Rebel News Podcast - Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - May 16⧸2018

00:00:00.000 Today on Off the Cuff Declassified, North Korea is threatening to pull out of their summit with

00:00:03.940 the United States, but it doesn't look like we're taking them seriously. Special counsel Robert

00:00:08.880 Mueller is under fire as the one-year anniversary of his probe draws near. The rebels' Tiffany

00:00:14.360 Gabay joins me to discuss the unrest in Gaza. And are China and Russia faking their GDP numbers?

00:00:22.520 Satellite imagery seems to suggest they are. We'll analyze.

00:00:30.000 North Korea is saber-addling, claiming they want to cancel the summit with the United States now.

00:00:36.540 But they really don't, and the State Department isn't taking them seriously. More on that

00:00:40.240 in just a moment. They're claiming they want to do this because the deal is now one-sided. We want

00:00:46.020 them to give up nukes. We don't want to give them anything in return. That's nonsensical. You know

00:00:50.320 that is. I'm going to tell you in a moment why I think they're doing this. The other reason that

00:00:55.340 they're claiming that they might walk away from the summit in Singapore next month is because of

00:01:00.220 the joint military exercises that we conduct with South Korea. These exercises are called

00:01:05.840 Max Thunder, and they're put in place in the event of a North Korean invasion of South Korea.

00:01:12.160 So let me read you what Kim Kaiguan, the North Korea's first vice foreign minister,

00:01:18.940 it said the regime was disappointed by, he said the regime was disappointed by provocative comments

00:01:25.540 from the U.S., according to a statement published Wednesday by North Korea's state-run Korean

00:01:30.900 Central News Agency. The statement cited comments by National Security Advisor John Bolton,

00:01:37.440 this is from a Newsmax story, urging a, quote, Libya model for the rapid dismantlement of North

00:01:41.860 Korea's nuclear weapons program. So here is what Kim Kaiguan said, quote, if the Trump

00:01:47.080 administration comes to the summit with the sincere intent to improve DPRK, Democratic People's

00:01:53.540 Republic of Korea, nothing democratic about it whatsoever, DPRK, U.S. relations, then it will 0.90

00:01:59.000 deserve a good response. But if it forces us into a corner by pushing for the abandonment of our nukes

00:02:06.520 only and a one-sided demand, then we won't have an interest in such talks anymore, and we will

00:02:11.460 reconsider whether to respond to the upcoming summit. Now, that to me seems like internal

00:02:18.140 propaganda. Why? Because we know those of us in the West who aren't fed their news by only one source,

00:02:30.560 despite CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post wishing we would only be fed news by their

00:02:36.040 little left-wing cabal. We have the ability to get news from many sources, and we know that the

00:02:41.080 United States has said to North Korea, if you denuclearize, we'll open up trading and we'll help

00:02:47.160 you with your economy. We're going to help you. Now, North Korea also said, this Kim Kaiguan said that

00:02:54.560 if Trump follows in the footsteps of his predecessors, he will be a, quote, unquote,

00:02:59.100 failed president and warned the U.S. to think twice about everything they're doing. Now, the State

00:03:03.680 Department couldn't care less. They're still planning on the summit with North Korea.

00:03:08.000 State Department spokeswoman Heather Naurat said, quote, we have not heard anything from that

00:03:13.200 government, North Korea, or the government of South Korea, to indicate we would not continue

00:03:18.020 conducting these exercises or would not continue planning for our meeting between President Trump

00:03:23.240 and Kim Jong-un next month. South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported yesterday

00:03:29.800 that Pyongyang had canceled high-level talks with Seoul, with South Korea, over this Max Thunder

00:03:36.560 joint military exercise. So another Korean news agency, well, the same one, that Korean news agency

00:03:42.780 that Kim Kaiguan was quoted in, said, quote, the U.S. will have to undertake careful deliberations

00:03:48.640 about the fate of the planned North Korea-U.S. summit in light of this provocative military

00:03:55.000 ruckus. A ruckus. Just a bunch of hooligans out there causing a ruckus in the South China Sea.

00:04:01.640 Who writes this stuff? What did they find, a time traveler from 1955? A ruckus. Now, the State

00:04:07.700 Department doesn't seem to really care about this. Naurat, the State Department spokeswoman,

00:04:12.380 Heather Naurat, said, quote, Kim Jong-un had previously said that he understands the need and

00:04:17.360 the utility of the United States and of the Republic of Korea, South Korea, to continue these joint

00:04:23.160 exercises. They're exercises that are legal, that are planned well, well in advance, which is very

00:04:28.280 true. These exercises are planned years in advance. It's not like Trump and Kim Jong-un over the last

00:04:33.240 couple of months decided to have this summit, and then the U.S., just to be antagonistic,

00:04:38.680 planned this exercise. You're talking about moving ships and planes and troops. These exercises are

00:04:43.440 planned years in advance. Years down the road are already planned or in the planning stages.

00:04:48.940 So it's silly of North Korea to expect the cancellation. She also reiterated, Heather Naurat,

00:04:54.160 the U.S. State Department spokeswoman, that the exercises, well, they're not provocative.

00:04:59.960 They're certainly not provocative. And she went on to reiterate that. And she said, Kim Jong-un has said

00:05:07.120 he understands the importance to the United States that we continue to conduct these joint exercises.

00:05:12.020 They continue to go on. Now, Max Thunder, like I said, is an exercise that's been put in place for

00:05:17.240 years, for decades, really, in the event of a North Korean invasion into South Korea. But I predict, 0.99

00:05:23.840 again, this is only posturing by North Korea to save face with their own people. North Korea needs

00:05:29.620 money. See, the left loves to tell you how weak the United States is and how we should be terrified of

00:05:35.360 China and terrified of Russia. And everyone is better than us. And everyone is stronger than us.

00:05:40.640 If the United States doesn't watch itself, you better watch yourself, United States,

00:05:45.440 or America is going to be invaded and we're going to be broke and poor. And we need the world

00:05:50.640 community. We need the global community. Only it's not really true. Not really true. Let me read you

00:05:59.260 the gross domestic product, the GDPs of various nations, the nations that are involved in some way

00:06:05.540 in the North Korean conflict. And I'm going to even put Iran and Russia in there because Iran was 0.99

00:06:09.560 sharing a nuclear technology with North Korea. We know that. And Russia is an instigator. 0.98

00:06:15.680 Okay. The North Korean GDP, the GDP of all of North Korea, you ready for this?

00:06:22.160 Is only $12.38 billion. Guys like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Jeff Bezos are worth multiples,

00:06:33.960 individually worth multiples of what North Korea as a nation is worth. All right. In contrast, 0.79

00:06:42.880 in contrast, this is amazing. South Korea's GDP is $1.41 trillion.

