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Iran REJECTS Trump's offer to end the war, US Troops deployed to Iran, food and fuel shortages soar
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That's right. We're going to talk to Dr. Trita Parsi about the current situation with the war in Iran. There are reports that American casualties continue to increase and plans at putting boots on the ground in really dangerous ways. So we're going to continue to talk about that. What can we do? We're not sure. We're also going to talk about the Iranian response, what their government is saying, what we are not allowed to see. So state, stay tuned for that.
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And also food and fuel shortages. We're going to speak to a farming expert on the United States side of what this all looks like for food supplies, fertilizers, of course you're seeing reports from the Philippines to Australia where petrol has run out completely, where you have now fuel shortage lines or lines in India that are hours and hours long. So this energy crisis is hitting hard and we're going to see it now in fuel, food supplies which we're gonna dive more deeply to a little bit later in the show.
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Well, she's Congress has not been asked to really support anything. They have approved the war budget. They never voted on the war. So that's nice that you say that. What powers does she have?
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Right. Can you actually pass a bill that would limit the US response or the president's war powers ability? That would be nice. But of course, both parties are in lockstep because they are a uni party and a lot of people think this is just performative anyway. Representative NANCY like what have you really done? Okay. Former CIA officer, though, confirms the U.S. is, this is Mark Polymeropoulos. He says the U.S. is deploying the most elite kill units and kill squads to the Middle East. Watch similarly. And if you, you know, there's some very good open source intelligence sites that we've seen a flow of the special operations commands, kind of lead elements, Army's Delta Force, SEAL Team 6, the Task Force 160, that's the US Special Operations Aviation, 75th Ranger Regiment, they also have been been going to the Middle east on C17s, multiple flights over the last 48 hours. So we're seeing the deployment of what are ground forces. And so I think that's something that, you know, one should take note of in particular because in the past when Trump has done this, whether it's the Venezuela operation with Maduro or this initial kickoff in Iran, you know, when he moves military assets, he actually uses them. And in particular, we also have to, we have to have to remember that the Marine Expeditionary Unit, the one coming from the Pacific, that will be on station by Friday and in the area too. So that's another contingent of Marines. So there are forces, there are ground forces flowing. So by Friday, of course this is happening. And a lot of people pointed out, of course, the five day delay, like we're talking about peace, five days markets close on Friday night, ground forces arrive. This all unfolds Friday into Saturday. That's when Trump likes to start his wars. It's Friday into Saturday. But how many Americans have already died? Iran's IRGC spokesman sent a message saying if the American people actually knew the true number, there would be outrage across the United States of America. And this morning released, he released another statement saying all American bases in the region have effectively been destroyed and that American soldiers had to run away from these bases and are now hiding in locations adjacent to these locations and they are basically being hunted down. Watch. Doctor Trita Parsi is the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the author of Losing an Obama, Iran and the triumph of diplomacy. Dr. Parsi, welcome to the show. I want to get your response to something Iran had basically issued this morning, according to Iran's Press TV, that Tehran has rejected Trump. The Trump administration's 15 point proposal to end this conflict, which US and Israel of course launched on February 28, basically says no, that's we're not doing that. These 15 points are just a maximalist approach. Here we have our own response. What is your thought on that?
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First of all, great to be with you guys. And also, you know, my think tank similar to yours, do not take any defense contractor's money and it's part of the reason why we've been able to to push against wars, whereas most other think tanks in D.C. tend not to. But as to your question, look, I think that if there is a serious effort to find an off ramp, not only will it not be based on these 15 points, many of them are complete non starters, but it would also not be telegraphed publicly. If you actually want to seriously find an off ramp, it will take place through very serious and sensitive talks behind the scenes with as little of it as possible being leaked to the outside. These kind of things that we're seeing, whether it's coming from the Iranian side or whether it's coming from the US side. You know, this 15 points incidentally was leaked by the Israeli press. Perhaps it was a misinformation sent to the Israelis by the US in order to give the US some cover to actually pursue some serious negotiations which will not be based on those type of things. So again, I want to make a differentiation. If it is based on these type of points, then it's not a serious negotiation. That in and of itself does not mean necessarily that serious negotiations are not taking place behind the scenes. We would not know about them because that's part of the reason why they're serious.
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Now why do you say that? Do you think that our model ally Israel has a vested interest in not allowing that? How much do you think they would be a party to these investigations? Because the rumors are that Iran has rejected meeting with Kushner and Witkoff and is requesting J.D. vance. You know, if we know this, certainly Israel knows this. And so what part would Israel play in such negotiations, do you think? In this hypothetical, I don't think they
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would play any part in the negotiations. They will play a part in trying to sabotage the negotiations. They have done so in the past. They've been dead set against US negotiations for more than 25 years. And then when negotiations have been successful or been ongoing, they've tried to sabotage it. When they've been successful, they have pushed to undo those deals. Netanyahu is on record taking credit for Trump walking out of the previous Iran nuclear deal. Tulsi Gabbard made it very clear in our testimony the Israeli objectives with this war are very different from that of the United States. The Israelis want this war to go on as long as possible to degrade Iran's industrial base, its military, political and economic capabilities as much as possible, to set them back decades so that for decades to come the Iranians will not be able to be a challenge to Israel's designs for domination in the region. In that Israelis want that to be achieved regardless of the cost to the global economy, to global energy markets, to regional stability and to Trump's presidency. Those are secondary concerns. Trump's objective here, or at least the objective at this point, I think, is quite different. He wants to be able to declare a victory and get out of this war. Now, does he believe that he can declare a victory through a negotiation or does he believe that it's better for him to try to put ground troops in and try to do some sort of a magical move to turn this war around in his favor? I think that is still unclear. I hope it's not the latter. I don't think there's any magical moves. I think he will be stuck in escalation trap if he goes down that path. And it will increasingly look like Iraq and Afghanistan in which we were constantly promised that victory is just six months around the corner. Just be patient, we'll get there. And two decades later, we had to go home. And having spent $2 trillion in Afghanistan to change the regime there from the Taliban back to the Taliban.
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So, Dr. Parsi, I want to get your take on this. This is CNN reporting today, mainstream media, cnn and of course, you know, their connections to the deep state and intelligence community. So when they say these types of things, I kind of pay attention to it, especially this guy reporting here. So I want to play this and you take a listen. Well, Audie, whatever the president ultimately decides about a ground operation in Iran, all the people pieces are now in the region to carry one out. And it's not just the thousand paratroopers. You have Marines deployed to the region and then all the forces, the air transport, etc. That one would require to put troops on the ground, whether that be. You've heard the discussion of Kharg island, which is so central to Iran's energy industry, or perhaps along the shores of the Strait of Hormuz to secure the Strait of Hormuz. We don't know. And ultimately it's up to the president. But so whatever. The president. There you go. If I can pause that. Yeah. So, Dr. Parsi, you know, CNN, we're also hearing the same from Fox News, like Jennifer Griffin, those individuals who are sort of, you know, embeds in the Pentagon and friends with friends, you know, inside that. Inside that world. So all of the pieces are now in place for some sort of a ground invasion. It seems like that this is moving forward. Do you see it that way?
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I see it as such that the President is pursuing all of these different options at the same time, that there may be a diplomatic off ramp being explored behind the scenes, while at the same time moving everything in place for a ground operation and then not making his final decision until later. I think, again, it would be a huge mistake. I think he is still in a position in which he hasn't crossed the Rubicon and in the sense that he can end this war in some way that it won't end up defining his presidency. But if he goes in with ground troops, I think this will define. Defined in the same manner as the Iraq war defined George W. Bush's presidency.
