JAN 11 2022 - W.H.O. SELECTED CASS SUNSTEIN TO HEAD COVID PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSE UNIT
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The World Health Organization tapped Cass Sunstein to chair a technical advisory group to help save lives in August of 2020. Dr. Sunstein is a former Obama administration employee who served as the head of the Office of Crisis Management and Emergency Preparedness (CPCA) at the White House and served as a key member of the Obama administration's Office of National Security Strategy and Strategy. A CNN producer who was arrested for child sex exploitation has now been charged with a $15 million civil suit. And then, a man who was a close friend of former Vice President Joe Biden has been arrested for treason.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily,
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Mass formation psychosis. We're going to dig more into this because last year,
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we've got the documents. The WHO selected none other than Obama administration
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alumni Cass Sunstein to head the COVID response psychological unit. Isn't that interesting?
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Next up, a hemorrhagic fever has broken out in Northwest China just weeks before the Olympics
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are starting and lockdowns are spreading throughout the country. Third, the CNN producer,
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John Griffin, former CNN producer who was arrested, has now been slapped with a $15 million
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civil suit for child sex exploitation. We've got all the details. And then finally,
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Kazakhstan's intel chief, who was Hunter Biden's close friend, has been arrested for treason.
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So we've been talking a lot the last couple of weeks about this concept of mass formation psychosis.
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And Dr. Malone and Dr. Matthias Desmet were the ones that really brought this theory into the
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forefront. But then, of course, the AP and Reuters and all these people, Claire Lemon from Quillette
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came out and has been attacking Human Events Daily. They've been attacking Dr. Malone,
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Dr. Desmet for saying, oh, this thing isn't real. It doesn't appear anywhere in the literature.
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It has nothing to do with what's going on. You guys are making it all up. It has nothing to do
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with any of that stuff. Au contraire. Because I looked up the actual paper of the doctor that was
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used in the AP fact check against Dr. Malone. And what did he write? He had a paper published
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April 30th, 2020, using social and behavioral science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.
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He talked about negative framing to capture attention, especially for people who are less
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mathematically skilled. He wrote, his words, again, his words, a meta-analysis found that
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targeting fears can be useful in some situations. Appealing to fear leads people to change their
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behavior. And then people are highly reacted to choices made by others. Now, this was Dr. J. Van
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Babel from NYU. But he's talking about something that actually arose years ago from the President
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Obama administration when he was in the White House in a book called Nudge. The book Nudge was
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written by Dr. Richard Thaler and Professor Cass Sunstein. Now, if you remember the name Cass Sunstein,
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he was a guy in Obama's administration who was really behind these things. They started in the UK.
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They eventually came to the US. They called them nudge units or behavioral science units. What was the
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idea behind nudging? Nudging was this idea that you could use psychological tricks from the government,
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such as anchoring, availability heuristics, representative heuristics, fear, herd mentality,
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to be able to alter people's behavior. Okay? Then we saw something that came out in terms of this.
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The World Health Organization tapped Cass Sunstein to chair their technical advisory group on changing
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people's behavior to help save lives all the way back in August of 2020. All right? And this is from
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Harvard University. You can go look at this. The group was initially conceived in early February,
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a global open call that sent out applications, fields of anthropology, psychology, neuroscience,
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and health promotion. In a media briefing, they said, in the face of the World Health Organization
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chief said that in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries are using a range of tools to influence
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behavior. Information campaigns are one tool, but so are laws, regulations, guidelines, and even fines.
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And here's a video, by the way, of them explaining exactly what this concept of psychological behavioral
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nudging is all about. Here we go. Nudge articulates the idea that people can be persuaded to make the right
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decisions by simple changes in how choices are presented to them. The theory was laid out in a
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groundbreaking 2008 book of the same name by economics professor Richard Thaler and law professor Cass Sunstein.
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So the way Cass Sunstein describes this is they control what they call your choice architecture.