00:06:52.160 South Korea's GDP is over 100 times that of North Korea's. South Korea is in a much better position

00:07:09.600 in terms of security and strength than North Korea. Japan's GDP, nearly $5 trillion, last estimate,

00:07:18.400 $4.94 trillion. Now, China must be much bigger than Japan, right? Well, not really. It's only about

00:07:28.080 double. China's is $11.2 trillion. And Russia? Russia's is less than South Korea's. $1.28 trillion.

00:07:37.600 Yep. This Russia that supposedly was rigging our elections and taking over the United States, 1.00

00:07:43.020 their GDP is only $1.28 trillion. It's less than one-tenth out of the United States. I'm going

00:07:49.840 to get there in a moment. Iran's GDP. Oh, let's be terrified of Iran. Let's be terrified of Iran. 1.00

00:07:56.700 Oh, my God. They've got so much oil. They're so powerful. Their GDP is only $393 billion.

00:08:04.840 $393 billion. Apple, one American company, is fast approaching a market capitalization that will one

00:08:11.800 day exceed the GDP of Iran. So you've got North Korea at $12.38 billion. South Korea's GDP at $1.41

00:08:23.920 trillion. Japan at $4.94 trillion. China at $11.2 trillion. Russia at $1.28 trillion. And Iran at $393

00:08:32.860 billion. You know what the United States' GDP is? $18.57 trillion. Yep. More than all of those

00:08:43.880 combined. We are the strongest, most powerful, most prosperous nation on earth. And we're only

00:08:53.120 getting stronger with oil and natural gas production, and North Korea knows that. But see, the left-wing

00:08:57.900 media, the Democrats, they want you to believe the U.S. is very weak. They don't want you to do your

00:09:02.280 homework and learn these numbers. They hate when a guy like me brings you these numbers. They don't

00:09:07.120 want you to know about this. They don't want you to know that the U.S. GDP is about 15 times that

00:09:15.020 of Russia. They don't want you to know that. They don't want you to know that the U.S. GDP is,

00:09:22.920 is, oh, jeez, it's a thousand times greater than North Korea's. Yeah. They don't want you to know 0.91

00:09:31.120 that our GDP is almost double that of China's. Oh, we owe China so much money. China can put us out

00:09:38.740 of business tomorrow. No, they can't. No, they can't. You know why? It's what Donald Trump said.

00:09:44.820 Chips leave China full, come here full, and go back empty. It was a lopsided trade deal.

00:09:51.600 But it also meant that China was very dependent on us to buy all the junk they make.

00:09:56.540 And so if we stop buying or we put tariffs on it, we cripple them. That 11.2 trillion in their GDP

00:10:01.940 on the screen here in front of me, oh, that could drop significantly. You see, the world needs a

00:10:07.480 strong United States. The world needs a strong United States. And with a strong United States,

00:10:13.400 we have a much stronger world. Now, the U.S. has a GDP, again, of $18.57 trillion. Do you know what

00:10:27.960 the GDP is of the entire European Union? Somewhere between $17 and $20 trillion. Yeah. The U.S. is equal

00:10:36.960 to, and in many estimates, greater than the GDP of the U.S. is greater than that of the entire

00:10:43.380 European Union. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we got to be more like Europe. We got to be more like Russia. We got 0.94

00:10:52.080 more like China. And Russia can take us over. Oh, my God. We should be more like these countries. We

00:10:57.520 should be nice to North Korea. Oh, we should be so nice to North Korea. We should be so nice to

00:11:03.200 all the bad guys who hate us. Let's see what Israel's GDP is. Israel's GDP is small. It's

00:11:09.940 318.7 billion. Their population is tiny. Tiny. So they have a GDP about that of Iran.

00:11:20.200 About that of Iran. But Israel's population is only 8.5 million people. Iran's population,

00:11:29.700 let's take a look, is 80.28 million people. So Iran has 10 times the population of Israel,

00:11:38.440 but the same GDP. What does that say about each country? What does that say about the rule in each

00:11:46.100 country? See, this is where the left wants you to be ignorant. This is where the left doesn't want

00:11:54.080 you to understand math because math doesn't lie. These numbers on GDP, they don't lie.

00:12:01.380 They simply don't lie. But the left doesn't want you to know that because this debunks their entire

00:12:06.020 narrative that radical Muslim nations are every bit as productive and valuable as Israel or the 1.00

00:12:13.280 United States. That China could put us out of business. That we better deal with North Korea 1.00

00:12:17.540 because they're a formidable foe. Bill Gates can buy and sell North Korea. One American can buy and

00:12:23.540 sell North Korea. A stealth bomber costs about $2 billion. North Korea doesn't even have the money

00:12:32.520 to buy and maintain one of them if they could ever get the technology. 12.38 billion doesn't go a long

00:12:39.640 way when you're a nation state. Look at the numbers. There's an old saying, follow the money. And we talk

00:12:45.960 about that a lot when we're looking at the Mueller investigation and negative things.

00:12:49.700 You should also follow the money when you're trying to determine which countries are wealthier,

00:12:54.700 which countries are stronger, which countries are the ones that you should bet on for global stability.

00:13:03.460 And when you follow the money, one thing becomes clear. The United States, Japan, South Korea,

00:13:10.000 Australia, our partners in some very volatile, Israel, our partners in some very volatile regions

00:13:15.500 are the ones you should bet on. They're the ones you should bank on because they're the ones that are

00:13:21.380 ultimately going to win in the end with ingenuity, with innovation, with industry, research and development,

00:13:29.680 production, business development, sales, revenue, and profits.

00:13:34.880 And all of those things, all of those things make a country healthy and strong.

00:13:43.060 Not about socialism, not about globalism. The North Korea isn't going to leave the table.

00:13:51.020 North Korea is salivating. They are salivating, sitting on their dirt poor poverty ridden 0.91

00:13:58.040 12.4 billion dollar GDP to run an entire nation, while South Korea on their doorstep 0.99

00:14:04.600 is doing a hundred times better. Literally 100 times plus better than they are.

00:14:13.480 Of course they want a piece of that pie. Of course they want a piece of Japan's five trillion dollar

00:14:18.580 GDP pie. Of course they want a piece of the United States nearly 19 trillion dollar GDP pie.

00:14:24.660 Of course they do. So don't listen to the left. Don't listen to the mainstream media.