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Now, at the same time, it seems that the Netanyahu government is off the leash, really, because President Trump has warned him not to move into the West Bank. That is happening. There are now Palestinians being evicted from Jerusalem. There are Lebanese being evicted from their house. The New York Times comically reporting that Israel may take more territory that it already occupies. In other words, an invasion, an increased invasion. There's no one to constrain that happening while all eyes are on. On Iran. And that's very upsetting for us to watch and support. What. What will come of this? What do you make of this?
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Look, we have very different interests from the Israelis and allowing them to Drive the bus is disastrous for the United States. And that is not just in terms of this specific war, but also what they're doing in Gaza, in the west bank, and in Lebanon. I mean, what are the signal we're sending to everyone else in the region is that when putsch comes to shove, none of them matter. And Israeli preferences will be the ones that the United States will side with, even if it comes at the expense of the lives of people in these other countries that also are friendly to the United States, whether it comes to their territorial integrity. I mean, the Israelis are annexing more Syrian land. They're not annexing or saying openly that they're going to annex part of Lebanon. This is an expansionist power. And the only reason why it can be expansionist is because we're funding it and, and defending and protecting it politically and diplomatically when it does so. Without the US's support, none of this would have been possible. And then we have to ask ourselves, if, with our support, this is being done, is it actually in our interest? Will this lead to a more stable Middle east, the one that the US can bring its troops home from, or will this bring about a Middle east in which there will be more wars and the US will be dragged into more wars? I think the track record is quite clear right now. We're at another war. We're at another ground war, potentially in the Middle East, a war that, according to Marco Rubio, was started because the Israelis were going to attack, and the US concluded that as a result, the US also has to get into that war. So we essentially, according to that statement, allow the Israelis to decide when the US goes to war.
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I'll ask in our chat room, because we're live in our chat room, do you guys think that President Trump has an off ramp here? And I'll ask you from the Quincy Institute for responsible Statecraft, is there any sort of responsible statecraft taking place? I mean, is President Trump, is his back really against a wall at this point? And have the Iranians called President Trump's bluff?
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I think they have called the bluff on a couple of occasions. I still think that there is a way out of this. There is a pathway in which the US can secure some of its interests, get the Straits of Hormuz open again, perhaps bring back some sort of a conversation on the nuclear front that can lead to a deal, end the war, get the Iranians to stop attacking GCC countries and Israel, and of course, constrain Israel so that it doesn't do those type of attacks either. And I think it would absolutely entail some degree of sanctions relief. For a variety of reasons. The US has actually already offered it the already unsanctioned Iranian oil on the water. So Trump has already opened the door to that and even walked through that door. So I don't think a couple of weeks ago that would have been inconceivable. Now it's already happening. More of that will probably be needed in order to get the Iranians to back off. But even if it will be politically costly, it is worth the price. Because the alternative is to see this war not only continue, but but to escalate into ground war. And then something will happen that has not happened quite yet, which is, yes, oil prices are up, gas prices are up, grocery prices are up, but what we haven't seen quite yet is a very large number of American troops coming home in coffins. That will happen if there is a ground invasion.
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Right.
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Or how much of this. We've spoken to sources on our show who literally worked inside Afghanistan putting pieces of American soldiers bodies into coffins. And the CIA worked right side by side with them to keep those numbers completely silent from the American people. So how accurate do you think the numbers that we're seeing out of the Middle East? I mean, Iran, they said yesterday if the American people knew how many Americans were actually hurt or killed, there'd be outrage across the United States. Do you think that. Are they full of crap?
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They said at some point that they've killed 500Americans. I've seen no evidence for it, but. And I don't know to what extent the US Government can keep deaths away from the public. Perhaps they can. What I do know, though, is that very early on in the war, according to sources in government, they classified the number of injured, and they did so because they were very large numbers. I don't know if the numbers they're coming out with now are accurate. I am surprised that reporters are not asking about this more often, particularly mindful of the fact that the administration didn't say anything about it for the first week and that they classified it within 24 hours after the war started.
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Wow.
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And as I was told by government source, this is only done when the numbers are so high that they're politically problematic.
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I just got chills.
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Yeah.
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That I hadn't heard that. Thank you for reporting that. And you just made some news with that. To classify those numbers. The American people have a right to know how many Americans are being killed and wounded in a war that we didn't agree to. And that Congress didn't approve an illegal war. Yeah. And now, sorry, I'm just so angry about this now. We got the word yesterday. They're raising the enlistment age and rolling back, what, marijuana restrictions. So that, hey, if you got a marijuana violation, that's a okay. It's a okay. You can, you know, increase the age now. So.
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Well, I think it also speaks to the fact that enrollment has been down for years because the United States has never apologized for using human lives to start wars based on lies. And even the enrollment boost that happened when Trump took office because Pete Hegseth went and, you know, did this whole, we're not woke anymore, we're strong now, we're cool now that, you know, those soldiers are presumably not ready for a conflict like this. And so, you know, what. What do you know about the United States military's readiness for a prolonged conflict in the Middle east like this?
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I think those are all great questions. And you're absolutely right. There's been no accountability whatsoever for the previous wars. And that's why part of the reason why it still is possible for us to drag ourselves into unnecessary wars again. Once you have that accountability, it's going to be a completely different incentive structure for politicians to drag American, young Americans into war unnecessarily. But when it comes to the specific question of are we that ready? Look, I think it's quite clear that we were not ready for what we are in right now. Trump told regional leaders this war would only take four days, 100 hours, right?
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Yeah.
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He believed that this war would end within that timeframe, particularly after Khamenei was killed as Supreme Leader, because either the Iranians would capitulate or their entire system would implode. None of those things were even close to being plausible. In fact, the US Intelligence services also argued against that before and afterwards. But he only went in with one plan. A. Plan A had no readiness for Plan B. That's why we're seeing this scrambling of things. I mean, if we were thinking about a ground troops, that should have been done while he was amassing all of those naval forces into the Indian Ocean. But that wasn't done then because, again, the belief was this is just going to be a very quick variation of Venezuela, but far more glorious than what Venezuela was and was no readiness for any other scenario. And part of this, by the way, is not because the US Intelligence services believe this. It's because that's what the Israelis were telling the president. And they knew very well that if they could convince people Trump that this was easy. That's how they could convince him to do something that he otherwise has said he would never do. Start a war, do regime change. But if it's easy and it's almost guaranteed success, then it's too tempting to say no to.
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Well, that was his exact terminology. When reports leaked that his top advisors were warning him that this is a war we could not win, he went on Truth Social and said, this is fake news. This is not true. My generals are saying that the war would be, be easily won. He said it in the days before. And so it's clear that he believed that, which is incredibly hubris and incredibly upsetting, given the fact the cost to the American people, to people in the Middle east, to Israelis as well, this is not good for them in the long term. So you can tell I'm upset about it.
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And look at the reporting in January and end of December, because of the riots and the protests in Iran, there was this constant reporting asking the question, is Tehran on the brink of collapse? Is this regime about to fall? And that was part of intentionally or not. But it became part of the picture that convinced Trump, this is going to be so easy. I'm going to be a hero. I'm going to be the president that finally gets rid of this regime or gets them to surrender to the U.S. and if you take a look at how the reporting was back then, it wasn't questioning that the regime is really, really weak. You can go back and look at my interviews. I kept on saying that this is an exaggerated view. They definitely are very, very unpopular. People tend to actually detest this regime. But that is not the sign as to whether they're about to fall or not. Basing your plans on that is just complete folly.