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They use psychological tricks through the government and through public health organizations,
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government organizations, to push this information, to push this influence out across the country.
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We all saw this for the last two years. We've all been living under this. And anyone who questioned
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all of it was screamed at. They said, oh, you're denying science. You don't trust science.
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You're a COVID denier, all the rest of this. Meanwhile, you actually go back two years ago.
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We were the first people that were describing what was happening in China. We were the ones saying
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that we need to lock down the borders to prevent this virus from coming into the United States,
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right? And then you guys were the ones who attacked us, calling us xenophobes and everything
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else. President Trump calling him that when he said, let's lock down the borders because it looks like
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there's a bad virus coming out in China. This is the problem. They didn't go along
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with data and science. And that's why the CDC has had to come out now and is starting to walk back
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all of this. And Jake Tapper is very, very upset over at CNN saying, how can't believe that you
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lied to us for comorbidities for 75% of deaths and the hospitalizations. He's very, very, very upset.
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Meanwhile, a lot of us all throughout this entire two-year period were talking about this because you
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weren't responding to science. You were responding to psychological trickery, behavioral nudging
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from the likes of Cass Sunstein and others who view it as a kinder, more paternalistic
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That's your homework for tonight. But understand that there's another country out there that's
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controlled by a group of people called the CCP. And we want to talk about what they're working on.
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in the lead up to the Olympics that are beginning in just 24 days out of Beijing. Major Chinese cities
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are locked down to control COVID outbreaks. But if you read between the lines, go a little bit deeper
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in some of this architecture and some of this reporting, what does it also say? The area is
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also dealing with an undisclosed number of hemorrhagic fever cases. This is from CNBC,
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a high mortality disease transmitted by rodents. Go watch this video of one of the lockdowns,
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very harsh lockdowns that are taking place in China right now.
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Xi'an city confirmed coronavirus case count is far lower than what other cities have reported
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overseas. But of course we can trust the CCP, right? But the city has also admitted an unspecified number
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of hemorrhagic fever cases, a high mortality disease transmitted by rodents. Local authorities have noted
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the disease appears seasonally, typically from October to January and from April to June. So okay, we're in that
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January season. So that's wonderful. Apparently it's hemorrhagic fever season in northwest China. What a great time
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to hold the Olympics. Well, now we also know what's going on because 14 million residents very close to
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Beijing in the city of Tianjin are now also under lockdown. So Tianjin is basically the port city for
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Beijing. It's very close, maybe about an hour drive from Beijing. It's right on the Bohai Gulf there.
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And so this is a huge feeder city for Beijing. So if there's anything that's breaking out in Tianjin,
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it is not very hard for that to spread very quickly to Beijing. This again is where the Olympics are
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going to be held. So explain this to me. Why are the CCP Olympics going on when we know,
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take the human rights abuses, take everything they're doing to the Uyghurs that they've done
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to Taiwan, that they've done to the Lao Baixing, that they've done to Falun Gong, to everyone else,
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the Tibetans, right? The house Christians and the persecution that's going on. Put that on one end.
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Take everything that they've done in terms of the lies of the Wuhan lab. Put that on the other end.
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Our precursors stealing our science, our proprietary information from our biomedical laboratories right
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in Philadelphia that we covered last week. But explain to me, remember Japan, when they were going
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to hold the original 2020 Olympics, they had to postpone that for over a year. That's why we're getting
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back-to-back Olympics now, 2021, 2022. So why is it that in the midst of all of this, and you can go
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through all the cities, right? Xi'an, Yuzhou, Henan, the city of Anyang and Henan province, Tianjin,
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they're all locking down all throughout China because it's getting closer and closer to Beijing.
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So why is it that the CCP Olympics have to go on? And the IOC apparently has no problem with this.
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They can see everything that's going on in China. Hemorrhagic fever virus is spreading.
