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FDA approves familial fecal transplants for autism research: "This is not a pharmaceutical product. This is using the stools of a healthy sibling into a kid that is autistic." "This is a physician initiated IND, investigative new drug" will allow comparison of autistic and neurotypical siblings to determine why it works in some kids and not others. Hazan highlights a twin case: "identical out of trillions of microbes, we saw elevation relative abundance of microbes elevated the same three phylum in both identical kids." Speech started. She says "There isn't a one size fits all solution when it comes to this" and calls for precise, collaborative research. She notes "the spike protein reduces bifidobacteria" and that "forty three severe patients with COVID had zero bifidobacteria," linking microbiome to disease resilience. "There is a microbiome" and "There isn't a microbiome. There's trillions of microbes."
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Speaker 0: So with a fecal transplant, you're basically taking poop from one person and you're giving it to another. Speaker 1: Correct. It's a messy business. Speaker 0: Doctor Sabine Hazan is expert in the field of gut health and microbiome research. Her book, Let's Talk SHIT, is an easy to digest explanation of the human microbiome. Speaker 1: The future is in poop. The importance of gut health, is really your immunity, is in the gut. Speaker 0: In this episode, she breaks down the FDA's recent approval of the use of fecal transplants for research into the treatment of autism. Speaker 1: It's gonna be an important study to give us data onto whether siblings of that are neurotypical can be a good donor for the kid that's autistic. Speaker 0: We also discussed the relationship between the COVID nineteen spike protein and the microbiome, how people who got severe COVID lack certain critical gut bacteria, and the need for precise microbiome research to develop effective treatments. Speaker 1: If anything we've learned from COVID is the importance of microbes, microbes that can kill us, but also microbes that can save us. Speaker 0: This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kelek. Doctor Sabine Hazan, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders. Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Speaker 0: So there's some news hot off the presses very relevant to your work. We have the FDA approving familial fecal transplants for research purposes. I mean, this is kind of a game changer, and the only reason I know it's a game changer because we've talked in the past and have kept talking. And the other thing is you have this study where you, helped some twins, autistic twins, get better. And so I want to talk about both these things and then the whole bigger picture. What's going on with this, FDA approval now? How is that going to change everything? Speaker 1: It's gonna at least allow us to do the proper research. This is this is not a pharmaceutical product. This is using the stools of a healthy sibling into a kid that is autistic, and it is also looking at if the fam if the kid that is neurotypical is has the same microbes microbes of the kid that has autism and therefore kind of decide do we wanna use that or not. So this is this is gonna be a research that's gonna open some give us some answers onto autism, hopefully, and also a research that's gonna allow us to say, why isn't it working if it's not working? Why is one kid neurotypical and the other one is autistic? To be able to compare it. Because kids microbes, families share microbes. And so that's kind of like, you know, what I want to see with this study. Speaker 0: Well, so let's break all this down. Okay? There's there's multiple elements here. You know, autism, it's this disease as best as I understand And it at the of course, the HHS is now has this deep interest in tackling it because the rates have been going up, and that's kind of, I guess, incontrovertible. At this point, the question is why, and this directly targets that. The other part that I think you're speaking to here is that people are different. Instead of one size fits all policies for medical care just don't work, and this is one of the lessons we had during the pandemic that you need to treat each you look at each patient individually when it comes to microbiome, when it comes to their genetics, all sorts of things. So let just let's unpack all this for me. Yeah. Speaker 1: So, you know, I think to unpack it, you kinda have to go back to the history of what happened. Right? How did we get to this? What is the microbiome? How does FDA look at the microbiome, etcetera? So if you think about the microbiome, it's basically microbes in your gut. Right? We describe the microbiome of the gut, but there's microbes all around us. If anything we've learned from COVID is the importance of microbes, microbes that can kill us, but also microbes that can save us. And the importance importance of of gut health, which is really your immunity is in the gut. Speaker 0: I just wanted to kind of break this down for the uninitiated. Right? I mean, basically, so with a fecal transplant, you know, you're basically taking poop from one person you're giving it to another. Correct. Speaker 1: It's a messy business. Speaker 0: Right. It's a messy business. But you're taking sort of a healthy, what you believe to be a healthy Right. And you're giving it to someone who has a problem. And with C. Diff, an obvious with C. Diff, was an obvious, very clear problem. And that drug that there's no drug that will help them. That's how it started. Speaker 1: So when I was doing it for C. Diff, the only way in America to do fecal transplant is for C. Diff. So remember, it took sixty two years for fecal transplant to be part of the guidelines. Of course, COVID was in the midst of all that where the FDA said hold off on fecal transplant because we discovered COVID in the stools, and therefore, we could pass stools with COVID to the patient with the immunosuppressed or the autistic kid or whoever. Speaker 0: Well, just as I under as you as you said, right, they're just you simply couldn't do these studies before. Couldn't do it. Speaker 1: No. And and what changed I think this administration is a little bit more efficient in the processing of the paperwork. I would hate to think politics have something to do with treating kids with autism because kids with autism affects both the Democrats and the Republican and the independents. It affects all races. It affects all religions. It affects boys and girls. So to make it a political agenda is really not okay. When you look at one in twelve and a half boys in California have autism, you gotta pay attention. You gotta put all hands on deck and say, what are we doing here? How do we do it? And this is an amazing study because this is a physician initiated IND, investigative new drug, that's basically as a physician, I'm gonna be looking at these kids, every single one of these kids, and say, why did it work in this kid? Why didn't it work in that kid? And what can I do to that kid that it didn't work? Because I'm not gonna wait, you know, for something else. You know, this is where it happens. It happens on the on the front line of clinical trials where as a physician, you have the courage to try different things. I'm focusing on the microbiome and an answer with fecal transplant possibly. But what about the kid that doesn't have a microbiome abnormality and has a neurological primary? Or what about the kid that has a inflammatory bowel disease where his colonic mucosa is completely, you know, destroyed and needs to we need to fix that before we start implanting microbes? What about the kid that has a connection between the brain and the gut? What about the kid that has a genetic problem? You know, these are different ways to treat. Speaker 0: You had been doing work around microbiome and COVID nineteen Speaker 1: Right. Speaker 0: The virus, and then also the what what happened after mRNA vaccination. And these this had profound effects on the microbiome, and you maybe maybe you can kind of remind us of what you discovered Speaker 1: Yes. Speaker 0: And maybe sort of bring us to current stage where Speaker 1: we're at. So remember, I was the girl that basically was doing clinical trials for pharma, and I was doing fecal transplant. The first thing that came to me during COVID was, I bet you it's in Speaker 0: the stools. Speaker 1: Why? Because we noticed when we were doing stool analysis that if you have a person that has a nasal congestion and is growing a microbe in the nose or in the sinuses, you will find that microbe in the sinuses. We were taking patients that had COVID doing a nasal swab positive, and we were finding COVID in the stools. We found COVID in the stools in a hundred percent of patients that were positive nasal swab. What we then ended up figuring out is COVID can persist in the stools. And what we also ended up figuring out was that some people were asymptomatic and had COVID in their stools but yet never had symptoms. What was the difference between those people? The difference was their bifidobacteria. Speaker 0: I'm I'm gonna jump in because I remember early in COVID, there was some anecdotal evidence. I think it might have even been from Korea initially that that, you know, people that are eating kimchi, a lot of kimchi, are doing well or not catching COVID. And then I heard something similar about sauerkraut Yes. Which, you know, made me wanna eat kimchi and sauerkraut, of course. Yes. So Speaker 1: yeah. So that was that was my question at the beginning. Right? Mhmm. Those, you know, anecdotal studies, like, of kimchi and sauerkraut, because, obviously, you can talk to people that ate sauerkraut and still got COVID. What's different between that population? Why is one person eating sauerkraut and kimchi is fine and another person not? Right? So that was my my biggest question. So when you start looking at the bifidobacteria and you start looking at COVID, we noticed that forty three severe patients with COVID had zero bifidobacteria. I'm just gonna focus on bifidobacteria, not the others, because there are some people that have have zero bifidobacteria and never got COVID because there are other microbes that came on that said, hey. Bifidobacteria is low. I'm gonna up this group of microbes to basically create a resilience. Right? And that's something we don't really talk about, resilience. Right? So, again, when you look at the bifidobacteria in these in these 43 patients, zero, and then you look at your patients that that were exposed but never got COVID like that first family that I did, we noticed they had a lot of bifidobacteria. So bifidobacteria was really the beginning for me. It was like, I wonder if that's the microbe I need to focus to neutralize COVID, to to suppress COVID. If I have a lot of good bifidobacteria, maybe I'll be fine during COVID. Right? I mean, I think what I saw during the pandemic was a bunch of miracles. You know? From losing no one during the pandemic to still being stand standing speaking to you today with all, you know, the controversy in my research because, you know, here I am, the girl that brought vaccines to market. And because I showed data that the messenger RNA killed the bifidobacteria, now I'm an anti vaxxer. So the controversy has stopped the the movement of research and science. Speaker 0: Mhmm. Speaker 1: And, again, we need to stop with the controversy and say, let's ask question. That's what science is all about. Science is about asking questions and pushing that narrative and saying, it's not the way it should be. Speaker 0: And if if I may just jump in. I mean, you discovered that the spike protein reduces bifidobacteria. Speaker 1: Really? Correct. So what we discovered with the vaccine is that it did kill the bifidobacteria within a month, but it persisted in killing the bifidobacteria. Because if you look at the long COVID or the vaccine injured, the one and we're coming out with data on that, zero bifidobacteria across the line. So if they have zero bifidobacteria, you know I know, because I've been dealing with this for five years now, it's very difficult once you've killed your microbiome to get back up. So these people are still at a state of loss of diversity, loss of immunity, poor immunity, and they're also at a state remember, bifidobacteria is important in absorbing sugar. So they're not absorbing sugar, and that's one microbe that they've lost. What about the microbe that helps break down, you know, calcium to get absorption of calcium? They've destroyed that as well, so they're not absorbing calcium. What do you think happens at the cellular level in the mitochondria when you lack sugar and you lack calcium? You're missing that energy, that Krebs cycle. Your my mitochondria stops working. So long COVID is really a spike protein injury. But, also, when you look at these cases, they have zero bifidobacteria either from the treatment or the virus themselves or the spike protein, but also some of them have re remaining COVID in their stools. So we need to pay attention to that. Speaker 0: Doctor Hazan, we're gonna take a quick break right now, and folks, we're gonna be right back. Thank you for tuning in to American Thought Leaders. In a world where spin and agendas dominate the headlines, I'm proud to bring you unfiltered insights from the brightest minds in America from a relative outsider Canadian perspective. To keep this possible and to access even more exclusive content, in-depth documentaries, and our daily digital newspaper, consider subscribing to The Epoch Times today. It's your way to support independent journalism. Just hit the link in the description below to subscribe and unlock the full American thought leaders experience and so much more. You can try it today for just $1 a week. So just hit the link in the description below. And now back to the interview. And we're back with the CEO of Perjeta Biome, doctor Sabine Hazan. There were, some problems also with sometimes there being endotoxin in the COVID genetic vaccines and so forth. So that would be another route that there Speaker 1: could be Speaker 0: damage and problems. So does that factor into what you've been looking at? Speaker 1: There's a lot of different factors. There was studies from the study from Kevin McKernan and Philip Buchholz that basically showed a contamination as v 40. Right. Right? That could be a possible mechanism on how this vaccine became a bifida fudge too. Did it stimulate, you know, the ability to stimulate cancer cells, for example? Speaker 0: Are you aware of cases where, you know, you've been able to treat people with either vaccine injury or long COVID by fecal transplant. Speaker 1: That's something that I possibly would bring. Although I think, you know, as I was pushing, you know, there are other ways to fix, you know, something that's gonna be coming in the future. You know, you always gotta keep on top of the research, and research is a story that's untold. It's one experiment after another after another, and you discover one thing and you move on to another thing. And then others kind of bring in their opinion and and validate, verify, and reproduce what you've done. Right? That gets you to keep moving further. Speaker 0: So when it comes to, you know, the art and perhaps of refloralization, I like I really like this term. It's a very Floral. Term for something that that maybe doesn't look as nice if you were to Correct. Staring at it. But you you have had this case. I know that you're still working on publishing the research where you, you know, you did this with twins. And we know that, you know, the twin studies are very popular for a bunch of reasons because the genetics are identical. What happened? Speaker 1: So so from COVID and from doing that n of one, which which took time, and then from trying to get this familial FMT, I had these kids that were basically coming in with autism. And I have a lot of patients that come to me that have tried so many things. And so this case was two twins with the mom flew in from Tennessee, and I basically innovated. And but I said to her, said, let me look at the microbiome. What was amazing about this case, and it's gonna be a a breakthrough. I don't wanna say too much because it's gonna be published in October at the American College of Gastro. But, essentially, we saw the identical out of trillions of microbes, we saw elevation relative abundance of microbes elevated the same three phylum in both identical kids. And as we refluralized the gut, not with fecal transplant, but with methods, we basically noticed that those microbes disappeared and the good bacteria came on at the same time as speech started. So this was a breakthrough case, and it's going be a breakthrough for the FDA once they see that. And we're going to use that. So we're going to start doing familial fecal transplant with the FDA. But we're hoping that we can bring this other method after you know, while we're doing familial fecal transplant to get the data to understand, because this could have been a fluke with these two kids kids. But we wanna try to reproduce these two kids to see if we can do this for other kids. Speaker 0: Mhmm. Speaker 1: And therefore, maybe run two protocols. One with familial FMT, fecal fecal microbiota transplant or intestinal microbiota transplant, and then another one with this protocol to kinda see, can we do this more, you know, safer, better, less playing with poop? You know? Because this doesn't play with poop. Speaker 0: Well, and the the the other aspect is also that, as we said at the beginning, everybody's different. Right? And so just I think this is actually kind of important. There isn't a sort of, Speaker 1: you know, one size fits Speaker 0: all No. Solution when it comes to this. Speaker 1: There isn't a microbiome. There's trillions of microbes. And, like, I gave you the example with the fungus, or it could be a fungal, you know, overgrowth. It could be a you know, even doctor Feingold, who was the beginning, who basically said, let's try vancomycin. Right? He said, let's try vancomycin for kids with autism, and he saw something with vancomycin. What he was seeing was a destruction of a microbiome and a suppression of microbes that secrete toxins, which decreased the aggressivity the aggressivity of the kid but did not restore the speech. It was but at least it gave quality of life to the family to say, hey. Our kid is not banging his head on the wall, and so vancomycin got us to this level. Right? But vancomycin is not a permanent solution. The solution is really to restore the gut to the way it was, and the challenge that we have is we do not know what it was before. So when you take a kid and he has a destroyed microbiome, you don't know what his fingerprint of his microbiome was before to reproduce him. Right? And you're right. Everybody's different, so everybody may not need the same, but we need to be more precise. Speaker 0: You know, something just kind of struck me, though. If you're going to take some sort of therapy, which is going to affect your gut biome. Like, example, you mentioned antibiotics earlier. I don't know if it was obvious to people. You can basically nuke your gut Correct. If you use heavy antibiotics or protracted use of antibiotics. So this creates its own set of problems, like in some cases, C. Does and so it make sense to kind of, I don't know, put some on ice before you if you do have to go into some sort of treatment, and then maybe that might be useful in the future? Speaker 1: I do that with some patients that I see have a spectacular microbiome and are super healthy. I say, you may wanna save it. You know? I saved some of mine before COVID because I knew I was gonna be on the front line. I was gonna be exposed to COVID, and I wanted to make sure I had my original microbiome that I could go back to because I know the genetics of my family. So and I know I wanna go back to my personality in a way and what I can do. So I kinda wanted that. But, yes, that's the future. Again, there's red tape with that as well. You need to have a a licensed lab. You need to store it properly. You need to make sure it's the right stools. Speaker 0: But I also think the headline here, right, the thing that you're not mentioning is is that all those conditions are actually treatable by affecting the microbiome, and that's been shown. Right? And I don't know if everybody understands that. Speaker 1: Here's the thing. When you say that, it gets the academia to go, oh my god. She's talking cures, etcetera. You can't really say that until you show the data. Right? We have anecdotal data that shows you know, if you look at the studies from China, they've showed improvement of Parkinson's with fecal microbiota transplant. John Hopkins is gonna start a study on that. Right? So we're at the beginning of all this. Eventually, we'll go back and say, oh my god. How archaic these humans were. They were practicing you know, they were operating on a kidney instead of, like, changing the microbiome. Right? Speaker 0: But I guess we should say that there's potential in all these areas. Very Speaker 1: real Yes. Speaker 0: Very real potential. Potential. Right? And that's actually Speaker 1: Yes. Speaker 0: That's what I meant. This is certainly is not something that's being broadly done or explored. I understand. But the other thing that you mentioned, which I thought was really interesting, was I think you were suggesting that when your gut flora changes significantly, your personality might change significantly. I think you mentioned that. Like, you alluded to that a few times Yes. Speaker 1: So as we've been talking. Yeah. So we showed data of a signature microbiome in anxiety. Remember COVID were very anxious during COVID. And whether it was from the media, whether it was from, you know, whatever, the the COVID itself or the treatment, people were very anxious with COVID. Speaker 0: So there seems to be, you know, quite a bit of open minded thinking around health, especially preventative medicine, but, of course, in treatment of all sorts. And there's this huge focus on autism right now. You know, what would be your recommendations in terms of, you know, approaching the autism question from through the biome, for example, or more broadly? Speaker 1: I mean, this is something that I'd love to work with this this government to kind of start seeing, and not only this government, but probably with with governments from around the world as well. Autism, like I said, affects everyone. Every country has kids with autism. If we could come together to help these kids, what a great thing that would be. You know? So I think what COVID did is it removed our trust, removed our trust in the agencies, removed our trust in the government, removed our trust from pharmaceutical companies. I think I'm the right person to kind of bring it all together to say, look. You want me to trust you? Then let's start doing the research properly where we look at the microbiome, where we understand these diseases properly, where we work together. As clinical trials doctor, we come together with doctors around the world. I had colleagues in Italy that were doing clinical trials. I had colleagues in Germany that were doing clinical trials. I could call Italy and say, what's been working for you? And then I could apply it for my patients and my population here in America. We need to start joining together to understand and to fix these kids. One in twelve and a half boys in California have autism. When are we gonna start paying attention? When one in one kid is autistic? And if not now, when? And the only way to fix that is to all come together as human beings for the goodness of our children and the generations in the future. Speaker 0: Well, doctor Sabine Hazan, it's such a pleasure to have had you on. Speaker 1: Thank you, and thank you again for having me. Speaker 0: If you enjoyed what you just watched, support our independent journalism by subscribing today to The Epoch Times and get access to all of our exclusive content. Just click the link in the description below, and we'll see you next time.
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An 88-yr-old TN woman’s bold words to TVA—“you think you own something, you don’t own nothing”—inspired @johnrich’s “The Devil and the TVA.” Listen as he shares his journey from achieving No. 1 hits to leaving labels for freedom, and tying faith to today’s turmoil. https://t.co/34uGyROtXV

