MAY 16 2022 — BUFFALO MASS SHOOTING AFTERMATH
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On today's show, we cover the horrific mass shooting that took place in Buffalo, NY and the fact that the shooter was known to authorities a full year ago. We also cover India's new ban on wheat exports, and Baby Formula!
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Huge show for everyone today. We are going to get into this shooter in Buffalo, the manifesto,
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and the fact that he was known to authorities a full year ago. We're also going to talk about
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India, the food riots that are coming, this wheat export ban, and we're getting into baby formula
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going all the way back to the 1978 Kennedy hearings. But before we do, I want to tell you
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily, powered by
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Turning Point USA. Today is May 16th, 2022, and a no domine. Today's top headlines, the
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Buffalo, New York shooting. Absolutely horrific. We need to dig into this and dig into the insane
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ramblings of this manifesto. We're going to dig into it. Next, the Supreme Court, the New
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York State Rifle and Pistol Association versus Bruin. What does it mean? What's coming out?
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Third, India banning wheat exports. From Zero Hedge, we've got the full article. And
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finally, Ashley St. Clair over at Postmillennial has a new piece out all about her 2021 warning
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about a year ago on Baby Formula. All of this and more ahead, Human Events Daily.
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We're still gathering the facts. Already, the Justice Department has stated publicly that
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is investigating the matter as a hate crime, racially motivated act of white supremacy and
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violent extremism. Hearts are heavy once again, but a resolve must never ever waver.
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Our first story today, the mass shooting that took place in Buffalo. Now, keep in mind,
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this was not the only mass shooting that took place this past weekend in our country, in the
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wonderful country of the United States of America. Unfortunately, we've had multiple mass
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shootings. There was a mass shooting in Orange County in California, outside a church. There
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was another mass shooting outside the Milwaukee Bucks game with 20 people shot there. It was an
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eight for Buffalo. However, it was an 18 year old and it was a planned attack months in advance
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before driving three hours to shoot 10 people in a supermarket ambush motivated by hatred of black
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people. Police are interviewing his parents from Daily Mail as seven victims are named and suspect
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is placed on suicide watch, 18 years old. His name is Peyton Gendron of Conklin, New York. He's been
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charged with first degree murder. Of course, he'll be charged with multiple counts of that and he's
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inspected to be indicted on additional charges. He pled not guilty and is being held without bail. He's due back
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in court on Thursday. We also know that he was live streaming the attack and one name that I really want to
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put out here that I want to make sure that everybody knows is the name of Aaron Salter Jr. Aaron Salter
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Jr. was the security guard who stood his ground, who shot back at the assailant, at the active shooter
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and came and didn't know what the situation was, didn't know who it was, knew nothing about the
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background, but knew that there was somebody with a long rifle that was shooting into his supermarket and
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he stood. He waited in ambush. Now, I have actually watched the video myself. It is completely horrific.
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It is very gory and I want to caution anybody that looks at that thing, but I did review the tape and
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when I see it, you can see the security guard taking a position and then while he's exchanging fire with
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the assailant and we can't see, you know, obviously we can't see what's in the video because it's from the
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shooter's perspective, but you have to understand what that security guard was doing was that he was
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using his own life to be and have the ability to hold his ground and buy time, buy time for the
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people in that store to be able to get to safety. We will not know how many lives were saved because
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he took that action. He tried to stop that gunman, but he was fatally shot. One of the reasons that
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we've heard in recent reporting is that the gunman was wearing body armor. He's wearing ceramic plates,
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I believe, according to recent reports. Of course, all of this is still developing and we want to
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make sure that we say that because we know more details will come out, but they're saying that he
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fired at the assailant, but because the assailant was wearing the body armor, he was not able to take
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him down and neutralize the threat. But one thing that we have also heard, and how many times have we
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seen this again and again in these stories, that this assailant, this kid, he was 17 years ago,
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18 now, was known to law enforcement and was known to state authorities. And that is the absolutely
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horrific part. So Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, attorney general, Letitia James, where were you on
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this? What happened? How did the ball get dropped this bad? Because we were told a year ago, he
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threatened to shoot up his school. He already had violent tendencies, already had obviously some kind of
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mental issue. He was on your radar. And yet you did nothing. You did nothing other than what the
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wrote a report and they sent him back out, was still able to get a gun. And I've said this before.