00:14:30.960 Do your own homework. Do your own research. Watch this show. I'm always going to bring you

00:14:35.520 numbers and data and statistics. Fact-driven information. Gleaned not from some liberal think tank

00:14:44.920 or subjective organization. No. No. CIA fact book. The World Bank. The United Nations. These are all

00:14:57.020 resources. Well, in many cases who bury these numbers. Who bury these numbers. But the numbers

00:15:04.280 are there to find. And they're indisputable. Now, again, I'm going to be talking to you later on the

00:15:10.980 show about the fact that China and Russia may actually be fudging. They may be cooking their

00:15:16.240 GDP books. But their GDP might actually be a little bit less. Stay tuned today because I've got a great

00:15:23.500 show for you. A lot of interesting information. But the story on China and Russia potentially faking

00:15:28.280 their GDP numbers is going to really open your eyes. And it's going to explain a lot about why the

00:15:35.820 Trump administration is handling Iran and North Korea the way they are, despite China and Russia

00:15:41.280 always having saber rattled on behalf of North Korea and Iran, respectively. Trump administration

00:15:48.200 understands economics. And they understand that they can push a lot harder than any other

00:15:54.060 administration ever did against these bad guys. And that's why I believe North Korea will sit at that 0.94

00:15:59.840 table in Singapore. They will shut their mouths. They will do as they are told. And quite frankly,

00:16:05.400 if they want to do propaganda and lie to their own people, let them. The world is a much safer place

00:16:12.240 under the Trump-Pompeo-Bolton foreign policy team than it ever was under Obama and even Bush.

00:16:20.260 And I predict we're going to be much stronger in the years to come.

00:16:35.400 The one-year mark of Robert Mueller's bogus witch hunt is on Friday. That's the anniversary of Mueller

00:16:43.120 starting his soft coup to take down Donald Trump on, well, pun intended, trumped-up evidence of Russia

00:16:49.320 collusion due in most part to this ridiculous steel dossier. Now, we know that former CIA director

00:16:55.960 John Brennan, the worst CIA director in the history of the CIA, an awful, terrible guy,

00:17:01.060 was inserting parts of the steel dossier into Barack Obama's daily presidential briefing,

00:17:07.040 his intelligence brief, telling him the information was credible, not telling him it

00:17:11.960 was opposition research gleaned on behalf of Hillary Clinton. That story is breaking. I predict

00:17:17.720 John Brennan. History will show that John Brennan was an arch bad guy. Well, now Rudy Giuliani is

00:17:24.180 saying the Trump team is ready to pressure Robert Mueller at the probe's one-year mark. This from

00:17:29.900 Politico says, frustrated by the open-ended nature of Mueller's Russia probe, which hits its one-year

00:17:36.900 mark on, oh, it's Thursday, not Friday. I'm sorry, it's tomorrow. I lost track of days. Today's the

00:17:41.320 16th. Mueller was appointed on the 17th. Tomorrow is the one-year mark. Rudy Giuliani says Mueller should

00:17:46.960 follow the example Comey said in 2016 when the then FBI director investigated and then publicly

00:17:54.300 exonerated Hillary Clinton. Giuliani said, quote, when Comey closed the case in July, although I think it

00:17:59.840 was a complete whitewash, I'd like to have them do that for us, meaning the president of the United

00:18:04.780 States. Now, never mind that Comey later reopened the case, Politico says. And Politico, of course,

00:18:11.600 is slanted. And they want to tell you that, you know, they shouldn't be closing this case because

00:18:18.180 they insulted Comey. Giuliani called Comey a, quote, unquote, major phony. And this is my favorite,

00:18:26.200 because Comey's like six foot eight. A little baby. Giuliani called Comey a little baby.

00:18:34.860 He's right. You know, as like pithy and kind of rudimentary as that is, it's funny and pretty

00:18:42.260 accurate. I mean, look, Mueller's had a year. Even Vice President Mike Pence told NBC last week,

00:18:49.960 quote, in the interest of the country, I think it's time to wrap it up. Now, but a lot of people,

00:18:56.000 in the MAGA movement, in the conservative right, who said, oh, Mike Pence is a deep state actor,

00:19:01.120 Mike Pence's establishment. I don't know about that. I think by now you realize I've got some

00:19:05.940 very solid contacts in the administration and around the administration. Mike Pence has been

00:19:11.880 a pretty solid ally of this president. I am a Mike Pence fan. I like the vice president. I think he is

00:19:18.940 a dignified man. I think he's an honorable man. I think he's a good man.

00:19:22.620 I think the vice president has his problems. I don't like the way he handled General Flynn.

00:19:28.800 But if you didn't see this little news snippet, Corey Lewandowski, someone who is fiercely loyal

00:19:35.760 to Donald Trump, is leaving his very lucrative private lobbying and consulting practice and going

00:19:42.420 to work for the vice president's PAC ahead of the midterms and ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

00:19:48.620 Now, that all being said, I happen to respect, admire, and very much like General Flynn. I've

00:19:58.120 gotten to know him and it's really been a privilege. I've gotten to know his family, especially his son,

00:20:02.940 Mike Jr. He's a friend. And people very close to them don't like Vice President Pence for the way he

00:20:09.820 treated General Flynn. And so there are factions, but I've seen nothing from the vice president to

00:20:17.360 suggest that he's anything but loyal to the president. And the vice president now bringing

00:20:22.120 Corey Lewandowski on, somebody who's essentially Trump's one man Praetorian guard in many respects

00:20:27.560 on the outside. Well, that I don't think Corey would go to work for somebody who was not loyal to

00:20:32.800 the president, especially their PAC. And I think the vice president's right. It's time for this probe

00:20:38.320 to wrap up. If the vice president were a deep state actor, he probably would say, let Robert

00:20:43.100 Mueller do his job. Let it take its course. If it takes 10 years, it takes 10 years. Like guys like

00:20:47.380 Jeff Flake and John McCain and Marco Rubio and all these other people that want to see Trump out of

00:20:51.100 there would say. But I think Mike Pence realizes that if he stays where he is, he's got all the time

00:20:57.900 in the world to run for president. He'll be in his mid-60s in 2024, and he'll have come off a very

00:21:04.700 successful run and be perfectly positioned with the Trump base and the more establishment Republicans

00:21:11.260 who win the presidency. And I think politically, Mike Pence is making the right move.

00:21:17.920 But this underlies a bigger problem, underscores a bigger problem. Mueller's probe has yielded nothing.

00:21:23.440 We now have one of the Russian companies he indicted. Well, apparently they don't exist.

00:21:28.180 They don't exist. And a lawyer for an entity connected with the entity that doesn't exist

00:21:33.300 is in court trying to say, this is ridiculous. This is a witch hunt. Now, a federal judge did

00:21:38.620 allow Mueller's investigation to continue. They, she said that Mueller can, I'm sorry,

00:21:46.560 not his investigation, his prosecution of Manafort. He said that his prosecution of Manafort is not

00:21:50.540 outside of his scope, which we all predicted, which we all predicted. But I do believe Mueller

00:21:56.660 played fast and loose with exculpatory evidence. And a year, a year is a long time. A year is a very

00:22:03.160 long time. They've found nothing. The people on the left and the mainstream media are saying,

00:22:08.720 they've got 19 indictments. They've got smoking guns. Well, they really don't. They've got Paul

00:22:14.280 Manafort and Rick Gates on old financial crimes. Papadopoulos and General Flynn on bogus process crimes.

00:22:22.080 None of those indictments had anything to do with Trump colluding with Russia.

