Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - March 22, 2022


MAR 22 2022 - WAR IN UKRAINE - DAY 27 UPDATE


Episode Stats

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24 minutes

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168.85788

Word Count

4,187

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269

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown-Jackson responds to her leniency on child pornography cases. Next, the War in Ukraine, Day 27 update. Third, U.S. sanctions China after demanding that Beijing condemn Russia. And finally, wheat prices are soaring amid the war in Ukraine.


Transcript

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00:01:14.220 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily powered by Turning
00:01:18.240 Point USA. Today's top stories, Judge Jackson responding to her leniency on child pornography
00:01:24.680 cases. Next, the war in Ukraine, Day 27 update. We've got the report from the Ministry of Defense,
00:01:31.000 hot off the press. Third, U.S. sanctioning Chinese officials after demanding that Beijing condemn
00:01:36.980 Russia. And finally, wheat prices are soaring amid the war in Ukraine, potential dust bowl conditions
00:01:42.780 here in the United States. All this more ahead, Human Events Daily.
00:01:48.240 As you said, the guideline was based originally on a statutory scheme and on directives, specific
00:02:04.700 directives by Congress at a time in which more serious child pornography offenders were identified
00:02:14.660 based on the volume, based on the number of photographs that they received in the mail.
00:02:21.760 And that made totally total sense before when we didn't have the internet, when we didn't have
00:02:27.440 distribution. But the way that the guideline is now structured based on that set of circumstances
00:02:33.660 is leading to extreme disparities in the system because it's so easy for people to get volumes of this kind of material now
00:02:45.600 by computers. So it's not doing the work of differentiating who is a more serious offender in the way that it used to.
00:02:55.980 So the commission has taken that into account and perhaps even more importantly, courts are adjusting their sentences in order to account for the changed circumstances.
00:03:08.020 But it says nothing about the court's view of the seriousness of this offense.
00:03:13.600 So that's the logic you're getting from our Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown-Jackson.
00:03:20.400 The logic you see is that when you use computers, the sentence is different or should be different from when you use the mail
00:03:29.640 and that these laws then should be reformed because they were written for a time when people were distributing child pornography with mail via mail
00:03:38.400 rather than with computers. Okay, I can think of a couple of problems with this. In fact, I can think of a lot of problems with this.
00:03:48.020 All right, number one, it's a simple separation of powers argument. You, Judge Jackson, are nominated to be a judge,
00:03:59.240 a justice of the Supreme Court. That's the judicial branch.
00:04:02.020 It is not your job to make new laws or pick and choose which laws you want to apply and which laws you think need to be reformed.
00:04:11.900 That is a little something that we call legislation. That is the job of a legislator.
00:04:17.360 Look, if you want to run for Congress, if you want to become a senator, if you want to have your say on the way that the laws in this country should be,
00:04:24.760 you have every single right to, and I encourage you to do so, run for Congress, get elected, stand up, raise your hand,
00:04:33.060 and be chosen as a representative of the people, and then rewrite the laws to your choosing.
00:04:37.480 Get those through Congress. Get them signed. We understand how this process works.
00:04:41.120 The way the process isn't supposed to work is that an unelected judge sitting on the Supreme Court
00:04:47.540 in a literal ivory tower decides what the law should be and then applies their decision based on their judicial philosophy, right,
00:04:57.640 in any of these cases. That's called judicial activism. That's called legislating from the bench,
00:05:04.340 and we don't need more of that. We need less of that. This is the difference between a conservative justice
00:05:11.440 and a progressive justice, because what she's trying to do here is apply critical theory to child
00:05:17.160 pornography cases. Well, if it's easier now in the 21st century to send and receive and distribute
00:05:24.080 child pornography using the internet, then therefore, because the ease of distribution is easier and more
00:05:30.260 streamlined, then the sentence should actually be lighter. Yeah, that logic doesn't make any sense.
00:05:35.980 You know what logic does make sense? That you're now able to abuse more children and that there are potentially