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Someone in our chat just said Dr. Trita Parsi is 100% correct. I agree. Will you hang on for just a minute? We're going to get some water. Take a quick break here. We're going to come back. I want to talk about the other players in this, particularly Saudi Arabia, and the new reporting from the New York Times which says that Saudi Arabia basically lobbying President Trump, pushing him for a protracted war and boots on the ground. Plus, Iran just released a new video which has gone viral, which is pretty shocking. We're going to show that to you. So, Dr. Parsi, stay with us here.
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Okay, anyway. Well, everyone knows the Israeli government desperately wants the US to keep fighting this war in Iran. But few people are actually paying attention to the other players who want this war. We are back with Dr. Atrida Parsi from the Quincy Institute for responsible statecraft and Dr. Parsi from. According to a new reporting from the New York Times, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been pushing Donald Trump to keep this conflict going in Iran. We know the huge, massive money investments that are coming to the United States from Saudi Arabia. And we know last week that Saudi Arabia, during the height of this war was saying, yeah, we're still going on. We're still fully investing almost, what, trillion, Like a trillion in the United States. So that's all on. Hey, but could you also do this for me, which is keep this war in Iran going? Oh, and by the way, put boots on the ground, according to this report from the New York Times. Just to get your sense of. We've been focused so much on Israel, but there's so many other players that want this war protracted. What do you say?
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I think it is a very confusing and complex picture. And part of the complexity is that MBS Mohammed bin Salman is a person almost above his own government. I seen evidence that the Saudi Foreign Ministry was pushing back against this war, but I've also heard from people with very good knowledge of this, because of their conversations with top people in the government here in the United States, that MBS himself was privately lobbying in favor of this war directly to Trump. Now, whether all of these other things, then, are also true, that they're pushing for ground troops, et cetera, I don't know. I think the Saudis are likely in a position in which they're worried that the manner that this war will end is one in which they will deal with an emboldened Iran and an America that finally has concluded after this war, let's really never, never do it again. I know we said we would never do it again before, but let's be serious about never doing this again in the Middle East. Well, and this will put the Saudis in a tough position. Would they at the same time want a major escalation? I think that would be extremely foolish. They don't have much water. Their desalination plants are much, much more important to them than the ones the Iranians have. I'm not saying that the Iranians are flush with water, but they don't have the same vulnerability there. And the Iranians have indicated that they will take out the Israeli as well as the GCC desalination plants if there's a ground invasion or if these countries actively enter the war. The one country that I think is very close to actively entering the war is the uae, Saudi Arabia. I'm not sure if they're there yet, but quite a lot of contradictory information about what, where they actually stand on this.
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Well, I'm wondering about the preservation of the petrodollar, because you probably know that the establishment of the petrodollar happened in the 1970s illegally, because the US and Saudi Arabia had promised OPEC not to, to do this, and then a drunken delegation from the United States showed up in Saudi Arabia and did it anyway. And because oil is traded in the petrodollar, it benefits both Saudi Arabia and the United States. Now Iran is saying, we're not going to allow this through the Strait of Hormuz. So now we will trade outside of the petrodollar. That will hurt Saudi Arabia economically. So, well, how does that factor in to this desire to weaken Iran and preserve this? I want to say, I guess illegal is not really a word that's relevant in international law, but this perversion of a currency.
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So I think it's one part of the picture, and the larger picture is that this war could have ended up in a disastrous way for the Saudis by having Iran completely collapsed, collapse becoming a failed state. 90 million people, if 20% of them were to end up becoming refugees, that's 18 million people that would have fled that country. Most of them would try to go to neighboring countries or to Europe. Just as a point of comparison, about 25% of the Syrian population ended up fleeing the country as a result of the civil war over there and the collapse of that state. If the same thing were happened with the same type of percentages, we would talk about a huge number of people. Moreover, there would be secessionist movements, other things that would be very destabilizing to Saudi Arabia. But then there was also this other extreme that probably folks did not take into account, which was what if the Iranians don't lose the war? They don't necessarily win the war, but they come out of this war with more leverage than they did going in. And that is where we are right now. And I think that is a scenario that the Saudis are not happy about, particularly not mindful of the fact that the Iranians have hit them several times, not as hard as they've hit other states in the gcc, but nevertheless. And all of that coming together, I think makes it quite plausible that the Saudis don't want this war to end in a manner that leaves the Iranians stronger and angrier than they were before. But whether there is actually a path for them to achieve something different at this point I find unlikely and unconvincing. But that doesn't mean that that is not what they're trying to achieve.
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But so you don't see the binding of Saudi's wealth to American wealth because they sell oil in dollars and recycle those dollars into U.S. debt. I mean, how would that, would that devastate the region? Or are they wealthy Enough to withstand that impact.
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I have to be honest, it's a bit outside of my area of expertise to be able to give you a good answer to that question.
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Okay, fair enough, fair enough. It's just something that I'm wondering in terms of why Saudi Arabia has not stepped up in fact to help Palestinians to stand up to the American government. It seems to me there's a financial incentive not to that I do agree
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with the extent to which it is tied to the petrodollar. That's the area. I can't give you a good answer.
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Gotcha. Yeah, fair enough.
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Can I ask you though about Iranians response that they will attack the uae, other partners, Bahrain? This was of course passed over the past 24 hours that so these and take the coastline areas again talk about desalinization plants. And so this would be absolutely devastating. In your estimation talking to your sources on the hill, do you see the Iranians with that capacity at this point? Because we get the one sided story from far, Fox News, cnn, really the, the MAGA media which is sort of fully in the tank for this thing. But what is the real truth here about Iran's capacity to maybe take the coastlines of the UAE and Bahrain, et cetera.
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So I think there a capacity to take out several of the key states in these regions. And remember these are essentially city states. These are not, you know, countries in the same way you would have in Europe and you would have plenty of different cities. These are city states in a country. And if you have the capacity through missiles to take out a lot of those critical infrastructures in those cities, you can destroy those countries effectively. The necessity of taking it by land, I don't quite understand why they would go in that direction and whether they actually could do it and why it would be necessary. But they absolutely have the ability of really inflicting existential damage onto both Bahrain as well as Abu Dhabi, Dubai and some of the other cities in the Emirates that exist over there. And I think we should be very careful about dismissing those threats because the previous threats that they have issued were not taken seriously and they did act on them. And that's part of the reason why we're in this situation and the reason why I think they're singling out Emirates and Bahrain is because those are the two countries that have signed the Abrams of the court and become much closer to Israel. Emirates is the country that is the closest to entering into the war. And the common joke in the region right now is that Bahrain is governed by the UAE through WhatsApp that essentially the royal family in Bahrain is essentially just caretakers of that country, but the real power lies in the uae. And as a result, that's part of the reason why the Iranians perhaps are also making those threats to Bahrain.
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At this point, I want to ask you about Iranian media. They released this video about American imperialism covering oh, so many American conflicts. It's hard to answer for. I wonder, is it for their own people or is it to demoralize us? Because especially the part about the episode. Epstein will watch it and. And, you know, what do you think this is? This accomplishes.
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Ram. So that says one vengeance for all. And for people who are listening to the audio version of this video, it's gone viral now. It's been seen millions of times around the world when Iran released it today. Again, for people listening to on audio, the idea of the video is that all of these people that we've genocided or helped bomb throughout the centuries are watching as an Iranian ballistic missile is flying overhead, and they're smiling because it's heading towards the United States. States. Everyone.
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Well, the. The tablet has blown up, says Tel Aviv. And, you know, it's a demonic representation. It's hard to watch because, yeah, we feel awful about most of those things. Who is this for?