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It's hemorrhagic fever season in China, remember. But remember, there's no problem with that because
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the CCP cannot be questioned. The glorious reputation of the party must be upheld at all
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causes. We understand what's going on here. Our world leaders, and particularly our leaders in the
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West, have been bought and sold by the CCP. Their families, their stock portfolios, all of their
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companies, their donors, they are directly tied to profits and gains from mainland China. This is why
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the CCP is allowed to get away with all of this stuff. So if anyone is going to be serious about
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actually dealing with the threat of the CCP, then you have to be talking about tariffs. You have to
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talk about sanctioning PRC banks. You have to talk about sanctioning our industries that do business
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with them. And unless you're going to be willing to talk about the economic component here, the way
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that Peter Navarro does, then nothing is ever going to change. Mark my words, it is economics that will
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You know, in the beginning of this segment, I just want to apologize to all of our viewers,
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to all of our listeners out there, because we have to get in some heady stuff here. And if you've got
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kids that are listening, throw in the earbuds, you know, put them in the other room, say, hey, guys,
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you go read a book or something, because this story is, it's horrific. It's horrific. It's disgusting.
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It's sick. And it has to do with a former CNN producer and his alleged crimes in terms of child
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sex exploitation. But of course, because it's CNN right now, I have to differentiate because there's
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two CNN producers that are going through separate cases at the exact same time right now. You got one
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who was working for Chris Cuomo and another one who was working for Jake Tapper. So understand,
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these are the two separate producers. So today's story is about the former Cuomo producer, John
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Griffin. And this is from FoxNews.com. The evidence against Griffin allegedly includes a drone video
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that he took showing a, quote, completely naked nine-year-old girl standing next to him while he
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was in his underwear, according to court filings. When confronted with this video during an interview
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by FBI agents, Griffin's first response was merely to suggest that he was not looking at the naked girl
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despite that she was standing so close to him to be touching. The prosecutor's pretrial detention memo
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reads, the woman's name is not being used to avoid exposing the child's identity. Now, we also know
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that federal investigators have seized electronics and storage devices owned by Griffin. Now, there's a
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$15 million civil lawsuit that has been filed on behalf of this nine-year-old girl against Griffin.
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And more details about what was going on, presumably details that we'll find out in the coming criminal
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case, have now been included and released in this document. And even though I would really prefer to
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not have to talk about this kind of stuff, I kind of feel compelled to have to talk about this because
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we need to know what this CNN producer was doing. From about April 7th, 2020, to about April 13th,
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2020, in the District of Vermont and elsewhere, the defendant, John Griffin, used a facility of
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interstate commerce knowingly attempted to persuade, induce, entice, and coerce an individual who would
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not attain the age of 18 years old to engage in sexual activity for which any person could be charged
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with a criminal offense. He engaged in conversations over Google Hangouts with the person.
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He claimed that he had sexually trained girls as young as seven years old. And he is looking for
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candidates that would be able to come out to essentially this chalet that he had in Vermont
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for what he called sexual training for underage girls. He contacted them over Google Hangout. He
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used different websites to be able to reach out to them. And he said,
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one of the biggest lies in this society is that women are delicate, innocent angels, and that in
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actuality, naturally, they are the dirtiest possible in every metric. When handled appropriately,
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a woman is a woman regardless of her age. And that is why he asked the women to be brought to him to be
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quote, trained properly. Now, following this conversation over kick as well as text and phone
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telephone communications, he used an internet payment service Venmo to transfer about $2,000
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to cover expenses for her and her nine-year-old daughter to fly from Nevada to Boston. On or about
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July 15, 2020, John Griffin drove his 2019 Red Tesla Model X from Ludlow, Vermont to Logan Airport in
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Boston, Massachusetts to pick her up and her nine-year-old daughter and to bring them to his
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Ludlow, Vermont ski house where the child was directed to engage in and did engage in illegal sexual
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activity. Ladies and gentlemen, this is some of the most horrific stuff that we would ever have to
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talk about in any given reporting situation. But the fact of the matter is, this was going on
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a year and a half ago at CNN. You have this other producer for Jake Tapper, who was apparently also
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involved in soliciting photos, talking to women who had underage girls. And it's a very similar kind
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of setup where he's targeting women who have underage girls. And this is, by the way, a textbook
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example of how pedophiles go and reach out their prey, how these predators reach out and find young
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girls. They're not contacting them directly. And unfortunately, what these groomers do, and we saw
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this, by the way, in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial when the clinical behavioral psychologist came out,
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she stated that they groom the parents first and then they groom the daughters. That's what they're
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seeing here. And we need an independent investigation of everything at CNN to explain what's going on
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here. So you guys remember Kazakhstan, right? Remember there was that uprising and then Russia
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was going in to put it down and suddenly nobody was talking about it anymore? Well, we here at Human
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Events Daily are not going to do that. One thing that we always do, and I always say this,
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we don't leave stories behind. We always follow up and we're going to follow every story to its end.