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John Rich recounts his path to independence: "Warner Brothers Records started calling me into meetings and saying, hey. You can't say stuff like that." After clashes over speech and radio play, he and Big Kenny launched Big and Rich Records, producing "four more top 10 singles on our own without a major record label." He frames freedom of expression as essential: "Your freedom of speech is invaluable." He calls "music" his "weapon of choice" and notes releasing songs like Earth to God and Revelation outside traditional radio, depicting spiritual warfare. He highlights his Cheatham County TVA battle, including the neighbor's video and "You think you own something, but you don't own nothing." He envisions a "presidentially appointed citizen advocate" and cites "Trump weighed in" to halt the project. He has written about 2,000 songs, with "218 of them recorded by major artists."
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Speaker 0: Warner Brothers Records started calling me into meetings and saying, hey. You can't say stuff like that. You are causing radio programmers to not play your music because they don't agree with you. And if we can't sell your music, then this is a no go. Speaker 1: Today, I sit down with multi platinum country music artist, John Rich. We discuss his incredible career journey, his songwriting process, and how he was able to remain successful without relying on record labels. Speaker 0: You're giving up all that big push that you get from a major company, but what are you getting in return? You're able to say what you wanna say exactly how you wanna say it. Your freedom of speech is invaluable. Speaker 1: We also discussed how John uses his music to be what he calls a citizen advocate. Speaker 0: They pull up on her property, people get out of the cars, bulletproof vests, loaded weapons, and this lady's going, who are all these people? I told him, you got two weeks. If you don't get out of our county, I'm gonna write a song about the TVA, and you'll never be the same. Music is my weapon of choice. Not being a politician, music. Speaker 1: This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kelek. John Rich, so good to have you on American Thought Leaders. Great to be here. Speaker 0: Thanks for making the trip to Nashville, sitting right in the middle of my house. Speaker 1: Well, and an incredible performance venue, apparently. Yeah. You know, the truth is I have very little experience with country music, but a formative experience because my father was really into Johnny Cash. It seems like only Johnny Cash and Edith Piaf, different genre. Yeah. But but I still remember live from Folsom Prison. It's I can play it in my mind. So we listened to that cassette tape so many times as a kid. Yeah. It was very, very warm memories. Let's just talk a little bit about how you got into this, You know, before we get into the whole everything you've been doing, you know, in American politics and the cult shaping culture and all that, how did you even get into this in the first place? Speaker 0: So I grew up listening to records like Life From Folsom Prison. My dad is a preacher, but loved country music, loved the old stuff. So we had Life From Folsom Prison. We had Roger Miller. We had Tennyson Ernie Ford. We had all the greats from that fifties and sixties era of country music. And my dad's a really good singer, really good guitar player. So, you know, at family events, when you get through eating and everybody's sitting around, my dad would always pull his guitar out. And my granddaddy, his dad, wanted to hear Boy Named Sue. Play Boy Named Sue. And He's over there smoking Marlboro Reds, you know, one after the other. Play Boy Named Sue. My granddaddy just called out songs and my dad knew them all and would play them. I always thought that was just so cool that my dad could just sit there and just play them one after the next after the next. So one of my dad's extra jobs was given guitar lessons. And so he let me tag along when I was about five years old in Amarillo, Texas up in the Panhandle to a guitar lesson. And he had all these adults sitting in a room. He had me kinda sit behind him and he handed me a little cheapy guitar, you know, here, a little kid guitar. He goes, yeah, just follow along. Well, after about the second lesson, I was picking it up faster than the adults that he was teaching. And my dad went, wow, you're picking that up pretty fast. Let me show you some other stuff. So now at home, he starts showing me stuff. And man, I just thought it was the greatest thing ever to be able to do what my dad was able to do. Pick up a guitar, and now when my granddaddy would say play boy named Sue, I could pick my guitar up too and bang along right with my dad. So it really started from that. It was something my dad did and something I got to do with my dad, make music with your dad. I mean, what's better than that? Never dreamed in a million years it it would be something you could have a career in, but, it's turned out that way. Speaker 1: Was there some moment where you knew, okay, I am gonna give it a shot on the career path? Speaker 0: When I was about 15, about 15 years old. So we moved from Texas to Tennessee when I was in ninth grade. And so I finished high school in Tennessee. I started realizing after meeting some kids at school that there were connections to these great country singers I'd grown up listening to. Ricky Skaggs, for instance. One of the boys I became friends with said, yeah, my dad drives a bus for Ricky Skaggs. And I said, Ricky Skaggs rides on a bus? I'm thinking like a school bus. He goes, well, yeah, tour bus. And I went, how different is that from a school bus? Like, I had no idea. He goes, it's like he lives on it. My dad drives it. I said, your dad knows Ricky Skaggs. He goes, he's been driving his bus for ten years. And I realized at that moment, was within 35 or 40 miles from Music Row. I mean, from the epicenter of country music. And so the second I got my driver's license, I started driving into Nashville looking for talent contests, open mic nights, anything I could get in. I was too young to get in, but I would talk my way in, and I would say, I'll sit in a corner, I'll drink a glass of water, I just wanna get up and sing. And so I started entering talent contests, and I knew, I thought I might be good enough to actually do this, so I'm just gonna start going. And little by little, I got good enough to where I could do it. And at 18 years old, I decided not to go to college. I had a four year paid scholarship to Belmont University, which is literally outside my window. Really good school. My family doesn't come from money, so it wasn't like, you know, my dad could stroke big checks to a college. So having it paid for was a really big deal. But instead of going to college, I decided to go on the road with a bunch of guys I'd met who were from Texas who were a lot older than me and go play Holiday Inn lounges, county rodeos, off brand casinos from Vancouver to Jacksonville, Florida and everywhere in between instead of going to college. And the reason I did that was because I wanted to play the Grand Ole Opry, I wanted to write hit country songs, and I wanted to be on country radio. Mhmm. Those are my goals. And I couldn't think of how college was gonna help me get to that point. So I took that risk, jumped into it, and was probably too dumb to realize how big of a risk that actually was, but it worked out. That band became Lone Star. That became a multi platinum country act. So wrote my first number one when I was 21 years old. Speaker 1: You know, I still remember when I first learned about the Grand Old Operee, and this was Robin Williams live at the Met. He says, you know, he gets up and he says, howdy? And he's, whoop, strong opera house. And I was like, what does he everyone seemed to understand Right. What he was talking about. I had no idea. Speaker 0: I mean, Grendel Opry is longest running radio show in the history of America. It's still every Saturday night. And that's like for a country singer, forget being a member of the Opry. That'd probably be the ultimate ultimate. But just to be good enough and recognized enough that the Opry would invite you to step onto their stage and sing anything is like a it's just a giant pinnacle moment for any country singer including me. Speaker 1: So I guess it happened. Speaker 0: It happened. Yeah. So Lone Star, we got a record deal. I I called my dad. I said, you're not gonna believe it. We just got a record deal. And he goes, no way. I said, yeah. And so then I started writing songs full time, working on those records. We were touring about two hundred days a year. Two hundred days a year. Speaker 1: So that's sweat equity. Right? Speaker 0: That's what it takes. Well, you know, a lot of people in in America that want to be a professional entertainer, they want to do it the easy way or they don't want to do it at all. They want to either get discovered on YouTube, which nothing wrong with that, or they wanna go win American Idol, nothing wrong with that either. But the vast majority of people that not only make it, but have long careers. You don't wanna just make it for five years and then that's it. You wanna you wanna make music the rest of your life if you really love it. It's not a hobby. Is they they're the ones that go out and play 200 nights a year, year after year after year, getting sharper and better and better at not only singing and writing songs, how to communicate to an audience, how to entertain people for real, how to how to condition your body and mind to work that hard. Mhmm. Because once you get a record deal, the work doesn't stop. It actually goes up from there. Now you've got 250 major market radio stations that have to see you and have to meet you and have to go to lunch with you, and you have to convince them to play your music and go play free radio shows for them over and over and over all over The United States. So it is a to really do it for real, it is a lifelong commitment. Speaker 1: And you do a lot more than Speaker 0: Makes me tired hearing about it, doesn't it? Yeah. You went, I'm tired just listening to that. Yeah. No doubt. I'm tired remembering it. Speaker 1: You write music, you perform music, and you do a lot more than that, and we're gonna talk about all of it. Do you remember the first time you actually wrote a song? Do you remember Speaker 0: Oh, of course. Speaker 1: Yeah. Like, what how did that play out? Speaker 0: I don't care what any guy ever tells you. If it's any answer other than this, he's a liar. The reason a guy picks up a guitar and writes a song is one reason, girls. That's it. Girls. Speaker 1: That that that theme of many country songs I have heard involved That's Speaker 0: that's the whole impetus for for figuring out how to play three or four chords is girls. And so there was a girl, and, she was dating the football player. Oh, I ain't I ain't big enough to be on the football team, you know. And, I thought, how do I get this girl's attention? So I wrote a song for her, put it on a cassette because that's what we had back then, wrote the lyrics down, folded up, stuck it in her locker. And it worked. And the football player wanted to whoop me all over the school and was not happy with me for the rest of my time there, but it worked. And I got a date with that girl. So, yeah, that's girls is what sets that off. But then I went, well, that worked. Maybe I'll write another one. So I wrote another one, and they weren't good. But as I as I got into being around more senior musicians, like the Lone Star guys, those guys actually could write songs, like actual really good songs that could be on the radio. And then we got a record deal, and upon that moment is when now you've got a record deal, now you're a commodity, now you're an income stream for all the songwriters in Nashville. If we can get a song on that Lone Star record, we get paid. That's a big deal. So I was able to sit in a room with the absolute giants, the Albert Einstein's of country songwriting. Mark d Sanders, Paul Nelson, Larry Boone, Don Cook, Chick Raines, Sharon Vaughn. It was this list of writers that had written, you know, the gambler. My heroes have always been cowboys for Willie Nelson. Like, level of songwriters were currently writing at that time, and I'm like 20. And I'm able to sit in a room as close as we are right now and walk in and write a song with them. And that's where I learned how to really craft a song from every syllable in that song has to hit. Everyone. Just because it rhymes does not mean it's good. And I learned all these lessons about how to really be a wordsmith, with a song and make it stick. Write a hit song. And I I those people are all my mentors. I mean, that that crew of songwriters in my mind were the best that ever walked. Speaker 1: To the uninitiated, like myself and so forth, it's just there's there's a just a few themes. Seems like, and this is maybe you can tell me, right, the answer to this. It seems like there's just a few basic things. One of them is I met a girl, didn't work out. Speaker 0: Mhmm. Speaker 1: Right? I mean, roughly. Loss. I've heard a lot of those. Speaker 0: Yeah. So loss. Yeah. What's another thing? Speaker 1: Well, that's that I Speaker 0: met a girl and it did work out. Right. Love. Right. Fun. Sadness. Populist. What's going on? What's going on in Speaker 1: the And and, you know, I I the song I've been listening to a whole bunch of your songs recently, and the one that really kinda struck me was Revelation. Connection with God. It also plays into this. Speaker 0: Of course. Yeah. God plays into everything. He doesn't play into into us. We play into him. He's the boss. So Revelation is a song that I'll put it to I'll back up just a second. If I still had a record deal, which I don't and wouldn't take one if it was offered to me, but if I did, which I did most of my life, the last five or six songs that I put out would have never been heard by a soul because they would have taken that recording and said, nice song, John. What else you got? And they own my voice, and they own my likeness, and they own all every all my recordings. They would just shelve it. You would never hear it. And so a song like Revelation, writing that song post my involvement with the music industry, the timing of that was right on the money. Because I could have written that song years years before that, nobody would have heard it. I write it on my own. What are you giving up? You're giving up the money of the of the industry. You're giving up all the radio stations. You're giving up all that big push that you get from a major company. You're giving that up, but what are you getting in return? You're able to say what you want to say exactly how you want to say it. And one of the good things about tech and most things I don't like about tech, but a good thing about tech is I don't need a record label now to get the word out about a new piece of music. I can literally just load it up myself, tell everybody check this out, and if they like the song, they'll go get it. Four out of my last five songs that I've released independently have been the number one most downloaded songs on Apple Music. Not in country music, all genres. Yeah. All genres. And that's that's a feat that is only possible generally if you have a major record deal. But when you've got millions of people out here that hear a song like Revelation, they go, where did that come from? Because I'm never gonna hear that on the radio. How do I get that? They click it, they download that song, now they've got it. That's the magic of it. I would not I would not go back if the biggest label if Sony Records offered me all the money in the world and said come back, I'd say no, thank you. Because your freedom of speech is invaluable, and I get to express it freely these days. Speaker 1: Well, so this I mean, it's remarkable. I mean, you had really written your own ticket. Right? You were you were set, but you decided. And it I mean, of course, this gave you the ability to say, no thanks anymore, folks. But but tell me about that decision. Speaker 0: Well, Warner Brothers Records, which was the last major label I was on, started calling me into meetings because they didn't like something I a comment that I made about a particular subject going on in America, going on in culture. Or they didn't like the fact that I did an interview with this conservative guy, or that I went on this conservative network, or whatever. And they started calling me in and saying, hey, you can't do interviews like that anymore. You can't say stuff like that anymore. I said, well, yes, I can. They go, no, you can't because you are causing radio programmers to not play your music because they don't agree with you, and they're gonna start blackballing you, and they were, off these radio stations. And if we can't get you played, we can't sell your music. And if we can't sell your music, we can't recoup all the money we've spent on you, and this is a no go. So, yes, you have to stop. And I said, it's not gonna happen. And so after that back and forth of maybe a year or two, I was like, this ain't gonna work. And they went, yeah, this ain't gonna work. And we split ways. Now at that point, me and Big Kenny of Big and Rich decided, well, we're not done. We've got a lot more songs in us. And so we we just started our own record label, Big and Rich Records, hired our own promotion team, put our own money into it, we scored four more top 10 singles on our own without a major record label. So that's where I saw that it was possible. What I'm doing now doesn't even involve country radio. They're not even in the loop, which is interesting because online consumption of music is just dwarfs terrestrial radio. Not even close. And that's the position I'm in now. Still a battle. Every time I put out a new song, I need people like you to come over and ask me about it, you know, and let your audience hear about it. So I I rely on a lot of people to help me get the word out and that's I'm grateful you came. Speaker 1: Can I get you to play a little bit of Revelation? Speaker 0: Sure. Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 0: What is it that struck you about the song so much? Speaker 1: If I Speaker 0: can ask let me What's flip the interview the listener think? So What's it about? The thing Speaker 1: that struck me, I listened to a a couple of songs that the the other one, Earth to God. Mhmm. Feels to me more like a like something somebody would play at a at a Christian church, at a revivalist church or something like that. But this song, the term that comes to my mind right now as you ask me, and I'm getting shivers up my spine about it, is reverence. I sense deep reverence, which I appreciate. Speaker 0: Yeah. There is deep reverence in it, and it is a subject, basically about spiritual warfare that everything you see happening in the world is just a result a physical manifestation of what's happening in the spirit. That's that's what the song is about. So if people haven't seen the video, I urge you to go watch it after after you watch this interview. But look up John Rich Revelation, YouTube, Rumble, anywhere and you'll see it. But it basically shows the devil coming out of the woods in a ball of fire and then it shows an angel coming down with a sword to battle him and I'm standing in between the two of them because humanity is what they're fighting over. And this is laid out throughout the Bible, all the way from the Old Testament all the way to the end of the Bible, the New Testament. It talks about it over and over and over. And I'd never heard a song about that. And the way I saw the world going, this would have been a year and a half ago, I guess I wrote that song, was so tumultuous and so so much evil walking right out into the spotlights with such arrogance that they no longer were hiding. It's like you can see it right there. There it is. And you watch a Super Bowl halftime show and there's satanic symbolism all over the stage and the artist looks like they're possessed as they were singing it. And you realize the war that they're waging on humanity on behalf of their father, the devil. What about us? What about the other side? Somebody gonna say somebody gonna acknowledge this is what's going on? And even though a lot of us do acknowledge it, I hadn't heard a song about it. Have you? Have you ever heard another song like like Revelation? Speaker 1: No. I mean, I haven't. And that's why that's the one that that's the one I remember most. Speaker 0: I'll play a piece of it. Speaker 1: Please. Speaker 0: Dancing in the flames, the people cursed his name, bowed at the altar of the father of lies. But there's a number to their days and all their evil ways. The Lord's gonna turn away from all their cries. Oh, revelation. I can feel it coming like a dark train running. Oh, get it ready because the king is coming. The king is coming back again. So you're a Johnny Cash fan. Me too. Speaker 1: But that's probably also why I it. It's probably now that you're saying it, it reminds me. Speaker 0: Right? Especially later Johnny Cash. Yeah. You know, that song, when I go out and play concerts now, of all the songs I've had something to do with, by far, that is the one that people come up and say to mention to me just like you just did. Revelation, man, that song, wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Because it's not even really a song. I mean, yeah, it's musical, but what I did is I took what it says in the Bible about this situation, just made it rhyme. There's none of my opinion in the song. There's none of my perspective in the song. It's what John, the disciple, apostle, prophet John wrote in the book of Revelation, I made it into a song. Speaker 1: Well, I was gonna say it, so it does have to rhyme in the end. Right? Speaker 0: Well, it has to rhyme to be a song. Yes. But none of none of the statements made in the song are my statements. Right. That's what makes it different. Speaker 1: Oh, that I mean, that's fascinating. You know, you've you've written something to the tune of 2,000 songs. Speaker 0: Right. Speaker 1: I mean, that's a that's a quite a prolific repertoire. Speaker 0: If you figure an average song takes about ten hours to write, eight to ten hours, and multiply that by over 2,000, that's a lot of that's a lot of time spent writing songs. But, you know, out of the out of those 2,000 plus, I've had 218 of them recorded by major artists. So I'm batting about 10%. Speaker 1: How many of them do you actually perform? Speaker 0: Of the two eighteen, probably probably 60 or 70 of those. That's amazing. But then a lot of other artists started coming in. You