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Look, one of the things that have. Has come out of this war is to see how. Trying to find the right word here, how clever the Iranians have been in the propaganda war with the type of videos and messages that they have sent. And you're asking the critical question, who is the audience? If you go back and take a look at particularly the op eds and the tweets by the Iranian foreign minister, it's very clear that they have a much better idea of what the political pulse is in the United States, where the winds are blowing in the United States, than we do on what on earth is happening in Iraq. So they know very well that the overwhelming majority of Americans have turned very strongly against war, particularly in the younger generation. They know very well that the younger generation has dramatically turned against Israel, both on the left and the right. They know very well that Epstein is a very sore point, even for people who are strong supporters of Trump. And they've been pushing those buttons throughout all of this, before the war and even more so now during the war. It's all, all part of the war effort. And I think the calculation behind these things is both to bolster their position. At the end of that video, it said a vengeance for all, essentially saying that the Iranians are doing the vengeance for all of these other people that in this video are presented as victims of the United States or Israel.
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I mean, especially the Epstein piece. I mean, they even put an Epstein island in there and there's a little girl.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I. I mean, we have to be careful because, you know, we hate all of those things that they have just shown. But, you know, if we have to be careful, to think that Iran would be our savior, like, that's, you know, that's terrifying. And the propaganda is strong, so we have to put ourselves on guard, definitely.
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And I think we should be on guard in general right now, because in a war, there is propaganda coming from all different directions, there's misinformation coming from all kinds of directions, and the truth is, as they say, the first victim in a war. But this, I think, is very much geared towards bolstering the opposition of the war inside the United States amongst Trump's own base. Whether it's successful in that regard, I don't know. Because as you said, just because a lot of people are very much opposed to the US Going into these unnecessary wars, again, does not mean in any way, shape or form that they're going to take Iran's side in all of this.
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Right.
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And it seems like their messaging coming from Iran, as one of our chat room people has so rightly put it, it's just reinforcing our already deep hatred of this war. It's vastly unpopular across the United States. So what these memes that Iran is releasing, these Lego memes and other things is just reinforcing how much we already hate it.
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Which is useful. It's useful. I'm going to say, to both sides.
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Well, I just want to get you out of here, Dr. Parsi, on this. You mentioned truths. There's a lot of misinformation. If you had to name two truths that you see unequivocally right now, I was going to push on three, but I don't want to take up too much of your time. Two truths that you see in this war unequivocally right now, what would they be?
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I think the first truth is that we have to go back and recognize how much we were lied to about the efficiency of Iran's missiles during the June war. And prior to that, we were constantly told that, oh, the Iranians took a huge whacking beating in June and etc. Etc. And undoubtedly they took a lot of hits. But we knew that Israel has military censorship and does not allow for there to be any reporting about the hits that they're taking. And even though we knew that the media did not report that, if you go right now and you see if CNN goes to Tehran, they're forced to say that whatever reporting they're doing there is with the permission of the government. That's true. It's fair that you mention it. But you don't mention it where you're in Israel and which it's very clear you can only film where the military censorship allows you to film. Even when it comes to the damage done, the casualties, etc. That's based on official figures that do not include where the missiles hit military facilities. One of the worst things that happened during the June war was that because the foreign media were only allowed to see non military places that had been receiving missiles whether they were targeted or not, they reported the Iranians are only targeting civilian targets Even though they knew that the censorship doesn't allow them to see the rest. So I think that's one of those things. We were lied to about the efficiency of the Iranian missiles and as a result it became easier to go to war with a country which we were told is much weaker than it is.
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Right. And also. Go ahead. Sorry.
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Yeah. And the second undeniable truth is we have to really come to terms with the fact that the US's interest and Israel's interest in this war and also before and in my view for quite some time has been diverging and we have to make a real decision. Are we going to be America first in the sense of not being against other countries, but like any other country, have to pursue our policy based on what is our national interest rather than, you know, essentially letting other countries preferences or interests take equal or even greater weight. We have to stop that. Not just with Israel, but with other countries as well, but in the Middle east when we have done that with Israel, which is almost always, it has oftentimes led us getting dragged into wars.
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Dr. Trita Parsi, we really appreciate your thoughtful response.
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D
Thank you so much for having me.
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Really educated and thoughtful responses. Great to have you. Thank you so much. We'd love to have you back. Absolutely.
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D
Anytime. Thank you.
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Thanks Doctor, great to see you. All right. He was fantastic.
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C
Yeah, a very measured voice. You can tell I get hysterical and he's like, here is the measured response. I cannot not be hysterical.
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I mean. But I think his truth is spot on. Right. This idea that well, we totally destroyed their missile capacity and, and also the nuclear, their, their, their lack of nuclear ambition and their, their lack of nuclear weapon ambition. That's also an undeniable truth in all of this. But nevertheless.
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Yeah. I mean, the thing is, we didn't. We didn't buy it. We didn't buy it then the. The first time they said it.
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C
Yes.
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So how the hell are they going to use that as a justification to do it again?
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Right.
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You know what I mean?
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Like, right?
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's crazy. Let us know your thoughts on this. Thank you for subscribing.
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And I just want to point out that when he says the 12 Day War last year was more devastating than we were told, we reported that we were on that one. So stick here with redacted. We were not fooled.
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That's true again. And I think one of the other things that he said was shocking is that they classified the number of American casualties within 24 hours. Yeah. So why are we being lied to about those numbers? We should demand answers from our representatives in Congress. Why is no one asking the Pentagon these questions? Why? Because they're all access journalists and embedded with these people, not asking tough questions at all. All right, coming up on the show, we're gonna talk about the food and fuel shortages, but specifically on food today because it's all intertwined. And how will this hit the American shelves? How is it already hitting shelves around the world, not just in America? Let us know in the comments here in your super chats. Are you seeing food shortages in your grocery stores, wherever you are? I saw some people who are watching us live right now from Australia. If you're in the UK and other places, please let us know. We're going to talk about all of that, but first, I want to tell you about our friends over at Shopify, because, you know, starting something new isn't just hard, it can be terrifying. So much work goes into this thing. You're not entirely sure, like, will it work out? Now, I've been sort of like an entrepreneurial person since I was a kid. I think I always loved creating things. So back in the day, like, if I was going to start a website, like, I didn't have the power of Shopify back in the day. Like, I had an idea and I was going to launch something now Shopify makes it so easy. Even my son last summer with his buddy had idea to make, like, summer water guns at the pool. And he said, you know what? Let's start a business. And they started putting everything together and we told him about Shopify and. And they started designing the whole website on Shopify and they started getting these water guns and everything, and it was great. Entrepreneurial lesson for them that the hardest part wasn't the website. It was like, how am I going to find water guns?
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Right?
