyone. It was the nation's leader in terms of stories, in terms of news. But now it's all totally separated. Who you listen to determines your worldview, determines your views. And so you may hate your neighbors, even though they might look like you, they might sound like you. They, they, they may go to the same schools that you do, they shop at the same places that you do, but you completely hate them because you listen to a different form of media and you take your worldview from them. Of course, he's not talking about any of this, or I'm talking about the other side, but. So I know this is going out to CNN audiences, which is a different group of people that I usually speak to, but I, you know, I wasn't really thinking about it at the time, but I'm sure that probably, probably not going to be invited back. And I had a question about this, and this is because two days after shop tour and they, they asked me a question. We're in the turning point, as I say, building. This is the first time I've been back to the building since Charter was murdered and my wife was, you know, sitting aside.
James O'Keefe
She's right there.
Jack Posobiec
By the way, Tanya Tay is here today in support and thank you for being here.
James O'Keefe
Drawing.
Jack Posobiec
And, and they said, are we in a civil war? Are we headed for a civil war? And there was a real question, and I think there was a question at the time of, you know, will this political violence beget more political violence? And will this historic cycle that we've seen, a download cycle, which is extremely dangerous, will it play out again? Is it playing out again right before our eyes. And I looked at her and I said, we are seeing asymmetric civil warfare breaking out across the country. And if you don't believe me, go ask my friend because he's in a box right now for speaking truth. Charlie Kirk wasn't murdered because he lied. Charlie Kirk was murdered because he told the truth. And he told the truth to people that never would have otherwise heard it. And because they couldn't beat him in.
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Debate, because they couldn't beat him on.
Jack Posobiec
The facts, because they couldn't beat him in terms of his reach, which was growing exponentially every single day, they tried to silence her. But let me tell you, sorry, they failed. They absolutely failed. Because of all the people in this room, because all the people who saw what happened, because of thousands upon thousands, students and young people, new generations of Gen Z and even Gen Alpha, if you can believe it or not, that saw what happened, are never going to forget the murder of Charlie Kirk. But going out there into the modern public swear at the modern what, what could be more of the modern public swearing, going on to Apollo Chambers and debating all of these issues in public. And I thought something that was really interesting that actually just occurred to me recently because so I also, in addition to working referring for I work with post Millennial Human Events and our editor in G, Libby Evans is also here with us and she does an incredible job every single day working in independent media to do the verification, to do the true, and to make sure that everything that gets put out is true. And of course the media is very upset with us because not only do we have White House passes now, but we are now part of the new Pentagon press corps because they, they didn't.
Libby Evans
Want to follow the rules.
Jack Posobiec
So we have now replaced the legacy media inside the Pentagon. And the New York Times asked me yesterday, he said, you know, how are you going to report? I said, well I'm going to tell the truth. And I know that's may be radical for you guys here, but we're just going to tell the truth about what's actually going on in, in our government, in the military, in the national security base and everywhere, the same way we do every single day and the same way we always have. But one of the, one of the things that was kind of existential and interesting for us is that we're in this situation now where we're, we're doing our job every day, try to report the news, tell people what's going on, tell the truth. But in this case, our colleague, our friend, our, the leader of turning Point is the news. His death is a murder. It's the news. And we're following the case, we're following all the updates. And there was this buried line that came out, I think it was on last Friday in one of the filings. And I'm not going to get too technical, but this little. This will illustrate, I think, what we're all talking about here. The lawyers for Tyler Robinson, the suspect, just put up a quent, say they want to ban Hamra from a courtroom in the Charlie Kirk murder fix. And I thought about this and they said, well, we have. We have to do it because of privacy. So we have to do it because of privacy. And. And no, I have a obviously emotional reaction to this, but I thought about the issue, right, the right to privacy. This is a right.
Libby Evans
Right.