00:22:26.660 Patty, no big deal. Collusion is not a crime. It would look bad, but it's not a crime. And they

00:22:32.400 indicted 13 Russian entities for trying to interfere in the election by essentially buying ads on

00:22:39.480 Facebook. And if you read the indictment, Mueller's team admits that no one on the Trump campaign

00:22:46.280 that was contacted by these Russian entities knew they were Russian entities. They thought they were

00:22:51.580 U.S. entities. And in many instances, if you read the court transcript of the indictment,

00:22:56.320 it the Trump campaign people basically were saying, hey, we're busy. If you want to go hold

00:23:01.160 signs, go hold signs. OK, fine. Sorry, can't help you. No, we're not going to give you resources or

00:23:09.120 yeah. Come down if you want to volunteer. Oh, you're an American citizen from another part of Florida. 0.59

00:23:12.880 Even if you're not an American citizen, here illegally still hold a sign for somebody just 1.00

00:23:17.920 can't vote. The FBI and Mueller's team concluded that everyone to a person of the Trump volunteers

00:23:23.600 contacted by these Russian entities had no idea they were being contacted by Russians because the

00:23:28.960 Russians were using identities, stolen identities of Americans. There was no collusion. If Mueller was

00:23:35.960 tasked with investigating Russian interference, I'd say go for it. Go for it. No reason to interview

00:23:42.880 Donald Trump. That's a perjury trap. There was no collusion here that you can look at the messages.

00:23:49.580 Many of the messages, if you dig into Facebook between those Russian entities and those Trump

00:23:53.760 campaign volunteers that were put on those Facebook pages are still up. They never deleted them because

00:23:58.620 no one ever knew they were Russian. It was like, you know, Betty and Jim Williams from Tampa,

00:24:03.540 Florida. Hey, we want to come down and hold some signs outside Mar-a-Lago. We love Donald Trump.

00:24:07.740 And the Trump campaign volunteers would say, the more the merrier. Come on down. And that was the

00:24:12.480 extent of the collusion. The Trump campaign people, the volunteers, the people that ran their social

00:24:18.120 media thought they were talking to Betty and Jim, a retired couple from Tampa. They didn't know they

00:24:23.200 were talking to a bot generated in Russia. I mean, that's how dumb all of this is, how ineffective

00:24:30.360 all of it is and was. But Mueller is still churning on with his bogus witch hunt.

00:24:36.120 Now, while all this is happening, the Department of Justice finally responded to a request for

00:24:41.240 information on James Comey's friend, that law professor who leaked Comey's confidential

00:24:47.560 memos to the New York Times. Now, you remember this guy. This guy's name was, what was his name?

00:24:53.520 Richmond. I always forget this guy's name. But he was a friend of James Comey. And this guy,

00:25:01.060 Richmond, Daniel Richmond, he leaked the memos to the New York Times on behalf of Comey. He was also

00:25:06.780 given a special job at the FBI. FBI has thousands and thousands of employees, but apparently there was

00:25:13.140 a job. FBI selects from the best of the best academically, athletically, strategically,

00:25:18.640 tactically in terms of how they think. They've got a pick of candidates. Their list of applicants

00:25:23.900 is far longer than the amount of people they ever hire. But apparently there was a job at the FBI

00:25:28.500 that none of these highly talented people could do that only Jim Comey's friend, Danny Richmond,

00:25:33.100 could do. Give me a break. Now, Richmond works at Columbia University, worked as what was called a

00:25:38.400 quote unquote SGE, a special government employee. He was unpaid, but he gave him status. He gave him

00:25:44.940 access, gave him a security clearance. And lawmakers like Trey Gowdy and Devin Nunez, well,

00:25:50.680 they want to know more about that. Chuck Grassley and Bob Goodlatte. They want to know more about

00:25:55.680 that. Why this guy was given this special role at the FBI and then helped Comey leak information to

00:26:02.740 the media. It's it's pretty bad. Well, sources familiar with Richmond's status at FBI told Fox News

00:26:12.600 that he was assigned. This is from a Fox story. He was assigned to special projects by Comey as well

00:26:18.420 as badge access and a security clearance, badge access to FBI headquarters, as well as a security

00:26:24.480 clearance. And his status was the subject of an MOU, a memorandum of a memorandum of understanding.

00:26:31.780 Amazing, amazing how shoddily the FBI was running. Now, Congress wants to know all about this.

00:26:37.000 And I think this guy needs to be put under oath to answer some questions about what he did,

00:26:42.820 why he did it, what was going on, how all this went down. This is dirty.

00:26:49.520 This is really, really disturbing and dirty. Everybody is uncomfortable with this. Everybody.

00:26:57.740 Nobody is comfortable with this. You've got Mueller on a witch hunt. His conflicts are vast.

00:27:02.540 Yesterday, we talked about the Olegner-Apasca case. It's just conflict upon conflict upon conflict

00:27:09.220 upon conflict, impropriety upon impropriety upon impropriety upon impropriety. If this were a local

00:27:16.220 prosecution, there is no way Mueller would be allowed to stay on the case. There's no way.

00:27:22.920 There's no way it makes it so easy for a defense attorney to rip and tear apart.

00:27:28.180 Let's see, federal procedure is a little different. It forces the defendant to spend

00:27:33.800 six figures to even get to that point. So they can leverage you. They can threaten you. They can

00:27:39.580 squeeze you into a plea and then thump their chest as if they have a win. But if you look at the history

00:27:45.060 of federal prosecution, guys like Hank Greenberg, the former chairman of AIG Insurance, who was a

00:27:50.620 billionaire, who could afford the $20 million I think he spent to fight and got the best lawyers,

00:27:55.540 and he put millions upon millions into fighting the government, Hank Greenberg was cleared.

00:28:01.100 He destroyed the government's case. Now, look, I'm not condemning the federal criminal justice

00:28:07.280 system en masse, okay? I've got friends who are federal agents, friends who are federal prosecutors.

00:28:11.520 These are good people who do good work and take some very bad people off the street.

00:28:16.220 But in this case, and they did it fairly and ethically, they didn't weaponize their resources.

00:28:22.580 They respect due process, the guys I know, the women I know. This is different.

00:28:27.380 Mueller and his team, Mueller and his team are perverting the power of federal law enforcement,

00:28:34.660 of federal prosecutorial power. And they're using it to squeeze people to take out a sitting president. 0.87

00:28:41.860 It is so disgusting that nobody is doing anything. And even these members of Congress,

00:28:46.520 they're writing letters and being methodical and asking, no, time to blow the lid off this. The

00:28:52.860 only one doing it is Devin Nunez. He's an American hero. He's an American hero. But we have no one in

00:28:59.040 the Department of Justice to do it. And I just hope this new team of Trump and Giuliani is the final

00:29:05.480 nail in this casket of corruption, in this soft coup to take out a sitting president.

00:29:12.040 Tomorrow is Mueller's one year anniversary as special counsel. And he really should be shut down

00:29:19.240 and told to clear his office out by tomorrow. Close of day.