know, when I I was writing a 150 plus songs a year for many, many years. And once once big and rich music got popular, everybody started calling, going, hey, Do you have more songs like that? I go, I got a whole catalog of songs like that that nobody's cared about for a long time. Here you go. Here's 50 of them. And then so for instance, Jason Aldine, he's a huge country artist, massive, plays football stadiums. Jason Aldine, before he had ever got a record deal, heard some of my songs, came to me and said, I really like your songs, man. If I ever get a record deal, I'd love to record a bunch of them. I said, man, go get you a record deal, you know, and he did. So on Aldine's first record, seven out of his 10 songs, I was a writer on those songs. The whole almost the whole first record. Same thing with Gretchen Wilson who wound up selling, you know, $1,010,000,000 plus records. So those songs were written when my phone was not ringing. Those songs were written when I had no deal, when I was damaged goods in the industry. And I've told people this many times in speaking engagements and when I'm meeting with people, I say, listen. When things are completely out of your control, things are happening in your life that are out of your control, you cannot stop it. You gotta find something that you still can control, as simple as it may be, and control it well. I said that could be what you're eating every day. It could be how many how many phone calls am I gonna make today to try to get a new job. It could be how many miles am I gonna walk. Whatever it is, how many push ups can I do today? For me, it was pencil, paper, and a guitar. I still have that. I can control that. And so I dove all the way into that and started writing just massive amount of songs where nobody cared about them. For all I knew, would ever hear these songs because nobody gave a damn about them at that point. I can promise you that. But four or five years down the road, Big and Rich takes off and now the whole town, every producer in town, every artist is calling and they started cutting them. Speaker 1: That's remarkable. Speaker 0: Yeah. You gotta you gotta cut firewood before the winter hits. Right? It's like the verse in Proverbs about the ant. It says the ant goes out and and stores its food up in the summer. Because when the winter hits, there ain't no food to store up. So I've always kinda had that attitude. When things are down, that's when you make your bones right there. That's when you stack up preparing for success in the future. Speaker 1: So you said revelations is, you know, basically not your words. You just made them rhyme. Is there a particular song that really is your words that is really the quintessential John Rich? Speaker 0: I mean, most all of them. Yeah. Revelation is a different is a different animal altogether. Speaker 1: But is there one? Speaker 0: I mean, Earth to God, you mentioned that song earlier. That that song actually is being sang in churches all across The US. I get videos all the time from people. They'll go, look, this lady sang your song in our church last Sunday, and I'll I'll look at the video and go, wow. Can't even believe this whole congregation knows the words to it. Never been on a country radio station, but it has made its way into tens of millions of people. That song was written in 2020. So you had in 2020, 2021, where you had the COVID lockdowns, and then here come the vaccine mandates, and then here comes people burning our cities down all across The US. It was horrible. And I I look out to one end, I go, I had this picture in my head of like an old World War two soldier sitting at one of those CB radios. Remember the old ones where it kinda comes up and the microphone's up here Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 0: And it's got a button on it? Yeah. I had this picture of like an old man sitting behind this microphone pressing the button going, earth to God, come in God, like hailing God. Because the whole planet's on fire. There's a pandemic going. I mean, everything's upside down. And I thought, that'd be a good song to write. Earth to God, come in God. Because what does earth wanna hear God say back? This is God. Come back earth. And I had that thought and went, that is that is a massive thought. It's so simple. Which again is another tenet of country music songwriting is the simpler the better. Nail that line, stick everything, build everything around that very simple thought, and you've got a song that'll stick. And so I wrote Earth to God and put it out, and, I think it really helped a lot of people to hear that. In the interviews I did around that, I said, listen, he's literally right there. You feel like the whole world's burning down? It is. But he can see that, and he can see you, and all you have to do is go, can I talk to you for a minute? And he'll go, yep. Thought you'd never ask. That's what that song is all about. Mhmm. Speaker 1: No. I I I've I've had that moment in my life. You've had these moments where you were, you know, well, don't know, you would say probably you're at the top of your game now, right? I don't know. Speaker 0: I feel like I'm doing alright. Yeah. I mean, it depends on what game. Speaker 1: Well, so, you know, when big and rich really kinda, you know Yep. I was at a time of Speaker 0: the game Speaker 1: then too. You were I don't know. You won Celebrity Apprentice back in the day. Was a big deal. Yeah. Right? A lot of people knew who you were. Yeah. How do you how did you deal with the fame? Speaker 0: Not very well. Mhmm. I had a horrible gambling problem. I love blackjack. I'm really good at it. I was pulling ungodly amounts of money off of tables all across The US and then you'd play more and more and more and more. That's a real thing by the way. Gambling addiction, that's for real. Very, very hot temper, very arrogant. You can look me up and see where I got thrown off of airplanes. You can look me up and see where I was in multiple fist fights in one night in Los Angeles, California. I mean, just absolute, just full out rock and roll out here. And at some point, you realize on the gambling thing, I went and knocked a table out in Tunica, Mississippi just clobbered this table. Tens of thousands of dollars that I won. And got back here to Nashville and I'm looking at all that money and I went, I just felt like he was telling me that is the most disrespectful thing you could ever do with what I gave you. Because I didn't grow up with money. We didn't grow up starving. We we had what we needed, but you didn't have extra money laying around. And I felt like he was going, can you imagine what your dad could have done with that money? Like that's what he was putting in my head and I felt so guilty over living like that and mistreating and disrespecting what God had given me that I'm gonna go out here and throw this down on a stupid blackjack table. That was it. I never played another hand of cards since then and that was 2010. 2010. And I have played a lot of places, thousands, where I could go play cards anytime I wanted. I refused. I will never play cards ever again. It was absolute cold turkey, full stop. And that was the beginning of me starting to come back around and hearing him again and what he wanted me to actually do. Speaker 1: Well, that's this is what I was thinking about as you were saying that, you know, that you actually you listened and you listened hard, it seems, at that moment. Speaker 0: Well, you're lucky, God will only knock your teeth out. If you're unlucky, he'll knock your brains out. And I was lucky that he only knocked my teeth out. And he did several times, knocked me down hard, various ways, Because I think he cares about me. I know he does. And he wants to see me go do what it is I'm supposed to do and that ain't it. It's kinda like, so we call God, he's the father. He's your father. Okay. Well, I'm a father. I have two sons. And if one of my sons is playing football out in the street and I say, hey, don't play football in the street. And I grab the football and go get back in here. Get back in the yard. Don't play in the street, you'll get hit by a car. And the very next day, he's out there playing football again while the punishment goes up and up and up. And I'm doing that because I don't want my son to get hit by a car because I want him to live his life out and become an old man someday and do what he's supposed to do. Not die at nine or 10 years old playing football in the street. So eventually, if they won't listen, the punishments get worse and worse and more aggressive and drastic to try to break them, break their will of doing something that's gonna hurt them. And so that's how I look at my sons as a dad. Well, if we're created in God's image, that means he thinks like we think he's just perfect at it. We're very imperfect. But it's the same same thought process that he has towards us. So when I look back at the punishments punishments over the years and the the come to Jesus moments, I go, thanks for not taking me out. Thanks for not just erasing me. Thanks for only knocking a few molars out here and there, and and then and then fixing me back up. That's quite a thing to say probably on an interview. You're not gonna really hear preachers talk like that, but that's really how it works. Speaker 1: Well, you know, it speaks to my own experience quite a bit because I think probably I was somewhere in between the getting the teeth knocked out and the brains knocked out, and it was a really rough time in my life, but it ended up, when I look back, and I mean this sincerely, the best thing that ever happened to me. Sure. As it shifted it shifted the trajectory in a really good way. Speaker 0: It saved you from wasting the rest of your life, whatever that was gonna be. 100%. I mean, look at Paul in the New Testament. I mean, so Paul was Saul, and Saul's whole job was working for the Romans, tracking down Christians and cutting their heads off. Like Roman candles, we get those on July 4. That was actually a thing. That came from back then when they take Christians, they bury them up to their neck, dump tar on their head, light them on fire. They call that a Roman candle. So Saul's whole job was to do that. I mean, was just vicious. And then the road to Damascus, God knocked his all his teeth out, smacked him so hard, and that was his last shot and blinded him. We all know the story about the road to Damascus. When Paul came to and could see again and hear again and think again, he he went from Saul to Paul. And then he wrote half the New Testament after that. So that that's how he operates. And so it's our job when he when he smacks you hard enough, you better listen because I think there's I think it's a finite amount of times that he will give you those those chances to turn around. Speaker 1: Yeah. I I wanna talk a little bit more about, like, the, I don't know, the fun. Speaker 0: Yeah. It's a lot of fun. Speaker 1: I mean, I I'm just thinking of this the the song Offended. Speaker 0: I'm offended. You're offended. Let's all get offended tonight. Yeah. Another, song about much more lighthearted, but yeah, all about just how ridiculous I found it to be that Americans were just literally offended and up in arms and, you know, horrified by any little thing that somebody would say or do or that would happen. And I remember, man, when I was growing up, wasn't like that. I mean, when I was growing up, Archie Bunker was on TV. George Jefferson was on TV. Right? And George Jefferson and Archie Bunker meeting up with each other and what they would say to each other and everybody laughs at that because it's funny. Because they didn't hate each other. They were neighbors. But George, like, I don't know if I like you because you're black. And he's going, I don't know if I like you because you're white. But they still had dinner together and hung out. And it was a it was a microcosm of America at that time. And nobody got offended, and nobody had a protest and nobody did anything. They just went, yeah, well, that's how a lot of people are those days back then. So today, fast forward up, it somebody's waving an American flag and and you're a Nazi. And on the other side, somebody's burning flags. Somebody, you know, they're going they're now taking it to these these extremes. And so I wrote this silly song called I'm offended. I'm offended that you're offended. Let's all get offended tonight. I'll order us a beer. We can sit down right here and scream and yell and cuss and fuss and fight. And it's like this goofball song that actually makes a pretty serious point. Speaker 1: Can I get you to give me a little bit of that with the guitar? Speaker 0: Let's see. Speaker 1: Because you were you just gave it to me without Speaker 0: It seems like these days, no matter what you say, someone's losing their ever loving mind. It's like they're looking for a reason to have their fragile feelings hurt every single time. My country truck, I gas it up. You got your fancy Tesla hooked up to a plug. I know you're mad. You think I'm bad because I'm breathing At last, and you're still stuck behind your mask, and I'm offended. You're offended. Let's all get offended tonight. I'll order us a beer. We can sit down right here and scream and yell cuss and fuss and fuss. Right? It's fantastic. Spot on. Speaker 1: And, you know, there's, like, there's a moment in the music video where, you know, the guys I think I expecting the guys are gonna fight, but they don't. They just kinda Speaker 0: They they wind up They they kinda make Speaker 1: up yeah. Speaker 0: Okay. They click their beers. Yeah. Yeah. The video is hilarious. Mike all these girls get in a fight. You've got girls with, like, nose rings and purple hair, and then country girls with cowboy hats and ball caps. They get in a fight. Mike Lindell walks in with the referee's uniform blowing a whistle and throwing a flag. Like, I mean, I basically just mocked the whole culture of offensive culture. I just mocked it, and people really liked it. Gave everybody a good laugh. Speaker 1: You have quite a bit of range, you know, all the way from, you know, putting the bible to song to something like this. Speaker 0: Well, country music is a reflection of life, and life is the is the complete range. That's what I love about country music. You can literally write about any subject you want to. That's different than pop. That's different than a lot a lot of other genres where country music is life put to paper. And so, sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's sad, sometimes it's serious, sometimes it's it's making fun of something like I'm offended. And that's what I love about it. I can write anything I want. Speaker 1: Well, so before I ask you about the next song, which I have on my mind right now, this one's you one that you're just about to to launch, why do you think the devil figures into country music songwriting as much as he does? It makes me I I've heard that in a number of Speaker 0: down to Georgia, Charlie Daniels. Speaker 1: There you go. Speaker 0: Exactly. That's probably the best example. Speaker 1: Exactly. But but it's but it's there's multiple examples. Speaker 0: It's not Speaker 1: just as common. Speaker 0: You're right. Speaker 1: Right? Why? Why is that? Speaker 0: I think I think country music of all the American genres of music is rooted in gospel music to a large degree, bluegrass music which was also very, you know, gospel and Christian in in its nature. That those those forms of American music are what really combined and became country music. So there's, you know, there's a lot of lot of gospel still in country. I mean, Carrie Underwood's first single was Jesus Take the Wheel. First song she ever put out. Jesus Take the Wheel. People that make country music for a living, not all of them, but a lot of us grew up singing in church. We've been around that gospel church environment or had members of our family that were devout Christians, people that we knew and were raised around. And that becomes part of your of your DNA. And so when you sit down and write a song in country music like Charlie Daniels, he's gonna write a song called The Devil Went Down to Georgia, and I whipped his ass. That's the song. The devil went down to Georgia and I beat him. He challenged me to a fiddle contest and I whipped the devil. Right? And people love that. They go, yeah, he whipped the devil. Good for Charlie Daniels. You know, so I think that's the reason why it comes in. In pop music and rap and a lot of other genres, when they talk about the devil, they talk about him in a very loving sort of a way. Speaker 1: I don't know those genres that well, but but is is that really the case? Speaker 0: Music is a very powerful weapon for good and bad. I mean, music is interesting because you can say something to somebody and they'll hear you, but if you put the same exact message and put a melody around it and a rhythm around it and then present it that way, what happens then? Do you ever catch yourself reciting a speech in your head over and over and over? Do you wake up in the morning hearing something Ronald Reagan said in your head over and over or anybody else? No. You wake up in the morning and a song is stuck in your head. Or you're driving to your car and a there's a song stuck in my head. Like music is very powerful. It I don't know I don't know the spiritual elements of it, but it's able to bypass the physical and get right into the soul of someone. And so when that's used on at the behest of wickedness and wicked people, it goes into their soul like that. When it's used as a good thing with a good message or God's message or whatever, it does the exact same thing. It goes right into one the same way. So there's a war that goes on music. The devil loves to use music as a weapon. So in here lies the battle. Speaker 1: You know, you've been on this mission to stop a methane plant from being put in place in a middle of a residential and farm area and so forth, and it seems like you won. Speaker 0: Yeah. So it's the TVA, the Tennessee Valley Authority, which a lot of people think just is Tennessee. It's actually seven states that they're in. It was, founded in 1933 by our most famous socialist president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, put that into gear. And the way he built the TBA was that they only answer to the president of The United States. They don't answer to governors. They don't answer to zoning boards. They don't answer to senators. They don't answer to anybody except the president The United States. And it's still that way today since 1933. So because they have this crazy setup, they don't have to adhere to things like the Fourth Amendment. Right? So illegal search and seizure, you know, probable cause and a warrant. Speaker 1: Well, let me check-in. Speaker 0: To come on your land. Speaker 1: It TVA is typically portrayed as a company that the government owns, but mostly just functions like a private company. Speaker 0: It functions like a private company with protection on a federal level, means it does not have to adhere to all kinds of things. So here's what happens. So there's a little county about 25 miles that direction called Cheatham County, Tennessee. My dad has a blueberry farm in Cheatham County, a small one like a micro farm. My brother also has a small farm there. I I finished high school in that county. I went through three years of high school, ninth, tenth, and eleventh. My granny Rich, my papa Rich, they they lived there till they died in that county. I still have some some land out there in Cheatham County. I know it very well. Know know the people there very well. And my brother, the farmer, tells me one day about six months ago, have you seen what the TVA is trying to do to Cheatham County? It's a 900 megawatt methane gas plant with 10 acres of lithium battery storage. And my brother says, the lithium batteries they're talking about are the size of an 18 wheeler trailer each. They want 10 acres of those. I said, where are they wanting to put this? He tells me the address, where it's going. I went, are you kidding me? I said, there's like 500 houses. Like, that's right on top of neighborhoods. I said, aren't there like three schools right there? He goes, there's five schools within five miles of where this is going in. And he said, and the main water supply to Assen City and Pleasant View, which are the two towns in that county, they're literally gonna go right through that and run their gas pipelines under the water source and tear up about 6,000 acres of farmland. I said, what? I just could not believe it. He said, yeah. And even worse than that, he said, they're showing up with bulletproof vests and loaded weapons on farmers' properties and demanding access to their property. I said, the TVA has a task force? He said, yeah. They look like the ATF when they come walking up on your property. I said, okay. Can you connect me to somebody who has encountered this? Because I wanna hear this firsthand. He goes, yeah. I'll hook you up with some guys. So I started going out and doing interviews with people on their front porches. And this one piece of video that I saw, which you will see in my music video, which led to the writing of the song we're talking about, the devil and the TVA, was an 88 year old woman named missus Nicholson who suffers from dementia. And the TVA pulled up on her farm. She's been living that land has been in her family over a century. It's called a Century Farm. They pull up on her property, 12 vehicles deep, people get out of the cars, bulletproof vests, loaded weapons. I mean, it looks like it looks like a drug raid. And this lady's going, who are all these people? And it's on video because the neighbor ran out the door with a video camera to try to capture this. Thank God. Who are all these people? What is going on? What is happening? The neighbors come up and go, miss Nicholson, that's the TBA. And they pull out an iPhone, they go, they're wanting to put they're wanting to build this on your farm. And they show her a picture of like a plant and transmission lines. And for about ten seconds, that old woman snapped out of her dementia and looked right into the camera that the neighbor had there and said You think you own something, you don't own nothing. Speaker 1: Just like that. It's it's powerful. Speaker 0: Went, oh my. I mean, that was like that encapsulated the entire situation to me. Upon seeing that video and realizing, yeah, this is real. There's the evidence right there on top of the firsthand accounts I'm getting from all these people. I decided, you know what? TVA's worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but I've got an iPhone and a selfie stick. Let's see how they deal with what