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And we're never letting go of these things. You saw that, by the way, when we covered the Dominic
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Black plea deal, the fact that he was able to get those felonies dropped in terms of the AR-15. And
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it's simple. It's simple as this. By the way, we're also following up Waukesha, Daryl Brooks,
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the guy who was driving the car. He is going to be on in a hearing coming up this Friday,
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and we're going to cover that in full detail. That's something that Human Events does that other
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media just doesn't really seem to do. You know, it's just headline of the day, headline of the day,
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headline of the day, always driving forward. No, we're going a little bit deeper and we're
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explaining what's going on. So Kazakhstan, the former intelligence chief of Kazakhstan,
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who posed in a photo with Hunter Biden and President Biden, who Hunter Biden described as
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his close friend, has now been arrested for treason. His name was Karim Mazumov, and he ran
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Kazakhstan's National Security Committee up until last week. He and other unnamed intelligence
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officials were arrested the day after they were fired. We don't exactly know when this picture of
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them came out, but essentially the president of Kazakhstan is now describing this uprising as a
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failed coup. And Putin is describing it this way as well. Hundreds have been killed, over 8,000,
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we see numbers 8,000, as many as 10,000 arrested. Look at some of the footage now coming out of Kazakhstan.
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Oh, and there's another happy article out of the Moscow Times. I don't read the Moscow Times very much,
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but in one of these situations, I think it's interesting because we have to go and look the
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same way when you're reading CNN or Washington Post. When you read something out of like the
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China Daily or the Moscow Times or Pravda, you got to read between the lines a little bit to
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understand what's actually going on. So this is incredible. Moscow Times, three Kazakh security
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officials found dead in wake of unrest, right? They also included that one of them, the body of
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Colonel Azmat Ibaev, was found outside his home in the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan. Baza, a telegram
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channel believed to have links to Russia's security services, claimed that Ibaev fell from a high-rise
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building. Oh, so he just, you know, in the wake of this failed coup, he just happened to fall out the
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window of his apartment building. Okay. Remember what I said. Read between the lines a little bit when
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you're reading anything out of Russia, out of China, out of CNN, New York Times, Washington Post.
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That's another thing that we have to do here at Human Events Daily. So understand what's going on.
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Putin, Kazakhstan, they cracked down. They said no coup. It's similar to what happened in Belarus when you
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saw the crackdowns last, what was it, around September or the fall of 2020. They viewed that
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as a stolen illegitimate election for Lukashenko. The people started coming up. You saw a lot of
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Western EU support for the people, and then it was totally shut down. The CSTO is not allowing any of
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these things. After they saw what happened to Ukraine, the Maidan revolution, 2013-2014,
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that outstead Yanukovych, they said no more of this, no more coups, no more getting rid of the people
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that we want in power. We are going to hold on to power regardless of what it costs. Remember,
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Kazakhstan is only a country of less than 20 million people, I think about 19 million.
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But in terms of their size and their geopolitical proximity, the fact they have Bitcoin, uranium,
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they are a geostrategic country on the world island. Read your Mackinder.
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