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The hardest, the easiest part now with Shopify is you can create a whole storefront that way. That's how this works and that's how Shopify allows you to do this. Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all E current commerce in the United States from household names like ours. Redacted. Our redacted store is built on Shopify. See it right there. It's all very easy. They have 24, 7 customer support. Shopify helps you find your customers with easy to run email and social media campaigns and tackle all those important tasks in one place, from inventory to payments to analytics, all of it right there. I use their shop app all the time. I mean it's like I couldn't believe like shop. Their shop app is fantastic. Like you order something from a store that's built on Shopify, suddenly you get a notification that it's been. You're like, it's being delivered. Like you get like a FedEx notification, it's being delivered. I ordered some stuff from Van man the other day, one of our other sponsors of our show and I ordered some new beef tallow and boom, I got a notification, it's being delivered and it's all tracked right there in Shopify using their shop app. So I love these guys, I really do. Go to shopify.com redacted to sign up for a one month trial period today. Like if you have an idea to launch a store, they will help you do it from the ground up. Shopify.com redacted is the place to go. All right, well, food shortages, fuel shortages and long lines around the world, how will it impact our day to day living? Just take a look at India and overnight gas lines in India, hours long. God knows if there's even any petrol available for these people to buy it in the first place. We're already seeing food shortages, store shelves, people maybe panic buying, maybe it's legitimate that more food is not showing up on those shelves. Take a look at the UK gas lines here in the uk with only, according to reports this afternoon, only about two days left of petrol available in the uk. Where will they get more? How will they get it? And you have Australia and Australia is really being hurt hard right now. Of course we talked about the fuel shortages there, but one farmer has gone a bit viral in Australia for talking about how devastating and how he's trying to really paint a picture. This clip is 8 minutes and so I'm just going to show you a few seconds of it. You can seek it out on your own, but just want to set the tone. What he's sort of complaining about the politicians in the Capitol, about how bad things are about to get. Just listen a few seconds of this. Well, g'. Day.
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Here we go again. Sorry about the usual intro.
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Standing here in front of the front
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of the center pivot, you see the diesel tank, everything behind me. The crop you see behind me is a maize crop. This is mainly targeted at our clowns in Canberra, Macquarie street and, and you know, particularly labor and the coalition, particularly, you know, obviously Matt Canavan, his attack on us and things like that. Yeah, it's here in the one nation hat and got my one nation stubby hole. Yeah.
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So there he goes. Then he goes on to really explain and lay out just how difficult it is for farmers in Australia right now, but of course around the world. So we wanted to talk about the. That today. A.J. richards is the founder of from the Farm. He has been working to prevent famine in America for the last six years. And I think we really started to see some pieces of that when the whole fake COVID pandemic unfolded. And you got to see sort of the trial run of like what a possible famine actually might look like. Aj, welcome to the show. Great to see you.
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B
Yeah, thanks for having me. Appreciate it, appreciate it.
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So I'm sure you've been watching this very, very closely, not just over the past three, three weeks as this war has unfolded, but for years. What started to concern you maybe before this war broke out, that our system, I think that's the thing I want to hit on too, is that our system was already incredibly fragile right before this. You add in an Iranian war on top of it. Can you talk about specifically, I guess, in the United States, what you were seeing ahead of time?
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Yeah, so my family are sixth generation ranchers from southern Utah, northern Arizona, and we were selling beef direct to consumer in 2019. And then when Covid hit, we called our local processor to get our next round of livestock scheduled for processing so we could feed our customers. And the disruption of COVID and what happened in the large scale slaughterhouses caused a cascading effect that backed up our smaller local processors. So when we called to get our next round of processing, they told us, yeah, we can get you in in a year and a half. Now for context, a week or two prior to that moment, we would call and say, hey, we have Five, when can we get them in? And it was literally within a week or two. And so when Covid hit and disrupted the entire supply chain, it became very clear that we have, we've. Our supply chain has become so degraded that we, most of us don't even know this is happening. Ultimately, we had to shut down that business because we couldn't get consistent processing to feed the customers that we were already serving. So that was sort of the first big, you know, aha moment that we're in trouble. Ranchers and farmers have been screaming about this across the country for a long time. But we didn't really start seeing the effects of that until Covid hit. And it just became really clear we've got some real work to do in this country to get us back on track.
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What are the mechanisms that broke down? What do you think? Where were the failure points?
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Yeah, there's a few. And first of all, the large scale corporate owned slaughterhouses. Four companies control 85% of the meat we consume. And there's roughly 30 slaughterhouses that process 80% of the meat we consume in our entire nation. So they're processing around 5,6000 plus head of livestock a day. So when Covid hit and those folks couldn't come to work and process, they weren't doing the processing. And our system is built so efficiently for just in time delivery that if you're processing 6,000 head of cattle today, you've got 6,000 more coming tomorrow and the next day and the next day and so on. Well, when that jam started, you had this backup in the finishing lots, all the way down finishing lots where they fatten the cattle and get them ready for processing. You had that cascading effect all the way down to folks that were ready to deliver. And now feeding livestock is a lot more expensive when they're ready to be processed than just process it again put in the freezer. So that was the first implication was just this, this breakdown in our supply chain where the processing happens because of that consolidation. Then a year later, folks, remember, sometime around 20, 21, they started limiting the meat you could buy again. And that time it was because JBS got hacked and had an $11 million ransom they had to pay. But they were locked out of their system for, I think it was like a week or something like that. And so they couldn't process again for an entire week across, you know, their, their supply chain. And so that was continuing to cause problems for our system even today. There's parts of our country where the small processors are backed up six, nine months even today. Six years post Covid.
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A
That's insane. Here's a super chat from the Bob Go Mad Men. He says the oil strain is happening at the same time California's refineries are going offline. The west coast is going to be rough. Obviously you're on the western part of the country right now. Do you agree with that?
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B
Yeah, yeah. I mean if this, if this keeps going every, everything in this country, there's no, there's no such thing as local anymore, at least on a scale that matters. Right? So everything we do depends on trucking. It's been pretty well known for many folks that pay attention to this, that in any given town or city, you know, your grocery stores have three days of food that's without panic buying. And so if the trucks aren't coming in because they can't get fuel, or even if they can get fuel for, you know, prioritizing those systems, the cost for that is going to increase the cost of the goods they're they're hauling. And then that goes all the way downstream to manufacturing new tractors or any other aspect that's, that's necessary. All of those parts and pieces and things that we're moving around using fuel, they're going to cost more because it costs more to get it there.
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You know, I hate to be, I mean, I am a conspiracy theorist, but that just means I'm a six month spoiler alert kind of guy. You know, a friend of the show, David Icke, has been saying you need to step back from what's happening in Iran. You need to see the larger picture here, which is they're intentionally doing this, that intentional scarcity so they can, as you pointed out during COVID prevent us from eating meat. Right. Move us to like an all electric future, reduce our dependency on farms, take away this land, consolidate the consolidation control. Is he wrong or is he right?
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B
Yeah, he's got a lot of really valid points there. I mean, we did see all of that happening and still perpetuating today through different organizations. Like in the west, one of the big things we're dealing with is the loss of, of grazing land for our cow calf ranchers. That means those particular ranchers have mama cows that have the babies and that feeds into the downstream pipeline. But public land grazing, which is like your Bureau of Land Management from the Department of Interior or your Forest Service from USDA state trust land, these kinds of things, ranchers have a lease on those to raise their cows. But you get these environmental engos that come in and they cause havoc and they'll sue and settle to reduce the number of livestock that a rancher can produce on those lands. You know, in the 1935, before the tape. Yeah, 1935, before the Taylor Grazing act, we had 18 million what they call AUMs, animal units a month. That means a mom account. A baby cow is considered one AUM. So in 1935 we had 18 million in the West. Today we have 8 million because the ranchers are being squeezed at every turn. That's our food supply. Yeah. Livestock on public land is what re fertilizes the soil so that we have grass while that's being reduced. So we're seeing desertification happening in the west because the lack of ruminating animals. Wildfires are out of control because the reduction of grazing and logging. So we have these very unhealthy forests that are tinderboxes ready to explode without the grass. It also breaks up what we call what's your local water cycles. About 40% of your moisture is supposed to come naturally from local water cycles, which is created by grass and vegetation. That's all going away because of these fights that ranchers have been in and largely unheard for decades.