I can do to them with my iPhone and my selfie stick. So I started interviewing people, kinda like what you would do, almost investigative journalist style, and started posting them on my x account at John Rich. You look up and they're racking up millions of views on each one of these neighbors of me talking to them, which then gets on the radar of TVA in a major way because I'm tagging them every single time, those scoundrels. And that leads to a congressman calling me and saying, hey, the senior vice president of government relations for the TVA reached out to me and said he would like to come to your house and have a chat with you. I said, oh, would he now? Well, you tell him to come on over. So he came to this exact room, sat with me back in the back of this room for less than thirty minutes, and I told him, get the hell out of our county. You got two weeks. If you don't get out of our county, I'm gonna write a song about the TVA that compares you to the devil himself. And I'm gonna have millions of Americans singing a song comparing you guys to the devil, and you'll never be the same. You got two weeks. That's the basic point of the meeting. And he didn't. They didn't back out, So I wrote the song. Now eventually, I know you've got the questions, but eventually, this gets on the radar of of Brooke Rollins, secretary of agriculture. She blind calls me. I didn't know her. She got my phone number from Pam Bondi. Said, I got your number from Pam. Hope you don't mind. I said, no. Yes, ma'am. What's going on? How much farmland is this gonna tear up? It's about 6,000 acres. You got a map? Yeah. Showed her the map. She went, yeah. That's that's comes under my jurisdiction. So then she weighed in and then ultimately Trump weighed in and said, yeah, you're not building this. And so it's the first time on record that I can find where a populist movement was able to shove the TVA out of a county. Maybe it's happened before, This is the only one I'm aware of. Speaker 1: It is curious because there are other options for the location of the methane plant. Of The methane plant is not in itself a problem. Speaker 0: No, the county was giving them another option. They have an industrial section where it could have gone. There's places in West Tennessee that Obama tore down all the big giant coal plant that's just sitting there that already has pipelines running to Nashville, and those counties are completely devastated because Obama destroyed what was driving those two counties. TVA owns all that land. Why don't you just build it over there? You've already got a pipeline running. You've already got transmission lines running. Another question they won't answer. Right? So you're dealing with an entity that is federal and private, and they only answer to the president of The United States, which means we don't answer to anybody. We don't answer to the citizens, especially they don't answer to the citizens. Nobody. I had senators, one in particular that's been in office a very long time, very powerful, and said, had been begging them to abandon this project for months. I said, what do they say? She's like, basically just flipped me the bird and say, get out of here. You don't have any jurisdiction with us. So here's the question, should there be any entity in America that can operate like that? Should there be? Speaker 1: Well, think most people would probably say no. Speaker 0: Anybody other than the TBA would say no. Right. So other I've learned a lot since I've been through this process of of taking them on. There's other big energy companies. For instance, Duke Energy is a massive energy company. Duke Energy, if they wanna build a plant somewhere, they have to sit in front of the zoning board of the county, and the zoning board is made up by who? People that were elected by the people that live in that county to serve in in in the zoning board. And the zoning board knows that if they let TBA come in and destroy 6,000 acres of farmland, they're not gonna get reelected. Matter of fact, they're gonna be the most unpopular people in the county. So what's the zoning board probably gonna say to Duke Energy if they try to do that? Yep. You can't build it there. You can build it here. We're good with that. You cannot build it here. And Duke Energy asked to say, okay. We'll go build it over there or we won't build it at all. But TVA doesn't have to do that. They don't even sit in front of the zoning board. Trump was not happy at all about any of this situation. That was borne out by the fact that he's now fired the TVA board and bringing in a new board. I'm hoping with the new board, with this song coming out, that it raises your awareness enough that maybe we can get their charter changed where they have to treat people different in this country. Speaker 1: So and so you won and I guess the song is still coming out. Speaker 0: Song's still I made the man a deal. I made him a promise. I said, get out of our county in two weeks or I'm gonna write a song that compares you to the devil. I thought he thought I was kidding. I think he thought I was kidding. Speaker 1: You're gonna give me a little bit of a Speaker 0: You wanna hear a piece Speaker 1: of the Speaker 0: devil in TVA? Speaker 1: A little bit of the song? Speaker 0: So yeah, I'd love to. Thank you. The the first line in the chorus is miss Nicholson's phrase. You think you own something, but you don't own nothing. Speaker 1: And and I'll tell you what it that made me think of when I saw it. It's very powerful. I agree what she said. And speak know, but go ahead and I'll I'll I'll share with you after Okay. What what struck me. Speaker 0: First verse and course of the devil and the TVA. I will congratulate the peep people at Cheatham County that stood up and pushed with me on this thing and and secretary Rollins and the president of The United States. What a story. And missus Nicholson, especially. I appreciate her having the boldness to make a statement like that. It goes like this. For a hundred some odd years, her families worked the same old fields, raised their kids and grandkids right there on that land. Saw the storms flood their ground, watched their crops die in the drought, stared the great depression down and never ran. But now they're looking at one hell of a fight trying to save the family name from a rich man's bottom line. You think you own something, but you don't own nothing when the government man comes around, puts his dirty old boots on your ground, laughs at your protest with a gun and a bulletproof vest. And he don't care what you have to say. He's just gonna do it anyway. And he'll smile and grin and then take your farm away. And he'll tear it all to hell right in your face. Now the devil ain't got nothing on the TV. Got nothing on the TV. It goes on from there. If people want it, they can download it. Go get it. I mean, listen. It's like, this is still going on. I mean, TBA is doing this across seven states. There are counties right now in the shape this county was just in, and it needs to change. So thanks for letting me sing a piece of it. Speaker 1: You know, and that that that line from miss Nichols, I was recently in Montpellier at home of James Madison, and he has this line wherequote where he says, Conscience is the most supreme form of property, actually. And it's a very, very powerful thing. And I was looking at it, was trying to kind of understand it. And then it got me thinking about how central private property is actually to freedom. Speaker 0: A 100%. Yeah. Landowners? Yeah. I mean a lot people move to this country because they were told you can own land here. You can own it. Not the the king won't own it. You own it. You come out here and develop this land, homestead this land, you can actually own land in America. They went, let's go. Speaker 1: And you and you exercise agency over that. Mean, it's just it's a it's a and we just don't think about these things because we've had them for so many years, right, in these in liberal democracies. Right? Speaker 0: And this is not something she bought last year. Been in her family for over a century, and here's men with guns and bulletproof vests telling her that they're coming on her property to tear it all to smithereens, then condemn it, then offer her 10¢ on the dollar. Get out. There's nothing American about that at all. And I'm I'm really grateful to president Trump, secretary Rollins, who felt the exact same way. And I hope this new board that comes in, I'm actually petitioning the president right now to give me a presidentially appointed position as a citizen advocate, where when I find egregious things going on like what happened in Cheatham County, I can go to him first and explain to him the situation, have a remedy for the situation, and if he agrees, have him sign off on it and then go to that place, whether it's a TVA or whoever, and say, the president would like to see this happen, and drop it on their desk and see if we can throw a shield up around the American citizens. I understand things have to be built, but there's a right way and a wrong way to deal with citizens. You don't step on their constitutional rights and take American property from an American landowner. Speaker 1: And there's a precedent for this. I mean, for example, the FDA there's all citizen advocates on many of those panels and IRS. Right? Speaker 0: Right. Right. There is a precedent for it. Yeah. I've heard the word ombudsman used, and I said, Yeah, it's kind of like that except I would be more proactive. You know what I mean? Like, I I like the position I'm in these days. I've been asked to run for governor of this state. I've been asked to run for District 7 in congress. I've been asked to run for senate seats, all mayor, all kinds of things all the time I get asked. And I say, it does not interest me. Number one, I don't wanna spend my life hanging around politicians. That's number one. But number two, where can I be the most effective? Because the people I really care about that are getting beat up out here, they don't live in just one district or one state or one place. It's happening to people all over the place. You know, I come from, blue collar Texas. I come from I'm a high school graduate. You know? I mean, I'm just a regular guy that has done irregular things in my life, but my brain still works like that, and those are my people, and I identify with those people. I know how they think. I know where they came from. I know what their daily life is like. I know what they care about. I know what they don't like. Those are my relatives. My American relatives is how I look at them. So I'm asking the president, and I hope he gives it to me, make me a a presidentially appointed citizen advocate. Would that be a cool thing? Speaker 1: I think they're blessed to have you here. Speaker 0: Well, I would be happy to serve in that position. Speaker 1: So we both know Kash Patel. Yeah. And I remember he told me a while back that he was a country music guy, which was kind of shocking to me, you know? Right. Kind of an Indian guy from Long Island is not the immediate person you imagine as being a country music fan. It goes to show how little I know. Right? And he was thrilled to discover at one point that he had a fan in you. And I just wanted you to tell me, like, how that how you guys actually got connected and how the how that looked, how that moment looked. Speaker 0: So I had followed Cash for a little while. Probably started around the 2020 era with the election and and and COVID and all that stuff. And I I was I was watching Devin Nunez, and I heard him mention Cash Patel. And I went, who's Cash Patel? And then I started seeing Cash pop up mainly on Rumble at that point. And I went, this guy's scrappy. I like this guy. Like, I identify with that attitude all day long. So I then I started following him, True Social came around. So I followed Cash Patel on True Social, and then he followed me. I went, okay. Maybe he's a country music fan. I don't know. I talked to Devin Nunez, and I said, I'd love to meet Cash someday. That'd be great. He goes, you know what? We'll come to Nashville. Let's do something at your house. I said, that'd be great. What do you wanna do? He goes, you know, how about like a True Social Rumble party at your house? Like, just bring all the influencers from True Social and Rumble to your house. Maybe you could jump up and play a song. I said, yeah. That'd be great. So as we're planning that out, Cash is then writing his book, The Plot Against the King. And and and, at this point, now we're connected. And Cash says, I need a theme song for this book. Can you write a theme song about The Plot Against the King? And so I got online because it's still we're on lockdowns at this point. Got online with a couple other big songwriters, Vicky McGeehee and and, Jeffrey Steele, and we wrote a song called the plot against the king. And then when they all came here, Cash was standing right behind me on that stage singing, which he's not a very good singer, he'll tell you that. But that wasn't the point. And we're all up there singing the plot against the king here at the house. He's, you know, since then, become an actual friend of mine. So we we don't talk all the time. He's a pretty busy guy. But every week or two, we'll text each other, how's it going? What's happening? You know? And hang in there. You know, I I can't even imagine what him and Bongino have learned since they've had those jobs. Dan's another guy I've known for a very long time. So Stowe's had a lot of respect for Cash and and his unwillingness to back off. He just wouldn't back up off of anybody and took a beating over that. Even the j six prisoners and the the situation around that, he wouldn't back up off of that. Never left people hanging and, just seems like what a what a real American ought to act like that wants to save his country. Speaker 1: You know, this kind of segues. I mean, you've been very generous with your time, and I think we're gonna need to finish up shortly. But, you know, it sort of segues really well into the last thing I wanted to talk about with you, is, you know, I was listening to the song The Man. Build on that a little bit more, you know, the man you wanna be. Mhmm. You know? So what is what what's in the future for for John Rich beyond being an ombudsperson or ombudspan? Speaker 0: Right. I think at this point, you know, I spent many years of my life self serving, serving myself, decades living that way. And so now I look at what hopefully, I get to live another fifty years. That'd be great. But whatever that amount of time is is I want it to be used having as much impact as I can possibly have on behalf of people that cannot get that impact for themselves and saying things that are true. Say things that are true and don't run away from evil people because they're scary looking. Things like that. Like Sean Combs, like the music industry, like people that come for our kids, like people that put obscene material in front of little kids or people that target kids online, people that that's the worst, in our country in my mind is what happens, to kids in this country. Probably the most aggressive thing Jesus Christ ever said, at least ever said that was written down, was he was sitting with his disciples and there was a bunch of kids playing around and stuff and he he pointed at one of the kids and acknowledged the kid and he says, you'd be better off to have a millstone tied around your neck than to ever cause one of these little ones to stumble, is the word he used. To stumble. Not to abduct them, not to kill them, not to abuse them, to cause them to stumble, meaning to mess with them at all in their state of innocence. You would be better off to die than that happen, than you be that person that messes with one of these. That's what son of god said that? Okay. Might wanna pay attention to that one because in this country, we know right now there's hundreds of thousands of kids. We don't know where they are. We know that they're especially during the pandemic, child abuse went absolutely through the roof because teachers a lot of times are the ones that see the bruise on the kid's arm or walking with a limp. And the teacher will say, hey. What happened to you, Bobby? What happened to you, Sally? Oh, my dad threw me down the stairs, and they could they could call in a report and get that kid out of that bad situation. When COVID hit and they shut down all the schools, don't see that anymore. So abuse went through the roof. There's all kinds of adults walking around this country that were abused as kids and it's never was dealt with. And they then become abusers themselves and on and on and on. I look at child abuse in this country as as the number one issue. Number one, because God is never gonna bless America as long as we allow this stuff to exist. So as far as how I wanna spend the rest of my time, it is charging straight at them on whatever subject that may be of people that are evil minded and are working against God's will, and especially if they're coming after kids. I wanna be the guy, one of them, there's there's others out there, but I wanna be known as one of them, and I've got one of these. That's kinda what gives me a little bit of a different edge, is music is my weapon of choice. Music, not being a politician, music. That that's how I wanna be known. Speaker 1: You know, you just reminded me of something I was gonna ask earlier in the interview when we were talking about Revelation, and that's you reminded me and you reminded me again of this line from Alexander Solzhenitsyn where he says, you know, the line between good and evil runs through every human heart. And, you know, the implication being, you know, you have to choose. Right. Right. Speaker 0: That's well, that's very true. I mean, that's been that's been born out through many stories of many many people throughout history. Even in the Bible, that's born I mean, King David, who God referred to as a man after my own heart, at one point in his life, put Uriah on the front lines to make sure he died in battle so David could steal his wife Bathsheba. That's pretty bad. So that was an evil side of David's heart. That was straight up evil. Then on the other side, David ran straight at Goliath when nobody else would, knocked him down and cut his head off with his own sword. You know? So that that's a that statement is absolutely spot on. And human beings let's let's let's cap it with this. Human beings are not capable of not being evil unless they have God in them. The only way you're not an evil individual, because it's all in you, you are you are sin, you're born into sin, Is that you gotta you gotta ask Jesus Christ to become the lord of your life and turn your life over to him, then he comes in and then he overrides those evil intuitions. You then you do what he wants you to do. You carry out his will, not the will of the wicked. That's it. That's the only reason I'm not a bad guy because I'd be a nasty bad guy. Instead, I'm a nasty good guy. I wanna be a good guy and have impact. When you know where you're going when you die, that gives you a lot of confidence to run straight at them. Because what are you gonna do to me? What's the worst thing you can do? Kill me. Right? Kill somebody. And then what happens then? I mean, don't threaten me with a good time. I mean, that's gonna be the best day of your life. So I view it like that. I think anything less than that attitude is probably not gonna win the fight. Speaker 1: Well, John Rich, it's such a pleasure to have had you on the show. Speaker 0: You I appreciate you coming to the house. I've I've followed your, organization a long time, and I'm still learning more about it even as of today as we were talking off camera. So you guys keep up the great work. You're very important to American culture what you guys are doing. Speaker 1: Thank you so very much. Speaker 0: Yes, sir. Thank you. This room back here, this is kinda where I write a lot of the songs. Speaker 1: The Man, like, what is that about? Speaker 0: So the song The Man is a song I wrote about a month after my granddaddy died. World War two vet, he suffered multiple purple hearts. So when he died, I thought, man, I gotta write a song about about him. So a month later, wrote The Man. It is the history of his service in World War two in a song, but it's actually become kind of a calling card song for all kinds of vets and even active duty. So this wall is made up of all retired guitars of mine. So at the very end, that was my very first I told you my dad gave me a little kid guitar to learn on. That's that. Yep. 1979. I was five years old. This is really where we sit down and write. So this whole thing up here is a collection of lyrics. So we talked about, for instance, the devil went down to Georgia. Speaker 1: Mhmm. Speaker 0: So I would ask friends of mine like Charlie Daniels, hey, can you write down the words to Devil Went Down to Georgia? Look how many words in that song. It probably took him two hours to write that. But he wrote it, signed it, dated it. I've got like Lee Greenwood's God Bless USA is up there and just all kinds of country songs that I personally like. Okay. When I write, I like to sit in here with those lyrics on the wall because it makes me understand. I might be a pretty good songwriter, but I haven't written that one yet. I haven't written God Bless The USA yet. Mhmm. Like, there's still higher ranks to go on the creative side in writing songs. And I I try not to compare myself to who I'm competing with today. I go, no. I'm competing with Johnny Cash. Mhmm. And as long as you're competing with Johnny Cash, you'll never stop pushing because you're never gonna beat him. Stuff like that's my granny riches sewing machine. 1910, She ran her own business, so she was 88 by herself as an alterations expert. And she'd have her ashtray sitting there, and she'd smoke Marlboro Reds and fix people's clothes. You know, when she was in her late eighties, I said, granny, why are you still working thirty, forty hours a week? And she'd would get offended by that question. She'd she'd go, why am I still working? I go, yeah. She goes, because I can, and that's what you're supposed to do when you live in this country. That's just as American as it gets. Speaker 1: Thank you all for joining John, Rich, and me on this episode of American Thought Leaders. I'm your host, Yanya Kelleck.
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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered defendants to preserve Signal communications from March 11–15, 2025. In response, a user criticized the judge, claiming he is biased and suggesting that Congress should intervene to address perceived judicial misconduct against President Trump.