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So people say, Poso, you're against red flag laws, but so red flag law, what is that? A red flag law
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means you can take someone's guns away from them if they have a mental issue or you believe they have a
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mental issue or if you have a problem with them. But what happens is because there's no due process,
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typically in these red flag law situations, people's guns will be taken away without any due
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process whatsoever. And the people who can file these claims and these complaints, it varies
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depending on state and various propositions and proposals that have been put in for it. But when you're
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looking at a red flag law, there's no due process whatsoever. However, my response to this has always
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been because people say, well, what about dangerous people? How do you prevent them from getting guns?
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There's something on the books called in New York state, a 5150. We actually called a 302 in
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Pennsylvania, my home state. But a 5150 means an involuntary medical hold. If you put someone on
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a 5150 because you believe they have these issues, anyone can do that. The police could have done that.
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And that would have prevented him from owning a or purchasing a gun in the future. It's as simple
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as that. You have 5150. It's already in the books. It's perfectly fine to use. Why was it not used
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here? Why was the mental health system deficient in preventing him from being able to obtain this
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firearm? That's number one. Number two, why? Why was he let off the radar? Why was he let off the hook?
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There are serious public policy answers that need to be brought to bear here. And we've looked at this
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resume or this manifesto that he's put out, completely insane, ranting about races, ranting
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about the environment at one point, calling himself an authoritarian leftist, saying he's a former
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communist. So of course, you'll see people saying he's a conservative. The Rolling Stone says he's a
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mainstream member of the Republican Party. But that's not what he said in his own document. It's not
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what he said in his own words. And so of course, people are using this as always to score political
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points rather than actually look at the system and find a way to help people.
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All right, next up. A case that is going to be decided by the Supreme Court. It was argued past October
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for the 2021 to 2022 term, the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association versus Bruin. What is this
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case? Robert Nash and Brandon Koch each applied for a concealed carry firearm license for the purpose
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of self-defense. The licensing officer denied both applications, finding that neither individual met the
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proper cause standard required by New York state law in order to issue a firearms license for general
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self-defense. Now, New York courts have defined proper cause as requiring the applicant to, quote,
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demonstrate a special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community.
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Nash and Koch subsequently filed suit in federal court for violation of their Second Amendment rights
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for concealed carry permit. The district court dismissed the suit, citing the Second Circuit's ruling
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at an appeals court. On appeal, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed,
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the issue is the case concerns a person's right to carry a concealed firearms for self-defense
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under the Second Amendment. The question presented whether the state's denial of petitioners applications
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for concealed carry licenses for self-defense violated the Second Amendment. The appeal is pending
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adjudication before the Supreme Court. This is a huge deal. This is a deal in New York state,
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this is a deal in a lot of states that require concealed carry permits for you to be able to,
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of course, concealed carry. But in some of these states, they issue a further guideline on top of
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it where they say you need to demonstrate what's called a, you know, let me look up the case law here,
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a special circumstance, right? Or as in New York, they define it as proper cause. Do you have a proper
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cause to require the applicant to demonstrate a special need for self-protection distinguishable
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from that of the general community? And here's the question, right? Of course, the question then
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therein begs, who has a special need for self-protection? Who has the right to self-protection
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in the United States of America? Do you have the right to self-protection? Do I have the right to
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self-protection? The answer is everyone has the right of self-protection, also known as the right of
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self-defense. Because the right of self-defense is the inherent expression of the right to life.
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This is the combination of the right to life and the right to self-defense. The positive expression
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of you having a right to life, which goes back to natural law, which goes back to the constitution,
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it goes back to the declaration, I take it way even further than that, Roman law.
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You have a right to life, therefore, you have a right to defend your life. No one has the right
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to take your life away. That's what self-defense is. We covered this so many times in the Kyle
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Rittenhouse case. You have the right, the expressed, exclusive, and unlimited right,
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in a sense, to defend yourself. Now, the question is, in many of these cases, like since I mentioned
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Kyle Rittenhouse, the question became, are you defending yourself excessively to the point where
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you're going above and beyond the force required to stop the immediate threat? And go listen to
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Andrew Branca or some of the other lawyers that are out there on self-defense law. They can get
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into the issue of that much more deeply than I can. But what I'm saying is the issue is always the
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point of you cannot use fatal force if someone is not threatening you with fatal force or fatal
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violence, right? You can't do that. Or only in special circumstances, when someone comes into your
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home, they have a gun, when it's pointed at you, et cetera, et cetera. There's so many other issues there.