00:29:22.080 We're talking a lot about North Korea, but there is still a lot of violence in Gaza.

00:29:38.860 Israelis are defending their homeland. If if these illegal migrant hordes started coming in the United 1.00

00:29:45.480 States, weaponized, putting thousands at one point on our border, while terror cells within them

00:29:51.720 were trying to infiltrate other points on our border along Texas and Arizona, we'd respond with

00:29:57.880 force as well. And we should. The IDF is doing what they're supposed to do. But there's a lot of

00:30:02.580 backstory to what's happening in Gaza. And here to discuss it is one of the most knowledgeable people

00:30:06.740 I know on this topic. You often don't see her because she's our managing editor here at The

00:30:11.340 Rebel behind the scenes, making sure we give you the best content. But Tiffany Goodbye really is one

00:30:16.520 of my go-to experts on all things Israel and the Middle East. Tiffany joins me now.

00:30:19.820 But Tiffany, I want to talk about the recent clashes in Gaza, this strike that killed around

00:30:25.520 55-60, which, by the way, I thought was surgical precision by the IDF, not just necessary,

00:30:32.520 not just justified, but vital to Israel's survival. Tell us a little bit about the backstory of what

00:30:37.560 caused all this, because we're really seeing the end result. We're not talking much about the cause.

00:30:42.000 Well, correct. So a couple of things to kind of point out. Israel has one of the most advanced

00:30:50.120 militaries in the world. If we wanted to turn—I say we because my family's Israeli—but if Israel 0.72

00:30:55.360 wanted to turn Gaza into a parking lot, it absolutely could in a heartbeat. 0.99

00:30:59.820 Exactly. That's what I said. We killed 55 Hamas terrorists. Israel has tremendous air and ground 0.63

00:31:06.760 superiority. They could have wiped out 40,000 people in a matter of an hour. They killed 55,

00:31:12.220 surgically, 55 Hamas terrorists. Exactly. And no one, no one in the international community gives

00:31:19.060 Israel credit for the amount of restraint that it has shown, and it is, you know, continuing to show 0.89

00:31:24.080 daily. No other country in the world would allow its borders to be attacked like this.

00:31:29.320 So I'll give you a little bit of the backstory. And actually, a Hamas official just admitted on

00:31:34.520 radio—in fact, I'm going to tweet it out in a moment—that at least 50 of the 60 or so who were

00:31:41.120 killed just, you know, recently are Hamas operatives, as if that fact would matter. You know, anyone who's 0.67

00:31:48.000 denounced Israel and condemns Israel really doesn't care about facts anyway. I mean, there's been more than

00:31:52.260 enough proof for weeks. Hamas has mobilized tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza to breach

00:31:59.540 Israel's border with kite bombs with swastikas on them, Molotov cocktails, actual bombs and explosive

00:32:07.200 devices that they've planted at the fence and at the border fence, wire cutters, meat cleavers. They're

00:32:13.500 burning tires so the smoke will blind IDF officers. And they are instigating violence left and right,

00:32:22.180 now. They've been doing this for weeks. Now, one of the other things they're doing—I had the former

00:32:25.620 Consul General of Israel tell me that they're also using this massive crowd, this 30, 40,000 as a

00:32:31.460 diversion because they're sending smaller terror sappers, incursion cells, to other points along

00:32:37.540 the fence to get into Israel undetected, presumably to go to cities like Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and carry

00:32:42.500 out terror attacks. So Hamas has been using the embassy opening, or the Palestinians have been using the 0.80

00:32:47.840 embassy opening as a pretext for these protests. But that's not true. It's because their terror

00:32:52.240 tunnels aren't working. And they have been planning this for really quite some time. These throngs of

00:32:57.920 people, these Palestinian aggressors is really what they are, are a diversion. First of all, 1.00

00:33:03.280 they've been marching for weeks, right, in anticipation of Israel's 70th anniversary. It's what

00:33:09.120 the Palestinians call their Nakba or catastrophe. And I'll get into that in a moment. But this has been

00:33:15.200 planned for quite some time. And so really, they are trying to cause a diversion. And again,

00:33:21.200 exactly what you said, they're having other factions try to infiltrate different points.

00:33:26.000 But the IDF intercepted those five small cells. They did a great job. But let's even go back before

00:33:32.080 that. I don't understand why the U.S. government forced Israel into a policy of appeasement to give

00:33:39.120 Palestinians, really Hamas, Gaza. We never should have allowed that to happen. When I say we, 0.99

00:33:46.000 I mean, the United States should have told Israel, we back you unconditionally, do not allow 1.00

00:33:51.040 the Hamas terrorists to gain any ground in Gaza. We did. And now we're seeing the end result. 0.96

00:33:56.480 Well, and this is the perfect example of anyone who sits there and says that our moving the U.S.

00:34:03.360 embassy to Jerusalem and thereby really, in the truest sense, recognizing Jerusalem is the undivided

00:34:08.960 capital of Israel. Anyone who says that that is going to be a barrier to peace needs to look at

00:34:14.800 what happened in Gaza. In 2005, Ariel Sharon unilaterally withdrew from Gaza. We uprooted Jewish 1.00

00:34:23.200 communities. We left in place lots of infrastructure for the Palestinians, including thousands of greenhouses 1.00

00:34:31.840 that they could have used for actual. I mean, there was thousands of jobs to come out of those

00:34:36.480 greenhouses from all of the produce that they were going to help facilitate. In fact, about $14 million

00:34:43.200 worth of those greenhouses were gifted by American Jewish donors. They were all left in place

00:34:48.560 for the Palestinians when Israel unilaterally withdrew in 2005. And what ended up happening? Hamas, 0.90

00:34:55.360 they sacked the greenhouses, they stole all the parts, they burned them down, they ransacked them,

00:35:00.240 and they said, oh, look at us. We're so poor. Look at our people. We're languishing. And they're causing

00:35:06.160 themselves to languish. The catastrophe of the Palestinians has consistently been brought upon 1.00

00:35:12.240 themselves. And again, this is what they call the creation or the modern day establishment of Israel

00:35:17.600 in 1948, where they call that the Nakba or the catastrophe. And that's what all of these riots are

00:35:21.840 sort of predicated on. And what is so absolutely ridiculous and no one ever talks about

00:35:26.720 is no sooner was the ink on Israel's lawful establishment dry that the major Arab armies 0.67

00:35:34.720 waged an illegal war against Israel, including Palestine. They didn't call them Palestinians

00:35:39.920 back then. They were just called Arabs. But they waged this war. And in anticipation of that war,

00:35:45.120 there were about 600,000 Arabs who were living in these different territories that kind of comprise

00:35:50.080 modern day Israel. Arab leaders told them to leave. They said, leave. And as soon as we destroy Israel,

00:35:57.280 it's going to take a day or two, then you can come back. This is how the quote unquote refugee crisis 0.99

00:36:03.040 actually came to be. But nobody ever mentions that actually the Jewish leaders, Israeli leaders,

00:36:11.520 were urging those Arabs now called Palestinians to stay in their homes and to become citizens of Israel.