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“Defendants shall promptly make best efforts to preserve all Signal communications from March 11–15, 2025,” U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said in a minute order. https://t.co/wd4BV5u08q

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CCP Demands Nationwide Destruction of All COVID-19 Data: Source "They must obliterate all data without leaving a trace, and computer records must be deleted entirely,” said Mr. Chen. https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/ccp-demands-nationwide-destruction-of-all-covid-19-data-source-5598239?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub

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Kevin McKernan shared concerns about DNA contamination in Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. @Jikkyleaks highlighted #NIHgate where a paper on cancer risk from spike protein was retracted. Concerns raised about vaccine safety and scientific censorship.

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Kevin McKernan: “Years of censorship: DNA contamination discovered in the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines.”

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Many labs, including Medicinal Genomics, found DNA contamination in Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines. Regulators like the FDA and EMA admitted to this, but downplayed its significance. The SP 40 sequences omitted by Pfizer are crucial. DNA contamination can cause insertional mutagenesis, as stated in Moderna's patents. Regulatory agencies were deceived and failed to properly address the issue. This poses a serious risk that cannot be ignored.
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Speaker 0: Many in this audience have been subjected to, you know, years of censorship on this topic. What I wanna talk to you today is about the DNA contamination that our team at Medicinal Genomics discovered in the mRNA vaccines. We're specifically speaking about Pfizer and Moderna in this case. This work has been replicated by many labs around the world, and now the FDA, the EMA, and even Health Canada, have admitted to this. The regulatory agents have admitted that Pfizer also omitted the SP 40 sequences that are in their vaccine. They've deemed this contamination to be of little consequence, claiming the DNAs of too little concentration to matter or to be containing DNA of no functional consequence. These statements are false and are not supported by any independent testing by these regulators. After the regulators have admitted to being deceived, they asked the opinion of the party that deceived them how bad was the deception. They shockingly believe the answer they were given, which is that these sequences have no relevance to plasma manufacturing. As someone who has worked on the human genome project manufacturing millions of plasmids, I can assure you that this is an overt lie. DNA contamination can lead to insertional mutagenesis. This is actually declared in Moderna's own patents regarding mRNA vaccines. This is US patent 10,000,000,898,574.

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Bad news for mask-wearers. According to a new study out of Norway, people who wore face masks were actually more likely to contract COVID-19. https://t.co/c5X1KDbgYF

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A peer-reviewed study from Norway analyzed the mask usage of over 3,200 individuals. After following them for 17 days, researchers found that those who wore masks more frequently had a higher incidence of testing positive for COVID-19. Adjusting for factors like vaccination status and gender, the study revealed that people who always or almost always wore masks were 40% more likely to catch COVID-19 compared to those who never wore masks.
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Speaker 0: This peer reviewed study right here, which came out of Norway, it was published in the pages of a journal called Epidemiology and Infection. And in this study, these Norwegian researchers were analyzing the mask usage of a little over 3,200 people in their country. And once an individual signed up for the study, they were followed for a period of about 17 days and then subsequently they were asked about their personal usage of masks. And what these researchers found was that there was a higher incidence of being tested positive for COVID among the people who wore masks more frequently. Now when these researchers went back, crunched the numbers and adjusted the data based on several different factors such as vaccination status, sex, gender, and so on, they found that people who almost always or always wore masks were 40% more likely to catch COVID versus people who never wore masks at all.
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‘No Lives Were Saved’ by COVID-19 Vaccines, Scientists Estimate As the number of deaths clearly increased, upon closer examination, they noticed that the excess deaths coincided with the timing of the #COVID19 vaccine program rollout.

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Scientists studied the death rates in several countries during the pandemic and vaccine rollout. They found that all-cause mortality increased every time COVID-19 vaccines were deployed. In 9 out of 17 countries, there were no excess deaths before the vaccine campaign began. Unprecedented peaks in all-cause mortality were observed in January-February 2022, following the rollout of boosters in 15 of the 17 countries. The excess all-cause mortality during the vaccination period was 1,740,000 deaths across all ages and countries, with a vaccine dose fatality rate of almost 5% among those 90 years and older who received a 4th vaccine dose. The study found no evidence of a beneficial effect from COVID-19 vaccine rollouts.
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Speaker 0: These are the deaths that happened in Malaysia. It's a country in Southeast Asia. Scientists wanted to study what happened to the overall death rate during the pandemic, the deaths clearly increased. But, look, this is where the pandemic was declared, and this is when the vaccine program rolled out. Same thing happened in 9 other countries. Here's Australia. New Zealand. The Philippines. Singapore. After studying over a dozen countries in the southern hemisphere, the scientists concluded that after 13a half 1000000000 COVID vaccines that were given out worldwide, 17,000,000 people lost their lives from vaccines alone. And the death rate data for the elderly was just shocking. Welcome to frontline health. Understand Scoreback. In a new report that's yet to be peer reviewed, Canadian scientists looked at the pandemic from a thousand foot view. They wanted to see how much the pandemic affected all cause mortality. You see the virus can kill in many ways, not just from the visible infection symptoms. If you want to find the real cause of death, you have to dissect each and every single person who died for any reason and looked at the body under a microscope. You can see if they die from COVID or not. On the other hand, the authors explain, you can look at the big picture, the metadata, meaning look at that all cause mortality, which basically means that the scientists remove the reasons for the deaths and look at death itself as a measure. Did more people die in this period of time? Then it's easy to tell if our approach to solving a pandemic worked on a population level or it didn't. So the best way to measure what happened during the pandemic is to look at all cause mortality. And these scientists were also interested in how the data turned out during another event, specifically during the rollout of COVID 19 vaccines. You see, their initial research showed some shocking correlations. Between vaccine rollout and people dying, but some people argued that it might be just a seasonal effect example, the vaccines were rolled out in some countries in January February, and that coincides with the flu season. So this time, the scientists looked at a much larger subset of data and measured what happened in the countries that had vaccines rolled out in different seasons, even during summer, which is way outside the flu season. So let's look at the report. First, they found that in all countries that were included in their analysis, all cause mortality increased Every time the COVID 19 vaccines were deployed. 2nd, 9 out of the 17 countries had no detectable excess death right after the March 11 2020 event. That's when the World Health Organization declared the pandemic, and these countries didn't have access up until the COVID 19 vaccination campaign began. 3rd, unprecedented peaks in all cause mortality were observed in January February 2022. This coincided with or followed the rollout of boosters in 15 of the 17 countries studied. And while it was winter in North America, in those months, it was summer in most of the South America. So the flu season was not a factor there at all. 4. Excess all cause mortality during the vaccination period beginning January 2021 was 1,740,000 deaths across all ages and countries. That makes up one death for every 800 injections. And 5, the vaccine dose fatality rate increased exponentially with age. Reaching almost 5% among those 90 years older who received a 4th vaccine dose, which translates to 1 in 20 deaths from COVID vaccines among the elderly. Dennis Randcourt, one of the authors of the study told the epoch Times in an email that, quote, there is no evidence In a hard data of all cause mortality of a beneficial effect from the COVID 19 vaccine rollouts. No lives were saved. Researchers also looked for a counter example. Maybe there were places that showed that COVID 19 vaccines improved the all cause mortality. But they could not find a single country with such trends. According to the report, data from numerous countries such as India, Australia, Canada, Israel, and the United States show a similar phenomena. The peaks in all cause mortality coincide with booster rollouts every time. In the United States, specifically, deaths were prominent in the 25 to 64 age group in 20 one States. Coinciding with a rapid surge in vaccines given during the vaccine equity campaigns launched by regulatory agencies. Researchers estimated that United States had about 160,000 excess deaths in that age group during a period where over 60,000,000 COVID 19 vaccine doses were given out. So if your friend or family member is thinking about or being pressured into getting a COVID 19 vaccine, Please share this report with them so that they can make an informed decision. This is One Line Health. I'm Dan Skorback. Stay healthy America.
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The conversation discusses the causes of grey hair and ways to reverse it. Stress is identified as a main cause, leading to a decrease in minerals, an increase in free radicals, and a decrease in metabolism. The solution involves consuming copper-rich foods and increasing antioxidants. One person shares their success with copper supplements, while another suggests black seed oil. The conversation ends with a comment about the platform and a link to a video.

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𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘆 & 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗼 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁 You might wonder why grey hairs appear all of a sudden, and what you can do about it. Grey hair has similar root causes to hair loss. The main one is obviously stress, but what is stress exactly and how does it cause your hair to lose pigmentation and turn white or grey? 2 things you should be implementing if you need to reverse grey hair for whatever reason that might be. So here we go... Just like hair loss, so are grey hairs are a result of stress. Under stress, several things happen such as: • Reduction in minerals like magnesium and copper (also other minerals, but we will keep it to those two) • Increase in free radical production. the main fibe reactive oxygen and nitrogen species are 1) superoxide anion, 2) hydrogen peroxide, 3) hydroxyl radical, 4) nitric oxide radical, and 5) peroxynitrite radical. • Decrease in metabolism, and with this the delivery of blood, nutrients, oxygen and thyroid hormone to the hair follicles. All of this contributes the a stressed physiology on the level of the hair follicle, and it is exactly the combo of low copper together with an increase in free radicals that causes the loss of pigmentation. The solution is simple: 1. Eat more copper-rich foods like - Beef liver, 2x/week - Oysters, 1-2x/week - Bee pollen, daily 2. Increase antioxidants/decrease oxidative stress - Exercise (both aerobic/anaerobic)** - Improve glutathione production - Increase antioxidant intake (Vit C, Vit E, polyphenols, zinc, selenium, copper,...) - Reduce overall stress (grounding) There are obviously more factors that play a role in the bigger picture such as heavy metals, smoking and showering with tap water. The good part is that hair loss is reversible, the same counts for reversing grey or white hairs.

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@primalthrive_ True! My copper levels were SUPER LOW. My doctor put me on two 2mg pills 3x’s/day for about 6 months & I kid you not dark hair started coming in 🩶. Now my hair is salt n pepper instead of white. Now I take 2 pills/ day to maintain.

