In this episode, I sit down with Peter Navarrette to discuss China's takeover of U.S. farmland, the impact this could have on our national security, and the need for seasonal farm labor. Peter and I discuss the impact of China's rapid growth on our food supply, and how the Chinese are stealing our intellectual property and intellectual property rights.
00:06:03.900I think Senator Marshall really put a nice overview on the different threats.
00:06:09.900Really, you know, American agriculture, I think, is defined as science, technology, and innovation.
00:06:15.900And all those are amazing. It defines agriculture today, but it also leads the way for agriculture over the horizon for the future.
00:06:23.900But it can be very vulnerable if we don't protect that. And in the past, we haven't provided protections for that.
00:06:31.900The science, the technology, the innovation that comes out of this great country, out of this essential industry.
00:06:37.900And I think the fact that today we're declaring that food security is national security, farm security is a part of that.
00:06:46.900I think this is a great milestone of making sure that we're protecting all of that for the future.
00:06:51.900America needs, we always want America to be in the lead, no matter what we're talking about.
00:06:56.900But certainly when it comes to the thing that is probably most essential, and that is food and fiber, energy materials, building resources, all the things that come off that rural agriculture acreage, we have a duty and responsibility to make sure that those things are secure.
00:07:12.900So, Secretary, thank you for your leadership and vision on this. Much appreciated.
00:07:21.900Timing is coming very soon. We'll continue to announce further steps to answer your final question.
00:07:26.900Listen, everyone, thank you so much for being here. It's really, really an honor to have you all here at the People's Department.
00:07:32.900Abraham Lincoln founded this department in 1862 to ensure that the American farmers and ranchers and rural prosperity, rural way of life was represented here in Washington.
00:07:42.900So thank you. And everyone can gather over on the right for Coach Tuberville's next workout.
00:07:47.900All right. Thank you guys so much. Thank you.
00:07:54.900This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:07:59.900Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:08:04.900Here's the time I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it.
00:08:10.900I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
00:08:15.900And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega media.
00:08:20.900I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:08:26.900Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:08:30.900If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:08:36.900War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
00:08:40.900Tuesday, 8 July, Year of the Lord, 2025, right there outside the Agriculture Department, started by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 to ensure food security, right, for the United States, or at that time, I guess the North versus the South of the United States versus the Confederacy.
00:09:03.900Brooke Rollins, the Secretary of Agriculture, a couple of bombshells.
00:09:07.900Finally, everybody got focused on the Chinese Communist Party as a threat.
00:09:13.900They're also a threat to our food supply, to bioterrorism, to buying of land, to the processing of food.
00:09:19.900And Brooke Rollins leading the effort there with Pete Hegseth and Peter Navarro, Christy Noem, all the major cabinet officials associated with this.
00:09:29.900And they obviously got a sign-up by Marco Rubio announcing a whole new program for focusing on the CCP and making sure that they cannot get into our food supply.
00:09:39.900I'm sure there will be a lot of executive orders coming off of this ASAP.
00:09:43.900There's going to be a cabinet meeting at 11.
00:09:45.900We're going to cover it in its entirety because President Trump on the show will be breaking news.
00:09:49.900And for all of you War Room Posse and MAGA, you know, let's not curl up in the fetal position.
00:09:57.900Let's not get in the mumble tank, right?
00:09:59.900Let's not, oh, my God, it's, you know, he's going to, you know, go to war in Iran.
00:10:04.900He's going to, you know, sucked into Ukraine.
00:11:31.900Brooke Rollins dropped a bomb right there and had tip to Charlie Kirk.
00:11:35.900And the Charlie Kirk show shows you the power of the Charlie Kirk show.
00:11:39.900And it shows you the power of real America's voice and shows you the power of the populist nationalist movement.
00:11:45.900Let's play Brooke Rollins just a moment ago.
00:11:47.900The first thing I'll say is the president has been unequivocal that there will be no amnesty.
00:11:52.900And I think that's very, very important.
00:11:54.900I and the rest of our cabinet certainly support that, effectuate that and make sure that happens every single day.
00:12:00.900The second thing to your question about mass deportations, the president and I have spoken about that once or twice.
00:12:06.900And he has always been of the mindset that at the end of the day, the promise to America to ensure that we have a 100 percent American workforce stands.
00:12:15.900But we must be strategic and how we are implementing the mass deportation.
00:12:20.900So is not to compromise our food supply.
00:12:23.900Ultimately, the answer on this is automation.
00:12:25.900Also, some reform within the current governing structure.
00:12:28.900And then also, when you think about there are 34 million able bodied adults in our Medicaid program.