00:36:18.160 They refused. They refused in 48, just like they've refused every time since. I mean, and this is the

00:36:25.440 point. Let me ask you a question. Jerusalem is not going to be what stands in the way of peace.

00:36:31.040 Right. Well, that's what I want. I had this argument with someone yesterday and then again

00:36:35.120 this morning, the same person. And it'll help facilitate it faster because we're showing we're

00:36:39.520 strong. Well, right. This is going to, I said yesterday that this will be the quickest path to

00:36:44.160 peace strength. But these people on the left are supremely naive. The argument they were making

00:36:49.680 with me, they were comparing Israel's hard line in Gaza now with the renewed alliance with the United

00:36:55.040 States to Gina Haspel being confirmed in the Senate. Well, if she's for torture, it means that terrorists 0.99

00:37:00.000 are going to torture our people. And I said, well, how many journalists tortured? This was a journalist

00:37:03.760 on the left. I said, how many journalists tortured people? They said, well, it's a straw man argument.

00:37:07.280 I said, no, it's not. They still, ISIS still cut off James Foley's head. These savages,

00:37:12.000 these terrorist savages will brutally kill you no matter what you do. Why is there this, 1.00

00:37:19.040 this dangerous naive a day on the left that they believe that if we, for some reason left the embassy

00:37:24.240 in Tel Aviv, the Hamas terrorists would all of a sudden become nice guys. Well, it's absolutely silly. 0.93

00:37:30.480 In fact, it's because Westerners don't understand the kind of primitive and tribal mentality that we're

00:37:35.760 dealing in the Middle East. Um, they respond to one thing and one thing only, and that is strength. 0.99

00:37:42.640 Any sign of weakness, any sign of capitulation, you know, or what a Westerner might think is just

00:37:48.080 a concession, right? A reasonable concession that someone would make with a reasonable partner in

00:37:52.640 exchange for peace. But what many Westerners don't understand is these are not reasonable partners.

00:37:58.320 One who is willing to sacrifice their own children and they do so willingly. They martyr them. They

00:38:06.480 wean them on hate. Anyone who does that is not a reasonable partner in peace. What leverage do you

00:38:13.760 have with people who sacrifice their own children? So there's a tribal mentality we're dealing with.

00:38:21.440 They're extremely primitive and they are at the end of the day, weaned on hatred. And it isn't just

00:38:26.000 Hamas in Gaza. You know, a lot of people were over there feigning outrage when a boss a couple of

00:38:30.960 weeks ago made that statement. And he was essentially saying that the Holocaust was

00:38:34.640 precipitated because, you know, uh, people didn't like the fact that Jews were, you know, the bankers

00:38:39.680 and, you know, all those typical anti-Semitic canards and everyone on the left, right, who doesn't

00:38:44.720 support Israel, but seems very concerned about anti-Semitism if they think, you know, oh, well,

00:38:49.440 it has something to do with Republicans or they have something to do with conservatives. You know,

00:38:52.960 they came out and they condemned, um, uh, a boss for saying these things. Meanwhile,

00:38:58.560 I mean, a bosses 1982 dissertation was basically all Holocaust denialism. Number one, I don't

00:39:04.240 understand. That's my point. Like, I don't understand why they all of a sudden think that

00:39:07.440 guys like, uh, uh, uh, uh, a boss are going to become good guys. Like Arafat was all of a sudden

00:39:13.200 a really cool guy behind closed doors, but if we meet you, they love that. I remember being a little

00:39:17.760 kid when, when Barbara Walters went to Cuba, came back and called Fidel Castro, the sexiest

00:39:22.640 man she'd ever met a brutal dictator. I mean, it's, they love, they love enemies of democracy,

00:39:29.120 of freedom. They really do. And, and just to quickly, you know, backtrack about a boss. And,

00:39:34.720 and so basically this is what Hamas does in Gaza. And this is what, um, the Palestinian authority are

00:39:40.080 doing in, um, you know, in, in, in West bank is they basically model their school curriculum

00:39:47.040 after mind comp, right? They teach children a cradle that it is their religious and national

00:39:53.600 duty to become shahids or martyrs and to kill Jews who are descendants of apes and pigs. Right. And, 1.00

00:40:00.160 and so all the time they're glorifying martyrs, obviously there's pay for slay a boss is paying

00:40:04.960 all of these terrorists who, um, who kill Israelis. And it's just, he's following the same playbook

00:40:12.240 that Saddam Hussein, Saddam Hussein did that Muammar Gaddafi did that, uh, Ayatollah Khamenei

00:40:18.080 did that Rouhani and Khamenei do that the Saudis do, uh, that the Yemenis do. But for some reason,

00:40:23.840 he puts on a suit, he's called legitimate. And all of a sudden we're supposed to forget that he's a

00:40:28.240 savage terrorist. Right. Exactly. That drives me insane. Outraged over the fact that he basically

00:40:32.960 called Jews, you know, uh, financiers, and that was terrible. But the fact that he is actually

00:40:38.480 facilitating the deaths and injuries of Israelis every day through his policies, and he's actually

00:40:44.560 allowing, you know, national broadcasts on television and radio and school books to be modeled after

00:40:49.600 mind comp and, and, and, and spew Nazi propaganda and anti-Jewish propaganda. That's okay. Like that's,

00:40:57.360 that's, that's fine because, you know, he puts on a suit and he goes to the UN.

00:40:59.600 Right. And so it's ridiculous on the other. And so these are not partners in peace. These are not

00:41:05.120 legitimate partners in peace. So the fact that moving our embassy would somehow be the impediment

00:41:10.560 all of a sudden is, is just quite frankly, moronic. It's moronic. It's moronic. Like where a building

00:41:16.160 sits is all of a sudden going to make savage terrorists, not savage. All right, we're running

00:41:20.320 out of time. So business though. And that might be the one thing they respect. What's that?

00:41:25.200 It's going to show them that we mean business though. And that's the one thing they do respect.

00:41:29.200 Right. It's going to show them that we don't care how much they want and cry. In fact,

00:41:32.240 we're going to back the IDF and killing more of them if they continue this nonsense. So that's

00:41:36.880 a perfect dovetail. And my last question, do you think Netanyahu goes on the offensive or does

00:41:43.760 he continue being defensive? Does he go on the offensive? Does he continue to go on the offensive against

00:41:48.800 Hamas against Iranian targets inside Syria? Because let's face it, Iran is the main agitator 1.00

00:41:54.640 of Hamas. They've got Hezbollah waiting in the wings over there in Lebanon before they activate them. 0.52

00:41:59.760 Or does he basically take a position saying the United States is now a real ally again.

00:42:07.200 If you guys stay in line, we'll stay in Israel. We're not going to launch rockets at you.

00:42:12.480 The IDF snipers are going to chamber their weapons. Which way does he go now? Does he say,

00:42:17.280 does he say, you stop, we'll stop? Or does he go on the offensive?

00:42:21.760 No, Israel's not going to go on the, on the offensive. But we're, Israel's very prepared.

00:42:27.520 Everything is going to be carried out with precision, you know, skill and thought.

00:42:31.520 Um, they're already 10 steps ahead of Iran and what Iran is planning to do. And, and Israel's been 0.88

00:42:37.840 humiliating Iran from the get go. It really is embarrassing what they've been doing to Iran 1.00

00:42:42.160 recently. It's mortifying what they've been doing to Iran. It really is. And there are such gluttons 1.00

00:42:48.800 for punishment, which is really kind of icing on the cake for these last few weeks. But no, I mean,

00:42:54.640 Israel is very strong. And right now, um, the wind is at its back, right? I mean, 1.00

00:42:58.400 the U S is now fully behind Israel in a way that, you know, we never have been before. 0.83

00:43:03.120 We have opened up the embassy, the Iran deal has been nixed. Um, you know, Israel humiliated Iran

00:43:09.840 with that amazing Intel operation, um, into its nuclear program. I mean, so we have so many things

00:43:16.720 going on and Israel has so much, you know, kind of, um, like, as I said, like the wind in its sails 0.95

00:43:21.520 right now. So I think that's a great place for Israel to be in and for BB to be in where, you know,

00:43:27.360 Israel's never going to be the aggressor. Um, right. Tiffany, you know what, you know what,

00:43:32.640 that was my, that was my penultimate question. Here's my last question. Cause I have to ask it

00:43:37.280 because he is just the most insufferable human being in the world who I want to

00:43:41.360 punch in the face. What is John's John Kerry's end game meeting with Iranians? 0.95

00:43:45.600 I mean, is there a more subversive treacherous person? The entire Obama administration, I don't

00:43:54.320 know if you noticed John Brennan's statement yesterday is basically taking sides with Hamas.

00:43:58.960 I mean, you know, yeah, yeah. He took, he literally sided with terrorists, by the way,

00:44:04.400 with money we've given them that we've given Iran that has funded them. I mean,

00:44:08.480 that entire administration is a, couldn't be more treacherous. And if people that people ever,

00:44:16.960 anyone should ever be tried for treason, it is Kerry and the whole lot of them. And it is

00:44:21.280 absolutely, I don't know if it's because of some kickbacks or backroom deals or his family. I really

00:44:26.800 don't know what is at play, but how much do you hate America and our allies to do that?

00:44:32.960 It's disgusting. It is mind blowing. It is mind blowing and it should be,

00:44:38.160 he should be taken to task. Oh no, I agree. Tiffany, as always a pleasure, my friend. Thanks very much.

00:44:43.200 Tiffany, goodbye. Managing editor at The Rebel. She occasionally writes articles. If you want to

00:44:48.080 get smarter, I highly suggest you read them. Thanks, Tiffany. Bye.

00:45:03.600 Sit down because I'm going to tell you something that might trouble you, something you won't believe.

00:45:09.360 Russia and China lie. Yeah. Russia and China are not truthful nations. 0.86

00:45:16.400 And what aren't they truthful about? Well, here's a story I'm reading via SF gate,

00:45:21.600 but from the Washington post originally.

00:45:23.520 Satellite data strongly suggests that China, Russia, and other authoritarian countries are

00:45:32.240 fudging their GDP reports. We spoke about GDP a little earlier in the show with regards to

00:45:38.400 countries in the Southeast Asia region, Southeast China, Sea region, et cetera.

00:45:44.800 Let me read you this story. It's fascinating. China, Russia, and other authoritarian countries

00:45:49.360 inflate their official GDP figures by anywhere from 15 to 30 percent in a given year, according

00:45:58.080 to a new analysis of a quarter century of satellite data. Now, remember, we looked at Russia's GDP.

00:46:03.520 It was 1.28 trillion. But Russia is fudging that by 15 to 20 to 30 percent yearly. They might be under

00:46:11.360 a trillion dollars. China's is 11.2 trillion. If they're fudging that by 15 to 30 percent, well,

00:46:18.240 they might be a lot closer to Japan than than they are to the United States with far less population.

00:46:26.400 They have 10 times Japan is far less population. They have 10 times the population of Japan, about

00:46:32.480 five times the population of the U.S. So Russia and China aren't still looking so strong, are they?

00:46:38.960 This article says the working paper by Luis R. Martinez of the University of Chicago also found that

00:46:44.160 authoritarian regimes are especially likely to artificially boost their gross domestic product

00:46:49.280 numbers in the years before elections. Round it out of the old Alinsky playbook. Make yourself look

00:46:53.680 stronger than you are. Didn't Obama do that, though, by forcing his labor department to fudge jobs

00:46:59.760 numbers? Sounds familiar, right? And that the differences in GDP reporting between authoritarian and

00:47:06.400 non-authoritarian countries can't be explained by structural factors such as urbanization, composition

00:47:13.920 of the economy or access to electricity. Now, Professor Martinez's findings are derived from

00:47:19.840 what they call a quote unquote novel data source, satellite imagery that tracks changes in the level of

00:47:27.120 nighttime lighting within and between countries over time. George Orwell once said, quote,

00:47:35.280 if liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

00:47:41.120 And this Martinez from the University of Chicago says that quote, quote unquote, summarizes the

00:47:47.040 spirit of his project. He says this is from Martinez, the researcher, quote, the key question that the

00:47:52.800 paper tries to tackle is whether the checks and balances provided by democracy are able to constrain

00:47:59.680 government's desire to manipulate information or, more specifically, their desire to exaggerate how

00:48:05.920 well the economy is doing. The way I try to answer the question above is by comparing GDP,

00:48:10.720 self-reported indicator, corona manipulation, and nighttime lights recorded by satellites from

00:48:16.160 outer space and much harder to manipulate as measures of economic activity. And when you look at the maps,

00:48:22.880 they're mind-blowing. Now, research also published back in 2012 by economists from Brown University and

00:48:31.680 the National Bureau of Economic Research showed how changes in nighttime lighting closely tracked with

00:48:39.200 economic activity. A quote, consumption of nearly all goods in the evening requires lights and

00:48:45.920 as income rises, so does light usage per person in both consumption activities and many investment

00:48:51.440 activities, end quote. It goes on to conclude, as a result, increases in nighttime lighting generally

00:48:58.720 tracked with increases in GDP. You can see the principle at work in the side-by-side NASA images of

00:49:05.040 India at night in 2012 and 2016. Over that period, India's economic output increased from 1.9 trillion in 2012

00:49:14.560 to 2.3 trillion in 2016. Super interesting. And, and as they were self-reporting that 4.4 trillion

00:49:25.760 increase, right? That's a 400 billion dollar increase. They were self-reporting that

00:49:35.280 their lighting at night grew. There is a correlation here. I dug into this paper a little bit. It's

00:49:41.440 fascinating. It makes, really makes perfect sense, right? It's very tangible. If your economy grows,

00:49:47.760 there need to be things going on at night to sustain your economy. People are buying televisions.