Jack Posobiec
This is a right that we want in a free society. But then Libby Evans wrote song I Want. I wanted to put a spot back on her for a sec because it was so beautiful, what she wrote. She said, Charlie Kirk didn't have a say in whether or not his murder would be public. Only his assassin had a say in that. And therefore, Charlie Kirk's trial, or fantastic trial of the murder of Charlie Kirk should also be done in public the same way that his murder was. So Human Events, just file a submission with that courtroom in Utah completely opposing this ban and saying that we are going to come down and oppose this. We're going to get lawyers involved if we have to, to make sure that everyone has a full open and accounting of the situation, every single piece of evidence. And we got Human events, the post Millennial, I'm happy to announce Court TB just came in and is also supporting the effort now. And so this is growing. It's going to continue growing because the public has a right to know. The public has a right to know everything. And this. And I thought about this, I said, you know what? This is the difference between a free society and a closed society. And Ava, that the society that you're talking about say, that doesn't sound very free. It doesn't sound very open at all. And the difference is because when you say you have a courtroom in your courtyard, you have your. You have your lawyer, you have your prosecutor, you have your defense, you have the judge. But when you have cameras rolling and you have the doors open, and even here in federal court today, and as. As General Flynn knows, the federal courtroom does have the ability to members of the public to go and attack. This is one of our oldest traditions, and it is one of our best Traditions that justice should be done in public, justice should be done before the people. And if you have something to tell that you shouldn't be able to hide it, you should put it out. Because that is a check on the entire system by the people in a free society. And this very transparency is the line, it's the absolute line that you draw between a free society and a totalitarian society. Because a free. In a free society, who has the power? The people. The people have the power. And the people had a right to know. And all of these issues come into bear there because you think, of course the public has a right to know. Of course the public should have a check on the system, because the public ultimately, ultimately is the backstop. Every single system of media, of power, journalism, government, of corporate power in the entire world. You are nothing without the people. Those are the people who should be empowered. And if we are going to be truth tellers, and if we are going to continue to fight for the legacy of Charlie Kerr, then we have to do the same thing that he always did. Empower people, share the information with people, share truth with people, share his platform with people, like he did every single day.
James O'Keefe
He.
Jack Posobiec
He allowed me even onto his platform for some reason. And he would allow all of us, all of us would go to Turning Point events and be up there and, you know, James would have these elaborate musical performances and. But it's. It was. It was multimedia and push the boundaries and interact with people in ways that you never thought possible. That's what Charlie was all about. Another piece that I think that I've come to appreciate a little bit more was that Charlie never lost sight, even in the rise of digital, even in the rise of social media. And of course, Charlie was on every social media, dominated every single platform he ever even thought about. He never lost sight of trying to connect with people in person, in the physical space on those campuses. And when he would bring someone up to the front and he would always say this, and we saw JD And Erica were down at University of Mississippi, Old miss last night. 10,000 people came out last night, by the way. We had 7,000 in Montana, we had Nebraska, we had India, and thousands upon thousands, biggest events we've ever had. But Charlie, we didn't care about the numbers. If there was someone in front of him, he would care about that person. And for that moment, he would even tell people, say, hey, hey, don't heckle, don't cut them off, don't yell. I want to connect with this person individually in real life, not through A screen.
Michael Flynn
Jack is a great guy. He's written a fantastic book. Everybody's talking about it. Go get it. And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event. And we're going to turn it around and make our country great again.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek
Amen.
Jack Posobiec
And I think in so many ways this is the negative side of independent media and social media. Because when we do things through the virtual space, when we do things on these little pieces of flash that we carry around in our hands and in our pockets every day, we lose sight of the fact that there's a real person on the other side before AI takes over. Of course. And the person who shot Charlie Kirk didn't think of Charlie Kirk as a real person. This was someone. And you know, assuming that this evidence is correct and this is the suspect, this is someone who, when you look at how disassociated this young man was, Burger forgave in an incredible act of Christian charity. But you look at how disassociated he was from reality. He was someone who was involved, yes, in a transsexual relationship with a man. He is someone who was involved with extreme pornography in which which included, by the way, transhumanist pornography where he was watching simulators that allowed him to pretend he was a furry. And so he would, he would participate as a sort of half animal, half human hybrid, performing extreme sexual acts on other furries. And this was a game that he played in his earlier times. So total disassociation with reality and throwing himself into this Internet based personality. This is a real threat. This is the. One of the biggest threats of our time is that if we forget about the real world, we forget about reality, if we forget about truth, if we forget about meeting one another as an individual and totally throw ourselves into these Internet based identities, which are false identities, which are not godly ordained identities, which are not identities that are provided to us by our creator, then that is where the devil will steep in, that is where the demonic will seep in. And that is the trap. And that is the biggest trap of all. And that's why I realized that Charlie focused so much on bringing people back to the physical space and bringing people together. And I'll end with this. That I realized too that in because of what Libby wrote, the fact that Charlie was murdered on Live Stream, think about that. It wasn't just an attack on Charlie. It wasn't just an attack on Western culture and Western civilization. It was even an attack on independent media. The fact and everyone who consumes it, because if you were watching that live stream, and I don't even have to ask for, you know, people to raise their hands. I know you've all seen the video. I know you've all seen it, and I know that Charlie's kids will see it one day. This little girl and this little boy who are so young, they have no idea what's going on. It's an attack on us and it was designed to be an attack on us through social media. So we need to become wary as well when we are consuming this, that these are new attack vectors on all of us that we need to build not just physical defenses of, but psychological and spiritual defenses of as well. And that's why everything that Charlie did.
Host/Announcer
And what we're trying to do even.
Jack Posobiec
More and more is to put God at the center of every single thing that we do. Because nothing that comes from God can be bad.
Host/Announcer
And everything that comes from Satan is.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek
Right.
Libby Evans
Unbelievable. Earlier, and you guys weren't here, I've lit. I listed, listed off a group of character traits of what I felt from these people that I have gotten to know over the many years. And one of them has to do with courage and passion. And you saw that up here, you know, and I know that the deal of a couple other people, but those that have already spoken today, but this idea of, of unifying, you know, under some umbrella, right? And, and really the umbrella is our ability to be able to speak freely about what we want, what we believe in, right? Our country, our faith. Right. The freedoms that we, that we cherish, that many, many have sacrificed for. But one of the things in, in Lara is actually there's a reason why I'm up here today. And we're here today because her and I, a couple of years ago, she and remember the conversation, but I do we talk about figuring out how do we, how do we grasp what has happened in the world of, of the media. And we had a long conversation about the Washington D.C. correspondent Bureau and you know, the failure of that organization, frankly. And because they'd given up the truth and, and so the main, the main points and they just talked about it is it's to be truthful, be accurate and be responsible. If you think about that, be yourself.
James O'Keefe
Right?
Libby Evans
Use good common sense. So, you know, I know everybody got busy lives here. I particularly appreciate you guys being here and being part of this and doing what you're doing because what you're seeing is this is a, this is a tectonic ship in the world of, of information. Okay. And That's a world that I am very familiar with. And we are going through this very, very historic move that is, that is causing the world to go in a different direction. And Jack me, I mean, we're not really going to talk too much about it today. That'll be something down the road is artificial intelligence. And he highlighted a little bit the world of artificial intelligence. Right. I mean, and, and so that's another aspect of being able to discern. You know, you use the word. We heard the word discernment, and Larry used it as well. This idea about the sermon, which is take it to me, just, I just take it as, take a deep breath, take a step back, you know, understand what it is that you're hearing and seeing. What is it that are, you know, what values you have that kind of will synthesize all that information together and then respond, right, Instead of like you were talking about. We're very sort of or fluid online. Sometimes we repost things. You know, we do things that are, you know, they just make us feel good. But, but actually, we are going to face trials here, right? We're going to face trials here. I know in our country. We're