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But when it comes to self-defense, you always retain the right to self-defense. It is an inherent
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natural right because it is the flip side. It is the positive expression of the right to life.
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Simple as that. But the liberal United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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has pushed back on this and said that it is perfectly fine for the state of New York
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to require that only certain people with a proper cause and a special need, a special need
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for self-defense, a special need. And I've always thought that doesn't make sense, right?
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It doesn't make sense because you don't know in these situations. That's how force of violence works.
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And I'm sorry, but that's the real world that we all live in and inhabit every day.
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You don't know when violence is going to happen, but you want to be ready to be prepared to be
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able to defend yourself, to defend your house, and defend your family. That is the point of the
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Second Amendment right there. It is the right of self-defense. It should be unlimited. And according
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to the Second Amendment, as written, it shall not be infringed.
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Next up today, wheat prices are soaring as India restricts exports. This is what we've told you
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about. We've talked about the food shortages that are coming, the impact of the events of Ukraine,
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Russia, the dust up there, the dust bowl situation that we might be seeing in the Midwest.
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You are going to see food scarcity like you have never seen before in the United States and around
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the world. Remember, this is what it was wheat prices that led to the Arab Spring, as Steve
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Cortez recently said today. Excellent point by Cortez. Follow him, 100%.
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From ZeroHedge.com, wheat futures in Chicago jumped 5.9% to $12.47 a bushel Sunday evening
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after India restricted wheat exports to preserve its food security. Since the beginning of May,
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prices have skyrocketed nearly 20%. India's decision to halt wheat exports was announced
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on Friday. The government said it must safeguard domestic supplies amid heat waves that threaten
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crop yields. Directing the wheat exports through government channels would not only ensure fulfilling
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the genuine needs of our neighbors in food deficit countries, but also control inflation expectations.
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Understand what this means. Before the export ban, India was expected to be one of the top 10
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wheat exporters in 2022. Removing India's expected wheat exports creates a massive hole in global supply
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and demand. Wheat prices, this is from Javier Blas, will rise further and quickly. This is bad news. This is a bad
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situation. You want to talk about social instability? This is going to lead to social instability. Sri Lanka
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right now, they're rioting in the streets. Food riots. You are going to see food riots across the world at this
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point. Huge issues. They're going to come up because, remember, India is a very close trading partner with
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who? With Russia. India gets their oil, their energy needs, predominantly from Russia. But India is also
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a partner with the United States against China. India and China are mortal enemies. India will never
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partner with China, and they are a natural ally for the United States against China. For Russia, on the
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other hand, they play a balancing act where they try to balance the interest of India with the interest of
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China. So Russia tries to play both sides as the middleman. This is the heartland theory. This is
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Mackinder. Understand the heartland theory. The three major continental powers of Asia and Eurasia. Russia, China,
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India. Those are the three major. Can't leave the Persians out. Can't leave the Persians out there. A lot of wild
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cards. But those are the three major powers on the Asian landmass. And if those three start to
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rumble, you would see the biggest fight that you've ever seen in human history. Now, we don't think
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that's going to happen. But understand the instability that we're looking at right now. The fact that China
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and the CCP are close in ties and close in deals with who? Pakistan. Pakistan, the mortal enemy of
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India. Why do you think, why do you think, all right, I've talked about this before, but I'll bring it up
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again because we have to repeat it. Repetition is key to remembering. China is locking up the Uyghurs
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because Xinjiang province, that western province of Xinjiang, is in the way of China's one belt,
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one road program connecting them with Pakistan. They do not want the Uyghur population to interfere
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with their plans until they're going to build their one belt, one road straight across the territory of
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Xinjiang. And they're going to lock up the Uyghurs to get them out of the way. Why? Because Xinjiang is
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directly connected to Pakistan. That's China's ally. They want the oil from Saudi Arabia. They
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want the trade from the Gulf. That's the whole point of this. It's the Pakistan-China economic
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corridor. You're going to see rail. You're going to see pipelines. You're going to see roadways,
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super highways connecting Pakistan and China. This is the new Silk Road. It's not just going to go to
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Rome. It's also going to go to the Middle East, and it cuts directly across Xinjiang. So this, of course,
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will enrich Pakistan. Pakistan will use that money to enrich their military and grow their military.