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It's not unbelievable at all. Friend of the show Dane Wigginton, of course, from GeoEngineeringWatch. He's been saying, have you seen what's happened to these farms? Have you seen what's happening to this land? Just the desertification of this land, the trees that are just falling apart and just collapsing. And you see what's happening with the spraying in the skies. Has the spraying in the skies affected you at your farms?
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Yeah, in some areas. I just watched a woman today given a testimony in South Carolina where she has a farm and she's been monitoring. She's an animal specialist in a, in a local farming group. So she's, you know, knowledgeable in this. And she said she's lost 80% of her butterflies just in the last three years because she monitored those things. She was trying to create a habitat for the monarch and her neighbors do bees and they've seen significant reduction in, in their bees around their farm. And this was all focused on atmospheric aerosol sprays as the cause.
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That's unbelievable. I know. This morning I went out here in Colorado and three crisscrossing patterns right in the sky. And then within about 20 minutes, I posted this on Twitter. Within about 20 minutes, the entire area where those had just been sprayed were fully dark, fully clouded, covering it to keep the sun out because we want to dim Everything. It's so deeply troubling. I can't. I just. It just disheartens me because how are we allowing this to happen? How are we allowing this to happen to go from 18 million animals in the 30s to a population that's exploded in the United States and now we have 8 million?
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That's right. Yeah. We're at the lowest herd numbers since 1950s, but we've got 320 million people to feed. So this, this, to me, this is why it's been my focus. You know, all these other things that they do matter. And, you know, I always say pick a hill to die on because there's plenty and somebody needs you to stand shoulder to shoulder with them. But quite frankly, none of those hills matter if you're starving. It really doesn't. Like, famine is, is the. It's the game over. It's the checkmate. And so we need to back our family farms and ranches in this nation. Give the people who want to become farmers and ranchers a reason to take that on and get into it. You know, one of the good things that came from COVID people woke up and one of the fastest growing movements in the nation is homesteading. I mean, there's a. There's so many people that are trying to get the heck out of the city or the suburb, get on a small piece of land and raise. Primarily raise food for their own families, but that often leads to increasing the production so they can sell to their neighbors. But, you know, this will follow. This is what I'm trying to get people to understand. Consumers have all the power here. If they choose where they're spending their dollar, they're going to drive a new market. And that's why I believe that direct to consumer needs to be the future of our agriculture. So it gives a reason for more people to get back into it. And also direct to consumer means they get the full retail dollar. Because currently in this system, in the captured corporate system, ranchers, for example, only earn about 9 to 14 cents on the dollar. And yet they're the ones doing all the primary work to get it to your plate. And they're getting such a small piece of that. But if you go right to the farmer and rancher and you shake the hand that feeds you, they get a whole. They get the full retail dollar. That's stability for them. And we as the consumers can make those choices so that we can help them.
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So I just want to point out I have a couple more questions for you here, but you built this online platform Basically almost like, I guess you could describe it like an Airbnb for local produce and farms to be able to connect people with their local ranchers so people can go right to their ranchers. We've got, I don't know, 30,000 people watching us live right now across all of our platforms. I would love for people to go to your website and not collapse the website.
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You might do that. We're pretty new.
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But go there and maybe bookmark it for later if it does get. We have 30,000 people were sending there right now to go check it out. But this is an important American moment, I think for people to be able to connect with their. Where can people go to learn more about this?
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B
Yeah, from the Farm.org is the website and we built this entirely. We had to rethink the whole food system. The current food system is we think about the farmers last. How do I get my money? You know, that's the corporate mentality. And so we had to go into something. If we're going to create something new that works, you've got to just blow up the old system and rethink it. So the farmers on our platform, we have a little over 100 producers across 37 states spread throughout the nation, but they keep 100% of the retail dollar. We have built a model where we don't take any of that. And our goal, like you mentioned, is if we can become sort of the Airbnb of local food that takes the marketing off their, the back of the producer. It takes so much of those other middle components that they, because you got to keep in mind this direct to consumer market doesn't make it easier for them. It actually puts more, more burden on them to pick and pack and ship and do all those things and do customer service. But when they keep that full retail dollar, there are so many families that are making that, making that decision to go that route. So consumers also need to learn what it looks like to actually buy from a farmer and rancher. It was only a generation and a half ago that if I said, what do you. How would you like your half, half your side of beef cut? A family could answer that question. Now it's a one hour conversation with a rancher to know what comes with a side of beef because we've become so segmented. So yeah, from the Farm.org is designed to make sure the farmers and ranchers get 100% of that retail dollar so that we can keep them around. And again, we have to go from the 1.8 million farms we have Today back up, we have to start increasing that. You know, we Hope to see 3 million farms in the next. You know, five to 10 years would be amazing, but that's going to take time. And it's the good again. The good news is, is there are so many people that woke up and that's the lifestyle they want to get back to. They may have had a grant, everybody had a grandparent or a great grandparent that was growing and producing food. And so some are feeling called to do that. And we need to create an environment that makes that easier. So a local platform, a platform that can help you connect locally is phenomenal. We also built this, you know, full transparency. I built this because I know God called me to do it. That's why we're doing this. Because I knew nothing about software. I was trying to get myself into a position where I could just be out on the ranch full time. Now I'm in front of a desk full time. But we can get there and at some point we will have enough farms on there where local can become possible again. And then with disruptions like the fuel costs, they become less impactful. Now, we're nowhere near that, so don't get that mixed up. We're so far away from that security, but that's what we have to do, get back to localized food systems. So at least our basic human needs, no matter what's happening in the world, are covered.
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So I'm on the website here and we haven't crashed it, which is good news. Your software is stable. But here, here it is from the farm.org and you know, you use your location so you can find the local farms near you. So I want everyone to check it out. Would love to support a great American company like that.
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Thank you.
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So, AJ I just want to, you know, before I let you go, I, I just. How bad do you think with the fuel shortages that we're seeing right now, the fertilizer shortages and everything that we're seeing, that's it'll be in ripple effects because we're just seeing the very beginning of this. And even if the Strait of Hormuz is like reopened tomorrow, and even if fuel, it's still going to, there's still going to be a massive ripple effect. So how bad do you think it's going to be?
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Yeah, I feel like it's a little too early to, to look into my crystal ball for that. But many farmers purchase their, their fertilizer and their, their needs already because planting seasons close. Some held off for a while. Because they were hoping those prices would continue to come down and now they're finding themselves in a, in a pretty bad spot. So if, if this continues on any longer, I mean, even where I'm from in Cody, Wyoming, you know, within a week or two, Diesel fuel jumped $2 over $2. And so if this continues much longer, the impact we will fill it based on probably more likely delivery costs than, than being able to get food to somebody. It'll be the cost of transporting that has the biggest impact.
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Yeah, those prices are going to skyrocket. And then what do you think about the grocery stores? You mentioned they, most of them have a three day supply. When would that hit the grocery stores?
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Yeah, I mean, as long as they can keep hauling, they'll still have food there because food is still being produced. It just will determine how much more that is. And right now, you know, there's a discussion that beef prices are so high now. If you really understand the value of the beef and the cost of beef compared to like a Snickers bar per weight, beef really is as high as it's a superfood. So the cost of beef right now is actually pretty close to what it should be for what it takes to get it produced and what it does for your body. There's a misunderstand. There's just consumers have forgotten or been removed from knowing that. And like you, I have a tinfoil cowboy hat. So I think there's a lot of intention there, but I think that was intentional. But just because it's the cost it should be right now doesn't mean it can be affordable. Especially if I'm filling my truck up at $6 a gallon, something's going to have to give somewhere. And so I think our pocketbooks are going to fill it a lot sooner than the reduction in the food that we have access to now. Again, if the trucks can't move because like these videos you showed in these other countries, if they're just stuck because there's no fuel, it'll be immediate. And because when we say three days, we're talking the trucks coming every day. You go to your grocery store, there's a truck there every day delivering another commodity for you to be able to purchase. And if those stop, you're going to see it clear out quickly.