00:05:43.320 more victims of these heinous acts, these disgusting acts, than there were before because of the ease of
00:05:51.760 distribution that she just talked about it. She's not considering the victims in this, and I'm sorry, but I hear
00:05:58.840 these comments that she's making, and there's other comments where she says, look, I'm a mother, and I, you know, I
00:06:04.200 really think about these cases, and it's very hard. No, no. You are thinking about social reform, and you're
00:06:10.040 trying to be a social reformer from the bench, not your job, literally not your role. Your job is to apply
00:06:17.680 the law as it sees fit, and more importantly, you should be thinking in terms of the victims of these crimes.
00:06:23.980 Every single one of these videos, photos, images, whatever's out there, is an image of a child being abused
00:06:32.280 sexually or exploited. That's the person that we need to think about. So when these lighter sentences
00:06:39.660 come down, those people who were victimized now get to see that their victimizers are getting off
00:06:49.240 lighter. We aren't talking about that. We're talking about locking them up, putting them in jail where
00:06:55.240 they need to be, and anyone who commits these crimes or distributes this online, sets up websites that
00:07:01.620 facilitates it, should all get the exact same harsh sentence because these are some of the most
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00:08:41.860 All right, we are now entering day 27 of Russia's war in Ukraine. The invasion continues. The fighting
00:08:51.500 continues. The people who are being shelled, the families are still caught in the middle between these
00:08:56.780 two warring sides. From the French Ministry of Defense, they put out their new report today. Not a lot has
00:09:03.440 changed yesterday on the ground, but we'll break down what they have. So you're still seeing strong
00:09:07.300 pressure on urban centers in the east and south, maintained by intense bombardments. Of course,
00:09:12.180 that is the Russian strategy. Mariupol, Mikolaev. Elsewhere, the situation tactically remains fixed.
00:09:17.640 Let's go to the northern front in Kiev. The encirclement maneuver from the east and west
00:09:21.400 was frozen overnight. The capital, of course, with a target of several bombardments. One area that was
00:09:26.660 shelled was this formerly, I guess, an abandoned shopping mall, which the Ukrainians were accusing them
00:09:32.640 of attacking it as a civilian target. But the Russians put out photos showing that Ukrainian
00:09:37.520 forces were actually using it as a center for their multiple rocket launcher systems and that
00:09:42.640 they were using it for military systems in that underground parking garage there. Next up on the
00:09:47.320 eastern front in Kharkov, the Russian forces continue to maneuver to encircle the city in parallel
00:09:52.440 with numerous shellings. Diperno, probable convergence point of Russian forces from the south and east.
00:09:58.440 Again, we've talked about the importance of Diperno and that city of Izyum. This is the place where
00:10:03.280 they attempt to make their envelopment of those Ukrainian forces what's called the Army of the
00:10:07.960 Donbass that are far in the east. Next up, Mariupol. Fighting is continuing in the city center.
00:10:14.920 Ukrainian forces have lost access to the Sea of Azov, but they refuse to capitulate. The health
00:10:21.040 situation for the inhabitants and the combatants continues to deteriorate. On the southern front,
00:10:25.940 we're seeing slow but steady advance of Russian forces towards the towns of Zaporozhytia and Krivyri.
00:10:32.220 Again, these are on the western bank of the Dnepr River. If they are able to take those, it will make
00:10:38.280 their overall goal, their overall strategy of separating Ukraine right down the middle, partitioning
00:10:44.080 it from east and west all that much easier because they will not then be able to reinforce those
00:10:50.080 positions to the east. And finally, Mikolaev, shelling and fighting are continuing as still intense
00:10:54.760 fighting continues for the control of the city and its surroundings. Folks, what we're seeing on the
00:11:00.380 ground in Ukraine, a lot of this is fixed. Now, we're seeing these reports, and I see this every
00:11:04.560 once in a while. People are saying, oh, there's these counterattacks. You have to look for this.
00:11:08.540 Look, we are looking for it. We're looking for the battle on the ground. But the bottom line is this.
00:11:13.300 The territory shifts only seem to take place in one direction. You see the Russian forces
00:11:18.540 aligned with separatists. You've also got the Chechen fighters that are there.