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And who's going to see that as a threat? India. India is going to see that as a threat. And that's
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why the balancing act of the heartland theory, who has the upper hand in the heartland and in Asia,
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Our final story today, I really wanted to get into this one. It actually came out over the weekend
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in the Postmillennial. This new op-ed written by Ashley St. Clair. And it's all about the U.S.
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formula, baby formula situation. But it's a very interesting take on it that I haven't seen anywhere
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else. I urge you to go read this at thepostmillennial.com. Ashley St. Clair, I tried to warn
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mothers about U.S. formula in 2021, and Twitter fact check it as misleading. What does that mean?
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A majority of people who use formula are unaware of the dangerous and manipulative
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propaganda that was pushed to make formula more mainstream than mother's milk. What does it mean?
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So it goes on in the op-ed. Ashley talks about how she just had her first kid. So she was pregnant
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last year, November of 21. And she was getting samples of Infamil and Similac that was coming to her
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home. But she didn't even list anywhere that she wanted samples. She didn't even tell everyone that
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she was pregnant at first. Yet she's getting these samples in because the companies already know,
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the marketers already know what's going on. So she wrote, after what some may say is an overreaction
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to some innocent samples, but she wanted to know what was in the formula that companies were already
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competing for the chance to be the product my child's life would depend on. I'm reading the op-ed.
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She said, I began to do extensive research on breastfeeding versus formula feeding and came
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to two conclusions that breastfeeding is best and U.S. formula will never go into my child's body.
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Ashley writes, the decision was made that if I couldn't breastfeed, I would buy formula from
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outside of the U.S. Full disclosure, my wife, Tanya Tay, does the same thing. That, uh, so we,
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we did both, uh, for both natural and formula for our two boys. But when we went to formula,
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we purchased formula from Europe. And it looks like Ashley did the same. Ashley wrote,
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the driving part for the latter was simple. The United States standards for baby formula are some
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of the worst globally from preservatives to toxic metals, to soy, to corn syrup, to recall after
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recall. I could not stomach the thought of replacing nature's nutrients with the addictive and harmful
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garbage we allow in our baby's most essential food. However, when she posted her tweets last year
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in September of 2021, look at this, this is incredible. Twitter slapped an official fact
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check on it through their birdwatch service stating breastfed is best, but infant formula is a safe
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nourishment as an alternative with a link to the FDA statements on formula safety. And this is really
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interesting. So Ashley later on gets into something called the Kennedy hearings. This is why I like
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Ashley, because she goes next level with this stuff. Nestle testified to the Senate during the
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Kennedy hearings in 1978, to explain why babies were getting sick and dying from their formulas.
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Even after the Kennedy hearings, there was little to no remedy or mediation. I can talk to big
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formulas, propaganda experts. You would think that there would be more stringent oversight in the
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production and marketing of a product as crucial for the survival of millions of babies. But there
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wasn't the lack of accountability for big formula is undoubtedly a key component in the 2022
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formula recall that has led to this unprecedented shortage. Outside of federal regulation, who
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knows how many babies would not be drinking watered down formula tonight had our physicians not made
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brand deals with these formula companies? Who knows how many mothers would not be scrambling to keep
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their infants alive had big tech oligarchs like Twitter not labeled warnings about US formula as
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misleading. According to market insight reports by 2026, the formula industry, this numbers will,
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will shock you, is set to be worth more than $98 billion. You're asking what's at stake? $98 billion.
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All right. And that is all the time we have for today. We're audio only today because I am on travel
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this week. I'll let you guys know what's going on about that a little bit later on, but we're audio
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only right now because we were on travel. What did we talk about today? The Buffalo, New York shooting.
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The fact that the fed, the, uh, the government, at least at the New York level, possibly at the federal
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level, way to see, hear more about that knew about this a year ago, we talked about the New York state
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and rifle association fighting back in the Supreme court for your right to carry concealed. We talked
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about the India wheat export ban and what that means for world markets, food riots. And we got into the
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baby formula warning and the writings and warnings of Ashley St. Clair. Excellent research that was done
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by her. That's all the time we have for human events today. Remember, as always, our promise,
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our oath, our solemn vow to you is to be good, be brief, be gone. Your homework for us, share this
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or wherever you get your podcasts. But before we go, it's time for today's history break. Today in 1920,
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Joan of Arc, the national heroine of France was canonized by Pope Benedict the 15th. Remember our heroes.
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Remember our history. Remember who we are. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission