HIGH ALERT! TRUMP'S WAR WITH VENEZUELA IS COMING, BLACKROCK TAKES OVER ELECTRIC GRIDS

Summary

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Redacted News – Episode Summary

Episode Title: HIGH ALERT! TRUMP'S WAR WITH VENEZUELA IS COMING, BLACKROCK TAKES OVER ELECTRIC GRIDS
Date: October 21, 2025
Hosts: Clayton Morris & Natali Morris
Notable Guests:

• Peter St. Onge (Economist)
• James Roguski (Author of "Screw the WHO")
• John Carpay (President, Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms)

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Main Theme Overview

This episode of Redacted spotlights two central stories:

1. The emerging consolidation of American power infrastructure by global asset manager BlackRock, raising antitrust and privacy concerns tied to AI development.
2. Rising US-Venezuela tensions, with accusations that the Trump administration, boosted by mainstream media and Republican neocons, is manufacturing consent for war under dubious pretenses.

Further segments include economic peril from government shutdown and US debt, the expansion of the World Health Organization's (WHO) AI-based information control, and an expose on Canadian surveillance and censorship laws.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. BlackRock: Power Grid Takeover and AI Monopoly

[05:07 – 09:17]

• BlackRock's Moves: Hosts discuss BlackRock's push to acquire critical US power grid infrastructure, including Minnesota Power, through a $6.2B deal. Warn that this facilitates monopoly power over utilities—particularly because regulated utility customers are captive (cannot switch providers).
• AI Infrastructure Motive: BlackRock cites the need for energy to support AI data centers as the core rationale ("If you're bullish on AI, then you have to be bullish on the power and utilities infrastructure").
• Comparison to Blackstone: Blackstone is also buying natural gas and utilities, suggesting a duopoly of control in America’s future energy and housing resources.
• Concerns Raised:
  • Monopoly risk: "I don't know how this isn't a monopoly. And I hope that the Trump administration... looks into this. Where's Theodore Roosevelt when you need them?" (Clayton, [09:13])
  • Incremental rate hikes feared; AI cited as scapegoat for rising prices.

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2. Trump, Venezuela, and Media "Consent Manufacturing" for War

[09:36 – 16:14]

• Media & Government Push: Hosts critique mainstream outlets (Fox News, Sean Hannity) and figures like Sen. Lindsey Graham for pushing the narrative that Venezuela is the "largest purveyor of drugs" to the US, framing intervention or even annexation as a solution.
  • “They are manufacturing consent for war all across the airwaves as we speak.” (Clayton, [10:26])
• Trump's Comments: Clips of Trump surface where he boasts of ending eight wars and ominously hints at a "ninth" coming soon ([12:36]).
  • “We put out eight wars and the ninth is coming, believe it or not.” (Trump, [12:36])
• Drug Trafficking Pretext Challenged:
  • Colonel Douglas MacGregor argues the drug trade angle is a "cover"—the real aim is Venezuelan oil and gold.
  • "All they talk about is Venezuela's oil and gas, its gold mines, its emerald mines... Venezuela could be an opportunity for Washington to recover trillions in wealth squandered on failed military interventions..." (MacGregor clip, [15:09])

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3. US Debt, Economic Fragility, and Government Shutdown

Guest: Peter St. Onge, Economist
[21:23 – 36:09]

• Debt Crisis:
  • US faces a “$51 trillion debt bomb,” with hidden liabilities (pensions, municipal debts). The pattern: fiscal discipline is always abandoned under political pressure and crisis.
  • "Nothing stops this train...100%, we're going to keep going to the crisis." (Peter St. Onge, [22:51])
• Government Shutdown:
  • Minimal public impact; non-essential functions ("$2 trillion or so that are, quote, unquote, non essential") are on hold, and most voters don't notice ([26:28]).
  • “Maybe we should stop doing that. And a big reason for that is that traditionally...the first dollar they’ll cut, it won’t be ... foreign aid... No, they’re gonna cut firemen, school lunches...” (Onge, [26:28])
• Political Fallout:
  • Unusually, Democrats are blamed for the shutdown—a reversal of historic trends. Odds of the shutdown persisting ~20 more days; possible mass layoffs if it reaches the 61–71 day mark ([30:11]).
• Inflation & Asset Prices:
  • Prediction that inflation settles at above 2% as new "normal," benefiting asset owners but hurting average Americans.
  • "If you own assets, here it comes." – Onge
• Hosts' Tone:
  • Empathy for working-class families missing paychecks, frustration at how partisan rallies (like 'no Kings') distract from substantive issues ([36:18]).

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4. The WHO, AI, and Information Control

Guest: James Roguski, "Screw the WHO"
[41:51 – 55:48]

• WHO's AI Surveillance:
  • WHO's Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources (EIOS), begun in 2017, is an AI system monitoring media and social media, ostensibly for public health.
  • Concern: AI is programmed to suppress "misinformation," which Roguski defines as truth contradicting official narratives ([44:57]).
    • “They want to use AI to lie to us. If they get information off our social media posts, they know how to tamp it down.” (Roguski, [44:10])
  • Roguski claims reporting of vaccine injury or alternative treatments was systematically suppressed rather than investigated.
• Loss of YouTube Misinformation Rules:
  • Hosts note YouTube's removal of WHO guidelines as the standard for "medical misinformation," interpreting this as a positive development ([54:48]).

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5. Canada’s Looming “1984” Surveillance State

Guest: John Carpay, Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
[59:37 – 70:11]

• Sweeping New Laws:
  • Bills C2, C8, and C9 would:
    • Ban cash transactions over $10,000
    • Permit warrantless mail opening/searches
    • Criminalize "hate speech" (poorly defined)
    • Grant government ability to cut off individual internet and phone access
    • Enable neighbor-initiated pre-crime accusations (house arrest for anticipated "hate crimes")
  • “If these three bills pass... we’re going to be close to a police state... at the mercy of the government…” (Carpay, [61:28])
• Bill C2 specifics:
  • Ostensibly a 'Strong Borders Act,' but actually allows sweeping domestic surveillance and warrantless searches ([64:44]).
• Online Harms Act (possible revival):
  • Would allow preemptive house arrest for intended speech, empower new "digital safety" commissions, and permit prosecution for offensive but legal speech.
    • “It’s like Minority Report”—punishment for predicted future offenses (Carpay, [66:16]).
• Public Response:
  • Carpay reports that a pro-freedom movement is rising in Canada post-COVID, and that government has quietly deprioritized the most draconian measures in response to pushback ([68:24]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On BlackRock Buying the Power Grid

• “Why do they have to be the ones that hold the keys to these power grids? ... I don't know how this isn't a monopoly. And I hope that the Trump administration ... looks into this.”
  — Clayton, [09:04]

On Venezuela and Manufactured Consent

• “They are manufacturing consent for war all across the airwaves as we speak, trying to convince all of us that Venezuela is the largest purveyor of drugs flowing into the United States.”
  — Clayton, [10:26]

On Economic Crisis and Shutdown

• “Nothing stops this train...100%, we're going to keep going to the crisis.”
  — Peter St. Onge, [22:51]

On the WHO & AI-Driven Censorship

• “They want to use AI to lie to us. If they get information off our social media posts, they know how to tamp it down.”
  — James Roguski, [44:10]

• “We can and should be using this type of information, these type of information resources, to identify the truth that is out there. It is getting more and more difficult.”
  — James Roguski, [47:46]

On Canadian Surveillance Bills

• “If these three bills pass ... it will be illegal to use cash ... Canada Post will have the authority to open letter mail without a warrant. The government will be able to order to kick individual Canadians off the Internet...”
  — John Carpay, [61:28]

• “If that is brought back… it’s going to be absolute tyranny up here as opposed to only partial tyranny as it is presently.”
  — John Carpay, [67:24]

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Key Timestamps for Important Segments

| Time | Segment | |-------------|--------------------------------------------------------| | 05:07-09:17 | BlackRock buying US power grid — AI justification | | 09:36-16:14 | US-Venezuela war rhetoric, manufactured consent | | 21:23-36:09 | Government shutdown and fiscal crisis, Peter St. Onge | | 41:51-55:48 | WHO AI monitoring, censorship, with James Roguski | | 59:37-70:11 | Canadian surveillance/censorship bills, John Carpay |

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Tone, Language, and Atmosphere

• Redacted maintains an impassioned, populist, and skeptical tone.
• The language is direct, sometimes hyperbolic, always challenging establishment narratives.
• Regular expressions of empathy for working-class Americans, suspicions of large institutions, and a strong advocacy for free speech and civil liberties.
• Hosts blend serious warnings with irreverence and occasional family banter, keeping the mood alternately urgent and personable.

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Summary Takeaways

• Systemic Risk: US economic and political institutions are at crisis points, with growing monopolistic power over infrastructure and mounting debts.
• Civil Liberties Threatened: Both in the US and Canada, new laws and AI-driven systems threaten free speech, privacy, and financial sovereignty.
• Manufactured Consent: Media and political elites are accused of orchestrating narratives to justify wars and erode liberties.
• Pushback Grows: Despite growing authoritarian trends, the episode notes rising awareness and resistance among ordinary citizens, especially in Canada post-pandemic.

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Transcript

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We are so good to see everyone today. Thank you guys for subscribing and being a part of our awesome community here. We really appreciate it. Hey, we got a busy show for you on this Tuesday. Blackrock taking over the power grid. Why is Blackrock one of the largest asset managers in the world? They own everything. But why are they buying up America's power grid? We're going to talk about that in today's show.

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We're also going to talk about the government shutdown. What is that doing for our economy? With one of our favorite economists, Peter St. On. Also, we're going to talk about the who spying on us because the one man we want to ask about this author of Screw the who, James Raguski, is going to join us. Also some crazy laws in Canada. You want to say something?

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If that's what we're doing, keep going. You're not going to like that when you keep talking. Then I don't get to. We'll see. Two can play at that game. Okay. And Canada's 1984 surveillance law. Canada will be a Full on police state by Christmas. If these laws pass, they can check your mail, they can search your house, they can kick you off the Internet all in the name of hate speech. Speech. So watch out for that.

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What do you mean when you say. They say it's all they're saying they need all of these assets so that they can power AI Right.

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But why do they have to be the ones that hold the keys to these power grids? So that they're controlling every part of the pipeline. So the AI backend, the AI front end and the AI middle, they're gonna control the entire pipeline from soup to nuts. I don't know how this isn't a monopoly. And I hope that the Trump administration, I know they're kind of cozy with Larry Fink and those guys, but I hope they look into this. Where's Theodore Roosevelt when you need them? Trust buster, because this sounds like a giant monopoly waiting to happen. And what happens when those prices just start going up A few cents? A few cents, A few cents. And they'll do it incrementally. They're not going to do it like Microsoft, like Xbox game pass doubling the price overnight. They're like, they'll do it a few pennies here, a few pennies here. Suddenly, before you know it, it's up 10 bucks, your bill's up 20 bucks, your bill's up 30 bucks. And they'll blame it on AI needs. And anyway, let me know your thoughts on that. Meanwhile, this story, Venezuela war with Venezuela is barreling towards a reality. The Mockingbird media once again. And Republican neocons are in lockstep like Senator Lindsey Graham. Why the hell are they still giving this guy airtime? Guy pushing for war in Ukraine, pushing for war in Iran, now pushing for war in Venezuela. They are manufacturing consent for war all across the airwaves as we speak, trying to convince all of us that Venezuela is the largest purveyor of drugs flowing into the United States. Listen to Sean Hannity laugh it up with Senator Lindsey Graham over the idea that Venezuela should become the 51st state of America after we occupy them. Watch.

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I had a chat with you this weekend and I thought you had a pretty darn good idea and you said you were going to share it with the President. I want to know if you did. And that is this opposition leader in Venezuela that won the Nobel Prize that said it really deserved to go to Donald Trump. Sounds like a pretty good leader to me. For the people of Venezuela and the end of narco terrorism and a better relationship with the US or if they choose, maybe the 51st state. I don't know. Sounds good to me. But the opposite.

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That is maniacal.

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Yeah, he'd be a great. He'd be a great leader for their country. Donald Trump be a great leader for Venezuela. What do you guys think about that?

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You want to hear something funny? There once was a constitutional amendment to rename the United States of America to the United States of Earth because some early US Politicians thought it'd be a great idea to just keep going, just keep expanding the United States until it was one big nation state all around the globe. So this seems to be what's happening even though that constitutional amendment failed.

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Right. We just install puppet governments so we don't get to claim that we're colonialists, yet we control their entire government, like in Ukraine and other parts of the world. Go ahead, Philip or David.

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That was me. And Trump is doing a fundraiser for.

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Lindsey Graham and he's out here bashing Rand Paul and Thomas Massie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The first, the first person that Trump went on to, to do this sort of tour around the country to start campaigning for people, the first person he goes to South Carolina to campaign for, Lindsey Graham. Disgusting. Now, President Trump this morning just admitted that there is a ninth war coming. This isn't a slip of the tongue. He said it multiple times during this little interview here, this little press gaggle today. He says that he's ended eight wars so far as President of the United States. And a ninth one is coming soon.

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It's going to be Tough to beat, Mr. Senator. It's going to be.

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John.

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It's going to be very tough to beat Washington and Lincoln. But we're going to give it a try, right? Hey, they didn't put out eight wars. Nine coming. All right, we put out eight wars and the ninth is coming, believe it or not.

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That's applaud, by the way. Which eight wars? Which eight wars are now completely over? Like, is the Ukraine war over? Okay, but which eight wars are done now and which is the ninth war? Well, clearly it looks like it's Venezuela, but, you know, take your pick. Maybe it's China, maybe it's Iran, but my money is on Venezuela. All signs are pointing to that when the mainstream media is now manufacturing consent for war in lockstep with the Trump administration and the Republican neocons. So you hear it from the Trump administration, though. All the drugs pouring in the United States are coming from Venezuela. Therefore we can just indiscriminately bomb people's boats in Venezuelan waters without letting us know anything about them. Who's actually on board these boats or submarines like this one, a drug carrying submarine that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narco trafficking transit route. Today, US Intelligence said this submarine was loaded with fentanyl. So take their word for it. Just take their word for it. I love how conservatives mostly hate the FBI and the CIA and they don't trust anything the government says. But when they tell us these boats are all drug runners, we eat it up like lap dogs. Like, don't question them. CIA told us, the CIA told us that these were drug running ships. So just believe everything they say. It's all over Fox News. Don't you see it? Yeah, CIA, we trust you about as far as we can throw you. One of your favorite hobbies is regime change operations. So we'll believe anything you tell us. It's madness. Maybe these boats have. Maybe these boats to have drugs. Does that mean we should also invade their country as well? Because it won't stop with the boats. Massive amounts of fentanyl are pouring in from Canadian ports, from China, and Canada isn't doing anything to stop it. Maybe we should invade Canada as well. What about Mexico? What about Colombia, which is the biggest offender? I don't hear any discussions about Colombia. What about Nicaragua? What about Honduras? But it's Venezuela. Turns out, According to Douglas, Colonel Douglas MacGregor, the whole drug argument is a lie. It's just cover. It's cover up for Venezuela. Excuse me, it's just cover up because Venezuela accounts for very little of the drugs coming into the United States. It's really about stealing their oil and their gold.

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Listen, no one is asking hard questions about the real purpose of American military action against Venezuela or the potential strategic impact on the United States. Good or bad. Most people in the Senate seem to privately think, well, Venezuela could be an opportunity for Washington to recover trillions in wealth squandered on failed US Military interventions in the Middle east and Ukraine. In fact, when I listen to people talk about Venezuela, they sound as though they're ready to climb into their Viking boats, sail down to Venezuela, steal everything that they need and want without regard to what happens to the population. Because all they talk about is Venezuela's oil and gas, its gold mines, its emerald mines. There isn't much discussion, frankly, on the Hill or inside the Beltway about the alleged role that Venezuela plays in drug and human trafficking. Because, frankly, it's very small. Colombia is much more heavily involved, as is Mexico.

[B]

Yeah, so you don't hear about Colombia and you're not hearing about Mexico, but Venezuela will invade.

[A]

All right, well, Some come uppence for Obama administration officials, namely John Brenner, the former, Sorry, John Brennan, I'm gonna start that all over again. Some legal comeuppance for former Obama administration officials, namely former CIA director John Brennan. Is it because he regularly ran cover for the Obama administration whenever they would drone civilians freely and then he said, oh, we got some more terrorists. No, that's not it. That would be funny though, right? Because we don't punish American officials for killing civilians overseas. Never. Instead, the news is that he has been criminally referred to the United States Department of Justice for allegedly making numerous willful and intentional false statements of material fact. In his committee testimony. According to the referral, Brennan denied that the CIA relied on the so called C Steel dossier in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, which we know they did. And also he must have known at the time that that was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign. The criminal referral documents claim a CIA officer drafted the Cliff Notes version of the Steele dossier, basically summarizing it and that Brennan made the final call. They say that his sworn testimony was a brazen attempt to knowingly and willfully testify falsely to fictitiously false material. Now this case moves towards possible prosecution. So yes, John Brennan, he ran a lot of COVID for killing civilians during his time in the Obama administration. That is not something that any Justice Department has ever shown an appetite to prosecute of any American official. But instead, okay, this will do because the Steele dossier caused so much trauma inside United States politics. So, okay, we'll see what happens. This is just a referral. Whether or not the Justice Justice Department picks it up, we are not sure. So we're going to move on and talk about the government shutdown and its continued fallout in just a moment. But before we do that, we want to tell you about Connect Invest. Because it's never been easier to invest in real estate if your money is not working for you. But savings accounts, CDs, they offer low returns. We say it all the time. Savers are losers, barely keeping up with inflation. The stock market is volatile. But if you'd like to invest in real estate, short notes, you can begin with as little as 500 doll with annualized returns of up to 9%. Yes, you heard me right. Real estate has long been proven a way to build wealth. But for most, the barriers are just too high to go buy a whole property, a whole investment business, a whole house. That's why you can start with as little as $500 and start earning fixed monthly returns by investing in short notes. And you decide what the term of the note is. So you create an account at redacted.inc/invest. Fund your digital wallet with $500 or more and then select the term 6, 12 or 24 months. And then you sit back and collect your investments. Join the thousands of investors who are growing their wealth. And for a limited time when you sign up, you'll get a $50 bonus in your wallet, giving your investment an instant boost. So don't let your money sit in low return accounts. Take advantage today with as little as $500, [e-mail] invest.

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Well, things are about to get ugly. We're staring down a debt time bomb right now that could make 2008 look like just a warm up act, like nothing really happened in 2008. According to new reports, there's more than $5 trillion in hidden liabilities buried across the system from unfunded pensions, bad municipal debt, reckless government spending that no one wants to talk about, and the warning lights are flashing everywhere. Gold at all time highs. I mean, who would have thought right now, $4,300 an ounce for gold, countries dumping the US dollar and a government it's been on shutdown for weeks with no end in sight. We're now in our fourth week of all of this. So the big question is how much longer can this hold together before something breaks? So we wanted to ask economist Peter St. Ange to come on and talk about where things stand right now. Peter, great to see you. When you look at this $51 trillion debt bomb that seems to be ready to explode and analysts are warning about how close are we to a real financial breaking point, do you think, in your estimation, or are we already past like the point of no return?

[E]

So these things do fix themselves. They don't fix themselves in a pleasant way. Usually given the way that our system has worked for really the past 50 years, since Nixon, they are going to let it go off the cliff before they actually fix anything. I think the closest we came to Actually putting the brakes on runaway Debt was the 1990s and that was all of three years of surplus. Even that surplus, most of it was hidden because we were taking Social Security payments and you know, they were going right out the back door instead of going into the so called trust fund. And those three years, almost immediately, as soon as George W. Bush saw that surplus, he immediately blew it. We had what, two wars running at the same time? Of course, nine, 11 hit and that was the whole global war on terror, Patriot act, the whole infrastructure that went with that. So anytime that we've come remotely close to fixing the debt situation, Washington takes that as a green light to ramp up spending to unimaginable levels. And then meanwhile, every crisis we get also blows it up. So the 2008 crisis, there was an entire, you know, industries built on that. Now the Washington's reaction to Wall street fleecing trillions of dollars from the American people. Covid now as seemed to basically permanently increase federal spending by about 50%. Trump, to his credit, in his first term, Trump did try to cut spending. It was what Mr. Smith goes to Washington, he didn't know how things work. He walked in, he said, wow, you guys are spending too much money. Let's cut this. Congress laughed him out of the room. It looks like he's learned his lesson, he's doing what he can, but realistically, he's not gonna be able to cut. You know, we just came out of the dream team here. We had Trump whose instincts are to cut spending. We had Elon Musk who very passionately believed in this. Absolutely nothing to show for it. So I think in terms of, you know, are we going to continue running to a crisis or are we going to fix it 100%, we're going to keep going to the crisis. If you look at all the evidence for the past 50 years, nothing stops this train. The question, right, because how does it go?

[A]

Neither side. If we could just break down what is the impasse of the government shutdown Right now Republicans only want a short term spending bill that would keep all expenditures as they are. And Democrats want to add to it. Not a single fool except the Massey's and the Rand Pauls of the world want to cut anything. So it's, it's bipartisan agreement to keep spending, right?

[E]

Yeah. Republicans cut a little bit in one big beautiful. So one big beautiful is tricky because it only dealt with what's called mandatory spending. And the vast majority of things that the federal government does are so called discretionary spending. So wars are discretionary. Usaid, the epa, the ira, almost everything they do is discretionary. Big beautiful, which is the only bill that Congress has passed under Trump so far. The only major fiscal bill that was only mandatory. And so that's things like Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, couple of little things in there. They snuck some military in there playing games and some border money. But fundamentally that was only mandatory. They did in, if I grade them compared to what Congress has done over the past 30 years, it was an A plus effort. They actually cut some things that were politically risky, such as Obamacare subsidies, Medicaid, which is kind of a third rail. What they cut was payments going to able bodied people who can work but choose not to work. It's more fun to take taxpayer money. So they did cut some of those things. Now that's an A plus compared to the past 30 years of Republican.

[B]

Right.

[E]

In terms of what we need to do to right the fiscal ship. In terms of Republicans promising for 30 years that they're going to slash the budget. All right, in terms of that, it was an absolute F. But even with that, what this shutdown is about is that Democrats looked at what little tiny bit they did cut and they said, no, we got to put all that back in there. So they want restoration of the able bodied, Medicaid cuts, they want restoration of the Obamacare subsidies, which aren't a lot of money. The mainstream media is pumping these up. It's about $59 a month for the average Obamacare recipient. But it adds up because there's a lot of people on Medicare on, on, on Obamacare. So it adds up something like 350 billion. Anyway, Democrats, they want all those cuts back in there. They want money restored, the NPR to foreign aid, to the whole bit. So I mean, essentially Republicans cut 1% of what we really need to get the fiscal house in order to. Democrats had a tantrum, shut down the government over that 1%.

[B]

So what do you think now that we're in our fourth week here? I mean, let's talk about everyone watching right now and how this is going to affect people sitting around their kitchen table and their pocketbooks and we see whether it's gas prices, energy bills, all of that, what will this government shutdown mean for any of that, if anything at all?

[E]

Yeah, I think sort of the most fun aspect of this government shutdown is that we've been at this for 21 days now and almost nobody notices, you know, usually. Which begs the question, why are we, why do we have a government certainly why do we have the 2 trillion or so that are, quote, unquote, non essential. Like what? You know, we're taxed at gunpoint for nonessential things. Maybe we should stop doing that. And a big reason for that is that traditionally what they do in Washington, really, they do this everywhere. They do it in city states. Whenever they cut the government budget, right? Whenever taxpayers have a revolt, they say, you know, you gotta cut property tax. Or whenever there's a shutdown, the bastards in the government will make it as painful as humanly possible. So this is called the Washington Monument strategy. It's also called firemen first. So what they'll do is the first dollar they'll cut, it won't be the transgender surgeries for the, you know, for prisoners. It won't be the foreign aid to whatever country is getting it this week. No, they're gonna cut firemen, they're gonna cut school lunches, they're gonna cut Social Security, they're gonna close off the Washington. They're gonna spend money to close off national parks to make it as painful as possible. What's different about this shutdown is that the people surrounding Trump understand this stuff. These guys have their eyes wide open. So Trump is paying the troops, he's paying air traffic, he's paying wic, right? You know, food aid to pregnant women, he's paying all of the third rails, keeping everything going that people like. And then he's starving money from Democrat slush funds. So things like green energy, corporate subsidies for, you know, solar panels or mass transit in New York, he's cutting all that stuff, but he's keeping the stuff that voters like. What that means is that when you look at the polls, the most important number for Washington right now is who's gonna win the midterms. Okay? Because that determines if Democrats can get the midterms next year. They can block Trump the rest of his two years. On the other hand, if Republicans can build up their majority in the House, then they can do a lot more than they have so far. So the midterms of the game, and if you look at the odds on the midterms on Kalshee or predicted, the before the shutdown began, Democrats were running about 63% odds. That's not surprising because it's 100 year trend that whoever's out of power tends to win the midterms. Thing is, since in the 21 days since the shutdown began, their odds have plunged. They're down to 57%. Because what's happening is that, number one, voters are not feeling the Pain. Voters don't even notice. I haven't noticed. I don't know if you guys have.

[B]

Only because we have a extended family member who's part of military and so forth. So you hear about that. But for the most, it hasn't affected my family personally at all.

[E]

Yeah, yeah. And what Trump's been doing with the military or with ICE agents is he's been paying them, using that little bit that they stuck into the big beautiful bill. He's been using that. There's also. There's, you know, billions lying around Washington and couch cushions.

[B]

Right.

[E]

This is unspent money where some little fiefdom is holding onto the money so maybe they can spend it later. There's all this money laying around if they actually look for it, and that's what they're doing because they want to keep paying the troops, ice, the air traffic controllers, all the things that voters actually care about. They want to keep paying that because they want public opinion still be on their side. So what's happened so far? It's kind of interesting. Compared to previous shutdowns, we've had five since 1990. What's happening is voters are not upset about it. Also, voters are blaming Democrats.

[B]

Right.

[E]

You look at those midterms numbers, and Democrats are the ones who are suffering. That's in contrast to every past shutdown where everybody blamed Republicans. Of course, the reason that happened is because the media was uniformly left wing. And so the media would always put it on Newt Gingrich or Ronald Reagan or whoever it was. That's not work anymore. The media doesn't have the magic. The shutdown is not painful for the vast majority of voters. Because of those two factors, the Democrats are losing. They're at this point looking for an excuse. One by one, senators are starting to come over and they're saying, you know what? You know, we got to reopen the country. We have to support our troops, whatever slogans they need. So we're getting closer and closer to reopening. Odds on Kelsey right now are that the shutdown is going to last about another 20 days. The magic number is 61 days. Actually about 71 at this point. The reason why that's magic is that at that point, layoffs, federal layoffs, can be permanent. Okay? There's an internal process in the federal government where you have to wait 60 days between laying somebody off and they're actually gone. So ideally, in my world, we keep it running to 71. Heck, we keep it running for the rest of the year. You know, maybe at some point Enough voters do actually ask do like is there any reason why we're paying for all these non essential parts of government? I would love to just say, okay, look, you guys haven't, you know, you haven't had all this garbage for what, three months, whatever it is, at that point, why don't we just get rid of it?

[A]

Yeah, it blows my mind how many people really don't care. And then we see a massive turnout at the no Kings rally with no real demands. And so these people are more upset about their own emotional hatred of Trump than their fellow working class men who are not getting paid like at the TSA and things like that. I just don't understand being such a navel gazer that you would go out to show hatred of Trump only and not compassion for your fellow working class. I can't.

[B]

And he has nothing to do with the shutdown on top of it.

[A]

If he were a king, he would reopen the government. Right. The fact that he can't shows we don't have a king. Anyhow, let's talk about what this means for the US Dollar because people are dumping it globally and gold prices are up. And so what do we make of tangible assets now that the insolvent US dollar is showing its true colors?

[E]

Yeah, we're in a fascinating point. If everything is soaring, right? The economy is slowing, jobs are slowing, but everything is going up. Real estate, you know, exploded over the past couple of years. Gold, silver is on fire. It's almost a meme coin at this point. Stocks, you know, if you look at PE ratios where I think 30 year highs, there's, there's nothing left. You know, everything is just exploding. And I think what's happening here is that the market is digesting the fact that it really doesn't matter who's in power. You know, we are on this trajectory where we're ultimately going to have much higher inflation. There's no structural, there's like no natural predator to inflation in Washington anymore if there ever was. And so I think that markets are digesting that with prices. I think a secondary factor is that sort of on a, on a longer term AI, I think fundamentally is going to lower a lot of prices. We're already seeing articles where it's wiping out Indian call centers, it's wiping out these cost basis. If it does that, you get deflation. If you get deflation, that is a green light for the Fed to drop interest rates to zero.

[B]

Right.

[E]

The Fed pretends that deflation is the great bogeyman for what the first 20 years of this millennia, they were able to do that using China. China was making everything cheap. That gave us inflation. The Fed then cut rates to zero and that's why everything went up over the past 20 years. If you're a boomer, you are a million, you're a millionaire, no matter how dumb you are, because the Fed pumped your bags. I think that AI is going to pick up the baton where China left off and we're going to have another period here of 20 years where everything is going to go absolutely ballistic. This is going to be fantastic. Of course, if you own assets for the half of Americans who live hand to mouth, they're going to get the inflation as always. So in terms of when the system collapses, I do not think it's imminent. I think they can keep kicking this can for a long time. You know, you look at the, the, the kinds of dollars that are going into AI, for example, I mean, you know, we're talking trillions and trillions of dollars going into that. The world is flooded in capital. A lot of that was, you know, printed out during COVID and it wasn't actually deployed. A lot of it went into reverse repos, which basically they effectively bury the money in the ground in terms of inflation. So we've got a bunch of inflation sort of saved up and now that we're hitting this sort of frenzied stage, I think that that's going to come back in. So I think there's a very good chance that we're going to get back to 2 and a half, 3% inflation. That might even be the new normal. The Fed has been championing it the bit to make that the new normal, to try to structurally change the trajectory of inflation, Change it from 2% per year to 3% per year again. That's going to be fantastic. If you own assets, if you don't own assets. Here it comes.

[A]

Yeah. Zimbabwe for you.

[B]

Yeah. Peter St. Ange, always great to have you. Yeah. Gold just had a little bit of a correction today. I think it was overbought a little bit, but down, down about 5%. Silver dropped just a little bit, but still, still over $4,000 an ounce for gold. So yeah. Crazy. Peter, great to see you my friend. Thank you so much for joining us and breaking it all down for us.

[E]

Course. Great to be on.

[B]

The collapse is coming, just not imminently and they're going to barrel continues towards catastrophe, which is what this government will do.

[A]

Right. And if you watch the stock market and you watch, you know, investments, they are going on as normal. So the government shutdown has not really hit big business. I'm upset about it, absolutely. I can't stomach the fact of working class families not knowing what they're going to do with their mortgage payments and their groceries. And now the holidays are coming up and they don't know, obviously. Right. We all should be upset. And I guess I'm just more upset that there are people being played by partisan politics into these no Kings rallies, totally ignoring what the real issues are, that no one there is saying, let's not bomb other countries, let's not fund global wars. Instead, it's just, we hate Trump. He loves himself and we hate him. And that's what we're doing. And it is, again, the ruse of partisan politics. And we miss who's actually hurting. And I'm. Yeah, I'm super upset about it.

[B]

I am, too. I mean, we were talking to the tia, we were traveling this weekend, talking to the TSA guys, just saying, hey, you know, we feel your pain. And, you know, and there's. They're vastly understaffed and just like, yes, the lines are longer, but we're just like, hey, these people are human beings. We care about them. This is a pain in the butt right now. And we just gotta, we gotta get.

[A]

There was a lot of grumbling in the lines. This is what it's like to be my child. And I was like, you know, none of us should be grumbling. They're not getting paid right now. And my kids are like, mommy, please. And I was like, I just didn't even want anyone to shit talk them because they're working so hard without pay. And they're like, you don't need to make a scene about it. So I was embarrassing them, but they said, yeah, we're slow. Because a lot of people just didn't come in because they're going to have to get other jobs. So, yeah, this is. Let us know if this has affected you in any other way other than a long TSA line.

[B]

Well, and we've been hoping, like, over the past few years, if you watched our show, that you've been, you know, when we started investing in gold and silver, I mean, we, you know, gold was like, like 16 or $1700 an ounce. And we were talking about the value of, like, investing in assets. I mean, last year it was at $2,600. Now it's over 4,000. So if you've been paying attention and you've been investing and being smart with gold and silver, you know, you would have maybe started move some of your money out of US Dollars into that. But.

[A]

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[G]

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[B]

Friend of the show, Katherine Austin Fitts. She points out, you know, having tangible assets so gold, silver and getting 60 days of cash, having 60 days of cash on hand because the banks are, you know, they don't really have money in the banks and having food like stocking up and making sure that you have actual food to protect your family. Because we're like, what other assets should I buy? How about food so you can eat? Making sure you have, like, those prepped meals or, you know, notice that the.

[A]

Banks that we use, I won't name, the chain has fewer and fewer ATMs. Yeah, they don't want you using even around the building. They've closed the ATMs in the building, so they think you just don't need it. And if you need it, you gotta come inside. So good luck.

[B]

Yeah, Good luck finding ATMs in Europe as they move you all to a digital. A digital currency. A digital yen.

[A]

We're gonna talk about that in Canada as well at the end of the show today, so stay tuned for that. All right. Well, the World Health Organization is using AI to track us all. They announced this recently. We went over this yesterday. But what does this mean exactly? Are we safe as Americans because Trump withdrew from the who? Isn't this the power that we rejected them to have in the pandemic treaty? Or are they casually just saying, okay, we don't get the treaty, we're just gonna take all the power we want in piecemeal. Well, joining us to discuss is James Raguski. He is the author of Screw the WHO and the one person I wanted to talk about when I saw this. Thank you so much for joining us. What do you think they're playing at?

[D]

Well, you know, first of all, thank you for covering this issue, because a lot of these things slip through the cracks. The Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources program actually started in 2017. So they're just up to the same old tricks. You know, it's the same thing from the WHO all the time. They actually claim that this artificial intelligence observation of the media identified the, you know, Wuhan lab leak early in, you know, 20, at the end of 2019. They claim that by monitoring all of social media and media, they can identify things, you know, that are happening as soon as possible. Now, on one level, what we did, we, meaning people like you, people like me and others around the world, we paid attention to news reports of people who were doing things that were not officially approved. We learned that maybe someone was trying hydroxychloroquine or trying ivermectin. And what we did is we looked at that and we said, well, our analytics of that intel tells us that that makes more sense than what the government is telling us. So what we're dealing with, with the Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources AI program is not so much that they're gathering all this information. You know, you can go on, you know, Twitter or X and see that there's a trending hashtag, you can see that there's, you know, news stories going on. The point is, how do they do. One of the things that they have is the news article credibility detection system and they also have the misinformation classification systems. They want to use AI to lie to us. If they get information off of our social media posts, they know how to tamp it down. They know how to, to turn their propaganda machine against what is actually the truth that is out there. But.

[A]

Right, can I show, can I just put this on the screen and you can respond to this? They have been warning since 2020 about infodemics, which they describe as an overabundance of information, even accurate information, which makes it hard for people to adopt behavior. So they can't get you to do things if you get true information. So what you just mentioned was hydroxychloroquine or any information about masking that they wanted to tamp down or information about herd immunity or vaccine requirements, anything like that. So please go on because I think that this is a terrifying idea that they need to manage even accurate information.

[D]

Well, this is the whole point. I mean, I got a report from a friend in Finland who, you know, they are still pushing back against the use of the fraudulent use of the PCR process as a quote, unquote test. And so what we dealt with over the last now almost six years is lie after lie after lie from the news media. And people need to understand that for the most part, what things like Grok and chatgpt and Claude and, you know, all of the other AI agents, they just simply collect the propaganda from the news media, regurgitate it as truth. And I can't tell you how many times I have, you know, come face to face, you know, beating my head against a brick wall. If you ask Chat GPT a question where, you know, you have factual information and you watch it lie to you or say, well, I'm sorry, I can't answer that question because I'm not allowed to spread quote, unquote misinformation, you realize that AI is being used as a tool to further the propaganda machine. Now, what they could use this system for, they're not going to. But what they could have used this system for, knowing and understanding that it started in 2017 and it got, you know, a big push from the German government. They donated like $30 million to set up the hub in Germany, you know, to start writing all the software programs and making it so that every nation and organizations around the world can use this. What they could have done is they could have used it to identify all the reports from people who said, well, you know, we're having adverse reactions to the jabs, where people are dying, people are suffering. They could have used artificial intelligence to observe social media and stop the pandemic that we are currently still in the middle of with the MRNA jabs harming people.

[B]

But instead, because, James, they wouldn't have done that because all those. Many of those accounts were banned. You know, if they were on Facebook and they were talking about the problems they were having, or if they were in groups talking about women who are having all sorts of trouble with menstruation, after they received the jab, those groups were banned and censored. So they wouldn't have been able to pull that information because it was all, you know, hidden and pushed away from us.

[D]

Right, exactly. And, you know, again, I want to compliment you and thank you for bringing this issue up, but people need to understand that this is just a new version. This is just 2.0 of their EIOS system. Their system was operable from 2017 until now. And what they did is they've proven that it works because they could have identified the epidemic of adverse events and deaths from the biological weapons that they, you know, have implemented on us. But obviously it did not do that. It labeled all of that truth as misinformation. The organizations, all the social media groups banned all those accounts, just like you said. They could be reporting on the pandemic of adverse events from drugs. They could be reporting on all of the people's reports around the world, about a million things. But what they're doing is actually set up a pandemic simulator. It's been hard to get information. If I get anything on it, I'll share it with you. They essentially have a dashboard where they can simulate a pandemic and learn how to tamp down, you know, the truth that we, the people are, you know, good at putting out there. And so what I want people to understand is we can and should be using this type of information, these type of information resources to identify the truth that is out there. It is getting more and more difficult. But what we did over the last six years, and I want people to. To get a positive view from what happened. We were able. Human beings were able to decipher truth from bs and what they're trying to do is use artificial intelligence. You know, to just, I mean, now they have radio to, you know, transcripts, or their system is going to be able to listen to audio shows or, you know, I imagine that could be turned on video productions so that, you know, they're going to be able to listen and watch, slash listen to, redacted, turn it into a transcript that then their large language models can then interpret and, you know, identify how to fight back against the people who are bringing the truth with their propaganda messages. And so I'm optimistic that what we did over the last six years was identify the lies that government and the pharmaceutical industry and the medical establishment continue to put out, you know, to this day. I do the research that I do and then I'll go and I will ask, you know, ChatGPT or Grok or one of these systems, you know, Google AI. And it is amazing how it will just, you know, I probably shouldn't say that it lies to you because the way it's programmed, it just goes and collects all of the information that is, you know, quote, unquote, available on the Internet and regurgitates the propaganda. It. It knows it is programmed to say, well, I'm not allowed to give you that information because that's misinformation. Which doesn't mean it's inaccurate. It just means it's not what the, you know, proper official narrative is. And there was a statement that was made by, I believe it was the German health minister, and she said that, you know, they know that good information and, you know, transparent decision making is what will bring trust, you know, in the public health services. And it made me laugh out loud because the hypocrisy of it is so absurd, especially coming from Germany, you know, with the lies and the misinformation that came out of there during the pandemic. They know that they have to use AI to try to control the information that people get from sources like Redacted and all the other, you know, alternative media outlets. They're working overtime to hide the truth under the guise of surveillance. You know, and surveillance is really. It's an attack on privacy. It's an attack on our own security. And I just want to thank you for, you know, letting everybody know that the WHO is doing it. You know, treaty or no treaty, they just keep moving forward. You know, they've been doing this since 2017. You know.

[B]

Well, I was going to ask you. Yeah, I mean, because, you know, obviously President Trump made a big stink about getting out of the whole. And we've spoken to doctors who worked at the WHO and told us how corrupt it is. But does it matter? Like the fact that the United States is technically not a part of the who. Trump pull us out of it. We're still affected by their information campaign. Right.

[D]

You know, the CDC has their own version of the epidemic Intelligence, you know, program. They're busy collecting data. I'm going to follow this up with an article and, you know, look into the task force that Trump created just a couple of months ago in August for doing exactly this kind of information surveillance on social media in preparation for the 2028 Olympics here in Los Angeles. They're going to be watching social media for, you know, everything possible. And what's really interesting, as best I can tell, the task force has members, you know, has J.D. vance and it has Attorney General Bondi and it has Homeland Security, but it doesn't seem to state that it has anybody from the Department of Health and Human Services or the FDA or the cdc. This is not about health. This is about health security, which is really, you know, propaganda and military control over our lives. So they have, at the White House level, a security task force doing exactly these things. And as best as I can tell, the United States is utilizing the epidemic intelligence from open sources system because it's just software and, you know, it's just AI monitoring social media. So, you know, realize that when you go online and you give your personal information, you start talking about your health issues. They're scooping all that up and running it through their machine to identify what is going on. Now, if they were honest, if they were truthful, if they really cared about your health, they would have identified thousands of adverse events, the horrors that people went through with the jabs. But obviously they didn't. So we have proof from experience, because this system is not new. It's just a new version over the last six years. They used it to clamp down on the truth, not to expose it.

[A]

Right. Well, thank you for letting us know. I follow your newsletter. It's fantastic. And it's always alerting us to these small measures by which the World Health Organization continues to try to usurp power. I did notice recently. I'll just sort of end with this positive note. It used to be that here on YouTube, the medical misinformation guidelines stated that we could not say things that contradicted the World Health Organization's general guidelines. That's not there anymore. I don't know when they took it off. It used to be that they were the determining factor, but now that the United States is formally withdrawing. That could be positive, Right. That they no longer are the defining organization for what can and cannot be said on YouTube. So let's.

[D]

It does appear that things are looser, but, you know, that's part of the strategy. You know, they put the boot on the neck and then they take it off and you feel all better. But the boot will be right back as soon as they want it to.

[A]

Right? Yeah. Okay. Thank you again. Great to see you, James.

[B]

Appreciate it.

[A]

All right.

[B]

Very smart man. Love having James on the show. Great guy.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

All right, we've got more news to get to. We're going to talk about. Canada has lost its marbles with their 1984 style surveillance laws that are moving very quickly in that country.

[A]

You won't believe this. You will not believe this. What's written into law that Canadians need to pay attention to, that country is cooked.

[B]

I'm just going to say it. Canada is cooked.

[A]

They're going to check your mail. They're going to take you off the Internet. If they don't like what they're literally going to do that. This is giving politicians the ability to take. What would you do if you were taken off the Internet?

[B]

Can I just say something real quick about this? I just finished reading Rick Atkinson's great book, the British are Coming. And I was telling you about one just particular part of the book that I was kind of unaware of as it related to the Revolutionary War, which was the overtures that the Americans, the colonists, were making at the time to the Canadians, saying, hey, do you guys want to throw off the shackles of the British crown and join us in a move towards liberty? Like, let's team up here in North America. Let's make this a continent of liberty. And the Canadians were like, yeah, not really interested in that. We're not really interested in freedom. So we get up to Quebec, we get into these other battles, and we're like, where are the Canadians who want liberty, eh? They're not showing up. They'd rather.

[A]

All right, well, maybe they exist. Today we're gonna talk to one who does want it. So. They exist, Clayton.

[B]

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[A]

Well, Canada, get ready to be a full on Police State 1984 style. If Parliament passes a few bills, we're gonna alert you to the justice center for Constitutional freedom is warning specifically about bill C2 C8 and C9. I'm going to summarize them together and then we'll break them down. If they are passed, they would allow the government to open your mail, criminalize the use of cash, allow for warrantless search, prosecute Canadians for opinions, kick you off the Internet, have full access to your social media data by allowing social media companies to basically become an arm of the government, allow your neighbor to report you for possible hate crimes so that the government literally can put you on house arrest for the potential. That's like Minority Report for the potential to do a hate crime if they just don't like the way you use the Internet or your opinions. Joining us to discuss is John Carpe. He's the president of the justice center for Constitutional Freedom. He's also the author of Corrupted by Fear, how the Charter Was Betrayed and what Canadians Can Do About It. So thank you for joining us. Thank you. Can you sort of give us an overarching warning about these and then we'll talk about it little by little. There was someone in the chat saying, I'm from Canada and you're wrong. They didn't say how. So tell us, what's the fact?

[C]

Well, we're not as bad as the United Kingdom, where, as you know, there were over 12,000 arrests of people for what they said on social media, making comments against immigration policy. We're not there yet, but we are poised to take that leap if all of this legislation gets through. So the bill, C2, C8, C9, they're all in second reading before the House of Commons. And the House of Commons is sitting for quite a few more weeks before Christmas. So there's ample opportunity, the Liberal government of Marks Carney, as I call him, it's actually Mark Carney, but I say Marks Carney, they have a minority. So, however, it's not that hard. Depending on which bill, if they get the support from one of the opposition parties, they can still push things through. So the things that you mentioned are accurate. If all three bills pass in their current form, it will be illegal to use cash in amounts 10,000 or more. Canada Post will have the authority to open letter mail without a warrant. The government will be able to order to kick individual Canadians off the Internet by ordering a telecommunications service provider. So some company that provides your Internet or provides your phone, they can order that company to kick an individual off phone and off Internet. And also there's going to be a lot more prosecutions for hate speech, even though they can't really define hate because it's an emotion, and it's subjective. But if these three bills pass, we're going to be close to a police state. We'll certainly be at the mercy of the government in terms of how bad they want to make it for us.