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Yeah, no, it is absolutely the case. AJ thank you so much for this from the farm.org it's not.com it's.org. go go there. Sign up. Learn about how you can connect with your local ranchers. I agree with you. I just saw a study yesterday. I bookmarked it to send to a vegan that I know about how beef is an absolute superfood reversal of Alzheimer's and dementia and everything by eating non processed meat, local sourced meat and how valuable that is. So great stuff. AJ thank you so much for this. Really appreciate it. We'd love to have you back on, on.
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Thank you. I appreciate it.
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Thanks so much. All right. Wow. What do you guys think of that? What do you guys think of that?
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Oh, yeah, I mean, yeah, I thought he was a great guest. I, I hate what he's saying at some point, you know what I mean? Like the, like I, I like that they're working on the, the. Because I, I used to do that. I, I, one thing they, they call like a farmer's co op. I used to do it every year where I'd pay, pay money up front and then as produce would come out from the farmers farmers, then we would just go to the farm every week and pick up just what, what was available and lots of like fresh vegetables and all kinds of things like that.
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I ran into a viewer the other day. I was at, I was, had to buy something, some supplement or something for my wife. I was returning something and I had to. Anyway, it was at Whole Foods, which I don't normally ever go to, by the way. I just happened to be in there and there was a viewer in there and he's like, yeah, I just started my own homestead. Homestead here in Colorado. And I don't know what he was there for as well, but he's like, yeah, you know, solar panels and my own food and all and chickens and all of this stuff. So I think this homesteading movement is definitely growing for sure. So it's really troubling what's happening right now. And three days food supply, like if this, you know, if this fuel dries up. Only three days fuel supply. Three days of food supply. Deeply troubling. I know we've been stocking up and prepping as much as possible, you know, with all sorts of canned food and I mean, and everything else.
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Yeah, I mean when I, when I lived in Portland, you know, like maybe 10 years ago or so, I mean I, we had basically a homestead in city. So we had aquaponics going in the backyard, like a really like full on vegetable garden. Like I had my salsa garden and I mean we had chickens. It's entirely possible to do even, even in a small space. Space. It just, you just have to utilize your space well and your neighbors Will think you're hippies.
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That's right. Yeah. And we had plenty of chickens. I think we had up to 12. But when we were allowed to where we were before, we can't hear, but unfortunately, but, but I don't think I do a good job. We did have the best eggs though. Oh my gosh, those, those fresh eggs every day, just fantastic. Without plants, no beef. That's right. I know. That's the thing with like vegans think they're like, oh, it's so sustainable because we're not killing anything. It's like, no, no, no. You know your little impossible burger that's full of like highly processed garbage. It takes an entire field. I mean the amount of animals that are being killed on a small field, whether it's prairie dogs or just small animals that you're killing, in order to like have a field that can create that highly processed seed oil packed impossible burger. Come on, like, let's be real. You don't know. It's actually far more deadly to animals, veganism is, than actually sustainably grown ranched meat. Done. Done. The way we were just talking about. There's a whole like arc, a story arc in the show Yellowstone where this like activist from California shows up in the ranch and she like learns the way of the ranch and he's like, we've been doing this for hundreds of years with these animals. Look at how, you know, we, we understand this ecosystem, you know, and you just want to come in and throw it all out because you think you're like, San Francisco veganism is better for it. It's not. But all the marketing behind it and even the eu, I'm sorry, the UN admitted on camera, which we played it here on camera, that they were functionally working with Google to suppress like things we just talked about with beef and sustainable ranching and all of that. And in favor of pushing up the global climate change narrative and pushing like you to stop eating meat. The United nations admitted that on camera, like affecting Google search results. So the propaganda is very, very strong. They want you to eat bugs too, which it's not going to happen. Let's see. We are not yet. I like this one. Steve Lilly says, nine meals from anarchy. Think about that, right? Just like three days worth of, of food. Nine meals away from like anarchy when people can't get food. Scotland skies are full of daily chemtrails. David Dunn says, yeah, mostly in Colorado. I haven't seen a lot of them, but this morning three crisscrosses right in the middle. And then sure enough, within 20 minutes, just fill the sky. So I want to take some more of your super chats and any other comments here in a second. But first, are you like one of those people that actually likes your own money and doesn't like throwing it down the toilet? Well, unfortunately, traditional, like big wireless carriers love your money and they love taking your money. 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And hey, to our Beck television viewers, we're on thousand. Well, hundreds of thousands of you watch us on Beck TV every month. So, hello to our BeckTV viewers as well. But how many of you have, like, canceled subscriptions now?
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I won't. I won't own a printer because if I. If I buy a tangible object and it comes with a subscription plan, I mean, somebody's getting punched. I mean, the object is going to get broken, but somebody, Somebody somewhere is getting punched. So I just. I. There's certain things I don't even own because of how. How just ubiquitous that whole subscription plan has become in our lives.
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Yeah, no, I think you're right. That's the problem with a lot of these things now. They all come with, like, a subscription. You buy the thing and then it comes on top of that with a subscription service in order to. And, you know, again, that's why physical, you know, physical media is so powerful. Did you guys see that article? It was a few weeks ago. A couple of my friends and I were talking about it. But where the. And I love this, by the way. I love, like, the return of a Friday night. You get your family together and you go to a video rental store. And so these things are coming back like crazy because vinyl records, the explosion of vinyl records is coming back, and that number has been going up and up and up and up. People buying vinyl records again. But DVD rentals, and you can go to a store and rent DVDs for your movie night with your family for like three bucks. And instead of paying for like a Netflix subscription and all this stuff or. Yeah, because I have subscription.
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I have a. I have an Amazon prime subscription yet. Any movie I want to watch, like, I still have to rent it. And I'm like, what the hell, right?
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Or it's got ads. If you don't pay the premium level, then it'll shut ads into it. So you're sitting there every 20 minutes, there's like three. Three minutes of ads. It's like, then why am I paying for this prime service if you're going to shove ads into it? Like, what's the deal? You know, like, our show is free and we have, like, four sponsors. A show that support independent journalism and, you know, they support what we do here. So. But no, there was an article in the Los Angeles Times, like, a week ago or two weeks ago about the rise of rental stores again, that millennials and Gen Z are sick and tired of, like, all these subscriptions. And so they love this idea of like, hey, what. What did we used to do in the 80s and the 90s? You know, we used to go to a video rental store on A Friday night, we maybe get a pizza, right? We pick one or two VHS copies. My sister would pick one, I would pick one. My parents maybe got lucky. We're able to pick one. I don't know. And then those were our movies for the weekend as a family. And I love that idea. I love, hey, let's go. And. And so they said their sales for rentals, for DVDs have skyrocketed and this is happening now and they're planning on opening more locations. So I think this is really cool. I love the idea of being able to do that. I mean, our local library has DVDs that you can check out as well. That's another option for people. Join your local library and for free be able to get movies instead of paying for, like, Netflix and stuff. It's crazy. Like, the Disney plus subscription skyrocketed. Xbox game pass skyrocketed, like doubled in price, you know, and then you don't own it. They don't want you to own anything. You don't actually own the movie, the game, the book. It's all digital now. And they want you to just subscribe to this, like, Kindle unlimited service. So, for instance, David Icke's new book called the Roadmap. I bought the book because I don't want. Because it was part of like a Kindle unlimited subscription. But then if you. Any notes I took in the book, it would all disappear after the rental period was done and it would be gone. So I just, I bought the book flat out. So I know it's crazy, but I thought that.