00:12:34.900There are plenty of workers in America, but we just have to make sure we're not compromising today, especially in the context of everything we're thinking about right now.
00:12:43.900So no amnesty under any circumstances.
00:12:45.900Mass deportations continue, but in a strategic and intentional way as we move our workforce toward more automation and toward a 100 percent American workforce.
00:12:55.900And ultimately, it's the wonderful members of Congress behind me who are taking this on on the fixing the current immigration system.
00:17:04.900Oh, by the way, so I'm going to move the guys, Philip Patrick and the team that are in Rio are going to come in this afternoon for kind of a summary.
00:17:15.900You heard Bolsonaro's on, you know, say President Trump dropped a bomb in Brazil on Maurice and Lula, particularly the judge about the trial.
00:17:29.900And Lula has completely mishandled the BRICS, which is great.
00:17:34.900Philip Patrick will be on this afternoon.
00:18:37.900Russ vote in the team over OMB are beavering away on this.
00:18:40.900The NDAA is the markup that really becomes kind of the policy and really the budget for the Defense Department now reaching a trillion dollars.
00:18:49.900But and this is going to be hard for this audience to believe, Tietzel, because Hex has been doing such a great job on this.
00:18:56.900You're telling me it's still got a lot of woke in it.
00:18:59.900Is that what I'm hearing from CRA, sir?
00:19:02.900The trick is to combine what the law says with what the president and Secretary Hegseth have already done through executive action.
00:19:10.900You got to shore this stuff up in statute.
00:19:13.900So the president and Pete have gotten together, issued a bunch of executive orders.
00:19:17.900Hegseth and his team have implemented that all throughout the department.
00:19:21.900Things like woke hiring practices, quotas, teaching nonsense at at West Point and the other service academies.
00:19:29.900But until you put it in statute, obviously some future administration can just bring all that stuff back.
00:19:36.900Not not to mention the ways that these guys will use to evade what the president and what the secretary are trying to do.
00:19:43.900And the NDAA is the vehicle to put that stuff into law.
00:19:54.900OK, so the call to action for the war room posse because they want to go to the ramparts in this one.
00:20:00.900Particularly, we've got a huge veterans and parents of active duty members, a lot of active duty members.
00:20:06.900And, of course, one board member of of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in a in a in a graduate of said amazing institution.
00:20:17.900Do you have can they go to CRA and get something as the talking points when they make the calls?
00:20:23.900Do you think do you have something set up for us today or get it by this afternoon so people can go to the ramparts?
00:20:29.900Absolutely. We appreciate it for this kind of thing.
00:20:32.900Folks can go to citizens renewing America dot com and find all of the information we've got, including model text for amendments that some of the heroes on SAS can drop.
00:20:44.900I should say that process, they keep it secret, of course, because that's the way things work in Washington.
00:20:50.900But I am trusting that we have some strong allies on the armed services committee, Tommy Tuberville, Rick Scott, Jim Banks, Eric Schmidt and others who I'm sure are planning to tackle some of this stuff.
00:21:06.900But if people want to make sure they can go to citizens renewing America dot com, find that stuff and call those offices.
00:21:13.900Folks go there and let's call those are all allies.
00:21:16.900You know, you got Banks and Tuberville and Schmidt. These are all in Senator Scott down in Florida.
00:21:21.900These are all the best of the best. This is a big one.
00:21:24.900You got to get it now codified. We call this beginning codified because remember these executive orders just like that whole the film Lincoln.
00:21:30.900I keep going back to about the emancipation, the emancipation proclamation was only an executive order.
00:21:36.900It would have been gone at the end of Lincoln's term, his second term, which was obviously he's brutally assassinated the first couple of months.
00:21:44.900But he was that's why he wanted to get it codified in this case in an amendment to the Constitution.
00:21:53.900The NDA is for 26. We have a urgent problem right now.
00:21:57.900And here's my fear about this Ukraine situation.
00:21:59.900We start sending arms. Number one, we're ripping stuff out of the Pacific.
00:22:04.900We are taken away from which should be the center of gravity because it's the western edge of the hemispheric defense.
00:22:11.900The hemispheric defense pivot is in the central vast central Pacific that really separates us principally from the Eurasian landmass in the three island chain.
00:22:21.900We are ripping out FADS, Patriot missiles, one to Israel for the Iran war.
00:22:27.900But that's over now because President Trump's put that to bed with the end of the 12 day war.
00:22:31.900But now Ukraine. And as you saw in the Israel situation, once you give the once you give the equipment, the batteries, next thing you know, you're actually in operating air defense.
00:22:41.900You're bringing the Arleigh Burke class cruisers in for air defense.
00:22:47.900And the next thing you know, you're a combatant. Once you do that, you're a combatant.
00:22:50.900And then you segue to an offensive capability. Now, President Trump, most sophisticated, ended the war, incredible bravery, boldness, all that.
00:22:59.900But then you're an offensive combatant. This is what's going to happen in Ukraine.
00:23:04.900So how do we stop that? I mean, are we not seriously short of our own weapons inventory right now, sir?
00:23:12.900There's no question that we've got to take seriously the need to rebuild our capacity and not just rebuild it from what it was,
00:23:19.900but rebuild it in a way that is optimized for the challenges that we face in the 21st century.
00:23:25.900And that's the Indo-Pacific, just as you pointed out. The reason for President Trump's strategic pause on providing defensive weapons to Ukraine,
00:23:33.900the one that he just changed yesterday, was specifically to do what you mentioned, to take an accounting and to say, hey, where are we with this?
00:23:42.900We have to make sure that we can protect ourselves before we take any steps anywhere in the world.
00:23:48.900And the president obviously felt comfortable with where things currently stand.
00:23:53.900But he also made some really critical statements about moving forward and the need for Germany in particular to step up and take more of this stuff from there.
00:24:02.900I think Secretary Hegseth talked about some of these weapons being moved from places like like Greece, which is not a strategic priority for Ukraine.
00:24:11.900OK. And then we've got to pivot to China.
00:24:15.900And we're going to play this the China part today, the national security.
00:24:20.900Tito, I want to have you back on and go through the markup tomorrow in more detail.
00:24:26.900You're holding the fort for all the great team that you forwarded into the government.
00:24:30.900And by the way, we would not be getting as many things done as we're getting done if it was not for Russ Vogt and the great team he built over at CRA over many years.
00:24:38.900And Eric Tito and a couple of handful of other patriots are holding the fort for us over there.
00:32:03.900These advanced industrial powers in Europe have done it because they believed in this weird theory of decarbonization.
00:32:10.900And they went to all these efforts, and this is why they're screwed.
00:32:14.900And now they're scrambling to bring it back.
00:32:16.900This report today from the Department of Energy reinforces the warning you've been giving about the de-electrification of the country, not just at the federal level but also, I don't know, some random red states like South Carolina and particularly Florida.
00:32:31.900Sir, is that what that report sums up?
00:32:35.900Chris Wright, who's been all over this through his public life, you know, we waited, I think, five months to do the legislative best efforts to deconstruct this stuff.
00:32:43.900His report documents very clearly if we stay on the trajectory of wind, solar, and battery storage that we're now on, which is about 90% of new capacity installations, being that part-time intermittent junk, we will be in a place by 2030 with about 100 times more likelihood of brownouts and blackouts from loss of load.
00:33:04.900Loss of load means not enough power in the system to meet demand.
00:33:08.900That's a horrendous place for a developed nation to be, basically facing 100 times exponentially grown likelihood of brownouts and blackouts from not enough electricity because you've torn out all this stuff that runs full-time, coal, nuclear, not built enough combined cycle gas that runs full-time, and attempted to displace it with stuff that runs five hours a day solar, seven wind, and two hours a day battery storage.
00:33:34.900So Musk is gone, thank the Lord for now, and we've got an EO in place, and now the big, beautiful bill that kills subsidies by 27, and a study that shows the enormously deficient electricity supply that this part-time stuff has caused the nation in energy security.
00:33:53.380Yeah. Okay. You hang right there. I'm going to come back to you. Axios, huge story today on artificial intelligence going like a sith through grass on middle managers.
00:34:07.320Anybody in the audience, maybe know a son or a daughter is going to be a middle manager, or maybe you're a middle manager.
00:34:12.200Well, guess what? Artificial intelligence is coming from your job.
00:34:15.380Ford Motor Company CEO gave you a heads up, and Axios Day has a really smart piece.
00:34:19.700I've put it up on Getter. I'm exclusive on Getter. Go up there and check it out today.
00:34:25.020Either download the app or go to the website.
00:34:27.100Let's go to Geneva to the AI good, United Nations AI good for the good conference, which sends a chill down my spine.
00:34:36.500We have the power couple of the, not anti-AI, but kind of the reasonable, hey, we've got to think this through, line of thought here, angle of attack.
00:34:50.640Nora, can you tee it up? What's the conference like so far?
00:34:55.220Listen, it's been very, very interesting so far.
00:34:58.480I have to say we had some very good panels, some very good interventions, starting off with the secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union.
00:35:09.460She did a great job in teeing up the conference and calling, especially for governance of AI, which we've been discussing heavily with Joe.