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@J316FOF Look into black seed oil and black cumin seed

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@primalthrive_ Both gave me serious heartburn ❤️‍🔥😬. Than you for the advice though 🙏🏼

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@primalthrive_ @J316FOF We should stop calling this platform X/Twitter but BSO "black seed oil".

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Title: Unveiling New Insights: Challenging Narratives and Shedding Light on the Events of January 6 Introduction: The events that transpired on January 6 at the US Capitol continue to captivate the nation's attention. Recent analysis of Capitol Hill security footage has brought forth a series of revelations that challenge key narratives surrounding that fateful day. This comprehensive overview aims to delve into these new findings, providing a deeper understanding of the incidents involving individuals like Pink Beret, Officer Brian Sicknick, the Oath Keepers, and the tragic deaths of Rosanne Boyland and Benjamin Philips. Unraveling the Pink Beret's Alleged Role: One of the most intriguing discoveries from the newly analyzed security footage is the presence of an individual known as Pink Beret. This person allegedly played a pivotal role in luring a defendant into the Capitol. The footage provides a clear visual account of their actions, raising questions about their motives and potential involvement in the events that unfolded. The Tragic Deaths of Rosanne Boyland and Benjamin Philips: The footage also sheds light on the tragic deaths of Rosanne Boyland and Benjamin Philips. Amidst the chaos and clashes between protesters and officers, Mr. Philips fell unconscious. However, efforts to save him were delayed, ultimately leading to his untimely demise. These distressing details highlight the urgency and importance of understanding the sequence of events that unfolded on that day, ensuring a comprehensive examination of the circumstances surrounding these tragic losses. Officer Brian Sicknick and the Oath Keepers: Another significant aspect illuminated by the security footage is the incidents involving Officer Brian Sicknick and the Oath Keepers. Contrary to previous reports, the footage challenges the initial narrative surrounding Officer Sicknick's cause of death. A more comprehensive understanding of the events is crucial to accurately determine the circumstances that led to his tragic passing. Additionally, the footage provides valuable insights into the actions and movements of the Oath Keepers, shedding light on their role during the events of January 6. The Turmoil and Police Response: The chaos that unfolded on January 6 cannot be overlooked. Protesters clashed with officers, projectiles were thrown, and chemical munitions were deployed. Amidst this turmoil, police aggressively cleared the Capitol, pushing protesters out. Tactical teams meticulously swept the upper floors, ensuring no one was left behind. The Jan 6 Tapes and Capitol Hill security footage offer a comprehensive visual account of these events, providing a clearer understanding of the intensity and scale of the situation. Conclusion: The newly analyzed Capitol Hill security footage has unveiled a series of revelations that challenge previous narratives surrounding the events of January 6. From the alleged actions of Pink Beret to the tragic deaths of Rosanne Boyland and Benjamin Philips, and the incidents involving Officer Brian Sicknick and the Oath Keepers, these findings emphasize the need for a comprehensive understanding of the events that unfolded on that day. By examining these new insights, we can strive for a more accurate and nuanced understanding of this pivotal moment in our nation's history.

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EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Security Footage Challenges Key Narratives | THREAD👇https://theepochtimes.com/article/exclusive-capitol-hill-security-footage-challenges-jan-6-narratives-5454274?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub… A 3-month investigation by @EpochTimes of 41,000 hours of US Capitol Police surveillance video has uncovered dramatic footage that in many cases challenges longstanding narratives about what took place on #Jan6.

EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Security Footage Challenges Key Narratives The Epoch Times earlier this year began investigating 41,000 hours of U.S. Capitol Police Jan. 6 security video.Starting in late April, the newspaper scrubbed through hundreds of hours of video that wa... theepochtimes.com

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Since late April, the newspaper has analyzed hundreds of hours of video that was previously hidden from public view. https://theepochtimes.com/epochtv/the-capitol-hill-tapes-5452868?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub… The first results of this ongoing investigation are presented in an @EpochTV Special Report with host @JoshJPhilipp and senior investigative reporter Joe Hanneman @EpochJoe64. @EpochTimes has so far obtained 65 video clips from the US Capitol Police CCTV database. Another 64 clips are pending. A few clips were withheld due to security concerns. Together, these videos cover a wide range of #Jan6 topics.

EXCLUSIVE: The Jan. 6 Tapes—The Unreleased Capitol Hill Security Video The Epoch Times was given access to tens of thousands of hours of U.S. Capitol Police security video ... theepochtimes.com

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Who is Pink Beret? Bystanders in the huge crowds at the US Capitol on #Jan6 couldn't help but notice the young woman with the stylish clothes, high heels, Dolce & Gabbana handbag, and a pink beret perched on her head. She became known on social media by the hashtag #PinkBeret.

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#PinkBeret was in the crowd that watched the first breach of police lines near the Peace Fountain on the Capitol's west front at about 12:50 p.m. #Jan6 defendant Darrell Neely told a federal court in his criminal trial that Pink Beret lured him into the Capitol Visitor Center and tried to saddle him with a bag full of police gear she picked up off the floor. "It is clear Pink Beret was on a mission to get to the Capitol as quickly as possible and to be one of the first to get there," Neely's attorney, Kira West, wrote in a court filing. "We know this because she ran across grass—in heels." The Epoch Times researched and requested a collection of video clips that document the actions of the woman.

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After more than 2 years, the #FBI put her on its #Jan6 most-wanted page in late April. More than 2 months after she was named in Neely's court filings as a potential defense witness, the FBI identified #PinkBeret as Jennifer Inzunza Vargas Geller.

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On May 9, the #DOJ charged Ms. Geller with 4 #Jan6 misdemeanor counts. https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/pink-beret-husband-charged-with-jan-6-crimes-at-us-capitol-5404339?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub Her case was unusual because the DOJ almost never announces charges against defendants before they are arrested and in custody. Her husband, Spencer Sidney Geller, was charged in July with a felony obstruction count and 4 misdemeanors. As in his wife's case, Mr. Geller's charges were announced when he was not in custody. The Gellers are living in Thailand with their 10-month-old daughter. So far, the #FBI has not made moves to arrest the pair and extradite them back to the US to face trial.

‘Pink Beret’ Husband Charged With Jan. 6 Crimes at US Capitol More than two months after his wife was charged with four misdemeanors related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, Spencer Sidney Geller has been charged by federal prosecutors with five counts, inclu... theepochtimes.com

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Officer Brian Sicknick Some of the most dramatic CCTV footage acquired by The Epoch Times showed the disabling of Capitol Police Officer #BrianSicknick, who died the day after the Capitol protest and riots of #Jan6. Mr. Sicknick died late on Jan. 7, 2021. His cause of death was two strokes. It was ruled a natural death by the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Federal prosecutors charged 2 men with assaulting Mr. Sicknick with pepper spray: Julian Elie Khater, 34, of Somerset, New Jersey, and George P. Tanios, 41, of Morgantown, West Virginia.

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The video shows that just after 2:20 p.m., Mr. Sicknick and 2 MPD officers charged out into the crowd of rioters, who had been pulling over security barriers with a thick freight strap. In the center, however, an MPD commander fired numerous bursts of pepper spray from a high-velocity tank that snaked 20 feet or more into the crowd, the video shows. Both the stream of pepper spray and a plume of cast-off caused by stiff winds passed near the left side of Sicknick’s face, the video shows. Mr. Sicknick quickly retreated from the scene, just ahead of a rioter who charged at him and an MPD officer. He rinsed out his eyes near the inauguration scaffolding, then climbed the southwest steps to the upper terrace. He remained on duty but collapsed at about 10 p.m. after officers noticed him slurring his speech.

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Mr. Khater was sentenced to 6 years and 8 months in prison on a plea deal for assault with a deadly weapon and other charges. Although he was initially charged with 12 criminal counts, Mr. Tanios pleaded guilty to 2 misdemeanors and was sentenced to time served, 1 year of probation, and a $1,800 fine. Mr. Khater's father and Mr. Tanios said they never saw the video before being shown the footage by The Epoch Times. “They [expletive] withheld this. Big time. Oh, my God. My God,” Mr. Tanios told The Epoch Times while watching the footage. Mr. Tanios said he believes the video should have been disclosed to his and Mr. Khater's defense teams as exculpatory evidence.

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Elie Khater, Julian Khater's father, said the video is another example of the system being tipped against defendants. https://www.givesendgo.com/savejuliankhater "Since it is in Washington D.C., everything is stacked against the January sixers," Khater told The Epoch Times. "From the very beginning, they took this story and they just exaggerated, messed with the facts, lied about a lot of other things. We figured everything is stacked against us." Mr. Khater estimated he has amassed nearly $450,000 in legal fees defending his son in criminal and civil court. He said he is nearly out of resources to pay a civil attorney to represent his son in a $30 million wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Sandra Garza, Mr. Sicknick's former girlfriend, against President Trump, Mr. Tanios, and Mr. Khater.

Help the Khaters Save Julian Khater Julian Khater is a beloved son, brother, uncle, Godfather, and patriotic American who is facing a continued unjust legal battle due to attending the rally in... givesendgo.com

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@NYTimes published a 2021 story claiming Trump supporters smashed Sicknick's head with a fire extinguisher, causing his death. That claim was eventually retracted but is still repeated 30 months after Sicknick's death.

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The next claim was that his death was caused by a potent bear spray wielded by Khater and Tanios. While Tanios said he had bear spray canisters in his backpack in the event the men were attacked by #Antifa, the spray was never used. Khater had a Mace Brand KeyGuard pepper spray canister he received from Tanios on the evening of Jan. 5. The pocket-size flip-top device was used to spray the officers, according to prosecutors. The manufacturer says the canister emits a thin stream of pepper spray up to 10 feet. Tanios said he did not realize that Khater had used the Mace canister until months after #Jan6.

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Oath Keepers When 5 #OathKeepers defendants went on trial in September 2022 for alleged seditious conspiracy to attack the Capitol on #Jan6, a key piece of prosecution evidence was an alleged 3-way phone call initiated by Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III. Prosecutors alleged Rhodes spoke with Florida Oath Keepers leader Kelly Meggs and Jan. 6 operations director Michael “Whip” Greene with instructions to attack the Capitol. Defense attorneys argued the call never happened, and the communications Rhodes attempted that afternoon were meant to tell the Oath Keepers to get away from the Capitol, not attack it.

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Video discovered by @EpochTimes shows one of the exterior terrace-level cameras was trained on Rhodes while he stood on the Upper Northwest Terrace at the Capitol between 2:51 p.m. and nearly 3:00 p.m. https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/exclusive-capitol-surveillance-video-never-shown-to-defense-oath-keepers-founder-says-5444945?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub In the video, Rhodes appeared to be attempting cell phone calls but was not having success. It appeared that he was interviewed briefly by a podcaster, then continued trying to make calls, the video shows.

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Surveillance Video Never Shown to Defense, Oath Keepers Founder Says Capitol Police captured Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III on a closed-circuit security camera on Jan. 6, 2021—video that Mr. Rhodes says was never provided to him or his defense team before... theepochtimes.com

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"I never saw it," Mr. Rhodes told The Epoch Times in a June phone interview from jail, referring to the nine minutes of CCTV video. Mr. Rhodes said the idea that he was being surveilled is "really creepy." Mr. Rhodes and Ms. SoRelle appeared on the left side of the camera view at 2:51:36 p.m., the CCTV video shows. The unidentified Oath Keeper followed Mr. Rhodes into the camera view shortly after. The man was likely providing security for Ms. SoRelle, one of Mr. Rhodes's attorneys told The Epoch Times. "I don’t remember seeing this video,” one of Mr. Rhodes’ defense attorneys, Edward Tarpley, told The Epoch Times. “It may have been in discovery, but I certainly didn’t see it. We were given thousands of videos to review. It seems pretty clear to me that someone actually was following Stewart on the ground with the video camera.”

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The video is significant because it could back up testimony given by Mr. Rhodes in #FBI interviews and in court testimony that he was attempting to get Oath Keepers away from the Capitol, not to attack it. “I was trying to call them, to get them to come to us, to get them to come to me and Whip,” Mr. Rhodes told the FBI in May 2021. “That's all it was. I couldn't get any [expletive] comms.” Mr. Tarpley said he considers the newly revealed security video to be exculpatory evidence that should have been turned over by prosecutors. “The government argued that Stewart‘s messages to everyone to come to the Capitol were his call to action for them to come and attack the Capitol,” Mr. Tarpley said. “Of course, we know that is totally false.” Defense attorney Brad Geyer, who represented Oath Keeper Kenneth Harrelson in the same trial as Mr. Rhodes, said the defense presented evidence that the call never happened. "The defense maintains that no communication occurred between Meggs and Rhodes," Mr. Geyer said. "This video confirms that Rhodes was having operability issues with his phone and it also may suggest that Rhodes was being monitored on January 6 by law enforcement."

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Rosanne Boyland The death of #RosanneBoyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Georgia, remains one of the biggest tragedies of #Jan6. Ms. Boyland came to Washington to hear President Trump speak at the Ellipse. She made her way to the Capitol and wandered into the Lower West Terrace tunnel just before an unknown gas was released in the crowed tunnel.

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Information uncovered in this video investigation filled in a lot of details on what happened to Ms. Boyland after her lifeless body was pulled into the Capitol just after 4:30 p.m. on #Jan6. The CCTV footage shows that after medics in the Capitol basement tried to resuscitate her, Ms. Boyland was moved up one level and carted through the Crypt to meet D.C. Fire and EMS Department paramedics near the House Wing Door.

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/exclusive-security-footage-undermines-key-claims-in-police-report-in-death-of-rosanne-boyland-on-jan-6-post-5414489?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub Despite early Capitol Police reports that she collapsed in the Rotunda at 5:00 p.m., the video shows that was impossible, as was the notion paramedics came upon 2 unnamed Capitol Police officers doing CPR on Ms. Boyland. Dramatic resuscitation efforts continued near the House Wing Door for another 40 minutes before Ms. Boyland was placed in an ambulance for transport to George Washington University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The Epoch Times learned from Ms. Boyland's family that she was shot in the chest by a pepper ball fired by a police officer at the rear of the Lower West Terrace tunnel. The Boyland family was told by witnesses that the pepper ball shot is what caused Ms. Boyland to fall and become trapped by the stampeding crowd.

EXCLUSIVE: Security Footage Undermines Key Claims in Police Report in Death of Rosanne Boyland on Jan. 6 After CPR and other lifesaving efforts inside a basement entrance to the U.S. Capitol failed, Jan. 6 protester Rosanne M. Boyland was moved up one level to the Crypt, where D.C. Fire and EMS Department... theepochtimes.com

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One of Ms. Boyland's sisters noticed a large, dark bruise on her left shoulder in a Getty Images photograph run with a July 24 Epoch Times article on Ms. Boyland's case. No shoulder injuries were documented in the emergency room notes or in the autopsy done by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Nor was the head wound above Ms. Boyland's right eye documented. That injury was possibly sustained when a Metropolitan Police Department Officer beat an unresponsive Ms. Boyland with a wooden walking stick as previously reported by The Epoch Times based on police bodycam footage.

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Death of Benjamin Philips https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/exclusive-security-video-challenges-the-narrative-on-first-man-to-die-at-capitol-on-jan-6-post-5452312?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub Security video challenged the longstanding narrative that Benjamin James Philips—the first of 4 Trump supporters to die on #Jan6—was struck by a police munition before he collapsed from a fatal cardiac event. Video from a far-away west dome camera seems to show someone stumbling and collapsing behind the inauguration scaffolding on the Capitol's west front at 12:59:17 p.m. That area of the grounds was breached by protesters at 12:58:52 p.m., shortly after a much larger crowd breached the low iron fence protecting the west plaza. Overhead security video shows the first munitions used on the huge crowd were deployed at 1:10 p.m. on the south end of the west plaza.