[A]

So what is the justification that they would use in this Combating Hate Act? No, it's the Cybersecurity act that would allow them to kick you off the Internet. So they're saying, because we can't allow hateful people the Internet. So by their logic, if I'm a hateful person, I just need to, like my mom used to say, sit in the corner and think about it. That's what they want to happen.

[C]

The pretext is always safety and security. You know, politicians never take away your rights and freedoms without offering a nice sounding pretext. And so the Canadian government's very good at messaging. We want to protect you from hate. We want to protect you, protect you from hate speech. We want to protect you from misinformation, from disinformation. So therefore, you've got to give up your freedom of expression and you have to let us regulate and control the Internet. We already have a bill that was passed two years ago that empowers the Canadian Radio Telecommunications Commission, which is a federal national regulatory body, to monitor websites and podcasts for Canadian content. They haven't yet taken actions to start defining it and opposing it, but it's there on the books. And so the pretext is to keep you safe, protect you. And so therefore, we're going to ban hate speech by empowering police and prosecutors to lock up people who say things that police and prosecutors feel might be hateful.

[A]

Now, C2 you warn about is called the Strong Borders act, but it would allow them to open your mail, criminalize the use of cash and warrantless searches. What is the justification about the border? How can opening your mail secure the border?

[C]

Well, it can't. This is this piece of legislation, it's 140 pages long, and there is a small chunk of it is actually about border security. And it changes immigration policies, it changes some of the policies that apply to, to refugee claimants and how quickly they need to apply for refugee status after coming into Canada, et cetera, et cetera. So there's a small portion of this Strong Borders act which is actually on point. It actually pertains to our borders and our refugee policies. But then they add on all kinds of stuff like the Authorized Access to Information act, which would be a new piece of legislation that would give government officials the authority to do warrantless searches of the computers and cell phones of Canadians has nothing to do with the borders, but they just want to, you know, sneak it by, slip it through under this big 140 page piece of legislation.

[A]

Now, you also say possibly they could bring back the Online Harms Act. And again, you can't legislate a feeling in a free country. I can feel as vile as I want if I'm truly living in a free country. That's my right. But the Online Harms act would allow prosecution for offensive speech. And the idea that you talked about preemptively punishing your neighbor, so what is the mechanism to tell on your neighbor?

[C]

So this Online Harms act was on track to get passed into law prior to the election that we had in April 2025. With the election, it died on the order paper, so to speak. It didn't go through because it hadn't been passed yet before the election was called. If they bring this back, one of the provisions in the Online Harms act is that if a neighbor fears that you are going to commit a hate speech crime in the future, they can apply to court. And potentially, if the judge believes your neighbor that you might get into hate speech, you could be placed under house arrest and ordered to wear an ankle bracelet and be subjected to a curfew, et cetera, et cetera, without having been charged with a crime, without having been convicted. So it's like Minority Report. This is actually in the bill that died before the last election. Some Liberals have talked about bringing this bill back. It also has provisions to empower the Canadian Human Rights Commission to prosecute Canadians for non criminal offensive speech. And it gives power to the federal Cabinet to create all kinds of rules governing the Internet and a new digital safety commission to enforce those new rules. It's horrific. If that one gets brought back again, it's not before the House right now. But if that is brought back and if it's passed along with bills C2, C8 and C9, if those four things go through, it's going to be absolute tyranny up here as opposed to only partial tyranny as it is presently.

[A]

And so what can Canadians do about it? Because why are, why are there, why is there not a collective screaming? I mean, what's hilarious is that the no Kings rally extended into Canada. So they're upset about Trump when it has nothing to do with them, but they're not upset about this real. What could be kingly power?

[C]

Well, first of all, there are a lot of Canadians have woken up since our rights and freedoms were violated by governments on a massive scale Starting in March 2020, with all the lockdowns and the vaccine pattern passports, the travel restrictions became practically impossible to leave Canada for the, for the better part of a year, you were kind of locked up here in the same way that you would have been locked up in a communist country before the fall of the Berlin Wall. But a lot of we've got a growing pro freedom movement in Canada and most of those people are people who were asleep until March of 2020. So the lockdowns and the mandatory vaccination policies and so on woke up a lot of people. And as recent proof of that, the government has put Bill C2 kind of on the back burner. And they've pulled out the parts pertaining to the immigration, the border, the refugees, and they've put that into a separate bill to fast track it to get that through. And the really bad stuff has been put onto a lower priority that's in response to pushback from Canadians. So we do have a growing freedom movement. The Justice Centre has got strong support across the country. We are the leading defender of liberty in Canada and we've got a growing supporter base. So we're definitely fighting back, but we've got a lot of work to do.

[A]

Well, thank you for alerting us to this at redacted. It's. It's jaw dropping. It really is. So follow along. The justice center for Constitutional Freedoms. I really enjoy your work and thank you so much for alerting me to this.

[C]

It's an honor to be on your show.

[A]

All right, fight back, Canada. You don't want them to. Oh, we didn't ask him about Cash. I meant to. We'll ask him to come back another time. I apologize for that. So let me know what you think of that. Canada, don't let this happen. Okay, well, let us know what you think about that and. And so much more. Thank you for joining us today. Hey, I want to remind you that we have a newsletter. You can find [e-mail] and it's totally free. So I try really hard to make sure that the redacted newsletter has all of the information that you need to study for yourself. Links to original source material. To the best of my ability. I really don't like it when you read something and you click the hyperlink and it takes you to another article about that thing. For instance, you know, noticed that the mainstream media does this, like in the indictment of John Bolton, but it doesn't actually link you to the indictment. The original source material, the original studies, all of that stuff. I'm, I'm committed to doing that for you because I think that's how we learn best together. So please subscribe. And again, I try really hard also to make sure that nothing is behind a paywall. If there's an article behind a paywall, I try to get you the archive version. So yeah, it's free. No upsells, no cross sells all of that stuff. And I try and make it fun if I can, you know, some funnies as long as well as some real news. So subscribe, tell your friends to subscribe. I hope you like it. And we will see you here tomorrow. So we'll be back. Hey, joining us tomorrow, Gilbert Doctorow, one of my favorite experts on the Russia U.S. relations says Putin's probably about done with all of this diplomacy. He's just going to start full on steamrolling Ukraine. That's his prediction. He's been right for over a decade. So he's going to join us from Moscow to tell us what he thinks is going to happen because he thinks that the ish is about to get real, so to speak. My kids don't like when I talk about that. It's totally sigma. So, yeah, let us know what you think about that. We'll see you tomorrow, everybody.