00:35:22.340We had the chief technology officer of Amazon, Werner Vogels.
00:35:26.460And that, to me, was particularly interesting because he really zoned in the importance of data.
00:35:33.460And essentially, through all the lofty words that he's been using, essentially, we're talking about mass surveillance and the necessity of just data mining the entire planet through mapping, more specifically, using satellites, drones, the Internet of Things and mobile technology, which, you know, and the War Room Posse knows I've been talking about for the past few years.
00:36:00.400So, Nora, it looks like, this thing looks like it's massive.
00:36:05.640How big, actually, is this conference?
00:36:07.980I mean, it looks bigger than Davos, CPAC, even Charlie Kirk's summit this week.
00:36:14.340And, by the way, if you have not gotten a ticket yet, come to Tampa.
00:36:25.000What is the scale of this thing, ma'am?
00:36:27.040Well, I have to say I was incredibly impressed by Charlie Kirk's event in Phoenix AmpFest in terms of the volume and just the organization.
00:36:38.520But in terms of AI conferences, I don't know, Joe, you've been to quite a few.
00:37:05.880But, no, there are a ton of roboticists here demonstrating their wares.
00:37:11.680So you've got social robots, you've got exoskeletons, you've got robots that are intended for kind of what they call biotherapeutic purposes, meaning that you basically pet a stuffed baby seal that coos back at you.
00:37:27.540So, like I say, we've got tons of footage that we're showing tonight, a number of exclusive interviews that are just accumulating.
00:37:34.760But, yes, Steve, this is a massive, massive event.
00:37:38.960And the U.N. element is the globalist sort of tone as to where they want AI governance to go is very strong.
00:37:48.420Basically, it's like if the Biden regime had remained in power and turned over to Kamala, that's the sort of vibe we're talking about here.
00:37:57.560AI that is beneficial to all, and everybody wants that.
00:38:00.880But again and again and again, AI that is inclusive, which is to say AI that is not racist, sexist, or homophobic.
00:38:07.780So basically the antithesis of the Peter Thiel or Elon Musk sort of approach.
00:38:15.640And to Joe's point, the sustainable development goals, the 17 sustainable development goals of the U.N.
00:38:22.580are very much front and center since this is a U.N. AI conference.
00:38:27.640And so you have trained AI robots or applications that essentially have been developed to brainwash people into learning about the sustainable development goals.
00:38:42.020Joe did a great interview with one guy.
00:38:45.280And Noor subjected herself to the process.
00:38:47.420She's not really been the same since, Steve.
00:38:50.120It still didn't manage to convince me.
00:38:56.040I got a bunch, and I'm going to get back to the AI, qua AI in a second.
00:39:01.420But all of these things that you have covered for us over the years, right, UNESCO, World Health Organization, sustainability, you know, what was it, Agenda 2030, all of this.
00:39:12.340Are they going to use AI as an arc that connects it all and try to backdoor everything that we've stopped, right, everything we stopped, or at least temporarily stopped?
00:39:24.860Are they going to use AI as a way to backdoor all of that, ma'am?
00:39:39.740So it's these two components together, the fact that they have developed all of this technology in order to amass this immeasurable amount of data, and now they've developed the tool in order to be able to analyze and use this data.
00:39:57.320This is really the acceleration that is taking place right now that will enable them to implement this total mass surveillance digital infrastructure in which we are essentially prisoners.
00:40:13.120If I could just add to that too, Steve, that, you know, in the spirit of diversity, they did invite Meredith Whitaker, the CEO, or the president of Signal, and she came out swinging against all of the excessive surveillance and data privacy violations.
00:40:28.600So it has been, in that sense, a balanced sort of lineup so far.
00:40:34.320No, no, but hang on, hang on, hang on, full stop.
00:40:40.560This is the reason we stopped the moratorium.
00:40:42.320This is my whole concern with Elmo, what Elmo did in his, the whole Doge thing, and for the fanboys, I hope you see what this guy's really like now.
00:40:54.260Not that I'm one to rub somebody's nose in it, but I'm going to rub your nose in it.
00:40:58.920My biggest problem with Elmo and Doge was what he was doing in the U.S. government with the most valuable data sets ever.
00:41:06.260Norris, Norris, please repeat what the chief technology officer of Amazon, one of the biggest oligarchs, oligarchies around, said, no data, no AI.
00:41:40.960This is what we've been witnessing the last few years with social media, with all of these tech companies, even our banks.
00:41:49.020You remember this very seminal or key advertisement by HSBC and how data is basically the next currency.
00:41:59.480This is the time we're living in by now.