00:11:22.180 They continue to gain ground. We're also seeing, by the way, in that area of Donbass,
00:11:27.400 there are several breakouts in the areas of Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics.
00:11:34.000 If they are able to break out in those areas, to break through Ukrainian lines behind the Ukrainian
00:11:40.740 army of the Donbass, then that army will be cut off. They will not be able to resupply.
00:11:46.620 They will not be able to maneuver. They will not be able to break out. That means you're going to get
00:11:51.540 either, you're going to lead either to a surrender scenario or a complete annihilation
00:11:56.760 scenario because you will have something like, you know, and it ranges, I've seen on the low end,
00:12:02.500 15,000 troops. I've seen from the high end as many as potentially 25,000 groups in that war in the
00:12:08.660 Donbass. Plus, you also have an additional issue there because once that fighting ends, once that
00:12:14.620 development takes place, and if it does take place, then that means those combat forces on the Russian
00:12:20.820 side and the separatist side will be freed up to take part in further combat operations in other
00:12:27.660 parts of the country. So they'll be able to move that combat fighting capacity to other areas to
00:12:32.740 push for further encirclements and push for further territorial gains. One thing I look at, and guys,
00:12:38.040 you know, when I'm digging into this stuff, I'm up late every night. We're going on Telegram.
00:12:42.680 We're going on mainstream sources, anonymous Twitter, Blue Check Twitter. We are all over the place
00:12:50.520 crunching and synthesizing so much data for people to consume so much of this information before we
00:12:57.440 can get it to you and present it here. And of course, people know I do happen to have a little
00:13:01.600 bit of a comparative advantage for some of this because I live with someone who's from the region
00:13:06.420 and who is a direct linguist that can translate a lot of this stuff that's coming out in language.
00:13:11.780 My wife is a linguist from that area, so she's able to translate a lot of this stuff for me.
00:13:17.340 So when I see videos, when I see captions, subtitles, I say, hey, you know, does this make sense? Does
00:13:22.000 this translation work? No, not obviously for every single thing that breaks out, but for something that
00:13:26.840 is rising to the level of something that we want to translate, something that we want to report to all
00:13:31.360 of you, we are doing that work. I don't know of anybody else in media that's digging in that much on
00:13:36.100 this. We're also looking very closely at whether or not Belarus is going to get involved. Now,
00:13:40.320 I'd like to end this by playing a clip for you guys of Professor John Mearsheimer. Eight years ago,
00:13:45.660 Professor Mearsheimer was the man that predicted that the West was leading Ukraine down the primrose
00:13:52.200 path to a potential conflict with Russia. He directly called what was happening, and he explained
00:13:59.240 how that was the United States that kept urging Ukraine to poke the bear. Here's Professor Mearsheimer
00:14:05.580 responding to all of this today. And as you all know, if you take a stick and you poke a bear in
00:14:10.740 the eye, that bear is probably not going to smile and laugh at what you're doing. That bear is probably
00:14:16.360 going to fight back. And that's exactly what's happening here. And that bear is going to tear
00:14:21.220 apart Ukraine. That bear is in the process of tearing apart Ukraine. And again, we go back to where
00:14:26.720 we started. Who bears responsibility for this? Do the Russians bear responsibility for this? I don't think
00:14:33.640 so. There's no question the Russians are doing the dirty work. I don't want to make light of that
00:14:38.280 fact. But the question is, what caused the Russians to do this? And in my opinion, the answer is very
00:14:44.760 simple, the United States of America.
00:14:50.000 But the challenge posed by China is different. China is the only country with the economic,
00:14:57.180 diplomatic, military, and technological power to seriously challenge the stable and open
00:15:02.480 international system. All the rules, values, and relationships that make the world work the way
00:15:08.680 we want it to. Our relationship with China will be competitive when it should be, collaborative when
00:15:14.560 it can be, and adversarial when it must be. The common denominator is the need to engage China
00:15:21.240 from a position of strength. That requires working with allies and partners, not denigrating them,
00:15:28.460 because our combined weight is much harder for China to ignore. It requires engaging in diplomacy
00:15:34.320 and in international organizations, because where we've pulled back, China has filled in.