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And I've seen articles, I've seen things like, like, where. On the, on the Kindle where, like they've literally inserted ads into the book.
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Inside the book.
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Like, inside the book. So there was like that, like you're reading the chapter and then it says. And then, you know, like the character is saying something like, they climbed into bed. And then it. And then it like goes into this ad of, like, it's actually written there where it's like. And then switched on their. Their. Their like Disney plus or whatever subscription that they got for like 11.99 blood to stream such and such and such and such. Like, there's literally an ad inserted into the text of the book. Like, not over the book, as though it was written by the author.
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That's crazy. That's.
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I would lose my mind.
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Yeah. Gen X. Yes. Gen X for the win. That's right. D Spirit. Yeah. Blockbuster returns. That'd be great. You're wasting gasoline to get those movies. Yeah, that's the. I guess that's the problem, right? You got to spend gasoline to go down there to the, the video store. I still have my DVD player and it's all dusty. Yep. Make Blockbuster great again. Love that. Man without a brain. My DVD player is all dusty as well. Yep. You. Someone says YouTube Premium is the best deal. I agree. I mean, I love YouTube Premium. I pay for. That's one subscription that I don't mind paying for just because then I don't get, you know, I don't get the ads. I don't have to worry about the ads. But then also I can like download offline videos. Like my flight the other day, I downloaded a whole bunch of videos that I wanted to watch. I can listen to them as podcasts. So I just like listen to them audio wise when I'm taking a walk or something, you know. So I do appreciate that.
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Yeah, they, they actually, they actually got me with their ad campaign, their marketing campaign, because they gave me like three months free. And so like, then when they took it away, I was like, dude, what the. Actually signed up for it right away
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because I was like, oh, man, I
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forgot like, just how awful this is without it. So, yeah, they did. I did succumb to their, their marketing pressure.
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What are some of the things you like about the ads? Obviously, but what are some of the things you like about it?
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Mostly just the ads. Yeah, the one thing I didn't like about it was because, like, they have movies on there you can watch. So I like started to watch a movie one night and I was like, ah, I don't. I've seen this before. So I didn't finish it. And then for the next, next, like month, every time I would open up YouTube, that movie would be down in the little corner in the pip saying, hey, you should finish this movie. I'm like, I don't want to. Other than that. Like, it's just the ads. That's worth it for me.
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Yeah, that and you can play like double speed and all kind of stuff. And yeah, there's like a sleep timer. Like if you want to listen to something while you're falling asleep or whatever, you can do that. It's hidden in the settings menu. They need to surface some of that stuff more. But yeah, Napster and Co. Kaza. Oh my God, you remember Kaza. So I was always a guy. I was always a guy that,
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like,
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I never pirated stuff, so I, I missed that whole world. Like, I liked, I liked actually have owning CDs you know, and so, and then when itunes came out where you can actually buy them digitally, then I would do it that way. But I remember like I had friends who are a little bit, I guess a little bit younger. They really got fully into Napster and Kaza and all that stuff.
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No comment for me.
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Yeah, yeah. Now if you make it affordable and easy to access and people will typically buy it, but if you jack up the prices and you make it harder for people to do it, then, you know, it's, it's. That's where Napster comes back in. Pirating comes back in. Truest Patriot says the only ads I watch, the ones where the hosts do it themselves on the show. Thank you, I appreciate that. Because just so you know, like, behind the scenes, like, we couldn't do this show without the few sponsors that we have here. You know, honestly we, the, the cost to do this show and to pay our team and keep the lights on here and our servers and all of that stuff. Like we don't have Fox News money, I'll tell you that much. So we don't have, you know, we don't have Israeli backers or Saudi backers or anything like that, or defense contractors or big pharma, you know, like you see like the Daily Wire and they've got like hundreds of employees. You're like, where they get that money from? It's very interesting. So we don't have that. We're supported by our.
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Yes, but that's. I do, I do the very same thing though. I always watch the actual live reads.
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Yeah, I do too. All right, Any other super chats come in here? I just want to be respectful of people's time and get out of here on time. See it here? Nine. Yeah, nine meals from anarchy. We had that. Someone was saying, wait, what do you mean nine? It'd be like one meal a day. You could spread that, spread that over a few, like a week till anarchy hits. I like this. Cardi Eden says I just sit on the porch and watch nature. It's free. I like that.
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Yeah, I'm a big fan of that. Like I kind of grew up with that cuz I grew up in rural areas, but. But now if I sit on my porch, I'm literally looking at the side of an apartment building across the street. That's just not. It just doesn't really do it for me. If I look past that, if I look past that, I can see a highway. So yeah, yeah.
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Brave browser blocks YouTube ads. Okay. Yeah, I'd rather Hollywood go bankrupt than paying for that stuff. Yeah. Steve says I pirate everything. I haven't paid for movies or music in over 15 years. That's crazy. Trust. Truest Patriot says nice made the show. Good times. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Clayton, your show is one of the best. I appreciate that. Oh, well, we don't have an agenda here on this show. We are vehemently anti war. That is our strictest agenda. And we all are only seeking the truth. So if the truth makes us uncomfortable and, like, kind of challenges our worldview about something, then so be it. I don't really care. Just the way it is. That's the way the cookie crumbles. So.
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And it's incredibly healthy for you to be challenged.
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Yes.
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If you can't. If you can't make a. If you can't make a good argument as to why you feel the way you do about something, then you really need to rethink why you feel that way about it.
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I love that. Yes. Yeah, that's. That's true. And, you know, like, I just did an interview today. It'll air in a few days. But it really challenged my worldview, and I thought, okay, I've been doing something for a long time a certain way. Maybe I've been fearful or whatever, but I really need to. I need to step back once again and really analyze things and look at it more deeply, you know, for my family and otherwise. So, you know, that's what I'm going to do. So you need to be challenged. Need to be challenged. Get soft in life. Right? We're here. We're here to face challenges and grow, I think, as humans. Well, thank you guys so much for subscribing to the channel. We do have a daily newsletter and we're expanding our newsletter. I'm very excited about that. It's been a work in progress, and hopefully you'll see the fruits of that very, very soon. If you go to redacted.inc you can sign up for it. It's very easy to do. It's not.com, it's redacted.inc click on the newsletter icon at the top of the screen in the URL bar there and. And just sign up. Just add your email. You'll receive a welcome email. You have to click that you want to receive the email in that welcome email. If you don't, it'll go to your spam folder and you'll never get the newsletter. So we get a lot of people that say, hey, I signed up, but I never got the newsletter. That's because we will send you a welcome email and you need to confirm so that that way we avoid spam and all that stuff helps us with spam filters and all that. So make sure that you confirm the email redacted.inc and then tomorrow morning you'll receive the newsletter first thing in the morning. So thanks everyone. And Mari sent in a $5 super chat. Thank you. Says you guys are the best. Thank you. Mari knows I appreciate you, appreciate all of you for watching today. Thank you for making us one of the largest independent media platforms in the world. Really appreciate that. And thank you for allowing us to stay independent and bring you the news every day. We'll be back here tomorrow at 4:00pm Eastern Time. Have a great night everybody. It's the original HBIC here. If you are out here living your life, being fabulous, being booked, being busy, being the hbic, you need to be taking care of yourself.
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