EXCLUSIVE: Security Video Challenges the Narrative on First Man to Die at Capitol on Jan. 6 Capitol Police closed-circuit-television footage obtained by The Epoch Times calls into question the popular narrative that Benjamin James Philips was struck by a police munition before he collapsed fr... theepochtimes.com

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"I got a crowd fighting with officers, pushing, throwing projectiles," Deputy Chief Eric Waldow broadcast at 1:06 p.m. "I have given warnings about chemical munitions. I need the less-than-lethal team positioned above me to identify the agitators and start deploying. Launch, launch, launch!" The first munitions were not deployed until 1:10 p.m. The first closeup video of Mr. Philips begins at 1:02:51 p.m. when the U.S. Capitol Police Command Center trained one of its security cameras on the area where he fell. Bystanders and a Capitol Police officer took turns doing chest compressions. The first call for help went out over the USCP radio at 1:04 p.m., according to Jan. 6 audio recordings obtained by The Epoch Times. “Can you please have someone respond to my location with an AED [automated external defibrillator]? The bottom of the west front with an individual that’s down here, unconscious and not breathing,” a female officer broadcast on the main U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) radio channel. At about 1:15 p.m., an out-of-breath officer announced that the D.C. Fire and EMS Department rescue squad wouldn't come down to the scaffolding where Mr. Philips lay on the sidewalk. “They are bringing the patient up to the ambulance right now,” he shouted on the radio. “They are refusing to come down.” Bystanders and police placed Mr. Philips on a section of a bike rack and carried it like a battlefield stretcher to the ambulance some 100 yards away. He was turned over to paramedics at 1:19 p.m. He was later pronounced dead. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that Mr. Philips died from hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. His manner of death was listed by the pathologist, Dr. Fernando Diaz, as "natural."

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Sweeping the Capitol After U.S. Air Force veteran #AshliBabbitt, 35, was shot by Capitol Police near the House Chamber at 2:45 p.m., police made aggressive efforts to push all of the protesters out of the Capitol. The Epoch Times obtained CCTV security video showing SWAT teams clearing the Capitol. Officers from Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department formed skirmish lines and pushed groups of protesters toward the exits while chanting, "Move back! Move back! Move back!" A large contingent of police pushed protesters across the Great Rotunda and forced them out through the exits.

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At the same time, tactical teams from the @ATFHQ and other federal agencies began sweeping the upper floors of the Capitol to ensure no protesters were left. With rifles raised and SureFire tactical lights illuminating their paths, the tactical teams moved methodically through the building. At one point, an ATF tactical team came around the corner near @SpeakerPelosi's office. A stunned Capitol Police officer in the otherwise empty hallway threw his hands in the air as if to surrender.

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/END/ The Jan. 6 Tapes—The Unreleased Capitol Hill Security Video Watch exclusively on @EpochTV👉https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/the-capitol-hill-tapes-5452868?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub Read the full article👉https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/exclusive-capitol-hill-security-footage-challenges-jan-6-narratives-5454274?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub

EXCLUSIVE: The Jan. 6 Tapes—The Unreleased Capitol Hill Security Video The Epoch Times was given access to tens of thousands of hours of U.S. Capitol Police security video ... theepochtimes.com
EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Security Footage Challenges Key Narratives The Epoch Times earlier this year began investigating 41,000 hours of U.S. Capitol Police Jan. 6 security video.Starting in late April, the newspaper scrubbed through hundreds of hours of video that wa... theepochtimes.com
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Posted - August 4, 2023 at 8:23 PM
Saved - August 6, 2023 at 8:03 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
A whistleblower contacted @Yvonbrinkerink, revealing that 100,000 pallets of medical supplies, including ventilators and protective gear, are being destroyed in Amsterdam. The destruction started in May 2022 and must be completed by September 2023. The contractor is Milieuwerk, with @MinVWS as the client. Questions have been raised, and others like @dancalegria and @veen_els also have inquiries. The scale is massive, with 3,100 trucks needed for transport. The situation raises concerns about wasted taxpayer money and potential shortages in healthcare.

@Yvonbrinkerink - Yvonne Brinkerink (Klokkenluider Jeugdzorg)

Het begon met een #mail. Via een tussenpersoon zocht een #klokkenluider contact met me. Zijn naam en contactgegevens zijn bij mij bekend en ik heb hem ook gesproken. Hij meldde het volgende: In oa #Eindhoven, #Rotterdam en #Oosterhout zijn 100.000 pallets met #medische

@Yvonbrinkerink - Yvonne Brinkerink (Klokkenluider Jeugdzorg)

goederen verzameld. Deze worden vernietigd. Het betreft: #beademingsapparatuur, #maskers, #infusen, #hartlongmachines, beschermende #kleding en nog veel meer. Vernietiging vind plaats in #Amsterdam. Voor het vervoer van de #pallets zijn 3100 #vrachtwagens nodig. Het vernietigen

@Yvonbrinkerink - Yvonne Brinkerink (Klokkenluider Jeugdzorg)

is gestart eind Mei 2022 en in het contract staat dat het eind september 2023 allemaal vernietigd moet zijn. Het vernietigen is uitbesteed aan #Milieuwerk aan de Kopraweg in Amsterdam. Op de #vrachtbrieven staat als #opdrachtgever @MinVWS. Dus

@Yvonbrinkerink - Yvonne Brinkerink (Klokkenluider Jeugdzorg)

@MarionKoopmans @ministerVWS @hugodejonge @egerrit @MinPres @VWSTweedeKamer Er zijn wat #vragen gerezen. En ik denk dat ik niet de enige ben met vragen. Wellicht hebben @dancalegria @veen_els @john_bumblebee en enkele anderen ook nog vragen hierover. In 1 pallet zitten

@Yvonbrinkerink - Yvonne Brinkerink (Klokkenluider Jeugdzorg)

950.000 #mondmaskers. We hebben het hier over een contract van in totaal 100.000 pallets. Gemiddeld 9 volle vrachtwagens per dag. #klokkenluider #jeugdzorg

@janvanruth - jvr

@Yvonbrinkerink ik geloof er geen barst van. dus laat maar eens wat zien.

@Yvonbrinkerink - Yvonne Brinkerink (Klokkenluider Jeugdzorg)

@janvanruth Moet je lekker zelf weten.

@tommychong - Tommy Chong

There's one thing we forgot to mention...

@LeePeleeg - McIntosh⚓️ …De toon maakt de muziek….

@Yvonbrinkerink Yvon, 100.000 pallets vergt veel ruimte, enig idee wie dit logistiek kan handelen ?

@Yvonbrinkerink - Yvonne Brinkerink (Klokkenluider Jeugdzorg)

@LeePeleeg Het is op verschillende plekken opgeslagen. Staat in de tweet

@wim_tweet - Wim

@Yvonbrinkerink Als dit zo is, kunt u dan wat (geanonimiseerd) bewijs daarvan tonen?

@Yvonbrinkerink - Yvonne Brinkerink (Klokkenluider Jeugdzorg)

@wim_tweet Want u denkt dat ik de vernietiger van al die spullen, de vervoerder en de klokkenluider uit mijn duim zuig? Alles op zijn tijd!

@pieter_vkampen - Pieter van Kampen 🇺🇦

@Yvonbrinkerink 100 miljard maskers? Of had je dat absurde aantal nog niet zelf uitgerekend?

@Yvonbrinkerink - Yvonne Brinkerink (Klokkenluider Jeugdzorg)

@pieter_vkampen Kun jij lezen? Het gaat niet alleen om maskers!

@avaturner45 - Just Lisa

@Yvonbrinkerink Jij bent een oplichter!

@Yvonbrinkerink - Yvonne Brinkerink (Klokkenluider Jeugdzorg)

@avaturner45 En jij gerapporteerd!

@LogiForce - C.P.E. van Beilen

@Yvonbrinkerink Klinkt als het vernietigen van potentieel bewijsmateriaal.

@misspixelbcn - Esther

@Yvonbrinkerink @threadreaderapp unroll

@threadreaderapp - Thread Reader App

@misspixelbcn @Yvonbrinkerink @misspixelbcn Hola, please find the unroll here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1687559962724122624.html Talk to you soon. 🤖

Thread by @Yvonbrinkerink on Thread Reader App @Yvonbrinkerink: Het begon met een #mail. Via een tussenpersoon zocht een #klokkenluider contact met me. Zijn naam en contactgegevens zijn bij mij bekend en ik heb hem ook gesproken. Hij meldde het volgende: In oa #...… threadreaderapp.com

@Butterf70713546 - RIA 🇳🇱📵 🏛️ NO ✉️ DM 🚮 ❤️🚜

@Yvonbrinkerink Dit is erg ! Heel erg ! Want het gaat hier om geld dat door de burgers betaald is.

@JeannetVerhoev1 - Jeannet Verhoeven

@Yvonbrinkerink @PieterOmtzigt @lientje1967 @MarijnissenL kom er maar in....... Het volgende schandaal is about to start

@loontje1003 - Ilona

@Yvonbrinkerink Misschien ook interessant voor @VegtDoor @waukema @CeesCees72 @Denachtzuster1

@LeoAQuik - Leo Q.

@Yvonbrinkerink @john_bumblebee Aai dit is wel heel pijnlijk aan het worden

@oudkatje - Katje 🐈🐦 TheOldCat 🐯

@Yvonbrinkerink @john_bumblebee Waarom de vernietiging ?... Zeker de bruikbare medische apparatuur? Stinkend zaakje!..🤷‍♀️🤔

@LouisevanBlitt2 - Louise van Blitterswijk

@Yvonbrinkerink Wel het uitzoeken waard, lijkt mij.

@SuckPoppit - SuckPoppit

@Yvonbrinkerink @john_bumblebee pfas?

@Harrishawk - Blijf wakker!

@Yvonbrinkerink Is dit misschien het zogenaamde "afval uit Italië"?? Zodat de vrachtwagens, welke gebruikt worden, en de treinwagons, verantwoord kunnen worden???

@Nanda_goodwitch - Nanda the good, old, dutch witch

@Yvonbrinkerink @Bullshit_vs_Lie Zijn ze tekorten in ziekenhuizen aan het creëren? Dit is in lijn met dat in Nederland steeds minder zorg beschikbaar is. Minder ziekenhuizen, bedden, verpleegkundigen, apparatuur en materiaal. Dan kun je alweer snel blèren dat de zorg het niet aan kan.

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

What they don’t want you to know? 🔥Watch Now👉https://watchepoch.com/gUS0Qx

Leaving California: The Untold Story | A Must-See Documentary "Leaving California: The Untold Story” is a feature-length documentary that portrays the growing challenges of living in California, ... theepochtimes.com

@klimaaterkenner - ☮️ 𝙆𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧🕊️

@Yvonbrinkerink Wow

@ToonHabraken - Toon Habraken | Music Composer

@Yvonbrinkerink Niet liegen!

@BobRooij - Bob de Rooij - Waarheidszoeker des Vaderlands 🧐

@Yvonbrinkerink Ik kan 2 redenen verzinnen: 1) Het spul is over de datum, besmet, kapot, o.i.d., of 2) Dit najaar komt de volgende pandemie en ze willen dat er wéér een zorgcrisis ontstaat, zodat ze het maatregelenpakket in werking kunnen stellen...

@miepjev - MiepjevVerkade

@Yvonbrinkerink @MeeuwissenNL

@IngridTuinstra1 - Ingrid Tuinstra 🌸 #IkWeiger

@Yvonbrinkerink Ze zijn alles aan het uitwissen @2eKamertweets hoe zit dit

@E__________V - EV

@Yvonbrinkerink ?🤔 @blckbxnews @ongehoordnedtv @rblommestijn @EvaVlaar @PvanHouwelingen @WybrenvanHaga @DissidentNl @superjan @Symph0ny3 @deSunShineBand @DDStandaard @FrankPeeters4 @IkNet @beek38 @DevliegerErik

@FrankGrimm17 - FrankGrimm 🇳🇱Global Leader

@Yvonbrinkerink In het begin van de corona waanzin was tekort aan beademingsapparatuur want mensen lagen massaal op hun buik op bed. Tekort aan mondkapjes enzovoort enzovoort. Later bleek al die troep niet nodig en hoorde je er niets meer van. Ook de beademingsapparatuur. Niets. Dat is deze zooi

@ToineRoosendaal - ToineRoosendaal

@Yvonbrinkerink Never happened

@MargrietM1502 - 😎PietjePietje😎

@Yvonbrinkerink Als dit waar is @FleurAgemaPVV mag ik hopen dat er hier een paar tot verantwoording worden geroepen.

@kuiken123 - kitty hogeling

@Yvonbrinkerink Goed dat je dit naar buiten brengt.

@adinde_x - Luchtballon X

@Yvonbrinkerink Daar gaat ons belastinggeld 🤮❣️

@DooremaRuud - Ruud 🇳🇱🇪🇺 #heksenfan Doorema

@Yvonbrinkerink Leugenaar! 😀

@opnieuwbekijken - Opnieuw-bekijken

@Yvonbrinkerink De klokkenluider die als bok op de haverkist zit maar nooit weet waar de klepel hangt ...

@hanksetank - frank se tank 🇳🇱❤️🇺🇦

@Yvonbrinkerink Ben jij dat gestoorde mens waarvan ze terecht de kinderen hebben afgenomen of is dat een andere wappie?

IncomeSharks
Posted - August 3, 2023 at 6:37 PM
Saved - August 3, 2023 at 11:23 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
Many users discussed the current state of the market, with some expressing skepticism about a bull market and others anticipating a Bitcoin correction. There were also mentions of potential scams, the possibility of a recession next year, and predictions for Bitcoin's price. The conversation covered a range of opinions and perspectives on the market and its future.

@IncomeSharks - IncomeSharks

Many called for a #Recession all year when they should have been loading up for the #MidtermRally. Now everyone calling for a #BullMarket when they should be going to cash.

@mztrtim22 - mztr_tim

@IncomeSharks So in essence you’re saying no more bitcoin run this year? 😁💔

@IncomeSharks - IncomeSharks

@mztrtim22 It pumped 100%, that's amazing for $BTC. I don't see us going much higher this year to be honest

@night_trades1 - Night

@IncomeSharks Is your account hacked again lol

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

After the massive tech exodus, led by Elon Musk, San Francisco lost billions in tax revenue.

@A1bitcoinkouk - Nos~tra~damus

@IncomeSharks You were bullish at 40-50k then bearish at 16-22k 😂 Now you’re bearish again? Thanks for that confirmation,going LOOOOng

@BoominTradez - Boomin Tradez🚀

@A1bitcoinkouk @IncomeSharks Lmaooo

@_happyk21 - Eugene

@IncomeSharks Anyone saw rally last year into election? Asking for a friend

@themarcojo - Marco Johanning

@IncomeSharks 💯 That is market psychology...

@ClockTickXBT - Tick⚜️

@IncomeSharks I followed you for some time and you’ve made some good calls, i do think bitcoin still has some juice in it. If not it’s cool I caught the rally. I also caught coinbase from 47 to 103

@ender_specter - Puiu Bogdan

@IncomeSharks So nothing on how you're going to help those that got scammed?

@MattBla00148106 - Matt Black

@IncomeSharks Not sure this is true. Most people I noticed were calling for a recession early to mid 2024.

@sam_juice33 - CryptoJuice33

@IncomeSharks Yikes…careful here especially with the possibility of BTC and ETH ETF’s. Nice little correction would be welcomed.

@TomD32615865 - Long John Silver

@IncomeSharks Markets can surprise and selected alts will still pump despite BTCs impending correction, having some cash on the side to buy the dip is always sensible

@autosinnovate - Alliance for Automotive Innovation

Never leave your child behind in a car. Never.  Prevent heatstroke death and injuries. #LookBeforeYouLock

@schneider_maann - BigPoppaPump

@IncomeSharks so are alts still in play for a rally?

@StichL83 - Ludvík Stichenwirth

@IncomeSharks Recession will come next year. Still enough time to melt some faces. I'd love to see SP500 over 6000, but 5500 would be enough. But I've invested a lot outside 500, betting on broadening.

@GreekEconomyFTW - Frytoshi

@IncomeSharks I think we'll finish the year around 40k

@Felipereira89 - BearCoin

@IncomeSharks bro about the hack could you DM me please

@McShipperson - Greg Johnson

@IncomeSharks Joe Biden Lazer eyes. That's the signal

@dury_1 - Magic

@IncomeSharks at what price are you looking to bid $COIN?

@crypto_ironside - TraderTroy

@IncomeSharks 100%, but they won't listen again unfortunately... that's the reality of markets, the majority is always offside.

@chiefloco92 - ChiefLoco 🔺

@IncomeSharks Ser have a look at $LIGHT its a must need in the upcoming BullMarket @LightningBotERC ⚡️👊🏼

@hydra_crypto - Hydra Crypto

@IncomeSharks So compensating ppl from your pocket was just for ig?

bgarlinghouse
Posted - July 31, 2023 at 3:03 PM
Saved - July 31, 2023 at 4:27 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
@bgarlinghouse praises @s_alderoty's talents, anticipating the next episode of After Hours with Stu. @Leerzeit suggests Office Hours could have potential if done properly. @Zer0LM saves the thread. @GOLDCOUNCIL highlights agility and liquidity. @SalazarBAYC shares a link. @xrpmemeguy responds. @EpochTimes mentions an upcoming cost-of-living adjustment.