00:49:53.120 They're using them after it gets dark. They're turning on the lights in their homes. They're

00:49:56.960 out there in the streets. They're at bars and restaurants. More businesses are propping up.

00:50:00.800 People go in the evening when it gets dark. The lights turn on. Gas stations are open because they

00:50:05.040 need to drive to and from. There are more vehicles out there with their headlights on. People are

00:50:08.880 buying more vehicles. They're going more places. These are very tangible results of a result of

00:50:13.120 economic growth, incredibly tangible. And oftentimes the most simple reason is the most powerful,

00:50:19.600 logical and provable reason. Now, this, this is really fascinating. So I'm going to continue to read

00:50:26.400 on. Martinez wanted to see whether the relationship between increases in lighting and increases in GDP

00:50:31.040 was different from more authoritarian countries. He said, quote, is it the case that the same amount of

00:50:35.680 growth in nighttime lights is associated with systematically larger amounts of GDP growth

00:50:40.320 in more authoritarian regimes? The answer he found was an unequivocal. Yes. Yes.

00:50:48.640 Great. Martinez sorted the world's countries by their freedom house,

00:50:52.240 which classifies countries on a spectrum ranging from free to not free and is based on categories

00:50:57.040 like civil rights, protections and civil liberties. He then looked at how changes in nighttime lighting

00:51:02.320 correlated with the country's self-reported GDP measures. For the world's freest democracy,

00:51:09.040 places like the United States, Canada and Western Europe, a 10 percent increase in the average intensity

00:51:14.960 of nighttime lighting in a given year correlated with, on average, a 2.4 percent increase in year

00:51:21.600 over year GDP. Less free and open countries, however, reported larger GDP gains for the same percent

00:51:28.400 change in nighttime lighting. And most important, the least free countries of all showed huge increases

00:51:36.080 in annual GDP relative to the freest countries working out to between a half and a full percentage

00:51:42.240 point of extra GDP for the same light increase. So they're grossly inflating their GDP while on par

00:51:51.840 with the rest of the world to make themselves look stronger and more powerful like China and Russia 0.92

00:51:56.880 and does. But maybe there's something about they go on to play devil's advocate. Maybe there's

00:52:03.120 something about authoritarian regimes that make the relationship between light and GDP different

00:52:08.720 in those countries. So Martinez attempted to see whether any other factors were at play.

00:52:12.960 He tested whether the overall composition of the economy could explain the differences he observed.

00:52:17.360 And the answer was no. He did the same for urbanization and overall electricity usage

00:52:22.400 and found that those factors couldn't explain the differences either. In other words, the only conclusion,

00:52:29.600 the only conclusion after disproving all of the other potential reasons was that the most authoritarian

00:52:39.120 countries are lying about their prosperity. But he did find that various political characteristics

00:52:48.160 could explain the differences. Quote, the suspicious excess growth in GDP relative to growth in

00:52:54.800 relative to growth in lights that is present in authoritarian regimes is smaller in the presence of

00:53:00.240 independent political institutions. Let me read that again. The suspicious excesses excess growth in GDP

00:53:07.440 in these authoritarian countries relative to growth in lights that is present in authoritarian regimes

00:53:12.240 authoritarian regimes is smaller in the presence of independent political institutions, e.g. an

00:53:18.880 elected legislature. So if you're an authoritarian regime and you have an elected legislature,

00:53:26.400 there is some dissent, then the fudging of the numbers was a little bit smaller.

00:53:32.000 Or when they have economic institutions, economic institutions like a central bank or judicial institutions,

00:53:38.240 courts that aren't corrupt. So when there's at least one or two institutions that avoid you being in

00:53:45.840 North Korea, then the fudging of the numbers becomes a little bit less. The cooking of the books becomes a

00:53:51.280 little bit less. Beyond that, though, he found that authoritarian regimes previously ruled by communist

00:53:58.160 governments were particularly likely to fudge the numbers. Report high GDP said, quote,

00:54:03.040 these findings indicate the main result about democracy and autocracy is indeed driven by the

00:54:08.720 differences in political institutions that characterize these regimes. In other words,

00:54:13.200 when you have oversight, it's a lot harder to lie. When you don't, when you're a dictatorship,

00:54:20.160 you can make up whatever you want. And especially when things are self-reported,

00:54:23.120 nobody's going to question you. You can tell the world that you're the safest, most powerful,

00:54:28.160 most prosperous country. Who's going to call you out? No legislature. There's no judiciary.

00:54:33.760 There's no free press. You lock down the internet. People can travel freely.

00:54:40.800 There's a clampdown. There's a complete communications lockdown. I read a lot of studies for the show.

00:54:46.640 I bring you a lot of information. This is one of the most fascinating I've read. This is super

00:54:50.320 interesting stuff. And it really shows the need for freedom around the world. Something the globalists,

00:54:59.920 the progressives don't understand. They glorify Karl Marx, Teen Vogue last week, put out an entire

00:55:08.160 article on how kids should be using the philosophies and the writings and teachings of Karl Marx.

00:55:16.080 They left out the parts, of course, about the torture and rape chambers and the purges that killed

00:55:21.040 millions under Marx. Stalin's purges that killed millions. Lavrenti Berry is KGB where women were 0.81

00:55:28.320 raped and murdered brutally. People were tortured for no reason other than being suspected of being

00:55:34.640 an enemy of the state. All Democrats, globalists, progressists, I don't want to tell you about any of

00:55:38.800 that. But I think data like this is absolutely fascinating. And I think as more data like this seeps out,

00:55:45.680 as we learn more about how authoritarian regimes are fudging their numbers, cooking their books,

00:55:52.480 this is what I love about the Trump administration. They see through all this nonsense. They realize

00:55:56.400 how powerful the United States is in relation to the rest of the world. Magnitudes more powerful.

00:56:02.160 How disgraceful it was that Obama wanted us to be a doormat. Donald Trump is acting like it. John

00:56:07.920 Bolton, our national security advisor, gets it. He's acting like it. Mike Pompeo, our secretary of the

00:56:12.480 state of state is acting like it. Mattis, our defense secretary is acting like it. We are once

00:56:17.760 again the most powerful nation in the world. And I just want to see that power rise. I want to see it

00:56:22.800 soar. I want to see America once again become the world leader it was. And I think we're witnessing

00:56:29.120 that history right now.

00:56:41.760 What's the first one, who is this guy with the blood lot of the state?

00:56:46.400 He's

Rebel News Podcast - May 16, 2018

Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - May 16⧸2018

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