00:15:40.580 Well, there you hear Secretary of State Tony Blinken laying out new sanctions on CCP officials
00:15:46.920 over the treatment of Uyghurs, the treatment of ethnic minorities in China. Now, people are going to say,
00:15:55.380 Poso, this is something that you've been wanting for a long time, the sanctioning. They're going
00:15:59.540 directly after CCP officials. They're going directly after the people who actually, you know,
00:16:06.540 are underwriting this entire invasion of Ukraine. Isn't this the smart move? Isn't this the thing
00:16:11.060 that you should be doing? Allow me to explain how the Biden administration is completely botching
00:16:18.920 their response to this. What they've now done, because remember, this isn't happening in a vacuum.
00:16:24.780 They just went after the entire country of Russia, even Russian civilians, with sanctions on everything
00:16:32.300 they could possibly think of, getting every U.S. company, every Western company to drop operations
00:16:38.000 in Russia. Now, they're threatening India, right? India, who's a massive trading partner with the
00:16:44.340 United States, as well as a trading partner with Russia, threatening them with sanctions. You're also,
00:16:49.400 of course, seeing them target China at the same time with sanctions. This is not happening in a vacuum.
00:16:57.460 What we're now seeing is the United States lashing out at the entire world, and they're creating a
00:17:05.720 multi-pronged, multi-front war economically, diplomatically, and socially with the rest of the
00:17:13.220 world, right? This is like when you have a rabid, cornered animal that's just lashing out in every
00:17:19.440 direction. This is a very, very bad policy for the United States, because it seems completely reactive,
00:17:26.820 and it clearly is completely reactive. There's no plan here, right? They're just in response mode.
00:17:33.320 They have no strategy. They have no idea what they're doing, and what they are eventually going
00:17:37.720 to achieve, by the way, because they're not thinking, how many times do we have to say that?
00:17:42.680 They're not thinking beyond step one. They're not thinking about secondary effects, tertiary effects,
00:17:48.680 second order, third order, fourth order, etc. Four years from now, five years from now, what are they
00:17:53.560 doing? They're pushing Russia and China together, and mark my words, this will go down in history as being
00:18:02.400 one of the great geopolitical blunders of the late-stage American republic, because what they're
00:18:09.880 doing is forcing the rest of the world out of the Western-backed U.S. dollar system. The Saudis,
00:18:16.820 the Saudis are already making deals with China. They're saying, look, we're done with the U.S. dollar.
00:18:21.440 We're going into the yuan. That petrodollar stuff, don't even worry about that. We're going to make
00:18:26.700 deals with the yuan. And then China is turning around and saying, all right, yeah, sure, we'll do that.
00:18:31.040 No problem. We'll take your money. We're more than happy to. That means the Saudis are going to be
00:18:36.620 loading up on Chinese currency. Russia and India are already doing deals in currency swaps outside
00:18:44.300 of the U.S. dollar, the rubles and rubies, all right? Understand, they're leaving the United States
00:18:51.600 economically behind. This sets up a situation where, as President Biden called it, you might see a new
00:18:59.120 world order. Yeah, you're going to see an alternative world order, a world order that doesn't have the
00:19:05.840 United States as the backstop and doesn't have the U.S. dollar being strong. And once you lose
00:19:10.660 that U.S. dollar, once you lose that as the world reserve currency, now suddenly you're going to
00:19:17.320 devalue the dollar. You think you have inflation now? Wait until your entire bank account is worthless.
00:19:24.020 And look, I talk about this stuff because it directly affects us. Why did the gas prices all
00:19:30.820 go crazy here in the United States when we put sanctions on the other side of the world? Because
00:19:36.480 it's all tied together thanks to economic globalism. This is something that we've been talking about
00:19:42.660 for years to try to get rid of, to try to bring home our own supply chains, to be able to be
00:19:48.700 self-sufficient. And yet we haven't done that. So we are now at the mercy of the globalized system
00:19:53.800 that we've created.
00:19:54.560 Even before the conflict, developing countries were struggling to recover from the pandemic
00:20:02.640 with record inflation, rising interest rates and looming debt burdens. Their ability to respond
00:20:10.500 has been erased by exponential increases in the cost of financing. Now their bread basket is being
00:20:18.320 bombed. Russia and Ukraine represent more than half of the world's supply of sunflower oil and about 30%