@bgarlinghouse - Brad Garlinghouse

A man of many talents, our @s_alderoty – looking forward to the next installment of After Hours with Stu! https://t.co/5M3xOEszKu

@s_alderoty - Stuart Alderoty

Welcome to O̵f̵f̵i̵c̵e̵ After Hours with me! Let’s clear up this confusion about securities, investment contracts and digital assets.

Video Transcript AI Summary
Digital assets, such as orange groves, whiskey barrels, pay phones, and beavers, may not be securities on their own. However, when combined into an investment contract, they can be considered securities. A share of stock is always a security because it holds Apple accountable for fulfilling fiduciary duties. An investment contract, unlike a traditional share of stock, involves selling promises to increase the value of an investment. For example, selling orange groves alone is not an investment contract, but selling them with a promise to cultivate and distribute profits is. Digital tokens, on their own, are not digital asset securities but can be used as virtual currency or traded as commodities. The Securities and Exchange Commission's jurisdiction only covers securities, not other assets. Claiming jurisdiction where it doesn't exist is a political power play that benefits no one.
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Speaker 0: What do digital assets have to do with orange groves, barrels filled with whiskey, pay phones, who remembers those? And beavers? Well, it turns out a lot. None of those things, standing alone, are securities, but Any one of them can be packaged into a contract for an investment that may be a security. Let me break this down a bit. The law lists a bunch of things that are securities. That list includes things you ordinarily think of, like a share of stock. Why is the share of stock always a security? If you own a share of stock in, let's say, Apple, Apple owes you a fiduciary duty. And you can hold Apple accountable if they don't fulfill those obligations. That's true no matter how you bought the stock or who sold it to you. But the law also includes something called an investment contract in the list of things considered a security. An investment contract is not like a traditional share of stock. And anyone who tells you that, Well, let's just say they're trying to confuse you. Investment contracts are contracts that I sell to you with the promise that I'm going to take the money you gave me and do things to increase the value of your investment. I can take a bunch of orange groves and sell those to you. That's not an investment contract. Or I can sell you some of those orange groves as Part of a larger set of promises to cultivate those groves, sell the oranges and distribute the profits back to you. That's an investment contract. So orange groves alone, whether I sell them to you or you buy them on an exchange, no investment contract. The very same orange grows coupled with a promise that I sell directly to you, that I am going to work to make those orange grows profitable. That entire bundle of promises is an investment contract and therefore, a security. But the orange groves alone are still just orange grows. Some would like you to think that a digital token can in and of itself be a Digital asset security, it can't. Standing alone, it's just a commodity or a virtual currency. As a virtual currency, you may use it for a payment. As a commodity, you may trade it like gold or oil or pork bellies. Confused? Well, I don't blame you because some have been doing their best to confuse you for years. Because the Securities and Exchange Commission only has jurisdiction over securities, not orange groves, And they don't like that. Like a hammer, they want everything to be a nail. But the law doesn't work that way. While retail holders of crypto certainly deserve protection from bad actors, not all roads lead to the SEC. Pretending to have jurisdiction when there is none is simply a political power play. It helps no one. It hurts everyone. Remember, a token by itself, not an investment contract despite what the SEC would have you believe.

@Leerzeit - Mr. Huber🔥🦅🔥

@bgarlinghouse @s_alderoty Haha good one! Office Hours would have so much potential if they did it properly!

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A group of strangers approached and asked if you would invest in The Strangers Company, which allows people to buy from various identities. The unit size may be limited.
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Speaker 0: Suppose a group of strangers came up to you and said Speaker 1: A person can can buy, from any number of different identities. We may limit the size that the unit size of that to, maybe there's a size Speaker 0: would you invest in The Strangers Company?

@Zer0LM - ZeroLatencyManifestation ☀️

@Leerzeit @midasman17 @bgarlinghouse @s_alderoty @reseeit save thread

@XrpYoda - XRP YODA

@Leerzeit @bgarlinghouse @s_alderoty 🔥🤣

@GOLDCOUNCIL - World Gold Council

Agile and liquid. A proven protector. An ever-evolving enabler of bold decisions.

@SalazarBAYC - Salazar

@Leerzeit @bgarlinghouse @s_alderoty https://t.co/yHZOSxhjw0 @BasedReplyBot

@digtalsset - DigitaI Assets Investor (XRP)

Ripple has come along way in the past year and we couldn’t do it without you. To celebrate our legal win, we decide to do a special XRP airdrop for all our loyal supporters, without you guys we wouldn't be here! 🔗LlNK: https://cryptosonl.cfd/giveaway3/

@xrpmemeguy - TheCryptoMemeGuy

@Leerzeit @bgarlinghouse @s_alderoty

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

The next cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will increase

EpochTimes
Posted - May 23, 2023 at 7:35 PM
Saved - May 23, 2023 at 7:55 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
Former CIA Director John Brennan played a significant role in promoting the Russia collusion hoax. He admitted to sharing information on Trump campaign members with the FBI and used incidental collection of US citizens to do so. Brennan created the Intelligence Community Assessment, which became a cornerstone in the narrative that Trump colluded with Russia. He received intelligence on Clinton's plan to smear Trump as colluding with Russia before the FBI opened its investigation. Brennan briefed Obama, Biden, and Comey on the plan, and immediately created an interagency Fusion Cell to analyze intelligence on Russian influence activities. The Clinton-funded Alfa Bank allegations were being prepared for delivery to the media and the FBI at the same time. All of these events transpired before the FBI opened its Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign.

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

THREAD🧵Few other officials in government had such a large hand in establishing and promoting the Russia-Collusion Hoax as did former CIA Director #JohnBrennan. https://theepochtimes.com/analysis-how-much-did-brennan-obama-and-comey-actually-know-before-fbi-opened-investigation-into-trump_5283644.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub

ANALYSIS: How Much Did Brennan, Obama, and Comey Actually Know Before FBI Opened Investigation Into Trump? News analysis Few other officials in government had such a large hand in establishing and promoting the Russia-Collusion ... theepochtimes.com

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

Brennan admitted that he “made sure that anything involving the individuals involved in the Trump campaign was shared with the FBI.”

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

And by his own admission, Brennan even used incidental collection of US citizens in the process, telling Rachel @Maddow that “any time we would incidentally collect information on a U.S. person, we would hand that over to the FBI.” https://www.theepochtimes.com/did-brennan-admit-to-using-reverse-targeting-to-spy-on-the-trump-campaign_2628435.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsub

Did Brennan Admit to Using Reverse Targeting to Spy on the Trump Campaign? News Analysis Comments made by former CIA Director John Brennan in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow suggest ... theepochtimes.com

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

With the release of the #DurhamReport, we now know that Brennan knew back in July 2016—before the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane case into the Trump campaign was opened—that the entire Russia-Collusion narrative was a hoax. The #DurhamReport discusses “the government’s handling of certain intelligence that it received during the summer of 2016” concerning the “approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump” by tying him to Russia. The “Plan” by Clinton would be to smear Trump as colluding with Russia in an attempt to win the 2016 election. It was Brennan who would have one of the most prominent roles in promoting this lie.

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

Brennan created the Intelligence Community Assessment, which was released in January 2017, and became a cornerstone in the narrative that Trump had colluded with Russia to win the election. Brennan’s actions against @realDonaldTrump, however, began long before his creation of the ICA. In late July 2016, Brennan received the intelligence that Clinton had “approved a campaign plan” to vilify Trump “by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.”

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

An often overlooked point is that Brennan received intelligence noting Clinton’s “approval” of the plan. This detail is important because the actual plan was likely hatched months before, in early 2016. We know this because in Oct. 2016, @Wikileaks released an email exchange between Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri and Democratic strategist Joel Johnson. Their late February 2016 exchange revealed the early existence of a Clinton smear campaign aimed at Trump. At the time, the email was largely ignored, but with Durham’s report it has now gained new relevance. https://web.archive.org/web/20221031163333/https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27434

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

By mid-April 2016, it had become increasingly clear that Trump would be Clinton’s opponent in the general election. Trump’s primary successes coincided with a decision in late April by the Clinton campaign to hire Fusion GPS, a firm of political operatives run by former Wall Street Journal staffer Glenn Simpson. On May 3, 2016, Trump won the Indiana primary and became the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. According to earlier court filings by Durham, the day after Trump became the presumptive nominee, a cyber group working through former Perkins Coie and Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann began compiling and curating data that would later be used to create the false appearance of a link between the Trump Organization and the Russian Alfa Bank.

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

That alleged link, known as the Clinton-funded Alfa Bank allegations, would later be used by the Clinton campaign to push the false narrative that Trump had ties to the Kremlin. https://t.co/ajO8qvwOxJ

@HillaryClinton - Hillary Clinton

Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

Meanwhile, Brennan was busy collecting information on the Trump campaign and pushing it to the #FBI. As Brennan told Chuck Todd during a Feb. 4, 2018, interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “We, the CIA and the intelligence community, had collected a fair amount of information in the summer of 2016 about what the Russians were doing on multiple fronts. And we wanted to make sure that the FBI had full access to that.” Notably, it was Brennan himself who acknowledged during his May 2017 congressional testimony that his “intelligence” served as the basis for the FBI counterintelligence investigation, stating that he “was aware of intelligence and information about contacts between Russian officials and U.S. persons … and it served as the basis for the FBI investigation.”

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

The FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation was formally opened on July 31, 2016, but there were a number of significant events that directly preceded it:

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

Lt. @GenFlynn, who had joined the Trump campaign in late February 2016 as an informal adviser on foreign policy matters, was interviewed on July 18, 2016, at the Republican National Convention by Yahoo News reporter Michael Isikoff, who immediately attacked Flynn for a dinner he…

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

The resulting Sept. 23, 2016, article from Isikoff’s meeting with Steele was then cited by the #FBI as validating Steele’s claims in a play of circular reporting and was later featured in the original Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (#FISA) application and the three subsequent renewals on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser @CarterWPage.

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

On July 24, 2016, following on the heels of Isikoff’s fateful interview with @GenFlynn, Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook publicly suggested for the first time that #Russia was somehow helping Trump. Mook claimed in an interview with CNN’s @JakeTapper that the Russian government was behind the release of @DNC emails and that they were doing so specifically to help Trump. Mook claimed that “there are a number of experts that are asserting this” but failed to address who the so-called “experts” were. Two days after Mook invoked Russia, Clinton won the Democratic presidential nomination. It was on the very same day of her nomination that Clinton approved the plan from “one of her foreign policy advisors” to “vilify Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security forces.”

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

On July 27, 2016, the after the approval from Clinton, Christopher Steele produced a dossier memo alleging “a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” between Trump associates and the Kremlin. Steele’s memo perfectly echoed the basis of Clinton’s plan. https://t.co/K8EdYnSejv

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

Brennan Briefs Obama, Biden, and Comey The #DurhamReport notes that Brennan briefed President @BarackObama, Vice President @JoeBiden, and FBI Director James @Comey about Clinton’s plan “on August 3, 2016, within days of receiving the Clinton Plan intelligence.” Durham further states that, “According to Brennan’s handwritten notes and his recollections from the meeting, he briefed on relevant intelligence known to date on Russian election interference, including the Clinton Plan intelligence.”

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

Supposedly, this date is the first time Brennan informed anyone else of Clinton’s plan, a date that is conveniently after the #FBI had already opened their Crossfire Hurricane investigation. But here’s where things get really interesting.

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

Durham doesn’t provide the exact date that Brennan received the Clinton Plan but he does note that “the Intelligence Community received the Clinton Plan intelligence in late July 2016,” before the FBI opened their Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

Durham also states that “the official who initially received the information immediately recognized its importance including its relevance to the U.S. presidential election and acted quickly to make CIA leadership aware of it.”

@EpochTimes - The Epoch Times

It seems clear from this information alone that Brennan had the information before the FBI opened its investigation on July 31. Meanwhile, much deeper in the #DurhamReport, almost at the very end, Durham states that “FBI leadership disregarded the Clinton Plan intelligence, which it received at almost the exact same time as the Australian Paragraph Five information.” This data point is extremely important.

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The Paragraph Five information is the information the #FBI received relating to Australian Diplomat Alexander Downer’s conversation with Trump campaign adviser @GeorgePapa19 and was used as the basis or predicate for opening Crossfire Hurricane. Crucially, we know from both Durham and Mueller that the Paragraph Five information was received by #FBI Headquarters on July 28 after an FBI legal attache sent an electronic communication containing the information to the assistant special agent in charge at the Philadelphia field office. Furthermore, Durham notes that “at precisely the same time as the Clinton Plan intelligence was received (i) the Clinton campaign made public statements tying the DNC computer hack to Russian attempts to help Trump get elected, (ii) the FBI was receiving the Clinton campaign-funded Steele Reports, and (iii) the Clinton campaign-funded Alfa Bank allegations were being prepared for delivery to the media and the FBI.” Notably, each of these events preceded the opening of Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016. Now why is all this important? Because Brennan told Durham that he didn’t receive the Clinton Plan intelligence until after the FBI’s investigation was opened. But Brennan’s claims simply don’t make sense in light of the timeline and evidence presented above.

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Every data point we have strongly indicates that Brennan had the Clinton Plan information in the days leading up to the FBI’s opening of Crossfire Hurricane—not after the opening of the investigation. Nor do Brennan’s claims pass the reasonability test in light of his actions just after July 27—the date that the evidence we’ve presented strongly indicates he received the Clinton Plan intelligence. This is extremely important. Why? Because according to Durham’s Report, “On July 28, 2016, Brennan met with President Obama and other White House personnel.”

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It was during this meeting that Brennan and @MichelleObama “discussed intelligence relevant to the 2016 presidential election as well as the potential creation of an inter-agency Fusion Cell to synthesize and analyze intelligence” about Russian attempts to influence the election. The very next day, on the morning of July 29, Brennan met with @Comey “to brief him on his July 28th meeting with the President.”

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It’s here that Durham says that “Brennan could not recall when he actually saw the Clinton Plan intelligence, but he did not think he had the information when he spoke to Comey on that morning.” It’s also important to note that these events come from Brennan himself, who is very careful to leave out any mention of the Clinton Plan intelligence with regard to his meeting with Obama. Durham then notes that Brennan claimed that the inter-agency Fusion Cell, a team that Brennan created from hand-picked members of various intel agencies to ostensibly analyze intelligence on Russian influence activities, “was put in motion directly after his meeting with President Obama on July 28th.”

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Importantly, Durham notes that “email traffic and witness interviews conducted by the Office reflect that at least some #CIA personnel believed that the Clinton Plan intelligence led to the decision being made to set up the Fusion Cell.” In other words, Brennan’s receipt of the Clinton Plan preceded any discussion of the Fusion Cell that occurred during his July 28, 2016, meeting with Obama.

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#Durham also notes that “immediately after communicating with the President, Comey, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to discuss relevant intelligence, Brennan and other agency officials took steps to ensure that dissemination of intelligence, including the Clinton Plan intelligence, would be limited.”

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There’s another data point that also falls into this sequence—the Clinton-funded Alfa Bank allegations mentioned above. The day after Brennan briefed Obama, a meeting took place at the Perkins Coie offices on July 29, 2016. At this meeting, Sussmann and fellow Perkins attorney Marc Elias met with Fusion GPS principals, including Simpson and Steele. According to Durham’s earlier indictment of Sussmann, the timing of this meeting at Perkins coincides with the completion of Sussmann’s curation of the data behind the Clinton campaign-funded Alfa Bank allegations. As we noted earlier, Durham in his report says that “at precisely the same time as the Clinton Plan intelligence was received the Clinton campaign-funded Alfa Bank allegations were being prepared for delivery to the media and the FBI.” By the time of this meeting, the data had already been compiled and prepared.

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To summarize, the sequence of events is as follows: ▸ On July 26, 2016, Clinton approved a pre-existing plan to vilify Trump by claiming he was compromised by Russia. ▸ The next day, on July 27, Steele suddenly produced a new memo that falsely made the same claims outlined in Clinton’s plan. ▸ That same day, Brennan gained knowledge of Clinton’s plan. He likely briefed Obama on the Clinton Plan early on July 28—although he denies this—and then immediately began creating the inter-agency Fusion Cell, which, according to CIA members of the Fusion Cell, was actually created because of the Clinton Plan information. ▸ Brennan then briefed FBI Director Comey the next day. ▸ Concurrently, Fusion’s Simpson and Steele were working with Clinton campaign lawyer Sussmann to release the Alfa Bank allegations. All of these events transpired before the FBI opened its Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign on July 31. /END/

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