00:42:02.540And whatever we do, whatever, if you own a smartphone, essentially, you are feeding this machine that is being used against us, that is being weaponized against us.
00:42:43.660That's why what data sets Elmo got of your information is something that I have been behind the scenes going absolutely nuts on because the CTO just gave it up.
00:42:55.920Now, this is what accelerationists are doing.
00:42:58.580It's this great grab in the four horsemen of the apocalypse that advance on AI.
00:43:06.820It's like all these services coming to War Room now and saying, hey, look, you know, we've really reviewed you over the last couple of years, and it's okay to be there.
00:43:17.560They're all – everything out there wants the data.
00:43:21.960They want the data because that's the new gold.
00:43:37.400I'm going to hold you guys through the break.
00:43:38.580I want you to get back into the conference and get more interviews.
00:43:41.620And, Joe, I want you to torture Norm more about having to sit through some of yours with the AI.
00:43:46.200But this is what the accelerationists want to do.
00:43:48.480The accelerationists, the biggest thing they're doing now is the land grab on data.
00:43:55.440That's why we have to make very sure our own government and the Trump administration is not having the tech bros lead us down a primrose path to our own destruction.
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00:47:39.340There is a total acknowledgment of all the downsides, including among many of the speakers here, the possibility of existential risk, the possibility of total human extinction.
00:47:50.440You had Mark Benioff of Salesforce, oddly enough, suddenly pivoting, talking about how, no, this won't lead to automation and replacement.
00:48:00.320This will lead to augmentation and enhancement.
00:48:03.640I don't think that everyone here shares that point of view.
00:48:06.940It's all over the board, but most people seem to acknowledge that the three big threats, human atrophy, human replacement, and possibly human extinction, that that's at least on the table.
00:48:20.060And so the solutions they're offering, again, it's differing across.
00:48:25.480You've got Meredith Whitaker of Signal.
00:48:30.880You have a number of people who are not towing the sort of globalist liberal line.
00:48:34.740But most of the people here are saying the solutions we need are some kind of global standards or global regulation, inclusivity, you know, left liberal.
00:48:48.900Yeah, and to that point, Steve, what is really interesting with the fact that we are here in Geneva is that they are seeking to rebrand Geneva as the main hub for this standardization
00:49:00.840because of the fact that Geneva is already, you know, this capital of the world when it comes to these international globalist institutions.
00:49:11.140And they're calling for Geneva to kind of pivot and use this crisis in which we find ourselves in, in which Geneva finds itself in, the globalist institutions find themselves in, you know, with the cuts, the budget cuts, etc.
00:49:25.420For the UN, for the WHO that we've been seeing the past few months, especially since the Trump administration came in this past January.
00:49:34.940And so they're trying to position Geneva as this new leading tech hub.
00:49:40.940And they're even calling it, believe it or not, Trust Valley.
00:49:44.580They want to brand Geneva as Trust Valley.
00:49:47.820I tell you, you couldn't make this up.
00:49:52.880Like in Switzerland, with all these sleazy people working here, all of the hidden money, all of the corruption, Geneva all of a sudden is branding itself as Trust Valley.
00:50:06.840Let me give you a, yeah, breaking news from the Washington Post just coming across.
00:50:10.980An imposter has been impersonating Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, sending AI-generated voice and text messages to three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor, and a U.S. member of Congress, per a cable obtained by the Washington Post.
00:50:26.680And I'm quoting now from the Washington Post.
00:50:28.260Folks, U.S. authorities do not know who is behind the string of impersonation attempts, but they believe the culprit is likely attempting to manipulate powerful government officials with the goal of gaining access to information or accounts, according to a cable sent by Rubio's office, the State Department employees.
00:50:44.940Folks, that's what I just told you about Home Tidal Lock.
00:50:47.560This technology is so powerful, it's changing the world minute by minute that you're living in.
00:50:54.220And this is why we have Noor Bin Laden and Joe Allen both at this conference date.
00:51:12.660This is incredibly, incredibly important, what you just brought up, and incredibly dangerous.
00:51:18.000And it ties in with the threat of misinformation and disinformation.
00:51:24.780You know, that was the number one risk, global risk by the World Economic Forum.
00:51:30.120You know, they do this risk report every year, and they're going to use this technology and these deep fakes as the perfect excuse, as the perfect children horse, in order to crack down on our freedoms and our freedom of speech.
00:51:45.520This is coming right down the pipeline.
00:51:48.380As for my details, NorbinLadden.substack.com.
00:51:51.720And at JoeBot.XYZ, and also, Steve, speaking of name recognition and facial recognition, we have Rashid from France.