going to face trials here in the, in the coming weeks, coming months. And we don't know. And, but when we do, it's this body. Because the other side of what we're facing is whatever talked about and, and what we heard earlier, you know, from Ukraine, I mean, the other side of what we're talking about, it doesn't exist. Freedom doesn't exist. Right. It had been all over the world. And I'm telling you, there's no. That's why I tell pastors, I tell pastors, look, you ought to be talking about politics in our country from the pulpit, because only reason you can talk from the pulpit about your religion is because of something called the Constitution. So you can't, you know, like, let's get with it, you know, so I, I know there's little things and, and Trump actually did us a whole favor with, you know, kind of minimizing the, the Johnson Act. So that's helpful. But, you know, I haven't talked about it and, and Don talked about it with what's. What we're working in, in the United Kingdom, you know, in the Netherlands, Italy, I mean, across the, across the world, Ukraine, and trying to figure out, because things happen and now all of a sudden, you know, they begin to happen here. I don't know where we're going to end up. I don't know where we're going to end up. But without fighters, we're out. Courageous fighters. And that's kind of, you know, all of you that are in this space, right? There's courage, it's passion, it's entrepreneurial spirit is having that, right? It's. It's doing the right thing. I forget which one of you talk about, oh, James did. Very, very powerful. If he didn't catch it, you know, he. He basically said Psalm 23, right? Yea, that I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, right? I mean, I've said this before, and I'm stealing a little bit of time here. This country, I used to talk, and I'm doing it for the last number of years. I've lived it. We're not on the precipice. We are in the valley of the shadow of death. And the way I describe it is, I say we have two choices. That's it. Not 50 choices. You have two. One, you can sell your soul, okay? And you can go for the bright light, shiny thing, right? Or you can take this very difficult path, which is a very dim light. And it's a long journey out of that validate, okay? And I'm getting chills because I have been there. And when you think about just these four and of course, you know, others that we've had here represented already, and some of you. But these are people who have been in that valley. And it's like, you know, like my mother would say, get off your knees and get out there. Go do something, right? And so these are people that are warriors, fighters in that valley. And I am so, you know, grateful for you guys, for taking the time and just being here, all right? And everything that you're doing. So God bless.
Jack Posobiec
Bring your eyes, and remember, we're winning, they are losing.
Episode: New Media's Battle for American Minds (w/ James O'Keefe, Lara Logan, and Eva Vlaardingerbroek)
Date: November 7, 2025
In this special episode, Jack Posobiec hosts a live panel at General Flynn’s New Media Summit in Washington D.C., bringing together leading independent media voices—including Lara Logan, James O'Keefe, and Eva Vlaardingerbroek—to discuss the evolving landscape of independent media, global challenges to free speech, and the ongoing information war for the minds and souls of Americans. The discussion emphasizes the decline of mainstream media, the financial and ethical hurdles facing real journalism, and the urgent need for truth-telling in both U.S. and European contexts.
Lara Logan highlights the dereliction of journalists in covering real global crises, such as the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, criticizing mainstream denial and the consequences of losing firsthand reporting due to financial constraints.
James O’Keefe reinforces this, questioning if commercial incentives even permit honest investigative journalism in today's model.
The group agrees independent media is both a salvation and a potential monster if not grounded in real journalistic principles.
O'Keefe elaborates on the immense demands on independent journalists: fundraising, public speaking, leadership, ethics—and especially integrity:
Both Logan and O’Keefe warn of lapsing into a toxic, opinion-only atmosphere without standards of verification.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek brings a European lens, describing a much more restrictive media environment, with no major outlets even pretending to offer a right-leaning perspective.
She details legal threats, such as hate speech laws and EU censorship initiatives (like the Digital Services Act), which stifle independent reporting and criminalize dissent.
Social platforms like X (formerly Twitter) have become the last refuge for independent European voices.
Posobiec explores the negative side of digital media, warning of disconnection from real-life relationships and the dangers of total immersion in online or artificial identities.
He and others urge the audience to build not just physical, but spiritual and psychological defenses against manipulation and attack vectors in digital media.
This panel-mounted a formidable critique of both legacy and independent media, highlighting the critical need for ethics, courage, and honesty in journalism. The speakers illustrated the direct connection between free speech, institutional power, and the struggle for political and spiritual liberty—in the U.S., Europe, and worldwide.
The message: The battle for American (and Western) minds is ongoing and existential. Independent media must fill the void left by legacy institutions—but to truly serve the public, it must be anchored in courage, transparency, community, and faith.
For listeners who missed the episode:
You’ll come away understanding the grave challenges facing truth-telling in media on both sides of the Atlantic, the high personal costs for those on the frontlines, and the urgent societal need to support real journalism—now more than ever.