00:20:26.000 of the world's wheat. Ukraine alone provides more than half of the world's food programs with supply.
00:20:34.240 Food, fuel and fertilizer prices are skyrocketing. Supply chains are being disrupted and the costs and delays of
00:20:47.040 transportation of imported goods when available are at record levels. And all of this is eating the poorest,
00:20:55.200 the hardest, and planting the seeds for political instability and unrest around the globe.
00:21:01.360 So that's the UN Secretary General. Of course, we know Ukraine, Russia, this is the bread basket of Europe.
00:21:07.360 But what's happening to the bread basket of the Midwest here in the United States? Zero Hedge has the article
00:21:13.040 authored by Michael Snyder from TheMostImportantNews.com. Food prices in the United States are already
00:21:18.000 soaring. And now we're on track for an absolutely horrible winter wheat harvest. Severe drought and
00:21:24.800 dust bowl conditions threaten disastrous winter wheat harvest in the U.S. Of course, this comes at a time
00:21:30.320 when the war on the other side of the globe is growing to greatly reduce wheat exports from Russia and
00:21:34.640 Ukraine. Over the last 12 months, the price of wheat has already risen 69%. And now this crisis threatens to
00:21:41.600 go to an entirely new level. In all our years of writing, we've never seen anything like this and
00:21:46.560 deeply concerned about the months coming ahead. So keep in mind that this is the planting season for
00:21:52.560 winter wheat. You've got to plant it, then it goes throughout, or excuse me, you might see what's
00:21:56.400 called a winter kill, right? I actually had somebody explain this to me the other day, look,
00:22:00.880 you know, not an agriculture expert. So when I have issues with this, go to the ag guys. I say,
00:22:04.880 what's going on? You know, what are we talking about? Why does this affect this now? Well,
00:22:08.320 they say the winter, uh, the seeds are planted prior to winter. Then they, they winter out.
00:22:14.960 Um, they're buried underground and then eventually you start to get the, um, the harvest and you start
00:22:19.680 to get, obviously the wheat grows throughout the summer. But if you have a harsh winter followed by
00:22:24.400 a drought, you might get what's called a winter kill. What does this mean for you? Food shortages,
00:22:30.800 food prices going up. Understand for you, for your family. Look, we just spent the last segment
00:22:37.120 talking about the threats to the U S currency. Now we're talking about the food supply, the same
00:22:43.120 food supply. And not only so the break you got, they're attacking the bread basket of Europe,
00:22:46.960 right? So don't expect any wheat out of Ukraine or Russia this year. Uh, that's number one. Number
00:22:51.600 two, now the crop here in the United States is under threat because of these conditions, right?
00:22:57.520 You are going to lead to food shortages. You're going to lead to massive issues with this. Now,
00:23:03.280 look, if you're someone out there who says, look, I, you know, I don't eat wheat. I go keto.
00:23:07.280 I do all this stuff. Understand that you're now going to see pressures though on meat. You're going
00:23:12.160 to see pressures on everything else because these food supply prices and these crisis issues are going
00:23:17.440 to have a ripple effect throughout the entire food economy. This is a very bad situation. We are
00:23:23.600 hurtling towards, we are hurtling towards food shortages here in the United States. We think
00:23:29.280 we're putting sanctions on the rest of the world, but we're not even paying attention to what's going
00:23:34.240 on within our own borders. And that is it for us today here, human events daily. Remember our
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00:23:50.160 it really helps us when you leave us those reviews. Today, what did we talk about? We got
00:23:53.600 into Judge Jackson, her leniency on these child porn cases. We did the war in Ukraine day 27 update,
00:24:00.560 the US sanctioning CCP officials after demanding Beijing condemn Russia. They refused to do so.
00:24:06.160 And then finally, we talked about the soaring wheat prices and the drought conditions here this winter,
00:24:12.320 what effect that will have for you, what effect that'll have on your family. Before we go,
00:24:16.480 of course, as always, it's time for today's history break. Can you believe it's been three years,
00:24:23.520 it was three years ago today, that special counsel Robert Mueller delivered his final conclusions
00:24:32.880 in the Russiagate case showing there was no collusion between President Trump and the state of Russia.
00:24:40.000 It's been three years, and yet people still won't accept it. Ladies and gentlemen, as always,
00:24:45.840 you have my permission to lay ashore.